"Alright Sakura we have two months to make you into a bad ass shinobi. So here's the first thing I want to get out of the way." Kushina took out a piece of chakra paper from her pouch.
"This is a chakra paper, it tell you your chakra nature. Every person has a chakra nature to their chakra. As you can probably guess. A person has one of the five basic elements as their chakra nature. But a person isn't limited to only one. Some people have two either indicating that they have primary and secondary. Or that they have some sort of bloodline. It's common for most chunin to have developed a second element. While a jounin is expected to have mastered two elements. Although I said expected, it's not necessarily a requirement. Now don't get to thinking that a person can only perform ninjutsu related to their chakra nature. A shinobi can perform a jutsu from any of the five elements. But it's easier to learn jutsu's of your element." Kushina explained as she handed Sakura the paper.
Sakura took it and asked. "How will I know which one I have?"
"I was just getting to that. If it's fire, the paper will burn. Water, the paper will become soaked. Wind, it will split in half. Earth, it will turn into dirt and crumble then lightning it will crinkle. Just channel your chakra into the paper." Kushina told her.
The pinkette did as she was told. She simply channeled her chakra into the paper. However, neither her or Kushina were prepared for the interested results she got.
The paper cut vertically into four pieces. 2 pieces turned damp while the other two turned into dirt then crumbled. The two wet pieces were then sliced into multiple mini pieces.
Neither one of them said a word as Sakura was trying to figure out what happened. She looked up to see Kushina staring at her with her jaw hanging looking at her in disbelief.
"Uhh...so what does that mean?" Sakura asked trying to break the silence.
"Well well Sakura it seems there's more to you than I can even began to imagine. Your primary element is wind which is very rare. Konoha doesn't have many wind users except for me and Asuma Sarutobi. However you seem to have a unnatural strong affinity to wind. What's also shocking is that you have water and earth. Which both are surprisingly equal. Making them a tie for your secondary. It's such a shame that an idiot like Kakashi did not try to help you unleash your potential. To think that a genin. A fucking genin only a couple months out of the academy has 3 elements." The red head said.
"B-But I don't understand how? I'm just a regular civilian child. No one in my family has any history of being a shinobi. Trust me I asked my parents many times about this." Sakura voiced a bit confused.
"Looks like you're the odd one out of the bunch then. Hell not even most jounin have three elements. I'm happy for you Sakura." Kushina beamed.
"How many elements do you have?" Sakura asked.
"I have mastered all five, me and the old man both have done so. But when I first started out. I only had two which were wind and water. You can develop affinities to other elements if you practice jutsu that involves an element you don't have. As well it can just develop over time." The red head explained.
"I see." Sakura replied.
"Ok now I want to make a many shadow clones as you can. But only make enough to where you still fully function." Kushina told her.
Sakura nodded then performed some hand signs. She focus her chakra and felt out how much chakra she should use without exhausting herself.
To Kushina's surprise 10 clones popped into existence.
"That's as many as I can make without feeling tired." Sakura said.
'I was expecting 3 not 10. Seems like her chakra reserves increased more than I thought.' The red head thought.
"Good seems like the seal is working real nicely if you can already make 10 clones without feeling tired. Also in case you forgot. I put a gravity seal on you too. The only reason you aren't feeling it's strain is because your body adjusted to the pressure while you were sleep. Ok so I'm going to make a clone to lead you guys to the library in the house. I want you 10 to go find books and scrolls on these subjects. Fuinjutsu, the human body, nature manipulation of the five elements, kenjutsu 101, assassinations, ninjutsu, genjutsu, taijutsu, shinobi history of the great five nations and plants." Kushina instructed as she made a clone of her own. All of the clones left to go to the library.
"Umm Kushina are you sure I'll be able to handle the mental strain?" Sakura asked nervously.
"On your own? No but with me at your side. I'll be sorting out your memories with a jutsu of mine once I tell you to dispel them. For the next your clones are going to be deep into the books. I'm making you study many things. Trust me you'll thank me for it eventually." Kushina answered honestly.
"Well I did always love studying and learning new things so I don't mind. My former best friend Ino always did call me a bookworm. Plus I have a near perfect memory. Sakura said.
"Bookworm indeed, ok so we are going to focus on building your stamina and taijutsu. I'm going to keep refilling your stamina and reserves until I think we've trained enough. Oh before I forget, make one more clone to go to the hospital. Tsunade is waiting to begin your medical ninjutsu training. You'll meet Genma today most likely.
Sakura wanted to shriek in excitement. She was learning under Kushina Uzumaki and Tsunade Senju. Life was really looking on the upside for her.
"Thank you for your help Kushina-chan." Sakura said.
Kushina waved her off. "Don't worry about it, if you want to repay me in some way do it by becoming an excellent shinobi. In a month I'm going to be taking you on a mission to get your first kill out of the way. So be prepared."
