A/N: A big thanks to my beta samurai girl93! As always she is doing a great job! Hi again! I'm really sorry for the delay. I have had so much things to do right now. I have been working and packing stuff for the trip. So I finally finished the last thing on this chapter here in Japan. So I will tell you this, I may not be able to upload for some time now because I have to go to school and study, but I will try to upload when I at least have a chapter ready for you! Ok, read and enjoy and please, don't forget to review! Take Care! ^-^
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Chapter Twenty Two - The Right Kind Of Wrong
One week had passed since Sakura's soon to be mother-in-law and sister-in-law had came to the mansion to turn Sakura's already troublesome stay into something worse than troublesome. They had more or less turned her life into something Sakura would call Hell on earth and she didn't know how to get out of it, because they were always there to torment her (at least Eimin was, her sister-in-law).
And if her mother-in-law didn't complain about her less graceful posture and attitude, it was her sister-in-law, who began to tell her that she was just a worthless, harlot that had just caught her brother's eyes because he pitied her and her unborn whore child.
Sakura had never in her entire life felt the urge to kill like she did right now. Not just because they had picked on her, but they had picked on her unborn son as well. That was just unforgivable to her and Sakura had without they knowing it, declared war against them. And even how childish it may be, she had enjoyed every single moment they had ended up in one of Sakura's many traps all around the place and just that had made Sakura to be less restless as they days had passed by, but it didn't make her any happier as the wedding grew closer and closer.
But it hadn't taken that long for them to figure out who the 'master' trap layer was and with that Sakura had to admit her defeated to Eimin and her mother-in-law; Ryuusei Kamiko.
And that had given Kamiko every reason to tell her son Sange, how bad and unworthy this woman was for him. But he had told her like many times already; that it still was his choice and that they had no matter in saying who he choose to be his wife...
And maybe it has been that reason to why she hadn't been punished yet. Though, she began to wonder if the 'lessons' she was given by the head housemaid had been her punishment, because it was just as boring as watching one of the Icha Icha movies with her Sensei.
`No no... It isn't boring; it is more like laughable´ Sakura mused as she watched out the window on the second floor to see how the clouds drifted past and disappearing out of sight. She sighed deeply.
"Sakura-sama! Are you listening to what I'm telling you?"
Sakura snapped her emerald eyes up to the severe looking elderly woman with salt and pepper hair, who had smacked the book she was holding into the desk in front of Sakura.
"...Sort of..." she mumbled and the elderly woman made her lips into a thin line.
"That's not good enough. Sakura-sama, how am I supposed to make you into a fine young lady when you aren't even trying to listen to me?" the elderly woman asked the pink haired Sakura who shrugged at her.
"Kiku, please remind me what I am doing here in the first place?" Sakura asked the black haired maid, who smiled down to Sakura.
"You are here to learn how to be a Lady by the order of Ryuusei Kamiko-sama," Kiku answered Sakura still with a smile on her face. "And you took Kamiko-sama's order as a challenge, so that is why you are here, Sakura-sa-...chan."
"I see," was all Sakura said, as she looked back to the window.
"Sakura-sama, this isn't how a Lady should behave! Even how boring it may be to you, you still have to act like you really care about what every one of them might say to you! That is a part of being a Lady." the elderly woman told Sakura who glanced up to her.
"You want me to act? Sure, I can act if you want to," Sakura leaned carelessly back to the chair and looked up to the elderly woman once again. "'How was your day, Sange-sama? Oh, it's a really nice day today, Sange-sama.' Please, don't force me to say these things!"
"Sakura-sama, that wasn't acting and if it was, it wasn't that good," the elderly woman said and sighed. "You aren't trying hard enough, Sakura-sama and if you only had put as much effort in trying to be a Lady, like you placed into your distasteful pranks, you could be a fine Lady by now."
"Does it look like I want to be a Lady?" Sakura asked the woman and she narrowed her eyes at her. "And I didn't even ask for this kind of life to the beginning with."
"But do you really want to dishonor your fiancé on your own engagement party with your behavior?" the elderly woman asked Sakura who looked down to the desk.
"Yes, I do," she told her and that was the truth. Sakura did really want to make the whole engagement party to be one big fiasco. And not being a Lady was step number one.
