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Chapter 2
"Sakura come down for breakfast, you are going to be late for your training session". Osha's voice came upstairs to her room. It was the third day of training today, their team had been assigned a masked white hair man as their sensei named Kakashi. Even with his white hair she knew he was young and looked good-looking even though you couldn't see most of his face, at most in his late twenties. All of them had introduced themselves on the first day the teams had been assigned. Naruto had given a long rant about ramen while Sasuke had brooded like usual saying something about revenge. Her answer had been the weirdest, when asked she had said " I am Sakura haruno, my likes are the truth the whole truth while I dislike lying to your children at a young age and hiding the whole truth when you tell them the hidden secret from their childhood. My goal is to find the whole truth of that secret, Oh yeah my hobby is reading". All of them had looked her strangely especially their sensei since he thought she was the normal one, after that she had just dozed off. Getting out of her thoughts before she got late, she went downstairs and saw boiled eggs and tea for breakfast. Not really in the mood for eggs she quickly mumbled a quick excuse and skipped out of the front door before waiting for a reply.
On her way to the training ground seven, she was deep in thought when she bumped into someone. Whispering a quick sorry she attempted to move forward but stopped when the stranger called her name. It was 6:00am and it was mostly deserted in the streets so she became a little scared. But when she looked up, she saw the third Hokage standing there with a soft smile, she was surprised he even knew her name. He was known as being close to Naruto Uzumaki she didn't know why. Most of the students who had graduated with her this year were heirs to famous clans of leaf village. All the teachers had said that this year was a unique year and they had worked especially hard to hone these students. But she was from a civilian family, well from her father's side at least and she was nothing special to be remembered. Shaking her head out of her surprise, the hokage continued " I see you have been put on team with Uzumaki and Uchiha, are you on your way to your training? " Yes, Hokage Sama" she replied. "I see, would you mind taking a walk with me, Kakashi does not have the habit of showing up on time." Suspicious at first why the hokage would want to take a walk with her, she agreed and she continued on her way with him.
The initial walk was silent and Sakura checked his Chakra to see if it was someone using a transformation jutsu. She also swept her Chakra along the path in the woods which was quite far from the village to see if there were other ninjas around or if this was a trap. Still paranoid, she may not have any other skill but she was extremely skilled in Chakra manipulation and chakra control. It always came easy to her almost like it was in her blood. She heard a chuckle and she turned towards the third looking puzzled. "You have already checked your surrounding twice child, fear not as I am not some intruder here to kill you. You are just like your mother." Red bells went jingling in her head at the mention of her mother. Her mother was a kunoichi from the village of mist and how did he even know who her mother was. Everyone thought that Osha was her mother. Calm down Sakura, calm down, he must be talking about Osha who he knew from some indirect relation. Keeping that in mind she said cautiously "How do you know my mother Hokage Sama, she is a civilian who has not seen much of shinobis."The hokage emitted a light chuckle and replied " There is no need to hide anything from me young one, Kurhime was a famous kunoichi of the mist, her reputation proceeded her. I knew her personally."Shocked beyond her mind, Sakura was stunned not noticing the road ahead of her as she wandered off further into the forest. "What do you know about her? How did she die? How did she look?" She went into a furry of questions not holding her breath for even a moment. The Hokage smiled and spoke " Take a break child, your queries will be answered. Your mother was a Hunter ninja in mist. That equals to the skill of our anbu nin of leaf whom which I am sure you have heard of. She knew of the Anbu ninjas in her village, they were selected by the hokage and each one of them specialized highly in their skills. They only took orders directly from the hokage himself. He continued " She came to the hidden leaf village cause she wanted a new life away from the mist village. As you might know, mist village is a bloody cruel place to live in. She didn't wanted to give me any details though. She fell in love with your dad here and giving your dad's haruno history, I made her promise that she would remain as a civilian here to keep her identity confidential. While here she went with the code name Mabekusi but her real name is Kurihime. That's all I know, my dear, I don't know what she was running from or whom she wanted to escape but I gave her a place here and we both agreed that no one must know her real name except your father and me. She never gave me her last name saying that was the cause of her run, we hid her when she was pregnant and she gave birth in secrecy because she wanted no harm to come to you because of her. She loved you dearly Sakura and when she gave birth to you, I was there and I saw the look in her eyes which clearly portrayed her thoughts, she would protect you with her life." Thoughts whirled through Sakura's mind at the speed of a tornado, there were a million questions rising in her mind and she felt tears at the corners of her eyes. She wanted to cry, cry for the mother she never had, but the next words that came out of the hokage's mouth made her blood freeze." Sarutobi interrupted her before she could start with them all. " The next words I say must not leave this place, no one must know about it, not even your father." He cast a few hand seals and they were enveloped by earth and it was dark, Sakura was scared ,curious and tears were running down her eyes now. "You must know this, the hokage began that your mother's death was not from a sickness." Anger flowed through her veins "What do you mean" she said "Do you mean to say my father lied to me again?" she said hotly. " Calm down, child. Anger brings nothing but pain if not channeled correctly. Your father only told you the side of the story that he knew of. The truth is your mother hid all of it from him so he could stay protected. I investigated further and found something but the place is not right, neither is the time. You shall know soon, I have taken up much time and shall take my leave". Before she could muster up anything in this strange fury of events that had taken place just recently, he was gone. The earth vanished back into the ground and he disappeared in a whirlwind of leaves. She just stood there with a disheveled expression on her face not knowing what to do.
