The Past Returns

This is my 1st Vampire fic, always wanted to do one, especially after reading some really good one's. Plus I've wanted to do more of an horrorish one for a change on what I have done in the past. Hope you enjoy the start of this : )

Finally after a few years of being gone Sasuke comes back to Konoha and wants to be with his team again. But there's something not quite right with this 'new' Sasuke... Vampire fic.

"Tsunade was right... You do need to relax!" Naruto laughed, as himself and Sakura sat having Ramen in the casual Ramen hut.

"I'm not joking, idiot!" Sakura shouted at her fellow team mate, comically hitting him hard on the back of the head. "I know what I saw..." She added with a sigh.

"Sakura... You're just overworked. It's a good thing Tsunade is making you take time off from the hospital, you have been overdoing it there." Naruto continued.

"You don't believe me..." Sakura responded with hurt feelings. But then again, how could she expect Naruto to believe her? She hadn't told him the whole details, just the fact that she believed she saw a vampire. Plus complained on how Tsunade was making her take time off at the hospital as a medic ninja.

"Sorry..." Naruto sighed, seeing that he was bothering her. "How do you know for sure you saw a 'vampire'?"

"Well the fangs were a dead give away!" Sakura replied in a duh voice.

"Maybe you're just tired. You said you were freaked out from seeing that victim in the hospital, just before seeing that guy, maybe all the tiredness and worry is making you see things. You didn't see anything else that told you he was really a vampire." Naruto tried to discuss calmly, not wanting to offend his friend again.

"But he just disappeared... No normal person moves that fast." Sakura pointed out.

"Maybe he was just a VERY experienced ninja. I mean... We've come across a fair amount of ninjas in our time that move faster than a 'normal' person." Naruto tried to reason, not wanting her to work herself up into a frenzy over what she 'thought' she saw.

"Maybe..." Sakura sighed, agreeing with Naruto that she really should let herself go and relax a bit more. "He was just so creepy!" Sakura had mental images rush through her head of the guy and let out a shiver to herself.

"Really? How? What was he like wearing?" Naruto asked, intrigued on what the person was like. He obviously must be something or else Sakura wouldn't be so creeped out by him.

"Wearing? Umm..." Sakura tried to refocus on what the man was wearing again. "Oh yes, mostly a black cloak. And a strange hat."

"Strange hat?" Naruto chuckled. "How can you be threatened by someone with a 'strange hat'?"

"It's not funny! It wasn't a funny looking hat!" Sakura growled, at this point she just felt like hitting her partner into the next dimension. "It was really creepy, like I've read about it before but can't remember where from, I remember it was something serious. It had strange white straps descending down, covering his face."

"Wait!" Naruto gasped suddenly, making Sakura jump almost out of her skin. "White strips coming down that cover the face? Black cloak? Did you catch his name?"

"Why? Know who he could be?" Sakura replied, hoping Naruto had some clue on this strange guy. "And no, I didn't. It was strange... I checked the clipboard after he'd left and it didn't say his name."

"Maybe." Naruto replied cautiously, biting his bottom lip with worry. Now Sakura had his full worried attention. "Tell me about your day in total."

"Ok..." Sakura sighed and spent the next half an hour telling him all the strange, creepy and nasty little things that had happened to her today.

Naruto's eyes widened and said, "Ino had a bite mark on her neck?"

"Yea. Plus she looked really awful, very pale." Sakura nodded.

"Creepy. And she mentioned she saw that guy before you?" Naruto questioned.

"Yea, I think she must've checked him earlier, before I got in for my shift. But she didn't do anything with him because he was insistent on seeing me." Sakura explained.

"Maybe she was just coming down with something..." Naruto reasoned. "There are a lot of bugs going around."

"Yea I guess... It could've been just my eyes playing tricks with me." Sakura nodded, now wanting to believe she didn't see what she saw. Vampires weren't exactly something you most likely wanted to see in real life. "Any idea on the clothing?"

"Don't know. Think I might've seen something like that before but... I doubt it's who I'm thinking of because... You most likely wouldn't be alive right now. The person would've killed you there and then." Naruto replied.

"Really? Who?" Sakura questioned with a wondering face.

"Let's just not get into it." Naruto shook his hand as if dismissing it, not wanting to get Sakura caught up in more worry. "It's creepy how you think that he self inflicted

those wounds."

"Yea. And trust me, I would know since I'm an experienced medic ninja. They looked so done by himself." Sakura agreed.

