A couple days had passed since the preliminaries. Sakura knew she needs a game plan fighting Gaara. Luckily for her, she was good at tactics. After her fight against Lee. Kushina demanded to know why didn't Sakura tell her about her secret technique. The red head claimed it was unfair to hide such things from her.

Sakura couldn't help but to laugh at her. She's truly loved Kushina. As of right now, the pinkette was walking around the village.

Unfortunately or fortunately when she walked passed the hot springs. She heard someone giggling. So after finding the source of said giggling. It was a confusion if she should be pissed, laughing her ass off or just being happy.

Sakura found none other than Jiraiya the toad sage. According to Tsunade and Kushina, this was a hobby of his. Peeking on women to use as inspiration for his stories. At first she found it disturbing. Although the pinkette was also told that every shinobi has their vices.

'Hmm think I should try to sneak up on him Inner? He might already know I'm here.' She asked.

'Eh go for it just for the hell of it all.' Inner replied.

Once that was agreed upon. Sakura made sure her chakra level was brought down to civilian level. She took silent steps towards him. This trick was taught to her by Kushina. Said that most anbu in assassination knows how to do this.

As soon as she was close enough. She learnt to his ear. "What are you doing you perverted fool." Sakura said in Tsunade fashion.

Surprisingly Jiraiya jumped and turned around in fear because he thought that Tsunade actually was behind him. Then he saw it was Sakura. "Jeez kid you almost gave me a heart attack." The toad sannin spoke.

"Well I wouldn't have had to if you weren't so obvious in your peeking." Sakura countered

Jiraiya raised an eyebrow. "Aren't you gonna try to beat me up for being a pervert?" He asked.

Sakura shrugged. "To each their own. It's obvious that you're proud of being a pervert. It's odd to me but I've heard that's where you get inspiration for your books. It's your bread winner in a way. As long as you don't peek on me. I don't really care if you do." She answered.

Jiraiya looked at her with interest. "Well you sure are different from the rest. What's your name kid?"

"Sakura Haruno."

"Oh so you're the kid that beat Gai's student even when he used the 8 inner gates. Gotta say kid, that was one hell of a match." Jiraiya commended. That's when Jiraiya remembered something. "You're Kushina's and Tsunade's brat aren't you?"

Sakura glared at him. "I would appreciate if you didn't call me a brat. Yes Tsuna is like a surrogate mother to me. Kushina is my most important person." She stated.

"Well that's cute, so what could I do for you? I know you didn't just bother me for no reason." Jiraiya questioned.

"Well Kushina was gonna ask you to let me sign the toad contract. I was actually hoping you would let me. I want to sign the toad, slug and snake contracts." Sakura replied.

"Why all 3?"

"Because why not? I want the power to protect those I hold dear. Being the summoned of three contacts will help me do that." The pinkette said.

"Hmm have you signed one yet?" Jiraiya asked.

"No both Tsunade and Anko told me I could sign the scrolls to the slug and snake summons. But since Kushina has the toad summon. I wanted that to be the first one I sign." She answered.

Jiraiya thought about it before coming to a decision. "Fine I'll let you sign the scroll. You'll have to prove yourself once you figure out how to summon the boss summon."

Sakura narrowed her eyes. "Alright spill it, that was way too easy. This is my first time meeting you. And you're just letting me sign it just like that? Did Kushina already tell you about this?"

Jiraiya laughed. "Wow she was right, you are one perceptive gaki. But yes Kushina already told me about you. I just wanted to hear your answer from you yourself. Come on I'll tell you a bit about myself. We need to find an open area to practice summoning." He said as he walked away.

The pinkette just sighed. "She's always looking out for me. Can't say I don't appreciate it. Oh well." She followed the toad sage.

The two found an open space. Jiraiya unraveled the scroll on his back. Sakura looked at the names who signed the scroll. It was only three names. But each person was legendary shinobi.

A smirk appeared on her face. "Jiraiya-sama, I hope you know that I'm going to be the next legendary ninja to sign this contact." She told him.

Jiraiya raised an eyebrow. "Oh really? Think you can achieve the same level of greatness that I, Minato and Kushina did?" He asked curiously.

"Well I don't have a choice if I want to stand side by side with Kushina. For right now, she's so far ahead of me. But I will reach her level one day. I already took on Orochimaru. He may haven't been using his full power but neither was I. I'm only going to continue to get stronger. I will face all of my obstacles head on. After all I don't call myself fearless for nothing." She replied.

Jiraiya snorted. "I heard about your run in with him. Be careful, since he has his eye on you. There's no telling what he will try."

Sakura rolled her eyes. "Like I care what snake face has planned for me. He'll have to think twice before he even thinks of attempting anything on me. And if he does, Orochimaru will have Kushina and Tsunade all over his pale skin ass."

Jiraiya just laughed while Sakura bit her thumb and began signing her name with her blood. Once she was done. She turned around to perform her first summon.

"Do you know the hand seals?" Jiraiya asked.

"Yeah Tsunade taught them to me." She answered.

Sakura did the hand signs, boar, dog, bird, monkey, ram while gathering the precise amount of chakra she believes is needed.

The pinkette slammed her hand to the ground and called out SummoningJutsu.

A black seal appeared on the ground with a cloud of smoke coming out of it. The smoke revealed an small orange and purple toad with yellow eyes.

"Yo! I'm Gamachiki got any snacks?" Gamakichi asked.

"Sure I got some onigiri and dango I can give you." Sakura offered.

"Aw you're the best. Hey pinky what's your name?" Gamakichi wondered.

"Sakura, Sakura Haruno I just summoned you here as my first summon ever." Sakura answered.

