Chapter 1: The ruler of Earth Uchiha.
'I, Sakura Haruno, will be attending your Higness's festivities. I thank you for thy invitation, and will look forward to meeting you again.
With dearest regards,
Haruno Temple.'
"Yes, that sounds okay Miss. Haruno. This one actually seems polite and professional in comparison to the other ones", my best friend said.
"Wow Ino, a compliment! Should I seek to be an author?" I grinned at her. She was so boring when she took things seriously. She would be a greater Queen for this palace, beacause of that strictness and passion, if she was just born in my family.
But as the only child in the Haruno family, I had been chosen as headdragon and the Haruno earth had been given to me. We were one of the seven Kingdoms in Dragonia. Our earth was situated in the north since the first Sakuratree ever found was in the north of Dragonias first earth "Evolution". Evolution was in the middle and had the six earth's floating around it. Earth Evolution was the sun in Dragonia, it was there all former king's and queen's moved, when their offsprings moment to rule came.
Emperor Haruno
Naara Evolution Uchiha
Hyuuga Uzumaki
Ino and I had been together since we were children. We've been friends for two centuries, so it was not very hard to choose who would help me rule my share of the greatest piece of earth I have ever seen. We were not immortal, but we aged very slowly, and died only by a few weaknesses like weapons made from clean gold only. Otherwise ou death was often caused by high age.
To honor my name my father had given me, the Haruno Earth was filled with Sakuratrees that bloomed all year. They were most beautiful in the winter time when the pink was shining so brightly in the white surroundings. My father picked the name as he was strolling down the small paths in our kingdom, and found a lone tree that was as pink as their unnamned childs hair. He hurried home and told my mother the happiness he had stumbled upon.
"Really great idea Sakura, I'll be buying your first book." she snarled to me, I could sense she was getting irritated so I put my arm over her shoulder and said:
"Pay? Ino, your my best friend, you would get it for free!" she finally smiled and we giggled together.
"Let's just get this sent to Emperor Earth", she said and called my messenger Sasori.
We heard dragonwings and as we turned around to face the window, he landed with grace through the opening and bowed down. "What can I do Sakura, Yamanaka-san?" I laughed at his formality and said:
"Can you bring this to Emperor Earth by tonight?" I asked already knowing the answer. Sasori flew with such elegance and speed that it almost looked like someone steered him with threads.
He smiled and nodded. "Ofcourse." He bowed once again as he was about to leave with the answer to the invitation I had received from the rulers of Dragonia itself, Tsunade and Jiraiya.
Suddenly Kakashi Hatake hurried in. He was the General over Haruno Earths Dragonforces that protected the floating landscape from outsiders from other dimensions and other earths.
"One of the youngster dragons told me that the lord from Uchiha Earth has just reached Haruno. He says he wants to speak to you."
I wondered why and Fugaku Uchiha came to visit. We were in an alliance wih them aswell as with Uzumaki earth, but we rarely spoke face to face.
I looked at Ino and she, too, was looking confused. We both excited the palace and transformed into our mighty forms. As a dragon everything was hightened. I never got less impressed as I saw my kingdom through the dragons eyes. I heard every animal, every insect miles away. I loved the feeling of the breese that tenderly caressed my scales.
The colour of the scales took the colour of ones hair. I was pink and blended with my surrondings, as Ino was as lightyellow as her hair and captured the sun beautifully. Her eyes was Ice blue and her scales were more round in the edges, while mine was more sharpened. We lifted from the ground, and the trees around us shaked and bend of our first wingbeats. I enjoyed how I touched the ground no longer and instead flew around to be met with a warm breath of air. Just feeling the air under my wings made me feel amazing.
We landed by the glistening waterfall that was the welcoming of new guests, the beginning of Haruno Earth, if you want. As we transformed back to our human forms, it was no Fugaku or Mikoto standing before me. Instead, it was a young man who had raven black hair and piercing black eyes that met my jadegreen. He was beautiful, and he was a resemblance of Queen Mikoto. But he had Fugakus cold eyes.
"Sasuke Uchiha, I assume?" I said as I got closer to the man that was The Uchiha Earths second son.
"King Sasuke Uchiha, actually." A redhaired girl with glasses said as she looked at me with irritation written upon her face.
Sasuke raised his hand and she got quiet right away. I wondered why I didn't notice her before. I guess she was his partner in buisness, so to speak.
"My deepest apoligies." I said as I smirked for myself. He didn't look at me any differently. At first I thought he was not going to say anything at all, but he opened his mouth and said:
"I formally revoke our alliance, Queen Sakura Haruno. I find no comfort in being an alli with a Kingdome ruled by an unprofessional and annoying woman like yourself. I have read your previous rules and laws, and in my opinion, I think they are helpless for your kingdom."
My eye twitched and I saw how Ino clenched her fists. "May I wonder, Uchiha, which rule was it that made you uncomfortable with me?" I stared directly into those beautiful nightblack eyes as I said it.
