CHAPTER 3

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~Sakura~

I hated what I was going to do. However, I didn't have a choice. Sasuke was right, that was the only way to escape, but most importantly to survive. Although I loathed how he said "join us", I hated to remember he was part of that group.

"Okay, I'm in." I said.

"Okay and I promise you I'll get you out of here as soon as I can." He said and stood up, heading for the door.

"Hey Sasuke? Why are you helping me?" I asked. No explanation had come to me to explain his behavior.

"I'll tell you later." He answered and went to call Madara.

Then they both entered. Madara -clearly suspicious- said. "Ok so you have agreed."

"Yes." I answered firmly.

"Fine then, but I'll be paying a lot of attention to you. I still don't trust you; now go train with Sasuke, your fighting level is very low, I want to see improvements soon, got that?"

"Yes." After my answer he left.

Sasuke said. "Let's go." And offered me his hand so I could stand up. He had never, ever, made this gentleman act, not even when we were friends –or the closest thing there was to friendship- I couldn't believe he was doing it now.

However I took it, his hand closed strongly, but not painfully, around mine and he pulled me up.

"Now I want you to separate your hands as much as you can, I'll cut the cuffs."

I did what he said. When I was ready he made a jutsu. I remember it from the first time I saw him after he left, it was called Chidori Nagashi. With that he cut the chain and I was finally free.

On our way to the place where we were going to train I healed the injuries in my wrists. They weren't serious but since I was going to have to fight Sasuke I wanted to make sure nothing went wrong. However, I forgot a very important thing.

When we arrived Sasuke walked some distance ahead of me and then turned.

"Ok, I'll fight you to see on which level you are and after that we'll see what you need to improve ok?" He sounded so professional. Not his usual self.

"Ok." I said

"Oh and by the way…" He disappeared and suddenly appeared in front of me. "I won't hold back." And the fight started.

Everything was going fine, well without the fact I was getting my butt kicked pretty badly, he was fast, very fast, but even with that speed I was able to dodge almost all of his attacks and hit him every now and then. At first he was fighting normally, but then he started using his sword.

I was doing pretty well when my eyesight started to get blurry. My dodging was failing greatly and seconds before Sasuke threw his sword directly at my face I fainted.

~Sasuke~

I thought I was going to kill her! Everything was ok, I discovered she wasn't bad fighter, she only needed speed, she was dodging ok and her punches hurt like you wouldn't imagine, and suddenly her moves became slower, clumsier, at first I thought she had only lost concentration, so I kept fighting. It wasn't until I threw my sword at her and she didn't move when I realized something was wrong.

I missed her head by inches; I almost cut my whole hand trying to change the sword's direction. I did cut myself, blood was dripping from my palm but I didn't care, I was more concerned about Sakura.

"SAKURA!" I screamed. I caught her before she hit the ground. She came back to her senses very quickly.

"What the- What happened?" She asked confused.

However I was hysterical. "Why didn't you moved? I thought I was going to kill you, idiot!" I said harshly. But when I saw the hurt expression on her face I said more kindly. "What happened?"

"I don't kno-"That's when I saw or rather heard the problem, her stomach growled and she blushed. "It's not what-"

"How long have you gone without eating?" I interrupted her pathetic attempts to lie to me.

"I don't know, but that's not the reason I fainted!" She said.

"Sakura I know you well enough to see you are lying, stop trying to, you are not good at it."

That made her explode. "Why do you think you know me so well? You haven't been around the last 3 years! Why are you so sure I haven't change? I'm tired of having people think they know everything about me when they don't!" She practically yelled at me. Those words made me feel guilty and kind of sad, because she was right.

"C'mon lets go get us something to eat." I said, stood up and pull her up with me. I kept my arm around her waist in case she might faint again, and headed for the kitchen.