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Chapter TWENTY FOUR

Sasuke knew that this was a fight and it was not the time to be impressed. Only those who had lived through a lifetime of battles could ever truly appreciate the skills and experience their opponents dished out during their fight. Only when two who had lived their life to the fullest could come to admire the opponent when they bared their soul on their fists and blades.

Still, he couldn't help himself from gaping in wonder at the field of ivory that had spread out beneath him. The Uchiha was attached to the wall of the arena, all four limbs circulating chakra in order to cling on and stop himself from falling and being impaled to death.

Sakura was nowhere to be seen, but seeing how this was a Kaguya technique, he was sure she was hiding somewhere. He glared into the ivory with his chakra but could not make out any individual forms.

He had never read of a technique like this. He knew of several techniques related to turning the terrain into one huge advantage. However, the closest to this scale he had ever come across was Sabaku no Gaara's Quicksand Waterfall Flow technique and even that that was more using his elements to mold the battlefield to his advantage.

This field of bones that Sakura had grown in a second was a part of her Kekkei Genkai and looking at its scale, he would say that this was its most superior form.

The limited size of the arena was probably also helping. Sasuke had no idea what the limit of the range was for this technique but in the limited space offered to their for their fight, Sakura had completely turned the earth to her favor. Sasuke's chakra control was good at best and after checking his reserves, he knew that with the amount he had left, he wouldn't be able to hold out for long. The longer he spent clinging onto the wall and wasting what chakra he had left, the less chance he had of winning.

Ne narrowed his eyes and carefully reached towards his pouch and withdrew a kunai. He had no idea where Sakura was but he would have to draw her out. He braced himself on his perch, ready to jump to the wall on the opposite side, when something shot out of the ground in front of him.

There had been no sound and no flickering of chakra. All that stopped him from being decapitated was his sharingan, which gave him a split second warning and he instinctively drew eyes widened a little when he saw a few strands of his hair get sliced off. Sakura lunged at him and Sasuke quickly kicked off, climbing higher.

Once he had put some space between them, Sasuke glanced down to see how Sakura had emerged.

His breath caught in his throat.

Sakura was glaring up at him, the bottom half of her body fading into one of the huge slab of bones. Or perhaps, she was growing out of it. This reminded Sasuke a little of Haku's mirror technique and if it was even an ounce similar, that made the entire field of ivory Sakura's playground where she could attack from anywhere. Going down would be a certain defeat.

However, Sasuke also realized that while the small space of the arena gave Sakura a ground advantage, it's walls and ceilings would keep Sasuke out of her reach. In order to get to him, she would have to lengthen the bones and see how she hadn't done that, Sasuke decided that this was the limit.

That left her with detaching herself and personally coming after him. That would lose her the terrain advantage and once she couldn't' pull any surprise attacks on him, Sasuke thought he had enough control and chakra to challenge her in an aerial fight.

Sakura seemed to realize this too and she flew up at him, bone drill growing out of her left arm and a bone sword in her right. He blew a fireball at her, using the momentum of releasing the technique to climb even higher. He grunted as he landed upside down and he casted a weak genjutsu to give himself a little time to recover.

The technique sucked out more chakra than he had thought it would. He was running out of chakra and it seemed he had underestimated Sakura's chakra control. Both born to clans and having received training from an early age, Sasuke had thought that perhaps, they would have the same amount of chakra. It had been similar, and if he had to be honest, he probably had a little more. However, Sakura's speciality in close range fights and years of backing up another close range fighter like Zabuza had trained her to be able to withstand long battles, especially when it was in Zabuza's nature to play around with his prey from time to time.

He managed to dodge and deflect a few more of Sakura's attacks but could feel himself slipping.

Finally, Sasuke felt his chakra flicker and his limbs loosen. His eyes began closing even before he lost contact with the ceiling and he was falling. Without having to see the shocked and scared looks of the audience or the rust of dust rising into the air, Sasuke decided that this wasn't such a bad things.

Suddenly, an incredible force knocked into him, hard, and he felt something wrap around his middle with suffocating strength.

"You'll go stab stab stab, you idiot!" A familiar voice snarled.

Sasuke heard the sound of something shattering and he fought to open his eyes. A glimpse of pink fluttered in the corner of his vision and around him were a countless amount of snow like sparkles, climbing up, which was weird.

Didn't snow fall down?

That was his last thought before something warm engulfed him and a lightning jolt ran through his entire body.

NEW STORY:

Those in Between (Sakura x Sasuke x Itachi) ((If there is a pairing)) :

Sakura, a survived experiment, has skin that releases venom. To hide her from ROOT, she is taken in by Jiraiya and now acts as messenger for him and his spies. On a mission to find Tsunade Sakura meets Sasuke-the brother of a particular spy who pets her hair and buys her dango. Born to obey, she must take initiative for the first time in her life to save the people she cares for.

dun Dun DUUNNNNNN~~~~~~

Darque: Next chapter is final chapter~

Raven: Wohoo~

Darque: I haven't started writing it yet, but may be a little longer than the usual 1000-2000 worded chapters.

Raven: This will be out second 'complete' story.

Darque: I know right? Proud bruh.

Raven: We have more to work on, sora mea.

Darque: I know that, fratele meu.

Raven: Well, you go work on that new chapter while I go work on that plot hole in our new story.

Darque; Yes, of course, good luck :)

Raven: You too...it's nice when we can go an entire conversations without Darque pulling a stupid.

Darque:...I still here buddy. Want me to stab stab stab you with a toothpick?

Raven: Baibai~

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Word count = 1234 :)