A/N: Hello, everyone! Yes, I'm back again! But this time, it's only one month! Not 6 or 7 months anymore! Big surprise, right?! I found a way to update this chapter faster by just writing 1k words per day. Less stress for me, indeed!

Disclaimer-

Me: I will just get to the story right away, so I will introduce someone to say a disclaimer for me! Saaaaakura!

Sakura: Yes, what is it?

Me: Please say the disclaimer.

Sakura: No! It's painful enough for me to make you a sandwich every night!

Me: Suit yourself. But you know how Vegeta is, when he's getting hungry. Basically, I'll hold you here until you say the disclaimer.

Sakura: No! Not until you promise me and Naruko to return to Thedarkpokemaster.

Me: I will return you guys once I'm returning to my original form. Besides, are you sure you should deny me?

Vegeta (from his room): I AM HUNGRY! COOK ME, WOMAN!

Me: (Smirks) See? If you're not going to say the disclaimer, he might will force your hand.

Sakura: (Sighs) Fine! I'll say disclaimer for you. (Turns look at the webcam where the audience could see her face) Jerry doesn't own any rights to Dragon Ball or Naruto Franchises, but I do hope the authority will find him and arrest him for kidnapping me and Naruko!

Me: Please, I didn't! Thedarkpokemaster sent you to do the "Yuri" sex.

Sakura: Yeah, and you transformed into a male!

Me: Ha! You won't go back there until he change me back to male again, which won't be sooner. You know how slow his update is. Unfortunately, you will stay with me more chapters! HAHA!

Clone Jerry: (Looks at the audience) Sorry, he's too busy laughing evil, so I will let you read the story. Enjoy the chapter!

Chapter 118: Sakura's Return

Age 763, December 1- Television Room, Check-In Station- With Minato, Kushina, and Rin

Minato, Kushina, and Rin were looking at a big flat screen that was placed on one of the walls of the Check-In Station. However, it was currently off. Earlier, Rin had requested to watch over what was going on on Planet Element, along with The Fourth Hokage, Minato, and his wife, Kushina. Ever since Rin found out Obito was alive, she was dying to know the whereabouts of her old friend.

The Yellow Flash had his arm wrapped around Kushina's shoulder, as he looked at her and gave her a warm smile. "That surely takes us back, doesn't it, Kushina?" Looking at the TV Screen reminded Minato of back when he used it to spectate fights that took place on Namek.

Kushina nodded and smiled back at her Husband. "Yeah! Back on Namek." For a brief moment, she remembered about how Naruto, Sasuke, Sakura, kuririn, Gohan, and Vegeta were fighting and struggling against the Ginyu Force. But their efforts to survive gave enough time for Goku to come in and save them. Later on, though, Naruto and the others were able to take out the rest of the Ginyu Force Members (Except Ginyu, who had accidently switched his body with a Namekian frog). She then remembered about how Freeza killed Sasuke, Vegeta, Dende, and...

Kushina's face turned gloomy, as she remembered what had happened on Namek before Goku transformed into a Super Saiyan. "But Naruto…"

Minato frowned, as he clenched his fist and remembered the gruesome scene that had happened on that day. "Yeah…"

Flashback - Last Year - Planet Namek - With Naruto and Others

A familiar white foot stepped on on the top of cliff, the broken white tail waggled around, the white index finger lifted up. It was Freeza! His left eye was already damaged and glared down at them. He was still alive!

Rest of Z-Fighers shocked, "Freeza!"

"He took that huge Genki Dama head-on, and yet he's still alive!" Kuririn said, trembling.

"N-No way!" Naruto was baffled that Freeza was still alive. How in the hell did Freeza survive this?!

Gohan felt his legs trembled in fear as he slowly stepped back. "I-It can't be!"

"H-How could he be still alive?!" Sakura wondered with a lot of sweating on her head.

Freeza fired a finger beam at Goku, but Piccolo cried, "Goku!" as he pushed him aside and took the hit to the chest. With this act, Piccolo's true loyalty was finally revealed: having sacrificed himself for Goku, he no longer considered him as his enemy. Freeza began to grin evilly. Piccolo dropped to the ground unconscious.

Gohan widened his eyes. It could not be! After all troubles of bringing Piccolo back to life only to have him sacrificing his life once again.

He slowly walked towards the unconscious Piccolo with the tremble in his legs. "P-Piccolo-san…" He noticed that Piccolo was not breathing. He was about to shed his tears and collapsed to his knees. He was very scared now. He could not believe that Piccolo sacrificed his life once again! He sniffed, "P-p-" He yelled all the way up to the sky. "Piccolo-san!"

Television Room, Check-In Station- With Bardock, Minato, Kushina, and Sasuke

Bardock shocked, "Wh-What?!"

"H-How could this be possible?! He survived Genki Dama dead-on" shocked Minato.

"T-This is the worst!" said Kushina.

Sasuke looked down at the floor with his clenched fists to his side, scowling. "D-Damn it! Is there no way we can beat him?! A-At this rate… Damn it all!"

Planet Namek- Goku vs Freeza

Naruto, Kuririn, and Sakura crawled towards Piccolo. They just could not believe it as well! To think Freeza would survive this attack, and yet he did something so horrible again!

Naruto shook Piccolo's body, hoping that the Namekian would wake up, somehow survived this finger beam to the chest. "Piccolo! Hey, Piccolo!"

"I-is he dead?" Sakura wondered. She, too, liked Piccolo since he first fought together with her and her allies against the Saiyan back on Earth.

"N-No way!" Kuririn denied against Piccolo dying once again. He wondered if it was all for nothing after coming to Namek. Piccolo came back to life and died again? It could not be. He realized that there was no way for them to resurrect Tenshinhan, Yamucha, and Chaozu. Kami should die as well, so did Dragon Balls. Both Dragon Balls on Namek and Earth had turned to the stone, or so at least he thought so.

Bordering on the edge of his rage, Goku clenched his fist in anger. "Free…za!"

Freeza glared down at them. "Even I questioned whether or not I was going to die this time. I, Freeza-sama, nearly died!"

"Run… Kuririn, Gohan, Sakura, Naruto!" Goku ordered them. "There's a spaceship very near the location where I first arrived. Take Bulma and get yourselves away from this planet, now!"

Sakura, Kuririn, and Naruto only replied with their head nod, except for Gohan. All Gohan could only think about how this could happen. The reason why they came to Namek, so that way they could resurrect everyone who was killed by Saiyan back to life. But Piccolo died again… His tears started to flow down from his eyes.

"Gohan, snap out of it!" Gohan snapped out of his thought and looked up at his Father who glared down over his shoulder at him.

Gohan wanted a revenge. He did not want to let Freeza to get away with it after what he did to Piccolo! He stood up as his courage mustered against his Father. "I will fight! I'm going to avenge Piccolo-san!"

"Get the hell out of here! You guys are in my way!" Goku scowled, making Gohan, Kuririn, Sakura, and Naruto flinched at his tone. "Do you want to die together here?!"

Gohan and Kuririn widened their eyes in shock. "G-Goku…" Naruto and Kuririn muttered his name to themselves. They noticed that Goku tried his best to contain his anger. They knew that he did not want to lash out at them unnecessarily.

Gohan gulped, "Father…" It was in his best interest not to talk back to his Father. He never saw Goku like that before. Goku rarely got really, really mad.

However, Freeza had another plan. He heard everything what Goku told them to. He chuckled sadistically. "You think I'm going to excuse you? I'm not letting a single one of you go home alive!"

He was going to target Kuririn, but if he wanted to kill Naruto first, because he already had an enough with Naruto making fun of him. After that, he would kill Kuririn next. Then Sakura, and finally Gohan. Maybe that would make Goku snap at last.

He snickered. 'It should be fun.' He could not wait to see how Goku's reaction would be. He fired another energy beam towards Naruto, but this time it was just an invisible beam.

"Narut-san/-kun!" Gohan and Sakura could sense the Ki that came Naruto's way.

Then, Freeza raised his arm upward controlling and pulling Naruto high in the air with telekinesis.

Goku looked up at Naruto in shock. "Naruto!"

"Naruto/-san/-kun!" Kuririn, Gohan, and Sakura cried, fearing for Naruto's life that might end very soon. What was Freeza planning to do to him?!

Gohan turned around at Freeza. "Stop, it, Freeza!"

"Heh heh…" Freeza clenched his hand into a fist with an evil grin.

Naruto yelled, "GOKU!" Suddenly, he was blown up to smithereens. Goku, Kuririn, Gohan, and Sakura widened their eyes in shock.

Upon remembering that Naruto could no longer be revived with the Dragon Balls, since he was already brought back to life. With the uncontrollable anger that resided in his chest, he finally let all of his emotions out and snapped.

"FREEEEEEEEEEZA!"

Flashback End

Minato and Kushina were very well aware of what had happened after Naruto had screamed Goku's name. The Tyrant Freeza blew up the Blond Ninja, killing him instantly. Minato and Kushina were shocked, knowing their son wouldn't be able to get revived back to life anymore by the Earth Dragon Balls as the wish was already made before. However, hope was later restored when they heard that the Namekian Dragon Balls had the ability to bring anyone back to life no matter how many times they've died. However, even after being revived back to life by the Namekian Dragon Balls, Naruto was still upset that he had lost against Freeza with such as gruesome death. But after everything that had happened, Naruto's resolve to become stronger increased even further, and had learned to defend himself from such situations from happening again.

"All that matters now is that our son is alive and will fulfill his dream of becoming Hokage one day," Minato reassured, and turned his attention towards Rin. "Alright, who should we watch first?"

"I want to see who had rescued Obito," Rin answered, as she pointed a remote that was in her hand towards the TV, and pressed the power button. In an instant, the TV flashed and a scene appeared in the screen. The first thing they saw was Konohamaru and other Konoha-nin struggling against…

Itachi?

I-Itachi?!" Kushina said, shocked. "I-I thought Fayre had killed him… How is he still alive?!" as she recalled Kaio-sama informing her and her husband about Itachi's death. The Rogue Uchiha and Fayre had been at it in an intense battle. However, in the end, Fayre managed to defeat Sasuke's brother. How was he breathing right now? Did he somehow survive and escape?

Minato was shocked as well as he stared at Itachi's fight with widened eyes, but then quickly noticed something. "But look at his face."

"Huh? What is it?"

Minato pointed at Itachi's face on the screen and responded with a serious expression on his face. "His face a decayed and darker face. Plus, there's also a bunch of other Konoha-nin fighting along Itachi, who also have dark and decayed bodies… Not to mention their eyes are lifeless. They're definitely dead…"

Kushina gasped, "You mean someone had casted the Kuchiyose: Edo Tensei Jutsu to revive Itachi and some of Konoha-nin who had died earlier while fighting him?"

Minato continued to watch the battle on the screen with deep concentration, but responded, "But Orochimaru is on Earth. And other potential Edo Tensei users, like Kabuto, are dead."

The Yellow Flash looked at his wife and asked, "Wait… Back when Goku's brother, Raditz, was revived by Orochimaru, do you remember how he looked like?"

Kushina gave the question a thought, and nodded. "When Orochimaru revived Raditz, He only looked a lot less decayed, compared to the Itachi we are seeing right now. Not to mention Raditz still had pupils in his eyes, whereas the Itachi here has no pupils…"

Minato nodded and turned his attention back at the screen. "The real question is, who is responsible for this technique?"

"let's see…" Rin pressed a button on her remote, and the scene in front of them changed. In a flash, the scene switched to another view of element. Not too far away from the fight, were three men. One of them had pure white hair and dark skin, and was standing between two men while folding his arms with a smirk on his face.

"I believe he is the one responsible for turning Itachi and the others into zombies. But from what I've gathered, these guys haven't started fighting yet. Judging by how things look, the man in the middle is most likely the one using the technique that brings dead people back to life and do his dirty work. He definitely has been controlling these zombies for quite some time.

Minato nodded. "Yeah, does definitely seem like it. But Itachi here is the problem. We don't know how strong he could be. He may even be stronger because of the reviving technique by the man with white hair… But it's safe to say he would still get outclassed by Naruto, Sasuke, and Sakura."

"But what if Sasuke finds Itachi?" Kushina asked worriedly.

Minato nodded. "Good question," as he began to imagine how Sasuke would react if he suddenly saw Itachi attacking Konoha. The Yellow Flash then turned his attention to Rin. "Rin, can you switch to another view of Konoha?"

Rin nodded. "Yes, Minato-sensei," as she pressed a button on her remote, and the scene changed, revealing Rock Lee in his fighting stance while glaring at Hana. It would seem that Lee was going to fight with Hana for some reason.

"Hana?!" Kushina cried. Why was Lee glaring at Hana right now? What's going on with them? As soon as the television switched to the dead corpse. She widened her eyes, realizing that it was the real Hana on the floor. But the real Hana was already dead.

At this moment, Minato wished that he could bring Bardock in, because Bardock knew more about the outer space more than everyone in this room right now. But right now, only thing he could do was to assume.

