Stream of past

Mission Time

After talking with Kakashi, Sakura went home, took a shower and went out to meet Sasuke. On her way she kept thinking about her mission. Ok, so first there was Orochimaru. He was her number one priority, if he manages to put his curse on Sasuke, it's game over. She knew she was going to meet him in the chunin exams, he would be lurking in the shadows. She knows she can't just straight out run at him and kill him, so that was out of the question. Maybe she can trap him in a genjutsu? No, that wouldn't work, he was a sanin after all...Poison him? Maybe... Damn it, if only Tsunade was here...

Her train of thoughts stopped when she reached the training grounds. Sasuke was leaning back against a tree trunk. 

"Hi." she said. He merely gave her a "Hn" as an acknowledgment. After that Sasuke stood up and they started training. They worked on her strength by carrying heavy things around such as boulders and logs. Then on her stamina, for that she had to run 90 laps around the training grounds. They took a break for 15 minutes then started working on her strength again, then run the laps again and repeat. They continued like that for a few hours. Eventually they had to stop so Sakura can have enough energy left to teach him. He was actually pretty surprised to see she lasted that long. She didn't look that tough and he expected her to run out of breath after the second break. But then again, appearances can be deceiving.

After Sakura managed to catch her breath she motioned Sasuke to follow her. She sat down and motioned for him to stay next to her. After he did, she took a piece of cloth out of her pouch. Sasuke raised a brow. 

"Ok, let's get started. Here's what beginners usually do." she started. Sakura took the piece of cloth and put it in her palm. Then she sent a pulse of chakra to her hand and once she was convinced it was the certain pressure she flipped her hand. Sasuke watched as the piece of cloth stuck.

"You need to exert just the right amount of chakra, if it's to strong you can hurt yourself when using a weapon, if it's too weak it will fall. Now you try it." she said while handing over the cloth.

Sasuke took the cloth and started pulsing the chakra in his hand. At first it fell, then it was stuck, but Sakura pointed out that it was too strong. He kept training like that for a while until sunset. 

"Don't worry Sasuke, I'm sure you'll get the hang of it eventually." said Sakura."I'm gonna go home now, when you master this well move on with a shuriken." 

"Hn." he said.

The following weeks went on with team 7 going on all sorts of D-rank missions. With Sakura going with Naruto out for lunch every day, volunteering at the hospital( because 1.she missed it and 2. it would help with her story) and training with Sasuke after. Needless to say, she was quite busy. As time went on, her team work with the boys improved. Having different strategies to work with the boys. And while her relations with Sasuke and Naruto were great, she couldn't say the same about them. They constantly bickered and fought forcing her to be the mature one and try to stop them. Today was no exception.

They were called at the hokage for their first C-rank mission. And of course they had to yell at each other in front of the hokage. She really didn't have the patience right now to deal with this, so she did the first thing that passed her mind. She punched the both of them.

"Aah, Sakura-chan, why did you punch me?" cried Naruto while Sasuke glared at her.

"Don't you idiots know when tO STOP??? You're disrespecting the Hokage." yelled Sakura."Say you're sorry, NOW!" They both apologized and let the Hokage continue.

"...As I was saying, this mission will take part in the land of waves, you are to act as bodyguards for a certain individual. You may come in." said the Hokage. And in that moment, Tazuna stumbled inside the office with a bottle of alcohol.

"What's this?" said Tazuna."They're a bunch of runts! Especially the short, blonde one with the stupid face." Yeah...Naruto didn't like him that much. Sakura quickly got home, took a few poisoned kunais (that she made last night), medical supplies and made her way to the gate. 

Of course Sakura already knew how this mission was going to play out.  They were going to find Zabuza, fight him and hopefully get back alive, andmaybekillGatōtoo.

They kept on walking until Sakura saw puddles on the ground, seemed normal, right? Wrong! It hasn't rained in days. She knew exactly what was going to happen, so she threw a kunai at the puddle and yelled for the others to get ready themselves. 

And just like that, the Demon Brothers sprang out of the water. "Damn you!" yelled one of them. Kakashi stepped in front of them and the Demon Brothers sliced him apart. Sakura averted her gaze, she knew it wasn't the real Kakashi, but it reminded her of her old life. 

"Sensei!" cried Naruto, but Sakura decide to take the opportunity and strike. 

"Naruto, protect Tazuna, Sasuke cover me." she yelled, Sakura loaded her fist with chakra. Sasuke threw a few shuriken as a distraction effectively distracting the brothers and giving Sakura enough time to punch them. She managed to punch the 1 of the brothers sending him flying in a tree, making him pass out. Meanwhile, Sasuke dealt with the other brother, punching him in the face and then immobilising him with a kunai at the throat. 

Kakashi reapered and praised them for their teamwork and scared Naruto about the poisoned hand. While Sakura treated Naruto's hand, Kakashi questioned the brothers, well the conscious one at least.

After the whole incident they camped for the night. The next day, they left for the land of waves. Sakura decided not to interfere too much with this battle. She let Kakashi, Naruto and Sasuke fight while she protected Tazuna. After a while, Haku appeared and 'killed' Zabuza. After he left she went to support Kakashi-sensei, before he would fall to the ground. 

"Sakura-chan! What happened to Kakashi-sensei?" asked Naruto.

"Chakra depletion. I'm guessing it's from using the Sharingan too much." answered Sakura.

"Were close to my place, let's go there." said Tazuna. "The sooner we get there, the better." Sasuke went and helped Sakura hoist Kakashi up.  When they arrived, they laid their sensei in bed then went to meet the bridge builder's family.