Sakura nodded, even though she didn't know how to feel about doing her first kill. She knew killing was apart of being a ninja. She had to accept that fact.
The training was started by them running around the village. Kushina normally does a warm up of running around the village 10 times when she starts her daily training. She ran at the same pace as Sakura for now. By the third lap, Sakura was breathing heavy but kept running. Kushina would refill her stamina only once so far.
Once they were done with running. They were met with Genma and Tsunade at their home waiting for them.
Sakura introduced herself nervously to them. After chatting with them a bit. Kushina led them to her training ground.
Ok Sakura-chan, I'm sure you were taught how to throw correct punches and kicks right?" Kushina asked.
Sakura nodded. "Good I want you to practice punching and kicking a tree. We'll be observing your form then afterwards we are all going to spar with you one at a time." Kushina informed her.
The rosette paled at the thought of fighting those three. Unfortunately she didn't have a choice. While she was taking her fearless approach to the shinobi life seriously. She wasn't stupid enough to delude herself into thinking she has a slight chance of lasting against any of them. Not to mention, something in her head screamed at her that Kushina was going to put her through the wire in their spar.
"Hai." She responded then walked over to a tree. She got into the stance she learned from the academy. Taijustu really wasn't her forte. But she was knew how to really punch from her former Sasuke fan girl club days. Some girls would try to test her so they could take her spot as the number 1 Sasuke fan girl. Sadly they all failed since Sakura knew she had a temper. She would punch them if they really pissed her off. Some boys would also try to ask her out. Most of the time, she would politely decline them. The other times she had to hit the boys who tried to get too comfortable with her.
Sakura problem was she didn't really put an effort into developing her shinobi skills at a young age. Sure she knew it was Kakashi's job to actually improve her skills from the time their team formed. He purposely neglected her for her teammates only teaching her teamwork exercises and tree walking. But it was her job while she was in the academy to make sure she was physically and mentally prepared to actually be ready to become a shinobi. A genin at that. She was highly unprepared for the lifestyle. Being with a shitty team, being absolutely useless in their first real mission and just pathetic overall made her realize this. That's why she vowed to get stronger.
She started punching and kicking the tree. Each kick just feeling a bit foreign to her since she was not used to doing this. Also felt like her punches are lacking in something. Sakura doesn't realizes but her punches are real strong once she's angry.
The three other shinobi who were watching the distance were having a conversation of their own.
"So what brought you two over here?" Kushina asked.
"Pinky was passed out before she noticed I was there yesterday. So I decided to come introduce myself again before I get called for a mission." Genma replied.
"I want to see this little civilian girl that you were going on about so strongly last night. After all I am teaching her medical ninjutsu." Tsunade voiced.
"What about the hospital?" Kushina wondered.
"Shizune is there running everything in my place. If things get too overwhelming then my shadow clone I left back will dispel informing me." The blonde answered.
"Hm her punches aren't half bad. You can tell she isn't used to using her legs for kick though." Genma remarked.
"Well her records state that taijutsu isn't one of her strong points. She's a genjutsu type so it's not surprising. It won't take long for her to be comfortable with fighting." Kushina said.
Sakura was constantly throwing punch after punch and kick after kick. The pinkette frustration were peaking. All of her punches still didn't feel right no matter how hard she tried to punch. At some point, she gave up on using her legs to kick. As her frustrations were building up, she started remembering memories of her being useless and pathetic. It was really bothering her for some reason. Then she heard her teammates voices.
"You always going to be in the way Sakura."
"Hey Ugly, can I draw use your forehead as inspiration for my drawing?"
"Maa Sakura, I have nothing to really teach you right now."
"Stop asking me out on dates. You're annoying, I will never go out with a useless girl like you. Seriously you why do you even try?"
"Ugly how did you even become a ninja?"
"Sakura stop being annoying to your teammates."
"A civilian girl like you won't last long in this lifestyle Sakura. You're too weak to do anything."
Little did the pinkette know, she had tears streaming down her emerald eyes. Sakura narrowed her eyes in absolute anger. Never in her life has she felt so angry. Angry at the world for taking her parents away. Angry at her team for being assholes. Angry at herself for her own flaws. Just angry overall.
The next punch Sakura threw at the tree. She was in perfect form of throwing a strong punch. She threw her body weight with her hips. Squeezed her muscles in her right arm and her fist tightened. Her chakra flared due to her emotional state. She was also subconsciously channeling her chakra into her fist at a single point.
"SHUT THE HELL UP! SHAAAANNNNNAAAARRROOOOOO!" Sakura screamed in rage.
When her fist made contact with the tree. It crumbled into pieces from Sakura's monstrous strength. The pinkette had felt her chakra that was built up in her at her fist released on impact. An epiphany had hit her. She was breathing a bit heavy from her emotional outburst. Really surprised and embarrassed that it happened so unexpectedly.
She wasn't the only one surprised as those who were watching from the sidelines were shocked.