"Maybe that thing is able to transform to any person it sees? That's why that thing is in Hana's form?" Minato asked, trying to come up with his theory.

With a sigh, Rin immediately flipped the channel to other one, at last accessing to the channel she wanted to see. Indeed, there was unconscious Obito in the spaceship somewhere in the outer space that barely just left Element. "Obito…"

Who took him to the spaceship? That was on everyone's mind right now, but it was not too long before they got their answer. There was a person that looked like a human with spiky black hair and blue eyes. He wore black tracksuit and black tights with black sandals, who stood next to unconscious Obito. Suddenly, next person that walked next to that person was…

"Sakura!" Minato and Kushina yelled in shock. What was Sakura doing there? Was she supposed to be on Element?

"Sakura?" Rin looked at them. "That girl you mentioned few times… Isn't she Naruto's girlfriend?"

Minato nodded. "Yeah. Sakura used to have a crush on Sasuke until she realized that it was not worth a try when he continued to give her a cold shoulder and rude to her constantly. After the Namek, Sakura decided to give Naruto only one date just once."

"Then she fell in love with him after just one date." Kushina smiled, remembering how the first date went well between Naruto and Sakura. "After the first date, Naruto and Sakura had gone together more than often. One day, he asked her out and much to her surprise, she said yes. Oh, boy… He was so ecstatic when she said yes!" She laughed with tears of joy.

Minato smiled. Kushina and Minato remembered that Sakura used to bash Naruto most of the times before Naruto's first death. They believed that Sakura regretted about it since that day. They forgave her, though.

But Sakura still thought she had to owe up her mistakes to Naruto. That's why she became very determine to become strong so she could protect him, should any danger come his way one day. Kushina, herself, had a feeling that something was going to happen badly to Sakura soon.

Upon realizing this, she whipped her head up quickly and stared at Sakura on the television carefully. "That's not Sakura!" Minato and Rin looked at her in confusion.

"That's not Sakura? What do you mean?" asked Minato, curiously.

"If you look at her carefully, you can see that she is a bit taller than the Sakura we know. And her face looks a lot less baby face. She also wore different outfit style as well." Kushina explained everything about this Sakura's appearance.

"I'd assume they are from the future," said Minato.

"This is not the first time we have a time traveler." Minato and Kushina looked down at Rin who said that.

"You mean there's other time traveler before them?" asked Minato.

Rin nodded, watching Sakura talking to the man next to her on the television. "I've stayed here in Check-In Station for many years since my death to wait for Obito. I've been watching over Obito over years, but at some point when I left Check-In Station just for the air fresh, I've met one time traveler. He was an Earthling. He came from Age 852. He claimed to be part of Time Patrol. He came to stop Saiyan Time Patrol renegade who attempted to change the history in our timeline, but he was killed by the renegade."

Rin frowned. "It's a shame because this Time Patroller told me that he used to idol Saiyan Time Patrol because she saved the world and all history in all timeline."

"She changed the history after all. Are these Time Patrollers still looking for her or have they found her?" asked Minato.

"I don't know. I haven't seen Time Patroller since that day." Rin said, pointing the remote at the television. "Anyways, to confirm our theory, we have to find out if our Sakura is still on Element or not." She flipped several channels until she reached the channel where there was massive smoke surrounding the figure, while battered and bruised Hinata, Kuririn, Gohan, Shino, Ino, and Shikamaru watched on in shock.

"Could Sakura be among them?" wondered Minato.

"Sakura…" Kushina prayed that their theory was correct. Otherwise, she would be upset if Sakura decided to betray them and join these Time Travellers.

"We don't know. We will find out," replied Rin.

Hokage District, Konohagakure, Land of Fire, Element- With Konoha Nine, Kuririn, and Gohan

Hinata, Kuririn, Gohan, Shino, Shikamaru and Ino were left speechless as they watched the smoke about to dissolve soon. Who was the guy that saved Hinata? It was all on their mind right now.

Guure was so furious. Who dared to kick him in the face?! He placed his hand on his bruised cheek, as he slowly got up on his feet. He sent a massive dust his enraged glare. "DAMN YOU! WHO HIT ME?!" He was going to crush whoever blindside kicked him in the face!

The massive dust finally became cleared, as it revealed green eyes, shoulder-length pink hair, and Konoha hitai-ate on the top of her head as hairband. That person wore the red top with the Haruno circle on her back, black gloves, low-heel, knee-high boots, black shorts underneath a short pink apron skirt, and pink elbow protectors. There was a pouch tied to its waist.

"Sakura!" Hinata cried her name out with tears of joy. At last, Sakura finally had arrived. She could almost cry, but she was in the pain to start crying anyways. She only wished that Sakura could made it in time to save Kiba. But it was too late. There was nothing Hinata could do to change.

"Sakura-san!" Kuririn and Gohan cried happily.

Ino smiled, even though she still had to deal with the pain in her head. "Forehead girl, you're finally here."

Shikamaru smirked happily. "You're late…"

"Ah, she's that Ki I have been sensing for a while. I did not expect that to be a girl, though." Paradox smirked, still folding his arms.

Check-In Station, Television- With Minato, Kushina, and Rin

"Sakura!" Kushina cried happily.

"That should confirm our theory that other Sakura is from the future," said Minato.

Rin frowned. "Why is Sakura from the future with these guys?"

Hokage District, Konohagakure- Sakura vs Guure

Silence filled the air, as Sakura sent her glares towards Guure without even once looking at her own comrades.

Guure continued to growl in frustration. He could only wonder why he could not finish them all at once. He could have killed Hinata if it was not for new person to interfere with his fight. How many more fighters will show up to interfere the fight before he could finally finish them off? He did not wish to prolong any unnecessary fight.

"Just other pipsqueak come to my playground?!" growled Guure. "That's some move you got there!" He could still feel his cheek stingy. He took more damage than it should have been from that girl.

Hinata analyzed Sakura's current expression. 'Her demeanor is not the same as before. I knew it! It's Inner Sakura! Has Inner Sakura finally take over her, or has she decided to partner up with her inner persona?'

Not just Hinata, but Shikamaru noticed that, too. Only that Shikamaru did not know why Sakura looked a bit different. He could feel her killing intent all the way from there, and her eyes looked more colder than before. Ino, Gohan, Kuririn, and Ino could be seen cheering for Sakura's late arrival. Good news was that Sakura would the one who may finish Guure off.

Sakura smirked, finally answering Guure's question. "Yes, that's what I came here for. You don't mind if I join you in your playground, right? What kind of game are we playing? And what's the rule?"

Her sarcastic quote quickly irked Guure, yet he somehow gave her an evil grin. "Oh, we're going to play the game. It's called…" His aura flared up before charging towards unsuspecting Sakura. "…death game! No rule! Just killing each other, that's it!"

His speed just caught her off guard, as she just barely raised her arms in a cross in front of her face in attempt to defend herself and briefly closed her eyes before he could land attack on her. Unfortunately, Guure unexpectedly swooshed past Sakura.

Much to her surprise, she opened her eyes and began looking around frantically. Where did Guure go?! Where did he disappear to?! As soon as she tried to look around, she found a fist that smashed onto her face, drawing some blood from her nose.

"What?!" shocked Hinata. What was going on? Why was Sakura so weak right now? And how did Guure inflict a damage on her?

"Damn. To think Guure is stronger than Sakura! Is there anyone who could take him on?!" Kuririn said, very concerned for Sakura's power.

"Sakura-san…" Goha muttered, very worried.

Sakura was disoriented for a moment before getting frustrated very quick and tried to make her own move, but not before she saw another fist lunging at her, so she was forced to block it herself. But she was not given a chance to find a time, as her opponent sent out a barrage of punches at her. They both increased their speed at steady rate, as Guure continued to push her back with the barrage on her arms.

It would seem like she was having a hard time against him, probably trying to come up how to get him off her and how to turn the table around on him. But she could be seen getting frustrated because she felt overpowered by the frog man.

Still giving her a push with his continuous barrage punches, Guure laughed manically, "HAHA! You thought you're stronger than me?! But you're just like the rest of these pipsqueaks! No matter what they do, I beat them. They're pieces of cake, just as you are! I will destroy you just like I destroyed three pipsqueaks!"

"What… did… you…say?!" Sakura hissed darkly when Guure made a comment regarding Kiba, Akamaru, and Choji. It seemed like she was ready to explode. She ran her fist towards the frog man, only to miss through, as Guure ran off, leaving his afterimage there. "What?!"

Sakura did not have time to figure out where Guure went off to, the fist rocked her back so hard enough to bend her back a bit. Just as she turned around, Guure knocked her away into the sky with the elbow smash right to the square of her jaws.

Sakura backspin few times before stopping herself in the mid-air, she panted heavily, trying to gather some oxygen for some time. She had to wipe off her blood off her mouth, sending a glare down at Guure, who continued to laugh at her.

"Damn you!" Sakura growled. She raised her hand, gathering some energy above her palm before firing it off at Guure, who swatted it with his arm easily.

"That was pathetic, you brat!" Guure mocked her before propelling himself towards Sakura in the sky. He noticed a barrage of Ki blasts on way coming from Sakura above. He did not flinch at all. He merely smirked at these blasts. He did not even need to swat them again, because he had his aura to take care of them. His aura would deflect Ki blast, one after one!

"What?!" Kuririn was baffled. He could not believe what he just saw. "He deflected all of them with just his aura?!" He never had seen someone who could deflect them with his aura with ease. Most of times he had seen them deflecting Ki blasts with hand or at least with their own Ki blasts.

Sakura did not get a chance to react when Guure sent out one of his powerful fist right in her stomach, doubling her over, as she spewed out some bloods. Afterward, he would smash right in her nose with his elbow. And next, he would turn around her back, sending another elbow smash to her back.

Everyone down could hear her terrifying scream in the pain, much to Sakura's allies' horror. "Sakura!" cried Hinata.

Once again, he turned around to her front, and while she was being stunned after dealing with a painful blow to her back, he delivered another powerful punch right to her nose, well enough to damage it further.

"Argh!" Sakura yelled for a brief, but she never had a chance to recover, as Guure gave her another brutal punch to the guts, causing her to bend down and cough up another blood. It was almost as if she was going to die. Her pupils dilated around at this moment, indicating that she might be dizzy.

Guure grinned evilly, just before he sent another punch to the face once again. He noticed that she was beginning to lose consciousness. Very satisfied, he then sent out a flurry of punches to each parts of her body, ensuring that he would brutalize her, so she could die in most horrifying death than everyone could imagine.

Paradox smirked, just witnessing Guure who continued to beat up Sakura, just as the event was about to unfold. 'Heh, very interesting.' Somehow, he knew what was going to happen in next moment or few, perhaps.

"Not tell me…" Guure laughed, kneeing Sakura in the guts once more again. "…you've come here to be killed by me?!" He flew down before grabbing her ankle and then hurling her down to the ground. Then he gathered some Ki before firing it off towards descending Sakura. As soon as her back bounced off the ground a bit, the Ki blast also landed on her body.

Not giving Sakura a chance to recovery, Guure pulled his open palms to his side. "Now… DIE!" He thrust his palm downward at stunned Sakura and then fired off a volley of Ki blasts like a machine gun at Sakura.

Boom! Boom! Boom! Boom! Boom!

Guure screamed, continuing to fire off a volley of Ki blasts at her, one after one, just increasing the size of the explosion dome the longer he fired off his Ki blasts. "DIE! DIE! DIE!"

BOOM! BOOM! BOOM!

The explosion became more powerful, every time he added more Ki blasts to its explosion dome. The MPH of the wind increased over time, as the explosion expanded even bigger.

BOOM! BOOM! BOOM!

Kuririn could feel that the wind became more powerful enough to push him back, but even though it knocked him away a bit, he managed to stand firmly on the ground, controlling his own Ki well. For Gohan, he put up energy shield around Shikamaru, Ino and himself to protect them from being knocked away. Even though Gohan could stay on the ground without putting an energy shield, but he had to think of others instead of himself. He did what it was necessary, though it drained his Ki a bit.

BOOM! BOOM! BOOM!

"Sakura!" Hinata cried, who tried to control her Ki, but much to no avail, as the strong wind knocked her away. Shino, without possessing Ki control, was knocked away very easily.

"Hinata! Shino!" Kuririn cried. He was the one who was closest to them, but he could do anything about the wind. It was too strong even for him to move away. But at least he knew Hinata and Shino would be fine, since there was only a wasteland in this area.

"DIE! DIE! DIE!" Guure laughed manically, still firing more of his Ki blasts down there.

BOOM! BOOM! BOOM!

He really enjoyed firing more Ki blasts because she could do this all days just to make sure that Sakura was dead! He wanted to admire the explosion that he created, but he knew he needed to finish others too.

He finally stopped firing off a volley of Ki blasts, but the explosion dome was still there. Still keeping the same stance he had when he was firing a volley of Ki blasts, he started to collect more energy around her both palms.

"Oh, no!" Gohan froze, when he saw that technique that Guure was currently charging. "That's the same technique he used on us few times, but this time, with his two palms!"

