Of Chakra and Magoi

Naruto X Magi The Labyrinth of Magic

Strong!Sakura

Summary: What if Haruno Sakura is a Magi and have been reborn three times? On her 4th rebirth, Sakura is born into the world of Shinobi, where instead of Magoi, chakra ruled. Armed with magic and knowledge from her previous 3 lives, Haruno Sakura take on the world as a kunoichi from Konoha. Can she survive with chakra alone? Or will she depend on magic?

Disclaimer: I do not own both of the series but the OCs are all mine

Warning: Typos, grammar errors

CHAPTER 3

They are officially genin now, having passed Kakashi's test. It felt really good until Naruto have different ideas as soon as they start taking missions. The missions they were given are so simple, civilians can do them themselves. It includes dog walking, labour force in harvesting, pulling out weed, and so on.

Needless to say, the blond is peeved.

Sakura, on the other hand, is thankful. Due to the easiness of their missions so far, they have more time to train. For her, more time for magic. Of course, it's important for her to train her shinobi skills but she must practice her magic too. Thanks to the physical training they give in the Academy, Sakura can tell that her current physical strength is stronger then her past bodies... But in Shinobi standard, she's still pretty weak. She have to work on that with Kakashi or someone specialises in Taijutsu.

Bringing with her scrolls and necessary equipments for her to work on, Sakura went to a different training ground than the one reserved for Team 7. She already checked the other day. Training ground 28 is not reserved for any specific team so she will be alone unless there's others coming here to train. It's early morning so there should be no one here. Still, Sakura make the time to check the perimeter. Once she is sure that she is safe, she went to a secluded spot and lay out her things.

In no time, she drawn magic circle, unrolled scrolls (written in the language from her past lives, for security) and rukh swirling around her. There are so many ideas and calculations in her head that Sakura stroke her brush to the paper with so much fervent. Calculations of ratios for chakra and magoi fusing, comparison of elemental properties between chakra and magoi, list of materials she'll need in the future, possibility of summoning with magoi instead of chakra…

Basically about chakra and magoi

When she's satisfied, Sakura's mind wonder to jutsus. Since she is born in a relatively normal household with no kekkei genkai whatsoever, it allowed her to create her own jutsus. She did the same thing with magic after all. But with chakra… That's a whole new world. Sakura can't help but wonder wether or not she can use chakra in her next life... (That is if she is not reborn here). She will be an unstoppable force, theoretically speaking.

Her feet start to feel numb from sitting for a long time. Sakura decided that it's a good time to do some magic. Wonder what she'll do today... Ah, since she's supposed not to use magic obviously, perhaps she should come up with new magic that look like juts us. Maybe taking magoi manipulation one step further..? But she have to make it subtle or Kakashi will get more suspicious. She's not ready to reveal to him anything.

For warm up, she'll fire a couple of magoi blasts. The large boulder near her will be the target. Channeling her magoi, the orb shining yellow and she shoot white beams towards the rock. In an instant the boulder has numerous little holes on it. Firing magoi won't do much damage but Sakura is happy that she can finally do some magic. After firing magoi for a minute, Sakura stopped and decided to practice magoi manipulation with her body.

Now, as a magician, she is born with that talent but she need a medium. Magicians never use their own body as the medium, only the Djinns can do that. Sakura is no Djinn but she sure knows that magician or not, they can't only rely on method forever. She can still perfectly recall the look of bafflement from her king vessels when she expressed her intent to learn magoi manipulation also.

Magicians are used to channel their magoi to a medium so Sakura quickly mastered channeling her magoi to weapons other than staves. With your body, it's a different story though. While channeling your magoi on a specific part of the body, like hands, you must also control the circulation of magoi in other parts of the body so the flow won't go haywire. Sakura is used to channel magoi to outside of her body so to keep them inside... Moreover to command the rukh very specific orders in order not to accidentally self destruct. The rukh inside them have naturally acted as a limiter so to make them do different thing is quite difficult. It's a delicate process like Healing Magic, where Life Magic from outside flow into a person's body in order to heal them. Granted, normal magicians use their own magoi but Sakura was used to receive help from rukhs from outside. That was one of the hardest thing she ever , because of that, Sakura learn the necessary formulas to stop cellular destruction, thus allowing her to not age. She's not going to do that though. It will be weird if she stays 13. Maybe when she reached her early 30s...

