Welcome one and all to another chapter of Demonic Love. Sorry that this chapter is short. I wanted to try something different with my writing. In this chapter, I've done something different with the point of views. Instead of putting them together, I've separated them instead. Just wanted to see if it was any better.

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Her eyes slowly began to open and what Hinata was met with was the darkness of night. Her mind was foggy, and she wondered where she was. She was on a hard floor, lying on her side. And when she tried to move her arms, to get up, she realized that they were bound behind her back. As she tried to move her wrists, she could feel the rope dig into her skin further.

What's going on?

"I see you're finally awake."

From her position on the ground, the ravenette's head shot up. She could see someone sitting on what looked to be on a ledge. Was she on a roof? The person sitting on the ledge was shadowed by the night sky, but Hinata easily recognised the voice.

"Yamanaka-san...?"

The shadowed figure suddenly rose up from their perch and made their way to Hinata, and once close enough, the ravenette knew that she was right. It was indeed Yamanaka Ino, the Demon Hunter, but something was different about the blonde. The most obvious thing was her eyes. The white of her eyes, her sclera, were black. Black like Sakura's demonic eye was back at the nurse's office. She was also wearing an outfit that she had never seen before.

It was a purple outfit that consisted of a high-collared blouse and a matching apron skirt. Her midriff was completely exposed, showing a slim, toned stomach and on her thighs, elbows and knees seemed to be sort of armour made out of mesh. There was also the body language. It was off. It wasn't as cool and collected that she had saw her when she was in school. If there was a word for it, it would be corrupted. That's how she felt when the blonde knelt down before her.

"What's going on Yamanaka-san?" Hinata asked. "Why am I here? And why am I tied up?"

The Demon Hunter smirked. "You know Hyūga-san," she started, "I would have thought you would be the shy and silent type. Be in the background, hiding. But it looks like I was completely wrong." The girl then stood up. "And as to why you're here. You're bait."

"Bait?" the raventte repeated, trying to understand what that meant. When the realization hit, her eyes widened. There was only one thing that the blonde girl could mean when she meant she would be bait. Ino used her expression as a sign and spoke up.

"That's right. Haruno Sakura. That's who I'm waiting for." Ino walked up to the ledge once more, and stood next to Hinata. "You see, I know what she is. And I know you do as well. That's the part that I'm confused about." The girl's blue gaze turned to girl on the floor. "You know what she is. So why are you with her?"

For that question, the answer was simple for Hinata. Her thoughts brought her back to when they didn't know each other. How she saved a cat from a tree and saw the gentle expression and the cute laughter. They then lead her to when she almost sacrificed herself to save her, from the pinkish-red demon and Tenten, from the white skinned fiend. And with what the pinkette told her, she even nearly died saving the blonde Demon Hunter.

"Because she's my precious friend!" Hinata exclaimed without hesitation, managing to sit up, which was quite difficult with her hands tied behind her back. "She's kind and gentle. She's selfless and strong. And I don't care if she's a demon or not. She's someone who I really care about and I know that she wouldn't hurt anyone!"

Ino's expression changed entirely when she heard those words, and before she knew it, her hand was raised. Hinata suddenly felt a stinging sensation as the blonde slapped her across the cheek and she let out a little cry before hitting the ground again. The ravenette bore a pained face, her eyes closed tightly, before she slowly opened her white pools and turned her gaze back to the blonde. Her hands were closed into fists and her eyes were dangerous.

"Don't you dare fuck with me!" she shouted out angrily. That was probably the first time she had heard the girl curse since she met her. "Selfless? Strong? She isn't any of those things! If she was, she wouldn't have ran away that night and left her to die!"

"W-What do you mean?" Hinata asked nervously. Who did the girl talk about when she meant "her?"

"You don't know?" she asked, but the look on Hinata's face told her the answer. "Haruno is the reason why I came to Konohagakure in the first place! For months, I've been going to different parts of Japan, going to school there and hoping that I find the girl that was with her! And I finally have. Here in Konohagakure. The pink haired girl, Haruno Sakura. And a demon no less."

She said the last part with venom and Hinata waited for the girl to calm down for just a moment before she spoke again. "What are you going to do with Sakura-chan?"

"Isn't it obvious? Once I find out everything that had happened, I'll kill her," she stated matter of factly. The ravenette's blood ran cold, her white eyes wide as saucers. "She is a demon after all. And as a Demon Hunter, it's my job to rid the world of them."

"Does that include families?" Hinata asked, the blonde cocking an eyebrow at the question, not knowing what she was talking about. "When you first met Sakura-chan, you were about to kill a family in cold blood. Why? What did they ever do to you?"

