Sakura walked to her house in a delirium; her stomach was all butterflies, thoughts about her upcoming 'training' were running throughher head and she was buzzing with anticipation. Her steps increased at a frantic speed, she was practically running through the crowds of the people minding their own business on a fine evening.
Spotting her house from a distance she lept upward on the roofs now, she didn't want to see parents. Not a great idea since they were gonna leave in less than a week, but she was a stubborn and an extremely dumb kid so she wasn't going to approach them first.
Her room was on the second floor so she slipped through the window she left open for this purpose. Her paranoia getting the best of her, she checked her room thoroughly, just in case.
Giggling to herself she remembered the events that occurred today, the trip to the library was a success, she had eaten her stomach's desires away at the Kimura's sweet shop- though her stay there was interrupted by Shoto; a boy still in the academy. He had asked her out on a 'study date', though the only reason she accepted was because his mother asked her to help him with his school, she couldn't complain either as he had gifted her two packs of Dango, six sticks in each!
She had hid the gift in the refrigerator; covering it with a notice-me-not genjutsu, her first ever genjutsu she had ever casted to this day. She had read about the mishaps of messing up a genjutsu and how much of a hazard it is, the caster could trap themselves in one if they didn't execute it perfectly. Some ended up with year long trips to therapy.
The notice-me-not was a rather easy one and was much of a surroundings genjutsu, than one which targeted on messing up the brain. The seals were few and pretty easy to use, nor did it require too much chakra. She now had a way to hide her pimples!
She moved to her cupboard and grabbed her stack of book she had written herself; the books from the library usually had alot of extra information nor could she borrow them forever, so she opted for writing notes on things she wanted to keep info on, besides writing to her was therapeutic.
She'd written notes on all sorts of things; Chakra, Jutsu-s, Ninjutsu, Genjutsu, Chakra Natures, she had even written some about the types of aches and how to subdue the pain, notes on the different kinds of acne and common causes. Yes, she indeed hated having those ugly red things on her face.
I mean who doesn't?
Looking through all her notes, she had finally came up with a well rounded plan, to her anyway, and stuck the peice of paper on the inside of her closet's door. That way its hidden and I can see it when I wake up!
She'd first start with a lap around the whole village;in order to increase my stamina, at 5 in the morning cause she didn't want her team to find out about her training, she'd keep it a secret and surprise them!
Then take a breather, practice katas and some taijutsu, she had come up with a way to make her punches, kicks or any hit hurt. She had theorized that if Chakra could enhance one's ability to hear, breathe and even, for those with dojutsu, to see.
So maybe she could enforce Chakra into her hits and.. well she didn't know what will come after that. But we'll find out!
By that, it would probably be time to head towards team 7's training grounds, and since Sakura usually does nothing, she might as well meditate; meditation helps with increasing my Chakra reserves and my ability to sense. Sensing was something Kakashi-sensei had yet to teach them, so if she starts early then maybe they would acknowledge her for that!
After Training they usually have a day full of D-ranks, so that's 6 hours of her day spent in doing chores.
By the end of that hell hole, it would probably be around 3 if her estimations aren't wrong, that would give her enough time to eat lunch and start on her training again!
She would probably spend that time perfecting her ninjutsu-s and maybe her notice-me-not!
Sounds like a plan!
Going over the books she had brought back from the Library, it was already time for dinner. Slowly, she made her way down to the dinner table, making sure to look as natural as possible, like she wasn't just trying to ignore them.
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Dinner was silent, in a word. No one dared to say a word, not even eye contact! Man they were serious about it. Sakura had half expected them to say it was just a prank, guess not.
Hey how about some Dango! We should sneak into the kitchen when they are asleep!!
You think we should?
Totally!! It will kinda be like- SPYING!
Not so loud inner!
Hai hai.. we're gonna eat dangos!!
Sakura sighed, that was inner, as she dubbed, her inner voice- or subconscious, she didn't know but Inner was rather brash. Good thing Mother couldn't hear her, she'd probably go; ladies aren't supposed to be loud and obnoxious!
To hell with that, now- as she lay on her bed wide awake, waiting for her parents to fall asleep, a sudden thought hit her hard.
She hadn't even thought about Sasuke-kun this whole day! Not even when that pig had mentioned his name!
