Title: .cherry blossoms and war (do not mix).

Chapter 2: fight.

Author's Note: Hey all readers this is my first shot at fan fics so tell me wut you think… Is it too serious? Please dun flame me…sorry for taking so long to update, so sorry, as I decided to take MY imaginary puppet for a walk, and lost it somewhere in the museums, as I was eating my ice cream, and didn't realize I had dumped it in with the ice cream guy, so I had to go all the way back to find it. Yep, and that took me a whole lot of time, like 2 weeks… (for all who do not know imaginary puppet, visit my brilliantly, insane profile page bwahahaha),

tries to run away, as readers throws rotten fruits and stuff at me, screaming I don't care if you're looking for that retarded puppet, you still have to update!…

sits in a corner crying, devastated at the lack of sympathy received for losing my imaginary puppet.

I had a hard enough time writing this… so plz plz plz plz REVIEW…

Discslaimer: do I still have to write it? I'm distraught enough over the prolonged loss of my imaginary puppet, I can't withstand another blow… sighs, it seems I still have to say those hateful words… ccs does not belong to me, k?

0Enjoy0

'SHOVE OVER, can't you see you're are standing right in the middle of the queue, and you are not only blocking my path, but also slowing the whole queue down. . Sheesh, don't you have any common sense? It's quite obvious that you're nothing more than thugs, who've come to throw their weight around, take your fun elsewhere, we're bored already.' I said, finally completing my whole speech.

The look on their faces was priceless, but what came after that…, well you could say I could do without.

'You looking for a fight boy?' one of them sneered, by then their faces were so red, that it seemed like their veins were popping out of their necks. It was a comical sight, but a dangerous one, as they advanced on me.

Strangely, I felt no fear, they were only cowards, who could only bully, but I knew that in terms of weight and size, I would lose out. But I had agility they didn't posses, and I stepped out of the queue hesitantly, by now all eyes were upon me, I could feel their excitement, that a brawl was about to erupt.

Moving back slowly, I realized that the boy had crawled off to another corner, and had hid himself somewhere, but I couldn't care less about that now, I had to focus. 'okay, sakura, assess the situation calm down girl, okay so, let's see, 1) they have weapons, you don't, great 2) they are bigger, stronger, and probably been fighting more than you have, but you're smaller, so you probably more agile 3) you made them mad, and made them embarrassed in front of a whole group of new trainees, they're probably gonna hate you forever. Conclusion: very promising, haha and a great way to start my training (note: heavy sarcasm).'

As I continued stepping back, my heel hit something hard, as I turned around to look; I realized it was incidentally, the dagger the boy had tripped over just now.

Still maintaining eye contact, and a mocking smile, I bent down slowly, and picked up the dagger

'OoOoh, sissy boy's getting serious, we are sooo scared eh' it was quite obvious from the nasty smiles from their faces that they were going to lynch me. Fine. But not without me putting up a fight at least.

They advanced slowly, and I went into a half crouch attack position, and as they continued moving nearer uttering threats, I could hear the crowd getting agitated, the whisperings became more intense, and a general unease, had settled over that portion of the camp, with me being the centre of things. Some people even went as far as to cheer them on, saying 'teach that boy a lesson, show him who's boss.' I winced involuntarily when I heard that, it sounded so corny. Shit. That just gave them more reason to beat me up. Seriously, this was NOT my day.

Sighing, I tried to focus on the fight, and tried to use all that Touya had taught me over the years. 'take the enemy by surprise' I leapt forward, my arms in a defensive mode, with my feet flying towards one of the guy's face. 'don't think of it as a whole group, take them down one by one' I targeted one guy, with droopy eyes, and a mean mouth. Who looked half asleep. I jabbed him with my elbow in the stomach, and brought the dagger slashing down on his face, I could smell whiskey on his breath. Eew, that totally stank. simultaneously a trickle of crimson blood appeared there, 'make unpredictable moves' caught off guard, his balance was a bit off, I took the opportunity to sweep his feet from under him, grunting as I did so as he was pretty heavy.

'Thump'

He fell onto the floor, stunned, surprised, and angry, very very angry.

But I knew that I was only lucky, and that it had been a fluke, for goodness sake, that man was half drunk, also I had the element of surprise.

By now, the rest of his buddies, were now looking at me, with their jaws hanging down, and one of them rubbed their eyes, to make sure he wasn't dreaming. The audience, were silent, in astonishment.

Soon, the bullies looks turned menacing, the expressions on their faces said they would make sure I died a humiliating, public, and embarrassing death. By now, the tension in the air was so solid, and thick, that you could've cut it out, and served it on a plate. It had now become a fight for pride, beat that boy, until he's got no spirit left, if not your reputation, is officially -over.

They were approaching again. Everyone, and everything seemed to freeze, and the whole world seemed to narrow down to just us.

But the sound of boots, clicking made us pause in our steps; we looked up, revealing the youngest commander ever, 3 rd commander, Eriol Hiiragizawa, stepped into sight.

Author's note: ok, I have finally reached the end of chapter 3, and I have finally found my imaginary puppet. Grins, as I hug imaginary puppet in a suffocating hug, and

imaginary puppet -help save me from this insane girl trying to drive me to commit suicide…

me -grins and laughs evilly, as I drag imaginary puppet away.

Finally

Kudos to

- rukz

- f-zelda

- Ani B.

-YOU-KNOW-WHO

-dbzgtfan2004

For reviewing faithfully, arigato:)

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