But then again, what would Konoha think of her if she decided to ruin this engagement and wedding? Would it mean that she had started a war between Tsume no Kuni and Hi no Kuni, if she ruined everything?
No, she couldn't do that to her home. All she really was after was just to make the whole thing to take a little longer time. Long enough so her letters to Konoha could return with answers to her and that would hopefully not take too much of a long time, but she still hadn't get any answers from them on the first letter she had post with one of the carrier pigeons. That meant she had to write another one until she got some answers from them.
"...-and one part of being a Lady is to listen to when people are talking to you, Sakura-sama." the elderly woman said and smacked the book once more in the desk. "Did you even hear a word of what I told you?"
"Um..." Sakura looked up to the woman who sighed.
"Let me guess, no you didn't."
"No, I'm sorry," Sakura mumbled and the elderly woman looked away from Sakura.
"Sakura-sama, why are you so against Ryuusei-sama? You don't even know him and he is a really fine young man. He is rich and he has looks too," the woman said and glanced down to Sakura. "Many women's would kill to be in a position like you are in right now."
"You would too be against the man, if you were forced to marry someone you just knew that you won't like," Sakura told the woman. "And money has a different value to me then it has to him. I don't care if he is rich. I don't care if women would kill for being where I am right now. I just... I just want to be happy with someone I choose, not with someone I didn't choose."
"I understand that, but how can you say such a thing about him when you just locked yourself up in your room. That isn't how you do, when trying to get to know each other," the woman said to Sakura who had turn back to look at the window. "And who knows? Maybe he will make you happy?"
"I doubt that," Sakura mumbled and heard how the old woman sighed.
"You must learn that not all marriage is due to love. Most marriage is just like this one, between you and Ryuusei-sama. A marriage that both of you have to learn to love each other, by taking small steps." she told the pink haired woman, who glanced up to her. "And just between the two of us, I know that Ryuusei-sama really likes you."
Sakura could hear how Kiku snorted slightly behind her and that made the elderly woman to look at Kiku.
"Anyway Masako-san, even how much you say he likes me, I don't like him and I never will," Sakura told the elderly woman. "My heart belongs to someone else and has done so for many years now."
Sakura raised from the chair and looked to the salt and pepper haired woman Masako, who looked steadily back at the pink-haired woman.
"You will never turn me into a Lady, Masako-san," Sakura told her and then she turned her gaze to the black haired maid, who had stood behind Sakura all the time. "We are leaving, Kiku."
"Hai, Sakura-chan," Kiku said and bowed her head to Sakura.
Masako watched how Kiku escorted the eight months pregnant woman towards the big dark door and she opened it for her.
"Sakura-sama," Masako called to the pink haired woman, who stopped in the doorway and turned to look at her. "You know that I haven't given up my hopes for you."
"I know that you haven't, but it will still not change the fact that you will never be able to turn me into something I am not," Sakura told Masako, who smiled slightly to Sakura.
"There is more than just etiquette you have to learn, my dear," Masako told her and looked to Sakura over her round shaped spectacles. "Tomorrow after breakfast and don't be late again. I will not accept your poor excuses next time."
Sakura nodded shortly to Masako, before she was out of the room with Kiku after her.
"You are not planning to be on time tomorrow?" Kiku asked and tried to hide the amusement in her voice.
"No I'm not. And I thought we could take a really long after breakfast nap instead," Sakura told Kiku, who find this 'go against the regulation' thing quite funny, even if it meant that they would be yelled at later on.
"Sounds really great, Sakura-chan," Kiku said with a smile and then she suddenly took Sakura's sleeve to her kimono.
"What is it, Kiku?" Sakura asked the maid.
"Kamiko-sama," Kiku mumbled and watched how Sakura looked up to the slightly plump and haughty looking woman, who was walking towards them.
"Don't worry about her, Kiku. Just ignore her," Sakura mumbled back to Kiku, who nodded.
Sakura walked past the slightly plump and haughty looking woman Kamiko, with a high head and with the maid Kiku after her, who still held a firm grip on Sakura's sleeve.
Suddenly the woman Kamiko stopped and turned her head slightly back to look at the two who had past her.
"I see that you still haven't changed your behavior," she suddenly said and that made the pink haired woman to turned around to look at her.
