Her own Will

8.The Month inbetween

A/N: Welcome to a new chapter! Some warnings first tho. English is not my first language, so please excuse the mistake's or tell me so i can fix it. Second, Naruto is Kishimotos Work, this is a FANFICTION about it. Lastly fonts —> Normal talking / Normal Thinking / Inner Sakura Thinking / Inner Sakura talking.
And with that enjoy!

Waking up after a full night of sleep, after not really sleeping for a week was a bliss. You feel rested, your chakra has regenerated and you were full of energy.
That was how Sakura when she woke up after the expierences in rhe forest of dead and the preeliminaries. Today she decided, she would make up a plan for the next month and otherwise just rest. Tomorrow would everything else be taken care of.
So she got out of bed and went to take a shower.

After she finished drying herselff off, she grabbed some comfy clothes and got dressed. Then she went downstairs, to get some food before heading out to the library. Arriving in the kitchen she had expected to see some sake bottels or cigarretts, but it was suprisingly clean. Her parents where already home that much she knew, 'cause there were some takeout containers on the kitchentabel. Shrugging she took an appel and went to get her backpack. Walking out onto the streets of Konoha she headed straight to the library, to hopefully find something about Otogakure and its shinobi.

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Her fingers ran across the spines of books in the genin section. A few caught her eye and she took them out of the shelfs and aded them to the growing stack she held in her arms. Up until now she hadnt found anything about the Soundvillage. It was kinda strange. But maby these book's were in sections she wasnt allowed into jet. So she had to improvise, widen her arsenal to be prepeard for almost anything. 
She put them down and sat next to it, grabbed the first one and began reading. It was a book about genjutsu, like half of the stack.

Danjin found her three hours later, hunched over the current book she was reading. The read head chukeld, 'cause even if she had known Sakura only for a day, the kid had already grown on her. And after that performance in the preeliminarys, she wanted to congratulate her. Usually Patrol duty was not something to look forward to, but this time it was.
Quietly she walked to Sakura and tapped her on the shoulder.

