Author's Notes:

Choco:

Okay, here's one of my NejiSaku fanfic, I hope you guys enjoy it and I am really sorry if there are some grammatical errors, we'll try to fix that as soon as possible. Anyway, I hope you all enjoy this story, I can't wait to hear from you!

Thanks, minna-san! Have a nice day!

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-yumi-yumi-yumi-yumi-

Prologue

Tsunade tapped her fingers on the desk rapidly, she was getting annoyed and most of all, she hated being forced to wait. Hyuuga Hiashi seemed to be feeling the same way though with his mask, it wasn't very obvious. The only other person who was there was her daughter-like student, Shizune with her pet pig TonTon, and they didn't seem bothered by the tardiness of the Council.

"If they really do not arrive within ten minutes, I will demolish the council, that's a promise." She growled, her voice echoing in the near empty room. Hiashi seemed unfazed by the deadly aura emitting from her, but Shizune was obviously worried.

"I doubt that you have to resort to such means, Tsunade-san. The council members have arrived and they seem unaware of the fact that they have kept us waiting for a long time, and I have better things to do." Hiashi stated, his expression unchanging but irritation building up in his voice by the second.

Tsunade glared pointedly at the council members who took their seats, one of them had a scroll in her hands, it was important as the seal had never been broken, or maybe they just hadn't had the guts to open it.

"Sorry to keep all of you waiting, we will start the meeting." Tsunade snorted slightly as she tapped her hands on the desk again waiting for their explanation and agendas for the day. However, to her and Hiashi's complete astonishment, they began to bicker about who should open the scroll and who should tell the news. Veins popped on Tsunade's forehead and Shizune backed away a few steps while the current Hyuuga head moved to the side gracefully as Tsunade landed her palm on the desk causing it to topple over and splinter to pieces.

"Well? Why won't you old geezers just get straight to the point as to why you called us here? We do not have the time of the world here as you know, unlike some who I personally know." Saying this, she gave each one of them a glare causing silence to erupt and cause a deafening silence.

"Okay then, we are here to inform you that the scroll we are holding is a letter or rather an agreement between our village to the Tsukiyomi kingdom before the main house were indisposed. As you all knew, 16 years ago, the Tsukiyomi kingdom and Konohagakure were allies and good friends as well, however, since there were special circumstances surrounding the main house, all except for one was destroyed by the neighboring villages who feared their abilities." Tsunade raised an eyebrow and gave them a so-what-now look or rather glare that sent a clear message to them. Hiashi cleared his throat to catch their attention before pointing out something to them.

"If this is a treaty between two kingdoms, I do not see the relevance of my attendance here then." Miyuki, the youngest of the council members smirked, it seemed that the Hyuuga head still have much to learn.

"Ah, but there is, you see, their clan is not just known for their intelligence, but also for their abilities to feel any incoming danger looming upon them. Takumi-sama had foreseen it and since he and your brother were great friends, they made a pact, which we agreed on as well." Hiashi frowned and so did Tsunade, she wasn't aware of that nor had she been told about the connection of Konoha to the Tsukiyomi kingdom.

"And what was this pact about?" Miyuki smirked, which for a sixty seven year old woman wasn't so bad at all.

"In exchange for protection and refuge for the last main bloodline and heiress, the pact was to be secured by an arranged marriage. The Uchiha clan didn't agree on having an arranged marriage as they didn't knew who they were dealing with, The Yamanaka clan had no male offspring, the Nara clan were their cousins and so it is a no-no, the Akimichi clan wouldn't be a great combination, the Inuzuka clan was not in great terms with the then-current Hokage and so they disapproved. The only one left was..."

"Our clan, the Hyuuga clan." Hiashi finished for Miyuki who smirked triumphantly as they were starting to understand things.

"I see, so you mean to say that that scroll holds the name of the child and the contract signed by the two clan heads, is that right?" Tsunade asked, her temper seemingly under control once again.

"Yes, in a way that is so." Tsunade noticed the frown that adorned the current head of the Hyuuga clan, he seemed to be in the dark about this pact.

"I do not remember agreeing to any pact about an arranged marriage, and as far as I am concerned, I do not have any male offspring." Tsunade suddenly realized who it was that signed the treaty.

"That is right, but your brother Hizashi had a son, didn't he?" Hiashi seemed to realize it as well but if he was shocked, his stoic face made it impossible to decipher what he was currently feeling.

"So you mean that my brother had agreed on an arranged marriage between his son and that of the daughter of this Takumi-persona." Hiashi asked, trying to clear things up.

"No, he didn't want to bind his son anymore than he had, but we pressured him into doing it. He was friends with Takumi-sama but both had no choice in the matter. It was either the Hyuuga clan be destroyed or the village of Konoha be spared from any oncoming onslaught." Miyuki explained, her eyes closed as if she was trying to remember the events that had happened before.

"I see, but how did the Hyuuga's agreement spare Konoha from the onslaught of the other villages then?" Tsunade asked, her eyes wandering around the faces as they looked down, ashamed to talk or just plain scared.

"That is something we do not talk about." Tsunade narrowed her eyes but enough was said and done besides, she could probably get a bottle of sake after this meeting.

"Very well then, who is this girl you are referring to?" She asked, her tone eager to get away from the place as son as possible, but the answer caught both of them off guard, and Tsunade nearly choked in her own saliva.

"Why I thought you knew? She's your student Tsunade-san, how can you not notice it?" Tsunade frowned and stared at Shizune, whose eyes widened at what her sensei's eyes were suggesting.

"I-I-t's not me Shishou, I swear!" Shizune said, clutching the pig closer to her as if a shield from any sort of suspicions. Miyuki snorted as she waited for the answer to sink in the Hokage's mind.

"You don't mean her, do you?" Hiashi asked, his voice a bit strained and laced with disbelief.

"Yes, I meant her... Haruno Sakura is the last living Haruno, and she is the one engaged to Neji Hyuuga." Tsunade noticed the smirk on the older woman's lips as the tension in the air thickened. Tsunade cursed while Hiashi contemplated on the idea, as if it was as easy as deciding which cake to eat, and that was had enough.

"When will we tell them?"

"On her seventeenth namesake." Tsunade felt regret for the first time, she might have to pay a lot after the announcement and she hoped that everything would go smoothly lest they want trouble. Now she was getting stressed out, it was just plain annoying to deal with political issues, and much to her chagrin, they were discussing one complicated political issue right now.

"Darn it!" She muttered in a very hushed voice that she was unheard by everyone. Sakura's birthday was tomorrow, now how in the world she will that girl about it without having a wrecked building?