Chapter 14
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Hello my lovely readers. It's been a long time since I last updated this story O_O life has kept me busy but I finally managed to update this chapter _ please forgive my errors u.u
Morning had made itself present. Birds outside chirped, filling the air with their musical tune. Inside the mansion the staff sat down, enjoying their breakfast before starting their morning routine. Kiba seemed to be really flirty with ino, putting his arm around her shoulder. Shikamaru, who had been watching them, gripped his cup tighter. He wasn't enjoying the scene for some reason or the feeling he felt in his chest. standing up he left to go wash the car. "What's up with him today?" asked kiba raising an eyebrow. Ino shrugged, watching in disappointment as the lazy guy walked out the door without even saying good morning or a goodbye.
Tenten who sat next to neji seemed to be avoiding any conversation with him and who wouldn't after the guy you loved almost kissed you. Just thinking about it made her feel butterflies in her stomach. Neji, who happened to make eye contact with lee, raised an eyebrow when he saw the green spandex guy wiggling his eyebrows and pointing out tenten with his eyes, causing him to choke on his coffee.
"Neji are you ok?!" Asked a worried tenten, rubbing his back gently "I'm fine" he responded giving lee a glare, who only gave him a thumbs up.
"Hey hinata are you feeling better?" naruto asked glancing at her and taking a bite of his ramen.
She smiled cutely at him, her cheeks tinted pink "y-yeah thanks for a-asking."
"No problem" he gave her a big smile before continuing eating his ramen.
Karin entered the kitchen, discussing something with suigetsu, who crossed his arms over his chest and nodded. She seemed displeased at what the white haired man was telling her.
"What's with the faces?" asked shin who was calmly reading a book next to sai.
Karin and suigetsu turned to look at him "We have bad news."
Naruto groaned "more bad news? What is it this time?" he watched as Karin switched glances with suigetsu "I'm afraid that each time sasuke transformes into stage two, it'll be harder for him to turn back into his original human form."
"Wait are you saying that…"
Karin nodded "if he keeps using stage two he might not be able to turn into his human form, unless the curse is broken of course" Everyone stayed silent was there really no hope for sasuke? Naruto stood up, a determined look on his face "well then we just have to make sasuke and sakura confess their love for each other sooner."
Kiba almost laughed "your talking about sasuke, he'd probably die before confessing to someone."
Naruto sat back down, knowing kiba was right. Sasuke would never confess to sakura not even if he was drunk… wait a minute. He grinned standing up again "I think I know how he can confess."
"Why do I have the feeling this is going to be a bad idea" suigetsu said waiting for the blonde to reveal his plan to them.
Sakura sat on the couch in the living room. She had only gotten there with ino's help, since she still couldn't walk very well with her injured foot. She was waiting on naruto and shikamaru to take her to her house for her belongings. She didn't want to go back to that place but she needed her belongings. A loud creak was heard and she turned around hoping it was naruto, shikamaru, or sasuke but to her disappointment it was none other than amy. A frown formed on her lips as she remembered how the brown haired girl pushed her down on purpose.
Amy took a few steps towards her. an unfriendly look on her face. she didn't like it one bit that another girl wanted to take sasuke away from her, especially if it was the pink haired bi* "Well if it isn't sakura the crybaby" she mockingly said with a hand on her hip "I know why you're here and I don't like it one bit."
Sakura smiled almost too sweetly for amy's liking "I'm glad you know why I'm here amy, to be sasuke's wife" She responded, showing the brunette her wedding ring. If amy wanted to play with fire then she would make sure to extinguish it.
Amy gritted her teeth; forcing a smile "oh, you shouldn't be feeling so proud about it sakura, after all sasuke is only marrying you because he wants to use you for his own selfish purpose."
A feeling of uncertainty started to bubble up inside of her, something she couldn't describe "what do you mean he's just using me?" just when amy was about to respond but kiba came in with akamaru "hey sak I came to take you to the car. Hey amy aren't you supposed to be washing clothes today?" Amy huffed "yes, in fact I am" she gave sakura one last look and left smiling triumphantly, Content with the fact that she could make the pink haired b* doubt about getting married with her sasuke.
