~Authors Note
Sorry I haven't updated this story for a long while, I was having trouble coming up with idea's for it, and while I know this chapter is extremely short, considering the other chapters that I have written for it I hope to have another one out soon that will be much longer.
End Authors Note~
Waking up the next morning was weird as she blinked rapidly adjusting to the light streaming in through the curtains of the guest room she was using "Oi you awake Sakura-chan" Naruto burst into the room a second later, to bright and cheery.
"Dope seriously knock first before entering a room occupied by a girl or do you want Mom to give you another lecture on the importance of knocking" Sasuke scuffed his adopted brother over the back of the head and Naruto whined, pouting and sniffling.
She let out a long suffering sigh "I'm awake now if you two don't mind" Sakura put a hand on her hip as she stood and the two boys fled like the hounds of hell were nipping at their heels, shutting the door to her chosen guest room on their way out.
Giggling softly Sakura dug through her pack and found her clothes storage scroll, unsealed all she needed and then turned to take a shower, dressing and brushing her hair once she was done glad to have a chance to see what she actually looked like properly.
And taking a little bit of extra time Sakura peeked into the mirror and was startled by what she saw, long flowing locks of pink hair, emerald orbs and fair colored skin complete with a smattering of freckles.
It was a big shocker to her that she was tall for her age of thirteen as well and she couldn't stop herself from smiling as she exited the bathroom, then bedroom and headed down the hall to the kitchen where she found everyone else already seated around the table.
"Yo, say ho good morning pinky this is the rappin Killer Bee out oh yeah" Bee immediately burst into one of his raps and Sakura smiled brightly in return just as Ay was about to hit his brother, only pausing when he saw her smile.
Rolling his eyes he sat back down discretely "Figured you would be up early, sorry but we don't cook much" Ay gestured to the table where a small mountain of food was already piled on top and quickly she took the only seat remaining to fix her a plate like the others.
"We helped Sakura-chan believe it" the knucklehead blonde chattered suddenly as they were digging in after waiting politely for their hosts to take the first bite and giving their thanks for the meal as they'd been raised.
She wasn't that surprised "Could have guessed that much Naruto" the rosette giggled softly around her fork before scooping up another bite to eat until all the food had been devoured by everyone at the table.
Ay clasped his hands together "Since you still have a few days, you can explore the village as you like, even go to the training grounds you have special permission, just try not to get into any trouble" the Raikage grumbled.
Knowing that if the kids did get in trouble it wouldn't be their fault in the least "Of course, we'll do our best not to" the Uchiha sitting at his table nodded seriously, between the three of them he could count on the brat to report anything that might happen truthfully.
Cause the other two, the Uzumaki and Pink haired brat didn't like to cause conflict and often tried to direct the conversation to a different topic "The Rappin Killer Bee will be tagging along yo say ho to keep the kiddies out of the trouble yeah" the other man at the table rapped yet again.
His brother let out a groan, nodded to the brats and disappeared from the table heading to work, the lone girl immediately stood "Training grounds, I have to adjust to that, afterwards we can do whatever you two want to do" Sakura stared the boys down.
Because she couldn't leave this for another day "Got it Sakura-chan, we want to train a little bit to you know" Naruto nodded in understanding itching to stretch his muscles and work his chakra a bit before they went around having fun.
"Away to the training grounds we go yo say oh wee" Bee rapped in that way that got on some peoples nerves, Sasuke bit his cheek harshly tasting blood so he didn't say anything and it seemed on some small scale Sakura actually found this guy amusing.
He cleared his throat "So what are you going to practice" Sasuke said instead forcing his gaze to Sakura, who gained a contemplative expression before shrugging indicating she had no idea what she wanted to work on first.
Until they finally arrived on the training grounds which was occupied "Leaf Ninja the hell are you doing in our village" a red head that looked to be their age started storming over, rolling up her sleeves ready to fight.
Only stopping when Bee stood in her way and shook his head seriously "Listen to the Rappin Killer Bee Karui, these Leaf Ninja are here on bro's orders and his guests for the next two weeks oh yeah" the dark skinned man rapped and did a little jig.
Sakura slapped a hand over her mouth to keep from full on laughing and straightened when gold eyes flashed her way "You got a problem with Bee-sama rapping" the girl as they'd learned her name was Karui sneered.
"No, no I find it invigorating actually Karui-san, we just wanted to train a little bit so please don't mind us" the rosette bowed her head, not wanting a fight on their hands especially so early in the morning, she didn't think she'd be able to take it.
Karui eyed her warily and shifted her gaze to the other two Leaf Ninja "What Sakura said, we just want to train a bit, I'm Naruto Uzumaki" the blonde piped in with a quick bow much like Sakura, he didn't want a fight either.