Ino immediately answered the question with a straight face. "The father was a demon, a pathetically weak demon, but one none the less" she says, clearly remembering that night. "And the mother was human, but she knew what her spouse was. And she even conceived a child with it, so she was already tainted. And as for the child, self explanatory. Even if it was human, it still had demon blood running through it's veins."

The ravenette felt sick to her stomach. Her bound hands tightened into fists. She couldn't believe it. How could the blonde say those words and think that justified her actions? Just because the father and son weren't normal and the mother chose to accept them, they couldn't have a normal family? Which was why the next words Hinata spoke, she didn't hold back.

"Unforgivable..." she said, glaring at her captor. "What gives you the right to play god?! You're a self-righteous hypocrite! You would kill innocent beings for what they are, instead of what they've done!" The Demon Hunter, too, glared at the ravenette, her own fists clenching in anger. Even though she didn't know what sort of thoughts were running through her head, it didn't stop Hinata however.

"Sakura-chan is so much better than you," she continued. "She kills the demons who really deserve it. Not the ones that want to live peacefully with humans, and have normal lives!"

That was when the blonde snapped. She visibly gritted her teeth and before Hinata knew it, she was kicked at the side of her face. She let out a quick cry when she hit the floor and a huge amount of pain had begun to form where she had been kicked.

"SHUT UP!" Ino roared. "A pathetic human girl like you could never understand what me and the other Demon Hunters have been through!" Almost as soon those words left her, the blue eyed girl immediately placed a hand over her head. She grunted in pain, again baring her teeth, but her eyes quickly widened, then narrowed. Out of nowhere, cherry blossom petals appeared and from within it, a samurai sword came out. She spun one hundred and eighty degrees, unsheathed her blade, and sparks flew.

The ravenette wondered what was going on, so she looked up. Her white pools opened wide and joy instantly filled her entire body. The blonde had blocked an attack from a scythe, a very familiar scythe, and it's owner was none other than the girl she longed to see.

As soon as she had kicked the Hyūga girl to the ground, pain had suddenly begun to assault her head. There was a voice in the back of her head telling her to hurt the ravenette more, and it took all she had to not comply with the voice's wish. The girl deserved it though, after all she had called the blue eyed girl a hypocrite and had been sprouting nonsense. But when she sensed a someone coming at her with inhuman speed, the voice had vanished. In a second, she had summoned Masemune and unsheathed it and in the next, she turned and deflected an incoming attack. From a scythe.

The emerald, green eye of Haruno Sakura was glaring at her coldly, and Ino couldn't help but smile. "So you finally turned up." She pushed the pinkette's weapon back and the girl backflipped in the air before landing on the other side of the roof they were currently on.

"You took your sweet time, Haruno-san," says Ino, flicking her bangs away from her face with her slender fingers. "And here I thought you didn't care about this girl. Considering your real nature." The pinkette remained silent, but she took the girl's narrowed eyes as her answer.

"That's right, I know what you really are," she continued. "So why don't you get rid of that eyepatch and expose that left arm of yours." But the girl didn't comply. She remained completely still with her pissed off face of hers and Ino let out a little sigh. Without a word, the blonde took her sword and used it to swipe the ravenette's leg, a little cry escaping past her lips. Warm crimson had started to seep from the wound that was created, covering some of Hinata's leg in red, and Ino noticed that the pinkette's entire body language changed. Her eyes had changed from cold to rage and her grip on her weapon tightened.

"Did that get your attention?"

Again, all she got was silence, but doing that had worked. Sakura had taken her blue-tinted scythe from her left hand with her right and used that to cut the one sleeved shirt's arm, that was underneath the girl's school shirt, and the white gauze that was wrapped wrist down, in half. Both materials slowly fell to the floor and her demonic arm was now exposed to the night air. And using that arm, she reached for the material covering her left eye.

She took it off with a quick tug and when that, too, fell to the floor, everything was now out in the open. Seeing the golden-yellow eye, which was now surrounded by a black, for a moment, Ino remembered her time inside the pinkette's head. Or more importantly, the time she had spent with that psychopath, Izanami. She felt a chill run down her spine from the thought of it, but it fuelled her resolve to take Sakura down even more.

"You know, I have an apology to make. When we first met, and when we were inside your head, I had called you a Demon Hunter," she said. "But now I realize that was an insult... to us." Ino raised her sword and took a fighting stance, both hands now on the hilt. "An insult that I'm going to correct."

And with that, the blonde charged at the demon girl. At last, she could finally get her revenge.

When she had tried to strike a blow against the blonde huntress, the pinkette knew almost immediately that something wasn't right. The most obvious sign was the fact that her eyes had changed, but there was her chakra. It wasn't the same as it was before. It was dark and twisted and one percent of her mind wondered what had happened. The remaining ninety-nine percent, however, quite frankly didn't care.

