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I'm so sorry it took me so long to continues this, but writters block suck D:
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Humanitys hope
Chapter 6.
Word count: 2,463
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The judge eyed the documents for a couple of minutes and sighed before saying his verdict. "Everything's seems in order". He paused and smiled slightly "Alright Commander Smith, I will leave the custody of this girl to the survey corps. If she was able to survive for so long she may be the key to achieve humanity's victory. From now on Haruno Sakura, you shall be know as Humanity's Hope"
The moment those words left the judge mouth, sakura was surrounded by a warm sensation that spread across her body and focused on the pit of her stomach. She recognized this as pride. There was no other word to describe what the pink haired kunoichi was feeling at the moment. (Besides joy of course). Since she became a medic, the life of others had always depended on Sakura, but this was different. She was their salvation in some way. Their last hope. Their secret weapon of some sort.
Was this how Naruto felt before he defeated pain? Because if it was, it felt pretty damn good, now she understood why he was smiling like an idiot.
Although she knew this was not her ideal situation to become a hero, it felt nice that someone depended on her, her the weakest link in team 7. Since that moment sakura vowed that she would do everything on her power to help this people. She will help to set them free.
The return trip to the Hq wasn't that bad. Even though, still no one was talking, the atmosphere was much more relaxed now. She noted that some of the tension in Erwin's shoulders loosens, poor man. He seemed to carry the weight of the 3 walls over his shoulders. She briefly wondered if he would allow her to massage him using chakra. She did it all the time with Tsunade-sama and she knew the older woman was as good as new after every session.
You just want to see him shirtless-
Of course not!
Sakura could feel her cheeks burning, she wasn't one to blush so easily but it was hard with inner shoving inappropriate images in her mind.
Stop!
She hadn't even thought of that. She eyed the blonde Commander with the corner of her eye. He was tall, broad, and she was sure he was ripped underneath that shirt. He wasn't hideous; in fact she dared to say he was handsome in a way.
Commander Handsome. I like it
She blushed at her inner comment. Again. Why she had to get a pervert inner instead of a quiet and smart one.
Hey! I'm offended.
She ignored her inner and focused once again in the man next to her. He was quietly looking through the window taking in every detail of the city they were currently in. "Commander" she called softly getting him out of his daze. "What is it, Haruno?"
"I wanted to thank you" she smiled "I promise I wouldn't disappoint you"
Erwin nodded satisfied with her answer. He didn't say anything to her, not like she was expecting him to do it anyway.
(...)
By the time they arrived to the Hq the sun had already set. Meaning they had missed dinner, and lunch and breakfast… Now that she thinks of it, when was the last time she ate? Her mind wandered back to yesterday dinner. She almost threw up. The food wasn't completely disgusting, it was edible to a certain extend. Maybe she was too used to Teuchi's food that anything that wasn't prepared by him wasn't good enough for her, she blamed Naruto for this. Ramen was definitely not her favorite food, but the longer she ate Connie´s mysterious stew she missed ramen even more, especially the blonde boy that always accompanied her during her meals.
Sakura sighed. Now was not the moment to be sad. Her only goal right now was to find something to eat and go to bed immediately afterward.
Unfortunately for Sakura things never go as planed.
She stood awkwardly in front on Hanji. The scientist had requested her presence in her office/lab to continue with the experiments.
On her way there she found Armin who gave a sympathetic look a continued dusting off the bookshelf.
"Where did the little rhombus go?" Hanji asked curiously poking her forehead.
"I hide it"
"Oh!" she blinked "Amazing!" Hanji continued to poke her forehead this time with a stick- Where she got that from?!
In order to avoid a headache Sakura grabbed the stick and stared at Hanji with a serious face. "Why did you asked about my seal?"
"So it's a seal" she clapped her hands happily "I thought it was a tattoo from a rebellious stage"
Sakura blinked in confusion. "Why would I get a tattoo in my forehead?"
