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Chapter 3: You Got Married Without Telling Me?

When Sakura came to, there was a shrill voice that she knew all too well, added to those of the voices she had heard before she fainted.

Groaning, she found herself waking up in much the same way she had the first time around; in an enormous hotel bed clad only in her bra and panties. There was only one, itsy-bitsy detail that was different.

This time around, a strange, half-naked man wasn't in her bed with her.

Okay, so it was kinda a huge detail.

When the rest of the company in the room noticed the pink-haired girl awake, they rushed towards her.

Damn it! Did no one ever hear of the phrase, "give her some room?" Sakura wondered angrily as the world spun again.

"SAKURA!" Ino's voice seemed to be amplified ten-fold to the poor girl that was now flinching in bed.

"Argh, not so loud Ino!" Sakura moaned as her head spun in vertigo.

"Hey! Is she awake?" the blond-haired guy Sakura had met earlier, Naruto, yelled from the other room from swearing loudly. "Talk to you later, Ino-chan! I have to run and find the bastard. Don't worry, you'll meet him soon enough!"

"God, has no one ever heard of a hangover before?" Sakura groaned whilst plugging her ears and stuffing her head underneath a pillow.

Finally, quiet.

But alas, all good things must come to an end and it did for Sakura when Ino less-than-gently grasped the pillow her best friend was currently hiding under and ripped it away from her, along with the warm white sheets covering her body.

Sakura gasped and fumbled around for something to cover herself with. "God dammit, Ino! I'm freez-" she broke off as she stared at Ino's serious expression.

Ino gazed at Sakura with pained wide, baby blue eyes. "You got married without telling me?" she gasped.

Sakura rolled her eyes. Figures, she was more concerned that she wasn't the maid of honor or something instead of her friend's obvious pain from a night that she couldn't remember.

"Don't worry, Ino-pig, evidently I got married without telling myself, too," Sakura spat venomously as she glared once more at the incriminatingly innocent ring on her finger.

"What the hell happened?" Ino questioned, taking a seat next to Sakura on the large bed.

"Well, that's something that I would like to know as well. Evidently, I uh, God, how to say this?… Umm… I well, think I got… 'married'" she air quoted the word while Ino rolled her eyes, "to… this guy," she finished lamely.

"No shit," Ino muttered candidly. "You don't remember a thing?"

"Nope," Sakura said, popping the word out of her mouth in frustration. "All I remember is being dragged to that godforsaken party and having a few drinks. Then Kiba comes up and asks me to dance and… well, evidently I figured that was a good idea," she said sarcastically.

"Yeah, I saw you with dancing with Kiba," Ino said, her finger thoughtfully tapping her chin.

"We drank some more an- wait, what did you say?" Sakura's head snapped towards her blond haired friend.

"I said I saw you dancing with Kiba."

Sakura stared, her mouth gaping open like a fish.

"What?" Ino said.

"Why the hell didn't you do anything if you saw me with Kiba, obviously intoxicated?" She all but shrieked and probably would have if her head and throat weren't killing her at the moment. She made a quick mental note to throttle Ino later when she was feeling better.

With a scowl on her pretty face, Ino tossed her long blond hair over one shoulder. "I did do something! Hinata and I were the ones who got that pervert away from you. You should be thanking me! Otherwise this morning could have started differently, perhaps with a little bit of Kiba in the bed with you. And if it were Kiba, no doubt you two wouldn't have clothes on," she said with a disapproving nod towards the bed.

Sakura blanched. "S-sorry Ino-pig. Thanks."

"What are friends for? Now, tell me all the juicy parts! Who is this mystery man? And more importantly, how did he snag Miss-eternal-bachelorette herself? Obviously he'll have to get used to you wearing the pants in the relationship. Well? Where is Mr. Haruno?" Ino laughed before shutting up promptly from the murderous glare directed at her.

"You may have saved me from Kiba but what happened after? How the hell did I end up… 'married'?" Sakura moaned before flopping face first into the bed again. It seemed like she was doing that a lot this morning. Ino looked at her in disgust.

"Oh come on, Sakura! I mean he can't be that bad, right?"

"What a generous compliment," a voice sudden interrupted the two girls.

Ino's bright blue eyes snapped to the mysterious (handsome, drop-dead-gorgeous) man dressed in a crisp business suit now leaning against the doorframe of the hotel room. Sakura also grudgingly lifted her head to glare at the man. "What the hell do you want now? Isn't it enough that you ruined my life? Must you hang around here and remind me constantly too?" Sakura said scathingly.

