Title: Silver

Summary: How to deal with hallucinations. 1. Freak out very mildly because even if it's cool you feel crazy. 2. Realize you aren't hallucinating and then freak out some more. 3. Figure out how to use this as an upper hand over your team. 4. Feel good when they get pissed and annoyed and for once Sasuke and his stupid "annoyed" can suck it and you're now way more awesome than him even though you have a crush on him. 5. Automatically become the new it Kunoichi because Sasuke can't see through you and everyone can see him interested in you. Duh.

Bell tests, Sakura decided, were not cool and out of date.

Why?

Well it had a 33% rate of success, which when you turned around was basically a 66% rate of failure. It was a bad thing, no questions asked.

She hadn't had breakfast thanks to her absent-mindedness and she had already finished her three granola bars and two apples because she was hungry as hell.

Her teammates were idiots, as strong as they already seemed what with Sasuke and fire-jutsu, and Naruto with his... interesting way of using basic jutsu.

Her teammates were also strong, and she had already seen them in action with her new sensei... compared to her she really did not have much of a chance.

Even better, her teammates refused to work together with her. That broody Sasuke and his stupid arrogance were going to get to him someday, and she'd be there to photograph it.

And now, her cover was blown. Because she lost her footing on a freaking tree, never mind most genin knew how to hop from tree to tree, staying on one with moss and the like was tough!

And she was starving!

Well it's kind of your own fault you're in this position now.

How is it my fault? Kakashi-sensei said not to eat cause we'd puke so-

Bullshit. You were too busy watching those horny birds-

I WAS NOT!

Psh. I'm you darling, a more fabulous, more perfect and more stylish you but back to the point, you knew just as well as I do that a good breakfast helps, not hinders us in the morning. You just got sidetracked! You just watched those lovers make out and-

Okay fine. It's not all my fault that I forgot to analyze the problem, you saw how those girls were making out and getting all touchy-feely, and they could hardly tell I was watching.

Voyeur.

No! I mean, it's fascinating! They look like they're just chilling over there as birds, and then their human forms are getting super hot and heavy and-

I maintain my case, vo-yeur.

I'm NOT! It's just... well I learned a lot in that one session.. and..

Oh god those perverted what-if when you get with Sasuke thoughts are coming back...

It's not like I want to! He's a jerk but I can't help it since I like him!

Well find another freaking star of your bed-rock show. Sasuke is annoying me, and I would like to take back all my shannaros concerning any victory with him starting... now.

You can't just take it back Inner! That's not fair! We're in this together!

Then get rid of your thoughts so we can be freaking out of it together!

Out of it... what is this nonsense..

Pure and utter intelligence, I can assure you of that.

Inner!

Stop whining, that new sensei of ours is coming up behind us somewhere so stop staring into space.

Sakura shook her head very slightly, and then turned herself around, feeling out her sensei's chakra. To her surprise, it was right behind her. She turned around, gripping her kunai tightly, determined not to go down looking like a fool. She could feel a sliver of chakra surrounding her, playing around her eyes and ears, her sensei was nowhere to be found.

Forcing herself not to get scared by how weird the situation was, she shut her eyes momentarily and tried to banish the chakra that was around the area. When she opened her eyes, the scene before her resembled a bad 3D movie with red and green glass that weren't working. She shook her head again and rubbed her eyes, she was sure she wasn't hallucinating. She turned round and round until she hit three-sixty multiple times, shocked at what she was seeing.

Her vision seemed to have split into three different scenes. The first, was the original one. Where she had been standing, the placement of the trees were as normal and in the distance, she could hear Naruto yelling multiple different insults, all aimed at Kakashi. Her sensei was still nowhere to be seen, but she could feel his presence all around her, and at the same time concentrated in one specific area.. to her left.

The second scene was more morbid and less realistic than the first. Her long time crush, Sasuke, was walking out to her from under the low-hanging branches of trees, coming out from the pure black darkness. His eyes were intense, his body shape hunched over with numerous weapons embedded in his flesh, blood was dripping from his wounds and he was mumbling something, words she could barely read from his lips calling her name. He would drop to the ground, as if dying, and then his body would disappear, only to repeat his entrance from the very dark area beyond the trees.

