Another chapter...ah...This chapter was interesting to write. Anyway I hope to get more reviews and I'm happy readers are still interested in the story. Any questions are welcome.
(I don't own any part of Naruto)
Kakashi, Asuma, and Kurenai walked into Tsunade's office. They had just returned from destroying the third vampire nest they had found.
Since vampires had started popping up all over the land of fire and the land of lightning, there had been numerous sightings of vampires. Thankfully, due to some part of the disease, victims seemed to lose the majority of their intelligence after prolonged infection. Anyone who had been afflicted for more than a month lost even their jutsues to madness. They killed with brute strength and unbelievable speed.
Asuma opened the door to the office and the two behind him stepped in as well...and froze in their tracks. Tsunade was currently on her third bottle of Sake. Two more lay on her desk. Paperwork was scatted to the left of her desk on the floor. The Hokage had her feet up on the table. The worst part was that she looked stone cold sober. Kurenai asked, "What the hell happened in here? It looks like a tornado hit. Asuma muttered, "Yeah a drunk tornado." Tsunade slid her feet off the table and drained the last of the third bottle. Then with a steady hand withdrew a fourth from under the table.
Kurenai stepped forward. "Hokage sama no! Whatever it is we will need a clear head for this! Stop drinking and let us help." Tsunade seemed to consider this and pulled out four shot glasses and placed them on the table. She didn't say a word. Kakashi got the message and seated himself. After a moment Kurenai and Asuma found chairs and sat as well.
Once they were seated Tsunade spoke. "Shizune was bitten." Asuma's cigarette fell out of his mouth and both Kurenai and Kakashi paled. Tsunade poured each of them a full shot of sake and said, "Sakura was bitten." Kakashi coughed as though he had something very painful in his throat. Asuma looked like he had been smacked and Kurenai looked at the floor. Tsunade took each of their shot glasses in turn and drained each one. "Naruto's seal failed."
There was silence and all three jonin tried to imagine what could have happened. Tsunade said, "That's not even the end of it." Horrified Kurenai asked, "Who else?!" Tsunade swiveled in her chair, "Hinata Hyuuga." Kurenai clutched at her chest. Asuma tried to comfort her. It was a very long time before they could ask the proper question. Kakashi asked, "Were they disposed of?" The other two jonin tried to hide their pained expressions. They knew the answer. There was no cure for vampirism. They had tried with Naruto, but the fact that the seal had failed likely meant that the cure had a well.
Tsunade shook her head. She said, "They are all alive and well as of now." All three gaped at her. She said, "For some reason they didn't lose their minds completely. So far as I can tell Naruto is still the exact same boy as he was and while Sakura has become very isolated, she hasn't degraded yet." Kurenai asked, "Then Hinata is alright?!" Tsunade shook her head. "She seems ok sometimes but certain things cause her to blow up." She held up her wrist where they could see a splint. "When Sakura and I tried to get a blood sample she grabbed my wrist and splintered the bone to the point that I couldn't fully heal it. At the same time she did something to Sakura. It seemed like a genjutsue because Sakura collapsed...and the syringe of blood went right into her leg."
The four of them sat for a while thinking it over. Then they heard a beeping sound. Tsunade explained, "I gave Ino a head set so she could inform me of any changes or problems. Let me set it to speaker." A voice came out of the speaker bud, "Granny Tsunade! granny Tsunade you have to let me out of this cell! Sakura got out somehow! Ino's bleeding out!" A cold chill went down everyone's spines at the same time. Tsunade asked, "Naruto how did you get the microphone?!" Naruto said hurriedly, "Ino fell against the cage bars, oh jeeze there's so much blood..." They heard a gulp from the other side of the connection and a cough. Then Naruto said, "Maybe I shouldn't come out. I think I need to stay inside. Just hurry. Sakura chan was acting really weird when we fell asleep. Now she's gone and there's no damage to the barrier!" Tsunade nodded to the three jonin. All three stood at once and left the room at a sprint.
