A/n: Well, first of all, I apologise for the delay, but my studies are killing me! I barely have time to breathe and free time is truly a treat. Anyway, I tried to put something together for you guys and I hope you like it.
I eagerly wait for your reviews and suggestions.
Chapter 3:
"Hokage-sama, the mission report."
"Aw, man, Shikamaru, how many times do I have to tell you? It's Naruto, just Naruto."
The smile the genius gave was only halfway true, as his eyes still remained sad and troubled. "Sure, Naruto."
Realising his friend's distress, Naruto quickly rose from his desk to pat him on the shoulder. "Any news on Ino-chan?"
"Barely. Inoichi-san searched the bastard's head and found out he used some strange jutsu and sent her to another dimension."
"Ha! That's great news!" The sparkle of determination shone once more in the young Hokage's eyes. "All we have to do now is find out how he did it and bring her back!"
Shikamaru watched his leader with a stunned look. Even after all you've been through, Naruto, sometimes you are such an idiot.
Seeing the look in his friend's eyes, Naruto steeled his eyes in determination.
"I've lost too many friends Shikamaru.... I'm not going to abandon one in need."
Slowly, the confident smile crept upon his face. "
Ino is alive, waiting for us to come for her! I'm sure of it! She's a tough girl, don't worry! We'll bring Ino back, and this is a promise, believe it!"
This time, Shikamaru's smile was genuine. "Thank you, Naruto."
They arrived at the old mansion where the ghoul infection was said to be. Alucard motioned for Seras to follow him, and, probably out of pure chivalry, Pip offered to be the one that took care of their new recruit.
"Mademoiselle Ino, come wisz me, I will keep you safe."
Ino measured the man from head to toe. Compared to an average nin, the man look like he had never lifted a pound in his whole life.
"With all the respect, sir, you are in no measure to protect me. I would say it might be the other way around, I will protect all of you, so if you will excuse me, I have some scouting to do."
As he watched her retreating back and the way she jumped on the mansion roof, with the ease of a cat, the Frenchman couldn't help but say: "Zat iz one hell of a woman."
After surveying the mansion from above, Ino decided to enter and see how things presented themselves.
She was a bit disturbed that no one seemed to have a steady plan and that the only orders were "Search and destroy", but then again, she wasn't in the ninja world anymore.
The kunoichi quietly entered through a window and spread her chakra to sense any nearby presence.
About ten in the next room and five down the hall... Good.
She took a few kunai in her left hand, about five senbon in her mouth, checked her shuriken pouch, and with the nodachi in her right hand, Ino was ready to kill.
The five ghouls down the hallway barely realized what happened, that the kunai went through their skulls. Blood splashed everywhere and behind the fallen bodies a grin appeared on Ino's face.
On the lower levels, Seras was making as much of a massacre as her new human friend did, the smell of blood awakening her vampire instinct.
Bits of flesh flew around her as rivers of blood were flooding the ground beneath her feet. The Harkonnen recharged with each blast as Seras's feet crushed another skull, her now crimson eyes watching the splattered brains with morbid fascination.
In a dark corner, Alucard watched his fledging with pride.
Yes, Police Girl, feel the power, listen to your instinct, kill. You are a creature of the night. You left your pitiful human life behind to become one. Now kill, kill to live, kill from pleasure, rip the dead hearts from their chest and crush it in your fist, feel the warm liquid flow through your hands, live Police Girl, live as the undead that you are!
The grin widened, mirroring his own. "Yes, my Master."
Her hands were coated in blood as she slashed through the hoards with grace. She slashed and stabbed without blinking an eye, her face a mask on determination and focus.
Heads flew and blood splashed on the already death coated walls.
In a far away corner,behind round spectacles, a pair of green eyes watched her with interest.
She had felt it; through the chakra net she had placed on the floor, she had felt him. After killing the last ghoul, with shinobi speed, Ino launched two senbon at the intruder. The maximum range she could spit them was ten meters. However, with a little chakra, she could reach fourteen.