"Well" she began "Since it's pretty large-"
The kunoichi cracked her knuckles threateningly a vein popping in her forehead. "What did you said about my forehead?"
Hanji laughed and placed her arm in Sakura's shoulder.
"So what does it do?" she asked genuinely curious.
Sakura contemplated not telling her, but then again, it's not like Hanji could use chakra.
"Well…" She began explaining the purpose of the seal and how she worked hard to achieve it.
By the end of her story Hanji had tears in her eyes and was hugging her to death. "I can't believe you went through that!" she sobbed rubbing her cheeks against in a comforting manner.
"It's alright. Cherry blossom's need to wither in order to bloom" she smiled.
Hanji stared at her in confusion.
"Sakura, it means cherry blossom. My parents aren't really creative." she said with a shrug of her shoulders.
Hanji nodded at her little explanation and turned serious before asking. "What other thing can you do? Besides healing of course"
"Just like any other ninja I can walk on trees and water, well almost anything." She smiled when she saw Hanji's eyes widen at her statement. "I can also use water and earth jutsu and some fire too!"
"jutsu?"
"Yes! Let me show you!"
Flashback
"Kaka-sensei!" she knocked on the door for the third time. " I know you're in there!"
She hear a sigh and a small click a soon enough the door was swung open by her sleepy sensei.
"Sakura. Its 7 am" he said in a tired tone.
"I know"
Kakashi sighed again and completely opened the door to let her in.
"What do you need?"
"Teach me a fire jutsu!"
Kakashi´s eyes widened in surprise "W-what? Why?"
"Since I'm a front line medic, I have to work in the middle of battlefields" she paused sipping some of the tea Kakashi had offered her. "Sometimes I need to sterilize needles or to boil up herb so I can use them". She leaned in closer to him and whispered "And I don't know if you're aware but… there's no bonfire or matches near me 24/7"
Kakashi's only visible eye creased, meaning that he was smiling. That or he had some dust in his eyes. She rather believed it was the former.
"Alright then. I'll teach you" He stood up a make his towards the door.
Sakura smiled and stood up to exit her sensei house, finally she would learn something that could help her in the battlefield and healing!. She couldn't be more excited!.
She heard the door slammed close behind her.
"Kakashi-sensei!"
End of flashback.
Her hands run thought familiar seals: serpent ram monkey boar horse tiger. She whispered.
"Katon: Goukakyuu no jutsu!" she felt something warm going up from her stomach to her throat and then her mouth.
She released a really small flame from her mouth.
So small. She thought in a disappointed tone.
She sweat dropped. Even after all this time she only managed to make a small pathetic flame. If she were to battle against a fire user like sasu … the humiliation would be to big for her to handle. Probably the heat produced from her embarrassment would be hotter than her katon.
Kakashi's words still rang in her head.
"That size if ok". He had said.
"No, its not" she retorted.
"Sakura" he placed his hand in her shoulder "You're not a fire user, your nature affinity is water and earth, you should be glad the fire appeared at all"
She pouted. "I know, but sa"
"Stop comparing to them Sakura. You're a chunin, you're the apprentice of a sannin, the fifht hokage, a medic and" He paused to smile at her" my favorite student"
Her eyes watered at the memory but she shook her head to get rid of them. Not the moment.
She turned to face the other woman. "I know it's not that great-" she stopped when she saw Hanji expression.
Had she done something wrong?
(…)
Erwin peaceful evening was interrupted by three knocks on the door. "Come in" he called.
Pink hair poked through the door. "Commander" Sakura said almost shyly. "I think I broke Hanji" she said fully entered the room.
Of all things he has expected, this wasn't one of them.
"What did you do?" he asked suspiciously setting his pen down.
"N-nothing! I was just showing her a fire jutsu-"
"A what?" he asked standing up to help Sakura sit Hanji down in one the chairs.
Note to self, no more jutsus for a while. At least not in from of Hanji.
"Go to your room. It would be better if you stay away from Hanji for a while" Erwin said turning his attention from the fainted woman to the pinkette. His tone wasn't rude so she didn't take it personally.
