A few days later, once Sakura had finished her report, and had been in a sort of limbo as far as work went, she was asked if she would teach Suna's medics the technique she had used to remove the seals from Gaara when he had been attacked. She was set up in a lecture hall, explaining the procedure to medics she didn't really feel right teaching.

But she had long ago learned that everyone had something to teach, no matter how unlikely it might seem.

With a black marker she circled the points that had been sealed in Gaara's body on a diagram. When she stood back to look it over, she was amazed at how dark the diagram was. One hundred seals was a lot. The other medics in the room seemed impressed as well. Someone even whistled.

"But how is that even possible?" One of the medics asked. "There couldn't have been enough time to perform so many seals on the Kazekage – that kind of operation would require weeks."

Sakura looked out at her audience, to her diagram, and back to the speaker. She shrugged. "How the assassin managed to perform so many seals in such a short period, I could not tell you. I can tell you that it took months to remove, and a lot of patience."

There was a murmur of assent, and Sakura got down to the nitty gritty details of the operation.