An annoying ringing sound quickly woke her up. She was in her room.
Automatically, as if her body was a mere puppet and the controller was an entity called 'routine,' she got dressed and went down stairs.
She ate, ignoring the sound of buildings on fire. Wait what-
Ah.
"Release!" She yelled, and suddenly her home disappeared and she was in front of Baku once more.
"Terrible," he said with a sigh, "but I suppose you learn better with practise."
She winced. Illusions weren't her strongest point...
...what was her strongest point again?
She suppressed the thought. She would get better. She would make herself better-
"Concentrate" he said and created another illusion.
This time, Sakura immediately activated her...she didn't have a name for it, and she probably should make one, but for now it was a 'self directed mind eye' that would allow her to scan her brain for illusions. It was way better then blindly relying on the release seal, which didn't give the user any information unless it worked and you escaped the jutsu. If it didn't work, you would have no idea if this was the real world or not since you didn't get any feedback.
Thanks to Baku, Sakura had made it a habit to activate this ability every time she woke up, regardless of where exactly that turned out to be.
She was in the real world. Nice.
She got ready for real this time, her thoughts wondering to her last training session with Baku, which was over a week ago.
"Where did he go?"
She put on her uniform- a real one, with a camouflage pattern and everything, ate, and headed to the forest of death.
Yes, the forest of death.
Danzo was an asshole. Don't ask.
It started of with simple, innocuous, survival training exercises, stuff like 'how to turn on a fire with minimal chakra' or 'how to make a temporary house out of the ground' (this had been incredibly annoying, for the jutsu had hundreds of variations for different terrains like rock, earth, sand, etc).
Simple stuff.
Then not so simple.
Hunting was easy with her mind eye, Naruto's clones and Sasuke's fire techniques. Alone without chakra? Not so much. With Danzo actively attacking them? It was hell.
Still, once they got the exercise down, Danzo usually changed regime. Usually.
She arrived at the usual gate via roof top and waited for the others.
She could have arrived less tired by walking, but Danzo would get mad at her for not scanning the surface thoughts of everyone around her, and not only was that tiring, it was uncomfortable.
These were her people's thoughts, sure, she wouldn't care about that if she was in an unfamiliar territory, but she couldn't bring herself to do that to people she was supposed to protect. It felt wrong.
So she found an alternative to not having Danzo glaring at her and obtaining what she wanted: staying away from people. It didn't really work for her teammates of course (although she did try to use the kyuubi as an excuse in the beginning, but such reasoning failed once Danzo informed her that the fourths seal stopped that and Danzo had already tested this).
After a bit Naruto arrived, his usual concerns regarding ramen and training were comforting to say the least, his shadow clone that he left behind as a quick replacement tool, following shortly, hiding by the bushes. It was an effective training tool, as Danzo had taught Naruto a variation of the shadow clone, one that gives the user it's memories after it dispels, upping Naruto's learning curve literally by hundreds.
Sasuke's were slightly more interesting, but only slightly. He was either thinking of something regarding jutsu's or something his therapist had said in her previous session (yes Danzo had ordered Sasuke to get a therapist and paid for it, in retrospect she didn't understand why it had taken so many years for it to happen, then remembered that Sasuke probably just never talked about it).
But time passed and Danzo didn't arrive. He was never late. She groaned as she read Sasuke's thoughts, confirming her suspicions, and sent them to Naruto.
A second later, the clearing exploded.
The three degree scars had hurt the first time, but these days she was ready and hardly got hurt. She scanned her surroundings, mind eye included, and noted that Naruto had replaced himself with the shadow clone, Sasuke made a quick shuishin and was now using an illusion to hide, while she had replaced herself with a pebble (something that her chakra control allowed her to pull off easily) and simply hid behind a bush.
She couldn't waste chakra on a simple illusion. Instead, she used her dark chakra which reserves had been growing astonishingly, and searched for Danzo, quickly sending his positions to her teammates. There was no need to talk on team 7.
