The next day saw Sakura get started on her medic training bright and early in the morning "Suppose I'll start looking some stuff up" Sasuke sighed on his own for quite a few hours for once it would be the longest he'd ever been apart from Sakura since the massacre really.
But he turned down the streets to the library to begin his investigation for whatever reason Sakura was absolutely certain that there was someone else behind his whole clan being wiped out and the first thing to do was look up the Elders of the Village and scrutinize them to find the guilty one.
Information was scribbled down as he read through various books, names, ages, appearance, more than once Sasuke had to pull out a new scroll to write things down on until it was lunch "Find anything good Sasuke" Sakura popped into the library finished with her medic training for the day.
Sasuke crinkled his nose "Yeah Danzo Shimura, says here he's Lord Hokage's old teammate and the most likely suspect I think, he has a lot of influence and a secret organization called Root that was supposed to have been shut down" the ebony haired preteen rattled off.
Having gotten quite a bit in just a few hours, Sakura took the notes he'd written and read through them herself before nodding "He won't know what hit him" the pinkette grinned certain that she was right on this.
As they left the library sealing away all their notes into scrolls and found a restaurant to eat lunch in before resting for an hour and a half "Don't ask me what my Father is planning, why because I have no idea what he has up his sleeves for today" Shino grumbled clearly unnerved for some reason that morning.
When they showed up on the training grounds fifteen minutes early "Okay Shino no need to get your boxers in a twist about it" Sasuke held up his hands knowing that little comment was directed at him mostly.
The lone girl covered her mouth to stop from laughing "You guys are ridiculous sometimes but I love you both" Sakura shook her head in exasperation immediately Sasuke turned red while Shino only flushed in mild embarrassment at the sudden declaration of love.
"Like family right of course" the raven haired preteen relaxed understanding that Sakura hadn't said that because she was in love with him but that she loved him like family the will of fire he should have remembered.
Beside him Shino frowned and wondered if that was true for him "Me to, why because this is the first time you've ever said you consider me as family" the brunet heir subtly questioned just to see her reaction if her feelings were different towards him.
Not that he had to wait very long as a blush darkened her cheeks indicating that her feelings were definitely not of the familial type sort"Of course Shino your my best friend after all" the rosette tried to play off her blush with a wave of her hand and faced away from him.
It was at that point both boys knew that she was obviously lying but not wanting to really get into it right then and there about it let the subject drop right in the nick of time to "Good your all here" Shibi appeared before them not a moment to soon.
Relieved to see his students were following his orders like good little genin were suppose to "So what's on the agenda Shibi-sensei" Sakura inquired politely hands clasped behind her back and his eyes honed in on the little spider attached to her headband.
"To be honest I wasn't really expecting to become a sensei but I did plan out a few things, chakra control training for one, some stamina training and maybe a little bit of taijutsu" the Aburame Patriarch frowned considering his options.
And he was very pleased that none of the genin were complaining "Chakra control sounds interesting could help improve our jutsu's" Sasuke piped in as they were led over to a tree and handed kunai to mark their progress.
"What exactly are we going to be doing, why because all you've done is lead us to a tree" Shino sulked of course his Dad was not going to be an easy sensei for them and it really sucked since it seemed that he had no idea what to do either.
In the next moment Shibi found he didn't have to explain as Sakura sent him a furtive glance and he nodded before she spoke up "Tree climbing exercise, focus chakra into your feet, not to much, not to little, get a running start and that's chakra control" the pinkette instructed.
Doing as she explained and running up the tree without breaking the bark or falling "Basically the amount we use determines whether or not we're able to complete this exercise right" the preteen Uchiha grunted eyeing the tree in front of him warily.
Before trying his hand at the task set to them, he went halfway up the tree, only to go tumbling back down it as the bark broke underneath his foot, Shino was next and while he had better control than Sasuke, he still didn't make it nearly as far as Sakura did.
"This is going to take a while, why because this task is not easy" the Aburame Heir sighed righting himself as Sakura jumped to the ground gracelessly to practice like them, it was clear this particular exercise was wasted on the girl.
Seeing as she already had the necessary control, speaking of chakra control "How did your first day being trained by a medic go Sakura-san" Shibi asked suddenly wondering how the girl had done if she'd managed to impress the medic to keep being trained.