"I see it not fitting to change my behavior towards someone, who even can't behave correctly towards others," Sakura told the woman Kamiko with a cold tone and Sakura smirked inwardly when she saw how Kamiko's lips turned into a thin line of anger.
"Tsk... Kiku, come here!" Kamiko snapped to the black haired maid, who flinched by her harsh tone, but did as she was told. "Kiku, I have heard from Masako-san that Sakura haven't been on time for her lessons and I believe it's your duty to make her to come in time for her lessons or am I wrong?"
"No, Kamiko-sama. You aren't," Kiku mumbled to Kamiko without looking up to her.
"Look to me when you are talking to me, child." Kamiko hissed to Kiku, who glanced up to the fearsome woman in front of her. "Because of your disobedience," Kamiko looked to Sakura as she said it, "you have to be punished."
Kiku didn't say a word or tried to resist and to Sakura that meant that poor Kiku along with the other maids was use to this kind of things. And Sakura couldn't stand to see how poor Kiku would take all the punishment because of what Sakura herself did and didn't.
Kamiko raised her folding fan into the air and let it fell down to hit the poor little black haired maid, but what she hit instead made her a bit surprise. Instead of hitting the loathsome little maid, she had hit something bigger and even more loathsome and she smirked when she heard how the folding fan made contact to the pink haired woman's skin.
Sakura, who had used her kunoichi reflex to get in between Kamiko and Kiku, raised an arm to protect Kiku from the hit and she clenched her teeth's, due to the pain of the folding fan who had cut Sakura's arm and she saw how surprise flickered in Kamiko's stone cold eyes. Well Sakura wasn't surprised; this woman didn't know that Sakura was a kunoichi after all.
"If you are going to punish someone, then punish me. Kiku had nothing to do with me being late," Sakura growled to Kamiko, who removed the fan from Sakura's arm and stepped away from them.
"My dear, both of us know that punishment doesn't work on you," Kamiko told Sakura with an acid tone and then she and the maid Kamiko was with walked away from them.
"Are you okay?" Sakura asked Kiku when Kamiko had disappeared around the corner.
"Aaa... I'm just fine and what about you?" Kiku looked to Sakura and saw how she had manage to hide her arm with the sleeve of the kimono.
"I'm fine too," Sakura told Kiku, who didn't look that convinced. "Really, that was nothing compared to what I have been through."
Even if Kiku still wasn't convinced, they continued their walk back to Sakura's room in silence.
Sakura looked to her right as she walked past the big windows that revealed the last soft pink flowers of the cherry trees that bloomed out in the garden. She stopped to look at the big cherry trees that sway back and forth in the light spring breeze and she began to think back to her days with the young Team Seven. Her days with Naruto, Kakashi and Sasuke and how they had watched the cherry trees at the Hanami*, but those days was no long gone.
"Sakura-sama?"
Sakura turned her head to look at the little maid, who concerned look back to Sakura.
"Kiku, you know what I have said about that." Sakura told the maid, who began to blush slightly.
"Go-Gomen*," Kiku mumbled still blushing and Sakura waved off her apology with a soft smile in her face. "Ma-Maybe you would want to take a walk with me in the garden? It's just such a lovely weather to be inside and I would really love to watch the last cherry blossoms with you."
Sakura looked to the blushing maid and then to the window gazing at big cherry trees with its magnificent small pink flowers, which gave her her name.
"I would love to, Kiku," Sakura told the maid, who began to smile up to Sakura.
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"Aahh! Now it would be nice with a cup of tea and a good book! Don't you think that too, Sakura-chan?" Kiku asked the pink haired woman as Kiku sat herself down on the stone bench beside Sakura.
Sakura didn't answered and she just looked vacant up to the bright blue spring sky, while stroking her belly softly. It had been her first time out like these since she had got here and that was like three weeks ago.
"Gomen. Maybe I shouldn't have taken you outside," Kiku mumbled and she sounded really regretful.
"No Kiku, don't apologize. You haven't done anything wrong. I'm just tired, that's all." Sakura suddenly said and forced a smile to her lips as she looked down to Kiku, who smiled back to her with her childish innocent smile and something with that smile warmed her. "You know, I have never had a sister, so I have always wondered how it would feel to have one."