The plan was devised instantly; Naruto attacked from all sides with his shadow clones, forcing Danzo to evade and meet either Sasuke or Sakura (since he was on a branch, he would either go up or down, were the two of them were waiting) and depending on were he'd go, Sakura would communicate that and the others would reach position instantly.
He met Sasuke and shot a powerful blow of air...one that was met head on with a fireball, which increased in size instead of deflating (a quick scan from Sasuke told her that fire can burn chakra if there was enough heat, and use that chakra to enlarge itself, wind was very good at this since after the spiritual resistance, fire would have to meet a physical resistance- nothing in this case since it was just a couple of thousand air molecules reshaped by chakra) so Danzo jumped to the side, were Naruto was.
His clones immediately went to help, just as Naruto created a few more to help out and create human slingshots.
Danzo released his sword.
Ok change of plan.
The clones were decimated instantly, Naruto nowhere to be found (he had replaced himself with a clone) and he was met by more clones which dodged instead of attacking (they had wires attached to their feet) but unfortunately Danzo saw right thorough the plan and sent Sasuke, the real one, not one of the henged ones that Naruto created, spiraling away.
How the hell- oh right, she wasn't the only psychic here. "Stupid thing to forget" said Danzo in her head.
She decided to activate plan kamikaze.
A usual tactic that never really hurt Danzo, but brought time so it was still useful; she quickly escaped the area as Naruto created over 50 clones and after escaping, made them explode (another variant of the shadow clone technique that Danzo had taught Naruto).
Danzo disappeared.
She frowned. Had he actually ran away or was he just outside of her senses with a technique she didn't know about?
A roar answered her question. Oh for fu-
A huge...mole(?) appeared in the clearing. Although calling it a mole was incorrect: it looked like a weird fusion between a mole and an Armadillo. With fangs. That was spitting acid? Shit.
A quick wordless question (it had been difficult learn to comunicate telepathically without words and only by vague concepts and images, but Sakura could see why Danzo insisted so much- it was incredibly effective) and she received instant no's. Unfortunate. Sasuke didn't have enough chakra to use 'the wall of fire,' (simply put, a giant fire ball jutsu).
"A concept" said Naruto, who hadn't really gotten the hang of sending wordless concepts back "what if we make the forest's trees fall down on it?"
She considered this while dodging the swipes of the huge beast, no, it would probably go underground.
"Ah, makes sense. I could probably make enough water to drown it if we trapped it underground-"
Which would require a huge amount of chakra (Danzo hated when they brute forced the problem).
The mole let out a huge wave of acid, which she escaped thanks to the substitution technique. The mole was then distracted by a couple of clones.
"Ok we can't kill it then, or at least I can't think of anything, what if we scare it?"
Sakura nodded slowly, then replied mentally when she realises that Naruto couldn't see her from his position.
"I have a better Idea" said Sasuke smugly. "Naruto, give me a downward boost." Sakura blinked as she understood the plan. That could work-
She looked up just in time to see Sasuke skid towards the ground, boosted by Naruto's wind jutsu.
Sasuke was once again in the clearing, his own swords released (nobody on team 7 carried their weapons, that would be stupid when something like seals existed) and struck the thing right on the head, clearly managing to pass the sort-of-scales protecting it. Sasuke channeled lightning chakra, using his swords to make a closed circuit, with the mole's brain acting as the 'lightbulb'. The thing tries to get attack Sasuke but it's claws didn't reach in time.
"Just for once I'd like a normal exercise," complained Naruto as he dropped to the floor, the giant mole thing having been killed.
"Agreed," Sakura replied.
Sasuke shrugged. Sakura could see, or better, read, that he didn't care.
"What now?" Asked Naruto curiously.
"Today you all learn how to deal with oversized animals."
They all turned their heads, Sakura too, (so he *does* have a technique to evade my mind sense) as Danzo approached them.
