This chapter hasn't changed much compared to the original.

I totally forgot to add the ages of the people: Itachi-27, Sasuke-21, Neji-25, Shino-23, Haku-23, Zabuza-30, Kakashi-34, Iruka-32, Naruto-18, Gaara-22, Shikamaru-23, Chouji-23, Sai-24, Kiba-26, Sakura-21, Orochimaru-37, Kabuto-29

Chapter 3: Pain In The Neck

Day 1- (finding a bride)

( Early morning in Sasuke's room )

Sasuke's Point-Of-View

"Hmmm" Sasuke awoke with a yawn, feeling a lot better than he had yesterday, but could do without the stinging pain coming from the left side of his neck. 'Weird I must've slept on it wrong or something', Sasuke moaned out as the throbbing slowly subsided.

Sasuke stretched cracking his back a bit before finally getting up to rub the crank his neck hoping to get the knot out, only to end up yelping out in pain as soon as his hand touched the raw and bruised skin. "Ouch! What the hell?!?", Sasuke hissed through clenched teeth as he quickly pulled his hand away from his neck. Once the pain finally subsided again, he quickly ran to his bedroom to see if he could find the cause of the pain.

What he saw surprised him to no end. There on his neck was a golf ball size bruise that was slowly changing from a dark red color to a blackish-blue one. And towards the center were deep gashes that looked like teeth marks. 'Who.. what…. When…. HOW?!?', were basically all the thoughts going through Sasuke's head at the moment.

As he continued to stare at the mark he noticed that the wound would probably heal into a good size scar because of the depth of the teeth marks. Quite peeved and depressed at the moment, Sasuke hurriedly went the bathroom to clean out the wound before it became infected, which was when he noticed that the mark was going to be impossible to hide.

'This is officially the second worse day of my life', Sasuke thought to himself as he glared at the wound that seemed to be mocking him before heading out to meet Neji, Haku, and Kakashi at the conference room. ( In case if you were curious as to how the mark was mocking Sasuke it was basically saying this 'Hehe you can't hide me!! But you can certainly find me hehe.' , apparently the wound was mentally ill….. how interesting….)

Kakashi's Point-of-view

( Somewhere in the castle 'afternoon' )

'This is by far the worse lay I ever had', thought a gloomy Kakashi who was only slightly satisfied from last night from only getting one round of sex in, and was slightly peeved that he had to carry the girl out of his room since she couldn't walk at the moment because of last night.

Once they finally reached the wooden double doors that lead to the rooms used by servants, maids, and planters, Kakashi suddenly felt like jumping for joy at the thought of finally being free from this women that was clinging onto him like she never wanted to let him go. Running towards what was supossively the maid's bed since it was kind of hard to tell when they all looked alike he gently set her down, and glided out of the room with a slight skip in his step as he happily headed towards the door that was just shouting out freedom.

'Man I hoped I never have to deal with her again', Kakashi silently said to himself with hint of nervousness running through him as he remembered how clingy she was after they had breakfast together which was when he told her it wasn't going to work out between them. 'Hmm I better check on Sasuke to see if he made his choice as to who he'll marry yet since a year can go by quickly.

He's not a person to let a challenge go with all that pride he has in him', thought Kakashi as he remembered the meeting the council had about Sasuke, and how late he was going to be with meeting up Sasuke to talk about who he will pick as his bride.

Haku's and Neji's Point-of View

( In the conference room 'afternoon' )

"I wish there was a way to help Sasuke so he doesn't have to get marry, but I can't find a single loophole in this contract or in any of the rules. How about you Neji?", asked a saddened Haku who looked at his friend in hope. "I can't find anything either.", Neji replied with an angry expression on his face. "We mustn't give up though, there has to be something we can do!" Haku yelled out in determination, making Neji smile at his friend's outburst and nodded his head in agreement.

( conference doors open to reveal Sasuke). "Hey Sasuke, how have you've been doing?", asked a concerned looking Haku who noticed Sasuke's upset expression. "Hn", was his only reply. Haku looked more closely to make sure Sasuke really actually looked okay since he didn't really answer him clearly, only to see he looked absolutely fine except for…. "Oh my god Sasuke! Your hurt!", shouted Haku as he notice the big bruise Sasuke tried his best on hiding.

This caught Neji's attention immediately causing him lifted up his head to look at Sasuke only to see what looked like the biggest love bite he had ever seen, and the reason as to how Neji knows about that is from none other than the perverted adviser Kakashi (WHO ELSE!!…actually don't answer that just in case you came up with another person).

"Um Sasuke…Uh is that a…….love bite?", asked a timid Neji with a hint of jealously in his voice at the thought of someone touching Sasuke in such an intimate way. "A what?", replied a confused Sasuke, not sure if he heard Neji right. "A love bite. It's a mark that a person would give to you when you do...stuff.", said Neji trying to put it in the nicest way possible, and trying his best to conceal his anger. "...", Sasuke just stared at Neji like he was craziest person he ever met.

