Chapter 4

The whole kingdom was in a frenzy about the wedding.

The kings were already making wedding arrangements and Naruto and Sasuke were letting them, so they could spend more time together. But they always had to have a third party with them, their father's orders. So Kiba or Kakashi or both were always with them.

Kakashi being the pervert he was would have been happy to let the teens go at it if there had not been the risk of Sasuke getting pregnant.

Kiba on the other hand was always putting a stop to the lip locking. After all he saw Naruto as a brother and Sasuke as a little sister and you don't want to see your sister or brother kissing.

Naruto had found the engagement gift; he had left in his room and had given it to Sasuke.

Sasuke had loved it the moment she saw it. A silver dragonhead necklace with a ruby for the dragon's eyes.

Sasuke loved it because it wasn't to fancy, she hated fancy jewelry and she thought that silver was much nicer then gold.

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"Sasuke do you really have to go?" Naruto whined to his lover.

They were sitting in Sasuke's cambers… a blonde haired lady in waiting named Ino was in the room, helping the princess fix her hair… Naruto was sitting on the princess's bed, with Sasuke's puppy at his feet.

Sasuke had named the puppy Tenshi because he was Sasuke's little angel as far as she was concerned.

"Yes Naruto, I must go." Replied Sasuke in a irritated voice. "And I want to go."

It was the last week of summer and King Fugaku would be returning to the Sharingan Kingdom the next morning and would not be returning until the wedding in four months. And Sasuke would not be returning with her father so they had planned a picnic lunch at a river new the kingdom to have some time together before the king left for his kingdom.

"Well, you'll hurry back, won't you?" Naruto asked as Sasuke finished putting on her shows.

"Of course, dobe." Was her reply as she pecked the blond on the check and turned to leave but before she could reach the door the blond prince grabbed her wrist and pulled her back around and kissed her lips hard, making the raven moan in surprise and pleasure.

But when the blond started to pull the raven toward the bed, Ino who was blushing but had a big smirk on her face was waiting at the door to escort her the princess downstairs to the royal carriage cleared her throat loudly to get their attention.

Naruto glared at Ino but let go of the dazed Sasuke.

After Naruto let Sasuke go the giggling Ino grabbed the still dazed princess's upper arm and led her down the stairs to the carriage were King Fugaku was already waiting.

The picnic was wonderful to Sasuke; she very rarely got to spend time with her father. But when she did she always made the most of it.

Kakashi and two other guards were with them.

They started to head back to the Kyuubi castle the sun had almost gone down and it was starting to get dark.

Sasuke and Fugaku were sitting in the carriage as they were passing the through the forest road that would led them to the castle.

Sasuke had her head resting on Fugaku's shoulder, almost asleep.

"Sasuke," said Fugaku, getting Sasuke's attention.

"Yes father?" She asked tidily.

"Are… are you…" Sasuke looked at her father to show that he had her full attention, but he still seemed uncomfortable about his question. "Are you planning to have more then one heir?"

Sasuke didn't really know how to reply to that, she knew that she would have to have at least one heir for the Kyuubi Kingdom. But Naruto and her hadn't really talked about having a big family, but she had her suspicions that Naruto would want a big family, for he loved children.

"Naruto and I have not really spoken much of children. Why do you ask, papa?" Was her reply.

Fugaku's face darken with sadness, "Your mother always wanted lots of children but after all the trouble she had giving birth to Itachi the healers said it was too dangerous for her to have another-"

"You mean you knew that if she had me that she would die?" Sasuke looked surprised and saddened by the truth. "Then why did you let her go through with giving birth to me?"

"She didn't tell me that she was pregnant again." A sad smile came to the king's face. "After Itachi died, we both feared I would have to make one of my advisors my heir and let the Uchiha blood line die, so your mother took matters in her own hands… knowing what would happen." Fugaku looked at his daughter and took her face in his large strong hands. "But I do not regret her having you my dear. You are so much like your mother."

With that said he hugged Sasuke's petite body.

