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Where was she?

The king had lost track of her for a second and now she was completely gone! Wait until he gets his hands on her! His granddaughter had done a mockery of him; he wasn't going to stand for it any longer. Sakura is going to listen to him, either she liked it or not.

The king got up from his chair as he decided to walk around the palace gardens. Somehow, something told him that Sakura was at the pond. He knew how much she loved that place.

He walked towards it and stopped when he saw what was happening.

A man was kissing HIS granddaughter. Right when he was about to call out to her…

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Sakura was enjoying the kiss, she couldn't lie. This guy was a good kisser. When she felt his tongue trying to dart into her mouth, she woke up from the trance.

Sakura started to bang her hands against his chest. He was NOT going to get her that easily. She pushed him away, using some chakra in her palms.

SPLASH!

There goes the prince!

Sakura stared wide-eyed as Sasuke got out of the water, gasping for water. His face looked angelic, as his bangs stuck against it. The moon didn't help either, as she saw that it helped to his angelic figure.

Oh great! He looked so damn HOT!

Sasuke glared at her and that snapped her out of her trance.

Without warning, she started to laugh. She rolled around on the ground, laughing her head off.

Sasuke stared at her, wide-eyed. Her laugh was so…beautiful. It was a wonderful laugh that he was becoming addicted to, just by hearing it now.

He smirked as an evil plot formed in his head.

Sasuke quickly got out of the water and Sakura stopped laughing.

She looked up at him. He looked down at her with a sly half smile. Sakura gulped.

In one movement, he had picked her up, bridal style and threw her in the pond.

She quickly came out, gasping for air and glaring at Sasuke.

-"What do you think you're doing!" she glared, while he smirked at her.

-"It's called revenge." She stopped her glare and smirked at him.

-"Is that so?" She quickly got out of the water, while swaying her hips seductively. This didn't go unnoticed by the prince. He stared at the princess, as she stepped out of the water. She quickly grabbed his collar and neared her face to his. Hot mingling breaths mixed into one. When she was nearing to kiss him, she quickly pulled him by his collar and into the water they went again.

Now two heads pushed themselves up, out of the water.

Pointing a finger at him, as she started laughing again.

-"I can't believe you fell for that! You sure are horny!" she screamed while laughing. Sasuke decided it was time to stop the stupid game.

He grabbed her wrists and brought her face to face with him.

-"You shouldn't trust horny men like me. Especially if I'm from Sound."

Sakura kept quiet as she stared into dark ebony pools. Slowly, there face were about to come together again, and lips were going to be pressed against each other, as well, when…

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He was laughing at their antics and couldn't help but smile. It was a long time since Sakura hadn't laughed like that. He was happy for his granddaughter but who is that man that made that miracle happen?

He squinted his eyes to get a better look at the man, but all he could see was black hair and pale face.

He went closer; he wanted to hear the man's voice. All he heard though was enough to stop the little charade.

-"…Sound." The king's eyes-widened. He was from Sound! He quickly stepped out from his hiding place.

-"SAKURA!" he screamed, off the top of his lungs.

Sasuke and Sakura's heads turned immediately. There stood, King Raidon, in all his glory…or what's left of it.

Sasuke quickly let go of Sakura and they backed up from each other. When Sakura found her voice, she looked at Sasuke and smiled, a beautiful smile that could captivate any heart.

-"Thank you." She stepped out of the pond and walked towards her grandfather. Sasuke wanted to stop her. He was going to, until someone appeared out of the shadows also.

-"Sasuke." The prince's head left the princess's retreating form to look at his uncle.

He glared at the man. He hated him very much and would do anything to kill him, but the problem was that the man was family. He had to let him live.

Sasuke sighed as he left the pond.

-"Yes, Orochimaru?"

The man came out of the shadows that cloaked him and showed himself.

-"Seems like the princess has taken a liking to you." Sasuke gritted his teeth in anger.

-"Were you spying on us!" he said angrily, glaring at Orochimaru.

-"Why, yes, I was." Sasuke sighed as he let his anger run loose inside of him. He was not going to lose his cool now, because of this man.

-"What is it to you if she did take a liking to me?" he asked.

-"Oh, my dear Sasuke. Don't you get it? If you get the princess to choose you to be her husband, you will rule this empire and then Sound would take over. You would have power beyond your wildest dreams. It's the perfect plan. I want you to pull it through, understood?"

Sasuke stared at the man before him, as if he had grown two heads.

-"If you were spying on us, Orochimaru, then you should know what she said on the balcony. She would never marry a Sound prince."

-"Aaaaah, but that's where you're wrong my dear Sasuke, you could change her mind easily."

-'Even if I did, the King would never allow it." Orochimaru smirked.

-"Don't worry about the king, he has his days numbered. I'll make sure he approves of the matrimony." Sasuke's eyes quirked. What did his uncle mean?

He thought about Sakura. She's beautiful, no doubt, and on top of all of that, she's smart. He noticed how well she figured out a person's mind. Sakura would be the perfect wife. Yes, he could marry Sakura and she would make his dead parents proud. Sound would prosper and he would be everyone's savior.

Sasuke smirked at Orochimaru.

-"A wedding sounds nice." He said as he left in a blur.

-"I knew you would see it my way, my dear, dear, Sasuke." The snake man chuckled as he too, disappeared.

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-"Grandpa, me and Sa-" Sakura couldn't finish.

-"Shut up." Sakura stared wide-eyed at her grandfather, as they walked passed the gardens, going back to the castle.

-"What did you just say?" Sakura asked in disbelief. Her grandfather never, NEVER, told her to shut up. He would let her ramble on until the end of time…and so on and so forth.

-"Sakura, that man…he was from…" The king stopped in his tracks and looked at his granddaughter. Suddenly, Sakura's eyes widened in understanding.

-"He's the prince from Sound." The king nodded.

-"Are you considering marrying him, Sakura?" The princess looked at him with wide eyes.

-"I-I wasn't thinking about-" she was cut off again.

-"You weren't thinking at all." The king resumed walking. Sakura followed with her head laying low.

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The king had sent her to her room and now she was reminiscing on the night that she had at the pond with you know whom.

-"Sasuke, huh?" Sakura smirked. He didn't seem like what people told her about Sound. He seemed completely different from the descriptions that people made of that place.

She rolled over in her bed. She was staring at her ceiling. Sakura was dressed in her red nightgown. It was a little bit over her ankles and had spaghetti straps.

She sighed. What she would give to see his face again…

KNOCK KNOCK

Sakura looked at her balcony window, to see a man dressed completely in black, with a hood on. For some reason, she got up and opened the door. He burst in and quickly shut the balcony door again.

-"Who-" she was cut off again, by the stranger's hand.

-"Shhh…" he cooed to her. She looked at him as if he was crazy.

She bit his hand and backed away, once he let go.

She took a kunai from under her gown. Sakura could practically find any place in her clothes to stash a kunai.

She was about to throw the kunai at him, when the stranger took off the hood.

-"Sasuke? What the hell are you doing here?" he smirked at her confused expression.

-"May I ask why you would open the door to a complete stranger?" he asked skeptically. Sakura smirked at him.

-"I like strangers, especially when they put up a fight." She smirked and he smirked back.

-"In other words, you wanted a good fight, just in case it was a kidnapper." She nodded. "Instead, you found me." She nodded again as she put away her kunai. "I wouldn't have done that if I were you."

Sakura quirked a brow at him.

-"Why not?"

-"Who says I'm not here too kidnap you, Princess?"

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Hehe…………OMG! I'm doing too many cliffhangers! I can't help it! I'm so so so so sorry!

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