Kiku looked to Sakura with her big hassle eyes and Sakura continued.
"And when I finally found someone who I saw as a sister, I lost her and I could never have that feeling again. The feeling of having a sister…" Sakura told Kiku with a sad look on her face and Kiku's smile dropped some. "But with you, I was able to have that feeling again... Arigatou*, Kiku..."
Kiku placed back her bright smile on her face, while watching the woman beside her, who looked so much older than she was and Kiku imagine it was due to the fact that she was a shinobi and that she missed her home and family.
"If you want me to be your sister, I can be," Kiku finally said with a blush and Sakura smiled softly to her.
"I would be very happy I you were," Sakura said and Kiku smiled once again up to her, before she putted her head into Sakura's lap.
"I know that I have already told you, but you will be a great mom," the maid mumbled sleepy as Sakura laid her hand on the little maid's head and stroked her soft black hair.
"Arigatou," Sakura mumbled softly and she looked back to the bright blue spring sky and watched how the cherry petals slowly was blown away by the wind and up into the sky.
For the really first time Sakura felt peaceful and she wished for nothing more than to stay like this.
"There you are, Sakura my love!"
Sakura froze when she heard that voice and she glanced to the dark brown haired man who was walking towards her.
Why was she always interrupted by him when she just wanted to be alone? Kami was surely not on her side, just like he hadn't been on all of the other days either.
She began to frown and looked up to him with eyes that were impassive and cold as ice.
"My dear that is not how you look at your fiancé," the man said and stopped when he was close enough to her.
She didn't respond.
"Kiku, leave us and go back to the mansion to help the others with the dinner," he said coldly to the maid, who raised her head from Sakura's lap and stood up.
"Hai, Ryuusei-sama," Kiku said and bowed her head to the man and after have giving a worried look to Sakura, she walked back to the mansion.
Sakura, who didn't want to be in his presence all alone, stood up as well to follow Kiku.
"Not so fast, my dear," Ryuusei said and grabbed Sakura's wrist and pulled her to him. "I didn't say that you could leave. Did I?"
Sakura looked up to him and she wasn't surprised to see that look of pure lust in his heavy gaze. A gaze he always seemed to just show her and she was disgusted by it.
"No." she answered simply.
"You know, I have really tried to play along with you and your ninja games, but I will be honest with you my dear, I have began to get a bit tired to play with you like this." Ryuusei told her and pressed her closer to him. "Our engagement party is coming closer and I can't have you behaving like some savage animal during that fest, do you understand me my dear?"
"What if I say no?" Sakura sneered.
"There is no such word as 'no'," he scoffed at her still holding her wrist. "Do you understand me, Sakura-chan?" he said once more and just to make sure that he meant what he had said, he squeezed her wrist a bit harder. "Either you behave or I will have you locked in until you feel like you want to behave."
"Then you will have to lock me in," she hissed low to him.
"Do you really want to be locked in without food or water for the rest of the day?" he asked her coldly and she narrowed her eyes at him. "Do not make this any harder then it already is for you, Sakura-chan. You know as well as I do why this wedding can't be stopped or it will be really troublesome for your Hokage as it will be for you."
Sakura watched how he lowered his face closer to hers and pressed his lips against her soft skin on her cheek.
"And I will take whatever I want," he purred into her ear and she felt how he began to go lower down with his free hand. "And I want you, my dear."
Sakura shoved herself away from him and took one step back, trying to get away from him (even if he still held her wrist with his iron grip) and then he dragged her back to his side. Looking down to her with those dark lust filled chocolate eyes and Sakura was afraid that the more she resisted, the more would those eyes be filled with lust.
"You won't deny me!" he hissed to her and she began to look panicked up to him.
She knew perfectly well that she could beat the crap out of him and by doing that she would probably just harm him along with Konoha and Hi no Kuni. And she would also harm herself and her unborn son.
But she needed to make him stop and if it was her body he wanted. She could give it to him.
As she was about to open her mouth to tell him that he could take her body as long as he didn't hurt her unborn child, she felt how his grip began to lessen on her wrist and she gazed almost shyly up to the presence she could feel of another man beside her.
And it was when he spoke, Sakura was sure that her heart had missed a beat or two and she was also very sure she would kill him for that later.
