An Evening With El Diablo
Chapter 3: A New, But Old, Enemy
I donot own Naruto.
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UchihaSanNin
Sakura woke the next morning, in her bed, and looked outside. The sun was rising over the city of Tokyo, and she groaned inwardly. She stretched and yawned loudly, then froze when she didn't curl into a ball from the pain in her ribs.
Nothing.
"Wah-what...How...?" She threw off her shirt and kicked off the blankets, forcing them down to the end of the bed. Perfectly tanned, unmarred, skin where her ribs where located. The bandaging was gone. The ugly black and blue lines from the rib breakage were gone. Her ribs were perfectly healed.
Then, when she looked up to the ceiling with confusion, it all came back to her.
Their bodies fitting together so...so perfectly, flush against one another.
His mouth slanting over her own, in a carnal, animalistic kiss.
His gleaming fangs scraping sensually against her life's vein. Not once, but countless times.
The sucking kisses on her neck.
His groans and shaky breathing as she arched against him.
Her loud-ass moans and whispers.
Her face suddenly flamed with anger and embarrassment, and she growled. she clenched her jaw, grinding her teeth against each other. She sent her fists into the pillow that was beside her, and yelled out in rage as it busted, sending feathers everywhere.
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Naruto Uzumaki stood next to the soft, blue sparring mat, watching Sasuke take down opponent after opponent. He could tell that he was in a pissy mood, and he wanted to find out why. He'd been sparring all morning long, eating nothing, but drinking alot of the blood that came in the night before by the cartons. No one other than Sakura, Tsunade, and He himself knew that their new work partner was a vampire. Or say, Halfbreed, for the better.
He stepped onto the mat, and the blue material sunk down with his muscular weight. The blonde suddenly shreiked when he was grabbed from behind, and was pulled off by his head of blond hair. Then he was thrown across the room.
"OUTTA MY WAY DOBE!!" A certian pink haired female yelled, and Sasuke turned away from his current sparring victim and looked at her, raising a finely arched, black brow.
"Fight me, Sasuke!" She challenged, and pointed at him. "Fair and square! No bullshit! You fight on my terms, my level, understand?"
"Tch..." He closed his eyes, and shook his head, sending droplets of sweat everywhere. He then crossed his arms over his bare chest, and glared at her. "What's the catch?"
"Nothing. You just can't treat me like shit and beat me down at every fucking turn anymore. Understand?"
"Aa...Not interested." He turned andwalked off.
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Ignorance is bliss, She thought, as she walked down the city streets, and looked around her. I needed some fresh air...I'm so glad that Tsunade gave me the day off...Ignore the Uchiha...he's not with you right now, he is back at the Unit with everybody else...
she sat down as she walked underneath a Sakura tree, fluffing her neat skirt out and around her, and sighed heavily. the blossoms were blowing in the wind, and she watched as the sun illuminated them, and made the petals seem like small peices of fire. the drifted around in the breeze, reminding her of life itself. Short and spontanious. Life blooms then is snuffed out before you even know it.
SHe leaned back against the bark, and looked up at the sky. I wonder...she asked herself. Why haven't I heard...or seen...my family...? Or what used to be of them...? In-In all honesty...I am worried...But I don't want to see them again... But...I can't help but still...love them...despite the fact that they've been turned to blood thirsty monsters...Except for Tsunade...they are the only..."Family" that I knew...Tsunade is more a friend than anything...
A breeze suddenly blew in her face, and blew her hair back over her shoulders, and carressed her cheeks. She closed her eyes, revelling in the feel of it, and re opened them slowly. To meet the endless depths of those familair obsidian-coal black pools.
"Kya--aaaaaaaah!!" She fell backwards, and covered her face with her arm, then Quickly sat up, blushing red. "You ass! What the hell are doing here for!!"
"I followed you," The Uchiha answered nochalantly, as if he did this everyday. "Tsunade ordered me to. So, here I am. Now...what were you saying, about bloodthirsty monsters?" She just stared up at him, and scowled.
"It's none of your business," She muttered, and stood up. He looked up at her, admiring how she looked in a skirt. It was a deep red color, and it had many layers of equally lengthed pettycoats, wihich aided in helping it flair out for her long legs. THe skir went down to mid thigh, not too short, but not too long. Just right for him.
