Hime: Hope you enjoy the chapter! I do not own Naruto! Sorry for being so late! I was REALLY REALLY busy!

A week after the festival, Sasuke reported to Team 7's training ground early to wait for her new sensei to arrive but instead to her surprise, Tenshi was already there, waiting for her.

"Good morning Sasuke!"

"Morning" she greeted back, noticing that she was dressed in the same outfit she had first met her in.

"Ok Sasuke, first I need to ask you, have you tried any training on your own since your check-up?"

Sasuke nodded, "Yes. I've got Kakashi to spar with me. He told me that even though my limbs are shorter, my speed and agility had increased making it harder to land hits. If he didn't have the Sharingan, he doubted he could keep up with me."

Tenshi nodded, noting that Sasuke had spoke with a tinge of pride in her face.

She must like the benefits of having a female body than a male one…

"But..."

"But what?" Tenshi asked, noticing Sasuke's frustrated expression.

"He said I'm not as strong as back then when I land hits though..."

Tenshi laughed, "Is that all? No problem! We'll get you into shape in no time! But for now, first thing I want you to do is to punch a tree."

….

There was a moment of silence.

"Excuse me?" Sasuke finally asked.

"You heard me"

Sasuke frowned but complied. She went over to one of the trees in the area and punched, she screamed in extreme pain when she felt her hand hurt and drew back immediately.

"Out of all trees, you choose the biggest and toughest one to punch. Nice pick."

Sasuke turned to glare at her but Tenshi ignored it and went over to pick up Sasuke's bruised hand to examine it. Sasuke was surprised when she saw her bruised hand glow green and felt the pain ebbing away.

"What did you do?"

"Medical ninjutsu. I'll teach you once we're done with your physical training."

"Physical training? I don't need any! Why should I-?"

"You can't even beat a tree and you still say that you don't need any?" Tenshi retorted.

Sasuke frowned, irritated. Tenshi dropped Sasuke's hand and took out some cloths and bandages from her pocket.

"Tie these around your fingers and palm like a bandage."

Sasuke followed her instructions word for word but didn't understand the reason behind these actions.

Noting Sasuke's frustration, Tenshi explained. "For today, I'll give you some simple exercises that will test your physical body and tire you out but won't hurt you much. First, I'll expect you to improve the power of your punches, I want you to continuously punch this tree (indicating the big tree behind Sasuke) until you leave a dent at least half an inch thick into the tree. The cloths are to protect your knuckles and fingers from bruising too much."

Sasuke frowned, "Why can't I punch this tree?" she asked, pointing to the one that had given her an injured hand.

Tenshi smirked at her and slammed her open palm onto the tree. The sudden impact sent slight shockwaves into the ground and plenty of leaves started falling from the said tree. When Tenshi finally removed her hand, a finely detailed handprint was revealed on the surface of the tree, it had a dent one inch deep from the surrounding bark. Sasuke underwent pure shock at her sensei's show of power. There was absolutely no Chakra involved in that slam!

"See now why I want you to practice?"

Sasuke nodded, still dumbfounded by her slam.

"When you're done with the tree, you are to run a hundred laps around Konoha, two thousand push ups, five thousand sit ups, and two thousand tree sit ups."

Sasuke's jaw dropped in shock, "T-that many?"

Tenshi nodded, "Now get to it, especially if you want to finish before night time."

Sasuke sighed, but went off to start her nightmare workout. Tenshi watched the entire time, making sure she wasn't hurt or injured during so.

When Sasuke finally finished, she let herself fall backward on to the grass to rest her aching limbs and muscles.

I've never been pushed this hard before…

She closed her eyes to let her exhaustion take over and immediately slipped into unconsciousness.

Tenshi walked over and picked up the sleeping girl.

Time to take her home

Sasuke awoke to find that she was in her bed in her own bedroom but her clothes changed. She was now dressed in a black camisole & shorts.

My clothes?

She turned and noticed a note on her dressing table. She picked it up and began to read.

Sasuke

Good job today. I've changed your clothes for you because they stank of sweat and your ones from earlier are in the laundry. Make sure to get plenty of rest. I'll see you the day after tomorrow same time and same place.

- Jigoku Tenshi

Sasuke frowned at how she had described her clothes to smell but put down the note back on the table. She fell back against her pillow and burrowed underneath the blankets, reveling in the cool, comforting sheets. She soon fell asleep, surrendering to the call of her bed.

The next day, Naruto decided to visit Sasuke and ask her on how her training went. Hinata had already told him but Naruto still wanted to check on his teammate. The door was unlocked so he let himself in. He found her in her bedroom, sleeping but she was sweating a lot and she looked to be having a nightmare.

"Kaa-san!"

Must be a nightmare of the night of the massacre...

"I have to wake her up" Naruto thought, closing his eyes.

Sorry.

He slapped her, hard. Peeking out of one eye, he saw Sasuke's eyes open. She gingerly touched her cheek that was beginning to turn red, and winced.

"Bastard, you would actually hit a girl in her sleep?" she growled.

"You were having a bad nightmare" Naruto told her.

Sasuke's eyes widened slightly, "Y-you saw?"

"Not much"

Before Sasuke could respond, she sneezed loudly into Naruto's shirt, covering Naruto with a mixture of saliva and mucus. Needless to say, Naruto was not amused but kept his cool. He then noticed that the normally snow white skin face of Sasuke's was paler than usual and shining with a thin layer of sweat, her eyes seemed abnormally bright too. A quick check of her temperature and a few minutes of listening to her cough and sniffle confirmed his suspicions; Sasuke had caught a cold.

"You're sick."

"Like I haven't figured that out dobe."

Sasuke started to cough violently and Naruto watched in silence. He wondered vaguely what it was like to be sick. The Kyuubi had always made his immune system incredibly strong, so the most he ever got was a cough for a day or so, or a runny nose. Nothing serious.

"Where's your bathroom?" Naruto asked.

"Why?"

Sasuke's widened when she realized that she sounded like a dying frog when she just spoke but it did make Naruto laugh.

"Naruto you bastard don't laugh!"

"It's just a tad case of laryngitis. You'll be fine in a few days." Naruto finally said, "Besides I think it's cute."

In his mind, Naruto smirked when Sasuke blushed a pretty red.

"I-idiot! Don't jokes with me!" Sasuke screamed out, making her voice sound sadly like Minnie Mouse. She immediately covered her mouth. "Dammit!"

Naruto smirked and took a mental note to make Sasuke blush more often. His smirk immediately disappeared when he saw that Sasuke's eyes were fluttering.

"Hey Sasuke! Don't-!"

He went over and caught Sasuke from falling who was deadly close to hitting her head on her bed post. Sasuke however seemed to have no intention of waking up anytime soon. Instead, she subconsciously snuggled deeper into her source of warmth, Naruto's arm.

Naruto fought to fight down a blush.

Well damn…

Hime: Hope you liked it! Please review! Again, sorry for being so late!