Her hands soon start to glow golden. Balling them to fists, Sakura punched the boulder. She smiled in satisfaction when a significant part of the boulder crumbles. Then there's clapping.

Clapping?

Sakura turned around to see someone stood amongst the bushes, clapping excitedly as he looked at her in wonder. He certainly have the oddest look Sakura have encountered in this world so far. Bowl cut hairstyle and green body suit with orange arm and leg warmers. The boy seems to be a bit older than her. Judging from the head protector tied around his waist, he's also a ninja. "Amazing! Simply amazing! I never seen such technique before!" In excitement, the unknown ninja suddenly appear in front of her. What speed!

"Let's see... You channel your chakra like this? A yellow chakra? My chakra is not yellow but" The boy formed a seal and closes his eyes. "Hmmm!"

"No wait-" Before Sakura can stop him, his body glow golden.

WHAT THE-?

"YOSH! I did it!" In excitement, he emit more magoi, making him look like he's on fire. Golden fire. Sakura actually stepped back in surprise at how much magoi she emitted. "I did-" Blood trickle from his eyes, mouth and ears.

'Oh no!' Using gravity magic, she caught him midair before he fell to the ground, passed out. She went to work immediately. Her staff glows purple as she use Healing Magic on him. Sakura's eyes narrowed when she senses the chakra in him also start to work. He's... Healing himself? His internal damage start to lessen in fast rate, with her magic and whatever-his-jutsu is combined. She heard that there are kekkei genkai that allows you to recover quickly... Perhaps he is one from those clans?

The colour returned to his face and the boy's respiration become normal again. Now she only need to wait for him to wake up. Watching the boy's chest heaved as he breath, Sakura can't help but sweat cold sweat.

'The world of shinobi... is truly terrifying...'

...

Lee had a good dream. He dreamed of beating Neji and Gai-sensei hugged him in proudness. Then he proceed to show him his new jutsu... His body is emitting golden light... Everything sparkles... And smells like flowers... Flowers... Flowers?

His eyelids flutters open. The first thing Lee registered in his mind is the colour pink. As his vision getting clearer, Lee realised that someone is hovering over him. A girl with long pink hair. He never seen someone with pink hair before. The girl have green eyes... Which complements the colour of her hair. So pretty... Lee blushed. But why is she hovering him? Lee remembers that he was training and then he saw this girl training also... He tried to do that same jutsu with golden light... Oh

"Are you all right?" The girl asked in concern though her eyes are watching him intently.

"Wha-What happened?" Lee sat up, rubbing the back of his neck.

"You almost died" She answered in a blunt manner.

"Eh?"

The girl narrowed her eyes at him. "When you try to imitate me... You emit too much life force. You almost killed yourself." Lee tensed. Everything becomes clear now. He tried to envelop himself in chakra but instead of chakra... Something yellowish came out instead. Then his body can't take it. He instinctively use the Eight Gates... And then he passed out. "What I did earlier is not a regular Jutsu. I'm using my own life force. It's not the same as chakra. It's very difficult to control. You carelessly wasted too much magoi due to your excitement."

"Ma... Goi?" Lee repeated the word in confusion.

"Another term for life force. Too much usage will cause extreme exhaustion, internal damage and ultimately, death." Lee swallowed a bile at her answer. It's like the Eight Gates Technique... "Please refrain from trying to imitate other people's technique in the future. You might not be as lucky as today next time."

"I'm sorry!" Lee bowed his head at the girl. "A-Are you the one who heal me?" She nodded and Lee once again bowed his head to her. "Thank you very much! I owe you my life!"

