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A Bride from Konoha	By : dotdotdot86 Category: Naruto > Het - Male/Female Views: 1948 -:- Recommendations : 0 -:- Currently Reading : 0
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Chapter 3: Festive night

The woman could certainly create havoc in the village. He wasn't surprised. Less than three days she had been here, there were several misfortunate incidents that all involved her indirectly. The latest incident had happened this morning in the open-field battle training group. Several chunnins had accidentally injured themselves, when she had been passing by the field. Gaara was furious when the shinobi were not paying attention to their training. That act could actually cost a life if the battle had been real. The woman had come running when she had seen the accident, much to Gaara dismay. Yes, she'd helped heal his chunins, but she was still a Konoha medic nin. What was a leader supposed to do when a rivaled village kunoichi found out what fools his men could be when dealing with women, especially a beautiful one like her?
Now, his head was pounding while listening to the other incidents that were reported by one of his assistants in his office room. Last night's bar fight incident had become one of his greatest headaches. It seemed she had gained enough personal bodyguards to fight for her when shinobi from Waterfall village were trying to flirt but were being refused by her. The bar had been heavily damaged, and all five injured representatives of Waterfall had been sent to the medical facility to be treated by that famous trouble-making woman herself.
The guard stopped when he saw his scowl becoming deep. Gaara held out his hand, signaling the guard to continue his report. The guard cleared his throat before continuing.
"The Kirikawa woman is filling out divorce papers again". Gaara's head snapped and gave his full attention to the news. He knew the woman and her husband. Her ridiculous jealousy and their on and off marriage had become a famous joke in the village. The woman liked to gain everyone's attention. The poor husband was actually a quiet man who worked diligently as a weapon maker. This was the fifth report within the two years of marriage.
"The reason for this time is…" The guard clear his throat before read the report, "she caught her husband gawking at a woman from Konoha village long enough that she feels her husband does not love her anymore. "
Gaara eyes narrowed. Konoha Village? Do not tell him this was that trouble making woman's doing. What did Sakura do this time? Flirted back with the man? So, it seemed all men in Suna had already fallen at her feet, even the married ones.
His assistant cleared his throat. "Kazekage-sama, about Kirikawa Akino, would you approve her application this time?"
But, that was still the most ridiculous excuse that he had ever heard for a divorce. "Tell the Kirikawa woman I will kill her husband if she tries filing for divorce again." The guard had nodded once before he left.
Gaara frowned grimly when thinking about the news. His people were curious about her, the lover of the most wanted criminal. There had been many versions of the story, the day when Sasuke had lost to Naruto in a deadly battle two years ago. The rumours spread into many villages and had turned into a love story as most people saw this as a tragedy between two lovers, as Naruto took her away and brought back to Konoha, imprisoning her in the village.
So, from day one, she had been under scrutiny by his people who kept speculating about her and the reason that she had finally been released from her confinement in Konoha and was allowed to come to Suna without any supervision.
But, his village had its own benefit while she was here. She had been doing some volunteer work at the medical centre and spent most of her time in the medical green house teaching his medic nins some new medicines. Not once did she misbehave and she always did her work professionally. If he wanted someone to blame for these misfortunate incidents, he should blame his own shinobi for not being able to control their raging hormones and their lack of discipline.
Now, for a political reason, he had to send an apology letter to the Waterfall village's leader for his men's inappropriate behavior. He hated doing that. It was too out of character of him to apologize for everything. But as a leader, he had to carry the burden himself.
Gaara closed his eyes tiredly. Five years ago when he had accepted the Kazekage'a title, he had only thought about the village's safety, and the way to protect them from intruders. He had never thought it was a Kazekage's job to worry about every aspect of the villagers' lives and activities.
He knew that the elders did not agree with his method of ruling. The hidden village had closed its door from outsiders for about sixty years. When he'd become Kazekage, in desperation to find a new resource of income, he began to open the trade zone for the merchants in hoping it would boost the village politically and economically. The strategy did indeed become successful. However, there were several councilors that were still against the idea and much preferred the old, traditional ways.