"This is not good! Sakura is getting killed at this rate if she can't dodge!" panicked Kuririn. There was nothing he could do about it. If he went after Sakura to take her away from the blast, he would be killed along with her. If he went after Guure to stop him, he would turn around and kill her in the process.

Hinata recently woke up from the strong wind that knocked her away a while ago. She was disoriented at first, but later on, her head would become clear and she looked up at Guure who charged up his energy, creating it more bigger and bigger than all his previous attempts. 'Not even Sakura can stand up to him?! Damn!' Sure enough, she started to lose all hope for Sakura. If Sakura could not beat him, then they were going to die before either Naruto or Sasuke would arrive.

Guure continued to grow his energy sphere, as it became the size of the space pod. "FOR THE FINISH! OFF WITH YOU!"

He raised his energy sphere before throwing it down towards Sakura, who promptly screamed before the energy sphere completely enveloped her whole body, causing a massive explosion.

BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOM!

Television Room, Check-In Station- With Minato, Kushina, and Rin

"Sakura!" Kushina cried. What was going on with Sakura? She wondered why Sakura continued to take a beating from Guure. Was she not strong enough to beat Guure after all?

"No." Minato spoke, getting both Rin and Kushina's attention. "She's playing around him."

"What do you mean?!" Kushina asked in very confusion. She could swear that she just saw the blood that Guure drew from Sakura.

Minato chuckled lightly. "You will see."

Was there something that Minato noticed where Rin and Kushina had failed to notice? No matter how they tried to overanalyze the television, they could not find anything that Minato saw.

"Sakura…" That was all Rin could say, hoping that Minato was right after all.

Hokage District, Konohagakure- Sakura vs Guure

A massive explosion flashed too bright light before everyone's eyes on the battlefield. Because of its explosion, the wind had become more powerful that it was before, successfully managed to break Gohan's energy shield and knocked everyone else away. Not too long later, the explosion would have diminished itself, which would leave a massive smoke thereafter.

"That was a heck of an explosion, Guure!" Paradox smirked, which earned himself a scoff from Guure.

"Just…" Guure paused for a moment and took a long sigh to collect all his oxygen back. He smirked down at his latest victim. "…shut up!" He did not realize that firing barrage of Ki blasts would drain most of his Ki. He never had encountered that feeling before. He was pretty exhausted after that, but at least he was glad he made a quick work out of Sakura. Next, he would make sure to kill all of his remaining victims right here on this battlefield.

Gohan opened his eyes, as he took a good look at the aftermath of the explosion. He widened his eyes. There was newly founded crater that was surrounded by the massive smoke. He looked on horror, thinking that Sakura probably already died right now. "Sakura-san!"

Hinata's body started to tremble. "S-Sakura…" She could not let any other one of her friend to die. Not after what just happened to Kiba. She believed that Kiba's death was pretty much her fault. Only if she was not weak, Kiba would not have been killed. She began to wonder if Sakura's death was on her as well. There was no way Sakura could survive this after that massive explosion she just witnessed!

Kuririn angrily punched the ground, shutting his eyes and baring his teeth in frustration. "Damn! With all troubles she had gone trying to get her Ki back… and she came back, only to be killed! There's nothing we can do about it!" He just wished that he could be more useful to his allies. He did not want to watch them struggling for their life. If there was anything he could for them, he would love to.

Shino took some of damage from the strong wind, but he seemed to be okay though. Somehow, he kept his sunglasses intact and stood up, watching the massive smoke that breezed through the sky. "Sakura…" Was she dead yet? He wondered if there was someone who could truly save them from that monster?

"SAKURA!" cried Ino. Tears started to run down from her eyes, when she realized that Sakura probably died from the look of this attack. She wanted to go there to check up on Sakura, but Shikamaru stopped her from going there, because it was not good idea for her to go there, since it was too danger, after all.

While restraining Ino from going over there, Shikamaru watched the massive smoke that just started to dissolve. Suddenly, he realized why Sakura seemed so weak against that monster. 'I'm pretty sure Sakura is still alive. The only way to confirm is to see through that!'

Guure was very excited, as the smoke almost cleared, so he could confirm whether he vaporized her or not! If not, well, shit happened, but at least he killed her. No one could survive his attack. Never once! Anyone who received his attack were usually vaporize. In other words, his signature attack was unbeaten that no one could survive.

Guure descended slowly to the ground, laughing. "You should have seen your own face when you realized the strength of Guure! You should have stayed out of this fight when you had a chance. You're regretting this, aren't you?! Oh, but of course!" He laughed louder once he landed on the ground.

It was almost as if he already assured his victory. He began to think that no one, besides Coola, could take him on. He would kill everyone anytime he wanted to. He never enjoyed dragging any unnecessary fight, but he, for sure, enjoyed killing people for fun, even though he did not want to admit it to everyone else.

"You…" A voice growled but wavered a bit. Guure looked around, only to find Hinata struggling to stay stand on the ground. "You monster! How dare you…!" He noticed the tears that leaked from her eyes. "She's my friend! Damn!"

Guure absolutely loved that view of her crying! Yes, that was what he wanted! To see a friend of his victim who was destroyed by him very badly! He giggled a bit, before erupting up with another maniac laughter. "HAHAHAHA! DON'T WORRY! YOU WILL JOIN HER SOON ENOUGH!"

Hinata stared darkly at him, as her rage started to boil up inside her chest. "She's my friend! How dare you kill her?!"

"Please." Guure looked back at the massive smoke again. "You all are my enemies. It should be obvious that I am going to kill you all anyways. And you're already thinning my patience out. I don't have a time for unnecessary dragging fighting. And for now, wait and watch how I kill her. You will soon realize the terror of my strength!"

Hinata clenched her fists, upsetting that Sakrua may be already dead. She just became friend with Sakura. After all, Sakura was the one who opened her eyes about the friendship and stuff. Even though Sakura took Naruto from her, she began to understand why Naruto loved Sakura. And she was finally contest with that. 'Now Sakura…'

"Is that all you got?!" said the familiar voice that surprised everyone, except Paradox.

"What?!" Guure widened his eyes in shock, staring at the shadowy figure who stood up inside that smoke. He could swear to himself that he destroyed Sakura himself.

"Sakura, is that you?!" Hinata asked to no one particular, as she wondered if Sakura managed to survive that blast.

'I knew it!' Paradox thought with the smirk on his face.

'As I figured… Sakura is…' Shikamaru thought, smirking at the scene. '…still alive!'

"It's Sakura." Gohan cheered happily.

"I thought she was done for sure." Kuririn said, relieved that he did not have to worry about Guure going for a killing spree after Sakura. "But she's still alive, alright!"

Shino was, too, relieved that Sakura was still alive. After all, who was there else to save them from Guure? But one thing he just noticed, it was Guure's shocked expression. He could tell that it was first time that Guure encountered this such opponent. Maybe first time to face a dangerous foe as strong as he was at this moment.

"Sakura…" Ino stared at the smoke that was just a second away from being cleared incredibly. "Is she…?"

Guure stepped back, as his legs trembled in fear for some reason. This was the first time that someone else survived his signature attack! "I-I-Impossible!"

"Oh, and I don't just survive your attack." The voice said, as the smoke finally dissolved, revealing Sakura. She stood on the top cliff of the crater, smirking. "Look at me. Do you see anything that should have been there?"

"What?!" Guure asked in confusion, but he was shocked when he found nothing on Sakura's face and her body. There was no blood, no damaged clothes, or any scratch on her face at all. It was almost as if she never took a damage at all. "WHAT?!"

"I-Incredible!" Gohan said, very astounded at her current appearance. She clearly remembered that Guure beat Sakura up badly, and there was a blood before, yet there was somehow no blood on her face.

"Not to mention that she took that attack head-on, but no scratch on her body whatsoever. Impressive!" Kuririn commented. He wondered if Sakura had gotten more powerful.

"H-H-H…" Guure stuttered, struggling to form the word out of his mouth. However, he finally found a way to form the word out of his mouth few seconds later. "How did you do that?! I took my powers into everything… and you…" He could seem to put any more words out of his mouth, as he was so scared right now. He never felt this scared before in his life.

"I know! I am amazing, right?!" Sakura shrugged along with her sarcastic smile. Then she smiled at the frightened Guure. "I put genjutsu, or in other words, an illusion on myself, so you, including everyone, would think I took a damage from you. But in fact, when you are beating me up, I don't feel hurt or anything. I thought you are strong. Well, maybe you're either weak, or I'm actually stronger than you."

Sakura then shot him a dark glare. "But in fact, you are really weak. That shows how much of my power level is above yours. Of course, I came here to kill you, but there's reason why I let you come at me in the first place, because I thought you're strong. I put genjutsu on myself before you even come at me. But the moment you came at me, I already knew what kind of power level you are on. So I changed my plan and allowed you to beat me up, so I could have you thinking the victory was already in your hand. Only if you're stronger than me or as strong as I am, then I would never have let you to beat me up in the first place."

"That's a lie!" Guure screamed, as the rage started to rise in his chest. "You are lying! You are lying! You are not stronger than me! I am not weaker than you! I AM! I AM STRONGER THAN YOU, YOU LITTLE PIPSQUEAK!"

"Inner…" The voice inside her head spoke up. "Remember you have about one minute left before we can switch around again. Please make sure you don't waste our time playing around this guy too much. Because I am going to face this guy over there next."

Inner Sakura smirked, glancing over at Paradox who still folded his arms and watched the battle that was about to unfold, and then stared back at Guure. 'I know, Outer. I intend to keep this promise. I just want to make this bastard suffering much more before I can finish him off.'

"You know, I disagreed with your method of fighting, but for once, I agreed with you. I actually want to kill him myself, except I will just kill him right away instead. He killed Kiba, Akamaru, and Choji," said Outer Sakura, whom was saddened to realize her comrades died when Inner Sakura and she arrived too late. If they arrived a little earlier…

Inner Sakura nodded. 'I know. That's why I was going to do it myself. I want to teach him a lesson.'

Sakura leaked killing intent towards Guure, who was frightened a bit before the rage consumed him anyways. "You're going to pay for it! I will show you why you should not mess with me and my friends!"

Television Room, Check-In Station- With Minato, Kushina, and Rin

"S-She's playing around with Guure?!" Kushina was amazed by Sakura's power whom currently displayed against the enemy. She assumed that all the beating Sakura received from Guure showed how weak Sakura was, only to find out that the pink-haired girl hid her power level just to test the frog-man's capacity. Apparently, Sakura wanted to show him how pathetic weakling he was. What's more, she was under the impression that there was no single scratch on her. Anywhere on her body. No scratch at all. How? It should not be possible that she did not get a scratch from Guure, even once. Guure may be weaker than Sakura at this moment, but the gap of the power level between Guure and Sakura should not be far apart from each other.

"He did." The voice spoke up right next to her.

She looked up at the source of the voice. "Minato. What do you mean?"

"He did scratch her." Minato looked down at Kushina who was shocked by his words. He looked up at Sakura who still stared at the enraged Guure. "If you look carefully, you will find that there was a blood all over her body along with scratches!"

Kushina raised her eyebrows at first, but Minato's confidence looks reassured her that he knew everything before her. She looked up at the television screen and analyzed Sakura carefully. It showed that Sakura looked healthy, almost as if there was no scratch on her, or blood for that matter.

"I don't see any—" Kushina said, before the television suddenly shifted Sakura's appearance. "What?!" She was shocked that there was scratches and bloods on her body! Plus, her clothes were in tattered as well. But how? If she received this kind of injuries, she should not be able to move, yet here she was, standing over there! "I don't understand."

That was all she could say. There was no words how to describe the event what she was seeing right now. She wanted to say something, but she came up with nothing, so 'I don't understand' was all she could come up with.

Minato smiled, knowing that he proved something right again. After all, he figured something out rather quick. "Sometimes, this television like to play their viewers for a moment. But there's something you know about this television. Something interesting about this television."

"Something interesting about this television?" Kushina raised her eyebrows, confused now. What did he mean by that? Rin remained silent. But Kushina assumed that Rin already knew the answer.

"Rin, you already know about these television. You have been here for more than two decades, while watching over Obito." Minato asked, and his response was the nod from her. He turned to Kushina. "Recently, I learned that this television has very interesting aspect of it."

"Aspect?"

"Yeah. It is different from any normal television we had back on Element. Most planets have them, from what I heard. That includes Earth, which has most modern technology they have on their planet." Minato could tell that Kushina was very curious and wanted to know the answer now. He then smiled. "It cannot be deceived by any illusion techniques no matter what."

Kushina widened her eyes. It cannot be deceived by any illusion techniques no matter what? She looked up at the television again. "Then…"

Minato looked up at the television again. "Like I said, sometimes, this television likes to play us. It only showed what Sakura put genjutsu on, making it more believable and leave more suspense to it. It wanted to see your reaction to this fight."

"Then…" Minato and Kushina looked at Rin who finally spoke up, yet she still stared at the television. "How do you know it was genjutsu in the first place… and how do you know that Sakura was not injured badly?"

