Sasuke debated

I was the one who had seen them. If anyone were to tell them it should have been me. Still it wasn't in my place. I couldn't go up to Ino and tell her I'm sure your soon to be husband made out with the girl who punched you because her boyfriend is madly in love with you something that everybody but you seem to notice.

"No, we won't tell her."

Sakura bit her lip. I knew her well enough to know that she wanted to tell her, she wanted to deliver the news to Ino. There was something about those two girls that brought out the very best and worst within them. I knew Sakura was the cruelest, but Ino was the most inconsiderate.

I couldn't blame Ino for having some bad blood.

I still technically hadn't broken up with her. I guess she got the point when I had kissed Sakura on the dance floor for everyone to see.

I sat down. I couldn't tell Ino because this is what I did towards her and I was feeling awful about it. I had too very publicly cheated on her. Everyone knew I was with Ino, had been with her for years when I kissed Sakura. I too had cheated on Ino.

History was repeating itself and I didn't have the guts to be the one to bring it up.

Ino did record everything.

Itachi was helping me with everything and it was all streaming to my blog. I would have so many guests the site would hopefully crash before evening.

Right now I was shopping underwear hoping to get Itachi's approval and it made a great scene.

"I think I should go with white, but it reminds me of the cotton panties I used as a child."

Itachi coughed. There was nothing childlike about the underwear set I was holding up.

"Would you like traditional or exciting?"

I picked up a red set with my other hand and started looking at it. It wasn't a bright red, but the color was strong. I liked how the crystals were shining under the light.

"I don't think I would have cared about your underwear."

I put them both back and pulled out the perfect set. It was Lilac with black details. The silk felt perfect under my skin and the velvet parts were so soft. It too sparked and shined under the light but it was the fabric itself.

"This."

All the other sets looked like garbage compared. Nothing could compare with this. This was excellence. This was perfection. I tried looking at the label to see who made it. I didn't find any and looked at the shop lady.

"What brand is this?"

She flushed slightly and her cheeks turned red.

"I've made it myself…"

I nodded once again looking at the details the little bow, that little bow that did so much for the piece.

"Always put your name on what you make."

I grabbed it and went over to the fitting room. I had a white shirt underneath when I went out of the fitting room. Itachi turned and looked at me, his lips tight. It was all I needed to know.

"Five grand."

I told the lady. She repeated me with a heavy mutter.

"Yes, it's handmade, quality fabric and I need it altered by tomorrow."

"To… To… morr…ow?"

I nodded. The piece itself was too big for me, cup size was fine but the rest was far too big.

"I'm getting married tomorrow."

I looked at myself in the mirror. I didn't feel the slightest ashamed or embarrassed fluttering around in my underwear. It was natural to me, I was used to it. The shop keeper and Itachi on the other hand wasn't.

"Can you have it ready by tomorrow?"

The lady nodded her head. She could have it ready in the morning for the strange and beautiful lady. She knew very well who she was and this was great advertisement.

"I'd love to come back later and look at your other designs."

I paid and was out the door Itachi and camera following behind me. The things poor Itachi would do to get out of staying at home. As far as I knew Deidara was still at home sleeping.

"Next is flowers."

I stopped outside the door. It was only one floral shop in town. It had always been my mother's favorite. She had always taken me here every time we went shopping. I hadn't been inside since. Hadn't been inside since.

I stood silent with my hand on the handle.

"I haven't been here since my mother decided to go off and kill herself."

I addressed Itachi and he lowered the camera and went over to embrace me. He had a feeling it must be awful losing a parent that way.

"I guess it's her loss that she's missing out on her daughters wedding day, but I'm also missing out on having my mother in my wedding."

My mother had missed out on a lot because she took the easy way out when she should had stayed and fought. She had a family that would have helped her. She had a family who loved her and would do anything for her. Still she took the easy way out and jumped off that bridge.

"Why don't we have lunch?"

I let go off the door handle and Itachi let go of me. Lunch sounded good to him. We walked over to the creamery. I ordered a sugar and fat free soy vanilla milkshake and some salad. Itachi opted for the real deal, chocolate along with a mini burger and fries.

"So we're back here again."

It seemed to me like we had just left the place, but it had been hours and Itachi had patiently been following my every step.

"Have you even gotten a location?"

It had all happened so fast that Itachi hadn't been following half of what was happening. I smiled and sipped on my milkshake.

