Thank you for the rerviews! I'm back now, fresh and retarded. So here is the next chappie!

Rising to the challenge

Sakura saw Sasuke came out of the Hokage's office, she ran up to him and hug him, "Sasuke-kun! At last you are back! When you are gone, I was just nothing. I really miss you and waits for your return! Now, for you and Naruto, a box of Onigiris!" She handed the reed box to the boys.

Naruto reached out his hands to the box, "Hehe, thanks a lot Sakura-chan!" Sasuke smirked, "We will eat it, later." Sakura hugged both Sasuke and Naruto, "I really miss you two, when Naruto and you, Sasuke, was gone, I was training alone, completing missions all by myself. I train my jutsus everyday, I want to be strong like you two." Sakura shed out tears of happiness, "Even now, words cannot explain my happiness when…I saw you two back…safely."

Sakura sobbed while hugging the boys, Naruto hugged her, "Thank you, Sakura-chan." Sasuke quietly leaves the area, he waits infront of the building. The pink-haired girl

was awared that the boy hugging her was Naruto, not Sasuke, and why is she letting him continue it? 'Why I didn't I push him away?' she thought, as Naruto's arms went around her back, "Sakura-chan," Naruto's eyes met Sakura's eyes, "I always want to return, and to tell that I have already retrieved your love."

"You don't need to tell me." Sakura smiled at him, "Because I now discovered who really cares about me, who always help me." She raised her lips and kiss Naruto softly on his lips. Naruto was shocked, until Sakura broke the kiss, "You always care for me, you are always there when I need help."

Sasuke, who was outside, saw everything and he smiled, "Good for the dobe, Sakura finally accepts him." After a while later, Naruto came out of the building, his cheeks are red. The Uchiha boy smirks at Naruto, "So how was it?"

"Good," Naruto answered, "Sakura-chan was um……" Sasuke murmured softly, "Yeah, she kiss you." Naruto's cheek went tomato red, "Uh no! She didn't!" The raven-haired boy smiled, then he puch Naruto in the stomach softly, "You know it's bad to tell lies right?" Naruto went quiet, Sasuke continued, "So, let's go to the training grounds now."

Meanwhile, Rina and Yuzuka were practicing kunai throwing at the training grounds. Yoimaru was taking a nap under the tree, where there are breezes blowing. "Why is Yoimaru that lazy? Why doesn't he take free times to train?!" Rina was complaining loudly while throwing kunais at the wood poles, "I don't understand some boys!"

Sudenly, Yuzuka realised a familiar figure walking to them, "Yuzuka!!!Where is Konohamaru?" Yuzuka was surprised, "Naruto-sempai! Uh, Konohamaru is not here!" Naruto smiled, "Oh, and Yuzuka, are you here for training? Sasuke and I also!" Then, Sasuke walks in, with his big Fuuma Shuriken, and throw it right at the center of one of the wood poles, "Naruto, dobes, can't handles this." He smirked a smirk that could make fangirls faint in a row, "Naruto, so can you show me some of dobe's techniques?"

Rina turned around, and what she saw was too much to bear, "Sasuke-sempai!" She loudly shouted at the Uchiha boy. She dashed right towards him, "Sasuke-sempai! Watashino Hinozuni Rina, hajimemashite!!" Rina happily smiled to the boy, while Sasuke was nodding back in return. "Sasuke-sempai!! I always want to become strong like you!!! Please train me!!!"

Sasuke's left eye twitched, "So," he continues, "A girl like you want to be strong like me, huh?" He points to her, "Alright, come to this training everyday morning and then I'll train for you." Rina was overjoyed, "That's very nice of you, Sasuke-sempai!" The Uchiha boy smirked, "Well, still it is impossible, for a girl to become as good and as tough as boys ."

"Just wait and see, I'll become more talented than you, eventhough I'm not an Uchiha," Rina grin, "And eventhough I'm not a boy." Naruto smiled at Yuzuka , as he sees the situation between Rina and Sasuke, "Well, your friend is really demanding for Sasuke, and she is different from other girls, this should be fun." Yuzuka grinned back at Naruto, "Naruto-sempai, will you help us?"

Naruto does a pose like Lee, and grin, "Sure! And I will not take back my words!" Yuzuka smiled and thought, 'Hinata-sempai sure is lucky to have this kind of shinobi taking care of her.'

Rina points her kunai at Sasuke's face, "So, Sasuke-sempai, when should we start?" Sasuke brush his hair off his forehead and suddenly, he activates his sharingan, "Now."