Minato smiled, more happy to answer her question. "I knew from the moment before Sakura and Guure even started fighting."

Flashback Began

Silence filled the air, as Sakura sent her glares towards Guure without even once looking at her own comrades.

Guure continued to growl in frustration. He could only wonder why he could not finish them all at once. He could have killed Hinata if it was not for new person to interfere with his fight. How many more fighters will show up to interfere the fight before he could finally finish them off? He did not wish to prolong any unnecessary fight.

"Just other pipsqueak come to my playground?!" growled Guure. "That's some move you got there!" He could still feel his cheek stingy. He took more damage than it should have been from that girl.

Sakura smirked, finally answering Guure's question. "Yes, that's what I came here for. You don't mind if I join you in your playground, right? What kind of game are we playing? And what's the rule?"

Flashback Ended

"When she said that, I instantly noticed the amount of confidence she had in her, so I knew Guure already lost this fight the moment she said that. Otherwise, she would not say that if she knew she was no match for him. She would try to give it all out herself, trying to beat him. But she is not. She said that with utmost confidence she has right now. And…"

Minato stared at Rin again. "To answer your other question, that Sakura we see is not the same Sakura we know right now."

"What?!" Kushina stared at him incredibly. "But we see Sakura right there!" Rin was also surprised. She also wanted to know why Minato would say that.

Minato glanced up at Sakura on the television. "Normally, the Sakura we knew would not play the game against her enemy, not especially after he killed most of her friends. She would like to kill him and get over with it. She knew when to not drag the fight longer than necessary, no matter how powerful she was. She knew the great danger their planet is in, so she would have wanted to finish Guure off."

"You mean…" Kushina hesitated for a moment before she decided to finish her sentence. "Sakura unlocked her Kekkei Genkai then?" That could mean it could not be good. If her Kekkai Genkai unlocked, that means…

Minato nodded. "Apparently so. That has to explain why her demeanor changed all of the sudden. Her Kekkei Genkai unlocked—usually, it unlocked after witnessing the most traumatize event she witnessed—which was very difficult for the Haruno to control it. No Outer would rather to work together with Inner, simply because they both have different personality. That would lead Inner and Outer to have a many disagreement, and their hatred of each other begins surfacing sometimes later. Because of their hatred of each other, it created new personality."

Kushina and Rin widened their eyes.

"Or at least what I heard. It's only a rumor after all." Minato said. "However, I'm under the impression that Sakura was willing to let her Inner out to work together. Normally, Outer will not work with Inner. I assume they both knew that the threat in front of them need to be eliminated at once. So they agreed to work together against Coola and his men to eliminate all threats."

"Still, I'm more concerned about her mental health. If that's the true, then I doubt she will be able to retain her sanity longer. We don't know when she loses all of her sanity!" said Kushina, worried.

Minato placed his hand on her shoulder to soothe her and smiled down at her. "I'm sure Sakura will figure it out. If her Dad can be cured, then I am sure she can. Don't forget that her friends will help her with that, too."

Kushina looked up at her husband and nodded with the smile on her face. "You are right!"

Forest of Death, Konohagakure- Kakashi vs Fayre

Forty-Fourth Training Ground, known as Forest Death, was the place where Fayre choose to fight in this area. Fayre and Kakashi stood on the high branch on the same level, staring at each other for a while now.

However, Kakashi had been wondering about the battlefield that Fayre choose to fight in for a while now. Why did Fayre choose this battlefield? He did not want to see Forest of Death ever again, because it reminded him of one certain incident. He used to come back to Forest of Death and wait for Team 7 to come back every day when he was not on his mission ever since they disappeared without a trace along with Orochimaru. About one year later, he stopped coming to Forest of Death. He figured that they would never come back. Every time he viewed the Forest of Death, he kept thinking that it was all his fault that he nominated Team 7 to take the exam. One day, when he saw Team 7's return, he almost cried… with the joy. But even so, he still did not want to return there.

"Why?" Fayre raised his eyebrows at Kakashi's question. "Why Forest of Death? Why did you choose this place?"

Fayre smirked. "Why? This will be your graveyard, of course." He waited to see if Kakashi said something about it, but there was response from him. He then chuckled and looked down at the forest floor. "This place is called 'Forest of Death' for a reason. It only fits that one of us will die right here. But who will die?"

He looked up and gave Kakashi a dark chuckle. "Will it be…" He pointed his finger at Kakashi. "…you? Or… will it be…" He pulled his finger and switched it to his thumb, as he pointed at his own face. "…me?!"

Kakashi widened his eyes. Was he planning to die here? "Fayre…" He still had so many questions to ask him.

Fayre raised his open palm up, interrupting Kakashi. "Zip your mouth! I am not done talking here. You know I don't like being interrupted here." His eyes darkened as he glared at Kakashi with a hatred.

He lowered his palm and clenched it into the fist, snarling. "You know I'm not arrogant like most of my Uchiha family! We both know neither of us are stronger than each other. We are on the same level at this moment! But… I will not forgive you for what you did to my brother! You took him away from me!"

Kakashi did not know what to say. He knew it was partially his fault. After all, he was the one who drove Obito away to rescue Rin, especially after he, himself, refused to rescue her because he believed that completing the mission must come first before everything. So that also led to the death of Obito. Ever since that day, he regretted being such an asshole to Obito. As a result, that drove Fayre to feel such a hatred for him.

Fayre felt such a burning feeling inside his chest. "You have no idea how much I suffer all these years!" He did not know why, but for sure, it was too much hatred that held inside him. "Everyday, I only think about Obito all the times, and how that poor kid was murdered by his very comrade during the war! I always asked myself few questions every night. 'Why did Kakashi kill him for that Sharingan?', 'Why did my brother have to die?', and 'When will he come back to home and tell me that everything will be okay?'" His tears barely just came out of his eyes. "Every day, in the morning, I woke up, thinking that it was all dream. I came to Obito's room and I don't see him there. Then I remembered he was dead."

"If you have been in my body…" Hatred started to increase the more he looked at Kakashi's face. He did not know why. He already discovered the truth himself few days ago. "…you would understand how much hatred I held towards you!"

Obito was alive when Fayre fought him yet why he still felt the hatred towards Kakashi? "All I want to do for early Christmas present is…" Perhaps if he discovered more truth from Kakashi, whatever happened during the war that day, then his hatred of Kakashi would be diminished. But… "…to KILL you! That's the only thing that will satisfy me!"

There was nothing Fayre could do about himself. There were two options… the only way to end his cycle of hatred:

Kill the source of his hatred.

Have Kakashi to tell the story, and this time Fayre will use his Sharingan eyes to confirm if Kakashi was telling the truth or not.

Kakashi frowned, saddened by Fayre's resolution. He only wished that he could make Fayre open his eyes, but the problem is… Fayre sided himself with Coola, which means he would have to kill him. 'I suppose fight is only way to resolve this.'

"Kakashi…" The voice snapped him out of Kakashi's thought and he looked up at Fayre who already activated his Sharingan with the hatred glare towards him. "You and I both have fought against each other many times. But this time…"

Fayre raised his clenched fist. "This will be final fight between us. There will be no interference between us this time! You and I…" He pointed his index finger at Kakashi. "We will give it all out right here and right now! There will be holding back, because we are going to rip each other off until one of us fall to our end! There will be no fake death, either!"

Kakashi remembered that he initially thought he killed him when Fayre, himself, forced his hand into his chest. It was too traumatized for him since that day, at least until he found out that Fayre was still alive. Here Fayre was right in front of him…

Ever since the day that the Kyuubi attacked the Konohagakure, he thought Fayre was dead whole times. Right now, he felt betrayed. He was betrayed that Fayre would go that far to fake his own death… and go that far to side with genocide maniacal.

Still, he wanted to ask him so many question, but in the end, he would have to kill Fayre, because he was the enemy right now.

"Instead of asking questions why we both do that, fight is only way we settle this, I suppose?" Kakashi asked in a serious tone.

Fayre shrugged his shoulders. "Depends on what kind of question you are asking." His Sharingan, all of the sudden, spun and evolved into the cross in his Sharingan eyes. "But of course, we are going to settle this a fight right now and right here! No question asked necessary!"

'H-His eyes?' Kakashi was surprised by the transformation of Fayre's eyes. 'A level beyond the normal Sharingan… Mangekyo Sharingan does exist. I thought it was just a myth.' Fayre stated earlier that they would go all-out right from the beginning, which means…

"I cannot afford to dilly-dally around here longer. I got a village to protect." Kakashi pulled his hitai-ate upward, revealing his scratched Sharingan eye. It possessed three tomoes in his Sharingan eye, which was high level of normal Sharingan. "Looks like I have to become serious here."

Fayre suddenly frozen and his face became paled when he saw Kakashi's Sharingan. 'No, it's not Kakashi's Sharingan. No matter how every time I stared at that eye, it almost reminded me of Obito's Sharingan.' Of course, Kakashi took Obito's Sharingan eye.

He started to feel uncontrollable rage that raised inside his chest. He could not seem to contain his rage. No matter how much he tried to calm down, that Sharingan eye continued to remind him how Kakashi killed his brother and took the Sharingan eye. But again, Kakashi never killed Obito, though.

But still…

He could not stop his hatred of Kakashi, so that would mean he still had to choose one of two options he left with.

He began to shake his body with the rage, glaring at the hardened veteran Sharingan user in front of him. When he found out that Obito was still alive, he thought that his hatred of Kakashi had subsided, but he was wrong. His hatred came back when he met Kakashi for the first time in long time.

"H-How dare…" Fayre tried to fight his rage inside his chest, but it was too strong for him to contain it.

Kakashi drew his kunai up to prepare for the upcoming attack. He could tell that Fayre started to rage on.

"How dare…" Fayre shook his clenched fists more violent than before, as he continued to look at Kakashi. He gave up on trying to contain his rage. He was going to let all of his emotions if that was going to make him feel better. Finally he exploded. "HOW DARE YOU SHOW THAT SHARINGAN EYE TO ME?!"

That's it!

Kakashi widened his eyes when he noticed that Fayre quickly weaving through his hand signs. He already recognized that hand signs. 'That signs… He's going to start it right off the bat?!' He did not waste time as he also weaved a long series of hand signs at a high speed.

Fayre first completed his hand signs as he clasped his both index and middle fingers together. He heaved his chest as he held his breath back for a while before releasing a large fireball from his mouth towards Kakashi. "Katon: Gokakyu no Jutsu! (Fire Release: Great Fireball Technique)"

But not just Fayre who performed his first jutsu of the fight here, Kakashi performed his own, but it was different kind of jutsu. "Suiton: Daibakufu no Jutsu! (Water Release: Great Waterfall Technique)" He fired out a large waterfall from his mouth (somehow magically came out of his mouth, considering he had the mask that covered his mouth) towards Fayre's great fireball. Both great fireball and great waterfall collided each other, causing a large stream between Fayre and Kakashi.

Because there was a stream between them, they were unable to see each other. Now they were cautious of each other, in case one of them might sneak around and ambush him.

'Damn! He cancelled it?!' Fayre cursed it in his thought.

'He's really going to kill me!' thought Kakashi.

'If I were Kakashi, what would I be doing right now?' thought Fayre. He had pretty idea what Kakashi would be doing right now. This would be his chance to kill Kakashi right now. He disappeared.

'If I were Fayre, what would I be doing right now?' thought Kakashi. He glanced around, but Fayre was nowhere to be found. It was too fog to see through now. A stream would eventually clear soon, but he would have to be very cautious right now. He could not afford to die here so easily.

However, Kakashi scanned his eyes all over the place, hoping to spot Fayre, but that guy hid pretty well. He could not detect Fayre's movement anywhere. Fayre was too good at stealth, all right.

Usually, Fayre would be on move once there was an opportunity to ambush him, instead of waiting for the fog to clear, like Kakashi did right now. But still, it had been quiet for a while now. It was not good. He knew Fayre so well. If Fayre stayed quiet for a while, it must mean that Fayre planned an instant kill right here. Apparently, Fayre was not here for a long fight, after all. 'I got to stay on defense.'

"Kotan: Gokakyu no Jutsu!" The voice yelled, which caught Kakashi's attention from his side and caused him to widen his eyes in surprise.

There was a large fireball that came his way, but it was not just a standard fireball that most Uchiha used. In fact, it looked bigger than the normal fireball. 'Fayre used up a lot of chakra to use this jutsu?!'

He just realized that he had no time to gawk at the large fireball. He leapt higher, barely dodging the fireball just in time, as it burned the branch he previously stood on away. Still being on the mid-air, he glanced down at Fayre who stood on the branch not too far away. 'He was not able to create such a size like this one the last time we met here! You have become more powerful, Fayre.'

"Kotan: Gokakyu no Jutsu!" Fayre's voice snapped him out of his thought.

"What?!" Kakashi was surprised that Fayre would risk himself to consume more of the chakra. What was Fayre's strategy this time?! He backspin few times before landing his feet on the bark of a tree. He did not waste time, as he jumped off the tree right before the same size of last great fireball blasted the tree bark.

