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TITLE: Ripple

CHAPTER 4

Recap:

Sakura plopped down on her bed and closed her eyes in exhaustion and soon she fell asleep. She couldn't wait for tomorrow. She could finally test out her sharingan.

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Garra thoughtfully looked out the window as he wondered what he would witness from the kunoichi today. This was going to be their first training session and she already seemed stronger than before. He heard that she had defeated Sasori but knew nothing of what had happened inside that cave. But to accomplish such a feat, she had to be powerful. He couldn't even defeat Deidara and he was the Kazekage!

The Kage's line of thought was soon disturbed when his siblings walked into the room. Temari was still sporting her huge fan as was Kankuro his puppets. They were both ready for one hell of a training session today.

"My, you seem a little worried don't you?"

"Temari, you don't understand. I don't really know this girl. I knew Uzumaki and the Uchiha, but never her and she has already done so much for us. Without her, Kankuro would be dead and you guys might not have found me if she hadn't kept Sasori busy."

A frown adorned all three of their features now. Their younger brother was right, they didn't really know much about this girl except that they owed her.

"Well, we'll find out today won't we? My puppets and I are ready."

Garra simply nodded and the three sibling walked out together to go downstairs for breakfast. When they arrived, the Konoha shinobi were already waiting for them. They all said their good mornings and then sat down. Once the food was served, they all dug in and ate as much as they could. They would need all the energy they could get.

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Sakura cracked her knuckles as she laced her hand over her gloved fingers and was poised for battle. She was ready to use the gift Kakashi gave her and properly. It wouldn't be as good as the Uchiha's, but it would have to work. This was his dying wish and she would take it to heart. And in the back of her mind she wondered if he would have done the same for anyone else.

"Ready Sakura?"

"Hai!"

With a nod from Garra, Gai stepped up to start the training session.

"Alright, Sakura, we will first test your abilities without the sharingan. First up will have to be speed. I taught you how to become faster like I did for Lee a while back, but I've never seen you use it."

Sakura simply nodded and got ready. Without warning, Gai lunged at her quickly and started delivering several punches and blows to her. She managed to dodged most of them, nearly getting hit a couple of times. Then she now sped up and started delivering punches and blows to Gai as well, who managed to dodge. Sakura almost got him with a few but failed. Then they broke apart.

"You're not as fast as you use to be Sakura."

"And you're still as fast as ever."

"Even so, you're still pretty quick and light on your feet. Most ninja can't match our speeds."

Sakura nodded and then turned her attention to Garra, who started with her next exercise.

"Now we will test your ability to doge attacks, with or without speed."

A small smile adorned her features as she pumped herself up. She was a medic, dodging attacks were her specialty.

"Now we'll begin. Each one of us will attack with any attacks we like. Just simply dodge them."

Sakura nodded as Temari charged at her first, opening her fan and flinging a massive chakra filled wind at her.

"Kamatachi No Jutsu!"

Sakura managed to dodge the attack by jumping into the trees, only to be met with flinging shuriken from Shikamaru.

"How Troublesome."

Sakura dodged with ease and was met with a blinding kick from Gai, which she managed to block at the last second with her arm. Then she simply jumped back to the ground and Neji charged at her.

"Byakugan!"

He started off with a series of kicks and punches and then went to his jyuken. Being light on her feet, she managed to dodge his blows and then went straight towards Kankuro, who was getting his puppets ready. But Garra stepped to the front blocking Kankuro.

"I think that's enough. Sakura is definitely good at dodging attacks"
"As a medic, it's my specialty. I can't get hurt if I'm the only one who can heal my teammates."

Garra simply nodded in understanding.

"Next step, jutsu."

At those three words, Sakura cringed. She never really had any jutsu, did she? Only the basic ones they taught her in the academy.

"Is there a problem?" asked Neji.

"How Troublesome."

"You do have jutsu don't you?" asked Temari.

Sakura just sighed in defeat and shook her head no. She was ashamed by it, of course, but nonetheless remained strong.

"That actually explains a lot," began Gai, "we have never really seen you use any jutsus in battle. You mainly use Taijutsu."

Sakura sighed in defeat again.

"What can I say, no one's ever really taught me jutsus. Not even the Godaime. She's very taijutsu based as well."

Garra just nodded and closed his eyes to think for a second.

"Now we will test out the Sharingan."

Sakura nodded and closed her eyes for a second and reopened them to reveal the Sharingan in her right eye. To the others, it looked a bit weird because her eyes were now mismatched, one green and the other red. Sakura simply nodded and waited for instructions. They first started out slow and started attacking the kunoichi. While the intricate details of what she saw was wavering her, but she managed to dodge them. Then they sped up and Sakura did not speed up with them and got hit by some. But then she sped up and was able to dodge them. And they practiced around like this for a while. At a point, Sakura did a couple of hand signs without knowing it and released the fireball jutsu, which was Sasuke's. This put everything to a stop.

"What just happened?" Neji asked.

"I don't know…"

"How troublesome.. It might be possible that you can use all the jutsus that Kakashi copied in his lifetime with the Sharingan. And I think you just discovered one of them."

Sakura took a moment to play the possibilities over in her head and then nodded to agree. Then they all set to work again with her sharingan , so she got a good grip on it. But being that she wasn't an Uchiha, it was more draining and put a strain on her body like it used to do to Kakashi. So when started she started to slow down and her moves wavered, they put a stop to the training. Sakura released the Sharingan and was panting heavily.

"This is going to be harder than I thought. Now I know why Kakashi only use to use his sharingan in dangerous situations."

"You did well today Sakura, but now you need to rest. Training will resume tomorrow."

Sakura merely nodded and slowly got up. Then they all got washed up, ate dinner, and went to bed. They were due for a good night's sleep.

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