Chapter 2

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Two weeks later, a few hours before the wedding.

"Hurry!" Sakura was in the middle of a group of fussing girls. Tenten, Temari, Hinata, Ino, and her mother were all trying to make her look perfect for her marriage to Sasuke.

"Stop!" Sakura yelled. "If you keep all this up, you'll suffocate me."

There was a mumbled 'sorry' from everyone.

"Ino, do my make-up last, ok?" Ino nodded her head. "Tenten, Temari, you guys can do my hair after my dress is on." They nodded their heads. "Hinata, Mom, can you finish helping me into the dress?"

"Sure Honey," Sakura's mom smiled happily.

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"Naruto, where have you been?" Sasuke was glaring at his best friend, who happened to also be his best man.

"Well, um… Getting ramen, heh," Naruto rubbed the back of his neck sheepishly. "I'm nervous, ok?"

"-sigh- Yeah, I think we all are," Sasuke turned around to look at the mirror. He looked over his appearance one more time. The coat and pants were black. His shirt was a cream-white color. His hair was back in his usual style.

"This is so troublesome," Shikamaru's voice was heard on the other side of the door. "Where is he?"

"Shikamaru?" Naruto asked with a confused look on his face. Sasuke just shrugged.

"The only groomsman I picked out was you. Sakura and Ino picked the others," Sasuke explained.

He walked over to the door and opened it. "Shikamaru, are you one of the groomsmen?"

Shikamaru turned around. "Yeah, don't you know who your own groomsmen are?"

"Ino and Sakura picked you all out, except Naruto. Do you know who else are groomsmen?"

"Yeah, Neji and Sai." Shikamaru walked into the room. Sasuke and Naruto followed him in. "So, it's only a couple of hours until your wedding," Shikamaru started, hoping to figure out how the usually stoic man was feeling.

"Yeah… it is," Sasuke wasn't facing Shikamaru anymore.

"Are you excited?" Naruto asked with a bright grin on his face.

Sasuke turned around. "Yes, I am," he said with a smirk that could almost pass as a smile.

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"Kisame," Itachi said, "we will leave in one hour."

"Hai."

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Everyone was packed into the main room of the large room. Almost everyone in Konoha had come to see their little cherry blossom's wedding, including a couple of unwanted guests.

Sakura was in the back room preparing to walk down the isle. She was alone; everyone else was already walking down the isle with the beautiful music playing.

Sakura turned around when she heard knocking on her door.

"Is it time?" She asked. She was given no answer, instead the door was knocked open and two of the most feared ninja walked into the room.

Sakura backed up next to the wall. She wasn't all that afraid of the larger man, but she had glimpsed crimson on the face of the other. If she had seen his eyes like she thought, she knew who the two cloaked men were.

"What do you want, Akatsuki?" Sakura spat the word out as if it were poison.

"You are Haruno, Sakura?" the larger of the two asked gruffly.

"Why would you care?" Sakura shot back. As she glared at the two intruders, she heard the music start for her walk down the isle. "Now, if you'll excuse me, I have a wedding to be at."

Sakura stuck her nose up in the air and walked for the door, but she didn't make it out since the shorter man had appeared in front of her.

"You will not be allowed to leave that easily," he said. Sakura noticed his voice was deep and silky. She also got a good look at his eyes as she glared up at him.

'Shit, red. There is only one Akatsuki member that I know of who has red eyes.'

'Isn't he going blind?'

'Yes, but that doesn't mean he isn't dangerous anymore.'

'But that could be the reason they're here.'

'Maybe…'

Sakura backed up again, but didn't get far since she ran into the chest of the other man.

"Kunoichi, come with us and we won't hurt you," the man behind her said dangerously.

"Che, that's a lie if I ever did hear one," Sakura spat out. "You'll hurt me no matter what I choose to do. You're the infamous Hoshigake, Kisame, and… Uchiha, Itachi." As she finished her sentence, she sent daggers at the man guarding the door, know known as Itachi.

"Kisame." With that one word Kisame hit a pressure point and caught the now unconscious girl. (A/N Don't you love how she forgot about how close she was to Kisame?)

"Itachi, we should leave before people come for the missing bride."

"Hn." Itachi walked over and took Sakura from Kisame. Carrying her bridal-style, he made his way through the building and out the back doors. Kisame followed with confusion etched on his face.

'What's with the way Itachi is acting around her?'

Kisame knew better than to ask, but he was at a complete loss as to why Itachi had taken her from him. He always had to carry anyone who was a captive or an unconscious teammate. For once doing the smart thing, Kisame kept his mouth shut as he followed Itachi swiftly out of Konoha.

'Great luck that pretty much everyone is distracted because of the wedding. I wonder who the girl was going to marry… and why did Itachi take her…'

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The room where the wedding was taking place was breath taking. Along the top of the wall were strings of cherry blossoms. White chairs were set up in rows next to the isle for the people coming for the wedding. The altar was white with rich blue cloth draped over it and cherry blossoms spread over the cloth. A scroll rested on top of the altar. The isle looked similar to the altar. A blue carpet was spread down its length with cherry blossoms spread on top. The room itself had creamy-white walls and ceiling and a dark wood floor. There were large windows along two opposite walls. A large mahogany door was the only visible entrance. The altar was set up opposite it.

Sasuke waited expectantly in front of the altar as the music that signaled that Sakura would be coming started. Everyone in the room looked to the large door that was opened in preparation for Sakura. Even Tsunade had a happy expression on her face… But Sakura didn't come.

"Where is she?" Sasuke whispered to Tsunade.

"I don't know. Maybe she can't hear the music," Tsunade whispered back. She motioned behind her to the hidden ANBU to go see where Sakura was.

A few moments later the ANBU was back.

"She's not there."

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A/N: Hey everybody, sorry for taking so long to update. Here's my list of excuses:

Three weeks ago I found out my Aunt had a brain tumor (She was recovering from cancer and we all thought she was going to be ok and she had just moved to France to be with her daughter and son-in-law and their baby)

Three days later my mom left for two weeks to go to my Aunt (in France)

A week after that was Exams!

And a week after that was Halloween (I LOVE HALLOWEEN!)

I had writer's block, so I slowly wrote this bit by bit until I finally finished something worth putting up

So yeah… that's about it. And to let you all know, my Aunt went through surgery and seems to be recovering well. Also, I have a project due in two weeks, so updating will be slow. Sorry. Another thing, I know I didn't give Kisame his sword… I wanted Sakura to not be completely sure of their identities, but have slight doubt and then figure it out… yeah…

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