Hope you all are liking it so far. Here is Chapter six.

Naruto is not mine. It belongs to Masashi Kishimoto.

Chapter Six: Their Teacher

The next morning the sun rose, illuminating a sleeping figure. She was sound asleep until she was awakened by an irritating noise. Tap tap tap...tap tap tap. There was a bird tapping on her window. The figure groaned and threw the closest thing she could find, her kunai, toward the source of the sound. The bird just flew above it and started tapping on the window again. Darned bird, the figure thought, what does it want at this time of the morning? She got up, revealing the disheveled pink head of Sakura Haruno, hobbled over to the window, and opened it. The bird flew in and dropped a letter on her head then flew off. Sakura grumbled picking the letter off her head. It had to do all that tapping just to fly in a drop a letter on my head. Oh well, at least it wasn't bird droppings. She opened the letter and looked at its contents. It went something like this:

Sakura,

Don't hurt the bird! I know I am contacting you a little earlier than I had planned but the patients seem to be getting worse by the hour. The nurses don't have enough experience to handle it. This is why I need you to come in as soon as you can. We can't afford to lose anymore ninja. Check yourself first though; I don't want you running out of chakra in the middle of healing someone. See you in a few.

Tsunade

Sakura sighed and got into the shower. She checked herself for any chakra shortage. She had none; it had regenerated while she was asleep. The only thing that was wrong was that she was tired. Yesterday had drained her energy more than anything else. The shower helped her wake up a little bit though, because when she stepped out she no longer felt disoriented. Hastily, she put on a red pair of shorts and a white tank top with some blue sandals. Her white medic coat went on over those. There was no time to get decked out like she was yesterday. Checking that she had everything she needed she left the house, and locked the door behind her.

In the space of about ten seconds she was at the hospital. Having supersonic dragon speed definitely had its perks. The lady behind the desk greeted her good morning and checked her in. Sakura asked her where Tsunade was, and she told her. She thanked her and proceeded to room nineteen on the third floor, where she presumed Tsunade was. When she walked in the room, there was Tsunade, bending over a man who had a bloody gash all the way up his chest. Tsunade looked up. "Ah, there you are Sakura; I need you to help me mend up this wound." Sakura nodded and walked up to them. The man looked pretty bad. It wasn't just his chest that was bleeding. He had a black eye, and a scar running down his cheek. His hair looked like it had been cut half off with a sword, just barely missing his head. Looking down lower Sakura saw his legs were all mottled and bruised, and his arm was broken. It looked like he had been through a grinder and back twice.

Her eyes softening with sadness, Sakura sent chakra to her hands, making them glow a soft green. She placed her hand upon his chest she starting sealing up his wound. Tsunade told her that he could not move, so he would have to stay in the hospital for a few more days. Nodding her head Sakura could already see progress in the healing.

The rest of her day was about the same way. She had to heal a lot more people who had gotten so bad that the regular nurses couldn't heal them. By five that evening Sakura was sitting at her office desk, exhausted. This was more tiresome than I thought. The nurses don't seem to be good for anything. There is not enough medic nins like me, and if we don't get anymore, I may have to start training some people myself. She thought about who would be good for the job. Hinata would probably faint at the sight of blood. Tenten is more of a fighter than a healer. Temari lives too far away, and besides she doesn't want anything to do with handling injured bodies. Gaara and Kankuro are handful enough for her. Hmm, Ino is probably the only one that could advance to medic nin level. She has already trained under me, so I think she can handle a little more rigorous training.

Her mind made up, Sakura went to Tsunade's office. She knocked when she got there. Before Tsunade told her to come in, Sakura heard the sounds of sake being hastily put back up. She shook her head, and decided she wouldn't mention anything about that. "Enter." The gruff voice of Tsunade sounded inside her office. Sakura went in and stopped in front of her desk. "Sakura!" "What in the world brings you here; you are done for the day." Sakura nodded. "I know that. I just wanted to ask your permission on something." The hokage's eyes narrowed. "Ask my permission for what exactly?" "Well, you know as well as I do of the scarcity of medic nins. It can be a bit tiresome, like it was today, and I was thinking of training someone to become a medic nin myself. It shouldn't be too much trouble since she has already had experience with my training."

