I've got a couple more chapters ready but I don't have much time to actually publish them since my siblings keep calling me away from my laptop and dad hogs the computer, I'll try and publish my ready and waiting chapters. I forgot this for the first few times, I don't own Naruto. Enjoy!


"Welcome back, Kakashi, anything exciting happen?" one of the gourds asked, Kakashi responded with a short answer of 'not really, I'll tell you about it later' and they all reported to Kage tower and reported, after everyone went home; except Sakura.
She went to her home to drop her stuff off and have a quick shower, and made her way to her training field in the fading light. She felt the compressed chakra crystal on her skin; she could feel it buzzing slightly where her collarbones connected, it had only been a few days but she wanted to test it, she released the crystal and it broke off before shattering.
Her chakra swirled around her form and she felt wave after wave of power flow into her, by the time the chakra calmed her body was layered with a glow of her green chakra, she gazed at her hands before performing a small katon jutsu where she created a small stream of fire from her palm; what she got was a torrent of raging flame.
She quickly cut off her jutsu and looked at the damage, the area around where the fire struck was burned black and she knew this would raise questions. She looked up at the sky and saw two birds flying freely, she wondered if her knew technique would allow such a thing.

Sakura then spent the next two hours trying to make crystal wings, when she began to fatigue she refocused her chakra into the same spot; it hurt a little but that's to be expected she supposed.
When she reformed the chakra crystal she felt like she had a thousand needles poking into her skin, she lumbered back to her home before plunging into her bed. Eyes watched her as she did so before disappearing to report to the Hokage.

When morning came she was sore and exhausted, it was well past midday and Kakashi had decided to give them a break, and so here she was soaking in the tub letting the water soak up her sore body and dispelling it into the tub.
She gave a heavenly sigh as she sunk deeper into the hot water, she sat up after a while and gazed at her crystal; it was a lighter green and was about half the size but other wise still hummed with unused chakra, she finally got out of the tub when the stiffness had mostly disappeared.

She heard a knocking and went to open the door, Lee's eyes were shinning and his smile was almost blinding. He immediately pulled her out the door and into the busy street, when he finally stopped she toppled over at the sudden pause in momentum, she gave him an annoyed stare from her position on the ground. She was wearing her normal attire of a tight turtleneck short-sleeved green shirt with baggy black pants that covered her feet with only her bare toes showing.
He hadn't exactly given her time to put footwear on, she noticed the other shadows and was able to identify Guy and a Hyuuga and a girl with her brown hair in two tight buns but couldn't see much more of their features.

"Sorry Sakura-Chan!" Lee called out, Sakura just sat and shook her head lightly, and she looked up at Lee and smiled.

"Don't worry about it," she said as she stood up strait, she politely introduced herself and waited for the others to do the same.

"I'm Tenten, weapon mistress of Konoha!" she stated proudly and Sakura nodded, already liking the girl and turned to the Hyuuga.

"Neji" was all he said and she nodded, used to rude or one-word answers she brushed it of and turned to Lee.

"Is there a reason that you dragged me out of my own house and into a training field?" she asked and Guy spoke over Lee.

"Neji said he wanted a real opponent and Lee said the you could beat him any day and I thought 'why not?' and asked Lee to bring you over to test your skills against Neji" he said and Sakura stared at both of them for some time before sighing.

"I cant believe you thought this weakling could beat me" Neji said aloud and everyone saw Sakura stiffen, she turned to him; a heated glare colliding with his frozen gaze, he seemed unfazed by her effort and she huffed before turning back to her second sensei.

"Sure, I would love to beat another arrogant ass into the ground!" she said a little too happily and it made Tenten take a wary step away from Neji. Guy noticed Sakura had no weapons and gave her his pack for the fight and then got Sakura and Neji to face each other before raising his hand and allowing the fight to commence with a loud bellow.

"Fight!"

Sakura moved first, running around Neji, she threw three kunai his way and he dodged expertly but otherwise didn't move.
'Cha! We're running circles around that white eyed freak!'
Sakura couldn't help but smirk at the humor of her Inner's words, she hadn't stopped running around him, she leaped forward to strike him; focusing her chakra she aimed her punch at his back, he averted her punch and struck her shoulder with a simple touch and she felt her chakra go haywire, she held her uncomfortable shoulder and he smirked.
Sighing Sakura revealed her shoulder, a layer of chakra crystal falling away in broken pieces, that chakra was corrupt and unsafe to use; if she tried to reabsorb the tainted energy it would most likely do more harm than good.

All eyes widened at the substance as it hit the ground, Sakura took this opportunity to try and hit Neji but he snapped out his surprise; dodging or deflecting every attack he noticed how she seemed to tire, thinking that her shield would be useless now he struck her. That was all he needed to do to guarantee her victory.

It's true she didn't have enough chakra to dispel the corrupted chakra in her body after that but what she did do was infect his body with her corrupted chakra, this was completely experimental and she only had a split second to do so since she needed physical contact for it to work.
She fell to her knees while he stood strait, she looked up at his arrogant smirking face, Sakura moved to wipe it off but she couldn't move.
'I guess it didn't work' she thought, it was just an experiment that was thought up in the middle of battle but she did want it to work.

Neji stiffened, then he began to shake, and gasp and fell to the ground. Sakura tried to use her senses to find out what happened, but something very different happened.
Sakura's view turned turquoise and she saw a black cloud like substance running up Neji's arm and spreading, she could see it was paralyzing him but that was it.