The girl looked at him strangely. "What's your name?"

"My name is Rock Lee," Lee nervously answered. "And you are...?"

"Haruno Sakura," Sakura... It certainly fits her. Her hair does have the same colour as cherry blossom... Lee blushed. "What is your specialty, Lee?"

"Eh? My specialty?" He becomes excited again. "I'm a Shinobi specialised in Taijutsu! Everyday I trained my body hard along with Gai-sensei!"

There's a look of comprehension on Sakura's face. Did he said something weird? She now looked at him in great interest. "People with healthy body tend to have a considerable amount of magoi, thus they are able to live long. Shinobis have more magoi than normal people. You have more magoi than most shinobi... but that doesn't mean you are someone special that can use it continuously or in large amount in short time."

"I see..." Lee looked down in shame. "But... How did you heal me?"

Sakura looked at him with a hard look before answering "I channel the magoi from the nature around us into your body to replenish the lost magoi. It's my specialty. You should be glad that your internal organs didn't get too much damage earlier or you won't survive even when your magoi recovers." Lee nodded at her, thanking his lucky stars. "I'm surprised though." She suddenly said.

"Eh?" He looked up.

"You are able to channel your magoi like that after one look. That's... A genius level actually."

"Eh?" Lee's heart swell. He never been called as a genius before... Sure, Gai-sensei said he is a genius in hard work but this is two completely different thing! "G-Genius?"

Sakura nodded. "Magoi is an energy even purer than chakra so controlling it is even harder. People who can manipulate magoi without any medium to help are very few... And I mean, very few." She looked at him as if he's something out of this world. Lee blushed. "Again, that doesn't mean you can't do something reckless like earlier again."

"Yes, ma'am!" He saluted. "Ah, then if you can control magoi... Did someone taught you that?"

"Yes and no. I am naturally born with the ability to control magoi. I prefer to use my staff as a medium so it will be easier for me." She shows him her staff. "Someone did taught me how to use my body to control magoi without the help of any medium." Sakura explained. She looked at him. "Please don't tell anyone about this."

"Eh...?"

BAM

Sakura pushes him back to the ground and slammed her hands next to the sides of his head, surprising Lee. He blushes right afterwards, since Sakura is on top of him now. She give him a stern look but also looked like she's calculating him.

"Swear to me" Sakura looked at him in... desperation? "Swear to me you won't tell anyone."

"I swear! I swear on my life!" Lee replied quickly. Sakura looked at him critically before getting off him. Heart stammering, Lee sat up. That really caught him off guard.

"I'm sorry. That was extremely rude of me." She apologises to him. "But magoi manipulation is a very dangerous technique. The adults will get suspicious. I'm not ready to reveal it to the world..." It must be a forbidden technique like the Eight Gates. Lee can understand that. Sakura stood up and offered her hand to him. Lee smiled and grabbed it. Sakura pull him to his feet.

"All right!" Sakura suddenly yelled out, surprising him. "I'm going to teach you all about magoi control!" She pointed her staff at him. "I might be not a very good teacher but I want to teach you!"

"Eh?" Lee can't help but feel happy at that. It may be a forbidden technique but Lee can tell that it's very powerful. Still... "Why?"

"Because I doubt I'll meet someone like you again in another lifetimes. That's how big of a genius you are." Lee blushed very hard at Sakura's words. They are not consolation words or empty praises... She genuinely think that he's a genius. Lee immediately wipe the tears that start falling. "Hey... Don't cry" Lee feel Sakura's hand patting his head. Looking up, Lee blushed some more when he saw her smiling at him. His heart skips a beat at that and won't calm down.

He blushed some more when he realises that he have fallen in love with one Haruno Sakura.

