Saki: VampireGirl does not own Naruto

Kohana: But she does own us!

Saki: Well duh that's the only reason we're here.

Kohana and Saki: Please enjoy!

Kohana sat silently beside Sasuke watching the other teams entering the tent to retrieve their scrolls. Right before Saki's team went in, the older twin had stopped to cross her arms over her chest along with both her index fingers and middle fingers. Kohana chuckled a little remembering the sign from their childhood; she copied the motion before she finally lost view of Saki thanks to the tent.

"Hey," Sasuke said quietly making his teammates look at him, "Come here."

Without a word, Kohana and Sakura gathered around the Uchiha. When Naruto was about to argue, but was silenced when Kohana grabbed him by the ear and dragged him into the circle to hear what Sasuke had to say.

"I think we need to give the scroll to Kohana to carry."

Everyone looked surprised, but not as surprised as Kohana herself. "Why me?" she asked quietly with a rather worried look on her face, "I think we've made it clear that I'm not a fighter, so why give me the scroll?"

He shook his head, "Because no one would expect us to actually give the scroll to our medic-nin. It's placing you into a great deal of danger, but you can handle it," he was staring intently at her as if no one else was around, "I have faith in you."

Kohana looked at the ground for a second before nodding. "Okay, I'll take it," she whispered not totally convinced. She had the biggest urge to run to Saki and talk to her, but she knew that at the moment that wasn't a possibility. As of the moment they entered that forest they were no longer sisters.

A movement caught her eye making her look up to see Saki staring at her intently with the same knowledge in her identical eyes.

'We're enemies,'they both though at the same time.

Kohana sat on the large root of a tree, looking up at the tree covered tops with a rather bored look that belied what was in her calculating mind. 'Sasuke and Naruto are our two powerhouses that's a pretty well known fact. I'm a medical prodigy thanks to mom and most know that too, yet not a whole lot of people know that Sakura is pretty sensitive to Genjutsu.'

'Even if no one knows I have the scroll, I still have the main target on my back,' she thought watching the sway of the trees, taking in the sounds of the forest. 'If you take out a teams medic-nin it destroys any chance the team has at mission success.'

"Man, so much came out!" Naruto said loudly making Kohana frown, "I feel great!"

Sakura growled throwing a punch at his head, "I SAID NOT IN FRONT OF A LADY!"

"Thank you Sakura," she said with a little giggle, "Thanks for taking care of it; I didn't feel like getting up. I guess great minds think alike."

Sakura grinned along with her friend until Sasuke suddenly lunged at the blonde hitting him squarely in the jaw. Sakura gasped while Kohana took a more active approach when her oldest friend was knocked into a tree at high speed. Jumping up, she clenched his arm in an almost bone crushing hold, just barely holding back on the urge to break it. "WHAT THE FUCKING HELL WAS THAT FOR?" she yelled. Her hazel green eyes were burning with fire. No matter how much she thought she might love Sasuke, she'd never let him hit her best friend for no rational reason.

"Yeah what the hell was that for?" Naruto asked wiping away the blood at his jaw.

Sasuke ignored him looking at Kohana, "Don't you see it?" he asked before looking back at Naruto who was still on his ass.

Kohana's brow furrowed as she followed his glance. Naruto look like Naru-, wait a second, "Where's my Naru-kun?" she asked with a dangerous scowl making Sakura stare in confusion at her teammates.

Naruto shook his head, "What the heck are you talking about Kohana-chan? It is m-," he was silenced when a kunai hit the tree he was leaning against just mere inches from his face.

"Naruto's right handed," she said matter-o-factly. "Your holster is on your left side, besides if you really were Naruto and were trying to prove it to ME, you would've called me 'Hana-chan', not 'Kohana-chan'."

"Also," Sasuke said with a matching scowl as he glared at the imposter, "You don't have that scratch that the examiner gave you on your cheek. You're a looser, who's even worse than Naruto at transformations."

