Chapter 6

I don't own Naruto

Recap:

"Good job you are all now dismissed, I'll see you guys tomorrow" said Kakashi as he puffed away. Sakura just waved at both of the remaining guys and also puffed away. Naruto ran out of the team 7 training ground shouting something about having a coupon for Ichiraku's.

End of recap

Sakura appeared in front of her apartment and walked inside. When she closed the door she started to cough uncontrollably. Soon the seal she had place on herself when she was younger started to appear on her forearm. After a minute she could feel it start to burn under the glove, telling Sakura that her powers were getting harder to control. She then realized that the feeling she was getting was the fear of losing control around her teammates. With that information she realized that she would need to separate herself from her everyone so that she could protect herself from emotional pain if worse came to worse.

'I guess that I enjoyed what I could.' she thought gloomily ' But this is for the best'

After a short shower she ate and quickly went to bed, tomorrow would not be a pleasant day.

Sakura awoke by the sound of her alarm clock, she wasted no time in getting up and taking a shower. After her shower she grabbed an apple and was soon on her way to team 7's training ground. When she arrived she took notice that no one else was around. She took this advantage to get a quick warm up before the others arrived. She took out a couple kunais and she jumped into the air, she shot her first kunai and sent another after it making them intercept and bounce to the direct target. After some more shots she landed and felt that Sasuke was nearing the bridge. She decided not to pay attention to him and created a clone to spar with. Sakura and her clone got into a fighting stance.

"Nothing but taijutsu shall be used in this spar." said Sakura loud enough for her clone to hear. The clone was the first to attack she threw a kunai that Sakura was able to block with ease. The clone quickly ran a Sakura with a fist ready to make contact with Sakura's face what the clone didn't expect was for Sakura to jump over her and kick her from behind while doing a handstand.

The clone fell forward but rapidly recuperated and twisted to land on her feet only to bounce off as fast as lightning hitting Sakura in the ribs with a hard kick. Sakura was sent flying back crashing through a couple of trees. When she got on to her feet she looked at her clone and ran toward her so fast that no normal eye would be able to follow. The Sakura clone not expecting the real Sakura to charge so fast was slightly shocked when the real Sakura appeared behind her.

Sakura did not give the clone enough time to react and slid her leg under the clone, resulting in the clone falling backwards. Sakura quickly appear underneath the clone and kicked her up only to jump up and sent the clone crashing into the ground with a loud sound. The clone disappeared with a puff. Sakura healed her bruises and did a fast clean up that returned all the damage areas back to the way they should be. Sakura walked back to the bridge as if nothing had happened. Sasuke was staring at her with his eyes slightly widen. When he returned to normal he gave her a simple nod, begin his way to say 'Good Morning'. Sakura on the other hand didn't bother to act knowledge it. Sasuke was about to greet her again with a 'Hn' but was stopped by Naruto's greeting.

"Good Morning, Sakura-chan! Morning teme" said Naruto changing his tone when he greeted Sasuke.

"Hn" acknowledged Sasuke. On the other hand Sakura ignored him, just like she had ignored Sasuke. Both Naruto and Sasuke turned to face Sakura, wondering why Sakura had not responded, as she recently had.

"Sakura, are you okay?" asked Naruto. Sakura knowing that they would not leave her alone turned around and glare daggers at them.

"I'm fine, now leave me alone." her tone sent shivers down the guys spine, but neither wanted to admit it. When Naruto was about protest against Sakura, when Kakashi showed up.

"Okay, this is weird this morning I wake up under my bed, and then I don't have any more ramen! I get here Sasuke is staring at Sakura."

"I was not, dobe." protested Sasuke

"I'm not dobe, teme! Anyway Sakura is acting super mean today and Kakashi-sensei is here early! What is going on?" exclaimed Naruto.

"Anyway, today I have a mission so we will only spar for two hours Sasuke with..." he trailed off thinking if it was safe for him to spar with Sakura and decided it was because Sakura knew not to kill anyone, he hope.

"Kakashi-Sensei?" asked Naruto snapping Kakashi out of his thoughts.

"...With Sakura and Naruto will spar with me, you guys stay here. Naruto and I will spar up North, understood?"

"Alright! I get to go against sensei, and not you Sasuke" Yelled a Naruto grinning.

"Hn"

'Sakura is acting like before.' thought Kakashi but pushed the thought aside heading toward the north of the training ground with Naruto.

Sakura went to the left side of the training ground and got into a fighting stance. Sasuke catching the hit went to the right side and took a fight stance.

'Maybe she just needs to let off some steam' thought Sasuke.

"Go" shouted Sakura. She didn't even give Sasuke time to process the fact that the spar had begun when she was about to punch him on his face. Thanks to his quick reflexes he was barely able to dodge the attack. Sasuke ducked and slid his leg under Sakura to be able to trip her, but Sakura jumped up and kicked him on the chest sending him to the ground.

Taking his breath away from him, she jumped on top of him with a kunai at his neck. When Sasuke noticed he roll on top of her, Sakura not expecting Sasuke to reacted so fast lost her kunai and was trapped.

Sakura's breath was almost taken away from her when she stared into the bottomless black eyes of Sasuke, but she was able to keep a face of indifference. Sasuke was also lost into Sakura's emerald eyes; he tried to find something in them. Sakura noticed that Sasuke was not paying attention and concluded that she could use it as an advantage.

She swung her left hand successfully knocking Sasuke off her and she took a fighting stance once again, but this time she wasted no time at attacking him. She hooked a left to the right, Sasuke was barely able to dodge than she hooked a right to the left and Sasuke was able to catch her fist and was about to twist it when, Sakura twisted herself to the left under her arm and kicked Sasuke in his ribs with enough strength to bruise and knock the wind out of him but not enough to break his ribs.

Crashing his back onto a tree bruised him more. He looked up at Sakura when she walked towards him. She lifted some water from the river as if it were magic she didn't even need to touch it or make a hand sign. When she was in front of Sasuke she placed the cold water onto Sasuke and it started to heal him.

"Do you want to spar more or do you want to call it quits?" Sakura asked not really caring if he said yes or no. He was about to answer when Naruto coming in shouting

"Sakura want to go eat?" ask Naruto

"No." she answered flatly and glared at him in case he wanted to protest.

"Hehehe, maybe next time" he said nervously, scratching the back of his head. He then turned and started to walk away. Sakura felt a faint pang at seeing Naruto's sulking mood but chose to ignore it.

"Let's continue?" asked/demand Sasuke.

"Hn" she answered as she once again got into a fighting stance.

Sakura's seal started to hurt at dawn and she felt the need to start coughing so she simply disappeared on him. He was left dumbfounded and wondering what happened to her. He pushed the thoughts of Sakura aside and decided that he didn't need to stop training but it would be better if he trained at home. Sakura once again appeared at her house coughing uncontrollably. Luckily this time it didn't last as long. She showered, ate a small meal and headed to bed.

The next few days went nice and easy Sakura did not run into Naruto as much and when she did he would greet her only to be ignored by her. Sasuke and Sakura train from 5am till 5pm. Thanks to the sparing Sasuke and Sakura had improved both their taijutsu and genjutsu. After training she would return to her house, showered, and eat a small meal. She never trusted herself to be in control so she would mediate until 12 o'clock. Her coughing fits and her seal disappeared like they came, thanks to her meditation.

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