Unfurling Bud

Chapter Eight

'...' - Eliza talking to Inner Sakura.

... - Inner Sakura speaking.

Flashback:

But just as he was about to leave for Tazuna's house, Kakashi froze and began to fell forwards with a thud. There was silence before I let out a garbled sound and rushed towards him. To think I forgot about this! Stupid!

"Naruto, are you able to make any shadow clones?" I questioned as I tried lifting him up and failing. Sasuke watched with a quiet sort of shock, standing as still as a stone statue.

"Y-yeah!" He formed the correct hand signs and out poofed several shadow clones. They noisily proceeded to carry the unconscious man back to the client's house.

The resting man was soon dumped onto clean white sheets, his arm landing onto the floor with a soft thud. I sighed, squatting and absentmindedly combing through the dirty pink strands covering my forehead. I was eyeing a disgusting brown clump when Naruto's loud voice cut through the heavy silence. I glanced upwards, flicking the mysterious substance in the corner.

"Sakura! IsKakashiokay? Whatdowedoknow? He'snotdeadright?" His sky-blue eyes were wide with alarm.

I gave a huff of amusement, "Calm down, Naruto. He's fine, just exhausted is all. Using the sharingan takes a lot of energy, you know?"

"R-really? Awesome!" Naruto grinned, fidgeting a little less and starting to rub his head.

"Dobe, stop crowding him." came Sasuke's two cents. It seems like he'd overcome his shock already.

"Tem-" Naruto started getting fired up, his form angling forwards.

I rolled my eyes, "You two, cut it out. This isn't the time for this. Now, shoo. Kakashi-sensei needs his rest." The two looked at me for a moment, a strange sort of quiet filling the air.

"Well, what're you waiting for? Don't you want your sensei to recover for you guys to learn 'cool jutsu'?" I quirked an eyebrow.

"Tch." Sasuke glowered at me for a second before storming out the room, Naruto following him closely. That was better. I sighed again, why couldn't they just get along for once? Stupid Uchiha pride. I brushed off those thoughts and turned to where Kakashi was laying, pulling out a chair so I could sit at safe distance away.

Never underestimate a professional ninja, unconscious or not. I wasn't that dumb. The several kunai that he owned was carefully hidden, yes. But I could still see the faint outline of them hidden in places I never even considered. Pssh, ninja.

I slumped in my chair, hugging my knees and wondering what the heck I was supposed to do in this situation. All I could was wait, I guess. Pulling out a book I had brought along, I opened it and started skimming through it's contents. It was about chakra control, as ridiculous as that sounds.

Sakura Haruno, bad at chakra control. That's right. From the moment I failed at doing the tree exercise, I was determined to find out why and how to fix it. Turns out, I didn't have an embarrassing amount of chakra as I had originally thought.

Inner had told me that it was an imbalance between spiritual and physical energy. It made sense, in a way. I had Sakura's memories, and memories from another world. Adding the number of years that Sakura hand lived and my age, it practically made me a young adult. I now had an abundance of spiritual energy and not a whole lot of physical.

Uuuugh. I wanted to scream out loud, resisting the urge to stomp on the ground like a spoiled child. The thought of how much more I had to train to even reach some resemblance of balance made me blanch. Yippee, more fun time.