Royal relationships

Another new story! Hope you like it! This time we went back in history, to around the Middle Ages. Oh and, for some people who hadn't noticed, the Drama series have come to an end. We just forgot to put 'The End' in it.

Chapter 1:

A knock on the door was being heard.

"Sasuke, we have to go." Uchiha Itachi's voice, the crown prince, could be heard through the door. "They're here."

Some ruffling was heard from the room and then the door opened, revealing the young prince, Uchiha Sasuke, dressed in black and red. He looked at his older brother and then walked past him without saying anything.

Itachi looked at his brother walking away, and then, with a heavy sigh, followed him. He wouldn't get into a discussion, right before the arrival of the Royal Hyuuga family. They walked down the stairs of their castle, and outside, towards the gardens.

Sasuke paraded to his parents, the king and queen of their land and stood beside them, waiting for the new arrivals to come. Among them, would be Sasuke's fiancée. Hyuuga Hinata, a princess from high royalty.

Itachi stood beside his father, as the crown prince should do. His golden crown stood proudly on top of his head, and he was wearing black and red as well. His mother, Uchiha Mikoto, smiled at him. She was dressed in a beautiful red dress. She was one of the most pretty women in the country. The king, Uchiha Fugaku, was a strong and proud man. But bitter and hard. He didn't smile, he didn't even look at his children. He just waited for the Hyuuga's to arrive.

Sasuke, being almost an exact copy of his father's behaviour, just stood there too. After not a long while of waiting, the Hyuuga's finally arrived in a large carriage. Sasuke pulled his clothes right and checked his sword one more time and then waited for his fiancée to get out of the carriage.

Once the carriage stopped and a servant had opened the door, a large man with long brown hair and white eyes got out of the carriage. He walked towards the Uchiha family and gave a short bow. The Uchiha's did the same and the man waited.

"Hello Lord Hyuuga." Fugaku said, nodding to the man. "I welcome you at my land. Did your journey fare well?"

"It went well, thank you Lord Uchiha. I thank you for welcoming me into your land." The Hyuuga king spoke. At that moment, Sasuke saw someone else get out of the carriage.
A shy girl with dark blue hair and white eyes stepped out of the carriage, followed by a brown haired little girl, with white eyes too. The first girl was wearing a white dress, with a green cape. She stood next to the king, blushing. Her eyes were fixed on the ground.

"Good." Fugaku said. "This is fair Hinata, I presume?"

"Yes, you are correct. And this is my other daughter, Hanabi. I see your sons are very well educated." Lord Hyuuga said and nodded to both Sasuke and Itachi.

"Yes they are." Fugaku said. "Nice to meet the two of you, Hinata, Hanabi." At that moment another person came out of the carriage, wearing a brown tunic and white leggings, matched with brown boots. The same colour as his hair. He stood next to Hiashi now.

"Do you have a son, Hiashi?" Fugaku asked surprised, when the boy bowed.

Hiashi shook his head. "No I do not. This is my nephew, Neji. We had no family to look after him and since he is the prince, I brought him along. I hope this is not a difficulty." He said. Sasuke looked at the other prince and his eyes narrowed a little. He had never liked boys his age.

Neji looked at him too for a moment and then looked at Fugaku again, not being interested in Sasuke.

"It's nice to be here my lord." Neji said, bowing.

Fugaku nodded.

"And I welcome you, young prince." He said. "Perhaps my son Sasuke could lead you around here."

Sasuke shot a glare at his father but then turned to Neji and bowed a little.

"Very well." He said.

"I'm sorry Fugaku, but if I am not mistaken, are my Hinata and your son not supposed to spend their time together?" Hiashi asked.

"Of course, but we have to build up their relationship." Fugaku said. "So we can't let them be together the whole day, that would be too.. suffocating."

Hiashi nodded. "Of course. Very well then. If your son would be so kind as to lead my children and nephew to their rooms, then we can discuss the engagement." Hiashi said.

"Of course." Fugaku said. "You hear it Sasuke. Itachi, you go back to your study."

"Yes father." Itachi said, bowing his head, and departed.

