((Hiii, tis me again, right I have come up with an idea which should get this long wait beteen chappys thing sorted, the story's getting towards the end, so I'm going to finish it all before publishing, I really don't want to rush the ending and end up having a rubbish one because I've worked so hard on the rest of the story.

Right with that out of the way, I can't update without knowing what you think and how I can make this thing better so you're reviews are really what I need so please gimme someee, With that said enjoy this chappy please xP))

Suddenly something sharp pressed against her back, Sakura froze. "Hello." Said a voice from behind her.

She narrowed her eyes, "And to what do I owe this pleasure?" she asked.

"Aren't you scared I'm going to kill you?"

"If you wanted to kill me straight away you wouldn't be hesitating." She replied, "So what do you want?"

The male voice chuckled, "Smart woman, but I am here to kill you, the only problem is that I need to get some information out of you first so I can't right away, what a shame."

"Indeed."

"You're awfully calm for someone who's about to die."

"Am I?" She smirked. "So what questions do you have? My favourite colour is red; I like long walks on the beach and ice cream I also…"

"Not those kinds of questions."

"Thought not. So what are you going to do? Take me back to your base and torture me into answering pointless questions?"

"Something like that…"

"Then I will go to your base without making any moves to kill you."

"What an obedient little girl."

"I don't have much of a choice do I, you have a sword and I'm unarmed and in just my robe." He chuckled, "So do you have a boyfriend I should notify about your death?"

"Yes, but I don't think he'll need to be notified."

"Why not?"

"He's right behind you." The captor turned around. Sakura breathed a curt laugh. She spun around and whacked the sword out of his grasp. She rushed forwards and tackled him against a wall, "Made you look." She chimed.

She pulled back her fist ready to punch him, "Now why don't you tell me who you're working for and where I can find him?" she asked. He smirked, "You think you can take me down that easily?" He disappeared in a puff of smoke and Sakura fell against the wall.

Her arm was grasped from behind her and twisted in a painful lock, "So you use shadow clones." She observed calmly.

"Are you scared yet?"

"Absolutely terrified." She replied sarcastically. He bent her arm further to the point where she could feel her bone was ready to snap.

"How about now?" he asked tauntingly. "Still absolutely terrified." She said in exactly the same tone as her last comment. She made a sudden movement, the bone snapped under the pressure. Sakura gave a small yelping noise as her bone snapped.

"That was clever, now you're one arm down, you're coming with me." Sakura moved ever so slightly so that her bone was back in line. She sent chakra to her bone and welded it together again in a matter of seconds. As soon as her arm fixed she focused chakra into her foot and kicked backwards, shattering his shin on impact.

There was a puff of smoke then her arm was released from the hold. She spun around and stretched her arm as she healed it some more, making sure it was in good condition for the inevitable battle, "Are you done playing games yet?"

Suddenly hands grew from the ground and clasped her ankles, "What the…?" she exclaimed. They seemed to dissolve from the wood. "Well, that's a new jutsu…" she muttered. She moved her hands into a hand seal, "Kai!" she called. Nothing happened.

"I'm sorry but this is not a genjutsu." Sakura looked down, as his head seemed to dissolve through the floor. Her eyes widened and she quickly tried to stop him seeing up her robe, "Pervert!" She exclaimed. She managed to pick her foot up slightly she brought it down as she focused the chakra and broke the floor apart.

The two went crashing to the ground floor of the Inn. Sakura fell on top of the mystery assassin. There was a small family, a mum, a dad, a small girl, and a teenage boy, at the dinner table about to start eating ramen. Dust now covered the entire family.

Sakura got up slowly and smiled at the family, "Um… Gomen…" she laughed nervously then bolted from the room. The assassin then got up brushed himself down then followed her with the same speed.

"Mum?" questioned the little girl in shock, "What were they doing up there?" The parents shared a frightened look, "You'll understand when you're older." They said in chorus, obviously getting the wrong idea about what Sakura and the assassin were doing. The teenage boy tried desperately to hide his nosebleed.

Konan and Sasori ran into the bathroom. "So much for being able to blend in better than us." Muttered Sasori. Konan sighed, "Let's go and check on her." The two disappeared.

Sakura tried to ignore the stares of the passing people as she ran, "This is so not dignifying." She squeaked as she pulled the robe around her. She heard the assassin catching up to her, "Do these guys keep track of when I get out of the shower or something?" she asked in a whiny tone.

