The Past Returns
This is my 1st Vampire fic, always wanted to do one, especially after reading some really good one's. Plus I've wanted to do more of an horrorish one for a change on what I have done in the past. Hope you enjoy the start of this : )
Finally after a few years of being gone Sasuke comes back to Konoha and wants to be with his team again. But there's something not quite right with this 'new' Sasuke... Vampire fic.
Screams ringed from a small part of Konoha's usually quiet village. A few of the everyday villagers jumped out of their houses and poured into the street, trying to figure out where the horrified shrieks came from.
"Over here!" A woman in her common pyjama's yelled as loud as her lungs would let her.
"Oh god..." Gasped some of the villagers as they all followed the females voice, which led them to a very darkened alley way down the side of someone's house. The woman that had found the body was leant down next to it and had pushed the head to one side to reveal one side of her neck, two puncture holes could be seen with little left over blood trickling out of them.
"It's happened again..." One of the villagers whispered as a small group formed around the body.
"That's the 3rd this week..." Gasped another one of the villagers.
"Poor girl... Had her whole life ahead of her..." Whispered the woman that was leant next to the body, her eye's widened with horror at the sight. "Must be still in her teens..."
"No pulse?" Asked another villager, who was now trying to press his fingers against the now dead females neck, checking to see whether he could find a pulse.
The woman shook her head with disappointment. "No... She's long gone..."
"What's doing these things?" Gasped yet another villager in the small group. All the others just shook their heads, none knowing what kind of monster would do this...
"A vampire? It's those kind of marks..." Suggested another villager.
"Don't be stupid, vampires don't exist." Another laughed at the suggestion and many others continued to say the same. Vampires don't exist...
A dark figure loomed in the moonlight, standing on a nearby roof. Only a smirk could be seen on the face of the figure, enjoying the scene that was happening from underneath him. "Stupid losers! Vampires don't exist, huh? They make it all so easy for me to continue to slip around unnoticed." With those words said the figure's smirk just grew even larger. After a few moments it turned and vanished into thin air...
"Sakura!" Bellowed a common loud voice as it continued to knock on the front door of her house. "Sakura! We're going to be late!"
A few moments later a pink haired figure poked her head out of a second floor window. "Alright, Naruto! Give me a moment! I'll down in a sec!"
"Alright, Sakura!" The yellow haired hyper ninja called back and waited by her door.
The commonly known pink haired ninja finally opened her front door and let herself out. "Ready for class?" She asked as she swung a bag over her shoulder.
"Sure am! Don't see much point of these though... We are already high ranked ninja." Naruto complained as they started walking along.
"Naruto..." Sakura sighed, she hated having to lecture him but... He never learnt. "We're not that high ranked, you know. There's so much more we need to practice and learn! It can't be all practical, unfortunately for you."
"Whatever." Naruto grunted, hated being lectured. He swung both of his arms behind his head as they continued to walk on through the streets.
"... Did you listen to the radio today?..." Sakura asked wearily, sounding a little shaken all of a sudden.
"No, why?" Naruto replied simply and looked a little worried at Sakura when she has a sudden mood swing.
"There was another attack last night..." Sakura answered, now looking at the ground sadly as they walked on.
"... Not another!" Naruto sighed, he'd heard a lot about them. "Another mysterious bite mark on the neck?"
Sakura nodded, still saddened by the news. "Not only that. When they got her to the hospital they found massive scratch marks, maybe even claw like marks. They in various places, like whatever did it was being really forceful."
"Wow! Weird." Naruto exclaimed by the news. "Wonder what kind of thing is doing that... Is the person dead?"
"... Yea... She's dead..." Sakura sighed sadly. "It's so creepy... The attack was quite close to my house..."
Naruto nodded and understood why his partner would be worried and creeped by that news. "Don't worry, Sakura! You've always got me to protect you."
Sakura looked at Naruto and finally gave him a little smile. "Thanks, Naruto. At least I've got one faithful team mate that'll stick by me."
