Chapter 2:

Sakura jumped through the window of her house. It seemed that her father was sleeping, her mother had died a long time ago but she left that in the past. She dropped her bag on the floor of her room.

" Sakura where have you been?!" Her father walked into her room. " Hello father, i'm sorry I was training," She smiled but it seemed that her fathers mood wasn't changing.

" Has that sensei of yours been training you out of your mind it's 3.30!" He began yelling quite loud.

" Father Kakashi sensei wasn't there, I am training on my own after training so I will become a better ninja." Her fathers expression seemed to calm a little more. He didn't mind so much as he was quite fond of shinobi and striving to become better ninja.

" Well alright but next time please tell me when you're training late." He walked over to her and ruffled her hair.

" Alright dad, in that case...I will be training late tomorrow. I'll try to get back earlier."

her dad smiled but he still wasn't to happy. Leaving his daughter he walked out of the room and closed the door.

Sakura sighed " that was close. I almost got Kakashi sensei in trouble for something he didn't do..."

She stood back up and looked at herself in the mirror. " Am I really that unattractive...Why doesn't he like me.." She sighed again then prepared for her shower and a long nights rest.

Next day at training:

" Hey Kakashi sensei where's Sakura, she's actually later than you!" Kakashi chuckeled. ' hmmm where is sakura?' Sasuke just sat in the distance ignoring whatever it was they were talking about.

" Hey Naruto Kakashi Sensei!" Naruto and Kakashi turned to the small entrance near the training grounds as they saw Sakura running over and waving. She stopped once she reached them.

In puffed breaths she spoke " Sorry ( puff ) I'm ( puff) late." She scratched her head and laughed as she caught her last breath needed to calm her breathing down. " I must have overslept"
Naruto laughed " Thats usually Kakashi senseis excuse" Kakashi scratched his head. But then went back to his cool stance. Hands in pockets and all.

" So Sakura what were you doing that made you so tierd?" She shot him a big grin.

" Umm nothing much I ran home and after yesterdays training I must have just been a little more tierd than usual." ' inner Sakura- Ok that seems to be an alright lie...'

Kakashi just nodded " Alright well lets begin todays training." Sasuke stood and made his way over.

" I want you all to warm up by doing 5 laps around the training grounds. You have to sprint on the last one."

" Ohhhh whattttttttttttttttt" Naruto wined. Sakura hit him over the head. " Naruto quiet you baka"

" Awww butt Sakura chan it's just like the academy all over again"

" Naruto if you want to be a great ninja you must be fast. Now i've noticed that you are all lacking in stamina. When we need to escape from the enemy you will need to be fast"

Kakashi eyed all of his students. " All right off you go, and if one of you fall behind that person will have to do 100 push ups" Each of them gulped well except Sasuke he just stood there thinking he was all that.

Kakashi watched as his students began to jog around the field Sasuke and Sakura at the front and naruto just behind...For now.

' Alright Sakura we can do this, we may be a little tierd but just like last night we can do this!' She began running faster to pass Sasuke. But only a little bit so as she didn't waste to much energy. Before she new it, Sasuke's competiveness was kickingin and he was running past her. Sakura didn't try to go past him again though as she would waste to much energy. She learnt this last night. Coming up to their 5th lap Sakura was preparing for sprinting. But she looked back to see Naruto on the ground. ' Oh no he's going to get stuck with the pushups poor naruto...he trys' Sakura turned back and ran over to Naruto, " come on Naruto you have to get up. We can't let Sasuke beat us!"

' He is just like me he wants to show Sasuke that he is a better ninja. But he can't do that if he's on the ground.' " Can't do it" Sakura looked at him and back up to Sasuke he was going to start sprinting soon. Sakura picked Naruto up ' inner Sakura- Man he's heavy' Sakura scolded her inner self.

' come on Sakura we can do this even if we have a litte extra weight.'

Sakura concentrated chakra to her feat as naruto held on to her around her shoulders in a piggy back like position. Sakura pushed as much chakra as she could. And sped off, coming closer to Sasuke she pushed herself to go faster. Sasuke looked back at Sakura ' Hmph she will never be able to beat me carrying him' Sakura looked at Sasuke's face and at the smirk he was pulling. She began to get very very angry. In a blink of the eye Sakura was running past Sasuke and getting a lot further ahead with naruto dangling on her back. She reached the end of the field and was back to the start where kakashi was. She collapsed on the ground dropping Naruto.

Sasuke ran up..Glaring his famous Uchia glare. ' Argg how did she beat me, even naruto beat me!'