The third part of her sight, was incredibly similar to the fantasy world she had seen the day before. Except this time, there was a transparent background layered over the original land, blurring in and out of her vision. The number of nymph-like and spirit-like creatures had increased by a massive number. She blinked, and all of a sudden her vision seemed to have split further, and all she saw was a tunnel like appearance of this background. From a large lake in front of her, to a tiny peach orchard that extended all the way beyond the clouds and what she could see. It was very beautiful, complete with a waterfall and swirling vines. All of a sudden, she swore the little pool beneath that waterfall, was underneath her feet. She gasped, forcing chakra to her feet and blinked hard. And then, that orchard was no more and the hokage monument was there in its place.

Sakura gasped, she looked around, and seeing the three different scenes becoming blurry, took a deep breath and tried to concentrate on the prettiest scenery. She looked around, she was standing under the tallest, most stately trees she had ever seen. The wood was a shimmering deep bronze, the branches arching out elegantly toward the sky, and little petals fell all around her. She heard a sharp inhale of breath, and the gap around her body was suddenly gone. She couldn't see the original landscape or the vision with Sasuke, all she saw were maidens of all colors flocking to her.

"So bright... she shines..."

"Not one of us..."

"Blessed by Osui..."

"Human..."

"No.. she's not fully human..."

"Her shell has a sheen..."

A young girl, with hair so blonde and light it was translucent, her eyes the color of chrome, walked up to her. Her fingertips brushed Sakura's hair before she rushed back. Little elfen babies, with watery forms and silvery eyes, hair and skin, rushed to her. Overwhelmed, Sakura just relinquished whatever control she had been using to look at the fantasy scenery. Immediately, she could see the original landscape again. She saw several of the creatures look up shocked, that she was gone, and one by one, several of them stepped through something.. that glowed white for a short while and stayed there, some walked around and the rest went back in. Other creatures in the same plane as those spirits that stepped out, chirped or spoke notes of melody, some stressed in different intonations than others. The girls would point at her, and they would look around. Some came up to her, but although they reached out to touch her, they no longer could.

Sakura blinked again, and forced herself to concentrate on the original landscape. The images of the fantasyland faded until it was so faint, she could barely see anything, the whitish glows and the spirit-like beings around her faded to translucency, and now, she decided to concentrate on the nightmarish scene. It didn't frighten her for some reason, so she decided to take a chance. She felt herself being transported, as if she was stepping into a whole new atmosphere, or perhaps another layer, as she had seen it translucent over the normal land. The air was chilly, and the sensation of winds around her carried leaves in a circular format, reaching from her toes to high into a darkening sky.

She felt hyperaware of everything around her, the strands of invisible chakra, that now weren't so invisible. The air smelt like rotting fruit and decaying leaves, the grass tickled her feet through her sandals. It was so real. So realistic and perfect, that she instinctively knew this wasn't real. Sakura touched a strand of chakra, and felt her inner consciousness go to the front.

I think this leads somewhere.

It feels like sensei's chakra...

Hey look.. Sasuke's coming out.

He appeared just as he had the many, many times before, except this time, when he dropped in front of her, she felt her heart lurch. She knew it wasn't real, it couldn't be, but her emotions were falling for it. She took a deep breath and calmed herself, letting her inner work the emotional part of her brain. Sasuke wheezed, and his words tore into her. But she stayed strong, willing herself not to let her mind get caught up in the swirling vortex of emotions that were waiting for her to lose control. Eventually, Sasuke disappeared and she could feel the illusion changing again.

She didn't want to let that happen, so she pushed and pulled at her consciousness until whatever was around her in this reality was a blur, choosing instead to follow the chakra strands and where it led. It curved around the forest in a neat criss-cross manner, eventually straightening into a tunnel that was in the same area as the tunnel of black Sasuke walked out from. Sakura followed it, feeling her steps get lighter and lighter, as if she was going to fly up. It was a scary feeling, so she forced herself to stay grounded.

Hey me...

Yes?

I think we've voluntarily walked into a genjutsu...

Excuse me? You tell me this now?

I just thought of it... and..

?

...

Why are you telling me this now?

Well.. I feel like... I can walk right out of you now.

WHAT?

Yeah and that doesn't happen. At all.

So... what does it feel like for you?

Well... it's the same as you but like... in energy form...

Energy form?

Like different waves or pulses... some of it is tighter knit chakra, some of it is lose and spirally... and they all move differently...

I see...

You want to try and feel it?

I can?

Yeah... I think.. hang on... let me just... okay... um... yeah that's-

OH SHIT!

Sakura breathed in hard, the feeling was amazing! She closed her eyes, and all she could see were bright blue, neon strands of light. It was all around her, and just like inner had said.