"I'm impressed kid, it takes quite the skill to summon a toad like Gamakichi on your first try." Jiraiya commended.

"Hm we'll be ready to fall on your ass because I'm about to summon the boss!" Sakura declared.

Jiraiya went wide eyed. "Hey kid wait a second!" He tried to stop her.

But it was two late. Sakura went through the hand signs again then gathered three times the amount of chakra she used to summon Gamakichi. A huge cloud of smoke appeared when she slammed her hand on the ground.

The pinkette found herself standing on top of a red giant toad with a huge tantō.

"What the? Jiraiya you idiot! Why did you summon me?" Gamabunta yelled.

"Uh actually he didn't I did." Sakura corrected him.

Gamabunta looked up to see Sakura standing on his head. "And just who the hell are you kid?" He questioned.

"I'm Sakura Haruno, I'm the newest summoner of the toads." Sakura introduced herself.

Gamabunta started laughing. "Yeah right like a brat like you has enough chakra to summon me!" He kept laughing.

Sakura got pissed quickly. She enhanced her foot with chakra to stomp on Gamabunta' head.

"Ow! Why the hell did you do that?!" The toad boss yelled.

"Because you were laughing at me you dumb toad! Why would I have to lie about summoning you?" Sakura questioned still pissed off.

"She's right pops, I saw it with my own eyes." Gamakichi jumped in.

"Gamakichi? What are you doing her?" Gamabunta asked.

"Sakura here summoned me before she summoned you. She's pretty cool she even offered me some snacks." Gamakichi explained.

"I see, well then Sakura. It seems you weren't lying after all. I have to say I'm impressed a brat like you could summon me. I will recognize you as apart of the family." Gamabunta said.

Sakura grinned happily. "Thanks boss! I'm sure I'll be needing your assistance soon enough."

"Hmph fine by me, Gamakichi stay here for awhile with Sakura. You probably will become her main summon once your body grows." Gamabunta said.

"You got it pops." Gamakichi replied.

"Hey boss, do you think I could come to the land of the toads? I wanna meet some of the other toads." Sakura asked.

"Hmm I don't see why not. Just have either Gamakichi or Jiraiya reverse summon you there." He answered.

"Thanks Bunta!" Sakura thanked him.

Gamabunta smirked. "Yeah sure whatever kid." He dispelled himself afterwards.

Jiraiya made his presence known again. "To think you would actually summon Bunta is astounding." He voiced.

Sakura looked at him with a raised eyebrow. "Why did you go hide from him?" She asked.

"I owe him some sake. I didn't want him to use his tongue to drill my head into the ground." Jiraiya admitted.

"Yeah pops did bring that up a couple days ago. If I were you, I would get that sake to him quick before he really let you have it." Gamakichi told him.

"Thanks for the warning. By the way kid, what was that blue or green, sparkling, electrical chakra you were using in your fight?" Jiraiya asked.

"Please don't go telling everybody about this. It's only a select few people who I'm willing to tell this to." Sakura warned him while checking to see if any unknown chakra signatures were around.

"You have my word as a sannin." Jiraiya stated.

Sakura sighed. "Good, what you saw was my limit breaker."

"Limit breaker?" The toad sage repeated.

"Yeah did Kushina tell you about Kurama's chakra or the seals she put on me?" She asked.

"Yeah." Jiraiya said.

"Well basically from what I came up with is that. My reserves must've been a lot smaller than I thought before I met Kushina. When she put the chakra expansion seal on me. It increased my reserves just a bit over the first night. The first time Kushina healed me with fur ball's chakra. It must've started mixing with the seal. Everyday for the first month of training she used that chakra to either heal me or give me more stamina to continue on. My body must've grown accustomed to it from always absorbing so much of it. The seal has been expanding my reserves much more at a quicker pace since the second month of training. So with it being mixed in with Kurama's chakra. I developed another type of chakra. I still have my regular chakra. But now I have Kurama's as well. My body automatically reproduces it now likes it's my own chakra. Are you following so far?" Sakura stopped to ask.

Jiraiya nodded. As confusing as it may sound. It does make sense somewhat.

"Ok, now I was able to access my second chakra on accident during one time when I was meditating. I felt so much power for a few seconds. So I started learning how to access it at will. Then with my perfert chakra control. I was able to combine it with my regular chakra. When activated you wouldn't believe how much power I have. But my problem is I only trained with it a couple times. I'm not used to it so I can't fully utilize its true potential. That's mainly what I'm going to spend this next month of training doing. Tsunade told me to just make sure I practice my strength technique and medical ninjutsu. Genma can't help cause he's the proctor of the finals. Kushina is probably going to teach me something." Sakura explained.

"I got a jutsu or two I can show you kid. By the way about your limit breaker can you only use taijutsu? Do you have a name for it?" The toad sage asked.

"Really? Thanks! Yes I can use ninjutsu, I only used taijutsu against Lee to put my taijutsu skills to the test. I call it second gear because all of my strength, speed, senses and skills go up another level. Imagine if I had full control over it? I could kick so much ass." Sakura smirked.

Jiraiya snorted. "Yeah I'm sure you could. Well let's get started on your fuinjutsu. Show me all that you know so far."

Sakura did as she was told. Jiraiya was stupefied by the level she was already at. "You're already an expert? Kami what the hell are you some sort of genius?! How did you even get this far in all of your abilities in just a couple months?" He cried out.

The pinkette smirked. "Kage bunshin you old pervert. It's cut down the time of training exponentially depending on how many clones you can use."

Jiraiya had a thoughtful look on his face. "How many can you make while still being able to fully function?" He asked.

"Well with my growing reserves I don't really know at the moment. The last time I did try tho was about 100 with my regular chakra. I didn't try it with my second gear yet. I've only did a few things with it." Sakura answered.

