Sakura really was about to bang her head against the wall. This was the second time this week that she was stuck with bedpan duty. This royally sucked. Nothing to it. Just her karma for hitting Naruto upside his head all those times when she was younger, it was finally getting back at her in one of the worst ways in her opinion.
She stretched her back muscles out from bending over so much tonight. She hated the grave yard shift but unfortunately she had drawn the short end of the stick.
"Sakura-san?" She jumped and smacked her head into the wall behind her. Fuck she didn't even hear his entrance. She really needed sleep. She looked over at the still impassive ANBU agent, not even her head injury was enough to make them show some kind of emotion.
"Yes?" She asked her left eye twitched slightly. She really just wanted to go home to her nice and comfy bed.
"Hokage-sama has requested your audience. Immediately." The last part was added after a pause of breath.
Now she really did want to bang her head repeatedly against the wall. She glanced at the clock. This was the worst punishment ever, and it was only three in the morning. Wait what? She did a double take on the clock, since when was Tsunade up any time before the sun had risen? "Thank you ANBU-san."
The ANBU nodded briefly before disappearing in a puff of smoke. She felt a permanent twitch settle itself into her eyebrow. This seriously was the worst day ever and it had only just begun.
She cleaned up her station as fast as possible before jumping out the nearest window. She had a meeting with a blonde woman with huge boobs she had to get to.
Tsunade yelled "Come in!" before Sakura's hand had ever connected to the wooden door. She sighed, either she was just really good at sensing at three ten in the morning or she had just been sitting there calling out "Come in!" every so often to hopefully get it right at one point.
Sakura might have been more reverent to her teacher but at this very moment she was tired and slightly cranky from bed pan duty. She grabbed the handle and let herself in and harshly closed the door behind her. Tsunade sat at her desk surrounded by papers and scrolls. Sympathy crawled into her veins at the sight but vanished when her eyes landed on the pile of empty Sake bottles that was next to the desk and the one bottle that Tsunade had in her grip. "What?" She deadpanned at her teachers huge grin.
The grin didn't falter at Sakura's demand. "I have a mission for you."
That did not explain the stupid grin she was wearing at the moment. "Okay." Sakura just had to be slightly cautious. She let her eyes look around the office for her other team members. There was no one. "Where's my team?"
"You won't have one." Tsunade tipped the bottle towards her bewildered student. "It's going to be an S-class solo mission."
"Oh, okay."
Tsunade grabbed a scroll from the top of her desk and held it out along with some powder. "It's an easy task just slip it in their food or drink, next thing you'll know is mother hood." Tsunade gave her an impish smile.
Sakura deadpanned, "What?"
"This is how we will get rid of the Akatsuki!" She gave a victory smirk to the blank faced pink haired female.
"Tsunade are you drunk?"
"What no." Sakura raised her eye brow. "I've been drinking all day trying to decide who would be best to go and the buzz wore off about an hour ago." Tsunade waved the bottle lightly, careful not to spill.
"Uh-huh." Her eye brow didn't lower.
"Let me explain this thing before you label me insane." Tsunade shook the scroll and powder package towards her. "The scroll contains the proper instructions but it is basically a jutsu that will turn the intended target into a child, preferably you learn it good enough that they come out below the age of six." Tsunade's eyes gleamed with excitement. "The powder is to make this jutsu permanent."
Sakura's eyebrows were high on her brow as she took this all in.
"It says it needs a decent amount of chakra for every use including precise chakra control." Tsunade sighed slightly. "I would have rather given this to some of my ANBU for safety issues-" She gave Sakura a look before she could protest. "It's not that I don't think you could handle this. I just want you safe and sound. Unfortunately you are the only one with the amount of chakra control needed for this besides myself. Even Shizune wouldn't be able to pull this off."
Sakura absorbed the information quietly, her facial expression was blank. She gave no indications of what she was thinking.
"I want you to know though, that I will not be sending you out as of yet." Tsunade leveled her calm gaze on Sakura's blank expression. "Your reserves aren't high enough to be able to preform this more than once. I want you to be able to use it at least four times in one go before I will send you out." Tsunade's poker face gave nothing away. "I want you to study both the scroll and the powder, you might have to make some more while you are away and knowing exactly how to make it will just better your chances at success. Also I have a volunteer who will allow you to practice on him."
Sakura's eyebrows furrowed in confusion, "Who?"
"Sai." Tsunade smiled at Sakura's obvious confusion. "I explained this situation to team seven and the replacements. Naruto understands that this has to be a hush hush situation, Sai volunteered to be your test subject. Even Yamato and Kakashi seemed contemplative about this situation. Those three missed most of their childhood." Tsunade gave a small pitied look before schooling her features back into the calm she had before. "Actually Naruto said if he didn't have to retrain himself he would have offered himself."
Sakura had a blank look about her but her eyes betrayed the sadness that gripped her heart strings just thinking about her teammates horrible backgrounds.
"Anyways, I want you to memorize the scroll and then contact me when you are ready enough for the first try. Also I will be allowing you access of the 'clan' library, hold on and I'll explain what that is," Sakura could feel the confusion marring her face, "You'll be looking for different ways to increase your Chakra reserves as fast as possible. The 'clan' library is the one that the Hokage's have made that has information from all the clans that have died out over the years, or were tied to the Hokage during their rein. At the moment it holds the Senju's, Sarutobi's, Uchiha's, Namikaze's, Uzumaki's, and then some of the Hyuuga's which had been donated solely for the purpose of having their scrolls along with the other great shinobi clan's."
Awe filled Sakura to the brim. So many different scrolls meant for just clans' people were being opened to her.
"Your first mission is to get your chakra reserves up. You'll have one month before we will begin testing with Sai. I want you ready by then. If your ready sooner-the better." Tsunade said seriously. "Inside the scroll is also the directions to the clan library."
Sakura bowed her head and took the scroll and powder away from Tsunade.
"Oh and one more thing." Tsunade called out after a quick swig of Sake.
Sakura looked wearily at her mentor.
"I'm taking you off of medical duty until this mission is complete."
Sakura's eyes widened, "What am I supposed to do about money?"
"You'll be on a paid leave for one month, after that we shall see." Tsunade dismissed her with a wave of her hand.
Sakura bowed and turned to walk away. Her eyebrows knitted together all over again, this was going to be the worst mission ever. She hurried home and settled herself in her bed. The scroll could wait until the morning.
This a trail fic. If you like it I will continue to update it. If not then well whatever right?
Questions:
1. Would you like Kakashi and Yamato to join the 'test subjects'?
2. Should Sai make it permanent?
I'd love to hear what you all think about this. Thanks!
Ja Ne