With a loud pop a boy with the headband for the rain village stood before them, "Unlucky that you figured it out!" he laughed crouching down. "Now which one of you has the scroll? Without another warning he lunged, "Oh well I'll just take out your little medic-nin first!"

Before he could even make it halfway to Kohana, she had easily dodged his move and had herself by Sakura only to reappear on a tree branch with her stunned friend. The Rain ninja soon lost focus on Kohana and followed after Sasuke.

"Anko-sensei was right," Kohana said with a serious look on her face, "People will die in this forest." Jumping down she landed in a crouch followed by the still stunned pinkette, 'And if we're not careful, we'll be the ones who end up dead.'

Saki was absently walking with her teammates through the forest, letting her mind wonder through an endless string of possibilities just as her sister had done. Also like her sister, her teammates had decided that she should be the carrier of the scroll. When she had been close to refusing Gaara, had sent her this look that made her take it without any further objections. She couldn't help but frown at that.

'How is it, he can make me do almost anything with just one little look?' she asked herself as she frowned at the forest floor, 'Why do I have to be in love with a boy that will absolutely never in a hundred million years ever come and care for me in the way I care for him?'

'But then again, you are the only human he talks to on a daily basis.'

'Though, it's only because he has come to except my presence. I mean, I did kind of barge in to his life without a care about the 'monster' in him.'

'But still, he does care about you in his own sick way. He's always making sure your okay and if you haven't noticed, he really doesn't like any of other guys around you.'

'Pssshhhh, only if you call caring stalking. I swear, I never have a moment's privacy around him! . . . Not that it really bothers me. I mean I love it when he's around . . . I feel . . . safe. Gawd, I'm more than certain that I'd be locked up for the rest of my life if they actually heard me say that. Hell, Gaara would probably have a heart attack if he himself heard that.'

'Oh whatever, Gaara really truly cares about you and you know that! Why do you try to deny it? One of these days he'll see it.'

"Yeah and Satan will be giving out free ice water." 'Shit!'

Her teammates all froze to look at her curiously.

'You're such a Dumbass,'

"What was that Saki-chan?" Temari asked looking at the girl she had adopted as a sister all those years ago.

A bright blush consumed the oldest Sarutobi grandchild's face, "What?"

"What you just said,"

"Huh?"

"'Yeah and Satan will be giving out fee ice water', what was that all about?"

Saki stared at them for a few seconds with an innocent look on her face, "Whom were we talking about?"

Kankuro and Temari rolled their eyes while Gaara just kept staring at her with his piercing gaze making her stare down at the floor again. 'Not working this time Gaara,' she thought while she kept walking forward past her teammates only to be jerked back by very familiar sand. She immediately saw a shower of needles hit the spot she had once stood at, "WHATTHEFUCKINGHELL?!" she yelled staring wide-eyed at the spot from behind Gaara's back.

"Huh, nice save," a rather gruff voice said as three figures immerged before them wearing the sign of the Hidden Rain Village on their foreheads. "Hand over your scroll and no one gets hurt."

Saki growled, "You mother fucking asshole! Do you have any friggin clue who, the hell you're tal-,"

"Fight me."

She stopped to stare at Gaara who was looking at the tall guy with a very familiar look in his eyes. She let out an involuntarily shiver. She had seen Gaara kill many people over the years, some that truly deserved it while others . . . well they just were in the wrong place at the wrong time. She had a feeling that these ninjas just happened to pick a fight blindly with someone they were greatly underestimating. He was gonna be dead in less then five minutes flat. Poor bastard, she actually felt kind of sorry for him . . . keyword being kind of.

"Sand brat, challenging us head on like that," the tall guys snickered, "How foolish."

"No," Saki said shaking her head, "What's foolish is how you keep mouthing off like that. You just keep digging your own grave buddy."

He chuckled a little bit making Saki look at him in wonder, "If you're not careful little blossom, you'll have to call 'Papa-sama' to save you," he smirked a little bit. "Or you're dear sister and brother will have to take your punishment."

