The Color Pink
Disclaimer: I don't own any of the Naruto characters, I only wish I did.
Summary: Sakura is tired of being left behind, of being called weak, of crying her eyes out over things that cannot be undone. She wills her self up, and becomes strong, but will she ever be anything to the world other than the color pink?
Pairings: Sakura/Lee, eventual Naruto/Hinata, eventual Sasuke/OC, maybe others…
Rating: PG, for now anyways…
Prologue: No Longer Will I Be Weak
After Tsunade became the Godaime Hokage, things had begun straightening out.
Lee survived his surgery and went on to make a full recovery made a complete recovery.
Shortly after Sasuke had left to be with Orochimaru, Naruto had left with Jiraiya to train. Kakashi had rejoined ANBU when the boys had left, which had left Sakura all alone.
Finally after weeks of fruitlessly crying her eyes out, Sakura had come to a decision, she would become stronger. She would show them. She would show everyone that she, Haruno Sakura, the weakest member of team seven, was actually the strongest. Mustering up what little courage she had left, Sakura asked Tsunade to train her; Tsunade agreed.
Sakura excelled in the medical field. With her near perfect chakra control, photographic memory, and her caring nature, she quickly rose through the ranks.
By age 14, Sakura was chunin and one of the top three junior medics in Konoha.
Deciding that Sakura still needed additional training in her other shinobi skills, Tsunade assembled a group of shinobi to help train her:
Gai and Lee would train her in endurance and taijutsu.
Kakashi would train her copying her opponents moves as well as anticipating them.
Anko would train her in stealth and ninjutsu. She would challenge her mind, her way of thinking, her thought process.
Kurenai would train her in genjutsu.
TenTen would train with her for weapons practice, training her to use all available weapons to her advantage
Ibiki, would train her in the art of interrogation.
She, Tsunade, would still train her in the medical aspects as well as how to channel her chakra to use it as immense strength, but the others would hone all of her other skills to precision.
To be a well rounded shinobi, you must be able to use anything to get what you were told to retrieve or destroy.
Between working in the hospital, missions, training, eating, and attempting to get enough sleep, Sakura was busy.
By age seventeen she was jounin and by age nineteen she was ANBU.
Sakura was a force to be reckoned with. She was on par with the best of the best in her shinobi skills and had surpassed Tsunade in her medical skills. She'd become a survival expert, even under the absolute worst conditions.
Her knowledge of not just the human anatomy, but of more than 100 animal species, was unheard of.
Sakura was positively lethal as well; her ability to identify and correctly use every known poison was, well, scary…
Despite being so very good at everything she did, she wasn't much of a people person. She avoided all her old friends from the academy like they had the plague because they reminded her of the old days before her boys had left, and only associated with those who trained with her.
Her health was taking a toll due to her constant going, going, going; all the time. So like the good medic and Hokage she was, Tsunade ordered Sakura to take a vacation. For six weeks she wasn't allowed to enter the hospital unless she was paged, in case of emergency, and was forbidden from going on any missions. The only things she was allowed to do were train and relax.
'Here goes nothing,' Sakura thought as she left the Hokage's office after the announcement, 'I hope I won't die of boredom.'
Yeah! Prologue! I hope you will continue reading. Please RxR.
Terms to Know:
Hokageà shinobi leader of Konoha
ANBUà elite shinobi; rank above jounin but below sanin
Chakraà the energy needed by a ninja to perform jutsus. There are a lot of different chakra-types a ninja can mold and use. (Normal Chakra, Healing Chakra, Kyuubi's Chakra, Cursed Seal Chakra,& Gates Chakra are just a few.)
Chuninà level above genin but below jounin, can take solo missions
Taijutsuà art of the well trained body; substance
Genjutsuà art of illusion
Ninjutsuà shadow arts
Jouninà rank above chunin but below ANBU; often take solo missions; take on genin teams