Here it is the not so long awaited chapter 4. I was lazy this time and didn't do much. (sry) As always I don't own Naruto, if I did do you think I would be here? Read, enjoy, and then review.
A slender pair of pale hands weaved together in an elaborate had design. Sakura glanced at her entwined fingers and exhaled loudly letting her hands fall to her sides. She was sitting in the waiting room outside the Hokage's office. The silver haired Jonin was already in there most likely telling the village's ruler what he knew of the girl. She still didn't know if they knew about Okami. Even now she could feel the mighty beast pacing back and forth within her mind.
Her head shot up as the door opened. Kakashi stepped out lazily and cast a glance her way, he smiled and opened the door further for her to enter through. She mumbled a quick thank you and ducked quickly into the room. Sakura kept her head low but proudly marched up to the center of the room. Sitting down in a large chair positioned in front of a window sat a hazel eyed woman with light blond hair. Around her were several high piles of paperwork still unfinished.
"So you must be Sakura. My name is Tsunada. I heard you healed Naruto a while ago." She spoke flipping through a few stray papers. Sakura nodded but remained silent. When met with silence the blond woman looked up and blinked. "I'm not going to bit if that's what your scared of."
Sakura smiled a bit. from what she already knew, she liked this woman. "Hai, I did heal Naruto san."
"From what I've heard from the nurses you used chakra to heal him. Tell me, how can a girl from the herb village, where there are no ninja, learned such fine medical jutsu?" With this the said woman raised an eyebrow.
"...My father taught me the basics of chakra and I read...a lot. I taught myself such things and the herbs that grow in my village helped." She quickly replied leaving out how Okami taught her.
"I don't believe you. No one can teach themselves such a thing. Someone needs to train you, and I think I know who." Tsunada said standing up and walking around the desk. "But I want to hear it from you. I can feel the other chakra pattern you forgot to hide from me. It's leaking out and flooding this room. Thought I must say it's a much lighter aura than Naruto's or Garra's."
Sakura shivered a little and she felt Okami nudge her in her mind. She felt the white wolf nod giving her to go ahead to tell the Hokage about herself. Sakura breathed in deeply before opening her almond shaped green eyes. "That's not all Tsunada, but to explain I think I should start at the beginning. When I was an unborn babe my father used a sealing or Fuin jutsu on my mother trying to fuse Okami's soul with my own. It's not like Naruto's Shisho Fuin, four symbols seal when used with the hakke no Fuin Shiki, eight trigrams sealing style. He was trying to...turn me into a...a..." Sakura's breath hiked a bit as she tried to calm her voice. Tsunada came up behind her and motherly rubbed her back in a soothing way. "...But it didn't work. Okami says it was because I devolved a second mental will or mind to contain her. The effort was to much for my mother when I was born and she died. Okami is a tailed beast, she has been the one to teach me such things Tsunada sama."
"Now would Okami be the forth, fifth, sixth, seventh or eight tailed beast?" Tsunada asked looking her in the eye.
"Okami is the eight tailed wolf."
"I thought so. Okami was the mother wolf, only she would be so kind. If you would permit me Sakura, may I see your seal?" Tsunada asked switching from Hokage to medic mode.
Sakura nodded and turned around swinging her braid over her shoulder. She reached up and pulled down the zipper on her back part way revealing her shoulder blades. She the focused some chakra into her body illuminating a black seal without any guarding seals to suppress the tailed beast's chakra. Two swirls spiraled around the other before meeting in the middle.
"Remarkable, so Okami remains peaceful...willingly?"
"No If she had her way the entire world would be free of humans that could harm me. She is quiet most of the time unless I am in danger. Since I was the one who created the second mind for her to dwell in I can control it as well. Though it is a bit difficult to contain two minds at once while trying to fight and I get these terrible headaches. Okami hates seeing me in pain so she will quiet down letting me concentrate."
"So now this is the question I've bee dying to ask you, what are you doing here in the hidden leaf village?" Tsunada asked as Sakura zipped up the back of her black body suite and turned around.
She shivered a bit before replying. "I was attacked on my mountain and I came here because...because Okami said it was safe for me. And I was just wondering if I could stay."
Tsunada tapped her lips thinking for a bit. "Let me think here, I think Kakashi already sensed you second chakra and his team is missing a medic. It would make it and uneven number, five and all, but then those boys need some order in their lives... You can fight can't you?"
Sakura nodded. "Hai, Tsunada sama."
"Good then I'm putting you on Team seven. You'll start your training with them the day after tomorrow. Naruto should be fully healed by then. For now...go to this address and give the lady behind the counter this note..." Tsunada said scribbling something down on a piece of paper before stamping it with the Hokage's seal. "Open the door and call in Kakashi would you love."
Sakura oped the door and stuck her head out. The masked Jonin was sitting in a chair reading a little orange book lazily. "Tsunada sama wants you." She called.
He lifted his one visible eye above the top of his book and nodded standing up. He entered the room and stood waiting for the blond woman to finish writing her note and notice him. "You called Tsunada sama."
"Ah yes, you see I want Sakura on your team. Those boys of yours need a little order and a medic and I think Sakura will be perfect for them. I don't want to hear any back talking, Hokage's orders. " She said handing Sakura a slip of paper.
"Hai, Tsunada sama" Kakashi replied nodding with a smile as Tsunada handed him the slip of paper.
