Lesson Learned
Chapter 2

In the nine hundred years that she had been living, Sakura learned that a hungry vampire will lose nearly all their self-control and reasoning.

The moment Sakura took the bleeding teenager away from the onyx-haired man with the ivory mask she knew her mind was not in the right place. The damn lowly vampires had been bleeding her out for the past couple weeks and feeding off of the female last night was not enough for her. She was just so thirsty, but she didn't want to kill any more innocent people.

Sakura looked around and noticed that she had dragged the squirming kid outside of the warehouse. Still sensing the onyx-haired man's chakra inside the warehouse and deeming it safe, Sakura dropped the squirming kid unceremoniously on the ground.

The teenager bounced back onto his feet and reached into the kunai holster strapped to his right leg. He flung a few kunai at Sakura, causing her to elegantly raise her right eyebrow. She caught all the kunai without even blinking.

"Relax kid. I don't want to kill you." Sakura said as she twirled the three kunais around.

The teenager clenched his fist, causing the wound on his palm to bleed out even more.

Sakura's eyes immediately looked down to the bleeding palm. Her eyes started transforming and she licked her lips. She was just so thirsty! One small taste wouldn't kill the kid…

The sound of metal meeting flesh and the throbbing pain all over her body woke her up from her brief moment of hunger. She looked down to see several kunai lodged in her body: one lodged in the middle of her chest, one in her stomach, one on her right thigh, and one in the middle of her heart.

"Heh," Sakura pulled the kunai from her thigh out and threw it on the ground. "I guess you're not as foolish as I thought you were."

She pulled the kunai from her stomach and started to slowly stalk towards the brunette.

"That was a really good plan. Distract me with your blood and when I'm completely enraptured, kill me?" She yanked out the kunai in her chest.

The teenage boy started to slowly back up and he could only stare at her in confusion. He got the vampire in the heart, why didn't she die? He only blinked once and she was right in front of him.

Sakura softly smiled at him and said, "You're so young…still just a child." She stroked his cheek before pinching it and grinning at him in a friendly, teasing manner.

The brunette teen blushed as the pretty pink-haired vampire stroked his cheek before he shook his head and slapped her hand away. He quickly scrambled backwards to take a few more steps back to distance himself from her.

What am I doing?! She's a monster. He thought before he reached into his holster and grabbed his last kunai.

Sakura scoffed before she quickly reappeared in front of him.

She quickly grabbed his free hand and said, "Kid, nothing you do will work." She used his free hand to push the remaining kunai in her body even deeper.

The brunette's eyes widened before yanking his hand away from her.

"W-what the hell?!" he stuttered out.

Sakura winced at the pain of having a weapon lodged in her heart before deciding to pull the kunai out of her body. The hole in the middle of her heart started to slowly heal itself. The pinkette started to walk towards the stunned brunette once more.

The teen tightly gripped his kunai and held it in front of him, preparing to defend himself. Before he could react, the woman disappeared and reappeared behind him.

The last thing he heard was, "Kid, I promise you'll stay alive. All I want is just one…little…bite" before his right hand was pulled away from the front of his body, the kunai in his right hand was knocked away, and a hand was put over his mouth to keep him from screaming.

Sakura kept the squirming brunette in her strong hold and sank her teeth into his bleeding right palm and fed as tears rolled down her eyes.

Konohamaru thrashed around and tried to get out of the vampire's grip but the more he moved around the more light headed he would get. He could tell that if she continued to suck more of his blood, he would pass out and eventually die.

Black dots started to decorate his vision when she pulled her mouth away from his bleeding palm. Too weak to move, he felt his body slump in the vampire's small arms. She gently put him on the ground and stared down at him in remorse. He could see that there were trails of tears running down her cheek.

Before he completely blacked out he heard her say, "Go to sleep kid. I told you that you'd be okay."

Sakura stepped away from the brunette and stood up. She wiped the remains of her tears and turned around to leave only to be caught off guard by the onyx-haired man in the ivory mask charging at her with a sword.

