Notes: Sorry for the loooooooong wait. My computer had to be re-formatted twice. So this chapter is dedicated to the guy who fixed my computer. THANK YOU computer technician guy, I kinda forgot his name…

Wow, ten reviews. Incredible. Thanks to all of you guys. Responses are at the end of my chapter. And sorry for the misspelling of Uchiha, I have no idea why it turned out like that. Thanks to kreuz4eva for pointing it out.

This is the second chappie of Just Get Back Up. Spent four hours writing this. I never realized how long it takes for an author to write. Or maybe it's just me who's slow. How long does it take for you guys anyways?

Disclaimer: I don't own Sasuke, I don't want to own Sasuke. I mean he acts like there's something always up his ass, maybe Itachi kept on doing the "1000 Years of Pain" thing to him when he was a child. Now Naruto on the other hand…

Just Get Back Up Chapter Two: Why Should I Get Up?

The alarm blared loudly at seven o'clock in the morning, jarring Sakura from her sleep. She grumbled, turned over and bashed her fist against the infernal alarm clock that dared to wake her up. She sat up and groaned, it was Annual Assessment Week. The Jounnin in charge of the squad was supposed to spend the week having conference with parents and talk about goals and how to reach them. They were also supposed to set up improvements charts and stuff. And there was lots of meeting with the Ninja Training board. Mostly paperwork for the Jounnin in charge so Kakashi-sensei being the lazy usually skipped it.

Sakura sighed, even though the whole team didn't have parents, Kakashi-sensei still gave them the week off. She tried to go back to sleep, tossing and turning here and there. But it was no use, the sun was up, and rays of golden beams shot across the room lighting everything up. With a growl, Sakura slowly got up, and slowly made her way to the shower.

Turning the shower knobs, Sakura barely winced as a jet of ice-cold water hit her. This was a daily routine and she didn't mind the cold anymore, it was numbing, in a pleasant manner. After just standing in the shower getting soaked up by the cold water, she decided that it was enough and proceeded to turn the water off.

Sakura stepped out of the shower and took a large fluffy towel off the rack and dried herself thoroughly. She looked at herself in the mirror, even though she no longer made herself look pretty for Sasuke, she didn't want to walk out the door looking like a circus clown. Her bright green eyes stared back at her, however different from the eyes that stared back yesterday morning, today's eyes had a flickering ember in it, for anyone willing to coax that ember into a fire.

She wandered into the kitchen and yawned even though the shower woke her up already. Sakura sat down and poured herself milk and some lucky charms. She thought about yesterday's dream while she munched on the lucky charms.

The dream was so real, so frightening, and Sakura hated herself for being so helpless, for not being able to do anything. She wanted to train, to learn new techniques, but it didn't help if there was no teacher.

Sure, Kakashi was great, nice and powerful, but he's been spending all his time with Sasuke after he received the curse seal from Orochimaru. Even Naruto is partially being ignored by Kakashi-sensei. But Naruto had Jiraiya, despite being a hentai; he was a Sennin and one the most powerful person in leaf. Naruto would sometimes leave on training missions with Jiraiya for months. This left Sakura all alone and ignored as Kakashi-sensei would also take Sasuke and leave.

Sakura decided that she would talk to Tsunade-sama if she could train with another teacher. It's not like she's ditching Team Seven though, it's just that she was tired of being ignored, tired of being overlooked by everyone just because Naruto and Sasuke was on her team. She wanted to do something. And strangely, almost like Naruto, she wanted to be acknowledged for who she is.

Sakura giggled, something's gotta be wrong, she's acting like Naruto now, and that's just phreaky. One Naruto is more than enough. Maybe she's caught the Narutoflu, the "act like Naruto" bug that Naruto's been spreading around the village.

After washing the dishes and grabbing her shuriken hostler and a kunai pack, she walked out and headed in the direction of the Konoha headquarters.

