Hey Everyone! lol look i'm sorry for the slow updates but I am REALLY REALLY REALLY REALLY behind in summer reading and I have like 16 days to read 4 books and write summaries omg! So it may be like 2 weeks until the next chapter if I'm doing reall badly, I dunno. Actually, probably it won't take that long, but you never know. Ok well thank you for all the reviews! You reviewers rock ^_^. Anyway... fight scene here. Oh and thank you very much Hanyou Roura, but I already have it ^_^. I wasn't sure if people would know the song by it's name, Strong and Strike. I decided to just describe it ^_^. Thank you anyway ^ . ^! I'm saying rotating names of attacks btw. I may say the english name or the japanese name, so just go with it ^_^. Here we go... mwhahaha.

a/n: A lot of this will remind you of other fights, especially Sakura vs. Ino.

Chapter 12: Fighting

The two enemies faced each other down, both emitting tremendous amounts of chakra. They seemed equal in amount. Haruno Sakura was emitting a blue aura of chakra around her, and Hoshiko had an evil aura. Sasuke, who was still too weak to stand, was frightened by their power. He had been worried for Sakura the whole time, but he realized that Sakura could actually beat Hoshiko. Comparing their chakra, they were about the same. He thought to himself, ' This will be a long battle. I hope she'll be alright.' He was sitting up against the tree. He tried to move again, but a large pain went through his body. Thank goodness that man's energy hadn't ripped him apart. He wished he hadn't been hit by the blast, but then he remember why he jumped into it, and he had no regrets.

Hoshiko and Sakura stared at each other, both showing their true power. They both stood in fighting stance, then they launched off the ground. They met with their kunai. They both jumped backwards, throwing shuriken. Hoshiko easily dodged Sakura's, and Sakura just missed Hoshiko's. They ran at each other again, but Sakura started to gather chakra at her feet. She raced towards him at a high speed, but Sakura jumped up right before they collided. She had jumped over him, and she twisted around in the air to land a kick across his head. It sent Hoshiko flying across to the ground. He quickly got up, rubbing off some of the blood on his face.

" Heh. Impressive moves, but don't get cocky. Unlike those two, I'm on a whole other level! " He shouted, as he landed a quick punch in her face. She started to fly backwards, but Hoshiko grabbed her wrist and threw her over his head in the other direction. She went through two trees. Sakura struggled to stand up, but Hoshiko continued. He sent some shuriken her direction, but she swirved out of the way in time. Her back hurt from the collision with the tree. He tried to stab her, but he kicked him away from her. He stumbled back as she quickly performed seals.

"Kage Bunshin no Justu! " Sakura shouted. Sasuke gasped as ten clones of Sakura appeared. They all rushed towards Hoshiko, making like a pyramid around him. They started to beat him to pulp. Sasuke was amazed that Sakura could copy Naruto's technique, but she didn't stop there. Hoshiko quickly escaped using the replacement technique. Sakura made her clones disappear so she wouldn't waste too much chakra. Hoshiko threw a few kunai at her, but she jumped into the air to avoid them. As she jumped, she began performing a number of seals.

" Mythical Fire Flower! " Sakura said, as she started to breathe fireballs. Hoshiko dodged a few but he wasn't quick enough. He was hit a lot on the side. His back and left shoulder were severly burned. Sasuke's eyes widened, ' SHE LEARNED MYTHICAL FIRE FLOWER? That's one of my techniques, it's almost like she has sharingan!'

A/N: No Sakura doesn't have sharingan. Sasuke is just saying that because she is learning a lot of people's technique. You don't have to have sharingan to learn people's techniques ^_^.

Hoshiko fell to the ground. As Sakura fell back to the ground, she pulled out a kunai. Hoshiko realized she was directly over him. She landed, and stabbed the kunai into his stomach. She only got part of it cut, because he blocked it. Hoshiko kicked her off, he quickly examined his stomach and then resumed the fight. Blue fireballs appeared on his fingertips. Sakura was panting, trying to regain her strength. Hoshiko appeared from behind her, and lunged at her with his flaming hand

" SAKURA!! BEHIND YOU!! " Sasuke shouted. She started to turn, but it was too late. Hoshiko had slashed her back, side, and her cheek with his flames.

A/N: Hoshiko's " flaming fingertips" lol are the same thing Orochimaru used. When Naruto started to fight him in the Forest of Death, he had little blue fireballs on his fingertips as he pressed them on Naruto's seal. It knocked him out.

"SAKURA!!!" Sasuke screamed, as Sakura collided with the ground. She was screaming in pain. Hoshiko laughed. He lunged to kill her with his flaming fist, suddenly a kunai stabbed his hand. He looked over to the direction in which the kunai was thrown, Sasuke was still sitting up against the tree. He had his arm extending, as he had just thrown a kunai. Hoshiko's left hand was throbbing in pain.

" Brat! " He said, as Hoshiko faced him. He started to run at Sasuke, when he was kicked from behind. Sakura had gotten up.