"Combined with that unrivaled growth rate and adaptability Kushina and Tsunade bragged about. I can see understand how you were able to improve so much." Jiraiya mused.

"Uh huh so mind teaching me those ninjutsu know? I plan on achieving the title of fuinjutsu master on my own if you don't mind." Sakura asked.

"Yeah yeah sure kid." Jiraiya voiced.

The pinkette took out a storage scroll where she kept some food in. She released it for Gamakichi. "Here's the snacks you asked me for earlier Gamakichi." Sakura said with a smile.

"Aw man Sakura you're the best!" Gamakichi yelled in happiness.

"I know and don't you forget it." She replied.

Jiraiya showed Sakura Needle Jizo and Needle Hell. Once Sakura got the hand signs down. It only took a couple tries until she got it down. Jiraiya made her practice it until he felt she was good enough with it.

After that was over with, Sakura learned about Mount Mybōoku. Jiraiya explained to her about the elder roads and the great toad sage. The pinkette was vastly interested. She decided to spend her next three weeks there training. Sakura wanted absolutely no disturbances during her training.

When she got home she saw Kushina was cooking dinner. The pinkette went to go hug her before she sat down at the table.

"So what did you do today?" Kushina asked as she sat down their plates.

"Well I finally met Jiraiya today. You and Tsuna were definitely right about him being a huge pervert." Sakura answered.

Kushina's eye twitched. "He didn't try to do anything perverted to you did he?" The red asked in a tone that promised nothing but pain if she didn't like what she heard.

"Nope I think he scared of what I would do to him if he tried. When I saw him he was peeping in the woman's hot spring giggling to himself. So I snuck up on him. I said 'what are you doing you perverted fool' in a Tsuna like tone. He jumped so hard. Plus I did warn him about peeping on me." The pinkette replied.

"Good so did he let you sign the contract?" Kushina asked.

"Yep and even taught me two jutsu's. By the way I'm going to be spending the next few weeks in mount myōboku." Sakura told her.

Kushina was surprised. "Oh? What made you decided to do that?"

"I want to work on my second gear in private. I know you don't want me to. But it's a good possibility when Orochimaru attacks. I'm going to end up fighting him whether you like it or not. I'm just as stubborn as you and Tsuna. So there's is not any changing my mind on this. I'm pretty confident I can handle Gaara if I can somehow survive against you when you're using Kurama's chakra cloak. Even if you do hold back." The rosette voiced.

The red head Uzumaki sighed. "Yes I know, there isn't any stopping you once you made up your mind. I don't know whether to be happy or mad that you got that from us. Well I guess it's a good thing I planned on teaching you the rasengan."

Sakura fell out of her chair. She quickly got up and slammed her hands on the table. "YOU WERE GOING TO TEACH ME THE RASENGAN?!" She screamed in shock.

Kushina laughed. "Calm down Saku, don't be so surprised. Why wouldn't I teach it to you dummy?"

"B-B-But it's an A-rank technique for a reason! Only you, Jiraiya, Kakashi and Minato-sama himself has only been able to achieve it. Tsunade or lord third can't do it. The only reason Kakashi can even do it is because of his sharingan. And you said so yourself that his is not as powerful as it could be because he didn't actually learn it himself." Sakura countered.

"True I did say that. However I have no doubt that you can master it. It really shouldn't be that hard for you considering the level of chakra control you have. Me, Jiraiya and Minato were also able to use our sage mode to make it more powerful. I believe that you could take it a step higher than that." Kushina calmly spoke.

"What do you mean?" The confused pinkette asked.

"Not many people know this but the rasengan is an incomplete technique. Minato created it based off a tailed beast ball. I've showed it to you before so you should remember it. Minato intended for the rasenagn to be the highest form of shape transformation. That's why only so few can actually do it. He wanted to add his own chakra element to it. But it was too difficult for him to do. I've attempted to but it seems like there's something I'm missing. Jiraiya failed at doing so as well. You on the other hand have a very very strong affinity for wind. To the point where you can use it to fly in the air at high speeds. With your perfect chakra control I believe you could achieve what the rest of us couldn't Saku-chan." Kushina explained.

Sakura took all of Kushina's words in to heart. She could tell that Kushina really believed that she could complete the jutsu. "D-do you really think that I can? Is it even my place to do so? I mean it's a fam-" She was cut off by a flick to the forehead by Kushina.

"Don't you dare say what you were about to say. You are family to us Sakura. Hell you...mean a lot more to me than you think." Kushina confessed with a small blush.

Sakura's heart skipped a beat, a mild blush appeared on her face. "I-I feel the same about you."

Kushina smiled. "Good so no more of this doubting stuff. I truly believe you can achieve it. So I'm going to teach you the rasengan before you leave."

The pinkette looked at her with determination shining from her eyes. "You got it Kushi-chan." She voiced confidently.

For the next 4 days, Sakura learned the rasengan. Just like Kushina said, due to her perfect chakra control. Learning the jutsu wasn't difficult at all for her. Sakura mastered the first two steps in a day. By the third day she had the rasengan down packed. The pinkette was giddy knowing the 4th hokage legendary technique. Tsunade gave her some medical techniques to study. Anko agreed to let her sign the snake contract once the exams were over with.

Kushina made Sakura several ninjutsu scrolls with her. She had one for every element. The pinkette also went to go buy her a new outfit for the finals.

The day before she left, an anbu told her that the hokage requested her presence. She was told to go to some meeting room in the hokage tower. When she got there, the pinkette was greeted with the site of jounin and chunin ninja. Sakura saw Tsunade, Kushina, Jiraiya, Genma and Shizune there. Along with the konoha 12 jounin sensei's plus the clan heads.

