Chapter 6 A Year of Training

After a day of laying in bed and leaving only to eat, Sakura strapped on her weights and made her way to the kitchen where breakfast was waiting for her. She ate her breakfast in peace, said goodbye to me and left for Kakuzu's study.

A hooded, masked man with strange eyes sat across from Sakura. Kakuzu was to train her for the morning in medical Jutsu that crosses over into the forbidden area. Sakura wasn't fussed.

"I don't care for teaching so you can teach yourself..." He replied. "I have scrolls on that shelf you can read through and ask Nai... she can get you test subjects whether human or animal... preferably human..."

"Why preferably human?" Sakura asked,

"Nai doesn't like experimentation on animals... I mean... she is one..." Kakuzu shrugged and stood up. "Hidan will come soon so he can train you... After lunch I believe."

Sakura began to read the scrolls and found a lot of medical information that Tsunade herself wouldn't know. She realised that the Jutsu in the scrolls wouldn't work well on animals, she would have to practise on a human. But she didn't want to harm a human being; it went against all her morals. Maybe if one of the members had a killing mission they could bring the body back, but then she realised the human would have to be alive to do this.

"I think I will just leave the practical for now." Sakura hummed and continued to read and memorise. By lunch time she had read through most of the scrolls and began to note down certain points in the same notebook she used when she was working on Itachi's eyes.

"Done reading?" Kakuzu asked as he walked in.

"Not yet." Sakura hummed and stood up, "Lunch is in order. When I am done with Hidan may I return?"

"If you want." Kakuzu replied,

"If you have all this medical knowledge why didn't you heal Itachi's eyes?" Sakura asked in curiosity and closed her note book.

"I am skilled in self regeneration... not others... I have these scrolls that are used for others but I only use them for myself." Kakuzu replied.

"Makes sense." She replied and left the study.

After lunch she followed Hidan to an area in the forest where he began to explain to her that pain should be accepted, that she should enjoy receiving and giving pain.

Hidan explained his beliefs to Sakura and asked her if she believed in any God. She wasn't sure and didn't think that religion was for her.

Hidan just shrugged it off and explained the only way for her to accept pain is to be in pain constantly... So in other words... He was going to torture her using his sadistic methods. He was going to intake some of her blood and tortures her by inflicting harm on his own body therefore harming her. Sakura was not going to make it back to Kakuzu's study any time soon.

It was eight o'clock and I was worried about Sakura, she and Hidan had not returned so I went to look for them, only to find Sakura unconscious on the floor and Hidan laughing darkly.

"You killed her?" I asked and looked at her.

"She did well to ignore the pain at first but she fell for it after a while... then she fell unconscious from blood loss..." He replied, "Her screams were invigorating."

"In – what?"

"Never mind." He replied and walked away. "She's all yours..."

I healed her as best as I could to bring her back to consciousness so that she could heal herself properly. We made our way back and she went straight to bed without food.

"I think you did kill her..." I said to Hidan who found her pain amusing.

"I wish." Hidan chuckled and walked way.

"I don't..." I murmured and teleported to my room.

Sakura etched out of bed slowly to find a massive amount of food on the table next to her with a small little note. She rubbed her eyes so she could see clearly and looked at the note. She rubbed her eyes again thinking her eyes were still all fuzzy. It wasn't her eyes; the note had terrible writing on it. She made out 'Yum, Tired and Nai.'

"Nai's attempted to write 'I brought you some of the yum food we were eating because I know you are tired. Nai.'" A female voice said from the door. Konan entered the room and stood in front of Sakura. "Nai isn't much of a writer. When you are finished here you can find me outside in the training area. I will be teaching you illusions."

Sakura nodded and ate her breakfast. She finished her food and put her weights on. She put her coat on and left for the training fields. She entered and noticed something was off. Sensing something was off she used a releasing Jutsu to stop illusions.

"Good." Konan said as she appeared in front of Sakura. "You can sense Illusions... but you failed to sense more than one..."

"What?" Sakura asked and stepped forwards only to fall into a stream of water that wasn't there. The illusion lifted and she found herself bobbing in the river. "Nice..." She murmured and climbed onto the water using her chakra to walk on the water.

Sakura spent the day in illusions, she was confused as to what was reality by the end of the day but she was getting the hang of it. Some illusions were not just Jutsu; they were expanded thoughts from the mind.

Over the next few days she trained with Kisame who was teaching her extreme water and ice Jutsu, Sasori insisted on teaching her to work puppets and create her own style of puppeteering and Deidara showed her the art of explosions.

After another hard day with Itachi Sakura had her day off but she decided to do something constructive that day, so she spent the day with me.

"So what powers have you accessed?" Sakura asked as we walked through the small fisherman village, we found a small cafe for the workers and visitors to eat and relax.

"Umm..." I began to think and hum, "I can teleport... And move fast... I can walk on water and climb trees... And T... Tele... Telekinesis... Nothing else yet."

"Do you know what abilities you will get?"

"No." I shrugged, "No one knows..."

Sakura left it at that and we returned back to the base only to receive a message from Itachi, he explained that Sakura was in for a rough time, her training was to be intensified and to be completed in a year. The Leader wants his weapon up and running.

Yeah I am not good at chapter endings .

So next chapter... The results of this intensified training...

(TBH I am surprised I have sticked with writing this fan fiction because normally I give up DX)