When she stood up in anger, her skirt flared out, letting him see a good portion of her legs, then she turned on him, and dusted her black blouse off with her hands. He stood also, ignoring the way it made his blood suddenly seem to boil.
"Can't you just leave me alone, you Teme!! I mean, It's my one and only day off, and I don't want to be around you!" She watched the muscle in his jaw jump, and he smirked.
"Not til I get that story out of you." He murmured, suddenly to close to her. His face was now mere inched from hers, and she blanched, and stepped back.
"Fine...C'mon...I gotta get something to eat, so come on. I'll tell you when we get the food. Got it? Not a word til then." She turned again, and he nearly groaned as her skrit flared again, revealing those long, well toned legs. he watched as she stomped across the grass, heading for the sidewalk.
hours later...
The waitress looked from the pinkette to the raven haired man, sensing the tension between them. "What would you two like tonight?" She asked, flashing the man a winning smile. His gaze, instead, to her chagrin, was fixed onto his partner's face, which was downcast and staring intently at the menu in her hands. She looked up at their waitress, and smiled. "Um...I'll take the...white rice, with eggplant and vegetable stir frye...By the way, Sasuke. You're paying your way, got it?"
"Hn...I'll take a steak..." Sakura looked at him, confusion written all over her face. "Rare. I like mine to moo off the plate, you know?" He gave the girl who served them a sexy smirk, and she nearly melted in her clothing.
"C-C-Coming right up, sir..." She stammered, and walked off slowly, as if in a haze.
"You man-whore," Sakura spat, and then a waiter appeared beside them with a bottle of Sake, and two small cups. He placed them onto the table, and set the bottle down, then disappeared. "I swear..."
"Hn...Not my fualt." he answered, and watched her facial exppresion.
"I...I thought that ...Um...You couldn't eat. How...how can you!?"
He sighed, and rubbed his eyes with his thumb and forefinger, then sat back in the straight backed chair. "I can eat...Remember that I am only part of that...I just can't well...taste all that well, like I can other things. I rarely do eat."
Her lips went into an "o", and he growled inwardly. Don't do that shit!! He mentally wailed, You are fucking killing me here...!!
He watched in silence as she poured a cup of Sake, and cradled the cup like it was the most important thing in the world to her. She looked up at him as she took a small sip, then lowered to cup to the table one more, and whirled the liquid content around inside it, as she moved her hand into a lazy circle. "Just like Tsunade," He murmured, through his fingers that were steepled in front of his face, covering his mouth and nose. "You take after her alot..."
"She raised me since I was a little girl."
"Aa..."
A comfortable but awkward silence settled between them for the next half hour, and they didn't bother breaking it. Then a few minutes later, their food came. Sakura's dish was just plopped down in front of her without so much as an apology when some of it tipped off the bowl and to the floor.
She glared up at the girl, who's eyes were on Sasuke. Sasuke himself was showing no interest, but he sure was staring at that steak, as if he was a starving Etheopian boy who went without food for weeks on end.
"Hey! You with the goo goo eyes!! How bout an apology for what you just did, and stop staring at my partner like that. As you can see we're trying to have a conversation, and he sure as hell isn't interested in getting into your pants."
The girl looked in her direction as she sweetly pushed the plate in Sasuke's direction, and then turned back to him. Sasuke didn't miss the small, nearly unnoticable slip of paper that was underneath it, hidden well by her fingers. He stared down at the paper, then felt his mouth water at the smell of the bloody, nearly half cooked steak. The redheaded gril walked off, with a bounce in her step.
"You're drooling."
"What?" He asked, not hearing her. He looked up to see her look of disgust. "Uh...Oh..." He wiped his mouth with his hand, and cleared his throat. "All right. Talk."
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"When I was a little girl, I had a family. I belonged to the Haruno Clan. we weren't as rich or powerful as any other, but it was a great clan nontheless...Then, one night...they came...and killed everyone. My mother protected me...and we watched my father get torn to shreds. My mother...she made me hide underneath the bed...and I did...they came after her, and dragged her off somewhere. There was one more that was hunting for me, but...but...I didn't know..." he watched with indiffrence as she took a long pull of Sake, and cradled the cup in her hands once more.