Sasuke bowed his head too. "Excuse me." He said and then turned around, making sure the three newcomers would follow him.

Hinata, Hanabi and Neji turned to follow Sasuke now.

"Y-your land i-is beautiful, m-my prince." Hinata said, the first time she spoke after her arrival.

"Thank you. Princess." Sasuke said as he escorted them through the castle. He and princess Hinata were not allowed to speak yet, his father had told him. For now, he would just escort them to their rooms.

The servants of the princesses and the prince followed them, carrying their belongings with them. Hinata looked at Sasuke nodding. She understood. And she blushed.

Sasuke led them up the stairs, five of them to be exact and then stopped in front of a room. "Your room, princesses." Sasuke said and bowed at the two girls before him. He had to stay formal.

Hinata bowed too.

"T-Thank you m-my Prince." Hinata said, still blushing, while the servants went in to place the baggage of the princesses in. They had four servants with them, and Neji, who stayed behind now, only had one. He didn't carry a lot of stuff with him.

Hanabi nodded at Sasuke. "Thank you sir." She said polite.

"I hope it is to your liking. Please excuse me." Sasuke said and bowed once more before he started leading Neji to another room. Men and women had to be separated.

Neji followed Sasuke without saying anything. He just looked around a bit, placing everything he saw in his mind. He was a natural observer.

"I hope you do not mind. They placed your room on the other side of the castle." Sasuke spoke as he kept walking in front of Neji.

"It doesn't matter." Neji said in his calm voice. He actually did mind a bit, since he couldn't protect his cousins very well this way. He was very protective over them. He saw them as his own sisters.

"Good." Sasuke said and walked further. After a while he stopped in front of a large door. "Your room." He said and gave a small bow to Neji. He would never bow fully to another prince.

"Thank you." Neji said as he bowed too. "Funny that you won't bow as low as you did with my cousins." His servant went into the room now, while Neji looked at Sasuke with a slight smirk on his face.

Sasuke stared at Neji, eyes narrowing slightly. "Yes, well I have to be polite to them. She's my fiancée after all. You on the other hand, are lower in rank." Sasuke answered, not making it sound like he was offending Neji, but not denying he was either.

"You don't have to explain yourself, I only made a remark." Neji said, while his servant came out of the room.

"It's ready my lord." The servant said and bowed. Neji nodded to him and the servant departed. Neji turned to look at Sasuke again.

"Well I'm going to my room to change, I guess I'll see you later on this day." He said.

"I will be there shortly to pick you up for dinner." Sasuke said and bowed a little, still not as low as he did with others and then departed. He did not like that prince. Not one bit.

"Thank you." Neji said and then he only bowed with his head, just to tease the little prince, and then he walked into his room, smirking. The only way to deal with snobby princes was to tease them a little and then ignore them.

Sasuke let out a soft annoyed growl and then practically stormed through the castle. No servant would be save now that Sasuke was annoyed.

That evening, Sasuke was walking through the castle again. He was going to get the three Hyuuga's to join them at dinner, though he'd rather leave 'Prince' Neji in his room. He knocked on his fiancée's door and waited, while he regained composure.

After a few seconds the door opened and there stood Hinata, dressed in a light purple dress, what made her look truly beautiful. She blushed as she saw it was her fiance.

"Oh, h-hello Prince S-Sasuke." Hinata said. She didn't even dare to look him in the eye.

"Hello prince." Hanabi said, dressed in what looked like a smaller version of Hinata's dress. Sasuke bowed at both of them. "Good evening. I'm here to escort you to dinner." Sasuke said. Hinata looked really pretty. His father had made a good choice on that part.

Hinata nodded.

"T-that's very nice o-of you." She said, still blushing.

Sasuke offered his fiance his arm as he looked at her with a calm face. He would have to start acting like Hinata's fiance too. Hanabi giggled as she already walked out of the room. She wasn't all princess like, like Hinata was.

Hinata blushed once more as she accepted his arm, and started to walk with him. She gave Hanabi a stern look, and when she saw Sasuke looking at her she blushed once more, looking away.