Sakura quickly back flipped away from him, making sure not to step on the brunette's body, and grabbed a stray kunai on the ground. She parried the swing that she felt was coming, focused chakra to the soles of her feet, and back flipped 10 feet away.

He's fast for a human.

Sakura narrowed her eyes and shuffled her feet to stand in a more comfortable fighting stance.

The onyx-haired man disappeared and reappeared a foot away from Sakura, swinging his sword down toward her. She brought up the kunai and attempted to block the hit, but was at a disadvantage because the sword was much longer than she expected. The man pushed down harder until his sword dug into her right shoulder.

Unexpectedly, the hilt of the sword started sparking with lightening. The lightening travelled from the hilt down toward the tip, where it was digging into her shoulder. Sakura hissed in pain as she felt her right shoulder start to numb. The pinkette lifted her leg up and slammed her foot on the ground, creating a crater and making the man jump back in the air before he lost his balance.

Sakura lunged forward while he was still in the air and knocked the sword out of his hands. The onyx-haired man must have been anticipating this because the moment it flew from his hands he immediately grabbed Sakura and kneed her in the stomach, knocking the wind out of her. The man landed gracefully on the ground while Sakura hit the ground with a lot less grace.

"You're a lot more experienced than your adorable little friend over there." Sakura said aloud as she slowly stood up, clutching her stomach with her right arm. Her eyebrow twitched in annoyance as soon as she realized her right shoulder and arm still felt numb.

"Your arm will feel numb for a while, even if you're a vampire and your wound heals." The man announced, ignoring Sakura's previous comment.

It's just as I thought. I gotta end this fight soon and escape before his friends come back him up.

Sakura charged at the onyx-haired man and hit him with a series of chakra-filled punches and kicks. The man was able to keep up and either blocked or dodged all the hits coming, however, she noticed that the hits that he sustained from blocking still injured him. Using this to her advantage, she faked a punch to his left making him move to the right and swung her leg up to hit him with a powerful chakra-filled kick. The man blocked the kick with both of his arms, grabbed her leg, and swung her in a random direction.

Sakura bounced off the warehouse wall that she was thrown at and landed on her feet. She looked at the masked man to see that he was rubbing both his forearms.

I didn't want to break his arms, just severely bruise. I'm definitely getting too soft.

This time the onyx-haired man was the first one to charge at her and came at her with his own series of kicks and punches. She dodged most of the hits coming and spun around so he was the one with his back facing the wall. The onyx-haired man came at her with a punch but Sakura predicted it and focused chakra to the palm of her hands and slammed her palms into his injured and bruised forearm.

His movements only slightly faltered, but it was enough for Sakura to throw a punch at him to distract him with one hand and focus chakra to her other hand to create a chakra scalpel. She touched the correct areas on his bodies to temporarily paralyze him and using some spare kunai that she picked up on the ground along the way, she threw it at the man to keep him pinned against the wall.

The onyx-haired man cursed and attempted to thrash around as best as his mostly paralyzed body could. He was pinned against the wall with the kunais piercing through his clothing, but he could feel his body slowly starting to slump to the ground because the kunai couldn't completely hold up his weight on its own. He felt his body slowly touch the ground until he was sitting on his knees with the wall behind him supporting him.

Sakura approached the man and crouched in front of him.

"You're one tough opponent. Let me take a look at that face so I can remember the face of a good challenge so I can avoid the trouble of fighting you next time," She reached her hand out to try and pull the ivory mask (That she now just noticed looked like a bird. A hawk maybe?) off of the onyx-haired man but the man moved his head away from her grasp.

"Don't touch me filthy bloodsucker," she heard the man's muffled voice curse at her.

Sakura chuckled and said, "Don't worry I'm not hungry anymore. I'm honestly just curious."

Her hand shot forward one more time and pulled the mask off of the man. But like the famous saying goes, "Curiosity killed the cat."