After meeting Lee, her daily schedule changed a bit. The extra 3 hours of waiting Kakashi to arrive, Sakura used 2 hours of it to train with Lee. In exchange of her teaching him magoi manipulation, Lee give her sets of physical training in order to improve her strength. As they train together, Sakura learn more about Lee. Lee is a very energetic person and very enthusiastic with taijutsu and his instructor Maito Gai. He loves the worth 'Youth' and 'Hard Work'. His dream is to beat his teammate Hyuuga Neji. Sakura can see him and Naruto getting along. Overall, her days become even more exciting.

Their mission today is to find and retrieve a lost pet cat... Or more precisely, a cat running away from home. The owner turns out to be a smother. Sakura sympathise with the feline. Naruto whined about it and proceed to ignore the Hokage when the old man explains about ranks and missions. He finally give in and decided to give them a C rank mission. Their mission is to escort a bridge builder named Tazuna back to his home country and complete his bridge. Tazuna strike Sakura as an old drunken man but those muscles don't lie. He must have done heavy construction working.

Naruto didn't like him because he called him short. Which is the truth anyways. For now. Sakura do not doubt that he will grow taller than her. If he have a proper diet that is. They split up for a couple hours to pack and will meet up at the gate. She can't help but get excited. A journey! Her first journey in this life! It's only a C rank mission but that's okay. Besides, singularity tend to attract trouble... Everything is up to the rukh guidance in the end.

After finished packing, she said her good byes to her parents and asked them to tell Lee that she left for a mission and pass him notes about training. Sakura make her way to the gate. For once, Kakashi didn't make them wait too long. He popped up just in time before Tazuna voice his annoyance. Naruto is so excited Sakura won't be surprised if he start doing cartwheels. He already looking around despite have only taken a few steps from the gate.

"Let's go! I never left the village before!" He exclaimed while pumping his fists to the air. Beside her, Sasuke just give him an annoyed look. Sakura giggled at the blond's enthusiasm.

Tazuna looked especially concerned. "Hey! Am I really going to be safe with his brat?"

Kakashi just laughed it off. "Well, I'm a Jounin so don't worry."

"Hey, old man!" Naruto angrily point his finger at him. "Don't mess with ninjas! I'm incredible! One day I will take on the super elite ninja title Hokage! My name is Uzumaki Naruto! Remember it!"

The bridge builder just give him an uninterested look, taking a swig from his liquor bottle. "Hokage is the village's no.1 ninja right? I doubt someone like you could become it." Oooo a wrong thing to say to Naruto.

"Shut up! I'm prepared to do everything to become Hokage! Once I become Hokage you will acknowledge me!" Naruto shouted at Tazuna heatedly.

"No I won't you brat. Even if you did become Hokage"

"I'LL KILL YOU!"

Kakashi grabbed the back of Naruto's jacket before he can permanently injured the old man. Sakura proceed to 'tap' the blonde's head with her staff to snap him out of it. Things calmed down for a while. To pass up time and gain more information, Sakura decided to speak up.

"Kakashi-sensei? Do Wave Country have ninjas too?" They don't really teach many things about other countries in Academy, just enough about the geography and Five Great Shinobi Country.

"No, not in in the Wave Country." Kakashi answered. "But in most other countries... the cultures and customs may be different, but hidden villages exists and so do ninjas. But it's not that the village rule the country, they merely stand equally with the country's government." Hmmm she guessed all worlds will be the same. They have countries and military. The government here seems to be dual, the Daimyos and the respective head of the hidden villages. Though shinobi leans heavily to military. "A small island country like the Wave country doesn't receive much interference from the larger nations and may not need a shinobi village." Kakashi continued. "Within the many Shinobi villages, Konoha, Suna, Kumo, Iwa and Kiri are the large and powerful and thus are referred to as the Five Great Shinobi Country. And these are the only countries whose leaders receives the title Kage."

So if she decided to reveal herself as a Magi and have the world actually believe her, Sakura must somehow get connection with said five Kages. Her being from Konoha might pose some troubles though. In the end, she need to decide. Wether she wants to be the Magi of Land of Fire or cut off any connection to maintain the delicate balance between said country... Problem is they won't even look at her if she's a mere genin or an outsider. She need to get stronger first so they will acknowledge her as a shinobi worth of their attention... And Sakura meant good attention. But for now, she have a mission to accomplish.

