✓ 𝗣𝗥𝗘𝗧𝗘𝗡𝗗𝗜𝗡𝗚 ≡ sakura haruno

19 | parallel identities

↪ 𝘐'𝘮 𝘯𝘰𝘵 𝘴𝘱𝘦𝘤𝘪𝘢𝘭, 𝘐'𝘮 𝘫𝘶𝘴𝘵 𝘢 𝘴𝘪𝘮𝘱𝘭𝘦 𝘣𝘳𝘰𝘬𝘦𝘯 𝘮𝘢𝘯
𝘚𝘰 𝘐 𝘸𝘪𝘭𝘭 𝘩𝘪𝘥𝘦 𝘮𝘺 𝘧𝘢𝘤𝘦 𝘸𝘪𝘵𝘩 𝘮𝘺 𝘱𝘪𝘤𝘵𝘶𝘳𝘦 𝘱𝘦𝘳𝘧𝘦𝘤𝘵 𝘮𝘢𝘴𝘬 ↩

It was just another day of the academy as Sakura sat on her respective seat with Ino by her side, even after knowing she had been betrayed by Ino she could not show it at all after all she needed to stay true to the identity she had created.

Naive - smart - shy - harmless - paper ninja - Sakura Haruno.

But she wasn't naive, shy, or harmless, nor was she going to be a paper ninja. She is Sakura, the calculative, cold, and harmful ninja.

Yeah, that's what she was, her true self, one which no one knew of.

One which no one would know of until she wanted, she would present herself as her naive self, the one which everyone would overly underestimate and that's when they make a mistake.

Never underestimate someone, you never know what they're capable of.

A reason why she always paid attention to everyone, every single detail grasped by her mind. She always made sure to overestimate everyone, no matter how foolish someone was, how shy someone was, how cold someone was, it did not matter, everyone had hidden talents.

She watched Iruka barge into the class along with Naruto who was tied and dragged by their sensei.

"I'm at the end of my rope Naruto!" Sakura heard Iruka scold Naruto who was tied by ropes around him.

"You failed the graduation test last time and the time before that," Iruka continued, "Tomorrow you've got another chance and you're messing up again!"

Sakura saw the blonde scoff at their sensei's words making him angry, "Because you missed it Naruto, everyone will review the transformation jutsu!"

His words caused everyone to groan apart from her and the raven-haired male.

Transformation jutsu? 

Hah, how easy. 

"Ino Yamanaka here!" Ino replied as she transformed into Iruka.

Iruka watched her with a clipboard in his hand, "Transforming into me? Good." He muttered causing Ino to cheer loudly and look at Sasuke waiting for him to praise her but no response which caused her to get gloomy.

Next came Sasuke who did not bother uttering a word and transformed into Iruka which caused the brown-haired teacher to nod at him.

Sakura stood beside Hinata as she observed her shyly looking at Naruto from the corner of her eyes with a blush on her face, she then looked at Naruto who was getting yelled at by Shikamaru and Kiba for causing them trouble.

"Like I care!" Naruto scowled and then transformed himself into a naked blonde girl with smoke covering her certain body parts making Iruka nosebleed.

"Haha...!" He laughed out loud seeing the effect his jutsu had on his teacher, "Got ya, that's my sexy jutsu!"

In turn for his behaviour, he got yelled at by Iruka.

After calming himself down he called out to the next students who all transformed themselves into Iruka, finally came Sakura's turn.

Sakura stood in front of Iruka, "Transformation jutsu," She mumbled and unlike the other students who transformed themselves into Iruka, she transformed herself into the third Hokage causing Iruka to smile widely.

"Oh that's certainly new," Iruka said.

Sakura forced a small blush on her face looking down, "Well, I wanted to try something new." 

"Well, it's good to try something new!" Iruka encouraged her causing Sakura to bashfully smile at him and return to her seat.

"We'll now start the final exams," Iruka said. 

"When your name is called proceed to go to room no. 7," Arai continued Iruka's last statement, "The final test will be on-"

"The Clone Jutsu!" Mizuki finished.

All Sakura thought was how easy the test is, as she watched Naruto panic from the corner of her eye and saw the rest of them with confident and relieved expressions.

"Sakura Haruno!"

As soon as she was called out she went to the respective room and soon greeted the three teachers with a smile, "I'll start now."

"Clone Jutsu!"

Then there stood four Sakura's, three of which were mere illusions while one who the real one. 

"Good job Sakura," Iruka congratulated her, Arai presented her with her ninja headband. 

Mizuki stood up to give his little speech, "This headband shows that you have passed the genin exams officially making you a genin which now will be registered in your records, your occupation is ninja, level - genin."

"Yes," Iruka nodded while Arai cleared her throat before she clasped her hands together, "The symbol on the metal piece symbolizes your loyalty to your village which is Konoha." Her chakra slightly spiked when she uttered the words loyalty and Konoha which only Sakura noticed.

Sakura's eyes slightly narrowed no emotion displayed on her face other than happiness.

"Thank you,"

And she walked out.

― Like I said previously, Arai is going to be an important part of this fanfiction.