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AN: Hello! :D Another update on a somewhat dead brain, yay! I'm literally squealing here for a scene in the next chapter to finally come! -giggles- And for the chapter after! Ne, ne, this story has been taking forever to write... lucky I already wrote the chap ideas up or I would have have been majorly screwed by the tenth chapter (probably, ha).
Well, on with the show (with another not as good chapter?)

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P.s. Edited the chap a little bit since postage.

Chapter 20: Anxiety

Preferred One's History:
Throughout the centuries, Mitsuki's clan has evolved, from our power to changing our very name, which was first called Mochidzuki whom was exiled…

My eyes turned hard as I raced through the trees.

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Leaves were fluttering across the ground. My eyes darted around while I expanded my senses, making sure no one was near me. I could feel a cold sweat break out. Damn! I really needed to calm down! I stopped darting from tree to tree, pausing, so I could calm my nerves. Shit, I need to get to them before anything!

I tugged at my dark hair, breathing hard, trying to get out of this frantic, emotional state. I shut my eyes tightly, trying to feel for their vibrations through the ground.

Damn it! They weren't just chumps! I need to see Kakashi and my team, bustards!

My eyes flashed open and my hand shook as I brought it up to push my dark hair back. I pressed my back to the thick, woody tree trunk, and rested my head on it, trying to see around the tree without being seen – hardly.
I breathed unevenly, trying to catch my breath, while my chest was constricting.

Oh god! What if I get caught! I'll become useless then! I hissed in pain when I saw my fingers gouging into the tree, piercing splinters into my skin – making me snap out of my thoughts. Why am I even thinking like this! It was not going to help one little bit.

I bit my lip and saw something bright in the corner of my eye. Wire. My eyebrows scrunched together as I looked at the thin, hard material. How on earth did that get there? I made myself snap out of my confusion and grabbed it, being thankful that it was there. I already had a few of them down, I had a bloody gouge in my leg that was slowing me down and I needed to finish the rest of them off now.

I slightly unravelled the wire with my teeth and left hand as I chucked some exploding tags around in various palaces with my right. I got a dark glint in my eye as I attached some tags to the wire and sat the trap up.

I could have laughed manically when I heard my 'welcoming' explode in loud bang while there were shouts during it, if it wasn't for the fact that someone was standing manacling in front of me, sending charka ropes to my wrists and ankles.

I hit my head against the tree as my face scrunched up in anguish mixed with hatred. Fuck, they had sent for reinforcements without me even knowing! I shot the King's guards a nasty glare and snarled before my world turned black.

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My hands were clenching my kneecaps as I looked at him. His ugly, green-blue eyes stared at me like a sick prize.

"You stupid pest," the King belittled harshly, "you knew you weren't allowed to leave, and especially to go there." He got a crude, twisted smile on his lips. "Or did I forget to mention that rule."

I shot him a nasty look. "It's not like you can make them up," I snapped sharply without thinking. Shit!

His head cocked with warning and knowing. Another disturbing, spiteful smile came to his lips as he chuckled to himself. "And what are you supposed to do, oh supposable ruler since you're pathetic clan has perished!" His face became mocking with a genuine look. "Oh and what a shame it is that I had a sneaking suspicion; poor, poor people whom wish for their precious, deceased clan back to keep the country in order – so their sad, little country would not be corrupt." He sighed sadly and shook his head, pretending what he said he actually felt. His eyes flashed darkly as he looked back to my slumped figure as his mood changed drastically again. "Che! And what are you supposed to do, look at you, you're pathetic," he spat.

My head cocked to the side. I didn't know that I was supposed to be the ruler because I was the only one left from my clan (well, apart from Ruby). I gritted my teeth. I wasn't ready for that sort of responsibility! So, did that mean that my last name was now 'Mitsuki' by default? My lip twitched. No. I wouldn't take my clan's name if I wasn't supposed to.

My hands clenched and I shot to the metal bars that separated us. My dark hair hung in my eyes, giving me an ominous look as my eyes pierced his widened ones. My lips, that weren't covered within the shadows, smirked darkly. "Don't fuck with my friends or my clan!"