As she walked, her mind wandered. The first thing that came to her mind, by habit was Sasuke. Sakura no longer liked him. One day, she woke up and the feeling was gone. She didn't feel any different, but the desire for Sasuke somehow went out. Needless to say, she was tired of it anyways.

Who could be that devoted to the ice block and still remain sane? She stopped clinging on to him, stopped asking him out and stopped paying special attention to him. It's not like he was going to care.

"Does he know that I don't like him anymore?" Sakura wondered. "Oh well" she finally sighed. It's not like Sasuke ever cared. Some would wonder if Sasuke truly is gay. No straight guy would ignore half of Konoha's female population to train.

Sakura finally concluded that Sasuke defiantly needed someone to kick his ass and tell him to stop being a stuck up brat who only wants revenge. That whole revenge thing was getting old; she wouldn't be surprised if it was moldy by now. Too bad she wasn't strong enough to kick him to hell and back yet, but hopefully one, that would happen.

Then there is Naruto, not much has changed about him. He still chased after her endlessly, and she no longer had the energy to chase him away. He was there for her when her parents died. She spent days hugging him and crying onto his shoulder. There was a deep friendship between them now.

Naruto wasn't as loud and annoying as before. Though sometimes he would loudly ramble about something, that's when Inner Sakura popped out and hit him till he was unconscious. She saw Naruto in a different light ever since the Chunnin Exam after he saved her from a crazed sand ninja named Gaara who transformed and went crazy. She had almost died when she tried to protect Sasuke and ended up being suffocated under the grip of the sand. It was Naruto who fought Gaara and won and saved her.

Sakura haven't seen Naruto for a couple weeks now too, he and Jiraiya had left for some distant village to train a couple weeks ago and she hasn't heard from them ever since. Sasuke was probably training too. That's all he's been doing ever since the Chunnin Exam. One of these days, he'll end up marrying Training, and it's not like he'll get any Uchida heirs from training.

As Sakura neared the village headquarters, she wondered what she should say to the Lady Hokage. Sakura walked in the building and went to see the receptionist. Thank Kami-sama that she got here early, nobody else was crazy enough to get up at seven to seen Tsunade-sama.

"Go right in, don't knock, if you knock, she'll just ignore you. If she's asleep, please wake her up." The receptionist told Sakura dryly.

Sakura slowly made her way into the office, she pushed open the door and gasped. Papers were everywhere, loads and loads of it. This place was messier than Naruto's apartment and that's saying something. And in the middle of the mess was Tsunade with a snot bubble coming out of her nose, fast asleep.

"Tsunade-sama?" Sakura asked.

"Tsunade-sama?" Sakura asked again, louder.

Finally losing her patience, Sakura yelled, "LADY HOKAGE!!! WAKE UP!!! I NEED TO TALK TO YOU!!! IT'S IMPORTANT!!!" Still Tsunade didn't even budge.

Sakura growled, this really was trying her patience. Then she thought of something that would defiantly wake Tsunade up. "THAT HENTAI JIRAIYA IS PROMOTING HIS BOOKS AT THE NINJA ACADEMY!!!!"

Tsunade suddenly sat up, eyes huge, "WHAT??? I'm going to kill that perverted phreak!!!"

"Calm down Lady Hokage, I only said that to wake you up." Smirked Sakura, dammit, she is really acting like Sasuke like that. Oh great, no something's really going on about her, acting like your teammates does not improve your sanity.

"Oh, it's just you Sakura, what's the matter? You almost never come and talk to me, what's a lonely old lady going to do?" asked Tsunade.

"I need a teacher." Stated Sakura bluntly.

"What?!?!?!"

"I need someone to train me" Sakura explained.

"Why? What's wrong with Kakashi? Was he reading his Icha Icha Paradise to you again? That guy really doesn't have any morals." Tsunade seethed, sure the guy was one of the strongest Jounnins around, but that does not give him the right to read porn while teaching. Thing about all the poor innocent minds that are being tainted.