"It's only just us two, Sakura. We have the other teams as friends and stuff, sure, but it's your team you trust and rely on the most. I just don't think of Sai as close yet..." Naruto tried to explain slowly and for once was being more serious.
"Yea... Guess you always think of your original team will be together forever, even if we do split..." Sakura nodded and sighed.
"Don't give up on him, Sakura." Naruto replied bluntly, knowing who else they were driving at. "We'll bring him back one day and... One day he'll want to be back."
"I hope so, Naruto..." Sakura sighed, not knowing whether that would ever be true. The person they were talking about was the one and only... Sasuke. Their former team mate. They'd already gone after him and they didn't get the desired response from him and their missions ended in failure.
"I think we should try again soon." Naruto added with enthusiasm.
"Don't know, Naruto..." Sakura warned, she hated Naruto getting his hopes up.
"Well we know he's gotten rid of that nasty snake man now! No one's tying him down anymore." Naruto replied.
"Yea but he hasn't gotten rid of Itachi yet... At least not from what's been heard." Sakura continued to warn.
"Yea but..." Naruto started to continue to protest.
"Enough, Naruto!" Sakura snapped finally. "I don't wish to discuss about him. I'm not even sure I want to him back anymore."
"How can you say that!?" Naruto exclaimed in disbelief. "I made that promise to you!"
"Well it's one you don't have to keep." Sakura snapped again in return. "He doesn't want to be with us, understand!? If he really wants to come back he'll come back all by himself!"
"Sakura..." Naruto sighed sadly, never saw her fed up before.
"I've just had enough... That's all... Even if he did come back... I don't know whether I could trust him again. It would take a lot of work to get a relationship back up with him..." Sakura sighed. She wasn't sure whether it was even possible, he left her out cold on a bench... Could she really trust again with the same person that did that to her? Besides... She didn't even have the same feelings for him anymore. Sakura was uncertain on what would happen really if he ever came back... But she knew for certain that it wouldn't be the same relationship that they had before. For starters she wasn't willing to bend over backwards to suit his every need anymore!
"Hmm..." Naruto was unsure on how to respond to that. Naruto hadn't had any change of heart or feelings towards his former team mate, he still thought of him as the same. He still saw him almost like a brother figure, a best friend. And was sure that they could all resume to the way things were, until now... He felt ashamed a bit that he hadn't been paying close attention to his own partners thoughts and feelings on the issue. This was the first time that he actually thought of reality... It has been so long since having Sasuke with them as a team member. All of them had changed so much. Their relationship as a team would bound to not be the same anymore and Sakura was taking it hard...
Naruto and Sakura walked the rest of their trip in a painful silence. Sakura hadn't wanted to upset Naruto or anything but she felt that she needed to say it. Even if Sasuke did come back... Their relationship was bound to be at least rocky and that was if it could even be fixed. That would depend... She guessed. She didn't know how Sasuke would act or behave with her anymore, she had gotten a lot stronger than when they were in a team together.
The rest of the day had gone better than the early morning for Sakura. Naruto had just let the subject drop for the rest of the day, most likely stunned by her response. But it was easy not to go into the subject because they also saw all their other friends, like the other Rookie 9, and they all joked around and had fun. None of the other teams had been on missions and such so everyone joined in on classes for the day.
Sakura turned off her bedroom light and gently slipped herself into her cosy bed, somewhere she felt more safe at night time. She couldn't get the recent killings out of her mind, which was most likely why Naruto offered to walk her home in the dark safely. Couldn't be to safe as of recently... Sakura soon quickly fell into a deep sleep and slept on her side, towards the window.
A pair of red eye's glared through the window and stared at the sleeping Sakura that was facing it's way. "Still haven't got a clue, huh Sakura?" Smirked the figure with the bright red eye's. "Why do you think some of the killings have been near where you live? It's because I've got to check my team every night, I'm not going to wander off far, am I? I've been watching you in the day too. But you and that loser haven't realised this. Won't be long, Sakura..."
That's it for the first chapter : ) This is just a starter, like the base for the story. Hope you like it so far and hope to get some reviews to spur it along.