These disclaimers are really starting to annoy me. I don't own any intellectual property of any other individual. Especially not from Kishimoto's Naruto...
Except Tenten's backstory, last name, personality, and her not useless jutsu. And no, I won't let you see them. If I wouldn't let Kishimoto see them, why would I let anyone?
Sakura rather timidly tapped upon the door to Mitarashi Anko's apartment, at just past noon. She heard a groan from inside as she knocked again. She waited a few minutes before trying the door, which wasn't locked. She cautiously peaked her head inside, and was assaulted by the smell. The garbage hadn't been taken out recently, and the scent of cheap sake filled the air. "Anko-sensei?" Sakura said cautiously.
An empty bottle smashed into the door frame just above her head, showering her in shards of glass. She let out a yelp of shock, and hid behind the door's frame. Anko now stood up from the couch, which she had obviously been using as a bed, completely unabashed that she was wearing just a mesh top and skirt, her trench coat balled up on the sofa as a crude pillow, and strode over to Sakura. "You must be Haruno Sakura, right." Anko had a big smile on her face, and she seemed completely unware of the whole situation. "Kakashi told me about you. I'm gonna shower, then we'll head to the training grounds. Kay?" Sakura nodded, a bemused expression on her face. She had thought that Kakashi was eccentric. "Make yourself at home," Anko said, gesturing to the filthy apartment as she walked into the bathroom. Sakura rather tentatively settled herself down onto the sofa, which looked to be the closest thing to sanitary in the whole house, and waited for her new sensei. Sakura soon discovered that if she wanted to start training early, she needed to show up, even earlier, and force her new sensei out of bed.
Twenty eight days after her first session with Anko Sakura walked towards the coliseum where the chuunin exam main matches were about to be held, her cheeks flush with excitement. She was shocked to find she wasn't scared. She wasn't even nervous. She was feeling confident. For the first time in her life before a battle she was feeling confident. She'd show Uchiha Sasuke a thing or two, she thought with a smirk. She strode out into the arena with an eager smile lighting up her soft features, and was shocked to hear the roar of the crowd, cheering for all the competitors. For her! She looked around, and felt her stomach clench when she noticed that three of her competitors weren't in attendance. Naruto, Sasuke and one of the Sound shinobi. Naruto arrived, running as if in a panic just a few seconds later, to skid to a halt, falling comically on the ground before her. She took a firm grip on the back of his jumpsuit, and dragged the orange clad ninja to his feet, scowling while he smiled at her, just as the Hokage began his speech.
After the introduction the competitors were led to there own, secluded balcony where they would be able to watch the matches. The ninja grouped themselves by village, quite naturally, so she found herself standing with Shikamaru and the reticent Aburame, both whom winced at the volume of her yells while she shouted encouragement to Naruto. She was trying desperately to ignore the knot of worry in her stomach at Sasuke's continued abscence, when the second match commenced. "Naruto?" She spoke, quietly, to her friend, who hadn't stopped grinning maniacally since defeating the genius Hyuga. "Do you think that Sasuke will show?"
He turned to her, his smile growing even wider, if possible, "Kakashi-sensei will have him here, late of course, but he will be here. Believe it!"
Sakura smiled again, and turned to watch Shino's match against Akadou Yoroi, an older leaf Shinobi, and chided "Naruto, stop saying that."
"Stop saying what?"
Sakura and Naruto had stopped cheering for Shino around the time his insect horde enveloped the desperately screaming Yoroi, who had been truly disapointed to discover that the Aburame didn't really use chakra for anything. Sakura kept glancing around, looking the the Uchiha, who still had yet to put in an appearance. Where was he? The Kages decided that they would postpone her match, causing her to sigh, relieved, as the match between Konoha's laziest genin and Sand's Temari began.
When Shikamaru had forfeited, something that caused Naruto to yell out several words she'd never even heard before, Sakura began the walk into the arena. Sasuke would be there. She reached the center of the arena just as Kakashi and Sasuke appeared in a explosion of dust and smoke, with Kakashi asking the announcer, with a rather sheepish laugh "Has Sasuke had been disqualified?"
When the referee, Shiranui Genma, shook his head, Kakashi left the arena, without a word to either of his young proteges. Sakura looked at Sasuke and felt her cheeks tinge a rosy colour. He was wearing a black, formfitting fighters outfit, which emphasized every muscle. She realized that she was staring when Sasuke gave her the slightest nod of her head. Genma then spoke, "The match will go on until there is a clear winner, or one of you is dead or incapacitated. All of my judgements are final." Sakura nodded and walked forward towards Sasuke, every muscle in her body tense, her hands poised to snatch her blades from her sheathes. "Genma spoke, in a strangely subdued voice, "Begin."
Sasuke opened by throwing a volley of shuriken, which she dodged by rolling to the side, coming up with her katana in one hand, and a series of hand seals rapidly forming in the other. "Sasuke's eyes, still their usual black, widened at the sight of her making seals with one hand. Just like Haku, he thought. She carefully intoned, hidden snake hands jutsu, and sent her slithering minions flying through the air at him. He whipped out a kunai, and slashed at the neck of the first snake, sending its head flying towards the earth. The he struck the second with the tip of his foot sending it airborne. The third wrapped itself along his arm, while Sakura using the distraction to create an genjutsu version of herself, while slipping into the shadow's at the arena's edge, which she caused to grow much darker still with another genjutsu. He'd pay for not using the sharingan, she thought.
Seconds later Sasuke had dispatched the last snake, just in time as the illusionary Sakura came rushing at him, her Katana snapping in a sharp arch at his throat. He arched backwards, landing on his hands, more than a little unnerved. Sakura had just tried to kill him! With a burst of lightning speed he righted himself, still on his hands, and delivered a series of kicks towards her head, which she dodged, effortlessly. In the shadows Sakura couldn't help but smile. He'd never hit her illusion, she thought to herself, while beginning the seals of an exceptionally difficult jutsu. He was far faster, she noted, than before, and far faster than herself. The match would be finished very quickly if they exchanged blows, she thought.
Sasuke dodged a powerful downward thrust, and kicking his speed up another notch, appeared behind her trying to get a grip on her thin neck. His hands didn't even brush her hair as she whirled away from him, while at the same time she snapped her wakizashi in a close arch at his knees. He pulled himself into another flip, this time using the momentum to carry himself into another inhumanly quick blow at her chest, which she sidestepped with practiced ease. Rather panicked and very much impressed at Sakura's new prowess, he activated the Sharingan, and smacked his head when he saw the illusion standing in front of him. He stood still when the illusion threw another blow at his face, causing several of his fan-girls in the audience, Ino included, to scream in terror when the illusionary sword protruded from the back of his skull. He immediately did a scan of the area, noticing Sakura in the preternaturally darkened shadow's of the illusion wall making hand seals. He allowed himself the tiniest of smiles as he started to make hand seals of his own, and a speed that was quicker than almost any human being could match. Sakura finished her jutsu barely a second before Sasuke.
Consider the cliffhanger an apology for the hiatus. I'll update again tommorow if at all possible.
The section where Sakura trained with Anko was just terrible I had trouble coming up with ideas, it was akward.. ick. So, its been cut.