"Oh no, I don't think Kakashi-sensei would so that. It's just that, well, Kakashi's pretty much spending all his time with Sasuke. Naruto has Jiraiya to train with. And I'm pretty much left all alone. I need a teacher since there is only so much stuff I can learn on my own. Even an hour or two a day is fine."

"Well.." Thinks Tsunade. "We have no spare teachers now, most of our shinobi is running mission due to the war between us and the leaf, I'm sorry Sakura, but it's just not possible now."

"But you don't understand, I need a teacher." Said Sakura determined. She really wanted to continue being a Kunochi, the only reason she isn't going anywhere is because no body paid any attention to her. Always overlooked by the other two members in her team.

Tsunade saw the determination in her eyes and saw something. Maybe she was reminded of when she was still a Gennin, in the same team as Jiraiya and Orochimaru. She had the same determination as well, the same fire in the eyes. Tsunade gave in and sighed. "Fine you can train with me"

"Really? I never expected…" Sakura was shocked. She had never expected that she would be training with the Lady Hokage. Like this is the most powerful person in the village.

"Yes, mind you, it would only be about one to two hours a day. And the training will be hard, so I want you to be serious about this." Inwardly, Tsunade hit herself, what had she gotten herself into now? Wasn't her life already complex enough by doing paperwork?

"Of course, I wont let you down. Arigato so much!!!" Sakura smiled. She was so happy! She had a chance now, a chance to be known and a chance to prove to everyone that she wasn't weak.

"Just be here tomorrow afternoon at three and we'll see what you're made of." Tsunade shook her head, life was a lot simpler when she wasn't the Lady Hokage. She missed the days she would roam the town with Shizune gambling to earn a living.

"Dammit" she thought, now so much resposibilities. "How does Kakashi do it?"

Sakura happily skipped out of the village headquarters. She finally got a teacher, and not just any teacher, this was the Hokage. She grinned, life is defiantly getting better, not only had she gotten up by herself, she was actually getting somewhere.

…tbc

End of Chapter Two

I'm begging for reviews!!! If you want me to update sooner, please review. I would usually never put cliffies; I think that's just mean. I personally hate them myself and I don't want to torture my readers like this.

I actually wrote some other ficcies that I just haven't gotten around to posting yet, one's a Neji POV thing Master of My Destiny. Got a Gaara fic too Hurt of the Heart.

Also has some gundam seed stuff…

Responses:

Neon Sakura: Yay, thanks for being my first reviewer, it means a lot to me.

Alternative-Naruto-Pairer: I loved your ShikaSaku fic. I think they're so cute together, their kids will have like super high IQ.

Scorpion50: I like them together too, but yeah, Shika and Neji won't be coming in till Chapter Three.

Krueze4eva: I read your story and I like it so far, please update soon. And thanks for pointing the spelling out. If you look at the ratio of strong males to strong females, you can see that the female section is really lagging behind.

Blitzballkat: Yeah, I would like there too be more outstanding females in Naruto too.

silent nox2: Yeah, I really dislike Sasuke, but he'll probably show up. Mixing Neji, Sakura and Shikamaru is going to be quite crazy.

Ashley: I tried to update, but my computer was quite busted. Don't worry, the third chapter will come along soon now that I got my computer back up and running.

Yoko: Yeah, Orochimaru is quite weird. I always thought he was gay, especially with the way he lusted after Sasuke. Now that he's molested Sakura, I figured him bi.

TearsoftheInnocents: Yeah, I will be writing faster now. But I'm also producing a doujin, so I need to divide the time up or else nothing's gonna get done.

Scarletmoon12: Yes, Orochimaru is quite a freak, sooner of later he will find that immortality is not all that great, the stress will get to him and then he will try to commit suicide. But by then he will find out that he can't die so he will live the rest of eternity out as a hermit.

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