"Water nature release, suiton." Sakura read out loud as she took in the page. "Water nature is the base of your chakra, the easiest elemental manipulation you can preform as this is not limiting in the many jutsu types one could learn. Several for instance will be nearly impossible. With this base fire element Jutsu's will be a challenge, blah, blah, blah." Sakura read aloud in a chipper salesman voice, at the end she slumped and her tone got bland and boring.

She scanned the rest of the intro, noting nothing of eager importance. Nothing she didn't already know from Tsunade's mini impromptu lesson.

"This isn't what I need." She muttered turning the page and quickly scanning the contents.

About a third of the way down she exclaimed, "Aha! There you are freaking little bugger!" At some point she had questioned her sanity after taking in an elemental lesson and the fact that she would basically making really powerful pawns and placing them into her mentors hands. She shook her head before she started to think about that again. "Each person has a very unique chakra pattern and as such there are a various of different ways to increase ones chakra reserves through the water element.

"One way is universal to all elements, the pulsation.

"The pulsation is fairly simple. One must compact their physical chakra into a ball and let it rotate either left or right, it will naturally pull one way or the other. Do not under any circumstances force your chakra to go in the opposite direction from the natural pull, it will cause damage to your circulation system and nervous system. As it rotates carefully keep it rotating out as you let the ball slowly expand til it fills every nook and cranny inside your body." Sakura paused her reading to snort slightly, "It's like this book was made for kids." And it probably was considering what clan kids were expected to be able to do.

She read on, "To make the pulsation more effective, one can meditate on top of a water surface and when letting the flow of chakra out speed it up." Sakura wrote a few notes down on her piece of paper. This reading wasn't as tedious as placing those seals on her forehead. That was a pain in the ass complication that involved blood, a brush, pins, and a mirror. She had to wash her forehead a few times because she had messed up on the kanji. Writing it backwards in the mirror was extremely difficult, but in the long run this should pay off.

"The blanketing. Also a universal chakra exercise. Meditate using chakra to stick to any type of surface, moving water makes this all the more difficult, and spread the rest of the chakra out like a blanket to coat the other living things around the body, this also helps improve chakra sensing." She made small notes on top of her others to try and see if she could combine these two 'moves.'

"Expending. A universal chakra exercise that is of itself very dangerous as it could lead to ones death because of improper amount of chakra left inside the body. Chakra exhaustion is the most common side effect and this is not recommended at all." Sakura raised a brow at the book. Who in their right mind would even consider this as a possibility. Then she looked back on her training, almost all of it involved spending large amounts of Chakra and working herself into exhaustion. She would have to share this with Tsunade. No this book should be 'taught' in the academy.

She stowed away those thoughts, just another thing she could save for her weekly reports that she was told to give now that she had basically found everything she needed. "Water element chakra exercise has several variations of each. Each are ranked with the amount of control and chakra needed to attempt the exercises.

"Rank E, Meditate on or in a body of water, use excess chakra to move the water around oneself.

"Rank D, Meditate on or in a body of water, use excess chakra to move the water in two different directions.

"Rank C, Meditate on or in a body of water, use excess chakra to mold the water up and out of the body of water and bend it to your will.

"Rank B, Meditate on or in a body of water, use excess chakra to a line the water molecules to represent a sold. This however will not make ice as wind chakra is needed to complete the transformation.

"Rank A, Meditate on or in a body of water, uses excess chakra to move the water molecules in the air. First you must be able to sense them. After you succeed with moving the molecules condense them and turn them back into water, this will help make any suiton jutsu's used away from a body of water much easier and effective. When you can make the gas into a liquid, try turning it back into a gas." Sakura turned the page looking for some more control exercises, all that was left was little diagrams showing how each of the moves were used. The outlined picture of a human male was the subject. It had different colors for the way the chakra was to be laid out of each of them.

She quickly scribbled down all the information to hopefully come up with a training regime, she of course wouldn't start the serious training with out a proper fountain of knowledge. She stood up from her seat in the library. There were tons of medical tomes she could spend the rest of the day with. She stretched her arms above her head and yawned.


Sakura leaned back away from the lenses to her microscope to jot a few more ideas down and to sketch a rudimentary design of what the mixture looked like underneath this magnitude. So far the tests and ingredients were coming along just fine, except the last one. For the life of her she couldn't figure out what it was that made it stick together like it did. It could clump together in places but was extremely powdery like the sugar that had been grounded into a soft fluff.

She set her pencil down and swiveled her stool around to face the new comer. "Yes?" It was another Anbu member, but this one gave off a weirder vibe. Not the 'I'm suppressing my emotions' type of vibe that irritated her about every Anbu member. No this one didn't give off any emotional vibe what-so-ever.

"Danzo-sama would like to have an audience with you, Haruno Sakura." His voice was absolutely flat, just like Sai's had been when he first joined her team, he must be root. Sakura mused.

"When?" She asked folding her hands in her lap and leaned slightly back lifting her chin to look down at him as much as she possibly could without falling backwards or making herself look too weird.