The sharp weapons reached their destination and the new enemy was revealed.
"Ye are interesting, child. At first I thought ye were a abomination, but ye did not reach to my holly barrier, it does not affect ye."
"Who are you? Speak fast or die!"
"No need to be hasty, child. Vatican Division thirteen, the Iscariot. Paladin Alexander Anderson. Who are ye, child?"
"None of your business." She gripped her nodachi tighter, falling in a battle pose.
Though the man showed no sign of violence, Ino knew better. His mind was like an open book to her, and the sickening thoughts she found were unforgivable.
Apparently the Iscariot was a big enemy of Hellsing and in the past he had done terrible things to Seras and Alucard. If Alucard was able to take care of himself, Seras was another story, and since the vampire was her new friend, she wasn't going to forgive him any-time soon.
"Ye have no need to attack child. I shall save you from the pagan claws of Hellsing and God shall forgive ye."
With a grin that would make even Alucard pale, Ino spoke, slow, so that the words would register in his mind.
"I need no saviour."
She placed a small amount of chakra in her legs and dashed toward the priest. A deep slash across his stomach, made her sure he would suffer a slow, painful death.
Sheathing her sword, Ino prepared to leave when she felt the presence behind her move. It can't be! I made sure the hit was perfect!
She quickly drew a kunai and made a few laps that ensured her a safe distance.
Anderson's laugh echoed through the empty walls, giving Ino the chills. His eyes held an insane glint, all traces of the peaceful priest long gone.
"Dust to dust. For dust thou art, and unto dust thou shall return."
Two bayonets were in his hands and Ino watched in awe as his wound simply healed in front of her eyes.
Whoa! Not even I, with my medical jutsu can't heal that fast! What is he?
The weapons flew in her direction and Ino found herself falling into defence. The number of blades seemed endless and she found it more difficult to dodge.
He sent another wave of blades and watched how she seemed to dance through them.
"I am a mediator of God! I am the instrument that delivers the punishment of heaven!"
After studying her moves for a few moments, he drew his knives and began walking in her direction.
"Our mission is t' punish any heretic who would deny the word of God! We will crush yer unholy body and salt th' earth w' yer dust! Amen!"
With blinding speed he moved and appeared behind her. Shit! He's as fast as a shinobi!
The situation called for extreme measures. She enhanced her muscles with chakra to out speed the paladin and as she landed in a crouch, her hands started to glow blue. The kunoichi leaped toward him, shattering the blades in her way.
Anderson moved fast, and his blade stock seemed endless. A few managed to reach her, giving Ino a multitude of scratches. About ten blades came toward her and as she dodged and shattered them with her chakra, the priest dashed toward her.
Warm liquid started to pour from the deep gash she had. After a quick check, the situation wasn't so pretty. The damn priest had made a pretty deep cut, she was going to need a while to heal it. However, the loss of blood made her dizzy and right now, stopping the bleeding was first priority.
He saw she was wounded and in his mind, the paladin was proud. Drawing another bayonet, he began approaching her crouched form with slow steps.
"And now O kings, be ye wise. Be admonished, ye judges of the earth. Serve the Lord with fear and rejoice with trembling. Kiss the Son lest He grow angry, and ye perish in the way for His wrath may quickly kindle."
Alucard's senses suddenly spiked.
Blood...her blood.
His eyes filled with rage as tendrils of shadow transported him to the battle scene.
Anderson's grin widened as he saw his arch enemy appearing in front of his current pray.
"Vampire, came to meet your death?"
There was no insane grin on his lips, only a menacing growl escaped Alucard's lips.
"Catholic,I am going to fill your flesh with my jackal's bullets."
Blood began to flow in every direction as the man of God and the No Life King clashed. Each time Anderson got shot, he would regenerate and Alucard, well he was just unable to die.
Ino retreated into a corner to heal her wound and watched as the two battled. Damn bastard! This is my fight!
