AN: I'm so proud of myself for getting this far in this story! It might not be far to a lot of people, but seeing as most of my stories don't get past chapter 2, it's a lot for me. Anyway, I don't want to say too much. But I do want to say that I think this is probably the second-to-last chapter of this story. Enjoy!
Chapter 6: Dreams
Blood. Death. Mourning. And worst of all…
She was dead too.
The person who he had been trying to save…
The person who he had been trying to find…
The person who he had fallen madly in love with…
Sakura.
He screamed her name and shook her, but nothing happened. He shook her violently, searching for answers. But she didn't answer a single one.
Her body fell paler than it normally was.
Her body fell limp.
Her body fell into his arms, lifeless.
Sasuke jolted up in his bed.
"Sakura!" he shouted.
No answer.
Shit, he thought, she still hasn't come home.
He knew what he dreamed of. It was the future if he didn't find her.
"Goddammit. I should have listened to her. A war between humans and vampires isn't what we need right now!"
"Exactly what I say."
"Who's there!" demanded Sasuke.
Some jumped out of the shadows and tackled him, knife in hand. He caught it just before it stabbed his neck.
The moonlight revealed a face.
"Tenten…"
Tenten was crying hot tears. "You goddamned son of a bitch! Sakura's gone! We can't find her! Do you know what the last thing she said was? Of course you don't, you fucking left her go! It's all your goddamned fault!"
"Tenten, what did she say?" asked Sasuke, trying to keep his cool.
"She fucking said she was going to try and stop this damned war! Do you know why?" shouted Tenten. "She wanted to fucking protect you!"
Sasuke's eyes widened. I thought she hated me… he thought.
Tenten had rolled off of him. She was sitting in her knees, her head in her hands, crying.
For some reason unkown to him, Sasuke took her in his arms and helf her while she cried.
"We'll find her, I promise…"
"I knew I should have killed the damned Hokage while I had the chance," growled Sakura.
She was soaking wet—it was raining.
There was one thing on her mind: To stop the war from going too far. And the way to do that was to kill the Hokage, no matter how obsurd or irrational it seemed.
Sakura heard a sound like footsteps—thousands of them—against the flooding streets. She quietly took out her gun and loaded it. Then she went into an alleyway and watched the what was now an apparent mob grow closer.
The mob's chant slowly became audible to Sakura.
"Bring them down! Murder the killers! Hunt them all! Bring them down!"
Sakura took gulped and looked out at the mob. She couldn't see the Hokage anywhere.
"Shit… Lord, take me now…" she muttered before finally standing up. She walked out in front of the mob, bearing her fangs at them and growling.
Everything turned silent. The only sound was that of the rain falling hard on the pavement and sidewalks.
"Where is he?" Sakura hissed loudly for everyone to hear. "Where is your godamned Hokage?"
She got no answer.
"Don't make me ask again, or God help me, every one of you will be slain!" she shouted.
Still the street remained silent.
It's as if they were marching out to war but didn't expect any enemy to actually show.
Her stomach lurched. She needed to feed soon, she hadn't since she had left Sasuke (which was about five days).
Sasuke-kun… I'm doing this for you…
"Still won't answer me? Then I'll keep to my word."
Sakura fired the gun and shot one of the men in the front. They all swarmed her and began to attack. She then knew she was hopelessly outnumbered and couldn't win.
Knock knock.
"Who is it now?" asked an irritated Ino. She opened the door to reveal a wet and exhausted Tenten.
"Tenten?" called Hinata from behind Ino.
Ino nodded and Tenten came in. Just as she was shutting the door, it was swung open again.
"You," hissed Ino. "What do you want, you filthy son of a bitch?"
"Good to see you, too," said Sasuke sarcastically.
"I wasn't joking, kusotare. What the hell do you want?" snapped Ino.
Hinata had taken Tenten into the bathroom and began cleaning her up.
"Don't I get some credit for bringing your friend home?" questioned Sasuke.
"No," said Ino icily.