"Do you seriously not think that dragonchildren shall be untrained to the day they lived 40 years? Your country has also the liberty to chose if they want to be a soldier. I hope you realise that your earth has least soldiers. And do you think it's appropriate to let staff get married as they will? I heard you let your general Kakashi Hatake marry a mere maid."
I laughed and answered: "I don't believe in forcing children into battle if they don't want to. But I get the impression that you snatch away the hatchlings as soon as they open their eyes? And I believe, that when people want to join, they want to protect what I and my parents have built up, and can perfom better in battles, that's why we have the best soldiers. And for the second statement, I do not believe in higher status. Everyone is equal, I allow love in my kingdom, therefore I recieve love from my people. If you do not see eye to eye with me on the two most important qualities of my earth, I would like you to leave Haruno now."
It had been long since I felt so angered about someone. So I turned around to walk away, like my mother teached me. Ino had kept quiet all this time, but I saw how she wanted to speak freely. I smiled at her over my shoulder and continued walking.
I heard the clinging sound when someone transformed. I turned my head, curious for how he looked like. My eyes widened as I saw the black dragon take his first wingbeats.
He shimmered blue when the sunrays hit his scales. His wings were so big and blindening me with its beauty that I had to blink various times to get myself to believe what I saw.
He was beautiful.
"What a jerk!" Ino screamed, to make sure he heard.
I couldn't sleep that night, so I made my way all the way up to my palace's watchtower. From up here I could see down on my village if I opened my dragon eyes. As a dragon, you could choose to activate one of the five senses to heighten your experience.
It was the night of the twinmoons. It happened only once a year. The two moons
of Dragonia united and shine over our world of Kingdoms. I looked past the small houses that lay beyond my palace. My people were the most loyal dragons and humans I had ever met. Some kingdoms did not allow humans to live among them, but here, dragons and humans lived and worked together.
I opened my dragon ears and heared a little boy cry. He called after his mother, but I did not see anyone approach him. He was alone crying.
It scared me that he was alone this late, what if he was lost? He must be so scared. I jumped out of the watchtower and transformed in the air. Once again I was overwhelmed by all the things to see at night. But my mind was with the boy. I was close to him. I could feel his prescense getting near me.
Then I saw him, about ten meters away, so I shifted in the air and landed on my feet and walked the distance there was between us.
"Hey little boy", I said as I crouched down to his eyelevel.
His eyes opened wide as he saw who stood before him. "The pink hair! You are the Queen, right?" He smiled trough his teary eyes. I nodded and smiled back at him.
"Why are you out here all alone? Where's your mother?" I asked him with honest worry in my voice.
He looked sad and lowered his eyes. "I don't know..." and once again the tears started rolling down his cheeks. I hugged him and asked how long he had been out here. He answered with such a sad answer I didn't know what to do.
"She told me to stay here a couple of hours ago. She said goodbye and that I was not allowed to follow her." Theese things happened rarely, but still occured. A parent leaving their child behind for they may not afford to take care of it, so they hoped that someone with a heart would take them in, but why hadn't anyone else heard him? My people wasn't so cruel.
"What's your name sweatheart?" I asked him with a thick voice. I would not cry in front of this boy, he would feel worse if I did.
"Souta."
"Well Souta, how would you like to see the Haruno Temple?" I asked him. His eyes glimmered as he nodded several times at my proposal. I laughed and lifted him up on my shoulders. I leaped up inte the air and transformed to my true nature. He just laughed out loud and held on to my neck.
I did some loops in the air, keeping track of where on my back he was, not ever letting him fall.
We arrived at my palace and saw that the little boy was sleeping. I transformed back as quiet as possible, well as quiet as a dragon could. I carried him inside and put him down in my guest room. The room was right next to mine, just in case any of my guests needed me. Ofcourse there exsisted more, but this was extra convenient. In the white sheets his nutbrown hair stood out, and skin as he had lived in the light of the sun all his life.
"Goodnight, brave soldier", I whispered. "I'm sorry you had to go through this." I left the room and went on a stroll in my own palace. Nothing was knew, since I grew up here.
As I entered the big diningroom, the memory of my first love flickered past my eyes. It was on my 28:th birthday, which is about six years old in human years, and Kiba Inuzuka was seated next to me. He threw cake all over my lavendercoloured dress. He said that he hated girly coulors. I chuckled at the memory of our sillyness.
However, when all the children was going home with their parents Kiba gave me a peck on the cheek and said that he actually liked my dress.
I smiled up at the ceiling and was met by a starry sky. I didn't want to have a ceiling in this room, but Ino thought that I was crazy, so we compromised and it is now made of glass, letting the twinmoons giving light to the spaceous room, in just the right places.
I went up the small stairs that was in the back of the great hall and sat on one of the three chairs that was placed upon it. One for me, father and mother. I sat myself in the middle one and remembered when I was little and couldn't reach down to the floor.
I pulled my legs up to my chin and fell asleep in my chair.
Authors note: I deleted a chapter of another story I wrote and decided to go on with this instead. Please tell me what you think :)