"Now." He was monotone, there was no order like tone to it at all. Just a statement that she knew was supposed to basically saying 'this is an order not a suggestion' even if it lacked all the emotion.

Sakura sighed and slipped off of the stool, pocketed the rest of the powder and the scroll inside her white lab coat. She would have liked to be able to change into something less doctor like as she had the wrap around shirt that was fashioned after Tsunade's except in navy blue and black slightly baggy ninja pants underneath the lab coat and hospital name tag. "Alright."

The Anbu extended his hand out to her. She silently braced herself as she reached forward to take his hand. She knew they were going to shunshin before he even gathered the chakra to preform the move. They disappeared from the hospital lab in a puff of smoke.

Sakura instantly let a wave of healing chakra run through out her body to eliminate the dizziness that this move packed with it as soon as her feet touched different ground. She didn't take a good look around, that would have been rude but she did notice she was in a different office. It was kind of darker than Tsunade's office, she assumed it didn't have any windows and the desk was made out of a darker type of wood. She kept her eyes forward and placed on the seat that was facing the wall. The wall had different seals that ran vertically from top to bottom. From what she could see they were both security seals and storage seals. Some of them she couldn't recognize but that was probably because she wasn't very proficient with the art of sealing.

The Anbu who brought her here gave a bow to the desk with his right fist over his heart then took his leave.

As soon as the door was shut a wave of chakra activated some of the security seals that lined his walls. The chair twirled around slowly and deliberately so as not to seem too eager to get to the main topic of the conversation.

She got an eye full of bandages before landing on an elderly man's eye. He had hard wrinkles on his forehead, and a blank look in his eye. She dropped her head down in a mimic of a bow to be polite but she kept her eyes on him warily. She didn't know this man personally and therefore would not completely trust him.

"Sakura-san." He nodded his head in a greeting before motioning to the lone chair that sat across from him on her side of the desk. She took a cautious step forward before sinking slowly in the seat.

"Danzo-san." She acknowledged before she crossed her left leg over her right and clasping her hands together on her knee.

They took a moment to size each other up, the room stayed silent a beat too long in Sakura's mind. "Sakura-san, I have been watching your progress since the academy."

Sakura's heart sped slightly, she wasn't expecting this and she most definitively did not know where this was going.

"You have remarkable control over your chakra and have excelled in the medical field with in the last three years. I suspect that you might even surpass the Hokage in this next year." Sakura almost beamed at the praise, except for the fact that she knew he was dancing around the bush at this moment. Maybe he was just building up to his proposal. "You were top Kunoichi in the academy in all aspects except for Taijutsu, and under Lady Tsunade's tutelage you have become one of the strongest Kunoichi known to man. You still have so much potential that you have yet to explore." Sakura could see where he was heading with this and her shoulders tensed slightly in anticipation, "If I may be so bold as to offer you a position in Root?"

He paused for a second to study her, she carefully kept her face blank. "We will of course train you and accommodate you in any way. "

"What would this position be exactly?" She asked as she weighed her options, being in Root would further her development but the emotionless droids known as Root would put a hinder into her mission. She pursed her lips in thought as she looked at him expectantly.

"You would become a Root member to be personally trained by myself. I would of course use your skills on missions. You would essentially become my own apprentice." All thoughts in Sakura's head stopped abruptly at the admission. "You would have access to everything just as you are with our own Hokage. You've have proven yourself time and time again the ability to think clearly in all situations, amazing intellect for some one so young." He paused knowing that his proposal was something only a blind and stupid man would turn down. "Why waste such talent?" He asked rhetorically.

She sat rigidly still. Slightly in shock and amazement of the offer, but she was also feeling extremely cautious. He might have gotten wind of her mission. This way he could secure himself at least some interaction with the soon to be impressionable minds of the Akatsuki. If he had indeed gotten a hold of that information, which she would blame Sai, then that was exactly what he wanted. That and maybe more. She could essentially go out with a group of hunter-nin and 'take down' a missing nin to bring back to the village to be raised once more as how they saw fit. She would basically be giving either Tsunade or Danzo an army of very loyal warriors.

"Danzo-san, your offer as tempting as it is might conflict with that of Tsunade's schedule." She paused seeing no reaction out of the man. "I would have to either terminate my shishou's apprenticeship or have her work with you." She took as second to see his eye narrow ever so slightly, "I would like permission to discuss this with Lady Tsunade."

She knew if he really wanted them in his pocket he would have to agree to her plead. He would be closing the door to her and her soon to be children, or the potential army she could provide him with if he said no. His eye narrowed further. He was cornered. He knew that and she knew that. It was now just a matter of how much did he want this opportunity. How much did he want her power? "Very well." He gave her a nod.

She gave a nod back and stood up from her chair. A wave of chakra slipped over the security seals, deactivating them. "Oh and Sakura-san?"

"Hmm?" She still stood stiffly.

"I will be sending some one to you tomorrow for the answer." He dismissed her by turning back to the wall.