Gaara rose from his seat and went to the window and stared outside. The night sky was glowing with stars and brightened with so many lights that came from the booths at the market. The festival had already begun tonight. There were many people from the neighboring villages that had come to celebrate, it made the crowds more packed than last year. He could hear people cheering loudly while the fireworks were displayed splendidly, showing off the prosperity of the village under his ruling. With so many people participating in this event this year, the economic would boost higher than usual.
However, he still could not help himself, but he felt a little lonely. While every single other life had been celebrating the festival, here he was, the leader, alone in his room, always having to settle everything for the village. Too many problems needed to be solved, too much paperwork needed to be approved.
Let his people celebrate tonight, he mused. He was the Shadow, the protector. He would always protect what was his.

It was already late at night, but the bar was still full of people. Sakura sat on one of the stools at the bar, drinking sake while waiting for Temari to refresh herself in the restroom. Knowing Temari, it would take forever for her to get out from there. Why, it was already the fourth time she had been visited the restroom. God blesses this pregnant lady for drinking too much water earlier.
Then, she looked down at her newly bought kimono that had cost her a fortune, and frowned. No, she took back what she had said several seconds earlier. God blasts that woman for nagging her to buy this useless thing. The white silk kimono, printed with pink Sakura flowers was indeed beautiful, but she wasn't used to spending any money on beautiful clothes or accessories. It would just waste good money. She was just an ordinary woman.
But Temari had not only kept nagging about the clothes, she'd also dragged her to a salon to do something to her head. Now, her head felt heavy with an oversized bun full of accessories and her face had been painted like that ugly ANBU mask.
Okay, she was kidding about that.
But Temari had kept dragging her here and there for something like high heels and a Kinchaku pouch that made her mentally smacked her big forehead for the ridiculously high prices. High heels? Why on earth did she have to buy high heels instead of getting sandals like any normal female would do? Come on, kimonos didn't match with high heels. Even she knew that. But Temari had kept insisting that was the latest fashion for this festive season.
Now, her feet were throbbing painfully after several hours of being dragged by Temari to all the selling stalls. That woman had been eating like there was no tomorrow and her mouth was always full of food.
Since when did the Temari that she knew like to wear all these girl things? And lately, she was crying too easily as well. Okay, that was because of her pregnant state, but the old Temari she knew was a serious and skillful shinobi with cunning moves. A bit cruel with her jutsu and her fighting skills were quite frightening too.
When Temari had returned to Konoha again as Suna's diplomat three years ago, Sakura had been friends with her. She had respected her as a sophisticated and intelligent shinobi. They always had intellectual discussions about various topics, from political views to the medical field research. Sakura, who had never realized there had been a chemistry attraction between Temari and Shikamaru, had been pleasantly surprised when the announcement of the marriage was made.
But this was too much. What had Shikamaru done to her?
"She's the woman, right?" Sakura heard a woman voice on her left. She had noticed four women had occupied the stools several minutes ago.
"The pink haired one? The one from Konoha?"
"She's the one Sato-kun is always talking about nowadays", one of the girls sighed.
"Is she coming from that House of Pleasure? She uses too much make up!" The second woman said snobbishly, but even Sakura could not help but to agree. That was actually her sentiment exactly.
"But she's so beautiful" one of the women sighed.
"Uh, shut up, Yuki!" The snobbish woman snapped.
"She's not the one the Kazekage wants to marry, right?" gasped another woman.
"Sato-kun said she's the head medic from Konoha, came here just to assist with Temari-san's birthing."
The snobbish woman snorted. "Like we don't have any good medics to serve her."
"Well, Sato-kun said Konoha has more advanced medical research than us."
"It's just a birthing, Meme, our medic nin can do that. This is downright insulting to Suna to import an outsider to do the job." The snobbish woman snorted again. It seemed the woman had her own opinion for everything
They were silent for a moment. Sakura kept drinking her sake.
"Poor Akino for having such an unfaithful husband. She caught her husband flirting with that woman."
The women gasped in unison. Sakura frowned, she never did any flirting with any man. What the hell they were talking about?
"That woman is a trouble–maker. Why, many chunnins were injured this morning just because she distracted them during their training." The high, shrill voice of the snobbish woman made Sakura's head start to pound. She certainly hated when people talked about her like she was not there.