Sasuke was beginning to see why her father had asked his question. He feared she would have the same trouble giving birth as her mother and would lose her too, she could see why he feared this, after all he had already lost his first born son and wife and Sasuke knew that if he were to lose her, he wouldn't recover.

"Don't worry, father." Sasuke tried to reassure him. "I promise you won't lose me before I lose you." If only she had known how true that was.

Before could Fugaku reply the carriage come to a sudden stop. They both looked out the carriage windows and saw that they were still in the forest.

"What's happening?" Asked Sasuke.

"I don't know." Fugaku replied. "Stay here and let me see." He said as he opened the carriage door and got out, closing the door behind him.

Sasuke heard her father talking to the guards but couldn't tell what they were saying.

Then she heard everything go dead silent. This was when she started to feel nerves.

Then she heard an animal of some kind cry in fury, coursing her to yelp in surprise and fear, for the animal seemed to be very close. Then she heard Kakashi scream in pain and the heard her father yell with fear laced deep in his voice, "Run, SASUKE, RUN!"

But before Sasuke could move, something big hit the side of the carriage, coursing the carriage to fell on its side, with Sasuke landing on her head and shoulder, leaving her head bleeding from a small cut to her fore head and feeling dizzy.

She could still hear the screams of pain from the guards and her father's screams for her to run away.

As she was about to try and get up it suddenly went dead silent again. The horrible thought that everyone was dead was making Sasuke even dizzier.

Then the silence was broken by the door to the carriage was ripped off its hinges and something long and scaly reached inside and grabbed the scared and dazed princess.

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Naruto was starting to worry; Sasuke should have been back by now. The sun had gone down hours ago.

He and Kiba were sitting in the entrance garden, playing chess by torch light, with Tenshi and Akamaru playing somewhere in the garden.

"If they're not back soon I'm going looking for them." Said Naruto as he tapped his foot impatiently.

"I'll come with you." Replied Kiba. "But I'm sure they're fine, one of the horses might have slipped a shoe or something like that."

"Yeah, maybe but if you ask me-" Naruto never finished his sentence, for the front gate opened to revile a badly wounded Kakashi.

His silver hair was stained with red blood from what looked to be a deep claw mark on his head and he was holding his bleeding left arm to his chest, his captain armour was missing and his clothes were ripped to shreds, showing the bruises that were forming on his chest. When he limped through the front gate and saw the prince and young lord, he signed and started to clasp.

Naruto and Kiba ran to catch him so he wouldn't hurt himself further.

They reached him just in time.

"Dare god, Kiba ran and get Tsunade." Naruto ordered and Kiba nodded before running to get the blond healer.

After Kiba was gone Naruto turned back to Kakashi and asked, "What happened, Kakashi…Where is Sasuke?"

"I'm s… so sor… sorry my prince." Naruto could see that Kakashi was having trouble talking but he had to know where his future wife was. "I co… couldn't protect her… I tried… but it was… to fast… I didn't even see what… it was… it knocked me unconscious… before I could stop it…" Kakashi stopped and started to cough up a little blood but continued, "When I awoke… they were all dead-" Naruto felt his heart drop, "my men… dead and… the king… oh god… the king… was torn apart… and the princess… I couldn't find her… she was gone… its all my fault… This… was all I could… find of her." The captain moved his hand to revile the silver dragonhead necklace but didn't even seem to realize that he was still with his young prince; he seemed to be reliving what he had seen.

At the last sentence Naruto started to feel hope that maybe Sasuke was still alive. "Kakashi, you said this was all you could find Sasuke," he said as he tried to get the wounded man to think, "You didn't see a body, so she might still be live right?"

"I… I…I don't know." Was the last thing the captain said as he fainted from exhaustion.

Without another word Naruto put the injured men down gently, took the necklace and ran to the stables, knowing that Tsunade and Kiba would be there soon to look after the captain. He grabbed his horse and rode to the gruesome scene.

After looking around, Naruto had no luck with finding any sign of Sasuke, but he saw what Kakashi meant when he said that the king had been ripped apart.

After seeing the horrid scene Naruto vowed that he would not rest until he found Sasuke alive.

He just knew she was alive.