A/N: This story was rather...unplanned. I just thought that a whole romeo and juliet thing would be cool. This is AU where Konoha and Oto have princes and princesses, etc. but they're still fucking ninja (THAT I LUV!) well...here you go

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Chapter 1: Halfway

There was a war going on in the world of shinobi. It raged on between Konoha and Oto, as it had been for the past sixty years.

But within the quarrels between lands, there had been stories between the two, starting with two squads in the middle of a battle.

Four against two, and Konoha now had the advantage. Their armies had wiped each other out, and only those six had remained. Uchiha Fugaku, the Prince of Otogakure, and Namikaze Minato; his best friend, duke of Oto, and General of the Army; against Haruno Haruna, Princess of Konoha, Hoshizuki Mikoto; one of Haruna's best friends, one of her three ladies in waiting, and also her secondary adviser-Tsunade being her primary-; Uzumaki Kushina; last remaining Uzumaki, another one of Haruna's friends and ladies in waiting, and second daughter of the Dutchess of Konoha; and lastly, Assarishita Les; Princess of the Land of Light-an ally to Konoha, the youngest of Haruna's ladies in waiting, and General of Konoha's Army.

"The odds are against you Uchiha, You're outnumbered." Said a bloody and battered Princess Haruna.

"Aa, but we are still here, and you have yet to make an attack." Prince Fugaku responded, disappearing and reappearing behind Haruna, his blade against her neck.

Mikoto shot Les a look, she was the only one who knew that Fugaku and Mikoto, and Minato and Kushina, had been having secret meetings, for they were secret lovers.

Les sighed. "Just do it Mikoto, I'm not stopping you." Kushina's eyes pleaded for her to do the same. "I'm not stopping either of you, I told you 'alls well, end well.'"

"Promise?" The girls whispered.

"That's my 'promise of a lifetime.'" She smiled and dropped he sword. "Uchiha, as much as I hate to say this, I suppose we should call this a draw."

"There are no draws in a war." He pressed the cool blade further against the blade.

"Then you either of you do it for Miko and Kushi-chan?" She asked.

His eye widened, and he pointed his blade towards Les. "How do you know that?"

"Haruna doesn't know because she has yet to witness proof." She pushed the katana away from her throat. "You failed to notice that I was at the border at the same time you, Mikoto, Kushina, and Minato were."

"Hn, I should just kill you."

"And my imouto would do the same to you, our ancestor's quarrels have ended long before our time, I have no reason to attack." She turned to her fellow Princess. "Gomen Runa-chan, but I think it would be best for at least Miko-chan and Kushi-chan to surrender since Uchiha will not agree to a draw."

"I will agree to a draw on one condition." They all turned their heads to face Minato, whose kunai were on the ground.

"Dobe, what are you doing?" The Uchiha scolded.

"Fugaku, I think you'll agree to this too." Minato never called Fugaku by his first name unless he was serious.

"You want them to go with you don't you?" Les' eyes softened, and she smiled a true smile. "A forbidden love is often the rarest of all, but the truest, and the most difficult to accept."

"What are you doing?" Haruna exclaimed. "If they go with them then-then…"

"Then they get their happy ending." Les replied. "I know how this will turn out, it'll take a while, but one thing will lead to another, and in the end…" She smiled. "Alls well ends well."

"But-"

"Just let them go." She insisted.

"We might never see them again." The Haruno said solemnly.

"We will, but it'll be a while." She stared at the Assarishita with wide eyes. "Don't worry, it wont be on a battlefield. I don't think Uchiha or the Golden Flash will want to lose their girls."

"I suppose this is farewell then Haruna." Mikoto sighed, trying not to cry.

"Same." Kushina didn't bother to hold in her tears.

"Give it twenty year, it's work out." Les sighed.

"TWENTY YEARS?" The girls yelled.

"Do you want to see each other again one day or not?" She sighed again and held her hand out. "For old times sake?"

"At least now we know why she said Uchiha would fit you best, Mikoto." Haruna laughed. "Haru." She sniffled, and held her hand out in the middle of the quad.

"Chi." Mikoto held her hand out too, wiping her tears with the other.

"Maki." Kushina sobbed.

"Shita." Les put her hand on top.

"Never apart…" Mikoto started.

"Yet, always separate." Les finished.

"We'll leave, after all, this is Sound Territory." Haruna wiped away her tears and straightened up.

"Whatever you say Runa-chan." Kushina faked a smile, but it turned out to be true. They each shared a last smile, and, as they once nicknamed each other as a squad, The Spring and The Moon left.

"It's okay Kushina-chan." Minato consoled his lover, who was sobbing hard.

"Yeah Kushi-chan!" Mikoto walked over to her friend. "We'll see them again!"

Kushina finally stopped crying after a while. "Mikoto…maybe we should tell him now, since we told the girls before him…"

"Tell me what?" Fugaku questioned.

"Fugaku-kun…I'm…"

"What?"

"I'm pregnant."

"Haruna is too." Kushina smiled. "Rozeotome and Itachi…hm…makes me wonder what we'll name our son, Minato." He stared at her. "Chill, I'm not pregnant."

Five years later, Queen Haruna, and her Husband Sakutaro-who was kind enough to take up her clans name instead of the other way around, although he died three months before-had another daughter, Haruno Sakura. She was practically her mother's carbon copy, and she inherited everything from her.

Sakura trained under her grandmother, who was a strong Kunoichi, and less busy than her mother. And she had a best friend relationship with her godmother, Les, who kept her age a secret, since she was immortal. But Les was more than meets the eye.

