Chapter 6: Competition

Gaara stormed up to Sasuke as he was kicking the punching bag. "What's your problem!" He swung a punch at Sasuke's face. Caught of guard Sasuke took the hit and was knocked to the ground.

"What the hell! What was that for?" Sasuke got up.

"Just couldn't keep you damn hands off of my girl could you?" Gaara swung at him again. This time Sasuke blocked it and tripped Gaara, he fell to the floor. By this time a crowd of bored guys from the academy formed a circle around them. There was cheering and some were even betting on who would win:

"Souna's going to kick Uchiha's ass!"

"No way man! Sasuke's still the champ around here!"

"SHUT UP! Just watch!"

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Temari walked up to me as I was tying my shoelaces. I looked up. "Oh hey Temari! How are you?"

"Don't 'Hey Temari' me you cheater!" She snapped back at me. That's the last time I'm being nice to her.

"What are you talking about?"

"Oh! Don't even dare trying to get out of this! I don't know how you put Gaara under your spell! How dare you do this to him! I knew it! I should have told him from the start that you were no good! Gaara deserves better than you. TRAMP!" She turned to walk away.

I don't know about anyone else, but no one calls me a "Tramp" and gets away with it! Especially some know-it-all noob invading MY turf. Angrily I grabbed her wrist and pulled her back with force.

"Oh no you don't! What the hell are you talking about?

Temari yanked her wrist out of my grip. "Don't pretend! I saw you! I saw you kiss Sasuke that night!"

So it was her! I should have known!

"Were you spying on me?"I glared at her

"So what if I was? Your time to rein is over princess! Now that Gaara knows that you cheated on him, he'll come back to me. He should have stayed with me to begin with!" My eyes widened. I wanted to smack that smug look off her face so badly!

"St-t-stayed with you?" I repeated. What the heck is she talking about? Gaara never said anything about this!

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Sasuke blocked yet another one of Gaara's blows, and elbowed him in the gut. Sasuke was good. He was barely scratched while Gaara was bleeding from three different places. His kneecap, his cheek and his lips. Sasuke was bleeding from his knuckles.

"I told you Sasuke was going to win!" Some guy said, "Now hand over the money."

"Yeah… Yeah…" his friend handed him the money. They must have been betting on their fight too.

Gaara over heard them. He was even angrier now. He charged at Sasuke again. Sasuke stood his ground, ready for this attack. Gaara swung at his head with his left fist. Sasuke blocked it. Gaara swung again this time with his right. Sasuke caught it again.

"Heh…" Gaara grinned. He turned, locking Sasuke's arms around his neck, and then he pulled Sasuke over his back. Sasuke landed hard on the floor. He coughed up a little blood. The guy who had lost the bet snatched his money away from his friend.

Gaara smiled, proud of himself. The Souna fans in the room cheered while the Uchiha fans shouted. "Get up! Get up!" Sasuke Got up, really pissed off. He did something he's never done before… he charged.

The crowd gasped. Sasuke was a peaceful guy, he never charged. Never. But this time he did. They continued going at each other. Block after punch and Kick after Trip. It was intense.

Sarutobi-sensei, the head of the Academy, just entered the main room where Gaara and Sasuke were fighting.

"What is this! What is this!" He roared angrily. Unfortunately no one heard him. The class was too busy yelling and cheering. Sarutobi narrowed his eyes angrily hoping to get attention with silence. Again he was unsuccessful. Serves him right for being almost always half an hour later every session. He over heard two boys placing a bet.

"Who do you think is going to win?"

"I don't know… Souna's new, but he's good. But you can't doubt our good old champ! Uchiha'll win this fight!"

"Ah fight eh?" The short oldman said to himself. "Gaara? And Sasuke too? Interesting."

The crowd's cheers grew louder when Gaara was knocked to the ground yet again.

"This is too much!" Sarutobi-sensei made his way through the crowd and stood in front of them with his angry eyes. Sarutobi was very short, and old… umm actually… ancient! The old man stood about 4'5" feet tall staring at the crowd silencing them. The crowd of boys backed away, and then turned to resume their previous activities. Sarutobi walked up to Gaara and Sasuke as they were wrestling on the floor. He reached and pinched their ears, one in each claw.

"That's enough!" He shouted. "Both of you should be ashamed of yourselves! In the Jaden (a room for concentration)! Now!" He let go of them; they looked at each other glaring, and then bowed to Sarutobi-sensei.

"Yes Sensei!" they chimed and walked silently towards the Jaden.

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"What do you mean with you!" I demanded.

"Yeah that's right! Gaara was my boyfriend before he moved away." Temari snapped. Me eyes seemed to widen. 'They were together' I thought. I shook my head.

"Gaara never said anything about that! Why'd you break it off?"

"He didn't think it would work out. Long distance and all. I didn't think that was the reason since he broke up with me over the phone. I decided to follow him here. And what did I find? YOU! He broke up with me because he met YOU! DAMN YOU!"

I was completely shocked.

"I… I… I didn't know…"

"How could you! If you weren't so selfish Gaara would still be with me." I was starting to get really mad. She was blaming everything on me. HOW DARE SHE!

"How dare you!" I roared. "How dare you come here accusing me of robbing you! It's Gaara's choice! Not yours!" She seemed shocked. I kept on going. "I'm being selfish! ME! HA! What a joke! I'm not the one stalking and ex like a jealous reject!" Damn me having a furious temper…I blame Ino, I hang out with her too much. "Oh wait! That's what you are! So don't you dare blame me! I did nothing to you!"

I turned and walked away. Someone grabbed my wrist. I made the mistake of turning back around. Temari punched me in the face. It happened so fast! I fell to the floor. My lower cheek started to hurt. Remembering the training I had gotten at the Dojo I quickly spun my legs tripping her. Then I got up. She did too. She tried to punch me again. I punched her first. Knocking her down. She didn't get up. Ino who was watching us looked down on her.

"You knocked her out Sakura! Good Job!" She smiled. I knew she didn't like her.

"Oh my." Hinata looked down at the unconscious girl. My knuckles hurt from punching her jaw. And my jaw hurt from her punch.

I waved my hand. "Oww!"

Ino laughed.

"Sakura-chan. Let's put ice on your cheek so it won't bruise." Good old Hinata, she's make a really good nurse. I turned and followed Hinata to the change room. Volleyball can wait. My hand hurt! Ino looked at Temari again.

"That's what you get! Reject!" Ino stuck out her tongue at her. Then she followed me.