Upon waking up the next morning Sakura found herself alone with just Asagao "Where's Mom and Dad" Sakura focused on her brother as she sat, absently noting that there was no breakfast, then stood once more and began making food for them to eat.
"Off on one of their trips, they left us a note that gives us strict rules, no wild parties in the house other than that they left us enough to survive until they get back a week from now, also could you teach me medical ninjutsu if we're not exhausted at the end of the day" Asagao explained.
Sakura frowned and made a mental note to ask for more information about their parents later since she still didn't know much "Got it but I hope you know it won't be easy, so did Shisui-sensei ask you what kind of team you want to present yourself as" the pinkette questioned carefully.
Wanting to find out if Shisui had done things different to her own sensei had "No, why did you get asked that kind of question" the fuscia haired boy asked in confusion, wondering just what kind of question that was anyway.
"Yeah it was really weird but I guess there are teams specialized for things like seduction, espionage, tracking you know so Mamori, Mimori and I went with seduction and medic-nin team" Sakura said lightly flipping pancakes.
Because Asuma hadn't exactly told them what time to show up other than to show up, though at her blase statement her brother choked on air "SEDUCTION ARE YOU MAD SAKURA" Asagao gaped blowing a similar gasket to how Mimori had.
This earned him a flat glare and he reeled back knowing that she had the bigger temper and a meaner vindictive side to her than he did "Because Asagao it pays to know how to flirt your way out of a situation" the fuscia haired girl sniped out.
Not wanting to start her day off pissy with her brother, she'd been the one to ask the question so she could deal with it like a responsible adult even if it really tested her temper "Flirt your way out of a situation" the pink haired twelve year old boy grimaced.
"Mhm exactly say a guy a target if you will is rather persistent in his pursuit, by responding it makes him lower his guard and wham you can strike him without him even realizing what your doing just because you know how to flirt" Sakura nodded seriously.
A sigh was her answer "Okay just know that I don't like it" Asagao grumbled looking for all the world as if he was sulking, not that he would admit it anyway but it made her smile and focus on finishing up breakfast before they went their separate ways after they ate.
Halfway to training ground nine she met up with her teammates "How has your morning been Sakura-chan" Mamori asked with a yawn looking as if she'd only just rolled out of bed, even if her hair was nice and neat in the twin tails that she preferred.
"Let me guess you told Asagao what kind of team we're striving to be and he blew a gasket like I did" Mimori giggled seeing the exasperation in peridot colored orbs, they were so expressive yet at the same time just as guarded.
Sakura let out a long suffering sigh and nodded "We're early it seems so we might as well stretch physically and then mentally prepare ourselves for whatever Asuma-sensei is gonna have us do today" the pinkette took charge.
Relaxing and then going through some simple kata's that loosened her muscles so she didn't accidentally injure herself "Geez wait for us Sakura-chan" the younger of the Senju twins harrumphed lightly and followed her friend into the stretches she was performing.
Followed by her sister "You know this is actually kind of fun" the older of the twins laughed feeling stretched out as they stretched for a few minutes longer then sat to meditate and improve their senses.
Unknown to them their sensei was watching from the shadows of a tree, chakra and scent masked to nonexistent "Interesting girls, especially pinky, you sure about this Asuma" his former teammate sat next to him twirling a kunai absentmindedly.
Ebony orbs focused on the trio of newly minted genin kunoichi from the academy "Precisely I need to find out where their skills currently sit and what their willing to do in order to accomplish their goals" Asuma nodded seriously.
Having planned until he had a massive migraine headache on how to test his genin "Very well just remember Asuma this was your idea" Raido smirked stowing his kunai away and flashing through a set of hand signs "Hell Viewing Technique" the brunet whispered.
Ensnaring the genin in a genjutsu, Asuma watching closely with brown irises "All be she's a genjutsu type" the raven haired Jonin whistled under his breath as almost immediately, with a two minute pause the genjutsu was broken with a strong flare of chakra from Sakura.
Which also broke Mamori and Mimori out as well, where they stood and settled in a close formation guarding each others back and staring around in three different directions with wary eyes unsure of what else was going to come their way.
He wasn't done not by a long shot "Shadow Clone Jutsu, Transformation Jutsu" Raido created fifteen clones and had them transform so their appearances were all different from each other and sent them forward to attack.
"Let's see how you girls handle a full on attack with enemy-nin" Asuma murmured grimly wishing he didn't have to do something this dire to see results and what he needed to do in order to help the girls improve.
Not that he really had to worry as Sakura pulled out a scroll and unsealed it with blood, then in a plume of smoke appeared a sword where she charged full force "Mamori, Mimori back me up with your taijutsu" Sakura called dragging her teammates into the fight.
