I was really bored and I decided to write the Hellsing/Naruto crossover that 76987766554 (gaarasdeath) requested. I got a serious writer's block for 'Ookami no Sakura', but that'll probably pass in a day or so. Anyways, I hope everyone likes this story! Please read and review!
"Femme Immortale"
Disclaimer: I do not own Naruto or Hellsing; they belong to their respective owners!
Warning: Beware OOC. Rated 'M' for future lemons (if I feel like it), gore, etc...
Chapter 1: Freelancer
Recommend Song: Dragula by Rob Zombie
The night was quiet and the bright full moon shone brightly in the starless sky, all was calm. A woman stood on a hospital roof with a cigarette hanging loosely from her lips as her eyes focused intently on the church in front of her. The woman crossed her arms over her chest and took a long drag from her cigarette, before releasing smoke into the air. Bright green eyes narrowed when a shadow moved to her right, but she gave no indication of moving.
The woman stepped to the side just in time to avoid being impaled by a throwing knife, before she spun on her heel and turned to face her attacker. Bright green clashed with blazing red and the woman smirked from beneath the hood of her form fitting coat. Vampire. The woman laughed to herself as the rogue vampire charged at her with blood lust raging in its bright red eyes, the vampire's eyes widened in shock as the woman continued to match its speed and dodge its assault.
"Lucas Jeffreys, you have raped and murdered countless people. I am here to collect the life debts you owe", the woman spoke in a clear tone and the vampire momentarily stopped its assault to stare at the woman in a mixture of shocked disbelief and amusement. The vampire jumped back and laughed, its tone sarcastic and it bared its fangs at the woman.
"You intend to kill me? I'd love to see you try", the vampire mocked and he snapped his fingers, his red eyes burning with savage blood lust and cruel intent. The woman remained in her place as ghouls surround her, she calmly removed her unfinished cigarette from between her lips and flicked it away.
"Alright, I'll give you one chance only. You can either die quick and easy or I can completely humiliate you, then make you suffer slowly", the woman spoke in a bored tone and the vampire laughed once again, before it pulled out two more throwing knives. The ghouls rushed at the one with no prior warning and the woman grinned, her green eyes flashing in both amusement and a hint of blood lust.
The woman threw her jacket high into the air and a new expression crossed the vampire's face, this one was of complete and utter fear. A pair of modified Beretta 92FSs made of pure black, stainless steel were in the woman's hands. The barrels extended from 4.9" to 5.9" each and the words 'Divine Judgment' were engraved on both of them in silver letters. The woman's long cherry blossom colored hair was held in a high ponytail and stopped at her waist.
"Y-you're that Freelancer...Sakura Haruno!" the vampire exclaimed in a mixture of awe and fear, to which the woman responded with a bright smile. Shots rang out from her gun and the Freelancer grinned as the bullets pierced through the ghouls with frightening accuracy.
Sakura had specialized her guns for her use only; the bullets that shot out were small condensed shots of her chakra. The bullet itself was made solely by the Freelancer; pure silver tips with a solid chakra core, mixed with mercury to give the bullet itself more of a 'kick'.
Sakura danced through the wave of ghouls her aim true and the vampire slowly began to inch his way back, there was no way he could beat the Freelancer. He turned to run but stopped short when Sakura appeared in front of him with an impassive look on her face. Her pale skin seemed to glow in the moonlight and she stared at the vampire, as if looking into his soul. Without a word she shot his left leg clean off causing the vampire to fall to the ground, she didn't seem fazed at the blood that got on her.
The vampire yelled in pain and Sakura stared at him with a blank expression on her face, the vampire growled and threw a knife at her smiling in triumph when it pierced her chest where her heart lied. Sakura's eyes widened a fraction before she slowly pulled the knife from her chest to the astonishment of the vampire, even more shocking was how the wound seemed to steam and slowly began to heal up as if had never happened. Sakura raised her Beretta and shot the vampire's other leg, once again the vampire's pained screams filled the night.
"You bitch!" yelled the vampire in pain and Sakura rose one sleek eyebrow, before she calmly put her Berettas away. She smiled sweet and touched the vampire's shoulder, tensing slightly when she felt a knife slash across her neck.
