Two weeks passed since the Wave mission and our favourite pink haired kunoichi was making her way to the Yamanaka flower shop. Shortly after team 7 crossed The Great Naruto Bridge, Sakura collapsed of exhaustion, so her teammates carried her until they reached Konoha. She remembers Naruto's worried face hovering above her and Sasuke standing near the window, looking quite relieved himself. Kakashi was standing in a chair near her bed, reading of course...

Sakura entered the flower shop and saw Ino behind the counter, reading a magazine. The blonde put the magazine down once she noticed her enter.

"Forehead! What brings you here?" asked Ino.

"Nice to see you too, pig...And I just wanted to talk to you, it feels like we haven't seen each other since forever." said Sakura.

"Well we have been busy with a lot of D-rank missions...uhh, I swear if I have to water any more gardens I'll go nuts!" said the blonde.

"You tell me...If I have to see Madam Shijimi's ugly cat again, I'll kill someone." said the pinkette.

"Oh, shut it forehead! You already got a C-rank mission, so you can't really complain."

"Yeah...A C-rank that turned A-rank, how wonderful..."

"Oh, about that...How did it become A-rank, anyway?"

Sakura grinned and told her best friend all about her mission, Zabuza and Haku, and how she nearly avoided death. The blonde had been shocked to hear what her friend has been through, but quickly regained herself. The 2 of them started chatting about flower arrangements, movies, stupid D-rank missions, again, boys, fashion and cosmetics. Time seemed to pass fast as the girls kept on talking. Sadly the 2 of them had to stop when an elderly man asked for a bouquet of roses. Ino quickly hooked up the bouquet, but stung herself in one of the thorns.

"Here, let me help." said Sakura as her hand started glowing green.

"That has to be the most amazing thing I've seen you do, Sakura." said Ino while the pinkette grinned.

"You know, I can teach you if you want..." said Sakura.

"R-really?" exclaimed Ino.

Sakura nodded and started explaining the basics and how to convey lethal chakra into healing chakra. While Sakura explained Ino took notes on a small notepad. After a while, Ino's mom came to take her daughter's place at the flower shop and the girls left to the streets of Konoha. They eventually entered a park and Sakura started looking into bushes and near trees like she lost something.

"What are you doing forehead?" asked the blonde.

"Looking for a test subject..." said Sakura.

" A what?"

"A test subject. What? You didn't expect me to be your training dummy, now did you?" Sakura laughed when she saw Ino's embarrassed face. After looking around the park for a bit she found what she was looking for.

"Aha! Here you go pig, this is you little training dummy!" She motioned to a crow with a broken wing, laying near a tree.

"I'm not touching that!" said Ino.

"Yes you are if you want to learn medical ninjutsu..." said Sakura. Ino grumbled a few insults, but went to the crow nonetheless. After a few tries and curses, Ino managed to convey the chakra and started healing the bird. She grinned to herself when she saw it fly away.

"Good job pig, you just made the first step in the path of a medical ninja! Keep this up and you'll eventually be able to heal a human."

"Thanks forehead do you think you can borrow me some of you books?"

"Sure thing pig!"

...

Next day Sakura went to the bridge to meet with her teammates. She was the first one to arrive. She sat down and leaned on a pillar, closing her eyes. While she waited she fell asleep. Twenty minutes later Sasuke arrived and saw his training partner sleeping soundlessly. He reached out his hand to wake her up, but was meet with a kunai pointing dangerously at his neck. When Sakura realized it was him, she lowered the weapon embarrassed.

"A-ah, Sasuke, sorry, I didn't know it was you..." she gave him a sleepish smile, while scratching her head.

"Hn, it's fine..." grumbled the last Uchiha. Sakura nodded and the two of them stood in awkward silence.

"S-Sooo, do you know what well be doing today?" asked Sakura.

"Probably more D-rank missions..." answered Sasuke. Sakura nodden, again, this silence was killing her, but really, what could she do? Sasuke wasn't exactly a chatterbox and their little encounter from earlier certainly didn't help... Luckly for her, just then Naruto decided to make his loud appearance.

"Oi! Sakura-chan! Sasuke-teme! Good morning!" yelled Naruto while running to them. Sakura waved at him. Leave it to Naruto to lift the mood.

"Hn, dobe..." greeted Sasuke in his own way.

"What was that, bastard?" yelled Naruto.

