It was as five o'clock in the flipping morning when Sakura was rudely woken up from a peaceful sleep. Kong was shaking her non stop until she woke up, which was after six rough shakes. She had questioned why she had to get up so early and Kong gave her an answer she didn't want to hear. "Sakura, you have pink hair and green eyes, you'll stick out like a banana, and to make it worse you're a girl so you will look fagil in the future. You have to work harder to be a great ninja so let's get started." He stated as Sakura was getting ready, however once she pulled out her spare clothes from her bag Kong stopped her. "What do you think you're doing?"
"Getting ready like you told me to."
"Well that's not how you're going to get ready anymore. You're a ninja in training so you need to be able to move at all times so no clothes anymore or shoes, anyways it goes along to what you agreed to last night."
"So you want me to train naked then?!" She question with a high voice and red face.
"I know you are a modest human so I got you bandages from Kana and she gave me this skirt in hopes you would feel comfortable."
Sakura awkwardly look at him until he turned around. She knew how to do rap herself cause she read it in a medic book. Once she was done with rapping her chest and bottom she looked at the skirt, that was basically a loincloth. It was just two red sheets with white on the edges that cover the front and back but not the sides. She walked up to Kong once she was done and climb on his back to start training.
He had taken her to a clearing told her that they would not be disturbed or watched. He was was first teaching her how to walk like them, she had manage to perfect in two hours and then he put weights on her ankles and wrists, each ten pounds. He made her run in all fours for thirty minutes and another thirty minutes on her two feet and when she thought it was all over he put ten more pounds on her. He said to try and keep up with him and that he wants her on all fours for the rest of the day and if she go up to walk on her two legs he wouldn't take her up the tree when they have to go to bed. Sakura called out about how unfair that was and if she can at least take a break before she tries to keep up with his 'walking', knowing she would have to run to catch up to him.
"The ninja life is unfair, people play dirty so you got to be ready for anything but you will take a break at Iroh's alright." He said as he got ready to 'walk'.
Sakura just groan but follow his example. After that he took of at slow pace, she caught up pretty well just only four steps away, so he speed it up a bit. They reached Iroh a little after that, he was in a temple like building that had vines cover it as well. As they enter she saw lots of books and scrolls of different size and soon the albino chimpanzee came in view. Kong spoke as he saw him. "Morning lroh, I've done with Sakura's training for the morning, so I will leave her with you now. Tell me if she's not walking on all of her fours. I am going hunting for breakfast do you want anything?"
"Anything will be fine Kong." Iroh said as he examine Sakura. She was on all fours facing him but turned to Kong, smiled, and waved bye to him, then turned back at him and said morning Iroh-sensei. 'This girl sure is full of surprises', they all thought her would still be grieving about her parents and afraid of them, but nope here she was smiling at him. He wasn't the wisest of all without being curious, but he knew when to be curious and when not to ask things, but with Sakura he couldn't tell. So he took the risk. "Little one are you not afraid of us, are you not grieving?"
Her eyes went sorrowful and she had a small smile. "Yes sensei I'm grieving but I know my parents don't want me sad for the rest of my life, they probably wanted me to continue their merchant but I dream of being a ninja, and I'm not afraid of you guys cause when Kong first looked at me his eyes were so gentle and he gave me this opportunity and when he first introduce you guys he said family which mean I can trust you all."
He look pleased with her answer, but he had another question. "So why are you on all fours and have little cloths on?"
Sakura blushed at that remark. "Well Kong said that since I am his student now he wants me to forget my culture for now and learn his and that since I am a ninja in training I need to be able to move with easy access."
"Ah, so he wants you to be like us. Well I know what to teach you now. Sakura you will learn how to read body language and our sound. We all do it so we don't have to talk, especially when humans are around, and after, we will see how high your reading is." Iroh said and then a puff of smoke was in his place, when it all clear Iroh was there but only the size of a full grown man.
"Whoa, how did you do that Iroh-sensei?!"
"Child, all five of us can change, we can become smaller or bigger. We mostly go bigger in serious battles."
"Whoa, that's so cool Iroh-sensei."
As the years past, Sakura became very close to the five heads, however she was the most closest too Kong, she even call him father at times. She manage to get Kong and Kana together after her seventh birthday, which pleased them and the whole clan. She was able to lift anything under two hundred and seventy five pounds on each wrist and ankle with no problems. As well as walk, climb, hunt, talk, understand body language, and have instinct like the rest of the monkeys and apes fluently by the age of seven. Along the second year some of the other monkeys and apes, slowly, accepted her as one of them which pleased the big five. Since she was a fast learner she was able to master her senseis skill after three years, instead of three and a half years (so she would be ten). Kong had announced soon after that it was time to find out her elements. It was as a surprise to find out she had two; lightning and earth. However, after Kana examine her chakra core she said that there might be another one forming. Kong then thought her all he knew of those two elements and she manage to master it before she was eleven, as he had hoped.
On her eleventh birthday Kong decided that it was time. It was a celebration everyone was at and Louie was the host since he through the greatest parties. However, once it was over, they met in the meeting room and there was a serious atmosphere around them. Kong was the first to speak in what seemed forever to Sakura. "Do you remember the first time we met and you had ask why the monkey and ape clan was not heard of?" Seeing her head nod curiously he began again. "Well that is because we were betrayed by humans. When my father was head a human came to us asking to be a student. They took him in and thought him all they could, but when they couldn't teach him anymore he grew angry saying that there is that they're just hiding it. The argument grew violent and in the end he manage to kill Rafiki's mother and my father but in the end he died, but we never trusted humans again. That was almost two hundred years ago, but when I saw you... You were just a child and could easily die and then I thought we could teach you not to be like those kind of humans, power hungry, greedy people. So I took you in and I have never been so happy to have."
Sakura had a little tear come down in the corner of her eye as she ran to him and hug him saying thank you a million times. After she had calm down he took the chance to take lead again. "Sakura another reason you're here is to make a contract with you."
Sakura grow surprise at this, she never thought she would make a contract with them, since she saw them as family. When a scroll came to view, Kong open it to see it was blank, so she would be the first. She signed it and it was official. However, a gloomy atmosphere came this time and Iroh took lead this time. "Sakura you have been living with us for five years now, and we have nothing to teach at the moment but we think it's time that you go back to your culture, to your village, so you can be the greatest ninja ever. You can take one monkey or ape with you if you like to, and we would like updates once in a while."
Sakura grow quiet, she knew this was coming some day, but she just didn't want to go. She gave a sigh before speaking with hope. "Okay, but can we all sleep together before I leave, please?"
They all agree with amusement at the puppy dog face she pulled, so they slept in the meeting room with her for one last time before she left.