"Kotan: Gokakyu no Jutsu!" Fayre screamed once again, as soon as he saw Fayre landing on another tree bark behind him. He quickly turned around and blew away the great fireball towards him, and yet once again, it missed.

Fayre spotted Kakashi quick enough, who landed on the tree branch below him. He laughed, "I SEE YOU!" He quickly weaved through another similar sign he used before and then took a puff before it, launching another great fireball towards him. "Katon: Gokakyu no Jutsu!"

Of course, it did not come surprise as Kakashi dodged another great fireball and moved to other tree once more again.

Every time Kakashi dodged and relocated to different tree, Fayre would continue to spam his fireball everywhere he spotted him! However, every time Fayre used his Katon jutsu, and every time Kakashi dodged it, it would burn the tree every time.

Kakashi landed on the tree before leaping off before the fire hit the tree again. He would land on another tree, but for a moment, he looked around, he noticed pretty most of trees already burned. 'I see…' He glanced down at Fayre who launched another great fireball again. He jumped off to another tree. 'His strategy is to burn me along with these forests!'

"Katon: Gokakyu no Jutsu!" Fayre fired another great fireball towards Kakashi.

Kakashi groaned in frustration. He knew he would have to dodge it again. But it was very frustrating at this moment. All he did was to dodge them. If he tried to move closer to him, then Fayre would kill him right there! It was almost as if Fayre never ran out of chakra!

Realization suddenly dawned on Kakashi. 'It was almost as if Fayre never ran out of chakra?!' He concluded that there was only one explanation how Fayre never ran out of his chakra. 'It's genjutsu! He has casted it on me from the beginning he activated his Mangekyo Sharingan!'

He almost got caught up in his thought when he saw the great fireball coming near him. He panicked, and he quickly jumped out of the way, as it barely grazed his leg. But there was no damage done to him, though.

"Be careful! Because if you are not pay attention, then one of them could kill you!" Fayre warned him, while weaving through a series of hand signs once again.

There was a lot of place that had been burned, so only few places that were not burned were branches because he did not land on them very much.

He stood on the branch and drew the kunai up. His eyes became more calculated than before, as he stared at Fayre who just completed his hand signs. 'I can't release genjutsu itself. The genjutsu comes from his Mangekyo Sharingan. The only way to dispel the genjutsu is to…'

"Katon: Gokakyu no Jutsu!" Another great fireball propelled out of Fayre's mouth towards Kakashi.

Kakashi raised his kunai above his head. '…inflict a self-damage!' Just as the great fireball almost came in a contact with him, he waved his hand down to stab his own leg, causing a bleeding.

Hokage's District- Sakura vs Guure

Sakura still leaked his killing intent towards Guure, who stopped flinch to that level of her killing intent. If the frog man did not do something about that bitch, he would continue to feel the rage that boiled up in his chest. He wanted to kill her and everyone else here, so he would feel better and rage would have subsided.

However, once Guure realized what Sakura said to him a moment ago, his snarl quickly turned into a chuckle. "Heh, didn't you say you will teach me why I should not mess with you and your buddies?"

Sakura narrowed her eyes. What was he plotting? "Yeah, I intend to keep my promise. You're going to die very slow and painful." She finished with the smirk, but that only resulted in Guure laughing louder.

"I never pegged you as a comedy girl." Guure scoffed, somehow managed to calm down and his rage started to subside. "I suppose you and I have different perceptive about how we kill our enemy. You won't get a chance to kill me slow and painful, because the next moment will be the last time you will ever see again!"

Paradox suddenly sensed Guure's power level. 'He is calming himself down, so does his power level. It started to rise every second the more he calms down. But I wonder how long you will be able to calm down?'

'This is not good. Sakura may or not realize this, but I already discover his weakness.' Shikamaru thought, staring at the self-assured Guure. 'As long as he is calming down, he's getting stronger and stronger.' But he had a feeling that Sakura already discovered his weakness when Guure was attacking her ruthlessly.

Gohan and Kuririn gulped, very anxious to watch what was going to happen in this fight. Apparently, Guure had not exposed himself again lately. That could mean it was not good thing.

"Try me." Sakura rebutted, indicating that she invited him to attack her right now.

"Ha! You will regret your decision now!" All of the sudden, Guure vanished without a trace just like that.

Sakura did not bother to look for Guure, and she smirked again. "Are you sure it's not you who regret your decision?" That only sent everyone a confusion, at least until she pulled her elbow behind her, only to reveal Guure right behind her. Her elbow seemed like it connected with his stomach hard enough.

"ARGH!" Guure's eyes almost bugle out as he clasped his stomach in the pain and slowly collapsed to his knees. A handful of saliva was going to come out of his mouth. He literally could not breathe, as he tried to grasp for an air.

Except Paradox, everyone was astounded how easily Guure was harmed in this fight. That alone proved that Sakura was stronger than Guure right now!

"I-Incredible!" muttered Gohan.

Kuririn nodded. "And she gassed him out with one hit, too!" He never had seen Sakura like this before. He realized that she already surpassed him. But how did she get strong so fast? But then again, he almost forgot that Elementians had their trait. The more they train, the faster they would become strong.

Hinata's eyes widened. 'She did him in one hit?! I thought maybe Sakura would have a bit of trouble with him, but here she is, treating him like he's nothing to her?! But that's Inner, though.'

Shikamaru was at loss for words. In one blink, Guure was already down right behind her! 'Is it just me or had she predicted where Guure would go?' What's more, she elbowed him at the right time, too!

Ino quickly realized how strong Sakura already had gone. Their power levels were already far apart from each other, but it was almost as if there was no limit for any Ki users. 'Just how far are you going to, Sakura?'

Paradox merely chuckled at Guure's soon-to-be demise. 'Serve you right. I could do the announcer thingy, but that would only piss him off. He doesn't like excessive troll, after all. Although, I want to see how Sakura can piss him off, and how much power level will he lose right there?'

Guure could not speak, because there was currently lack of oxygen in him. That must because his stomach already clogged up all of the tube in his throat. He was going to die if he could not do something about it. He did not want to throw up, but he needed an oxygen to stay alive, so he was given no choice.

He had to let all of them go now. To think he would eat foods just few hours ago, only to let them go. He was going to be hungry after this fight for sure. He could tell that Sakura was staring down at him like he was beneath her right now. He suspected that she just started at him with scornful and possibly enjoy his struggle with the oxygen. He was disgusted with himself for letting that to happen to her.

At last, he threw up anything he ingested into his body, leaving a pound of barf on the ground next to him. After that, Guure finally be able to breathe again, as he was too busy recollecting the oxygen back into his body. Sakura had to step back to avoid the barf. She did not want to have a bit of them on her body.

"Maybe you should learn how to hold back your barf. They're disgusting!" Sakura looked down at her opponent with disgusting look. "It almost makes me want to puke!"

"H-Hey…" Gohan blinked in confusion before pointing out at the pound where Guure threw up. "Look at them. They're not foods! They're…"

Kuririn took a good look at the pound once again. There was a several of different insect types such as roaches, flies, beetles, ants, etc. "Don't tell me he ate them?!"

"Eww! So gross!" Ino was taken aback when she learned that Guure literally ate insects. "Why does he eat them?"

"What did you expect?" Shikamaru frowned, answering Ino's question. "He is of frog species. It should not come as a surprise that he actually eats them."

"There is most poisonous insect on this planet is amongst them." Shino said after inspecting every insect type on the pound. "And yet somehow he survived it." He, for one, was glad that he did not send out his insects after Guure. Otherwise, he would eat them with ease. He was the least person that would be match against him.

"You are very interesting person." Sakura said, placing her hands on her hips. "Do you ever eat anything besides insects?"

It was a ragged breathing for Guure at first, but he took some time to regain his oxygen fully. He wiped off his saliva with his arm. "I-Impossible!" He began to wonder if this is not nightmare.

"Oh, I'm afraid this is reality." Sakura scoffed, almost as if she read his mind. "Everything that just happened here is reality, even including these people you killed…" Her scoff quickly turned into a snarl. "…you sociopath bastard! I will definitely enjoy ripping you off to shreds that you will ever imagine!"

"I-It has to be a fluke!" Guure cursed, struggling to get up, but he could still feel the blow to his stomach. That held him back from getting up. "No… No one besides Coola is stronger than me!"

Sakura rolled her eyes at his denial and ignorant. "Oh, all hail the mighty Guure-sama aka the strongest fighter in the universe! No one can beat Guure-sama… EVER… unless your name is Coola!"

Guure glared up at Sakura and his rage started to boil up again. He hated that tone. He despised them. He managed to get up and stood taller than her. Like almost 10 inches apart. He sent his glare down at Sakura. "Is that sarcastic?!"

Sakura's hair shadowed her eyes, but her lips could be seen smirk. "Google is your best friend." Sakura chuckled a bit before looking up at him. "All you need is to type 'Define sarcastic'."

"I am not dumb!" Guure growled. "I know what sarcastic means!"

Sakura drastically widened her eyes and made it seem like she was amazed at his intelligent. She clapped her hands, looking very excited. "Bravo! Well done! You figured out what it means! Truth be told, at first glance, I thought you look stupid!"

"I will have you know that I was straight A's back in my school!" Guure argued back aggressively. He was ready to kill her if she taunted him again. He was getting tired of her taunting all days.

Sakura nodded, like she just agreed with him right there. "In third grade, maybe."

"DON'T YOU BELITTLE ME!" Guure screamed in a rage. He blindly swung his fist around at Sakura, only to be caught by her grasp. "What?!" He struggled to escape her grasp, but her strength was way beyond his.

"Hey, I did not give you a permission to fight back, didn't I?" Sakura shot him a dark glare.

He could only struggle to attempt to escape from her grasp, but she did not budge at all. "Release me at once! You're breaking my hand!" No matter how hard he tried to get out of it, she would not let go of it. She was going to destroy his hand if he could not find a way to escape.

"Well?!" Sakura scowled. "I am not going to let you go until you answer my question! Let me rephrase this: Did I give you a permission to fight back? Just nod your head or shake your head will be sufficient."

For the first time in his life, Guure was very frightened. He was never this scared so badly, but yet at the same time, he started to become frustrate with Sakura who continued to humiliate him in front of everyone here. As much as he did not want to admit it, he started to believe that Sakura was stronger than him at this point. Just thinking about it managed to piss him even furthermore.

"LET GO OF ME!" Guure demanded angrily, trying his hardest to get off Sakura's grasp. But her strength was so unbelievable in comparison to his strength!

Right after he said that, pain throbbed through his fist when Sakura squeezed his fist so hard enough to nearly break it. He realized if he could not escape its grasp, she was going to break his hand for real!

"You know…" Sakura sighed. "You are so stubborn. A simple 'yes' or 'no' would be good enough. You will have to convince me to let you go if you're not going to say 'yes' or 'no' otherwise."

"I SAID LET ME GO!" Guure screamed, his rage quickly soared through the sky. He was about to explode it if she could not let it go.

Sakura could tell that Guure was looking for a mercy. She could notice that he did not want to die just yet. She could not contain her excitement especially when he desperately begged her to spare his life. She knew she was going to enjoy it. That's why she wanted to use up her last minute to fight him before she could switch with Outer.

"Heh…" Sakura scoffed. "You are hypocrite. You know that, right?" Guure tried to pull his hand out of her grasp, but she held on to it. "You're literally asking me to spare you some mercy. But I wonder what happened to my friends who you killed? Have you ever showed them a mercy once?"

"Shut up!" Guure growled. His hand was squeezed so hard almost as if it was juicy fruit, and he could feel that his hand cracked. That could mean his bones in his hand was going to break! "LET ME GO!"

Sakura loved the sound of Guure's scream and the sound that his hand made when she squeezed his hand tighter than before. But he deserved it, right? "While I am pretty sure none of these Elementians you killed had asked for your mercy, but have you once think about them? Have you ever thought that they might want to live to see another day? What if they had a plan? For example, what if they plan to go to picnic today?! But unfortunately, they never had a chance to go to picnic today, because you go on about your business and killing them for your own pleasure!"

"I-I said…" Guure growled, his rage finally exploded once again. "LET ME GO!" His aura quickly flared up, causing a mini-earthquake across the battlefield. But Kuririn and Gohan were not flinched at all. However, they both were perplexed by the display of Guure's power right now.

"Did you feel that, Gohan?" Kuririn asked, still perplexed at Guure's current power level.

Gohan nodded. "Yeah. He's dropping the power a lot now. I think we can beat him at our level right now."

"But why is his power dropping?" wondered Kuririn.

Shikamaru just figured out what Sakura had been doing. 'She figured out his weakness! By constantly taunting him during their fight, his rage had increased over time, as does his Ki that dropped over time. When she arrived here, she could kill him anytime if she wanted to, but I guess that will require a lot of Ki to finish him off. In other words, by having his power dropped down, that will allow her to converse her Ki and finish him off!'

Hinata studied Sakura's expression. 'I knew it! It's the Inner Sakura. The Outer Sakura would not have enjoyed torturing her opponent. But at least they are working together, instead of going on rampage.'

