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KONOHAS LOT CHAPTER 3

Team Samui

It was a dark night as the ninja team from the land of lightning continued to leap from tree to tree on their way to complete the mission given to their ninja team; to deliver a message from the Raikage to the Hokage.

Very little was spoken between Team Samui; just a few words here and there that related to their mission. However, even the random mission related conversation seemed to get rarer and rarer as the ninja team got closer and closer to Konoha. Even the usually very talkative Omoi had next to nothing to say.

Their quiet had nothing to do with the fact that they were approaching an opposing ninja village, though one could be excused for thinking that. In fact it had everything to do with the silent chill that was going down all their spines. They felt like they were being watched, even though all their ninjas skills told them that they weren't. That still didn't do anything to soothe their rattled nerves.

It wasn't until they finally saw the gates of Konoha that the three ninja finally breathed a sigh of relief. Their team leader Samui felt a slight feeling of amusement at the irony of being relieved by the sight of a non allied ninja village.

The three lightning ninja approached the gate of Konoha and approached the guards on duty who anxiously kept their eyes on them as they came closer.

"My name is Samui, Im a ninja from Kumogakure with a message from Lord Raikage to Lady Tsunade, we are expected". Samui then handed her credentials and orders to the guard on duty at the gate.

Genma took her papers and looked them over, then checked the arrival sheet the Hokage tower sent him earlier to make sure everything was in order. When he confirmed to himself that it was he handed Samui's papers back to her and said," Welcome to Konoha, follow the main road to the Hokages tower, don't deviate from the main road".

Samui nodded to Genma to let him know she understood, then turned and signaled to her teammates to follow behind her. With that done the three Kumo ninja walked through the gate and entered the village of Konoha. Inwardly Karui breathed a sigh of relief, they were finally safe inside the walls of Konoha.

HOKAGES OFFICE

Team Samui entered the office of Konohas Hokage and were surprised to find the Legendary Slug Princess looking so disheveled sitting behind her desk. Omoi and Karui both quickly exchanged looks of mutual disdain. This was Konohas legendary Hokage? This woman slumped over her desk? Having had the honor of being in the office of their sensei's brother the Raikage many times in their ninja careers they found the idea that this tired, weak looking woman could be considered by others to be a ninja of the raikages caliber to be absolutely absurd.

Samui, shot her two teammates a reprimanding look as she was completely aware what the two of them where thinking and how diplomatically inappropriate it was for them to be thinking that in this office. As Shinobi, especially Shinobi of their rank they should show their training and not wear their thoughts on their sleeves for a mind reader or a body language reader to see. However Samui had long since resigned herself to the fact that her two teammates could act like babies sometimes and occasionally embarrass her.

With her teammates appropriately mollified Samui approached the Hokage and handed her the letter that it was their mission to deliver to her.

Samui then stepped back and said", by order of The Lord Raikage we have been ordered to deliver this message to you and then stand by at a place of your choosing to wait for your response".

Tsunade took the letter, and then scanned the three Kumo ninja standing in her office. The lead ninja Samui looked to be all business, her posture betraying nothing. Then she looked at Samui's two teammates to see if they had any further opinions about her they'd like to share.

Tsunade was well aware of how disheveled she looked, she didn't need the obnoxious looks of two foreign ninjas to make her aware of that. That said, Tsunade believed she can be excused a few misplaced hairs here and there considering what's happening in her life right now. Over two dozen residents of Konoha had disappeared in the last few weeks, among them were two of the people she loved most in the world; Naruto and Shizune. Furthermore despite an intensive investigation and routine searches no evidence had been uncovered to help lead them to whatever or whomever was doing this. On top of that her apprentice Sakura had been calling in sick for several days, leaving the management of the office to an inexperienced chunin named Nao. Unfortunately the chunins inexperience showed as the office of the Hokage had never looked so messy. So messy that Tsunade was embarrassed for foreign ninja to see it. She'd have to talk to Nao about doing a better job later.

