Heads Will Roll
Sakura was seething. Everybody in her pathway in the street quickly jumped out of the way for fear of mortal harm. Who does this now in this day and age? Who the hell gets an arranged marriage at eighteen? And the worst part of it is that it had to be to baka Sasuke! That wasn't even the worst part of it all, and may all living life pay pity to Kizashi and Mebuki Haruno for having the nerve to have set up such a union when Sakura has explicitly told her parents for years, yes, years just what the hell entails lesbianism. But nooooooooo, it doesn't stop there, of course it doesn't.
The Harunos were a civilian clan that had a generational long merchant business that had always done well but within Sakura's lifetime had seemingly boomed. While her family was not an auspicious ninja clan or particularly known for their strength in body, they more than made up for that in the strength of their mind. Indeed, there were not many Haruno ninjas but the ones that were about had an interesting ability. Due to their unique mental ability to have an "inner" self, they were virtually impossible to interrogate for secrets which made great for reconnaissance missions. Along with this came their quick mental wit and while they generally had low chakra stores, they had a natural affinity for sharp chakra control. And so, Haruno shinobi had the role of the secret keeper in missions and anything told to them with confidentiality could be wiped from the secret teller with their wonderful chakra control and leave the secret with the sole Haruno.
Still, the ninja life is hard, dangerous and unpredictable and so most of the Haruno clan enjoyed their simple life as merchants. What Sakura had not known until recently was the peculiar boom in her family's business was due to a series of loans lent out to the Haruno clan from the Uchiha clan. In true conservative, crotchety fashion, the Uchiha had given out these loans with making back money in interest as a certain wandering in economics and stipulated and heir or first-born female to be promised to their family as a safe-guard from keeping the family from running away with the money. After all, the Uchiha were just as a curious about this "inner" self that kept those with the trait impervious to interrogation as any other country had been curious about the sharingan.
Sakura, however, had never realized that her parent's constant platitudes that her foray into experimenting with other girls would go away as a means of denial for her sexuality but a silent hope because she was meant for a very heterosexual relationship. Well, in her opinion, everybody could suck it because she wouldn't go near an Uchiha with a ten-foot pole. Many would say that holding onto an old rivalry since the age of twelve is immature and should be something that had shed off by now. The way Sakura saw it, if Kakashi-sensei has been able to keep up a rivalry with Gai-sensei until now and no one bats an eyelash about it then she should be able to give in to her bouts of competitiveness no matter how "unbecoming" it is of a lady. Therefore, baka-Sasuke can go ahead and eat dirt while she relishes smashing his head into the ground.
First, however, she would need to see about this arranged marriage that her dear mother and father had planned for her and give them a good piece of her mind.