Sasuke's point-of-view

'A love mark!', Sasuke said to himself slightly freaking out at the thought of a crazed fan girl sneaking into his room in the middle of the night and do this to him, but then started to doubt it as he remember his door would be impossible to break in to since there are guards that stand by his door during the night to prevent that, and his balcony was practically impossible to reach (well at least that's what he thought). 'Maybe Neji's wrong. I must've just scratched myself somehow while I was sleeping', Sasuke tried to convince himself, even though he knew it was a pathic attempt.

(Doors open to reveal Kakashi) ."Hello Sasu-chan, Neji-chan, and Haku-chan!", said an energized Kakashi which could only mean one thing. 'He got laid again', thought Sasuke, Neji, and Haku all at the same time. As Kakashi turned around to ask Sasuke if he had picked anyone to be his bride yet he noticed this humongous hickey on his neck.

"Whoa! Hey, hey, hey Sasu-chan whose the lucky girl or guy?", Kakashi asked, noticing the large bruise on the side of his neck. Kakashi wiggled his eyebrows to add effect, or at least one of them was since it was kind of hard to tell with his mask 's eye twitched at the name Sasu-chan, and at the mention of the mark. "There is no lucky person Kakashi, I just woke up with this stupid mark on my neck!", yelled an angry Sasuke remembering the way everyone acted once they saw the bruise.

All day long the maids of the castle started to act weird by either crying or getting this angry expression on their face when they notice the mark. While his butlers and guards just blushed and turned away when they saw it. And now here he is with Neji, Haku, and Kakashi who acted unnerved-Neji, motherly-Haku, and just his regular self-Kakashi.

"Wait what?", asked a confused Kakashi, "How do you just suddenly wake up with a love bite on your neck? And by the looks of it seems as if that person was marking you as theirs.", noted Kakashi who leaned in to studied the mark a bit more closely noticing that it would probably leave a permanent scar on Sasuke's neck. At this point Sasuke was hardly breathing and frozen in place.

"Do you think one of the maids might've sneaked into your room and do this to you when you were asleep Sasuke?", asked a slightly angered Haku who joined in Kakashi's studying of the mark. "It would be impossible, my doors should be heavily guarded, and my balcony to high to reach", said Sasuke still trying to get over what Kakashi said.

'Hmm how interesting. I really can't think of any maid brave enough to knock out some guards, sneak into the king's room, and mark him without fear of being caught and sentence to death the next day. In fact I can't think of anyone brave or for even that matter stealthy enough to do such a thing at all.', thought Kakashi as he once again noticed the depth of the teeth marks that would take some serious skill to make without waking the person their marking.

"I must admit that I am also curious about how Sasuke got his mark, but right now I believe there's something more important at the moment that we should get to work on.", said Neji gathering the attention of his friends.

"Neji's right. We must find a way to help Sasuke find a wife before time runs out, or at least find a loophole somewhere within the rules that could save Sasuke from marriage.", said Haku sitting down once again and picking up the contract to look through it once more.

"I'm afraid you guys won't find any loopholes.", Kakashi stated bluntly, "That contract was rewritten hundreds of times, and reviewed at least a thousand times to make sure there are no things such errors that would allow the person our of the contract. Even if there was a loophole there is about five other systems of rules you would have to beat after that."

"God dammit!", shouted Sasuke as his day just seemed to have just gotten even worse. 'If my bad luck continues like this I might as well just hand over the kingdom to the council', thought Sasuke's as he remembered all the things that have been happening to him so far since his 21st birthday.

"It seems that Pete and Alexander want to take control of Kohona quite badly if they would worked so hard to make the contract so error, and loophole free", Neji said aloud. "Alexander I don't think so, but Pete I know, defiantly wants power.", commented Kakashi who slightly agreed with Neji's statement.

"Since there is no rules that can prevent me from marriage, what should I do?", Sasuke asked his friends and adviser. "You find a bride to have lots of little babies with her of course!", Kakashi said with no hesitation.

"Ugh! Kakashi!", Sasuke shouted out as he aimed his fist at Kakashi's head. "Ouch!" Kakashi yelped out as Sasuke's fist connected with the back of his head. Haku and Neji both mentally laughed at this. "Okay okay I'm sorry jeez", Kakashi apologized to Sasuke right when he was about to hit him again.

( Messenger boy enters conference room ) "I have a message for you, your highness", bowed the messenger boy, handing Sasuke a pink envelope which could only be from one person making Sasuke mentally groan. " The letter is from princess Sakura of the Sand Village. She wishes you a happy birthday and gives you this gift.", the kid said, handing Sasuke a large package wrapped up in pink and black wrapping paper.

"Um thanks.", was Sasuke's short reply as he watch the kid rush out of the room right after he handed Sasuke the package and envelope. "Hm I wonder what she got you this time", Neji asked in amusement as he watched Sasuke stare at the package and envelope with distaste.

"I don't know and I don't care", said Sasuke with disgust as he recalled how absolutely obsessed she was with him ( if you just peeked into her room all you would see is pictures of Sasuke everywhere ), and how she tried to rape him twice. The first attempt was at her 18th birthday party which he was forced to go to by Kakashi. He was saved by Haku who thankfully came with him to the party which turned out to contain 126 crazed fan girls and only 2 guys, Sasuke and Haku.