"I...tried to look around for my mother and brother..." She stared ahead, as if seeing the sequence of events play through her mind's eye one more time. But...one of those mosters caught me, and nearly had me, if it wasn't for Tsunade-Shishuo and her friend, Shizune...They managed to save me, and took me with them."
"What were they?" He asked, having a notion of what 'they' were. Vampires don't slaughter people unnessecarily. They have meaning when they kill. They kill for sustanance. Not, sport.
She looked down into the red tinted liquid in the cup, reminding her of the blood that stained virtually everything inside that house on that night; her distanced look suddenly turned to something similair to fury. "Werwolves. Lycans. whatever you want to call them. They didn't...seem to be actual Werewolves...I did research when i was old enough to understand...and came up with the latter. They were Lycans. Like shapeshifters...werewolves have no choice but to change at the full moon of every month...Lycans change volentarily, anytime they wish it...back...and forth...I remember one of them doing that, that night...
"He...had purple looking eyeshadow on his face...and he was...pale...he looked sick. His eyes...I''ll never...as long as i live...forget those eyes...They were yello...and slitted...like a snake's...or a cat's...and He had a reall creepy voice..."
He looked at her, seeing the tears building up in her eyes. She closed them tightly, and willed them away. She looked up at him again, and growled. "he took my family away from me. And I swear...I will kill him..."
"I guess we're more alike than what we like to believe, Sakura," He muttered, sighing, and putting his forearms onto the table. "C'mon. Let's get out of here, and I will tell you why..."
They walked down the sidewalk, and Sasuke thought that the pinkette was going to fall over any minute. She had drank at least two bottles of that alcohol by herself, He thought. She really knows how to hold her alcohol...Thanks to Tsunade...tch...
"My own clan was exterminated." He explained, as he walked beside her, and she looked over at him, but he was facing foreward, refusing to meet her iredesecent gaze. "My brother, he is like me. We were both born of a an immrtal being and a mortal...a human mother and the father...well, you understand. My mother tried to go back to her own clan...but they wouldn't accept her. She had taken me and Itachi with her, to show them...but they tried to kill my older brother...calling him a disgusting half breed, and then tried to take me also. They disinherited her.
"I watched my brother grow into a bitter man...and He turned to the wrong people. They made him who he is today...and he followed them without question. I was gone that night when my family was attacked. I didn't see it...But i came back to find them...and the rest of the Uchiha clan...including my mother and father, lying on the ground, either beheaded or sucked dry...my mother...she...she was hung to the wall, with a stake in her heart...It had to be only minutes after it happened...becuase she then burst out into flames and her body disappeared.I was five years old at the time. " He finished, and stopped walking. She stopped also, and looked back at him.
"What?"
"I...nothing." He began walking again, and shoved his hands into his black pant's pockets. "He slaughtered everyone. But left ME alive...I still think about that to this day...I don't understand it...He knew where I was...I was with the Dobe..."
"N-Naruto!?" SHe wondered, "How did you know him!!"
"He and I were...friends. He is the one who reffered me to this ANBU organization. He knew about my past, and offered some sort of consolence. I was in Europe then. When he told me of this...I figured it could bring me closer to him then the deadends I was constantly following..." He was watching their surroundings, knowing that they were being followed. And he, being the only sober one, knew that this wouldn't turn out ot be the best altercation of his life.
(Sakura's POV)
I could feel the tension in the air, despite being a little typsy. I didn't know why he was still so uptight. I truly hated getting close to anyone,even him. I hated it. He wouldn't look at me when He told me his own past, and I could tell that it still bothered him that he could do nothing. Or did anything, no matter how much he tried. I could relate to him. A little bit. I knew ow that...emptiness felt. It was like a dark pit that ate you alive. dragged you down into it's darkened cage, and wouldn't let you out.
Liek some sort of punishment for the mind...You could never get out of that dark, deep hole of guilt and self doubt. Tsunade pulled me out. Sasuke was still in it.
