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Just to clear up the confusion, Itachi IS NOT in Akatsuki. The members of the Akatsuki is hid for, well obviously, they want to be mysterious gang organization who profit off from the money they gathered from completing requests from rich, or in this case, jealous sluts.
Sakura simply stared at the man in front of him. His hair blew back from the wind, he was stoic and graceful as ever. However, she could see the mad glint in his eyes that was so similiar to her own when she found a worthy opponent to fight.
They were on the school rooftop, their duty as students which included to GET THE ASS BACK TO THE CLASS didn't matter. Not that it did before anyway. They couldn't care less about anything right now, all they cared about was to have a good fight they missed out for so long. Well, a bit more was on Itachi's side but she didn't need to know that. Of course not.
Besides, it was nothing compared to the excitement he felt now.
"Sakura," Itachi broke the silence with that baritone voice of his, "I must warn you that I am not the same as I was before. I'm stronger; I'm no longer reckless when it comes to my defence, like you mentioned to me time after time. You better be careful."
Sakura merely snorted, making Itachi raise an eyebrow. She shook her hand, slipping into her favorite stance; her left arm behind her back, her right arm raised in front of her for defence. Her right foot was slightly forward than her left foot, already ready to kick and defend if needed. She smirked at Itachi who seemed to be in his defensive stance.
"Let's see what you got, Itachi."
He didn't need to be told twice.
He immediately sprung forward, his foot in position already for a hard kick in her gut. Sakura saw it coming, after years of spending so many time together with Itachi, and turned around easily. She smirked again when the attack didn't stop there, a fist already coming to her face. She ducked, and let her right fist hit his gut. Itachi stumbled backward at the impact, tickles of blood seen by Sakura who still hadn't moved an inch from where she was standing before Itachi attacked her. Itachi brushed the blood off and spit some of the metalic taste in his mouth. He could feel his gut wrenching and screaming in protest as he moved to kick again, but paid no mind.
"Come on Itachi. I don't have all day."
Itachi growled, making Sakura smirk even bigger, and charged at her again. This time, though, he didn't kick like she thought he would, but threw a punch in her gut. She caught it just in time and annoyed that she was fooled, she twisted his hand painfully. But like she expected, he spun around in the mid-air with his hand being twisted and tried to use the momentum to land a kick in her head. She spun around just in time, grabbed the hand she was holding him and tightened the grip around his hand. She used her free hand to punch him when he landed, and to her joy, it landed perfectly on the perfect face of his.
But the attack didn't there. She raised her foot for the first time in the fight, and slammed her right foot in his head, pinning him down on the floor with her foot still on his head. Itachi growled at the impacet, his head throbbing and he was annoyed with the fact that he almost lost consciousness, but Sakura just smirked and pushed his face down even more, rubbing in her own sadistic way that she won. Again.
"You are absolutely too early to tell me to be careful, Itachi."
She let the foot on his head drop and Itachi stood up, slightly shaking with the impact. Damn, he thought, she still had strongest punch I had ever seen. I think it grew even stronger since the last time I saw her. Itachi growled internally, she didn't need to improve anything when it came to her strength, not that she needed to improve on anything else when it came to fighting.. When he stood up, he was furious to find out that she hadn't moved an inch from her spot. Sure, she had moved her right foot and both of her arms and spun around few times, but it didn't change the fact that her left foot was still in the same place since the fight started.
"Damn you, Sakura. You grew stronger. Again."
She simply shrugged sheepishly, "What can I say? I'm just too genius to NOT to improve...did that make sense?"
"You think?"
"Nah, probably not. But you still know what I mean."
Itachi sighed. Sakura was absolutely genius when it came to fighting, and she loved it, but the fact that she simply couldn't care to bring her to care about studying bugged him. She said such wise, mature things but rest of the time...she was worse than Naruto. And that was saying ALOT.
"Itachi, Itachi." She shook her head in teasing manner, making Itachi raise his eyebrow at what the hell she was doing. "You still got the blood on your beautiful face." With that, she reached up to him and brushed the blood off from the corner of his lips.
Than the strangest thing happened to Itachi. When she said he still got blood on his 'beautiful' face--he cringed at that, he heard so many times from his fangirls--he knew she was joking and did not feel anything from it for she had done it few times in the past. When she brushed the blood off the corner of his lips, though, his heart stopped beating for the longest 2 seconds of his life. He could feel blood rushing to his face, and the warm tangling sensation still lingered where Sakura touched him with her pale, delicate fingers.
He knew what this feeling was. He felt it in the past when Sakura smiled at him for the first time. Now, even though he was emotionless and stoic Uchiha, he knew he had soft spots for Sakura. That didn't mean he went easy on her when it came to spar, no it totally did not mean like that. She would kick his ass if he went easy on her, and kill him, bring him back alive, only to kill and beat the shit out of him for going easy on her. She hated that.
He allowed Sakura to call him by his name, which he could do nothing about even if he didn't have soft spots on her because she would simply eat the shit out of him until he agreed. He allowed himself to take his mask off for a minute and smile at her, which Sakura did not notice anything special. She thought he smiled in front of everyone else as he does to her. He scoffed. As if.