Good she was smart three against fifteen was definitely better than one against fifteen "This is insanity why are you attacking us we haven't even done anything to you" Mamori was trying to reason with the shadow clones.
But her sister however "Enemy-nin don't need a reason to attack Mamori, just fight like your life depended on it" Mimori snapped channeling a bit of chakra into her fist and punching, down went the first clone, ending the ruse of real enemy-nin.
The second went down when Sakura stabbed her sword straight through one of the clone's heart, a third with a well aimed kunai from Mamori until all fifteen were defeated, the kunoichi genin out of breath with sweat dripping from their foreheads as they stood back to back once again.
Genjutsu, taijutsu and kenjutsu, a very interesting turn of events as the two Jonin, one a special Jonin realized the three girls were versatile in what they could do "Their guards are raised but they won't be expecting a second genjutsu" the brunet special Jonin chuckled enjoying himself.
As he flashed through another set of hand signs applying the same illusion as before, Asuma shook his head as Mimori was the first one to fall, tears streaming from her eyes that were wide and seeing a horrific illusion.
Before it could really get started or before it really could affect the other two girls, less than four minutes after the genjutsu had been cast once again a flare of chakra came from Sakura disrupting the jutsu and breaking herself and her teammates out of the illusion.
"Damn time for strategy four, let's see them get out of the head hunter jutsu" Asuma sighed of course the girls he was charged with weren't normal, even the girl who was supposed to be from a mainly civilian background.
Raido nodded in understanding and deployed three more clones under the transformation jutsu, this time they hid underground and tunneled towards the girls, shrieks filled the air from the preteen's as their ankle's were snagged and they were drug underground.
To where only their heads were sticking out of the ground then the clones emerged prepared to attack, viridian orbs widened then narrowed as she manipulated the earth to allow her to disappear under ground and pull her teammates to safety.
Asuma choked on cigarette smoke as he inhaled sharply and outright gaped when the girls emerged a couple meters away then promptly defeated the three clones "Kami now what Asuma tactic five a barrage of weapons" the brunet questioned running out of idea's.
His former teammate nodded seriously "Let's hope they have good evasion skills" the ebony haired Jonin grimaced still coughing from his choking spell a couple seconds earlier and he watched with trepidation as the traps he'd set earlier that morning were sprung.
Sending a barrage of all kinds of weapons flying towards his students "Suiton: Water Wall" the pinkette sped through her own set of hand signs and breathed out a giant wave of water that surrounded her and her teammates on all sides.
"This isn't going to last for long, so we have to prepare ourselves Mimori" the older of the Senju twins bit her lip harshly lungs burning from exertion so far their morning was going horrendously horrible and she hoped it ended soon.
Cause this wasn't funny anymore damn it and whoever thought it was, was going to meet her fist when this was all over "I..I understand" the younger twin nodded shakily, still reeling from the second genjutsu that had been cast on them before Sakura had broken them all out of it.
Not a moment after she'd armed herself with kunai did the jutsu drop and those damn weapons were still flying at them but she started defending herself, knocking as many weapons as she could out of the air and away from her, while protecting her sister and Sakura at the same time.
Still hiding the special Jonin whistled lowly as finally the barrage of seemingly endless weapons ended revealing the girls only mildly scratched up, the Senju Twins more than the lone pinkette on the field, but breathing heavier than a few minutes before hand and definitely dripping with sweat.
As the sun rose higher and it got warmer "So their slightly more interesting than I originally thought they would be especially Pinky, want to go for tactic six or give them the big ole congrats for not dying during the test speech" Raido smirked having fun.
"Tactic six, let's see if they still have the energy to flirt while in their current state" Asuma said, definitely taking to heart what his female students had agreed on the day before, becoming a partial seduction/medic-nin squad.
Raido shrugged and made more shadow clones three again and henged them into young males, pretty handsome, just a couple years older than the girls and sent them forward, immediately the Senju twins blanched while Sakura eyed them warily.
Especially when the transformed shadow clones approached "You look like you've had a rough morning love" and began flirting, Sakura straightened a coy smile forming on her lips as she stepped forward getting in the clones personal space.
"Both of you as well, is there anything we can help with sweets" the other two turned their attention on her teammates who backed up and away scowling unhappily at the sudden turn of events until Sakura sent them a look and a wink.
Mouthing two single words (Play along) then focused her attention on the teenager in front of her "Oh we're fine, nothing you need to worry about sweets" Mamori forced out reluctantly and reached out to touch the guy on the arm grudgingly.
