A/N: I would just like to say that I'm focusing mainly on the story, but there will be some sex! This is a yaoi fan-fic btw, but it will also contain a little yuri. Just so you know. Also, this is my first fan fiction! So be kind, but I would like to recive some constructive critisism too!

The wind roared through the empty corridors and hallways of the old, worn down French castle, owned by the duke, Uchiha Sasuke.

The only light outside of the big pile of rocks were the stars and the moon, barely visible due to the grey, gloomy smoke from the village. Normally, a house being burnt down in the village would be of great interest of the Uchiha family, but not any more.

With his family deceased by the plague, all blood relatives remaining were he himself, and his brother. Although, Sasuke wasn't too sure Itachi was still alive, since he had a tendency to mingle with the wrong circuits of people, all around the world.

He almost felt sad for his brother. Almost.

Sasuke tiredly turned his eyes away from one of his precious treasures, lying on the old wooden table in front of him, to look at another treasure of his: His wife, Sakura, walking down the stairs to the main hall, accompanied with her servant Ino. They were chatting silently with each other, but when they saw Sasuke's dark eyes look at them, they both went mute.

Sakura gave her servant a look, telling her they wanted to be alone. She nodded as an answer, and kept walking forward when they reached the foot of the stairs.

Sakura carefully and quietly approached Sasuke at the table in the middle of the hall, and then stood scarcely, not to say nervously, out of reach from him.

She was indeed afraid of him. For a year now they had been married, but he had never touched her. It was for both good and bad: He never hurt her, but he never made love to her either, and she had no idea what was on his mind, since he barely spoke with her, and to be honest, she was glad for that. There was such a tension between them, like the one between a rabbit and a wolf.

"What do you want?" he asked irritated, without even glancing at her. He was all eyes for his precious dagger on the table, which shone brightly in the light from all the lit candles surrounding it. You could understand why Sasuke thought it was so beautiful, since it had a divine air around it.

Sakura's tong suddenly got paralyzed, and she couldn't speak when she stood before him. All she could do was mumble, which got on Sasuke's nerves even more.

"Have you spotted anyone?" he asked in a way, that he hoped would make her understand how annoying she really were to him.

She took a deep breath, and when she wasn't about to say the things she originally planed to say, her tong was freed from the paralysis, and she didn't mumble anymore.

"No, we haven't" was all she said a bit disappointed.

Sasuke sighed, and turned his eyes slightly her way, still without looking at her.

"Then why did you come here, if there is nothing to report?" he said, with an increasing anger in his voice.

By now, Sakura's emotions got the overhand of her, and after months of oppression, she expressed herself. Still, she was fighting to keep her feelings down as much as she could.

"Sasuke, I'm sick of this!" She spoke with tears in her throat, which made her sound a bit pathetic in Sasuke's ears.

"I'm really sick of this! You came to my father, and asked for my hand over a year ago! I think... well, it's normal to worry about thieves when you have so much of value as you do, but... Don't you trust your guards? Their job is to make sure your treasures remain! And instead of keeping everyone in the castle awake day after day, can't you... I mean, can't we... On our wedding night, you didn't even..."

Suddenly, Sasuke pushed the chair he was sitting on down on the floor, and got on his feet with a serious expression.

"I do not wish to have this discussion" he said hastily with his eyes fixed on Sakura. She discovered that he had turned his eyes directly at her position, but her hopes of him finely being willing to see her was shattered when she realized he wasn't really looking at her. He was more or less looking straight through her. She felt the tears in her throat grow, and she struggled to keep them down. If there was something that would make Sasuke mad, it would be weakness, especially emotional weakness.

As Sasuke headed for the stairs, Sakura was stunned, and left unable to move or speak. But when the echo of his steps was heard, she collected all her remaining strength and yelled at him.

"Sasuke, don't you love me?!"

For a few seconds, the words bounced on the walls, and when they had faded out to nothing, there was nothing. Everything was quiet. The only thing to be heard in the silence was, after a short moment, Sasuke's steps. She had been speaking to deaf ears.

When Sasuke was out of sight, Sakura clenched her fists, and growled through her teeth.

"That son of a...!"