The vampire's hand shook violently and the knife dropped along with his jaw as he watched the normally fatal wound on Sakura's neck slowly begin to steam and the skin knitted itself back together. Sakura gave the vampire a dark look before she ruthlessly ripped his arm from his body, ignoring the blood that sprayed on her face. The vampire screamed bloody murder and its red eyes locked onto Sakura's, whose now had an insane glint in them.
Sakura used her monstrous strength to lift the crippled vampire from the ground by his hair, laughing at his weak cries of pain and mercy. She placed her hand on his chest and allowed her chakra to surge within his body, destroying then repairing his organs only to destroy them again. The vampire coughed and gagged on his own blood, cursing the Freelancer to the deepest parts of Hell.
"You vampires truly make me sick, do you know that?" Sakura suddenly spoke in a dark tone and the vampire's eyes widened at the amount of pure, unadulterated hate and rage in her eyes. The vampire spat blood onto her face in response, but Sakura didn't even flinch. She squeezed the vampire's remaining arm with a disgustingly strong grip and the vampire saw black dots begin to swarm his vision.
"Do you like immortality? Do you like living off the lives of others? Do you realize what you getting yourself into!" Sakura snapped and the vampire couldn't form a response, before he was once again screaming in pain as Sakura crushed every bone in his arm.
She dropped his permanently crippled form onto the concrete before she stomped her heeled boot down hard on his chest, aiming one of her Berettas at his forehead with a disgusted look on her face. The vampire stared up at his death and for the first time in his undead life he prayed to God for mercy, begging and pleading that he be spared. Sakura pressed her foot down harder and clicked her gun off safety.
"God isn't here", she whispered in a deadly low tone, before she pulled the trigger and stood unflinchingly as blood and brain matter splattered on her face. She put her Beretta up and looked at the bloody mess of bodies that littered the roof of the hospital. Sakura pulled a cigarette from her pocket and lit it, uncaring of the blood that she was covered in.
Sakura took a long drag from her cigarette before she released smoke into completely silent night. Sakura's eyes once again landed on the bodies that were littered on roof and she sighed softly, before running her hand through her blood matted hair. She took a deep breath and closed her eyes before letting the familiar rush of shinobi training return to her mind, she allowed her hands to form the correct hand seals. Ram. Horse. Serpent. Dragon. Rat. Ox. Tiger.
'Katon: Karyƫ Endan!' the thought echoed through the Freelancer's mind her eyes snapped open as she inhaled deeply, her cigarette lied on the ground still burning and unforgotten. She felt an intense heat buildup in her abdomen, before it began to climb up her chest. Sakura let loose a silent roar as flames erupted from her mouth. The smell of burning flesh filled her nose but she remained strong and continued to burn the corpses until nothing but ash remained.
Sakura allowed the flames to slowly diminish before they eventually disappeared completely and Sakura picked up her fallen cigarette. A small breeze lifted the ashes from the roof and scattered them in the wind. Sakura kept her cigarette placed firmly between her lips before she raised one of her hands towards the burnt ground where some ashes and small embers still burned.
"Suiton: Suihachi", Sakura spoke in a low tone and a jet of water shot out of her hand, washing away the remaining ash and fire. Sakura closed her hand into a fist to stop the water flow and she glanced around at the top of the roof, no would be able to tell what had occurred here when the morning finally came. Sakura leapt from the roof of the hospital and retrieved her coat her where it had landed on a light post.
The Freelancer pulled on her coat before taking a long drag from her cigarette and she walked down the quiet street. Her usually bright green eyes were surprisingly dull as she continued to walk in a random direction with no certain direction in mind. She wiped her hand across her blood stained cheek and stared at the crimson mess that coated her hand, before she balled up her hand into a fist.
'Immortality is a curse', she thought bitterly before she finished off the remainder of her cigarette and disappeared in a swirl of cherry blossom petals. The wind blew the remaining flower petals away as the moon finally emerged from its place behind the clouds. The night resumed its natural peace, undisturbed.
Sakura Haruno, age nineteen, Elite ANBU, Specialized Hunter nin, combat-medic and apprentice of the Hokage of the Village Hidden in the Leaves was extremely upset, which wasn't good for the health of any of her teammates. The members of Team Kakashi watched as the pink haired she-devil literally tore apart training field three, but none of them moved to stop her. They all agreed that they'd rather face the Akastuki all over again than face the wrath of their fire breathing female teammate.
