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Luz figured she'd be blocking the punches: Sakura was a ninja, she knew how to take care of herself.

Luz was going full on into spar mode though. She got hit a few more times, but bounced back and started putting more weight into her punches now, hitting more like Eren had taught her, which was pretty hard.

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And as Luz picked up the pace and got rougher, so did Sakura, keeping up with Luz the best she can. There's only so much she can go before she'll have to use the "big guns".

[a_cute_batata]

Luz has no idea what would be Sakura's big guns, but for right now Luz is using what she's learned from her sparring matches. She's taking some of the hits, but is hitting back, learning by now how much her training with Eren prepared her for getting hit.

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Sakura needs some breathing room. There’s a quick hand motion…

And Luz will watch as Sakura disappear in a cloud of smoke, replaced with her dress.

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"WHOA."

Luz had to stop a moment and admire the look.

"You look great! Did you just want to try on a new outfit while fighting?"

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Sakura giggled a bit before she shook her head.

“More than that. I got back my abilities!”

A few more hand signs, and now there were two copies of Sakura

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"No way!"

Luz is impressed, but had no intention of letting that get the best of her! If she wanted to throw out clones, Luz was going to have to use glyphs!

Luz reached into her shirt and threw down her glyphs, tapping one and concentrating on the Sakura she was fighting. The glyph pulled out thorny vines for Sakura's clones to be ensnared by, while Luz now came at Sakura full throttle, throwing the kind of punches that Eren had taught her to deliver, a force enough to break noses (not that Luz was aiming for that right now).

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Sakura was surprised at Luz’s counter, once more evening the playing field. With her punches coming in stronger now, Sakura decided to do the same, focusing her chakra to her fists to deliver the same force.

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Yeah, that was what Luz had been hoping for! She knew that Sakura was holding back a bit, and Sakura had seemed to sense she'd been doing the same. Now they were just duking it out fist to fist, and it was here that Luz DID do some kicks, so Sakura got to feel exactly how much a girl who's leg muscles had to be built to fly properly and carry animal feed felt like.

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If Sakura wanted to protect her friends, she couldn’t hold back! Her fists and feet flew to block Luz’s attacks and counter back. If she could get in closer, she could grab her by the shirt and throw her…

[a_cute_batata]

Luz watched Sakura, seeing how she was trying to get her to lure closer. Right. That made sense. Sakura would expect that she would do it too, since she was a little taller and likely to think she could capitalize on Sakura. But Luz also knew her stamina, and where her strengths lay in that regard.

Luz opted to keep Sakura at bay, going for pointed kicks, rearing back enough when the girl attempted to press her and then going for well aimed hits that kept Sakura at arm's length.

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Luz knew how to fight, to keep away. She didn’t have the same reach she did, thus it was easier for Luz to play keepaway. But, that also meant that she could use her limbs against her.

She would go to grab one arm and attempt to pull her in and strike her in the chest.

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That was a good idea, but Luz was ready for this too.

When Sakura pulled her in, Luz ducked her head down and pushed her forearm against the attack, positioning her legs to trip up Sakura and use her momentum to knock her down.

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“UWAH!”

Sakura should have seen it coming and, instead, found herself being tripped up and landing back first on the sand.

“Ugh, stupid scrawny limbs…”

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Luz plopped down on the ground with her, sitting on her knees a moment.

"Don't be so hard on yourself, you're only thirteen! You'll be much stronger than I am when you're my age!"

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“I know, I know…” Sakura said, letting out a soft sigh. She would move to rest her head on Liz’s knees. “You were amazing, though.”

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"So were you!"

Luz idly drummed her fingers over Sakura's hair. "I can see where you're a ninja! Do you have someone helping you train here too?"

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There’s a soft sigh as her hair is messed with, soft and smooth.

“No, not yet. I should, though. It would really help in the long run.”

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Luz knew that was comforting: heck, she was a bit of fan of that herself, moreso since her hair was on the short side.

"Yeah, it would. You can't get any better without someone here to train you. You can find people who'll get you stronger, but you could really use a teacher."

Luz wished she was that good, but there was still plenty she needed to learn.

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"I should probably talk to Naruto and see if he's willing to help out a bit." Sakura admitted.

"We can also keep sparring along the way to see how we've improved."

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"At least he's still here. We lost a lot of people recently."

She nodded. "Of course. This doesn't have to be a one time thing. You can even spar with other people if they agree and you think it helps!"

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"Yeah, we did... I hope they come back, though. Even for a little bit."

She looked up at Luz, smiling at her. "I would be happy to spar with you as long as you want. Whatever you want, I'll do it."

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"It's not often that they do, but I guess there's nothing wrong with hoping for it," Luz said.

Luz chuckled. "I think we said we'd have a swim after, remember? Besides, we'll have time to spar later on. Today was our first of many!"

It reminded Luz of how much more she wanted to train, anyway. Sakura wasn't the only one that needed work there, even if Luz was getting stronger.

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“Oh, that’s right!” Sakura said. “So caught up in the fight, I forgot!”

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"It shows how serious you are about the fight!" Luz said, stretching her arms. "We got pretty banged up, after all. I think we both could use a swim, and then some healing. Have you gotten better at that, by the way?"