We walked in silence once more, not bothering to say anything else. I looked up at the sliver of the moon that peeked out at the world, and smirked. "It's funny..."
"Aa..." He said, aknowledging me.
I crossed my arms over my chest, and sighed. "Now I know the reason Tsunade made me pair up wtih you..."
"Hn..." He kept walking, and ignored me. Then, he froze, and grabbed my arm. I looked at him with wide eyes, showing my suprise.
"Sasuke, what the hell?!" He then threw me against the wall, and I saw stars as my already fuzzy and clouded head made contact with the brick wall at my back. The breath was knocked out of me, then I felt Sasuke's body move, I heard a wet thump, and his hiss of pain and anger.
He then turned his head, and it was then that I saw the man that was standing a few feet off, in the street, sillhuoetted by the street lamps that lined the sidewalk. Sasuke loosened his hold on my arms, and Turned fully around. I watched, intrigued, as a woman came out from behind the man. She stood with her hand on her hip, and snickered quietly.
"We found you, Haruno Sakura..." This caught me off gaurd, and fear ran through my body and froze me to the spot, and Sasuke tensed, obviously smelling it's horrible scent.
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(3rd Person POV)
Tsunade straightened in her chair. "We have located three abnormal beings just inside the city of Higashiyamato," Milady, a specialist announced, and she turned to their teams as he yelled out the coordinance.
"You heard the man," She said, standing, and looking at each team. Team 1, including Ten-Ten, Rock Lee, and Neji Hyuuga, and team 2, which included Naruto, and Sai. The others would be Sakura and Sasuke, but they were out their, facing them by themselves. That explained the first one that was detected, and it was with a human partner. But what were the other two...? The blonde asked herself, and closed her eyes. "Get out their and bring Haruno and the Uchiha back before anything happens. GO!" then teams bowed quickly, and disappeared.
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Sasuke bared his teeth, allowing his fangs to elongate and show over his bottem lip. "Awe, looke, Kabuto, we've got ourselves a little sucker! Ain't this a treasure?" The Uchiha grimaced as his flesh healed around the large slivers of wood that were embedded into his upper and lower back.
"Hmph..." Glasses gleamed underneath the lamplight as a hand slowly pushed them back up ontot he bridge of his nose. They were both dressed in black, and Unlike Sakura, he could see their faces and attire. They just stood there, and Sasuke watched them carefully.
"What do you want." He growled, and the man suddenly walked foreward. Sasuek watched his movements carefully, then the man disappeared. Sasuke dove left, and took Sakura with him. She fell over to the cement, and he stood over her in a defensive stance as he saw a fist sink into the brick wall, right where his head was. The brick exploded, sending dust and granite everywhere, and Sasuke squinted to see and prevent it from getting into his eyes.
"Close your eyes, Sakura, It's about to get really ugly," He murmured, then lunged into the growing cloud, leaving her to fend for herself.
(Sasuke's POV)
I ran at the blurry figure, and caught his arm as he threw another punch for my face again. I shoved him back, and we struggled against each other, evenly matched in size and strength. "What the hell do you want with her...!" I growled, and started to shove him backwards. I was soon running with him, carrying him bay the arm, and looking up into his suprised face, then I twisted around as I tightened my grip on his arm, digging my claws into the muscle beneath the skin, taking him with me, and threw him about thirty feet. He landed against the wall on the opposite side of the wall, making a large indention into it's surface, then got up as if nothing had happened.
"kukuku...You must be the half breed that everyone is talking about...' He chuckled, and slowly out a hand to his face, and took off his glasses. Whisps of grey hair seemed to escape his ponytail in the back of his head, and blrew around his face in the breeze. "I want Sakura, it's of dire importance that I have her..." His voice had changed from that deep voice to a scratchy, and cold one. it gained a low octave to it, and I watched him with interest, and slight curiousity.
He started to change right in front of me. It was...wierd, becuase I've never witnessed such a transformation in my life. I've never so much have seen a wer- anything; be it a wolf or cat, or anything else that can morph at the full moon or at a moment's notice.