"Aren't we just a little princess," Sasuke muttered under his breath before walking towards her. "Listen," he said in a normal volume, "we should probably talk about how you're going to announce the annulment to everyone. The sooner the better for everyone's sake and then we can put this whole thing behind us."

Sakura stared at him incredulously before springing up on the bed to tower over the man from where he stood next to the bed. "What do you mean 'how you're going to announce the annulment'? Me? I'm not announcing the annulment! You are!" She pointed a finger an inch from his nose.

He scowled. "You already know why I can't."

Sakura seethed and grabbed his lapel, pulling his face towards her as she bent slightly on the bed to lower herself to his eye level. "Listen, good buddy. You're not the only one with a career. I happened to have worked off my ass for my current position and no arrogant jerk of a CEO is about to take that away from me!"

Sasuke grasped her wrist and pulled her hand off his lapel before pulling her towards him. Sakura gasped when she found herself plastered against the stranger's chest, his grip on her wrist firm and tight.

She blushed an angry blush. Did she mention she was still in her bra and panties?

"No, you listen, princess. You have no idea how hard I have worked to get to where I am. No little stuck-up, snotty, brat of a girl is about to take that away from me," he said in a low voice, his eyes narrowed.

The two stared at each other for a few moments, their chests heaving from the argument and rage flowing through them, before a voice broke them apart.

"Are you going to make-out now? Anyway, I really hate to interrupt, especially since it looks like the bastard might actually get some action, but Sasuke-teme, we have a meeting to get to," Naruto said grinning from his place in the doorway.

Ino giggled.

Sasuke and Sakura's heads snapped towards their friends and quickly sprang away from each other as if they were burned.

Sakura turned her head towards Sasuke. "I'm not going to announce any annulment. If you want it, you'll just have to do it yourself. I'm not ruining my career over a meaningless scandal like this!"

Sasuke glared back. "Well, I'm not going to announce it either. Guess we'll just have to stay married," Sakura flinched, " then. Until, of course, you decide you want to announce the annulment and end this ridiculous charade," Sasuke said haughtily.

"Go to hell!" Sakura yelled.

"Ladies first," Sasuke said.

They glared at each other a moment longer before Naruto cleared his throat and Sasuke began to follow him out of the room and out of the suite.

"We'll talk about this later," Sasuke said when he was almost out of the door.

"Fine!" Sakura screamed immaturely. She flung a pillow from the bed towards the door that Sasuke had exited from before flopping down on the bed with her legs crossed Indian-style and her arms across her chest.

"My, my, that was exciting!"

Sakura growled at her friend. She almost forgot Ino was here after Sasuke had entered.

"Damn, Forehead! When you screw up, you really screw up," Ino said, wagging her eyebrows suggestively. "How did you land such a gorgeous man? Wow, I think I lost myself just staring at that hunk! And when he spoke, that voice literally gave me goosebumps! That's your husband?"

"It would appear so," Sakura said, sniffing indignantly and lifting her nose.

"Well, how was he in bed? Did he fuck you senseless? No wonder your movements are so sluggish this morning, you must be so sore!" She winked suggestively.

Sakura stared at her in horror. "Ino! Don't be so crude!" she admonished. "We didn't."

Ino sighed exasperatedly. "Oh, fine, how was it when he 'made love' to you, then? Happy, now?"

"He didn't."

"How was the sex?"

"We didn't have sex!"

"You didn't fuck? Make-love? You two didn't have sex?"

"NO! Argh! Damn it, we didn't sleep together like that! God, Ino!" Sakura slapped her head at her friend's incredulous expression.

Ino shook her head slightly. "So you two got married but you didn't fuck him?"

Sakura ignored her crude language and nodded her head as if she were explaining something to a five-year old. "Yes, very good, Pig. It seems like you're finally catching on."

"Why the hell would you marry him and not sleep with him?" It seemed like Ino might be going hysterical at the thought.

"I didn't marry him on purpose! It just sorta happened!" Sakura screamed at her.

"But… but he's gorgeous," Ino offered as a last resort tidbit in trying to understand her best friend's strange way of thinking.

Sakura waved her hand dismissively. "He's okay."