"Sasuke Uchiha, the three of us are family and teammates, our rank is Chunin level" the ebony haired teen dipped his head in greeting, arms crossed over his chest and looking around carefully just in case someone decided to attack.
Introductions out of the way Karui headed back to her original spot and resumed her own training session leaving them to do whatever "Right okay this is so weird" Sakura frowned trying to form hand signs but finding it difficult unless she closed her eyes.
Bee stood back keeping an eye on the kiddies as he'd promised his brother "Gonna take a long time isn't it Sakura-chan" Naruto commented seeing how much his adopted sister was struggling to get the hang of training while being able to see.
Karui perked in interest "Thought you guys said you were all Chunin, so why is she having so much trouble forming basic hand signs" Karui snorted obviously thinking the girl was messed up in the brain it was a wonder how she'd even become Chunin.
"Well until yesterday Sakura was blind, watch, see how she closes her eyes and is able to form the hand signs, yeah it's quite the adjustment for her" Sasuke explained and Karui turned to watch the pinkette before frowning deeply.
Even Bee looked rather disturbed "How exactly is it that she was a ninja while being blind" the redhead questioned not quite believing that the girl had been unable to see until just yesterday which was weird in and of itself.
Both boys shrugged "It was how she was raised, her greatest weakness was turned into her greatest advantage" the blonde said, smiling when Sakura managed to form hand signs with her eyes open after several minutes and loose a mild water style jutsu.
"And my moniker is the Ghost of the Forest or Ghost for short" the rosette grinned, proud of herself for managing so quickly and soon she'd be able to do more and more, she was turning to practice a little more.
When five people rushed onto the training grounds "Sakura-san, Naruto-san, Sasuke-san there you three are" Cee frowned, having worried when he'd arrived at his leaders home and not found the Chunin who were staying there well there.
Then of course it had been a challenge even sensing their chakra which had taken an extra twenty five minutes "Is something wrong, oh don't worry we weren't getting into trouble or anything Raikage-sama gave us permission to use the training grounds a bit" the Uchiha commented.
Realizing what the problem was after he'd asked, seeing the concern plain to see on their faces "Yeah and the Rappin Killer Bee was here with them yo say ho, fool ya fool" the eight tails Jinchuuriki rapped to Sakura's amusement.
Making Karui see she truly did like Bee's distasteful rapping "Honestly not that we're doubting you Bee but these kids need extra looking after" Darui snorted, inwardly adding that it was necessary especially because of Sakura.
Who gave him a sour look before a smile took over her face "Plus we sort of swore that we wouldn't let you out of our sights" Atsui added not wanting anything like what happened the other day to happen again.
In which Sakura had been accused of stealing "That's right Shiranui-san might even be a little upset with you Sakura-san and try something" Amai said while Sakura scowled in remembrance prompting Naruto and Sasuke to pat her shoulders.
Stood on either side of her as they were "So what were you practicing" Karai asked, seeing no point in continuing to tell the kids they were being practically babysat by the five of them, immediately Sakura turned and looked at where her jutsu had gone.
"Working on hand signs isn't that right" Karui saw fit to interject herself into the conversation once more, even if she was severely confused about the reason her own fellow Cloud Shinobi were acting so friendly with the Leaf Shinobi.
The girl in question nodded her head "Yeah that cause I actually like using jutsu's so relearning how to do hand signs with my eyes open is first on the agenda, then a light spar" Sakura admitted, trying another jutsu.
Her mud-wall jutsu to be precise "Got a question Kid how is it you learned how to use jutsu in the first place" Darui questioned having wondered but he'd been unable to answer that particular question on his own.
"Our sensei, Kakashi Hatake, she asked about a week before the Chunin Exams when we were learning how to navigate ourselves like her and he taught her about three jutsu, and I'm sure Hokage-sama taught her even more" Sasuke answered.
And Sakura snickered under her breath at him "Not just that Sasuke but a little bit of fuinjutsu as well, kami that's going to be the biggest pain to relearn" the pinkette grimaced but continued practicing the hand signs to her earth jutsu until she could successfully do it with her eyes open.
Followed by a wall of mud raising to over her head "Did you just use that jutsu with barely any chakra" the redhead watching spluttered in surprise, having felt the other girl barely use chakra for her jutsu.
"That's Sakura for you, she's always been good at managing her chakra, plus she's Granny Tsunade's apprentice" Naruto grinned watching as Sakura slowly got into the swing of using hand signs before turning on Sasuke with an innocent smile.
Apparently it was now time for a spar "Why's it got to be me" Sasuke sighed in a resigned tone to everyone else's amusement, Sakura merely shifted, barely allowing him to do the same before she had launched herself at him like a bullet.