"Heee... I don't know Hokage-sama is such a great man." The old man did maintain peace in their village this long. He also the one who bear the title Hokage the longest AND survived 3 shinobi world wars. No wonder they called him the God of Shinobi. 'But' Sakura glanced back, to the direction where Konoha located. 'This era will face an even greater turmoil than what this world have seen before.'

"But don't worry" Kakashi snapped her out from her thinking, patting her head. "There won't be any ninja combat in a C rank mission." Next to him, Tazuna tensed. Since Kakashi is looking at her, he didn't notice... Perhaps. 'I guess we better be prepared.'

The rest of the journey is in a comfortable silence. However they must not lower their guard down. Sakura noticed there's a puddle in the middle of the road, despite there have been no rain in this past week. If she noticed, of course Kakashi would. Then it happened.

Out of nowhere, a long chain caught Kakashi and in a swift moment, it cut him up to pieces. Despite the very looking flesh and blood, Sakura can still feel Kakashi's magoi somewhere. 'He wants to see how we handle this?' Looking at the two enemies with claws, Sakura moved in front of Tazuna. As the two about to attack Naruto, Sasuke quickly send a kunai to embedded the chain to a nearby tree. He quickly detach the chain from the foreign ninjas' claws, kicking their face at the same time. Taking advantage of the momentum, one is after Naruto and another at Tazuna. But Sakura is prepared. Then Sasuke suddenly appear in front of them, followed by Kakashi who knock out the enemies in one go. She can't see his movement but that is expected from a Jounin.

"Naruto, I'm sorry I didn't save you immediately. I didn't think you would freeze like that" Kakashi apologised to Naruto who is still frozen on the spot. "Anyway, nice job Sasuke. Sakura too." She didn't do much though.

"You all right, scaredy cat?" Sasuke mocked Naruto. The blond about to retort when Kakashi stopped him. Apparently the claws are poisoned and Naruto got grazed. Sakura make a note to herself to take a sample. Judging from their head protectors, the attackers are from Kirigakure. Since they are after Tazuna and he knows it, he should have apply for the more expensive B rank mission. C rank only covers thugs or thieves. Since Tazuna lied, they are operating outside their duties. It was when Kakashi wondered out loud wether or not they'll return to treat Naruto's wound, the blonde snapped.

He stabbed his own hand. The hand that got grazed with poison.

"Naruto, what are you doing?!" Sakura looked at him half exasperated, half worried. Are all singularity and king candidates this stubborn? No wait. That was rhetorical. Then Naruto proceed to surprise them again.

"With this kunai..." He said slowly while trembling in pain. Or perhaps excitement? "I'll protect the old man. We're continuing the mission!"

...She doesn't dislike that particular quality though.

"All right that's enough." Sakura took out first aid kit from her bag. "It's good that you're releasing the poison but... You can seriously die if we don't treat it." At that, Naruto start to panic. "Calm down, Naruto! Geez! Are you a masochist or something?" She continue to scold him as she cleaned the wound and disinfect the wound. It already healing though so it won't do much. 'This must be the power of Kyuubi...' And judging from the look on Kakashi's face as he watched them, he thinks so too.

"Sensei..." They all turn to a serious looking Tazuna. "...I have to talk to you."

...

They are now on a small boat, sailing through the waters as the mist hid them. Sakura can see the canals ahead. The mist start to dissipate and a large bridge stood proudly in front of them. At the size of it, no wonder they call Tazuna a master builder and bridge expert. Everyone seems restless though. It can't be helped though. Tazuna just told them everything, from who targeted him and why would he lie about the mission.