"But why would someone inflict injuries on himself?" Naruto questioned with a baffled face.

"You got me!" Sakura snapped back, not knowing any kind of answer to that. "Plus he did up his cloak for a second, without me finishing my healing techniques, and then undid it for a moment to reveal all of his wounds had gone within seconds. No one wonder he wasn't showing any real pain! You can't say that's normal!"

"No. You're right, it isn't normal. Even if he's a ninja!" Naruto nodded, getting worried for his friend. These bad things just seemed to be following her around, he didn't want her to get hurt or anything.

Sakura sighed with relief, hoping that Naruto was finally believing her on what she saw. Sakura was in two minds herself... Was all the things she'd seen really connected to a vampire or vampires? Or was it just some creep playing around with her? One things for sure, she didn't imagine the guy that she saw! He was very real and there was nothing 'normal' about him. In fact, when she got the chance to see his face quickly for like a second, she thought of Sasuke... There was some resemblance's, definitely. But she knew for certain that it wasn't Sasuke, it was someone else. Someone that had dangerous and high levelled chakra... "Oh yea!" Sakura gasped suddenly when she remembered another thing.

"What?" Naruto asked, stunned from the sudden start.

"That guy. He mentioned something that was very strange." Sakura continued to gasp.

"Hmm?"

"It was strange, he seemed to know everything about me..." Sakura sighed.

"Everything?" Naruto gasped, luckily not having any Ramen in his mouth at the time.

"Yea. He knew my full name without even meeting me before... He knew I specialise in the medic field of being a ninja... He knew I was in Team 7! Said I was in Sasuke's team!" Sakura shivered with remembering now.

"He knows about Team 7?!" Naruto gave an almighty gasp. "And why mention Sasuke?! He's been gone for like almost 3 years now!"

"I don't know!" Sakura snapped back. Naruto was acting like she should all the answers but in fact, she knew nothing... "There was just something very weird about him, he seems to know a little bit to much about me. I wonder myself on why he mentioned Sasuke... Maybe he's even looking for him..."

"Alright, alright! I've got a plan." Naruto replied, still in a gasp form.

"Oh? And what would that be?" Sakura snorted back in a sarcastic voice. As far as she could see there wasn't many options open for them, especially for her.

"Hey! No need to be sarcastic!" Naruto shot back.

"Ok, ok. What is it?" Sakura sighed.

"Just sit back and relax for now and enjoy our Ramen..." Naruto started but got intervened.

"That's your plan!?" Sakura gasped with annoyance, couldn't believe her partner could just come up with that! Just sit back while a nutty guy could possibly be after her?!

"Let me finish!" Naruto shouted back and started again once Sakura had calmed down. "There's no point working ourselves up into a frenzy! It's never good for a ninja to lose their head, in any area or place. If that guy did come back he most likely wouldn't bother us here anyway, to crowded and would be easily caught out. If he's as smarty pants as you say he is, he couldn't be stupid enough to try here. You said that Tsunade wanted to see us first thing tomorrow morning, right?"

"Right." Sakura nodded in agreement. For once Naruto was actually making sense! But then again of course he was going to be the saner one out of them two because he hadn't saw what she'd seen. He would've been feeling the same way if he saw those strange things and that guy...

"We'll tell her in the morning, simple as that." Naruto continued.

"Should we though? Tsunade's already got enough on her hands, especially with what's happening in the village recently." Sakura questioned.

"We have to mention this, Sakura." Naruto insisted. "There's a good chance that this guy could come back, or maybe even someone worse comes in. Plus... You never know, he might even have been the one to cause these attacks that's been happening around the village."

"I guess your right..." Sakura finally sighed in agreement. "He did have a strange feeling to his chakra, it weren't normal."

"Plus, you need to be covered. He might've even been following you around for quite some time, observing things." Naruto added. "We'd have to see what grandma Tsunade's got to say but I don't think she'll take it lightly."

"Uhh...! Could we stop discussing it now? The thought of that bloke is making me shiver." Sakura shivered while saying that.

"Yea. Let's relax and finish our Ramen." Naruto nodded.

"I've already finished mine, you've just gone on to your 3rd bowl!" Sakura joked and playfully prodded Naruto in the belly. "How many can you stomach?"

"I can stomach much more than 3 bowls!" Naruto grinned, requesting more Ramen.

"Should've known this wouldn't be a short trip." Sakura comically sighed, Naruto always ate tons of the stuff, wherever and whenever.