All while fluttering her lashes and smiling impishly, her sister stared in horror before sighing "Yeah just a bit of rough training, but how else will we improve if we don't push ourselves past our limits" Mimori copied her sister and took it a step further with a little giggle.
"How about after your done with your training we can go back to ours and have a bit of fun" the one she had her attention on suggested with a smirk and she fought back the gag then she saw a glint of metal and focused on that for a second.
Then realized that her teammate had a senbon grasped in her hand "Sorry that's very kind of you, but unfortunately I never go anywhere with someone I don't really know quite just yet" Sakura murmured sweetly reaching on her tiptoes.
Locking gazes with the teenager in front of her and wrapping her hands loosely around his neck, before striking, the boy disappeared with a pop and a puff of smoke just as Mamori and Mimori made their own moves, proving that all three boys had been shadow clones yet again.
It was getting tiresome to deal with them and the three of them were wearing down to nothing, but it seemed like whoever was doing this was waiting for the moment exhaustion showed on their faces because another barrage of weapons came speeding at them from the treeline.
Which had them jumping on their feet again deflecting the weapons as best they could, they ended up with more scratches than before but that wasn't the end of their torment as clones attacked once more, getting more hits in that before.
Until the three of them collapsed on the ground unable to move and nearly out of chakra, covered in scratches and bruises, Sakura snarled as she realized what was coming their way yet again especially when an image of absolute horror flashed before her eyes.
Before she harshly dispelled the illusion with a sharp flare of her chakra "Just what did we do to piss whoever is doing this off" the younger of the Senju twins cried feeling desperation hit her suddenly as it felt like that day was never going to end nor the endless onslaught they'd been subjected to so far.
"Mimori don't cry, it's what they want to see us break, but we have to remain strong see this through to the end no matter what it takes" the pinkette stated grimly forcing herself to her feet and taking up a protective stance in front of her downed teammates.
Mamori bit her lip harshly tears stinging her eyes but she pushed them back and determination took their place "Sakura-chan is right Mimori, we have to stand and fight and die with honor and not like cowards" the older of the Senju twins announced taking up one of her last kunai.
Thankfully though this gave her sister enough motivation to stand and take up a defensive position one last time "We ought to stop messing with them now Asuma, I don't think they can take much more" the brunet special Jonin pointed out from his perch in the tree.
Asuma nodded grimly in understanding "But now we know how far their willing to go, to the death" the raven haired Jonin said straightening from his relaxed position and putting out his cigarette prepared to congratulate his students for passing his test.
His former teammate chuckled then vanished in a poof of smoke not wanting to take any of the credit "Oh Asuma-sensei it was horrible, we've been attacked relentlessly from the moment we got here" Mimori was the first to see her sensei and fall to her knee's sobbing.
Now that was something he hadn't expected, because he'd thought they would have figured out that it was all a test, then he spotted the calculating gleam in peridot irises and smirked "Mimori it was a test, Asuma-sensei did say he was going to test us" Sakura sighed put out with her sensei.
Mimori gaped in horror then shot their sensei a glare that would scare the devil himself into submission "Th..THAT WAS CRUEL Sensei and mean, very mean how could you do that to us" Mamori snapped unhappy with the man for all he'd put them through.
Giving their sensei the same glare that her sister was giving "Now, now Mamori, Mimori, Sakura, regardless of that you did very well so congratulations, for lunch I'll take you to Yakiniku Q or wherever you want to go" Asuma offered carefully.
Just like that the glares lessened and Sakura smiled lightly popping half a chakra restoration pill and crunching it to replenish her chakra before turning and healing first her teammates, then herself before crunching the other half.
And handing a half each to her teammates a second later "Lunch sounds good so we're holding that to you Asuma-sensei, so now what are you going to have us do" the younger of the Senju twins asked feeling a little better even if she was still soaked with sweat.
Their sensei stroked his beard in thought looking ridiculous "Hmm you all displayed some very high level skills particularly in taijutsu, that's a good point for a medic, alongside having good evasion skills, for now though we'll work on evasion" the raven haired Jonin said.
"Okay but how are you going to have us do that" the older of the Senju twins questioned curiously only to regret asking as a large fire ball was sent careening their way and they all had to split up in order to avoid getting burnt to a crisp.
Sakura blew out a breath and jumped back to her teammates as more fireballs came their way "Suiton: Water Wall" the pinkette blew out a wave of water which stopped the fireballs in their tracks, creating steam.
Before turning to her teammates as the jutsu dropped and dragging them out of the way of the next round of fireball jutsu's "If your not afraid to, come at me with the intent to kill" Asuma's voice filled their ears as he ended his stream of katon fireball jutsu's.