Before she got to finish the sentence, she was interrupted by a calm and superior sounding voice from behind.

"Oh my! What would the villagers say if they knew what you were calling your master? They would be very disappointed on you, Mrs Uchiha!"

She spun around fast, just to see the vicious grin of Sasuke's personal servant, who she hated almost as much as Sasuke himself.

"He is not my master!" she told him with poison in her voice. "He is my husband!"

Kabuto looked amused, and said with a soft laughter:

"Oh, and what a husband! A year after your marriage, and you are not expecting a heir for the Uchiha-family's goods? Let me ask you, has he even fulfilled his duties as your lawfully wedded husband even once? And don't you sleep in separated rooms?"

The look on his face revealed that he knew something that he wasn't telling her. But on the other hand, he always had that look on his face, and therefore she hated him as much as she did. Her hatred aside, what was really on her mind in that moment was what he was hiding from her. What was it he knew?

She quickly put the pieces together, and got an answer she wasn't too surprised with: Sasuke had other women. That was what Kabuto wasn't telling her, but she had figured it out by herself. That bastard!

She attempted to control herself, so she sat down on the chair Sasuke had pushed down earlier. As she was thinking of a way to get back at her cheating husband, she kept her wide open eyes on the cold and dirty floor. Kabuto stood silent as Sakura thought for herself.

"He had been cheating on me all along? How? And why? Am I not attractive?"

She then remembered Kabuto, still standing with his gaze upon her. She whispered through her teeth to the floor, with fake calm:

"Leave..."

"I don't even think he loves you at all! You are just a part of his collection..." Kabuto said without taking notice of her demand.

"I said leave!" she roared with a cracked voice. She was devastated.

Kabuto stood still for a short moment, chocked by her sudden change. He then bowed without a noise, and snuck away.

Sakura was left alone with the lit candles, who danced in the draft of the windows.

"So, he has other women?" she thought. "What was that saying? 'A tooth for a tooth, an eye for an eye?'"

She smiled to the thought of losing her virginity to somebody else then her husband, a stranger, and she couldn't wait until she got the chance to be alone with someone. She didn't think of the moral issues one bit, all that filled he mind for the moment was the memories of how the workers in the castle had looked at her ever since she moved in. It was piece a cake for her to find a willing man, but deciding who to pick of them was a different question. She came to the conclusion that it would be for the best if she just went with the first person who gave her a wanting look. It didn't matter who at all, she would just let herself go and do whatever fell in her mind.

She fantasized about the men in the castle, and pictured herself alone with the charming guard Kiba. She had thought of him many times before, ever since he protected her from a small group of bandits out in the forest surrounding Sasuke's goods. He was her hero.

She then remembered that when Sasuke enforced the castle's security, after receiving a warning about a criminal duo, he had putted Kiba on a patrol in the corridor outside her room around the clock, and by that she encountered him every morning.

"When I wake up in the morning, I shall immediately begin my hunt for a lover!" she thought, hoping her lover would be her brave hero: Kiba.

A small giggle almost blurted out of her, when she thought of the pleasure she would get from cheating on her husband. It would be so much more then just a sexual relief to her! Oh, how she longed to be touched...

Suddenly, Sakura was awaken from her fantasies when an alarm rang through out the building. Movement awoke from everywhere, and moments later the corridors and stairs was filled with guards and other workers. She could spot her servant's blond hair swaying in the air as she ran through the entrance hall.

The alarm came from the floor above, in the form of glass breaking and a man screaming.

Sakura quickly ran past a group of armed guards on their way up the stairs, and caught up with Ino. Both of them assumed the same thing as they ran panting past several wooden doors, heading for an open one further away, with guards gazing into the well lit room.

For more then a week now, Sasuke had kept everyone in his castle on their edges, since he had heard of a dangerous duo, who made their way into rich peoples houses, stole everything of value and then killed all witnesses with a grim brutality. It was Sasuke's greatest fear that even one of his treasures would go missing.

