Itsuki stalks/pounces Tashiro before he gets to the hospital because he's just amazing like that.

Itsuki saw Tashiro as he was about to go to the Hospital and grinned - now was a perfect time to pounce!

"Hey! You!" He yelled as he bounded up to Tashiro and smiled at him nonchalantly - before pointing out Sakura on his shoulder and asking:

"Want to battle? Sakura needs experience!"

This even took place after the plot, so Tashiro was somewhere on a large dirt road where Itsuki came out of nowhere and challenged Tashiro. "Hmp, no problem." Tashiro said smiling as he took out a Golden Key that had icy blue tints, when he extended it, it summoned his Gull. The Natrelmons were about 14 feet away from each other, Gull was flapping it's wing to stay about six feet in the air. "Let's do this." Tashiro said putting his hands in his pockets.

Itsuki smiled at Tashiro and giggled to himself before Sakura hopped off of his shoulder and disappeared into a large patch of nearby grass and awaited her commands - using Razor Grass to sharpen the grass around her just in case.

"Go gentle, your Gull looks a lot stronger than Sakura!" Itsuki half-warned half-joked, before giggling at Tashiro again and waiting to see what the Gull would do.

Tashiro smiled to Itsuki's comment, as soon as Sakura was on the ground, Tashiro would give out his command. "Frozen Gale!" Tashiro yelled as Gull then started to flap his wings, using Gale and Ice Stream from its mouth together creating like the command a frozen gale which was done constantly. Since Sakura was much smaller than Gull, the gale would cover a large range of leaping away from it since Sakura was tiny. Tashiro was also ready for anything else, the Razor Grass in front of Gull would also be frosty thanks to the ice particles.

As the frozen gale was being formed, Sakura was mingling in with the grass anyway - and she had not stopped moving. She now started to move further away from Gull and used Razor Grass again, forming a new patch of razor-sharp grass that was not covered in frost.

As the gale neared her, Itsuki cast a feeble wall directly in front of her to shield her from the most immediate of the gale and the thick, tall grass shielded her from the rest of the ice pellets. The gale, being nothing but wind, would have been diverted around the feeble wall and the worst of it was avoided - though a little bit of cold wind caught her and sent her deeper into the grass.

"Sakura, plant a few seeds here." Itsuki called out - having lost sight of Sakura - and looked up at the Gull. Sakura had a very limited moveset here and he would have to pull off some incredible feat to win, but he was sure he could if he tried his hardest.

Tashiro found that a issue, but he had a plan to get the Sakura out of the tall grass. "Frozen Whirlwind." Tashiro said simply, Gull then created a whirlwind near the spot that Sakura was planting it's seeds, he added another Ice Stream into it because the whirlwind would rip up Razor grass so the Ice Stream would freeze it. Sakura on the other hand was very light and would get sucked into the whirlwind with all the frozen sharp grass and the cold temperature itself. When it gets caught in the attack it would do some major damage, and cause Itsuki's relic to glow very bright.

Seeing as the whirlwind was nowhere near Sakura - due to the fact it hadn't moved and nor had Gull, Sakura continued to move away from Gull before using Razor Grass again - planting a few seeds and continuing to move. This took all of a few seconds and Sakura was now around 30 feet away from Gull.

Itsuki smiled as he caught sight of Sakura again, and resisted the urge to wave to her and distract her.

"Go into the fields." Tashiro said as Gull started to go in deep into the fields, it had an idea were to be though in reality, it was about six feet from where Sakura really was. It then started to circle around a area, where Sakura was the diameter of the circle. Of course, Gull didn't have a clear idea but it was a pink Sakura in a green grass, anyways the flying didn't take very long to do, it was fairly quick. "Use Freeze Ray!" He yelled, Gull then sprayed his beam of ice around in a circular motion so it quickly started from the right side of Gull in a spiral which was done very fast. Anything in the ice's path was frozen and most likely Sakura would get frozen if it stayed there, if it moved it probably wouldn't get fully encased in ice, though Gull will surely see it running.

Gull hadn't moved since the start of the fight so he was still the aforementioned distance away from Sakura, and it would take time to get to her.

In this time, the small seeds she had planted would have germinated, and she picked them up as best she could started running towards Gull as he flew to her. As he was aiming to freeze ray her at the position she was last, Sakura cast her own whirlwind just as Gull was about to fly over her and infused it with a Siphon Touch at the same time, causing streaks of green to be infused with the Whirlwind which, as Gull was not the biggest of flyers, should have drawn him in. The Siphon Touch would hit his wings first and enervate them if he tried to flap away or use more wind attacks - and this would exhaust him as he fought against the whirlwind and the Siphon Touch. The seeds she had carried would also be thrown into the fray and would hopefully hit the Gull and seed him, further hampering movement and draining his stamina.

It was a risky move, but it was all that Sakura could do.

Being a larger Natrelmon than Sakura helped Gull this time, it got out of the whirlwind being shaken a bit but it quickly regained it's balance. "Freeze Ray!" Tashiro commanded again, this attack would most likely hit because of the fact Sakura was just diagonally below her. With the range and the effect behind the attack the Freeze Ray would work, and would knock Sakura out cold.

Itsuki sighed a little - Seeing as that was Sakura's only offensive maneuverer it was quite clear that he wasn't going to win so he withdrew Sakura to her relic before she got hurt and nodded to Tashiro.

"She's still really weak but I know she'll get better! Thanks anyway!" He smiled, and resumed finding new prey to stalk.

After seeing Itsuki return his Sakura, Tashiro returned his Gull. "It was a good battle though! Caught me off guard with that whirlwind. We'll battle again some day when we both get a little better." Tashiro said with a smile as he walked away.