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She was angry with herself for having been so weak. She had never needed anyone to defend her and she wasn't going to start now.

She was in the training grounds subjecting her body to the worst of trainings. She wouldn't stop until exhaustion caused her to faint.

Not even her team could bear this kind of training. She had ordered them to work on something different without her.

Eita had been watching the kunoichi carefully. She was definitely strong headed. That damn Uchiha had reminded her of what she was supposed to be.

"Eita sama why did you ask me to come?" Neji appeared next to him.

"Look" he ordered. The Hyuga saw Sakura fighting against clones that fought with the order of killing. She had cuts, scrapes and bruising on her. He was ready to jump to save her from the damn fight but Eita stopped him. "The kunoichi you see below is the only ninja to ever get to the end of my training. There had just been one before her that almost finished but almost is not good enough. She is the BEST any village could have, the most intelligent, the best strategist, the strongest, etc. When Tsunade and Jiraya told me all this, I didn't believe them. It was impossible for a mere young kunoichi to be all that, even if she was a Haruno. She proved me wrong in the most elegant way anyone ever could. Sakura is not any woman or kunoichi, she definitely is the BEST of them all and because of everything, her future will be rough, cruel and she will need someone strong by her side. A man who won't be afraid easily, who doesn't feel threaten by everything she is, someone who doesn't want to change her, someone who will know how to support her in the difficult road she has to travel and most of all, he has to make her completely happy. Do you feel you have everything I just listed?"

"Yes, Eita sama" Neji didn't hesitate to answer.

"You better take care of her with your life because if you make her upset or hurt her in any way, even once… as her senseis we can't intrude in her destiny or missions but we will hunt you down and make you regret whatever you did to her in the most painful of ways understood?"

"Yes, sir. Now let me tell you I would rather hurt myself before hurting her."

"I'm glad to hear it kiddo. She needs someone to look up for her. One last thing, we'll be watching you."

"I know." They watch her carefully in silence for some time. She wouldn't give up, even if she was bleeding or had a kunai stuck somewhere in her body, she would stand up and attack again. Sakura had never been one to give up. "What did Tsunade sama find with Sasuke Uchiha?"

"Sasuke had some sort of concussion. Tsunade thinks it was the cause of his actions towards Sakura. Either way she won't want him nearby unless absolutely necessary."

"Nh" The Hyuga would be careful either way. She was the most important person in her life.

"There something else you must know. The only way to make the seal inside of her chakra net open is by sharing your chakra with each other. I mean you letting some of her chakra in your body while at the same time some of your chakra goes into her body. For Haruno that is the way to claim a mate, afterwards they have access to all their family techniques and heritance. We should go down. Sakura will need your help to go back to the Hyuga Compound."

"Wait Eita sama. How do you know about the chakra seal inside of her?"

"So you remember I said I had a student who almost finished my training?" the young man nodded. "He was Sakura's father. Don't tell her this." They jumped down the tree and walk towards the kunoichi. She was kneeling on the ground after having finished all the clones she had done. Her breathing was heavy; her body was covered in sweat. Neji kneeled next to her, checking carefully all the wounds in her body, he knew she wouldn't want to go to the hospital, so he would have to take care of her himself.

"How was training kiddo?" asked Eita with a soft smile.

"As always" she answered gently. The Hyuga offered her a hand to stand up, she took it smiling.

….

The woman was in the bathtub soaking her bruised body. She had sore muscles.

During her long years of training and tough missions, she would have to face her sore body with quick showers in cheap hotels or bathing in rivers. Nothing felt as good as it did now, being in the comfort the Hyuga mansion with real bathrooms, big soft beds and warm food.

"How is the water love?" she smiled happily. This was the best of all, Neji.

"It's warm darling." She turned her head towards him smiling.

