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She had waited some days to give the Hokage enough time to fulfill his part of the agreement and to get everything ready.
The cherry blossom was ready in her ANBU uniform. She would fulfill her plan that day. Her heart was biting frantically, not because of the actual danger but for the fear of disappointing her fiancé. She started walking slowly to the ANBU building. She knew it was still early but she needed some alone time to put all her thoughts in order.
She looked at the main gate. The woman hoped with all her heart her boyfriend wouldn't come back until things were done. She was also thankful for Ibiki, Eita and Tsunade being with Neji in his mission. She knew none of them would be happy with her plan or Minato helping her. She took a deep breath.
She hated Konoha and loved it so much at the same time. She had lost her childhood because of that village but found the love of her life because of the same. She could make the biggest list ever from reasons to hate and love the hidden village yet it was for nothing. Either way she had to be there.
She went inside the ANBU headquarters and went directly to the training area. Minato was waiting for her. "Bring him" she ordered. The Hokage nodded to the ANBU standing next to them.
"Are you sure?"
"There's no turning back."
"I see you're back Sakura sama. Did you finally realize you belong to me?"
"Actually I came to prove you wrong." She said in a sexy tone of voice and licked her lips. He desired her.
"What do you want?" he became tense.
"Fight me." The kunoichi simply stated.
He smirked "Now I understand why I have been treated well lately" he smirked. "Why would I? What do I get in return?"
"If you win…" she laughed mocking him "Minato sama has agree to let you go back to the Uchiha household being an ANBU and I'll be your wife and give you all the children you want to have. I'll even tell everyone how much I love and respect you." She said softly and flirtingly. Then her tone became serious. "When I win you'll go back serving Konoha without betrayal or I'll hunt you down like a dog and make you regret it for the rest of your days. You will also leave me, Neji sama and the all the members of the Hyuga clan alone understood?" her face was that of an ANBU Captain.
"Fine, I like the deal because I'll win and the first person you will tell about us is Neji."
"We'll see about that. No one will intervene."
"I just have one question, why fighting me?"
"You don't need to know anything else. Let's just begin" he smirked before throwing some kunais at her, she jumped away. He used his fire jutsu against her. He turned his eyes red with the sharingan. Sakura used a water jutsu to make it become steam that covered everything, and then she punched the ground causing things to shake. Sasuke made clones to distract the woman.
The kunoichi threw two katanas against his clones. Sasuke appeared behind her with his arms around her neck and waist, pulling him against his body.
"You smell great" he tried to lick her neck but she flexed one of her legs and hit him. He charged against her and a combat of taijutsu began.
Sasuke suddenly brought a kunai out and scratched her arm making blood go down. Sakura used a lightning jutsu against the Uchiha's arm making him burn and start bleeding.
"Ups" said the kunoichi in her sweetest tone.
"I'll have to teach you" the Uchiha was furious.
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Neji and his team went directly to the ANBU building to report. It had been a hard mission and even do all their injuries had been taken care of by Tsunade, they just wanted to go home and rest.
"When will you have the wedding Neji?" asked Ibiki.
"We decided it'll be in winter."
"That doesn't give you much time to plan it kiddo" said Eita.
"Has Sakura made any decisions yet?" asked Tsunade.
"She asked Hinata and Hanabi to be her maids of honor."
"That's a really important part!" said Tsunade with sparkling eyes.
"Your uncle will go crazy with all the guests" laughed Eita. Neji felt happy, he just wanted to have the woman he loved in his arms and kissed her senseless.
As they were closer to their destination, they couldn't help noticing there weren't many ANBU's around the village. The moment they stepped inside the building, they noticed the ANBU rushing to the training area.
"What's going on?" Ibiki stopped one of his subordinates.
"Sakura sama is fighting against the Uchiha…" Neji didn't wait a second before rushing to the place where everybody was gathered. His fiancé was bleeding all over and the Uchiha was in no better condition. The Hyuga was ready to jump into the fight and stop it when Minato ordered some ANBUs to restrain him.
"Let go of me inmediately!" Neji was furious.
"You can't interfere. Sakura asked me to keep anyone from stopping this.
"Why the heck did you help her go through this Minato?" Tsunade wanted to punch him until next century.
"She told me she needed the closure" the Hokage had a guilty expression on his face. "I had to support all the decisions made for her from the elders and she never asked anything from me. This is the first time. I couldn't deny myself."
"If you don't stop this now I assure you Hyugas won't help Konoha anymore" The captain hit the two ANBUs holding him.