Focusing back on the here and now Tsunade opened and began to read the Raikage's letter. When she was done the Slug Princess was suspicious, confused and a little angry. This "important" letter from the Raikage was in fact nothing important at all. It was a question about a shipment of supplies that Konoha had ordered from Kumo a few weeks ago. This wasn't an important question at all, this was a message that could have been sent by either messenger bird or standard mail services. Certainly nothing that required being hand delivered by three highly trained Shinobi. Tsunade knew that while the Raikage was famously quick to anger, he was no fool. He had a reason for sending three of his top ninjas to Konoha with this letter. Tsunade just needed to figure out what that purpose was. Deciding to keep the three Kumo ninja around long enough for her to ponder this development she turned to team Samui and said.

"Thank you for delivering this matter to my attention, it will take me awhile to decide upon a response, please partake of the many amenities one can enjoy in our village, i'll send for you all when I've prepared a response".

Team Samui bowed to the hokage out of respect and quietly left the her office.

"Dammit this nonsense is the last thing I needed right now", growled Tsunade.

TEAM SAMUI

The three Kumo ninja exited the building that housed the hokages office and all three of them collectively breathed a sigh of relief to be out of there. They were quiet for a few moments, none of them sure what to say before, Omoi not being able to suffer the silence any longer, finally spoke.

"Man, why do we have to wait around in a foreign hidden village, what if we bump into like a weird cult or something like that and they somehow makes us think like they do and we end up never leaving this place?"

Karui turned to Omoi and smacked him in the head," shut up you idiot, something like that could never ever happen, ever"!

Samui, knowing that this argument would probably escalate quickly decided to spare herself a headache and intervene.

"Quiet you two, I think we've had enough of each others company for awhile, lets split up for awhile and let our nerves soothe some while we indulge in the hokages generosity and explore the village.

That said the three ninja split up and went their separate ways; if only they knew how changed some of them would be when they saw each other next.

INO

A weary Ino was walking through the streets of Konoha at dusk. She had just finished her shift at her family's flower shop and she was completely exhausted. With the dark mood the village was in it seemed like no one was particularly interested in purchasing flowers. With no customers coming into the store her shift seemed to drag on and on endlessly. Ino had tried to make the time go by faster by inundating herself with busy work but that didn't help, all it did was tire her out. Now her she was dragging her feet behind her as she made her way to the home of her best friend Sakura Haruno.

Ino Yamanaka wanted nothing more then to go home and crawl into bed and sleep the night away but her friend Sakura Haruno seemed to have become extremely ill recently. Ever since Sakura's teammate Naruto had disappeared her health had seemed to have plummeted in a matter of days. Ino was very worried about her friend and she wouldn't be able to get any kind of decent sleep if she didn't go and check on Sakura first

"Honestly though" Ino mused to herself, she has had to deal with a lot of drama from her friends recently. Not only had she had to fret over Sakura's ill health and weird behavior she's also had to continue to deal with her teammate Choji's silly crush. Earlier her teammate had meekly wandered into the store, the only person who had come in today no less, and began to sheepishly ask her out on a date again. Ino didn't want to break Choji's heart but this awkwardness had gone on long enough, it was time to nip this in the bud and spare both her and Choji future embarrassment. Ino looked Choji in the eyes and told him she wasn't attracted to him and nothing in the world was going to change that, not one single thing. Choji looked hurt and it broke her heart to hurt him like this but it had to be done. He walked out of the store looking like a wounded dog with his tail between its legs and she was able to return to work.

Ino's chain of thought was broken when she realized she had reached the front door of the Haruno household. While Sakura had her own apartment elsewhere in Konoha, she had recently been staying at her parents house, in her old room no less, while she recovered from whatever bug it was that was making her feel so weak in recent days.

Ino knocked on the door and waited patiently for a response.

She didn't have to wait long before the door opened and Ino was greeted with the kind face of Sakura's mother; Mebuki Haruno.

"Ino dear" Mebuki said,"how nice to see you this evening, are you here to see Sakura"?

"Yes I am Mrs. Haruno I just want to check on her real quick".

"Of course dear", Mebuki replied" you just go right on upstairs and see her".

"Thank you Mrs. Haruno, its nice to see you again".

With basic greeting formalities met Ino entered the Haruno residence and headed upstairs to Sakura's room.

SAKURA

Sakura Haruno laid in her bed in the darkness. Alone with no company save her thoughts.

Sakura had never felt weaker in her whole life, she hadn't even felt this weak during the early days of her training with Tsunade before the Slug Princess had whipped her into proper shape with all those insane dodging exercises.