" Stay away from them. " She growled. She thanked Sasuke and she ran towards Hoshiko. Hoshiko easily blasted her backwards. Sakura looked up, to see Hoshiko was gone. She started to look around everywhere, when her foot was grabbed from below. She was taken under the ground, only her head was above ground. Hoshiko stood over her, laughing like a maniac. He quickly started to stomp her head into the ground (wow that must hurt huh?). Sakura screamed in pain. She was trying desperately to get out of the hole. She decided to go under instead. She disappeared, then quickly pulled Hoshiko under as well. She got up, but they Hoshiko's head turned into a twig. She quickly jumped out of the way, as Hoshiko as thrown some shuriken in her direction. She returned shuriken fire, but then she stood in shock at what happened.

" Hehe, yes this is my little trick. " He said. He had a similar speaker to Dosu's. But, they were in the palm of his hand, like Zaku's air pressure thingys(^_^),

" You probably remember Dosu and Zaku. Remember that I am a sound ninja as well. I have the same powers as those two combined. These small speakers in my palms are about five times more powerful than Dosu's speaker. With my chakra I can control where the sound goes, but they can also blast things back with sound, similar to Zaku. He can control air pressure." She had dodged the shuriken, but Hoshiko caught her by the arm. He shoved her to the ground and quickly cupped his hands over her ears. An ear shattering ring came into them. Sakura started to lose her balance. Her ears were bleeding. She was screaming for him to stop. She wouldn't be able to hear anything ever again if he didn't stop now! Suddenly, several kunai were thrown into his arm. He had to stop because of the pain. He looked in Sasuke direction and growled. Sakura took advantage of this and with her girl knowhow she kicked Hoshiko off her (let's just say she kicked in a LOW place lol)

" Ahh you bitch! " Hoshiko screamed as he tumbled backwards. Sakura struggled up, she could barely move. His sound attack caused her lose her sense of balance and everything was spinning. Hoshiko recovered quickly and stood up across from Sakura. He laughed, telling her he would end it quickly. Sasuke's eyes widened. Everything after that was a haunting memory. Hoshiko pulled his hands toward Sakura's direction,

"MAXIMUM AIR CUTTER!" He shouted. It was a bright explosion. It terrified even Sasuke, with the terrified screams of pain from Sakura, and the maniacal laughter of Hoshiko. It made a large ringing sound that cause Sasuke to lose his sense of balance. The blast was so large he couldn't see Sakura within, but he heard her terrifying screams. Sakura was inside being almost cut to pieces.

" SAKURA!! " Sasuke screamed to her. The attack stopped, leaving large holes in the ground. Hoshiko stood there proudly, as Sakura was no where in sight. Little pieces of her dress were found with small drops of blood everywhere. Hoshiko had killed Sakura.

" S...Sakura..." Sasuke whispered, not believing his teammate was dead. Hoshiko turned to Sasuke and laughed.

" Well if it isn't the Uchiha that escaped Orochimaru-sama, " He smirked. " Heh. I'll do Orochimaru-sama a favor by killing you now. After that, I'll kill the fox boy. Your teammate Sakura put up a good fight, but no one can match my skills. Sasuke was very angry, he had gathered some energy, but he was still injured badly. Hoshiko walked towards Sasuke when suddenly a log hurdled in his direction. Hoshiko jumped to his left, when a sudden group of kunai flew out of no where. He jumped back, and was surprised to see Sakura come out of no where. She quickly made a few seals and a large amount of fire came from her mouth. Hoshiko was blown out of the way, with severe burns in certain places. Sakura went as fast as she could over to Sasuke and Naruto. She performed yet another set of seals, and places her hands in front of them. She waving them around as a protective bubble-like thing appeared around them. She told Sasuke it was a shield to protect them from any harm. She turned to Hoshiko ( she had her balance back ).

" So you recovered already Sakura? " He said with a hint of amazement in his voice. " Well, it doesn't matter. You will still die today by my hand." They both stared each other down again, gathering chakra for the last attack. The blue aura appeared around Sakura again, as the evil appeared around Hoshiko. Then, something unexpected happened. The curse seal appeared over Hoshiko, giving him an extra boost of power. Sakura was shocked, but she stood her ground. She had the same look of determination as when she fought the sound nins in the forest of death (it was right after she cut her hair and she had that cool profile where she's like get a good look at my back ^_^ so cool!). ( Oh and of course que Strong and Strike here )

' This,' Sasuke thought to himself. ' Will be the last attack. Judging by their faces, it will be the biggest one of all. This will be a battle to remember, '

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OK I'll stop here. Wow this chapter stinks. I'm sorry but I'm like half-asleep and in a huge hurry while writing this. The attacks were mainly like hand to hand combat skills. But, the next attack will be big. I gave Sakura some new original moves like the shield and well her next attack. She also used the fire attacks Sasuke has and Kage Bunshin. Anyway, I'm trying my best! I still have summer reading =P. Hopefully the next chapter will be out soon. Sorry this if you hated this chapter, don't flame me! ^_^ Oh and in case you didn't notice I was using a lot of examples of episode 32 of the anime. Hehehe I loved that episode ^_^. It was soo cool, but not too much of a fight scene =(. I just want to say thank you so much for all the people who reviewed. YOU ROCK ^_^. Thanks for reading! Cya soon!