A/N: I've been watching a lot of Hellsing lately, and a crazy idea came into my head to do a fanfiction that included both vampires and ninja. So, this came out, it's a Naruto X Hellsing crossover with Ino as the main female character.

It's just a project, I have no idea if I'll continue, since I also have to write for "Road of no return" but for the moment it sounded like a good idea. If you guys like the story, I'll try and continue it.

Until then, I present you the prologue!

This chapter has been revised by my dear Beta snipa. Thanks again for beta-ing my story!!!

War is a messy business. A battle between two sides, littered with casualties and the anguished cries of the survivors. The war like life that Yamanaka Ino lived in had taken a lot from her and given too little in return.

After Naruto had defeated all six bodies of Pein, the survivors of Konoha thought they had found victory. For a whole year the civilians and shinobi worked side by side to rebuild the flourishing town and with help and resources from Suna they had managed to rise from their own dust like a mighty phoenix bird. For a whole year, the civilians and shinobi worked side by side to rebuild the nearly destroyed town, and, with help and resources from Suna, they had managed to rise from their own...

Tsunade resigned from Hokage duty, proudly giving the hat and robe to Naruto though she remained at his side to aid and support him in this time of crisis. Her time had passed, and now a new generation of brilliant shinobi and rulers had risen from the dust of war. Konoha was still regaining it's forces, but otherwise back and holding strong.

However, the loss of loved ones was irreplaceable. Chougi lost his father, Naruto and Sakura had lost Kakashi. Tsunade still mourned after Shizune, and many others felt the loss of loved ones.

Naruto's first demand as a Hokage was to have better trained shinobi. For Konoha to be strong, every part of Konoha must be strong. Thus, all of rookie nine trained hard, learned well and went on as many missions as possible. With the village being in a crisis, they were all advanced to the rank of jounin, special jounin and some, like Neji even became ANBU captains.

Lack of personnel demanded more and more solo missions, and the old teams were soon taken apart. None of them complained; They had all grown up and understood the importance of it all.

Sakura had surpassed her mentor and had now become ANBU captain next to Neji and Sai. Shino, Tenten and Lee were their respective lieutenants.

Shikamaru was the head tactician and practically Naruto's shadow as they continuously made plans for the safety of the village.

Chougi became a jounin sensei and was currently enjoying it, plus the kids seemed to like him.

Kiba and Hinata were heads of the tracking department; Naruto refused to make Kiba a hunter nin since he was way to loud and obvious. Although he protested a little, the Inuzuka accepted his job with pride, and together with the Hyuuga heiress, they made a pretty good team.

Sasuke never returned, and Naruto never ceased to hope that one day, his best friend would see his mistake and come back home. After all these years he was still ready to welcome him with his arms opened.

As for Tsunade, she had taken a new apprentice, the now head of the medical department and special jounin Yamanaka Ino.

This was almost the third year since Naruto had defeated Pein and the events caused the giggly, girly, and flirty little Ino to grow up into a responsible, serious and dependable shinobi.

After being trained intensively for almost two years by Tsunade, Ino improved her medical skills considerably, rising far above the average medics in the hospital. Of course, she hadn't surpassed Tsunade like her friend Sakura did, but she was proud of herself for being nearly at the same level.

Her fighting skills were better. Instead of learning how to crack boulders and shatter the earth with inhuman strength, Ino opted for another usage of chakra. After many hours of study and practice under the careful guidance of Tsunade, she managed to achieve the same technique as Kabuto had. The scalpel like chakra could cut through anything from flesh to bone, wood, iron, anything. Indeed, it took and year and a half to learn it, but it was worth it.

In addition to that, Ino spent a whole week begging to Hinata to train with her and teach her a few moves of the gentle fist. She didn't see pressure points, nor had the Byakugan, but she thought it would fit better with her new fighting style.

All in all Ino was now a fine young woman at the age of eighteen, a great medic and a proud shinobi of Konoha.

It all seemed fine, everything seemed to go toward a brighter side, until Naruto got an urgent message from Gaara.

One of his informants had found out that Akatsuki was not destroyed, on the contrary, and was planning a horrific revenge on Konoha. Apparently, among the organization's top members was non other than Uchiha Sasuke.

Naruto was devastated at this news and as his eyes filled with the anger of betrayal. He declared war to Akatsuki once more.

And it roared, the battle roared as once more beloved ones were lost.

First Chougi, whom died in Ino's very arms as she continuously pumped chakra in his torn kidneys.

Soon Kiba followed, dying as he tried to protect Hinata whom he had secretly loved. His sacrifice was not in vain as the pain of loosing her teammate gave Hinata the strength to take two Akatsuki members down with her.

Shikamaru's strategies were being blocked by Akatsuki's own plans, and the Nara genius clawed at his mind to find new ones.

Chaos was everywhere and on the battlefield. Ino found herself fighting side by side with her childhood friend.

Sakura's short, pink hair billowed in the wind as she gave a curt nod to Ino. The blond kunoichi returned the gesture, her long ponytail jumping slightly with the motion.

Her hairdo was similar to her childhood's style, allowing her a clear vision of the enemy. "Sakura..." the said pink haired ANBU captain looked at her with a questioning look. "Let's kick some ass, make shishou proud!" She saw the wide grin that spread on Sakura's face and knew that her face mirrored it.

"Hell yeah!" that was Sakura's last words before she plunged into the enemy lines, Ino just a blink behind her.

What they both did could have been called a carnage. Crushed bones, splattered guts and a sea of blood remained in the kunoichi's path and at the end, when their strength was running low, all that remained were two women, their hair and clothes painted crimson, hands full of enemy blood and satisfied smiles on their lips.

"Great job, Bilboard brow!"

"I'll say, you too, Ino-pig! Ino?..." for a moment, Sakura didn't understand why Ino's confident eyes were suddenly filled with fear, but she did get it when a long blade passed through her and the voice she always dreamed about whispered in her ear. "I'm sorry, Sakura."

Pain flashed through her very soul as Ino watched her best friend being slain by the man she loved all her life, her teammate, Sasuke. She had lost her, lost the one she came to consider as a sister, the one she looked up to. She lost Sakura to the bloody hands of Sasuke.

"TRAITOR!!!"

She charged toward him with all her might, blinded by the pain of loss, thoughts clouded by anger, Ino just stopped thinking. Her ming screamed one thing only: Kill.

She was close, so close, and yet the traitor did not move. She saw him smile with wickedness and only then did her eyes widened at the feel of chakra around her. I was careless, there's someone else here.

However, it was too late. The jutsu had taken effect and now she felt like the void itself was swallowing her whole. Then, she blacked out.

Out of the shadows, a silhouette with an orange mask walked toward the Uchiha.

"I could have taken care of her myself," growled Sasuke.

"You have better things to do, more important. Aren't you going to avenge your brother and the life he lead? Isn't that your goal anymore?"

"I will fulfill that goal." he paused for a moment, then curiosity took over. "Where did you send her?"

"To another dimension. She's as good as dead."

A/N: this is it! the prologue for the story. Tell me what you think about it and I'll try to post the second chapter as soon as possible, it's half way done anyway:P

Read and review!!!

Kisses,

Ity