"Hey Kushina are you sure this girl is a civilian child?" Genma asked with an stupefied expression.
"Positive, well looks like we've discovered an Tsunade junior. I don't know what made her to yell out like that. But I felt her chakra spike. Her raw strength is really impressive but to be able to channel chakra into a single point and perfectly do it on her first try is nothing short of astonishing. Whether it happened subconsciously or not." Kushina deducted with amusement and happiness. She was going to have some much fun with Sakura in her life now.
Tsunade didn't even know what to say. A mere civilian child was able to use her strength technique at a younger age than Tsunade herself. She no longer held any doubts about the girl. "Kushina you're preparing her for the chunin exams right?" She asked.
The red head nodded. "Hell yeah, I'm preparing her for more than that. I'm gonna prepare her to be my partner in battle."
Tsunade smirked. "Very well then. Sakura can you please come here." She called out.
Sakura walked back looking confused and somewhat excited. "Hai Tsunade-sama?"
"You have a lot of potential kid. I see why Kushina insisted on me teaching you medical ninjutsu. Well I'm also going to be teaching you my strength technique. That punch you just did was exactly my technique. To focus chakra into a single point into the fist. Then released it on impact causing massive destruction. I would've been impressed if you simply put a dent in that tree. But you actually made it crumble into pieces. With some practice, you will be leveling battle fields in no time. Which is what I want you to be able to do by the time the exams start. So when I'm not training your clone in medical ninjutsu. This is where I will be training the real you in my other techniques." Tsunade told her.
Sakura couldn't died of happiness right there and then.
For the whole rest of the month, Sakura was dragged to hell and back then back to hell again. Kushina was not lying about the training potentially killing her. The pinkette was forced to run 10 times around the village 6 days out of the week. Kushina increased the her gravity seal to level 2 during the second week of the month. Sakura was forced to fight Kushina as if she was trying to kill her. Because Kushina told her she wasn't holding any punches. That the only way Sakura will truly improve her fighting style quickly. She would have to be put in life or death situations. That led to Kushina beating the living hell out of her. Luckily for Sakura, she surprisingly had some good instincts. They helped her out quite a lot when she would feel the rush of battle travel through her veins. Sparring with Tsunade was similar because Tsunade told Sakura she needed to dodge at all cost. A medical ninja cannot afford to be injured in case their a comrade who needs healing. Even though she wasn't going to be a true full fledge medical ninja. The advice was still helpful.
Genma was the least harshest in their sparring. But he did give her a scroll out taijutsu moves to incorporate into her baseless taijutsu style. Sakura also liked Genna's laid back personality a lot better than Kakashi's. It helped that Genma did not read porn in public. The shadows clones were a massive help to improving her skills.
She was able to study various subjects. Being a bookworm, made her love gaining knowledge. So it wasn't a surprise when she taken in a few favorites. Fuinjutsu, wind and water nature manipulation and assassination.
Kushina was surprised when Sakura told her those were her favorites. She assumed the rosette wouldn't be into assassination at all. Fuinjutsu she was excited about because many shinobi don't use the art. Nature manipulation wasn't too surprising. Kushina expected her to take a stronger liking into genjutsu and medical ninjutsu since she is a genjutsu type.
During the month both Kushina and Sakura developed a close bond. Considering they spent every day together it was expected. Sakura was immensely grateful to Kushina. So she wanted to make her proud and always stick by her side. Kushina loved her company. Sakura had a special place in her heart. Kushina considered her precious to her. She wanted to see Sakura rise to the top. At the rate the pinkette was developing. Kushina knew that she would and the chunin exams is where she will make her name be known in the ninja world.
Tsunade and Sakura also have gotten much closer. In some ways to Tsunade, the rosette was like her youngest daughter. Sakura temper was very similar to hers. Add to the fact that she was a naturally in the medical field and could use her strength technique. Tsunade couldn't help but become attached to Sakura. It's similar for Sakura as well. She enjoyed learning from Tsunade. The slug princess was very caring like Kushina. She had many stories from the second and third great shinobi war to share. Tsunade told her off the depression she went through from losing her loved ones. The enemies she defeated. How outclassed her and her former teammates were against Hanzo the salamander. For some unexplainable reason, Tsunade spilled her whole life story to Sakura.
It was a joy to listen to for Sakura because it answered some questions she had when she read books about the history of the shinobi world.
Speaking of history, the more she learned about her own villages history. Sakura developed a huge appreciation for the second hokage, Tobirama Senju. He is the reason why konoha has a military system that led them to become the strongest of the five great villages. He was the one who established the academy to teach children from a young age who either wanted to become a shinobi or had the talent to. That isn't to say the first hokage didn't impact the village greatly. It's just that his younger brother made a greater impact in her opinion.
Genma also took a liking into Sakura. He treated her as a younger sister. Sakura would some times pout childishly when Genma would tease her. Though eventually she started to throw banter back at him the more time she spent around him, Tsunade and especially Kushina.