What was happening to her? She honestly didn't know. Originally she thought she was just running herself ragged looking for and fretting over her missing friend Naruto. That would have explained some fatigue but it didn't explain the other things that had been happening to her lately.

First it had been the weird dreams of Naruto visiting her at night. Then her fatigue had gotten worse. Then other weird things had started to happen; the sun had become nearly unbearable to be exposed too, her chakra had begun to act oddly and her fatigue had gotten progressively worse as the days had gone by.

But that wasn't the worse thing she felt was happening to her. Maybe it was crazy, it certainly sounded crazy in her head when she tried to put it to words but Sakura couldn't help but feel that some nameless darkness, or maybe even oblivion, was eating away at her essence, her very soul. She didn't know why she felt like that, she only knew that she did. There was some taint building up within her. A taint that was trying to push into her spirit, her very soul.

Sakura was a highly trained medical ninja and she had given herself a full medical diagnostic several times but she hadn't been able to find anything wrong with herself. There was no disease to explain the fatigue, besides mild anemia maybe. There was no poison, curse or jutsu to explain the odd sensations she felt eating away at her essence. As far as all the training Lady Tsunade had given her was concerned there was nothing wrong with her.

Only there was...she just knew it.

Just like she knew there was nothing she could do about it anymore. She didn't even have the strength to get out of bed. Sakura didn't want to just give up, that would be a slap in the face to her fiery spirit, but she just couldn't think of anything else she could do.

Before she could think on it any further though her bedroom door opened and her best friend Ino walked in.

SAKURA'S ROOM

Ino entered the room and saw the prone form of her friend laying quietly in her bed.

"Dear god", Ino thought to herself upon a closer look at her friend, she was even paler then the last time she saw her, how was that even possible?

Forcing a smile onto her face Ino sat in the chair next to Sakura's bed and said to her friend in a playful tone", geez forehead could you be any lazier, missing all those shifts at work, its time to get out of that bed and rejoin the living".

Sakura turned her head to face her friend and Ino could see a look of brief relief come over her friends face.

"Ino, thank god your here, I think there's something wrong with me, but I can't find out what it is, what's causing it, I've tried too but I can't". Sakura took a deep breath and continued, " there's something wrong with me deep inside, not just physically but spiritually, you need to take me to lady Tsunade right away, maybe she can find an answer where I couldn't".

Ino stared at her friend with a shocked look on her face. What was forehead talking about? Ino had examined her just yesterday and knew there wasn't anything wrong with her that serious. She sounded delirious. Ino checked Sakura's forehead expecting a fever but instead was met with flesh that was much colder then it should be.

Maybe forehead was right maybe she should consult lady Tsunade on this. Sakura's symptoms were becoming increasingly bizarre now. Originally Ino and the other medics that checked her out thought she was just overdoing it and had gotten a nasty bug or something. Certainly nothing to bother the Hokage about, not when she was dealing with all these mysterious disappearances.

Now Ino thought that the time had indeed come to check with her teacher. Sakura's mysterious illness had spiraled out of control.

However Ino, not knowing what was wrong with her friend but now realizing it was serious didn't want to risk moving her and possibly causing further harm.

"Listen forehead, I'm going to go get the Hokage right now and bring her back here you just sit tight okay"?

Sakura's eyes shot wide open in response to her friends words and she began to struggle to rise.

It took all the energy she had left to sit up, she just couldn't let Ino leave, she was desperate.

"No Ino please don't leave, I can feel it, it's eating away at me, I can't hold it off much longer, you have to help me, please help me, don't let it take me, DONT LET..."

And then Sakura went silent and slumped back into the bed, she didn't say another word, she didn't move a muscle, she didn't draw a breath.

Sakura Haruno was dead.

Ino arose from where she had been sitting next to her friend in abject horror. Sakura had just died right in front of her, her best friend had just died in front of her eyes. Ino had been both a medic and a ninja for many years but she had never been faced with death like this before. Ino had seen plenty of people die but it had never been anyone she loved. It had never been her best friend.

Ino began to panic, she turned and ran to the door following up on her first instinct to go find help but she stopped when her hand reached the doorknob.

"Dammit you fool" Ino chastised herself in her head", your a medical ninja, stop panicking, turn around and save your friend".

Ino took a quick deep breath, composed herself and turned back to her friends bed ready to do anything she needed to save Sakura's life.