Apparently a very wealthy but corrupt businessman named Gatou have set his eyes on the Wave Country. He quickly took control of the country's shipping industry using his wealth and other dirty deeds. The completion of the bridge Tazuna currently building is the only thing that stand in his way. In order to fully control Wave's business traffic, the bridge must not be completed. Hence why he hired shinobis to assassinate Tazuna. The reason of why he lied is because neither he or the local feudal lord have money to pay the fees for B ranked mission.

...He sure is shrewd enough to guilt trip them into accompanying him till he reach home.

The sailor who gave them a ride can only bring them to the outskirts so they must travel by foot from here. Kakashi doesn't seem to be happy about it, though it's more like because Gatou will send stronger opponents. In front of her, Naruto seems eager to redeem himself from the fight earlier... And to not get beaten by Sasuke again. Too eager perhaps. Everyone is caught in surprise when he throw shuriken out of the blue. And again. He almost killed a rabbit because of it.

Kakashi tenses at the sight of the rabbit though. "Everyone get down!" Sakura automatically tackled Naruto to the ground as Sasuke tackled Tazuna. A very large blade spin above their head and embedded itself on a tree. A figure landed on the hilt. New enemy. Judging from the camo pattern on his arm and leg warmers, he's the ally of the Mist shinobis they fought earlier. He seems to be the stronger one... Their leader perhaps.

"Well well... If it isn't the Kirigakure's missing nin Momochi Zabuza-kun?" Kakashi greeted him while stopping an eager Naruto from making a move. "Everybody get back. This one's on a whole other level." A Jounin? An ex member of Kirigakure's equivalent of ANBU? Nevertheless, Sakura take heed of his warning. Perhaps she'll need to use borg... "It will be tough unless I use this..." Kakashi grab his head protector. Is he going to reveal his left eye? "Surround and protect Tazuna-san. Do not enter the fight. That's the teamwork here. Zabuza, first... Fight me."

The moment he revealed his left eye, Sakura feel something weird from his rukh. The rukh... It's not Kakashi's... That can only mean... That eye originally belonged to someone else. A transplant? There's is a scar across his left eye. Unlike his black right eye, the left is bright red with 3 black tomoe. Zabuza called it Sharigan and Sasuke reacted at that word. As he explains what exactly is Sharigan, Sakura become even more intrigued. It sounds like kekkei genkai... Uchiha's kekkei genkai, judging from how distraught Sasuke looked. First the Hokage and now Kakashi... The shinobi world is getting more exciting.

The three of them immediately move to their position, surrounding Tazuna. Zabuza moves to the water, standing on top of it, already making seals. A thick mist soon cover them. The fact that Zabuza is an expert in silent killing, as Kakashi warned them, make it even more scarier. "Eight choices. Liver, lungs, spine, clavicle vein, neck vain, brain, kidney, heart. Which one should I go after..?"

Thevery air around them changes. They can feel the pressure from high chakra release and killing lust, emitted from two experienced Jounin. Now this is the real thing. Next to her, Sasuke already sweat heavily. Though she can't see Naruto, she can tell he's nervous too. Sakura? No offence to Zabuza but he doesn't really scare him. She've seen too much. "Sasuke..." Kakashi's voice snapped him out of his internal panic. "Don't worry. I'll protect you guys even if it kills me." He turned his head to them and smiled (not that they can really see it due to that mask of his). "I don't let my comrades die." Rukh swirls around him and Sakura felt warm inside... From being touched or perhaps because of the rukh around Kakashi.

"We'll see about that!"

In an instant, Zabuza is already between them, ready to attack. Kakashi too, get there just in time to stop him. But it turns out this Zabuza is a water clone. The real Zabuza attacked him from behind but Kakashi did a well timed Substitute Jutsu and caught him from behind. But it turns out to be another water clone. A Taijutsu fight ensued, but only for a short time. The moment Kakashi fell to the water, Zabuza got him. Clearly water is his main element. Now he got him trapped in a water sphere. A prison. Sakura instantly place herself in front of Tazuna, remembering that Kakashi's order still stands. Surround and protect Tazuna. She fixated her eyes on Zabuza, staff readied.

