Loves Wish

Third Chapter to Loves Soft Kiss

It was a week before Sai and Sakura's wedding. Both had decided when they were sixteen that they wanted to marry each other. And five years later, they would be able to go through with the promise they made each other. The village was alive with chatter at the news. Most people believed that they were perfect for each other. There was always the few who didn't believe it would last. The new Hokage, Naruto, gave them his full support every time he saw them. His wife, Hinata, (=^^=) bowed to them and congratulated them every now and again. Sai and Sakura tried to be as polite as possible to everyone. News of the wedding had even reached surrounding villages, including the Sound. Sasuke's anger at Sai had grown over the years, and had reached its boiling point when he heard about the wedding. If he wanted his cherry blossom, he would have to move soon. He had spent weeks planning on what course of action to take and had simply decided to kidnap her when she was alone. The only problem would be getting in and out of the Leaf village. But he would deal with that when the time came. For now, he gathered his weapons and left for the Leaf.

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Sai and Sakura had spent the entire Thursday afternoon together. Both had went shopping for each other. They kept joking about what they got each other as they headed to the dress shop to pick up Sakura's dress. Sai was disappointed when he learned he wouldn't be able to look at it until the actually wedding day. Sakura giggled at his disappointed express. He had become very fluent in feelings and how to express them. Many people had noticed the change in him and praised Sakura for the work she had done. Sakura would just politely say it was nothing and would give a quick kiss on the cheek. Sai didn't mind how the villagers talked about him. He was used to it when they first saw him when he was fifteen. It had hurt when he first realized what it was, but Sakura had made him feel better. She had even helped him gain several friends including Ino, Shikamru, Neji, Ten Ten, and Lee. The others were still trying to get used to him.

Little did they know, though, when Sai was making friends and excepting the way people treated him, someone had been watching him and his fiancé. He had watched how Sai supported Ino marrying Choji, Shikamru dating Temari, and Lee even being brave enough to date the Kazekage, Garra. (Sorry, I just love that couple!)

Sakura had been Hinata's maid-of-honor when she married Naruto. (Sai had been his best man). The pink haired kunochi also placed a job at the hospital as one of the top nurses. When Tsuande passed away and her will read, Sakura was to inherit all her belongings, which included a mansion sized house by the east wall of the village. Sakura had moved in soon after the funeral, with Sai soon to follow. Their relationship only grew stronger as the years of pain, joy, sorrow, and love passed by them. The entire time, Sasuke had been watching.

He would curse them each time something good happen to strengthen their relationship. He had been gone weeks at a time from the Sound for the soul mission of watching them. And now, only a week from the day they would join each other forever, Sasuke was ready to claim what he thought was rightfully his.

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As midnight approached, Sai and Sakura had finally made it home both were laughing at each other for not wanted their love to see what they were going to wear to their wedding. Sai have Sakura a hug and goodnight kiss and departed to his room, while Sakura headed to hers. The showers sounded soon as Sai stepped into the warm heaven of the water. Sakura was contemplating flushing the toilet on him when an arm wrapped around her waist. She let lose a scream heard through entire house as everything around her went dark. Sai heard the scream and jumped out of the shower, clothes forgotten. He dashed to Sakura's room, kicked the door in, and was faced with an empty room. The window opposite him was opened, curtains floating in the breeze, taunting him. He rushed to the window, panic beginning to set in. No one was there.

"Sakura!" Sai's voice rang out. It recoiled off the trees and came back to him. No answer came back in reply He turned back to the room and searched every crack, every space that moved. Nothing. In vain, he searched his house. It struck him hard that she wasn't there. While slipping his clothes on (a baggy blue t-shirt and baggy jeans) he jogged towards Naruto's house. The Hokage had been asleep only an hour when Sai began to beat on his door. Hinata, always wanting to be polite, answered the door so her husband could sleep. Sai insisted on talking to Naruto. The groggy fox boy barely registered who the man was until he shouted that Sakura was missing. The Hokage's face was a mixture of feelings as he rang the alarm for the Jounin and Chunnin of the village to assemble at his house.

"Shinobi of the Hidden Leaf!" Naruto's voice rang out silencing the ninja in front of him. "One of our own is missing! Sakura Haruno was discovered to have disappeared from her house only thirty minutes ago. Kakashi, I want you and your dogs to investigate the house. Iruka, Neji, and Shino will investigate the wall to the east of the house and all the surroundings. Hinata, Lee, Kiba, and I will search for clues outside the gate. Kakashi, if your dogs pick up something, use the communicator to contact Gai. He will join you on the search if the dogs find a scent. Now GO!"

Shinobi dashed off on the assignment, each one determined to find the missing medical kunochi. Sai watched as his friends and colleagues used all their talents to search for any clues left behind. Naruto, now dressed in an ANBU Black Ops outfit along with Hinata, patted him on the shoulder as they headed for their area. Sai sighed. He blamed himself for this. He should have never left her alone. He should have waited for her to go to sleep and then have gotten a shower. Sai watched blurs jump over the wall. An idea struck him in the head. He could use his ink beasts to search for Sakura. He had trained himself to use them as a second eyes of sorts. What they saw he saw. Wasting no time, he drew a single beast.

"Beast mimicry! Sight of the beast nin jutsu!" Sai yelled, forming the sign of the tiger. Instantly he could see out of the eyes of the ink beast before him. "Beast." he looked directly at it, or at himself, however you want to see it. "Find Sakura Haruno." the to their house and picked up her scent. It was gone in a flash as one of Kakashi's dogs beast nodded and took off. Sai concentrated on every image he received. The beast first went howled.

His dogs are to slow. The beast can travel much faster. Sai continued to focus on the images as the thoughts crossed his mind. I should have done this to begin with.

