Part 1: The First Three Weeks & Day 22
Sakura woke up when her alarm clock went off at 6:00 a.m. Jumping up, Sakura went to her closet and grabbed her hospital uniform before she realized today was day one of her six week vacation.
Sighing, Sakura put the uniform back in her closet before getting into the shower. Fifteen minutes later she emerged wrapped in a fluffy pink towel. Drying off she dressed in a short, sleeveless, red Chinese dress that came to mid-thigh with sakura petals adorning the bottom left corner, gold embroidery, and side splits that came to her hips.
Knee length black spandex shorts with gold embroidery were on underneath.
'Poofing' to her training ground, Sakura went to work on her taijutsu. Creating five kage bushins, she began fighting them. An hour later, after she had finally beaten her last kage bushin, Lee arrived. Taking up her stance once again, Sakura launched into a
mock battle with Lee after he'd warmed up.
Fighting with Lee was hard work. When she'd begun training with him and Gai, she'd been given a set of weighted leg warmers and arm bracers. She was up to 100 pounds on each leg and 50 on each arm, Lee's weights were much heavier though. If Lee ever took off his weights to battle her, she'd be hard pressed to beat him. Yeah, he was that good. As a taijutsu master, having a well trained body was his specialty.
Around noon, they broke for lunch and went to Ichikaru's to eat. After a lunch of miso ramen (Sakura) and BBQ pork (Lee), they parted ways.
Sakura then met up with Kakashi and worked on her evasion tatics until late evening.
The next day she met up with Anko for early morning training, hooked up with Kurenai for training over lunch, and worked on weapons with TenTen until late evening.
Day three was dedicated solely to Ibiki, interrogations lengths were varied, but always hard and painful, which is why Ibiki got a whole day.
It continued like this for the first three weeks of her 'vacation'. On day twenty-two, Sakura woke up later than normal. Ibiki's session had lasted until four in the morning, so she'd slept in until 11:00 a.m.
Getting up, Sakura put on a short, sleeveless, blue Chinese dress that came to mid-thigh with sakura petals adorning the bottom left corner, silver embroidery, and side splits that came to her hips. Knee length pink spandex shorts with silver embroidery were on underneath. Walking down the hallway to her front door, she saw that a slip of paper had been slid underneath her door.
Picking it up and reading it Sakura froze. Sasuke and Naruto were back. The paper said she was to report to the Hokage monument by 12:00 p.m. Glancing at her watch, 11:30 a.m., she decided she still had enough time to make it there before noon. Dashing out her door, Sakura practically flew toward the monument. All anyone could see of her was a pink and blue blur. Coming to a complete stop mere inches from Lee, she froze in place.
Tsunade, Jiraiya, Kakashi, Kurenai, Gai, Lee, Neji, TenTen, Shikamaru, Chouji, Ino, Shino, Kiba, Hinata, Sasuke and Naruto were all there. She'd been noticed by Naruto the instant she'd stopped. He broke out in a huge and sappy grin as he made his way over to her.
"Sakura-chan! I really missed y—," Naruto never finished his sentenced.
Sakura's fist had connected with the side of his head hard enough to knock him out, cold. Turning toward Sasuke, Sakura put on her genin days' face,
"Sasuke-kun," Sakura said sweetly,
"Nani ka?" Sasuke said smirking
"Take this you teme," Sakura yelled as she slammed her fist into his stomach.
The effects of her punch sent him flying backwards twenty-five feet into a tree effectively knocking him out, among other things. Turning around and storming off, Sakura'd left as abruptly as she had arrived. Lee paused for a moment, before running off to catch up with her.
The rookie nine, minus team seven (two members being incapacitated by the third), were left staring after her in shock. Sure, they'd known how fast she managed to out-rank the majority of them, but the display of power she'd just shown, was totally unexpected. This new side of Sakura was scary, if not frightening.
Shaking her head and sighing, Tsunade motioned toward Kakashi and Jiraiya,
"Bring Sasuke and Naruto to my office as soon as they wake up."
Chapter one! Hope you're enjoying the story thus far. Please RxR.
Terms to Know:
Taijutsu art of the well trained body; substance
Genjutsu art of illusion
-chan close female friend; usually a relative or best friend
-kun male honorific; used between close friends
Nani ka What
Teme bastard; asshole
Kage Bunshin Shadow Clone