Title: A Pleasant Tragedy

Authors: Rejected-Devil and xEnchantedMarshmallowx

Disclaimer: WE DO NOT OWN NARUTO IN ANY WAY!

A dark figure appeared from the shadows, his glowing yellow eyes staring down at the test subject that lay unconscious on the cold operating table.

He held up a needle, and with and evil chuckle, he stuck it into the unconscious test subject.

It's eyes immediately opened, and it began to squirm in pain. His eyes began to glow red. As red as Hell itself, and red-orange chakra began to bubble around his body.

The test subject let out a demonic roar as the mysterious figure chuckled saying, "The experiment was a success."

Test tubes suddenly began to break all around the room, as red-orange chakra started to lash in every direction, pushing the dark figure back into the shadows.

"No, this isn't supposed to happen!" he yelled.

Another demonic roar screeched from the test subject, as the lab exploded in a white flash, sending the test subject into the dark forest.

The attempt to fuse the DNA from the Kyuubi, into the make subject was not a success. The experiment had failed.


"Sakura, you do know that this wedding is to bring peace to the Haruno and the Hyuga clans," he spoke in a blank tone.

She turned to face him.

"Yes Neji-san, I do know that," she replied with an emotionless expression. "Now if you'd excuse me, I have and important matter to attend to."

Neji nodded his approval, and she gave a curt bow before walking over the bridge, towards the main street in Konoha.

Neji took one last, sad glance at Sakura before he turned around and started to walk toward the Hyuga complex.

"Sakura! You're late!" Ino screeched. She had made this plan for all her girlfriends to get together to just have fun, and do a little shopping, because the village's festival was around.

Sakura gave Ino a sour look, as she turned to see Tenten smiling at her.

"H-hey, Tenten," she said in a sad tone.

"Hey, Sakura. It's okay. Really," Tenten said to the pinkette.

Sakura gave a weak smile as the girls walked toward a dumpling stand. They all ordered their preferred order of dumplings. The stand owner handed them their orders.

Ino ate a dumpling off of the stick as she looked at the bubblegum haired kunoichi.

"So… Sakura… Why are you getting married to Neji?" she asked, her mouth full of food.

Sakura looked at her dumplings, then at Ino.

"I…"her voice trailed off as she spotted Neji out of the corner of her eye. He was walking down the street.

"It's a peace treaty between our clans," she spoke quietly while eating a dumpling.

Tenten suddenly made a small gasping sound in response to the light brush on her right arm and looked to see who was there.

To her dismay, it was Neji. He had gotten hungry and decided to eat some dumplings.

Neji looked at her and smiled. She blushed and returned the smile.

Sakura watched this and smiled to herself. She felt bad for Tenten. Tenten has had the biggest crush on Neji for quite a while. And now he's marrying her best friend. Sakura didn't even really like neji more than a training buddy.

Sakura's parents were forcing her to go through with the wedding. They just wanted her to marry a nice gentleman like Neji, so when the peace treaty was brought up, they decided on making it marriage that held the clans together.

Neji ordered his dumplings, as he looked over at Tenten again. He smiled at her one more time as the stand owner gave him his order.

Tenten's cheeks were bright red by the time Neji took a bite of his dumplings. She smiled to herself as she watched him walk away.


Another surge of pain ran through his body, as he lay on the cold, damp forest floor. He let out a loud roar, as he got up and started to attack nearby trees.


Sakura looked up at the night sky as she sighed to herself while thinking, "I can't go through with this wedding."

By now, the whole village knew of the Haruno-Hyuga wedding set to take place in a week.

Sakura sighed once more and continued to walk home.

When Sakura reached her home, she found Hiashi, Neji's uncle, waiting at her front door.

"Sakura," Hiashi said. "We need to finish the arrangements for the wedding."

She looked up at the night sky again, wondering why the leader of the Hyuga clan wanted to plan for a wedding this late at night. She looked at Hiashi and nodded, and followed him to the Hyuga complex.


He collapsed to the ground, exhausted and in pain. The DNA from the Kyuubi was trying to take over his body, but