[Naruto] Haruno Sakura Preface

After Jiraiya and Tsunade drank all night, they hurried back to the village after using chakra to eliminate their drunkenness early in the morning.

"Hey! Sakura." Before dawn, Tsunade stood in front of the bed and urged Sakura to get up.

"Tsunade-sama," Sakura said drowsily, rubbing her eyes.

"Really, we have to practice today." Tsunade saw Sakura hating iron so much that she punched Sakura on the head mercilessly. Shizune, on the other hand, looked on with a smile.

The pain woke Sakura directly from her sleep.

"Hiss" Sakura rubbed her head and said in pain.

"Get up quickly if it hurts." Tsunade snorted, retracted her fist and strode out of the room with Shizune.

"Hi~" Sakura responded helplessly, then got up and started to change clothes.

When Sakura went out, Tsunade outside the door was already a little impatient and kept shaking her legs in the corridor.

"Let's go." After seeing Sakura tidy up, Tsunade glanced at Sakura and took her to another room in the hotel.

This room didn't look like a hotel for sleeping. There were books scattered on the floor. Sakura took a closer look and found that they were all books about medical ninjutsu.

"This is the training you will do in the morning." Tsunade pulled out a large book from the sea of ​​books that was thicker than the medical book she read for the first time and placed it in front of Sakura.

"You must memorize all the approximate cases and medical ninjutsu training in this book within a month."

Sakura looked at the heavy book in front of her with thousands of pages and fell silent.

"What's wrong? If you can't complete it, don't be my disciple, Senju Tsunade!" Tsunade looked at Sakura's silent look and yelled.

Shizune, who was standing next to her, looked at Sakura with some sympathy. She was not so strict when she learned medical ninjutsu from Tsunade-sama.

"No, I will practice hard." Sakura nodded hurriedly in agreement, put on a studious posture, sat on the ground and began to read the books in her hands.

"That's good." Tsunade nodded with satisfaction after seeing her reaction, swept away the large books around her and found an open space to sit down.

As time passed, the time soon came to twelve o'clock. At this time, Sakura was already a little sleepy. Nearly six hours of rapid reading made her brain turn into a mush.

But fortunately, the book in hand has already read over a hundred pages, and Sakura has memorized all the general contents.

"Antitoxicity and paralysis." Sakura looked at the two types of D-level medical ninjutsu required to be mastered in the book, and while flipping through them, she slowly used them in her hands according to the records.

Both techniques are not very difficult, as long as you have careful chakra training ability.

The principle of the former is to use negative chakra to extract toxins from the patient's body. This is effective against simple toxins, but is very useless against powerful toxins.

The principle of the latter is to paralyze the patient's pain nerves through the release of negative chakra, achieving the effect of local anesthesia.

After Sakura understood its principles, she successfully mastered the two techniques.

When Sakura got out of the sea of ​​books, she looked up and saw Tsunade asleep with her cheek in front of her. After falling asleep, the woman unconsciously smacked her mouth, as if she was tasting something in her dream. .

"Tsunade-sama" Sakura put down her book and woke the woman before she stood up.

"Yeah, haha, I drank too much with Jiraiya yesterday and accidentally fell asleep today." Tsunade looked a little unhappy when she was woken up, but when she saw Sakura's confused look, she suddenly thought of her responsibilities and scratched her head. He scratched his head and smiled boldly.

"" Sakura Yuiji questioned the title of Sannin.

"Tsunade-sama, Sakura, it's time to eat." At this moment, Shizune opened the door to break the awkward scene and invited the two of them to go out to eat.

"Let's eat! I'm already hungry." Tsunade stood up and walked out.

Sakura also felt hungry and headed towards the kitchen with Tsunade.

After drinking and eating, Sakura was asked by Tsunade to take a nap for half an hour in order to relieve brain fatigue. After taking a nap, Sakura was pulled up in a daze and went to a training ground to practice.

"In the morning, I will practice medical ninjutsu. In the afternoon, I will teach you other things." Tsunade said, before Sakura could react, she quickly rushed towards Sakura and swung her fist towards Sakura's face.

When Sakura reacted, what came into view was Tsunade's fist, and the powerful wind blew her hair behind her.

Cold sweat broke out on Sakura's back.

Tsunade retracted her fist and scolded: "Too slow! As a medical ninja, the most important thing is to protect yourself! But if you can't even see the enemy's movements clearly, how can you save your own life?"