Sakura nodded and left to her room.
"What am I going to do with you" Erwin wondered aloud once she had left the room.
(...)
Look at the positive side of everything! her mother used to said. But right now it was very difficult to do such a thing.
At least I'm free from hanji's crazy experiment.
See? Mom's right!
Now with a smile on her face Sakura jumped out of bed and started to make her way to the forest the trainees practiced with the 3d maneuver gear. Is not that she sucked, but she wasn't the best at it either. At least not like-
Her inner musing was interrupted by someone landing next to her.
"Brat" of course it had to be him. She inwardly signed before turning the face the newcomer.
"Captain" she saluted ignoring the way Levi's brows furrowed at her casual greeting.
"Tsk" He eyed slowly, the disapproving look never leaving his eyes. "It's wrong" he said taking a step forward.
Sakura frowned in confusion, but before she could ask what he mean Levi's hands were untying the straps of her uniform.
She blushed thinking wrongly of the situation and slapped Levi's hands away.
"W-What are you doing?"
Levi sighed. Foolish woman. "You tied them wrong" he gestured the browns straps covering her body.
"Ah" Sakura said feeling embarrassment. Here she was thinking he wanted to sexually assault her when the only thing he was doing was fixing her uniform.
With the pink still present in her cheeks she managed to said in a small voice "I'm sorry. Please do continue"
Levi sighed for the third time? she didn't knew but he approached her again, this time making sure to look at her in the eyes to make her feel uncomfortable perhaps ? who knows.
Once he was done Levi turned to leave but was stopped by Sakura's voice.
"What is it?"
"Could you please show me how to use the maneuver gear properly?" Dang this was the most awkward conversation she ever had in her life.
"Are you implying Cadet Ackermant teaching ways are bad?" He asked lifting one his eyebrows.
"Is not that!" She quickly assured. "It just that I could use some extra lessons"
"Obviously"
Sakura left eye twitched was he insulting her?
"Will you teach me or not?"
"Hn"
"What's that supposed to mean?!"
And again, Levi sighed.
The next day her peaceful slumber was interrupted by three knocks on her door.
Growling sakura got up and answered the door.
"G-Good Morning"
A cadet she had never seen stood in front of her door.
"Good morning"
"Commander Erwin wishes to speak with you in his office" he saluted nervously at her and left as fast as he could.
She was confused and annoyed, the sun hasn't risen yet and she was still sore because of yesterday events. A slight smirk adorned her face when she recalled what had happened after her training session with the maneuver gear. Levi have asked to spar with her, and well lets say it didn't end up well... for him.
She hoped the punch she had given him had bruised.
Feeling happier than before, Sakura finished getting dressed and walked to the bathroom to brush her teeth's. Technically the unknown cadet hadn't specific any time for her meeting so she took her sweet time walking to Erwin's office.
She knocked three times and waited for Erwin's permissions to enter.
"So you finally decided to join me" He had stopped reading some documents to stare at her.
"Well, in mi defense I wasn't given any specific time to come" She walked in sat in front of him. "So I thought it wasn't urgent"
"Next time I might have to fetch you myself then" His tone was serious but there was a hint of amusement in his blue orbs.
Sakura smiled. "May I know why did you call me, sir?"
"Straight to the point" he stood up and walked to his bookshelf, picking a few books and gave them to her.
To sakura confused gaze Erwin smirked. "From now on, you'll be staying here with me"
So the books were for her entertaining. She wasn't faced by his decision it was bound to happen eventually, to assured she wasn't a danger to them the commander himself decided to take manner into his own hands. Interesting.
Sakura eyed the book cover with mild curiosity, most f them were about the history of the wall, and the titans and only one that looked like a fairytale? Erwin didn't seem like the type to read a fairytale before bed, so why?...
Don't judge a book by it cover
Might as well get started.
QOTD: Favorite male naruto character?
A= Mine is Kakashi!
Sorry for the long wait.
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