Chapter 1 – Exploding Clay Puppets
Smiling and yet nervous, Tsunade welcomed three of her most powerful and yet still most feared ninja into her office, knowing why she had received the request for a meeting. The same reason she had agreed even though the request had only come in about an hour prior and she had an extremely bust day ahead.
The marriage agreement.
Faking confidence, Tsunade gestured for them to seat themselves. About 35 seconds after they had already taken seats. Feeling way out of her depth with these three apparently harmless nin, she poured herself a cup of what appeared to be water but was actually sake. Very strong sake.
"There is only one opposition to this marriage. Well, two actually. Sasori and Deidara feel they need to object on the grounds that they don't seem to be able to go with me," the girl said, waving a hand in the general direction of the men. "As we have been friends for years, they do not wish for me to go to a foreign village without their protection," she continued managing to sound eloquent even through the noise coming from the noise coming from the two men as they juggled clay balls.
"The contract allows you to take a guard or an entourage with you after all, it will be your wedding and you may need help with the planning and everything. Sasori, Deidara and another may go with you, discounting the guards you will have to accompany you. It seems that there is still enough enmity between our villages that this has become necessary."
As the pink-haired Sakura and the stern-faced Tsunade went into a lengthy discussion about the benefits and disadvantages to becoming the Kazekage's wife.
Sakura may have to do a hospital visits to prove her medical knowledge and skill. Being the Leaf's torture master meant she had to be adept at healing so her victims didn't die on her too quickly. It also provided her with in-depth knowledge of how the body worked and which parts of the anatomy weren't necessary to live.
Unbeknownst to them, as enthralled with the discussion as they were, Sasori and Deidara had started a game. It involved using Sasori's charka strings to manipulate the movement of Deidara's clay balls so that they performed an intricate and beautifully sinister dance.
That was, until the clay balls exploded, sending papers and pieces of wood everywhere, nearly suffocating the four of them with the resulting debris. Guards came thundering in, trying in vain to protect their leader from something that was virtually harmless. All they really did was add to the confusion.
When the rubble was finally cleared, it left an extremely angry Hokage facing down a pouting and pitifully guilty clay artist. Deidara was apologizing profusely for what was, in all actuality, an accident.
It appeared that Deidara had somehow managed to make his clay balls explode as soon as they were in a certain formation. The only way that this particular formation was possible was if Sasori had been controlling them with his puppet strings. Sasori had inconveniently forgotten about this trigger and had manipulated the clay into a formation that he thought was harmless and clever, forgetting where he had seen it before.
Deidara's stupidity and Sasori's rather convenient amnesia were the cause of the clay balls exploding at an inopportune moment, ending up with an angry Hokage, an amused puppeteer, an indifferent Sakura and a destroyed room.
Eventually, Sasori and Deidara had managed to explain themselves out of any trouble except for the cost of the destruction and a bottle of sake.
While Deidara was getting the sake and Sasori was finishing arranging to get the office fixed, Sakura had finished organizing the final details of the wedding arrangement which left her with just the actual wedding and her move to the sand village to organized.
Also, how she was going to 'deal' with a husband.