"My lawyers are working on getting permission to use the gardens."

It was really a beautiful park. It was my favorite place in this town, the open grass fields, pond and the endless flowers. It was perfect and my life would be ruined if we weren't allowed to be there. I wasn't worried though.

"Police station is our backup."

I laughed. It was already bad enough in some sense that my father had to wed us. It would still be a nice wedding, perfect considering the conditions. I was just curious about who would show up.

"Wow. Have you been thinking about this for a long time, because this went buy faster than expected."

Deidara finally awoke sometime that day.

I had a faint memory about Ino waking me up asking if I had plans for tomorrow and if we just shouldn't get married. I didn't want to explain to her why not so I just said yes and hung up. It was always easier to let her have it her way than to say no.

Ino is a fucking spoilt princess.

After staying here I could see where she got it from. She had her father wrapped around her little finger and he did whatever she wanted. She didn't even have to consider what he felt about it. Didn't have to think about anything, just demand and she would receive.

She was spoilt to the core.

I couldn't and wouldn't compete with that. The whole marriage thing was insane but I needed attention around her and she was insane. I knew even before she was admitted. I was glad to find out that she has actually put on some weight, but not enough. I would have to talk to her about it again.

Managing Ino was a nightmare. I had no idea about the workload when I agreed to manage the skinny little innocent looking blond. Turned out she was insane, in an insanely hot way.

I would never find someone like Ino again. Girls like her didn't grow on trees. They were a rare treat and I would hold on to her for as long as I could. That meant that I would keep my indiscretions on the down low until we were married. Then she was legally bound to me in a whole other way. This marriage wasn't a bad idea after all.

I got up and went for the shower. I still smelled of booze and sex. That Temari chick had been insane as well. I guess it was normal around her. She had been a good lay and it didn't seem like she was thinking about her boyfriend once. She didn't have the time I guess, I made her orgasm thrice. She was exhausted by the time I left her.

It was Ino's fault actually. Had she given me what I wanted I wouldn't have had to go around looking for it with strangers. It seemed like she was more interested in her father's pancakes and tacky parties than sleeping with me.

She was probably sleeping with that Shikamaru dude anyway. We were just trading women, swinging without having made a deal. It didn't matter that we didn't speak about it. Didn't need to and I frankly didn't care what she did as long as she was still putting out for me when she came back.

It was just how we worked and we worked perfectly.

I found myself alone when I woke up. I would make some work calls. Sasori was running the office while I was gone, but I would never trust that bastard. We didn't share the same views but I had to hand it to him that he was the best at the office.

Sakura was in doubt.

I wanted to tell her. Not for personal gain, I had started caring about Ino again. Fragile little Ino that needed me to feel better about her herself. I had always loved her as a child, before we started out competition.

If I was about to marry Sasuke I would have wanted to know if he had been sleeping with other girls hardly 24 hours before the wedding. I looked down at the invitation again and back at the stream.

Ino and Itachi had finally made it back to the flower shop. I wondered why she hadn't asked me to come, I assumed she still felt the resentment between us. Still felt as rivals. Itachi was a safe, he didn't compete with her. He had even had a small crush on Ino.

Ino.

Everyone had an opinion about the girl. Very strong one. No one was indifferent when it came to Ino. It was either love or it was hate. It was straining, it had to be a nightmare for her. She didn't do a single thing to better the situation either. Didn't care, didn't try.

"Sasuke?"

He was lounging on the couch. Reading a book of some sorts.

"I think we should tell her."

He had waited for his fiancée to say something like that. He knew her well, she would want to tell Ino, thinking it was the right thing to do. Sasuke had heard more about Ino and how she had turned out than Sakura. He had heard about her, what she had been up to through his brother. Sasuke wasn't sure if he didn't want to tell her because she wouldn't care or because she thought she deserved it.

"She openly admits to sleeping with other men claiming that a wedding is just a party."

She had said that in the restaurant once. Both Sakura and he had heard her. She had been telling about that one time when she found herself the mistress of some married banker.

"Don't you think it's different when it's her own soon to be husband?"

Sasuke closed his book and watched Ino flung herself around Itachi's neck. Her lawyers had done the magic and gotten her the location she wanted. It wasn't a surprise that she had, she always got what she wanted. What was surprising was that his brother was following her around like some stray dog. Something was up.