Hi guys! This is my 4th chapter, from this one on, it might take a long time for other chapters to be updated because I have school and other stuff to attend to.
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Chapter 4:
The night breeze was really cool and chilling. The sky was full of moon and stars. It was a good thing he decided to go outside with the dope, Sasuke mused to himself. Walking next to him was a blabbering Naruto.
" What a great night, eh teme?"- Naruto asked while grinning widely.
" Ah."- Sasuke grunted, he didn't want to agree with the blonde, even though it was true that the night was nice. There were still people crowded on the street, even though it was almost midnight. People were still going around to shop, hangout in clubs, bars. The night in Konoha was never boring. The streets would always be filled with people, night or day. Sasuke thought every night would be the same, crowded, noisy and effervescent.
Strolling slowly down the street, the boys were quite relaxed, enjoying the blissful night. They turned at a corner. Sasuke abruptly noticed the small but still perceptible difference, he was quite observant, there were suddenly less and less people the further they went into the street, a big one at that, full of clubs and bars and shops like the first street, normally this place should be just as packed. There were still lots of citizens loitering around but not as much. The air seemed duller, too.
It appeared that Naruto noticed the difference, as well. But they both said nothing, thinking it was nothing to worry about. They kept on going, without knowing, they had set their fate on the line of life and death, by stepping into the next alley way.
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"Hm...What was the bitch thinking? Sending me these weaklings and ordering them to force me to do something? Such ludicrous thought."- Sakura was holding one of the vampires who had just attacked her by the woman's hair. The woman with purple hair was only barely breathing but still struggling helplessly to get out of the rosette's grasp.
The whole scene was terrifying, to say the least. Blood was everywhere, on the street, on the walls and on Sakura's slender form. On the ground laid four vampires, all was dead. They were all brutally killed, with their limbs cut off or their heads decapitated. In the middle of the bloody mess stood a ruthless pink hair vampire, the look on her face was arrogant and satisfied.
Flashback:
"Ah...sorry for interrupting your meal but we're in a hurry."- Sakura looked up murderously at the intruders, dropping the guy's body. There were five of them, dressed in black cloaks. Sakura observed them carefully but subtly, 'NO one, as in NO ONE, interrupts MY meal time.'- she thought maliciously.
"Let just get to the point, shall we?"- The figure in the middle of the five spoke, her voice was sweet and soft but dripping with underlying venom, " We have received order to persuade you to joy our force as the prestigious Princess. Leading us to the light, to the awakening of proud race of superior vampires." The woman said slowly, arrogantly, emphasizing the word "persuade". Sakura, however, understood perfectly what persuade really meant. She smirked.
"I see. I get it. I suppose I have no other choice then."- the five were actually surprised at Sakura's sudden submission, but they clearly didn't expect to hear what she said next, " I guess I'll have to kill you all huh? As it seems you're not giving up anytime soon eh? Even though I reallllly don't want to kill you."- Sakura sighed, feigning an expression of pity and unwillingness, her shoulder slumped forward slightly. On the inside of the innocent and kind mask lied a monster eager to be released.
"What are you talki...?"- a male vampire didn't have chance to finish before Sakura appeared in front of him. With one swift movement, Sakura swung her arm and effectively cut off the man's head with her fingers. Blood was spraying out from the his neck like a fountain, signaling the start of a bloody dance.
" One down, four to go. That was easy!" – The pink head smiled cheerfully, her face forming a cat-like grin. She slowly licked the red blood that stained her alabaster fingers, "What terrible blood!"- Sakura frowned.
" Easy? Let us show you what's easy!"- a woman with reddish brown hair screeched like a mad banshee. They all charged towards Sakura with great speed.
SLASHH!
Sakura's hand contacted with the brown hair woman's arm and sliced it off cleanly. The rosette was aiming for the head but the vampire was quite fast and dodged the attack, just barely, but still got injured. Unfortunately, the woman didn't have time to scream when her throat was slit open. The body dropped like a useless doll on the concrete, with her throat slit to the bone and a missing arm.
