A/N: There's going to be two more 'introductory' chapters, one I'll post in three days and the next three days after that, where you'll all see the beginning changes to Team 7. Then, the chapters will start getting longer, so weekly to every other week updates. Enjoy.
#2: Sakura Stifles Cackles
Haruno Sakura felt the strong urge to cackle madly, despite being tired as hell, and it was not because of her Inner. In fact, she hadn't heard from her Inner in days, but she wasn't overly worried about the missing voice. Inner can take care of herself. Sakura yawned. She had stayed up late reading a book on the Sannin of Konoha, and had fallen asleep after finishing the section on Orochimaru. Which was pretty much the entire book itself since the traitorous Sannin had done the most messed up stuff she'd ever heard of. And then, when she awoke to the sound of her alarm ringing loudly at five in the morning, she just couldn't help but feel the urge to go out an dissect an innocent animal. Which would explain why she was currently in her parent's basement, cutting open a raccoon, all while trying to stifle the mad cackles that threatened to escape her.
"Sakura, honey, you're going to be late!" Her mother called down to her, making Sakura pause. Her make-shift scalpel (which was really just a butter-knife she had sharpened with a kunai) was poised to cut into the raccoon's eyes, in a horribly butchered form of lobotomy. 'Late? For what?' Sakura thought back to yesterday as she put the scalpel off to the side of the dissection area. 'Oh yeah! The second Genin test that Kakashi-sensei was gonna give us!' She sighed and pulled a white sheet over the dead animal.
"Coming mum!" She called up, as she began to put all of her tools away. She stuffed everything into a large knapsack before shunting said knapsack to the very back of the basement. She then meandered up to the kitchen, where she snagged a piece of toast off the table.
"Sakura, what were you using the basement for?" Her father asked, folding his newspaper. Sakura blinked and cocked her head to the side innocently.
"Nothing." Her father raised a brow, and his eyes flicked down to her dress.
"Uh-huh. Hun, if your gonna dissect animals, try not to get blood everywhere, okay?" Sakura blushed as she glanced down and spotted a large bloodstain. "And next time, ask your mother for tips. She was quite the... scientist, back in the day..."