Maybe we don't like him anymore?
NO WAY! that can't be! How could I just abandon my undying love of Sasuke-kun! No that's impossible! Impossible!
Yeah! You're probably right!
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After quite some time, Sakura snuck out of her room headed towards the kitchen and opened the fridge and dispelled the genjutsu.
Our precious dango!!
She went to reach out but froze while doing so, wait, won't the plastic make noise?
It would! Why you asking? Open it already!!!!
Baka! Mother and father will wake up from the sound!
Ugh! So now what?
I'll try my best to keep the noise to the bare minimum, maybe we should learn the noise cancelling jutsu tomorrow that would help alot in the future!
Yeah yeah! That sounds great! Now open it
Sweat dropping at Inners words, Sakura reached out to the pack's slowly but steadily tore one of them open; which was a hassel since the pack was still in the fridge so she had to stretch out her hands.
Grabbed one stick, cast the genjutsu back on, closed the fridge and dashed.
Aha! Dango!!
Sakura giggled and took a bite, holding back a noise when the sweet flavors errupted into her her dry mouth.
It took three quick bites and all that was left was the stick, throwing it outside the window she went ahead into her bathroom, brushed her teeth and slipped back into her sheets.
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As planned, Sakura had woken up bright and early, took a quick shower, threw on a red Tee and some black ¾ length leggings, did her hair in a ponytail; adjusting her hitai-ate which now served as a headband to keep her hair away from her face. Grabbing her kunai pouch and tying it to her thigh she hurried out the window.
Sakura had now realized that running without the help of chakra was harder than it seemed. She had given up half way through but kept going, seems like my short 'breather' will be a long one,
She was laying on the grass of some forest she had found to be her stopping point. Her breaths where unsteady and long, god my stamina is really low, she convicted thinking how all she wanted to do now was curl up and sleep.
Shaking that thought out she got up and got into the position of one of the Katas she was reading about yesterday.
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By the time she had gotten out of her training frenzy, she had realized she was gonna be late, and she meant late, like Kakashi-sensei type of late.
So instead of heading towards her house to wear her usual qipao, she dashed straight towards the training ground which was, thank god, rather close by.
By the time she had reached the practice ground, Both Naruto and Sasuke- I mean Sasuke-kun were already there and seemed to have been bickering.
Naruto eyes widened as he stared at her, "SAKURA-CHAN!" He waved frantically but stopped all together, a blush donning his whiskered cheeks.
Sakura raised one of her eyebrows at this, confused. He was staring at her, more particularly, her clothes?
She glanced down to only freeze as she realized, sweat from running and training had drenched her shirt, it was a thick fabric so it didn't turn see through but the shirt was sticking to her figure like a second skin.
Her face flushed with embarrassment, she grabbed the nearest thing she could find, which happened to be a twig and threw it at the blonde boy, who was still frozen and red.
Then she proceeded to recreate a scene from her mothers favorite chick flick, in which the main female lead runs away after being spotted in only her underwear, though this time there wasn't any ear-splitting scream.
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The twig Sakura-chan had thrown, hitting him in the face, knocked him out of his daze. "Uwah!"
"What was that about?" Sasuke,teme, asked staring in the direction where the pink haired girl was last seen running away, crossing her arms protectively in front of her chest. Her face putting her pink hair to shame
All Naruto could do was rub the place the twig had made contact with as he forced his blush down. "Why are you blushing?"
"S-sakura-chan's shirt.." The blonde mumbled, at this the young Uchiha stared confused before someone appeared with a "Yo!"
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Arriving on time he was presented with Naruto rubbing his forehead, a small blush on his face. Sasuke, who was confused. And Sakura, who was nowhere to be seen.
What were his cute-little-genin upto?
"Where's Sakura?" The masked man asked, to which Sasuke stared up at him shrugging, "Don't know, she ran away after dobe suddenly stopped when he was about to greet her"
Kakashi's visible eyebrow raised as he shifted his gaze to Minato-sensei's son. The said boy, was now mumbling something. What was that something? He didn't know.
"Naruto?"
That seemed to have snapped him out of whatever he was in, as he stared at the grey haired man before him.