Viridian orbs lit up bright and full of life "Oh yeah you didn't tell me so is it really hard" Sasuke butt in before she could answer and she shot him an exasperated look in response until a smile overtook her face again.
"It was wonderful Shibi-sensei, the medic I'm being trained under said that if I continue practicing that I'll get the second step down in no time, already healed the melon now I just have to practice syncing my chakra up to a fish then I can move on to people" Sakura grinned widely.
Proving to have the talent necessary to become a medic "And we'll support you every step of the way, why because that's what teammates do for each other" Shino nodded seriously glad that Sakura was taking that first step to accomplishing her dream.
Creating her own path that he wanted to walk on with her no matter what it took, with his own determination burning away in his heart Shino turned and focused his attention on the tree, failing at this chakra control exercise was not an option.
Sasuke had a similar revelation it seemed as he to redoubled his efforts on the exercise they'd been set until Shibi stopped them "You'll wear weights for your stamina training do any of you have a problem with this" the Aburame Patriarch raised a brow.
Only to have his three little students shake their heads indicating they didn't have a problem "Nice these actually feel comfortable" the rosette admitted as she adjusted to the weights with ease, they were only five pounds each after all.
While Sasuke grumbled "Sure comfortable Sakura" the ebony haired preteen huffed struggling with the twenty extra pounds that was strapped to his body, and Shino wasn't faring any better with them either.
There was sweat already beaded on his brow "I assume you want us to do laps of some sort correct, why it seems the likely course of action to improve our stamina" the brunet heir cleared his throat trying to keep himself from peeling the weights off after only five minutes of wearing them.
Shibi nodded and gave them a course outline to run then sent them off, an hour and fifteen minutes later the three of them were sweaty masses on the ground trying to cool down "Rest for five minutes then" Shibi shook his head.
Not that he was all that disappointed with his students, they had the drive "Can we take them off now" Sasuke asked pointing to the weights, Shibi contemplated for a moment then nodded in acceptance, only during stamina training.
"That's better" Shino relaxed his screaming muscles as best he could for the few minutes they had to rest until it was time for taijutsu, where his Father made them stand and spar against one another for the last forty minutes of the time they had.
Until it felt like they were about to faint from exhaustion "An..Anything else Shibi-sensei" Sakura gasped completely out of breath, it felt like she couldn't get enough oxygen in her lungs, her chest was heaving and Sasuke looked at her in concern.
"First take deep breaths Sakura-san and second no, we're done, tomorrow we'll do a couple D Rank missions, now dismissed" the Aburame Patriarch instructed lightly sensing that he might have pushed them to far to fast.
With that in mind he knew he should outline a proper training schedule for his students so this didn't happen again as Sakura started breathing smoothly again "Better Sakura" the Uchiha on the team inquired carefully.
And she nodded her head "Much thanks Shibi-sensei, Shino see you tomorrow for missions" the pinkette smiled glad that she'd managed to get her breathing back to normal, today made her realize how inadequate she really was.
Resolved to get better the four of them split up in two different directions "See you tomorrow, why because we're a team" the Aburame Heir nodded still thinking about Sakura's reaction to that question he'd asked before his Father had appeared and wondering what he should do about it.
"Is there something the matter son" Shibi questioned of his son when the boy brooded silently for nearly the entire walk home sue him he was curious yet also worried, had something happened before he arrived on the training field between him and his friends.
Probably unlikely but he was still worried "How can you tell if someone has feelings for you, why because I think Sakura likes me" Shino frowned deeply not sure how he felt himself other than that he cared deeply for her as a friend.
Brows high at that because he had never thought his son would notice such things Shibi snorted "Of course Sakura-san likes you Shino, did you just now realize this" the Aburame Patriarch asked in an incredulous sounding tone.
Earning a glare from Shino in response "I always assumed that she just cared for me in a familial way like she does for everyone else and that Shisui-san was the one she liked like that, why due to their closeness" the brunet pointed out with a scowl.
"Ah but Shisui-san hasn't been around for a long time now has he, Sakura-san set her heart on you instead" Shibi explained a little surprised that he was having this conversation in the first place because Shino wasn't the type to talk about things like this.
