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Chapter 10

It was an innocent letter. It was nothing more than words written with blue ink on a white sheet of paper. But the written words formed a message which unfortunately wasn't very well taken by its receiver. Therefore the innocent letter ended being torn to shreds.

"How dare he?" Fugaku asked enraged. A glass, still containing a red liquid, flew through the air before hitting the wall, where it broke to thousand pieces and stained the previously white wall with red color.

Shisui watched his father with curiosity, but he didn't dare stepping in. When the king was as furious as he was now it was safer to keep a distance and wait for him to calm down. But Shisui couldn't help but wonder what the letter contained. Sure, a message from King Madara always meant bad news, but what could get his father this mad?

"How dare he?" Fugaku asked again. "Engaging him with Itachi? Has he gone mad?"

Now this piece of information took Shisui by surprise. Did Madara really plan for Itachi and Sasuke to marry? This explained Fugakus reaction, but Shisui had to question King Madara's actions. After all Sasuke was no other than-

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His father would not agree on a truce so easily, Sasuke was sure about it. But – considering the facts that he would be hardly able to get Sasuke out of here by force, and how Itachi's lap was quite comfortable – Sasuke couldn't care less. Madara would surely work something out.

It was much more interesting that Itachi just discovered Sasuke's obsession with tomatoes – and decided to pull the boy on his lap and feet him with the red fruits – a situation with which both were quite pleased.

"Lovely" Deidara whispered while observing the scene. "Don't you think so too, Danna?"

Sasori sighed. "Hush or we will be caught."

Yes, somehow Deidara had managed to drag him into stalking the young couple, which resulted in both artists watching the princes from under a table. Sasori dearly regretted agreeing to this – but then again how could he have said no to Deidara's pleading eyes. The blonde man was quite cute after all – even though he had bad taste in art.

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"Itachi? There is something I need to discuss with you" Madara announced and left the room.

Itachi sighed – annoyed that he had to leave Sasuke alone for a while – but complied. He gave Sasuke one last kiss before both stood up.

"I'm waiting upstairs" Sasuke said. Itachi nodded and both went their separate ways.

When he arrived at Itachi's room Sasuke threw himself on the comfortable bed and waited. This whole thing had still been unimaginable a few days ago, but Sasuke was happy. Being in love was wonderful.

Suddenly he heard the door open. "Back already? That was fast" he said and looked up. When he saw who just entered the room he gasped. "You? H-how?"

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Itachi wasn't in a good mood when he walked up the stairs. Madara had already received a reply from Fugaku. As expected Sasuke's father hadn't been happy about the news. Not only had he rejected Madara's offered truce, he had also threatened to increase the numbers of soldiers at the frontlines if they didn't release Sasuke immediately.

Stubborn man. Did he actually expect them to fall for this empty threat? They had spies in the Lightning Country and knew that they didn't have the possibility of increasing soldiers. Not like it was any different with their own country. And war was even more annoying when the power of the opposing parties was equal because this made the war last for an eternity.

"Sasuke, I'm back" Itachi said upon entering his room, but he found it to be empty. "Sasuke, where are you?"

But Sasuke was gone

TBC

Yes, at some point (next Chapter actually) it will be explained why a vampire is eating tomatoes. Even I notice when something doesn't make sense. At least sometimes. :D