disclaimer: i do not own naruto, or anything that has to do with naruto... blah blah blah, getting to the blood now! wee:D

Dusk. This was the time that Konoha was no longer safe. Well, ever since the Sand invaded, when has it been safe at any time of the day? But dusk was particularly dangerous to the villagers because that was when the vampires came out to play.

The sun had just touched the tops of the trees when she awoke. Not that she had to worry about the sun hurting her at all… after all, the Yamanaka bloodline was the benefactor of all the living vampire bloodlines, making them unique. She could go out in broad daylight and not feel a thing. Well, except piercing glares. It's not an easy feat to hide long white teeth and red eyes now is it? But that was another trick of the Yamanaka blood: they could disguise themselves. Change hair and eye color, pull in their fangs, even change their voices… basically in a moment, turn into a normal person, like you or I. The Yamanaka clan was unstoppable.

But then the Hunters came.

The Hunters were a small group of brave Leaf and Sand rogue ninja who gathered in the shadows of Konoha's alleyways and dark corners to destroy the vampire race. but not even they could have predicted all that would ensue in their struggle against the darkest force known to man...

This is where our story begins... at the beginning of the war, right as the Yamanaka family began their first attacks. Subtle, but firm. Not enough to alert anyone, but enough to send waves through... that much was certain. In the beginning, it was nothing but average shinobi. Men turned up dead from time to time, and this was something the ANBU had dealt with before. But these killings were different from anything any of them had ever seen. All of the 8 victims shared the same cause of death: two puncture marks to the neck. All had bled to death.

Or so they thought.

All was quiet and still... as was to be expected at 3 am. Tenten was walking home from her latest Jounin mission, and the dark had no effect on her. She was, after all, training to become an ANBU, and she knew she had to be tough to make it. Tenten was one of the toughest girl in the village, and it seemed like nothing could touch her. The why, oh why, did the sounds of her own footsteps reverberating off the narrow alley walls bug her so much? She listened closer, and heard only her own footfalls. Or was it? She couldn't shake the feeling that someone was watching her from the shadows... silent eyes burning a hole in the ack of her head...

Tenten stopped and heard a footstep that was not her own...

She whirled around and yanked out a silver kunai. Ever since the vampire rumor leaked, she had taken to carrying them... just in case. She yelled out, "Show yourself!" to no one in particular. Tenten stood in tense silence, braced for someone to try and attack her. Then a seductive chuckle came from a shadow. "Put that away," the voice replied silkily. "That won't help you, you know." The owner of the voice stepped out of the shadow, moving closer to Tenten. She stood braced and held the kunai up to the woman's neck. "Who are you... a-and whaddya want?" "Do I catch a trace of fear?" the woman replied, just as smooth as before. She stepped out of the shadows to reveal a soft face with stunning cerulean eyes that reflected the moonlight perfectly. She was wearing a black button-up shirt and black shorts... and had a Leaf headband around her slender waist. The woman's waist-length , pale blond hair was pulled up into a high ponytail.

Tenten sighed in relief... a familiar face. "Ino, oh, thank God it's just you. I was really worried there for a..." But Tenten stopped mid-sentence as Ino stepped closer, an almost hungry glint in her blue eyes. "Tenten... you have obviously heard of the vampire theories, yes?" She stepped closer, now almost nose to nose with Tenten. Inadvertently, Ino's mouth started to water as she smelled the fresh blood pumping faster and faster through the poor girl's neck. 'She's terrified...' she thought to herself. Tenten slowly backed away as Ino's eyes started to shift from their normal cerulean to a shade of pale pink. Tenten could also see Ino's canines begin to elonagte and sharpen...

She turned away and stated to run, but ran into a pile of trash cans, crashing to the ground. Ino swooped down on the girl her eyes now bloodred and her teeth now fangs. She bent down and straddled Tenten across the middle of her back, pulling her head up with a handful of mouse brown hair. Ino whispered in her ear, "Oh yes, and those theories? Forget the theories. Now everyone will fall before the new race... the new power!"

Ino pulled Tenten onto her back, now sitting across her prey's stomach, bared her fangs, and with a menacing hiss, sank them into Tenten's neck.

She let out a bloodcurdling scream and thrashed at the woman who was now slowly draining the life out of her. But the harder she fought, the weaker she became. Tenten could feel Ino pulling the blood out of her neck, and with every pull, a little bit of her remaining life.

The darkness began to cloud around the edges of her eyes when she felt Ino pull off of her neck. Ino let her go, then knelt beside the bleeding girl. She laughed menacingly, then said with a snarl, "That is for trying to take my love..." she grabbed Tenten by the collar. "And this..." she bared her fangs again, "is to make sure Konoha gets the message!"

Ino sank her teeth into tenten's already bleeding neck and bit down hard on the skin. She tore away hard, ripping off a chunk of Tenten's very flesh. Ino spat it out and let the dying girl crumple to the ground at her feet in a heap. Ino wiped her mouth and chuckled. "Well, that was fun." And with that, ran off, leaving Tenten to bleed to death slowly in that dark alley.

i know, bloody... bleh bleh bleh. i am violent! and they'll get worse, so if you odn't have the stomach for violence, read no further!