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"Hey, Tsunade-baa-chan, you seriously wouldn't let Sakura take this mission, would you? I mean, she's good and all, the best, but…" Naruto stated. Some others shook their heads to agree with him. Haruno Sakura was indeed the best in the business, probably the best in the city, but the mission itself was more dangerous than any other.
Tsunade started to speak. "Look, I have no control over Sakura---"
"How do you not have control over her; you're the boss---"
Tsunade ignored Naruto's interruption. "Sakura is stubborn as a rock, and cunning like a devil. Even if I forbid her from going, she's going to find some way to avoid it and leave on the mission anyway!"
Tenten sighed. "Well then, maybe we should send a whole team after her if she does make a call. Who knows what kind of trouble she could get into?" Tenten, including the others, knew Sakura like the back of their hand. Of course, there were times she was very unpredictable, but most of the time, she was a stubborn, brave, emotionless female, during work that is.
"Whatever." Tsunade sighed, gulping down more sake. "Ino, Tenten, Hinata, follow Sakura and make sure she doesn't do anything rash."
"What about us?" Naruto asked.
"… Make sure all females are put on alert. Tell them not to call this number unless they want to go to jail, no matter how young or old the age. Dismissed."
A Few Days Later...
Apparantly, girls everywhere had been notified of his number's concequence. Perhaps that was the reason no one had been calling him.
Uchiha Sasuke smashed his fist against a random, useless wall, leaving it to crumble to pieces. He had been careless that time. A small growl erupted from his throat, a scowl denting his features. Truly, it was not his own fault, but it was the fault of the fifteen-year-old who had come to his house a few nights back...
His onyx eyes flickered over to the bloodless body. He smirked; if only the girl hadn't come to the phone to apologize. Then she would not be in this predicament; her little, annoying sister would be.
He should have killed both those Ramburger sisters. Now that his number has gone out in news alerts, not many girls would call him. Infact, no one would ever call him again. The Uchiha scoffed; it wasn't as if he cared, he could go out and kill the whole city within one, maybe two, nights.
Sasuke walked over to another wall, one that wasn't crumbled to pieces, his anger normally got the better of him when he was alone, with arms crossed and eyes reading over a news article posted a few days back.
Haruno Sakura:
Without this young, beautiful teen investigator, where would the city of Konoha be now? She has solved over thirty cases that we know of, others we do not know of have slipped under our grasps. Her determination has led her to success. At such a young age, only eighteen, she has been dubbed Konoha City's top investigator, Uzumaki Naruto being second best next to Hyuuga Neji...
Sasuke stopped reading there. A picture of Haruno Sakura was posted on the article. She was an interesting one indeed. With strawberry-blonde hair and sparkling jade eyes, she was a unique one.
He knew low-rank investigators would try to recieve this case, but the most likely to recieve it was Haruno Sakura, along with many others of course.
Perhaps... if she was investigating, he could lure her. Determination would be the key to her loss.
The Uchiha bore his fangs and let his wings spread out as he jumped onto a high window. He would have to recieve his prey the hard way.
He flew out through the window, hoping for his true prey to notice.
"Tsunade-sama!" Hyuuga Neji called out as he entered the office, accompanied by Tenten. Tsunade looked up from her paperwork to notice the worried expression on Tenten's face.
"A girl has been reported dead in the corners of downtown." Tenten said, with worry evident in her face.
"WHAT?" Tsunade yelled out. "Shit... where is everyone?"
"They've been notified of the situation." Neji stated. "Sakura is about to give you status once she arrives here."
As if on que, Sakura entered the office, paper in hand. She gave the papers to Tsunade and she filed in with Neji and Tenten. "Tsunade-sama", Sakura started, "The girl's name is Yumi, last name unknown. Her age varies around fourteen to sixteen. Her status..." Sakura hesitated before continuing, for the girl's dead body filled her mind with horrifying thoughts. She sighed and continued. "There was no trace of blood in her system... and" Sakura gulped. Her next statement was unbelievable. "There were two puncture marks on her neck."
Tsunade's eyes widened.
"Shit." she cursed inwardly. Their race was taken care of, long ago, at least, that was what reports stated. "Shizune!" she called out. This was bad. They were back, and wanted something. It made so much sense! Why didn't she think of it before?
"Tsunade-sama?" Sakura asked curiously. Her mentor was silent, calling out for Shizune at an unexpected time.
"Yes?" Shizune entered.
"Get me that file." Tsunade asked harshly. Shizune's eyes widened, but nonetheless she recieved the file Tsunade-sama ordered for. It was indeed a special file, and Tsunade-sama only used that tone whenever it was regarding that file.
Shizune brought back the file to a drinking Tsunade, and she wondered how in the world Tsunade was drunk yet. She had more than her usual amount...
"Tsunade-sama, what's wrong?" Tenten asked.
Tsunade took a deep breath in. "This isn't a normal murder, and I'm sure it is linked to the case of the missing girls." She looked up to the trio. "Sakura, you have a mission with Naruto, Neji, Tenten, Shikamaru and whoever else is needed, I don't care."
"This case regards a vampire." Tsunade stated, and silence, thanks to shock, followed.
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