He twisted harshly to the right instinctively, ducking low while sucking in his stomach to avoid the kick and cartwheeling backwards narrowly to avoid her attack "Fuck" the white/orange haired shinobi hissed at her viciousness.
Even against her own teammate and adoptive sibling the girl didn't take it easy on Sasuke, Sakura kept right on Sasuke not allowing him much distance as she was a mostly close ranged fighter "Yeah you should have seen her while we were hunting the bandits" the onyx eyed blonde said.
Just relieved that Sakura was adapting quickly, though he did catch her stumbling quite a bit until Sasuke went down with a grunt of pain as he was tripped and Sakura sat on his back "Do you yield" Sakura asked waiting for him to submit.
It being so ingrained in him now that Sasuke merely turned his head to the side barring his neck "Hold up did I miss something, he didn't verbally respond so why are you letting him up" Karui questioned in confusion when Sakura hopped up and helped Sasuke up in return.
Before healing him to Amai's fascination "That's because he submitted by barring his neck, jaguar mannerisms right Kid" the white haired Cloud Jonin glanced to Sakura who nodded with a smile then decided she was done practicing for the morning.
Which meant now going around the village to simply explore or souvenir shop, Karui watched them go still massively confused but returned to her own training "I didn't realize that you knew that" the older blue eyed blonde raised a brow on the two younger teenage boys.
Who shrugged "In their world we're Sakura's understudies, because she taught us how to rely on our senses and all that other stuff" the second Uchiha heir said lightly while keeping an even pace with his teammates, one eye trained on Sakura at all times.
The other on the look out for trouble or interesting things "Yeah, yeah believe it Atsui-san, though we're no where close to Sakura-chan's level, we still have an advantage over everyone else in a forest" the younger blue eyed blonde bounced to the others amusement.
"By the way the Rappin Killer Bee would like to say this to little blondy that the nine tails resides inside your hide yo say ho oh yeah" the eight tails Jinchuuriki did another obnoxious jig with a terrible rap to go with it.
But it was enough as Naruto froze, eyes wide in horror as Bee had just outed his secret to everyone in the near vicinity "You're a Jinchuuriki Naruto-san" the mahogany haired medic inquired gently.
Sensing that the boy was touchy about the subject "My real mom and dad passed away to seal him inside of me" Naruto sighed looking forlorn, just waiting for the rejection or disgust that usually came with that subject.
What he didn't count on though was Sakura, who turned to him, hands on her hips "Naruto, this nine tails creature, does it define who you are, no, so who cares what anybody else thinks because to me and Sasuke, Mom, Itachi and Shisui you will always be Naruto" Sakura informed.
Everyone blinked at her in surprise before Sasuke jumped aboard that particular bandwagon "Yeah Dobe, no matter what you have sealed inside of you, your always gonna be my goofy knuckleheaded adopted brother" Sasuke said seriously.
Tears misted in Naruto's eyes before he threw himself at his teammates and they returned his hug with tolerant smiles while the adults couldn't help but wonder exactly what in the hell had Naruto been through that, that was his reaction to anyone finding out about his secret.
And then the emotional moment was completely ruined by Genma making his appearance amid the group "Shouldn't you be working instead of running around and being lazy" the hazel eyed tokujo scoffed, less than impressed.
Sakura's expression went from happy to annoyed in .5 seconds as she released her adoptive brothers "Shiranui-san lay off or was the broken rib not enough to tell you that it's not the wisest thing in the world to push me" the pinkette snapped tired of his crap.
If he wasn't going to be nice, then neither was she, Genma glared right back until someone else intervened on her behalf "You have no right to order her around Shiranui-san, the time in which she's supposed to work isn't for another 3 days" Cee frowned.
Wondering himself what the man's problem was "Besides you know she did almost die and Kids probably not at a hundred percent yet" Darui added, not wanting to see a fight break out, he knew Sakura while most likely not winning would injure Genma seriously should that happen.
Genma scowled and went to stalk off when a plume of smoke disrupted their vision and a much larger version of Katsuyu appeared "Genma-san, Tsunade-chan received an interesting message, your to return to the village effective immediately" the slug informed.
Then turned her attention on Sakura "Tsunade-chan would also like to ask that Sakura-san sends her daily updates on how your adjusting to being able to see" then was gone in a plume of smoke just like that.
Left with no other choice but to obey, Genma turned on his heel on a straight path to the hotel to pack and head back home to carry out whatever punishment the Hokage had in store for him just because Sakura had to cry about it.
On the other hand Sakura merely found a place to sit and write her missive to Tsunade on how she was doing, her handwriting was barely legible though "Ouch looks like this is one of those things that's going to take awhile for you to get use to huh Sakura-san" Atsui winced.
