Chapter 8 -
'Sakura, you need to wake up before I collapse.'
'Wha-What's going oon?'
'We or should I say 'I' have spent the past two hours dodging and deflecting shurican.'
'Why, that's it I'm getting up.'
\/\/\/\/\ (flash)
"Itachi-kun! Stop!" Sakura wailed.
"Good morning Sakura-chan. You know, you really are amazing. You defended yourself midsleep for-"
"Two hours, I know." She interjected.
"Right... Can you imagine harenessing that so as to guard camp at night on a mission, say... or protecting a Fuedal Lord while you sleep?" Itachi was deeply enthralled in all the 'possibilities' while Sakura had lay back to sleep.
"Sakura-chan? There's a reason you were woken this early in the morning."
'Even if it did take me two hours...' He thought.
"Are we going to train Sensei?!"
"Yes, but I'd really rather you called me by my name irrelevant of training or ..." He faded away. And faded back in. "Now before we do anything, there is the matter of your weights."
"My weights... But I'm not wearing any weights..."
"Exactly."
He opened a bag and held up 80 kilograms.
"80 kilos, that won't be too bad..."
"This's only for your right arm Sakura."
The girl's face paled and, and Itachi took this as an invitation to attach the weight.
He channeled chakra into the metal, which molded in a spiral up Sakura's arm.
He soon there after applied the second weight to her left arm.
Itachi then held up a two 100 kilogram weights, one obviously for each of her feet.
"My head's sore just think about it. What are my scales gonna think. I mean, I've worked so hard to keep weight off that this is rediculous-"
"Be quiet... And stop swinging your legs.
He chakra molded them in bands around her ankles.
"Try to stand."
She stood-up straight away and for the blissful two seconds that the painlessness lasted it was great.
However, she sat just about as soon as she'd stood in the interest of maintaining feeling in each of her limbs.
"Yeah, you should probably try not to over do i-" He stopped, astonished.
Sakura had toddled a lap of the room.
She laughed.
She turned back around and he could see her hair was a little longer and barely visible ribbons were adorning it.
"You never told me you could 'semi-transform'." He said interested.
"Huh what do you mean?" She looked down at herself, bewildered.
"So... The amount of your inner's power you are allowed to utilise depends on how far you transform..."
'Ooo, ooo, I knew that!'
'I didn't'
"I didn't know that..." She said out loud.
"Well, the point of the weights is to make you stronger, so no power sharing. Come here Sakura-chan."
She sat down on his lap and he forced a small burst of chakra into her forehead.
"Itai!" Sakura yelped. "Why'd you o that?"
"I've put a wall between you and inner. Don't worry, her voice will still be lingering in your mind, but you can no-longer transform... not until I release you."
"You really don't trust me do you?"
"Don't be silly of course I do... just, this is part of your training. And if you do try to use your inner strength... Well, just don't."
"Why?" She asked in a low suspicious growl.
"Well, Uchiha chakra is fiery by nature and if you don't want to be burned from the inside out, I would suggest not provoking it."
"It'll burn me!?" She looked frightened.
"No, it won't technically burn you but it will feel that way."
"I guess that's why Uchiha's never end up medic-nins." She laughed. "You'd kill them befor you saved them."
"Hn." And with Itachi's final remark as he stalked over to his bag.
Pulling out a paperbag, he handed it to Sakura.
"This is what I intend for you to wear for the duration of your training." He said smirking.
Sakura arched an eye brow befor unveiling the clothes he'd given her.
There was a skimpy miniskirt, mesh top, tall ninja boots and a couple of rolls of bandages.
"You're kidding." She smirked looking at him. "I'm no slut. I'm not wearing it."
"Yes, yes you are. That little ensemble is ideal for eleviating difficulty in movement. It allows fluid and increased flexibility of your body. And to be quite frank, it'll come in handy as a disguise on some missions."
She rolled her eyes. "As if, you're just as perverted as Inner."
"As you." Before she could retaliate he continued: "Your training today is to get good enough at walking in those weights that you can jump 30cm into the air. You can use your chakra to help you if necessary."
"In these?" She asked peering down at the megre 'ensemble'.
He nodded.
"And what are you going to do? Stand behind me and make sure my skirt doesn't blow up."
He looked skeptic before saying that: "Exploding your skirt is hardly something I would do."
Sakura laughed, while Itachi simply smirked in amusement.
"Now, get changed." He ordered and sat down on the bed.
"Out. This is not debatable. OUT!" Sakura yelled at the oldest Uchiha who simply rose and left soundlessly