Tsunade stared at her, contemplating what she just said. She then smiled. "I think that is a great idea Sakura, I have no problem with it. I assume you mean Ino don't you?" "Hai, if she will agree to my request, and you give us some time off to train." "If she happens to agree I will give you three hours everyday to train her in the higher degrees of the medic field. Plus I want you to teach the other girls something as well." Sakura looked confused. "What would that be Tsunade-shishou?" "In place of teaching Ino how to maintain chakra control I want you to teach the girls how to control their chakra element since you have all of them." Sakura's eyes widened. "Are you saying that, including me, the girls make up all five of the elements?" Tsunade grinned. "You catch on fast. I feel it would be the easiest way to teach them since they know you. If you succeed in teaching them, you could form your own team. You could even name it The Elemental Five if you wanted."

Sakura looked incredulous. This is more than I bargained for, but it would be exciting to teach them the skill they need. We could show the guys how much we improved. Sakura looked back up at Tsunade. "If you don't mind my asking, who exactly has what element?" "Let's see. I believe Tenten has the earth element. You know Temari has the air element. Hinata calms the water, and Ino controls lightning. You, of course, have control of all of the elements, but fire is your strongest one." Mixed with their, and your, elements, you could be invincible." Sakura thought about this. Wow, my own team. Tsunade's right with a little bit of all attack elements we could kick some butt! I better not look too excited about this; Tsunade might think I'm doing it just for more power. I must continue to look professional. "When should I ask them Tsunade-shishou?" "Right now if you like, they should be done rebuilding for the day." Sakura nodded and left.

She found the girls, minus Temari, at Ichiraku's. She would be surprised that Naruto wasn't there with them, but he had to rest after yesterday's events. "Hey Forehead girl, where have you been?" Ino asked. The other girl's were all looking at Sakura to. "I had to help out in the hospital. There is something I want to talk to you all about." They looked at each other then back to Sakura. "What's wrong Sakura?" Tenten asked. "Nothing bad, in fact I think you might find it interesting." She then proceeded to tell them all that Tsunade told her. She told them about her teaching Ino and training all of the girls with their elements. They looked dumbfounded. "R...really I...I didn't know I had my own e...element." Hinata stuttered. "Me neither, hey Sakura when are you going to train us? I look forward to having medic nin training to." Ino exclaimed. "I start training you, Ino, tomorrow. Be at the hospital laboratory at six-o-clock sharp." "Six? Man, forehead girl, you sure are mean." Sakura glared. "You want to learn don't you Ino pig?" She looked at the others without waiting for a response. "I will start training you to learn how to control your chakra element when I call Temari and she gets here. I will contact you in about four days. That should be long enough for Temari to get here. Ino, I will see you in the morning when?" "Six-o-clock sharp" Ino grumbled. "Good, goodbye." "Bye" they all said. Sakura then disappeared in a whirl of cherry blossoms.

That night she performed the summoning jutsu and sent one her small messenger dragons to Sunagakure. She would have sent Saphira, since she is her favorite dragon, but she was too big. Temari should be sending her a response back at nine tomorrow. That gives her two and a half hours with Ino and a half hour to get back home. Sakura sighed. She couldn't wait until then. She wanted to train her fellow girl's how to fight a little better. Ino would help her out to, if she learned the hard stuff. She already knew the basics. Yawning, Sakura got ready for bed. She fell asleep instantly, as she was tired out from the last two days. Tomorrow was going to be another busy day. Hopefully it would be a little better though.

If she had stayed awake a little bit longer she would have noticed a figure appear and look at her through the window. He would not be there long. He was just seeing how much she had changed. He could not see well from where he was though so his eyes changed. They were black, but they were now a brilliant red.