He simply considered it childish crush, dismissing the feeling and focusing only on the goal of defeating her. He thought he forgot about his feelings for her when she came back. It was a mere crush, he told himself countless times. But no, it didn't simply disappear like that. It was even stronger than before; the desire to hug her, to hold her in his arms, to brush off that soft pink locks, to place his lips on top of that full, cherry lips...
"There," said Sakura, cutting Itachi off of his trail of very dangerous thoughts and would get him killed if Sakura ever found out. She smirked and poked his forehead, leaning and torturing the stoic Uchiha unintentionally.
"We wouldn't want one of your fangirl finding out that you were fighting and got injured in the process, right? Even if I'm super invincible, I can't take millions of raged fangirls at the injury of Uchiha Itachi. I can't afford that," she said, shaking her head, making Itachi inhale that delicious scent of her.
"I have too many people I haven't fought, not to mention you would get very bored when I'm gone. Right, Itachi?" She asked, but obviously did not expect any answer for she merely smirked and turned to the door. She had to perform her duty no matter what, even though she hated the shit more than not being able to fight. Wait, being in classroom meant not fighting, so no, the pain of not fighting was the strongest. But still.
"See ya Itachi-senpai!" She waved without looking back, drawing out the word 'senpai' to tease him.
Itachi stared at her disappearing form, thinking why he just thought that Sakura was going to kiss him.
In million years, Itachi, he amused himself.
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When Sakura came to her classroom, yeah she actually knew the next class she was supposed to go, it was already over and she had to go to the next class, gym. She smirked. Unlike every other girls who hated PE because it would get their make-up dirty or sweating makes them smell like shit, Sakura LOVED PE. It was only thing she liked about school, especially the self-defence unit (A.N/ I know there isn't unit like that but let's just leave it as that...please?) where she can beat the shit out of people. But then she remembered something important, and one minor thing that MAY interfere her from having fun.
Like how she didn't have gymstrips yet.
Damn.
When she got to the gym, she looked around for teacher to ask him if he/she had extra ones. She completely forgot why she was there in the first place when she met her teacher, Konoha's Green Beast...that's what they say anyway.
His green spendex disgusted her like everyone else, he had orange leg warmer for fuck's sake, and that bowl hair cut of him. His teeth were blinding her, and no she meant it literally, and stuck his thumb out and shouted something about 'youth' and what not.
Suddenly, gym didn't ook so great.
"Um...coach?"
"Oh, how can I help you? I'll do anything in my power to help such youthful student like you!"
Sakura suddenly had an urge to beat the shit out of this guy. "I'm new in this school and I was wondering if you had any extra gymstrips--"
"I can't believe you forgot to bring the most important thing for gym! You forgot your gymstrips! I would've punished everyone else for forgetting but since you are so youthful and new to this youthful school, I will give you my green spendex, my charm--"
"NO WAY IN FUCKING HELL." Maybe she'll just beat him up anyway? The temptation...
"I can't believe you swore! That is such an un-youthful--" Is there even a word like that, Sakura wondered,"--so I will have to make you sit out for this beautiful class!"
Sakura's vein popped. First he decides that she should wear a green cursed horrifyng spendex instead of normal gymstrips. Next he decides that she shouldn't participate because she swore? What the fuck is wrong with this asshole!
It was then Sakura realized, if she couldn't participate anyway, why not challenge the teacher. It doesn't hurt to spar with your 'youthful' student, right?
"Um, than would you like to spar?" Gasps could be heard from unknown audiences that she didn't know she attracted.
Gai blinked and Sakura stared, feeling the urge to beat him up anyway.
Suddenly, he was all serious and looked at her with serious smirk. Almost immediately the air around them shifted, and the tension was so great in the air that normal girly girl students already ran to the fitting room.
"Are you sure you can handle it, girl? I'm not going easy on you."
Sakura raised her eyebrow at the sudden change. But used to this kind of tention, she smirked feeling all too familiar, and crossed her arms over her chest.
"If I wasn't so sure that I could handle it, I wouldn't have challenged anyway. So, are you going to?"
"Of course. I won't give up a good spar from anyone."
With that, he attacked her with blinding speed that normal students couldn't see, only a green and black blur.
Sakura slipped into her stance, smirk still intent.
Maybe gym wasn't so bad after all.
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Sasuke, Naruto and Shikamaru came out when loud gasps could be heard inside the gym.
They immediately came out of the fitting room and looked to where everyone was standing.
There, they could see Sakura and Gai in the middle, talking with each other with air of seriousness around them. It was good thing that all three of them, even Shikamaru, was similiar with the tension or they would've choked on it.
"If I wasn't so sure that I could handle it, I wouldn't have challenged anyway," said Sakura, who stubbornly crossed her arms over her chest. She was smirking and looked so comfortable like she didn't notice the tension.
Sasuke paled. What in the world was she thinking? What is she doing? No, don't tell me that she challenged Gai of all people to spar. Sasuke will admit that Sakura was strong, but Gai was master at martial arts. It's not like he'll go easy on her, which will be just what she want, but still she can't handle Gai. Even though she is strong and beat the shit out of countless guys, she was still a girl.