All she found was an empty bed.

What Ino couldn't have known was that while she had paused for a moment at the doorway, the pale and newly fanged form of Sakura had risen effortlessly from her bed. Her strength returned to her. Sakura had a look of confusion on her face for just a split second when she then saw her friend on the other side of the room. Instantly Sakura knew what she wanted to do, what she hungered to do. A fanged smile crossed over her face and she silently leaped to the ceiling and began to crawl across it to her friend, concealed in the dark.

A confused and bewildered Ino ran over to the empty bed, rushing past her the silent predator overhead and threw back the sheets on the bed, not entirely believing what she was seeing.

That's when she heard a voice tinged with evil speak behind her.

"Are you looking for me Pig"?

With reflexes one could only have if they had undergone ninja training Ino turned to face the sinister voice, only to be met with an even faster fist hitting her in the face, slamming her to the ground.

Ino looked up facing her attacker and saw the form of her friend Sakura Haruno standing over her, but so twisted that you almost couldn't recognize her. Her skin was as pale as ivory, as where the fangs jutting from her mouth. The scariest thing to Ino Yamanaka though, a trained mind walker, were Sakura's eyes. A mind walker knew that a persons eyes were a window to their soul, and Sakura's now burned a fiery red as if there wasn't a soul behind them anymore, just blazing hellfire.

"Oh Ino, what a silly little girl I was to struggle and fight against this perfect evil essence I've been joined with, it's the single greatest feeling I've ever known, I now understand how small every creature that isn't like me is, how unimportant, but you and I pretty much wrote the book on being silly little girls didn't we after how we chased after that loser Sasuke. That bastard thinks he knows what darkness is, he has no idea".

With that said Sakura then kicked Ino in her abdomen with her new vampirical strength to keep her blonde friend from rising from the floor. She felt something crunch.

"What a great gift Naruto has given me, the greatest gift one could bestow upon another", Sakura began to stare off into space a little, after rising she understood now what her dreams had meant, she understood everything now, she couldn't wait to give herself to her sire later and let him understand just how grateful she was for him doing this for her, to her.

A pained groan from the floor broke Sakura from her revelry as she returned her attention to her wounded friend who was trying quite unsuccessfully to rise from the floor. Sakura silently mused to herself with a great deal of dark enjoyment that perhaps she had injured her friend a little more severely then she had intended with that kick.

"Don't worry Ino, you won't hurt for much longer, I'm so desperately hungry and I want to share with you what Naruto shared with me".

Sakura kneeled down next to Ino , grabbed her head and roughly exposed her throat. She paused for a moment over her friend, then Sakura buried her fangs in her best friends jugular, greedily draining every drop she could get.

Ino for her part felt only pleasure, but hidden by the pleasure she also felt some dark energy begin to eat away at her soul. Then she felt nothing and knew only darkness.

Having drained her friend dry she dropped Ino's corpse to the floor and began to smack her lips. By all the stars in the sky that blood tasted good, better then anything she had ever tasted before.

It wasn't enough though, not nearly enough, she needed more, but how to get it?

A cruel smile crossed Sakura's lips, she rose to her feet and called out with the sweetest tone she could possibly muster considering what she was now.

"Mother, could you please come into my room for a moment"?

KARUI

Karui walked down the streets of Konoha, wondering what it was about this village that gave it such a creepy vibe. She and her teammates Samui and Omoi had earlier delivered a message to the hokage from the raikage and were now simply awaiting her response before they returned to their village.

Karui had figured she would pass the time by taking a stroll through the village. She really wished she hadn't though. She didn't know what it was but something about this place was sending shivers down her spine.

If she had looked behind her she would have known what it was.

If she had looked behind her maybe she wouldn't have been dead a few minutes later.