That was the least of their worries as cutting wind was their next opponent and how could one avoid getting hit by wind so by the time the first wind jutsu ended they were cut up and bleeding from multiple scratches yet again.
Her eye twitched in frustration "What are you going to do Sakura-chan" Mamori panted out of breath and looking worse for wear, not even after a normal training session did she look this bad, but then again they'd never had to push themselves this much before.
Emerald orbs ignited with fire "Are you seriously going to go after sensei with the intent to kill" Mimori gasped in horror, but Asuma would deserve it, if they managed to get a hit in on him after the multiple he'd made on them.
She nodded seriously "Yes it's time to get even, I'm leaving a water clone for you two to protect" Sakura grinned mischievously as she sped through a set of hand signs "Doton: Mud wall" she slammed her hands down manipulating the earth to create a wall.
Just in time to as the next round of cutting wind reached them, she had to work quick make a water clone and then disappear underground masking her chakra to the best of her abilities before moving as swiftly as possible.
Mamori and Mimori did their best to keep her clone protected and just as she reached the position of their sensei it dispelled with a splash of water right as she reached up to snag Asuma's ankle's and drag him neck deep underground before emerging herself.
Out of chakra, littered with cuts and bruises and light burns, lungs burning with exertion, exhausted beyond belief, with sweat dripping from every pore of her body "Ha got..gotcha Asuma-sensei" the pinkette punched the air victoriously then flopped back in a dead faint.
Asuma was quick to get himself out of the jutsu and lean over his passed out student "How much chakra did she use for those jutsu's" the older of the Senju twins gasped in horror racing to her downed teammate.
"Kami I never knew that she was that crazy" the younger grimaced feeling slightly more better than Sakura currently did, it was then she and her sister made a decision because they'd been practicing ridiculously hard.
Their hands glowed a bright green and together they bent "Are you sure your confident in your abilities to heal her properly" the ebony haired Jonin asked worriedly because he hadn't thought she'd go that far.
Both of the still awake girls nodded hesitantly and pressed their glowing green hands over the injuries their friend and teammate had sustained mostly on their behalf, to their relief the scratches and light bruises and light burns started vanishing.
Until they felt on the verge of passing out themselves, thirty minutes later the passed out genin woke and peered around sluggishly "Y..Your not gonna put us th..through that hell of this morning t..tomorrow are you Asuma-sensei" Sakura sat up carefully with a wince.
Eyeing her nearly destroyed clothes "No Sakura, just regular training and some D Ranks, we're gonna skip the missions today so you can rest up and of course we're still going for lunch, I'm paying like promised" Asuma chuckled helping the girl onto her feet.
Where she stumbled and nearly face planted again if it hadn't been for her teammates "Ramen, definitely ramen because I'm starving" Mimori glared daring her sister to refuse, but got a nod in return from her friend and sister.
"Agreed then I'm going home to take a bath and a nap" Mamori grumbled clearly unhappy with the state of her clothes and overall vanity as the marched tiredly through the village to Ichiraku Ramen, where the three of them devoured three bowls each.
Then when they were done, split up biding their sensei a good day to go home, bath their aches away and take naps to replenish their energy and chakra, Sakura napping clear through the rest of the afternoon until the door slamming shut woke her.
She groaned definitely not up to teaching her brother medical ninjutsu but a promise was a promise so she shoved her covers to the foot of her bed and stood "You are home oh kami Sakura you look worse than me this time" Asagao stepped into her room only to give a shout of horror.
And Sakura slapped her hands over her suddenly sensitive ears "No kidding Asagao, Asuma-sensei put us through hell this morning and I've been asleep since one" the pinkette yawned forcing herself into a more alert state.
Thanking the kami when her ears stopped ringing from the shout earlier "If your not up to it Sakura learning medical ninjutsu can wait until our first day off" the fuscia haired boy suggested not wanting to push his sister past her limits.
Earning a fond smile "Don't worry Asagao, the nap helped a lot unless your not ready I'm okay with waiting" Sakura patted her brother on the shoulder moving passed him and out her bedroom door to the kitchen to make an early dinner for them.
"I'm ready Sakura cause Shisui-sensei is mean, always spitting bloody fire balls at us and forcing us to run for our freaking lives" Asagao grumbled unhappily reminding her of her earlier feelings towards Asuma until she'd used the head hunter jutsu on him.
Her lips curved upwards as she listened to her brother rant and rave about the flamboyant Uchiha that was his sensei while she cooked then plated up the food for them to eat, Asagao gaped "Auntie Mei" came the rosette's answer before it could be asked.
Asagao sighed "Of course Aunt Mei would have taught you how to cook" her twin shook his head in amusement feeling slightly better than when he'd first got home as he ate and his chakra replenished itself until he felt he had enough to face the task he'd set himself.
