WARNING: Well . . . nothing really!
DISCLAIMER: I not own Naruto or Sakura or Lee or the Frog Prince :C
A/N: I really am super-hugely sorry it's taken me so long to update this - I feel awful. My excuse? "Birthdays Are" and the pressure of following "Snow White Sasuke and the Seven Dwarven Narutos" which everybody loved so much, so I'm sorry! But here it is! And it's Het ta boot 3
The Youthful Frog Prince
Once upon a time in a land not so far away as you might imagine there lived a Queen. She had many daughters but the youngest was the most beautiful of all.
Even the sun who had seen many things marvelled at the beauty of her silky pink hair and her sparkling emerald eyes. Near the Queen's palace there was he great Konoha forest, and in this forest in the shade of a Cherry Tree was a deep well. When the days were as hot as they could get in Konoha (which was very hot) Princess Sakura would go and sit by the well. She would take with her her favourite Sasuke plushie and play with it all day long.
Now on one occasion as the princess was playing with her Sasuke plushie, she threw it high up into the air, but when her beloved Sasuke came back down it did not fall into her outstretched hand but straight past it into the depths of the well. She followed it with her eyes all the way down, as far as she could, but the well was very deep and so she soon lost sight of it.
The moment she heard the dull splash signifying her beloved Sasuke's final journey, Sakura's eyes filled with tears.
"SASUKEEEEEEE!" she shrieked as though her heart would break.
"What's wrong youthful princess?" cried a somewhat croaky voice from behind her and she turned to see a huge green frog with possibly the googliest eyes in existence.
Smuggling the repulsion she felt at the energetic amphibian, Princess Sakura replied: "I dropped my plushie and it's fallen into the well, and now" she hiccupped slightly "I'll never" she sniffed "Get it back!" and with that she burst into tears once again.
"I can return it to you, my youthful beauty!" the frog replied, seemingly unable to talk in anything other than exclamation marks.
"Oh would you?" Princess Sakura turned on the charm, and the poor frog was trapped instantly "I would give you anything you wanted" she added, fluttering her eyelashes.
"Anything I wanted?" the frog mused.
"Of course! All my pearls, jewels, gowns – even the crown on my head" she promised
"I don't need those things but . . ." he paused in embarrassment and blushed a little "I will retrieve your toy if you will promise to be my girlfriend! I would protect you till the day I died . . ." he trailed off hopefully.
"Ah, of course brave frog" Princess Sakura replied, and batted her lashes again for extra effect.
"Yosh!" the frog called out and he immediately dove into the deep, dark well.
Well, thought Sakura while she waited, of course I can't be his girlfriend. How could he live away from his well? She could run faster than him anyways . . . right?
There was a great splash and the frog appeared, dropping the Sasuke plushie at her feet. This seemed to be Sakura's cue to escape and so she swept up the doll and pelted away from the frog as fast as her legs could carry her, deftly avoiding the kisses being blown after her retreating form.
Soon enough, the princess was safe at home in her cosy palace and she spared not a thought for the poor goggle-eyed frog who had so much desired to be her boyfriend.
The next evening, as Princess Sakura sat down to dine with her mother and her sisters, she heard an energetic flip-flopping approaching the hall, and an overexcited cry at the door.
The Queen Tsunade ordered Sakura over to open the door and – not wanting to enrage her sake-sodden Queen – she did so. But as she pulled open the door, what did the Princess Sakura behold but the very same energetic and wide-eyed frog who had saved her Sasuke from the well.
Shrieking in horror, the Princess slammed the door in the poor frog's face and returned to her place at the table.
"Who was that?" Queen Tsunade asked, bewildered, as she took another sip of sake. "You look as though one of the Seven Princes of the Mist had come to make you their bride"
"It's almost as bad mother! I dropped my Sasuke in the well yesterday and a great goggle-eyed frog agreed to return it to me if I promised to be his girlfriend."
