The Queen of Masks [Sakura Haruno Story]

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Sakura decided the best thing she could do was train and become as strong as she could while she waited for her teammates to come home.

The Queen and her had been working on her hand to hand combat and found that she had a talent for close distance fighting.

As days passed, Sakura's friends and family became more and more worried. Sakura never seemed to be around and when she was, she quickly excused herself from the conversation and hurried off towards the training grounds. She was often seen covered in sweat and dirt, but with a satisfied smile on her face.

The Queen had told Sakura to take a small break after a particularly tiring training session as she assessed the damage the thirteen year old had done to the training ground they were using that day.

A small smile appeared behind her mask. She knew Sakura had potential, but this was more than she had expected. In less than a year, Sakura now had around forty kilograms in each of her charkra bands (she had four bands in total, one of each leg and arm), she had increased her endurance to one of jounin or higher, and she was inhumanly fast (like her teacher).

Even though she hadn't even started learning ninjutsu of genjutsu, there were giant craters in the ground, trees uprooted, and dust still settling. With no chakra used. The Queen briefly wondered what would happen if Sakura were to channel chakra into her limbs. The Queen, of course, had a special jutsu to heal the terrain, so no one would know the damage caused.

The Queen took a moment to admire how much her student had improved.

Genjutsu and ninjutsu weren't very important at this point, especially since Sakura didn't have a very big chakra reserve (she was working on expanding it, but chakra training was much trickier and more time consuming than physical training). The only thing the Queen really wanted Sakura to learn was medical jutsu. The Queen knew how to preform basic medical jutsus, but she never had a very big interest in it since she almost never got seriously injured (she did get minor injuries sometimes, though only from tripping and falling off trees, she could be very clumsy, but nobody knew that), and she didn't have any allies, friends, or close ones (other than Sakura) she needed heal. Sakura, however, had many people she cared about, and she could find medical jutsu very useful.

The Queen couldn't teach her, since she didn't know it very well, and she only knew of one person who would be able to train her student.

Tsunade Senju. Otherwise known as the Fifth Hokage.