"Say Asagao what kind of trip did Mom and Dad go on anyway" Sakura asked once they were done eating and she was doing up the dishes both from breakfast and dinner, wanting to learn more about her parents.
Her brother straightened "Oh that, their traveling merchants, they visit small towns near the Leaf Village and sell things with the permission of Hokage-sama for a week at a time that's how we get income" Asagao answered.
Knowing that Sakura was fishing for more information "I see and how long have Mom and Dad been in the traveling merchant business" the pinkette prodded gently as she dried the dishes putting them away once they were dry.
This earned a grin "For a couple years now, so since we were ten, they tried out all kinds of jobs, running a shop, working in restaurants, and a few other obscure jobs I wasn't paying attention to when they were trying them out" the pink haired boy admitted.
With a smile she finished up by wiping the counter dry before turning "Thanks now ready to see if you have the aptitude to become a medic-nin or at least use medical ninjutsu" Sakura teased emerald orbs sparkling with happiness.
Laughter filled the air "Absolutely Sakura" Asagao grinned right back and together they traipsed out the door to the training grounds, when they returned he was extremely frustrated because he couldn't even produce a bright green glow to even heal the damn melon.
But to exhausted to complain about it some more the twins headed to bed and got some shut eye for whatever the next day would bring them, Sakura was so exhausted that she missed her summons, Biyoku this time returning from his recent task.
Upon waking up the third day since she'd become a genin the first thing she noticed was the letter, the second thing she noticed was how sore her muscles were even her lungs hurt whenever she breathed to deeply.
First things first though was reading that letter, it explained how the boys were adjusting to being a team with each other and how difficult it was to get Suigetsu to listen sometimes like usual, but they were doing alright including Mangetsu.
Then she quickly penned another letter mimicking the ones her friends in Mist sent her all the time instead of four individual since she hadn't gone on a mission yet and gotten mission pay, when she was done she bit her thumb and ran through the now familiar hand signs.
Summoning this time another little pale blue shark, only this one had pupilless purple eyes "Haisoku reporting for duty Sakura-sama, what would you like Haisoku to do, Haisoku's only wish is to please Sakura-sama after all" the little shark squeaked.
At that point she was beyond use to how all of her summons talked in third person "Yes I need you to deliver this letter to those boys in Mist for me Haisoku-kun and stay for a response" the rosette instructed handing over the letter.
Which was promptly swallowed and then the little shark was gone to complete his task "Good morning Sakura, ready for today" the fuscia haired preteen walked into her room as she was gathering her hair up into a ponytail.
"No, I'm still wary that Asuma-sensei will try to kill us again today" the pinkette snorted still a little peeved about that even if she understood he was trying to find their limits so he could help them improve, he had still went a little overboard.
Her brother winced then shrugged as they headed to the kitchen and she made breakfast for them before they went their separate ways, like the morning before she was met with her teammates halfway to their training grounds.
"Morning Sakura-chan" the older of the twins was subdued and peering around with wary honey orbs, clearly yesterday had really gotten to the girl as it had her, she just wasn't as jumpy as her two female friends.
Who freaked out at every little noise "How are you doing, did you rest well" the younger Senju twin inquired quietly guard raised and senses spread because she never wanted to be caught off guard again.
Sakura smiled lightly "I'm good and yes I rested well until Asagao dragged me out to teach him the mystical palm" the fuscia haired girl snickered lightly, yes all was well and she felt comfortable to relax in the village sure nothing was going to happen.
How wrong she was when a presence made itself known right beside her and she didn't stop to think about the consequences only reacting in self defence "Easy now Pinky your alright" the voice of the man she'd healed a few days ago reached her eyes.
And she blushed four shades of red in embarrassment "Don't worry it's perfectly natural your reaction I mean, Raido Namiashi special jonin and Asuma's former genin teammate" Raido introduced himself carefully.
Not wanting to scare the girls like that again, he already nearly got his side gashed open from Pinky just a moment ago "Still I'm sorry I could have really hurt you Namiashi-san" Sakura apologized looking horribly guilty.
Raido sighed and ruffled her free bangs carefully "Why do you seem so familiar" Mamori frowned in confusion sure that the man before her was familiar in more way than one besides him being the man Sakura had healed on graduation day.
"Yeah it's a bit odd almost like, like…the clones from yesterday they were yours weren't they" Mimori figured it out in the next moment and Sakura snapped into a straightened position looking him over before groaning deciding to let it go.
As she grabbed her teammates by the wrists and drug them the rest of the way to their training grounds "Just remember Namiashi-san payback is a bitch, I will get you back for you part in helping Asuma-sensei" the pinkette shot over her shoulder at the special jonin.
