Tsunade, you're really drunk!

In the residential area west of Konoha Village, rows of light yellow houses are located here peacefully.

A girl of about twelve or thirteen with long pink hair was lying on her bed at this moment. The pink curtains had not been opened until now, even though it was almost noon.

"What time is it? Why don't you go and call Sakura down to eat? It's already noon, why hasn't she gotten up yet?"

Haruno Meibuki was in the kitchen at the moment, doing the final preparations for lunch, and she was shouting loudly to her husband in the living room.

Haruno Zhao put down the broom in his hand and looked at his daughter's room with concern. It was still tightly closed and there was no movement at all.

He sighed silently, walked to Sakura's bedroom door, and knocked.

"Boom, boom, boom."

"Sakula, it's noon, it's time to get up and eat."

Then, he whispered a few words at the door.

"Hey~ If you don't come out to eat, your mom will be angry, and I won't be able to stop her then."

Haruno Zhao waited at the door for a few seconds before he heard Sakura's response from the room, but her voice still sounded lost and listless like the previous few days.

"I'm not hungry, you can eat first."

"Ugh……"

As Sakura's father, Haruno Zhao didn't know how to comfort his daughter at this time.

He and his wife were both civilians. Mebuki was a nurse in the hospital, and he was just a businessman with a little money. However, after he had Sakura, he used all his belongings at the time to buy this house, and also rented a storefront, which he was responsible for renting out to others.

I started living a life focusing on raising my daughter.

This can be seen from Sakura's temper and personality, because she has completely inherited her mother Mebuki's hot temper and personality.

Haruno Zhao walked to the dining table, sat down, looked at Meibuki sitting opposite him, and shook his head.

"It's been three days, and she's still like this. I don't know how to persuade her. After all, we're not ninjas."

"Ugh……"

The chopsticks that Yabuki was about to use to pick up food stopped at this moment. He subconsciously exerted force with his right hand, and the chopsticks made a snapping sound and broke into two pieces.

Then, she gave a forced smile to her husband Haruno Zhao.

"Honey, could you please get me a pair of chopsticks?"

"I'll go wake Sakura up for dinner."

When she spoke the latter part, her tone had become a little distorted. If Naruto were here, he would definitely think that Meibuki's expression at this moment was exactly the same as Sakura's when she was angry.

"Uh, okay, I'll get it right away."

Haruno Zhao trotted straight to the kitchen, looked back at his wife's back as she walked towards their daughter's room, and silently observed three seconds of silence for Sakura in his heart.

My dear daughter, I can’t stop your mother from being like this. It all depends on your own luck.

She just hopes that you can cheer up soon...

"Oh!"

Meibuki walked directly to Sakura's bedroom door, pulled down the door handle, and then pushed it open violently.

Looking at Sakura lying on the bed with her back to him, he walked towards her.

He pulled the curtains open with swift movements.

"Wow!"

The ball bearings on the curtains made a crisp sound, and the dazzling sunlight hit Sakura directly.

Sakura, who hadn't seen strong light for several days, suddenly felt her eyes were hurt by the dazzling light.

Today's sunshine seems particularly dazzling.

"Mom! What are you doing! Didn't I tell you I'm not hungry?"

"If I'm hungry, I'll heat up some food myself!"

Sakura's tone was a little impatient, and she simply pulled the quilt over her head.

Yachu suddenly felt a surge of anger in her heart. She reached out to the edge of the quilt and pulled it hard!

He immediately threw back the covers, grabbed Sakura's wrist, and pulled her up, making her sit up.

"What's wrong with you? You just failed the Chunin Exam. You haven't been going out these days, and you haven't been training with Naruto and Sasuke. You just stay in bed at home like a dead person. What's there to be sad about?"

Yabuki said out loud everything he had wanted to say in the past few days.

But these words were like a knife, piercing deep into Sakura's chest, making her breathless.

The huge gap between her excellent grades in the Ninja School and her failure in the Chunin Exam completely shattered her remaining pride.

It was as if all the knowledge that he had memorized after so many years of hard work seemed to be vulnerable in front of those powerful ninjas.

She has worked very hard. When she is in school, she goes home every day to do exercises, memorize lessons, and learn all kinds of knowledge. She goes to school early every day to practice kunai throwing and other projects alone.

But even so, she couldn't catch up with the others, not just Naruto and Sasuke, but even her once best sister Ino.

The Genin who graduated in the same batch, Kiba, Hinata, Shino, Shikamaru, Choji, Ino, Naruto, and Sasuke, they all have family secret techniques or bloodline limits, and even Naruto unleashed such terrifying power in the Chunin Exam.

So powerful that she felt like she was just an ant...

The countless pressures, coupled with the failure in the second exam, finally made her collapse.

In an instant, tears fell from the corners of her eyes. There was no loud wailing, but she looked so sad and desperate.

He lowered his head and saw the tears falling on the back of his hand. He subconsciously raised his hand and touched the corner of his eyes.

Am I...crying?

Meibuki looked at the tear marks on Sakura's face and her slightly trembling lips, and all the worries and anxieties she had felt over the past few days burst out at this moment.

He immediately hugged his daughter in his arms.

"It's okay, it's really okay. Mom and Dad don't blame you for failing the Chunin Exam. You have always been our proud daughter."

"If you're really tired, don't be a ninja anymore. Mom and Dad are waiting for you at home. We're all here."

"Sakula, it's okay. We can just come back next time."

"If it really doesn't work out, you can become a nurse or doctor like your mother. Saving lives is a great job that deserves praise!"

Haruno Zhao was standing at the door at this moment, holding two pairs of chopsticks that he had just taken from the kitchen, one pair for his wife, and the other pair for his precious daughter.

"doctor?"

Sakura subconsciously looked up at her father at the door. Her dull eyes gathered together again, her pupils lit up again, and she jumped up while hugging her mother.

"Yeah! Doctor, medical ninja!"

"I've decided! I want to be a medical ninja!"

"This way, Naruto and Sasuke will both ask me to perform healing techniques on them in the future!"

Seeing Sakura regain her energy, Meibuki wiped the corners of her wet eyes and a kind smile appeared on her face.

Haruno Zhao shook the chopsticks in his hand.

"Then a medical ninja needs to eat too. Your mother even made you some sweet soup today. Have some soup first."

"Ok!"

Sakura simply took her mother's hand, even forgetting to put on her slippers, and walked straight towards the living room.

Haruno Zhaozuru walked to the window, picked up the slippers, and followed Sakura's footsteps.

"Xiaoying, you've grown up. You can't go barefoot like you did when you were a child."

"Tsk~ I'm so annoyed, old man. You're still nagging like before. Can't you learn from mom?"

Although Sakura said this, the three members of the family had happy smiles on their faces.

Sakura glanced at the bright sunshine outside the window. It seemed... not as dazzling as she had imagined. Everything was beautiful just like before...