Sakura walked up to the office with her sisters walking behind her giggling about some boy in their class. They had stopped at Sakura's locker so she could get the stuff she needed for her lesson with Tsunade. Sakura stopped and opened the office door, letting her sisters walk in under her arm, she followed them in quickly after.
"Good-afternoon, Sakura." Shitzune smiled from behind her desk.
Sakura gave her a small smile and walked into Tsunade's office, telling the twins to wait out there for her. Tsunade was sitting behind the desk, and it seemed that there was even more paperwork piled up on her desk.
"Tsunade-sama?" Sakura peeked over one of the piles.
"I'm awake." Tsunade lifted her head up, but her eyes were still closed.
"... Tsunade-sama?" Sakura whispered, tilting her head to one side. "Are you ok?"
"Hmm?" Her eyes opened and she seemed to be thinking about what Sakrua just asked, but it didn't seem like she was going to answer. Sakura was just about to say something, but Tsunade stood from her chair and started walking to the door. She flung it open and stared at the twins, leaning against the door frame. "You're Sakura's sisters?"
"Yes." The answered at the same time. Sarah looked behind the blond women to her sister, but Sakura had the same confused face as she did.
"Well then, let's go. Sakura." Tsunade walked quickly, as if she hadn't just been sleeping, and left the office, Sakura and the twins right on her heals. Sakura glanced back at her sisters as they left the school building and walked out towards the fields.
Sakura looked around as they half ran. She had never been to this part, her training field with Kakashi-sensei was on the other side of the school. Up ahead, Sakura could see a man standing by a gate, waiting for them, she guessed. As they got closer, Sakura reconized him as Iruka-sensei, the guy who annonced the teams.
"Iruka." Tsunade greeted as they neared. He nodded and gave them all a warm smile. "These are the girls I told you about." Tsunade waved a hand at Sarah and Sami. Sakura looked back at her sisters, then at Iruka.
"What's going on?" She asked, feeling her sisters taking her hands and trying to hide behind her.
"I'm going to be working with Sarah and Samantha while you train with Tsunade-sama." Iruka said, giving the twins a reassuring smile.
"... Really?" Sarah asked in a whisper, stepping around Sakura's leg, but not letting go of her hand.
"Yeah! I'm going to teach you all kinds of cool stuff!" Iruka said, leaning down so he was level with the twins.
"We're not babies." Samantha grumbled, giving him a small glare.
"Sorry, sorry!" Iruka waved his hands and stood up strait again. "Shall we go?"
Sarah and Samantha looked up at Sakura. "I'll come get you before busses." She said giving their hands a small squeeze. They smiled up at her and let go of her hands, and ran off ahead of Iruka, where he pointed. Sakura watched them go with a small smile. They were warming up here really nicely.
"Ready?" Tsunade asked, but was already walking again. Sakura jogged to catch up, but slowed to a walk.
They came to a somewhat large field that was inclosed by trees. A big bolder sat in the middle of the field, along with a table and small pool. As they got closer to the pool and table, she could see some fish swimming in the small pool of water.
"This is what you are to do." Tsunade reached in the pool and grabbed a small fish be the tail. She set it on the table and walked over to the large rock. "While you wait for the fish to die, you are going to split this rock down the middle.
Sakura stood there, looking at her like she grew a new head. "Huh?"
Tsunade sighed and turned to face the rock. "This is what you are going to do." Tsunade's fist started to glow with a light green color, and she ran at it, and smashed her fist into the side of it, making a sliver, about a foot wide, and the rocks length(5 feet) fall off. "Now, your turn. But hit it in the middle."
Sakura looked at the piece of rock that was now on the ground, to the big rock it came from, to Tsunade's hand. "You... Want me.. To try to... Do that?" Sakura pointed at the sliver.
"Not try, do." Tsunade sat on the ground, and waited. "You need to figure out how to use your charkura to split it. Don't use just you fist alone, you will break your hand."
Sakura just looked at her for a minute, then nodded and stood in front of the rock, just looking at it.
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"Like this?" Sarah asked. She leaned backwards, and lifted her feet over her head, and did it faster each time.
"Yup! Good job!" Iruka gave her the thumbs up and looked over at Sami, who was throwing kunai at a target. "Aim a little higher." He said, as he stood behind her.
"Ok.." Sam whispered, and threw another one, it hit just above the center. She gasped and a large smile grew on her lips. "YES!"
"Good job girls!" Iruka gave them both a high five, and looked up the road as Tsunade and Sakura came towards them. "Well, I'll see you two tomorrow then!" He waved to them as they ran off.
"Bye, Iruka-sensei!" They called back as they waved.
Sakura stopped by the gate with a small smile. They ran up to her and hugged her. "Did you guys have fun?" Sakura asked as they started walking again.
"Yeah! Iruka-sensei is really cool!" Sarah laughed as she grabbed Sakura's hand. Sakura flinched and pulled her hand away. "Did I hurt you?" Sarah asked, her smile gone.
"No... I sprained my wrist." Sakura smiled sheepishly, and showed them the bandage.
"How?" Sami asked, checking to make sure her other hand was ok before she grabbed it.
"I hit a rock to hard." Sakura smiled and carefully took Sarah's hand.
"Sakura," Tsuande turned to face them. "I want you to try to heal it. If you can't then come see me in the morning and I'll fix it. Just use the same thing you used to save that fish. I want you to meet me at the same place tomorrow, and bring your sisters to Iruka. See you." Tsunade waved and walked off.