"May I rub your shoulders?" she blushed darkly and nodded. He put some lotion (Shizune had recommended it to him, to relax muscles) on his hands, before starting with the massage. Sakura moaned loudly enjoying his hands on her skin. "You seemed to like it" he smirked.

"It's great" she closed her eyes and relaxed her whole body.

"Sakura your training today was hard."

"Nothing harder than what any of my senseis gave me" she explained without changing her position.

Neji observe her expression with a smile of his own. When he went inside the bathroom, he hadn't wanted to look down at her body under the water because he knew the effect it had on him having her naked and so close. Seeing how much she was enjoying the treatment he was giving her, proved it worth it even if was being so hard to stop himself from joining her inside the bathtub.

She moaned again. If she let herself, she would fall asleep any time.

Neji rubbed the back of her neck with his thumbs. "Oh honey, it feels really good."

"I'm glad you like it blossom" his voice sounded hoarse. Next he slid his hands to her arms, rubbing careful not to hurt her more than she had already done. After some time he pulled his hands away from her delicious skin. "Finish your bath love, I'll be waiting for you in our bedroom to take care of your wounds and continue with the massage."

"I don't want you to go" she complained. He smiled and kissed her softly.

"I will just give you some privacy baby."

"What if… what if" she stammered and blushed "I want you… to… to join me" Neji blushed too. She was always too shy. "Did Sakura just ask me to take a bath with her?" he couldn't believe his ears.

"Love, can you repeat what you just said please?" Sakura hid her red face in her hands embarrassed.

"I… I don't know… if… if I can" she answered nervous. He was touched by her shyness.

"Do you really want me to go inside the bathtub?" she nodded with her head still in her hands.

She was still the innocent girl he had seen the first time their eyes met. He felt himself harden just from the sexiness she had without her own knowledge.

He had been with many girls that explode their body and knew perfectly well what they could do to a man. Now he was with this marvelous girl that had stolen his heart without meaning it and he felt more aroused than he had ever been in his life just from her stammering while asking him to join her in her bath. She had no idea how much power she had over him and he wasn't sure, she would ever realize it. This innocent girl was the best kunoichi in the whole world and he was the lucky one to be able to share his life with her.

Sakura raised her head slowly to find Neji watching her deeply. She got so nervous that she slipped, sinking in the water.

"Sakura!" Neji pulled her arm fast. "Did you hurt yourself?"

"I'm ok." She felt so embarrassed she refused to look at him. "I'm never so klutzy, why did I act this way around Neji?" She breathed a few times before talking again. "I think it would be better to follow your plan."

"Ok I'll wait for you in our bedroom" she nodded.

….

She laid face-down with a towel over her body. Neji healed her wounds with some chakra and medicine Shizune had given her. When he was done, the girl had fallen asleep. Carefully he put the towel around her and tucked her in bed in his arms.

….

Minato, Eita, Jiraya and Tsunade were having a secret meeting. The information the sannins and Eita had gathered was concerning Sakura's well-being. Orochimaru had plans to fulfill his word soon. They had to make sure to keep the girl safe.

"I'll talk with Hiashi Hyuga to double the security in his house."

"I told Neji about the union of their chakras."

"We'll have to push Sakura to join her chakra with Neji's."

"Do you think she is ready Tsunade?" asked Jiraya.

"She has to be."

"She'll need the extra power to fight the war that is coming up."

….

Months later Neji was playing shoji against Shikamaru. They had trained that morning with their friends; afterwards Naruto had convinced everyone to go for ramen. The two shinobi had gone to the Nara household for a game.

A game between the two would always go through several hours. They intelligence both had made the game very interesting.

"How are things going with your fiancé?"

"She is training a lot."

"Ten Ten told Ino she had begged you to leave the cherry blossom."

"I told her I won't."

"She told Ino she wouldn't give up."

"I don't care what she does."

"Are you going to the bar tonight with the guys?"

"Naruto threatened to go to the Hyuga mansion to pull me out if I don't. I'll just make sure to leave before Tsunade and Jiraya get at it over the table again."