Mamori and Mimori stared at her then at the special Jonin "Agreed, cause that was cruel and mean and Sakura-chan's already gotten Asuma-sensei back fair warning" the older twin echoed her friend's statement of getting even with the man who'd put them through hell.
Mimori sighed "What they said now can we please get to our training grounds and stretch before Asuma-sensei decides to start training early and puts us through hell again" the younger twin huffed not liking to dawdle clearly.
Leaving behind a bemused Raido "Good luck with them Asuma" the brunet shook his head vanishing in a plume of smoke completely forgetting about the threat that he would be pranked because he didn't think they'd ever get him and starting on his mission.
By the time they reached the training grounds it was just turning eight o'clock on the dot and their sensei still wasn't there, so they started their kata's to stretch before meditating until Asuma showed up twenty minutes later at 8:20.
"Okay girls I made up a decent training regiment that you should like, for starters stamina training, I borrowed weights from a fellow Jonin, five pound weights for each limb and bandage wraps so put them on and start running around that track as many laps as you can" Asuma ordered.
Pulling out said weights and bandages, none of them complained and did as told before starting their laps "Hate weights and why did it have to be five pounds" Mamori sulked as she started feeling the strain from wearing the weights.
At that point she was on her seventh lap "To strengthen us and improve our speed" Sakura grunted struggling not to add chakra to her legs and arms because then the point behind the weights would be meaningless.
"Right for evasion training and for our goals to become medic-nin" Mimori sighed unhappily but ran until she couldn't run anymore, on lap twenty four she dropped to the ground and didn't get back up from how exhausted she was.
Her sister however managed three more laps twenty seven in total before tripping at the starting line eating dirt but not getting back up, Sakura however though lasted all the way through her thirtieth lap before running out of energy.
Asuma nodded wrote down the statistics "You can take the weights off now, rest for a few minutes longer then follow me over to this tree, I'm well aware of how your chakra control is, but humor me on this alright" the raven haired Jonin instructed.
When they were finished with their quick break they hurried towards their sensei, out of breath but excited for what else they'd be doing for that day "Do you want us to climb the tree, with our chakra sensei" the older Senju twin asked curiously.
The man nodded "Not to much and not to little, it's the same concept as the mystical palm" the pinkette on their team reminded gently then focused chakra into the soles of her feet and walked straight up a tree without a single ounce of hesitation.
Realizing what chakra control was all about it was all to easy for Mimori and Mamori to do the same as Sakura and walk up the tree "That wasn't as hard as I thought it would be" the younger Senju twin commented as they practiced tree climbing for a few minutes.
Before dropping gracefully to the ground to stand before their sensei again, who chuckled and led them over to a lake "Now water walk, the second step, if you all three reach me in the next twenty minutes I'll let you take a fifteen minute break" Asuma commanded.
Emerald and twin honey irises lit up "Oh you are so on Asuma-sensei" Mimori bounced focusing chakra into her feet and taking a hesitant step out on the surface of the lake, only to promptly fall in and be hauled back on to land courtesy her sister.
Who tried her hand only to perform the same results of falling in "Just don't understand what we're doing wrong" Mamori huffed dripping wet from her fall and glaring at the lake like it was the answer to all her problems.
Their other teammate stood back though watching their attempts then eyed the lake "I got it, we have to keep our chakra consistent otherwise we'll just keep falling in" Sakura snapped her fingers as the point of the exercise hit her.
Just like that the jig was up and they reached Asuma who was stood in the middle of the lake four minutes later, five minutes shy of the twenty minute mark he'd given them, so as promised he allowed the girls a fifteen minute break to catch their breaths and dry a little in the sun.
Asuma shook his head in amusement watching his students, just as he was about to call out something interesting happened a plume of smoke interrupted his vision and he wasn't the only one on edge until a small shark appeared from the smoke.
"Haisoku apologies Sakura-sama, he didn't mean to interrupt your training, Haisoku will just leave this here for you to read, good day Sakura-sama" then the little shark was gone back to wherever he'd been summoned from.
Sakura sighed softly and snagged the letter scroll left behind before stowing it in her pouch "Sorry Asuma-sensei, that was really bad timing on my summons part" the pinkette grimaced looking a little upset.
Until he waved his hand "No worries you still had a few minutes on your break, which is over now, so push ups and sits ups as many as you can manage" the raven haired nin instructed wanting to see how many the girls could do before running out of energy.
Mamori and Mimori looked extremely unhappy with the idea of strenuous exercise again but moved into the familiar push up position "Is there a reason exactly your having us do this sensei" the younger Senju twin huffed wasting her breath.
