"Great, this place really is a deserted island. I have been all over this place and found no one," Naruto sighed as looking around the while walking. Sakura was following beside as Naruto, true to his word to treat her like a person, refused to store her in scroll and thus one new jutsu he could now call upon to control Sakura without chakra strings. Though this would normally take a lot of chakra and work to maintain constantly, it was not something that much of a problem for Naruto since he before merging with Kyuubi, he could make hundreds Kage Bunshin and not drop dead five minutes later from chakra exhaustion because his abnormal large chakra reserve like most ninjas would.
"Ahhhh…crap! What the hell was that? Who the hell would be leaving something like this lying on the beach!" Naruto yelled as step on something that sank into his bare foot. The red tint blond had given Sakura his shoes because he did not want end up with scratches on the bottom (not knowing Sakura could simply repair herself).
"Sakura, you start digging over there while I start from over here," Naruto told her and while Sakura could not hear him, he liked talking to her to make it seem like she was still more of a person and then a puppet.
Digging around what are Naruto stabbed his foot on took some time, yet when the two of them were done it could be seen that what had been buried in the sand was actually a fully intact boat with its own engine and everything.
"This is great, Sakura! Now we can get off this island. Once we manage to clear this thing out, we can get out of…here," Naruto said as Sakura then grabbed the boat herself and flipped it upside down and shook it, the sand flowing out as well as anything that was not nailed down, for that matter.
Naruto was shocked she did this at first as he did not exactly tell her to do that exactly then he got the idea that maybe his chakra and method he was using to control was effecting her in unknown manner. Despite what Sasori thought, he was not the first to create puppet that had chakra of their own, that was actually a technique of demons, yet the difference from his version and the demonic one is that puppets were once human and they retained their own chakra and abilities. Thus Sakura and everyone else Sasori transformed was the result of human and demonic kugutsu techniques. The mixing of two similar yet different techniques gave way to interesting side effects like the one that Naruto was seeing right now.
'This might be answer to the first problem, if my theory is correct,' he thought as he realized that all he had to do was thinking of something Sakura would do it on her own. Normally when using this technique, one had to be constantly paying attention to the puppet they were controlling and give it constant commands.
The theory that Naruto had come up with was that normally it went when solely using the demonic version of the technique, the demon gave their own chakra to those they used as their puppet that originally did not have any chakra of their own before being infused with that of their puppeteer. Thus, while they had chakra to call their own, they could not use it without being directed to by the demon that gave it to them. However, it seemed that with Sasori's version of this same technique, because the puppet naturally had chakra of their own, the reaction of Naruto's chakra and Sakura's own chakra result in her being able to respond to his thoughts rather then need constant direction on what to do.
'Very interesting' Naruto thought. There seemed to be a limit to how far Sakura could act on her own, but this was definitely a start toward awaking her consciousness since she did not seem to be aware of what she was doing, but she was definitely acting on her own in accordance to his thoughts. He tested out his theory by thinking about how he wanted help her in cleaning up the ship though she had actually been on the ship before she did anything, otherwise she picked anything she found in the sand that did not belong there and dumped it on the ship.
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Later that day…
Naruto and Sakura were out on the open sea where he was looking for some sign of land or even where he was for that matter as he did not have a map and his newly enhanced senses did not really work that well in the ocean since he was land demon not marine one, after all.
All Naruto could smell was the salt from the ocean, all he could see was ocean, and he could only hear the various sounds of the ocean all around him.
Naruto slumped his shoulders, sighed, and fell back in the chair that was located in the control room. The main reason he was using this boat instead simply walking on the water was because he did not want to be spotted as a person walking on water was the quickest way to draw attention to one's self; also, he was not sure if Sakura could still walk on water in her current state and did not want to risk her falling into the water or getting targeted by the marine life. He had no idea just how far he was away from land at all and what if he get tired and fell asleep in the middle of the ocean? He was sure that even demons had to sleep he just was not sure and rather not find out in the middle of a ocean with Sakura depending on him.
As Naruto sat there, he then felt someone's hand on his shoulders and began to massage them.
"Sakura?" Naruto asked for second wondering if she could talk to him now but it seem she was simply reacting to his thoughts.
Sakura's chakra (she still unaware for the most part) picked up on how he was depressed and giving a massage was how she learned to relief depression since stress and depression when hand and hand some time. Getting rid one of one something got rid of the other.
"Do not worry, Sakura. I am going to find some way to fully awake your consciousness then we can go about finding a way to restore you to normal together," Naruto told her even though she still could not hear him.
Naruto then felt something that caused him to shoot forward, leaving Sakura to fall forward from his sudden moving as he currently what she was using as her support to remain standing.
"This chakra…I know this chakra" Naruto said out loud. It was not that of human he was feeling but of demons and not just any one either.
"I guess getting lost like this was not that bad after all. I did not realize this guy was still running around loose after all this time," he thought out loud.
"Sakura, its seem like it might not be that long before you will be able to fully move on your own," Naruto said to her after picking her up and apologizing for letting her fall like that.
The one that he felt outside was someone that had knowledge when it came to using all forms of kugutsu, thus this was the perfect one to get in helping to creating the way that allows Sakura to move on her own as well as awake her sleeping conscious.
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I would like to thank:
King Hawke and QueenThayet12990 for reviewing this story
RANAMACAT for reviewing Chapter 08-10
Cherry-Blossom-Sakura08 for reviewing Chapter 01
Cherry-Blossom-Sakura08 for adding this story to their Story Alert List
