I opened my eyes hesitantly. I mean, in the past twelve hours, I became aware of the existence of ninjas and Narutos flying. Wouldn't you be a bit on the cautious side as well? An alarming sight greeted my eyes. I appeared to be in the middle of a forest, which was also a training ground. People that I assumed were ninjas were running around, sparring, some occasionally called away on a 'mission'.

"Sakura-chan, you're awake!" Naruto called in the middle of sparring with…what the hell, Kiba? Taking advantage of his diverted attention, Kiba shouted something about 'human beast clones' and charged. Too shocked to yell out a warning, I could only watch as Naruto was pummeled. And then he poofed in a cloud of smoke, and kicked Kiba on the head. Shuriken whizzed by my ears as I sped towards the ongoing spar.

"Would someone mind explaining what the fuck is going on?" I asked. No one listened, too wrapped up in their fights. My eyes twitched. On instinct, I punched at the blur that was Naruto and kicked at the one that was Kiba, steering clear of Akamaru. Both of the aforementioned idiots charged with testosterone dropped to the ground, nursing their injuries.

"Ow, Sakura-chan, I didn't think you'd catch on that fast," Kiba groaned. Naruto nodded in agreement besides him.

"Seriously, we're happy and all you get this crap, but did you have to mix chakra in?" Naruto added. The only thing I could do was stare blindly. How the hell did I use chakra? Sensing my puzzlement, Tenten pulled out a diagram. Wait a second…

"WHAT THE FUCK, TENTEN?" I shouted. Don't tell me she's another ninja, I begged Inner. Shut up and suck it up, Inner replied. My eyes automatically searched her for any clues leading to ninja-ism. I found none. Heaving a sigh in relief, I finally noticed that she was standing on a branch. That in itself was perfectly normal, as Tenten loved climbing trees, and had uncommonly good balance. What was wrong was the fact that she was standing on the branch with only her feet, upside down. Now, that just cues you something was up.

Pausing in unrolling the scroll, Tenten glanced at me, worried. I waved to her to go on. After all, better late than never, though I do believe I owe those so called 'best friends' of mine a serious beating.

"Chakra is the mixture of stamina and core energy…" she droned. Surprisingly, I found I already knew all of it. Okay, now I'm really freaked out.

"Now try to walk up this tree using Chakra," Tenten instructed. And so I did. And succeeded on the first try. Naruto stared at me like I was a Martian.

"Woah, how did you do that? It took me four hours to get!"

"Or is it the fact that you utterly lack self control?" I muttered. Unfortunately for me, Naruto had extremely good ears. He turned to an emo corner that appeared out of nowhere and sulked. I almost felt guilty. That is, I almost felt guilty until I remembered the whole ninja society thing he was concealing from me.

"We should probably bring her to see the Jiji," Naruto said, coming out of his temporary emo state. Ino stopped her spar with Shikamaru…(INO AND SHIKAMARU TOO) and slapped Naruto across the face.

"Don't call him that, Fishcake! Have some respect for a dude that could kill you in one second!" she screamed. Stuttering indignantly, Naruto dragged me by my arm towards a tall tower that stood far above the trees of the forest. I was too numb to question why I'd never heard a tower inside this forest before. I'd probably get an answer like 'Ninjutsu that can seal the vision' or something. There's only so much creepiness my brain can handle in one day. Before I knew it, we'd arrived.

"Jiji! Sakura Haruno is here!" he called. The odd looking hat that sat on the desk moved and revealed a snoring old man. That was 'jiji'? The one Ino was so afraid of (it takes a lot to scare Ino)?

Just as I was questioning whether or not my dear best friend was completely sane, the old man woke up.

"Sakura-san, I'm told that you have some powers," he said, because apparently, he could listen in to conversations in his sleep. Nervously, I wrung my hands as I struggled to find an answer.

"Oh, um, but I-"

"YOU SHOULD HAVE SEEN HER, JIJI! SHE GOT THE HANG OF CHAKRA EVEN QUICKER THAN HINATA!" Naruto shouted energetically, as he wasn't the type to miss sneaking his secret crush into a shouting match. It was quite pathetic how the two skirted around each other, blind to the other's affections. Wait…Hinata…chakra?

"OH MY GOD, EVEN HINATA KNEW BEFORE ME?" I screamed. There was a long pause.

"Can you repeat that, Sakura-chan? I think a few people 1000 km away didn't hear it," Naruto winced, holding his ears. I ignored him in favor of banging my head against the wall. Great. First day here, and the 'jiji' or leader, judging by his position, probably thought I'm insane and should be in an asylum.