Maybe Sakura was the perfect match for him "True what now then, why because I have no idea how to respond to her feelings yet" Shino frowned deeper yet at a loss because he truly had no idea how to really answer her hidden feelings.
"Your own your own there son, I will say one thing however, don't rush it alright there's no need to hurry" the Aburame Patriarch patted his son on the head interested in the days to come as the boy came to terms with his own feelings for Sakura.
Oh he knew Shino liked Sakura but it was up to the boy to figure that out on his own and respond accordingly while entertaining him at the same time "Wasn't asking for your help anyway" the Aburame heir rolled his eyes behind his sunglasses as they finally reached home.
~Meanwhile~
Sasuke and Sakura had returned home themselves taking nice refreshing showers before meeting up in Sakura's room "Oh hey you guys are home huh" Naruto spotted them vanishing into the lone girl's bedroom.
The duo nodded and then the door was shut "Yeesh talk about as secretive as usual" the blonde sighed wondering how the two had become so odd in the past several years and it bugged him that nobody knew the reason why.
"Kinda feel bad excluding Naruto, but it's probably for the best" Sakura grimaced scribbling down some more information from the book on Danzo Shimura, they were going to gather all the proof that they could on the man that he's the one who cornered the Uchiha's.
"Agreed, he's the one who'd go shouting from the rooftops about what we're doing, oh by the way do you think this guy was aiming for something is that why he had Itachi kill the clan off" Sasuke frowned.
His friend pressed her lips together "Well being Hokage-sama's former teammate and student of Lord Second I would say he's probably gagging for the Hokage position, but your clan was in his way if I had to guess" the rosette grit her teeth.
Paling at the anger Sasuke winced "How exactly are we going to get proof Sakura" the preteen Uchiha asked warily unsure of what it was she was actually planning for them with all this investigation nonsense.
Darkened peridot orbs met his ebony ones "Use fuinjutsu and then we'll sneak into his office borrow some files and return them later after making copies of course" Sakura said very seriously not afraid to get her hands dirty for a good cause.
"That's a capital offense Sakura, what about your morals that's basically stealing I thought you hated thieves" Sasuke eyed her in horror was this the result of the massacre manifesting itself years later when things actually mattered.
Sakura lowered her head "I know Sasuke and I do that's why I said borrow, we're not stealing it merely making copies and returning the originals" the pinkette clenched her hands into fists even if it was still a crime, she'd do it.
Because she didn't want to see anymore innocent people hurt like that ever again, Sasuke slumped his shoulders "Fine, we'll do it tonight since you don't have medic training tomorrow and then afterwards we can rest up and return the files tomorrow night understand" the ebony haired preteen groaned.
Relenting to her madness and cockamamie plan, she nodded and soon all of their gathered information was sealed away in a scroll before they headed down to dinner "Figured you two might not come out at all" Naruto sulked.
"Now, now Naruto-kun you know how these two are" Kizashi laughed just as boisterously as usual as the duo took their spots around the table, waiting patiently for dinner to get done cooking and acting completely normal.
Though Sasuke did snort "Knucklehead of course we would come out, Mebuki-san would skin us alive if we tried to skip a meal" Sasuke shuddered and the woman in question let out peals of laughter while plating up the food.
And shaking her head in amusement "Honestly I'm not that scary am I Sasuke-kun" Mebuki grinned, Sasuke shot her a wide eyed look in response setting the woman off into another round of raucous laughter.
"Okay Mom stop tormenting Sasuke and let's eat" Sakura smiled wide enjoying the evening meal antics, even participating a little when it prove to impossible to really resist teasing another person until dinner was all devoured.
With the dishes washed and kitchen put back to rights, then it was time for bed "Are we really going to do this Sakura" the Uchiha questioned unsure with the level of insanity this little task presented and that despite being really good at fuinjutsu that they'd still be caught.
Sakura pressed her lips together considering her options "I'm not afraid so yes we're doing this Sasuke" the pinkette finally said after several minutes of deliberation on her part activating the chakra suppression/illusion/soundproofing tags.
Moments later they were slipping out the window and down into the streets "Then I'll follow you, I want justice for my clan" Sasuke blew out a breath as they crept down the darkened streets of the village to where the abandoned root building was.
But when they got there, they found it not as abandoned as they thought it would be "Looks like Elder-sama disregarded Hokage-sama's orders about shutting the organization down" Sakura scowled and as if a thought just popped into her head.