Two hours later, it'd grown pitch dark everywhere and Naruto had just finished his Ramen. Sakura just felt lucky that she hadn't fallen asleep while waiting for Naruto. However she had fun in her own way, it was nice to just sit there and talk with Naruto, even if Naruto was stuffing his face at the same time... Plus she saw some of their other friends, who were passing by and didn't seem to be going on missions. However they talked to just Sakura, Naruto was usually to busy ordering more Ramen and figuring new ways of eating it more quicker than the last bowl.

"Finished?" Sakura asked finally when Naruto dropped his sticks that he was eating with and patted his stomach.

"Sure thing, Sakura. Ready to go, yourself?" Naruto nodded and asked.

"Yep." Sakura replied in a nod and got up off her seat, along with Naruto. "You sure you're alright to walk me home?"

"Sure, Sakura." Naruto pulled a sudden serious face. "After the time you're having I wouldn't risk you going by yourself. Plus what kind of team mate would I be if I didn't want to make sure you got back alright?"

"Thanks, Naruto." Sakura smiled sweetly as they both walked home.

Sakura and Naruto met up and walked together the rest of the way, heading towards Tsunade's office.

"What do you think it is?" Naruto asked and complained. "I hate getting up this early in the day."

"I have no idea." Sakura shook her head. "It's weird, she never calls for us together. Plus she saw me just yesterday but she refused to tell me what this was about. She was treating it like some kind of surprise."

"Surprise?" Naruto frowned. "Wonder what it is..."

"Again. Don't know. All I know is that she was acting weird herself yesterday, not to mention with giving me time off from the hospital. It just isn't like her." Sakura explained.

"Yea, it isn't." Naruto nodded in agreement.

Sakura and Naruto entered the building and walked to the room where Tsunade could usually be found. Sakura started to feel cold and shivered a little, the coldness felt like it was getting worse, the closer they got to where Tsunade is. "Do you feel the cold?" Sakura asked Naruto softly.

"Yea..." Naruto replied cautiously. "What is it?"

"Don't know." Sakura shrugged, she was no weather girl and didn't understand temperatures.

"Kakashi?" Naruto burst in question when they saw their sensai waiting outside Tsunade's office. "What are you doing here?!"

"Why, hello." Kakashi replied simply and looked over at his two students. "Glad you two could come on time."

"What!? It's always you that's late!" Naruto burst in frustration at him.

"Kakashi... Is something the matter? Why are you here? Is something wrong with Sai or something?" Sakura asked question after question. Seeing her sensai here made her nervous, was there a good reason as to why he was there?

"Stop worrying, Sakura." Kakashi replied. "I just wanted to have a small chat with you two before you go in."

"Why?" Sakura demanded. "You've never been here for any of the others."

"This is important." Kakashi replied sternly.

Naruto and Sakura could tell that their teacher was very serious and that important meant important. Something wasn't right here... Both of them turned their expression to a frown and very serious.

"Right. Now I've gotten you're attention..." Kakashi started. "I just wanted to tell you to be calm when you go in there."

"Be calm?" Naruto and Sakura asked in unison, both confused by his words.

"Yes. What's in there will surprise you but... You might like it... You might not like it." Kakashi continued in a quizzing kind of voice.

"Enough with the riddles already!" Naruto burst with annoyance, he just wanted this out of the way.

"You'll understand when you go in." Kakashi replied bluntly. "I just don't want you to freak when you go in."

"Freak? Why would we freak?" Sakura asked, confused.

Kakashi just walked to the side, motioning for Sakura and Naruto to come towards the office door. "To find out, you'll have to go in."

Naruto and Sakura looked at each other with worry for a second and then nodded at each other, as if to say they were both ready for whatever lied behind the door. They both walked side by side and unlocked the door and walked into the room, one after the other. Kakashi slowly followed in behind Sakura and Naruto. Sakura and Naruto soon understood why their teacher had asked them to keep calm when they saw a familiar smirking figure standing in front of them.

"Sasuke!!" Both yelled out in unison, both couldn't believe their eyes.

Sasuke's now entered the story, yay! Felt that he needed a surprise entering to Sakura and Naruto. Originally I planned for him to come in on the last chapter but hey, plans can change, huh? Felt like leaving it on a cliffy, but then again I tend to like doing that often, lol.

Wow! Got more alerts than reviews, that's a first! At least people enjoy reading it and that's what I like. Just remember to leave me feedback, can even give me suggestions and ideas for future chapters to come : )