Sasuke shut the door behind him. "My, what a friendly bunch you three are. First Tenten tries to kill me, then you tell me to go home as soon as I bring her to you."
"And rightly so," growled Ino. "You made our precious Sakura-chan run away!"
"You don't think she's precious to me, either!" countered Sasuke, leaving Ino silent.
"Go and find her."
"What?"
"You heard me, I said go and find her!" repeated Ino. "Sakura will die out there against the entire city by herself. Hinata and I are trying to find where the Hokage is by hacking the city's systems. Go find Sakura."
Without another word, Sasuke left.
"Did you find her?"
"Yes, ma'am. She foolishly tried to take the entire mob on her own. We easily got her."
"Tie her up in the pole on the roof. Hide guards all along it. I'm sure her mate will come for her. If not, we'll have Naruto take care of her for good."
"Yes, Miss Tsunade."
Sakura woke up to cold rain falling on her body. "S-Sasuke…"
"Is that his name?"
"You bastard," snapped Sakura as the Hokage came up to her.
"Is Sasuke the name of your mate, Sakura?"
"Why would I tell such human filth like you?"
"Ooh, fiesty. Why are you upset, my dear?"
Sakura growled at him. "Shut up, you son of a bitch. Don't play games with me."
"Alright, I won't. Would you rather I kill you here and now?"
"I'd bite your head off before you could lay a finger on me, even if I am tied up."
"Strong words for the position you're in, my little flower." He was just about to grope her when strong arms grabbed his arms.
"Please don't mess with her, Hokage-sama," said a stern female voice.
"T-Tsunade-senpai…"
"I'm so sorry, Sakura, that it had to be you…"
"Don't say such shit. You know that you planned Sakura to be bait all along."
"Sasuke-kun!"
"Sasuke?"
"Sasuke…"
"Your guards weren't very alert, Hokage-baka, I got a decent meal and easy killing," said Sasuke with a smug look on his face.
"Were they now? Well then, maybe Tsunade and myself will be more of a challenge to you? Oh, and to speed things up, I'm going to release Sakura into the war below. It has started," smirked the Hokage.
Sasuke looked over the edge of the building. Sure enough as the rain poured, the humans and vampires were fighting to the death. Being outnumbered by far, the vampires were slowly loosing.
"We will soon rid thise town of you hideous creatures," said the Hokage.
Sasuke bore his teeth and growled at the Hokage viciously.
Sakura, who had managed to bite her ropes off, had begun battle with Tsunade, as soon would Sasuke and the Hokage.
"Hinata, Ino, have you found anything?" asked Tenten as she sipped her hot coffee Hinata had made for her.
"Hai, but not on the Hokage's location. We found something that might stop this war in it's tracks—the reason the Hokage hates vampires," explained Hinata, who was also sipping coffee.
"What is it?" pondered Tenten.
"Well, it says here…
"When the Hokage was only five, his only brother was murdered by vampires to his face. After that he never left his house for two years. At the age of seven, he had just recovered from his brother's death. No sooner were his parents slain by the same vampires.
"He immediataley began training as a ninja," continued Hinata. "During his years as a jonin, he secretly found out all he could about vampires. When he finally became Hokage many years later, he began plotting this war with Tsunade.
"That's all it says."
"And that's where we are now," assumed Ino. "Where the war officially begins."
Tenten scratched her head. "But wait… the doesn't say how to stop the war."
"Well, it mentions something later about these two green orbs created ages ao by both vampires and humans. It has the power to grant one human a wish before destroying itself," Hinata explained. "The Hokage was probably looking for it… to kill all vampires. But we can use it to stop the war, if we can only find it."
AN: Yay! Another chapter done! Now that I see this… there might be two more chapters. That all depends on whether or not I can get it all into one decent-length chapter. -
I really look forward to your reviews!
And where are my dearest reviewers, Iron Butterfly and UchihaSakura? I miss you two! (But much love to sakurablossom and inuyashaHELP for sticking by me!)