Chapter 2 Meeting the Kurans
"My name is... Kiryu Zero..."
Karin and Sasuke finally got a good look at him with the light provided by the moonlight.
He was a little taller than Sasuke with silver hair and some kind of tattoo on his neck. He had lavender eyes and pale skin. This 'Zero' had a serious look on his face and his gaze at them was piercing.
"Where did you guys come from?"
Karin finally struck out of her trance, "We were not too far off from Otogakure before we were attacked by those... vampires."
"Otogakure? Never heard of it."
Karin gawked at him and began rambling on about how he could not know about the Sound village. Zero kept his face on Sasuke and smirked, "Maybe you could help me..."
***
Sasuke nodded.
If he were to help Zero, who he had just found out was a vampire hunter, Zero would help him and Karin get back to their world.
Karin's jaw dropped when Sasuke suggested that the portal they went through sent them to a different world.
"So you're ninja? Interesting..."
"Our jutsu don't work on these vampires."
"But you have great speed, reflexes and knowledge of weapons, right?"
Sasuke nodded.
"Then... with the right weapons... and training you can become a vampire hunter..."
Karin stood abrutely, "Wait if those things were vampires then... because I was bitten does that mean that I'll become a vampire?!"
Zero looked at her bite marks, "No. No you won't..."
Karin let out a sigh of relief.
***
"This is Kaname-sama and Yuuki-chan's house!" Aidou announced.
"It's really... big..." Hinata mumbled.
"Yeah! It's like... wooow..." Naruto emphasied.
"Come right this way!" the blond vampire directed.
"Aidou... I see you have broughten guests..."
"Kaname-sama! This is Uzumaki Naruto and Hyuga Hinata. We'll explain inside," Aidou announced in a formal matter.
Hinata inspected the owner of the mansion. Apparently he was a pureblood who lived with his fiance Yukki... who was also his sister. Her and Naruto felt uncomfortable at first but tried to avoid conflict over the subject. Yes, even Naruto did not comment.
"Onii-sama! You didn't tell me we were having guests!" the girl, Yuuki, who looked to be around her and Naruto's age. You could see the resemblence in the two and she caught Naruto fidgeting from the corner of her eye.
"I'm afraid this is news to me also, Yuuki-chan."
***
After sitting down and talking... Hinata and Naruto explained their story and how they were looking for Sakura.
"I haven't heard of any other Level E attacks... Gomen."
Hinata sighed and looked over at Naruto. He had his head down.
'Naruto-kun...'
"Yuuki-chan," Kaname stood, "Please show our guests to some rooms. I'll begin looking into this immediately."
He left the room and the other three vampires followed, leaving Naruto, Hinata and Yuuki in an awkward silence.
"Well," Yuuki chimed, "I'll show you to your rooms."
***
Hinata sat in her comfortable, temporary room, wondering how she and Naruto were going to get home. Finding Sakura was a priority first though... if she was even in this place or world or wherever the hell they were dragged into.
The Hyuga looked over at her door and Yuuki soon appeared.
Yuuki smiled, "Hinata-chan, your bath is ready."
"Arigato Yuuki-chan. But you didn't have to..."
...
Hinata and Yuuki sat in the large bath together.
"Yuuki-chan?"
"Yes?"
"Ano... I know this is none of my business but..."
"Go on."
"Did you find it odd... when you realised that Kaname-san was your brother?"
"Hmmm... At first, but I loved him before that, so why should that change? It's not uncommon in pureblood families anyway."
Hinata nodded, "Gomen."
"No need... it is rather odd espeicially when you were human for so long."
'Yuuki-chan spent half of her life as a human... not knowing that the one she loved was her brother and that she was a pureblood vampire... It must have been hard for her'
They both sat in silence when Yuuki smiled again, "So, you like Naruto-kun?"
Hinata blushed, "Nani?! Wh... What would give you that idea?"
Yuuki giggled, "It's obvious... You should tell him."
"I... I can't. He's so worried about Sakura-chan and... and..." tears started falling down her face, "It'll only ruin our friendship... And if that were to happen, I..."
"Hinata-chan..."
Hinata sniffed, pushing some of the tears away, "Gomen... Yuuki-chan. Do you ever feel like loving someone will hurt you so much?
"Yes..."she whispered.
"No, of coarse not," Hinata could not hear her, "You are happily with Kaname-san."
"Yes but..."
Hinata looked over at her.
"There was..."
"Yuuki-chan?"
"No, never mind..."
'Zero... I hope you're okay...'
***
Naruto looked (oddly) in deep thought.
"Tea?"
Naruto looked up to see Kaname with a cup of tea.
"Arigato... Do you think that Sakura-chan is okay?"
Kaname sighed, "We haven't heard anything but we'll keep looking into it. Naruto-kun... I'll be honest, both her being dead or alive are equally likely."
Narruto gripped his cup.
'Sakura-chan...'
***
Zero threw a gun over to Sasuke.
"Let's get you some practise."
Sasuke nodded, he liked Zero, though he would never admit it, he kept to himself and didn't pry in others business. Karin sat there looking from Zero to Sasuke.
"Zero-kun?"
Zero glanced over at Karin as acknowledgement, "Hn."
"What is your goal?"
