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Summary – Princess Sakura is the half-sister of Princess Ino, who is nicknamed Cinderella and is now becoming the Queen, with her Prince who is going to become King, Prince Sasuke. But, soon, Sakura goes missing. She's tired of being protected and wants to stop being like her sister, 'Cinderella'. She runs into the murderous group Akatauki, who takes her hostage, but she convinces them to hide her and let her train, and she'll reward them later on. A deal is made, and what happens when a certain red-head takes an interest in her? What can possibly happen?

"You should be more like your sister Ino, they say. You should be more princess like, they say. You shouldn't get dirty they say!" Sakura yelled, annoyed, as she washed off the make-up from her face. She glared at her mirror self as she clenched her fist before she yanked a white towel from the hanger besides her in her bathroom. She dried her face before she walked out of the bathroom, entering her room, and she threw the used towel in her laundry basket for the maids to get later.

The pink haired princess took a deep breath before she fell backwards onto her bed. She grabbed the pink and fluffy pillow besides her head, bringing it to her face before she screamed in it.

It wasn't until she stopped that screaming that she threw the pillow back besides her. That really helped her calm down. She was SICK and TIRED of EVERYBODY here comparing her and telling her to be more like her sister, 'Cinderella', a.k.a. Princess, and soon to be Queen, Ino.

Princess Ino was her half and long lost sister. Ino was girly, well-mannered, very princess-like and she was almost never rough with anybody. Everybody in the palace and probably in the kingdom loved her very much. She was going to be marrying Prince Sasuke, of the Uchiha kingdom, and soon, she was going to be a Queen.

But Sakura was the complete opposite of her. Sakura was a tomboy, not so well-mannered, short-tempered and was nothing like a princess at all. But since she was still a princess, everybody has been trying to get her to be more princess-like, doubling her lessons, giving her less free time. Every time they caught her wearing pants, going outside for no longer than half an hour or even playing sports, she would get a long lecture.

'I am TIRED of all of this! Sometimes… Sometimes… Sometimes I just wished that I could be free and get away from everything!'

'Then why don't you just run away?'

'RUNAWAY!!!??? Are you crazy Inner!? I can't run away!'

'Why not? I mean, aren't you tired of this? The same routine everyday, and all the pressure everybody's putting on you? I thought you wanted to get away from everything.'

'Yeah, well, I do, but-'

'But what? Do you have any excuses as to why you should stay here?'

Sakura was silent as she couldn't think of anything else to shoot back. She really didn't have any reasons to stay here. She wanted to leave, because she was tired of being protected and being pressured on.

'Well, you have two choices. Stay here and continue your horrible life… Or run away and become your own knight of shining armor and be the one to save everyone. Your choice, and until you choose, I'll be gone.'

Silence filled the room as the tomboy princess thought of her decision. 'Maybe… Maybe I should just -' But she didn't get to finish her thought because one of the maids walked in.

"U-Um, Mrs. Sakura, i-it's time for y-your w-well m-m-mannered class a-again." She stuttered out.

Sakura let out a groan as she covered her eyes with the palms of her hands. "Alright Hana. I got it. You can leave now."

The maid quickly left, leaving Sakura by herself again. The bubblegum head girl let out a sigh as she sat up and got out of bed. Then she walked to her dresser and pulled out an elegant pink and white dress. It wasn't one of those sparkly one, but it was strapless and a bit fluffy, reaching to the floor.

Once Sakura had it on, you could see that it fit her perfectly, the sides hugging her curves, and the dress touching the ground. She had a pair of pink high heels to match it, although you couldn't see it because the dress was covering it, along with a pair of elbow sleeved white gloves.

As soon as she had her clothes on, she walked over to her bathroom and reached to grab a small bag on the counter. She opened it, which revealed many amount of make-up. She took out strawberry lip gloss, pink eye shadow, some blush and eyeliner. She carefully put them all on, deciding to keep her waist long hair down. After she finally finished, started walking out of her bathroom.

Once in her room again, she looked at herself her full body length mirror. She looked like a princess, an innocent princess, even though this wasn't the real her. She was nothing like this, and she didn't know why she's still doing this. She just was.

She felt disgusted at herself. She was pretending to be something she knew she would never be. She was faking everything. Everybody else outside of the palace thought of her as an innocent and kind princess, just like her sister Ino. But it was because whenever she was around anybody else who wasn't usually at the palace, she would act as a kind-hearted girl who had no troubles with anything.

Not even anybody else from any other kingdoms knew the real her. Only people in this palace did. Here and here only.

As the princess left her room, as soon as she closed the door, she was swept off of her feet. She glanced up to see one of her friend, Kiba Inuzuka. He was holding her bridal style as he rushed through the hallway.

"Kiba! What are you doing!" She yelled as she struggled to get out of his grip. He only ignored her as he kept running, not stopping once. That was until he got to the main room of the palace. As he burst through the doors, Sakura saw her mother and father sitting at their thrones, her father shouting out orders at the guards, with Ino besides them, being held by Prince Sasuke.

As Kiba carefully set her down, Sakura turned to her family. "What's going on!" She demanded to know.

"I'm sorry about the sudden rush, but we're under attack by the murderous group, the Akatsuki." Her mother tried to tell her calmly. Then suddenly, three men burst through the glass windows. They were wearing black coats with red clouds on it, meaning that they were from the Akatsuki.