Inner this is so cool!

Hang on, I'm going to try and come out.

WHAT?

Calm down! It's a test run. You know I've tried and I can't actually pop out because you know, energy type fields or something.

Okay.. okay...

She felt a relaxation of a pressure she didn't know was in her head. The pressure seemed to spiral a little bit, before it was pushed effortlessly from the mid point between her eyebrows and forehead. And there she was before her, though not entirely in black and white the way she had appeared in Sakura's head before. Her figure was as fleshed out as Sakura's own, the hand on her hip and the smirk on her face however, was entirely her own.

Inner, while not black and white exactly, was like an inverse-colored version of Sakura. Hair became lighter, skin became darker, and what are generally dark areas of the body like the mouth and pupils, were light on inner. She wore an itty-bitty version of Sakura's blue top and red skirt, except it had a saucy twist. No spandex pants, only mesh. In fact, if the tiny white lines across her body were not a trick of the light, it was probably a full-body mesh suit, complete with combat boots. One other thing, inner gleamed with a dull silver sheen.

Wow... she looked cool.

Inner smirked. "I know."

Shit you can read my mind?

"I'm part of your mind honey."

Great

"So why did you want to come out?"

"To explore."

"Explore what?" Sakura frowned. What else was there anyway, besides the scary as hell dark abyss in front of her.

"That light feeling you dummy, I want to see where it leads."

"What if you get lost?"

"I can't get lost."

"Of course you can. You're part me, as you say so all the time and I've gotten lost so many-" Sakura was paused when her Inner held up a hand to pause her thoughts.

"Hold it right there, I know, the time in the flower maze, the time in the new block of Konoha and the time you kept walking in a freaking circle around Konoha, I mean.. who the hell gets lost with a freaking gate to guide you back into the village?"

Sakura blushed fiercely. "That's not fair and you know it! You totally could have helped me out, but you preferred to entertain yourself." She said, pointing accusingly at her alter-ego.

"I was enjoying myself, being a ball of literal energy is boring sometimes."

"Yeah, you're a ball of energy! You have an eidetic memory of pretty much everything in the village, which should be put to good use!"

"Psh. We have more important things to do right now." Inner muttered, waving her hand, "Like experimenting!"

"Not important... pah... so what is so important?"

"You mean besides getting the bell?" She said sassily, head cocked to the side and grinning, "Well trying out things in here.. Like maybe... THIS!" With a wave of her hand, Inner turned the entire tunnel into a bedazzled, Victorian-styled chamber that just had no end. Sakura could feel the energy that had been used and was surprised to feel part of that energy sparking out of her skin too.

Inner smirked, "Yeah, we both can do that... nice huh?"

Looking around curiously, Sakura decided to try something. With a quick 'push' in her mind and a swirl of her fingertips, she conjured up a beautiful fountain sculpture in the middle of the room, complete with jewels.

Inner nodded with approval. As if she seemed to remember something, she pressed her palms together in a quick clap.

"That's right... hey if this is a genjutsu, aren't we both kind of vulnerable right now?"

She was right... hmm...

They both sat down on equally plush, gold plated chairs filled with turquoise cushions and beaded tassels.

"Well in an actual fight, we wouldn't be exploring a genjutsu right? We would just avoid it."

"Yeah but.. see, all those chakra strings could lead back to the person's actual hiding place, or like... Whatever it's called and we might need that."

"But how are we going to protect my-" She cut herself off at Inner's glare, "Our.. body?"

"You're the one that can control walking through those layers..." She rested her chin on her palm for a second, "So I'll assume control and protect the body while you head off to get the dude... Hang on let me check something..."

Inner vanished off for a second, and Sakura could feel her peeking around the genjutsu and jumping in and out of her consciousness. When she returned, she was excited and animated.

"Get this! You're not actually still on the training grounds!"

"What? What do you mean?"

"Kay so you know how you were in fantasyland for a second... well now you're actually in this genjutsu... you're like... in Kakashi-hotstuffs brain right now.. or like... in the thing that connects his imagination to you or something!"

"So we aren't vulnerable... THIS IS TOTALLY-"

"AWESOME".

She could totally sneak up on him!

"AND AND AND... get this too... That light feeling? I think... it means like... while your bod is in this place, your thinking-"

"Consciousness."

"Right consciousness, can head up into his brain!"

"No way."