And that was because Sakura was pissed. Extremely pissed. Not only had Hinata been kidnapped, but the Yamanaka girl had dared to injure the ravenette also. Right in front of her eyes. So when she saw the blonde draw her weapon and charge at her, the pinkette wasn't going to hold anything back.

And it was a good thing she wasn't.

When Ino swung her weapon to strike, the pinkette blocked the attack with the polearm of her scythe. The attack was simple, but Sakura didn't realize that it was strong too and she was sent skidding back, until the heel of her shoes hit the curb of the ledge behind her.

Damn! She's stronger than she was before!

Her hands ached slightly but she ignored it for now. Because at that moment she needed all her concentration on the incoming attacks that the Demon Hunter was about assault her with. She had swung her blade twice. The first was diagonal slash, which Sakura parried, but the second attack after was a kick to the abdomen. It knocked the wind out of her as she went sailing through the air and landed on another rooftop. She used the blade of her scythe to stop herself, leaving a mark of where the sharp metal had been, before the pinkette came to a complete stop.

But unfortunately for her, she wouldn't be able to have time to recover as she felt chakra coming towards her. She looked up, only to see a blade with no master flying at her with lightning speed. She swung her scythe up in time to deflect the flying blade, but she didn't see the blonde had flitted right before her.

"Too slow!" Ino cried, thrusting the heel of her palm into the pinkette's chest, connecting. Her green and demonic eyes widened as saliva flew out from her mouth from the sheer force that was put into the strike, and the girl had ended up releasing her hold on her scythe. Sakura fell to the floor coughing, trying to get back whatever air had been forced out.

"Get up," the blonde growled. She tried, but the blow she sustained was that strong that it was a struggle. "I've been waiting months for this very moment. So don't disappoint me now."

Waiting for months? "What... are you... talking about?" It hurt to speak, but she honestly didn't know what the blonde meant by that.

"You're joking right?" Ino asked. "You still haven't figured it out? I know I was dumb to think you were a Demon Hunter, but you're really slow." Sakura slowly managed to get herself onto her hands and knees, while Ino continued to speak. "I guess it doesn't matter at this point. Maybe I'll tell you once you're on death's door." Saying that, the girl raised her arm into the air and in her hand, her weapon reappeared from cherry blossom petals.

And with a "Goodbye," the blonde flipped her blade so it was now pointing at the pinkette and thrust it down, aiming toward at Sakura's head.

GRAB!

A demonic hand grasped the weapon's silver metal, which had stopped just about an inch from killing the demon girl, and a blood began to flow out onto the katana. "You know, Yamanaka," said Sakura, as she slowly turned her head to look at the Demon Hunter. Her golden-yellow eye started to glow, piercing through the darkness of night, and gazing into Ino's wide blue eyes. "You talk too much."

As soon as the words left the girl's mouth, Ino could feel it. A powerful chakra had begun to spread throughout Sakura's body, and in the next second the pinkette had suddenly combusted into black flames. The blonde released her grip on her weapon and jumped back as far as she could. She watched as the flames went from being wild and uncontrollable, to taking on a physical appearance. Not long after, as quickly as they appeared, the flames dissipated at once, and left behind was a different Sakura.

She was clad in black. A robe-like overcoat that flared out into ragged ends, that had a white lining and a hood. A cherry blossom imprinted black kimono, with a black divided umanori hakama was underneath. The girl slowly stood up from were she was and with the hand not holding Masemune, she reached for the hood behind her head. She pulled it over her head, hiding her pink locks and turned her head to look at Ino.

The moment she did, for the second time, the blonde felt fear. The girl's demonic eye was peaking through the hood, and thanks to the night sky, it was the only thing she could see. And the look she was giving her showed that she was serious. Then I guess I need get serious as well!

Thinking that, Ino reached out and the sword that was in Sakura's hand disappeared into cherry blossoms. She felt the familiar weight in her own, and took a fighting stance when she did. Ino didn't waste any time and charged into the fray. She was fast, no thanks to the boost power she had received from a certain person, and the pinkette made no indication that she was going to defend herself, so the blonde decided she wanted to end this quick.

She swung her blade into a horizontal arc, hoping to take the girl's head from her shoulders, and the other girl continued to remain still. When her blade made contact with the black clad girl, she hoped she would feel her blade tear through flesh and break bone, but she got nothing. Masemune had past right through her, and the person in front of her had slowly started to fizzle out. That was when she realized her mistake.

An afterimage!

"Strike one..."

Ino's blue eyes widened from the voice behind her, turning herself around only to be met with a blue tinted scythe. She managed to parry the attack, and then a diagonal slash that followed, before she jumped away again. Ino took her stance once more, but this time she was more cautious. The other girl was once again unmoving, her scythe loosely in her grip. It was time for a different tactic.

