For now and Forever

~5~

Sakura tightened her cloak around her and cursed under her breath about the weather in the land of iron.

For the three solid days she had been travelling nonstop from the borders of Gras throught the Waterfall and had crossed the land of Iron Borders.

Kaguya was besides her hidden in her Dimensional space she could use to not overwhelm everyone with her solid pure Chakra, thought she wasn't that happy to do so, but she had no choice.
Sakura had used one of the Command Seals when she almost revived the Divine Tree, but thankfully Sakura stopped her and stopped the end of the world before it actually happend.

After Kaguya calmed down Sakura got to know her and she was actually a very nice person.
She only held to much love for the land they lived on and it sometimes blinded her judgment, but they were slowly working on that.

Other than that everything was going smoothly, Kaguya actually acted like a mother hen when it came about Sakura, like a mother Sakura always dreamed of, Kaguya was delighted about that and Sakura in return had even started to call her 'Kaa-san Ya'

Week after that she set to visit her uncle,
Akinori Azai, older half-brother of Kizashi.

Akinori oji-sama lived in the land of iron.
Well to say he lived there was an understatement fact of the century.

Akinori oji-sama ruled the Land Of Iron.

Sakura remembered her one -and only- time Kizashi took her and Mebuki to visit him.

It was seven years ago and it was his 30th birthday celebration.
Sakura spent about a week there, at that time she didn't understand who he was to Kizashi and why everyone always whispered and looked at them strangely, but Sakura has always been a sharp minded person.

From the pieces of whispers and silent talks Sakura realized that Kizashi was the past Daimyo's illegitimate son and decided that he wanted nothing to do with his family and then later had taken on the last name of his wife.
Haruno.

The First time Sakura saw her Oji-sama she was awed.

He had pale skin, cold blue eyes and long strawberryblond hair.

Akinori had the aura of knowledge and power around him, he held himself like a real leader and most importantly he didn't looked at Sakura like she was a disappointment, like she should have never been born and unlike her parents he didn't looked at her like some object.

To be brought for the highest price and then used as a breeding machine.

No, he looked at her with curiousity that he tried to hide behind his guarded eyes, like he was trying to solve the world's biggest mistery, like he had never seen a child before.

When the party started he had placed her in his lap and held her trought it as other Daimyo's, nobles and their heirs gave him their respect.

For the whole seven days and night, she stayed there, he never let her down from his arms.

He choose the clothes she would wear and fed her himself, he would read her books and often asked for her opinion.

He approved of her decision to become a Shinobi even thought she didn't tell him the real reason, but he didn't asked about it and didn't invaded her privacy.

Through those days he taught her how to use the Katana blade, saying that if she ever decided to change her mind and quit being a ninja, she would always be welcome in his lands.

They never talked much, but words weren't needed.
Their familiar bond was strong enough for them to understand each other without talking.

Her parents weren't that pleased at the attention he was giving her, but they had no say to what he was doing, thought they never visited him ever again and she suspected that they didn't want him to see her again.