Ever since Kabuto had told Sasuke about the criminal duo, called the Petit Amies, the castle had been plagued by restlessness, since they were barely allowed to sleep, hunger, since they was told they didn't have to time eat too often, and boredom, since the duo could strike at any moment, and nobody was to keep their mind on anything but guarding the entrances. The atmosphere was getting more tense by the day, and someone would probably go crazy soon. God knows what would happen then.

The guards stood in a ring around the door, and Sakura and Ino tried to get a closer look into the room, but when Sasuke suddenly stepped out the doorway with rage in his face, and a small creature in his hand, they stumbled back, and tried to hide themselves behind some guards close to the wall.

Sasuke held the creature up high, and they could see that it was a damaged little bird who struggled to get out of his grip. Sasuke first looked at the bird, showed his teeth, then threw the critter straight into a brick wall opposite of the room.

Several of the guards tried to not react, but some of them wasn't prepared and jumped back a bit when the smash was heard. The light from the room beamed on the poor bird, who fell down on the stone floor with a soft noise, leaving a trace of blood on the wall. Sasuke glared at the bird a short moment, then at the guards, with a murderous rage in his eyes. With a damp clatter they all straightened their backs.

"Who screamed?!" he yelled at them.

"Who screamed?!" he asked again. "If the little yell belly doesn't tell me now, I'll make all the guards here suffer for his incompetence! Who screamed?!"

Sakura noticed that the man she was hiding behind was shaking, and when he then took a step forward, she was horrified of what would come next.

"I screamed. But not for the bird crashing the window, but for my dog, who was covered by the pieces of glass."

Sakura recognized the voice, and she also realized that only one man was brave enough to stand up against Sasuke that way. Her stomach turned as she thought of what would become of her brave hero, and she prayed that he would be okay.

The air was getting heavier by each breath they took, and Sakura felt how a pressure began growing over her chest as she held her breath in fear, awaiting Sasuke's move.

Kiba stood, as the other guars at the moment, with a straight back and eyes foreword, without looking at anything in particular. Sasuke, on the other hand, had his eyes strictly fixed on one point behind the uniformed young man in front of him. Sakura froze on the spot when Sasuke's eyes fell upon her, and by the looks of it, he didn't want her to be there. Ino had gotten the message too, and they hurried away to Sakura's chamber, the same way as they had come from.

As the two maidens rounded a corner in the corridor, they heard a whack behind them, and a bump of something hitting the floor. Sakura turned around and gasped when she heard the sound, but Ino grabbed her arm and made her keep walking.

"Don't worry about that guard. I'm sure he will be all right. You'll see" Ino said in an attempt to calm Sakura down as she dragged her in the arm, but the insecurity in Ino's voice only made her more worried. Sasuke couldn't be that cold! Or could he? Sakura knew him so badly...

As Ino was about to open the door to Sakura's chamber, a boy came running at them. He had a costume similar to Kabuto's butler-outfit, except that the boy's was less strict, more relaxed and much better to run in. His dark hair flew in the air as he slowed down, and stopped right next to the two girls.

"Shino? What is it?" Sakura asked the boy. He was both Sakura's and Sasuke's messenger-boy, and was assigned to running with errands to the town and handing orders to the guards. Sakura liked the boy, he was friendly, yet he didn't show many emotions. Still, he was devoted to his work with all his heart.

"A letter just arrived from earl Jiraya in Paris. He wishes to have dinner with the Uchiha-couple tomorrow. I'm sorry the letter got here so late, but Jiraya's messenger got lost on his way here. Please forgive him."

Sakura smiled at him, and was handed the letter. She didn't care to open it, but just gave it back to him.

"There is nothing to forgive him for. People do get lost sometimes" she said with a motherly voice. Shino bowed, and suddenly he was running again.

"Are you going to dinner tomorrow? You better pack quick! It takes a while to get to Paris."

"I'm not going" Sakura replied.

Ino stood surprised, waiting for an explanation.

"As you said, it do take a while to get to Paris, and would you like to spend that trip together with my husband?"

Ino understood completely. The silence would driver her mad.

They wished each other a good night, and Sakura closed the door behind her. When she fell down on her bed, the incident from earlier came to mind. She embraced a big pillow, trying to find comfort from the tears she was shedding.

"Kiba..." she cried quietly to herself.