Tress blurred by now. The was beast had just entered the forest and headed south, the way towards the Sand Village. As the running of the beast continued, Sai continued to concentrate on his jutsu. He watched every tree, every hole, every piece of dirt in his sight. Suddenly, the beast turned west. Sai had never been that way. He believed that that way headed towards the Great Naruto Bridge. Why would it be headed there?

Suddenly, everything went black. Sai blinked a few times as the Naruto's house came back into view. He had run out of chakra.

"Damn it." he hissed under his breath. The beast probably had disappeared by then, so there would be no use in trying to track it back down. Sai had to decide what to do now. He could go to the last spot he had seen the beast look at, or he could wait for Kakashi and Gai to follow the dogs to the place where Sakura was at. But the way the dogs seemed to be going was different from where the beast had gone. It must had been a trap set specifically for the dogs. Sai paced back and forth. He needed to find his love. He felt lost without her. He sat down and sob as he heard the baying of the dogs fade away.

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Darkness again. But this time it was different. It was natural darkness. The one you feel surround you at night as you sleep.

Sakura could feel the darkness in her head. She yawned as she opened her eyes. She was expecting herself to be at home in bed, Sai sitting in a chair nearby dozing. What met her almost stopped her heart. She was in a room lit only by a few candles. She was laying on a low lying cot set in one corner, and a table sat beside it. The only other thing she could see was a door opposite her cot. She stood up, stumbling. Her vision blurred as she took unsteady steps forwards. She reached the door after a minute of stumbling around. She pulled on the handle only to find out it was locked. Panic filled her to her bones. She continued to tug on the door.

"Calm down." she breathed in and out. Sakura sat down and began to meditate. Slowly, she calmed her nerves down. She stood up, filling her right hand with chakra. If she couldn't pull it open, she would knock it down. To her dismay, she could only muster enough chakra to make a dent in the door.

"What the hell?" she muttered, staring at her hand. Why couldn't she gather all her chakra. Normally she would have been able to demolish any door. What made this situation any different? Her question was soon answered as the door made a click sound. The young kunochi jumped back, prepared to fight. A raven haired boy close to her age stepped in.

"Sasuke." Sakura gasped. Indeed, it was Sasuke Uchiha. He looked almost the same as all those years ago. The only difference, he now wore a black shirt and pants under a blue cloak. He had tied his sword on his side.

"Hello cherry blossom." he smiled a gentle caring smile. His eyes remained stone cold however.

"Where am I? What have you done!?" Sakura's voice raised an octave as she started shouting questions. "Why did you bring me here!?!?"

"Calm down." Sasuke slightly snapped. "You'll find out why your here soon. I wont tell you where you are. And I've done nothing."

"I want to know now!" Sakura almost roared with anger.

"Be quiet!" Sasuke yelled back. Sakura squeaked as she flinched, exposing her back. "I said you'll find out soon." he glared at her as she glared daggers at him. Sasuke turned and left the room, locking the door on his way out. Sakura crawled to the bed and sobbed. She wanted her fiancé terribly. She wondered where he was now.

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Sai was running through the forest at top speed. He was nothing but a blur, even to the eye of a trained ninja. He had already passed the place where his ink demon died, but he had summoned another one to follow. They were headed north now. Sai kept wondering who could have taken his cherry blossom. He soon found out as he headed into the heart of the Sound village.

"Sasuke." the name was poison on his lips. He hated the Uchiha with a passion. The man who had tried taken Sakura five years ago must have taken her this time. Anger lined Sai's face as he moved faster. He had to get to Sakura, no matter the costs. The ink beast suddenly smashed into a rock. Sai barely stopped himself from having the same fate.

"Damn." he hiccupped. "This must be the entrance, but how do I get in?"

"You don't." came a sinister snarl from behind him. Before he could turn around, Sai was stabbed in the neck with a hypodermic needle. He passed out even before he hit the ground.

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It seemed that Sakura had been in her room for hours. But in truth, it had only been half an hour before Sasuke came back. He walked in suddenly with something slung over his shoulder.

"Sasuke, is…is that…." Sakura put her hand to her mouth in horror. Sasuke through the bundle down at her feet. It was Sai.

"Yup. You get to see him before his execution." Sasuke smiled sweetly down at her as she shook Sai.

"Execution!? Are you mad! You can't kill him!" tears filled Sakura's eyes. "Please Sasuke, don't kill him."

"Mmmmmm…why?"

"Because…because I'm pregnant with his child!"

Sasuke took a step back in shock. He had never expected this.

"You lie!" Sasuke screamed at her. "You're just trying to get me to feel bad for you so I'll let you go!"

Sakura stood to face him.

"Believe what you want." she hissed. "but why do you think I turned my back towards you instead of keeping my ground? I'm not afraid of you."

Sasuke's eyes flared with rage, but left before his anger could control him. Sakura turned back to Sai. He had been wrapped in plastic wrap, cutting his breath short. Sakura clawed at the plastic and cleared it from around his nose. Sai coughed, but his eyes didn't open. As Sakura cleared more plastic off his body, Sai finally opened his eyes.

'Sa…Sakura…." Sai's body was racked in coughs.

"Sai…don't talk." Sakura's eyes filled with tears. "But I'm glad you're ok."

"Sakura, I'm sorry.." Sai wheezed. "I…I failed to protect you…I'm so sorry…" Sai turned his head towards her. Sakura had cleared all the plastic off of him. "You must…be so angry…at me."

"No Sai." Sakura pulled Sai's head onto her lap. "I could never hate you. I love you."

Sai smiled weakly, but it faltered.

"Are…are you really pregnant?"

"Yes. I am."