During the month, Sakura also practiced her kenjutsu skills. While it was a slow process, she is improving thanks to fighting against two high level shinobi. Fuinjutsu was so interesting to her. It was the subject she spent most of her free time on. Also the subject she uses more than clone to study. She always had good handwriting. So perfecting her calligraphy skills wasn't the most difficult thing in the world. It was exciting learning about seals. But she loved drawing them. Kushina helped out whenever she had a question about any particular seal. Sakura by the end of the first month was able to make every beginner seal and some intermediate ones. Mostly thanks to shadow clones of course.
Genjutsu went at a fair pace. Considering she wasn't that interested in it. She was able to learn three genjutsu techniques. A part of her considered making her own at some point. The one thing Sakura did struggle with was earth manipulation. She had the least practice with it out of her three affinities. Because she focused more on wind and water. Sakura learned practiced her affinities by trying to use her chakra to make the water move. She focused her strongest affinity wind by cutting leafs in half. It also helped that, Kushina led her to a mini water fall outside of the village. She practiced splitting the water with her wind chakra. While trying for make waves using her water chakra. She also tried forcing water to form around her hand as an exercise. It was much easier than trying to makes waves. She learned from books and Tsunade about the second hokage being able to draw water out from thin air. So she decided to practice that to. Even though she did not know how to really go by it. She just tried to focus drawing water out of the air by using what little training she had using her water chakra. She had taken a liking into mediation.
To her surprise, whenever she tried to focus her wind chakra through her body. A slight breeze come out of her. The first time it happened, she was excited. She told Kushina about it. The red head was also surprised to see it. Kushina told Sakura to keep practicing it to see how far she could go with it.
The second month is where her training took a step to the next level. If she thought things were intense before. She surely changed her mind. Kushina and Tsunade took their sparring sessions with her more seriously. Now that she was used to having injuries and had a higher pain tolerance. Sakura saw her life flash before he eyes many times. Especially when Kushina would use her large reserves to spit ninjutsu at her multiple times. Sakura had to fight for her life now. That's the message her two role models sent her. So she fought back as hard as she could with the intent to kill. At least twice a week she would fight then in a handicap. It was to get used to fighting multiple enemies at once.
Sakura's strength, speed, hand signs speed, accuracy, battle tactics, sword skills and so on all took a huge leap the second month of her training. She was ever so greatly for Kushina using Kurama's purified chakra to heal her along the way. An interesting development happened with her chakra reserves and potency. Due to Kurama's purified chakra being pour into her coils multiple times a day. It helped out the seal increased Sakura's reserves whenever the seal was active. It also helped increased Sakura's abilities slightly while her chakra became more potent.
Now whenever Sakura would mediate. She was much more in tune with her wind chakra. The wind jutsu's she learned were much more stronger. The same could be said for her water jutsu's as well. Although not to the degree of her wind techniques. Earth style was easier to use but it still needed a lot of work compared to her other two. Although she could do three earth style justu's now.
Sakura could now cause more destruction with her strength technique. Tsunade approved of results. As Tsunade said, once she practiced with it more. It became easier to utilize. Tsunade was surprised with The development of Sakura's chakra. So she and Shizune made her take some test to make sure it wasn't harmful to her in any ways. Thankfully it was quite the opposite. Sakura's new chakra was extremely beneficial to her. It made Tsunade, Shizune, Kushina and Genma all wonder what would Sakura be capable of in the near future.
During the two month, Sakura also met Kushina's friends. Who in turn eventually became hers as well. Anko was the first one she met. At first she was a bit thrown off by Anko's weird habit. Like liking blood of our people's cuts that she causes. Though she did grow to like the special jounin. Anko even introduced Sakura to Ibiki her superior in the T&I department.
Ibiki was intrigued by Sakura's intelligence. So her taught her a couple things about his specialty which is torture. Sakura found Ibiki to be a interesting person to talk to. Even if he did sound cold hearted. She knew he was a nice person over all.
She was quite surprised that gate watchers Izumo and Kotestu were friends of Kushina. The two would have fun trying to tease her similar to Genma. So she would banter with them. Sometimes even spar with them. The chunin duo were not prepared for Sakura's prowess. So when they took a punch from her. Both instantly regretted seeing how much raw power she possessed. While their were able to overwhelm her using their weapons. Sakura was able to hold her ground against them pretty well. Considering her punches and kicks hurt like hell. The duo were able surprised by the number of ninjutsu she knows. But overall they all became good friends.
Kushina had taken Sakura out on a C-rank mission to take out some bandits. It was the easiest way to get her first kill out of the way. When they found the bandit camp. Both agreed to try to take them by surprise. Unfortunately they kunoichi's were met with a disgusting act being taken into place.
A few women were being raped against their will. Sakura felt her blood boiling. Suddenly her mind was shut off. She jumped into action and began killing every single bandit she came across with ease.