She growled dangerously grabbing her favorite weapon twirling it around in a fighting stance, "If you ever, EVER even think about touching my family, I'll fucking carve out your heart with a rusty damn spoon. Then I'll force it down your fucking throat."

He laughed louder, "My, my. Hasn't the Hokage's grandbaby grown into a mouthy little thing?" his smirk took on a dangerous hint, "I wonder what he'd do if your little necklace there was the only thing we left behind."

Saki's hazel green eyes flashed angrily as she prepared to let her Shogee fly, only to be stopped by Gaara' firm calloused hands grasping her wrist tightly. "No Saki," he said looking at the man as he spoke, "This is my fight."

Saki growled at the man, but pulled back letting Gaara step forward. She knew better then to argue with him when he wanted to kill, "Whatever just make him pay for even thinking about threatening MY family."

"You want to die don't you?" the man asked, "The Sarutobi girl seems to be more my style if you know what I mean."

Saki grimaced as she stuck her tongue out at him before watching Gaara intently, "Enough talk. Let's fight OLD MAN."

"Gaara!" Kankuro said suddenly making Saki look at him in surprise, Kankuro had always been rather terrified of Gaara, just as much as anyone else was, "It's best we get some information first, if we both have the same scroll there's no point in fighting pointlessly-,"

"That doesn't matter," Gaara said coldly, not even bothering to look at his older brother. "Those who meet my eyes must die."

Saki shook her head as she moved to the shaking Kankuro. "You pick now of all times to grow a back bone!" she hissed under her breath before hitting him over the head, "What the hell?"

Kankuro rubbed his sorehead but remained silent. He knew that if he tried to retaliate on Saki in anyway shape or form, Saki would probably kick his ass, and THEN Gaara after he was done slaughtering the enemy, he would PERSONALLY rip out his throat. In all truth he really would like to live to an old age if possible.

"Then let's hurry up. HERE I COME!" he yelled making Saki sigh as he threw up three bamboo umbrellas that shot out a storm of needles, all of which were controlled by the fool's charka. Gaara of course remained motionless as they headed his way, "THERE'S NO ESCAPING THIS ATTACK! PLUS ALL THE NEEDLES ARE CONTROLLED BY MY CHAKRA TO STRIKE THEIR PREY!"

Saki laughed a little, "Seriously? This is the best you got? Pssshhhh, my mom taught my sister and me that old trick when we were three," she yelped when one of the needles almost nicked her followed by one of the tall guy's teammates lunging at her.

"You seriously need to be taught where your place in life is," the second one said with a smirk, "And I believe I'm just the man to do that."

Saki smirked dangerously, "Oh really? Hey Gaara, can I PLEASE have these two losers? I think they need a serious lesson in Girl power."

The taller man's smirk fell away when the dust cleared revealing Gaara perfectly unharmed with sand formed around him, "Whatever, but if they get in my way I'll kill them along with their leader."

Saki's smirk grew into a maniacal grin making Temari and Kankuro shiver in fear. Saki could honestly get just as bad as Gaara if you pushed all the right buttons, "Goody, then this should be fun!"

On the word 'fun' she let her Shogee fly nicking the shorter one on his cheek. He growled a little as he let another shower of needles fly. Of course Saki easily dodged just as her mother had taught her to do, she cast a look over her shoulder at Temari and Kankuro who had luckily hid behind her fan for protection.

'I can't let them get hurt,' she thought before jumping into a tree branch, 'Let's get them away from here.'

"And where the hell do you think your going?!" one yelled as he jumped into the branch throwing punches at her as she easily dodged backwards, drawing the two away from her teammates.

"COME ON BIG BOY!" she teased, "I THOUGHT YOU WERE GOING TO TEACH ME WHERE MY PLACE WAS!" Suddenly she found herself on the forest floor wiping away the blood from her lip.

"And I will," he laughed with his partner by his side, "And we're going to go VERY slow. By the time we're done, you'll never talk like that again."

