ooc: yeah, there's ooc ness, SO DON'T TELL ME.
pairings: heh. NO. maybe in the sequal, but no pairngs.
yaoi/yuri: srry, not that type of person. So dun expect yaoi in here, or in the sequal..
sequal: yeah, maybe.
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on the smooth ground dirt.
Walking in the fall,
it really hurts.
To know that,
people can't see,
What I am,
What I can be.
I just guess..they underestimate me...
-kokorodragon
Sakura gazed up at Ino, so many memories, so many flowers. Sakura could still smell the sweet fragrance the flowers gave off whenever Ino and her laid in them. How the grass would swishing on every movement the wind made. She remembered the sunny days and the rainy days. The day Ino told her she was a bud, and how last year Ino told her she had bloomed.
Ino caught Sakura's gaze and looked away. Her green eyes still ran memories into Ino's head. The day she saved Sakura, the ribbon, the petals. Ino was always the out going on and Sakura was the little duckling that would follow her. She saved Sakura, and in the end, Sakura saved her. Ino had always been a bit lonely, her friends always had other things to do, but when Sakura came in..Ino finally had a true frined.
..then Sakura told them her crush...
"Sakura!" Ino yelled. Sakura's head looked up and gazed at Ino again. "I'm not going to lose to you!" Ino finished, Ino untied her headband from her waist and put it on her forehead.
Sakura smirked. "I know! Same here! I'm not going to let it be a tie!!" Sakura did the same thing with her headband and smiled.'Now Ino..face the outcome of my training!'
Team seven and ten both looked at their teamates. Naruto started to scream his head off and Shikamaru was just talking about how troublesome this was. Kakashi looked down and saw Sasuke's face as he watched the two girls put on their headbands.
"It's a promise they made." Kakashi said to Sasuke.
"Aa." Was they only reply Kakahsi got.
Turning another page of his perverted book, Kakashi continued, "They said they would put on their headbands as sign they couldn't lose to each other as a female shinobi. Not because of you."
Sasuke was silent. He never really saw Sakura fight. The battle in the forest didn't really count because it was too short. So, Sasuke wondered how Sakura would fight against someone about the same chakura as her.
"Hajimematsu," Said the annoncer. Sakura and Ino took off.
Ino started off with thorwing two kunais and while Sakura took out another kunai to fling them off, Ino rolled to the side and jumped up to Sakura. Again, Ino threw more kunais and Sakura once again blocked.
"Geez, you got lousy aim." Sakura remarked. 'But..this is just like what I did in the forest, she may have strings attatched to them, so I need to aviod contact at all costs.' Sakura was right and dodged all the strings carefully, then throwing more of her own.
Ino had enough of far ranged combat so she jumped down from her spidery creation and punched Sakura. Sakura didn't really expect this to happen, so she almost tripped on the wire and was on the verge of cutting her throat.
"jUst like a spider and it's prey. This little technique I thought of myself, with a bit of help from Ten Ten. I call it, the Spider's lair." Ino pulled out her hand to reveal the strings attactched to it, of course she had gloves on to prevent bleeding. "I had this technique made mainly for you Sakura. Give up. I don't want to draw blood."
Sakura stared at Ino and laughed. "Your not the only one who trained."
"But from what I can tell Sakura, it's getting really hard to see the strings huh?" Ino said. Sakura frowned. True, her eyes aren't sharugan or Byakugan. "And the best part is..I can adjust these wires to my liking!"
Sakura hopped and few wires, until she found herself getting cut. Ino stood in the middle, twirling her fingers.
Sakura moved to avoid another wire. 'Damn, she has wires everywhere, I can't even come close to touching her, well maybe I can, if I can see. Aw Damn Ino pig. All my training for nothing." Sakura turned to Tsudande who waved at her again. 'She has too much cofidence in me...but..I think I remember something from training.'
~flashbacc~
"Sakura."
"Yeah Tsudande sama?"
"Before we start our training I want you to remember this.."
"Yes?"
"Anything can be deadly, anything cane be useful, remeber this, and I'm sure you'll do well in your battles."
~flashbacc end~
'Anything can be deadly..anything can be useful..but what?'. Sakura looked over to Ino, her lips had that freaking cherry lip gloss on them. 'I always hated that smell, each time Ino put it on, her lips would always glisten though..'
'...glisten? That's it! Sakura jumped up into a small opening and checked her pockets.
Naruto turned to Kakahsi, "Ne, Kakahsi sensei, what's she doing?"
"That's for us to find out." Kakashi said and he pointed to Sakura. Naruto watched the pink haired shinobi check herself.
'Ragh!! I don't have lip gloss?? Oh there it is..pink and red, rasberry.' Sakura's fingers toched the tip of cold metal as she reached into her pocket. Feeling the holder she made up her mind. Sakura whammed the kunai out of her pockted and faced Ino. Gulping she ran into the Spider's lair.