"I appreciate if you don't handle my sister like that next time I see you," he said to Ryuusei, who glared up to the man who had spoken to him and he raised an eyebrow at the man.
"And who are you?" Ryuusei asked the intruder sharply and Sakura could hear, by just listing to Ryuusei's voice, that he wasn't pleased to be interrupted like this by this stranger beside them.
"My apologize, how rude of me," the stranger said and Sakura tried hard to not let her mouth to fell open by this man soft baritone voice, that most likely, could melt icebergs. "My name is Haruno. Haruno Katashi."
"Haruno Katashi?" Ryuusei repeated while looking to the man, still with a raised eyebrow. "Are you the brother of my fiancée?"
"Aaa, it so seems to be," the intruder, whose name was Haruno Katashi, said and let go off Ryuusei's wrist after have made sure that he had let go off hers.
Sakura glanced up to the man who called himself for her brother and she was surprised to see dark ash green eyes, instead of a dark grey and a mismatch one, hiding itself under the bangs of his unruly silver hair and top of it no scar was decorating his face. And even if his appearance was a bit different, his mask less face was just the same, just like that lazy grin he always had given her along with that reassuring eye crinkle.
"Sakura my love, you did never tell me that you had a brother," Ryuusei said and looked to Sakura with narrowed eyes that only she could see. "Though, he looks a bit old to be your brother."
Ryuusei turned his gaze back to the silver haired man, who looked back to him.
"Well... Um... I-I didn't know that I had a brother," Sakura mumbled and glanced up to Ryuusei, who wasn't particularly happy with her answer.
"How would she know?" the silver haired man suddenly said. "Father left our mother before she was born so she would, of course, not know about my existence. And before our father died, he asked me to find her and keep an eye on her and that's why I am here, to keep an eye on her because of our father's last wish."
"To keep an eye on her?" Ryuusei said a bit surprised and he looked from the man Katashi to Sakura. "I would say it is a rather unusual wish of a dying man, who seemed to not have taking any interest in her before."
"Times change and things were a bit different back then and he didn't even know that mother was expecting a child during their divorce," Katashi said while looking to Sakura and then back to Ryuusei. "He found that out some months before his death and as he wished for, I will stay with her, at least until she is married."
"Very well then, I will let you stay," Ryuusei said to Katashi while turning around to walk back to the mansion, but before he did so he laid a hand on the silver haired man's shoulder while leaning closer to his ear. "Just so you know, Katashi. I don't trust strangers, even if those strangers is said to be relatives to my fiancée. So if you do anything strange to my fiancée, I will know that and I will have your head served as the main course at the wedding reception."
"I will keep that in mind," the silver haired man murmured calmly to Ryuusei, who let go of his shoulder and began to walk to the mansion.
When Sakura was sure that Ryuusei was out of ears hold, she turned with narrowed eyes towards the silver haired man in front of her and she did what she saw most fitting at the moment; she slapped him hard in his face, hopping it would make him understand the situation he had put themselves in.
"Are you insane!" she hissed to him and watched how he a bit baffled, rubbed his stinging cheek. "You shouldn't be here! It's too dangerous for you to be here, Kakashi!"
"Well, I think danger is my middle name," Kakashi told her while crinkling both his eyes and Sakura gave him a disapproving glare. "And I know that it will be dangerous, but I had to. How else would I be able to see you again?"
Sakura looked up to him with a confounded look on her face, before she looked away to glare down to the soft green grass.
"No. You need to go back," she told him and looked back up to him. "If he finds out the truth, that you really aren't my brother or whatsoever, things will get ugly."
"He won't find out," Kakashi told her and grabbed her hand in his. "Ryuusei don't know anything about your father, that's why it will be a big advantage for us."
"A big advantage you say? How can it be a big advantage to us, when even I don't know a shit about my own father?" Sakura hissed to Kakashi.
"And that is why it will be much easier to lie about a man neither of you know about and that's was why I can still hold my cover as your brother," Kakashi told her and watched how she pulled her hand back from his.
"And that's what I'm afraid of," Sakura mumbled and watched how he had crossed his arms over his chest. "What if he finds out that my mother's last name was Haruno and not my father's? What will you tell him then?"