Ino stared at her as if willing her to try to believe the bs that just came out of her mouth.

Sakura sighed. "Fine! He's gorgeous. But you were here when he had his little temper tantrum. He has a bad attitude."

"Okay, okay whatever. Let's just try to sort all of this out. So you don't remember anything after dancing with Kiba?"

"Nothing."

"Wonderful," Ino spat sarcastically. "So why don't you just have the annulment?"

Sakura stared at her in exasperation. "Hello! I just became a partner in the company! A scandal like this will surely make the other partners decide that maybe this isn't for me. If the moment I get a promotion, I go party-crazy and drink myself silly until I end up married to God-knows-who and then end up in all the tabloids, I don't think its going to sit too well with the other partners. What do you think? Do you think the heading, 'Leaf Enterprise's Newest Partner Gets Drunk at Company Party and Marries Stranger," would be fine with the company?"

Ino shook her head, slightly, her mind already thinking.

"Yeah, I didn't think so either," Sakura mumbled, rubbing her eyes awake.

"Why doesn't he do it?" Ino said, gesturing with her thumb towards the doorway that Sasuke and Naruto had disappeared through.

Sakura suddenly found the plain white comforter fascinating as her fingers traced imaginary patterns on it.

Ino stared at her, her eyes narrowed in suspicion. "Sakura," she said in a warning tone, "what aren't you telling me?

Sakura forced a laugh. "Well, ugh, try not to freak but… he's umm… my husband is… Sasuke Uchiha."

Ino's bright blue eyes blinked once before they widened and Ino shrieked, making poor Sakura clasp her hand tightly over her ears.

"You married the new CEO of our partnered company?"

Sakura glared at her. "Unintentionally married! Yes! God, weren't you listening when we were arguing earlier? I said he was a jerk CEO!"

Ino shook her head. "Of course I wasn't listening to all of the crap you were spouting! I was too busy staring at your sexy husband. Plus you're known to say strange things when you have a hangover."

Pinching the bridge of her nose, Sakura squeezed her eyes shut and tried to control her temper. "So he won't go through the annulment because it will cause just as must negative publicity and damage to him.

Suddenly they heard the outside door to the suite open.

Ino frowned. "Who is it?" she called out of the room.

Footstep echoed through the massive suite as whoever it was made their way towards the room. A shock of violet hair poked into the room a moment later. "Sorry, girls, I was busy trying to find out more information about what happened y-y-yesterday," Hinata said, crossing the room and sitting next to Sakura on the large bed.

"And? What did you find out?" Sakura nodded eagerly.

Hinata pressed her fingers together nervously. "Well… n-not a lot actually. After Ino and I met with N-naruto-kun t-t-this morning," Hinata blushed deeply, "I went to inquire with several p-p-people what happened last night, but all I found out was that you and y-y-your husband were dancing for quite some time."

Ino nodded her head. Sakura sighed. "Thanks for trying, Hinata."

Ino and Hinata looked at the depressed expression on Sakura's face and frowned to each other.

"Hinata almost fainted when she met Naruto-kun this morning, Sakura," Ino informed Sakura gleefully, trying to cheer her friend up.

Blushing deeply, Hinata ducked her head. "I-Ino, p-please don't bring it up!" she wailed in embarrassment as Sakura and Ino laughed lightly.

"Guys, I appreciate your attempt at making me feel better but we have important things to discuss, like uh, how I'm married now!" Sakura murmured, her eyes locked on the innocent ring on her left hand.

"Fine, no more dodging the subject. By the way, Hinata, the mystery man is Sasuke Uchiha," Ino said, glaring slightly at Sakura as if it were all her fault.

Hinata's eyes widened. "S-S-Sasuke Uchiha? As in the new CEO of the Sharingan Corporation? Our partnered c-c-company?"

"The one and the same," Sakura smiled wryly.

The girls sat for a moment in silence.

"What am I going to do?" Sakura moaned

Ino checked her watch and jumped up off the bed. "Well for starters, you're going to get dressed and head down to the company heads' meeting! It starts in 15 minutes! Hinata and I are supposed to go too, to help take notes and stuff!"

"WHAT?" Sakura fell off the bed in her haste to run and get ready.

15 minutes later the girls were rushing towards the elevators that would take them down to the main conference rooms of the hotel.

"Hurry! Argh, hurry!" Sakura yelled impatiently at the elevator doors as they waited for them to open and let them in. She smacked her hand against them.