"I'm going to go check it out right now," Inner clapped her hands excitedly, "You, go and find Kakashi-sensei, and get the damn bells because we have such a cool thing going on right now we can NOT get sent back into the academy!"

"Wait wait wait, Inner what if you get lost?"

"Girl I can not get lost, we are one and the same, we are connected and tethered or whatever synonym you are going to use so you go do your job, and I will do mine!"

"Don't hurt him or anything!" As ludicrous as it sounded, she had a feeling that Inner was more trouble than she appeared.

"Yeah yeah, just going to sift and explore girl," With a wave, she bounded off in an upward direction, "Bye bye..." Her voice getting weaker and weaker, although it remained in her ear.

Inner was right, and she was probably smirking at that, but Sakura could feel their connection. It wasn't just strands or whatever, it was like... a whole... mini tunnel filled with some... thing.. that connected the both.

'I wonder if I can do this myself.. with my own genjutsu..." She thought... even better if she didn't have to cast an actual genjutsu... just the properties of it...

But now really wasn't the time to be thinking about what she could do with herself, better to make sure she didn't go back to the academy before she became overly-ambitious. She turned to look at the endless bedazzled tunnel, steeled herself, and started walking. The lines of chakra were fairly orderly, curving every now and then and giving the tunnel a turn here and there. When she finally reached the end of the chakra strings, Kakashi-sensei was nowhere in sight.

What on earth? Did that mean the genjutsu just functioned on it's own?

No.. genjutsu could still be called off by the user.. so it had to be connected to the user... somehow or rather.

Sakura placed a thin layer of chakra over her eyes with the hope it would help in some way and increased her awareness of her surroundings. Was there a difference in the energy around her? She opened her eyes, and suddenly, everything was impossibly clear, sharp and detailed. She could see all the fantasy land and original landscape with ease, when previously it had been incredibly faint and easy to dismiss. What had changed however, was the tiny details in the air now. Instead of closing her eyes and getting inner's help, she could see the chakra strands and energy in it's entirety all on her own.

The fantasyland with a myriad of thinly layered, glowing, sparkling energies that swirled in the prettiest formations. The beings in there shimmered and shined, with silvery sheens coming off their auras.

But, with this landscape, it was very different. Maybe it was because she was literally a foot behind the real world, but what she could see was so much... so much more distinct and unlike the other. The energies were solid in color, in varying opacities. Non were completely opaque, and there were mixes of chakra and energy all over. Chakra was blue, and she could see random spurts left over everywhere, in the bush or trees, some with a strong, rolling wave and others with sharp edges. Then, she noticed that one was... sort of in a line, coming from loose zig-zags of energy seeping off the tunnel. Likely, the tunnel would eventually disappear soon. The line of chakra was blurred and covered by dozens of other layers of energy and chakra.. but maybe if she just concentrated...

The feedback she was given was... wonderfully abundant with information. The chakra, in her head, automatically wove into the shape the chakra pathways took in the users body, telling her his gender. It was when she was carefully going through all this, after noticing this shape was male and very like Kakashi-sensei, that she realized something else. There was something else there, the way the chakra was woven around his eyes, around certain areas in the pathway... it had patterns.

Like in a genetic code...

Shaking her head for the nth time that day, Sakura berated herself for losing sight of what was important. The bells. Bells bells bells bells!

She forced herself to concentrate on that line of chakra, mixed and glowing with a pale blue light. In some areas, the brighter blue of the chakra left over from his bodily movements disappeared and instead she could see the pale blue light. It still had the same patterns that wove the image of Kakashi-sensei in her head, so she decided to trust her -shaky- judgement and follow it with her eyes.

The objects in her vision were more or less translucent, with their chakra resonating off them. She saw Kakashi's chakra fade into a tree and later saw another thick line past that tree, into a more dense part of the training grounds.

Now she had a problem... how was she going to get to Kakashi-sensei without him noticing her?

Casting another genjutsu to extend her walking distance was a bad idea at best. One, she didn't know any genjutsu. Two, even if she did a Jounin like Kakashi-sensei would see it coming from a mile away. Three, because of those two reasons, it was unpractical.

The chances of her sneaking up on him were a bad idea. What if he tried to put another genjutsu on her? Even if she had an obscure idea on how to avoid it... well it was kind of nice to have a secret right? Even worse, what if he decided to spar with her? Though spar was the wrong word, she'd just get beaten into the ground.