"You will do nothing of the kind" said Eita. "I told you before you couldn't keep her from being the best ninja Konoha or any other hidden village has ever known. You must understand the Uchiha hurt her pride. He got close to raping her twice. You didn't think she was just going to let it go because as the great Captain ANBU you are, you should know how much it means to keep intact the respect you feel for yourself." Neji looked at her. She was moving with so much courage, even when she stabbed Sasuke with a katana and her opponent came close to kissing her, she didn't pull away. He could see the fire in her eyes. The problem was his heart ordering him to protect her and his brain ordering him to stay where he was because she wouldn't forgive him if he didn't let her fight. Now he understood what she had been hiding from him or why had she been so nervous. The cherry blossom had known he wouldn't like her doing this and that he would have done anything to stop her from going on with her plan. Dammit, he wanted to kill the Uchiha so badly!
Sakura knew most of the blood covering her body was from the man standing in front of her. He wouldn't last much longer. She could feel how tired he was. Through the whole combat, he had tried to feel her, touch her, showing her how much he wanted to have her in his bed. She had kept him away, feeling disgusted at his intents.
It was time, she knew. The kunoichi did a combination of hand sings and repeated his fire jutsu catching him by surprise and burning him. The Uchiha fell down. "Remember our deal" she told him and went straight to the medical ANBU to give them orders and the medicine to make the fallen shinobi recover faster. Then she walked to where Minato was standing. She looked at him and was shocked to find Neji standing there, from being the strong kunoichi she felt fragile like a porcelain doll. It was easy for her to find all the hurt and worry in his eyes. For a second she considered running away but knew she couldn't act like a coward.
"Neji sama, Minato sama it's done" she spoke in her ANBU voice.
"Let's go home" he said with turmoil of emotions inside of him.
"It's a good idea kid. You've earn it" said Eita smiling.
"We should escort you to the Hyuga mansion. Tsunade hime must take care of your injuries."
"You mustn't worry; most of the blood is his."
"There's no arguing. Tsunade sama will check you" said Neji in a strict voice. Sakura thought about refusing but she stopped herself. She just walked away followed by the Hokage, her two senseis and her fiancé.
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The pink haired washed herself and Tsunade worked on her wounds. It wasn't anything fatal. Sasuke wasn't half as strong as the kunoichi when she was in her best shape.
"He wanted to intervine."
"I know."
"He isn't happy."
"Yes but you know better than anyone why I had to do it" the young woman looked away.
"You'll have to find a way to fix things."
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The next few days they wouldn't talk. At night Neji would just hold her tightly to his body and she would just enjoy feeling him so close. During the day he would stay away from her. She hated this situation and not being able to find a solution. They hadn't even spoken about their wedding.
She sighed for the millionth time that morning. She tried to focused on a medical scroll in front of her when there was a nock. "Come in."
"Sakura sama a package just arrived for you" a maid delivered a big box on the kunochi's hands.
"Thank you" the woman was smiling. The pink haired took out the contents and examined them excitedly.
She went immediately to look for her future husband. They had to fix things. Neji was meditating in a side of the Hyuga mansion, close to their bedroom, that had been left for his use only. No other Hyuga came to that place, unless they knew the ANBU Captain was out on a mission.
Sakura stepped closer to him without making any noise. She kept her chakra hidden. He had his back straight and his legs in a meditating position. She pushed her body against Neji's, crashing her breasts against his back, put her arms around his neck and buried her nose in his long hair.
"I know you have the right to be mad with me. Most likely nothing I say will make you forget about what happened. I want to tell you why I did it…" she waited to see if he was going to say something but he kept quiet. "The only way I could be only yours was by proving how worth of your love I was and redeem my honor. He had almost been able to have me twice. How would I be able to keep our love or our kids safe if I couldn't even protect myself?" she bit her lip to avoid sobbing.
"Don't you understand you have nothing to prove?" he moved her arms away. She thought he was rejecting her so she turned around ready to leave. He hugged her from behind "You don't understand what made me angry" he turned her around roughly and pulled her completely against his body. "My biggest fear is to lose you forever. You risk yourself too much and I know I can't help it but I want to keep you forever as mine and mine only" it hurt her to breath at the intensity she found in his eyes. He held her tighter with his right arm and used her left hand to caress her cheek softly. She leaned into him.
"Now there's nothing stopping me from being yours and only yours. I love you and only you and if you agree I want to be your wife as soon as possible" she put her left hand on his and her right hand on his chest. Neji looked at her and smirked.
"You come to me, pushed your delicious body against mine without binding your chest and expect me to wait long to have you as my wife?" she blushed and smiled. They kissed passionately.
They both knew they had to wait to be together and for now they were just happy they had talked. The couple stayed holding each other for several minutes.
"Do you know you're driving me nuts?" he whispered in her ear.
