Hello, here is the next chapter as promised! I didn't expect any reviews, so 3milly and moonlightpale thank you so much! It means a lot to me! And sorry about my grammar mistakes, English is actually one of my worst subjects and I haven't take a course in over a year now so I'm super rusty. But I will try to make my writing perfect! Enjoy!

Chapter 4

The moment they landed, Sakura wrenched her arm from Sasuke's grasp and formed a distance between them, keeping wary eyes on him and watching his every move.

Now that there were no distractions, Sasuke examined Sakura's appearance. She was much shorter than him now, and it seemed like she had decided to keep her pink hair in a short style. Sasuke hadn't been the only one who had matured. Sakura's body had grown and filled out with delicate curves, although she still had a slender appearance. Her eyes were an even more brilliant shade of emerald, and she had been blessed with long eyelashes that naturally curled. And her lips seemed… shinier than usual?

Sasuke was brought back into reality when he sensed a kunai being thrown. He easily dodged it, and glared at Sakura.

"Something like that will never scratch me," he scoffed.

Sakura shrugged. "Didn't hurt to try." He had seemed distracted by something for a few seconds. What could have caught his attention?

The smirk returned to Sasuke's face. Just how much could Sakura entertain him?

He took a fighting stance, and studied Sakura. "Hn. It won't be easy to lay even a scratch on me. Rejoice. You said that you would do anything for me in the past, right? Your death will aid in my getting the Mangekyo."

Sakura's face fell, and it wasn't missed by Sasuke's sharingan, but before he could truly register it her face became a composed wall once more.

Sakura couldn't help but feel sorrow. He really didn't care about Team 7 anymore… But she couldn't afford to think about that right now. Her resolve returned, and she scowled in return.

"We'll see," she said as she made the first move by throwing her fist to the ground.

Huge boulders of land sprang up from the impact of Sakura's punch, and she used her strength to throw and kick them all in Sasuke's direction. Sasuke dodged them easily, but was surprised by Sakura's monster strength. To think she had become this strong… But he wasn't going to lose to the girl. She had always been weaker than him in the past, and that fact wouldn't be any different now.

Sasuke uncovered the binding from his lower arm, and summoned hundreds of shuriken connected by wire. He swung them in Sakura's direction with lightning speed. The shuriken bent and changed direction in an almost inhuman way, but Sakura was ready to dodge and block them. After all, she was familiar with the fact that Sasuke had always been a master at manipulating the trajectory of shuriken.

Sakura burst forward and immediately closed the distance between her and Sasuke, forcing him into a taijutsu duel. The two seemed like an even match at a far glance. Sasuke parried every punch with his own, and Sakura successfully blocked all of his advances. Anyone would normally have difficulty due to Sasuke having the sharingan and lightning speed, but Sakura was different. She may have been nowhere near as fast as Sasuke, but her training with Lee and Tsunade, as well as her perfect chakra control, allowed her to perfectly block and dodge Sasuke with ease. Sasuke soon became aware that he was at a disadvantage, and knew he had to create a distance.

He broke away from Sakura and stood a few feet from her, panting. Sakura was also panting, but she stood and went into a defensive pose once again, glaring at Sasuke with fierce eyes.

I have to get her fast, thought Sasuke. After a moment's pause, he seemed to disappear from sight.

Sakura immediately started scouring the area for any sign of Sasuke. Where did he go? She was irritated that she couldn't find him. Suddenly, from all directions shuriken popped out of nowhere. This again? Sakura easily escaped all of them. Where was Sasuke?

Sakura looked up just in time to hear Sasuke shout Katon: Gokyakyu no Jutsu and see the huge ball of fire coming her way. She withstood the attack by surrounding her body with healing chakra, but now her vision was cut off because of the smoke everywhere.

"Where are you looking?" Sasuke smirked right next to her ear.

Sakura immediately whipped her head around, but that ended up being her mistake because she was directly caught in Sasuke's bright red eyes…

A/N: Next chapter will be coming out next week! Once again, reviews aside I'm just thankful to the readers who gave my story a chance. Also, I wonder if my chapters are too short…?