Hello I'm back! Happy holidays to those who celebrated, I apologize for the long wait, I been really busy with personal affair, but fear not! I will never abandon this fic, and also I want to say, this document been sitting in my doc manager since December, I believe ? Sometimes I write and forget about it, so I would appreciate it if you guys reminded me every once in a while to check it. This is a short update but a very necessary one, also there's a little hint for the future, can you guess what i mean ? ;)

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Hanji's voice echoed in the meeting room. Her words unleashing a wave of awe from her audience. A few cadets' turned to whisper excitedly at their friends, and even Sakura was approached by a hopeful looking Armin to discuss Hanji's words.

Today was the day, Hanji was finally announcing her newest invention to the public eye. The scheduled for the day was simple, a meeting will be held at the conference room, and later in the day, there was going to be a ball to raise funds for their future expeditions, since the manufacture of Hanji's "paralyzing spear" was not cheap to make. Metal, wood and nails were expensive materials. Though, this didn't surprise her at all, since even the simplest thing such as salt were hard to find, to not mention expensive, and the last thing the survey corps needed was to waste their already limited funds to season food properly, after all, they could live eating bland food without any problem, besides it was healthier that way, at least that was what the cook had said once when he had heard a young cadet complaining about it.

Hanji cleared her throat before slamming her wooden pointer into the blackboard she was using to explain herself. Sakura snapped back to reality, it wasn't normal for her to space out like this, especially in important moments, yet somehow her mind found itself wandering with the limitless possibilities that her poison had brought for them. At least, she wasn't thinking pointless things, and by the look in Armin eyes, neither was he.

In the front row, sat the commander himself along with the rest of the squad leaders. Mike was muttering incoherence as he furiously scribbled on a clipboard, earning a couple of side glances from Nanaba.

"For the purpose of gathering the monks hoods, squad leader Mike has created 5 groups that will be assigned to different task to ensure the success of our mission "

At the mentions of his name, he stood up and walked next to Hanji, giving them a salute full of pride. "Alright," he flipped to the first page of his clipboard as he talked "the first group will be: the gathering group, your only task is to find the plant and bringing them here. The group will be led by Haruno-san, along with Christa Lenz, Marion Werrell, Jean Kirstein , and Nicholas Kent" He said eyeing them as he said their names.

At the mention of the two unfamiliar names, Sakura felt slyly disappointed that Sasha wasn't assigned with them, but since it couldn't be helped she let her gaze set in the two unknown member of her, err team?. She rose from her seat with Christa and Jean trailing quietly behind her. She approached the two remaining members with a pleasant smile.

"Hello, I'm Sakura" she pointed to the two figures behind her "And this are Jean, and Christa"

"Pleasure to meet you" The blonde said smiling.

Jean nodded at them as they waited for them to introduce themselves, they looked almost nervous to meet their gazes.

The female of the duo was the one that spoke first "Unm- This is Nicholas and I'm Marion" she said shyly.

Sakura frowned inwardly, they looked oddly familiar to the pinkette, though she couldn't recall when she had met them, unless… She felt her cheeks heat in embarrassment, the reason they looked so familiar was because, "I'm sorry to startle you the first time we meet," she apologized sheepishly " I didn't mean to harm anyone, I just wanted to leave"

And for her surprise, Nicholas laughed "We assumed that much, we just weren't sure that you were harmless. Sorry for being suspicious" he admitted awkwardly.

Jean glance back and for between them, before finally asking "You met before?"

"Ah yes," Sakura smiled remembering their shocked faces when she had punched the wall when trying to escape from the commander. "I met them when I tried to escape"

An awkward silent settled before them after her confession. It seemed an apology wasn't enough to gain someone trusts, all of these years with Naruto had been a lie. His talk no jutsu was only effective when he did it.

Once Mike was finished announcing the remaining group, he wasted no time in sending them to accomplish their task. Besides the gathering group, there was the planting group that would take care of tending to the garden and finally, the support group that would assist Hanji with the fabrication of her weapon and the spears.


Sakura guided her team to the same lake that she and Sasha had visited a few days ago, because, if she was not mistaken, there were still some plants to pick up, and they would surely find more in the surroundings. Immediately when they arrived they went to work, Sakura was careful to explain how to deal with a plant as dangerous as monks hood to avoid accidental poisoning. Jean and Nicholas were confident that only a fool would be able to commit such stupidity, so they began to work vigorously, while Marion and Chista watched them with glee. Sakura just shook her head, if everything went well they could go back to the HQ before sunset. She really hoped that this new strategy would work, the future of the body of exploration and humanity depended on it.

"Don't remove all the plants, just take what is necessary"

It took them about 2 hours, but they had been able to reach the unofficial quota that Sakura had secretly implemented, all without extinguishing the valuable plant or damaging its habitat. Satisfied with the work of her team, she ordered them to retire to the HQ, fortunately they had finished earlier than expected, which meant that she had more time to play dress up with Sasha before the ball.