Pissed off was an understatement for how Ino felt. The killer instinct inside her reached colossal levels as she watched Alucard smugly fight what happened to be probably the only worthy enemy she would meet in this world.
Rising to her feet, the kunoichi turned around, ramming a kunai in the freaks eye. She felt him a long time ago and right now he was the perfect target to release her frustration.
"Are you responsible for this?".
All she received was a snarl.
"You picked a bad moment to fuck with me!"
The fingertips on her hand glowed with chakra and with one twisted grin, she rammed a hand through the freak's chest, relinquishing in the feeling of soft tissue before she brutally ripped his heart out and crushed it in her fist.
It wasn't enough. Hot rage filled her veins and without thinking she threw ten kunai in Alucard's direction, securely pinning him to the nearest wall.
"Blondie, this is no game, let me go!"
He could still smell her blood, filling his senses, covering the stench of death. She was alive and the pure rage in her eyes made even him have second thoughts about challenging her now.
Ino didn't even hear Alucard's words, her mind had one target alone. Making the hand seals in a blur, she took air in her lungs, exhaling a stream of fire in the paladin's direction.
Anderson barely had time to escape as the fire of hell itself came toward him. Now he knew, she had to be a demon or who knows what other creature of the darkness.
Ino felt his presence disappear.
"Kuso! He got away!"
She felt tired, the blood loss had made her feel dizzy and her chakra was a bit low. However, there was no need to let the arrogant vampire know that.
With confident steps she went to him, took the silver kunai out of him and placed them back in her pouch. All this time the hadn't looked in his eyes, not even once.
I fear that if I look at him, I will break. The wound hurts so much and.... I feel so sleepy....
"Blondie?" No answer; she continued to look down. "Ino?"
Someone called her. Yes, Ino, that is my name....
She lifted her eyes and met crimson eyes.He looks.... worried? Why would he be worried?
Alucard saw the kunoichi lift her head and look into her eyes. She was as pale as death, her eyes glazed and empty. He frowned. Some thing's wrong...
"Ino?"
"You said my name..." that was the last thing she said before letting go and embracing the darkness of unconsciousness.
"Master, will she be OK?"
"It depends on how much she wants to live, Police Girl."
"Actually, miss Victoria, it depends on how lucky miss Ino is. Unfortunately, her blood is something we have never seen before. The doctors don't know what to give her. All we can do is wait."
They were in the hospital wing of the Hellsing mansion. Ino lay in a bed, the doctor's monitoring her state in permanence. All they could do was stop the bleeding and close the wound since her body seemed to reject any type of blood they tried to transfuse.
Four days had passed since the Anderson encounter. Seras had brought her flowers every day, remembering that Ino once said she loved them. Integra came once to talk with the doctors, but most of the time she spent in her office.
Alucard got one hell of a yelling fit from his master for not protecting her and how if she were to lose Ino and her precious abilities it would be on his account. He endured everything obediently, already visualizing how it would be to have a new fledging.
He even came to see her e few times; his visits were always short. The smell of her blood still lingered in the air and in the fourth day, for the first time, Alucard took his time to actually look at her.
Her blond hair was loose and it no longer covered her face, allowing the vampire to examine her features.
So calm...
Even he had to admit that the girl in front of him was beautiful. Her delicate feminine features, long lashes, full, rosy lips and creamy skin...He examined them like it was the first time he saw her. Her hands, though delicate at first glance wore the calluses gained from weapon dealing and years of training. A few scars braced her arms, each telling the tale of a battle, yet adding to her beauty.
Deceitful...that's you Blondie...
As if on cue, her body stirred and sky blue eyes opened for the firs time in four days. Her vision was foggy, mind still dizzy and asleep. The bed was soft, and the smell of medicine told her she was in a hospital.
Am I, back in Konoha? A figure stood next to her bed. He looked tall, with dark hair. Ino's hope rose.Who else could it be?
"Shikamaru! Ore misu maro!"(Shikamaru!I missed you!)
In a second she got up and hugged him to death. She did miss him a lot. Cristal tears began to leak from her eyes as pent up emotions burst out.