Sakura laughed noiselessly at the sight and got to another victim.
Sakura, however, didn't notice the purple hair woman. With her razor-like nails, that woman managed to land a small cut on Sakura's face; if it hadn't been for Sakura's fast reflexes, she would've been laying dead with her face split in half right then.
"You...just cut my face."- Sakura wiped the blood gently, whispering softly, she used her index finger to wipe the blood off, "That's your biggest mistake..."- the Haruno looked up to the purple hair, her face was blank and calm but there was a silent promise of death under her heavy gaze. Never have any one dared to draw blood from her face deliberately, the ones who had had already gone to the other world with painful death.
"So what? The little princess can't even take a small cut? How pathetic!"- the purple woman scoffed spitefully, spitting on the ground, "We honestly don't know why SHE wanted to have you so much. You've been so useless and...Ack..ack..let...go...!"- Sakura was suddenly in front of the purple hair, gripping the woman's neck tightly, her face was now decorated with long and thin cracks, eyes red from anger and blood. The pink hair's grip tightened around the screeching woman's slender and easily breakable neck. Sakura's long, sharp nails dug into the skin of the woman, drawing red blood flowing like small rivers.
"Do not ever mention that woman in front of me, you scum!"- Sakura hissed dangerously, gripping harder causing the woman to gasp out painfully, her nails almost ripped the vampire's throat into pieces. The other two lackeys were terrified, seeing as their leader was being choked to death by the pinkette. One was brave enough to run towards Sakura trying to attack. Noticing the move, Sakura threw the purple hair to the wall harshly and turned to the new attacker. With godly speed, Sakura gracefully avoided the slash, she jumped up into the air, like she was dancing. Landing elegantly right in front of the insolent attacker, Sakura effectively sliced the body in half. Blood spurted out, stained the angel-like face with red streaks. Slowly, Sakura turned to face her last prey, a sardonic grin plastered on her "not-so-innocent" face.
The last one was so scared, she foolishly tried to run away, leaving behind her injured leader and dead comrades.
"Ah...you're not allowed to run like a coward without a fight you know. And I absolutely hate cowards."- the Haruno sang with fake mirth, she cornered her trembling prey. The look on the vampire's face was one of terrified. Her eyes were as wide as a saucer, her lips parted to take rushed and short breath.
As Sakura continued to advance towards the scared woman, she kept moving backward until her back hit the wall.
"Oops! You're trapped. I really have nothing against you, if you're going to blame someone, blame your bad luck then. Bye!"- Smiling like a lion about to devour its prey, Sakura snapped the woman's head ruthlessly. " Now it's your turn, my dear." Still with that crack-filled face and reddish eyes, Sakura strutted to the purple head lying near the wall and once again wrapped her pale hand around the purple head's neck, satisfaction gleaming in her eyes.
End of flashback:
" Let see, here are your mistakes that lead you to your death: dared to mention that bitch in front of me, cut my face and challenged me."- Sakura smiled, counting on her fingers, " Have any last wish?"
"Heh, even ...if.. I die,"- the purple head smirked, "SHE will ...find you... In...just...a few...minutes, the backup...will be...here. And YOU...will submit...to the quee..."- SNAPPED!
Sakura broke the purple's neck loudly, full of force. She was beyond angry, in all those years, the old hag didn't even bother to find her and suddenly wanted to have her back? Ridiculous! Sakura glanced at the body hanging limply in her grasp and her surrounding, she exhaled tiredly, ' Hah...now with the cleaning... And escape before those dogs arrive...'
"...Sakura..-chan..?"
'Ugh...you must BE KIDDING me...!'
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As Naruto and Sasuke turned at the next corner, they both noticed something weird, even weirder than the first. The last one they've just made a turn was still pretty crowded, then the next was eerily silent. No one was around, the changes between the two places were drastic and absurd. One was lively and the other was lifeless.
They both kept on wary and cautious looks, looking around to find someone. The blonde and the duck-butt went further into the street, just for the sake of proving their paranoia.
"Oi teme...it's freaky here. The air is colder, I think."- Naruto muttered quietly.