Everything but animals looked made out of crystal, she could see through them and what was inside them, people looked normal besides the turquoise color but other than that she could see there chakra in a sense.
Tenten's seemed to gleam like a weapon, completely motionless but poised for anything. Lee's seemed like thick layers of leather with a glowing around his legs, perhaps he was hiding something there.
Guy's was similar to Lee's but much more prominent and no glow around the legs, she wondered what that meant.
She looked back at Neji, his chakra seemed a little paler than the others but the glow around him was very precise and fluid but had a sense of stiffness, it was like he was being forced to hold back or something was weighing down on him.

The black cloud of what she concluded to be corrupted chakra was fading and Sakura close her eyes, releasing the chakra surrounding her eyes, and when she opened them again the world was back to normal; no see through tree's, no black clouds in peoples body and no chakra characteristics, there was color and there was texture.

Neji was able to move again, albeit with difficulty, and looked at her with a mix of irritation and awe. The others just looked awed and she shifted uncomfortably under their intense gazes, trying to stand up she paused; it seems she hasn't gotten rid of all the corrupted chakra, collecting the chakra she shifted it through into her left palm and crystallized it, the color was black with bits of a dirty green mixed around it. She shifted the chakra flow of the ball and threw it in the air; it exploded and slowly floated to the ground as shimmering dust.

"What was that?" Neji growled, not at all pleased. Sakura looked at him with a curious expression.

"What was what?" she asked and Neji glowered, a dark expression coming over his features.

"What you did to me, how did you paralyze me like that? It was the mist unnatural thing I've ever felt. What. Was. It?" he recited in a low tone and Sakura sighed.

"An experiment" she said, and it was the truth… just not the whole truth.

"What!" he yelled. Okay, now Sakura was just getting plain annoyed with this guy.

"As I said, it was an experiment, I figured that when you hit someone's chakra point the chakra surrounding that point corrupts and is useless or harmful to the body, so the body blocks off that area until it can be used again, I thought that if one could dispel the corrupted into another body not only would the invasion of knew chakra mess up the flow it could also give the same effect on the person it had originally come from, such as the paralyses you just experienced" she explained and everyone had a mix of expressions; Lee looked lost while Tenten understood somewhat, Guy and Neji had looks of amazement but one still had a tint of irritation.

"So your saying that you took damage from your body and projected it to another through touch?" Tenten clarified and Sakura nodded.

"That's the gist of it" she shrugged before standing up, she was a little wobbly but otherwise in good shape. She needed rest, she was still recovering from her mission to waves, she said goodbye before going home. The empty house was the same as always, her stomach growled for a decent meal and she happily obliged, she made herself dinner before showering and going to bed.

A few days passed and it was mostly the same; get up, have breakfast, actually train with her team, have lunch, train with Guy and Lee, sometimes Neji and Tenten would join them for sparring and after that she would go to her clearing and practice her knew technique and figure out that thing with the eyes.
From what she's learned she has, in fact, created a kekkei genkai that coincides with her chakra crystal technique.

At first Sakura was thrilled but she soon found the price for her technique, when she went to bed after a particularly harsh session in her field she had apparently slept for three days, it seems prolonged use equals a comatose-like state until her body recovers.
Also her eyes would begin to get sore about two hours of constant use, but she could deal with it and prolong it by adding soothing chakra.

She walked home after another three hours of her secret training, she was beginning to wonder if anyone has found out but was keeping a lid on it. In any case if the Hokage wanted to talk to her about it he would summon her, simple as that. She heard a rustle and froze, it was a small one sound, too quiet for anyone to hear and too small for any animal to make.
Sakura knew she was probably being paranoid but she didn't want everyone to know just yet, she threw a kunai at the bush and a body leaped from said bush and tumbled in front of her.

"Naruto! What are you doing?" she asked and he laughed sheepishly, scratching the back of his head he looked up at her.

"Hey Sakura, what are you doing out this late?" he diverted but he knew that wouldn't fool her.

"Naruto…" her tone gave off the warning that if he didn't spill now something else was going to spill.

"Hokage wants to see you!" he called out putting his hands in front of him, she gave him a suspicious glare.

"Why didn't you just come out and say that, instead of trying to stalk me?" she questioned and the glint in his eyes told more than it should for a ninja.

"You were spying on me for a reason weren't you?" she accused and he gulped, standing up he sighed.

"Yeah, but the Hokage will tell you when we get there, I guess I failed my mission then" he muttered the last part but she caught it.

"Mission?" he jumped at the question but nodded looking at the road ahead.

"To avoid detection, old man won't be happy" and she giggled slightly, the Kage probably planned all that. She knew that this visit would be either very good or very bad and she felt like running but she continued to walk towards Kage tower, head held high and proud confident strides led her to the entrance where her courage all but left her.
She was panicking and didn't know if he would let her continue her training but she would continue even if she had train during missions or become a missing-nin it didn't matter, she had a gift and she wasn't about to let some old geezer tell her that it's 'too dangerous for a little girl'. She breathed in and out, her anger was getting the better of her, she had to calm down, these scenario's were just that; scenarios, they had yet to become a reality.

They reached the Hokage's office and Naruto opened the door, walking in they stood side by side, the Kage was sitting there with his fingers laced together in front of him, elbows on the table he watched the two for a while before commenting.

"So Naruto, I take the observation mission was a failure?" he asked in good humor and Naruto sighed.

"She was on her way home by the time I found her and she detected me within the first few minutes of following her" he explained before being ushered to leave. As he walked out the door Sakura watched him, the door echoed in her mind.
'Trapped' her Inner whispered and Sakura slowly turned back to the Hokage with curious eyes, though he could see the valiantly hidden fear in those depths.

"I hear you've been training"


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