Obviously because their sensei didn't say anything "You know I almost wish we'd gotten Shisui as our sensei" the older twin sighed under her breath because was like hell on the body, her arms and legs already felt like they were going to fall off anyway.
But because their sensei had asked it of them they did as many push ups and sits up as they could, Mamori managed eighteen push ups and twenty sit ups, Mimori, nineteen push ups and twenty four sit ups and Sakura, twenty five push ups and twenty six sit ups before they couldn't do anymore.
Their sensei was rather proud of them "One last thing then we'll get started on the nine D Rank Missions I requested for you, punch and kick the dummies as long and as hard as you can without chakra" Asuma pointed at the wooden dummies.
After giving them a few minutes to catch their breaths of course "Ugh I don't think I can do anymore stamina training for the day" Sakura was clearly at her limit thirty minutes later, sweat pouring off her in rivers as the sun beat down on them harshly.
"Me either Sakura-chan, those D rank missions are starting to sound better and better at this moment in time" Mamori grimaced feeling gross from all the sweat and wishing she could go home take a shower and eat because she was starving suddenly.
Her sister nodded in agreement "Can we sensei please start the missions you have set up for us" Mimori practically begged because she was literally done training for the day, she still hurt from yesterday to.
This earned a chuckle "First go home, eat something rest then we'll meet at the Hokage Tower for those D Ranks in an hour" the Jonin sent his female students home giving them an hour for lunch and to shower so they didn't start complaining.
Clearly they weren't expecting that and their eyes lit up even Sakura's "Let's eat at yours Sakura-chan, Mimori and I will go grab a change of clothes to shower there as well" the older Senju Twin exclaimed happily speeding off with her sister in tow.
Sakura blinked then sighed and shrugged before heading back to her house which was empty so leaving the door unlocked she went to her bedroom grabbed a change of clothes then headed for her personal bathroom to take a nice relaxing shower.
"It's just us Sakura-chan" the younger twin called as soon as she stepped out of her bathroom dressed in clean sweat free clothes and feeling much better about the day and excited for her first official D rank missions.
Excited so much that she practically skipped into the kitchen "Just go ahead and take a shower you guys I'm gonna get started on cooking lunch for us, something simple but good enough to replenish the chakra we used during training" the fuscia haired girl called.
Rifling through the cabinets and noting that they were nearly out of some things, before grabbing some items from the shelves and closing the cabinets making a mental note to go shopping later if she remembered and wasn't to tired.
Less than twenty minutes later the stir-fry was done and the three of them gathered around the table to eat, once they were done the dishes were washed, dried and put away neatly and a shopping list for later was even made.
Even with as long as it had taken them to shower and eat, they still had twenty five minutes left on their hour break, it was spent in silence as they napped for about fifteen of those minutes leaving them ten to get to the Hokage Tower for their D rank Missions.
Their sensei was extremely happy to note that all of his students were extremely punctual to a fault "Ah Asuma here for some missions I presume" the Hokage chuckled when Team Nine walked through the door of his office for missions.
"Yes, Hokage-sama nine in total, I'd like to see how they handle themselves on D Ranks" Asuma nodded with a smirk itching to lit up a cigarette but didn't dare considering that they were in his Dad's office for missions.
His amusement earned another chuckle from the Hokage "Very well weeding a garden, going shopping, walking shelter dogs, cleaning out the river, painting a fence, finding a lost cat, organizing a filing cabinet, washing windows and picking up trash in the Uchiha Compound" Hiruzen read off.
Mamori, Mimori and Sakura's eyes went wide at the amount of D Rank Missions they now had to complete "Okay Sakura-chan your good with plans, what should we do to ensure we complete all nine of them on time" Mimori turned to her friend with narrowed honey orbs.
Asuma chuckled under his breath letting the girls figure themselves out for now, if things got out of hand he'd step in and help, other than that he was sure they'd be fine "Hmm cleaning out the river and Uchiha Compound of trash sounds like a good way to start" Mamori cut in.
Feeling excitement coursing through her veins "Can we employ clones Asuma-sensei to help us since we only have so long to complete our missions" Sakura faced her sensei ready to flash through the hand signs for her water clone jutsu.
He raised a brow, though her request over before shrugging "Go for it so long as you don't get in trouble I don't see a problem with you using your shinobi abilities to get your missions done" the raven haired nin waved them off.
Their eyes lit up again and Sakura flashed through hand signs creating six water clones of her self before sending them off with instructions and directions for at least four of their D Rank Missions, washing windows, weeding a garden, shopping, painting the fence and walking shelter dogs.