"What do you think set Hag off this time?" asked Sai in a quiet tone, so the pink haired Kunoichi wouldn't hear him. He liked to believe that he was a great Shinobi, trained by ROOTS and able to stay calm under any circumstance, but when it came to Sakura Haruno he'd rather face Orochimaru and a whole sound army than have to deal with the upset Haruno woman.
"SHANNARO!" screamed Sakura as she slammed her fist down into the already ruined ground, causing the members of Team Kakashi to scatter to avoid the earthquake the ridiculously strong woman had just caused.
Naruto landed in a tree a few feet away from Sakura and Yamato landed beside him. Sai and Kakashi landed in similar trees about two feet from where the clone and blond Jinchuuriki stood. Sakura stood in the middle of the destroyed training field with her body shaking with barely controlled emotion and her hands were balled up into fists, tearing the seams of her gloves. Then, much to the surprise and confusion of Team Kakashi, Sakura began to cry.
The emotionally distressed Haruno fell to her knees and loud, unattractive sobs ripped from her throat. Naruto was the first to react, he appeared in front of his love and knelt down beside her, wrapping his arms around her trying to calm her. Kakashi moved next, jumping from his place on the tree branch he landed beside Sakura soundlessly and without a word he placed a hand on the top of her head, giving her comfort in his own way.
Sai and Yamato looked at each other, before they both moved from their respective positions to be near Sakura. Yamato touched her shoulder and Sai hesitantly reached out to wipe the tears from the young woman's cheeks. Sakura sniffled and tried to calm herself, but the tears wouldn't stop and she only succeeded in causing more tears to fall. Sakura gripped the bottom of her medic skirt, unconcerned with the wrinkles that she was creating.
"Sakura-chan, what's wrong?" whispered Naruto softly in her ear and Sakura only then noticed that she was surrounded by her team; her family. She bowed her head and tried to quiet her sobs so she would be able to speak coherently, while Team Kakashi waited patiently.
"M-mariko-chan died", Sakura whispered in a small, broken tone and the males of Team Kakashi stared at one another in shocked silence. Sakura raised her fist to punch the ground, but stopped short when she felt extra weight being pressed on her body. A small gasp escaped her lips and her eyes widened when she saw that the members of Team Kakashi were all hugging her, including Sai.
"You performed the surgery didn't you?" Kakashi asked in a soft tone and all Sakura could do was nod her head. Mariko had been a twelve year old girl who had weak heart valves, she was Sakura's favorite patient even though doctors weren't suppose to get attached to any of their patients.
"There was a fifty percent chance that she would survive the surgery, but she still wanted to go through with it. It was suppose to be a relatively simple procedure but of course Kami loves to prove me otherwise", Sakura spoke in a rough voice as she finally managed to stop crying.
"Everything had started off as planned, we finally saw the full extent of damage with our own eyes. We stopped Mariko's heart and other medics used their chakra to allow blood to continue to circulate through Mariko's body. We worked for hours to repair her heart valves to their original conditions, careful to make no mistakes", Sakura explained and Naruto squeezed her tighter to show that everyone was still with her.
"We were successful. The only thing we had to do was restart her heart and see if the operation had been a success. I used my chakra to jump start her heart and it began beating slowly at first, but gradually getting stronger. I was so happy the operation had been a success", Sakura gave a bittersweet smile at the memory, before her eyes suddenly filled with tears again.
Sakura closed her eyes as she remembered the painful experience, the amount of blood that escaped from the twelve year old would haunt Sakura forever. Sakura and the other medics allowed the joy and relief of the successful operation to wash over them, but their happiness was short lived when Mariko's young body began to convulse and her heart began beating erratically. Sakura's mind seemed to work in slow motion as she watched the newly resurrected heart begin to slow.
The medics all rushed to action trying to stabilize the heart, but Sakura could only stare in shocked horror as blood began to fill Mariko's lungs and her heart struggled to keep her body functioning. The aortic valve was the first to close, followed by the mitral and that's when Sakura reacted. She poured almost every ounce of chakra she had into Mariko's heart to keep it beating, to keep the young girl alive.
"Haruno-san stop!"Sakura could vaguely hear voices around her yelling for her to stop, telling her that she was pouring her chakra into a lifeless body. Sakura didn't listen she only focused on keeping Mariko's heart beating, but eventually that stopped. Sakura felt hands touch her, pulling her from Mariko's corpse. Sakura yelled and screamed, fighting and clawing at the people who were pulling her away.
