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.
"Can you believe the nerve of that Sasuke?" Ino muttered on about the earlier events of today, from classes. "Still claiming you have feelings for him. And then looking a little grumpy when we say both of our feelings have changed! It's not my fault it's just not the same as what it was!"
Sakura felt like rubbing her head and hope to block noise coming in, her head hurt. And Ino's gossiping wasn't helping much at the moment, not that she couldn't agree with Ino, her comments were correct.
"Are you listening to me?" Ino demanded, staring at Sakura.
"Yes, Ino." Sakura sighed. "My head just hurts, that's all."
Ino's face then showed that she was a little concerned that her best friend wasn't feeling good. "Would you want me to go to your kitchen and make you some tea?" She asked, motioning towards Sakura's kitchen.
"That'd be nice....." Sakura sighed with a nod and leaned further into the soft, cushy chair that she was sat in.
Ino just gave a warmish smile and wandered off into the kitchen.
"By the way.... You never did tell me who you were talking to on your way back." Ino said as she walked into the living room with a set of two relaxing tea's. She placed Sakura's tea on the table in front of her friend and then sat down with her tea on the next chair over from Sakura.
"And it really concerns you because?" Sakura raised a comic eyebrow at her blonde best friend.
"Well, sorry for caring!" Ino shot back in a sarcastic voice.
"..... I'll only tell if you don't freak out......" Sakura sighed; nervousness was easily heard in her voice.
Ino pulled a funny face at Sakura as she took a sip of her tea. "Why would you say that?"
"Fine, if you don't promise then I won't tell." Sakura frowned.
"Just go on, Sakura. You've got me anxious now, is it something or someone really bad?" Ino sighed, Sakura had something to say, might as well say it.
"But you do promise, right?" Sakura asked yet again, almost trying to delay having to say anything.
"I promise already!" Ino snapped back, she was starting to let her impatience get the better of her. What was with Sakura being so hesitant to tell her this thing? Couldn't be that bad.........
"I was talking to a guy....... That looked exactly like Sasuke..... But older. And not just that...... He was the one that I met in the hospital on that shift." Sakura replied, the look on her face just added to message of that wasn't a good thing.
"Oh....... That weirdo that you keep thinking is a vampire." Ino snorted, obviously not taking that as much news, let alone as bad news. "I wouldn't start over worrying about something like that. Why were you even talking to him?"
"Well it wasn't like I really wanted too." Sakura frowned back, not liking how Ino isn't taking her seriously.
"Well you could've just told him to get lost."
"Guess...... But he had such a threatening chakra......" Sakura said in a shaky voice. "Once I saw him, I thought he better not anger him or else he could've really hurt me."
"Was it honestly that high?" Ino questioned, now a little curious.
Sakura nodded her head in response to the question. "It was the highest I've ever felt."
Ino looked even more curious when she heard that. "Think it's someone of this village?"
"He said he once was but I've got a high suspicion that he isn't anymore." Sakura replied with more explanation. "He seemed to have a certain hatred for this village now."
"Maybe he's a rogue ninja, one that abandoned the leaf village." Ino suggested with her thoughts.
"High possibility. But this one looked very much like Sasuke, except older."
"Know what I heard about Sasuke?" Ino replied with hearing that again and remembering a slightly old piece of gossip.
"What?" Sakura questioned, intrigued by what Ino would have to say.
"I got told that Sasuke has an older brother." Ino replied with what she remembered hearing.
"I know that! I was in his team all that time!" Sakura snapped back, not enthusiastic about how she was just hearing information she already heard and knew.
"Yea but ever figured to make the link?" Ino shot back.
"Huh?" Sakura pulled a confused face in return.
"Well Sasuke's brother killed the whole of the Uchiha clan, or at least that's what's been told and rumoured, and of course with doing something like that you'd either be executed or banned from the village. My guess though for that level of deception would usually be execution but of course as we all know Itachi has not been executed and abandoned the village. But what I also heard is that Itachi looks exactly like Sasuke but older...... And has superior skills to most ninja. He also has the Sharingan like Sasuke but always has his activated in his eyes, so I'm guessing he'd have kind of a permanent red eye." Ino explained, hoping Sakura would get the link. Oh well, she was going to tell her anyway. "He's supposed to be an extreme elite ninja."
"And the link is?" Sakura sighed, her head hurt too much for her to want to over think.
"Ugh duh, Sakura!" Ino shot back in frustration. "I think it's him. Itachi! So many things would add up if it was him."
