The Queen of Masks [Sakura Haruno Story]

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Sakura narrowed her eyes at Naruto.

He was definitely fighting with more strength than the last attempt. But his muscles were clenched, a look of pure concentration was fitted into his face, and there was a slight hesitation in his movements.

He wasn't trying his hardest.

Easily keeping up with the pace of the fast taijutsu he was throwing at her, Sakura decided that she would wait awhile to if he would change his mind.

Kakashi soon joined the mix, forcing Sakura to focus on two people at once.

Dodging and blocking their heavy blows was difficult, but Sakura learned to show no weakness when fighting, it might give your enemy a clue on how to beat you. She bent down to avoid a high kick from Kakashi and a heartbeat later, was in the air to dodge a sweep from Naruto.

Sakura frowned. Kakashi was definitely taking her seriously, but Naruto was still hesitating.

Naruto finally stopped with taijutsu and put his hands together in a very familiar jutsu.

Around fifty clone appeared in a circle surrounding Sakura.

Her eyes narrowed even further. Before Naruto had left the village, he could make over a hundred clones, easy. But now, he was fighting her with only fifty.

Rage, anger, and betrayal fuelled Sakura as she channeled chakra into her right hand, clenching it into a fist. She punched the ground, and at first, nothing happened, until the ground began to tremble and large cracks appeared in the dry dirt, swallowing up all on Naruto's clones.

With that, Sakura calmly took off her mask, sealed it back into a scroll, and walked right past Naruto and out of the training ground, without saying a word.

Naruto's face was still twisted in shock from what he had seen, when he realized that he had made a big mistake.