Sakura jumped out of her skin when she felt a tap on her shoulder, she didnt even hear anyone aproach. Turing her head around quickly, her eyes widend a bit after recognizing the person standing behind her. The girl smiled, let out a small laugh and sat down next to her.Sakura put a bookmark inside and closed the book, turning a bit so she was facing the red haired girl.
"Hello Sakura, how you've been?" Danjin asked. Sakura thought for a moment before answering. "Its been a bit rough here and there, but overall i'm fine. Do you need something?" Dramatically Danjin put her hand on her chest and gasped. "Am i not allowed to visit you? But here i was, wanting to congratulate you.." Sakura looked at her sceptically "Congratulate me for what"? She asked confused. Now Danjin looked a bit shoked, "Wait, you mean no one told you?" Sakura grew even more confused "Told me what Danjin-san?". Said girl mutterd a string of profanities under her breath "Sakura-chan, your match in the preeliminarys was record breaking! It was the shortest match since Uchiha Shisui's! You took only two minutes, while everyone else needed atleast five!" Sakura's mouth formed an O shape, but Danjin was not finished. "not only that, but you used an A rank jutsu AND showed skills worth of a chuunin rank, for exampel your quick thinking. You were already low on chakra, so rather than a direct confrontation with someone who was a bit stronger than you in short range, you choose to go about it strategically by first restricting your opponents senses, then putting them under a genjutsu, allowing you to further confuse them and finally capturing your enemy rendering them unabel to move, all while showing them only three jutsus, one academy thaught. You've kept your cards close to youre chest." Sakura's eyes where downcast at the end of Danjins speech, a faint blush of emberassment dusting her cheeks. "Th-Thank you Danjin, but it really was nothing" The red head looked at her odd. "Dont you say that, not everyone can beat a damn Clan heir!" She cleard her throat. "But that was not the only reason i was looking for you, you see, since Anko-san is part of the protcors and Genma-san was just named second protcor for the finalls, incase something where to happen to Hayate-san, i wanted to ask if i could help you with training again. Watcha say kid?" At these words Sakura looked up in disbelief. "You're willing to train me again?" Affirmativ Danjin nodded. Beaming Sakura said yes, internally happy that she got a sensei. Danjin seemed to be deep in her mind before she spoke up again "Sakura-chan, who is the sensei of your team?" "Hatake Kakashi, why?" Danjin's brows furrowed in disdain. "Well, what did you learn under him?" Sakura tried to think about it. "Until now we have learned... treewalkin....and....and... i think that's it." Her voice was quiet at the end. "Nothing more?" the red head asked further. When Sakura shook her head, Danjin let out another string of profanities. "I knew it, they cant expect someone who grew up in a fricking war, be abel to teach damn children, prodgidy or not." She complained in her head. Then she looked at the pink haired child before her. "Alrighty, how about you tell me what you can do, and then we make a plan for you to beat that sound guy hm?" Sakura nodded and quickly put everything she got away.
Then she headed out the library with Danjin next to her, the red head greeting a few people she seemed to know.
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The day had been a bit eventfull for Danjin, and she was now making her way over to T&I to gossip a bit with the shinobi there. It couldnt hurt to know who her pink sadly temporary student may encounter in the finals.
When she walked into the lobby she did not expect to see certain four people sitting around one of the desks.
Lazily she made her way over to them. "Yo whats up Anko, Genma. Oh and you too terible two!" She waved and let herself fall onto an empty chair. Genma greeted her with a fistbumb and Anko muttered a unncany quiet Hello. The other to were fighting about something Danjin had no idea about. Leaning over she wishpered to Genma."Hey, is Anko alright, what did you do?" He took a moment to properly word it and wishpered back "I didnt do anything, it seems more about someone else, but Anko doesnt say who." Nodding Danjin turned to Anko. "What got you feeling under the weather anko, care to share?" She asked. Anko looked at her for a moment before her eyes shifted a bit to the side. "Danjin.." she began after a moment "the finals are in a month, and you have taken up the task of training our dear littel Sakura chan correct?" After an affirmativ nod she continued " and Genma, you trained her together with these two idiots for the last two -three week's right?" Getting a conformation aswell she spoke up again. "Have you noticed anything about the ways shes acting?" She stared at them. Both shared a look before Genma broke the silence wich had now set in, the twins stopping their fight at their mention. "Well, while i didnt see any directly alarming behaviour, Sakura did always apologize if she didnt do the things correctly, or if it didnt work." Now Danjin continued "'till now i have spent a day or so with her, and we were in a store. I was fully intending to buy Sakura a good sword, but she kept refusing, saying something about how she could just not accept. When i asked her why she simply said it felt wrong and that her parents never gave her anything." Anko frowned "that kind of proves it." She muttered before looking at all the people around the tabel. "I did some digging, and i probably know why littel Sakura acts so strange." That peaked the interest of the other three. Danjin motioned for her to go on. Clearing her throat Anko began explaining "Youre are not going to be liking what i am gonna tell you so be warned. Haruno Sakura doesnt come from Konoha, but rather she was born in a small Village in the lighting Country, named Ongaku. From what the records tell, she came to Konoha when she was four after her biological parents where murdered. Her fathers sister took her in. Now for her aunt, Mebuki. Mebuki is a civillian, born and raised. Her husband Kizashi is a paper nin. Mebuki has, as do records state a profound hatred to qny kind of shinobi. It os said she only married Kizashi for his status. When i was digging around, i came upon two documents. One was about Mebuki. She had been arested and taken to station for public violence, after she physically assaulted a store owner after he refused to sell to her. She had to pay a damage fine. The other one was for Kizashi, it contained the charges made against him for substance abuse, aswell as leaking information to third partys. He was given a snetence for two years, after he could buy himself free. You see where i am going with this?"She asked and the others nodded. "Well when Sakura was seven, her adoptiv parents were investigated for possibel child abuse, for her homeroom treacher had witnessed how she came to school with bruises. The investigation was stopped after a month because of lack of evidence. So to come to a conclusion, Sakura may have been or still is being verbally and/or physically abused." She took in a breath. A heavy silence was hanging above the tabel. Izumo broke the silence by asking "So the cheerfull littel girl is getting abused at home?" Anko shook her head "I am not entirely sure, even tho all evidence is pointing to it. That is why i want you" her eyes shifted over to Danjin. " to keep an eye on her, and report anything suspicious to me. That way, if enough evidence is gathered i or we can get her out of that house, as i do not want to see a child in such an enviroment." The red head nodded. After the enitial shok, they resumed a lighter chatter, even all of the four around that tabel promised themselfes to help the pink haired girl, wich wormed her way into their hearts after only a month or so.
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