Sakura looked around and realized the fantasyland was still there. That's right. If she could walk in a genjutsu.. couldn't she do the same? Sakura took a deep breath and willed her consciousness to the fantasyland, she left the layer of chakra over her eyes and that's when she saw it. The layer of the fantasy background had the thinnest, faintest layer of white over it. Without her chakra, it was likely she wouldn't have noticed it, let alone be able to feel it out. It was everywhere she realized, except it was twice as thin over the normal landscape.

The blur of hallucinations slash spirit-like creatures slash nymphs hovering came into focus. They were still chattering, and it seems news traveled fast about her, but they seemed calmer. She guessed this whitish, thin layer of whatever it was called was how they travelled around without being seen. With a little luck, she could do so too.

With a deep breath, she extended her chakra lightly, and when it touched that layer, something in her chakra jumped. The layer felt... ghostly. It was like the most intangible mist, you knew it was there but it was impossible to feel. It was cold on her fingertips, but when she blinked and held it for just a second, it glowed a frosty white behind her eyelids.

One more deep breath, and with the awareness of something now brimming in her... -why hadn't she noticed this before?-... she stepped in, gaining a strange feeling of acceptance. Random fantasy creatures approached her when she was there, the illusion from earlier now just an image of woven chakra strands while the fantasy land was just a concentrated step away. She let the image of that land fade away from her vision and instead, looked around again in wonder. The land was exactly as it had been, not a leaf out of place. Instead, she saw nymphs with their heads and hair forming from the tree bark to take a look at her. Purplish girls with wings or just glowing droplets hanging from their skin flew about in the air. It was then she guessed that while they were birds in the more human world, they stayed spirit-like humanoid figures in this one.

She waved, smiling and trying to be friendly. Realizing she was being a bit rude, she gave a low bow and then tried to explain herself to the quiet, whispering beings around her.

"Hello... Um...I - I don't mean to intrude."

The stared at her, and then a young girl with light blue hair and silver gills spoke up.

"She's one of us." Or that's what Sakura thought she heard. What with the tinkling bells and water droplets in her voice.

The other beings stared up at her, some expressing their dissent and what she was saying, but none disagreeing.

"She does have... a similar gi to us... it's mixed but same nonetheless."

Finally, a woman who was clearly older than the rest of them, but with a youthful face approached her. Her body was still perfect, dressed in loose layers of varying shades of grey, purple and blue, with silver and gold adornments around her face and on her wrists. Hair the color of blinding snow and eyes in a deep red-purple gradient.

"It is the first time a human has successfully crossed over to the Razdel... or partition..." The woman placed a hand on Sakura's head, "Welcome to our world young one, feel free to enter as you would wish," And then she paused for a moment, "Our nymphs and faeries would be happy to guide you, befriend you... but.." Her eyes became stern, "Do not bring any other mortal here.. human greed only brings negative energy to us, will never benefit us... and the agony most mortals face when they try to come through here... is beyond hellish..."

Sakura was stunned.

"So as I said, you are always welcome here young one, but do not try to bring anyone else in with you."

Her eyes softened once she said that, and with a sweep of gossamer thin clothing, disappeared into the dense forest, melding with nature. The multi-colored beings around her surrounded her, eyes warm with no unease, they walked as if the air was just another floor, graceful and unaffected by gravity. Their arms were open and welcoming.

A group of girls chattered with their melodious voices, fingertips sweeping through Sakura's hair. Excited by the pretty pink color and it's silvery sheen.

Sakura smiled, ready to start firing her questions when she realized that it noon was coming and it wasn't waiting for her.

She held her hands up in a 'wait' gesture, "One moment? I'm with my team now and I have to get the bells, can I come back and visit you later?"

They giggled and nodded, dropping a garland of flowers over her head before taking her hands in theirs and guiding her to her sensei. He was no longer standing, instead, he was crouched in a tree, between leaves and branches.

A particular girl, very petite hopped onto Sakura's shoulders and stared at her grey-haired sensei. "Is he your sensei?" Her musical voice asked.

"Yeah... wow you're so light!" Sakura replied, her hands holding onto the girl's thighs. She was lighter than a feather, her cool skin the only thing that reminded Sakura she was holding her up.

"He is so handsome..." The girl said, eyes lighting up into a mesmerizing green-grey, lips parting and beige hair fluttering in the wind.

One of the males around her, tall and pale, with golden hair and grey eyes growled playfully before picking up the girl and holding her to him. "I am far more handsome than that youngling Zuru-chii..."

The girl pouted, "He's handsome for a mortal... I've never really taken a good look at mortal men before..."