'Shit!' she thought jumping to her feet, 'He's seriously going to try to rape me! I thought it was just a bad line. Uggh, teaches me to not take things seriously.'

Use me.

Saki froze in place as the dark voice filled her mind, 'No Saki don't-,"

Don't listen to that fool, I can give you power to defeat them without even breaking a sweat. Use the power that you were born with! USE ME!

'No,' Saki thought holding her head in her hands no longer paying attention to her opponents, the burying in her neck where her scar resided was burning, 'Not that power, never . . . I'm not him! I'M NOT HIM!'

Did you forget how they threatened your family? Konohamaru and Kohana, with this power you can protect them forever.

'No I can't let them get hurt . . . I need to protect them.'

"Aw is the little girl scared?" the short one teased beginning to advance on the still motionless Saki who had fallen to her knees with her head in her hands. "Don't worry we'll go easy on you girl, promise," he gasped in pain and in surprise when his body was suddenly thrown backwards into the trunk of a rather large tree.

"Too bad," Saki giggled her voice taking on a more husky tone, "I can't promise you the same."

Both Rain Nin gasped in horror as she looked up at them, her hazel green eyes had been replaced by two blood crimson ones that only belonged to one family in their village.

"It-it can't be!" one gasped backing away from the advancing girl, "She's Amarante's girl," he shook his head as the sweat rolled down, "I thought she died years ago."

"Oh but she did," Saki whispered softly making them both shiver in fear, "But not before she bore me and my sister. You two made a huge mistake," in a flash she was gone only to reappear directly behind them, "When you threatened my siblings."

Kohana sighed as she sat back, "There we go Sakura," she then looked apologetically at her friend. "It's not the best in the world, but it doesn't look so choppy anymore."

Sakura smiled at her friend. "Thanks Kohana," she said happily before going off to see what Naruto was doing to get himself into trouble.

Kohana stared after her with a sad look. "I feel terrible," she growled a little, "Stupid Sound bitch! If I see her again I'll-," she froze up when a sudden pain coursed through her neck making her double over grasping it tightly in both hands. 'Saki . . . you didn't . . .,'

"Kohana?" she looked up through tear filled eyes to see Sasuke looking down at her with a worried look on his normally emotionless face, "Are you ok?" he knelt beside her gently prying away her hand to see two small pin like scars on her neck. It basically looked like a vampire had bitten her. "He didn't-…"

"No," Kohana answered quickly sitting up, "Trust me when I say this is a very old scar."

He looked at her as she watched Sakura hit Naruto over the head for doing something wrong, "What happened?"

She looked at the ground as her fingers rubbed her yin sign, "It's not important . . . just family stuff."

"Kohana-,"

"Please Sasuke," she pleaded looking up at him with tired eyes, "I don't want to talk to you about this . . . at least not here, and not now. What happened that night deals with a very dark family secret that right now, I'd rather take to my grave then tell even you." She sighed looking back up at the tree hidden sky, "Maybe someday I will . . . but not today."

Saki was standing in between Kankuro and Temari when she heard a soft voice say, "I know what you did."

With a sigh she turned along with her team to see Kohana staring at her with rather expressionless eyes, "I figured as much."

Kohana stared intently at her twin as if they were the only two around, "Just tell me that it was really, really a dire need Saki. That's all I ask."

Saki returned her twin's stare before nodding, "It was a need Kohana, I would never use IT if I had the choice. You'll understand some-,"

She froze mid sentence to watch the girl from the Hidden Sound Village Ninja walk past them. The longhaired girl was glaring evil daggers at Kohana who returned the glare full-heartily. In all the years that Saki had known her twin, she had never once seen her look at someone with so much hate in her eyes. Kohana had always been the healer and peaceful one of two, but for some reason Saki could clearly see bloodlust on her sister's eyes that longed to destroy the Grass girl if she wasn't careful.

"Careful Kohana," Saki warned earning her sister's emotionless gaze again, "Don't YOU lose now too."

