Bloom Again

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--Bloom Again--

"For you, I could pretend I was strong when I was hurt."

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Sakura tighten her fist. If she can punch a goddess before in the face, she can conquer this beast easily.

But that wasn't the problem. The problem was it was starting to become too troublesome. Okay, maybe she hung out with Shikamaru a little too much, but it really was too troublesome for an academy student to fight this monstrous beast without any help from the chunin senseis. It was suspicious.

Sakura focused her chakra onto her hands, imagining them as chakra scalpels. It is much harder for it to appear as her current chakra control is not as good as her future self. Nonetheless the chakra scalpels appear albeit a few seconds later than usual.

The Mother beast couldn't wait and strike. She slammed her hands down towards Sakura but Sakura manages to sidestep it. However hitting Sakura wasn't the mother beast's main target. The ground beneath Sakura crumble apart and Sakura hurl herself into the air and towards a nearby tree branch.

But before she could land herself on the tree branch, the mother beast strike once more, reaching out for the branch Sakura was about to land. Sakura's eyes widen as she barely able to jump away from the branch moments before the beast's paws had touched the branch.

Sakura move her chakra scalpels quickly as a counterattack, delivering one long gash along one of the beast's eye. The beast scream in pain and swipe her hands towards Sakura. Sakura starts to find this even more troublesome as she manages to dodge the first few swipes. She raises her chakra enchanced fist when the beast tried to swipe her out again.

The sound of bones breaking were like music to her ears. Sakura smirked to herself, it's been quite some time since she last heard bones breaking since returning to the past.

Suddenly the sound of a nearby twig being stepped on had Sakura on alert. Someone or something else is out there. She will need to end this fight fast. Her hands reach out for her Kunai.

She delivered the final blow with no mercy.

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"Some calls her the devil for she delivers blows like no other-with no spared emotions for anything while others call her the savior send by Kami to deliver retribution."

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"Teme, is that what I think it is?" Naruto called out, his blue eyes widen. Sasuke look towards the direction Naruto pointed and smirked.

"It would seem so. We need to get closer. Naruto, hold this rope."

"Okay-Wait, Teme, why are you tying the other end to the tree branch? Don't tell me-"Naruto paled

"Yes, we're going to jump dobe, so you better hold on tight."

"Wait, I didn't agree to this!" Naruto sputtered but his hold against the rope still tightens unwillingly

"We all didn't agree to this dobe so shut up, we need to get the crystal." Sasuke snarked back, he was not going to waste more time debating. Sakura clearly left him in charge in his opinion so Naruto better sucked up and hold on tight.

"Whatever, but if I'm gonna die here, I swear Teme, I'll hunt your sorry ass down! And don't think I'm doing this for you, it's for Sakura, Dattebayo!"