"Hey sakura, you ok?" kiba asked looking at the spaced out girl sitting on the couch.
She nodded and gave him a faint smile "yeah I'm fine kiba, I just want to get out of here for a while"
Kiba grinned "yeah it must be boring staying here every day" he walked over to her with the intention of helping her out, when someone yelled at him.
"Get your dirty paws off sakura-Chan!" yelled naruto throwing kiba anime style.
Kiba, who was now on the floor groaned and then glared at the loud mouth "what the hell naruto?!" He stood up dusting his clothes.
"Sasuke gave me strict orders to take sakura-chan to the car, not you"
Kiba looked at him incredulously, muttering to himself while he walked away with akamaru.
Sakura stood up with naruto's help, leaning on his shoulder for support. He glanced at her, noticing how unusually quiet she was. "hey, what's wrong sakura-chan? Your silent and that's not normal of you."
She stopped walking and looked directly into his ocean blue eyes "naruto, you wouldn't lie to me, would you?"
The blonde gulped avoiding her intense stare "ah, of course not why would I lie to you?"
"Then you wouldn't mind answering a question for me, right? Naruto looked at her, wondering what kind of question she would ask him. "Why is sasuke really marrying me? Is there a reason behind it? I need to know."
The blonde laughed nervously, cursing sasuke for putting him in this type of situation where he had to lie to one of his friends. "Sakura-chan, I know sasuke is a big jerk but I'm pretty sure he just needs someone to care for him, for someone to make him feel important, loved and what better person than you? After all he asked you to marry him didn't he?"
Sakura wasn't dumb, she knew sasuke couldn't possibly feel any type of affection for her, he had told her himself. it was silly thinking that he actually wanted to marry her because he loved her, but she knew naruto was only trying to make her feel better about the whole situation "Your right."
He grinned a little, the feeling of guilt surging through his chest. He just hoped the curse broke before sakura found out about it. He knew he was being a jerk himself by lying to her and when the time came to tell her the truth she would probably hate him. but he was doing it for both sakura and sasuke "Yeah, lets hurry up, we need to be back before sunset." She nodded, making their way to the car where shikamaru opened the door for her to get in. "it's been a long time since I last saw you, he said putting on his seat belt and starting the car.
Sakura smiled and nodded "it's been years, you really haven't changed much."
Shikamaru glanced at her lazily "oh yeah, well you haven't changed at all" She pouted looking out the window… I heard you have a girlfriend now."
"Let me guess, ino told you?" He asked. The pink haired girl looked out the window "maybe."
He sighed "yeah, her name is temari. I've been dating her for about a month now."
She wondered if he really liked this temari girl. "I see, I thought the one you liked was ino" she said watching as he tensed.
"Even if I did, she wouldn't want someone like me. I'm sure she would want a rich guy that looks like those magazine models she's always looking at and not a guy like me that's lazy and works as a chauffeur for a living."
"You shouldn't be so harsh on yourself shikamaru. If ino loves you, then I don't think it would matter to her whether you were poor, rich, ugly or handsome. You should know her better than anyone."
He stayed silent. If ino loved him would he leave temari? He shook his head. No he wouldn't do that, besides ino was just a friend right?
Sasuke dialed kakashi's number, waiting for him to answer.
"Yo, sasuke how have you been?" asked the masked guy on the other line.
"Fine"
"Ah good to know, It surprised me that you haven't arrived to work for two days now. you're always here on time. Is there something I should be worrying about?"