"I want to be yours too" she confessed putting her arms around his neck and letting her breasts crash against his strong chest. Neji growled.
"Woman, don't move or I'll rip your clothes from you right now."
"Hyuga sama you know you have to wait" she said in a flirty tone and moved herself closer to him. Neji became tense; his member was really hard as were her nipples. He controlled himself because he didn't want any of their moments together to be only for lust. He wanted her to know how much he loved her.
"Sakura sama you're a teaser" he told her and kissed her hungrily as a promise of what was to come. She smiled against the kiss telling him she was holding him to that promise.
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The pink haired was so excited about the contents of the box. She hadn't told him yet but she was sure he would like it. She blushed at the thought of a second and third item inside the box, she bit her lip nervously. What if Neji didn't like it after all? She began feeling nervous.
"Love is something wrong?" the Hyuga had come out of his shower to find her biting her lip. He had learnt she only did that whenever she felt insecure about something.
"Everything is all right darling" she tried to compose himself.
"Blossom please, tell me. Last time you hid something to me, you got into a fight with the Uchiha."
"I promise is nothing like that" she smiled shyly. The shinobi stepped closer to her and kissed her softly.
"Are you sure?"
"It's something good, I promise" she almost whispered with a beautiful blush adorning her face. He kissed her once more. They had agreed to sit in the garden that afternoon, just sharing each other's company.
Sakura was between his legs with her head and back against his chest with a medical scroll in her hands. They had scheduled their wedding to be in a couple of weeks so she had some work at the hospital to leave finished, the same as in the Academy and the ANBU building.
Neji had mostly finished his work at his office in the ANBU tower and had offered to help his fiancé with whatever she needed. She had smiled, thanked him with a kiss and sat with him.
She had begun humming after a while and he really loved it. Then he remembered something he wanted to talk to her about.
"Saku?"
"Yes?" she looked up and smiled.
"When you went to talk with me because of our fight, you mentioned…" he smiled with softness "our kids" she blushed darkly "do you mean it?"
"Of course I do. I would be more than happy" she put her hands tenderly around her belly "to have beautiful babies with you my love" Neji hugged her. She was definitely his other half.
"Cherry blossom, I love you so much."
"I love you too" she caressed his face softly.
"Sweetheart looked" she turned around and smiled looking terribly gorgeous.
"It's snow!" she stood up fast with him behind her.
"Neji nii san it's snowing!" his cousins came outside and were as excited as his fiancé. All the Hyuga kids were in the garden in seconds. Sakura had moved away from all them without giving Neji any time to catch up with her. She stood watching all of them. She did some hand signs next and her chakra spread slowly around the gardens fusing with the snow and forming animal figures for the kids to enjoy.
She looked at them enjoying the show. The kunoichi couldn't help some memories from her own childhood come to her mind. She held herself from the tree behind her.
"Oh gosh, I have to let go" she whispered to herself not wanting to cry and distraught any of the Hyugas.
The young kunoichi had been on one of her worst training sessions. That sensei wouldn't have cared if she died, actually he preferred that option. He had pushed her to a river and let the water pulled her. She hadn't been taught to swim and he knew. She remembered it had been hard for her, she had fought against the water with all her might and she had survived.
He had left her in the woods, freezing cold, completely weak and soaking wet. She didn't even have the strength to cry. Things became worst when it started snowing. She had in some moment found an idea in her head, she used some of her reserves of chakra and gave shape to the snow, it became a deer that took her from the ground and carried her to a cave. She had been really sick the next morning but she was sure if she had stayed in the snow storm, she would have been death by now.
He had continued training her the next day without caring if she was ill, he had even punished her because she wasn't doing her best in the session.
She was grateful when Tsunade and Jiraiya appeared some days later and when they the terrible state she was in, they used their power as sannins to punish the damn shinobi and took her away. She shivered at the memory.
"Love this is so beautiful" she smiled. Neji held her against his body. She stood on her tip toes and claimed his lips. "Will you tell me what caused the sudden sadness in your eyes blossom?" she nodded. She didn't want to keep secrets from him.
"I don't want to ruin the moment."
"Please" he insisted keeping her eyes with his own. She leaned against him and whispered the memory to him. She couldn't say it louder. His hands turned to fist listening to the pain she had to go through.
Afterwards they kissed pouring out all their emotions to the other in a simple act. Neji wanted nothing bad to ever happen to her again.
"I love you" he told her causing her to smile innocently.
"I love you too" she answered back truthfully. They held each other happily while watching the kids enjoy Sakura's jutsu.
Hiashi watched the couple with his own smile. It was time for the two of them to finally have a chance of their own to be happy.
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We're closer to the end. I hope you like the new chapter.