"The dangerous ones won't be killed so easily, becauae not only do they generally have chakra, some of them have an intelligent mind. As in "full human speech" intelligence, not 'really good instincts'. Which is why today you shall learn this." As he said that, he stretched his hand and tiny strings of chakra left his finger tips and attached themselves to a nearby rock.
"This ability is useful for moving human targets out of the way once the ability is learned."
He turned to Naruto, who was looking (and feeling) uncomfortable.
"You, on the other hand, shall have a chat with Hokage-sama, and learn an ability neatly called 'chakra chains'. I suspect you are the only one on the team who can learn this ability."
It was incredible how Danzo could deal with self-esteem, or better yet, not ruin it.
"Yes sensei!" Naruto replied cheerfully and disappeared in a shuishin.
"Now there are other things to know, like how bigger means more potential energy, which also means more damage when falling-
As far as days went, Sakura's was packed.
After finishing for the day in the forest of death, she quickly went to the hospital. She didn't know how much more of this regime she could continue, since it was simply too tiring, but she would continue until she was an effective group medic. As the one with the best chakra control, it was her duty.
It was things like these that made her secretly grateful that Baku had disappeared. With him here she'd have to train in her sleep. Literally. She still missed the lessons.
She jumped on her bed as she arrived home. She would earn her right to enter the sheets after she had a shower.
Sakura closes her eyes and thought.
She had been making a lot of progress (Danzo said so, something that he wouldn't do if she really didn't deserve it) but it didn't feel like much. Sure, she was useful in battle, incredibly useful, but she wasn't much without her teammates.
It's funny how as she finally reached her objective, she made a new one.
Plus her friends. She had not forget how they helped her: she would repay that, somehow.
The thought pattern quickly reminded her of the original plan. Get in contact with a demon. She needed a boost.
Originally she was going to have a chakra boost, but being a medic showed why that was a terrible idea. It was like being a rock and forcing said rock to become a sword. It would never be as effective as a steel sword. What would really work is making a catapult and setting the rock on fire. That would make damage.
Her dark chakra was useful, but she needed to overpower people's normal chakra for the best things (changing memories, cutting off senses, etc) which would be tremendously useful when she would have an unconscious target, but not really useful for battle. At best she could read surface thoughts (even a deep read required overpowering her opponent) which at first made her think that she would have a sort-of-sharingan but it turns out that that was not the case.
Unless someone specifically thought of a strategy in the midst of a battle (most people simply attacked and relied on instinct, especially if they've got the skills to back it up) it wouldn't work. She could try to understand vague concepts, but she didn't get Naruto's yet, and he was actively trying to make her understand.
All in all she just needed an edge. So she got out her recently bought bingo book as she laid on the bed and started to read. Why make something new if she could just copy the idea?
A lot of A-S rank shinobi had an edge, wether it be weird skills, a cool weapon (the most dangerous like Kisame had both) or a bloodline. She needed something like that.
Fuinjutsu had seemed promising, until she discovered that nobody really knew anything and the most dangerous knowledge was kept hidden. Annoying.
She looked upon a weird entry. 'Six samurai'. One had an arrow (really? An arrow?) another a katana, another not one not two, not even three, but four swords and four arms...
The final looked weird and used some sort of exploding jutsu that reminded her of deidara. That's right, bombs.
A sudden idea came to her.
She couldn't experiment with already existing and easily accessible fuinjutsu like smoke bombs, flash bombs, storage items etc, because the materials cost too much, but she didn't have to use fuinjutsu! She could use other materials!
She raced to the library.
The library was closed. Obviously, it was 9 p.m.
That didn't exactly stop her.
It was easy to look within her memories to see who was the liberian, she would go regularly to the library after all.
Where the person lived, was another question entirely.
Still, said person probably lived far away. Hopefully. Slowly, she sneaked to a back door, she didn't have any 'unlocking' techniques, but thankfully she didn't need one as she created a manipulated a bit of earth and used it to fit inside the lock. After pushing everything through with her chakra, she turned it into the side, opening the door. It was common practise for ninjas to have security against these things, but this was a civilian library.