She often went to Sound territory undetected, to visit her other godchildren, who were born a year before Sakura, Uchiha Sasuke, and Uzumaki Naruto. And Haruna often asked her to visit her godson, Itachi. Les acted as a somewhat bridge between the two, keeping Haruna, Mikoto, her, and Kushina's friendship alive. She was the one who notified Haruna of her godsons progress, and she still withheld her information from both sides when ever she was questioned by either side. But this story is not her's.

It is the tale of Uchiha Sasuke and Haruno Sakura.

Where the battle that separated the four friends had started, a cherry blossom tree had been grown. It was taken care of by the four women who were separated by the war, since it grew right on the border. One half of the tree on each side. When Queen Mikoto couldn't care for it, Duchess Kushina would. When Queen Haruna couldn't, Princess Les would, and vice versa. But, they never met.

When Sakura was little, whenever Haruna and her new secondary adviser Hinako were busy, Les would take Hinata, Hinako's daughter, and Sakura to that tree to play and to tell them the story. And whenever Kushina, Minato, Fugaku and Mikoto were busy, She would take Sasuke and Naruto to do the same. In fact, when the four were babies, she sent a clone to retrieve Naruto and Sasuke and meet in at the tree, and the infants would stare in wonder as the cherry blossoms bloomed. But that was the only time that she ever did that, so that none of them would remember. And so that neither would attack each other since they had been training since they were two.

One day, early on Sakura's 18th birthday, she visited her favorite Sakura tree, and they seemed to bloom just for her on that warm day in March. Coincidentally, Sasuke did too.

"Hello." Sakura said in a cheery tone

"Hn." The Uchiha sat on the other side of the tree on his side of the border and removed his black cloak. He wore it so he could watch the cherry blossoms bloom without the fangirls.

"What's your name?" She smiled to face the Uchiha, but her white cloak's hood covered her face.

"What's your's?" He replied, and faced her, making sure no to cross the border. She couldn't be a fangirl since she didn't pounce on him at the sight of the Uchiha, and no fangirl would even dare to cross the border.

"You tell me first, and I'll even remove my hood." He caught her warm smile. "I know you're an Uchiha."

"Uchiha Sasuke." He replied, curious to know who this mysterious girl was.

"Hm…Uchiha Sasuke." She took off her hood. "I'm Haruno Sakura." Her pink hair fell out when the hood came off. "Ring a bell?"

"You're the Haruno Princess." He muttered. "You know it's forbidden by anyone to go to this tree according to Sound law, right?" He grunted.

"It's the same law by Konoha, this place was very special to my mother and godmother." She sighed.

"Same." The Uchiha grunted.

"Hm…did you know our mothers are best friends?" She smiled.

"No, and how is that possible, this war has been raging for decades." This pink haired princess intrigued the Uchiha.

"Uchiha Mikoto was once Hoshizuki Mikoto, the former secondary adviser to my mother, she was a kunoichi of Konoha." Sakura said. She didn't mind talking to this man; it wasn't like she was telling him Konoha's battle plans. "And so was Namikaze Kushina, only she was Uzumaki Kushina before."

"Hn, the dobe will be interested to hear that." Sasuke was surprised. His own mother used to be the enemy? AND he was talking to the second Haruno princess?

Sakura laughed. "Who is that?"

"Naruto."

Her laughing stopped. "What, did you finally realized that talking to me is forbidden?" The Uchiha smirked.

"Ano, Sasuke-kun," He was confused. "Has anyone ever called you two 'Sasu' or 'Naru'? Or have you ever heard anyone ever say 'Saki'?" She asked.

"Yes, and yes." Sasuke recalled his annoying godmother, who had shown him this place. "My annoying Godmother calls us that, and she mumbles something about us not being like this 'Saki'"

Sakura looked at him. "Is her name Assarishita Les?"

Sasuke was really confused now, how the hell did a Haruno know his godmother? "Yes, what's up with these stupid questions? I'd think you'd be asking me for the battle plans."

"She's my godmother too…"

"SAKI!" Les ran up to her godchildren. "Oh there you-" She eyed her god son. "Oh holy shit." She eyed the two. "Kami, I hate my life."

"Les-sensei… what is the meaning of this!" The Uchiha stood up.

"I can't believe you've been crossing the borders!" Sakura stood up with him.

"I have permission, given the fact that Runa, Kushi and Miko-chan made me a Godmother from both sides of the war." She replied coolly.

Their eyes widened. "I was just here to see the-and-not-and-um…" Les laughed at them.

"I won't tell anyone, just be careful." She walked back. "Sakura, be back for your birthday dinner. And Sasuke, I'll be at the Uchiha Palace in two months for your birthday, and again on Naru's."

"That was weird." Sakura fiddled with the hem of her red Haruno sleeveless zip-up shirt.

"Yeah…but she's weird." The two talked until Sundown.

"I should be going, I have a dinner to attend." Sakura dusted her blue skirt off and stood up, putting her white cloak back on.

"Hn, the dobe invited me for ramen." He pulled his black cloak on and they both put their hoods up.

"Bye Sasuke-kun!" Before she could leave, he grabbed her hand.

"Meet me here next week." He said, let go, and walked away.

"Um…okay?" She walked back to the castle confused.

When the two had disappeared, Les got out of her hiding spot. "And so it starts…the beginning of the end." She smiled. "The start of another 'forbidden love.'" Before disappearing she laughed. "I told them so."