"Love Doctor"
by Sakuranime
Disclaimer: Honey, who says I need to own Naruto to write fanficts?
OH EM GEE! (OMG…lol) I HAVE WRITER'S BLOCK ALREADY! I'm a failure as a writer…boohoo. If my faithful and kind and merciful and forgiving (hint hint) readers give up on this story since it's so badly written, I understand! I totally do…I do…I do, really! To the people who are still reading this, I apologize!
Please enjoy and review because I pulled this crap out of my ass! (grins idiotically)
"Quotations"
'Inner thoughts'
(( Flashbacks ))
Chapter 3: Tsunade investigates?
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Tsunade could hear the air swish as her student jabbed the air with punches and kicks. The first step of mastering strength is the build up as much stamina as your body will allow. The second step is to use that stamina and learn the many ways of using your strength. The third step is to practice, practice, practice. Sakura was currently in that portion of step.
The pink-haired deviant knew all of the jutsus that Tsunade herself wielded but to perfect them was a different story.
"Your punches must be quick and on-target, Sakura." Tsunade said after a while of silence.
Beads of sweat were evident on her overly-wide forehead and as Sakura nodded, they flew from her. She took a deep breath and retracted her fist. Then, she let out a yell and jumped into the air. She slammed her fist into the ground, her red Chinese-styled dress with flaps and large slits on both sides over green shorts spreading wide as she came to the ground.
The move caused the legendary sannin to grin. Where Sakura punched, was an enormous crater, about half the size of the entire Hokage compound.
When Sakura lifted her hand, a smile instantly took hold of her face upon seeing the destruction she, the fragile cherry blossom (or so people called her), had made.
"Excellent progress, Sakura." The Hokage commended when she finished cheering. "It's certainly bigger than when you first started."
"Thank you, Tsunade-shishou!" Sakura replied enthusiastically. She remembered her first training day with the older woman. Tsunade had told her to punch the ground, to which Sakura was taken aback. She had no strength whatsoever so when she tried, it produced no result besides her knuckles aching from the pursuit.
Tsunade nodded. "Now you must work on your legs, for what good is it if you have unequal power between your arms and your legs?" When Sakura didn't reply, she continued. "Try swinging your leg and kicking that tree over there." She pointed to the small and young tree to her left.
Sakura frowned but walked over to the tree. She inspected it and found indeed that it was a newly grown tree. She didn't like the idea of uprooting a tree but if it was for her training, she would plow through mountains.
Standing in front of the tree, she kicked it on the side but yelped in pain when a pain shot up her lower leg bone.
"Ow!"
Sakura bit her lip in an attempt to stop the tears that collected in her eyes and massaged her leg. "I haven't been working on my leg strength yet…" Sakura admitted to the Hokage.
Tsunade nodded. "I know. But now we will. Since you have muscles after that vigorous training I put you through," Sakura shuddered at the mention of the 1 month hell-training. "You should have strength in your leg muscles but they are dormant. This should be easier than punching." The blonde-haired woman walked over to a larger tree, her once folded hands draped beside her.
Tsunade took a stance and let out a yell. Her leg swung out and tore through the tree in half. Sakura gaped. She knew the Hokage had monstrous strength but never really witnessed it.
"The trick is to concentrate a considerable amount of your strength in your leg and swing a quick, clean, and accurate kick. Try it." Tsunade said and gestured to the first tree Sakura had a go with.
More determined and knowing what to do, Sakura walked confidently to the thin tree. She paused for a moment, directing her strength into her leg, and swung, this time a swishing sound as she did.
The trunk of the tree broke in two the moment Sakura kicked. Though her leg ached, the student cheered.
Tsunade smirked inwardly. Her second try and she had already succeeded. The Hokage was right in picking Sakura as her apprentice. "Good work, Sakura. Now move on to a larger tree and progress through them after successfully uprooting them."
Soon, the air was filled with Sakura's yells and the sound of tree's crashing to the ground. It was about 20 minutes later that Tsunade's voice broke the routine of yells and crashes.
"So, Sakura…" Tsunade started. "I heard you opened a business? One that doesn't require payment?"
'It seems everyone is taking notice.' Sakura thought with an imaginary sweat drop. "Yes, Tsunade-shishou. A relationship therapist, psychiatrist, or whatever you want to call it. Why would anyone need to pay for advice?" She said, proceeding to her fourth tree.
"Relationship therapist?" Tsunade raised an eyebrow.
Sakura smiled sheepishly, like Naruto usually did and nodded.
Tsunade grinned. "Never knew you had it in you, Sakura. So how is it going?"
"Everything is going well," She paused to kick between words. "You know, customers with relationship dilemmas, feeling insecure, how to approach a girl or guy…"
Tsunade became silent as the fiery pink-head continued to decapitate trees. After a prolonged silence, the Godaime couldn't help herself.