"Kaka-sensei! YOUR LATE!" The blonde shouted pointing an accusing finger towards the masked man.
"Hn. Dobe, he's been here for the past 5 minutes already." The raven haired boy scowled.
"Huh? Really?" This seemed to have spiked his curiosity, what was the blonde thinking that had him this zoned out.
As if on cue, their pink haired teammate came out of forest around them with a frown on her red face. This only increased his curiosity.
"Oh, Kakashi-sensei, you arrived" the kunoichi was wearing a tshirt and pants rather than her usual qipao. He noticed that there were a few damp spots on her top. Her face was devoid of any emotion as she approached, though she had thrown an icy glare at the blonde.
Hm. Interesting
"Ah.. Sakura-chan! Mind telling us why you ran off?" This made the blonde flinch as the girl bore onto his back with her gaze. "Nothing, just Naruto doing perverted things"
His visible eye widened a millimeter as he stared back to his blonde genin who was mumbling a sorry, Sakura-chan, didn't do it on purpose'ttebayo.
My my~, aren't they growing up, he wondered, will I have to explain them the working of an adult body too?~
His eye crinkled, as a shit-eating grin plastered on his face, imagining his cute-little-genin all grossed out as he read his favorite book to them.
"Kakashi-sensei?" The said genins stared at their teacher with a questioning look, why the hell is he grinning?
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Training went well, for her. She was a little further away from them as she meditated, mentally noting to bring an extra change of clothes with her tomorrow. God forbid the same thing from happening ever again.
D-ranks were also the usual, boring chores. Now as she was heading towards her house, she took a turn the opposite side and went towards the library, better find a book on noise cancellation and teleporting, if their was such a jutsu.
As she walked through the shelfs of books she came to know there was a teleporting jutsu, well more of a super fast transportation jutsu, shunshin. Let's learn it! Shannaro!
Seems hard but okay!, grabbed two books about it and once she then got them checked, she headed straight to home.
"Tadaima"
There wasn't any reply, probably out to get stuff for their journey. Sighing, Sakura went to her bedroom.
She grabbed the books with the ninjutsu she was going to practice today and went out to her childhood hide out, it's been a while, huh?
Stacking the books in the corner, Sakura grabbed the book on shunshin. Opening the book she read the contents provided;
'Name: Shunshin no jutsu
Type: Ninjutsu.
Element: None.
Hand Seals: Tiger
Rank: D.
Description: Shunshin no Jutsu is a basic Ninjutsu technique. The ninja will appear and disappear in an instant, allowing them to retreat or attack suddenly. To facilitate the movement the ninja will often use nearby elements such as Mist, Fire, Sand or even leaves to mask their appearance or disappearance.'
Only one hand seal? That seems easy!
Standing up, Sakura headed outside of her spot and stood among the trees. She brought her hands up to the tiger seal and focused on the spot a few feet ahead of her.
According to the book, the shunshin is a technique used to get from one point to the other, as long as we have a clear destination and path in mind, so all she needed to do was focus on getting from A to B, for now.
Her face was scrunched up in a frown, sweat drops began to form on her forehead. God it's been two minutes already and nothing is happening.
It was true, she had formulated the required Chakra and was doing her seal correctly, so what am I doing wrong?
Her frowned deepened, she formulated the chakra yet again, this time more precisely and pulled.
It had happened rather quickly, one second she was frowning and sweating the next she was a foot ahead of her previous location, feeling very nauseous. Hey! I did it!. The victory was short lived, falling to her knees she emptied her stomach on the grassy ground.
It's no good if we end up puking at the end! We must practice more!!
Yeah yeah, I get it. It's a start nonetheless!
Training successful!
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Ah.. I had to edit it quite a few times! English isn't my first language ya see! So I hope the grammar isn't too bad!
I ended up with the decision of not making Sasuke fall for our blossom. They become friends 😃! Ikr sounds unbelievable but I own this au so I'll do what I want, whenever i want 😁
Anyway I kinda pitied him honestly, all pride no game at all, he had no friends, naruto was more of a rival, he become a friend in boruto which is like years later so that's why, I decided, on making Sakura, not hate him, before he leaves anyway, making them friends and all.
Lemme know what you thought of this chap! And is the length fine or should they be shorter?
I hope you enjoyed!