Bringing her weapon toward her mouth, she grasped it between her teeth and started to do hand signs. Puffs of smoke surrounded the blonde and coming out from it were clones of herself. She didn't need any words to order her clones, as they all took their blades from their mouths and ran towards the pinkette, letting a roar escape their throats. This time, when they went in for the attack, Sakura started to walk slowly the multiple Demon Hunters. The scythe in the girl's hands hit the ground, the sound of metal scrapping the floor as she approached her attackers.

But the plan to outnumber the girl didn't work.

Almost as soon as the first Ino clone made an attempt to strike, the pinkette vanished. Before she could ask herself where she went, the girl reappeared behind the fifth blonde clone, swinging her scythe to the side. The crying screams of the clones went through the Ino's ears before they all went up in a puff of smoke, and at that moment, the side-effect of the cloning technique hit the girl like a truck. The memories of her clones being struck by the girl's scythe went through her own and the she could feel the pain rack her body.

She let out a short shout, going down on one knee, using Masemune for support and breathed laboured breaths.

"Strike two..."

The voice of the demon girl was now directly in front of her and when she looked up, her blue eyes met green and demonic. Ino felt small, weak compared to Sakura, as she stared into those pools of green and yellow. And she didn't like it. Why should she be the one to be scared? It should be the other way round. It should be the demonic girl in front of her, that kneels before her. To cower in fear.

Narrowing her blue eyes and gritting her teeth, the blonde jumped away from the pinkette. The memories were still fresh in her mind, so when she landed it hurt her a little (even though she had no injuries to begin with). She went back to her hands signs and started to feel the chakra spreading through her entire body. What she was about to do, was a dangerous technique. A last resort if things were not going the way they planned.

Opening one of the Eight Gates.

A while back, when Ino had begun her Demon Hunter training, a man had come to her village. He had black hair that was shaped like an upside down bowl and bushy eyebrows. He had travelled there, walking on his hands only, and she and everyone else from the Yamanaka, Nara and the Akimichi clans thought that he was strange. His answer was that it was because the "power of youth" and the blonde thought the man was even more strange. And when he asked if he could stay for a few days, everyone was nervous to let a weirdo stay. But in exchange for the man staying at their village, he would teach them a technique.

The Eight Gates. A technique that can let the user use one hundred percent of their instead of the limited twenty that most people could only release, depending on what gate you could open. However the technique was dangerous. In exchange for surpassing ones own physical limits, their body would become extremely damaged. But for Ino, she didn't care.

The gate that she was going to open, or more likely the only gate she could open, was the Gate of Pain. This gate would increase her speed and power but her the side-effect would be that her muscle tissue would tear upon use. Funny out this works. She was going to use the Gates of Pain, to bare all of her pain, on the person who caused her pain.

"Gate of Pain..." the blonde muttered. She could now feel her chakra all through out her body. Her muscles were screaming at her, like they knew what she was doing, telling her to stop. But she ignored them, instead listening to the voice in her mind, telling her to kill the demon in front of her. To tear her apart. Which is what Ino would gladly do.

"OPEN!"

A huge gust of wind had suddenly hit her, her robe-like overcoat flapping wildly along with it, as Sakura watched green aura, with a hint of black a tint, surround the Demon Hunter. All of the energy she had gathered was being released all at once. Her skin colour had suddenly become more tanned, and her blue eyes had become white. She could feel the murderous intent clearly emanating from the girl and understood that Ino was now really getting serious.

Doesn't matter. Regardless of what the blonde was doing, she had still kidnapped and hurt Hinata. And for that, she was going to beat the living crap out of her. So not wasting time, Sakura too powered up. A black flame-like aura surrounding her. The pinkette twirled her scythe between her fingers, the sharp polearm rotating like a fast turbine, above her head before swinging it to the side.

It was now time for strike three.

And there you have another chapter. The next one will defiantly end Ino's arc. So what did you guys think? Was this style of writing better? I've read other stories with this sort of style and gave it a try. Please tell me if I should do this more, or if I should go back to what it was before. You telling anything will be a huge help. Also, for the Eight Gates, I had to use Naruto wiki for it. It's been a while since I've watched it.

And KitsuneGirl1994, did you notice which part it was I used? If not I'll tell you next chapter. Like I said before, apologies for making this one slightly short. Thanks for reading as always and please leave a review and tell me anything that can help improve the story or my writing. Also constructive criticism is also very appreciated.

I've also written a one-shot for X-men, which features X-23 (which was also the reason for a slight delay of this chapter). It's called An Assassin's Choice. So please go and give that a read.

Thanks again, and see ya next chapter!