I heard his bones popping and cracking in order to accomodate the transformation. They moved under his skin visibly moved, making the skin bump and look like it was bubbling from the inside out, and I honestly had to say, it was sickening to watch. His feet grew larger and tore through his shoes that he wore. His toenails grew into 1 inch thick claws, and his arms hung from his growing shoulders with his knuckles brushing the ground. Then, his back started to lengthen, making me wince in disgust as it started to pop and crackle.
Then, as his clothes began to tear apart at the seams, his chest and face began to expand. His nose and mouth widened, and moved into an outward angle, until a snout was made out. His eyes grew larger, and turned to a blood red color. Fangs sprouted from his jaws, and gleamed in the lamplight. A low, feral growl was emitted from his throat as the last threwads of his clothing fell from his now...ghoulish...and more muscular and disfigured body.
His mouth opened and a loud, deep, gravel like sound was emitted. I stared back at him, not moving. I watched with indiference. "Tch...YOu aren't laughing at me, now, are you?" I asked, in a nochalant voice. I spat, and as the fluid hit the ground, I lunged.
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(Sakura's POV)
I slowly sat up, and reached for my knife that was tucked into the small holster on my thigh, underneath my skirt. I managed to get it out, as my mind sobered up quickly, and saw Sasuke lunge for the creature that tried to kill us. Then, I noticed alittle too late taht the female had dissapeared. I was suddenly grabbed by my hair, and thrown ten feet. I dropped the knife, and landed on my back, and my head made contact (again) with the ground, and it made a wet smacking sound, like a crushed watermelon.
This is NOT good! I thought, and stood again, a little wobbly, due to the smack to the head. She is toying with me...I have to get to something...silver...Silver...That single word went over and over in my brain, and I focused on the knife that was in my hasds seconds ago.
Then, as I dove down toward it and landed ontop of it, I managed to grab it. I kept my hand hidden, then was grabbed once more, and lifted to the ugliest animal I had ever seen in my life. the fur covered the werwolf's body, and became sparce around her face. Those glinting yellow eyes stared into mine, and I wanted to scream. I wanted to just...sucumb to what they wanted, and let my self be killed. But, pride and sheer will wouldn't let me.
I ignored the pain in my head from the hit I took on the ground, and ignored how she kept pulling at my hair until it felt like she was ripping out my scalp. Then, I looked up at her, and smiled. The wolf narrowed her gaze, and made a grunting noise, like a question. Then, I drew back, and rammed that knife into her throat as deepe as it could go.
It gave an inhuman shreik, and blood sprayed everywhere. All over me, mainly, but on the floor, and thew walls, in the alley where sh had thrown me. I fell to the ground, and she went into a wild rampage. steam or smoke one seemed to pour from the wound, and blood continued to spray everywhere. I must've hit a good place, I thought.
She kept on shreiking and just went comepletely ballistic. Smashing into walls, the floor, the dumpster to her right, and everything inbetween. Her eyes changed from that eery yellow color to a deep, blood red. She lunged straight for me, and I could do nothing but scream and cover my face with my arms, which was going to be proven a futile action within a few seconds.
I blinked rapidly after a second or two, after sensing that nothing happened. The, I uncovered my blood covered face, and someone was standing over me. He wore a green jumpsuit. Oh God...not you...I thought. I pleaded. But anything was better than dying like I almost did. He stood over me, and had a sword rammed through the wer's mouth, going down her throat, and she couldn't move.
What a showoff.
Rock Lee turned to me and smiled. "Are you okay, Sakura-San?" He looked at me with worry when he saw my bloody face and clothes, then seeing the fresh blood running down my neck.
"Y-yeah...I'm fine. Go get Sasuke!"
"On it!" He placed both hands on the hilt of the katana, then put all his strength into his arms and hands as he shoved foreward and outward to the left. The wer let out an inhuman scream and rolled around on the ground as her body was literally cut in half, then Lee shoved the crimson stained blade into the head of his victem, emmeideitly stopping all movement. Ten'Ten appeared beside me and helped me up into her arms.
"Let's go, Sakura-San." She whispered, and tried to pull me away.
"NO!" I yelled, meaning no disrespect, and pulled away, nearly falling over once more.