"Don't get embarrassed princess." Sasuke said and smiled at her. On the inside though, he was debating whether or not he would just pass Neji's room and leave him there to starve. But that wouldn't be very prince like. And being prince like was obviously most important.

"I'm j-just a little s-shy my P-prince." Hinata said, smiling a bit.

Sasuke just simply smiled at her and then stopped in front of Neji's door. Now, would he knock? He could just run away with the two princesses and pretend he 'forgot' about Neji. A knock got him out of his thoughts. Hanabi was happily knocking on the door. Little brat, there went his plan. Now he 'had' to bring Neji along.

After a few seconds the door opened and Neji appeared in the doorway.

"Hey Hanabi." He said, smiling at her. He then looked at Sasuke. "Hello Prince." He nodded at him, giving him a small bow again.

Sasuke returned the bow, although you could barely call it one. "We're here to pick you up for dinner." Sasuke said.

"Alright." Neji said. "Thank you."

"You're welcome. Please follow me. Father doesn't like it when someone's late." Sasuke said and started walking away already, Hinata still on his arm.

Hinata followed next to him, Neji and Hanabi behind him. Neji gave Hanabi a look that clearly said 'and what do you think of him?'

Hanabi smirked. "Typical prince." She whispered and grabbed Neji's arm, mimicking Hinata and Sasuke along the way.

Neji smirked at Hanabi and put up a proud face with his head high in the air, parading just the way like Sasuke did it.

Sasuke turned his face to look at the two behind him and both Hanabi as Neji changed the way they were walking, acting as if nothing was going on. Sasuke narrowed his eyes once and then turned his face forward again. Hanabi giggled.

Neji snorted. That guy was so easy.

After a while they arrived at the dining room. It was a huge room, with the largest table imaginable. All kinds of food were served on it. All Uchiha's were there already and King Hyuuga too. Sasuke bowed to all of them.

The three Hyuuga's did the same, bowing low and then they walked to their spots and sat down.

"Welcome." Fugaku said.

Sasuke sat down next to his brother and saw that his princess was supposed to sit next to him. Hanabi sat down next to her father.

And Neji sat down next to Hanabi, so he was facing Hinata.

"Well, dinner is ready to be served." Fugaku said and glared at the servants, wanting them to start. You could see that they would pay if they didn't start soon.

So they started and the food was served. For a while everyone ate in silence. Then King Hyuuga cleared his throat. "I wanted to discuss the upcoming marriage." He said.

"What is there left to discuss?" Fugaku asked with an eyebrow pulled up.

"I think the bride and groom have to know the plans too." Hiashi said and looked at Sasuke and Hinata.

"Be my guest and tell them." Fugaku said as he moved his hand towards Hiashi.

Hiashi nodded. "We have decided that we want the wedding in a month. By then both lands will be on a high point and we can unite them." Hiashi started.

"A-Alright.." Hinata said. A month? That was.. soon.

Sasuke nodded. A month was short. He never thought he would get just a month to get to know Hinata before marriage.

"Once you will be married, Hinata will stay here and we will go back to our land to get the things ready." Hiashi continued.

Neji looked at his uncle with a frown. They had to leave Hinata behind? Didn't he had to stay? Would she be save? Hinata wasn't looking all too happy either. She was a bit afraid of leaving everyone she knew. And.. she probably had to have babies with Sasuke. And that scared her a lot. A lot of women died during the birth.

"Alright." Fugaku said. "Then that's settled too."

Hiashi nodded and the silent dinner continued again. Sasuke sometimes looked at Hinata. She looked nervous and he couldn't blame her. But she'd better start acting like a princess soon.

"Sasuke, I want you to lead Princess Hinata, Hanabi and Prince Neji around after dinner." Fugaku said.

Sasuke looked at his father and then nodded. "Very well." He said. Dinner was almost over. But why did he have to lead Neji around too?

"Good." Fugaku said.

"Are there any horses here?" Hanabi asked, not being polite at all. She never was the type for that and Sasuke glared at her. What nerve to speak to him and all these people like that.