Sakura lowered her head and listened carefully to Tsunade's teachings.

Is she too strict with Sakura? Shizune thought worriedly on the sidelines. After all, she is just a student who has not graduated from a ninja school. It is still too young to ask to see the movements of a shadow-level ninja.

"Didn't you use strange power before? Use it on me again."

After Tsunade finished speaking, she turned back to her original position.

"Then I would be rude." Sakura exerted force on her feet, jumped towards Tsunade, and concentrated chakra in one punch to hit Tsunade.

Tsunade stretched out her palm without haste and received Sakura's punch straight away.

"The problem is the same as before. Although it is lethal, it is not too big. In the final analysis, there is something wrong with the method you use." After feeling Sakura's strength, Tsunade pointed out the shortcomings of Sakura's strange power.

"Watch my moves." After Tsunade said, she gathered chakra in her fist and slammed it on the ground.

The ground exploded instantly, and Sakura jumped back. The land within ten meters of Tsunade fell one after another. The scale of the damage was comparable to that of a small meteor crater.

The crack also extended to Sakura's feet.

"" Sakura looked at the tragic situation on the floor in horror.

"Don't try too hard, otherwise you won't have a place to practice." Tsunade clicked her tongue and retracted her fist in dissatisfaction.

"" Sakura was shocked again.

The so-called miracles come from great strength, that's all.

"Okay, what you have to do next is to keep using your strange power on me." Tsunade jumped out of the hole she made, and raised her finger to indicate to Dao Sakura.

"Okay." Sakura's face was solemn, and she once again gathered the strange power in her hands and rushed towards Tsunade.

"No! Concentrate the chakra more!" Tsunade felt Sakura's strength again and scolded.

Sakura didn't waste any words and followed Tsunade's request and pumped her fist again.

"This time the concentration is in place, but be stronger!" Tsunade cut off Sakura's fist with one palm and continued to point out Sakura's problem.

"Okay." Sakura rushed forward again.

By the time the two of them finished training, the sun had already set slowly.

Shizune looked at the bumpy training ground and couldn't help but twitching the corner of her mouth.

"Yoshi, let's go eat next." Tsunade twisted her wrist and strode out of the training ground, completely ignoring Sakura who was already paralyzed on the ground.

Sakura felt the soreness in her limbs, and the chakra in her body had been exhausted due to the repeated use of strange power.

Shizune sighed and helped Sakura, who was shaking like she was suffering from Parkinson's disease, up and followed Tsunade towards the restaurant.

After dinner, Sakura finally regained some strength.

But before Sakura could recover, Tsunade took her to the room where she read medical books in the morning.

"Just memorize the medical books by yourself tonight."

After saying that, Tsunade asked Shizune to supervise while she went to the pub to drink.

Sakura could no longer complain, so she had to concentrate on reading again.

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Three years passed quickly in Sakura's three-point and one-line training. In the blink of an eye, Sakura was old enough to return to the village.

Because Tsunade was in debt everywhere, they often traveled back and forth from place to place.

Sakura naturally didn't have time to go back to Konoha to visit her parents and Ino.

"Today is the day for you to go home. Have you mastered the Palm Immortal Technique that I taught you some time ago?" Tsunade asked Sakura seriously early in the morning when she rarely drank.

"Got it." Sakura nodded and replied.

"Okay, this is very close to the village. You can go back by yourself." Tsunade waved her hand and planned to drive people away.

"Sakura, take care." Shizune on the side bowed and said goodbye to Sakura.

"Okay, senior sister, please take care of yourself." Sakura replied obediently.

"And master, when can I change my habit of drinking and flirting with men all day long? I'm already fifty years old." After bidding farewell to Shizune, Sakura also earnestly advised Tsunade beside her.

"What a shame! A brat should look like a brat." Tsunade twitched the corner of her mouth and choked back.

"Then I'll take my leave." Sakura bowed to the two of them, then turned and walked towards the village.

"By the way, Sakura." Shizune suddenly pulled out three charms from the scroll and put them in her hands.

"This is a contact talisman developed by Tsunade-sama. It has Tsunade-sama's chakra attached to it. But the amount is not much. If you come to Master and me for anything, you can use this talisman to get our location." Sakura was confused. Shizune explained.