Sakura slipped through the cage bars. It was too easy. No problem at all for her. Ino was snoozing in a chair against the far wall. Sakura saw the fat vein that pumped blood through her neck. It looked so appetizing. Ino's tanned skin and blond hair, it all made her seem more tasty. Ino woke with a start as Sakura bit down. Her mouth was already covered and her hands were tied. Sakura drank and drank. Ino' eyes drooped and finally fell. Sakura stepped back when she finished and Ino fell out of the chair. She didn't want to kill her friend but it...she had been so...so...delicious.
She made her stealthy way up the stairs to the right. At the top an Anbu stood with his back to the stair way. Sakura drew her kunai and silently slit the man's throat. Red blood gushed out. He hadn't made a sound. Sakura smiled and pressed her open mouth to the gaping wound. Blood rushed into her mouth and down her throat. She would have moaned if she could have bothered to stop drinking. He was dead after all. No point in wasting any of the spoils. There was a sound down the hall. Footsteps. Sakura leaped across the room to hide in the shadowed corner. A young woman came into view, her face twisting in shock at the corpse above the stairs.
Sharp fangs pierced her neck and a blade found its way into her spine. Sakura stabbed her with surgical precision, severing her spinal cord. Red dripped down Sakura's medical uniform as she greedily drank the crimson gush. This time Sakura moaned and her eyes lost focus from the pleasure that seemed to seep down her throat and then radiate out from her belly. The girl coughed up blood just before Sakura dropped her face first to the floor.
It was too long before she found her next victim. A boy was standing at a desk arguing with a woman with black hair. Sakura recognized the boy. He was Konohamaru. The boy said, "Come on Kimi...Just let me go see big brother Naruto for a bit. I know he's here cause I saw him taken here a few days ago..and he isn't anywhere else in the village!" The woman said, "I'm sorry, but even if he was here you would need an appointment to see anyone." Konohamaru growled at her and turned to leave. Soon the boy was out of sight. Sakura didn't think it was a good idea to attack two at once.
The woman...Kimi...saw something move in the shadows of the hallway. It's that damn kid again. Honorable son of the honorable Third my ass. He's trying to sneak past me! Little bastard. A flash of pink and red proved her wrong. She fell back with a shout. Powerful jaws and sharp teeth were already draining her of her breath. And a cold sharp pain in her chest showed her the impossibility of escape. Her attacker leaned back, still with a hand to her throat. Kimi saw Sakura, Tsunade's prodigal medical student. The girl who could use the Hundred Healings technique at age seventeen. Her lips dripped blood and she was smiling. She asked, "Staying late were we Kimi? Well I'm happy for you...and me." Kimi was horrified less by the blood dripping from Sakura's mouth, then the chipper...almost...happy tone of her voice. Sakura said, "I thank you so much. I was so thirsty, just couldn't help myself. Sakura giggled and bent her head to drink. Kimi knew that she was going to die. It was almost pleasant. No pain and she never thought that she would be killed in such a...friendly way...
The night outside Hokage's tower was filled with stars. Sakura looked up at them. The cool air chilled the blood that covered her chin and neck. Red had already soaked into her nurse's vest. Sakura thought, It's such a beautiful night and I'm not so thirsty anymore. I wonder if I should go back and Let the others out...No...Naruto kun would just try and stop me. I don't know why. He must be as thirsty as me. I think...I need a bath. Sakura headed for the hot springs.