"Warui Shikamaru. Watashi kirai tsukuru maro shinpai. Warui." (Sorry Shikamaru. I hate to make you worry. Sorry.)
He was at a total loss of words. Setting aside the fact that he didn't understand one word she uttered, the girl seemingly confused him with some Shikamaru and was now crying her heart out on his shoulder.
He hated crying women, they were so...pitiful. "...Ino?"
"Hai, Shika-...."
Even through her tear clouded eyes she could see that there were crimson orbs watching her, not dark gray ones. Her eyes widened in understanding as the world seemed to crumble to dust.
He grinned and that grin seemed to mock her.
I showed weakness in front of the devil... I... I actually thought it was over, just a bad dream....
Ino learned one thing from Tsunade better than all the other teachings. How to hide your sadness in anger. Angry is good, I can deal with angry. She didn't even need to much help. Alcard's sick amusement was all the fuel she needed. Her eyes burned with rage.
"I hate you!!"
It was too late for the vampire to dodge. His jaw took the full hit of a chakra punch delivered with such hate it made his blood stir.
Damn, that girl can deliver a punch.
He began to laugh, enjoying the feel of raw pain, the way his jaw slowly clicked back into place. Ten fractures with just one punch.... "Good Blondie, hate me, hate the monster, loath to kill me, hate me!"
By now she was on her feet, all wires disconnected. Her breath came in shallow pants as the flames of hell burned in her eyes.
Her hands gleamed with blue chakra and she moved with amazing speed, crushing his skull and making a large gash over his chest. She fell on top of him, straddling him with her thighs as she punched the life out of him.
"You...have no idea....how it is...."
Her hands were coated in his blood and the stark white of her hospital gown turned to crimson. Her blond hair fell around them in a curtain, it's golden color blending crimson. Drops of blood were of her face as she continued to punch him.
Soon, the hits no longer had chakra, their vigor becoming weak as hate turned to despair.
She collapsed on top of him, silent sobs wracking her body. "I just...want to go home..."
The strain proved to be too much for her weakened body. The kunoichi collapsed, leaving Alucard in a bloody mess, on the floor, an unconscious girl on top of him.
"I see...so Hellsing has another abomination on their disposal. Tell me Anderson, what can this new monster do?"
Enrico Maxwell stood at his highly expensive desk, dressed in a priceless suit a silver cross dangling on his neck. He delicately held a cup of coffee in his right hand, occasionally taking sips.
"She is something I have never seen. Stronger that the vampire's child, thou seems to be human. She does not react to any holy barrier, or silver, yet she moves with inhuman speed. Her hands have a blue aura surrounding them, cutting anything in it's path. And she spits fire..."
"Fire, Anderson, be reasonable!"
The paladin's eyes grew large, despair etched in every feature. "Yer must believe me Enrico, she spits fire, I'm telling you!"
"Calm down Anderson...and have a little respect."
Obedient, Anderson bowed his head a little. "Forgive me, archbishop."
"Now, what you tell me is very interesting." He rose from his chair, his right eye winching, an insane grin revealing his teeth. "We must take this abomination, this demon! Cripple Hellsing, crush the protestant pagans!!"
Ino woke up in her room. She was still in the hospital gown, full of blood from head to toe. His blood....Wha? Why do I care whose blood is it?
She tried to get out of the bed, but immediately winched. During her nervous fit, the stitches broke, reopening the wound. By the looks of it, he didn't clean the wound, not to talk about bandaging. The long gash across her stomach looked awful. Broken skin and loose thread ends, all mingled with caked blood.
With careful movements, she got out of the bed and went toward the bathroom. She took a kunai, slashed her robe open and allowed it to fall on the floor. Beneath the robe, her body was covered in blood.
She was tired, maybe that's why she hadn't felt the dark presence in her room, or maybe she just had more important things to do than notice his eyes drinking in the grotesque picture she formed right now. No matter the reason, she didn't sense him, so he didn't back away, curious of her future actions.