From outside the door, the frog called out:
"Open the door my cheery blossom,
Open the door youthful lady
Remember you swore to be my girlfriend,
Remember the promise you made me"
"Better let him in then" Tsunade snorted in amusement and further down the table, Ino snickered.
So princess Sakura returned to the door, pulled it wide open and gestured the "youthful" frog into the hall with a grimace.
The frog followed the Princess Sakura back to her seat and after a few seconds, crooned:
"Lift me up my cherry blossom,
Lift me up sweet lady
I wish to sit on the lap of girlfriend,
Remember the promise you made me"
By now even the shy Princess Hinata was smiling in pity at Sakura's new self-proclaimed boyfriend. Sakura couldn't bear to touch the slimy green frog with his slimy eyes and slimy skin, but one look from Queen Tsunade was enough to ensure she did as the frog asked her.
But the frog still wasn't happy with Sakura's rough handling of him and he began to chant again.
"Move your plate closer my cherry blossom,
Move you plate closer youthful lady,
Remember you promised to be my girlfriend,
That was the promise you made me"
Sakura grudgingly did as the frog asked, but while he was happily munching on the Princess's food she herself was unable to take even a bite, for the sight of the frog made her sick. Finally, when the frog had eaten his fill, he said:
"Take me to bed my cherry blossom,
Take me to bed youthful lady,
This is the act of a loving girlfriend,
Remember the promise you made me"
Sakura was about to let loose the full power of her rage – she was absolutely fuming – but one look from Queen Tsunade once again quieted her. Sakura sucked in a deep breath, shuddering as she held the frog by its back legs with two fingers. Slowly, with a look of pure disgust upon her face, Princess Sakura carried the slimy creature all the way up the stairs to her tower room, and dropped it on her little pink bed with its silken sheets.
She sat at her dressing table and began to brush her long pink hair viciously.
The frog, after having inspected the room thoroughly and discovered it to be full of Sasuke merchandise, hopped up onto the dressing table – not noticing Sakura's internal struggles to keep herself from squishing him flat with her heavy silver hairbrush.
"Kiss me my cherry blossom!" he cried and Sakura's hand crashed down on the table in surprise
"No way!" she shrieked and the windows rattled at the sound of her voice.
"Then I will kiss you!" he called out and lunged for her, causing the girl to topple backwards off her chair and leap across the other side of the room, putting as much distance between the two of them as possible.
"Never fear, I can reach you from here!" the frog informed her, and began to blow kisses which Sakura reached a whole new level of flexibility in order to avoid. Unfortunately she was not quite flexible enough and one of the little hearts caught her smack on the forehead.
There was a burst of golden light, interjected with pink and green sparkles, and when Sakura drew her hands away from her eyes she noted that that the frog was not only somewhat better looking than he had been a moment ago, but also not quite so small – whereas all the furniture had risen to quite a terrifying size. Sakura blinked heavily and attempted to take a step forwards, but instead she found herself leaping across the room.
A chill of terror ran through her and she made another leap towards the full-length mirror by the window. A small green frog was stood in her place, a tiny golden tiara perched on its head.
"What did you do to me!?" she screeched, but somehow her voice would only allow a high-pitched croak.
"Haha!" the frog smiled widely his teeth sparkling in the remaining golden light "the woman who accepted my kiss was forever destined to be my girlfriend! Oh and eventually me queen" he added as an afterthought.
Sakura ignored the word "girlfriend" and instead fixed her thoughts upon the word "queen"
"And you will be lavished with all the fineries of my kingdom" Sakura's mind wandered even further "and I will protect you with my life" the frog reminded her.
Sakura was thoroughly perked up now "Well why didn't you say you were a king in the first place? Let's go – make me your queen!" and with that she dragged the frog prince from her room.
And so they married to the frog kingdom, where Sakura was loved and cared for, and soon she learned to love the frog king for who he was, not how much money he had. And they lived happily ever after.
OWARI!