The Queen gasped before she turned to the rest of them. "Prince Sasuke, please, take Ino back to the Uchiha kingdom and protect her with your life. And Kiba Inuzuka, please, I need you to protect Princess Sakura from any danger. She can't leave the palace yet because she isn't ready to, and it would be bad for two princess from the Haruno kingdom to both go to the Uchiha kingdom, so please, I beg of you, keep her here, but protect her with your life. Please, now go!" The Queen told them, and immediately, Sasuke started carrying Ino out of the room, bridal style, as Kiba picked her up the same way, sprinting and exiting the main room also, but instead, went the opposite direction of Sasuke.

One of the members stayed in the main room while the other two were chasing the princesses, one on Ino's trail and one coming after her. The chase went on and on until Kiba made a wrong turn and they ended up at a dead end. He growled and cursed under his breath before he set Sakura down and turned around to face the Akatsuki member.

He took out his sword as he pointed it to the threat. "If you want the princess, then you'll have to go through me first." He broadly said, refusing to hand over Sakura.

All you could see was a smirk through the shadows of his face because of the straw hat covering the enemy's hair and eyes. "My pleasure." He said in a deadly tone, barely above a whisper.

He reached into his cloak to pull out a sharp sword, pointing it at Kiba also. So they ran to each other, engaging into a sword fight. It was like the Akatsuki member could read his mind because he was able to dodge all Kiba's attacks.

The same thing kept on going on for a couple of minutes before it ended. "Alright, I'm getting tired of this child play." His deep voice said before he swiftly kicked his left leg to Kiba's stomach, and of course Kiba dodged it, but that gave the cloaked figure the chance to hit his opponents sword away.

As Kiba was about to run to get his fallen sword, he didn't get any chance before he was slammed to the wall, sliding down slowly as the cloaked figure approached the fallen man. He pointed the tip of his sword towards Kiba face, whispering one thing before pulling his hand back and charging it at his heart. "This is the end for you."

Sakura had a bit of fear in her eyes as she watched Kiba get slammed at the wall. As the Akatsuki member approached Kiba, she gained a bit of confidence. She wasn't going to allow her best friend, as far as it came to boys, to be killed. So, she took a chance, deciding not to act like a princess right now. Rushing towards the sword on the ground, taking it in her hands, she ran towards the two, and right before the sword was able to touch Kiba's body.

The Akatsuki member was a bit taken back that a mere princess would save someone like him. Most princesses would usually just sit at the sidelines, cowering in fear. Taking a few step back before the blade almost swiped his stomach, he glanced at the girl named after a cherry blossom.

Again, he moved his head to his left before jumping off from the ground to avoid more swipes from the princess. As the sword was pulled back, he returned back to his regular stance, staring at the girl in front of him. Instead of seeing an 'innocent' girl, he saw a brave and confident young women, almost a mirror image of a knight.

At this, he smirked a bit. You don't see princesses like this these days. Waiting for her to make her move, he dodged an attack to the stomach, diving down to slice her stomach, but she was able to avoid it. As the battle of swords went on, he was a bit surprised at this young princess who by far was able to dodge every attack coming her way as he did as her.

Not one able to land an attack on the other, it wasn't until another cloaked figure came that stopped them from attacking one another. "Danna, we have to go now, un! Leader-sama said so, now hurry Danna, un! Leave the princess, yeah!" He yelled before running off again.

The cloaked figure glanced at his partner before turning his gaze back to the princess in front of him, who was panting more and more when they were fighting, but now, her breath returned to normal.

He smirked a bit at her, turning around to catch up with his partner, but not before saying one last thing. "We'll meet again princess." And before he was gone, Sakura was able to see a hint of red under the straw hat before they both disappeared from her site.

Taking one last long look as the man was now gone, she turned her attention back to Kiba, who started coughing a bit, passing out after being slammed against the wall, only regaining conscious now. As he slowly blinked his eyes opened, he turned his gaze towards Sakura, who was still holding his sword, but because of his blurry vision, all he could see was a blob of pink and a lot of white.

Dropping the sword with a clank, Sakura straight towards Kiba. "Kiba! Kiba! Kiba!" She kept on yelling, shaking his shoulders as she yelled. All the Inuzuka did was cough some more before his vision became more clearer, so he could see Sakura right in front of him. "S-Sakura. Stop y-yelling." He muttered as he gave her the best smile he could muster up.

The bubblegum hair girl sucked in her brother before letting it out and flashed him a smile. She leaned forward to hug him, leaning her head within his neck, but her thoughts kept on leading back to that Akatsuki member that she fought, thinking back to his words. 'We'll meet again princess… We'll meet again princess… We'll meet again princess…'

Okay, so, what did you think? This idea suddenly came to me, and I was planning on making it maybe next week or so, but I decided to release this early for Gigicerisier's birthday.

Happy B-day Gigicerisier! Hope you enjoy your other gifts also!

P.S. For readers out there, you can look at everything I got for Gigicerisier for her birthday on my profile. Just go to the usual "Story Pictures/Information" place and go to "The Runaway" and there, you should find links to the other gifts I got for her. And also, this isn't over. It's semi-lit, alright.

Also, I did finish this on her b-day, but I forgot to upload it onto fanfiction. Thought I already did. If you want proof that I did submit this on her b-day, then go check out the deviantart version of this. It's the same story, except it's posted on deviantart. It'll say that it was put up on March 19th.