"What are you doing now Sakura? Really, just give up, I don't want to make you bleed, but I have to if your going to try to draw blood form me." Ino said. She sighned but looked at Sakura.
"Who said anything about drawing blood form you??" Sakura yelled, she took the kunai and ran her hand through it.
"What?" Ino said in disbelief.
Sakura took the blood and held her fist out to Ino. "I swear Ino! I will win!"
Kakashi smiled.'She's just like Naruto. She doesn't like to lose.'
Sakura grinned back and took out her weapon of choice..lip gloss.
Naruto nearly fell over. "What the hell is Sakura chan doing??!?!?"
"A shinobi must take use of what they have, anything cane be deadly, anything can be useful." Tsudande said as she walked over to the crazed blonde.
"eh?!?!" Naruto asked.
Tsudande patted Naruto's head. "Just watch."
Sakura threw the lip gloss in the air, and after twirling her kunai she threw it and broke the lip gloss in half. Everyone watched as the sparkly liquid broke and fell.
"What was that Sakura?! Don't tell me you plan in making the floor glossy." Ino laughed.
"Not just the floor Ino!" Sakura yelled. Ino looked up and found the her beautiful wires encoated with rasberry lip gloss.
"Read or not Ino! I can actually see the wires now!" Sakura yelled she dodged all the wires and leaped right in front of Ino. Ino looked shocked but tried to punch Sakura anyways, Sakura ducked.
'I have to finish this in one shot..' Sakura got down, then out one of her arms to balance her, then the other one to make a jutsu sign, and yelled, "Tsudande origional!! The Slashes of the downard!!"
Sakura used her legs to kick furiously, there what seemed to be a hundre flying at Ino. Thing is, most of them weren't even real. They were just illusions mixed in with kicks. Ino couldn't see it and she threw backwards, instantly knocking her unconscience.
Everyone on the second floor like thingy turned their head to Tsudande.
"Tsu-Tsudande origional???" Naruto stuttered.
"Hahaha! Nice work Sakura! You scared me for a second there!" Tsudande yelled and she laughed again.
"So all this time, she's been training with you?!?!" Lee asked from out of nowhere.
"I thought I put you in infirmary.." Sasuke mumbled. Lee caught it though.
"Yes!! But When I head Sakura san's fight coming up! I just had to see if it was better than last time!! ANd it was!!" Lee said.
"So, you trained Sakura." Kakashi said.
"Yup! And I must admit though, if I didn't say that phrase to Sakura back then, think of what she would've done now!" Tsudande threw her head back and laughed again.
"Kyaa! Sakura chan!!!" Naruto cried, thinking of what could've happened.
Sakura walked over to Ino and pivked her up, she carried her to the medics who helped her on the bed. INo eyes slowly opened as she stared at Sakura.
"Damn..you..won.." Ino stuttered.
"Ino..heh. No matter what, your still the better flower." Sakura said.
"Yeah, I am!" Ino laughed, Sakura joined in. "But still..I wish..I could've won.." Ino cried.
"You feel sad?" Sakura asked.
"WHat do you think?!"
"Hehe, sorry Ino."
"....." Sakura looked up at Ino.
"Why so quiet?" Sakura asked.
"Why so polite?" Ino countered.
Sakura stared again and put one hand behind her head. "I guess it's because...i'm really still a byd. I mean, I drew blood form myself just to say "I'll defeat you." So..."
Sakura felt a pat on her shoulder. She looked up again and saw Ino's warm smile. "Nope, from what I think, you've bloomed even more, more than last time. Into a flower probably more beautiful than cosmos."
'Ino chan..' Sakura smield again. "Well, I got to go! Sasuke kun is waiting for me!!"
"Yeah right!! I'll get you next time forhead girl!!!"
Sakura ran into the other room and up the stairs, she was met by the friendly faces of her teamates and Lee. Sasuke didn't really do anything. From the other side, Sakura was able to see Ino's team run from the stairs to go cheer her up.
"That was great Sakura chan!!!" Naruto yelled. He started to hug Sakura who, just gently pushed him away.
"Sakura san, you did it." Lee smiled, and gave her his thumbs up sign.
"Good job Sakura." Kakahsi welcomed too.
"Thanks." Sakura blushed.
"But now Sakura...the training will become more fearful!! We got a month until the next tournament!! So bring your camping supplies and meet me at my office after the tournament!!" Tsudande yelled.
Sakura groaned. More days of just the greatest training you could ever get. Sakura faced toward the entrance to the other room.
Ino chan..thank you.
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yeah..this chappie was a litto odd near the end, but I still like it ^-^