Hey guys :3 I have a new story for you! I know I know I'm still working on Innocent Face, Deadly Game but this one has been bugging me for weeks! So enjoy the prologue of Bloodied Blossoms and Black dragons!

-Reiko

Pink locks flew out behind the young princess as she rode her brown and white mare. Her parents would have most likely lectured her on how a 'Princess does not wear pants' but right now all Sakura could think about on how free the forest was. Of course she knew she would have to slip that blue dress on again once she was back in the castle stables. It was what a princess like her did every time she went out. Sakura, being the tom-boy she was, planned to make it a rule that woman could wear pants when she was Queen. Then she could sit for hours upon the throne, like her parents and not look as uncomfortable.
She looked behind her and saw her two best friends bickering about something again. The two boys always knew how to fight about something. Naruto and Sasuke, her boys as she liked to call them, seemed not to notice as Sakura slowed down to hear their conversation. This time it was about how Sakura could wear a dress or not. Rolling her eyes at the irony of their conversation colliding with her thoughts she cleared her throat and the Knights-in-Training both focused on her at the same time ceasing their bickering.
"Do you two ever shut up?" Sakura asked, smirking at the pout Sasuke gave her and the whine that came from Naruto.
"Awe, come on Sakura-chan! We were only playin' around!" Her blonde friend spoke first, his voice whiny but his brilliant blue eyes sparkled in humour.
"Don't make me hit you Naruto." Sakura chuckled and looked back ahead of her once again. This time Sasuke spoke up.
"Sakura, where are you taking us?" He asked. He was the most protective out of the two, well the one who showed it the most. Behind his calm, almost apathetic outlook on life, Sakura knew that there was one hell of a man just waiting for the boy to grow-up. Even at ten Sakura could see her future with him would be connected strongly by his willingness to protect her now. Naruto on the other hand was sort of like the jester, but he still knew how to prove himself.
"To the lake for a picnic I thought that we all could take a day off from training." Sakura smiled as she twirled a strand of hair in between her fingers. It was true though. Sakura would study books and etiquette from waking till lunch, where then she took on combat and strategy training, joining the boys. If she had her way, Sakura would have had combat training all day. She loved the sword and loved how she felt when she wielded it. Her father was especially proud of her when it came down to that. Though her mother was proud of her too, the way Sakura took on the responsibilities that came with being the future Queen of the Fire Country. Really, they never had a day off. On days, mostly weekends, Sakura visited her Aunt in the hospital where she learned about healing and the Knights-in-Training learned how to read and write. Sakura liked to learn about medicine, and hoped she could one day rule a kingdom and help heal it too.
Naruto pulled her out of her thoughts when he saw the lake come into view. "Finally! We can go cool off before we eat right Sakura?" He asked her and the pinkette giggled, nodding in response. Naruto cheered and urged his horse to go faster towards the lake leaving Sasuke and Sakura behind.
"I don't know how he can be a Knight." Sasuke said with a sigh. Sakura looked over at him and smiled. She remembered on the night his family was killed by his own brother three years ago, and how Naruto took him to live with them at the castle as his brother since Naruto's family were killed in a raid ten years ago. Sakura always wondered if he wanted revenge. If he did, he never voiced it in front of her. His voice broke her reverie quickly before she could think more on it. "Sakura?"
"Hm?" Said person hadn't realized they had reached the lake until she looked up and smiled seeing Sasuke already off his horse and offering a hand to help her off of her own. Taking it, she hopped down and began to unpack their lunch, when a large splash had her dripping wet. Her eyebrow twitched as she turned to see two innocent faces. One whistling, the other giving a smirk to hid laughter. When she spoke her voice was filled with fake venom and more humour. "I will destroy both of you. Your first Sasuke-kun."
Laughter erupted from the three kids as Sakura tackled them, and their combat instructor watched with amusement. Kakashi watched them as he thought about their futures together. Sakura, Queen. Sasuke, her arranged-husband. And Naruto, Head Captain of the Knights of Konoha, just like his father before him. It had all been planned ten years ago.
He only wished the rising tide of the enemy would turn it's path away from the three young kids.