KURENAI

Kurenai was having a good day, one of the best days of her life in fact. While she felt guilty saying that knowing what was going on in the village lately she simply couldn't help it. She had recently learned that she had become pregnant with her long time lover Asuma. Since learning that Kurenai and Asuma had moved in with one another and begun to share their lives with each other in earnest. They were finally going to be a family just like she'd always hoped, doing family-style thing's. This evening for example they had decided to have a party to celebrate her pregnancy with several of their closest friends. The party had been more fun than she could possibly had hoped for. There had been gifts for the baby and jokes for the parents. Best of all Kurenai had been able to reconnect with her best friend from years ago, Megumi. It had been years since they'de been able to talk like this. Megumi hadn't become a ninja like Kurenai had so they had begun to drift in the last few years. It was an occupational hazard that came with being a Shinobi. Ninja could often lose touch with their non-ninja friends. However after the party had begun they began to talk to each other as if no years had passed between them. In fact they continued to talk even after the party had long since finished. However all good things must come to an end and Megumi decided it was time for her to go home.

"Thanks for inviting me to your party today it was great to see you again Kurenai".

"It was great to see you again too Megumi are you sure you need to go so soon?"

"Unfortunately yes, I have to work early tomorrow and I'm hoping to stop by on the way home and get something to eat".

The ninja mistress of illusion nodded her head in understanding and then said, "we have to do a better job of keeping in touch this time you're welcome to come by my apartment and visit anytime".

Megumi nodded her head and smiled, then she left Kurenais apartment and headed out into the night.

Kurenai stood in the doorway for a minute with a smile on her face, life had truly been good to her recently and she looked forward to what it had in store for her next.

NARUTO

Naruto was happily walking through the streets of Konoha late at night with a huge grin on his face. He had finally finished all the tasks the lady on high had assigned to him and now, like at the end of any good mission Naruto was going out to get a bite to eat at his favorite restaurant Ichiraku ramen.

For obvious reasons it was a little harder to get to his favorite ramen stand then it used to be in the past but that really wasn't a big deal. It would all be worth it when he could dig his teeth into his absolute favorite food.

After a silent and extremely discreet trip through the side streets of Konoha Naruto finally reached the familiar sight of Ichirakus.

As he approached the counter he saw one of his favorite people in the whole world manning the counter.

"Hey there Ayame",spoke Naruto to the extremely attractive ramen server.

Ayame looked up to see who was speaking to her and upon seeing that it was Naruto flashed him a huge smile showing off her vampire fans.

"Hey there Naruto looking for something delicious?"

Naruto sat down at the counter and then hopped over it to stand next to his favorite waitress.

"I sure am Ayame, you read my mind".

Ayame smirked at Naruto, then began playfully cupping his balls in her hand.

"Is it me?", asked Ayame lustfully.

Naruto put his hand down to reach hers and carefully removed it before cupping her face in his hand and staring with deep seated sexual passion into her burning red eyes.

"Maybe in a minute Ayame but right now I really am looking for something to eat".

Ayame rolled her eyes at Naruto and said", there's food to be found in our VIP room for special customers" she then pointed at the door to the stock room.

Naruto approached the door and opened it, and found a local shopgirl, he believed her name was Megumi, tied up and lying on the floor. Megumi was struggling futilely against her bonds and had begun sobbing into her gag.

He turned to Ayame with a huge grin on his face and said,"you guys at Ichirakus always did use the freshest ingredients".

Ayame nodded at Naruto and again flashed him her now very fang filled smile.

"The stupid bitch wandered in here about an hour ago looking for a late night supper", Ayames face then twisted into a cruel smile and her eyes burned a bit redder then they did only seconds ago, I guess she hadn't heard that the menu had changed".

Naruto returned Ayames smile, then he entered the storeroom, closing the door behind him.

Ayame returned to her duties when a moment later her father wandered in from a different room in the back, sporting himself a brand new set of fangs.

Ayame turned to him and said," geez it's about time you rose dad, it seems like I bit you forever ago, this place can't be run by one person now get over here and help me".

The new vampire Ichiraku nodded his head and joined his daughter in running the restaurant.

Father and daughter then began to work diligently in synch with each other. Taking but a moment to smile as they heard a scream in the back room turn into a moan of pleasure. Then silence.

HINATA

Hinata Hyuga had never been more miserable in her life then she was right now. The man she had loved for years was missing, vanished without a trace and with him had vanished any hope Hinata had for a happy future. For years she had hoped and daydreamed about a future with Naruto, a future filled with love and happiness.

If Naruto was gone though so was that future. All that would be left to her would be to live at the whims of her cruel father and to continue to live in the shadow of her equally cruel sister.

"Please let Naruto be okay," Hinata quietly beseeched the heavens. Hinata knew in her heart she would be wiling to do anything to have her happy future back; to be with Naruto.

