Tsunade made her way towards where the examination building where everything that needed to be examined was sent to. However, rather then simply going to one of the normal rooms, the blond Hokage was heading where they kept the articles that they considered classified and not for prying eyes as well as the added bonus of being surrounded by barriers that made it so no one from outside could spy on those within easily.
After going through the needed process to get into the room which she was heading into, Tsunade opened the final door to see Kankuro, the older brother of Gaara who was temporary taking his older sister place as the Suna ambassador and Ino's father Inoichi Yamanaka standing in front what was being stored here.
"So how's the work coming along?" Tsunade asked.
"It's been pretty hard. Sakura really has changed from the first time we met and I never would have expected something like this from her at the time," Kankuro said.
"I bet no one really expected much from Sakura as both Ino and her were still too obsessed with Sasuke to really focus on being good kunoichi at that point. Though I must say that I was rather shocked at how fast she was able to learn what took Ino and Shizune almost twice as long to learn. Sakura mastered it in just a few weeks," she sighed.
"Well, switch subjects before you get too into your 'missing Sakura and Naruto' state," said Kankuro while the older woman just glared at him.
"Fine, I'm interested to see if you two have finished up with them yet," she said as this was more important at the moment.
"Here they are," Inoichi told her as Kankuro and him got the way so she could see three puppets standing behind them.
These three puppets in question were Hiruko, Third Kazekage, and a normal human puppet of random person.
"As you can see, here is the human puppet of some person that Sasori converted. There was almost nothing left of their original puppet body, but from what Kankuro managed to piece together and my own investigations, it was revealed that this type of human puppet has no consciousness no matter what we do. It is my guess that this person was simply him experimenting with his hobby," Inoichi told her.
"Wait! Are you saying that Sasori had different types of human puppets?" Tsunade asked to which they both nodded, sure of this assumption due to their findings after examining them.
"Next up are two of the most powerful ninjas from Suna from over twenty years ago, Hiruko and the Third Kazekage. Both were thoroughly destroyed by one punch from Sakura as seen from the fist-sized hole located on their bodies. Also, while I never fought against the puppet version of Third Kazekage myself, this missing part of the body is probably where Sasori took the Iron Sand," Kankuro said, pointing at the area Sasori had indeed taken after storing the Iron Sand inside it.
"With Hiruko, it seems that the tail is missing and it's safe to say that both the tail and the Iron Sand were taken by Sasori," he continued.
"What happened to the consciousness of the two people these puppets used to be?" Tsunade asked.
"While there are still some signs of consciousness in their wooden body, it's not enough. They would never ever be able to move on their own again. If any one of three were ever to be converted back into humans before being destroy by Sakura, they would have died instantly or been comatose," Inoichi informed her.
"Wait. What happened to the four human puppets that we had? This only three of them," the Slug Sanin asked.
"Actually, something strange happened with that one. Something we thought was not possible, but it happened nevertheless though," Ino's father told the Hokage.
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Within another room sitting in chair was the human puppet version of Sasori's mother, Kazumi.
"Why is she alone in this room and sitting in chair no less?" Tsunade asked as she stood with Inoichi and Kankuro on the other side of two way mirror.
"Okay, now watch this," Kankuro told her as he created some charka strings that went through a hole they had created for just this situation.
Once the string as attached themselves to Kazumi she began to move looking around curiously for few minutes before collapsing to the ground once the string had been detached from her.
"Okay, what the hell was that?" Tsunade asked as she never saw Kankuro move his hand once all he did was contact chakra strings to her.
"It seems that out of all the human puppets that were left behind where Sasori, Sakura, and Chiyo had their battle, this was the only one that's still roughly in one piece and despite being dead at the time of her conversion from human to human puppet over twenty years ago, somehow she still has a partially working consciousness that became activated after I entered her mind," Yamanaka male told her.
"Let me guess. By partially working, you mean it only activated while she was being controlled by Kugutsu users like Kankuro?" Tsunade asked to which Inoichi nodded.
"Interesting. That means that even if Sasori managed to convert Sakura into a human puppet, there is a chance that at least one of her consciousnesses could survive the process," Tsunade thought out loud.
"What? One of them? Are you trying to say that she has multiple personalities?" Kankuro asked.
"Actually, we are not sure what exactly is going on with Sakura in that regard. It seems she has three separate wills inside her. This was something that we discovered when investigating the reason Sakura was able to fight off the effect of the Shintenshin no Jutsu and my daughter's claim of a second will inside of Sakura," Inoichi said.
"There's the Sakura that we all know; a second that is the one Ino informed me is responsible for kicking her when she tried to use our family jutsu on her during their first chunin exam, and a third one is completely mysterious as my brother and I only got glimpse of this Sakura before she kicked us out. Of the three, it might be that the third Sakura is the original one, yet we have not been able to examine this fully since the Shintenshin no Jutsu has not worked on her since that day," he continued.
"If Sakura has two other wills in her body, should something been done about at the time if one tries to overtake the others or something?" Kankuro asked.
"The Sakura we know does not seem to be aware of these other two wills inside her; however, we are not sure as to why. Since they do not seem to be affecting her mind or body, this could simply be the remains of a bloodline limit that simply degraded into the state that we are seeing now. It's not that unusual for this to be present within Sakura as over time it is possible for this to happen to any bloodline limit. The reasons for it though are too numerous to nail down at this point," Tsunade told him
"It's possible that Sakura might not be able to recover though. You have seen that with Kazumi. She has no memories of ever being human and unless she's being fed a constant supply of chakra, she cannot move on her own," Inoichi spoke up.
"If there is a way to turn people into puppets and bring back them from dead, then safely and fully changing a person back from being a human puppet should be possible as well. Even if I cannot find a way, I am sure that Naruto would if Sakura has been made into a human puppet, which I am hoping she has not," the Fifth Hokage said confidently.
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