"Oh?" The missing nin looked at her. "That's a good look on your eyes... You doesn't seem to be a regular genin. Still, you aren't listed in my handbook... Once you're good enough for it, you can start calling yourself as ninja..." He disappears to thin air and next thing she know, Naruto is knocked backwards. It appears he's controlling vapour to make himself invisible... But now that there's two of them, the one in front of them must be another clone. He stepped on something... Naruto's head protector.

Ah

"UAAH!" Naruto charges in to get back his head protector. Reckless, but he did got it back, despite being knocked away again. "Hey you eyebrow less freak... Put this in your handbook... The man who will one day become Hokage... Konohagakure ninja Uzumaki Naruto!" The rukh swirls excitedly around him. Sakura can't help but smile. She watched in happiness as Naruto and Sasuke about to work together. Two great potentials about to work together... She better pay attention to everything.

Kakashi don't think quite the same with her though. "What are you doing?! Run away! This fight was over the moment I was caught! Our duty is to protect Tazuna-san! Did you forget that?"

Everyone turned to Tazuna, who is smiling. For a civilian, he sure have the stomach for it. "I planted the seed myself. I'm not going to now say that I desire to live so much that I stop you. I'm sorry guys... Fight as much as you want." Sakura's smile widen at that. As the fight resumes, she readied herself in front of Tazuna. Naruto and Sasuke managed to outsmart Zabuza using Shadow Shuriken Jutsu and succeed making him let go of the water prison. Now that Kakashi is free, the tides have turned.

Using Sharigan, Kakashi is able to copy his every move, even went as far as beating the speed. If Sakura didn't know any better, she would think that this is a magic duel with water magic only. As soon Zabuza got cornered, Kakashi prepared to deliver the finishing strike-

Someone got Zabuza first.

Judging from the conversation that soon followed, it appears that the one who got Zabuza is a hunter nin from Kiri. A shinobi specialising in hunting down missing nin. Despite the mask, they can tell that he is around their age, a couple years older at most. That did not sit well with Naruto. He must be feeling frustrated because a youth his age managed to take Zabuza down, even beating Kakashi into it.

"In this world there exists kids younger than you yet stronger than me." Naruto calmed down after hearing Kakashi's words. At least the youth is courteous, bidding farewell to them as he take away Zabuza's body. Kakashi then collapsed. The Sharigan must be took a toll on him, since Kakashi is not the original owner. There are so many mysterious things in this world... Chakra... Sure is fascinating.

...

Thankfully they managed to reach Tazuna's house without anymore obstacles along the way. Poor Tazuna have carry Kakashi all the way though. Sakura could use Gravity magic but that will only cause more questions. It will take about a week before Kakashi will be able to move his body again. Kekkei genkai sure is scary. Hearing Kakashi's explanation about hunter nins and the secrets reside in a ninja's body, she can't help but having cold sweat. If she attracts too much attention, she can end up at that... Perhaps even in the hands of Konoha nins. The more reason to be careful.

But something is bothering her. More than hearing Kakashi's explanation...

Zabuza's magoi felt weird earlier... And where that kid attacked Zabuza... ...No that surely can't be done. But she's in another world now. It is possible. She may have Life Magic as her main element and Healing Magic as her specialty... But the world of medical is like the bottomless sea... Sakura looked out of the window. There are no disturbance with the rukh flow around here at the moment... Glancing at Kakashi, she let out a sigh when he fell asleep. She'll wait for him to wake up.

...

Zabuza is alive all right.

The very moment Kakashi wake up, Sakura felt something from the rukh flow. Kakashi felt the same way all right but decided not to think much about it now. Zabuza being dead doesn't mean that Gatou haven't hire an even stronger ninja. Naruto is actually happy that Zabuza is possibly alive. Regardless, Kakashi decided to give them training. Naruto become even more excited at that. His good mood soon disappear when Tazuna's grandson, Inari, showed up. He is so pessimistic that it rile up the blond. Sakura can tell that the little boy have been hurt in the past... She knows very well the look in his eyes. Sadness and resignation. Well, they'll found out about that more.

