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(Inner Sakura)
"Thoughts"
Italics for emphasis.
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The Prince and The Slave.
Chapter Two.
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(Sakura's P.O.V.)
Sakura bit her lip as she argued with her inner self. "The fat ass is speaking once again I wonder what he's saying about me?"
(Probably that you're drop dead gorgeous, 'cause well… you are)
"Why the hell can't you ever leave me alone? You're so annoying!"
(Haha. You just called yourself annoying)
"I'll give you a cookie if you shut the hell up."
(Grr fine. Only because I LOVE cookies so much *sticks out tongue*)
"Finally!"
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(Normal P.O.V.)
"We saved the best for last. She is tiny but feisty. She has eyes that can hypnotize you and a body that you will drool over." The fat Slave Merchant said. "She is also pure and untouched." He added. He put emphasis on the words pure and untouched. After he said that he could see the mostly male crowd whispering. The fat merchant had a huge smirk on his face. "This girl will get us a lot of money." He thought to himself. "Bring the girl out and take off her blind fold." The fat man said. They did as their boss demanded. Sakura was led out and her blindfold removed. She stared wide eyed at the huge crowd of mostly male slave buyers. Then she cringed.
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(Sakura's P.O.V.)
On top of the stage I heard one man saying how much he would want to screw me. I rolled my eyes at this.
"They are so pathetic it's like they've never seen a girl before. God how annoying!"
"We'll start the bid at twenty-five thousand gold!" I heard the fat ass bellow.
"Oh fuck they really are going to sell me. Shit."
I heard people bidding on me.
"Twenty-five thousand gold!"
"Thirty-five thousand gold!"
"Fifty thousand gold!"
"I will buy her for one million gold!" some old man shouted out.
"Oh fuck, I'm sold. My life sucks. God damn it! Why the fuck does it have to be me?"
The old man walked toward the stage to claim me. My heart was pounding so fast it felt like it was going to explode. I wanted to run as fast as my legs could carry me. But, of course I was being held still and captive, by the fat ass merchant's two henchmen, so I settled for biting my lip. When the man was close, the guards tied my hands once again and handed me over to the old man.
"He's probably some old pervert that gets off on young girls." I thought to myself. Then the real horror struck me. I might just live the rest of my life being this old bastard's sex toy. I cringed involuntarily and wished I could just drop dead, right here. I'd never have the guts to kill myself.
The old man led me away from the stage. Almost as if he knew what I was thinking, he whispered in my ear.
"Don't worry you're not for me. I wish you were, you're absolutely gorgeous. You're going to be my gift to the prince."
My eyes opened wide and I felt physically sick.
"You asshole! Why the fuck do you think I would want to be a gift to that fucking bastard?" I started to struggle to get out of the old man's grip but it didn't work. As soon as I tried there were two guards either side of me, dragging me towards the old man's cart. They must work for him. "Let me go! I don't want to be a fucking gift! Leave me alone!" One guard looked like he was getting annoyed, and I felt a blow to the back of my head. Before everything went black, I felt myself being thrown over one of the guard's shoulders and I realized there was nothing I could do about being dragged to the Uchiha Palace, before my world turned completely black.
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I started to wake up. I blinked my eyes a few times to clear up my blurry vision and I noticed I was still on the guard's shoulder.
"Let me go! Put me down right now or else!" I started kicking my legs until I hit his balls. He yelled in pain and immediately dropped me. I started running away from him. I looked behind me and he was still on the ground. I carried on running, even though my hands were tied. I could undo that later, somehow, as long as I got away now. I knew it couldn't last that long. What seemed like seconds later more guards were chasing me down, and one grabbed me. I glared and kicked and yelled. But I couldn't break free of the grip of this guard as others came and grabbed hold of me, keeping my arms pinned to my sides. I could feel the ropes that bound my wrists cutting into my skin, and it burned like hell. I felt like crying as I realized I hadn't even managed to run more then a couple of yards. The one I kicked seemed to have finally composed himself. He bared his teeth at me in a horrible snarl.
"If you weren't a gift for the prince I'd teach you a lesson right now. You might not be so lucky next time." The guard hissed. The Palace guards dragged me and brought me to some room. It was ornately decorated.
"Definitely fit for a pampered brat." I thought to myself. In the room was the pampered brat himself. Prince Sasuke Uchiha. I glared at him. He had a smirk on his face. He got up from the seat and started walking towards me. "Stay away or else." I said. Of course, this was stupid, and I knew there was nothing I could do to keep him away from me. My words just caused his smirk to get bigger and once he was by my side he got the guards to leave the room and untied my hands.