"I can show them to you if you want to." Itachi said all of sudden, with a smile on his face. He understood that it was not easy for a little girl like Hanabi to be all neat and speak with respect. She probably felt suffocated.

"Itachi." Fugaku snapped. "You have to study."

"Oh Fugaku, let the boy." The queen said all of sudden, in a soft voice. "He can take some free time too. Let him show the princess those horses."

Fugaku glared at her.

"Don't speak like that to me, Mikoto." He snapped. The Queen looked away now.

"I can show her the horses father. After all, Itachi's study is most important." Sasuke said and looked from his father to his brother. He had never liked Itachi all too much. Itachi never respected or even wanted to become the king. It was despicable.

"Indeed." Fugaku said, nodding. Itachi glared at Sasuke, but then nodded.

Hanabi looked a little disappointed. She didn't like Sasuke too much. The dinner continued until everyone finished. Sasuke waited until his father would tell him to take the Hyuuga's and show them around.

Fugaku stood now.

"Sasuke, you may go." Fugaku said, nodding to Sasuke. "Hiashi, I'll be the one to lead you around."

"Yes father." Sasuke said and looked at the three Hyuuga's. "Please follow me." He told them as Hiashi stood up too and followed Fugaku.

Hinata, Hanabi and Neji stood, while Mikoto kept sitting there, staring at the table. She was lost in her own thoughts. Neji looked at her a bit concerned. He'd search some more information about that.

Sasuke led the three Hyuuga's outside and kept walking until they entered a very, very large room. "This is the ballroom. Our wedding will be held here Princess." Sasuke explained.

Hinata nodded, while looking around.

"Its b-bigger and more b-beautiful then a-at my h-house.." Hinata said.

"Thank you. We had it decorated by the most respectable decorators. Let's continue." Sasuke said and started walking out of the room again.

The Hyuuga's followed him. Neji wanted to just do it himself, but it would be arrogant to say that he was going to do this on his own. So he silently followed them.

Sasuke stopped at another large room, filled with closets full of books. "This is the library as you can see." Sasuke said. "My brother spends most of his time here."

Neji looked around. This was more like it. He loved books.

"How many books does your library have?" Neji asked. "I never saw this many."

Hinata nodded, agreeing with him. She never saw this either.

"A few thousands I presume." Sasuke said. "We made sure we had everything here."

"Can I use this library tonight?" Neji asked. He'd better ask first.

"You can try, but I would suggest to leave if Itachi is here too." Sasuke answered and then already walked out of the room. He wasn't in for Neji going crazy about books.

Neji nodded and then followed Sasuke again, as Hinata and Hanabi started doing that too.

Sasuke led the three through the entire castle, through every room. He was doing it fast and efficient, no need for him to spend useless amounts of time with Neji and that young princess. After a while they finally entered the garden. "As you can see, this is the garden. The horses are there." Sasuke said and pointed to a stable, pretty far away from them.

"Y-you have a l-lot of them.." Hinata said, while she looked at the horses in awe.

"Yes, just like everything." Sasuke said, obviously full of himself. Hanabi laughed.

"I'm going there!" She said and darted off to the horses.

"Come back inside when it's becoming dark ok?" Neji called after her, a bit concerned. Hinata smiled at him. She loved it that her cousin was so concerned all the time.

"You can do whatever you want now." Sasuke said as he turned to Neji. Now was the perfect time to dump them and get to spend time with Hinata.

Neji made a sound that sounded like 'tch', but he actually didn't really care.

"I'll keep myself busy at the library." Neji said, and then walked off. It was obvious that Sasuke wanted him gone.

Sasuke waited for Neji to be gone and then turned to Hinata. He offered her his arm again. "Why don't we go for a walk." He said.

Hinata blushed as she took his arm.

"O-of course." She said. She was nervous, this was her first time alone together with Sasuke.

"How do you like the castle?" Sasuke asked as they started walking through the garden. The sun was already setting and the garden looked really pretty like this. Sasuke just hoped it would make an impact on Hinata.