He thought. Kakashi walked to the almost heartattacking Sakura " Good job Sakura...But thats cheating...For Naruto so he still has to do the push ups" Naruto shot up " What nooo! Kakashi sensei thats soo mean!"

The 18 year old hadn't grown to much in maturity.

Sasuke just smirked. " Now Naruto 100 push ups!" Naruto groaned and got into the pushup position. ' Oh poor Naruto.. he may be annoying but he doesn't diserve that.'

Sakura got into the push up position next to Naruto and began doing pushups. " Naruto you do 50 and i'll do 50." Naruto didn't argue.

" Miss Haruno what do you think you're doing." Sakura continued doing pushups as Kakashi kneeled in front of her. " The first thing you taught us was teamwork. Never leave a commrade behind. I wouldn't leave Naruto to die if we were on a mission and i'm not going to do it now. And the more I help him the faster we will get the pushups completed." kakashi just stood and didn't argue. Sasuke was sitting on his own, glad that he had beaten Naruto.

" Naruto Sakura stop." Naruto collapsed in a head on thee ground he was up to his tenth pushup.

" Hey sensei why the sudden change of heart?"

Kakashi's eye crinkled into a u shape. Smiling under his mask " Sasuke!" Sasuke stood and came back towards the group. " I want two more laps from you and you have to do 100 pushups when you are done."

Sasuke's face turned to a pissed off expression " What I didn't cheat!"

" No Sasuke you didn't. You also didn't even think of helping Naruto when he collapsed, like I said to you the first time we met. You thought that you were better than Naruto and Sakura and they were to far beneath you. But they are not, Sakura has surpassed you today. As she would have saved Naruto on a mission if we were on one. You would have let him die." kakashi's voice rose quite loudly.

Naruto just started to cack himself laughing as he watched Sasuke run around the field. " Thanks Sakura I really appreciate what you did, don't worry I won't leave you behind if ever you need help"

Sakura flashed him a huge smile. " Good work you two. Aspecially you Sakura"

Sakura smiled but some how she didn't seem to happy on the inside...

After Sasuke finished his laps and his pushups they began training again. Sakura practiced her aim while Kakashi obserbved Naruto and Sasuke's combat skills like he did every training lesson to see if they had improved.

After everyone had completed their training Kakashi decided to send them home as it was beginning to hit night fall. Sakura's stomach was growling at her as she didn't eat breakfast or lunch today and she wasn't going to eat dinner. She had to go on a diet.

" Alright everyone i'll see you tomorrow same time."

kakashi watched Naruto and Sasuke walk away together. But turned his head to find Sakura laying on a tree branch and looking at the moon that was just emerging from the coulds.

" Sakura I said you can leave..." He popped up sqauting in front of her, which startled her and she almost fell off the tree.

" Sensei! You frightened me!" Kakashi just chuckeled. " So are you going home?"

Kakashi stared at her. " I will soon I just want to look at the sky" ' Why can't he just goo...'

" Well you did very well today Sakura. You have improved. But you still need some work" ' arrg can't he just say one thing thats completely nice instead of adding but you still need some work'

" Ahh thanks sensei I guess.." Rightio then see you tomorrow Sakura!" He waved and then used his transporting jutsu.

' Finally' Sakura jumped down from the tree took a deep breath and began running around the field.

She could feel her legs aching as traing was quite hard that day. But she had to get stronger.

When she finished her laps she did 30 pushups, then 40 sit ups. She lay on the grass her body aching. It was now 12.32am and she still had some time to use. She took a deep breath and stood concentrating her chakra to her feet she practiced tree climbing the ninja way. She did this about 6 times getting a lot faster each time and improving. She had half an hour to spare and with that time she practiced her aim again, as she had to keep on practicing until she got the middle of the tree the first time.

Exhausted again she jumped through her window, as it had been a long night. Her father sensed her chakra signature as he had been a ninja at one time in his life but when his wife died he resigned. And he walked into her room. " Rough night?" He sat down on her bed as she was unpacking her bag. " Yeah...Hey dad how come your letting me stay out this late.?"

" well You're a lot older now and I trust you to make your own decisions. Plus you did come home earlier tonight like I asked so I don't mind"

She smiled and went and gave her dad a hug " Thanks dad" He walked out of the room and Sakura began her routiene of showering then going to sleep. This time she wasn't going to be late as she set an alarm.

End chapter 2: Hey sorry if you like Sasuke I don't...Yeah well I will try to make the story more interesting in the next chapter. Give me some ideas if you want. I'm thinking of something happen to Sakura soon. Well thanks for reading please give me reviews. :P