"What are you going to do about it? I'm right next to you, aren't I?" The Uchiha said. He smirked even more, and I wanted to prove him wrong so badly. I tried to trip him. He grabbed my shoulders and pushed me against a wall. He grabbed both my hands and pinned them above my head, and he used his other hand to stroke my face. I cringed at his touch. We didn't break eye contact. All I did was glare at him. I'm sure if looks could kill he'd have been dead on the floor. Our bodies were so close to each other. I lifted my knee slightly so the prince wouldn't notice. I tried to knee him but he ended up stopping me with his own leg. "Awe, don't be mean. You are mine now after all." He said in something akin to a mocking tone
"Bastard!" I muttered under my breath. Unfortunately for me he heard.
"What did you just say?" he tightened his grip on my wrist and had his legs press harder on mine to keep me from moving until I answered his question.
"I said bastard. Got a problem with that?" I hissed. I don't know why I was being so cocky. After all, he could have me killed in a heartbeat on a whim. Although I had to admit I wasn't sure what was more preferable. Death, or being a slave to the Prince, whose family had destroyed my whole world. He removed his hand from my face and clicked his fingers, and the guards walked back into the room. The bastard spoke again.
"Take her to my room" He ordered. They bowed their heads and took me and left. I decided since I don't know anything I might as well ask.
"Why am I here?" I asked.
"You're here because you're the prince's birthday gift." One guard said. That explained a lot. They knew who I was and knew where to bring me without people telling them where to go. They unlocked a door and brought me in to the room and left.
The room was nice. It had blue walls with dark wood furniture. The bed looked like it could fit several people and had a dark blue comforter. There was a black leather couch in the corner of the room. The whole room had dark colours, but it still looked nice. I walked over to the window ledge and sat down. Looking out the window I kept thinking of ways to escape. I could try to leave the room and sneak out, but of course everyone would expect me to do that. I tried, desperately tried, to think of other ways to escape. But I knew without any information, about the layout of this place, I could get lost easily in the corridors. I needed to know more about the palace before I could escape it.
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(Ten Ten's P.O.V.)
I quickly snuck out of the room trying to escape Neji Hyuga. The guards weren't there so I started sprinting down a hall. I heard the guards coming my way so I ran into a random room. In the room, there was someone there. She had pink hair and green eyes. She looked at me with confusion written all over her face. I held my finger to my lips, silently telling her to stay quiet. She got up and walked towards me. She looked suspicious of me. I brought her to a corner of the room and decided to talk to her. I spoke a little above a whisper.
"Okay you're probably wondering who the hell I am right? Okay my name is Ten Ten. I'm Lord Neji Hyuga's slave." I rolled my eyes as I said that. "Would you tell me who you are now?" I asked.
"Um… sure." She replied. "My name is Sakura, I'm Prince Sasuke Uchiha's new gift." She hissed out and she glared as she said the prince's name.
"I'm trying to figure a way out of this god forsaken castle. How about you?" I asked.
Sakura looked at me and looked as though she were thinking for a moment, before replying.
"I want to escape too, but right now I don't think I can, without help." She said warily. I nodded carefully. She looked at me as though to ask me something. Then she spoke again. "Um… can I ask you a question? If you belong to Neji Hyuga, why the heck are you here?" She asked.
"It's Prince Sasuke's birthday so we're staying here for a month for his huge birthday party." I answered. I rolled my eyes at that. Royals and their parties. "Oh yeah, before I forget there are two other girls here trying to escape from their masters as well." I added. Sakura looked at me.
"Can I call you my friend?" She asked. I grinned.
"Yeah, we can all escape together. We're all meeting tomorrow at the library." I stated.
"I don't even know where it is. That's if they even let me out to find it." Sakura replied sadly.
"I'll come by to get you tomorrow. We'll find a way to get to the library. Anyways I guess the guards are gone by now. I think I should go, but don't worry I'll see you tomorrow. Bye for now." I said.
"Yeah see you tomorrow." Sakura replied. I left the room and decided to get back to the room where Neji was staying. I walked in and was lucky he was still out of the room. I laid down on the sofa that was in the room, and attempted to think of a way that I could get Sakura and I to the library tomorrow morning.
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Okay all. Hope you enjoyed this chapter. I decided that I was going to change one part of this chapter. It makes me feel a little guilty, but originally, this chapter had mention of Sasuke's room having modern technology, which I kinda... removed. The reason for that is because as I carried on with this story, I totally forgot that the technology was ever mentioned, because it's only ever mentioned once in all five of the original chapters of this story. So as I wrote more and more, and built onto the world of this story, I never once considered adding technology in any other instance. So, rather than going back and adding technology in places where I maybe could have had it, I made a decision to edit that one part, and remove the technology mention. I hope that no one, including the original author, gets offended by this, but it just seemed more logical to make the one edit, rather than going through the whole story to add or change things. Anywho please ask any questions via review and I will answer them. Thanks again.