She really was a smart kid as he realized what she'd done, the four missions left were time consuming after all so she'd cut out the ones that wouldn't take to long and left them to clones "Maybe you can teach us that sometime Sakura-chan, now lets look for that cat" the younger Senju twin grinned.
Bouncing as they started down the streets on the hunt for their missing animal, sensei trailing them from a distance "This is starting to seem hopeless" the older Senju twin commented when twenty minutes had gone by and they still hadn't found their mission target.
Just as she said that though a black and white blur shot past them and after a quick glance at the photo of their missing animal were off like projectile weapons after the lost cat, five minutes it took them to catch the blasted thing.
Before he was sent off with a seventh water clone to be returned to his owner and get a report, because the cat would only let the fuscia haired girl hold him for some freaking reason "Nice work girls" Asuma praised proud even if it had only been a couple of days.
They'd already made great progress and it made him glad that it was him helping them for some reason "Thanks Asuma-sensei, river first then Uchiha Compound, we'll split up and work fast" Sakura announced her plan for the next two missions.
"Good idea, by the way how do you think your clones are doing Sakura-chan" Mamori asked once they'd reached the river they were meant to clean out, it wasn't so bad, but getting the trash with pointy sticks out of moving water was tricky cause sometimes they missed.
Sakura growled when she got a little flustered at the fact she couldn't get a stupid bag that kept evading her until she reached down and grabbed the bag with her bare hands forgoing the stick "Yikes but yeah I'm curious to Sakura-chan" Mimori inquired.
Forgoing the stick like her friend as they cleaned out the river of trash "Their doing okay I reckon cause two of them are heading this way right now" the pinkette swiped through her bangs and straightened emerald orbs searching for anymore trash.
Asuma just shook his head in amusement as two clones appeared before him with a report of how the missions they'd done had went "Weeding and window washing are done, the clients were very happy with the job done" the raven haired Jonin read the report before stowing it away.
Tinkling laughter greeted his ears as the girls waded from the river and put all the trash they'd gathered into a singular pile before searching the river one last time "Okay what are we gonna do with all this trash" the older Senju twin frowned.
Not that she had to worry much as their sensei went through a set of familiar hand signs and sent a fireball at the trash burning it all to ash until there was nothing left "Guess that's one way to get rid of it" the younger twin laughed sheepishly as they made their way to the Uchiha Compound.
Where they were met with the Uchiha Patriarch himself and given strict permission to clean up the trash since he'd requested the help from a squad of genin and by the time they were done with that they were feeling pretty good especially when they only had one mission left to complete.
Seeing as Sakura's water clones had finished the other five missions and brought back good reports from the clients that had requested their help, upon finishing their last mission, organizing the blasted filing cabinet in the archives they were ready to go home for the rest of the day.
But they waited like good little kunoichi as all nine of their missions were announced completed and were given their first mission pay before they were finally dismissed from the Hokage's Office, of course nothing could be that simple though.
As they followed after their sensei to the training grounds one last time "What's going on Asuma-sensei, surely your not gonna make us train again" Mimori frowned wanting to just go home and veg out for the rest of the day and do nothing productive.
He held up his hand and gestured for them to sit before him, so long as it wasn't another training session they would see what he wanted "Did you not like the way we did our missions sensei" Mamori inquired.
"Opposite I thought that was very smart of you girls, but I just wanted to lay out the schedule for the next couple of weeks" Asuma explained gently before launching into further detail of what he wanted to see from their training.
Which included thirty laps, thirty push ups and sit ups all with weights on, with at least thirty D rank mission done in that same time frame, it was a reasonable schedule that the three girls agreed on before he finally released them.
"See you tomorrow Asuma-sensei for training and missions" Sakura waved speeding from the training grounds intent on going shopping, grabbing the things the house needed from the market before booking it home to make dinner.
By the time she was done cooking her brother was home "You look…..almost like you did nothing the entire day" Asagao accused carefully not wanting to upset his sister if she took offense to the accusation.
She raised a single pink brow then snorted "And you look like Shisui-sensei tried to fry you to a crisp again, but yes I did things this morning then had nine D Rank missions to complete, eat up then I'll heal you and we can go practice the mystical palm again" the pinkette ordered.
Asagao sighed but dutifully started eating "Thanks Sakura, I'm glad your my sister" the fuscia haired boy said when he was done and the burns were fading away to leave smooth unblemished skin as they traipsed out the door so he could practice medical ninjutsu.
Where he once again failed, that night Sakura wrote another long letter to her friends back in Mist, summoned Haisoku, who seemed to be the fastest one so far and sent the scroll off before flopping down in her bed and drifting into a restful sleep.