A second afterwards she pulled out her upgraded camera that was good for taking pictures in the dark and started taking pictures "Proof huh, this will go a long way in building a case against Danzo" the raven haired preteen guessed.
Understanding her thought process better than anyone "Exactly Sasuke cause this right here makes me so mad, Danzo seems to think he's above the law just because he's Hokage-sama's former teammate, well we'll put a stop to it no matter what we have to do" the pinkette said heatedly.
Fired up and raging at this point as they snuck into the building snapping photo's of the fully operational root organization, wandering about until they came to a high security area "You think his office is down this way" Sasuke mused.
It seemed likely enough with the amount of nameless shinobi milling about "Probably and that's not going to stop us" Sakura smirked pulling out her pre-made genjutsu tag, a subtle type of illusion that she'd created.
Sasuke shared the smirk as it was slapped to the wall and set off, during the commotion they slipped down the hallway and had to hastily press themselves against the wall as the man they'd only seen pictures off came flying out of a room.
"How long will that genjutsu give us Sakura" the preteen Uchiha asked as they slipped into the unoccupied room and found it to be Danzo's office, they began their search for any more incriminating evidence.
She bit her lip "Less than forty minutes I think so hurry" the rosette informed her accomplice as they opened filing cabinets, flipping through documents and such until two files caught her attention and she quickly nabbed them.
"Come on Sakura let's go, I found a few interesting files" Sasuke urged not wanting to waste anymore time than necessary on getting out of there, in the nick of time to as soon as they exited the office, Danzo came stalking down the hall towards the room.
They pressed themselves to the wall again holding their breaths even though there was no need for it and once the door was shut they weaved their way down the hall around the shinobi they didn't know and finally made it back outside the building.
"I think we'll have to inform Hokage-sama sooner, rather than later about this Sasuke" Sakura scowled the minute they were safely ensconced in her bedroom again with the window shut and locked the entire room sealed and soundproofed.
Sasuke gave her a funny little look at that obviously worried "But then we could possibly be jailed for this Sakura" the ebony haired preteen frowned concerned, would their careers as shinobi end after only becoming genin a few days ago.
"Not with what we found in Danzo-sama's office" the fuscia haired girl admitted spreading the two files out on the floor before her, labeled highly classified one named Uchiha file the other Orochimaru file.
Utter silence and then the files he'd snagged were spread out as well, one on root and the continued existence of the organization, detailed plans for the takeover of the Leaf Village by Danzo and a file on the failure of their last treaty with the Hidden Stone Village.
"Maybe your right Sakura, we can't simply keep this to ourselves, Lord Hokage must be informed immediately in the morning about what we discovered" Sasuke nodded after they read through the files and he was filled with disgust.
Knowing that one of their own had plotted and planned to assassinate the Hokage was sickening to them not to mention all the other things he'd done, manipulating people into doing his bidding "Morning is to far away, we do it now" Sakura decided.
Gathering up all the files and sealing them away in a scroll glancing at a clock which read 2200 hours, he didn't disagree and so out the window they went again, though Sakura grabbed one thing from a drawer in her desk before they left.
Hurrying down the streets again this time in the direction of the Hokage Tower, they were in luck as the lights were on and after twenty minutes of waiting they were let in "Sasuke-kun, Sakura-chan what brings you two here so late" Hiruzen blew out a puff of smoke.
It swirled lazily in the air as the two genin shuffled uncomfortably in front of his desk "May I ask if the room is secure Hokage-sama, cause what we have to say is well delicate stuff" the rosette grimaced stomach tightening into knots.
A gray brow rose in response to that before he relented to the pleading stare and had the room sealed and soundproofed, only then did the two genin relax "Just listen before you decide to punish us okay" the second to last survivor of the Uchiha clan cringed.
"Very well what is this delicate subject that you wish to speak about Sasuke, Sakura" the Third Hokage clasped his hands before him, wondering what was going on with the two that would have them so out of sorts.
They were also acting guilty of a crime if he had to guess "We broke into Elder Danzo's office at the supposed to be abandoned root organization building and we found these five files and found the organization still up and running" Sakura blurted confessing on the spot.