"Don't remind me. Asuma and I almost tore our eyes out" Shikamaru felt chills. "Troublesome drunk sannins. Will Sakura go with you?"

"She's on a mission."

"Ten Ten might take the chance to try again."

"She will receive the same answer as last time."

"Do you think that'll stop her?"

"Nh" was the last answer from the young Hyuga.

All the rookies were sitting around a big table with their ex-senseis, the sannins and Eita. Naruto had talked a little with Neji about training together the next day before getting into an argument with Lee. That left the Hyuga to handle Ten Ten advances on him.

She had dressed in tight tank top and every chance she got; she made sure Neji took a look.

"Told you so" said Shikamaru. Neji spoke with the Nara, Ibiki and Asuma while everyone else got drunk.

"I got new equipment for interrogation this week. You should pass by my office" said Ibiki.

"I will after working with the assholes Minato has assigned for me to work on a strategy for a mission." Shikamaru had a bored expression.

"Tell us more about that equipment Ibiki" Asuma kept smoking.

"I didn't know about it. Sakura was the one who suggested Minato sama to acquire it." Neji look back at the interrogation specialist. "She learned about it on one of her missions."

"Now I'm intrigued, I've heard really good things about the Haruno woman abilities" Asuma was never one to expressed curiosity without reasons.

"She's a really good kunoichi" Neji told the truth. Suddenly Ten Ten sat in Neji's lap.

"Love come on, let's get out of here."

"Go away" Neji said threateningly.

"We can go back to my place and have some fun" Ibiki, Shikamaru and Asuma looked at her incredulously.

"I would appreciate if you got off of my fiancé" Sakura was behind them.

"What if I don't want to?" Ten Ten dared to ask.

"Easy, I'll have to teach you to keep your hands away from my future husbands." The pink haired giggled in a dangerous way. Everyone stop to look back at the kunoichi.

There was something different in her that night. Neji took a good look of her. Sakura was wearing her jounin uniform and she looked hot. It showed off her curves which meant she hadn't bound her breasts and her pants were tight too, her beautiful hair was down and she was wearing sandals with heels. The Hyuga felt hot all of a sudden. He wanted to get her out of there and touch every inch of her skin with his hands and lips.

Neji pushed Ten Ten away roughly and went closer to Sakura fast to kissed her hungrily.

"My, my, I wasn't expecting this kind of welcome. Not that I'm complaining" she was flirting with him. He felt so turned on.

"Neji!" Ten Ten screamed.

"Ten Ten" the Hyuga sounded mad. The weapons master stormed out of the bar.

"Ups, it seems your friend isn't happy."

"I don't care" his voice was strong.

"Maybe you'll ask me join you so everyone who is watching us will go back to what they were doing" she giggled again. Neji had never seen this side of her. She was always nervous when he made some sort of move on her and he liked this face of his fiancé too.

"Would you like to sit cherry blossom?" she nodded. He sat down and pulled her to sit on his lap.

"Hello" she greeted everyone around the table.

"I see you are enjoying it. I'm glad." Every moment of her body and her voice were sensual.

"I thought you were on a mission" said Shikamaru.

"I just got home and just wanted to see my husband to be" she was such a tease. Neji was hardening.

"Sakura can I talk to you for a minute?" asked Eita. She stood up and followed her sensei to a private room on the back of the establishment.

Neji felt a rush of need the second she was away from him. After some minutes he was feeling ready to get her back, being patient when it came to her away from him was never easy. He was ready to walk after her when she came out.

The woman saw again the same lust in the Uchiha's eyes. She hadn't been convinced with the explanation of the concussion. "Honey can we go home?" she whispered to Neji. They stood up, said good bye and left.

….

What do you think will happen next with the way Sakura was acting and Neji's reaction?

I'm sorry for taking so long in updating; the last days have been full of excitement for me.

Please review.