She knew exactly what this was about considering the amount of high ranking ninja in the room. So she kept a neutral face and spoke to the hokage in a similar tone. "You requested me hokage-sama?"

The old man stared at her with a welcoming expression. But Sakura knew better, this wasn't a welcoming situation to be in. "Yes I did Sakura. I wanted your opinion on a few things." He answered.

"About Orochimaru I'm assuming?" Sakura asked.

"Yes what made him tell you he was plotting an invansion?" The man questioned.

"He didn't, I just figured it out for myself. When I asked him about it he didn't confirm or deny it. Snake face intentions became real obvious when he told me to warn you to not cancel the exams." She answered.

"How were you able to escape?" Danzo asked curiously.

"I didn't really escape. He retreated, probably because he already wasted enough time fighting me to test me out." Sakura replied.

A genin fighting Orochimaru?!"

"Get real genin stop lying!"

"How dare you lie in front of hokage-sama!"

An outrage from jounin and chunin were heard. The only ones who didn't say anything were Kushina, Tsunade, Shizune, Anko, Ibiki, Jiraiya, Genma, Kotetsu, Izumo, The konoha 12 jounins sensei's, the hokage, the elders and the clan heads.

Just when Hiruzen was about to demand them to quiet down. A strong killing intent was felt throughout the room. He quickly found it was coming from Sakura.

The pinkette was annoyed at how quickly these idiots assumed she was lying. So to shut them up she released her killing intent. The effects were pleasing as she saw most of the chunin and jounin look like they were ready to shit themselves.

Sakura's glowing emerald eyes were narrowed as she looked at them. "I don't remember asking any of you if I care about your two cents. I was talking to lord hokage. If you have an issue you can fight me after this to see if I was lying. Otherwise shut the hell up!" She snapped at them.

Nobody said anything after that. Sakura sighed then looked back at the hokage. "Anyways yes he retreated. But I suspect he'll attack at some point during the finals. Considering how many important people will be there. For someone like Orochimaru, it would makes sense that he would want to put on a show somehow." She explained.

"Interesting and you said that you figured this out on your own?" Shikaku asked her.

"Yes I did Nara-sama. If we're being honest, I would be suspicious of suna as well. I know we are supposed to be allies. But allies don't send an unstable jinchuuriki to compete in the chunin exams without some sort of heads up. Unless said allies were plotting something against us." Sakura voiced.

Her words caught the attention of everybody in the room. "She's right sensei, they should've informed us ahead of time that they were sending an unstable jinchuuriki here. It's bad enough that they even considered sending him in the first place." Jiraiya spoke up.

"I know Jiraiya, the wind daimyo has been sending his mission request to us instead of Suna recently. I expect that didn't help out their economy at all." Hiruzen answered.

"Meaning they are teaming up with Orochimaru because of some sort of agreement between them." Sakura said.

Hiruzen sighed. "We'll we must be prepared for an invasion. Sakura I want to tell you to stay away from Orochimaru. But I can tell those words won't stop that from happening in the slightest. So if you do encounter him. Just be careful and try not to take him on alone if possible."

"I understand hokage-sama." Sakura said.

The meeting continued on planning how to act and protect the civilian if an invasion does take place.

After that was over, Sakura enjoyed the rest of the day with Kushina. They made sure she had a whole month's supply of food and necessities stored in a storage scroll.

The next day came, she said her goodbyes to Kushina, Anko, Genma and Tsunade before she summoned Gamakichi.

"Yo Sakura you ready to go?" Gamakichi asked.

"Yep I'm all packed up Kichi." Sakura told him.

"Alrighty." Gamakichi dispelled.

About 20 seconds later, Sakura disappeared then appeared in mount myōboku. When she took a look around her surroundings. The pinkette was amazed at the scenery.

"Wow this place is beautiful, it's like an amazonian jungle." Sakura spoke in a low tone.

"Yeah everyone has that sorta reaction the first time they come here from what pops told me." Gamakichi said.

Gamakichi showed Sakura around. The rosette was introduced to the toad oil fountain, the mountains and toad statues. She even saw the place where the great toad sage resides in.

"Hey Gamakichi who is this?" Gamatatsu asked.

Sakura looked to see an small yellow toad with orange markings. "Who is this Kichi?" She pointed to Gamatatsu.

"Bro did is Sakura I've been telling you about. Sakura this is my idiot brother Gamatatsu." Gamakichi introduced them.

"It's a pleasure to meet you Gamatatsu." Sakura greeted.

"Same to you Sakura, say do you got any snacks?" Gamatatsu asked.

The rosette couldn't help but to sweat drop slightly. "You are definitely Kichi's brother. Yes I do have some snacks. I'll share with you guys once I eat later on." She told the yellow toad.

"Promise?" Gamatatsu wondered.

"Yes I promise, you can even ask Kichi if you don't believe me. I gave him snacks to first hour we met." Sakura assured him.

"She's right bro, now stop pestering her about it." Kichi said.

"Whoops sorry about that." Gamatatsu replied.

The tour continued from there with Gamatatsu tagging along. Eventually Sakura was led to meet the elder toads.

They lived in a small home, it was actually kinda cute to Sakura.

"Hey Lord Fukuasaku I brought our new summoner Sakura here!" Gamakichi called out.

Sakura was about to ask Gamakichi why didn't they just knock on the door. But she saw a small toad land in front of them outta nowhere. He had a white mohawk, busy eyebrows and a small goatee. He was wearing a high collar cape.

"So you're the new summoner I've been hearing about. I wonder what made that idiot Jiraiya-boy let you sign our contract? I don't mean any disrespect by that I'm just curious. This was not even seen by the great toad sage. I'm Fukusaku by the way. I live here with my wife Shima." Fukusaku said.