Sakura shot him down with his cold glares before smirking coldly. "You're too noise! You make me want to wring your tongue off!"

Too scared to see if Sakura was serious about her words, he decided to keep his mouth, but in the meantime, he tried his hard to pull his hand out of her grasp.

Sakura giggled, yet the way she laughed sounds too sadistic and a bit of insane. "I'm glad you keep your mouth shut. But I can't help but to notice that you're trying to escape me for a while now. Would you like me to help you?"

Guure glanced up at Sakura in confusion and before he could ask what she meant. His only response from her was to bend his fingers over the back of his hand.

He screamed intense in the most pain he ever had experienced. "AHHHHH!"

"HAHAHA!" Sakura laughed. "Now you know how Ino feels when you hurt her brain! You hurt my friends, I will double that right back to you! You kill my friends, I will kill you very slow and painful!"

Eventually, she ripped off his all fingers off, which completely amputated his fingers off his hand.

Guure felt like he was struck by the lightning or something once his fingers were nonexistent. Shaking badly, he stared at his fingerless hand, as the blood erupted and soaked all over Sakura's face running all the way down to her body. He could only hear Sakura's laughing at this moment.

Forest of Death- Kakashi vs Fayre

Some bloods were dripping onto the forest branch from the leg where the kunai was stabbed into. The silver-haired shinobi winced when he stabbed his kunai into his thigh. He had to do it. Otherwise, he'd be stuck in the genjutsu and possibly died from it.

He looked up and studied Fayre's Mangekyo Sharingan for a while now. 'That eyes… They're dangerous. Who can possibly have thought that we may be killed by the genjutsu such as that? This genjutsu…' He gulped as he clenched his fists. 'It appeared that it is going to be tough battle from on now. Hang on, Naruto... Sasuke… and Sakura. It may be delayed a little longer.'

The keyword is 'may', because he was not sure he could get out of here alive. He may figure the reason why Fayre led him into the Forest of Death, but he would rather to find out why.

His thought derailed when he heard the clapping. He looked up at Fayre, who was clapping slowly.

"You did really good job." Fayre smiled. But Kakashi knew it was sarcastic. "You caught on longer than it should be. You should be grateful that I did not kill you right there. Did you really think I'm going to do all-out from the beginning? Me, of all people?" He would just need an answer from Kakashi first. Then he would decide if he should kill him or not, and he would decide if he should make his first move against Coola or not.

He shook his head and scoffed. "Not when I'm fighting a strong opponent like you. I'm not going to waste tons of my Chakra on you from the beginning."

"No." Kakashi said flatly. He pulled his kunai off his thigh and it bleed, but he did not flinch at all. He had gotten used to the pain he took anyways, so it did not bother him at all. "Your spamming Katon jutsu gives away immediately. Normally, no one could contain as much Chakra as Naruto does. The more you're spamming it, the more I realize that it was physically impossible to spam a jutsu that consumed a lot of Chakra at once each. So I figured it was the genjutsu. I assumed that's coming from that new form of your Sharingan. Mangekyo Sharingan, wasn't it?"

Fayre smirked. "In other words, you figured it rather quickly."

"Correct," stated Kakashi simply.

"But in my opinion, you took it rather long." Fayre said. "What if I decided to kill you right there when you were caught up into the genjutsu I casted upon you?"

Now Kakashi was beginning to suspect that there was something up with Fayre. All in the past, Fayre never once hesitated to kill him, as he had attempted that many times. But this time…

"Why didn't you?" Kakashi gave his opponent a skeptical look. "You had your chance." Was Fayre trying not to kill him? Considering the fact that Fayre was under Coola for many years since the day that the Kyuubi attacked the Konoha, he could easily learn the Ki and eliminate Kakashi if he wanted to, but he did not use his full power, as he suspected.

"Because…" Fayre crouched down a bit before jumping towards Kakashi all of the sudden, much to the half-masked man's surprise. "I want to make you suffer!"

Fayre jumped a bit high until the gravity pulled him down. He used his leg as a flying kick down towards Kakashi, only to miss when Kakashi leaped back, leaving the dent on the branch. Afterward, he immediately went after Kakashi and sent out a flurry of punches and kicks after the Copycat Sharingan user, who parried every and each single of his attacks.

At least until Kakashi had his back against the tree bark, he briefly glanced over his shoulder at it, realizing that Fayre had him cornered at this moment. He had no time to figure out how to get out of this situation calmly. He only needed to figure out very quickly.

However, Kakashi figured it out rather quick right before Fayre threw the fist as hard as he could at his head, but it missed because Kakashi backflipped onto the tree bark. Kakashi kept backflipping onto the tree bark further away from the enemy.

Following up by it, Fayre immediately ran along the tree bark and started throwing the shuriken one after one at the silver-haired shinobi. Kakashi deflected them all before immediately throwing several shuriken of his own towards him.

Fayre scoffed. That was nothing, as he easily swiped them all and placed all of them in his pouch, saving some for later. However, he still held onto the one shuriken, in which he hurled towards him immediately.

Kakashi responded this by tilting his head away, just barely dodging the shuriken that swooped by the breadth of the hair, which led him to backflip along the tree bark a bit further away from Fayre once again.

However, much to Kakashi's surprise, Fayre immediately ran up towards the masked ninja and plunged the kunai into his stomach, causing a bleeding. Kakashi widened his eyes in horror, causing Obito's brother to smirk sadistically.

Fayre's joy abruptly ended when Kakashi was revealed to be the log that the kunai plunged into. He widened his eyes in shock. Where had Kakashi gone to? He quickly scoured the area for his opponent, but it did not take long before Kakashi ran around the tree from the behind and kicked him away to another tree.

Kakashi already had his resolve to kill Fayre right now, so he could go back to the battlefield to protect the Konohagakure. He picked up the kuani and jumped towards Fayre, as he plunged the kunai into the heart of Fayre, slamming him against another tree, causing Fayre to cough up the blood.

Unfortunately, Fayre turned into a puff of smoke, revealing the log. It was almost as if he already anticipated the next move that Kakashi was going to make.

"KATON: Gokakyu no Jutsu!" Kakashi widened his eyes, as he looked around, only to find the great fireball being sent towards him. He did not have enough time to react, as he was being engulfed within the fireball.

Fayre smirked in triumphant at the smoke that was caused by the great fireball. However, when the smoke became clear, it revealed the burned log once again. He could not believe it with his own eyes! Did Kakashi anticipate his next move, too?!

Suddenly, he found himself being knocked away towards the branch. However, he quickly stopped him in the mid-air before spinning towards the branch. Once he landed, he immediately looked up, only to find Kakashi above, who already weaved the familiar sings. The one that Fayre had often seen that technique performed by Kakashi.

The lightning sphere gathered around his right hand, creating the blue circle beneath his feet and extra lightning around his body. "Raikiri!" Kakashi shouted.

"I will have you know that you are not only one who performs that technique!" Fayre scowled, quickly forming hand signs, as he gripped his right wrist, pulling down, in order to allow the lightning sphere that gathered around his right hand as well. "Raikiri!"

Kakashi was surprised by Fayre's performance and his ability to master Raikiri, but right now, he paid no mind to it, as he ran down along the way towards Fayre.

What Kakashi did not know was that Fayre had practiced Chidori and Raikiri for long times when he was in Outer Space. He had managed to master it and developed them to be more powerful that it ever would be before. With that, he ran up along the way towards Kakashi.

Shortly after, Fayre and Kakashi would thrust their Raikiri at each other, colliding each other, creating a giant powerful lightning sphere around them. They wrestled each other in a struggle between their Raikiri. Unfortunately, because both were the same type of lightning, it emitted too much lightning out of them both, thus resulting in an explosion, knocking both away from each other.

As soon as they both hit the tree bark, they fell to the branch, leaving themselves unconscious for a while.

Hokage's District- Sakura vs Guure

Everyone else, except Sakura and Paradox were flabbergasted by the moment that occurred just now. Did Sakura rip off Guure's fingers?! Gohan, Kuririn, Shikamaru, Ino, and Shino were wondering what was going on with Sakura. This was not the Sakura they know right now! It was like she was completely person. Right now, she was completely savage. The Sakura they knew would not had a gut to do that.

Paradox was unfazed by the scene at this moment. Missing fingers of Guure now did not bother him one bit. 'It's going to be good.' He thought. 'It will be bloodbath for sure.'

Even though Hinata somehow knew it was Inner Sakura, she still could not believe that Inner Sakura would do such a thing. She began to wonder if Inner Sakura was going to be dangerous person in the future. She was shuddered to think what might happen.

"Do you think this is Sakura?" wondered Kuririn. But whoever that Sakura was, at least she was on their side, so he should be relief.

"What are you talking about?" Gohan said. "I can sense the same Ki, except that it's darker now."

Kuririn now stared at Sakura extremely careful, and his expression changed a bit. He was surprised at first, but it shifted into a serious expression immediately. "You're right! It's definitely Sakura. But…"

Gohan looked at Kuririn, who looked like he just discovered something. "What?"

"There's actually another Ki that is hidden in his body." Kuririn revealed. "Apparently, there's two Ki in her body, like how we sensed Naruto's Ki when he sealed the Kyuubi back in him that day. Except the Ki I sensed isn't a demon. It's another person's Ki!"

Gohan quickly whipped around and stared at Sakura, who continued to laugh at Guure's struggle. He tried to sense Sakura once again, and… it was true. There was definitely two Ki in Sakura's body. One was light and other one was dark. But what could that mean?

"I've encountered someone like her. The person with two Ki in a body…" Kuririn said. "It's not like the demon that's sealed in your body. The Ki was different. Usually, someone like that always have one dark and one light Ki. Her name is Lunch. Every time she sneezed, her personality changed."

Realization quickly dawned on Gohan when Kuririn mentioned 'personality changed'. "Could you mean…?"

Kuririn nodded, almost as if he knew what Gohan was going to say. "Gohan, I think we already found out that Sakura has a split personality disorder! Or maybe multiple personality disorder. Who knows?"

Shikamaru, who overheard the conversation between Gohan and Kuririn, was surprised. 'Sakura has a split personality?' He then stared at Sakura. 'I remember there was a library where I went to do some research.' He remembered that he saw a book titled 'The Exiled Clan', so it caught his curiosity. It caught his attention, only because he wondered what was so special about that book. Little later, he found out why. 'Sakura is a Haruno. Every member of Haruno has a split personality from the birth, and it will trigger the third personality if a love of their life or people that are very precious to them are murdered in most gruesome death.'

He wondered if the reason why Inner Sakura was taking over the body was because someone triggered third personality, or somehow they decided to agree or something.

Guure was shaking up after seeing his fingers being removed off his hand and the blood kept running down his hand. He truly never experienced something like this before! "I-Impossible! How could this happen?!"

Sakura casually tossed missing fingers at the ground next to Guure. "You can have them back. I don't want to keep them. They reek of frogs." Sakura chuckled, scoffing to herself. "Oh, right. I almost forgot… You're a frog, aren't you? Frogs are really gross. I feel like if I touch your skins again, I'm going to throw up."

Guure stared at his fingerless hand in a state of severe shock. 'Never in my life…'

"Ha!" Sakura placed her hands on her hips, as she straightened up her body, almost as if she was proud of her accomplishment already. "It's really good to see you shaking up so badly. You know it's not over. I am not satisfied with just tearing your fingers apart. Your other hand will be next."

'Never in my life…' Guure clenched his other fingers into a fist rightly and his face slowly turned into an anger, which seemed like he was ready to explode with a temper once again. He shut his eyes down, but it seemed like he strained his fingerless hand too much, which led him to leak the blood really fast.

Sakura frowned, although she was not concerned with his healthy at this moment. "Careful. Putting too much strain on it can kill you before you realized it."

"NEVER IN MY LIFE THAT SOMEONE TAKES MY FINGERS OFF AND THEN MAKE FUN OF ME! AHHH!" Guure screamed, straining his fingers a bit before his fingerless somehow grew them back.

"WHAT?!" cried Sakura. That was a quite unexpected.

Kuririn and Gohan had their eyes almost coming out of their sockets comically. "Just like Namekian…" said Kuririn, in which Gohan agreed with.

"Just like Piccolo…" Sakura muttered. She was surprised that Guure had this ability to regenerate, to be honest. "Interesting. Your Ki did not drop after you regenerated. However, because your rage has come back, you're getting weaker once again."

"SHUT UP!" Guure screamed, flaring the aura up before charging towards her in a rage. "I'M DONE LISTENING TO YOUR NONSENSE BLABBERING!"

Guure screamed in a rage, as he threw a punch around at Sakura, but the pink-haired kunoichi dodged it by just titling her head. But that only elevated his rage even further. He threw another punch around with another arm, but once again, Sakura titled her head away to other side to make his fist missed again.

"DAMN IT!" Guure screamed in his frustration, as he blindly sent out a flurry of punches and kickes at Sakura, yet she kept evading all of them. "DAMN IT! DAMN IT!"