"Sakura, do you like Uchiha?" She blurted, her Hokage-composure slipping. Sakura mis-kicked onto the ground; the force of the attack causing her to fall into the small crater.
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A certain black-haired handsome was walking on the road of Konoha through its many stands and shops. Business was booming and shopkeepers or standowners were yelling their prices and what they were selling, equaling into a mass of loud chaos at the Konoha marketplace.
Amidst all the shouting of orders and quarrels, however, was a single, quiet, almost silent, sneeze from Uchiha Sasuke. Without warning, the sneeze attacked.
"Achoo!" Sasuke scrunched his face in discontentment and muttered about the 'contaminated' air.
Instantly, almost all of the female population surrounded the Uchiha prodigy, holding a tissue in their hand.
"Do you need a tissue, Sasuke-kooooooooooooon?" Some cooed while some shrieked in their high-pitched voices but they all extended the honorific attachment. Sasuke winced and growled in annoyance.
"Get away from before I count to three and I'll let you all live." He growled, surprisingly not yet suffocated at the over-use of perfume.
"One…" Girls shrieked as they tried to scramble away from him.
"Two…" Women sighed dreamily as they went about their business. 'Sasuke-kooooooooooooon's' voice was sexy to hear…even if he was threatening them.
"Three." Sasuke said the last number and by that time, the fan-girls had busied themselves with their usual work.
"Hn." The anbu captain brooded and strode on his way.
'Someone must be talking about me…'
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"W-what?" Sakura asked, flustered at the sudden question from her normally No Prodding Into Other People's Love Life teacher.
Tsunade rolled her eyes at her student's sudden change of behavior. "I asked if you liked Uchiha."
"Wha-?" Sakura stammered, her face turning red. "O-of c-c-course not! We're j-just friends!" 'God, I'm sounding like Hinata!' She thought embarrassingly.
"Oh come on," Tsunade said, unintentionally acting like a young girl talking about a guy her friend liked. "I know the way he acts around you. He's…"
"Distant?" Sakura supplied, hoping to steer away from answering the first question.
"No," The sannin said. "Different. He acts differently with you than other girls."
Sakura scoffed. "That's just because we're good friends. He doesn't spend much time with girls."
"Is that denial I'm hearing?"
"No!" Sakura said in a burst of shrieking, how unlike her. "I just don't think you're right, Tsunade-sama." She added the honorific at the end as a sign to 'drop it'.
"Uh huh…" Tsunade said, not believing the kunoichi at all but decided not to pursue the topic. "Alright, let's continue your training Sakura."
Sakura sighed thankfully and resumed her kicking on the poor trees.
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"Here it is, Kinomoto-san." Sakura beckoned for the young girl around age 14 with auburn hair and emerald eyes identical to hers to walk into her house and take a seat on the couch.
After her training with Tsunade, the pink-haired girl received a call from random person, requesting her assistance in the world's ultimate mystery: love. Of course, Sakura accepted for whom would she be if she didn't lend a helping hand? It was her job, after all.
Sakura noticed her clients' bewildered expression as she took in her surroundings. "Sorry for the mess. You probably thought it was an office or something, right?" The girl nodded, embarrassed at her rude gesture.
"I'm sorry for being rude!" Kinomoto apologized. "I just expected...something different…I mean; I've heard you were pretty famous for just starting from my friend, Tomoyo."
Sakura looked surprised. She didn't think her business would become well-known in just a couple of days! Give it a month or two, probably, but days? She never dreamed of hoping for such a thing!
"Me? Famous? No!" Sakura said modestly. "Well, let's get started, shall we?" They both took a place on the plump couch.
"Now, what seems to be a problem with a guy?" Sakura began, taking a notepad and a pen from a table near the couch.
Kinomoto blushed as she thought about a chestnut-haired boy with brown, serious eyes. "There's a guy…Syoaran-kun…and I want him to notice me."
Sakura scribbled furiously on her notepad, lord knows how much she could write out of that single sentence. "Are you sure he doesn't already notice you? Can you explain how well you and he know each other?"
"We're friends- really close friends, actually…" Her guest began, earning a questioning glance from Sakura. "It's just that he doesn't really talk much…I've known him since I was 5. Back then, of course, I didn't know much about liking anyone past friends…but now I think…" Kinomoto stopped, wondering if she should reveal her deepest secret to a person she just met.
Sakura, seeing her conflict, understood. "It's alright if you don't want to tell a complete stranger like me, Kinomoto-san."
"I think I love him." The auburn-headed girl blurted, her faced burning tomato.
Her host smiled. To be so young but already experiencing the power of love! 'Too bad I'm still waiting…' Sakura thought before she could stop herself. She shook her head and banished the thoughts immediately. 'It's not about you right now, Sakura! It's about Kinomoto-san!'
"That's wonderful, Kinomoto-san!" Sakura congratulated. "But I still don't see the problem. If you were close friends, he knows you're there. Aren't exaggerating a bit…?"