Tazuna's daughter Tsunami give them the direction of the nearby woods, where they will train. Kakashi wants them to learn about chakra control by tree climbing. You channel your chakra to your feet and by maintaining the right amount off chakra, you can climb hard surfaces like walking or running. It's similar to magoi manipulation but different. Sakura is able to do it right away. She wonders what will happen if she channel Life Magic to her feet... Maybe mixing magoi and chakra...

She hang around longer, watching the boys practice. Sasuke channeled too much that the tree cracks while Naruto too little that his foot won't stick. It's all right. They're going to master it soon. They have stronger bodies and more chakra then her. Up from the trees, she can see Inari's little form watching them from afar. Despite trying to hide himself, she and Kakashi (Sasuke too probably) can tell that he is here. Is he perhaps intrigued with Naruto?

Sakura spent the rest of training hours running around the woods, climbing more trees, push ups, sit ups. She must train her body. While doing so, she can hear Lee's enthusiastic shouts about youths. She wondered if he listens to her and don't push himself. Things will be very messy if he did. She could do a quick flight to Konoha... But that will only make Kakashi suspicious. His story about hunter nins and body disposal came to mind.

She let out a long sigh as she lean against a tree trunk. She can feel Kakashi's eyes on her. Things are, dare she say it, much simpler in her past lives. Gosh, she really is an old woman if that thought cross her mind. Lee popped up again in her head, spouting "Youth!" and "Gai-sensei!" Chuckling to herself, Sakura looked at the orb of her staff. Staring back at her reflection, she smiled and get back on her feet.

Time to get back at training.

Have you ever wondered just where and when Lee meet Sakura? They must have crossed path before or Lee saw her from afar and then fell in love in first sight. We'll never know in canon.

Okay, I know that magicians are natural in magoi manipulation but I haven't seen any of them using their own hands instead of wands. Aladdin have stated in the canon that magicians' magic can't work properly without their wands. They still can but it will be unstable. I guess for magicians, physical magoi manipulation is especially hard, if not just as difficult for non magicians. Sinbad need a whole year to master it so it will be difficult for Magis also.

I can't help it but I really want to explore the potential of supporting characters like Lee. In Lee's case, I based him on the parallel between the Fanalis and magicians. Magicians greater amount of magoi since they will need it for their magic but it make their body weaker. On the other hand, the Fanalis have sheer physical prowess but very low magoi. Lee's chakra cannot be used for ninjutsu and genjutsu (some fanfics think it's because his chakra points already damaged from the start) but in exchange he can manipulate magoi in this story.

Time to answer questions!

Someone asked in their review why magoi manipulation affect Sakura that much. She may be a magi in this story but exerting so much magoi in such short time is very dangerous and can cause death, even for a Magi. Example in canon: Aladdin trying to summon Ugo again after their fight with Judal. But since Ugo no longer reside in the flute, it become a regular object and his magoi wasted. Sheherazade also pushes herself to the point her veins visible during Magnostadt Arc. We all know what kind of battles the characters had in the climax/end of that one arc. Still about Sheherazade, I think her tendency to create new bodies took a toll on her original body. She might be distributing her magoi to several bodies at the same time (like Naruto and his clones). While she did lived for more than 200 years because of it, her original body finally reach a limit.

In the Alma Torran Arc, everyone there technically receive magoi from Al-Illah, just like the Magis in present time canon. Yet they could still die from over exhaustion. Example for this are Sheba (though she was saved) and other magicians in those magical towers. Since their body is weaker than non magicians, it definitely add the burden. This is my own opinion you don't have to agree.

So yes, Sakura here can die from magoi overexertion.

I'm sure that pairings will come up in this story but I'm not sure who. We'll see.

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