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Tried of waiting and doing things according to Kabuto's plan. The Black Shadow was going to just do things his way. He would merely force Naruto to come to him by attacking the place that he was known to currently be staying in.

Though Sakura had gotten up and was curious as to where Ino had gone all of sudden. Went out looking for her and ended up coming across the Black Shadow herself. It did not take long before the Black Shadow just started attacking her thinking that it would be fine to attack this girl as that would get Naruto's attention. Unknown to both of them Naruto was preoccupied at the moment thus would not be able to come over to them at all anyway.

Not wanting to get anyone else involved with this fight. Sakura grabbed the Black Shadow and leaped a pretty decent distance from the town in just a few jumps before tossing the Black Shadow down towards the ground.

"Do you really think you can handle me alone, girl? Just give up and become my bait for Naruto" he said.

"Want to get to him or use my bait. Neither way the only way either one of those is going to happen if you beat me, first" Sakura informed him

Going through the motion of cracking her knuckles. A futile action as it might have served no purpose in her current state but was still something she did as a means to get ready to fight this guy. A being that she had heard bits and pieces of when Naruto was telling of various adventures and trials he had during his trailing turning with the Frog Sanin. Mostly to Ryo when he asked about them while they were traveling and recently to Haruna as well.

Though it seemed that the Black Shadow was remaining in his humanoid form as he went about attacking her. Not sure if he was holding back because he wanted to capture her or because he did not see her as a threat.

Whatever the reason it was working out in Sakura's favor as she used this to her advantage to land a flurry of blows against her foe. Each one was stronger than normal as she was also using this as a chance to see how she could carry herself in an actual fight with her current wooden body(not aware of the battle she had been used in by Sasori).

Punches, Kicks, even strikes using her tail were used against the Black Shadow. She just attacked him without letting up and was getting into the flow of things. Something was wrong as he could feel this blows a lot more than he thought he would have previously. Each one while not as harmful to him as the Tree of Life they were still not something to brush off either.

'Maybe this thing is not as strong as when Naruto fought it originally as I might be stronger than before. However, I am that much stronger' Sakura thought

Again she did not really have any knowledge of how strong she truly was currently having only memories of training with Rin and what she had been told by both Naruto and Jiraiya to go off of.

She quickly shook that thought from her head as she could not let herself think she was too much stronger than she actually was as she had been careful that she was not taking too much charka from Naruto as well. She was getting a constant stream of it from him after all as that was the thing keeping her body animated and her consciousness in a fully awoken state.

The battle went on the Black Shadow eventually got annoyed as he thought to push Sakura like he had been would cause her eventually cause to make a mistake he could take advantage of as she was still just a human after all.

Things not going his way he instead decided to take things a little more seriously and during the middle of an attack transformed into a new form that he was originally going to save for Naruto but instead would test out here first.

Sakura managed to dodge their attack yet was not able to completely get away from it without any kind of damage though. The Black Shadow had managed to remove her left arm holding it in their mouth though shocked at what they could not do. He wanted to destroy her arm but found out that it was stronger than he had thought. Merely ripping it off took all the strength he could muster in that instant attack.

Rathe then his true form a giant wolf with five eyes, two heads, and six legs with a set of large wings and a long brown tail. The Black Shadow was in a form that made him look more like a werewolf with one head but three eyes, four arms, long brown tail (he could summon his wings at will).

"Let see how well you can handle this form then," he told Sakura.