To anyone passing by or eavesdropping (cough*KANKURO-TEMARI*COUGH) it would have appeared that the two were just mouthing off to each other, but from the Hokage's spot he could clearly see the deep worry that his granddaughters had for each other and their teammates. He too knew the extreme that Saki had went to in the forest and he also knew how Kohana had been rendered immobile and was forced to helplessly watch Sakura try to protect not only herself but the rest of her teammates. He had a bad feeling about this whole thing, making the grandfather in him want to rip the two girls out of it and make sure harm never fell on them. But then the ninja in him knew full well that they were no longer children and they needed their chance to prove themselves as ninja and not just the Sandaime's granddaughters.

This was their battle and it was dangerous yes, but he had all the faith in the world that they would succeed in the end.

Kohana was right behind Rock Lee as he jumped down to catch the badly beaten and unconscious Tenten in his arms. Fire boiled deep within Konoha as she looked at her good friend and could help but feel that the sand girl Temari had pushed the envelope to far. It made Kohana mad how someone could actually take advantage of others like that.

"How can you treat someone like this who gave her all in battle?" Lee asked in anger after he caught his fallen teammate not even noticing the young medic that had followed his lead.

"Shut up," the blonde girl said leaning on her fan, "And get that loser out of here."

Kohana barely had time to catch Tenten as Lee jumped up to attack Temari only to be blocked by her fan, "COME ON, LEE BACK OFF!" she yelled as she began to heal her friend even though she knew she'd need her own charka for her battle, "She missed the vital stuff, I can heal her no problem!"

Temari chuckled, "Just as I thought. You're just as pathetic as the rest."

Lee's eyebrows furrowed in anger, "What did you say?!"

"LEE STOP!" Gai said jumping down to his pupil, "Tenten's going to be fine, and Kohana said she can heal her. You do not need to pick a fight with the Sand Nin."

Reluctantly, Lee backed off to help Tenten back up to the balcony where Kohana was working on the healing process. When she was done, she let out a tired sigh as she fell back on her bottom, "Man, this has been a seriously long day."

Sakura nodded before giving her friend a worried look, "Kohana are you okay? You keep holding your neck like it hurts."

Kohana blinked in surprise for a little bit before giving her pink haired teammate a fake reassuring smile, "Oh yeah I'm fine, just a little sore, must have slept on it wrong last night!"

Sakura eyed her suspiciously but didn't question it, instead she watched the board to see who fought next while Kohana leaned against the wall with her eyes shut, 'A little nap and I'll feel much be-,'

"Kin Tsuchi vs. Sarutobi Kohana,"

'Or maybe not.'

Standing up, Kohana saw the Sound Nin girl that had forced Sakura to chop of her own hair, Kohana had heard every word that the bitch had said to her friend and even hours later she was still pissed beyond all reason.

"Kohana," Saki said making her look at her twin who had just transported to her side making everyone else jump back out of surprise, "Be careful, please."

She nodded before grabbing the balcony railing, "Saki do me a favor, if things get out of hand, stop me."

Saki nodded as she watched her little sister jump the railing to her fight, 'I have a bad feeling about this.'

"HANA-CHAN!" Naruto yelled as he watched his oldest friend being thrown into the wall of the arena by the cocky Sound girl.

Kohana groaned as she picked herself up silently cursing herself for healing the others before she even fought her own battle.

'You don't mean that Kohana! You wouldn't have been able to even try to fight if you weren't reassured that they were okay.'

Kohana looked up at the stands to her worried friends, 'Your right . . . but I'm so damn tired. I don't think I can win . . ."

You're willingly to let Saki, Konohamaru, and your grandfather, Naruto, Sakura, Kakashi, and Sasuke down now? After everything you've been through? You're willingly to let this dirty little bitch beat you in your own home?

'No go away!' she inwardly yelled the burning in her neck intensifying as she held her head in her hands just as her sister had done in the forest, 'I DON'T NEED YOU!'