Before Sasuke could open his mouth to complaint and tell Sakura how utterly stupid it is to challenge Gai of all people to spar, it began.
And all Sasuke could to was to watch Sakura get beat shit out of Gai.
He was going to get killed from Itachi.
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When Sakura didn't look fazed at all by his speed and instead just slipped into a stance that was flawless, Gai was surprised.
And excited at the same time.
He thought he would attack her with fists first, to see her reaction, so he raised his right fist and attempted to hit her.
She bloked it with her right hand and pulled him close to her, her left knee already in motion to hit him square in stomach. Gai, already used to this kind of move although he wasn't used to a small girl who pulled him single-handed, used the momentum to hit the girl anyway. She bloked his foot with her left hand and raised her left leg to kick him in the face. She smirked when it was bloked, but apparently did some damage because his lips were bleeding even with his right hand blocking her foot.
Gai grabbed her foot single-handedly with his right hand and spun her to make her lose her balance. Instead of losing balance like he expected, though, she raised her right leg and used the high heel to hit him, which landed square at his throat. While Gai let her go to grab his throat which had cut with blood coming out more than he expected, Sakura jumped and landed her right foot at Gai's head much like she did to Itachi.
Gai, thankfully for him, recovered just in time to dodge so Sakura ended up hitting the gym floor. The gym floor got demolished when her foot connected to it, making pieces of wood fly everywhere. Gai raised his eyebrow at this, although he was thankful inside that he managed to dodge just in time.
Just when he was about to attack again, an angry voice stopped all of the movements in the gym.
"WHAT THE HELL IS GOING ON HERE??!!!"
Angry Tsunade...damn.
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Tsunade was furious at the damage. She was going to spend her precious money which she would LOVE to use on gamble to fix up the damage that some pink-haired girl and Gai did!
Curse them.
She yelled at Gai for not controlling his need to have 'youthful' fight and giving into temptation. She yelled at Sakura for the damage she caused, and gave her 1 month of detention, which included cleaning up the gym after the basketball practice for boys. Tsunade was sure that Sakura didn't even hear what she said.
"Did you hear what I said, Miss Haruno?"
"Huh? You were talking?"
Tsunade twitched. Why did this kind of girl come to her school anyway? Making her life more miserable than it already is?
Thank kami for that.
Not.
She walked away fuming when she thought the damage was done. Sakura Haruno, huh?
She'll keep on eye on her, that's for sure.
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Sakura pouted. Tsunade ruined some good spar she had in weeks. She was so sure that Gai was disappointed too, because he asked her to spar with him again next class. He wanted to demonstrate 'youthful' spar to 'youthful' students.
She was so sure that if he took off that green spendex and stupid bowl haired cut, not to mention the word 'youthful' coming out of his mouth everytime he opened the damn thing, she was going to be a nice friend with him.
Too bad that that won't happen in million years.
"Sakura!"
She turned around, only to be faced with Uchiha Sasuke and his friends trailing behind him. She recognized those two from somewhere...oh well, who cares.
"WHAT THE HELL DO YOU THINK YOU ARE DOING??!!!" he was now shaking her with all his might, making her dizzy. "GETTING DETENTION FROM THE FIRST DAY OF SCHOOL, NOT TO MENTION SPARRING WITH GAI? CAN'T YOU JUST NOT GET IN TROUBLE FOR ONE HOUR??"
"Nah, that would be too boring."
"SAKURA!"
"I am happy to announce you that we have a request."
"Finally!" Yelled a guy with a blond hair, his sapphire eyes tingling with excitement. "We hadn't have one for AGES."
"Deidara-senpai, you look stupid with your hand up. Put it down."
"What did you say, Tobi??!!"
Ignoring the two goof-ball of the group, Pein asked Konan, who was shaking her head at the stupidity Tobi and Deidara was showing. Nobody would've believed that they were number 1 feared group in Konoha. "Who is it from?"
"Ino Yamanaka."
Everyone stopped what they were doing. If it was from that spoiled-rich girl who was nevertheless their best customer, it was going to be fun. She always called them to beat someone up, not that all the otehr missions weren't about that anyway.
"Who is it now?" Sasori asked, now paying attention to Konan as well.
"Sakura Haruno."
Kisame froze and dropped the hugh katana that he brought with him everywhere. Everyone stared at him, amused that Kisame actually dropped that precious katana of his.
"Sakura Haruno?"
"Yes, Sakura Haruno. What's wrong with her?" asked Konan, now curious like other members of the reaction of him.
"Sakura Haruno?" Tobi said aloud, his head tilted to the right side. "I think I heard her name before..."
Kisame growled, picking up his dropped katana, polishing it like he did before although everyone could see little shaky movement of his hand. "Of course you did. She's the girl Itachi was always talking about."
"The biggest fangirl?"
"No. The one he swore that he would beat someday. The same one he swore, if anyone touched her, they will be beaten by him. Assuming she already didn't beat the shit out of the said person."
Everyone stared.
ANNNNND CUT!
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