Sorry these last few chapters arent as funny as the others...

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"Pardon?" Sakura asked not sure what he had just said

"Fight me"

"No" She replied, walking away I'm too tired for this

"Do I scare you Kunochi?" he said with a smirk

She smirked back bastard "Fine, but first I need to get my things….."

Sand enveloped them and the pair reappeared in Saukra's room. She groaned in embarrassment, there were clothes, scrolls, and worse of all underwear scattered around the room.

Hurriedly she picked up her various weapon holders, hoping he wouldn't notice the mess. She paused hand hovering over some scrolls and more deadly weapons.

"Take them" Gaara ordered

Sakura almost growled at the tone he used how dare he boss me around! With a snarl she grabbed her things and turned. "Training ground 1" she said before disappearing in front of a surprised Gaara, his sand grabbed at empty space.

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How does she know the training grounds? He thought another mystery to be discovered his thoughts momentarily turned to an image of green eyes, half lidded…..Gaara shook himself that is not the thought I want following me as I go into a fight

He opened the nearby window and jumped out, running the short way to training ground one.

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Sakura had chosen well, the training grounds inside the sand village consisted of either rock or sand so she had gone for rock, giving herself an advantage, if only a slight one.

The whole ground was a raised red sandstone, with pillars erupting from it at random intervals, the hot sun bore down heavily making Sakura curse you forgot sun cream dumb ass, Hearing Gaara arriving she froze and peeked about the pillar.

She watched him for several minutes before realising something he's just standing there…oh, he prefers people to attack him – worse than Shikamaru!

Thinking she slowly walked towards him.

" Ohio" she greeted

He nodded then continued to wait

"Are we going to spar?" she asked boredly

"We already are" he responded lifting his hand

Sakura felt the earth literally move and was thrown back five meters into a rock column, her head struck she stone with a sickening crunch.

Ayyyy………she thought as she felt herself slump down and lie on the floor. Without moving she healed the damage the impact had caused and evaluated the situation.
Gaara whist she had been doing nothing had managed to get his sand to pool around her feet, allowing him to flip her into the column she had just slid down.
Man he wants to beat me up for making him work……how can I beat him?

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Gaara smirked to himself as he flung the kunochi across the field, when she hit the column he had felt satisfied, then he waited for her throw herself back into the fight. She slid down the column and made no move to get back up.
She is merely stunned, she will get back up he told himself confidently. She didn't move.
Gaara frowned after a few minutes when he felt her chakra flare, preparing himself for an attack, none came, and Sakura was still.
The harsh desert wind picked up blowing a dusting of wind across the hot stone and stirring his robes and her hair.
"Haruno-san" he said quietly, she didn't answer and he took a step forward
"Sakura-san" he said
"Sakura?" he asked standing a few feet from the fallen woman I cant have killed her but his mind remembered the crack of her skull on the stone.
About to step forward his sand was just fast enough to avoid a set of sebon needles flung at him. One flew through the spare fabric in his robes.
He jumped back ready to retaliate only to find Sakura had disappeared.

A whistle alerted him to her location, she was above, perched on a pillar the sun behind her so that it was in his eyes.
He growled how dare she make me worry!
Sakura was watching him as she pulled on her trademark black gloves, her skin was already feeling red and now she had a headache just so he can have his goddamn pride, screw that.

Or him her inner voice quipped

NOT NOW Sakura internally screamed as she narrowly avoided a volley of sand spikes.

She ran down the column kicking and punching whenever she came into contact with Gaara or his shield, she raked her had, glowing green with acid down his face at one point, but all she did was take away a layer of sand.

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Finally she returned to her perch panting and tired, Gaara was still stood there, hardly moved or even broken a sweat. "You'll have to do better than that Haruno-san"
Her face was set with grim determination.
"Suan yu no jutsu!" she yelled forming fast hand seals
A cloud formed dark, low and ominously green.
Gaara looked up at it briefly, lightening bolts flashed within.
Sakura and he locked eyes for a moment before Sakura whispered "Durn no jutsu"

Then hell was unleashed.
Dark murky green liquid began to fall from the cloud, it steamed as it hit the ground and surrounding rocks, eating away at them and forming pools.
Gaara's sand shield was having trouble; the acid rain was eating through his shield at an alarming rate. He growled and was about to recover more sand when he heard screams.

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Sakura safe in her shield on her column also heard the screams. Some villagers had come to the edge of the training field attracted to the cloud; one of the children had run further in, straight into the path of the now falling rain.

Her toys and clothes were dissolving around her. She screamed as the ends of her hair started to steam.

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Sakura didn't think, she threw herself out of her shield and into the downpour, leaping over acid puddles, ignoring the sizzle of droplets hitting her skin; she formed hand seals as she went seals for curing, skin recovery, eyes, hair, and lungs.
She swept the girl up and dived over the crowd thrusting her chakra into the child's smouldering skin, yelling 'kai' at the same time.

They both lay there panting, the silence that followed almost shattered by the intake of breath
"C, can I take her?" a small woman who had run stood very close, her trembling belay that this was the girl's mother.
"…" Sakura tried to speak, and had to swallow a few times, the acid had burned her throat "Y, yes, don't encourage her to play on training fields, take her to hospital..."
The women looked suitably ashamed and relieved as she held her daughter close and rushed away followed closely by a tall man.

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Sakura closed her eyes still panting, she felt a creeping sensation along her body and almost groaned as she felt herself lifted and pulled towards the training ground.
When she tiredly opened her eyes she found herself facing a very Angry Kazekage.
"HOW DARE YOU USE SUCH A TECHNIQUE IN THE PUBLIC TRAINING GROUNDS!" he yelled
"No one was hurt" she said horsely, her throat sore.
He seemed taken back at the sound of her voice "YOU were hurt" he said pointing to burns on her sand encased body
"If you hadn't tried to smash my brains in I would not have, Let me go" Sakura said, not feeling up to a lecture
"No, we are still fighting" he said suddenly up close his breath tickling her cheek "we will finish, or you will forfeit"

He looks better when he's angry she thought he's so close, close enough to kiss...

Sakura concentrate, win this damn fight

Sakura growled and made a one handed seal "Fine - Wen doo no jutsu"

He looked startled when she leant forward and their lips connected, Sakura enjoyed it at least this means I can get over this urge to kiss him and win the fight

After a few moments she broke the kiss leaning back and Gaara swayed, hand coming up to touch his lips "What….." then he fell

YES! We won!
I guess we did…….oh no…..
What?
No chakra Sakura thought as she fainted

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jutsu translations - i used cantonese...it seems to be easier to find the symbols than japanese, neither of which i speak

Wen doo - poison kiss

Durn - Shield

Suan yu - Acid rain