Sakura's eyes widened and she dropped the mask the moment she made eye contact with the onyx-haired man. His eyes were a familiar shade of blood red with three black tomoes glaring up at her. He had pale white skin, beautiful high cheekbones, an aristocratic nose, and a handsome jaw line.

"U-Uchiha?" she stuttered out as she stood up and took a step back.

The man's eyes shot up and glared harder at her in suspicion for knowing his surname.

Before Sakura could react to the shock of seeing an Uchiha, she felt a sharp pain through her chest. She looked down to see a katana lodged through her heart. It was roughly yanked out and the last thing she heard before she felt her assailant snap her neck was, "It would seem that you require a bit of assistance, otouto."

There are many things on Sakura's list of likes and there are only a handful of things on her list of dislikes. One of the top things on her list of dislikes is dying and the feeling of being brought back to life.

When she first found out she was turned into a vampire, she tried ending her life. She doesn't believe that one should have the ability to live forever, especially if the only way they could do that was by sucking the life out of someone. However, no matter how hard she tried she wouldn't die. She never understood why she couldn't die, but other vampires could. The first time she watched another vampire get killed in front of her eyes, she waited for his body to heal itself and for him to gasp back to life the way she would, but it would never happen.

She supposed it must have something to do with-NO! She would not think about him.

But back to the subject, being brought back to life was a bitch. One moment you're alive, then you get killed, and you wake up disoriented and gasping for the air that your already dead body is still somehow craving for. It feels like you're having a nice, pleasant conversation with someone in one room only to be pulled out of the room by your hair for a few moments and shoved back into the room and not remembering what you were talking about. It takes a few moments for her body to fully get back into operation and remember what the hell happened before she died.

So when she woke up in a prison-like room on an uncomfortable bed that looked like it came from a hospital, she was dazed and confused. She glanced to the right of the room and noticed she had no windows, for obvious reasons like a chance to escape, the walls were made out of gray cement or stone, across from her bed was the open entrance to what she assumed was the bathroom because she could hear a dripping faucet, and to her left she finally noticed that she was locked behind heavy copper colored metal bars with a rusty metal door. She looked and noticed that the bars and doors had a light blue glow to them, indicating that they had a chakra enforced barrier to them.

Outside of the bars she saw that there were two figures sitting on dark mahogany chairs to the left side of the room and in front of the two figures was a matching mahogany table. In one chair sat a man with spiky blond hair and a woman with long dark violet hair that framed her face. They looked quite tense and ready to spring into action. She assumed that it was because she was awake again.

Continuing her observation of the room, Sakura looked to the right of the room to see a door that she assumed would lead to a hallway with many more prisons that looked like hers.

Smart of them to keep a prison inside a room and separate from other prisons. All the prisoners could talk and eventually figure out a way to escape.

The sound of a security camera whirring around attracted Sakura's attention and above the chairs and tables she noticed a camera zooming in on her.

Just where the hell am I?

Sakura sat up straighter and rolled her right shoulder, noticing that the numbness went away. She looked at the two strangers from the corner of her eyes, noticing that they were still tense.

"Sooo," Sakura pulled the blankets off of her legs and turned her body so she faced them. "If you don't mind me asking, where am I?" She dangled her feet in a carefree manner, as if she wasn't a prisoner.

The blond haired man clenched his fist and glared at her warily. He opened his mouth like he was about to say something but before he could, the door to the hallway slammed open. In walked a familiar face and big busted blonde woman. Sakura's eyes widened and stopped dangling her feet. She closed her eyes and smiled to herself in amusement.

"Tsunade-shishou, it sure has been a long time hasn't it?" Sakura opened her eyes and grinned cheekily at her old mentor.

A/N: Dun dun dun! So let me know what you guys think of the second chapter! Am I moving too fast with the story? I will further explain the use of chakra in the next chapter :D Before you guys say anything, I know this chapter was a bit short :( Buuuut anways, reviews motivate me to update faster, just saying (;