She entered the dinning hall, expecting to be blown away by the decoration, unfortunately it seemed the survey corps only talent was to slay titans and not handy arts such as decorating a room, even if humanitys future depended on it.

"Well, it could be worse" Jean said in the least. "As long as there's music, no one will notice"

"I want to see you do better" someone exclaimed from behind a pile of colorful fabric.

"E-Eren?," Jean said approaching him in disbelieve "You were assigned to help with the decoration? " He smirked before resuming his words "No wonder this place looks like trash" And that was Eren cue to angrily start shouting at Jean.

"Stop it, we have a lot to do. I heard people from the inner wall are coming too" Sasha said coming out from one of the storage rooms, carrying a box full of cutlery and such.

"Tsk, who invited those pompous idiots anyway" Jean said distantly.

"They have the money we need" Christa said in a matter of fact tone. She turned to Sakura smiling sweetly and taking her arm in hers "I'm sure you don't have a proper dress, I have a few you can borrow," She stopped to grab Sasha as well, "Let's go girls, we have a lot to do!"

When Christa said she had a few dresses they could borrow, she actually meant a lot of dresses they could borrow. Sakura caressed the soft fabric of a burgundy dress that was screaming her name, this could be the one, yet the lovely lavender dress she currently had on, was also demanding to be heard. She always wore red toned clothes, so wearing lavender for a change didn't sound that bad, besides it also reminded her of her blonde friend. Ino will surely be proud she stepped out of her comfort zone of red and emerald clothes. If only cameras existed here, she could capture this moment forever.

"I'll take this if you don't mind" she said twirling around to watch the fabric shine under the sun light provided by one of the windows. Christa room was a mirror copy of Sasha's, just that she had two other roommates that had yet to show up, not that she was complaining, the room was already small as is it, the walls were decorated by portraits of landscapes and a medium-sized mirror Sasha was using to fix her hair.

"You look lovely" Christa said as she struggled to close her own dress, "Help" she said in a pleading voice to Sakura who giggle at her misfortune and proceeded to fix the stuck zipper.

Sasha sighed in discontent, making both girl to look at her "I looked worse" she said dejectedly staring at her excuse of a half up hairstyle.

This time it was Christa who giggled as she approached said girl "Let me help" she said trying to comb the knots Sasha had created in her hair. "So, Sakura" She said turning to the kunoichi "Will you leave your hair down?"

Self-consciously she touched her locks, her hair had gotten a bit longer and now brushed her shoulders, and there was no doubt she needed a little trim to shape her hair again since it probably looked like a shapeless pink mess.

"I need a little trim" she admitted.

"I can do it" Sasha said smiling at her. "Just don't be mad if I shave half of your hair"


Sakura winced as she struggled to walk properly with the heeled sandals Christa had borrowed her. How did Tsunade managed to fight with heels will always be a mystery to her.

She took a deep breath and forced herself to walk in a straight line, she refused to use chakra to steady her steps. "I'm almost there" she muttered to comfort herself. "I'll be damned if a pair of shoes defeat me" Unknown to her, there was a pair of eyes that were watching her in amusement.

"You need a hand?" Jean asked her with a cheeky grin.

She growled, but agreed to his request. "Catch me later in the dance floor, shoe less holding a bottle of wine" she said jokingly.

"That's something I have to see" he said smirking. Carefully, he placed his arm around her waist to support her. "Ready?"

She nodded and just when they were about to take their first steps a round of applause interrupted them. The both turned around to meet an amused looking Reiner along with a blushed Berthold.

"We d-didn't mean to interrupt" Berthold stuttered walking quickly past them.

Reiner smiled broadly at them and patted Jean approvingly in the back. "Congratulations" Before they could answer, he had already entered the dining hall.
They stared awkwardly for a short time before Jean scratched his neck sheepishly and looked away "Let's get going"

Just like she had predicted Sakura had remained sitting next to her friends for majority of the ball. Her feet hurt too much, even attempting to dance sounded painful, and since the room was filled with high ranked member of the military she doubted she could behave like her shishou did whenever she had alcohol in her system. She took a sip of her wine to relax herself. The idea of running to her room to change her shoes was very tempting, though her fancy dress probably didn't match with her ninja boots. She should've picked the burgundy dress, at least that one was longer.

After the little incident with Jean, he had refused to look at her in the eyes, instead he opted to arm wrestle competition with Eren and Reiner; Connie was the referee and Sasha was the commentator whenever she wasn't stuffing her face with baked potatoes. Mikasa was quietly talking to Armin about their future expedition meanwhile Christa danced happily with Ymir in the dance floor.

She was feeling uncomfortable of all sudden, the hair in the back of her neck raised, indicating that someone was staring at her. Discreetly, she raised her glass again and used the reflection of it to find the source of her incommodity. Right behind her, next to the commander was a man with a funny looking mustache talking to him and shamelessly staring at the back of her head.

Nile Dok, member of the military police and one of the men that wanted them to execute her, according to the commander.

"Sakura! Is your turn!" Sasha exclaimed loudly breaking her of her musing. "Kick Reiner ass!"


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