No matter how much they pestered their sensei, Kakashi wouldn't tell them what exactly had Sakura told him. Even when they managed to ask her, she would pointedly ignore their question. They were at the end of their very reduced patience.
Sakura was becoming slightly more aware during the Sharingan tests. She actually broke up a fight between Naruto and Sasuke via punch method. If the latter hadn't deactivated his eyes in time, she would have beaten them up (the Uchiha didn't know what to think of this new development).
Ino suggested they try to get inside her mind with Yamanaka techniques again. Maybe now that she was slightly more conscious, she would allow her best friend to take a peek. And the experiment failed rather spectacularly, because as it turned out, there were barriers the pinkette herself hadn't placed in there.
"It's like there's a glass… She's on the other side," Ino explained, after being violently kicked out, only half a minute after entering. She couldn't have built the barrier up - it had been something implanted in her mind. It felt foreign.
With every disappointment, there was silent hatred building up for a certain man.