"Well if that ever happen, we will tell him a new lie in the lie," Kakashi told her with a shrug.
"No, I don't want to lie in front of him," Sakura told him firmly and saw how he raised an eyebrow at her.
"That's not what I heard when I walked through the mansion. You have become a quite big liar yourself, Sakura," Kakashi said and she slapped him hard on his arm.
"It was necessary!"
"And so is this! Look, all I ask for is just a bit of cooperation from you, the rest will I take care of myself." Kakashi said and laid his palm on her head. "All you have to do is simple just being my sister and act as you don't know me."
"That will be simple," she said scornfully and moved Kakashi's hand away from her head. "And just so you know, Katashi isn't the greatest undercover name. Couldn't you come up with something else?"
"Don't you like it? I thought it sounded so much like a certain name I know you are familiar with." Kakashi said while scratching his chin. "And what I heard from Yamato, you have become a bit demented."
"I have certainly not! It's more like you who have!" she hissed and glared murderous to him. "Anyway, what are you really doing here? I seriously doubt it has anything to do what you said first. Was it Naruto, who send you out here to make sure that I really married that man?"
"Naruto? Why would he do that? You know as well as I do, that he can't just send people out here, even how much he cares for you." Kakashi told her and she raised an eyebrow at him.
"Wait, are you telling me that you are here without permission from Naruto?" Sakura asked him and saw how he rubbed his neck, in a way he often did when he had been figured out. "You really are insane! You have just done something really wrong and stupid, do you understand that!"
"But I believe it is the right kind of wrong and yes, I do understand that," Kakashi mumbled and looked down to her with those dark ash green eyes.
"Then why are you even here, if you understand that this could end badly for both of us?" Sakura looked up to him and her gaze met his.
"Because someone told a really drunk old man, to never give up," Kakashi mumbled and placed his hand on her cheek. "I don't care what I will be called when I come back home with you by my side. As long as you are safe and sound back in Konoha, I don't care."
Sakura's eyes widened as she looked up to him and then she cast her eyes downwards while placing her hand on his hand, which still was on her cheek and she tried to drag it off from her cheek, but he held his hand firmly on her cheek.
"Please... Just leave, Kakashi," she said faintly and glanced up to him. "I don't want you to get in trouble because of me... So just go."
"I will not leaving you all alone again!" Kakashi whispered to her and he glanced down to her hand that still was on his hand. "And I-... What have you done with your wrist?"
"Nothing," Sakura said while moving as fast as she could her hand away from his hand, but as usually she was no match for the highly skilled shinobi in front of her, who grabbed her wrist softly with his hand and pulled up the sleeve to her kimono.
"What is this?" he asked her and examining her wrist and arm.
"I told you that it's nothing. I was just clumsy yesterday and made some brushes on my arm. That's all," Sakura told him and tried to wrench her wrist free from his grip.
"Did he hurt you, Sakura?" Kakashi asked low and looked to her with those dark ash green eyes.
"No!"
"Then what is this?" Kakashi glanced down to the faintly finger marks after Ryuusei's hard grip on her wrist to the still red and slightly bluish cut on her upper arm after the folding fan had hit her just a little while ago.
"It's nothing!" she told him, still trying to wrench her out of his grip.
"Don't lie to me! Did he hurt you?" Kakashi asked once more, while looking down to her, but he got no answer from her. "Sakura, I'm not blind. Even I can tell that those bruises are after someone who griped your wrist too hard. So don't lie to me to my face!"
"He has never harmed me once. Sure he was a bit rough this time, but I kind of provoked him," Sakura mumbled and Kakashi didn't look like he believed her. "The only one, who has actually harmed me, is his mother. She was the one who gave me that mark on my arm today."
"How?"
"She was about to beat the maid Kiku, because I did something stupid. So she was about to punish Kiku, when I stepped in between that hag and Kiku. She hit me with her folding fan instead of Kiku," Sakura told Kakashi and she could see that he clenched his jaw in anger because of what she had told him.
"That's it! I will send words to Konoha and tell them what she is doing to you," Kakashi said while looking from Sakura and back to the mansion.
"No! Please Kakashi, don't!" Sakura mumbled and grabbed his sleeve with her free hand and tugged on it. "Don't send word to them!"