I reached out of the bar to swipe at his collar but a hand gripped mine tightly —coursing pain to shoot through my wrist— before the king even knew what was happening. I was so infuriated I almost didn't know what I was doing. My eyes slowly travelled up the persons arm to meet a face covered in a mask. I slowly looked back to the King and grinned crookedly.

"I see how you're running this place now," I spoke with a hint of smugness in my voice and ripped my arm away from the guard.

The King huffed, thinking I was stupid.

I clicked my tongue and moved to the back of the cell to lean against the wall. I ran my fingers through my tangled hair. "You're weak, aren't you? That's why you have" —I gestured to the guard near him that was watching my every move— "them doing your dirty work."

The Kings eyes narrowed and he clicked his fingers for the guard to leave. The heavy door slammed close after the person left.

"Look here wench! It won't be like that for very long when that Uchiha gene has mixed with my daughters." He said Uchiha like he was disgusted. The 'King' then left me with a twisted, arrogant smile staining his lips before he said, "Oh, and did I also forget to say, that cell you're in slowly drains your chakra dry." And then he grinned happily, "It was nice knowing you for the short time you lived."

I eyed the locked door lividly when I thought of him only using Sasuke as a breeding specimen.

...Was he even part of the Mochidzuki clan?

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Time was almost lost here. I only vaguely, slimly, knew that the wedding was today and that I was becoming so much weaker by the hour. Not only did the cell absorb charka, but it also had protective charka in the wall's partials that made the cell almost impossible to smash, little own crack. Damn it! Where the hell was Sakura when you needed her? I could have escaped so much sooner!

A loud, crunching bang came from my left, meaning it was once again lunch time. I pulled a disgusted face. I didn't know why they fed me or us. Really, what was the point if you were here to die? I huffed hollowly. Huh, probably to make the process that much longer...

The guard snide at me as he dropped the plate carelessly on the filthy floor, not caring that half of the food fell off of it. They probably thought I was finally losing my 'willpower' by my hunched, dirty figure that hardy moved around. I looked at the man before me through my mattered hair with a dark look. The guard (who for once didn't have a mask on) gave me another disgusted look and kicked my food over to me, letting some of its contents slosh onto my face.

"Eat up, girly. Don't want you getting sick now, do we?" He said crudely with a rough voice.

I could smell the 'food' and wanted to throw up. Huh, sick eh? My nose scrunched and I breathed out sharply, showing that I was not going to obey. The guard growled angrily and swiped for my face. His callous, large hand was holding my cheeks tightly as he yanked my face (and body) forward so I would have to stare him straight in the eyes.

"Look here, eat up, or there will be trouble," he spat as he talked harshly. His pale-green eyes narrowed.

My eyes turned cold as I gave him a dark look. "And that would be what?" I sneered at him while glaring.

His grip on me tightened, making my teeth cut into the inside of my cheeks as he glowered down to me, trying to belittle me. He flung my head violently into the floor of the cell. The impact made my body roll awkwardly until it hit the back wall that forced me to stop. I breathed harshly and laid there as I listened to the guard walk away with heavy, troubling steps.

I smirked smugly when I heard the door slam and sat up as I spat the blood out of my mouth. My sharp eyes looked the spot he threw me at and grinned. I fingered the crack, watching as small chips kept flaking off and started gathering chakra into my hand.

Dust was flying around me as I wobbly landed. I looked above me when I heard shouts and saw the hole I made. I quickly looked back to what room I was in now and cursed. Another cell area. I put my hand on a wall with a window and smiled from my luck. The walkway of the cells didn't have any chakra protecting them. What a dodgy system.

I pulled my wrist back to punch through the wall but stilled when I heard a croaky, sickening cough. I looked and saw a mother and daughter huddled in a corner for warmth. I frowned sadly when I saw that they were looking at me with hopeful eyes. I turned back around with my eyes clenched shut and whispered to them before I escaped, "I'm sorry..." I'll be back. I promise.

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I could have cried when I saw my team. My breathing was labored and I was shaking from trying to find them as quick as possible without being caught by my pursuers (who I hope I lost a while back. I could hardly tell anymore; everything was so confusing). I was almost out of chakra. I looked at Sasuke and my throat became tight. He was standing at the altar, looking... looking... not like him, with a dolled up princess standing next to him.

