Chapter 9 -
Itachi jumped from tree to tree following Sakura toward the training ground where she'd meet her team.
This was taking less time than he had anticipated because her muscles seemed to strengthen exceedingly fast.
Meanwhile with Sakura
Sakura was able to walk fairly easily now.
Sakura, though supposedly impotent in battle was, dispite the knowledge of many, rather learned.
When no-one would train with her, her hours were spent in two different ways.
The first being to train with clones or dummies.
The second being reading at the library and then practicing that which she read.
Hence had been her self-instructed chakra control.
And also her amatuer medical jutsu ability.
She'd managed to send medicinal chakra towards her thighs and foreamrs.
As she had suspected, in the same way that she could heal by increasing the cell production rate, she could increase the rate at which her muscles developed from the strain of the weights.
That and the fact that she was healing any strain simeltaneously, meant that she was becoming amiable at walking.
She still, however, could not run, jump nor kick very well.
None of which she wanted to do in her new outfit anyway.
To be specific that which she wore looked something like this(btw:if there is anyone who could be bothered to draw this please let me know and i'd love to see it!):
-She of course had metalic spirals going up her arms from the weights. (wrist to below elbow)
-The bandages had only been enough to cover her chest and upper thighs. Leaving bare mid-drift and shoulders.
-The mesh top was short sleeved and only just passed the bandages on her ribs.
-She wore fingerless gloves.
-Her boots were strange because only the soul and part around her toes and heal was like a shoe. The rest was completey tanjible and molded tightly to her leg, clinging just below the knee.
'Why do I have to wear this?'
'Because it's 'flexable'. And he, and I, love the way we look in it!'
'If he loves us so much, then why is he letting me wear something so...so...mere. What if some guy tries to rape me? Then what? I don't think someone who loves me would do that.'
'He's following us, he won't let you get raped. Besides he probably just likes the fact that of all the guys checking you out, he's the one you love.'
'I don't think that Itachi-kun's really the evil-make-others-jealous type.'
'Hey, you've been wrong before.'
Sakura reached the training ground and was the first one there.
She sat on the bridge's railing and in a cloud of smoke, Itachi joined her.
"What did you do?" Itachi cocked his head at her.
"Why what ever is it you mean Itachi-kun?"
"How'd you manage to walk here without fainting from exhaustion?"
"What you think I'm weak?!"
"No." H turned away. "Just that it took me a weeks and a half to get use to that much weight." He mumbled.
"What was that?" She asked innocently.
"Nothing, must leave. Your team's arriving." And with that he vanished.
It was a little while befor Naruto became visible coming down the road.
He was followed closely by Sasuke, whose hands were in his pockets, a stead-fast scowl on his face.
'It's going to be a long day isn't it...' Sakura thought.
'For you maybe.'
'You're right, at least I don't have to deal with you trying to free yourself whenever i'm angry.'
'My my, you're right, my day got longer in just the short time it took you to remind me.'
'Well atleast now we present a united front. A front of discontent.'
'How unusual.' Inner smirked in sarcasm