"I know some things would but give me your list anyway." Sakura replied, knowing there was some links but wanted to see whether Ino could see more.
"Well you've told me everything about this guy....... Haven't you?"
"Well not everything because you snorted comments in before I could explain whole situations!" Sakura snapped back.
"Well maybe I wouldn't need to 'snort comments' if what you were saying sounded realistic." Ino shot back in defence. "I mean...... Come on, Sakura........ You thought you saw a vampire in broad daylight time in a hospital! One that can just magically heal himself yet he came to a hospital."
"I wasn't seeing things, Ino. I know what I saw." Sakura defended and frowned at the lack of trust. "Now, I know this all sounds a little far fetch......"
"Just a little?" Ino cut her off with her scoff.
Sakura's frown deepened at Ino but decided to carry on anyway. "I know what I saw." She repeated herself. "I know you don't remember anything from that shift, don't you find that at least a little weird? We don't usually 'forget' things like hospital shifts. Plus also not to mention all the weird things that have been going on in this village recently, such as people going missing and Tsunade acting weirder than usual. Now, I'm going to tell you all the things about him when I saw him. Could you just please shut up and listen and tell me afterwards whether you still think its Itachi?"
"Pff..... Fine, fine. No need to get all snappy." Ino grunted back, you didn't get to Sakura so snappy to often.
Sakura sat and spoke about seeing him in the hospital and the event just a moment ago, going through every detail she could remember and tried explaining them the best she could.
Ino did her best to just sit there and listen and not to interrupt what her pink haired best friend was saying. Every so often gasped a little and was stunned that Sakura hadn't mentioned some of this before. But she couldn't help herself saying something when Sakura mentioned one of the last details, which was about the eyes from outside Sakura's bedroom window when they were having that sleepover from hell. "How could you not tell me that!?!" Ino demanded in a loud voice. "So it was that freaky guy that did that at our sleepover!?"
Sakura gulped and nodded. She had saved that piece of news till last, had been dreading telling her because she knew that Ino would act nuts. Not that she could really blame her though....... "He only just told me from the last time....... I didn't want you to freak."
"Well congratulations, mission failed!" Ino snapped back. "We should tell Tsunade about this or something......... Itachi shouldn't be here in the leaf village."
"So you do think its Itachi then?" Sakura asked after hearing Ino say his name.
"It just has to be." Ino nodded. "One: He looks like Sasuke, Two: The red eyes, Three: Sounds like he's got a big hatred for this village, Four: Would mostly be all those skills you speak of. You would have to be a super high ranked ninja to be at that level of skill, I mean his quick movement really sounds impressive. Plus he must be really talented to be in a village that he's banned from and not have been noticed, not even by Tsunade."
"So true. Plus he knew all about me, Team 7 and Sasuke, so obviously he's someone that's very good at getting information." Sakura agreed and added.
"One thing I don't understand though is why has he got a fascination with us and this village?" Ino questioned. "Plus...... Why hasn't Tsunade caught on about him? He was in the same hospital as her at the same time, strange no? And this is all happening just about the time Sasuke has come back into town, coincidence? I really don't think so. It's got to be Itachi."
"I have no clue to those questions, I've been wondering that myself." Sakura replied. "Now I know vampire might sound a little far fetched but think about it. This creep appears shortly after those murders in our area and all those murders are linked by one thing, the bite marks on the neck. Now, he either really is one or he's got great skills to pretend to be one."
"Ok, Sakura........ I'll bite and think of it that way for now, but only because everything else is weird too and figures to have something like that to be involved in all of it." Ino replied but was still having a hard time believing vampires really exist. Even though it would explain some of the things that had been going on around the village.
"Well I have no doubt in my mind." Sakura shot back and finally took a sip of tea, which she had forgotten all about while explaining things to her blonde friend. She winced when she took her sip; it had now obviously gone cold because of her long chatting with Ino.
"To bad you didn't figure out the tea then." Ino chuckled when she saw the wince from Sakura and quickly figured out what was wrong. While Sakura had been chatting her story away she had drunk all of her tea, guess Sakura hadn't really thought about it.
"Oh ha ha, Ino." Sakura grumbled in a sarcastic tone of voice.
Ino then looked sympathetic towards her and realised Sakura wasn't in the most best of moods, best to maybe hold back on the playful banter fighting for a bit. "Want me to go into the kitchen and make so more?" She offered, seeing Sakura was now annoyed.
"No, that's alright." Sakura heavily sighed. "I'll go make some more. You want another cup?"