Seeing how hard it actually was for the girl to write properly until she scowled, whipped out a book and another piece of paper and wrote in braille instead, eyes closed the entire time as she scribbled a proper message to her shishou.
Her handwriting was much neater this time around as she flashed through hand signs to summon Katsuyu and sent the missive off with the slug "Well I don't know about you kids but there are better things to do than dwell on certain things, like going on a tour" Karai said.
Rather bored and he wanted to make sure the kids knew their way around the Cloud Village frontwards and backwards, at that the teenagers grew excited and so they went around the rest of the morning seeing Kumo from a Cloud Shinobi's point of view until it was noon.
The teenagers wandered off for lunch at that point "Kami their so full of energy" Amai sighed as he slumped into a seat at a different table than the younger members of Team 7, Cee and Darui fortunately agreed with him.
As did Bee for some reason who decided to talk normally for once "It's like they never had a chance to enjoy being kids or something" Bee frowned, he wouldn't ask though because he didn't know what any of them had been through.
Just as they were finishing up with their afternoon meal, a shinobi stormed over to the table of Leaf Chunin, clearly upset that they were in his village but was stopped by Karai and Darui before he could say anything damning.
"Don't their Raikage-sama's personal guests, we have a treaty with Leaf and the girl is going to be helping out in our hospital" the white/orange haired man said in warning just glad they had been nearby and gotten there in time.
For he was absolutely certain that if the guy had done anything Sakura would have kicked his ass to Sunday and back "Even if they are Raikage-sama's guests I don't care their nothing but stupid brats, what difference can they make in our village nothing and that's all they'll ever be" the man spat.
Karai looked at him as if he was stupid "And another thing I heard rumors that this girl is nothing but a slag worming her way into the remains of the great Uchiha Clan if I recall" he continued on completely missing the looks.
Sakura was by that point boiling "Come on Naruto, Sasuke" the rosette scoffed, itching to whack the guy but she left enough ryo on the table to pay for her meal and headed towards the exit of the restaurant, Naruto and Sasuke on her heels.
Not quickly enough it seemed though as the obstinate Cloud Shinobi refused to let them go as he reached out and grabbed Sakura's shoulder hard enough to bruise it, she reacted in kind by raising her foot and nailing him straight in the groin.
Giving him a death glare "Well that's one way way to deal with him I guess" the ivory haired Cloud Shinobi shrugged, glad that the only thing that had gotten damaged was the mans pride and important bits and hopefully that was all he needed to stay away from the kids.
Was that the end of all they'd endure for the day oh no for as soon as they exited the restaurant Atsui perked up "Sis what are you doing just standing there for that's not very hot" the blue eyed blonde chuckled.
Before narrowing his eyes at the person who had his arm wrapped around his sisters shoulders making the woman look mighty uncomfortable "Atsui and I was just about to go in when this happened" the blonde woman frowned.
"Hey your making her uncomfortable" Sakura chimed in picking up on the woman's feelings like it was second nature to her and it was, hardly anyone in the group was surprised that she was sticking up for someone else.
As the man skedaddled pretty quickly after that "Thank you, you must be Sakura-san, I'm Samui, Atsui's sister if you couldn't tell" Samui thanked the younger girl for her help and introduced herself with a light smile.
Sakura nodded and smiled back in return "And I'm Naruto Uzumaki believe it" the youngest blue eyed blonde jumped in not wanting to be ignored, causing the males to chuckle in amusement at his exuberance.
While Sasuke shook his head "Sasuke Uchiha, together we make Team Seven and we're all siblings those two are adopted" the second Uchiha heir greeted and like that Samui had joined their group as they went around souvenir shopping until it was time to return.
The Chunin made dinner for themselves and whoever else was hungry like Yamato who had decided to stay in the Raikage's estate as well, seeing as Genma had been summoned home "You truly are gifted Sakura-san" Yamato said as he polished off dinner that had been cooked to perfection courtesy of the girl in question.
Who smiled and made a plate for Ay who wouldn't be back until later "Just lots of practice Yamato-san" Sakura smiled softly as she settled in a chair to read for a bit until she couldn't keep her eyes open any longer.
So without even going to the guest room she fell asleep where she sat "I'll take her" Ay grunted when he returned home to find everyone still up except for the pink haired brat, none of them wanted to disturb Sakura accidentally.
But he was able to lift her with ease and carry her off to the guest room she was staying in, once she was all covered up and the others staying in his house had disappeared, he went into the kitchen, ate the plate of food that had left for him and headed to bed himself.
And soon before the lot of them knew it, the remaining days they had before Sakura was to start working in the hospital had passed "Can't wait I'm so excited" Sakura bounced up and down as she followed after Cee and Amai to the hospital eager to get started.