She walked inside, chilled by how creepy the dark room looked and checked a fee dozen titles under the 'E' section, and found nothing that she wanted. She looked under the 'B' too, but nope.
Fine, she would find out some other way.
"Sakura, what the hell are you doing here?"
She yelped. She forgot to scan the area!
Slowly, she turned around, but to her relief it was just Naruto. Said blond was stating at her in confusion. She guessed that it made sense- it wasn't like her to do illegal things after all.
"Just looking, why are you here?" She replied.
The boy shrugged. "Beats me, you're the one who called me."
What? She scanned her memories and realised that she had called him, on impulse, when she walked into the room. She chastised herself for once again asking Naruto to do everything but she guessed that is was useless: the blond wasn't exactly unwilling to help her.
"Sorry I-"
"Naa it's fine," he said with a wave of his hand. "I didn't have anything to do anyway."
She giultily stared at the floor. It was after 9 p.m. at night.
"What were you looking for anyway?"
"Anything that explodes. I figured it would be a huge boost."
"Why didn't you just use seals?"
"They cost too much."
"No, they don't, you're just buying top quality stuff. "
"Huh?"
"It's not like normal pieces of paper and normal ink don't work, it's that they are less chakra conductive. They still work though, plus you can use your own chakra for ink."
She blinked in surprise. The shock making her come to attention fully.
It was not surprising that Naruto knew so much about seals- he had one on his stomach after all, she didn't have a tenth of his natural curiosity and even she would want to know everything possible in his shoes.
She winced, realising that she would once again, rely on others for power. "Would you mind teaching me?"
"Nope!"
It turns out that Naruto had been practising a lot in fuinjutsu.
Which made sense in hindsight. All he had to do was just create clones that didn't give any feedback, make random seals and let them go in an abandoned area to teat them out. Sometimes they died, sometimes they didn't. When they did, he wrote that down and tried again with different variations, when they didn't the clones reported to him directly and said what happened.
It also turned out that Danzo was helping him. No surprise there.
He taught her how to make chakra become ink and then instructions how to shape it, which she mastered quickly (no surprise's there either) and then made seals of her own. Naruto's clones tested then of course.
"Wow I never managed to make pink explosions!" Exclaimed Naruto with a laugh.
She laughed too. "Oh wait till you see the dark-pink ones!" She blinked. Dark?
She channeled her dark chakra. Into a seal. What would happen then?
"Hey test this out!"
The clones went. They waited. The clones came back.
She tried a different variation. Nothing.
"Maybe you need more chakra?" Said Naruto tentatively.
She put more dark chakra. Still nothing.
"What the hell are you doing that's not making it explode? The pattern always worked for me!"
"Weird," she said to herself. "No reaction at all "
"What the hell are you too up to?"
They both turned around in shock. What?!
"Sasuke!" Yelled Naruto. "What are you doing here?!"
"Sakura called me." He replied calmly.
Everyone turned to her. She once again searched through her memories, but was actually confused this time. She didn't call for Sasuke.
She looked at her teammates and searched through his memories, trying to understand. Sasuke unconsciously put up resistance at first, but stopped when she realised what she was doing.
He grumbled to himself as the technique didn't work. What is it with water jutsu's and not working? Did some water god hate him or something, seriously! It wasn't adding up-
A sudden 'boom' was heard inside his head, that was Sakura. He could recognize her presence instantly these days. It took him a while to understand what was going on though, since the 'signal' if he were to call it that disappeared instantly. Perhaps it was a voiceless concept? Was she in trouble and had been knocked out?
Another boom, but this time it he got it, realising that there was no order. Weird. He activated his sharingan and saw a weird cloud of Sakura's weird purple chakra. Looking, he saw the center of it wasn't too far from here. What a weird way to call him. Perhaps she was experimenting?
"Huh" Sakura replied out loud.