The second attempt happened about a year later which was when Pete (the old fart) invited Sakura to a ballroom party without Sasuke's knowing. He ended up being tied to his bed that night, but was thankfully was saved by another one of his crazed fans who wanted to wish him a goodnight (or at least that's what he hoped), but went absolutely crazy when she saw Sakura trying to kiss him in his position which started a fistfight between the them. Sakura ended up with a bruised up face and a few broken ribs while the other girl lost a few teeth, had a busted up lip, and ended up with a broken arm.

Normal Point-Of-View

(Anyways back to the point) As Sasuke was about to throw away Sakura's unopened present and envelope Kakashi suddenly exclaimed, "WAIT! She could be your wife Sasu-chan!". At this point Sasuke was staring in disbelief at Kakashi hoping he was kidding, only to see Kakashi looking at him with a serious look on his face that didn't fit him at all and which kind of reminded him of somebody else. "You got to be kidding me…right?", Sasuke asked staring at Kakashi still hoping that at any minute now that he would say yes.

"Sorry Sasuke….but I'm not joking around this time.", Kakashi said in his very serious voice with a blank expression on his face, giving him a scary appeal. "She would said yes right away as soon as you just start to ask for her hand in marriage, which would save you a lot of trouble from searching for a girl that would marry you in a short amount of time, and love you as deeply as her."", Kakashi stated, bringing up some good facts.

Even though Sakura tried to rape Sasuke…..twice, she still had a heart of gold and always went to tend to those in need. But it was quite rare when she showed her good side when Sasuke was around since she would be overcome with lust for him, and could think of nothing but marrying him. 'He does bring up some good points', Sasuke thought as he remembered that even though she was more persistent than most of his other fan girls, she was the nicest one.

"….Fine, I'll give her a shot", said Sasuke turning to look at Kakashi only to find him seated at the conference table writing something. "GREAT! I'll send her message immediately", Kakashi said with great enthusiasm as he continued writing nonstop on the paper making Sasuke growl in annoyance at seeing Kakashi already writing out a message before he even approved him of doing so.

"Are you sure about this Sasuke", Haku finally spoke up after hearing that Sasuke would give Sakura a try while Neji was still just watching the scene before him. "Yeah, besides I'll be bringing quite a few people along with me of course! There is no way I am going to be going there by myself with only a few guards by my side.", Sasuke said making Kakashi frown a bit, but didn't say anything. "Kakashi whatever your writing in that letter it better not be to perverted, and please add in the letter that I wish to bring along 6 people with me and we would be staying for as about 7 months or so if she approves." said Sasuke peeking over at Kakashi to make sure he got all of that. "Okie dokie Sasu-chan", Kakashi said in his happy tone, as he added the finishing touches on the letter.

"Shall I send this letter right away my sweet Sasu-chan", asked Kakashi getting up from his seat and gliding past Sasuke lightly brushing against him, causing them to both shiver in pleasure as Kakashi headed towards the doors. "Umm…..yeah", Sasuke said slightly dazed as Kakashi slipped out of the room once he hear his approval. "Are you okay Sasuke?", Neji asked curiously who noticed the exchange that went between Kakashi and Sasuke. "Huh? Oh yeah I'm fine." Sasuke said still dazed and confused from what happened just a bit ago.

"Well it seems we're all done here, and figured out what to do about Sasuke's problem! I'm so happy!, Haku shouted out as skipped around the room not noticing the exchange between Sasuke and Kakashi since he was so happy that they found a solution.

"Yeah let's get out of here I'm tired, and could use a nap", Neji yawned out as he saw that him and Haku have been in the conference room for 6 hours discussing the terms of the contract and ways to get out of it. "Haha okay seeya later, and thank you for your help guys", Sasuke said with a slight smile surprising both of his friends once he said thanks, and then left the room deciding that he should rest a bit himself. Shaking their heads trying to snap out of their state of shock, Neji and Haku left soon after.

Kakashi's Point of View

(Hallway heading towards conference room 'Late afternoon')

'OH SHIT! OH SHIT! OH SHIT! OH SHIT! I am sssssssssooooooo late', Kakashi repeated in his head as he continued running towards the conference room hoping that everyone wouldn't be there waiting impatiently for him. Once he finally reached the doors that lead into the room he slowly reach for the handle and peeked in only to find it completely dark and empty. 'THANK GOD', thought Kakashi in relief, happy that he didn't have to face getting pummeled to death by Sasuke for being late. 'By the looks of how empty the room is I'm guessing they came up with a solution awhile ago, and didn't need my help with Sasuke's problem after all. ' , Kakashi thought to himself as he closed the door and left…probably to find another person to sleep with.

Just to clear some things up, the person that was actually participating in the meeting that was known as Kakashi….wasn't really Kakashi. Anyways let me know if you don't understand anything so I may clear it up in the next chapter! Oh and the reason why chapter 2 was underline was because of a glitch, I will try and fix it but I'm not exactly sure as to how to do so…^.^