"I l-love it." Hinata said. "There a-are a lot of f-flowers here and I l-like it how the s-sun shines on them."

Sasuke nodded. "Yes, it's very pretty. But the garden is not the castle princess." Sasuke said and gave her a slight smirk.

"Y-yes I k-know." Hinata said, blushing even more. "..I l-like the castle too."

"Good. Since they planned you have to start living here in a month and all." Sasuke said.

"I k-know." Hinata said. "I h-hope we w-will get happy t-together... and n-not marry in t-the way m-most do..."

"What do you mean?" Sasuke asked. The way most do? That 'was' the way to marry. The happy factor would come after that.

"W-well a lot m-marry out of plight a-and never become h-happy." Hinata said, looking at Sasuke.

"Marriage is for your land. Not for you." Sasuke spoke as he stopped in front of a bench. "Please, do sit down."

"Y-yes but you c-can still hope." Hinata softly said, while sitting down. "W-what do you h-hope for?"

What do you hope for? What kind of question was that? "I hope my land fares well." Sasuke finally said as he sat down next to Hinata. Hinata nodded.

"A-and.. with t-the marriage?" Hinata asked, still red.

Sasuke thought for a while. "I hope that it stands up to my father's expectations and that everything goes well for both our countries. " He finally answered, thinking that was a pretty good answer.

Hinata looked at him silently. He hadn't answered her question at all. He said exactly the same as he did before. She looked away. Sasuke probably wasn't the husband she longed for.

Sasuke looked at Hinata. Had he said something wrong? He didn't think so.

"What do you hope for?" He asked her.

"The s-same." She lied. She knew she shouldn't speak against him. She would be his, after all.

"Oh. Good. That's most important." Sasuke said and looked at the garden. His father had found a good girl for him to marry. One who wanted what he wanted. Sasuke did not know how wrong he was though.

"So w-what do you l-like to do?" Hinata asked him, after they sat there for a few moments of silence.

"I mostly just do my duties instead of have a fun time. Doing your duties goes before everything." Sasuke answered. He looked at Hinata.

"Y-yes I k-know, but e-everyone has s-some free time.." Hinata said, blushing.

"I study when I'm not on duties." Sasuke explained. "What about you then?"

"I l-like to d-dance.." Hinata softly said. She looked at Sasuke now.

"Ah. Good. We'll have to be doing our fair share of dancing on our wedding." Sasuke said and looked back at her, before smiling a bit.

"I-Indeed." Hinata said.

Sasuke suddenly stood up.

"We should head back. It's getting dark." Sasuke said and offered his arm again.

Hinata nodded and stood too. After she straightened her dress, she took his arm. She didn't knew what to say anymore.

Sasuke and her walked through the garden, back into the castle. They were both silent for a long time before Sasuke spoke up.

"How do you want the wedding to go?" He asked.

"J-just as o-others go." Hinata said. She knew it would he his answer. She had her own idea of marrying, but that wouldn't be accepted by the Royal families.

"It won't go as other weddings in this castle. They're much bigger." Sasuke said, you could hear in his voice he was proud of that fact.

"H-how would it g-go then?" Hinata asked.

"Bigger and better. But it's up to my father to plan it. But I know for a fact that our entire population will be there." Sasuke answered.

"Alright.." Hinata softly said, almost whispered. "C-can you bring me t-to my room?"

"Of course. I something wrong princess?" Sasuke asked as he led Hinata back to her room.

"N-no, I'm j-just a bit t-tired." Hinata lied. She never lied so much.

"Ah. Well no wonder. You had a long trip." Sasuke said as they arrived at the Princess's door. "Have a good rest."

"T-thank you." Hinata said, as she opened her door. "I w-wish you the s-same, your H-Highness."

Sasuke smiled at her. He couldn't help but feel proud of the words though, not knowing they were not intended that way. He bowed at Hinata.

"I'll pick you up tomorrow for breakfast." He said.

Hinata looked at him and then nodded. Without saying anything else she entered her room and quickly closed the door.

Sasuke looked at the closed door for a while and then turned around, ready to leave to his own room. He needed some rest too.