She had just passed by the training field to go to the graveyard to visit Chiyo-baa-sama's grave. It wasn't her fault at all if those shinobi hadn't been paying any attention to their training. But, hadn't she been playing a dutiful citizen by helping them heal the injuries?
"Have you heard about the fight at Shogo-kun's bar?" Sakura nearly groaned loudly. She would like to take back what she had said about being impressed by the neighborhood's nosiness. It was terribly annoying.
"Sato-kun said the Waterfall men were too drunk and wanted to grope her" Meme said with a scandalise tone. "Our men were just doing their duty by protecting her."
"Yeah, it's Sato's duty…" snorted the woman disdainfully, "along with Fukutomi, Yamamoto, Satake, Yamagi, Dai, Hitsuzu, Kuroki.."
"Oh no, not Kuroki-kun too… " One of women whined in dismay.
"Kai, Hideki, Hiyama..." Sakura scowled at her drink.
"Our men are treating her like the mistress of Suna. That is so disgusting! " Sakura counted from one to one hundred to calm herself. She had yet to cause any scene tonight and she was determined to keep it that way.
Sakura sighed with relief when the women, left the table. She should go home now. Temari had a taken a long time in the restroom. Her head was pounding heavily and her stupid high heels were killing her feet. She opened her pouch and plopped a pill into her mouth and put chakra on her back of her neck for several second. There, all well now.
"Do you always cause a riot everywhere you go?" Suddenly a woman sat next to her and smiled.
Sakura stared at the brown haired woman wearing a green kimono intensely. This pretty woman looked familiar but she could not come out with anything.
"I guess you don't remember me." The woman said. The bartender served a cup of tea and left. Sakura waited until the woman finished her tea.
"Have me met before?" Sakura blurted out a question. The woman nodded and smiled.
"I was there when Chiyo-sama resurrected the Kazekage. My name's Matsuri." She looked at Sakura and smiled again. "I guess you didn't notice me there."
"By the way, pay no mind to the women. All of them are snobbish kunoichi from noble families who think everyone is below them," the woman shrugged.
Sakura returned her gaze to her drink and stared at her sake, "I don't mind though. I'm used to it."
"Truly?" The woman's eyes widened, "Ah, I can see why. You are too beautiful. I guess every woman is envious of you."
Sakura said nothing and drank to finish her sake.
"You know," Matsuri started again. "I used to be a big fan girl of the Kazekage. Who isn't? A cool and strong nin like him could melt the heart of every single woman here."
Sakura smiled sadly. A cool and strong nin, just like Sasuke. "What happened?"
"Let's just say I am more realistic about life. I'm just a nobody and he is the Kazekage."
"Then, I met Yoshinori, and fell in love." The bartender poured her tea again. "Now I am happily married and pregnant with his child."
Sakura looked at Matsuri's still flat stomach. Such a happy ending story; a husband, a child, a little house, and a happily ever after. It was every single girl's dream to be with the man that she loved.
Her heart clenched and began to bleed painfully when she remembered the two words she always craved the most.
Uchiha Sasuke.
"I used to be a big fan girl of my own former teammate" Sakura stirred her sake with her fore finger.
"Then some thing big happened to our lives and he left Konoha without a single thought," she smiled sadly. Matsuri listened intensely without saying anything.
Sakura took a deep breath before continued, "We met on and off as enemies."
"Then, when I was eighteen, I went to Grass Village to do some research and ended up being kidnapped by him," she looked down at her glass before continuing.
"We fell in love."
"Aww, that's so sweet," Matsuri smiled.
Sakura shook her head. "No, it's was so painful. I kept coaxing him to return to our village. Be with me. We would start and build our life together."
"He refused. For him, there is no turning back. His heart is already tainted with the dark hatred to avenge his clan."
"After two weeks, Naruto finally found us. They fought to the death." It was still painful for her to remember the scene when her two former teammates had fought viciously to kill each other.
"Naruto won. I begged him not to kill Sasuke. We left him there and returned to Konoha" She could still replay the scene where Sasuke's limp body was covered with blood but his eyes kept starring at her. Naruto had dragged her away from him but she kept glancing at him to make sure he was alive.
