SweetStealer: Ok, last and final chapter! I hope you like because to me, this ending kinda SUCKS. But that's all I could brainstorm with at the moment and I really tried to make this dark and evil and whatnot...erm...yeah.

Notes:// This is staying a two shot.

-----

To bleed is to be human.

"Going somewhere, Ino?"

She dug her heels into the dirt, held hostage by anger and anxiety. Hands shaking, she slowly turned around, her blue eyes narrowed in disgust. It disguised her feelings of nervousness and unrivaled fear. Biting her lip, she let the blood run into her mouth where she promptly spit it out in a direct disrespect for the figure in front of her.

Ah.

The Uchiha.

His black hair was caked with blood and sweat. His ebony eyes bore sharply into her, making her trembled with anger. She felt him demean her with his haughty gaze. She took in his uniform, a white cloak, stained with god knows what, and black shirt and pants.

Sasuke watched her, growing angry at her furious silence.

"I said, going somewhere, Ino?" he hissed arrogantly, leaning on his sword in a way Ino found debonair and mocking.

"I've found my target." she spat out, her hatred lacing every word.

"You want to kill me, Ino?" Sasuke smirked, sitting down on the rock he stood so proudly on.

"No, I want to mutilate your face, and then rip out every organ in your body. Then I'll kill you." she whispered vilely.

"What description." the man yawned, and slid down the rock on his feet, his katana scratching the surface producing a sound that made the girl cringe.

He stood before her, narrowed his eyes, and smiled.

"You won't win."

At that, Ino charged, with an inhuman cry and lunged a kunai into his chest. Looking down at the blood seeping from his chest, he smiled and calmly pulled it out. Ino stumbled back in surprise. Narrowing her furious blue eyes, she charged again. He evaded her attacks with such ease that she thought that he was doing this deliberately. Breathing heavily, she drew back and formed a familiar hand seal.

As her fingers delicately performed her seals, Sasuke raised an eyebrow. Then, with a smirk, walked up to her. He rested his hands on hers and brought her hands down, roughly.

"That won't work on me now."

She did it anyway.

"SHINTENSHIN!"

Sasuke, seeing this familiar sight, sighed and let her into his mind. It was more of a battle of wills anyway, and he knew that Ino was already broken.

----

It was dark in Sasuke's mind. Ino wasn't surprised at all. Why should she be? This was Sasuke Uchiha. He was mentally scarred and psychotic. This wasn't exactly new information.

However...taking over his mind was another thing.

As Ino stared at the blackened interior of her enemy's mind, she realized that Sasuke was right. This couldn't work on him. His center of mind and his level of concentration far overpowered hers. He could push her out at any given second.

She was trapped in his mind.

"Shit." Ino whispered, beginning to perform the seals to undo herself from his mind.

"I told you Ino..." Sasuke laughed as he began to glide in from the shadows.

The girl stopped and dropped her hands to her sides. The blackness was cold and his red Sharingan eyes were even colder. Ino stood her ground. If she was to die, she would die knowing she tried.

But still...she just had to know...

"Why did you leave us, Sasuke?" she whispered, all hate rushing from her voice.

A little startled, Sasuke looked at her and stared. Locked in an intense staring match, the two were evenly silent until Sasuke finally whispered,

"I needed to know..."

His words faded off into a disturbing hush until Ino whispered back,

"Needed to know what?"

His eyes faded into black, while the walls seeped a bloody red. His gaze faltered when he looked at her and she bit her lip.

"If I could beat Itachi. If Orochimaru could give me the right amount of help I needed."

Ino's brow furrowed and she turned angry again.

"LIAR! It was so easy for you to leave us! To leave me!"

"Listen to yourself, Ino!" Sasuke hissed back. " What do you know about me? NOTHING! Leaving my home was the hardest thing I ever had to do. If I couldn't prove to myself that I could accomplish that, I could never beat Itachi."

Ino quieted herself back down and snapped,

"What was it so hard? Couldn't leave the dust mites?"

His eyes flashed when his snarled,

"I couldn't leave mymother"

The reticence was almost permanent when Ino finally computed what he had just said. She looked at him dumbly while he colored with rage and having spilled one of his most precious secrets.

"Y-your mother..." she repeated.

"She was the only one...she was buried there. She took care of me there. She loved me." Sasuke mused, not really paying her any attention.

When he realized whom he was talking to, he blinked and stopped his rambling. Ino, full of spite, lashed out,

"So you left us, to see how much power you had. If you could leave us, you had power. If you couldn't, you were weak."

He narrowed his eyes.

"Yes."

"That's stupid." she snapped.

"What do you know?" he muttered.

Ino blinked and stopped her upcoming response. She realized...they sounded just like kids...no fighting, no swearing...just arguing.

"You mother...wouldn't want you killing like this. You're burning her grave. Your old home is burning even as we speak." Ino said, quietly.

Sasuke looked at her, a flicker of despair filling his eyes.

"I know."

"So why-"

"You wouldn't-you don't understand."

Ino backed off. They watched each other again, the walls of Sasuke's mind changing colors, matching his emotions...his worries...

"Why kill Sakura?"

"I hate her." he stated, simply.

"Will you kill me?" she asked, forcing her voice not to tremble.

"Yes." he said, without hesitation. "Now leave."

Ino nodded, and retreated back into the harsh reality. As she was leaving, she caught Sasuke with the tiniest drops of water in his eyes.

----

She didn't even have time to regain her footing. Sasuke was already to her, his sword gleaming in the firelight. She caught the tears in his eyes and let her own fall down her cheeks. It was coming so fast...so cruelly.

In an instant, Ino felt the sharp pain in her stomach and didn't need to look down to know that she was dying.

"Sasuke...kun..." she murmured.

The boy looked at her and pulled out his sword. He held her.

And then they stared at each other, feeling the coldness of their bodies...

Suddenly.

So soft, so unexpected, were his lips upon her own; the last kiss Ino even felt.

It was bitter.

His was the last embrace she ever had. It was warm and delicate, almost unsure. Ino knew he was still young...not innocent, but young. Sasuke looked at her and shut her eyes.

With her last bit of strength, Ino grabbed his wrist and he pulled her to his chest. She listened to his heart, and felt his rapid pulse beating against her fingers. Finally, her fingers dropped, her eyes closed, and she lay still.

Sasuke watched her bleed life, and breathed out.

Ino had no pulse, her certainty of life stripped clean away. Sasuke saw two of her fingers were still attached to his wrist, feeling his from the dead. As far as Sasuke was concerned, he had no pulse. He had given up all human nature a long time ago.

He fled the scene.

Konoha burned.

-----

Sweets: It's done! I hope you liked it! Much love to xXthruthfull liarxX! Huggles!

Reviews are love.