Naruto Primer: Haruno Sakura
Toumeiningen no Jutsu
I bet you think that Sakura has no special jutsu whatsoever. Well, you're wrong. Everyone has their own special jutsu! Shikamaru has his shadows, Ino has her body switching and Sasuke has his little fire moves that never work! The only reason why you don't know what Sakura's special jutsu is because she never does anything, therefore has never used it. Isn't it good that we have all this insider information that we can share with you?
Sakura's special jutsu is known as the Toumeiningen no Jutsu. Yes, it's quite the mouthful so maybe that's why Sakura has yet to use it. But whatever the reason be, she's going to use it today.
Toumeiningen means 'Invisible Man'. That's right! Sakura has the ability to turn herself invisible! Her one jutsu. That's it.
It's not like she's using it in any sort of battle though, oh no. Her intentions are sneaky and bad. She has plans to spy on Sasuke! That way, he wouldn't be able to see her even if she was standing right there!
She crept up to his house and, just before she reached the door, she performed her hand seals and put her Toumeiningen no Jutsu into effect. Entering the house of Sasuke, she was completely undetected as she quietly made her way through the rooms in search of him.
Finally she went to his room, though she didn't really know why she didn't try there first. She spotted Sasuke standing in front of his full-length mirror, staring at his reflection silently.
He crossed his arms. "You want to know my name?" he said to the mirror. "My name? If you want to know my name, you have to tell me your name." He paused. "No, I said name too much…how about…if you want to know my name, you have to tell me yours. Actually, that sounds like I WANT to know his name. Or…if you want to know my name so badly, you might as well tell me yours."
Sasuke realized he struck gold and quickly scribed down the phrase as Sakura only watched, admiring him.
"You want to fight me so badly?" said Sasuke, turning around and crossing his arms again. "What makes you think that I want to fight you? You're not even worth my time. That's for the next time Naruto says the Uchiha clan's not worth anything."
He pondered for a moment.
"Maybe I should go out and find Naruto." He said. "Make him pick a fight with me. I think I'll…'accidentally' crash into him and then tell him he's a klutz and then everything will just go from there."
Feeling rather proud of himself, Sasuke strutted pompously out of his room, down the stairs and out the front door. Sakura quickly followed after him, not wanting to miss a fight between Naruto and Sasuke.
But then she caught sight of Hinata since she and Sasuke do, after all, live right next door as we have stated in previous chapters. Hinata had a brown bag in her hand and was hurrying somewhat towards her house as she ran right past Sasuke and Sakura, as if she didn't notice them. Well, of COURSE she didn't notice Sakura, she was invisible after all.
Sakura's curiosity was piqued that someone could be so interested in something that was in a paper bag that they would fail to notice even Sasuke. She realized that it would take a while for Sasuke to find Naruto so she figured it was all right for her to take a small detour to Hinata's house…
She followed Hinata into her house and into her room. She was hoping that the Byakugan wouldn't pick up on her, but she had just walked through a house filled with people with Byakugan and had been thus far undetected so there was no chance that Hinata would find her. Hinata set her paper bag down on the table and took a deep breath.
"Now I'll finally get to see what it would be like to not be part of the Hyuuga clan." She said. Sakura looked on, intrigued, wondering what Hinata could possibly have in mind or, rather, in the paper bag. "Instead, I'll just be part of the Uchiha clan!"
Sakura tried to keep her surprised gasp suppressed as Hinata pulled a small container out of the bag and opened it. Inside there were two contact lenses. Hinata applied them to her white eyes while looking in the mirror.
"Sharingan!" she said. "I'm going to copy your moves! Copy!"
Sakura had just experienced the let down of the century. She wanted to leave the room, but Hinata had shut her door behind her.
Then there was a knock at the door.
Hinata frantically took the contacts out and shoved the container under a pile of papers. "Yes?" she said nervously as the door opened and her father, Hiashi, was standing there.
"Hinata, what was in that bag?" he asked.
"Um…my lunch?" Hinata replied. Sakura took that opportunity to sneak underneath Hiashi's arm through the opened door as he lectured Hinata about not being allowed to eat in her room.
Just when Sakura was starting to think that she had wasted her time, she overheard someone talking in a room she passed. She backtracked to see Neji sitting on a couch with knitting needles. "The bunny goes around the tree…" he narrated to himself. "The tree falls…the bunny escapes…the lumberjack pulls the tree away…the bunny goes around the next tree…"
Sakura was quite intrigued. Was Neji…KNITTING?
"This is too confusing!" Neji said, getting frustrated as he hardly kept himself from hurling his failure scarf across the room. "I don't care about a stupid bunny. What if…" He paused and looked at the scarf again. "The Branch House member…goes around the Main House member and then the Main House member falls over and the Branch House member…"
Sakura couldn't listen to that any longer. She had heard enough about the Main House and the Branch House to last her the rest of her life so she decided to leave Neji with his white and gray scarf.
She exited the Hyuuga household feeling unfulfilled, like she hadn't accomplished much. Now she needed to spy on more people.
Who could she spy on?
Ino!!
She practically sprinted to Ino's house and ran up to Ino's room. Before she entered, she could hear Ino speaking. "Oh Sasuke," she heard. "I love you so much. What's that? You want to kiss me?"
Just when Sakura was about to yell at Ino and tell her that she was a dirty tramp, she entered the room to see that Ino was all alone and was currently making out with her pillow. Sakura was about to point and laugh but then she wouldn't be able to use it later as blackmail. So she quickly left to keep herself from blowing the secret by laughing too much.
She staggered out of Ino's house nearly in hysterics. When she finally calmed down, she continued walking to her next destination. Who to spy on next? Maybe Lee. She liked Lee, but only as a friend.