Sakura was a bit confused on how to respond to that. But she did it anyway. "Nice to meet you Fukusaku-sama. I'm Sakura Haruno the new toad summoner as you can see." The pinkette said.

"So what brings you here?" Fukusaku asked.

"Nothing really I just wanted to do some training away from Konoha on my own. I'm in the finals of the chunin exams. However there's a good chance an invasion will be happening by one of the traitors from the village. It's a good possibility I will encounter said traitor along with fighting a jinchuuriki. So let's just say I really need to make sure I'm ready to do my part." Sakura answered honestly.

Fukusaku was surprised by her response. "Wait there's someone planning an invasion against konoha? Who is it?" He questioned.

"It's Orochimaru." The pinkette replied.

The elder toad sighed. "I see, well I guess I'll leave you to that. You are welcomed to come by any time you please Sakura-chan."

Sakura smiled. "That's Fuku-jiji!" She blurted out.

Fukusaku twitched at that name. While Gamakichi and Gamatatsu were shocked that Sakura would call him that. At the same time they were trying to hold back their laughter. Shima who had just walked out also heard Sakura's new nickname for her husband. She on the other hand didn't dare hold back her laughing.

"Ha Pa she got you there!" Shima laughed.

The elder male toad twitched again. "It's Fukusaku-sama you brat!" He yelled at Sakura.

Sakura just shrugged. "Hai hai Fuku-jiji." She said then she looked over to Shima. "It's a pleasure to meet you Lady Shima."

Shima just waved her off. "Just call em Ma dear. Anyways like my geezer husband said. Feel free to come by any time you please. I'll even make an extra plate of food for you." The female elder toad offered.

"Thank you I appreciate the offer." Sakura kindly replied. A deep feeling in gut told her to stay away from her cooking. "Actually now that I think about it. Do you mind if I stay here during my time here? I won't be that much of a bother since I'll be spending most of my time training." Sakura asked.

"Sure sure that's fine, right Pa?" Shima said.

Fukusaku rolled his eyes. "Yeah it's fine brat."

Sakura spent the whole first week on training her speed intensively. She knew she was fast. But she needed speed that would not only take Gaara by surprise. But high level ninja as well. Sakura knew that trying to achieve the hiraishin was not possible. First she didn't have the notes for it. Plus even if she did, she still would not be able to master the technique in a month. Not to say it was impossible, Sakura just didn't have the time to spend on it.

So she spent some time meditating trying to come up with a way to achieve ridiculous levels of speed. Sakura tried to visualize how the hiraishin appears in her mind. Obviously it was leagues above a shunshin. The same possibly could be said Kushina's top speed. Sakura considered Lee's speed when he uses the fifth gate. Although the pinkette knew that if that was the fastest he could go off of pure speed. She had a good chance of beating him if he gravity seal was fully released. So she tried to focus on remembering Kushina's speed.

A vision came into her head showing Kushina moving at full speed. Sakura remembered not even being able to blink before she disappeared then appeared right in front of her. Once she got that image. All she had to do was imagine the hiraishin's speed. She remembered hearing the stories of how fast the hiraishin is. Kushina explained it to her in a very detailed manner.

So she released all of her seals. She pushed her max speed to the limits. It was a joy to for her to know just how fast she was. After much trial and error during the first week. Sakura finally managed reach the level of speed she wanted. Turns out once she added some chakra to her speed. It made her travel at high speeds. Like she just disappeared in a blink of an eye. She didn't know if she could compare it to Kushina's max speed. But she felt like it was close enough.

During the week, she had also gotten to know Ma and Pa better. Shima liked Sakura's company. While Fukusaku was intrigued by how hard she will pushing herself.

The second week the pinkette decided it was time to train using her second gear. It really bugged her how weird it felt using it in battle. She couldn't shake off that her form was incomplete somehow. She knew she could push it further. But that was different than feeling it was incomplete.

Right now Sakura was meditating. Fukusaku decided her wanted to watch over her training, which she didn't mind one bit. It was an honor and privilege for her. Sakura knew that he had great wisdom that could be passed on to her.

In her meditative state, she focused her two chakra's. Once she the ratio was right between them. It allowed her to activate her second gear. The elder toad was surprised by the power Sakura was exuding.

'This young lady's power is something else. I've never met a child as young as her wield such power without being an jinchuuriki.' Fukusaku thought then he gasped once he saw what was she doing next. 'T-this is impossible! How could she be drawing on..' The toad trailed off.

The young pinkette was solely focused. Sakura could feel the incompleteness of her power. She searched deep and deep into her very being to find out what was being held back. Suddenly she felt an strange yet warm chakra entering her body. This took the pinkette by complete shock. She didn't know what was going on.

'Wait! Is this the nature energy I heard Shima-sama spoke about? How am I drawing on it? Hmm I wonder what would happened if I tried something?' Sakura thought to herself in amusement.

She continued to somehow draw on the nature energy while using still in her second gear form. The amount of energy she felt blooming inside of her was staggering. A small blue and green mixed fire was burning inside of her chest.

Fukasaku was truly amazed at how Sakura was gathering nature energy perfectly. He expected her to turn into stone by now. He wanted to stop her from continuing. But something just told him to just wait it out.

For the next 30mins, Sakura constantly drew in nature chakra. It wasn't much longer before she felt that the amount she gathered was enough. 'Now to combine this energy with my chakra!' Sakura thought to herself in full concentration.

She fused all three chakra inside of her body into one. Just like she does to activate her second gear. That's when fire in her chest increased tenfold. Sakura's eyes shot opened as her eyes were glowing green. It scared Fukusaku just a bit. An huge blue/green aura began covering her body completely.