Oh I beg to differ my child. This girl has no qualms with killing you right here and now and if you don't take my help you will die.

'Don't listen Kohana! You don't need its power! Your mother never had to use it!'

AND LOOK WHERE SHE IS! SIX FEET UNDER!

"Aw look at the 'Honorable Granddaughter'," Tsuchi teased, "She's shaking in fear! Don't worry, I'll make this quick and semi-painless." She lunged at the still kneeling girl only to stare in confusion at an empty space, "What?"

'Stupid bitch,' Saki thought holding onto her neck, 'you've basically just dug your own damn grave, be grateful I promised to jump in or I'd let her fucking kill you.'

"WHERE THE HELL ARE YOU?" Tsuchi yelled angrily looking around for the strawberry blonde, "WHERE ARE YOU HIDING!"

"Right here," a husky voice said in her ear making her freeze up only to be kicked violently from behind, with a groan of pain she rolled onto her back to see a crimson eyed Kohana looking down on her with a blood-thirsty look in her eyes, "You said you'd go easy on me, but too bad I can't say the same." With that she ripped the girl off of the ground to hit her squarely in the stomach making her puke up some blood. With a light but powerful toss she sent the Sound Nin crashing into the wall where she hit her head rendering her unconscious.

"WINNER IS SARUTOBI KOHANA!"

Kohana kept advancing on the unconscious girl ignoring the refs declaration, her eyes and senses were all trained in one the one thing.

The blood trailing down the girl's head was calling to Kohana as she moved in closer for the kill.

'Oh God no,' Saki thought in horror realizing her sister was losing more and more of herself as the minutes ticked by, "SNAP OUT OF IT KOHANA!"

The younger twin ignored her sister as she grabbed the girl by the neck. The primal instinct that she had been born with, thanks to her mother's family's Kekkei Genkai, was calling out for her to take the girl's blood, so she finish the transformation into her true form.

'Oh God!' Kohana silently cried, trying desperately to regain control of her body, 'PLEASE STOP ME!'

Suddenly, Kohana found herself falling into her grandfather's arms looking up into his and Saki's worried faces as darkness consumed her world. Tears ran down her cheeks as they carried her out of the arena.

Two hours later, Kohana awoke to see Saki resting her head by her hand as she sat in one of those horribly uncomfortable hospital beds. Looking around she easily concluded that she was indeed in the Konohagakure hospital. Naruto and Sakura were both passed out against the wall near the window. A small smirk formed on her face when she took in their position, Sakura had her head resting on Naruto's shoulder while the blonde's had his resting on the pinkette's head.

"How are you feeling?" a quiet voice said making her look to see Sasuke standing by her left side.

She shrugged a little, "Fine I guess." She looked at the floor for a while before asking, "Is that girl I fought . . ."

"She's alive," Sasuke said knowing where she was going.

"Oh. . . that's good," she was silent for another minute before tentatively looking up at him, "Did you-,"

"I heard what happened."

Kohana groaned lowly as she buried her face into her hands, "How many people think I'm a monster know?"

She was surprised when she was forced to look up into onyx eyes. "No one thinks you're a monster Kohana," he said softly tracing a hand over her face, "Everyone is worried sick about you. Saki and those two dolts refused to leave your side even for a moment."

Speaking of dolts, "Hey, how did the rest of the matches go?"

Sasuke frowned a little, "Naruto won his match against Kiba, Hinata lost hers against Neji and Lee . . ."

Fear spiked through Kohana as she looked at her sister's unconscious form, "Lee fought Gaara didn't he?" when Sasuke nodded even more fear spiked through her, "How . . .,"

"He lost big time," Sasuke said beating her too the point knowing that this wasn't going to be easy for her to hear, "He was nearly killed, but Gai stepped in. He's here in the hospital."

Kohana shook her head as she looked back at her sister, 'God Saki, what are you getting yourself into?'

And that's it for tonight! I hope you liked it.

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