"So?" Asked Sasuke impatiently. He opened his mouth again to ask a question but stopped as Sakura explained her night raid and later experiments.
The three looked at each other in confusion, none of then making heads or tails of what could have caused this.
"Perhaps it's a weird requirement for the seal?" Suggested Naruto. "Like dark Sakura wants us to put our chakra as well-"
"For the last time Naruto, there's no suck thing as Dark Sakura. 'Inner Sakura' are just my real thoughts, not an evil subconscious personality-"
"Maybe that's what she wants you to think." He replied in a creepy tone of voice.
She shook her head, cursing the day that she tried to bring the two of them in her mindscape. "But it's an interesting suggestion. Let's see what happens if we put all three of our chakra's inside the same seal."
It turned out that Sasuke and Naruto couldn't access their dark chakra (which was a shame since she could have instantly repaid her debts with interest if it would have worked, but was also nice since that meant her already overpowered teammates didn't get another power boost) normally, but if they dumped in their normal chakra, it acted weirdly when mixed with hers. They still could find the kunai that had disappeared one day when Naruto threw a chakra enchanced kunai against her when she had been flaring her dark chakra to read his thoughts.
They used a different seal, one that Naruto had found out previously that wouldn't blow up if three clones channeled their own chakra at the same time and watched curiously from afar.
The preformed the 'release' hand-seal at the same time.
A massive explosion took and then there was darkness.
An annoying ringing sound was the first thing that Sakura heard when she woke up.
Aku-
She opened her eyes and realised that she was blind. Oh wait, no she wasn't-
aSa-
Slowly, the shapes around her became objects, colours started to transform into others-
Akura-
When would the ringing stop?
"SAKURA!"
Huh?
"Sakura!" Said Naruto as she her brain started to work again. What?
Explosions could be heard. She looked up and saw Sasuke breathe a massive fireball. Why was he-
"C'mon we have to get put of here!"
She was pulled to her feet her long distance vision was still a bit blurry but she could make out some ugly looking things in the distance.
"Who are we fighting? Where did they come from?" She asked, too confused to be scared.
Naruto grimaced. "Demons."
What?
As they ran, Sasuke, along with several dozen Naruto's spotted them and leapt to their side.
"You know what to do!" Naruto shouted at them. Sasuke remained, but the clones didn't.
"Guys can someone please explain what's going on!" Sakura shouted, her brain suddenly catching up to reality.
"It starred when we woke up," explained Sasuke between breathes, "we were in this weird wasteland surrounded by nothing, so we looked around."
"We guessed that we're here thanks to the explosion" continued Naruto. "We found the missing kunai" as he said this, he lifted the not-missing-anymore-weapon.
"So we decided to do the obvious," said Sasuke, "go home the back we came, except that it didn't work and suddenly there were monsters."
"It's probably my fault" said Naruto, voice filled with guilt. "The Hokage warned me that kyuubi's chakra was constantly pumped in my system, but I didn't really listen."
Sakura remained silently in all of this. What could she possibly say?
They continued running on the rocky terrain, the monsters hot on their heals, probably ready to murder them as soon as they catched up. The sprint stopped when they arrived at the edge of a cliff.
Sakura took the time to look around. The sky was dark red, lit in every direction despite there being no sun. There were flying...she'd call them 'rocks' except they were huge, closer to small islands actually. The platform that they were currently on had two mountains, one close to them and one in the far distance. If there were more then two, she couldn't see them, for there appeared to be a red mist in the distance. The monsters were gaining on them.
"What now?" She asked.
"We fight." Said Naruto as the same tine Sasuke said "we die."
The two looked at each other. Ready to defend their opinions, before Sakura quickly shut them up telepathically.
They didn't have time for this.
Her head hurt, the dark chakra hurt to use, it was like someone had forced her to run a marathon she was ready for and now demanding her to stand, despite the pain in her legs. She did it anyway.