When they had returned to Konoha, Naruto had been badly injured and she had worked very hard to save him. Three days later the ANBU had reported there was no body found. Nobody from the village knew where he had left to. She was too busy saving Naruto's life to think about anything else, although she kept feeling guilty for leaving Sasuke.
Two weeks later Naruto's critical condition had slowly stabilized. By that time, she was busy teaching the medic class and doing some research studies about poisonous plants and animals of Earth Country. Three months later, the fifth Hokage had appointed her as a Special Jounin. Then, there were so many things that happened after that.
Eight months later Temari had come as a representative of Suna. Twelve months later Shikamaru and Temari had announced their marriage. Fifteenth months later Ino had been married to some young trader from Tea Country.
Nearly eighteen months later Naruto, Konoha greatest Jounin ever, was appointed as a Sixth Hokage. Tsunade had relinquished the title and now enjoyed spending her time as a free woman.
It was one of the greatest moments in her life to see her best friend, blood brother, and former teammate, receive the title as the Sixth Hokage of Konoha Village.
"Is Sasuke alive?" Matsuri kept prodding her.
"Yes, but I've never see him again," there were several reports about him being seen with his group and attacking several weak villages.
"I was torn between love and loyalty to my village," Sakura took a deep breath and blew it out slowly. The ache of loneliness was swelling inside her, throbbing painfully.
"I keep thinking about whether or not I did the right thing? I'd chosen my village against him. I should be happy with the decision, shouldn't I? He's the criminal that killed so many innocence lives."
"But why, after all these years do I still feel lonely?"
" My heart still belongs to him. I could not even find anyone to replace him," she had wept silently for all these past years, longing for him.
Because of that incident, the elders had voted and come out with the decision that she was not allowed to go outside of the village again without permission. She couldn't blame them. She was too valuable to the village.
As an expert in the medical field, she had already surpassed her own shishou. She was only inherited all the Ninjutsu techniques from Tsunade, but she had already created her own special healing techniques as well as a variety of poisons and treatments. She should be happy with her life now, shouldn't she?
"You know," Matsuri started again, "I think you should enjoy your life. Why wait for one man if you could have any man you want?"
Why indeed, Sakura mused sadly. Why wait for him? If he truly loved her, he would come and take her away, right?
She was a mature woman now, an intelligent woman with high skills in the medical field. She knew men wanted her, she should have many lovers. Then, maybe she wouldn't feel lonely anymore.
"You know what," She smiled at Matsuri, "I think you are right. I should spend my time flirting with men. It would be enjoyable, don't you think?" She pondered for a moment.
"After all, didn't the women already label me as a slut? I should act like one!"
Matsuri's eyes went wide at her sudden changed behavior. "Now, Sakura…"
"No, you are right. I should go and get as many lovers as I can. " Sakura got up from her stool and smiled brightly.
"Thank you," she bowed. "I've never feel like this free before. It was really nice to talk with you," her expression softened. She almost forgot how fun it was to have a girl talk with a woman. She had been too busy with her research lately to talk with someone who would understand her feelings.
"Sakura," Matsuri warned. "You could do that, but try not to lose your heart again."
"Don't worry, I will only play with single men," she winked playfully at Matsuri before eagerly leaving the bar.

After several minutes, Matsuri was still staring in horror at the place where Sakura had just occupied. What she had done to that beautiful woman? A half hour ago, Sakura had been sad and lonely. But now she's looked like wanted to kick somebody's ass. What if she created more trouble in this bar?
Matsuri's hands were sweating with nervousness. She had heard the rumors about the Konohan medic nin and how she had caused so many troubles from the moment she stepped into the village.
But when she had looked at her and heard the vicious remarks made by the snobbish kunoichis, she could not help but feel pity for Sakura. She was too lovely in that white silk kimono for any male's peace of mind and women jealousy.
"Ah, Matsuri, have you seen the woman with pink hair?" Temari's voice startled her.
"She went to the other room." The room was called the flirting room. Single men usually went there to find willing women to have fun.
Temari frowned. Of course she knew what kind of room Sakura went to and although she had been nagging Sakura to pay more attention to the male species, that didn't meant she should lose herself so easily to any man.
"What are doing here at this hour, Temari?" Her brother, Gaara the Kazekage came from nowhere, and now started frowning at her. "You should go home to bed. It's already late."
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