No matter how fast he tried to connect his attack on her, she played him like a fool by just dancing in front of him. That only managed to piss him further. He could feel like his head was going to explode. If he could not do something about her, he intended to blow this planet up!

While dodging every single of his attack, Sakura rolled her eyes. "You are so pathetic. You know that, right?!"

"SHUT UP!" Guure yelled, barreling his fist overhand towards her head. All he wanted for the Christmas present was to crush her head to smithereens. That would satisfy him for sure. But his hope quickly diminished when she disappeared right after his fist went through her.

He widened his eyes in shock. He did not expect her to perform Zanzoken (Afterimage Attack). Why couldn't she just dodge them like she did a moment ago? So many questions popped in his head, but that would only make him go insane. He never liked too many questions after all.

"Well…" Guure widened his eyes. Her voice was right behind her. When did she have a time to appear right behind her?! "I am not sure if you know your own weakness. But your weakness is your anger, you know right?"

Guure could turn around, but what if she decided to kill him right there? He also wanted to say that he already knew his own weakness, but it's just that he could not control his anger, especially when she continued to taunt him. She literally made fun of his power… and his species. He really wanted to end this fight. It had been going on forever, and he already lost his patience. 'I don't want to turn into a monster.'

"Apparently, the longer your negative emotions showed up, the weaker you've become. As you are right now, you're already weaker than Gohan and Kuririn here. That's pretty pathetic, isn't it? I'd recommend taking anger management class." Sakura then smirked. "Oh, wait. You can't. That's because I'm taunting you right now."

"THAT'S IT!" Guure screamed, his rage skyrocketed all the way and his aura spiked up even higher. He turned around and sent out a flurry of punches and kicks at her, who casually dodged every single of them. "DAMMMMMMN! IT! ALLLL!" He was baffled how he could not touch her at all.

"I know what you're thinking." Sakura chuckled, still dodging Guure's attacks. "You must be thinking how I managed to dodge all of your attacks. You must be thinking that it's physically impossible to dodge them because you're faster than me, right?"

"DAMN IT! WHY CAN'T I HIT YOU ONCE?!" Guure screamed, his eyes started to become red. It would appear that he was about to reach his limit. She took that as a cue and started flying away, in which led him to fly after her and continued his assault attempt on her. They rose up into the sky.

Gohan and Kuririn, and remaining Konoha Nine were looking up at the fight that occurred in the sky. They were astounded that Guure could not touch her at all. Not even a single hit that managed to land on her.

'It's coming soon. That form of yours, Guure.' Paradox grinned, almost as if he had won or something.

"I know! How about we play a game?" Sakura said, still dodging the frog-man's attacks, even though he powered up his aura. She could sense his Ki constantly dropping due to his elevated rage. "Depends on the number of attacks you throw an attempt on me, I will throw them back at you the same number of attacks you threw on me. The game is over if you died or if you hit me. Fun, right?"

"I DON'T WANT TO PLAY A GAME! YOU DIED!" Guure screamed again. She noted that he may lose his ability to speak properly. His grammar was no longer formed properly now.

"Ah, that's too bad." Sakura closed her eyes and smirked lightly. "I guess this is the only way to end this game immediately." Then she slowly opened her eyes. "And that is to kill—What?!"

She was met with a powerful punch that smashed her face, knocking her down to the ground, kicking up the dirt.

"Sakura/-san!" cried Kuririn and Gohan.

'Why didn't she kill him already?' Hinata began to wonder why she played around with him when she could easily kill him… unless… 'She wants to bring his power down, so she can save the trouble of wasting her Ki just to kill him.'

Guure was surprised, to be honest. He was astounded at first, and then he laughed so loud, filled with the rejoice. He looked down at the dust that recently kicked up, starting to taunt her. "HAHA! I HIT YOU! I DID IT! YOU HURTED NOW! NOT SO TOUGH, HUH?!"

"Of course, you did land a hit on me." The voice said with an amused chuckle in the tone. "Because I let you."

Guure was shaken up after hearing that voice. It would seem like she was perfectly fine now. The dust finally became clear, revealing battered and bruised Sakura, who looked up at him with a smirk.

"W-W-What?!" Guure stuttered a bit. Not that because Sakura let him hit her, but it was because she was actually battered and bruised whole times! He knew that a simple punch could not possibly caused that!

Everyone on the battlefield, except Paradox were very confused. Everyone knew that there's no way that a single punch could put so much damage on her. But what caused that?!

Gohan and Kuririn wanted to know what was causing that. But when they think long and hard, they realized something.

"Gohan, do you think…?" Gohan hesitated to ask him, but looked at him, hoping he would understand what he was talking about.

Apparently, Kuririn understood what he was talking about, as he nodded. "She casted a genjutsu on her to fool everyone else here to think she never took the damage. But the question is… why? Why did she have to cast a genjutsu on herself to make it look like she never took them?"

Shikamaru studied Sakura's confidence expression on her face. 'I recalled seeing a blood drawn from you when you took some damages from Guure. I knew you put a genjutsu on yourself. But for what purpose to use it other than pissing him off further.' Suddenly, realization dawned on his face before he then smirked slightly. 'I see. You figured his weakness out, so by taunting him, his anger will slowly skyrocket, as does his power that will go down. In order to provoke Guure and use his anger to her advantage, she put a genjutsu on herself, so Guure could think he never touched her at all without realizing that she actually took a damage before. Now this will only anger him further as soon as he realized that she fooled him with her genjutsu.'

As Ino held her hand onto her head, she looked at the confident Sakura. She had seen the confidence in Sakura before, but she never had seen huge confidence that Sakura had in herself before. It was almost as if Sakura already knew that she won beforehand. "Sakura…" That was all she could mutter.

'I can't believe it!' Hinata thought, watching Sakura in amazement. 'She used genjutsu on herself to make it look like she never took damages from him. It's pretty impressive!'

'I already knew that.' Paradox smirked, looking up at Guure who continued to increase his rage by the every second. 'That's why, my friend, a patience is a virtue. You should have listened to me whole times. But noooo, you wanted to get it done fast, because you're afraid you will lose your cool. Now that's what happened to you, and it looks like you're going to turn into one that you're afraid of!'

Guure gritted his teeth, growling more than before. He just figured out that Sakura fooled him with her genjutsu. Her genjutsu led him to believe that he never did dome some damage on her. If he knew that, he would have calmed down and killed her very quicker.

'This girl… She just had to strike my nerve!' Guure glared down at the pink-haired woman who continued to smirk, as if she thought he was too easy now.

"Genjutsu is useful, isn't it?" Sakura taunted him. "My offer still stands. You can still go to anger management class. It's not too late, though."

"You… You…" Guure snarled, hesitated a bit. "You tricked me! Not only that you let me hit you, you also tricked me the whole fight! I did a number on you, didn't I?!"

"Actually, you were as strong as I am when I first arrived here." Sakura confessed, shocking everyone else, except Paradox. "Before I came here, I sensed that your Ki constantly dropped, but I was not sure what caused that, so I had to test your ability. I figured out your weakness immediately afterward. So I allowed you to attack me with everything you got first to boost your confidence. After that, I used up genjutsu on myself, so I could make you believe that you never caused all damages on me. So that confidence you had earlier was gone immediately, and it turned into a rage."

"Because of your rage, your Ki is now on the level of Kuririn." Sakura pointed her thumb at the bald midget fighter. "My strategy works. Not a bad strategy, right?" She finished with the smirk on her face.

Kuririn was let down and frowned. "Oh, I'm offended, Sakura! It's like you're calling me a weakling!"

Sakura promptly ignored him, as her eyes were on Guure only. "So what will you choose? Heeding my advice and take the anger management class? Or… you keep crying to me and bitching about how you are supposed to be stronger than me?"

After that taunting words, the rage boiled up even more and faster inside Guure. He clenched his fists so hard until they drew bloods. "You dare…. You dare calling me a weakling?!" But as soon as Sakura showed her confident smirk again, it already triggered him and that brought his rage out to explode. "I AM NOT WEAKLING! I AM STRONGER THAN YOU ALL!"

Without any second thought, Guure flared his dark aura, as it continued to spike up even higher and higher. It was so powerful enough to levitate all fragments of building and rocks up into the air, causing the entire battlefield to shake. The dark clouds gathered all over his head, as he continued to scream in a rage.

At this point, it even cracked the ground, which almost dropped Hinata, had she not been pay attention. But how powerful was that Ki? Didn't Sakura just finished saying that Guure was on the same level as Kuririn right now?!

'Wait… Does that mean Kuririn has the power to destroy the planet if he wants to?!' Hinata realized. 'Wait. They said I am as strong as Kuririn was when he was on a planet named Namek or something. Does that mean I can destroy the planet too?!' If that's the case, then the entire universe was so ridiculous! Even weak people with Ki powers could destroy the planet easily if they want to.

"No way!" Gohan tried to balance himself, as he stood firmly on the ground along with Kuririn. "I thought he's getting weaker!"

"His power is still frightening! But…" Kuririn used his Ki to balance himself without falling once. "I can still sense his Ki dropping rapidly!"

"What does that mean?!" Gohan asked him in shock. Even though Guure was powering up, his Ki was still dropping?! How was that possible?!

"Because he's currently transforming!" The voice suddenly came out of nowhere. Gohan and Kuririn looked around to find the source of the voice, only to find that it was Paradox's voice.

"Transforming?" Gohan blinked in a confusion.

"What do you mean?" asked Kuririn.

Paradox folded his arms, staring up at the Guure who was still 'powering up'. "Relax. You're about to witness his original form!"

"His original form?" Gohan asked in confusion.

"You mean to tell me he can transform?!" Kuririn widened his eyes, so terrified. If Guure was going to transform, that could mean it was a bad thing, or was it?

"Just watch." Paradox reassured them.

A huge amount of clouds was gathered at one point above Guure, and the lightning started to flinch down several times.

'He's transforming…' Sakura watched from the ground, as Guure started to transform in the sky. 'Even though he looks powering up, his Ki is dropping a lot faster than it normally would drop.'

"Unlike most people whose transformed increased their power times the amount of their original battle power, instead it is complete opposite."Outer Sakura said. "I believe he may transform to his weakest form, or original form. He's truly losing it. He's succumbed to his madness."

Sakura scoffed, sending a thought to her other persona. "I don't need your theory. How long until we have to switch again?"

"It's already expired few seconds ago. That voice is coming back soon." Sakura answered. "You know what to do."

Sakura nodded, smirking again. "Gotcha. It's shame that I didn't get to verbal abuse him even further. He almost cried to his mommy. Oh, well. At least I enjoyed while it lasted."

"AHHH!" Guure screamed, as the lightning flickered down into his head. That lightning soon would be absorbed into his body, as it emitted the bright yellow aura around him. At last, he would undergo the change in his body at this moment. His face morphed a bit before growing some spikes on his face.

More lightning flickered down several times once again. But this time, one of them would flicker towards Shikamaru and Ino. Gohan immediately set up an energy shield to protect them.

He glanced over his shoulder at them with a relief. Had he not come to save them, they would have been killed immediately.

More rocks would levitate towards Guure like a magnet, but they never came closer to him, since the lightning kept flickering down, destroying them in the process.

Hinata was speechless how Guure could increase his power to high and beyond high! But little did he know that Guure would instead power down while transforming.

Another lightning suddenly sent down towards Hinata, who was so petrified right now. Luckily, Kuririn took the shield for her. But he was not invincible. Because he was still injured, the lightning really hurt him.

"Kuririn?! Are you okay?!" Hinata immediately asked, showing her concern for him.

Kuririn looked over his shoulder at her and chuckled lightly. "Oh, never been better before, heh."

More spikes would grow on his bald head, so did other parts of his body. "YOU WILL PAY FOR MAKING ME DO THIS!" Guure snarled, his face looked more malicious in a rage mode.

On his chin, it would grow three long spikes all the way down to the level of his neck. His nails grew a bit longer. They just grew spikes all over his torso and his back too. However, on his back, there was at least three long and large spikes growing. Afterward, they grew on their whole arms and both side of his palms. Finally, his legs had sprouted all spikes over them. His eyes became whole red blank. His height also grew at least about 3 feet. He's now about 10 feet height.

"WHAT?!" Shikamaru quickly yelled in surprise. "He's a hideous monster!"

Guure sent his glares down at Sakura, who seemed like she was ready to throw the party or something. A rock would fall down, as he caught it and crushed it in a rage. "DAAAAAAAAAAMN YOU! I AM GOING TO KILL EVERY SINGLE OF YOU, INCLUDING YOU, PARADOX!"

Paradox laughed at him so hard that he almost cried. He wiped tears off his eyes, still laughing. "Including me?! You got to be kidding me, right?! Do you think you idiot can take me on?! Game's over, bro! The joke's on you, anyways!"

"SHUUUUUT UP! YOU MAKE ME WASTE MY TIME! YOU WILL BE NEXT!" Guure yelled back. His attention shifted back to Sakura again. "BUT FIRST, I WILL START WITH YOU!" He thought it would be best idea to get rid of main reason that made him transform into a monster like this. With that, he charged down towards Sakura like a mad. His desire was to crush Sakura's head and nothing more!