Producing evidence for him in the form of files and a camera "That's a very serious crime Sasuke, Sakura you do realize the consequences of such a thing right" Hiruzen frowned disappointed in the two before him and Sakura gave him a very hurt look.
"Yes we know Lord Hokage but after what Shisui said in his letter to Sakura we got to thinking and I don't think Itachi was the real mastermind behind my clan's slaughter, this file here proves it" Sasuke nodded seriously.
Nudging a file towards the Hokage in hopes that they wouldn't be punished to severely for their actions, Hiruzen took it with a sigh giving the genin the benefit of doubt for now and flipped the file open to take in the familiar handwriting of his old teammate.
He was motionless as he read taking in all that had been written down, the Uchiha's plot to attempt a coup de ta, Shisui's plan to use his kotoamatsukami on them to settle the Uchiha's, the plot to steal Shisui's sharingan by Danzo and how he was even plotting to overthrow him.
While using sharingan from the deceased Uchiha as it had been his plan all along to acquire powerful sharingan "Do you believe us now Hokage-sama, I even got pictures that show that root is still fully operational despite you telling Elder Danzo to shut it down" the pinkette said.
The file was lowered "As much as I want to punish you for this, your actions were full of good intention and you might have just saved me with this go home and leave the rest to me" the Third Hokage sighed looking exhausted.
"Come on Sakura, let's go home" the raven haired preteen grabbed her by the arm gently and led Sakura from the office, Hiruzen sighed again, sending out summons to high ranking Jonin, Danzo needed to be stopped at all costs.
~Meanwhile~
Utterly exhausted themselves Sasuke and Sakura bid each other goodnight the moment they slipped through the window for the second and final time that night, heading to bed to get some shut eye after a hard night of working for the good of the village.
Like Shisui always said, shinobi protect from the shadows, they'd certainly felt like newly formed shadows as they snuck about performing their own investigation on the internal affairs of their village to keep it safe from a greedy bastard like Danzo.
During the night unknown to them Danzo was brought in on several charges and after Inoichi Yamanaka took one look into the man's hand found confirmation on all crimes committed along with the plot to overthrow the Hokage himself and was immediately jailed.
"Who got the evidence in the first place Hokage-sama" Kakashi asked confused at how this came about anyway, how had Danzo been suspected and outed in the first place, let alone how they'd acquired the evidence at all with Danzo being such a cautious person.
The Hokage pressed his lips together "For their own protection I'll be keeping the names of the two in question secret, when their strong enough to protect themselves I'll give them medal in their honor and tell the whole village about their efforts to protect it" Hiruzen shook his head.
Promising to keep Sasuke and Sakura safe no matter what it took, the two were bright and full of life they didn't deserve to be targeted "No helping it I guess, even though I really wanted to thank them for their hard work" the silver haired man sulked.
~Following Morning~
After resting with a small amount of difficulty Sasuke and Sakura joined Naruto around the breakfast table "And get this our sensei was like hours late" the blonde was regaling the older Haruno's with the tale of when they'd met their sensei's again.
Not that Mebuki or Kizashi really minded if they were being honest "So how did training for all of you go yesterday, do you three know what you'll be doing with your teams today" Mebuki inquired of the three preteens.
"I think Shibi-sensei plans on having us do a couple of D Rank Missions, with probably a little bit of training, I'm not exactly sure" Sakura contributed to the conversation while buttering a piece of toast to go along with her breakfast of eggs and bacon.
The boy at her side though wasn't in the mood for a heavy breakfast so merely snagged a tomato from a bowl on the counter "What about you Naruto" Sasuke mumbled around a bite looking a little tired but not overly so.
Just a little surprised that he'd been asked and that Sasuke had actually said his name Naruto froze for half a second then picked up "Don't know, bound to be interesting even if Kakashi-sensei is late as heck again" Naruto sulked.
While Kizashi boomed out a laugh "Now, now Naruto-kun think of it this way the time in which your waiting you can bond with your teammates and train with them to improve" Kizashi patted the boy on the back.
Before they all split up to do their own thing "See you later Mom, Dad, we're heading off for training and missions" the pinkette waved when it came that time to head off to meet up with their sensei and mutual friend/teammate.
"Yeah and we'll be back later" the Uchiha grunted making Sakura smile, guilt from the night before completely erased, they'd done a good thing and nothing could make her change her mind about that.
