The dinner was grand. Sakura sat at one end of a large table covered with enough food to last a person for a month, and the Raikage sat at the other end. She ate her food in silence as the Raikage stared at her and smiled.

"I see you've worn the neclace I gave you," he grinned, breaking the silence.

"I knew that it was put there for me to wear to this dinner," Sakura replied accutely.

His smile grew with every word she spoke. "Impressive intuition."

She just continued to drink her soup.

"Give her some wine," the Raikage ordered a nearby maid.

"I'm under age," Sakura suddenly said looking up from her soup.

"So am I, obviously," grinned the Raikage. "Tonight is our special night, ignore the important stuff."

The maid poured wine into Sakura's glass. Sakura stared at it uneasily (she had never drunk alcohol before). "Drink it," smiled the Raikage, drinking his own glass down. "It's not too strong, look how fine I am."

Sakura uneasily took the glass and sipped a little. It tasted good. "Drink it down," he declared. Sakura suddenly felt a tingle of fear when he said this, so she did as he said. What Sakura didn't know was that the wine was actually pretty strong, and that the Raikage was almost completely immune to the effects of alcohol. The Raikage drank down another glass and ordered the maid to give Sakura more wine. By the end of dinner Sakura had had five glasses. She felt extremely dizzy when she got up to go to her room. A servant moved near her to escort her, but the Raikage stopped him saying, "I'll take her to her room."

Sakura leant on him as he led her down the halls towards her room. The more she walked the dizzier she got. By the time she reached her room the Raikage was practically dragging her.

"I, I feel dizzy," Sakura was saying.

"Don't worry we're at your room now," he said openning the door and taking her in. He laid her on the bed and Sakura laid there staring at him. He thought she looked beautiful there, paying attention to nothing but him, her hair undone and all around her, and the calfs of her legs showing from the slit of her kimono. "You really are beautiful," he said suddenly moving in to kiss her.

"Stop," she said pushing his face away.

"Come on, we're going to get married soon, you'll have to get used to it," he said forcing a kiss onto her. He slowly got on top of her and moved his hands inside the slit of her top.

"No, get off me," Sakura screamed. She aggressively began punching him. In the struggle he heard her say, "Sasuke kun!"

The Raikage suddenly hit her. Sakura stared at him in silence, putting her hand on the cheek that he'd hit. "Don't you ever say another man's name in front of me," he said glaring at her. Sakura felt more afraid than she'd ever been in her life.

"Raikage sama!" A guard rushed to the door.

"What is it? Why are you bothering me!?"

"Someone's gotten into the building," the guard announced. "We need your help."

"Can't you do anything without me?" the Raikage screamed getting up and moving towards the door.

Sakura sat up in her bed when the Raikage was gone. Her top hung lose and she still had her hand on the place that he'd hit. She suddenly started crying when she remembered the terror she'd felt in his eyes, and how powerless she was. He was the Raikage, he was too strong for her to beat.

"Sakura," a voice said from behind her. She turned around cautiously, thinking he was back. But to her great surprise it was none other than Sasuke standing there.

Sakura was still pretty drunk, so she though neither of the reason he was standing in her room in the middle of the hidden cloud village, or whether or not this was reality, all that mattered was that he was there. He slowly got closer to her and took the crying girl in his arms. She hugged him as tightly as she could and called out his name. He just held her in silence.

Eventually Sakura had cried herself to sleep in Sasuke's arms. Sasuke laid her neatly in the bed and neatly covered her with the blanket. He saw the tears on her face, they reminded him of the day he'd left her thinking he would never see her again. He suddenly felt extremely guilty, and this time, he wiped the tears away from her face. "I'll get you out of here, I promise," he said to her, noticing the mark where she'd been hit. He couldn't let her stay here, he couldn't. Sasuke then opened the window and disappeared into the night. The Raikage decided to not disturb her for the rest of the night, so she was able to sleep peacefully.

-To be Continued-