"For now just walk her home." The blond haired woman grunted falling back into her seat and picking up another piece of paper from her desk. A grumble escaped her lips about how much paper work the ungrateful people were giving her.
Kakashi and Sakura both exited the Hokage's room and headed towards the exit of the building. "So...I guess your going to be placed on my team." Kakashi stated lazily while walking.
"I hope your not angry that Tsunada sama is forcing me onto your team." Sakura quickly stated fearing that he was.
Instead of replying the her comment he surprised her by instead laughing. "No, not at all. In fact I think it's great. Those boys fight all day and night, the pretty much hate each other's guts. I think adding you to our team will be great. By the way, I didn't know you were a ninja. I thought I heard that you were from the herb village."
"I am. My father taught me at a very early age and I learned the rest from books and scrolls. I'm probably not as good as your boys but my main talent and ability is medical jutsu." Sakura replied falling into ease with the man next to her.
"Ah yes. that's a bonus. We don't have a real medic nin on our team. Sai is the one that knows the most out of all of us and he just roughly knows the basics."
Sakura smiled to herself and looked down. "Is Naruto going to be alright?" She asked after a brief pause of silence.
"Naruto? He'll be just fine. I've never seen anyone that can heal faster than that boy. He said as the two approached a tall round building. "So this is where you will be staying. If you need anything...just panicky 'cause I won't be around."
In a loud 'poof' the lazy Jonin was gone. Sakura blinked before staring down at the wrinkly folded piece of paper now in her hand. Her nose wrinkled when she detected the scent of Sake. She clutched the tiny piece of paper and tuned sharply on here heel entering the building. Just like the Hokage said there was a woman behind the counter. She handed the woman her slip of paper and waited patiently as she read it. She grumbled something about more brats in her building before handing the pink haired girl a silver key with a room number on it. "Third floor seventh door on you right." She barked turning back to her many wrinkled and stray papers.
Sakura bowed in respect before turning around and headed up the stairs. On the third floor she counted the doors until she found her room. Trying the key she slipped it in, smiling when she heard the click of the door unlocking. Pushing the wooden door open she found a cozy one bedroom apartment with a kitchen and living room. There was a couch and a large armchair in the living room and she found the kitchen cabinets filled with cooking pots and pans. In the single bedroom there was a full sized bed, a hope chest, and a full length mirror.
She lightly tiptoed over to the mirror and gazed at her reflection. "So how do you like it?"
her reflection rippled as her eyes turned a bright yet soft pink with snow white flecks around the pupils that were now silted like those of a dog's. A pair of fuzzy white wolf ears replaced her normal ones. "I like it very much, Sakura." Her reflection replied pulling her mask down and revealing a pair of pearly white fangs overlapping her full red lips as she smiled.
"I like it too Okami. I think I can grow to love in this place." Sakura replied through her mask to her reflection, her green eyes shining with a rare happiness.
Her reflection stopped smiling as a hard look took over her shining pink eyes. "...Sakura, that would be unwise. Please harden your heart to that forbidden word. When the danger is all over I think we should return back to the mountains. I don't trust any of theses...humans." She spat the last word like it was a curse.
Sakura sighed sadly. "I know Okami, that is why I'm hiding myself like this. I now that when this is over we need to leave. I already miss my mountains so much and long for it. But for now I will enjoy myself." Sakura replied to Okami sadly.
"Good my daughter, but for now you are tired. Sleep for it is deep into the dusk and you are weary." Okami replied as Sakura's reflection rippled back to a pretty young girl with green eyes and a mask. Stepping away from the mirror she trotted to the large bed. She pulled back the large red comforter and slid her small pale feet in. Since she left her backpack with all her extra clothes in Naruto's hospital room she wore her regular day clothes the bed.
The cold from the dying winter season nipped at her thin frail body making her pull herself into a tight ball nestling her head in between her knees. Soon it would be the first day of spring bringing warmer weather and her dreaded birthday. Her upbraided hair fanned out around her body in waves of pink ripples. Soon her mind slipped off in to a deep slumber leaving the real world far behind.
Back at the hospital room with Naruto he was rolling over in bed tired of laying still. Sasuke and Sai still hadn't come to see him and he was super board. Lazily he eyed a dark black sack in the corner. Curiosity filled his mind as he hopped over to the bag. Checking to see that no one was around he snatched it and quickly hopped back onto his cot. He undid the pulled the cover flap back and looked inside. There were a few shirts and shorts as well as a few scrolls.
Taking an interest to the scroll her picked up a purple and black one. Once again he checked his surroundings to see if anyone would see him.
"I know this is Sakura chan's but I know so little about her maybe I'll learn a bit more about her from her stuff." He thought untying the cord around the thick scroll. His breathing increased as the bottom half of the parchment rolled onto his lap. "What...?" He gasped as his eyes winded in shock. "What is this?" In his hands he held the scroll but instead of the normal writing the directions were etched in a rough and alien language. What was more the unfamiliar language was written in what looked like dried blood. "Sakura chan...?"'
There is it chapter 4! I got just enough reviews in time to update this chapter so I am very happy. Next chapter will be a lot longer since it will cover more than one day. I plan to update on Dec. the 21 since this is my real birthday and line it up with Sakura's birthday. I'm going to enjoy writing that.
This chapter was a lot shorter compared to all my other chapters so if you were disappointed I'm sorry. As always Review please! Flames are welcome to keep me warm and all that junk...