"Thank you, senior sister and master." Sakura felt a warm feeling in her heart and glanced at Tsunade standing aside. The woman's eyes were looking elsewhere. She knew that this charm Shizune would not have been given to her without Tsunade's permission.

"Hmph, you verbose brat. Hurry up and go." Tsunade felt a little reluctant to give up. After all, she was her apprentice who had been with him day and night for three years, but she still asked Sakura to leave early.

"Then I really say goodbye." Sakura bowed again, turned and walked towards the direction of Konoha Village.

Watching the girl's back getting further and further away until she was out of sight, Tsunade and Shizune returned the same way.

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Outside the gate of Konoha, Sakura looked at the village she had been away from for a long time and sighed for a moment.

"I am Haruno Sakura, and I have been ordered by the Sandaime to return to the village today." Sakura took out the token of the Third Hokage and handed it to the ninja who was guarding the gate of Konoha. After seeing it, Sakura allowed him to let go.

"Let's go home first." After successfully entering the Ninja Village, Sakura looked at the changes in Konoha and sighed for a moment.

But before she could take two steps, a figure rushed in front of her from the shadows.

Sakura looked closely and recognized the ANBU next to the Third Hokage.

"Haruno Sakura, summoned by the Third Hokage." The ANBU, wearing an animal mask, gave the order in a formulaic manner.

"Okay, I'll go find Grandpa Hokage after I go home first." Sakura nodded in agreement.

After understanding, the ANBU nodded to her and then jumped up and disappeared in front of her.

After Sakura returned home, she was taken to have a meal by the surprised Haruno couple, and the genius was able to escape after chatting for a long time.

"It's time to go to the Hokage." Sakura said helplessly as she looked out the window at the already dark sky.

But meeting her parents also made her feel very happy.

She walked into the Hokage Building according to the scene in her memory. At this time, the guard ANBU outside the office seemed not to see her and let her go straight in.

"Sandaime-sama." Sakura said respectfully as she looked at Sarutobi Hiruzen on the Hokage's seat.

"You're welcome. You should have learned a lot from Tsunade in the past few years of practice." Hiruzen Sarutobi put down the cigarette rod in his hand and said cheerfully.

"Well, Master Tsunade is a very competent teacher." Sakura nodded.

"That's good. The graduation exam for the class you are studying in has ended today. The classes will be divided into classes tomorrow." Sarutobi Hiruzen said as he kept moving, pulling out a book from the drawer of his desk. An iron forehead protector with the Konoha emblem on it.

"You can actually complete the training with Tsunade, then the genin exam will definitely not be a problem for you." Hiruzen Sarutobi handed the forehead protector in his hand to Sakura and said slowly.

"Yes." Sakura said respectfully taking the forehead protector from Sarutobi Hiruzen.

"From today on, you are a genin of Konoha. Tomorrow you will be divided into teams in the second class of the sixth year. Don't forget." Sarutobi Hiruzen ordered.

"I understand." Sakura agreed.

"By the way, Naruto and the others miss you very much, don't forget to say hello to them." After Sarutobi Hiruzen finished speaking, he motioned for Sakura to retreat.

"Okay, then I'll take my leave." Sakura bowed and left the Hokage's office.

When we came out of the Hokage's office, it was completely dark.

Sakura was walking alone on the street, and the sound of children playing not far away could be heard, and little lights lit up the dark night sky one after another.

Serene and peaceful, she recalled that Tsunade once asked Shizune to lead him to a place where a war had just ended in order for her to try her medical ninjutsu.

That small piece of land was filled with victims, and the soil was turned into scorched earth by artillery fire.

She continued to heal the survivors on the land, but to no avail. Despite her chakra exhaustion, she was only able to rescue seven injured people from the brink of death.

Due to chakra exhaustion, she finally fainted and fell to the ground. After being supported by her senior sister Shizune, Sakura looked at her in confusion.

But I saw senior sister Shizune's usually gentle eyes now filled with sadness.

"We cannot treat every injured person. A war can wipe out all our hard work. My parents, uncle, Tsunade-sama's brother and lover also died tragically under the butcher knife of the war. Without strength, we will only be killed by others. Bullying, only the strong can protect what they value."

The past events were vivid in her mind, and Sakura's heart calmed down.

Only a strong person can protect what she cherishes. She will become stronger and protect the peace she cherishes.