It was a warm spring morning and Sakura was going to find Ino so they could go to the lake. Sakura wore a white shirt with matching shorts and sandals with her pink hair in a braided ponytail. She though Ino just might be waiting in the forest for her already so she went straight there. Sakura was right because Ino was in the middle of the trail half way there waiting.

"What took you so long?" she asked. Ino wore a white shirt with gray shorts. Her hair was up in a ponytail today.

"I let my mom know I was heading out so she doesn't worry to much." Sakura said.

"Let's go, I don't want to waste anymore time. I have to go to Naruto's because dad says that he and Minato are going to look around because something happened." Ino said grabbing Sakura's hand and pulling her.

"something like what?" Sakura asked in a scared tone. She remembered what Kushina said about there so called job.

"I don't know." she said letting Sakura's hand go. "I do know it sounded serious. Adults are too serious all the time if you ask me."

"Something weird has been happening lately." Sakura said.

"Just because villagers have gone missing. Yeah sure but it might be because the village is so boring. If it wasn't then maybe they would stay." Ino started babbling.

"let's just get to the lake. I'm going to collect more pebbles for my collection." Sakura told her trying to get her mind off of the situation.

"Wow, look at her." Ino said pointing to a woman walking the opposite way. She had long dark blue hair with a flower in it and a long velvet maroon colored dress on. Her eyes were blood red and she seemed to be in a hurry.

"What about her?" Sakura asked taking another look at the mysterious woman.

"Well she doesn't seem to be headed to the village and there isn't another village for miles unless there's something we don't know." Ino said smiling. "So let's follow her."

"no way.?" Sakura asked before Ino grabbed her hand and yanked her along.

Ino and Sakura followed the woman a ways away from the village. Ino had marked certain trees so they could get back alright. Neither one of them could recognize anything so they both knew it would be a bad idea to go off and not know where to go. Ino marked them the opposite way they were going so they knew how to get home.

The mystery woman was then at a cave. She walked in without stopping to look around. After she went in Ino and Sakura only took a step into it before Ino ran out. Sakura didn't notice until she was a few more steps into the dark yet lightened cave.

"Okay time to go home." Ino said trying to get Sakura to come out of the cave.

"You said you wanted to follow her." Sakura told her.

"Yeah we followed her… so we knew where she was going. Now that we know its just a stupid cave let's go." Ino begged.

"I'm going in to see what she's doing. Now I'm getting very curious." Sakura went into the cave further. She didn't think about it until she was already out of Ino's sight, the woman might be a vampire.

The cave curved around in strange ways that confused Sakura. She expected it to be dark so she could run back, since she really was afraid, but there seemed to be light coming from a corner up ahead. She peeked at the corner to see the woman talking with a man. There were a few lit torches giving the place some kind of light.

The man had long hair tied into a low ponytail and he wore a long black cloak. His eyes were red as well. The woman seemed to be trying to convince him, about what Sakura was not sure. The woman started to act very seductive which seemed to angry the man.

"Come on now Itachi…" The woman's voice was very sharp and scary. "With someone like you I can actually win against the other covens. I can have a new army."

"For the last time no Konan. I want nothing to do with your kind." Itachi almost shouted.

"Tsk, tsk. I would expect a gentleman…" she snaked her arms around his neck. "To at least be…" She then got close to his lips. "nice to a lady."

"You of all vampires are not a lady. You are nothing more then a naïve little slut who grabs men and transforms them for her own purposes and when she's done she just kills them so she can have more. You are disgusting!" He screeched. Sakura then jumped and hid. She wanted to run but she couldn't.

"Well, well, well. A little girly has come to follow me. I didn't expect a meal would just decide to be eaten." Konan's voice laughed.

Konan came around the corner so quick, Sakura hadn't noticed she was there for a few seconds. Konan was in front of her within a moments. She chuckled loudly before getting closer to Sakura. Sakura backed into the walls and started to whimper.

"Leave the girl alone." Itachi said grabbing Konan and throwing her into the wall. He stood in front of Sakura, protecting her.

"You pathetic fool. You should never hurt me." She said lunging at him. Itachi grabbed her neck before her fangs touched his neck.

"If you can't even get close to hurting me and you are the most powerful in your coven that you became leader… then you really should watch your back because I do not take these kinds of actions lightly. I will kill you if I find out you have killed more of those villagers." Itachi said in a cold tone before throwing her to the right, the way to the exit.

"I didn't kill any villagers. I will come back for you and if you refuse next time… you wont make it with the other vampires I am considering." She said getting up and brushing herself off. "I chose you because well… who wouldn't want a beautiful Uchiha."

"Get lost vermin." he said. She growled at him before she ran so fast she disappeared. Itachi turned towards Sakura who didn't seemed frightened anymore. "You should go home. Before you cause me more trouble." he said before going deeper into the tunnel.

"Wait." She ran after him.

"What?" He asked harshly as he turned around.

"I just wanted to say thank you." she said a bit scared now. He sighed and knelt down to see her face.

"I'm sorry if I scared you just now. Its too dangerous around here. Don't come near here again. Go home and stay there, safe." he said before ruffling her hair. He knew Konan was long gone by now with her speed so it was safe for her to leave because she would be at the village by the time Konan was smart enough to notice she was out with no protection. Konan was a complete wannabe.

"Okay." she said with a smile. She then went running to get out of the cave.

Sakura didn't know why but she liked Itachi. Even though he scared her and she knew for sure he was a vampire, he still protected her. She was so lost in thought she didn't know where she was going. She looked around at the trees and found one that had the arrow on it point to the village. Before long she saw Ino, Inoichi, Minato and Naruto running to her.

"Sakura what happened? Where did you go?" Inoichi asked.

"I'm alright. Nothing happened to me, why?" She knew the talk Itachi and Konan had was the reason everyone was alert. She didn't want to rat Itachi out so she told them the truth without telling them about him.

"Sakura how long did you stay in there after I left?" Ino asked worried.

"How long did it take you to run away?" Sakura asked with her hands on her hips.

"uhh after you went in the cave." Ino said feeling embarrassed.

"When I came out not too long after…" the not too long after was a small lie but she had an excuse for it. "and I saw Ino had been gone. I kind of got confused and forgot to look for the arrows and I finaly found one and came back this way."

"Never go out like that again." Minato told her with a sigh of relief.

"It's not like I'm going to go missing." Sakura said.


Itachi watched from the trees as they all made there way back to the village. He smirked when he saw Inoichi look straight at him. As they left his view, Itachi looked back to the direction Konan had left. He had a bad feeling about her. He only knew of one enemy who use to be part of Madara's coven that hadn't joined hers. Itachi was about to head back to the cave but took one last glance back.

"Sakura huh? I have a feeling her curiosity is going to get us both into a lot of trouble." He then leaped through the trees.


Kosue: I have many chapters for this story and i'm going to update weekly every Wednesday.