Team Kakashi stared at Sakura's tired and emotionally abused form, trying to figure out a way to help their distressed teammate. Sakura's eyes focused on them once again and a sad small smile formed on her face, regardless of the tears that ran down her cheeks. Naruto felt his heart ache painfully at the sight of this broken Sakura and even Sai looked sad, which was a shock in its own right. Yamato and Kakashi had their heads bowed, letting their pained expressions be hidden from the young Haruno.
"I couldn't save her", Sakura's eyes widened at her realization and every male of Team Kakashi held onto Sakura as she screamed and cried in her depression. Sakura had lost patients before, but she had never reacted this badly, she had never been this broken afterwards.
Team Kakashi didn't know where to begin to fix Sakura, to help her regain her confidence so for now they simply held onto her. She was breaking in front of their very eyes, but they would let her shatter completely. They didn't care that they probably would be cut in the process, all they knew was that they wouldn't let Sakura break. Sakura sobbed and tried to break free from her teammates constricting grip, but they wouldn't bulge. Sakura eventually just stopped fighting and simply drowned in the comfort of her teammates.
Sakura leaned back in her desk chair with her feet propped up on her desk, which was littered with various types of weapons and mechanical parts. She sighed in boredom and made a 'tsk' sound when she heard someone walk into her room. The Freelancer tilted back further in her seat to see a woman with tanned skin and dark shoulder length hair staring at her with icy blue eyes, which made the Freelancer crack a smile.
Two large men stood beside the dark skinned woman and Sakura unwrapped a lollipop before popping it into her mouth, sucking on the hard candy. Green and blue clashed with one another before Sakura finally blinked and motioned for the woman to sit down in the free chair directly in front of her desk. The woman took her seat, smoothing out the wrinkles in her dress and Sakura took a moment to study her. She was fairly young, more or less in her late twenties but most likely wealthy due to the obvious signs of her clothes and bodyguards.
"I have a job for you", the woman spoke up in a clear tone that had a heavy British accent and Sakura removed her feet from desk, deciding to sit up straight. Sakura swirled her tongue around the lollipop in her mouth, but she didn't speak instead she motioned for the woman to continue.
"A few months ago, my brother was attacked by some type of creatures. I don't know exactly what they were, but all I know is that after he was attacked he turned into one of them", the woman spoke in a bitter tone and Sakura allowed the woman to collect her thoughts, before she continued.
"I've learned that those things were under the control of vampires. I want to avenge my brother's death, I want you to destroy those vampires!" the woman snapped and threw a large folder down on Sakura's desk containing all the information that she had on the vampires.
Sakura didn't move or respond to the woman's outburst, she simply stared at her with a thoughtful expression on her face. Sakura pulled the lollipop out of her mouth and sighed softly, before running her hand through her hair. Ah, it always came down to revenge didn't it? Sakura wasn't surprised at the reasoning, actually she had expected it.
"I am offering to pay you fifty thousand pounds and another three thousand in advance if you accept", the woman tried to convince Sakura and the Freelancer raised one of her eyebrows at the pleading woman.
"Who are the targets?" Sakura eventually spoke up after a long silence and the woman sighed in relief before she regained her poker face and pointed to the file that she had thrown down on Sakura's desk.
"In that folder is the information I have on them, but I most warn you it is not much", the woman admitted and Sakura popped the lollipop back into her mouth, before opening the folder on her desk. Sakura's eyes scanned over the files inside and a smirk found its way to her face, before she stood up and held out her hand to the woman.
"I'll take the job", Sakura confirmed in an easy going tone and the woman jumped to her feet, shaking Sakura's hand in a surprisingly firm grip. The woman handed Sakura an envelope full of money, which Sakura counted out to be exactly three thousand pounds.
Sakura sat back down at her desk and watched the woman leave with her bodyguards, before she turned her attention back to the files that were scattered across her desk. The Freelancer sucked on her candy and traced her finger along the picture of her targets. Sakura clicked her tongue and her silver studded tongue ring made contact with the hard candy, leaving a strange taste in her mouth.
"The Valentine Brothers", Sakura mused out loud before she bit down hard on her lollipop, causing the hard candy to shatter in her mouth. The Freelancer reclined back in her chair once again and closed her eyes a small smile forming on her face; this would be interesting.