Sakura smiled, "You should see my crush..."

The nymphs and faeries around her widened their eyes, "Yours? Oh what does he look like? Is he handsome? He must be incredibly handsome for you to take notice of him Blossom-san.."

"He is... he has these lovely dark eyes... and dark hair with very pale skin... and he looks especially handsome when the sun hits him right-" and she gestured excitedly, leading the nymphs and faeries around her to squeal.

This was a lot of fun. They were all so happy and joyful... and not one of them had malicious intent, their energies were so different from chakra, radiating and giving off an incredibly soothing feeling.

With the girls around her being so encouraging, Sakura's courage came quickly. She could do this. Then she eyed the tree he was on. The branches were high and it wouldn't be easy at all to get up there with nothing to hold onto. As if the girls around her sensed her problem, they took hold of her, lifting her up as if she were the one that was weightless. A pretty red-haired nymph emerged from the tree, similar to the one she had seen before but with longer hair. She took hold of Sakura and the roots of the tree itself tripled in size, fitting nicely under Sakura, and together she was pushed up until she was right behind her sensei.

She closed her eyes, concentrating on layering chakra over them, moving it around so that she could feel the energy around her... and as quietly as she could, reached out, past the ... Partition? and grasped the bells. She saw Kakashi move to turn, the chakra in her eyes allowing for the most minute of movement to be accounted for, and she yanked the bells back in.

This was awesome! She got the bells, both of them. And even better, Kakashi-sensei, a top Jounin with the most amazing of skills, had no idea it was her.. -probably-... and he didn't catch her, and he couldn't see her now either.

Sakura clapped her hands in glee. One of the maidens came up to her, curious and picked up the bell from Sakura's hands.

"Is this what is so important Blossom-san?"

She nodded, "Yeah, if I didn't get this... I would have to be sent back to the academy."

The girl..-green hair, brown eyes and bronze glowing skin-... looked questioning. "But there are only two... yet your team has three?"

Yet your team has three?

That's right... why would Kakashi-sensei give them a test with... when it wasn't... he didn't have the authority to... what in the hell...? Sakura's mind raced, going through all of the books she had read previously, history, teams, teachers, duties... from the most boring to the most exciting. She went through her memories, teams... teams... until at last she stumbled on a faint memory. A team of two guys and one girl... all only children from clans that had retreated away from the politics of Konoha... She remembered seeing them in passing... sitting on a bridge complaining about someone who was late... by the dango stand complaining they had failed and had to go back... go back where? At this time Sakura's mind filled in the blanks for her. They had to go back to the academy. But only days later she had seen them, running through the streets of Konoha after a cat, eventually meeting up with a dark-haired woman.

Sakura smacked her head.

The girls around her gasped. One of them came forward and took her hand away from her head, eyes reproachful. "Don't hit yourself Blossom-san! It is unbecoming and unnecessary!" The tinkling in her voice was lower... more bass than treble... and it was sharp and forceful.

More came forward. "That's right... why would you hurt yourself on purpose? Talk it out... we are all family... tell us!"

So Sakura told them about what she thought. It was about teamwork... that's what the whole purpose of the test really was. He had said they all had to get the bells, if they failed... and he didn't specify what constituted failing, they would have to return to the academy.

"But he doesn't have the authority for that, I think.. he said that to make us competitive... give the other person up, this test is to see how compatible and how willing we are to work with one another... "

Shinobi in the field often were in teams.. they had to watch each other's backs... that's just how it was.

With her mind made up, she ran off in another direction, following the two other random blues that, while had different patterns, she couldn't tell whose was whose until..-and this was just guesswork, it was actually in the living person's body-... she was there. Deciding to find Sasuke first, she tried reaching out to the left over chakra and energy. Immediately she gained feedback, height, image... this person was lean... fairly tall but closer to her height. There were the same patterns in his chakra as Kakashi-sensei's, five different tones with two patterns. It was so weird...

Sakura concentrated on the chakra, visualizing it... and instead of letting the image just form in her head, she followed it until it stopped, and the chakra had increased and was pulsing in a lively way. This time, the chakra and it's patterns were stronger. One pattern was at the forefront... another was behind... as if it was hidden by something. This time, she could sense who's chakra it was.

Sasuke.

Somewhere in another tree, Kakashi looked around him, suddenly paranoid that someone random was going to appear and steal something more valuable.

Like his Icha Icha book... oh the heavenly literature that it was...

AND SCENE!

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