Sakura was no longer in her mediating position. She was now standing in the air while her body was going through a massive change. The pinkette's arms and legs muscles were becoming firmer as well as longer. The same could be said for her abdominal area. Inside her body her lungs were expanding greatly resulting in increasing her stamina. The chakra made her all of her organs stronger than before. Her chakra coils were also expanding beyond the speed Kushina's seal could keep up. Resulting in it actually being destroyed. Sakura's waist grew even more along with her thighs. The same could be said for her breast since now they grew to be D-cups. The pinkette also grew in height by 4 inches making her 5'8. And last but not least, her hair was now longer than before. Going past her knees.

Once her transformation was finished, the chakra receded back into her body. Causing Sakura to let out a loud battle cry. The chakra she released was more than astonishing. It was unimaginable. Now in her second gear, Sakura had a mix color or blue and green aura around her. With her hair slightly glowing a brighter pink. Pupils also glowing. Instead of a little electricity going around her. She had a whole stream of electricity surrounding her aura.

Sakura looked at herself truly amazed. She closed and opened her palm trying to register what just happened. The pinkette just smiled widely and yelled. "YATTA! I DONT KNOW WHAT THE HELL I JUST DID BUT I FEEL ABSOLUTELY INCREDIBLE! I FEEL FUCKING COMPLETE! IM READY TO GO TAKE ON THE WHOLE FUCKING WORLD!"

Fukusaku just stood there, staring in awe at the power he was looking at. He was definitely feeling sage chakra coming from her. But it was different from what he was used to sensing. He also couldn't believe just how much her body changed.

Sakura decided to test something. A second later, she soared at high speeds into the sky. Before she could never fly this fast. She traveled in the air all around the forest. She came back to where Fukusaku was standing. Once she landed, she released her second gear.

The pinkette smirked. "Well are you impressed or what?"

"Oh I'm far more than impressed Sakura-girl. How on earth did you obtain sage mode?" Fukusaku asked.

"Sage mode? Pfft there's no way I could achieve sage mode. At least not yet." Sakura dismisses.

However the old toad shook his head. "No I sensed sage chakra inside of you. You absorbed a massive amount of it somehow. Then managed to combine it along with the form you were using. Which resulted in your new look. It's not as potent as it was when you were using that second gear of yours. But I can still sense it from you. Just who are you Sakura?"

Sakura shrugged. "I don't know, just some civilian girl who parents died a few months ago. Don't really know any of her other family members. Who was also trained by 2 sannin and an legendary former anbu captain."

Fukusaku just shook his head. "Well it's clear that you aren't the average civilian girl. How are you going to fit your clothes now?"

"Don't worry Kushina taught me a seal that will change the size of my clothes if I outgrow them." She waved him off.

"Good that girl was always resourceful. However it's come to my attention that you need someone to help train you." Fukusaku voiced.

"Eh I kinda left Konoha for the month to train myself. But sensei would be nice." Sakura replied.

"Then I'm going to be your sensei from now on. However you need more than just a week to adjust to your new body. If you plan on fighting Orochimaru you need to have full control over yourself." Fukusaku lectured her.

Sakura groaned. But Fuku-jiji I don't have any more time than a week! It's no way I can miss the exams or not participate in the invasion!" She yelled.

The elder toad held her hand up. "Calm down Sakura-girl I know. That's why I'm going to take you somewhere that kept sacred to summons."

"And how will that help?" She asked.

"Time works different there. Basically it's another dimension where time goes by faster than it would in here." Fukusaku said.

"How fast you're talking?"

"A week in this dimension is a year and a half there. How it's supposed to work is that a day here is a year there. But 500 years ago something caused the amount of time passed to change. It's slowly going back to how it used to be. It will just take more time to get back to it's correct state. This is a place I never even told Jiraiya about. It's supposed to be kept secret unless an elder summon finds one person who thinks they can handle the gravity change. It's a 100x heavier than it is in this world." The elder toad explained.

Sakura was amazed and excited by this news. She had to catch herself from drooling. "Oh man I'm so about to become a bad ass shinobi. You're the best Fuku-jiji!" She told him.

Fukusaku smirked. "You're right about that."

"But how can you handle the gravity there?" Sakura wondered.

"If you train hard enough, you'll get used to the change in a week or two. By the way, Sakura-girl what kind of affinities do you have?" The old toad said.

"My main in wind then I also have water and earth." She answered.

"Hmm Interesting, well I'm going to help you learn how to combine your elements to form a new one. Yes I know it sounds like a bloodline. But it is possible to combine elements without a bloodline. It just takes a lot more work to do so. You having those three can make ice, wood and magnet releases." Fukasaku explained.

Sakura was starting to love her decision coming to mount myōboku. She would definitely surprise everybody at the exams when she returned.

Shima, Gamakichi, Gamatatsu, Gamabunta, Gamaken and Gamahiro all came to see what had happened. Everyone was bewildered by Sakura's new look.

Fukusaku explained to them what happened and where he planned on taking Sakura. Shima instantly included herself in his plans. The elder female toad reasoning was that she wanted to teach Sakura a few things herself while also seeing how strong she would become. Shima also told Fukusaku that they should let Sakura wield that sword that they have put up.

Fukusaku agreed seeing how it could benefit Sakura. Sakura asked what kind of sword we're they taking about.

"It's a sword that me and pa found a couple hundred years ago. It's a katana that produces lightning when you channel chakra through it. You can channel your chakra controlling how the lightning is used. For an example you could either choose to cover your blade in lightning or use it to attack or defend. With your perfect chakra control. I'm positive you'll be able to use it to it's potential." Shima explained.