I went to run over and forcibly stop the wedding but heard my name being yelled frantically, making me stop. My head turned to look at my team and saw them rushing over to me. I could faintly hear that it was Naruto telling me something like watch out, before I screeched in white hot pain.

I could feel metal torn through the ligaments of my thigh and collapsed onto the ground in a heap. Tears came to my eyes as the guards started dragging me back to them by the chain that was attached through me. My nails were biting into the ground, trying to get away, as my eyes connected with Sasuke's. His cold, dark eyes slightly widened when he saw what condition I was in and quickly raced over to me with our team, abandoning the ceremony.

A kunai was lodge into one of the chain's loops to stop them from pulling me any further as my team surrounded me protectively. An uproar was happening from the King ordering people to kill me.

"Sakura, check on her!" Kakashi shouted. "Sasuke," —the said person glared warningly— "protect her until Sakura says so. Naruto, you're with me. Whatever you do, don't let anyone get to Sakura and Jade."

Sakura's glowing hands went to my thigh and she grimaced with grief-stricken eyes. "K-Kakashi," she stuttered as she stared at me.

"What is it?" The silver haired man replied quickly. Metal clanged against metal. There were so many people.

Sakura blinked, making herself snap out her stupor. "She's loosing blood incredibly and a lot of her wounds are infected. Also, her charka has almost depleted... She's going to die if we don't get her to the hospital soon! This big of a job, I can only stabilise her..." Her witchy-green eyes looked to the side as she started healing to the best of her ability.

"It's a surprise she made it this far..." She whispered as an afterthought.

I blinked harshly, trying to keep myself awake so I could tell everyone the truth, but I needed her to heal me first – it felt like I would faint if I even tried forming a sentence from my blood caked lips. Damn it, why is always me who gets hurt?

I screeched when she ripped the spiky chain out and quickly started healing the dampening, excruciating area. I whimpered and tried to scramble away from the pastel-pink haired teen but she grabbed my lower thigh with a bone-crushing grip. I wheezed while she multitasked on my collapsed lung.

She wiped sweat from her forehead as she reconnected cracked bone and flesh together while she sped up the red and white blood cell count. I tried whacking her hands away hysterically from the pain and from her almost draining herself dry. She was trying to fully heal me by herself!

Sakura nodded and then arms wrapped around my shoulders and legs to pick me up. I clenched his shirt when he held me close, causing pain, and hissed. He loosened my legs and I kicked downwards so I could stand when I saw the guards were breaking through our forces. I wanted to fight.

Naruto's light-blue eyes connected with mine after he took out the guards that were coming over to us and gave me a quick smile of relief before he turned serious again. "Damn it, Jade! You had me scared there for a second! What the hell were you thinking running off by yourself?"

I tried replying to him but he cut me off, still raving about how scared he'd been for the last couple of weeks and saying stuff about the Teme becoming agro while I was gone.

I started to ignore Naruto when I saw the Royal's angered faces and glared darkly at them. I glowered at the smug princess who didn't know that I knew about her little secret; I tried to get to them.

I heard Sasuke growl darkly, deep within his throat, as a warning for me to stop struggling. "You're going to reopen your wounds," his smooth, slightly annoyed voice said close to my ear. I hung my head, miffed while gritting my teeth, from him being right and let him pull me closer to his warm chest.

Losing concentration once more, I could feel my skin was freezing compared to his from blood loss and shuttered, wanting more warmth. He understood and circled his arms around my waist securely when he felt me wobble from my light-headedness. Everything was so confusing and hectic! It's hard to think straight.

Kakashi looked back at us unimpressed. "Why is she still here, Sasuke? Get her to safety!"

My piercing, unfocused gaze connected with dark eyes when he started to drag my slacking body away from the order. I reached up and tugged Sasuke's head down so I could at least tell him that the Royals were not the rulers and that I was.

His dark eyes flashed dangerously from the revelation.

AN: Lol, I never really realised but Jade's a bit kooky xD (I've been re-reading some chapters to refreshen the hollowness of my skull). She's so zany sometimes it's highly entertaining. (How did I not notice this when I wrote it, lol? –sighs- I guess that's what happens when you don't write for a while.)