The hot springs were empty when she got there. She quickly stripped and waded into the water. It felt so good. She liked the scalding water, it made her feel so hot in side. Kind of like when she was first biting Ino. Sakura thought about what she had done. Doubt made it's intrusion into her mind. What was I doing killing them. I should have let them live. I'm a medical ninja. I'm supposed to save people, not kill them. "You had to feed or you would have suffered even more. You're not like Naruto kun. He can resist. Not us though." "Who are you anyway?" "I'm glad you asked and now that I'm not starving I'll tell you. I am your hunger. I'm also your power. Not all of it of course. But the more you feed the more power I can lend you. You must thank Naruto though..." "Why what does Naruto have to do with anything. I minds as well have been bitten by Hinata." "Yes well Hinata was bitten by Naruto and Naruto is the first of us to stay him...when he changes. Now that he has made us the same, we stay intelligent instead of going blood crazed." "You don't call killing three innocent people, blood crazed?!" "No! We were starving. We couldn't be faulted for needing to drink. desperate times call for desperate measures." "I guess your right..."
There was a splash and the water around her rippled. Sakura opened her eyes, "Hey Tenten, what are you doing here?" Tenten gave her a worried look. "I could ask you the same question, seeing all that blood in your hair and on your face. Did you get smashed in the head?" Sakura put her hands to her head. They came away, sticky with blood. Tenten came forward in the water. She said, "Here let me take a look at that." Sakura saw Tenten's naked body cut through the water towards her. She saw the blood where it had rushed to the skin. When Tenten was close the weapons mistress reached out to hold Sakura's head. Inside her mind her hunger said, "We are thirsty again. She looks sweet. Take her now!"
Sakura lunged an captured Tenten's arms with her hands. Tenten grinned, "So you want to wrestle even with a head wound. You must have knocked something loose!" Tenten allowed Sakura to trap both of her arms so she could wrap her legs around Sakura's legs. She slipped backward with Tenten on top of her. The hot water enveloped both of them.
Tenten felt a slight sting on her breast, near her armpit. She thought, So she's going for pressure points huh? Well that won't work on me! Then she felt something sharp slip into her flesh, just under her jaw. She punched out and rose to the surface. Both of them broke the surface of the water at the same time. Tenten looked down at her chest. Blood was streaming down her neck and breasts, and into the water. There was so much blood. Tenten looked up. "What the hell Sakura! I think that fighting dirty is just part of winning and I've bit you during a fight once, but you took it a bit too far!" Sakura smirked, "I never once challenged you to a wrestling match and I wasn't biting you to win..." She smiled warmly, "I was biting you because you taste good."
The weapons mistress obviously thought that she was joking because she waded back to her own side of the bath. "Yeah.? Well I never thought you were in to that sort of thing, but I guess annoying as you used to be..." Sakura waded after her.
Tenten turned just in time for Sakura to bite deep into her neck. She gasped as she felt the blood draining out of her. Sakura's arms were too strong. She couldn't break free and she knew now that something was horribly wrong. Sakura never came to the hot springs at night. She was always clean before she even got in and she rarely started the wrestling matches. That was usually Ino. It hit her then. Sakura's fangs where in her neck. She had been way...way too slow noticing that one crucial detail. She should have noticed it first thing, but she hadn't she had been too distracted by the blood.
Now there was more blood pouring down. It dripped between their breasts as they were tightly pressed together. Tenten tried to shout even though there was little or no chance of anyone finding her here. And even less chance that they would be able to handle a vampire unprepared. Then, just as Tenten thought Sakura was draining the last drops of blood out, the pink hair girl pulled out. Tenten felt Sakura drag her out of the hot spring and bandage her neck. She looked up at Sakura as the medical vampire worked. Tenten thought, Why Sakura? Vampires aren't supposed to be smart or retain memories. But you bit me and now your healing my wounds? What is happening to me? Is this a dream? I didn't feel any pain when she bit me or during the fight. I must be dreaming...that's it.
Sakura said, "Thanks for the drink! I really appreciate it. I'll catch you later Tenten."
Ah, Sakura's kind of evil...Isn't it great how being a little thirty changes your perspective. I hope that the fact I spared Konohamaru changes yours. I was oh so tempted to drain that kid out... That would have made the story darker, but it would have made it really hard for Sakura to bounce back from that...maybe impossible. Then I'd be missing pat of my story.
Well, Reviews please! and questions are always welcome as is criticism as long as its constructive.