"Yeah maybe but I'm not too sure with my chakra control being as shot as it is. My chakra coils were expanded making my chakra denser. Along with my reserves being at a level I never even fathom of achieving." Sakura voiced.

"By the time your done training. Your control will be just as good as before if not better. I will make sure you are adjusting fully to your body's adjustments Sakura-girl. I have to teach you about the nature energy you now possess. Also Shima didn't tell you that the sword is a soul binding sword. Meaning it will be bound to you if it sees you worthy enough to wield its full power. While now it can be used by others. It's lightning attacks are never at their full potential because the sword never found one to be worthy to completely wield it. If it finds you worthy. Then it is yours and can never be wielding by no one else. Anyone but you who touches it will be rejected. Even if it's somehow stolen from you. It will automatically go to your chakra signature if you haven't touched it in over 2 days. The metal is unbreakable as well." Fukusaku also explained.

Sakura grinned. "Well what the hell are we waiting for? Come on I'm trying to get started on my training as soon as possible." She said quickly.

"Hold on Sakura-chan, we also have to go by the library in mt myōboku. We have copies of some of the jutsu's belonging to each of the great nations. Most summon realms have the same. We also have scrolls of our own techniques along with lost scrolls we encountered during our lifetime. So be patient, we will start soon enough." Shima said.

The three went to the library first. Gathering everything that they found useful or interesting. Following that the group went to where the sword was being held.

Once Sakura saw it, she was in awe. The blade was a black blade with a gray hilt. She could tell it was very sharpe. It's aura was radiating to her. She felt as if it was calling to her.

Shima and Fukusaku noticed Sakura's trance. Both nodded to each other, confirming that Sakura could be the one.

Sakura walked to the blade. Slowly reaching out for it. When she touched it, her chakra instantly was sent through it. The blade was glowing blue for 10 seconds before it died down. Suddenly Sakura felt a burning sensation on her right arm. It was only there for 5 seconds. When she looked at it. A black kanji standing for lightning was tattooed in black on her arm. She really didn't want tattoo's yet. But figured it was nothing she could do about it now.

"Well that definitely settles it. Sakura-chan was chosen after all." Shima said in amusement.

The pinkette was admiring the power she felt coursing in her new sword. She knew that this was a powerful weapon. Most would kill to have something like this.

"I think I'll name you Raiko. How does that sound?" Sakura asked the sword.

Raiko glowed giving her a warm feeling. She smiled. "So Raiko is it then."

After that happened, the trio made their way back home. Once there, Fukusaku took out a scroll. He laid it out on the ground. Once Sakura had everything she needed. Fukusaku instructed her and Shima to put their hands onto the scroll. Once they did, Fukusaku bit his thumb. Drawing some blood and slammed it on the seal on the scroll. A second later, the group of 3 was transported from mt myōboku to a whole different dimension.

Sakura was forced onto the ground. Forcing her chakra to help her try to stand up. Fukusaku and Shima were both standing perfectly fine. Sakura turned her head slightly to see that the area they were in was mostly a white space sorta. It was a small castle in the middle of it. With two hours glasses on the side of it.

"Welcome to the time chamber Sakura-girl." Fukusaku introduced.

"This g-gravity is i-insane!" She stammered.

"You'll adjust to it eventually. The more you move, the quicker your body adjusts. If you train, it'll be like just like your gravity seal. For now just use your chakra to move the best you can. It'll protect your spine from any damage until your body is used to the gravity here." The elder male toad said.

Sakura did as she was told. She used her chakra to make her body move. It was hard, but doable.

This was the beginning to Sakura first visit to true hell. For a year and a half, she would be put through some intense trials.

The first two weeks were absolute hell on her improved body. While it was much stronger than before. She still had trouble adjusting to it all. Although she did discover some interesting things. First is that her sense of smell improved. Fukusaku told her that her nose was as strong as a ninken's. Second was her vision also improved. She had perfect vision but if Sakura focused she can increase the amount of distance she can see. To her, she guessed this is how the byakugan feels somewhat. Obviously she couldn't see tenketsu in a person's body. However the long range sight will definitely come in handy. It made her wonder if she could possibly see in the dark if she tried.

After a gruesome two weeks, her body was finally adjusted to the gravity of the time chamber. The pinkette imagined how fast she must be now if she can run normally in 100x normal gravity. She learned from Shima that most people would be crushed by the weight. To the point where even if they used their chakra. They still could not move. Sakura informed that she was a different case from the rest. Although Sakura had a feeling that Kushina could withstand this as well if she could. She wasn't too sure about Tsunade though.

Fukusaku gave her a scroll to learn how to wield dual swords. For 3 months, Sakura practiced her kenjutsu, taijutsu, chakra control and speed. She wanted to reinforce her gravity seal but Fukusaku told her to wait until he gives her to ok to do so. He didn't want to risk adding even more pressure into Sakura yet.

Sakura to her surprise didn't need to draw on her anger anymore to use her raw strength. Before she would always think of something to make her angry so she could tap into her raw strength. She made sure that her opponents wouldn't be able to tell that she was angry. Always masking her facial expressions. Now she no longer needed to do that. She could cause massive damage on her own at will. With her strength technique it only made her strength that more devastating. The pinkette had to work hard to control her strength.

Shima showed her many chakra control exercises. One was Sakura having to keep Shima's body balanced on her one of her fingers only using her chakra. If that wasn't strenuous enough. Fukusaku joined in sometimes and made her balance him on her other finger using her opposite hand.

Shima told her that when Sakura's training was over with. Her chakra control percentile will be a 98th percentile.