"Sakura!" cried Hinata. That could not be looking good for Sakura, who seemingly rather to stay in the same place. But she noticed that Sakura still looked confidence.

Sakura hung her head down, as her hair shadowed her eyes and her lips turned into a half-smirk. "You don't get it, do you?" She looked up at Guure, as her face showed that she was baring her teeth with a huge grin and her eyes were crazy. "As you are now, you're on the same level as Saibamen. In other words, you're aleady dead!"

With that said, Sakura launched her towards Guure at a high-speed. The aura just charged up around her right fist. "This is for…" She had thought of every person that Guure had killed. That made her furious at him. No one could mess with her friends and get away with it! She was not letting him that!

"…Choji…"

Her aura around her fist just had gotten bigger a bit, as she pulled her fist back to her side.

"…Akamaru…"

Guure just noticed that Sakura was going after him… a lot faster, in fact. He realized that he could not win it if he still went after her, so he decided to stop in mid-air and put his hands forward, taking an aim at her, as he began to charge up the energy. "YOU WILL NOT STOP ME FROM KILLING YOU!"

"…And…" Sakura puts his fist forward. "…Kiba! This is also for everyone on this planet that you killed! THIS IS THE END RIGHT NOW!"

Guure widened his eyes, once he realized it was already too late. He would not make it in time to fire a blast at her. He was left wide open for her to punch through him, forming the hole on his chest.

He slowly looked down at his chest, only to find that bloods were leaking out of his chest, and soon, he would eventually cough up the blood. His heart was missing. He was scared now. No matter where his heart went, he would be still alive. But his biggest fear was…

He slowly turned his head around with a sweating on his head. Sure enough, Sakura was holding his heart right on the palm of her hand. His face paled, so terrified so his stomach clenched, as if the time stopped around his world by just staring at his opponent who held his heart.

His biggest fear was that someone would take his heart into their possession. Now here Sakura was, holding his heart on the top of her palm like that.

Gohan and Kuririn gaped their mouth in shock at Sakura, who managed to swipe his heart off his chest. They wondered what plan Sakura was going to execute. They feared that Sakura might do something that they think she would do. All they could do was to stare in silence.

Shikamaru did not care what Sakura's plan would be. All he cared was that Guure deserved what he got. He would be more than happy to see Guure die, especially after what that bastard did to his best friend.

"Not tell me she's going to…" Ino's face paled when she realized what Sakura's plan would be. She wondered why Sakura could not simply kill him and be done with it?

Shino had no comment, regarding this current situation, as he, too, wanted to see Guure gone. He was quite displeasure with Guure, because the frog-man used insects as his daily meals.

'Is she going to crush his heart?!' thought Hinata. 'Normally, Sakura would not do that far to take his heart from his body, just to crush it!'

Guure turned around, already began to sweat profusely. His entire body was quiver in fear, even that everyone noticed.

Sakura stared at Guure's heart, as it quickly beats at high rate. It seemed like it beats faster than the speed of light. It did not faze her at all, but instead, she chuckled at a nervous frog-man. "So you are still alive, even after I took your heart out? You're odd man."

The frog-man slowly moved towards her, while shaking her legs with fear, and sweating so badly. "My heart…"

"I couldn't help but to notice that you're drenching in a sweat as soon as you saw this heart." Sakura said, lifting Guure's heart up, as it just increased the speed of heartbeats. "Why is that?"

"Because…" Guure stammered. His head started to dizzy, because too many what-if events just popped up in his head. And what would he do with that heart in the hand of Sakura? "Because…" There were no words he could find right out of his mouth.

"Will I kill you if I crush your heart right here?" asked Sakura, staring at his heart, which abruptly beat violently now. She could tell that he was going to shit in his own pants soon. She expected him to respond immediately, but it would seem that he was too scared to say anything. "All right. I am going to do it and see what's going to happen next."

As soon as Sakura began clenching her hand on the heart of Guure, that prompted Guure to scream in a panic. "STOOOOP! If you destroy it… I will—"

"Stop there!" Sakura interrupted him, clenching his heart a little tight, causing him to freeze. That would mean that it took effect on him just now. "I don't want a spoiler from you. I'm going to see it for myself, so you better not stop me right here! Say any last words before you die."

Guure gulped. He did not know what to say other than begging her to spare his life. He realized that there's low chance of leaving this planet alive. He should had trusted his own instinct to leave his heart somewhere. But he was too confidence in himself that no one could beat him, so he kept his heart in his body, because he claimed that he would be normal like everyone else who had the heart. Because of that, he was screwed.

"Then…" Guure finally spoke in a while. "…Give me a chance. I will calm down and I will leave this planet at once."

"He's going to leave this planet?" Gohan asked Kuririn.

Kuririn shook his head, already doubting Guure's words. "No. He won't. He is better off dying here anyways."

"Why should I give you a mercy when you killed my friends?!" Sakura screamed, already exploding with the rage. She would never forgive him for killing her friends and her people. "YOU KILLED MY FRIENDS! YOU REAP WHAT YOU SOW!"

"PLEASE DON'T!" Guure screamed in a panic. "My heart is like—" He trailed off when Sakura suddenly clenched his fist fully, shattering his heart, as several bloods flew up everywhere, even one of them landed on her face. "—a bomb." He finished the sentence, as his eyes wide opened and gasped in frozen.

All of the sudden, his body swelled up like balloons, much to the shock of everyone, except Sakura and Paradox. His eyes started to bugle out of his sockets, literally. Bloods were leaking out of his eyes socket and his ears.

"NO! It can't be happening to me!" Guure managed to yell out with what left of his voice, considering it started to sound hoarse. At least until his voice croaked where he could no longer speaking anymore. Between his body, his head would lower itself into his body and his legs would go up into his body, almost as if it squeezed in.

Sakura laughed darkly. She definitely enjoyed the view of Guure at this moment. "You must be tough son of a bitch, considering the fact that you're still alive, even after I crushed your heart. But at least, from the look of it, you're going to die in most horrifying way! That's the way how the karma should be! It tends to bite your ass later!"

Shortly after, Guure's body exploded, causing a load of bloods to fly everywhere. That should confirmed it. After witnessing that Guure exploded to smithereens, Sakura and others should be able to sleep at night better after witnessing Guure's most brutal death. Therefore, Guure was no more!

Some bloods landed on Paradox's face, but he was not bothered by it, as he licked its blood around to clean his face up, still smirking at the view. He could not be more than happy to see his plan succeeded. He got Guure killed by forcing him to prolong the unnecessary fight. 'I'm such a genius, all right! Looks like I am up next.' He unfolded his arms while strolling towards his enemies slowly. 'It's going to be entertaining, after all! Though, it's Sakura I should watch out for. As long as I don't underestimate her, she should be easy to work around. After all, I'm not like Guure. It's going to be fun!'

"U-Unbelievable!" Gohan was so at loss for words. He did not know what to say after seeing a scene like that.

"She has really no regard for his life! But hey, at least we got one man down," said Kuririn with the relief, watching Sakura, who slowly descended towards the ground.

"She really did it!" Ino said cheerfully. She did not care what Sakura just did, but it all mattered was that Sakura took care of that guy.

Shikamaru was glad that this guy was killed off. 'He got what he deserved… But still, she could easily pierce something through his heart, instead of taking it out and showing to everyone else here. Man, talking about an overkill. How troublesome.'

Hinata stared at Sakura who descended slowly, but she noticed the expression on her face. It was not of sinister smile. It was a frown. A sane one. 'They switched?! It's Outer Sakura!'

Sakura landed on the ground and crouched down next to her with the friendly smile on her face. "Here's Senzu Bean." She handed the green bean out to her.

Hinata looked down at it with a confusion look. "What's that?"

"That's Senzu Bean." Sakura smiled. "Almost like soldier pills, it will fill your stomach for ten days and it will heal all your wounds instantly. Remember I told you about it the other day?"

Hinata slowly nodded. "Yeah, I remember." She gently took the bean and chewed it before completely swallowing it. All of the sudden, she felt her strength returned, and not to mention all her wounds disappeared, almost as if it never inflicted on her before. She looked at her own hands in shock. 'I-It's incredible!'

All of damages on her were undone, except her clothes. Her clothes remained tattered though. But she paid no mind to it. Only important matter was to protect Konoha from Coola and his men anyways.

"I was surprised when I used it first times." Sakura reassured her. "It's way beyond soldier's pills what we have here. That's why it's incredible."

"Yeah." Hinata stood up and stared at her hands in anticipation. The way how Inner Sakura did and what that girl just did. Apparently, both Outer and Inner Sakura were completely opposite personality, but they both actually cared about their people. They were upset when they learned that their friends were killed off in this battlefield. That would explain why Inner Sakura would lose her temper before finishing him off.

"What's wrong, Hinata?" Sakura stood up, as she asked, derailing Hinata's long train of thought.

Hinata shook her head. "Nothing. So…" She frowned, unsure if she should ask her a question or not. Because at first, she thought Inner Sakura was the source of her insanity, but later, she would learn that she was wrong, after witnessing Inner Sakura getting mad after her friends died. She concluded that there was a indeed third one. "You and Inner… You're working together?"

"We have to. Otherwise, the third voice will take my body over. Besides…" Sakura smiled, tapping her forehead several times. "It's really useful, by the way. We may have the similar interest, such as Naruto and other stuffs. But we have our separate weakness. If we were to switch between me and her during the fight, that will get our opponent confused."

Hinata returned her smile at Sakura. She was glad that Sakura sorted this all out with her Inner Sakura. Only the issue was that Sakura would still need a mental therapy and see if she could prevent the third persona from taking her body over.

Hinata's expression became serious again, as she looked over Sakura's shoulder. "Now on to serious note… There's something we need to do about that guy."

Sakura nodded, agreeing with Hinata, as her expression, too, changed to very serious. She turned around to shot Paradox a glare, who folded his arms with a smirk. "Yeah… But I am going to fight him alone."

Hinata stared at her in disbelief. "What?!" She was hoping that Sakura was joking, but by just looking at her expression, it was not a joke, after all. "Are you sure you are not the Inner?!" That could not be Outer Sakura, because she would not dare to ask her to let her fight Paradox alone!

"Sorry, I want to fight him alone. I have seen how powerful I can be by just watching my other self fight. I think it's time for me to test myself against this guy." Sakura said, still keeping his eyes on Paradox. "With everyone's injury, and you are still weak, there's no way you guys can take him, even together with me."

"B-But-!" Hinata tried to argue with her, but Sakura shot her a glare. There was nothing Hinata could say. There's no way she could convince Sakura to change her mind. Sakura was already bent on fighting Paradox alone.

"But…" Sakura said, handing the bag of Senzu Bean over to Hinata. "Maybe you can feed them the Senzu Bean, and have them help me later. But not now. I need to fight him long enough to make him forget about them, and then… we will take him down!"

Hinata smiled, now understanding Sakura's plan. With a satisfied smile, she grabbed the bag of Senzu Bean and placed it on her waist. "Sakura… You better kick his ass, or I'm stealing your Naruto!"

Sakura looked at Hinata with an amused chuckle but chose to comment nothing. She knew Hinata was joking with her, but at least, that will boost her confidence against Paradox. Before, she was nervous about fighting Paradox, knowing that Paradox wouldn't have the same weakness as Guure had.

With that, she left Hinata behind and started strolling slowly towards Paradox. She needed to anticipate her next plan against Paradox. First thing she would need to do, she must find his weakness and exploit them.

With few more steps, she stopped on that spot, and tightened her gloves up, preparing for the tough fight against Paradox, yet still giving him a cold glare. All Paradox could do was to give her an arrogant look.

To be continued…

A/N: What fate will seal the fight between Paradox and Guure? Will Fayre ever forgive Kakashi? However, little did Sakura and others know, there's, in fact, three members with high power level than Paradox and Guure's power level were coming near Element. Who were they? Were they friends? Were they foes? Find out next time on Team Z!

Naruko: (Pops out behind me) Sooooo... where are we going?!

Me: AHH! (Looks around, only to find it was Naruko) Ohh, don't scare me like that. I could have died with the heart attack, who knows?!

Naruko: (Frowns) But you're like 25, right?

Me: I'm 24. And c'mon, can you detect the sarcasm?

Naruko: Oh, that was the sarcasm?

Me: Is it obvious?

Naruko: No?

Me: You're really dumb. I'm glad my Naruto is smarter than Thedarkpokemaster's Naruto!

Naruko: My name is Naruko! Not Naruto!

Me: Oh, never mind. Good night. (Turns off the light)

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Me: (Turns on the light) Oh, right. I almost forgot... Yes, there's still Lee vs Hana. They will be back in next chapter. It will show two fights. Fayre vs Kakashi. Hana vs Lee. But no Paradox vs Sakura though. Now good night, and good night, Female Naruto!

Naruko: I SAID MY NAME IS NARUKO!

Me: Forget it! (Turns off the light)

Naruko: AT LEAST I AM NOT PERVERT LIKE YOU!