[X] Attend Kabuto-sensei's team exercises and D-Ranks. (Choose a Focus. Does not count as a vote.)
-[X] Ninjutsu
Kabuto talks about the underlying fundamentals of ninjutsu and how to build techniques. He shows you an earth wall jutsu that's quick and strong defense against attacks as well as jutsu that send spikes of earth from the ground.
[X] Sasuke. You feel bad for him. He's really intense and scary now. He is your rival now. He has made a pact with the demon Amateratsu.
"Sakura I have something to show you." Sasuke tells you after a team training session one day. He's been taciturn lately, so you nod gladly and follow him to the Uchiha compound. The ground where the plants had bursted had been filled in, but it was visibly newer than the rest. You and Sasuke enter a greenhouse of glass and your eyes widen at the tiny black sun hovering above the plants. It was small, two inches in diameter.
The monochrome light blazed against Sasuke's skin as he said, "I needed more power. I was weak and I failed you. I failed the team."
What do you say?
[X] Write In.
[X] Learn more about the history of the shinobi nations.
The Village hidden in the Mist is ruled by Yagura, the Yondaime Mizukage. He is a fair, if absolute, ruler and the village prospers fairly well under his reign. They believe in power though their social structure is from a historical caste system formed by the winners and losers of the foundation of the village. They have a suspicion of those with bloodlines despite the fact they have a great deal of shinobi with bloodlines.
[X] Learn how to reverse summon in order to gain a summoning contract. (Warning: Highly dangerous.)
You find a scroll in the genin library on how to reverse summon yourself to gain a summoning contract. It's labeled with various caution labels and warnings of danger, but the diagram is fairly straightforward and it's not like you're going to do it now.
[X] Kabuto sensei. He seems kind and genial.
You visit the hospital frequently with Kabuto sensei, but you begin to wonder what he does other than that in his spare time. One day, Kabuto sensei tells you that they were not headed to the hospital today.
"Sakura chan, let me show you a project the Godaime has put me on," He says, smiling. Kabuto sensei leads you to a chuunin restricted training ground and to a metal house that has a guard looking through some paperwork and well light stairs leading into the ground. He greets Kabuto sensei and waves you in. The both of you walk down the stairs for a while, with Kabuto sensei reviewing your medical jutsu knowledge.
You're shocked to see a large underground caverns once you get down, but you try to hide it as much as possible. But you completely lose your cool when you see the enormous town that comes into view.
"What is this?!" You exclaim, eyes wide.
"Ah, this is the Reservoir." Kabuto explained, as you pass the gate guards and head into the busy underground. "One of many experiments by the Godaime. Please don't tell anyone except your teammates about this place, it's considered a secret forbidden to civilians and most genin."
You pass restaurants, bars, fighting pits, casinos, normal shops, until you reach what seems to be the hospital. You go into the East Wing and enter a room full of ... children? There were about twenty of them playing with each other. They all rushed to Kabuto sensei when they saw him and he fondly mussed their hair about and gave them candy before begging off to leave. After you head into another set of stairs, he speaks up.
"About half of them won't make it." He seems melancholic. "They've been injected with a bloodline serum tailored to their DNA profile, but the serum will still reject some of them."
"Then why did you inject them?!" You exclaim, full of shock.
"The Godaime ordered it. They're orphans or their parents volunteered them for this service in order to gain entrance to the village." He explained as you reached a door that read 'WARNING ONLY AUTHORIZED PERSONNEL ONLY'. You struggled to comprehend the horror that he just unveiled as he pressed his palm to the door and injected some chakra.
Your eyes widen at the sight of fetuses in large glass cylinders. A few people in coats greeted Kabuto-sensei warmly, but quickly returned to their work. He put his hand on one of the glass cases and stared at it.
"This is Uchiha Obito's contribution to the science team. The Uchiha had resisted giving any samples to the science team for years, but after what had happened to the Uchiha clan, Obito-san wanted to stay on the investigative team after Danzo. The Godaime gave it to him under a stipulation. He accepted." He idly picks up a paper full of results that you could barely understand. "Healthy so far. Good." He looks at you, with a serious look in his eyes.
"This is the future of shinobi Sakura. These fetuses not only hold the bloodline of the Uchiha, but of other bloodlines as well. They will unite the world under Konoha's banner."
What do you say?
[X] What the fuck Kabuto sensei.
[X] Is there anything I can do to help?
[X] Write In.
[X] Learn Stealth techniques from Kikyo sensei and how to defeat them. (Improves Stealth and learns ambush skills.)
Kikyo sensei decides to take a different approach suddenly in your training. You learn how to blend into the background and become part of the scenery. You learn to take on different personas, be different people that have a variety of lives. You deal in hair dyes, make ups, and wigs as henges were too easy to disrupt.
[X] Raiza. She's your new teammate. She seems to think of herself as a big sister to you and Sasuke. Her family was kicked out of Kumo a long time ago and cheerfully admits to it.
You're both lying down after a session of free sparring. Raiza was overwhelming with her elemental offense using her spear. She was extremely skilled in manipulating the elements, tossing fireballs, disrupting the earth beneath your feet, flowing water to slow your movements, and more. But she admitted she was overly reliant on her spear for her power and was working on improving her back up plan skills.
"I have to confess something Sakura. After the mission I realized I shouldn't hold anything back from my team." She took a deep breath. "I'm a sensor."
You don't even blink after the revelations of the past couple of weeks. "Uh, okay."
"I just ... didn't want to be relegated to the background because of my sensor abilities." She admits. "Sensors tend to be in investigation and search teams. But we're probably going to be a hunter nin team."
"What?"
Raiza blinked. "Oh. Uh Sasuke's training to be a hunter nin? Didn't he tell you?"
"No." You exclaim, feeling angry.
"Oh. Well, you know why he has his reasons for doing that." You know why, but it still hurts he didn't tell you.
[X] Approach a kenjutsu master.
"Okay." Hayate says, shrugging.
You blink. You caught Hayate eating at one of his favorite pork buns shop.
"You're the apprentice of Takagumi. How can I not agree to teach you?" He says, biting into a pork bun.
"Well, okay then."
"I expect you to show up to work with me frequently though." He warned.
[X] Spend time with Takagumi in her last weeks.
Takagumi grows less coherent by the day, recounting random days of her life.
"... And he demanded a sword and so my father in his green apron made one for him, but he could not handle it and the sword took his life ..." She rambled on as you held her hand and nodded.
One day, her eyes are lucid and clear and she says to you, "You have made me proud Sakura ... I know you will do great things ... take care they are not also terrible ..."
She closes her eyes for the last time afterwards and despite even the medic nin's efforts, she does not rouse from her final sleep. You find out later that she has gifted you her house and the smithy below it.
