The Hokage's Will by Airheaded dude

Chapter Fifteen: Inverse

The Hokage's Will

Chapter Fifteen: Inverse

SMASH!

Sasuke was fortunate to have escaped with a hair's breath. That punch that Sakura did shattered the log he replaced himself with. He looked around, seeing Sakura chase after him like a rabid blood hound. Sasuke cursed as he backpedalled as fast as he can, as he then jumped to the grove that surrounded the metropolis like village of Ame, Sasuke used his arm and grabbed a strong branch, he swung to his right feeling his weight almost tearing his arm off, he let go off the branch as he landed on a sturdy trunk. Just as he saw Sakura's back exposed, he lit up his Chidori for a second before feeling the effects of Kabuto's poison encroaching his system. Sasuke coughed blood as the sound of chirping of his jutsu was immediately noticed.

Sakura, for her part, flipped in mid air and landed on another sturdy trunk, her knees bent as her weight shifted downwards before giving a tremendous leap at Sasuke.

Sasuke immediately saw this with his Sharingan, as the pinkette dashed towards him, her hand glowing in blue chakra as she was about to deliver a devastating punch. Inwardly cursing, Sasuke ran up the trunk and jumped to another one, as the tree that he stood on before, shattered from the immense power that Sakura had used.

'This is like the time when I faced Gaara in his demon form… She's putting the weight lower for a higher output in velocity in using Shunshin no Jutsu, if I hadn't dodge in time, I would've seriously died. It's a good thing that the start up of that technique is slow compared to my speed and too linear that it's too predictable.' As Sakura stood on another branch, this time on the same level with Sasuke, the Uchiha had one thought in mind,

'I can't underestimate her.'

"Sasuke-kun… Back then when you said, 'Thank you', what did you truly mean when you said that?" Sakura asked, as she squatted down and started pumping chakra to her legs.

Sasuke only replied, "It's not for you to know."

Sakura closed her eyes for a moment and jumped back, she descended to the ground below, escaping Sasuke's vision, he had noticed it though, Sakura was avoiding full on eye contact. He inwardly grinned, the perfect technique to disable a person happened to be a technique Sakura wanted to avoid, it seemed that only an Uchiha or a perfect jinchuuriki was able to counter such a powerful Genjutsu.

Silence fell in the grove, as the rustles in the leaves swayed from the wind that it brought. Sasuke remained unmoving, trying to feel Sakura with her chakra. He tried to concentrate as he forced himself to feel something that would indicate a movement of the girl. It was then that he heard a powerful rustle; Sasuke looked to his back as leaves fell from the ground, another rustle and Sasuke turned around, the fallen leaves dancing as they descend to the ground. His Sharingan started looking around, feeling the rustle was Sakura's movement, it was like she was moving to his blindsides like a ricochet jumping and changing directions every trunk that would ever get in her way.

It was then that Sakura had appeared above, her skin as black as ash once again, as she descended on Sasuke her right leg extending upward, about to strike him with a powerful axe kick.

"Tsutenkyaku (Painful Sky Leg)!"

It was then that Sasuke jumped out of the way as Sakura's leg tore through the tree that he stood on before finally crashing through the ground with a thunderous boom.

Seeing his chance, Sasuke leaped into the dust and smoke that spread from where Sakura stood, his Sharingan fully active, he shielded his eyes after drawing Kusanagi from its scabbard and landed on the ground, Sakura immediately saw Sasuke descend upon her like a hawk, his right hand holding his chokuto as it tried to slash Sakura down and disable her. To her credit, she instinctively reacted and leaned to her right, evading the slash and the tip touching her cheek, but Sasuke did not draw blood, the sword and Sakura's ash coloured skin gave a resounding high pitched sound as if a sword clashed with a sword, the tip of the blade gave a tiny spark as the sword went past Sakura. Immediately seeing her chance, Sakura cocked her right fist back, and without proper collection of chakra for an instant attack, she smashed her iron enforced fist to his gut. Sasuke felt the sudden pain electrifying him, as he coughed out blood before being sent flying from the blow in a powerful force, colliding with several trees before being entrenched on the ground and halting before a large stone.