Sasuke scowled, he did not wish to know, he just wanted to learn how to fight those 'vampires' and find a way back. Zero could help them.
Karin thought that he wasn't going to answer until he shot the head of a target precisely in the middle.
"I will get rid of all purebloods."
"Purebloods?" Sasuke questioned, the more he knew of these vampires the better he'd be able to fight them.
"Vampires that have no humans in their family, they have higher powers and control vampires below them. They can also turn humans into vampires."
Karin paled and placed a hand over her wound, "I thought you said that victims couldn't turn."
"Only purebloods can do that... You were bitten by a Level-E."
They both looked at him to continue.
Zero sighed, "Humans who turn into vampires eventually lose themselves and fall to Level-E, they just go on a rampage until someone eventually kills them. Regular vampires have more control," Zero scoffed, "Apparently."
Karin looked up at him, "So you're going to kill the purebloods to prevent humans becoming vampires."
Zero looked to the ceiling, "Not exactly... A pureblood killed my parents and my twin brother, well for that part, I only thought that..."
Sasuke looked away from him, "It's none of our business."
He did not pity Zero, he merely understood him.
Sasuke began his 'practise' with the gun Zero had provided him with.
***
Sakura stirred from her slumber.
"Axel... kun?"
A series of flashbacks reminded her of what had befallen her boyfriend.
She clutched her head in anguish and allowed the tears to fall.
'I wonder... if Naruto and Hinata-chan are okay...'
She looked around and found that she was in a comfortable bed, in a white hospital room.
"Oh miss! Thank goodness you woke up!"
Sakura looked over at the kind nurse.
"Cross-san would like to speak to you."
"Where am I?"
"Cross Academy's hospital wing."
"What-"
The nurse left the room and returned with a man around her silver-haired sensei's age. The woman left the room and the man took a seat beside her bed.
"My name is Cross Kaien, what is your name?"
"...Haruno Sakura..."
"Ah! Sakura-chan!" his face suddenly became serious, "You were attacked by vampires. So it seems..."
"Va...vampire?!"
"Yes... You were in the grounds of my Cross Academy, they were Level-Es. Where are you from?"
"Konohagakure. And I've never heard of 'Cross Academy'?"
"What?! It must be what I thought! You must not be of this world if you haven't heard of my precious school!"
=_='
Sakura sweatdropped.
Kaien explained about the 'situation'.
Sakura got up.
"Sakura-chan you shouldn't get up in your condition!"
"Gomen, Cross-san!" she dashed out of the room and Kaien smiled sweetly.
'She reminds me of my cute little Yuuki-chan...'
***
Sakura ran through the halls of Cross Academy passing the various students... all of them talking to their various friends some holding hands with their boyfriend or girlfriend... Sakura missed it. She gazed at preticularly couple, a blushing girl and a stuttering boy.
'Axel-kun...' she thought sadly, she felt the tears well up in her eyes again and she continued with her sprint.
***
Sakura continued her run through the street.
'Vampires...? Vampires killed Axel-kun...' Her fists clenched.
Anger boiled through her veins. She skidded to a stop when three dark figures blocked her path.
***
Zero and Sasuke's heads turned.
"I guess the vampires are this way," Zero concluded.
"Hn."
"Why?! Why did you make me watch as you teared at his flesh?!"
The woman's voice sounded familiar to Sasuke.
***
Sakura panted heavily at the damage she did to the street in one punch. It was a different crowd of vampires but they still made her blood boil, they made her relive the horrific event.
The thirsting vampires advanced towards the angry kunoichi. Tears graced Sakura's eyes but she shook them off. The vampires were now surrounding her.
She glared at each one in turn.
'Sa... kura...'
Her jaw clenched.
"Stand aside," she ordered.
One of the vampires laughed.
"She looks like quite the meal," his friends nodded and Sakura shivered with disgust.
The vampires leapt at her as she tried to fight them off. Her punches made them stumble away from her but they came back for more.
'How do I kill these things?!'
"Gah!" Sakura gasped, feeling the wall behind her when the vampire pinned her to the stone surface.
She shut her eyes and felt the fangs sink into her neck.
"Ah!" the pain shot through her.
She felt her chakra but sucked out of her like her blood. The vampire fisted his hands in her hair as if it were an intimate moment.
"Let... go... Let go!" she tried to struggle.
She heard a gun shot and one of the vampires screaming, the one who was currently biting the pink-haired girl didn't seem to take notice.
She heard a smooth voice ringing through her ears, "Sakura? Sakura!"
There was another gunshot and she felt herself being released from the vampires grip. She blacked out whispering a name that haunted her.
"Sasuke... kun..."
Me: Second chapter! WOOOOOOOOHHH!
Zero: I'm already getting sick of her...
Sasuke: Hn
Naruto: How come I don't have someone I can talk to from Vampire Knight?
Aidou: You can talk to me!
Naruto: Meh...
Sakura: So... comments? Reviews? Ideas?
Yuuki: Let us know!
(the two high-five each other)
Zero: (whispers) They look so cute...
Sasuke: (whispers) You can have Yuuki and I'll have Sakura... Deal?
Zero: Deal
Naruto: What are you guys talkin about?
Sasuke & Zero: Nothing
Me: R&R please!