So here's the second chapter. Hope you like it.

Sakura felt embarrassed, She pleaded with Sasuke to stay with her. She offered to help him. She tried her best. But it wasn't good enough. And she hated that. She despised that fact that her best efforts failed. She was weak, she felt it weighing her down. The emotional weakness and the physical weakness.

Well she'd had enough of feeling like she couldn't do anything. She was going to train. She lifted her head up as she walked home. She wasn't going to start today. Today is diet cheat day. She wasn't giving that up.

Sakura had woken up early and started off with a run. Her hair was back in a ponytail and instead of her usual attire, she put on a red top and black ninja pants.

Her pace started slow and her mind kept running over the past events. The way she could never spar with Sasuke or Naruto because she wasn't strong enough, the way Sasuke talked down on her for being weak. She couldn't stop him from leaving. Her pace quickened as her anger motivated her to push herself and run faster. She had been so focused on increasing her speed, she hadn't seen any of the other ninjas who came to the training grounds. She didn't care about anything else except getting stronger.

She didn't know how long she'd been running for when a wall of sand had appeared right in front of her.
She crashed through the hard wall and flipped a couple times before hitting the ground.

She sat up with a couple 'ows' and looked up to see Gaara.

"Oh, H-hello." She stood up quickly. "You know, there are other ways to get my attention."

He smirked and it caused a bit of un-ease in her. "This one way was more fun."

"Well, if that's all, I'm going to get back to running." Turning to leave she was stopped by his hand on her arm.

"Sakura, why were you unconscious on a park bench." His voice had a trace of...worry? His eyes did too.

"I was just walking in the park and someone knocked me out."

She's lying. Shukaku stirred.

"Sakura, just tell me the truth." He felt concerned for her. He knew she was weak, mentally and physically.

She looked like she was about to cry. "Sasuke-kun left last night. He knocked me out and left me on the bench. I begged him not to leave. I told him that I would help him avenge his family. I sounded like an idiot." Her hands were trembling. "I was weak."

He felt for her. He didn't care for the Uchiha kid. He was an ass hole. He betrayed his own village for revenge. If the Uchiha came back, Gaara would take him out himself.

"So I'm training harder. I will be stronger and smarter. Now if you'll excuse me." She gave him a small bow and took off running again.
He watched her take off and decided to watch her for a bit. She was so focused on being better. Her face was red and her hair was falling from her ponytail. She looked like she was going to pass out. He smirked at her dedication. He sat up in one of the trees hanging over the path, watching her run by every couple of minutes. She hadn't looked away from her training once.

Awhile later she began to feel tired, so she slowed her pace and kept it for a few more hours.

About four hours later, her body felt heavy and slowed her pace to a walk with her arms over her head and walked for another 20 minutes to cool down. She was just about to head home when she felt someone next to her and jumped a couple feet away.

"Hehe, did I scare you Sakura-chan?"

"Naruto!" She greeted him with a fist to the face. "Don't sneak up on me like that!"

"Ooooow, Sorry!" He rubbed his head. "Here." He handed her a bottle of water. "I stopped at your apartment but you weren't there. Have you been here all day?"

"Yeah." She took a few gulps and wiped her mouth. "I'm going to be stronger. I can't keep being weak."

"Yeah, I guess. Just don't over do it. Anyway, Me and Kakashi-sensei talked to the Hokage today about Sasuke. They classified him as a traitor to the village. So if he ever comes back, They're going to arrest him."

"Good." She don't know how she had felt so much love for Sasuke, he was a heartless bastard. He didn't care about anything other killing his brother. She was sweet and kind to him everytime she had seen him. But he always treated her like she was nothing, like she wasn't worth a minute of his time. She took another swig and started walking home. "I'll see you later Naruto."

"Bie Sakura-chan!"

Naruto ran off in another direction while she slowly made her way home. Tomorrow was going to be another long day of training.

Sakura had woken up early and hit the books.

The day continued on going between chakra exercises and practicing simple jutsus. She'd managed a couple tricks like making a ball of her chakra in her hands, and flowing chakra through each finger tip all together and then each individually.

Her phone had been ringing off the hook assuming it was friends wondering if she was all right after Sasuke had left. She'd turned the ringer volume down as low as possible to avoid the distraction, but the constant ringing kept bugging her. She decided her best bet for total concentration was to be in a quiet area and packed a couple jutsu scrolls, a chakra control scroll and water.

She locked her door and marched off into the woods. She had not noticed the person standing on the other end of the long hallway.

Sakura made her way through town towards the forest. The entire time, she felt as if someone was following her. She could not sense anyone's chakra and if it were a civilian following her she wouldn't have a problem seeing them since they had no skill in sneaking around. She shrugged it off when she reached the wood and a large tree to sit beneath.

She was doing her chakra finger exercises when someone jumped down from the tree above and landed gracefully on the ground in front of her.

So there's chapter 2. Anyway, hope you like it so far. I'm trying to make the chapters longer, but I just want to get the story out to my readers quickly.

Also, I'd like to thank Falynn1993 for leaving the first review. I'm so giddy I feel like toddler on Christmas.