She rushed into a forest surrounding the village and leaped into the trees. "Crap, crap, crap." She was hissing. Not so much bothered at the fact that a powerful assassin was chasing her, but more the fact a powerful assassin was chasing her and she was wearing a robe.

"That's it I'm showering fully clothed from now on!"

She noticed a small shack built in a clearing. There were clothes hanging from a line being dried by the weather. She sighed with relief and ran into the line dragging a dress and a pair of ladies underwear from the line. She threw them over her shoulder and started performing hand seals, "Sakura-Kuro!" she called as her eyes changed to black, "Forest infection!"

The forest started to move around her. Four trees wrapped around her in a dome allowing her some time to get dressed. She dressed just before a kunai pierced through the wood. She barely managed to dodge it before it lodged into the other side of the dome, behind her. Sakura broke the technique.

The wood fell dead around her and she jumped upwards, catching herself on a tree branch and swinging herself onto it. She was wearing a blue kimono, which she'd cut up in order to make it ok to move around in.

She was holding onto a tree branch with one hand whilst her other hand was resting on her kunai pouch, A gust of wind blew her pink hair around her, "You can come out now…" she said a little peeved that he thought he could hide that long.

The assassin pulled himself out of the ground as though it wasn't even solid. "You don't seem at all shaken by my shadow clones," observed the assassin. Sakura shrugged, "I've seen them before, and the person using them was far more powerful than you." She smirked at how the arrogance dropped from his face, "I didn't hurt you're male pride did I?" she asked coyly.

He quickly recovered himself then let out a curt laugh, "Please… no one can use them as well as me." He said. Sakura flipped open her kunai pouch, "We can put that to the test right now though can't we?" she asked. He smirked, Sakura's hand moved like lightning she dragged out a kunai and launched it at him; it went straight into his neck, sending him up in a puff of smoke. The kunai lodged in the floor.

Sakura bent her legs and launched off the tree in time to dodge three kunai that sped towards her by a hair's breadth. She threw three kunai of her own at the spot where the other three kunai had been launched. She saw the smoke rising before she hit the floor. Damn, I was sure I'd got the real one that time… She thought.

She landed on the ground then quickly leaped back onto a tree branch as a pair of hands rose up to try and capture her. She threw another kunai straight through the hand, another cloud of smoke.

She crouched on the branch. She stared forwards. She felt a small pulse from the branch of the tree she was standing on, having still keeping a tiny amount of control over the forest she managed to feel the movement on the trees. Got you… she thought.

A smirk curled the edges of her lips as she waited for him to make a move, "Don't tell me you chased me all the way down here and now you're getting shy." She called tauntingly. She felt another pulse through the branch. She narrowed her eyes.

She crouched lower then kicked off the branch, she pulled back her arm as she leaped towards a new tree, but not towards the branch, she headed straight for the middle of the trunk. She punched straight through the trunk.

There was a flight of splinters and large parts of broken tree, the tree snapped in half like a toothpick and the top half toppled to the ground. Sakura leaped to the ground and dodged the falling tree. She shook the splinters off her bleeding fist and stared through the hurricane of falling leaves.

The assassin had been hiding in the hollow of the tree she'd just destroyed. She must have missed him by a hair's breadth.

Suddenly there was a gust of wind, the leaves stayed air borndue to some sort of wind based jutsu her opponent was using. Sakura silently cursed, not only had he survived her attack but he'd damn well near blinded her with the leaves. She barely managed to dodge the metal spike of the sword slicing through the leaves and nearly slicing through her neck.

She pulled out two hand-fulls of senbon needles and spun, throwing them in all directions. When she stopped she listened carefully over the roaring wind. She heard three of them hit home and sink into flesh, she didn't know if any more had hit him or where they'd hit him but for sure at least three needles had wounded him.

Sakura then pulled out a kunai and dodged the next sword attack barely. She threw it through the leaves and heard a slice before the dull knock of it wedging into the bark of a tree. The wind was still howling around her keeping the leaves fluttering around.

Sakura sighed and pulled out her short swords, this was going to end up being a close range fight; this wasn't how she wanted to fight this guy. He was almost if not as strong as her and he had an advantage over her in this fight, not only was he blinding her with leaves, but she was starting to run low on chakra.

Her grip tightened around the handles of the swords, this fight was going to be annoying.

((A.N. Anyone got any ideas who hired the assassin, anyone who gets it right gets the next cha[[y dedicated to them even if it's more than one person lol xP))