It hurt, and in her mind, Ino was already cursing the inapt doctors for not giving her antibiotics. Shit, it got infected!
She quickly washed the wound with warm water, removing the blood, then quickly opened the first aid kit. After rummaging through it for a while, she grabbed the disinfectant, put a towel in her mouth and began pouring over the wound.
His ears could hear a muffled scream as his eyes followed her pained expression. Stupid, brave little Blondie, playing doctor.
After the wound was disinfected, Ino made a few hand signs, activating her medical chakra an began probing the area. Luckily for her, the infection didn't spread too much. She placed a small amount of chakra on her nerves, numbing them completely. Good, not I can begin.
Oh, he was curious at what she would do. He saw her stand, pour water in a bowl and place it in the bathroom. Then she took the sheets, ripped them in two strands and tied her legs to the sink. She then carefully disinfected her hands and the blue chakra once more began to surround her palms.
OK Ino, calm down, it's just like Tsunade taught you... focus. She once more stuffed her mouth with a towel, placed a hand above the water and on her fingertips, medium sized bubbles of water stood.
At this moment, Alucard was close to what you could call amazed. He had no idea what the girl planned to do, what he did know was that she had an infection, he could smell it in her blood, and if she didn't go to a doctor soon she might die.
Her hands trembled. Get a hold of yourself! Focus of die! Carefully, she kept the water bubbles glued to her fingertips. Her hand was now above the wound. Here we go! Guiding it with chakra, Ino sent the liquid into her body and veins to capture the infection.
He heard her scream again, scream in agony; it felt like music to his ears. He was eager to see her pained expression, but only got determination and focus. A bit disappointed, still intrigued, he continued to watch.
She found it! Placing chakra in her other hand, Ino guided the infected water and sucked it back through the wound. The process was repeated until there was no trace of infection in her body. Panting, Ino took the towel from her mouth. The worst part was done. Sweat streaked her brow and every nerve in her body felt sensitive from the early fit of pain.
Crimson eyes drank in the view she presented. With only blood soaked breast bindings covering her chest and a small pair of underwear to cover her most intimate parts, all soaked in blood, his blood, vulnerable and bleeding.... his fangs grew larger as it became more difficult to control himself. How sweet would her blood be? The taste of power....
With careful movements Ino sealed the wound. It will leave a scar.... Although healed, the flesh was still tender, so she made sure to be extra careful with it while she washed the rest of her body. After exiting the shower, her senses spiked. She quickly put on a pair of bra and panties and exited the room, a thick roll on bandages in her hand.
"Since you are here, make yourself useful. I can't get bandaged on my own." She turned around, holding the gauze high into the air.
A large hand took it and the sound of unwrapped package was heard. "Quite a spectacle you've made. I should have killed you for attacking me, Blondie."
He began to wrap it around her, his moves surprisingly gentle. He is warm...that or I am as cold as death.
A chuckle flowed her thought. Both, Blondie. You know, being a vampire doesn't necessarily mean you have to be cold.
Ino's eyes widened in surprise. I guess I'm too tired to keep my barrier's up. "So why didn't you? Kill me I mean..." She winched a bit when his thumb accidentally brushed the tender wound flesh.
"Hmph...I have my orders." He ripped the gauze with his claws, carefully tucking the loose end. "Integra wants to see you."
"Yeah. Oh, and, Alucard! Sorry for confusing you with Shikamaru..." She didn't dare to turn around, not wanting the vampire to see the blush on her cheeks. However, there was no answer, so Ino decided to see what was the vampire doing. He's better not look through my drawers!
"Alucard?" The room was empty, no sign of the No Life King. Slowly but surely, anger began to accumulate. "ALUCARD YOU BASTARD!!!" naturally, pain followed. "Oww, I'm gonna get you for letting me talk all alone like a lunatic!"
Hidden into the shadows, the said vampire chuckled. Sometimes Blondie, you act like a child.
A/N: This is it! i hope you liked it!
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Kisses,
Ity