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Sasuke lazily laid down on his bed looking at the navy blue roof above him feeling the softness of his covers on his bare arms. The open window on his left revealed the beautiful view of Konoha covered up in the darkness of the night. A small breeze was making its way to Sasuke's room filling the air with coldness which made the young Uchiha shiver.

Parts of his body were still aching from the fall of the tree. Sasuke still winced at the thought of it. How he, a valued jounin and ANBU could have fallen off a tree because of a sixteen year old girl was beyond him. But soon, and he smirked at the thought, he would get his revenge. It would be payback time for Haruno Sakura and she would learn what training was all about. Yet, for now, the pain was getting the best of him and he didn't feel like moving a muscle.

Normally, the pain would have left him hours ago. But he hadn't had any time to recover after returning from his mission.

Placing his hands under his head and breathing in and out, he slowly closed his eyes thinking about the past events that had occurred during the last day. First, he had come back from that pitiful excuse for a mission given to him by that pathetic gambler the village had for Hokage. He still couldn't figure out why she was chosen to bare the responsibility of a whole village. To Sasuke, a gambler who would freak out when she actually won a bet wasn't his first choice.

Then, when he finally made it back to his house thinking that he would be able to take a well-deserved bath and a good nap, he found a note on his dinner table from Kakashi telling him to meet him in his old training area. This was pretty unusual considering the fact that Kakashi was always busy with his team. And so, out of curiosity he presumed, Sasuke had accepted to meet him. But at the meeting place, Sasuke saw Kakashi training with what seemed to be his student. A pink-haired girl and a blond guy. The young chunins were having a spar against each other and the blond was beating the crap out of the girl. The sight was pretty pitiful to Sasuke and, seeing Kakashi was busy, Sasuke decided to take a little nap on the top of the tree he was on and wait for Kakashi to finish. For surely the copy-ninja had noticed his presence and would wake him up as soon as he was finished…..

Then, there had been that terrible encounter with his soon-to-be-student: The cherry blossom of spring, Haruno Sakura.

Sasuke opened his eyes and looked at over to his desk where Sakura's file, given to him by Kakashi, laid open, revealing all the girl's data from her grades at the ninja academy (Sasuke was surprised to see all the perfect score she had managed to get in her exams) to every exercise and jutsu she had learned from Tsunade (This explained Sasuke the reason to her monstrous strength) along with pictures of her. He had read the file three times already and couldn't help himself from glancing time to time at her pictures.

Never in his life would Sasuke even imagine he was going to be sensei and actually train someone. Indeed, Uchiha Sasuke wasn't the type of person who wanted to share his knowledge with others. He preferred gaining power on his own even if that would hurt some of his important people…

For the fourth time in the passed ten minutes, Sasuke glanced at the file containing Sakura's picture. Today would be a funny day...


"I bet if I hadn't come at that precise moment, he would've kissed her! Can you believe it! Hey Sakura are you even listening to me?"

"No." answered Sakura absent-mindly. She looked up to see Ino, her best friend, standing up in front of her out of breath from all the talking she had been doing. Unfortunately for the blond, Sakura had more important things on her mind. Such as, what was Kakashi-sensei going to do to help her become stronger? And why did that Uchiha Sasuke have to meet him? Were those two events somehow connected to each other? As much as Sakura wanted to find the answers to those questions, she couldn't for Ino was always interrupting her train of thoughts to talk about…

"I was saying I saw Shikamaru and Temari sitting on a bench at the park and holding hands!" Ino screamed as if this piece of information was necessary to Sakura's well being.

"Face it Ino, he got over you." Sakura said only to get this useless conversation over with as soon as possible. Personally, Sakura agreed with Shikamaru. After Ino had dumped him for forgetting her birthday, Sakura was now sure more than ever that those two weren't made for each other.(Although she was always against that couple, she had a feeling it would lead to no good.)

The flower shop owner fiercely shook her head no.

"I'm telling you Sakura, all he wanted was to make me jealous! Well too bad for him cause

his plan didn't work one bit!" Ino said crossing her arms on her chest.

Seems like it did to me…Sakura thought boredom written all over her face.

Sitting on her couch in the living room of her nor too big nor too small apartment, Sakura sighed while looking at Ino walking around her little coffee table at the centre of her living room and listening to Ino rant about how it wasn't her fault if she dumped Shikamaru and that he should have done something to get her back and that he was just a stupid lazy ass bastard and that she didn't know why she was making such of fuss about it since she didn't even care in the first place.

"And then she wants me to find a boyfriend. I'll say like Shikamaru: How troublesome" Sakura thought resting her head in the palms of her hands.

Just as Ino repeated for the fifth time how insensitive Shikamaru was and as Sakura was slowly drifting to the world of dreams, the front door burst open revealing Sakura's favourite blond loud-mouth in the universe: Uzumaki Naruto.

Sakura's face immediately illuminated itself with a smile.

"Baka-Naruto!" Ino yelled, "Look at what you've done to Sakura's door!"

The self-proclaimed Hokage looked down to see the remains of what used to be Sakura's front door and started scratching the back of his head. The last thing he wanted was to make a scene.

"He he sorry Sakura-chan" he said with a nervous smile on afraid of what Tsunade's apprentice could do to him if she ever got mad. He could always make a run for it if things got really ugly…

Fortunately for him, Sakura couldn't care less about her door right now. Naruto had saved her from boredom herself and she was forever grateful.

"Forget about the stupid door Naruto! What did you want to tell me?" Sakura asked, now standing up next to Ino and fully awake.