"Hn. Scared, dope?"- Sasuke smirked, even though he wasn't feeling all that brave either.
"AS IF! Stupid teme!"- Naruto yelled/ whispered loudly.
The Uchiha was about to retaliate when both of them heard some noises at an alley way. It sounded like a girl's voice, along with some others as well, and there was something familiar about this voice but they weren't quite sure. Eyeing each other, they nodded and moved towards the noise. They knew this was crazy but they did it anyway.
What they saw next at the alley probably would scar them for life.
In front of their VERY wide eyes was a bloody mess; on the wall, the concrete. Limbs and bodies and heads were laying tumultuously around. But what took the air out of their lungs was seeing Sakura Haruno standing in the middle of everything, hand wrapped around some chick's neck, blood stained; they wanted to think that it was an illusion, that they were being paranoid but the pink hair wasn't an easily mistaken trait, for ANYBODY in this world.
In the midst of his shock, Naruto's first words were:
"...Sakura..-chan...?"
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Sakura's reaction to the voice calling out her name was a series of curse.
Naruto and Sasuke were watching her every move with horror and disbelief. Her appearance really shocked them. They could see her skin was paler than before, like dead people. Then she turned to face the both of them.
"Hi, Naruto, Duck-butt!"- Sakura smiled cheerfully at the guys, ignoring their flabbegasted look.
Both the Uchiha and the blonde were speechless when they see her face. It was full of cracks and her eyes were glowing creepily, but despite the fearful features, she was still undeniably drop dead gorgeous, freakishly gorgeous.
The three were staring at each other, until Naruto broke the deafening silence
"You're...Sakura-chan, right?"- there was suspicion, hurt, a little bit of fear in his wavering voice. Sasuke wanted to ask the same question, but he only kept silence and stared at her instead. He knew something was wrong with this pink haired vixen but would never imagine she was something like...this.
"What are you?"- Sasuke asked, voice void of any kind of emotion. He looked her right in the eye. Sakura's gaze didn't even falter, she stared back blankly and boredly. Then she let out a tired sigh. Sasuke focused his attention on her, but still kept an eye on Naruto- who was frozen by shock, he didn't want the blonde to act foolishly and thoughtlessly.
Sakura dropped the dead vampire, she spinned around to face the two guys fully. Her face was still pretty scary but over all calm and stoic.
"All right, listen. I really want to explain but not now. We have to leave this place immediately. IF you want to live."- Sakura said slowly, she didn't really want to explain anything but what other choice did she have?- " THEY would be here anytime soo..."- then suddenly Sakura stopped, her eyes widened. She swept her head around so fast towards the pitch black sky, Sasuke was surprised it didn't snap.
"They're here..."- Sakura murmured softly, " SHIT!"
Both Naruto and Sasuke flinched and were shaken out of their stupor at the sound of her voice, well, mostly Naruto anyway. As the ramen-lover was about to say something, they suddenly found themselves being dragged away at a ridiculous speed by a certain pink head.
"SAKURA- CHAN! WHAT IN THE WORLD IS HAPPENING?"- Naruto yelled with all his mind, trying desperately to catch up with both Sakura and Sasuke.
" SHUT UP! You dork! If you don't want to be killed like an insect, RUN!"- Sakura's voice was commanding and harsh, it made the blonde shut up immediately. Sasuke stayed quiet as he ran, he observed the jade eyed girl carefully, thinking he definitely would interrogate her after this was over.
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At all time this kind of cliche could happen, it happened right at this stupid moment. If she was by herself, those bastards wouldn't be a problem, but with these two idiots, it would be entirely different.. Sakura could have left them there to die but somehow, she just couldn't.
She would have to explain what had happened to them, Sakura just hoped they wouldn't panic and go crazy on her. She could take care of some blood-thirsty vampires but not some insane humans.
However, she could deal with that later. Their first priority right now was to get to somewhere safe, after that, would come the inevitable talking but that was if they survived.
Next chapter's up! TKS for reading. Please review and comment okay?
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