She nodded, even if she knew he couldn't see her and took her leave out of his office. Once outside the Anbu member who had transported her here took her hand and shunshined her back into the hospital lab.


Before her hand met the door she heard Tsunade shout 'come in' from the other side. She must either be sober or playing the guessing game waiting for some one else to be showing up.

Sakura took the door nob into her hand and slid the door open just enough to poke her head in, "Shishou, I need to talk to you." She noticed that her desk had a smaller stack of paperwork on her desk, it seemed as though Shizune had indeed succeeded in keeping her sober enough to complete tons of paper work.

Tsunade looked at her serious expression. "Come in then." And activated the security seals as soon as the door shut behind her. "What's this about?" She was never really one for patience so shouldering around the subject would only aggravate her.

"Danzo had personally offered me a deal." Sakura began, she just couldn't be blunt about it. Well she could but she just couldn't bring herself to quite believe what had happened.

Tsunade looked at her to hopefully get her to continue.

"He said he wanted me to become his apprentice." Sakura said, her voice betrayed the amount of doubt she had.

Tsunade just stared at her. Unnerving her.

"He kept giving me praises about my intellect, and my chakra control and what not." She walked forward to stand next to Tsunade's desk. "I think he found out about the mission."

"That would explain why he would want to talk to you." Tsunade slouched backwards, "The old man doesn't see clanless people as potential for talent. The fact that he wants you to basically become his right hand man-woman is startling, before you see the advantages this mission gives a village."

So she was right in assuming Tsunade knew exactly why she wanted to use this technique. It wasn't just for the safety of Naruto. How could she have been so naive that she had only thought her mentor would only be looking out for their jinchuuriki. "A child has the most potential, if you can sway them into believing one way in their child hood that will be how they behave when they are older."

"Precisely. This is why that old bat wants you. He could have his own personal army maker." Tsunade looked at Sakura seriously. "Sakura I know that yes it seems immoral to use this to our advantage but those Akatsuki members would do wonders if they were raised in an entirely different environment where peace was reining and not a shinobi war. I do not want you to think that I only gave you this mission to gather an army of dangerous men. Quite the opposite in fact. If the other villages were to find out about this mission, the repercussions could cause the forth shinobi war. I want this done in such secretion that word does not get out that it was Konoha's idea."

Sakura stared, she didn't think of that side of things.

"With that as the case, Sakura you will have to make this seem as if it was only one man decision." Tsunade held up her hand to silence Sakura before she could speak. "Yes, this means you will have to become separate from this village. You'll have to become a missing-nin."

Sakura's blood chilled.

"I know it's unfair to ask this of you, but as thus far we have yet to come up with a solution to this solution." Tsunade slouched again and huffed out a breath in frustration. "Although this Danzo involvement might be the answer we are looking for." She reached into one of the drawers and brought out a bottle of Sake. "That is of course if we can figure a way out to get rid of Danzo."

Sakura took a seat in one of the near by chairs to keep herself from passing out.

"I know I should have explained this out a lot better when I had recruited you for this mission." She paused to sit up straight and looked her in the eye. "Sakura this is a life long mission, it could very well be the end of you, it could very well be the end of Konoha if word gets out. As of right now only you, me, your team, Shizune, and Danzo know of this mission. However only you, me and Shizune really know the extent this mission will have to take. I'm sorry Sakura."

Sakura sighed and looked to her lap. She knew that there were fine lines drawn inside of this mission, she just had yet to uncover them. Just like she was taught, look underneath the underneath. "What if there was a way. What if I didn't have to become a missing-nin?"

Tsunade perked up. "How?"

"You said Danzo would be a solution?" Tsunade nodded. "If we were to over run him, I could take his place. Be his successor. Unfortunately we would have to have a cover up for a disappearance of myself so I could get closer to the Akatsuki."

"We have a while to plan, but Sakura I think I know just the cover up. Before this really starts rolling you'll be taking an Anbu test." Tsunade smiled victoriously. "Now go give that old bat an answer."

Sakura smiled as she felt the security seals deactivate. She was right, she had over a month to prepare for anything this mission would throw her way.


Alrighty that was my third chapter :)

For the most part the first part of this book is mainly an informational build up for the real action. So far all I have planned is up to chapter twelve, and no the real action doesn't start until then. Her mission doesn't really begin for a while.

In the next few chapters I will be building her chakra, her bonds, and her own fighting material. If you don't like an over powered Sakura, well quit while your ahead. I am only saying this once Sakura is very intelligent and if she never was a fangirl she would have been a prodigy. She learns very quickly and if she had access to basically all the hidden secrets of the village how could she not become very powerful? Anywho she will grow and she will learn each of them. They won't be just handed to her on a silver platter. I'm trying to make this as realistic as possible.

Questions:

1-Would you actually want the fourth shinobi war to happen?

2-What are your thoughts on how you would solve Tsunades and Sakura's problem, I have my solution already set, I just wanted to know how you all see it happening. See if any of you think along the same lines as I do, you know?

Next chapter should be out in hopefully a week, if not I'm sorry. I still don't have my computer fixed.