Kushina was pissed just like Sakura. But a bit thrown off by her actions. She didn't expect her to just start killing them off. But it was too late to do anything about it now.
By the end of the attack, Sakura had killed 50 bandits. Kushina took out 30. Once the adrenaline wore off. Sakura vomited in disgust with herself. She cried for a couple minutes. Kushina comforted her and explained that this is the life of a shinobi.
Sakura knew that she had to get this out of the way. Especially since she's interested in assassination. From that point on Sakura and Kushina took 2 C-ranks with one of them becoming an A-rank. And one B-rank. She also fought one on one against against 2 B-ranked missing nins during their A-rank mission. Thanks to her training, killing the missing nins weren't too much of a challenge for her.
Kushina and Tsunade told her not to get cocky. She needed more experience in the field still. It was ok for her to be confident. But just don't let that confidence turn into arrogance because that could get her and any team she's on killed on a mission. Sakura took those words to heart.
Due to her constant training whenever she wasn't on a mission or taking a break on a mission. She was able to do some interesting things with her wind and water affinities.
Now she could take the water out of thin air. It wasn't on the level of the second hokage's skill. But she could do it nonetheless. It was amusing for her when she was trying to form small objects out of the water from the air. She learned that due to the human body being made up of at least 70% water. She could use the water inside along with her chakra to draw out water from the air as well as using her water chakra.
Wind took a real interesting turn of events. She learned how to use focus wind chakra out of her feet. It caused her to levitate into the air. Although for her to have balance. The output of wind chakra had to be equal.
She showed this to Genma, Kushina and Tsunade. All three fell on their assess calling Sakura the prodigy surpassing Kakashi and Itachi Uchiha.
Which wasn't that much of a stretch if you can figure out how to fly as a genin. A civilian born genin at that.
"Ok Sakura, two month has officially passed. I have no doubt in my mind that you are the strongest genin in the village. Hell at the rate you improved, I'm sure you can beat any chunin in the village too. Maybe even some low level jounin." Kushina told the pinkette as they were both laying on her bed.
Sakura turned over to look at the red head. "Damn who would've ever thought I would get this strong in just two months. I mean come on I know you weren't expecting this much out of me so soon."
Kushina snorted. "Well yeah I have to admit I wasn't expecting you to turn out this strong so soon. But hey no one expected Kurama's chakra to have that type of affect on you. Hell even Kurama still doesn't know how it happened."
Sakura laughed. "True but I'm glad that it did. Now I can kick everybody's ass in the exams tomorrow."
Over the 2 month period Sakura slept with Kushina whenever she had a nightmare about her parents death. Well eventually Sakura just ended up sleeping in her room all the time. Making it their room which Kushina didn't mind. Sakura was very cuddly and Kushina loved holding her. The red head even kisses her forehead sometimes.
"Yeah just be careful I heard there is some interesting competition this year. Especially from Gia's team." Kushina warned her.
"That just makes it all the more fun." Sakura replied excitingly.
The two talked until they fell asleep with one another. The day of the exams finally was here as the sun had rose.
Sakura had woken up. She was being held by Kushina as usual. It was a real pain getting up, since she enjoyed being held by Kushina. She made her way to the bathroom to take a shower and get herself ready.
She was excited to see her friends compete with her. During these intense two months. Sakura wanted to make friends with the people her age as well. She had always wanted to be friends with Hinata. So one day she caught the blunette out walking in the village. She struck up a conversation with her and they've been good friends ever since. Sakura even helped Hinata with her stuttering habbit and encouraged her to have more confidence in herself. The pinkette also befriended Tenten. Their friendship started at Tenten's family weapons shop. Sakura was there to get her sword refined. After talking to Tenten for an hour. The brunette taught Sakura how to refine her weapons.
Kurama's chakra also led to some changes to Sakura's body. Along with making her affecting her chakra, it affected her body in a good way. Now she was no longer 4'8. The pinkette grew several unexpected inches. Now making her 5'4. The growth spurt was remarkable to Tsunade. Sakura's waist and legs were thicker than before. You could see the toned muscles in her legs and arms. And her hair grew a bit longer. It was tied in two loose pony tails like Tsunade's. Only Sakura's hair was longer.
Sakura was wearing an all black outfit. Black capri pants with a tight black shirt. Her breast had grew from b-cups to c-cups. So they were more noticeable than before. Sakura didn't mind since hanging around Anko and Kushina causes you to be more forward with yourself. Over her tight shirt was a jounin style black vest. Although it was smaller than the typical jounin vest. It still had the same padding to protect you in it. She wore her black shinobi sandals and to top it all off. Sakura was wearing the cursed necklace she received from Tsunade who got it from her grandfather.
Kushina was checking Sakura out. Some small part of her desired the pinkette. She quickly got rid of those thoughts and complimented her Sakura.