"Sakura, I can't let you stay here," Kakashi told her firmly and looked down to her. "You are obviously not safe here,"
"Please, Kakashi," Sakura pleaded and looked up to him. "They wouldn't understand."
"They wouldn't understand?" Kakashi mumbled while raising his eyebrow while he still was looking down to her. "Sakura, what have they done with you? Where is that strong woman I know, who would beat everything and everyone to pulp by just saying she looks fat? Where is that woman, Sakura?"
"She disappeared when all this happened," Sakura told him and Kakashi knew what she meant by it. "I'm sorry, Sensei... I just don't have the strength to fight them anymore and I have my son to think of as well."
Sakura let go of his sleeve and placed her hand on her much bigger stomach, rubbing it gently while looking down to it with a soft gaze.
"You mean our son," Kakashi said low and let go of her wrist and he saw how Sakura's emerald eyes glanced up to him, behind her pink bangs and her eyes told him that she didn't trust him like she had done before all this happened. And everything was due to him. "Sakura, I know how you feel about this and I feel the same…"
"Do you?" she hissed angrily to him while turning her head slightly away from him.
"I do. I think the elders did wrong to send you away to this man. And I would approve to be threatened like something useless either, like you have been by them. Do you really think I would accept them doing that to you?" Kakashi said and saw how Sakura glanced up to him once more, almost like she was trying really hard to at least consider what he had told her.
"It doesn't matter anymore," Sakura told him stony and looked back to her stomach. "I'm to marry him and there is nothing you can do about it. That's way I want you to leave now, Kakashi. I don't want you to get involved with this."
"I'm already involved with this, Sakura!" Kakashi informed her and he saw how her eyes still sadly looked down to her stomach. "I don't trust him and I care too much for you to just let you go. I will not make the same mistake again."
Sakura finally looked up to him, wondering what he had meant with; 'Not doing the same mistake again.'
Had he done something she didn't know of? And when Sakura was about to ask him, what he had done that had been a mistake, she was cut off by a voice in front of them.
"Sakura-sama!"
Sakura turned her gaze to the one who had called and saw the little maid Kiku, walking towards them from the mansion.
"I'm sorry, but I have to go. Please... Go back home, Kakashi," Sakura told him and she began to walk towards Kiku, who had stopped half ways, but Sakura was abrupt stopped by someone taking her hand softly.
"Like I said, I'm not leaving you again," Kakashi told her while looking down to her and when she looked back to him with a frown in her face, he let go of her hand. "Just be careful, will you?"
"You know me," she mumbled while turning her head back to the maid and continued to walk back towards the maid Kiku, who grabbed her arm in Sakura's.
Kakashi watched how the two young women's walked back towards the mansion and he shook his head. Of course he knew that Sakura would listen to him just like the stubborn pink-haired woman did to everyone else. She always walked her own way, being just as stubbornly as him.
But something didn't feel right about that man who was Sakura's fiancé. Even if he was somehow, a bit creepy and seemed to be a bit violent, he lacked the chakra of a shinobi and Kakashi could only placed that man's chakra to a civilian who had at least fought in a war, but that was pretty much it.
And as Kakashi had suspected, this man was not that notorious 'Bride Reaper' as Shikamaru had told him this man most likely was to be. Kakashi would of course even after eighteen year, recognize that hideous chakra of that man Rakuseki Kashi, who had destroyed the last thing Kakashi really wanted to protect.
But this man, Ryuusei Sange was not even any way near that man's chakra signature and when it come to the looks, they were not even the slightest hint that Ryuusei was even alike Rakuseki Kashi and Kakashi began to question the ANBU even more, as well as Shikamaru.
Maybe he had been a bit manipulated by Shikamaru and by his own personal feeling towards his pink haired ex-student. And he had once again done something without really thinking about what he had done and somehow, it was just so not like him.
But now when he was here, he could at least stay and keep an eye on Sakura and her fiancé. Even if he didn't see anything wrong at the moment, his old shinobi sense told him otherwise.
More Notes:
When I write the text 'like this' it means that the person in question is thinking. When I writes like this the person emphasis just that word and when I writes like this that means flashbacks.
Mini Japanese dictionary and little more;
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Gomen = pardon (your pardon) or sorry
Hanami = Cherry blossom viewing
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