Problems were pointed out and creative solutions were said in response. Option, tactics, the sort of thing that they usually used against Danzo. Unless Naruto had enough chakra/strength for a human bridge, they weren't getting out of here. The terrain could not be used for jutsus, so no hiding underground/making a home in the side of the cliff either.
Scratch that, they couldn't even wall walk. Normal chakra was useless.
That made her think of something. They still had dark chakra. After quick confirmation, Sasuke's eyes could still be activated and Naruto could still use the Kyuubi's chakra.
That didn't mean much. Sasuke was too tired to fight, as the fireball from earlier took a lot out of him (he had to waste more then double the usual amount of chakra to make half it's usual size, making something that huge had cost him a lot) and normal chakra was basically useless. Naruto had bearly practised with chakra chians and could 't deal with a dozen monsters and his only experience with kyuubi chakra had been for a full minute when Danzo made him unlock it (he had been alone and knocked unconscious by some wood thing very quickly and hadn't used it since) so it was unreliable. Sakura's dark chakra was almost finished for the day.
The monsters almost made it up to them.
Urgent thoughts increased. Can't use chakra for bombs because they wouldn't be any effective, can't use the kyuubi's because A) Naruto couldn't control it B) they would just have more problems. What Sakura would do for a bit of fire power right now...
She blinked. Fire power? Hang on a sec.
"Guys i've got an idea- she started, then stopped when she realised that she was wasting time. She thought furiously, trying to give instructions as fast as possible.
They couldn't use normal chakra, but they didn't need to. Sakura drew the last of her dark chakra to the floor and made a seal that had killed the shadow clones making it, by absorbing them as well as their chakra. Clones were chakra constructs after all.
Naruto instantly knelt to the floor, and drew upon the kyuubi's chakra, which was quickly absorbed by the seal. His eyes did go red but his teeth remained the same, something that Naruto said was good. The monsters were here.
"Hold them off for a bit" said Naruto in a half growl.
Sasuke released his swords, his chakra basically nearly empty, while sakura brought out a few kunai with exploding tags. Not good.
Thankfully the monsters that had caught up were also the weakest/less armoured and were easily killed.
Now for the hard part.
In the distance, what looked like a fat dragon without wings approached with a slow run.
There were things that looked like a weird combinations between a snake and a wolf, and this giant hairy spider/scorpion thingy that was absolutely disgusting to look at. Those were the first two.
"Naruto?!"
"A bit more!"
Ah shit.
They were getting close.
"Naruto!"
"Almost!"
Fuckfuckfuckfuck-
"Naruto!"
"I'm basically done!"
The dragon thing was as big as a house, while the other bug combo thing was at least 4 times in size. They weren't the biggest.
"Naruto!"
"Run!"
And suddenly a huge explosion let out as another monster, way bigger then earlier appeared and quickly ate the other two. The remaining monsters died in seconds.
Now for the actual hard part.
A giant tentacle thingy, attached to the main body of...that and was easily the size of a castle which had Sakura firmly deciding not to look at, attacked. Naruto still in his semi-kyuubi state created clones, more clones to catapult the previous ones, and extra for a distraction.
The thrown clones exploded in the things face, making it scream, it hunched over attacking them again.
"Naruto! Sasuke! Now!" She screamed out loud since she had used up her dark chakra.
Sasuke didn't do much, but Naruto unleashed some chakra chains and pulled. He could only manage two for now, and they were incredibly weak, but the giant thing was already hunched over. It fell to the ground. For a normal person, a fall wouldn't have hurt much. For a thing that big? She could hardly imagine. The fall made shockwaves. And the earth(?) rumbled, rocks were everywhere.
"Run!" She shouted needlessly, for Sasuke and Naruto were already running literally for their lives.
"Ok, we can't run forever" said Naruto said as he finally sat down, destroyed. Running for hours does that to people.
"The damn thing is still on our tails" said Sasuke with a frown.