"Yes, please." Ino nodded and smiled. The smile felt fake though, now wasn't much of a time to be happy at all and her inner self knew it.
Sakura also replied with a nod and a smile, but hers to felt fake, like a show smile. She then picked up Ino's cup with her own and walked off to the kitchen, putting the kettle on immediately as she entered the room.
Ding Dong!
"Sakura!" Ino called after hearing the front door go. "Want me to get the door?!"
"Yes please!" Sakura yelled back from the kitchen.
Ino pushed herself up off her cosy chair and wandered herself to Sakura's front door. She flung the door open and was a little surprised to see the visitor but very quickly recomposed herself. "Oh, Sasuke...... It's you."
Sasuke stared at Ino for a moment before saying anything. "Hello Ino, wasn't expecting to see you here."
"Well this is my best friend's house." Ino shot back; it wasn't that much of a surprise since she was very often here. "I suppose you want to come in."
Ino moved to the side a little so Sasuke could easily walk past her but she soon found herself questioning when Sasuke just stood there staring at her. "Yes I would, but I don't enter others houses without their permission."
"I'm sure Sakura wouldn't mind." Ino shrugged.
"No." Sasuke sharply detested. "This is not your house, I must be invited in by the owner and that would be Sakura."
Ino just gave him an extremely funny look up and down, that sounded extremely funny sounding to her. She had done this a thousand times while being at Sakura's house and this was a first time to ever get this kind of reaction. Why did he need to be invited in personally? Couldn't be a first for him to be at her house or something. "Sakura?!" She called.
"Yea?!" Came a back a smaller call.
"It's Sasuke and he wants to be invited in!" Ino called back again.
"He wants what!?" The voice called again but this time sounded a little confused.
"Just come here!" Ino called back, no point trying to explain with yelling.
Sakura, after a few moments, stomped into sight and frowned at the sight of Sasuke smiling and standing at her door. "What's the problem, Ino? Couldn't you just let him in while I at least finished the tea?"
"I did invite him in but said no because he needs to be invited in by the owner of the house, which would be you." Ino explained roughly with a frown also on her face.
"That would be correct." Sasuke added to Sakura.
"Well, why?" Sakura questioned, why insist on something so stupid? She had never heard of that before.
"It's a custom of mine. I will not enter another's house without permission." Sasuke replied simply.
"Well you better get cosy on the porch because you're not welcome in here." Sakura replied bluntly. She didn't want him around her, she had stated this several times so why couldn't people get the message? Ever since the area of his arrival there have been some very weird things going on, she suspected him of being involved in most of them. "If you've got such important stuff to say to me then just say them quickly here."
"No, I think it'd be better if we chatted inside." Sasuke tried to insist with a firm face.
Sakura didn't like how he was insisting on coming inside and wanting her permission for it. It just wasn't a normal thing to ask...... And plus..... When did Sasuke Uchiha ever ask permission on things? Most of the times he'd just do whatever he wanted no matter what. "I don't think so, Sasuke. Now, if you haven't got anything really to say to me then I'm going back inside, it's cold and I want my tea."
With that she spun on her heel and started to walk back off to the kitchen, her tea surely must nearly be ready. Ino gasped though as she saw Sasuke looking quite annoyed and had then tried to make a step forward through the doorway to follow Sakura but couldn't go through. He bounced back off what looked like an invisible wall and remained on the porch. Ino stared in amazement and afterwards saw Sasuke's eyes flash red for just a moment, he looked menacing.
"Ino! Just close the door!" Sakura yelled from the kitchen, she didn't want to leave the door open so all the cold air could enter the house. Plus, she wanted Sasuke to go away; maybe he would get the message if the door was shut. "You're letting in all the cold!"
Ino was still staring at Sasuke in amazement and saw the red eyes vanish just as quickly as they had came. She did what Sakura asked though and just shut the door on Sasuke, who didn't look all too happy.......
Hmmm...... Sounds like Ino and Sakura finally have an idea of who the mysterious man who looks like Sasuke is but what are his motives? And are they finally going to catch on that Sasuke is much more of a nightmare and isn't the same as when he left, physically?
Thanks for all the reviews, views, alerts and fav's. Wow, the alerts are nearly more than there is reviews, lol. Sorry for not updating in so long, been so killer busy, but hope it won't be as long of a gap for the next one. I've also got surgery coming on the 12th January, so that might delay things also but...... Wish me luck anyway.
Hope you all had a good Christmas and have a good new year's tomorrow! Happy New Year!