"Kakashi's at the training area and he wants us to meet him there and he's says it really important." Naruto said excitedly. "He didn't tell me exactly what he wanted but it sounds great!"

"But today is Sunday!" Ino said outraged hands on her hips, "It's a day off!"

"But Kakashi-sensei said it was important and that we should be there as soon as possible!" Naruto said glaring at Ino. He didn't want that boy-obsessed-freak to deprive Sakura and him from a new adventure.

"Shanaro!" Sakura thought "I really hope it has something to do with me becoming stronger! It just has to be!"

"What are you waiting for Naruto!" Sakura said already outside in front of her house, "Let's go already!" She said running ahead. "Bye Ino!" She said waving at her best friend

"Wait for me Sakura-chan!" Naruto said following his friend.

Both chunnin ran at full speed leaving Ino standing on the spot.


Running side by side with Naruto, Sakura let the wind caress her face and her long pink hair sway behind her.

"Ne, Sakura-chan!" Naruto called "Why do you think Kakashi-sensei's calling us all of a sudden?"

Sakura looked at her teammate and smiled.

"I'm not sure what it is Naruto," She said "But I'm sure it has something to do with us becoming stronger!"

That was one thing Sakura couldn't understand about herself, even thought she wanted to become stronger and maybe one day beat Naruto on a spar (or at least giving him a hard time in beating her) she didn't want to be the only one to improve in strength. If she was going to get stronger, she wanted Naruto to get stronger as well.

Both Naruto and Sakura smiled. They couldn't wait to see what was awaiting them. A smirk plastered on their faces, both started running even faster.


"I'm back Kakashi-sensei" Naruto said panting when he and Sakura arrived the training area. "I brought Sakura-chan with me too!"

Sakura looked around and saw everything in the training area was just like it used to be. Some kunais were implanted on the ground on random spots, trees were marked by some shurinkens, the cord with which Kakashi-sensei had tied Naruto up to a log was still laying on the ground around said log. Sakura even smiled seeing her own blood on the ground, memory from her spars with Naruto.

"I won't shed blood that easily anymore…" she thought happily.

The sun was slowly setting in the horizon and rays of light were illuminating the training area giving it taints of orange and pink. The sight was breathtaking and Sakura remembered now more than ever why she loved this place.

"Thanks for coming here so fast" Kakashi said attracting his student's attention. "To answer your question Sakura, yes I've found a way to help you become stronger." Sakura's smile only went larger.

"I must inform you however, that it won't be easy Sakura." Kakashi continued.

"Hai, Kakashi-sensei!" Sakura answered the smile never leaving her face. She had waited for this moment for so long. She squealed in delight. It was too good to be true and she hope with all her heart and soul she wasn't dreaming. Maybe Kakashi-sensei would prepare a special training adjusted to her needs! Or maybe he had developed a new jutsu that revealed one's potential. Or maybe…

"I got you a new sensei" Kakashi said.

Sakura's smile disappeared automatically. She hadn't thought of that.

"You mean I'll be separated from Naruto and you sensei!" She screamed afraid to lose what was, to her, the only family she had left.

"Of course not Sakura," Kakashi answered, "From now on, you'll be training with your new sensei three days a week after your usual training with Naruto and me."

"Shannaro!" Sakura screamed "Who's my new sensei? Is he here? Is it Kurenai? I sure hope it's not Gaï because even thought he's strong, he's way too unique for me!"

Kakashi smirked under his mask.

"He's right here." The copy ninja said "You can come out now sensei."

Sasuke took this as his cue to reveal himself. He slowly walked toward Kakashi and his new student. When he saw her, he couldn't hold back a smirk. The expression on Sakura's face was priceless. Her eye wide in shock and her cherry lips partly set aside from each other, she almost looked like a fish out of water. When he reached Sakura's level, he couldn't help but think she looked smaller than yesterday. The top of her head barely reached his the upper part of his chest. Again, her eyes caught most of his attention. For as soon as Sakura took the news in, she remembered yesterday's event and surprise made way to anger in her eyes. Oh how he loved seeing her angry.

Sakura took a step back away from Sasuke.

"You can't be serious Kakashi-sensei!" she screamed "I can't train with him!"

"Really?" Kakashi asked "Why not?" Even Sasuke cocked an eyebrow at her, although he was waiting for that kind of reaction coming from her, he wondered what reason Sakura would give him to refuse to train under his management.

"Because! He…..he…" But Sakura was a lost for words. She realized she didn't really have a good reason to hate Sasuke. After all, she was the one who made him fall off the tree ne? Yet she couldn't bring herself to like him either. He was too much of an arrogant bastard and Haruno Sakura just couldn't stand arrogant bastards.

She looked at Naruto to see that he was glaring at Sasuke who was glaring back. Naruto didn't know why Sakura didn't like Sasuke but if she didn't, well he didn't either. Plus Naruto had a bad feeling about this guy… But Sasuke was getting tired of the blond's stare.

"What are you looking at dobe?" He asked annoyed.

"Who are you calling a dobe you….you teme!" he yelled fuming with anger.

And both of them went back to their little glaring contest.

Seeing this, Sakura sighed. "That's enough Naruto." She said "If this is what it takes to become stronger than I guess…"
"Great! Its settled then!" Kakashi said interrupting Sakura's little monologue. He then turned to Sasuke.

"When do you want to start the training Sasuke?" he asked

"Tomorrow's fine" Sasuke answered looking at Sakura as a smirk made its way to his handsome face.

"Right" Sakura said glaring murderously back into Sasuke's onyx eyes.