Chapter 5: Fight

Sasuke turned to look at her, even in the dim moonlight she could see the rage so clearly it sent chills down her spine. He glared at her without saying a word, the night breeze blew between them, causing Sakura to be even more nervous for some reason. She shifted from foot to foot waiting for whatever was coming.

Sasuke clenched his fists so tightly his knuckles turned white, he took a menacingly scary step forward, unconsciously Sakura took a step back. Sasuke pointed a finger at her narrowing his eyes, "Don't ever call me a quitter, you know nothing about me! Now go home before I really do kill you." Sasuke spat out.

Another chill ran up Sakura's spine, Sasuke had never talked to her like that. Obviously she hit a soft spot. Sasuke turned to leave but Sakura wasn't going to let him leave that easily.

"No, I'm not going to let you leave again and I'm not gonna let you walk out on me again! If I have to, I'll fight you." Sakura shouted yanking a kunai out of her leg pouch getting into a defensive pose. Sakura hoped that her defense looked as threatening as it did when she trained with Lee or Naruto.

But she could tell it wasn't the same with Lee; with Lee she felt confident, with Sasuke she felt inferior and like she was twelve again. Sasuke stopped walking again and slowly stated, "You're only asking to cut your life short, now go home Sakura." He was about to jump to a different branch as a shurakin past his head and hit the tree trunk a few feet in front of his face.

Sasuke spun around in shock, Sakura pasted a defiant look on her face and held her kunai close to her ready to attack again. She looked brave and ready to fight to the death but inside Inner Sakura was freaking out.

You crazy bitch! What the hell did you do that for? Look at him! He's going to kill you!

She couldn't deny that. Sasuke looked like he was getting ready to attack her and kill her without a second thought.

"You asked for it Sakura. You didn't need to die this early but you pushed me to it" Sasuke said taking a kunai out of his pouch so quickly she barely saw it then he turned around and charged toward her ready to pierce her in the stomach.

She did a quick flip off the branch and landed on the ground below.

She looked up to watch his next attack but he wasn't there. Her stomach twisted remembering how he had vanished when she was following him out here. She ignored her constricting stomach and turned quickly trying to sense where he was.

Finally she was able to pick up on his chakra, he was behind her. She turned around quickly but felt his chakra behind her again she spun and felt it to her right. Damn him! He's playing mind tricks with her and it was working! Not only mind tricks he could have killed her by now easily, he was just playing with her for the fun of it!

She whipped around again to see if he was there. She didn't see anything, 'how the hell is he this fast? And quiet?' she thought frantically.

While she tried to think of a way to fight him while not being able to see or keep up with him. He snuck up from behind; threw her to the ground so harshly that she thought the force alone would kill her. All the air was knocked out of her body so quickly she was near a black out.

He looked down at her arms crossed over his chest. "Your pathetic, you're not even worth that short time I wasted on fighting you." He turned to leave when Sakura took a deep breath no matter how much it hurt. And all of a sudden she was yelling whatever came to her mind.

"What you don't have the balls to finish me? What's with you thinking you're so much better than everyone? If you were so great wouldn't you have killed your brother by now? Wouldn't you be an independent person instead of being a lapdog for Orochimaru? If you're so great answer those questions!" Sakura screamed standing up trying to regain composure. She couldn't believe she had just said that! Was she mental? If she was going to get off easy before she had no hope of getting off easy now. Or for that matter get off alive.