With that they hurried down the streets to their training grounds "Early again I see, why because I don't know what he's thinking today either" Shino greeted in his usual way not suspecting a thing about his teammates.
Of course why would he suspect anything when they were acting completely like themselves "So today will probably be just as random and weird as yesterday" Sasuke sighed and rubbed his face and the lone girl giggled.
"It'll be fun though no doubt so don't complain Sasuke" Sakura grinned in the next moment she coerced her teammates to meditate with her a little just until their sensei deemed it necessary to arrive which was twenty minutes later.
Shibi watched them for a couple of seconds "Up on your feet you three and I'll tell you what it is we'll be doing today" Shibi ordered giving them plenty of time to come to their senses, none of them hesitated and soon they were lined up before him to his relief.
"Right, I've decided two D Rank Missions to start us off, then we'll continue our chakra control and stamina training from the other day" the Aburame Patriarch explained, his students nodding in acceptance as they trekked to the Hokage Tower.
On the way there they met up with another team "Oh hey there Sakura been a couple of days hasn't it" Ino greeted relieved to see the girl again, keeping up with friends was hard when first starting out as a genin it seemed.
The girl perked up "Hey Ino and yeah it has, our first day off we'll have to get together with Hinata" the pinkette suggested as they waited in line patiently to receive some missions like many others before them were doing.
Ino nodded seriously at that already planning a huge day for them no doubt "Make some time to come to the Nara Compound to play shogi, it's a drag winning against everyone and their dog all the time" Shikamaru grumbled missing his shogi partner.
"I'm not that bad Shikamaru-kun" Asuma rolled his eyes in exasperation, sue him he sucked at shogi but at least he was making the effort to play the game and learn it for the sake of his shogi obsessed student.
"Look the lines moving up" the second to last Uchiha pointed out distracting them from further conversation, though they were still no where near the front and Shibi was honestly beginning to rethink his decision to start his students on missions so late in the day.
Just as he thought that the line moved a little quicker all of a sudden "Guess we're up" Choji sighed munching on his usual bag of chips as Team Ten was given three D Rank Missions to complete on their sensei's request before they were gone from mission central.
"Here to get two D Rank Missions to start them off" Shibi cleared his throat still awkward about leading a team of genin around and with that two missions were chosen and the scrolls with details were handed over as the lot of them hurried off.
The missions were simple "Get rid of a pesky insect in a young couples home, relocate a beehive" the brunet heir listed in confusion why were the D Rank Missions bug related, was his Father trying to drive them mad.
Sakura merely pressed a hand over her mouth to keep from guffawing in laughter as Shino went eerily silent, eyebrow twitching in frustration while Shibi became amused at his son's reaction and Sasuke shook his head "Let's just get this missions over with so we can train" Sasuke grunted.
"Your right no point in arguing about them Shino, missions are mission even if they are bug related" Sakura nodded lips twitching madly as she fought to keep down the laughter and the smile that wanted to break out across her face.
As they started in the direction of the young couples home, the preteen glared at his Father from behind his sunglasses and took his place on the other side of Sakura "Well at least these missions will be easy why because we are rather good with insects" Shino sighed.
Determined to keep his head held high as they arrived at their destination for their first D Rank Mission, the young couple was happy to see them as they searched carefully around the house for the pesky insect that kept bothering them.
Until they found it "Is that normal for an insect to be that huge" the youngest Uchiha remaining paled seeing how big the insect actually was now that they'd uncovered it's hiding spot in the young couples house.
"Some get bigger than that, also if you two don't mind could we ask you to step outside this could get a little messy" the rosette warned cracking her knuckles, she didn't want to kill it sure but the thing wouldn't be easy to catch even in a confined space.
Quickly the young couple exited their home leaving the removal of the pesky annoyance in their home to the genin while their sensei joined them "Ready your net's Sasuke, Sakura, why because this one can fly it's a goliath beetle" the Aburame Heir warned.
Sakura hastily unsealed her two bug nets and handed one to Sasuke as Shino sent out a swarm of his kikaichu to cover the beetle the chase was on as it took off dodging the first swipe of a net from Sasuke who biffed it and hit the floor as he tripped over the edge of a rug.