"Bye." Sakura mumbled and they walked to the busses. When she sat in a open seat on the bus, she pulled out her cell phone, only to see she had two missed calls.
"Sakura, it's mom. I'm coming home early. I called the school, and they said you and the girls were having fun, so I didn't come pick them up. I'll see you when you get home!" "Hey babe." "I don't want to talk." She whispered to herself and put her cell back in her pocket. Her hand was throbing, so she dicided to try to heal it. A light green glow formed on her other hand, and she put it over the sprain. It felt numb for a few seconds, but after a few minutes, the pain went away and it felt much better. But, it was still very stiff. The bus stopped at the corner and Sakura followed her sisters off the bus. From where they were, Sakura could see her mother's car. The twins ran ahead, but Sakura walked slowly, trying to loosen her wrist. It wouldn't be good if her mom knew about it, because then she'd have to explain how it happened, but she wouldn't be able to, so she'd have to lie, which she was good at, but didn't like to do. Temari was walking out of the building as Sakura was walking in. They shared a smile, but neather stopped to talk. Sakura could hear Naruto from outside, so she wasn't surprised when she saw him in the hall, but what did surprise her, was that he was talking to Gaara. She tried to walk past them without talking to them, but Naruto will be Naruto. "Hey, Sakura!" He said and waved. Sakura looked and smiled, walking over to him. "Hi." "You look worn out." Naruto's head tilted to the side. "You just get back from training with Tsunade-sama?" "Yeah." She didn't think she looked that bad, but maybe she did. Oh well. "Eat something." Gaara said from where he was leaning against the wall. "It will help you get your chakura back faster." "Um, thanks. I better go now. Bye." Sakrua waved and crossed the hall to her apartment. "Bye!" Naruto called as she shut the door. "Who was that?" Kyra smirked. She was sitting on the floor helping the twins with their homework. "A person that goes to my school." Sakura mumbled as she went into the kitchen. She grabbed a glass and filled it with milk and grabbed an apple and went to her room, grabbing her bag on the way. XX Sakura rubbed her eyes and leaned back in her computer chair. It was late, and she was tired. Bobby had just got off line, and she told him she didn't want to talk because her throat hurt, but she just really didn't want to talk. She had finished her homework, another excuse not to get on webcam with him. She shut down her computer and crawled into her bed with a low sigh. It had been a long day, and tomorrow was going to be harder. So, she had made a few friends that she didn't think would happen, she's learning from the 'best' as everyone keeps telling her. She pulled the black comfiter up to her chin and hit the light that was on her headboard. Her wrist still hurt, but as everything turned black, it went away... XX
"Sakura!" TenTen waved as she ran up to her new friend the next morning. Sakura looked up from her locker and gave TenTen a small smile.
"Hey."
"What are you doing after school?" TenTen asked, a big smile plastered on her face.
"Um, I'm with Tsunade-sama until 5:30, but after that I'm free." Sakura slammed her locker shut and they girls started walking to their first class.
"That's perfect!" TenTen said, with a small skip. She's happy about something, Sakura thought. "Ok, so there's this thing going on later that we want you to come with us to. It doesn't start till 6:30, so we can pick you and Gaara up at the same time. Naruto said you live next to each other."
"What kind of 'thing' is it?" Sakura took her seat while TenTen took a seat in back of her, next to Neji, who pointed to the seat when she was about to sit next to Sakura.
"It's a bonfire and there's going to be a bunch of games. It's down by the beach. Right, Neji?" TenTen looked over at him with a small blush.
"Yeah." He gave her a small smile and looked at Sakura. "All of us are going."
"All of us?"
"Me, you, Neji, Hinata, Naruto, Gaara, and Kiba." She counted off her fingers as she said all the names. "It'll be fun! Please say you'll come!"
"Um, Sure, I guess, sounds cool." Sakura smiled at them and glanced to her left, where she saw Gaara sitting next to her, the only open seat that was left in the room. "So, you're going to?"
"Hn."
Sakura raised an eyebrow at his answer.
"That mean's yes." Hinata giggled from her seat next to Naruto, they were sitting in front of Sakura and Gaara. "It's going to be so much fun!" She clapped her hands a little, and blushed when Naruto gave her a big smile.
XX
The next class, her math class, went by rather quickly, and soon it was time for lunch.
Sakura got a piece of pizza and a Kiwi-Strawberry Propel and walked to the table where TenTen and Hinata sat, she sat across from them, next to Neji and the kid named Kiba. They were all talking about the bonfire, and about the weather. They dicided to call everyone if it was going to be cold, they didn't know yet, because no one watched the weather, i mean, who does?
After lunch, Sakura waved good-bye to her friends and followed Gaara and Naruto from the lunch room to the trainning field in the way back. Sakura sat down on the ground with her math book and started her homework so her mom didn't have an excuse for her not to go to the bonfire with everyone.
"Yo." Kakashi appeared in front of them, and walked over to Naruto. "I want you to start Sakura out with the basics, Gaara. Naruto, you and I will spar. Go."
Sakura and Gaara walked over to a open area away from Naruto and Kakashi, who were already beating the crap out of the other.
Sakura looked up at Gaara, only to see his back. "Gaara?"
"Attack."
"Huh?"
"Show me what you have." He grumbled, turning to her. "I wont use the sand."
"Alright.." Sakura hesitated before running at him and throwing a punch at his face, he, obviouly blocked, but Sakura knew he would, so she was ready with a kick to the gut. It caught him off surprise and he stumbled back a little, then she was at it again.
