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Sakura glanced at the beautiful scenery. The well was exactly as she had pictured in her mind. She sat against the well, just like she had imagined before. The sunlight shone on her and she happily soaked it all in. The sun dogs that seemed to mix with the heavy, yet pure air. The flowers made a therapeutic fragrance. She felt at peace with her self despite how early it was. She started to hum the tune from the picture happily to complement her bliss.

Simultaneously as she finished the tune, a large splash came from the well. She got up to see who had thrown something.

"Hello? .... is anybody there?" her voice echoed but only silence replied. She walked around the well straining her eyes to see the slightest of movements.

"OW" she cried. She had ran into a sign that she didn't remember being there before. She stopped and read the sign. "Sound County, sacred well" then there was another sign right below it. "Condemned! Stay away from sacred ground!" she said as she read aloud. She decided to have herself a look-see, to investigate what had fallen into the well and why it was unfit for visitors. The pink hair preteen looked into the well.

"What?" there was no water in the well, but, then, how did she hear a splash noise from a dry well? She looked harder . . . there was an object in there.

She took it upon herself to see what it was, and started climbing down the well.

"Huh?" there was water splashing up against her foot. She looked down, but there was nothing. She reached down with her hand. She felt a liquid like water but didn't see a thing. She continued down, intrigued, until she was floating in the middle of the well.

"What a weird sensation." she said before she inhaled deeply then dived to the bottom. She got closer to the object. It was a stone in the shape of a roughened music note. She was fixated on the beauty of this object. As much as she wanted to stay down there, she was running short of air. She quickly grabbed the stone.

She surfaced and gasped for breath and then climbed out of the well. She rested against the wall of the well, breathing heavily. She examined the stone more carefully.

"Maturity? Huh? What does that mean?" she said as she peered at the carvings on the stone. She looked closer, barely being able to see what it said. 'Yes? ... No?'

"hrmm . . . I wonder what that means." She pondered for a while. Her face lit when an idea came. "Is it asking me, asking me if I wish to be more mature?" she thought about it. She did act childish sometimes, in which she acted then regretted it.

Without thinking 'ironically' about it she said "Yes, actually, I wish to be more mature" Then at that moment an explosion of strange feelings ran through her body. She was hot, then cold, pain, then pleasure; a wind seemed to swirl around her. Leaves swept around brushing softly against her. She felt her skin crawl. The stone that she had in her grasp seemed to be slowly absorbed by her body. She tried to scream in agony, but alas, nothing came out. She prayed that someone would help her. Anyone . . .

The wind finally died, and the leaves fell about her. She softly fell upon ground, throughly exhausted. She ached like nothing she had ever experienced. She forced her weary body to get up. Something was wrong with her. Her body felt different. She walked about 20 yards before her worn out body could no longer support her. She fell unconscious and collapsed on the earth.

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Sasuke's eyes squinted as he strained them. "Damn, what and annoyance." he muttered while searching the forest floor carefully. He saw a flash of pink hair off in the distance on the ground behind some bushes. He reached for his walkie talkie. "*ghr* this is Sasuke, I found her *ghr*"

"*ghr* Good work Sasuke." Kakashi's voice that sounded relieved, "show us your position by your 'grand fireball no jitsu' *ghr*" moments later he saw a fire blast streak through the sky not too far from him. He rushed though the woods. He saw Sasuke sitting in a tree, looked around and saw Sakura lying face down on the ground. He went to her. He paused. Something was different about her. She laid there in her night shirt with her panties showing. His heart beat slightly faster. He turned her over.

"Huh?" this was no little girl, but some how he knew this was Sakura. He sat there looking at the young woman. Even the sensei had to admit that Sakura was good looking maybe even sultry. He picked her up. Naruto just arrived.

"Late again baka." said Sasuke smartly.

Ignoring Sasuke's comment "Kaka-sensei? Is she all right?" asked Naruto who was very concerned.

Kakashi turned around with her in his arms "I don't know" he said trying keep his laid back appearance but was obviously worried.

Naruto paused, were his eyes deceiving him? He looked closer. It was like Sakura was all grown up. Then he came across her cute satin panties and had a nose bleed. There was a rustling of leaves. Kakashi and Sasuke headed toward camp. "Choto matte!" Naruto yelled the best he could while holding his nose.

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Back at camp Kakashi ordered the boys to bring Sakura's sleeping bag near the camp fire. Sasuke brought it out, and laid it out near the fire. The boys didn't exactly know why he was doing this. Kakashi could feel that she was soaked through, but he could not see a sign of even her hair or clothing being damp.

He gently laid her in her sleeping bag and covered her up. He too felt that some how she changed but not exactly different in anyway, like he was looking at the future, but her big physical change was bothering him.

He got up. Naruto was taking too long to come out of her tent. He poked his head in there.

"Ow!" it was Naruto, he had a funny drooling face as he was looking through her bag so the sensei gave him a well deserved bonk on the head.

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They all were out side sitting by the fire in silence. The sensei was obviously irritated.

"Um sensei," said Naruto while still rubbing his sore head. Kakashi looked up with stern face, which is quite contrary to his usual laid back expression. "Why did you place Sakura near the fire in her sleeping bag . . . Won't she over heat?"

"Well Naruto, feel the sleeves of my shirt." Kakashi simply replied. Even Sasuke wondered what this had to do with anything. So Naruto did. He soon discovered that they were soaking wet, yet they were not.

"I didn't want her to catch a cold, and I really don't feel like undressing her in her present state." With that statement there was the slightest hint of a blush that appeared on his face.

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Sakura blinked slowly. She saw tree tops. The world started to come into focus. She tried to get up and let out a sharp whimper. Her body still ached extensively all over. Kakashi was asleep propped up on a log next to her. Coals glowed in the dimming twilight. She had difficulty getting up and then she hit a specific angle that the rest of her body didn't agree with.

"Ah!" she cried in pain. Her hands immediately rose to her mouth. She didn't want Kakashi to see her with her night shirt on. In doing so she hurt herself even more.

Kakashi came to. He looked up at Sakura who had her hands covering her mouth with a visible expression of pain. He got up immediately grasped her shoulders and asked "What's wrong Sakura?!?"

She started to cry. "Your hurting me" He realized that he was holding her shoulders and let go.

"I sorry sensei, Im really in pain . . . I don't know how . . . and all because I got lost and . . . I..." Her pain and her mental state set her off to sobbing. He gently sat her on a log by the fire and comforted her in his arms until she settled down. She wiped her eyes, and took a deep breath. She felt a little better and saw that he was starting to bring the fire up again.

All of a sudden Sakura gave a little squeak which broke the silence. Kakashi turned to see what was wrong. She was looking at her body with a face of complete shock. "When did I get these?!?" she said when she discovered her chest. She felt her hips, then she realized that her shirt that use to go down mid-thigh is now and now just barely below her hips which left her panties exposed. Kakashi felt a little weak when she was examining herself.

"Kaka-sensei?!?!" Sakura pleaded wanting to know what happened to her body.

"That is the way you were when we found you." he simply stated. "I was wanting to know myself . . . Eh,tell me exactly what happened I might be able to have figured it out." Even though in his mind he doubted it.

Sakura started from the very beginning making sure not to be leaving out any important details.

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