YOSHINO

The still, calm lake that could be found on the Nara compound rested serenely in the evening. It was a windless night so the surface of the lake sat completely undisturbed in the twilight.

Then there was a bubble.

Than another...and another.

Then, a female form erupted out of the lake to the surface and then slowly began swimming to shore.

Yoshino Nara crawled onto the land and then gave herself a moment to adjust to all the things that felt different about her now, all of them wonderful.

She had never felt so good, so complete in her life. It was like going into that lake had been a baptism. A dark baptism that had crafted her into a beautiful monster. Changed her into something she was always meant to be.

Yoshino looked at her talon like claws and couldn't help but feel a smile come to her face. It's when she smiled that she felt the fangs that where in her mouth now. That's was when she began to feel the glorious all consuming hunger course through her.

Yoshino knew that she must feed, more then that she wanted to feed, that she had to go find someone to feed upon. Images of faces began to flash through her memory, faces of people she knew and in one moment of absolute clarity she knew whom it was she needed to devour.

Yoshino would eat that Suna wench, not just for herself to sate the hunger burning through her, Yoshino would eat Temari for the sake of her son as well.

If she ate the Suna girl then she soon thereafter wouldn't be a suna girl anymore. She'd change, she would elevate, become a creature like her. Then Temari would finally be worthy of her son.

Thinking about Temari made a weird surge reverberate through her loins.

Yoshino rose to her feet and started walking in the direction of the village. Something told her that there could be all kinds of ways to enjoy Temari.

TSUME

Tsume was concerned, she had had a meeting with the Hokage earlier in the day, a meeting that her daughter Hana was supposed to attend. Only Hana had never arrived. True it wasn't really essential for Hana to attend with her but she was always so responsible that it was out of character for her daughter to blow off an official obligation.

Tsume also couldn't help but think about the recent disappearances and fear a connection. Tsume had faith in her daughter and her ninja skills and truly believed she was too strong to be taken away by whatever it was that was taking people. However Tsume was still a mother and couldn't help but be worried for her child.

That was why Tsume now found herself tracking her daughters scent through the Inuzuka compound. The scent was very weak, it was an old scent, several hours old, but it was the only scent of her daughter she had found.

The concerned mother continued to follow her daughters scent to the Inuzuka compounds dog kennels.

This is where the scent ended, but it was strange, her daughters scent also seemed to have begun to change, it smelled wrong, twisted somehow, but it still smelled close enough to how her daughter usually smelled for her to recognize it. Also, her scent had become so small, almost hidden. If Tsume hadn't been smelling Hana's scent for all the days of her daughters life and if she wasn't an experienced inuzuka tracker she was sure she wouldn't have been able to smell it at all now.

With a great feeling of worry and concern that only a parent was able to feel Tsume ran the rest of the distance between herself and the kennels in an instant and entered the kennels.

Then Tsume Inuzuka saw something she knew she would wish for the rest of her life she could have unseen. How long that life would be is anyone's guess.

In the center of the kennel was a pile of lifeless Inuzuka dogs. Amongst the pile were the puppies Dogimaru and Puppimaru.

But that wasn't the worst of it. On top of the dead pile of dogs was a peverted form of her daughter. Dog blood running down her mouth while she licked blood off of her fingers with glee and vigor shining in her now red eyes.

"Hana what have you done, you loved these dogs, you helped raise them, you killed them, why do you look so changed, what's become of you"? Tsume could do nothing but rattle off all the questions that started to pop into her head. What's happening, what happened to her beautiful baby girl?

"Oh be quiet mother", snapped Hana with a disrespectful tone towards her mother that she would have never used in life. "As for what I've done mother, well I really had no other choice, I was hungry and I needed to feed", Hana then smiled cruelly showing her fangs, much longer then they used to be" I WANTED to feed, besides I wanted to know if our ninja hounds would change and come back like I did. My gorgeous red headed sire remade me just a little while ago, and then she explained to me about what I had become, the perfection I've now obtained and I just had to know if I could give it to the dogs".

"Hana, your speaking madness, what have you become? You need to come with me to see the Hokage, she can fix you, heal you and then you can tell her and the rest of us what's happening in the village"!

Hana's eyes darkened at her mothers words, she quietly got off the pile of dogs and faced her mother, taking a dangerous pose.