Kikaichu beetles on it's tail Sakura focused chakra into her feet and leaped into the air, expertly wielding her bug net though missing by a millimeter as the goliath beetle clipped it and she landed deftly on her feet.
"Damn that thing" Sasuke grumbled unhappy as the beetle disappeared on them and he dusted off his shorts, next time he wouldn't trip like an idiot as they went on the search for it again, thanks to Shino's beetle's it was easily found.
And they crowded around it "Thought as much, it hurt it's wing earlier" Sakura murmured when it didn't take very much effort to catch the goliath beetle after finding it for a second time and it was safely placed in her glass tank.
With that after thirty minutes their first D Rank Mission came to an end "Finished already that was fast or did you fail" the Aburame Patriarch chuckled as the kids came outside, clothes and hair ruffled from chasing after an insect.
"We're finished and no we didn't fail, why because the insect is right here, Sakura is going to take care of it" Shino gestured to the tank in his hand and the young couple let out a gasp at catching sight of the annoyance that had been in their home.
The only thing they could really say was that it was huge as the mission was marked down complete with good feedback "Now on to the next" the Uchiha on the team declared ready to kick back and do some normal training already.
Relocating a beehive was a lot harder than initially anticipated "Should have just considered this a bloody C Rank Mission instead of D Rank" the pinkette growled wincing as she was stung again and picked the stinger out of her skin.
Shibi completely amused and standing at a safe distance "Perhaps, why because we weren't told we'd be the only ones doing this" the brunet heir scowled unhappily but in the end they finished the mission and traipsed back to the Hokage Tower to report in that both missions were complete.
Then afterwards they were led to their training grounds to work on chakra control and increased their stamina "No Sakura-san, since you already understand the tree-climbing exercise, you'll work on the water-walking exercise instead" Shibi shook his head.
When she stood in front of a tree "Good luck Sakura, I'm sure tomorrow we'll be joining you" Sasuke waved the girl off as excitement lit up her features, she was the chakra control expert among them after all.
If she got it down before tomorrow she'd be able to help them hopefully "Yes, why because our sensei is contrary like that" Shino snorted focusing chakra into his feet and after getting a running start climbed the tree.
Knowing better than to argue and actually excited to improve her chakra control Sakura headed over to the lake "Okay I think if I remember, the trick to water walking is to keep the chakra consistent" Sakura thought out loud.
Focusing her chakra into her feet and quickly stepping out onto the lake only to reapply chakra immediately to her feet as she walked around slowly of course adjusting to the exercise, Shibi wasn't surprised in the least.
He was actually expecting her to get the exercise down just not that quickly though, he expected a couple of failures to start with but her chakra control proved to be way above the standard for genin who'd only been a genin for a few days to be precise.
Then once they'd exhausted themselves of chakra he gave them an outline of laps to run, made his students wear weights again and set them off until they were ready to be done for the day, though at least Sakura wasn't near a full blown attack like yesterday as he released them until tomorrow.
With that the four of them headed home "How did your first missions go, oh my heavens" Mebuki asked only to nearly scream at the giant beetle trapped in a tank her daughter was carrying "You aren't keeping it are you Sakura" the blonde narrowed her eyes.
Sakura bit her lip "Err it got injured I'm just going to take care of it for awhile before I release it and our missions went well though they were both bug related" the rosette answered carefully hoping that her mother wouldn't kick up to much of a fuss.
Mebuki relented and she quickly vanished upstairs to her bedroom to place the goliath beetle in a much larger tank, her second bug habitat that had a population of one now, checked on her colony of panda ants then hurried back downstairs for dinner.
"Are those bee stings Sakura-chan" Kizashi asked in concern at the welts on his daughters arm, just a couple of them sure but it was cause for alarm at how red they were, Sakura looked down and nodded with a little glare.
"One of our missions was to relocate a beehive" the raven haired preteen explained showing off his own welts that were the same shade of red, they itched to, but he didn't dare not after Sakura had warned him not to.
Kizashi frowned "So long as you take care of yourselves please" the pink haired male sighed one of the few times he was completely serious and the two almost teenagers nodded seriously in understanding.
Eight minutes later they were joined by Naruto, who ranted and raved about the D Rank Missions that he'd had to do all day before it was time to eat where they headed to bed early since there were plans for the following day.