"You look stunning, I'm sure boys are going to be drooling over your appearance." Kushina commented.
"Thank you Shina-chan. I just wonder how is gonna recognize the diamond on my forehead first. I still can't believe Tsuna really taught me how to use this technique of hers." Sakura pointed to the purple diamond on her forehead.
"Most likely some chunin or jounin will. Now get a move on girl. I'll be watching you from a distance. Be sure to kick some ass out there." Kushina encouraged her.
"You don't have to tell me twice!" Sakura responded eagerly as she made sure she had her pouch filled with scrolls and weapons. Her blade was on her back.
The pinkette sprinted to the roof tops, making her way to the academy.
Kushina watched her take off. "You better make it passed the first two exams Sakura. If not me and Tsuna will be on your ass like no tomorrow." She said to herself.
It didn't take long for Sakura to reach the academy. She was happy that she didn't have to worry about being on a team with her former team.
"It would've been a pain in the ass if I was still apart of that team." Sakura said to herself as she was walking in.
First thing she noticed was the crowd of people in front of a door. She instantly recognized a couple things. First was it was an obvious genjutsu on the door. Two is that Kotetsu and Izumo suck at disguising themselves. Three, she saw Tenten in the crowd with a teammate of hers it looks like.
Sakura knew Tenten wasn't stupid. That genjutsu is too obvious for her brunette friend not to notice. So she figured Tenten must be up to something.
The pinkette just shrugged and kept going up the stairs. Before she went to room 301. She took a small detour around the academy. It's really been almost 6 months since she's last been here. So much has changed for her since then. Just a little over two months ago she was still the same weak little girl who didn't take being a shinobi seriously. Now she was a full fledge shinobi who will put her life on the line for those she hold dear. Today was is the day where she starts to rise to the next level.
Sakura eventually made her way to room 301. It wasn't a shock to see genin from other villages trying to intimidate her. She rolled her eyes at their attempt then looked around to see if there was anybody she recognized. That was put on hold when she sensed bijuu chakra inside the room. Another factor with Kurama's chakra. Now she was able to sense chakra signatures at a high degree. To the point where she can sense bijuu chakra like a jinchuuriki could. While most people can't sense a bijuu chakra unless the beast it's being produced. Sakura is now an exception to that. The pinkette found the source coming from a red hair boy from suna. He had a gourd on his back with red kanji standing for love tattooed on his forehead. His eyes looked so dark and sad. But that is a common trait for jinchuuriki's who aren't loved in their villages.
'Wait a second! I recognized his face. That's Gaara of the desert from suna. The boy to never get hurt in a fight yet. Well it's a good thing Kushina made me read every bingo book she had.' Sakura thought to herself.
Gaara noticed Sakura was staring at him. He didn't understand why but it didn't bother him. She wasn't looking at him with fear in her eyes. It was more of an amused look she was portraying. That particular look made him not feel any temptations to kill her.
Sakura ended up spotting the rookie 9. Honestly she wasn't really trying to deal with Ino of her old teammates. She saw Hinata and perked up instantly.
"Hinata!" The pinkette screamed as she ran towards her blunette friend then hugged her.
Hinata was caught off guard by her Sakura's actions. But she smiled at returned the hug. "Hello Sakura." Hinata greeted.
Sakura broke the hug. "Man am I glad to see you here. You should've told me you were entering the exams." Sakura pouted playfully.
"Sorry it kinda slipped my mind. Every time we hung out. I just somehow forgot to tell you." Hinata replied sheepishly.
The pinkette rolled her eyes then smiled. "Of course you did."
While those two were talking. The rest of the rookie 9 were gaping at what was going on.
"W-Wow that's Sakura?!" Kiba yelled as a blush crept onto his face.
Sakura looked at Kiba then smirked. She put a hand on her hip and walked in a sexy way drawing all eyes of the room on her.
Kiba didn't know what to do. He's never had a girl this attractive walk up to him before.
Sakura cupped his right cheek with her left hand. "Why yes Kiba-kun. It is me the one and only Sakura Haruno."
Kiba froze feeling her hand on his face. The tone of her voice was becoming too much for him. And not only him but a lot of the guys in the room as well. The girls were finding this quite amusing.
"U-U-Uhh." Kiba tried to speak.
The pinkette wanted to start laughing right then and there. But she knew he was close to breaking.
She slowly moved her hand from his face to his neck then his chest. Sakura took one more step into his personal space and winked at him.
That did it for Kiba, the Inuzuka passed out on the ground from a nosebleed. The other guys who were affected all accumulated nosebleeds but only some of them passed out.
Sakura started dying from laughter. "Kami you boys are way too easy!"
All of the other girls all had similar thoughts as the pinkettes.
"Forehead is that really you? Are you sure you're not using a henge to get to Sasuke-Kin?" Ino questioned.