The girl nodded her thanks. "I guess I am exaggerating…it's just that I don't think he feels the same way to me…"
"Oh…what makes you think that?"
"He's not that much of a talker so he always seems distant." She stated her sadness in the words.
'I can relate to you there…' Sakura thought wryly, thinking about a certain black-haired boy she knew. Realizing what she said, she mentally smacked herself. 'Focus, Sakura!'
"Are you sure? You could be feeling insecure of yourself. You need to grab his attention and show him the goodness in you! Who knows? Maybe he'll return your feelings!" Sakura said encouragingly.
The girl sighed. "It's not as easy as you think…"
"True, true…let's try a different approach? How about getting his attention? Do you know some ways you could relate to him and see what he likes? If you just explore his world, you can find a way to be with each other more, while finding out his true feelings for you." Sakura said.
She looked thoughtful. "Well…he's always talking about this one game…what was it called again? Oh yeah! Cardcaptors!" (Sound familiar? To those CCS fans…)
'Alright!' Sakura cheered in her mind. There's a start! "Have you ever played the game before?"
Kinomoto shook her head, her auburn locks shaking back and forth. "No…I always thought games were boring…"
"Maybe you could give it a try? Why not try it, hell, you'll be spending more time with Syaoran-kun and you don't even need to like Cardcaptors!" Sakura exclaimed suddenly, causing the girl beside her to jump. "Oh! Sorry for the language…" She said embarrassingly after realizing what she said.
"It's ok!" Kinomoto replied. "I haven't thought of that."
"Alright. Try out the game, you know, making conversations and all, then try to understand more about Syaoran-kun. If things get bad, you're welcome to come back anytime!" Sakura concluded, still irked by her sudden outburst. The pink-haired girl led the younger one to the door.
Stepping outside, Kinomoto turned and gave a grateful smile to her. "Thank you so much, Sakura-san!" She bowed, walking away from her house. Before turning a corner, she turned and waved before departing.
"Bye, Kinomoto-san!" Sakura waved in response and went back inside her humble abode.
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After her guest left, Sakura, after slipping on a banana peel, crashing into a cupboard, stabbing her hand with a pencil on the floor, falling onto her couch, which had the remote controller on it, which turned on the TV in max volume, which killed her ears, then made her trip again on another banana peel, then falling onto the floor on her back, decided she needed to clean up the place. (GASP! I need a breather…)
Using the almighty power of home-appliances, she scrubbed, vacuumed, scraped, and cleaned until her small house was spick-and-span. Sure, it took over an hour, but it was worth it.
Sakura stretched her aching back, still wearing her cleaning apron and admired her work. The whole place looked like it had been redecorated!
'Shows how much junk was around…' Sakura thought dryly.
She was about to reward her hard work by getting some ice cream but an annoying ringing sound prevented her from doing so. Walking without worry of falling over, Sakura picked up the phone on the kitchen table.
"This is the Haruno residence, who is it?" Sakura asked business-like and inwardly smiled childishly. 'I've always wanted to say that!'
"H-hello? Sakura?" Sakura recognized at once who it was.
"Hinata!" She greeted, adjusting the phone on her other shoulder as she put her apron away. "What's up?"
"Naruto-kun and I are g-going on a mission tomorrow." Hinata's meek voice spoke over the phone. "Tsunade-sama s-said we could b-bring one more jounin so we w-want you to c-come."
"Tomorrow…" Sakura thought. "Well, I haven't been on a mission in a long while. What's the mission about?"
"Tsunade-sama will explain t-tomorrow."
"Oh. Do you know what Sasuke-kun will be doing?" Sakura asked, not realizing that deep inside, she wished he would come as well.
"N-Naruto-kun said he's on another anbu m-mission tomorrow." Hinata said.
Sakura became disappointed but shook it off. "Alright, I'll go on the mission too."
Though Sakura could not see it, Hinata smiled. "Great! Meet us at the Hokage's office in the morning. B-bye!"
"See you later." Sakura hung up the phone and proceeded to the fridge. She pulled out strawberry-flavored ice cream and crowed in delight.
"Mmmmmm…my favorite…!" Grabbing a spoon, she plopped on the couch, scooped a large amount and ate it.
'What to bring for the mission…?' She thought while sinking her spoon for another scoop. 'I'll have to pack kunais and shurikens, extra spare of clothes in case I get wet, scrolls…'
On and on the list went, until she was soon fast asleep, a smile adorning her pretty face, dreaming about a mysterious guy with sharp onyx eyes.
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OH EM GEE! That sucked…Gomen nasai! I know, I'm a horrible writer, but you can't completely blame me! (glances at readers with pitchforks, torches, bazookas, rocket launchers, knifes, guns, shotguns, and other sorts of dangerous objects) Heh heh heh…(grin) Gomen, I promise I'll get better!
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