On her way to Lee's house, she caught sight of Shikamaru lying down all by himself, looking at the clouds. She decided to give him a minute to do something interesting and if he did nothing, she would just leave. When his minute was about up and she was losing all faith in him, she turned to leave but then noticed that he started to move.
First, he sat up and grabbed the elastic that held his hair. Then he pulled it all out so his hair was…dun dun dun…DOWN!!
"I am probably the only one who has ever seen that." Said Sakura since she was far enough away from Shikamaru to be able to say that out loud. She watched as Shikamaru the preceded to separate his hair down the middle and then, oddly enough, braid the two sides into pigtails. Dear lord, what she wouldn't give for a camera at that exact moment. When he had succeed in giving himself two braids, he lifted them off his shoulders and held them up in little hooks like Pippi Longstocking.
After a moment's pause, almost as if he was trying to get the feel of Pippi, he let go of his hair, shook it around a little so it was out of pigtails and then pulled it back again. With that, he lied back down.
"I probably just missed a really weird trail of thought that somehow ended up with Shikamaru thinking that he'd make a good Pippi Longstocking." Sakura tried to assure herself as she walked by Shikamaru as quickly as she could, in fear that his oddity might rub off on her, and continued to Lee's house.
She didn't know why she expected things to get LESS odd going from Shikamaru to Lee, but she ended up there anyway. She wasn't comfortable with entering his house, even though she WAS invisible, so she just climbed up the side of the house while focusing the chakra in her feet and stood outside his room. There was music coming from the room that sounded remarkably like 'Can't Touch This'. You know, that song that goes…'Can't touch this, na~ na-na-na…'
She peeked inside to see horror of all horrors.
Lee standing on his bed, in his underwear, dancing and singing.
She nearly lost all the concentration of chakra in her feet and plummeted to her doom. Luckily, she turned and ran as fast as she could. She didn't care WHERE she was going, she just had to get away.
As she caught her breath, she overheard Naruto's familiar annoying voice. She looked up to see him standing in the distance, looking like he was talking to a tree. She couldn't help but get closer to investigate, so she did, and found that Naruto had a picture of Sasuke pinned up on the tree and was throwing pathetic insults at it.
"You are SUCH a loser, Sasuke." Said Naruto.
"Oh, I know, Naruto." Naruto replied in a high-pitched voice. "I wish I was as cool as you. I don't even have any real talent like you."
"I know, Sasuke."
"Any power that I might have is because I inherited it from my clan."
"I know, Sasuke."
"It's not REAL power like yours."
"I know, Sasuke."
"And my clan is dead because they're lame and let themselves get killed by a twelve-year-old."
"I know, Sasuke."
"I'm lame, too. And the only reason why I'm not dead is because I ran away like a coward."
"Sasuke, geez. Will you tell me something I don't know for once?"
"How can I? You know EVERYTHING, Naruto!"
Sakura didn't even bother hiding her loud groaning noise as she threw her arms up in the air and walked away. He had probably been doing that all day. Which was good, though, because then he'd be revved up for when Sasuke came to fight him.
Not less than two hundred feet away, she discovered Shino who was pacing as if something very important was on his mind.
"Ten billion?" he muttered to himself. "Ten billion? I highly doubt that there are ten billion bugs in my body."
He stopped.
"I wonder just how many bugs are in my body." He said, scratching his chin. Then, he reached into the collar of his jacket and pulled out a bug. "One." He said as he pulled out another one. "Two. Three. Four…"
"I don't know which is more disgusting, this or Lee dancing in his underwear." Sakura sighed to herself as she walked off VERY fast. "Let's see… who haven't I spied on yet? Kiba…Chouji… and Tenten. Then I'm done. Then I'll watch the fight between Sasuke and Naruto."
She made her way to Kiba's house. The window was open, luckily for her, so she climbed into Kiba's room to find it empty. "Aw man…" she said to herself.
She was just about to leave when, all of a sudden, the door slammed open and shook the whole room. "You don't believe me, Akamaru?!" Kiba yelled as he stomped into his room followed by Akamaru. "I'll just have to prove it to you then! I would SO look sexy in a dress!"
Sakura nearly yelped with delight since that was the sort of thing she was waiting for when she noticed that Kiba's pace got slower as he turned around.
"Yeah, yeah, Akamaru." Said Kiba as he bent down and picked up Akamaru, stroking him lovingly on the head. "I know. I smell her too. Sakura? Are you in my room?"
Sakura threw her hands over her mouth to keep herself from gasping.
"I know you're in here." Said Kiba, shutting the window. Then he reached out a hand in the general direction that Sakura was in as she quickly got out of the way. "You're over here…you're in my closet, aren't you?"
He opened the door to his closet to find it empty.
Sakura wanted to know why he closed the window.
"All right, where are you?" Kiba said as he bent down and looked under his bed.
Sakura looked around frantically for a way out. The door was open! She made her way towards the door but was suddenly faced with Kiba's dad's enormous evil dog with a patch and an ear missing, Kuromaru! He was growling.
"Kuromaru!" said Kiba, coming over to the door just as Sakura jumped out of the way. Kuromaru barked at Kiba. "No, I don't have a girl in here! No, I really don't! I'm serious! Have I EVER brought a girl home? No, I don't. I know it smells like I do but I don't—no, just go! Don't tell mom, I'm serious, I don't! Akamaru, I don't have a girl here, do I?"
Akamaru barked in response.
"Yeah!" said Kiba. "See? Has Akamaru ever lied to you?"
Kiba turned around and went to the window. Then he opened it. "Some scent could have been blown in the window! It happens all the time!" he said to Kuromaru as he made gestures towards the window.
Sakura decided that she would run and dive. So she did. She would never go back to Kiba's house again. And she was done with spying for one day.