This will be my first multi-chaptered fanfiction, and it is Sakura/Sasuke and maybe other various couples. I hope you enjoy it and please tell me how I can improve. This chapter is only short because it is the beginning, future chapters will be MUCH longer. Please review.
The last thing Sakura expected was to smell the rusty scent of blood.
There was only one way for this to happen, and the answer lay right in front of her eyes.
Assassination, Sakura thought as she absorbed the sight. It couldn't be happening, not here and not now. She wasn't ready for the repercussions, the consequences of what might come of this for her. But she didn't matter. What mattered were her parents, her beautiful caring parents, who had always put up with her even as the king and queen. She was never the most prestigious daughter, always slacking off but they loved her all the same. But the question was, why now? Why now when they were negotiating peace terms with the Water Kingdom? Could it have been treason? It was most likely, but they'd been on peaceful terms with everyone in the kingdom.
The situation was full of foul play, as it was obvious.
"Guards, answer me!" There was no answer. Sakura spun around to their quarters. Surely, they would be there and they would be fine. They would have been hidden. Sakura arrived after another flight of steps; She threw the door open and her shriek echoed through the silence of the desolate courtyard. The blast of air whipped her as she ignored the welcome air. Hurrying, she swung the doors of the guard's quarter.
Smears of crimson decorated the walls of the quarters and the rotting odor of rotting corpses stuck in her nose. Bodies thrown to the corner like rag dolls, having many holes and blood gushing out from all sides. She couldn't take it. Small groans came from deeper inside the quarters, as Sakura put her focus into walking. She needed, to find the source of the noise, as it grow louder and louder each step she took.
"Princess…" Sakura eyes narrowed at the closest door and swung it open to find a fallen guard and quickly went to his side.
"Tell me, what happened to my parents? What happened here while I was gone?" Sakura asked, but the guard merely blinked in response.
"Guard?" Sakura shook his body. I have to know, I have to know who did this, Sakura then put her hands on him only to be pushed back as the man let out short, convulsed, breaths in quick succession.
"P-Princess…Snake…" The man's form tensed to have his mouth is agape to the ceiling.
"What does that mean Guard? Speak to me! Tell me who did this!" Sakura sat there with bloodied hands, and squeezed her eyes. She wouldn't cry. She definitely wouldn't cry.