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Chapter 6

An iron grip, almost painful, was wrapped around my hand holding the kunai. Kakashi stood over me, a displeased look showing in his one eye.

"I believe I said to try to kill me, not yourself." He didn't let go of my hand and wasn't planning on it, it seemed till I answered him.

"Eh." I shrugged my shoulder before bringing my right foot higher than I would have thought, fueled by chakra. It would have hit him fully in the chin, but he jumped back, causing it to skim him. Nonetheless, it did work for he flew back a few feet allowing me to turn and bolt.

I can't believe that actually worked. I have to admit, my plan did have a a few flaws. One being I could have died. And it was unnecessary too, considering all I did was was kick him barely before bolting.

I did, though, decide in that split second, I won't be using medical ninjutsu nor chakra enhanced kicks too much. I have already mastered them, so why not work on something else.

For example, I'm a supposed genjutsu type and I have always wanted to have more elemental jutsu. So Kurenai and Kakashi, here I come.

Alright, now I have to continue my search for Sasuke or see if Naruto found him yet. My eyes widened as I tripped over something and landed straight on my face. Or, according to Ino, my billboard brow. My ankle and face began to throb. I rolled onto my back and grabbed my ankle. Damn, whatever I tripped over is hard as hell.

I heard a groan and looked up. "Sasuke?!" He was neck deep in the ground. His right cheek was starting to bruise. From me running into it. I couldn't help myself. I started laughing. His normally pissed off features, turned even more pissed off. Which I didn't know could happen.

Sasuke growled out, "Well, are you going to help me out?" I wiped a tear from my eye.

"Yeah—yeah, sorry." I stood up and placed my hand on the ground before gently pulsing my chakra into it. Sasuke's eyes widened momentarily, as I reached with my other hand and grabbed his dark hair and pulled.

Seconds later and he was free. I healed my ankle, watching as he gently probed his skull with his fingers.

Sighing, I crawled over and began to heal his cheek and sore scalp. "Sorry, for running into you and almost yanking your hair out of your skull."

"Hn." Was all I received as I finished up his healing. A loud crash in the bushes had both of us up on our feet with kunais in our hands.

"There you guys are! I had been looking everywhere for you!" Naruto landed in front of us. "Good job, Sakura! You found him! Have you convinced him yet to join us?" Dark, questioning eyes snapped to me. Thanks, Naruto.

"Well you see Sasuke, as Naruto just said—" I was cut off by the alarm going off. Oh, well. Naruto and Sasuke both swore, before trudging off to the logs. I was getting hungry anyway.

"I'm sorry, but what?" What was going on? Kakashi sighed and motioned once more to the log.

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"I said sit down so I can tie you up." Uh, okay then. I sat down and watched as he tied me to the log.

"Was this because I insulted your porn book?" I heard Naruto choke and mutter to Sasuke, "Porn book?"

"Errr, no." One look at his face told me that my insult was the reason and probably my almost suicide. He finished tying and looked over at Sasuke and Naruto, their stomachs growling "Oh my. Aren't you guys hungry. But, I have an announcement to make. None of you are going back to Academy."

Naruto cheered, "Yes! This means we all are —" Kakashi cut him off.

"You guys are hopeless and have no right to be ninjas. So yes you won't be returning to the Academy because no matter how much you train, you won't ever make it as Shinobi!" Jeez, I'm so scared.

Seconds passed before Naruto shrieked, "What do you mean by that?!" I saw from the corner of my eye, Sasuke grimace before sprinting towards Kakashi.

Sasuke grunted as Kakashi put him in a hold. "The point of this exercise was teamwork. Sakura, you did try to rally Naruto and Sasuke but failed." Well, shit. "So, I will give you another chance. Eat those bento boxes. But, don't give any to Sakura. Either of you feed her, you will fail." Kakashi disappeared, going to hide somewhere in the trees. Silence followed.

I cleared my throat, "So, uh, the weather is pretty—" I stopped as two bento boxes were shoved into my face. I felt my cheeks begin warm.

"Er, uh didn't he say not too or else we will all fail."

"Kakashi's probably miles away and won't even know. And you're no good to me if you're just going to be a liability." Sasuke blurted, while Naruto blushed.

"Thanks you two." They began to feed me, but were abruptly interrupted by a loud explosion.

"You…" Kakashi growled stalking towards us before stopping directly in front of us. "pass!" Naruto and Sasuke once again, seemed to shocked for words.

"You all have taken a huge step towards teamwork. Ninja who don't follow the rules are scum, but those who abandon their friends are even worse than scum! That's it for today Team , we will work again tomorrow. One of you untie Sakura, by the way." Kakashi finished and strutted off into the sunset.

AN:

I have read all all your reviews and just want to give a thanks to everyone for bothering to leave one. Special thanks to Cruisegirl86 for reviewing each chapter. And I do have answers to some of your questions. Sakura will not be a Tsunade 2 as the story progresses. She will learn and use different jutsus. I never said Sakura was the only one sent back to the past. Thanks again for all the reviews and follows. -theworldthegirlsaw

Published: 12/31/18