"By all means, keep attacking the inanimate object, Forehead. I'm sure that will make it go faster," Ino drawled from her side, a bored expression on her face as she filed her nails.

Hinata giggled as Sakura gave her friend a rude gesture.

*Ding*

The chiming of the elevator signifying that it had reached their floor brought Sakura's attention back. "Finally! Now girls, we'll definitely figure out what to do about Mr. Pissy-Uchiha after the me-"

She froze and stared.

"You were saying?" came the monotonous voice of none other than Sasuke Uchiha from inside the elevator.

"Speak of the devil," Sakura mumbled.

"Hey, teme, I think she was saying something along the lines of 'Mr. Pissy-Uchiha with a stick stuffed far-too-high up his ass. Am I right?" came the cheerful voice of Naruto as he stood leaning against the back of the elevator next to his friend, his hands in his pockets.

"That sounds about right," Ino chimed in as Sakura smiled sweetly at Naruto.

"Well, move over Sasuke-teme! Let's escort these beautiful ladies to where they're going." Naruto winked charmingly at the girls and offered Hinata his arm as they stepped into the elevator. At the murderous look from Sasuke, Naruto slapped the stoic man on the back and let out a bark of a laugh. "Come on! Don't be so cold to your wifey! Aren't you two in the honeymooning period still?"

Suffice to say, it was a very long elevator ride for both Sasuke and Sakura.

When they finally reached the conference floor level of the majestic hotel, Sasuke strode straight out the elevator while Naruto bid the girls 'goodbye,' nearly causing Hinata to faint as he kissed her hand slyly.

"This is our floor too, you idiot," Ino mumbled as the girls followed them out.

They all began walking in the same direction. Sasuke noticed this but decided that perhaps the Leaf company was having mini meetings for its employees as well. He turned down a narrow hallway towards the heads of the company meeting and was surprised to hear more footsteps behind him, other than Naruto that is.

When they took a final turn into the hallway that Sasuke was sure only led to the one conference room for the heads of the company, he stopped short.

Not anticipating this, Sakura strode right into his back and rubbed her head gingerly as Sasuke turned to face her, a ghost of a smirk disappearing from his face when she looked up at him.

"Can we discuss our… situation," he offered when he saw Sakura's face tighten slightly, "later? Naruto and I have an important meeting to attend. There's no reason to play the faithful wife and follow."

Sakura gaped while Ino and Hinata immediately grasped her shoulders. They were obviously holding her back from throttling the man in front of her.

"We happen to be off to an important meeting as well!" She all but screamed at him.

He didn't flinch. "Hn."

And with those parting… words? grunt? Sasuke turned and opened the door on his left before walking in with Naruto behind him.

Sakura seethed. She knew who he was, but she suddenly remembered that he had not inquired about her beyond a name earlier. He had no idea that she was the new partner.

Suddenly she smiled. Well, Mr. Stick-up-his-butt would just have to get a rude awakening. He hadn't married just anyone, after all. He had just married Sakura Haruno, newly made partner of Leaf Enterprises, the company that was now merged with the Sharingan Corporation.

Giving a quick nod towards Ino and Hinata, Sakura schooled her face into a serious expression and turned the doorknob to the door Sasuke and Naruto had just disappeared through.

As the door opened, Sasuke turned to see who else was coming in but upon seeing the flash of pink hair, he glared up at the girl. What the hell was she doing? He said he would talk to her later. She was going to ruin him in front of the heads of the company!

However, Sasuke was given a huge surprise when she nodded to one of the heads of Leaf and proceeded to sit across the table from him.

"Ah, wonderful!" came the voice of Tsunade, a head of Leaf. "It seems like we're all here. Sasuke, this is Sakura, one of the partners of Leaf Enterprises."

Sasuke wasn't sure if his mouth dropped but he was sure of the smirk that was now present on the pinkette's face as she gave him a mock wave.

Well, well, well! Looks like Sasuke finally gets a bit of a surprise himself! For all those wondering about the big deal with one of them filing for annulment, both have just recently been promoted to HUGE positions in their companies (which now is one merged company.) People have already heard of their marriage so they can't just do the annulment hush-hush. But both are reluctant to file the annulment because it will cause negative attention (to both but especially to the one who files). Divorce would do the same thing and both just want the whole thing erased at this point.

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