Sakura nodded, making another problem as a solution rarely worked, but in this specific case, it did. "We only have to run for a while and then get out of here. Remember what Danzo said about beasts?"
"The bigger they are the harder they fall?" Naruto supplied 'helpfully.'
"No, I've already done that."
"The bigger they are the uglier they are?"
"No Naruto," she said with a sigh, "the bigger they are the slower they are. That thing doesn't even have legs.
From were they were sitting, they could see the full size of it. Sakura had never felt so afraid. It looked like an upwards snail with dozens of tentacles. It 's main body was covered with horns. Sickly yellow green slime was oozing from...somewhere. it was disgusting.
While normal chakra seemed to not work on the outside, it worked on the inside. It was thanks to naruto and his literal hundreds of shuishins that they had managed to escape.
"Any ideas on how we get out of here?" Asked Naruto.
She shook her head. Resting was the priority for now.
"Sakura, why does your mind thing work here?" Asked Sasuke curiously.
"Probably because it's an internal chakra." She replied automatically.
"That's what I thought too, but you don't really teleport your thoughts, you exclaim them like a radio. That is an outside thing."
Sakura shrugged. It was probably because the chakra was different. Or maybe it was less effective and she didn't notice.
"What I would like to know is how we got here. A random explosion, seriously? She yawned. "Ok nevermind I'm too tired to think. Who wants to take first watch?"
In the end Naruto decided to remain awake, despite her protests that he was the one who had done more, so she fell asleep.
"Sakura Haruno." Said a calm voice.
She was instantly awake. Huh?
It was the smell that caught her first, the smell of a hospital. What the-
The third hokage of the hidden leaf was looking at her.
She instantly straightened herself in respect. What-
"You have been accused of demonic experimentation. I would like to know what happened."
"WHAT?" Wait a minute, was this one of Baku's tests? She activated her mind eye-
It wasn't a test.
"I don't-" she stopped. What had happened?
Seeing her confused look, shinobi no kami decided to explain. "I had reports on a few explosions last night and when my men arrived, a huge portal opened and sucked you in. We searched for hours until someone woke up Danzo and he simply summoned you here. You, Sasuke's and Naruto's reverse were basically empty and had trace of demonic chakra, yes, all three of you."
But-
"We'd like to know what happened."
She blinked. She couldn't remember.
"I don't re-" but that was weird, something had happened, she had so much lingering fear that she felt like she should be in danger- ah, someone had blocked her memories. Danzo had warned her of this. Now the question was, who? The Hokage? Danzo? Whoever had done it wanted something kept secret, so she decides to act her part and figure out what exactly had happened later.
"I don't remember."
"Hm, I see. I suppose you wouldn't mind Inoichi confirming that?" He 'asked.'
As if you haven't already tried. "Sure."
The 'interview' took a while, but after a bit she was free to go. She immediately went home. A private area would have been better but she didn't want to raise further suspicion, plus she felt really tired. Danzo would either ask/explain now or wait for tomorrow. There was no hurry. She activated her mind eye-
"What happened today?" She said, seemingly to no one. No reply.
"Well?"
"Ask directly like this the next time."
"Yes sensei."
"To put it mildly, one of your teammates has a space/time affinity, which interacted wrongly with the seal. The kyuubi defiantly has something to do with it."
"Yes but what did I do-" she stopped as suddenly her memories returned. What.
"That, my student, was hell. Or more precisely, were demons come from."
I'm still alive and had one of the biggest writer's block in the history of ever. I was supposed to do the chunin exams but I didn't want too. It's been over used, it's boring to write let alone read. so I said "you know what? fuck the chunin exams!" so then I asked myself how do they miss it. A mission? Didn't seem original. But then why would they leave konoha? so yeah, *spoiler alert* they haven't missed out on it yet, but they will the next time. Because fuck the chunin exams, I'll make them chunin some other way I don't care. *spoiler alert end* I should start writing regularly now, (no promises) but I'm reasonably confident that I will post something at least once a week.