For the third or fourth time today. Sakura rolled her eyes this time due to Ino. "Yes I'm sure this is not a henge. Let's just say this last couple months have been good to me." She smirked.
Ino huffed and folded her arms. "Whatever you may look more attractive now but you still won't get Sasuke-kun over me!"
"You can have the emo, narcissistic, avenger wanna asshole. I'm over his ass. He can go get fucked in the ass by Kakashi for all I care. Knowing Kakashi he probably would do it considering if Sasuke demanded with his Uchiha superiority complex. Hell its no wonder the second hokage separated the Uchiha clan. Most of them are fucked up in the head." Sakura nonchalantly replied.
That response left everyone in the rookie nine except Hinata gaping at Sakura even more. Hinata already knew how Sakura felt about Sasuke. Hearing all that he did. The blunette fully supported Sakura her feelings.
Sasuke was seething. He was just disrespected in front of everybody. Not only him but his clan was as well. He walked up to Sakura and glared furiously at her. "Where the hell do you get off saying that! This is the first time I've seen you in two months and you disrespected my clan in front of me!"
Sakura returned his glare. "Like I give a fuck. Get out of my face Sasuke. I no longer want anything to do with you. If you don't move, I'll force you out of my way." She warned.
Sasuke smirked. "Yeah right as if you could make m-"
The raven haired uchiha was cut off by a vice grip on his neck. Sasuke was slammed hard into the ground. He felt killer intent directly solely at him. When he looked into Sakura's eyes. He saw how cold they were. As if she was willing to kill him without any hesitation. Sasuke hasn't felt like this since his encounter with Zabuza.
Suddenly the feeling went away and he was sweating on the ground trying to catch his breath. Sakura had let go of his neck and walked back over to Hinata.
Most of the room were surprised at how easily Sakura took down Sasuke. One wouldn't expect an Uchiha to be brought down so easily. Plus she scared the guy shitless.
Tenten came over to greet her friend. "Yo Sakura I see you're already drawing attention to yourself."
"And I see that you were plotting something when you were by that door with the genjutsu on it." Sakura said.
"Heh yeah that didn't work out like I hoped but hey I'm glad that you guys are here." Tenten voiced.
"I feel the same, So Sakura who is on your team?" Hinata asked.
The pinkette did not answer. All she did was gave a small smile to her and winked.
Hinata got that message instantly. Obviously it meant it was a secret. However she knew that it also meant that Sakura did not have a team. "Ok I understand." The blunette answered.
"Heh I knew you would." Sakura said.
Choji and Shikamaru were looking from a distance.
"Wow can't believe how much Sakura has changed. It's almost like she a complete different person." Choji voiced.
Shikamaru sighed. "Troublesome that's because she is. Personality wise so far. It'll only be completely true if she's somehow gotten better skill wise." He lazily said.
Ino was a bit jealous. Sakura now has everybody's attention. Plus Ino knew that Sakura was now better looking than her. Which didn't make sense to her at all.
'How could she have changed so much in only 6 months?' Ino thought.
Lee had decided to introduce himself to Sakura. "Hello Sakura-san, I am the leaf villages handsome devil Rock Lee. Please go out of a date with me!" Lee asked enthusiastically.
Sakura was a bit thrown off by Lee. The boy's appearance was very distinctive. Those bushy eyebrows and green jump suit was weird.
'But hey who I am to judge? The guy had to have a lot of confidence in himself if he asked me to go out with him on a date with that jump suit on. He's not all that bad looking either.' Sakura mentally shrugged. Before she answered, the bandages on his hands caught her attention.
"Umm sorry Lee but I kinda don't know you that well. But I wouldn't mind if you wanted to be friends and hang out sometimes." Sakura offered.
Lee was sad about the rejection. Though he peeked up hearing she wanted to be friends. "Do not worry about it Sakura-chan. Friends is fine with me. It is a very youthful suggestion."
"Uh yeah youthful right. But anyways can you show me whats under your bandages?" The pinkette asked.
Lee was a bit surprised by this question. "May I ask why?"
"Because I can heal your hands. Also I can tell you worked hard so I want to admire the proof of it." Sakura answered with a smile.
Lee was shocked by her answer. Never has someone but his sensei ever really wanted to admire his dedication. So he slowly unwrapped his bandages. Sakura looked at the cuts on his knuckles. Lee's skin was torn off of them.
Sakura channeled medical chakra into her hand and healed Lee's hands. She was inspired by the proof of dedication. Sakura knew Lee must've went through some hellacious training to do this to his hands. It kinda made her want to fight against him.
It didn't take long for her hands to be fully healed. Once they were she stopped using her chakra and smiled. "There you're all healed." She said.
Lee nodded in appreciation. "Thank you Sakura-chan. I will never forget your youthful actions." He told her as he was wrapping his hand back up.
This is where Kabuto made his appearance. Sakura instantly caught his scent and narrowed her eyes.