"Sakura-San, we must--"
"No, I can't leave Sasuke! I won't...!" and stupid me ran to the end of the alleyway, and looked for him.
(Sasuke's POV)
I lunged once more, talking ahit from the disgusting animal, and grimaced as leaped over his head, and I grabbed ahold of his muzzle with both hands. I started to pull up, with unimaginable force and strength, and landed on his back. I pushed down on his shoulders, intent on ripping his face off. My arm was bleeding badly, and I couldn't figure out why it hadn't healed yet. A pained yelp echoed through the night air, and then I heard Sakura's scream. My heart seemed to freeze. My body went cold, and I felt a hard thwack on the back of my head. then I leaped away, to find the source of the scream.
If she is hurt...I thought, and then heard a feral growl from behind me.
"You think you can save her..." Came the graval-like scratchy voice, and then I turned, and grabbed ahold of the wolf's open jaws. His lang, white, slime covered fangs sank into my hands, and I bit back a growl of pain. He tried to close his mouth, but I pushed back with my hands. My biceps bulged with the effort, and I braced my legs for the boost that I needed.
Then, The wolf started struggling and his eyes widened as i shoved my left arm down. His lower jaw came off with a nasty ripping sound. I tossed the ripped jaw to my rear, and threw him off of me as his nasty smelling blood poured everywhere. I lost my hold as blood got all over him and myself, and he pulled away, howling and whipering in a pitiful state of misery and pain. Then, he disappeared into the shadows. Naruto suddenly landed beside me, and cursed loudly.
"Teme, what the hell!!" Taking on the bastard without me!! And you had no weapons! What the hell is wrong with your head!!" He yelled. I just ignored him, and walked over to a curb, and sat down on it. Sakura appeared out of nowhere by my side, equally bloody. Her iredescent eyes bore into mine as I looked up at her.
"Sasuke..." She murmured. "I...I'm so glad that you're okay..." Then, to my suprise, she trew her arms around me, and hugged me tight. I feelt those splinters of wood dig into my back a little deeper, but i couldn't really give a shit about that...I was concentrating on the woman's body that was now lying in my arms, sprawled across my lap. A warm feeling comsumed my body like a fire, and I smiled into her shoulder, my lips pressing against her slim neck, memorizing the feel of her pulsing vein, as she buried her face into the hollow planes of my chest.
My wounds throbbed painfully, but I pushed that pain to the back of my head as I put a protective arm around her curved waist.
Ten-Ten and a few other people crowded around us, and a Medic tried to pull me up and away from the woman in my arms. I turned and bared my fangs, hissing and growling in a low, feral tone. The medic jumped backwards about ten feet, screaming, "He's one of them!!" Then, everyone turned their attention onto me and a sleeping (Or passed out, rather) Sakura Haruno. "I think he bit her!!"
I just stared, not even bothering to stand up for myself. I was tired. I wanted to sleep. I needed to heal my wounds, not get into petty fights with any stupid humans. I needed blood...At that thought, my fangs lengthened once more, and my eyelid twitched. "Damn..."
Naruto jumped in front of me so suddenly, even I was suprised. "Stop!! He is only Half!! He's the good guy! He's on our side!!"
That just made an even bigger scene. "Thanks, you dobe," I muttered, putting my head against Sakura's neck, nuzzling her large vein, wanting to dig my fangs into that soft, sweet spot...but I just couldn't. She was already bleeding badly. Naruto put a hand on my shoulder.
"Welcome." He obviously didn't understand the sarcasm. "here...she needs medical attention, Sasuke. We gotta stop the bleeding on her head...She's hurt, Teme." I nodded, feeling my heart seem to constrict painfully as I relented, and he pulled her against his chest and carried her away.
I need blood...I told myself. I'm still bleeding...My vision started to dim, and I braced a hand on my thigh, gripping it tightly, just to keep from passing out. Then, someone else crouched in front of me. a woman. I could smell the scent of a female, but I couldn't see her face.
"I'm here to help you, Uchiha-Sama..." She whispered. "Come with me..." She pulled me to my feet, my vision failing me, and held me to her as I lost consiousness. The lull of the crowd faded away as she carried me away.
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