WARNING: Chapters 1-4 have been re-edited. Not huge changes but enough that they'll affect the storyline. Going back to read them is highly encouraged. Ch 5-8 will be next. But without further adieu I give you:

Restart 11

Sasuke's p.o.v

The fist comes flying and I easily evade it. My feet were light on the ground as they sidestepped every kick, every punch and move. It wasn't a challenge to put my opponent down but she was improving with each session.

"Sakura-chan! You need to be faster! Let's add another kilo to your weights dattebayano!"

"Eh? But Naruto you increased them last week!"

I offer my hand to Sakura. She was all sweaty and B.O would soon come out but she was perfect. Here was the girl who never let the world dictate her actions. Different from her previous twelve-year-old self but so reminiscent to her seventeen-year-old persona.

Her smile warmed my heart with sincere like in them. I kindly pull her up and set her on firm ground. Her vivid green eyes captivated my attention and I could recount a thousand reasons why I was grateful for the second chance. Sakura took most of them.

I noticed too late when my legs gave under me and barely drag her down with me. Blink once. Twice. The sky really is extremely blue today. Somewhere close I could hear the dobe laughing and noticed the pink strands of hair that hung over me.

Sakura was smiling over me. "Got you Sasuke-kun."

That only made the dobe's laughter increase in tempo. "She got you good teme. Your face!"

I frown. My instincts hadn't so much as twitched when her leg swept mine off. But never mind that. Sakura was still on top of me. Her curves were barely noticeable but I still enjoyed the feel of her body on mine.

Slowly I wrap my arms around her waist and pull her down. We were face to face now and our hips were one on top of the other. My mouth forms into a smirk and my hands tighten on her body.

"If you wanted to top me so badly Sakura-chan all you had to do was ask." I purred at her.

Her response was immediate. A full out blush accompanied with the innocent widening of her eyes. "EHH!"

'Sakura-chan kawaii!'

"…"

"…"

"I-I…"

"S-shut up dobe!"

"Now, now Sasuke~kun. That's not kawaii at all."

"Shut up you damn Fox!"

Both idiots kept laughing and making jokes at my expense even as I help Sakura to her feet (without tricks unlike her). "Are you done?" I said irritated to the mindscape.

"Nope." The both responded and kept on giggling like idiots.

"Maa, what do we have here, my little genin training a civilian girl? Why ever for? We big, bad shinobis will be here to protect her."

Sakura dropped my hand like it was on fire. Her eyes refused to meet anyone's as Kakashi walked towards us. Naruto and Kuruma's laugh halted midway, replaced by a somber coldness.

I'm tempted to step in front of Sakura to hide her from Kakashi's view but relationally I know that she can deal with his looks herself.

Naruto has no such belief and moves in front of her under the pretense of standing up against our sensei. "What's wrong with practicing Kakashi sensei?"

Point to Naruto for managing to not completely spit the last two words out. This was our cover story. Naruto and I would "practice" by teaching Sakura. We made sure we "understood" the material and Sakura got the training she needed.

We had yet to figure out a way to put her back on the active roster but when she did get back Sakura would be ready. These little sessions helped me and Naruto slowly guide Sakura into the woman she was in the previous timeline. Fighting wise of course. Neither Kuruma, Naruto or I would mess with Sakura's persona.

Kakashi sighed and I knew his one-eyed smile tried to conceal his irritation at our association with a civilian. "There's nothing wrong with practicing but there is with teaching secret village techniques to unknowns."

What. The. Hell. "Sakura was a shinobi of this village not three months ago! How can you call her a risk to the village security when it's your own fault that she is out of the corps." I hissed at him. "We're giving her the training she should be getting had you not panicked over one single incident!"

"If it happened at the wrong time…"

"It wouldn't!"

"Sasuke your overstepping." Kakashi reprimanded.

"We have to tell him!"

"He won't believe us. Kakashi and the Elders would ship us to T&I to either milk us for information or to 'fix' us. Your Konoha's sweetheart while I'm just its weapon."

"The kit is right. Even if Kakashi did believe you, this Kakashi disregards and outright scorn civilians. He would not help."

"We can convince him., Show him proof-"

"We both know that won't work Sasuke. Not everything is the same. Things have changed."

"Damn it."

"It's not their fault Hatake-san." All our eyes were focused on Sakura now. "I asked them to help me keep my katas up to par. They are hardly teaching me anything the Academy didn't."

She said all this with a smile and innocent demeanor. It was true. Academy katas had been all we were doing. Today.

"Be that as it may Haruno-san they are wasting time-"

Sakura interrupts him and continues speaking. "Allow me to stop you right there Hatake-san. Without knowing the basics the boys can't hope to learn more. Helping me is only helping them too. After all, the true test of mastery is being able to teach."

Kakashi leveled a glare at her for the interruption but Sakura just looks him in the eye with a shit eating grin of her own. She was talking bullshit, good bullshit, but bullshit all the same. She knew it, Kakashi knew it, but there was nothing he could say against it.

"Smart kitling. Brain games were always her best."

My posture relaxes and I knew that everything would turn out right. Getting Sakura of the roster was bad but nothing that couldn't be fixed in the long run. We just had to bullshit like Sakura.

Automatically my arms wrap around Sakura when she hugs me and places a kiss on my cheek. She does the same to Naruto and I realized our training session was going to end early today.

"Bye guys. I have an appointment in the hospital."

What! "S-Sakura-chan? You're not sick, are you? You should have told us!"

Sakura's fist meets Naruto's head but much softer than before. Hell, even I was subjected to Sakura's fists now. Change or not her fists were still dangerous.

"Baka. I'm not sick. You would have known the minute I stepped foot on the training ground." She answered.

"Then why?" Naruto whined, practically hanging off Sakura.

"Hn," I add.

"I'm going to become a medic nin yosh! Find what's wrong with me, create a cure and then join you boys on the battlefield!"

Sorry this is so late. But RL called and I couldn't ignore it. (No matter how much I wanted to). With winter Hols here I'll try to update again before school calls again. Happy New Years minna!