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Inner Sakura

"Sakura, focus." Kuchi nudged. Sakura bit her lower lip and tried her best to refocus her attention back at the Chakra strings radiating out from her hands. It's been 43 long hours since she last saw Sasuke and she wasn't looking forward to see him again after that. With her persistence to continue with her training, both her slugs mused it was okay to continue after telling her the consequences of training too much in their world. 

Two months after she was kidnapped, Sakura learned that even if Sasuke was at his high horse, she had a voice in telling the Uchiha what to do and not to do. Only after staying with him for a few days, she learned that he had been living a rogue lifestyle that endanger both his chakra and his eyes. At first he resisted promising not to use his sharingan but after she told him that she wouldn't learn anything for one week if he did (and pushed through with that threat) he actually did compromised. Although there were many times Sasuke would threaten to kill her, she knew she was an irreplaceable asset and he never did hurt her even once. 

During her stay, she came to know who Sasuke was and what changed. He was still proud and overbearing like before but he gets on her tiny nerves whenever he uses that against her. He liked saying, "Oh, you can't do that?" then smirk his handsome face off. He knew that irked her the most and why for the love of her, she becomes so clumsy, he was able to discover all those things she never knew she couldn't do before. He was very calculating, cunning in every decision he made. He was able to avoid confrontations with the ANBU who was always hot on their trail and he manages to outwit them every single time they came too close to where they were staying. 

If there was actually something commendable with Sasuke, he never stopped training. All those things Sakura told him she could do, he trained to be better.  As she took notes, she admired Sasuke more than before. His features matured, his body chiseled to have those abs that takes her forever to look away, and his muscles were taut even from a distance where she occasionally spies on him for reference. It was impossible to unlike him completely even if he annoys her to no end. She knew Sasuke still affects her and he somehow push it as far as he could. He does manage to flash that poker face on, in which she would eventually lose.

Her training with her slugs came during mornings and usually, at the end of the day, she was exhausted. At least so far, she was affirmed that she was learning fast. Elated to know, she felt smug about it only to be deflated back by a smirking Uchiha as if it wasn't good enough. Was he fucking serious? Besides the Hokage, no other ninja in the village can beat her in chakra control, which irritates the life of her. But because he was someone she regards highly, what he thought of her made more sense than her actual improvement.

"Now make them thinner and more delicate Sakura..." Yushi nodded twice in recognition. In order to heal the Uchiha's eyes, her chakra should be made out of at least a hundred softer fibers, thinned out from longer tendrils, which she was more used to controlling. Those extended fibers must be controlled individually to sew back and repair the damage incurred in his eyes. She squinted as she remembered the destruction she saw. If she wanted to finish repairing it in a year, she would have to learn this fast or else she was bound to stay with him for life until he gets what he wants. From all the years she came to know him, "What Uchiha wants, Uchiha Gets."

"Good. From here on, try to manipulate the strings as if they are part of you. They follow you, a part of an orchestra. A group." Kuchi instructed. The concept was there, she tried it before when she was working on bigger and thicker chakra strings. This was where it gets tricky because controlling a large number of strings not only requires a good amount of concentration, a good amount of control but also a good amount of energy. It wasn't like the Kage Bunshin Jutsu where the Chakra is thrown off from a person, giving it an entity of its own, and control is set and reset by will. Chakra strings are an extension from a person that can be manipulated to do a set of intricate constructions. This skill is terrorizing for others as well as beneficial because a perfect control can mean the ability to block and permanently debilitate a ninja his chakra channels as well as improve the flow when there's a lack thereof. Even the Hokage was unable to perfect the skill and sakura is starting to realize why.