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CHAPTER 9


~Sakura~

Everything was great. But, like always, something –or rather someone- had to come and ruin it all.

His voice came from behind us, and the worst part? He was angry.

"Haruno!" Madara almost yelled. I cringed at the sound of my last name but fire also started inside of me, I hated when people called me by my last name, I didn't dislike it or anything, but there was something about hearing it instead of my name that I didn't enjoy. But right now I was more afraid than angry. Sasuke felt my body tense and gently squeezed my hand in a very sweet and soothing gesture. I looked up at him before we both turned.

"Yes?" I said. Strangely my voice sounded sure, calm, and for a moment I thought I had nothing to fear. Yeah, tell that to my shaky knees and hands!

"Why haven't you been training?" he demanded. He had reached us by now. He unleashed his tallness now, towering over me.

"B-because I'm still recovering! Juugo's attack was very tough; it will take a while before I can move my left arm!" I said surely.

"So?" he said. Like all of this didn't mean a thing or it was just a stupid excuse a worker would do to escape his job.

This made my attitude fall, a mask falling, and revealed my true feelings: panic, uncertainness and surprise.

"Wh-what do you mean?" I stuttered.

He seemed amused, like a snake who just figured out his prey was afraid. "Just because you can't move your arm doesn't mean you can't train! Imagine if you lost your arm during a battle. Will that stop you? Will you let your opponent kill you just because you lost a limb?" he yelled at me.

I cringed. I knew he was right, so I couldn't reply. Everything I said would be wrong.

"This isn't her fault! I was the one who told her to rest for a while! If you want to blame someone bla-"

"I'll start training tomorrow. Just give me today. That's all I ask for." I said obediently, interrupting Sasuke.

Madara looked at me intently, or at least that was what I thought he was doing behind his unnerving orange mask he never took off. Then he answered. "Fine. I expect to see you training tomorrow." He walked past us, and when I thought the storm had passes I saw it was only starting.

"Oh and by the way, I'll test you in 2 weeks; it's a live or dies. So you better have made progress." He said and walked away.

When I was sure he was a good distance from us I leaned on the wall, as if tired, looking down.

"Sakura I'm s-"

"Don't, it's ok." I looked up and smiled. "I need you to help me tomorrow." I said.

"Of course I will." He said.

I sighed. I stood up and said. "I need to rest and heal my wounds again, the next days will be tough and I don't want to risk opening them again." After that we went to our room.

The next day after breakfast the training started. I never thought it would be so easy to fight with only one hand.

"More defense on your back Sakura." Sasuke said, his voice kind of breathless while throwing me some punches. "Madara can appear behind you in a second, you must be on your guard, always."

"Right." I said, dodging his attacks.

He continued making me observations; the good thing is that I learned fast, he never repeated one thing.

Five days later, while fighting him something strange happened. No, it wasn't my arm, it had healed almost completely already – well, not completely but close to how it had been before- so I could move it more. The strange thing was different. It was a good thing, although I didn't see it like that at the beginning.

I had punched Sasuke and he had flown backwards, and when I saw him coming for me again I threw my hands to the front as if I was going to heal him. I felt a huge amount of chakra concentrating in my hands, making pressure on them until it hurt, I could even see it! The pressure was too much, it wanted to get out, and so I let it go out.

A huge explosion, that's what happened. Sasuke went flying back again but with more force and smashed on a wall. He even left a hole! How did this happen? I had never done anything like that, I got confused, like I was going to make healing chakra, but this chakra was different! I heard of this… offensive or whatever chakra from Lady Tsunade but I've never try to perform it or even thought I could do it. Until now.

I saw Sasuke standing up slowly and then falling back down. I ran to him.

"Sasuke! Are you ok?" I asked alarmed.

"Y-Yes… How- How did you do that?" he asked confused and shocked.

"I…. I don't know." I said. It had been so strange! Like my body had knew how to make this all along and it had been waiting for an opportunity to show it. What the hell?


~Sasuke~

Man that hurt! Where did she got that technique from?

"Aren't you tired or something?" I asked incredulous. All the chakra she released in only one attack! Even I would have been weakened or tired by that. And yet she was normal, not even breathing hard!

"No…" she said like she couldn't believe it either. "I'm sorry." She started healing me.

"It's okay, but I think you'll need to find another teacher." I said jokingly but grimaced in pain while cradling my arm. The chakra she had let out wasn't normal, it had traveled at and incredible fast speed and I hadn't been able to get completely out of the way. I had been just caught by the chakra's outer perimeter, but my fall had been hard, my body landed wrong, breaking my arm and I wasn't yet sure about my ankle. If this was what happened when you were just barely touched by it, someone who was caught in the blow would probably die.

"I think so, but don-"

"Let me see!" She said and very gently grabbed my broken arm and watched intently, pressing lightly on certain part receiving grimaces from me.

"Oh my God! It is broken! I'm so sorry Sas-"

"Don't worry I'm ok." I interrupted her torment. I had had it worst. But I could still see her face flushing red with embarrassment.

"Fine, I'll have to place it correctly before it starts healing like this ok? So grab my arm of you want. I'll make it quick but it'll still give you a little pain." She said.

I grabbed her arm out of necessity but rather because I wanted to. She grabbed my arm and very quickly twisted it, provoking a loud crack. It didn't hurt as much as I thought.

"Hey you are very good at this. It barely hurt at all!" I complimented her.

"Thanks, I'm glad." she said. Laughing and healing my broken arm.

I watched her while she was working. She worked precisely, never looking at me or at anything else; she was fully concentrated on my arm.

I didn't realize I had gotten closer to her until she finished healing and looked up at me.