'He smells like snakes. It's only two ways that could be possible. I'm sure Anko would have told me if there was person in the village who specialized in snakes. Especially if he's a konoha ninja.' Sakura thought then realization hit her. "He's a spy!' She concluded.
She instantly took out a kunai and threw it in his direction. It only grazed his cheek like she wanted it to. "Oi back off, I don't like that scent on you." Sakura warned him with narrowed eyes.
For one second she saw the gray haired ninja with glasses eyes slightly widen. 'Bingo.' Sakura thought.
Kabuto just turned around and went somewhere else.
"What was that about?" Tenten asked.
"I'll explain it to you at a different time. Our instructor is about to arrive." Sakura answered.
A second later, Ibiki Morino did appear in the room. "Alright you maggots shut the hell up! It's time for the first part of the exam." He ordered.
Sakura grinned seeing Ibiki was here. When everyone was assigned their seats. Ibiki passed out the test and began explaining the rules.
Sakura half way listened to his explanation. Since she was looking at the chunin who looked like they were judging the test takers. She noticed Izumo and Kotetsu. Sakura nodded to them as they did the same.
Ibiki started the test. Sakura looked at the questions.
'Ok I know I can definitely answer these. But most genin can't. These are chunin type questions. Hell maybe even some jounin. They would have to cheat. Oh shit that's the point!' Sakura thought.
The pinkette made eye contact with Ibiki. She smirked at him. He returned her smirk.
'I knew you would understand my intentions pinky.' Ibiki thought.
'Hey Inner make sure Ino doesn't try to get into my mind. She can find someone else to cheat off of.' Sakura told Inner.
"I'm already ahead of you outer.' Inner replied
'Good.' Sakura voiced to her.
She answered all of the questions. Once time was up. Ibiki started fucking with the genin's head about being able to prevent them from becoming chunin if they choose to not listen to the 10th question.
"The fact that most of these idiots believe him is baffling." Sakura said to herself.
"So are you willing to take the risk? Those of you who are not can raise your hand." Ibiki instructed.
10 seconds had passed and Sakura was over it. She raised her hand only to slam it on the table. Drawing everyone's attention in the room.
"Seriously how long are you going to keep fucking with their heads. Even if that was true I don't give a damn if I have to stay a genin. I will still be a proud shinobi who will face danger head on in order to protect those I hold hear. So get on with the question already." Sakura told Ibiki.
She didn't know her outburst would boost the morale of the other genin. Ibiki did however.
'Hmm none of them are backing down now. Looks like pinky has leadership qualities.' Ibiki thought to himself.
"Alright you all pass." Ibiki stated.
Not even a moment after, Anko made her flashy appearance through the window. "Alright you pussies. I'm the proctor of the second stage of the exam. The sexy Anko Mitarashi." The snake mistress introduced herself.
Ibiki sighed. "Anko must you always break windows?"
"No but it's fun and how come there are still so many genin left? You're losing your touch Ibiki." Anko voiced.
Ibiki shrugged. "This year's batch has some back bone."
"Well we will see how long that last. Alright you guys meet me at training ground 44 in 30 minutes!" Anko disappeared in a shunshin.
Sakura went to go meet up with Hinata and Tenten. "Hey you guys. I'm gonna go on ahead. I'll see you at the training ground." The pinkette told them.
Both girls nodded and watched Sakura disappeared in a cherry blossom shunshin.
Anko was leaning on the gate eating a stick of dango. She was greeted with the site of a cherry blossom shunshin. Revealing Sakura in front of her.
"Yo Sakura I'm glad you made it this far." Anko greeted her.
"If I didn't make it this far. I would never hear the end of it from you and the others." Sakura replied.
"Damn right you wouldn't. Hey do you have any dango in one of your scrolls?" Anko asked.
"Of course, I have enough food to last me a week. Plus thanks to the seal Kushina taught me. None of it will ever spoil no matter how long it stays in there." Sakura answered as she took out a scroll and released a plate of dango from it.
"Wow that's real helpful." Anko voiced.
The two ate the whole plate and chatted for a bit. It didn't take long for people to start arriving.
Once everybody was there. Anko began explaining the second part of the exams. To Sakura it was a simple task. Just get the scroll you need while protecting the scroll you were given. Then report to the tower after you have a set of both scrolls.
Sakura sensory skills picked a foul chakra. It wasn't as foul of Gaara's bijuu. But it was still foul. She used chakra to sniff out the source. It lead to a woman from kusa. Sakura knew something was not right about her.
'There's no way a genin could have a large amount of reserves without either being an Uzumaki or jinchuuriki. That's means she's not a genin at all. Hmm I don't have time to think about it right now. But if I come across her in the forest I may find out more.' Sakura thought to herself.
After she signed some papers and got her scroll. She went to the entrance she was assigned to.
Anko started the test and everybody made their way inside the forest. The second part of the exam would last for five days.
Sakura did not plan on spending five days here at all.