"No mother, Tsunade can't fix what's wrong with me because theirs nothing to fix, I have become more then I was before", Hana then snarled and continued," I won't be going to the Hokage and neither will you".

Then all the eyes of the previously dead dogs opened and turned their gaze to Tsume.

"At least not yet", Hana finished.

RAIKAGES OFFICE

A sat in silence in his office mulling over all he had learned in the last few days and the things he had done to learn those things. A had done a lot of things he wasn't proud of during his time as Raikage but he had never done anything to make him more disgusted with himself then sending Team Samui on that mission. A knew that Bee would never forgive him if he found out the truth of what he'd done.

But A had to know if what that bastard said was true.

Speaking of the aforementioned bastard, A felt his presence simply materialize in the room.

"Well," the shadowy figure asked," what I said is true isn't it"?

A turned and looked the figure in his eye.

"It's true, the last vampire has resurfaced in Konoha, we were wrong when we thought we had finished them here in Kumo a few years ago, and worse its begun to make more".

"Are you completely sure?" the shadowy figure pressed.

A continued to stare at the figure hiding in the shadows, his head felt like it was buzzing.

"I put our plan into motion, I sent a powerful team of Shinobi to Konoha using the pretense that they were delivering an important message so that neither they nor Konoha would suspect our true reason for sending them there, putting a specialized seal on them without their knowledge before they left", A continued," they traveled to Konoha using a very exposed route, that we instructed them to take, that would let anything inside or outside of Konoha see them coming, basically making them bait, and the bait was taken, a vampire killed Karui, activating the undead detection seal we placed on her".

A tossed the scroll connected to the seals placed on team Samui that had activated when Karui had died at the fangs of an undead at his mysterious partners feet.

"There can be no doubt that there are vampires inside Konoha", A finished solemnly," Karui bought us that information with her life...and her soul".

"Then you know what you have to do, my group has been fighting to erase the scourge of vampirism ever since it appeared almost two decades ago, we are the only ones prepared to deal with them now, you must sponsor us to get rid of them before they continue to spread throughout Konoha like they almost did in Kumo a decade ago, the whole world is in peril if they do".

That idea left a bad taste in A's mouth, he had always been proud of the fact that he had never hired these bastards to do so much as walk his dog.

"While I'm grateful that you brought the resurgence of this pestilence to my attention, I have no plans to hire your group to do anything".

"Then you would be a fool," said the mysterious man A was talking too", if you try and tell Konoha about the existence of vampires you'll be taken as a fool to Konoha and the other hidden villages, if you explain to them that you sent spies into Konoha to confirm the existence and presence of vampires in Konoha you'll have to admit to your village elders that you sent three of your best ninjas to Konoha as nothing more then a sacrifice".

He continued" ,Karui was Killer B's student as well as the future head of her clan, if its brought to light what you did to her it would most likely mean civil war".

A's head continued to buzz; why did he choose Team Samui to do this, it made no sense?

"Not to mention Konoha would most likely declare war on you as well for your blatant act of espionage".

A conceded to the bastard points but still wasn't ready to stoop so low as to hire his organization to do a damn thing.

"Then we will march on Konoha with our full force," as A said this he jumped to his feet and smashed his desk to pieces with his fist," we will seize control of that village and snuff out the vampires within it one by one"!

"Fool", replied the other man," a war would only help the vampires cause, you'd kill each other left and right reducing your numbers and leave injured and weakened ninja as easy pickings on the battlefield allowing them to swell their numbers even more then they already have, no your only choice is to give us your full cooperation, give us anything we ask for in payment for our services," then the mysterious man burned his gaze into A's head and continued," and I mean ANYTHING we ask for, and let us destroy the vampires for you.

The mystery man then stepped back and seemed to start to exude an aura of playfulness," me and my organization right now could be the worlds only hope, I love the irony of that".

A glared at the man he was arguing with looking as if he was about to say something else, but stopped, looked to the floor and exhaled in resignation.

He was right, the bastard was right, it was his only option.

"Fine, you bastard, I agree to your terms, but you had better produce results or ill find you and smash you into the ground until your nothing but red and black pudding".

"No worries," said the other man in a perky tone," you'll get everything I've promised you, after all Tobi is a good boy".

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