Chapter Fifteen: Execution

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Third Person's POV

It was dark. Too dark for her liking.

For ten years of living in a spacious and well-lighted palace, Daisy never thought the day would come that she has to suffer being encaged in a dark and small room. The chains on her wrists, rattling.

Suddenly, the door opened and in came a streak of light.

She looked up and glared at her kidnappers.

Kisame smirked and placed a bowl of miso soup in front of her before pulling out his keys and unlocking the chains to let her move freely. A sinister grin crossed his face.

"Eat up, kid."

Daisy's blood boiled. If she inherited anything from her mother, that would surely be her short-temper.

"YOU BASTARD! Let me outta here! Or else I'll tell daddy to arrest you freaks! Oh, you'll pay!"

But Kisame Hoshigaki only shook his head in amusement, "But your daddy's dead, little one.. Heh, so who'll save you now? Those stupid ANBUs? The King's gone, Princess! No one's gonna rescue ya."

Daisy froze at what the man said to her. Her dad's dead? No! It can't be!

"You're lying! What do you want from me, anyway?!"

Kisame was about to answer her but a voice interrupted him,

"Hey, fish face! You done? Sasori's calling us. We have another fucking meeting."

The blue-skinned man stood up and faced the newcommer with an unreadable expression. "Yeah, I'm going. No need to cuss like a lunatic, Hidan."

Kisame glanced at the little Princess again and saw her crying. He pushed all the guilt aside and walked out of the room with Hidan complaining beside him.

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"Sakura.. No, it's not what you think, listen to me----"

"GO AWAY, SASUKE!"

The Queen stepped back and held out a kunai she snatched from her drawer and pointed it at her husband. The raven-haired man tried to get closer to her,

"Sakura, I'm sorry.. I'm sorry it took me five years to find you. I'm sorry I've been busy with the village. Look, I know you're not like that. You're not that sensitive! I know he's doing something to you, so please, let's just talk this over, okay? I am not the enemy here!"

But the pinkette shook her head and glared daggers at the Uchiha.

"LEAVE SASORI OUT OF THIS!"

And that broke his heart. Well, if it even possible to break an already broken heart, that is. But instead of sulking at her venomous words, Sasuke shot back,

"HE'S MANIPULATING YOU, SAKURA! Wake up!"

And as he was about to approach his wife again, a puppet got in his way. Sasuke stopped and turned to the puppet master's direction.

Sasori Akasuna smirked at him and glanced at Sakura with a softer expression.

"My lady, it seems that this pest is disturbing you. Should I kill him?"

Sakura put the knife down and composed herself.

Weighing the situation at hand, killing Sasuke would mean losing an assest for their upcoming operation. They needed him to order the whole ANBU league and Konoha military to back down. Akatsuki can't take down a whole nation without any of the armed forces backing out of the fight. In that way, they can easily rule the whole Fire Country. And after all of that, only then could she order Sasori to kill the King.

But then again, she's been really pissed off by his atittude and rude accusations earlier.

Heaving a sigh, Queen Sakura Haruno coldy looked at him.

"Change of plan, we kill the King in front of his people. I don't care of his army backs out of the fight or what! Train our knights better! Schedule Uchiha Sasuke's execution two days from now. Dismissed."

And with what she said, Sasuke's eyes widened in horror. He's shocked, no.. that would even be an understatement! She wanted him dead!

"Sakura, what the fck?!"

Emerald green eyes bore into his. He couldn't see the sparkle in them anymore. It was like, Sakura turned into some robot. No emotions, no mercy.. nothing. What was left is a shell of the woman he once knew. It was like she didn't even shed a tear for him earlier!

"Take him away. I won't want to see that man anywhere near me."

Sasori who held him back with the use of his puppet, chuckled and started dragging him away. Sasuke struggled and warned his wife, one more time,

"SAKURA! He's manipulating you, please! Listen to me! Don't drink the potion he's giving you!"

But no response was heard.

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