Sasuke sat down on his chair, knowing kakashi was not going to be pleased with what he had to tell him "I won't be working in the agency for some time"
"What?! Sasuke you can't do that. You signed a contract; you've already missed interviews and photo-shoots. Don't make me hire a new model"
"Do whatever you want" he hung up, slamming his cellphone on the table. When did all this start to happen? He was losing everything and all because of his stupid curse mark. He stood and walked over to sakura's room. He knocked, receiving no answer. He entered, glancing around. After the wedding he would be sharing his room with her. Would she be ok with it? Wasting her life away with a monster like him? He walked over to the dresser, picking up a book. He read the title beauty and the beast, that's right; she was reading this book back in the library. What was so interesting about it? He sat on her bed and skimmed through some pages. After he finished he closed it and placed it back. He looked out the window where the sakura tree was. Another petal fell, lying on the green grass, waiting to be taken away by the wind. He closed his eyes. Breaking this curse wasn't going to be easy. A phone rang interrupting his thoughts. he looked around until he spotted sakura's phone on her night stand. He picked it up "unknown number" he answered knowing it could be the Akatsuki "hello"
"Sh%# I think I called the wrong number" said Deidra, looking closely at the piece of paper in his hand "the fu*#% it's the same number!"
"Who are you" asked sasuke in his usual cold tone.
"I should be asking that question, yeah. I need to speak with sakura haruno"
"I'll be the one to hand over the money"
"I'm sorry but who are you? Asked Deidra feeling suspicious"
"Her fiancé and if you really want the money then I will be the one to go in her place."
" Hu! Fine, i don't see why not. But if your planning something fishy we'll be sure to cut your throat without hesitation yeah... Tobi! Shut the fu*#% up I'm on the phone!" yelled diedra "Now, where was i? ah yes, do you know where Plade park is?"
"Aa"
"Well then. Once you get there, search for a woman with short blue hair and a paper rose on it. She will be sitting in a bench waiting for you. When you find her, sit next to her and leave the suitcase on the ground next to her. She will tell you where the old guy is understood?"
"what Time?"
"2:00 a.m. you better be there with the money or otherwise your fiancé and her dad will die.
"Hn, don't threaten mi Akatsuki" he hung up, placing the phone back on the night stand. He checked his watch 11:00 p.m. he left sakura's room and headed down the stairs where he saw naruto carrying an annoyed sakura like a sack of potatoes.
"Kiba don't touch sakura-chan! Said naruto turning around causing sakura to hit the door frame."
"I'm not even touching her!" Complained kiba who was now a few feet away.
"I saw you touch her hair!" he said pointing an accusing finger at him.
"I told you she had a leaf in her hair dam it!"
Sasuke cleared his throat making everyone look at him.
"Hey teme didn't see you there."
"I'll take sakura to her room, you two get back to work."
"Oh, I see what he's trying to do" said naruto with a sly grin. Sakura looked up at him confused "don't you see sakura chan he wants time alone with you" whispered naruto.
Her cheeks turned pink "Wait what?"
"Here you go sasuke, she's all yours" he said winking and handing her over to sasuke who carried her. If she walked up the stairs, she would take forever with her injured foot. She blushed, naruto's words repeated in her head "Dam naruto" she muttered to herself.
"Sasuke and sakura sitting in a tree k-i-s-s-i-n-g" sang naruto from downstairs.
Sasuke gave him a deadly glare before walking in sakura's room. He sat her down on her bed thinking if he should tell her about the call "What's wrong sasuke? she asked once she saw his doubtful expression.
"I won't be back until later" he informed her turning around to leave. once he closed the door she checked her phone for any calls "an unknown call? Could that be…" her eyes widened. She stood up and forced her way to the door, ignoring the pulsing pain on her foot "sasuke! Sasuke wait! Before she made her way downstairs someone took a hold of her hand "Suigetsu let go of me." She struggled to free herself from him but it was useless "he can't go alone it's dangerous!"
"I'm sorry sakura but sasuke gave me orders to not let you out until he gets back"
She looked down the stairs where sasuke had closed the door "he went to see the Akatsuki didn't he."
The white haired man stayed silent not wanting to upset her more "don't worry he'll come back with your dad soon."
She bit her lip, holding on to her pendent "Please be careful she whispered to herself."
Hmm, Will sasuke make it back safely? Hope you guys liked it =) I will try to update the next chapter soon.