That day Sakura showed up to training with a shaken up baffled expression on her face. Her head was swirling with this new information and more importantly it's hidden parts. Her talking with the hokage and the walk and taken her deeper into the woods then she could have thought. It had taken her about a hour and a half to find her way back. She checked the time, it was 9:30. She hurried to the ground and she looked like she had died and came back to life."Oh, how nice of you join us up Sakura."Kakashi's voice greeted her. Everyone looked at her strangely like she had grown a third head. She realized she must have been late if even Kakashi was present who usually showed up three hours later. Sasuke regarded her with a emotionless expression and Naruto being the nice kid that he was asked her numerous questions "Is everything alright Sakura-chan? Did someone ambush you? I am going to kick that sorry bastard's ass." "No, everything is fine. My uncle was in the house and I had to show him around the village, it took a lot of time. Sorry for being late." She lied after a moment of thought. She knew that she wasn't a very good liar but Naruto bought it easily enough. Kakashi on the other hand regarded her with a quirked eye not believing her but not wanting to ponder on. Sasuke had already resumed throwing shuriken at the tree as target practice obviously not caring. "Very well Sakura, you may just sit down, we are almost finished with training and you look like you need to sit down." Kakashi said with a bored, laid back expression on his face, like he didn't care much about Sakura's training.
That snapped something in her mind. From the first day since there team was decided, it always seemed like Kakashi was much more interested in Sasuke. He had that look in his eyes that said that he wanted to make Sasuke his golden student, favoritism was not rare in teachers and she knew he was the uchiha prodigy. Hell, he even sounded more interested in Naruto , when it was her turn he always regarded her with a bored eye. Like she was the extra baggage of his team. She had never had the intention of becoming stronger, hell she was thinking of giving up the other day. But now, all that information was swirling around her head, her mother was running away from someone, she could not even say her last name for heaven's sake. And she had to hide who her mother really was so she wouldn't get harmed? She wasn't even sure if her mother even died a natural death. That brought tears at the corners of her eyes but she swallowed them down. She felt determination in her eyes, her mother was a hunter nin, she belonged to a part ninja family no one knew about. She felt new found courage and the need to become stronger. She felt so helpless right now, like she was capable of just standing there. She was going to find out what happened to her mother, she would bore her name and anyone who would try to harm her would be tore apart. She felt angry but the Hokage's words came to mind. "Anger brings nothing but pain if not channeled in the right direction." She knew it was a small step but she said "No. Rather loudly, everyone looked at her, Kakashi looked a little surprised, he must have thought she would have been happy with no training taking her for a fan girl obviously. "Very well, Naruto spar with Sakura. Sasuke your with me, since Sakura here showed up late and seems so enthusiastic to not miss training, we are gonna train for another 2 hours". No one seemed to mind, Naruto looked happy even. Sakura proceeded to a clearing with Naruto. She had always hated Naruto, he was still annoying to her but the main reason for hating him was that he always got in the way of her and Sasuke. But now he didn't seem half as bad, he still needed to keep quite some of the times but he wasn't bad at heart. She readied her almost non-existent shaky stance in opposition to Naruto's sure footed stance who looked reluctant to attack her obviously knowing she was weak even with his huge crush on her. But she had one thought in mind. Maybe it was time to get serious to protect those she loved and to never be a damsel in distress who relied on others for the truth! One thing was for sure though, it was gonna take a lot of hard work!
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