Aaaand there they go... Sakura shook her head and watched her two teammates bicker. They kept arguing for a while until Naruto had the genius idea to push Sasuke in the river. Startled, the last Uchiha grabbed the nearest thing in reach, which just so happened to be Naruto. Thus dragging them both in the water. Sakura watched her teammates swim up to the surface. When she saw the two of them soaked to the bone she couldn't help herself but laugh. Sasuke glared at her while Naruto whined.

"Sakura-chaaan! It isn't funny..." whined Naruto.

"Pfft, you're right Naruto, this isn't funny...pfhahaha...this is hilarious!" laughed Sakura. She helped them both get back on the bridge, while trying to stifle her laughter. Some time later Kakashi made his appearance. He raised an eyebrow when he saw the 2 boys wet. He was about to ask what happened, but Naruto and Sasuke beat him to it.

"Don't ask!" they grumbled, which only seemed to provoke more laughter from their pink haired teammate.

"R-right, so I've got us another mission, and Its C-rank, so meet me at the gates in 1 hour, bye!" and then Kakashi shunshin-ed away. After that the boys went home to change and meet Kakashi and Sakura at the gates.

"So, sensei, what are we doing today?" asked Sakura.

"Were supposed to get a rare medicinal plant, at the edge of the Land of Fire, the tenuifolia." answered Kakashi. Sakura scowled when she heard the name of plant.

"What's wrong, Sakura-chan?" asked Naruto.

"The tenuifolia blossom is very hard to obtain, its a parasitic plant that lives off of vines, it's only found in some parts of fire country, and even there it's pretty scarce...Not only that, the plant itself is fragile and needs to be handled with extreme care, one wrong move and the flower will get destroyed. Oh, and it's the primary food for a species of snakes, that lives there. This flower is just a big pain in the ass, honestly." said Sakura

"That's right Sakura, I see you're well informed." said Kakashi. After this team 7 made left Konoha at a light pace. They were walking on foot, with Naruto fueling the silence with his loud talking. The swamp where the flower was located was as far as half a day worth of walking. Judging by their pace, they would get back home late in the night.

...

Once Naruto got inside the swamp, he darted to a to the nearest tree and kept on looking for the plant, jumping from tree to tree.

"Maa, Naruto, don't go jumping around pointlesly..." said Kakashi. Sakura chuckled at her teammate's antics, the blonde jumped down next to Sasuke and started annoying the raven haired male. Just then she saw a snake creep up behind them, ready to bite one of them. Sakura got a quick flashback of Orochimaru and immediately pulled out a kunai, hitting the snake in the head, killing it. Both of her teammates widened their eyes and looked at her.

"SAKURA-CHAN! WHAT THE HECK, YOU ALMOST KILLED ME!" yelled Naruto.

"Uhmm...sorry, I don't really like snakes." said Sakura nervously.

Kakashi coughed lightly. "Aaa, Sakura? Is this the tenuifolia blossom?" the silver haired man pointed upwards. The three genin looked up to see a small purple flower, slightly hidden by vines. Oh, and snakes, lots and lots of snakes.

Sakura sighed "Sadly, yes...that is the flower."

"Woah! That's a lot of snakes..." said Naruto.

"How are we supposed to get passed them?" asked Sasuke.

Naruto, quickly pulled a kunai with an explosive tag and threw it at the snakes. "Like this!"

Sakura widened her eyes. "Naruto no-" but it was too late, the kunai exploded the snakes along with the plant itself.

"Ups..."said Naruto. Now thanks to Naruto, team 7 spent the next 5 hours searching for the plant and dodging snakes. Eventually, they found another one, this one without snakes around it. Sakura quickly climbed the three and slowly cut the plant with her kunai. She was almost done, when a snake appeared out of nowhere, scarring the girl and making her fall. Seeing their teammate fall, Naruto and Sasuke sprang up the tree to catch Sakura. In the end the 3 genin collided with each other and fell together, while tangling themselves in the vines.

"Dobe, get your foot out of my face!""You get off of me first, teme!""Sasuke, you're elbowing me in the ribs!""Sakura-chan, you're squishing me!""Naruto! Watch where you put your hand!"

"Well, congrats, team! You managed to get the flower!" said Kakashi, holding the tenuifolia.

All 3 genin glared at their sensei, still tangled in the vines.

"What?" asked the Jōnin, innocently.

"HELP US!" they all roared.

"Hmm, nah...you guys got this."