Sakura also studied the fuinjutsu books and notes that she had. Finally making herself a full fledge seal master. She practiced and mastered her medical skills. Sakura learned everything she needed to know about the human body.

The pinkette's accuracy with her kunai and shuriken improved. She didn't know if it was good as Tenten's or Anko's. But she knew it was way better than before.

Fukusaku and Shima taught Sakura how to access the nature chakra inside of her to apply it to her attacks. Like her rasengan for an example. She could add sage chakra to her rasengan increasing the damage significantly.

After 6 months of learning that much. Fukusaku decided it was time for train her affinities. Sakura did as she was told but didn't understand how she was going to practice her water affinity.

Fukusaku told her to create a huge crater while he takes care of the water. Once that was done, Fukusaku informed her that it was water in the air as well.

Sakura spent months training her affinities, while learning ninjutsu's for her elements. It was the 9th month where she made a breakthrough and was able to create ice on accident. Fukusaku and Shima trained her into the ground even more after that. It took months to learn. But Sakura had mastered her affinities so well to the point where she could combine them. Now she could use ice and wood release. Her wood release wasn't nowhere near the first hokage's. However it would take more time before she utilize it to that level. She could use magnet release somewhat. But that was more difficult to use than the other two.

Last but not least, her second gear was also trained heavily. Now she could stay in that form for long periods of time while wasting little chakra. No longer did she need to spend time building up chakra to access the form. Sakura could access it in seconds now. Although she could still draw the transformation out to show off.

With her speed, she was able to come up with a technique called flash step. It allows her to travel at uncharted territory of speed. Fukasaku told her, that her technique was very similar to the hiraishin. He informed her that from what he saw. Sakura could travel so fast that she could teleport. Once she learned that, she spent weeks trying to perfect her flash step. When it was all said and done. Said girl could basically teleport both short and long distances. She just had to have the image in her head of where she wanted to go.

The last two month of training, she went over everything single thing she's learned. Sakura wanted all of her skills perfected to the best it could be. She was amazed that she could access sage mode like Kushina could. She was amazed at how far she's come.

It was finally time to go back to their world. When they arrived there, Sakura learned that it was actually the day of the exams. According to Gamakichi, she was late and needed to hurry. Sakura was filled with pure excitement. Today the world would know of her power. She would surprise all of her family and friends.

The pinkette quickly picked out the outfit she bought for this day. Some size adjustments were made as well.

Once she was ready Sakura stood proud in front of her masters. Almost everybody came to see her off.

"Your training is done Sakura-girl. I am proud of how far you came." Fukusaku commended

Sakura picked up the elder toad to give him a tight hug to her chest. "Thanks Fuku-jiji! You're the best elder summon ever along with Ma." She said in happiness.

Fukusaku didn't mind the compliment but he didn't know how much longer he could fight off the nosebleed coming his way. "O-Oi, Oi, Oi, Oi let me go brat! He yelled in desperation.

Sakura laughed and did as she was told.

Fukusaku glared at her slightly before breaking out into a smirk. "You're right about us being the best elder summons." He said.

"Yo Sakura when are you gonna summon me again?" Kichi asked.

"Soon Kichi, right after the invasion if it actually happens. I don't want to risk you getting hurt by coming now." Sakura replied then looked at Gamabunta.

"Boss be prepared to be summoned by either me, Kushina or Jiraiya. Orochimaru will most likely involve his snake summons in the battle or Gaara might go berserk and release Shukaku." She told him.

"Oi brat why do I have to fight a tailed beast again?! It's already bad enough Minato made me go up against the damn nine tails all those years ago." Gamabunta complained.

The pinkette rolled her eyes. "Oh please boss, it's not like I expect you to win against Shukaku. But I know you can hold your own for a few minutes until he's back in the seal. Plus you even told me yourself that you didn't have to fight Kurama for no more than maybe 3mins. You survived that so I know you will survive this."

Gamabunta just grumbled to himself while nodding.

"To the rest of you, I'll be back eventually, you guys make things interesting. If the invasion doesn't happened I'll summon Gamakichi and tell him to inform you all about it." Sakura said to the rest of the roads.

"Alright Sakura I'm gonna go to konoha. So I can reverse summon you there." Shima then disappeared into smoke.

"Remember Sakura-girl, you can tell people about the time chamber. But unless it's Kushina, tell everyone else it's forbidden for them to use because they won't survive the massive strain on their bodies for two weeks. You were the exception due to your abilities. We aren't even all that sure about Kushina. I know she has the willpower to survive almost anything thrown her way. But the pressure forced onto your body in that dimension very difficult to overcome. Like I said you were the exception." Fukusaku reminded her.

Sakura gave him a thumbs up with a smile. "Hai hai Fuku-jiji." Then she disappeared into smoke.

The elder toad just sighed. "That girl is something else alright. I'm still amazed that she's an actual regular civilian child. She's about to become a legend at a very young age."

Sakura appeared back in Konoha. When she looked around, she quickly realized she was at the entrance to the forest of death. Suddenly the pinkette picked up multiple foreign chakra signatures.

"Sakura-chan do you feel that?" Shima called out to her.

Said girl looked down to Shima then nodded. "Yeah I sense a lot of foreign chakra signatures. A good portion of them it's at the konoha stadium. However I can sense a decent amount in certain areas of inside and outside of the village."

"Which means you were right about the invasion. That's some nice intuition you got there Sakura. You've made me and pa proud of you. Go put on a nice show for us." Shima told her.

"Thank you Shima-sensei, I won't let you down." Sakura spoke confidently to her.

The elder female toad nodded with a smile before she dispelled back to mt myōboku.

Sakura took a deep breath. "Alright time to put on a show." She focused on a certain chakra signature then used flash step to travel to their location.