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Kakashi and Sakura's training had completed! So it was time for them to go their own separate ways. But here's the training.

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Sakura lied in her sleeping bag, tilting her head to see the silhouette of Kakashi standing at the edge of the canyon mountain cliff, gazing at the night horizon. Thousands of tiny multi-lighted stars sprinkled the sky, and the moon glowed beautifully, the moonlight glinting against his silver hair.

He wasn't wearing his Konoha flak jacket today, only a dark undershirt that clung to his muscles, an undershirt that was a larger version of the black ANBU uniform he gave her from his old 14-year-old ANBU days.

Sakura never expected it, but she loved wearing all-black. She initially thought the style was too plain compared to her usual pretty, red qipao dress, but now, she loved wearing completely black head to toe, with a mask to match. It felt like she wasn't herself, didn't have to stand out, didn't have to stare at herself and recognize all her failures to protect her teammates.

However, she knew she did protect her teammates, but she knew the curse mark at her neck would soon nullify all that.

More or less, the Curse Mark was going to make her kill her teammates in a fit of insanity, as soon as she lets go. And she felt that she was on the verge of letting go anytime, because the Curse Mark was infused with so much evil and malice that overfilled her, feeling like the very blood in her veins but more prominent, and she felt Orochimaru's aura eating at her insides. Sakura idly wondered why has no one yet arrested her on suspicion of being Orochimaru-in-disguise, with how much Orochimaru's stench clung onto her. (Chakra didn't leak out because it was suppressed by Kakashi's seal on her neck.)

But Sakura knew, people on the outside couldn't smell it (Orochimaru's scent,) because it wasn't a physical odorous stench; it was a mental thing. Insanity tightly suppressed.

This was a different brand of insanity from what she was used to; at least Inner Sakura was at least her split personality manifested in a corporeal form inside her mindscape. But Orochimaru's curse mark, it was delusional paranoia and schizophrenia and might make her sleep walk and murder someone. Sakura mulled over creating seals that could tie her to bed when she slept, just in case.

Inner Sakura has also been quiet lately. But she was still there. Sakura knew it.

It feels like Inner Sakura was being suffocated by the Curse Mark's fog, that's why she's been quiet lately. Because it's a huge struggle to talk while you're being suffocated; it's possible to talk, but you'd rather be gasping for air instead of talking while you're being choked or when there's a lack of oxygen.

As though both forms of insanity (the good insanity, and the batshit insane murderous insanity, was competing for space within Sakura's deep dark endless mindscape.)

While Sakura herself was the colorful outside superficial container of these mental illnesses. That's why she would hate wearing her red dress and looking flashy and beautiful like she did in her childhood… And why she preferred wearing Kakashi's old ANBU uniform now, despite not being ANBU. It was dark, it was perfect, it kept her hidden, it was what he wore as an assassin and she felt more sins in these clothes than in herself and that felt better in comparison….

Images of Uchiha eyes and Uchiha ghosts flashed in her memories.

Not really, she didn't kill anyone, she doesn't think.. Why did it feel wrong.

Sakura stopped her line of guilty thinking, and tried to forget it. Her goal was to become Hokage, and change the world. How to change the world fast? Well, Obito-kun promised her that he was working on it, and that he would come back from Heaven.

That is, if Obito-kun was real and not her hallucination.

Coughing the dust from her lungs from this mountain, Sakura cleared her throat from her sleeping bag, as the sun began to slowly rise across the horizon. "Hey," she called out to Kakashi who was standing across from her, at the edge of the cliff, staring at the Hokage Monuments miles away from the canyon mountains. "Thanks for training me, Kakashi-sensei."

"Don't thank me, I owe you anything— you want to learn." I owe you, for coming back, Obito, went unsaid. Sakura had no idea how much politics and sway he used to twist and strong-arm Konoha into simply accepting that Sakura had the Sharingan. Being the direct student of Copy Ninja Kakashi, reputed to have copied over a thousand jutsu and to have completed even more S-class missions under his belt, he was quite literally Konoha's most valued asset (outside of Shikaku Nara and Inoichi Yamanaka) especially with the Sandaime retired from active duty. He would no doubt be a candidate for Hokage should Sarutobi retire.

He already had more than enough clout, and he handled the cover-up of Sakura's Sharingan and backstory quite well, no questions asked. He didn't even ask Sakura how she had Sharingan, there were simply no verbal words exchanged, when he first saw those red eyes. He just knew she was Uchiha Obito, and she knew he knew, with the way her eyes stared back into his, her eyes that said "Will you make this sacrifice for me?"

"Will you follow the nindo of protecting your friends over the rules?"

"Will you break the rules, cover up my eyes using your reputation and power, protect me from investigation and prosecution, instead of reporting and turning me into T&I for having the Sharingan?"

That was the message Sakura's red eyes conveyed when Kakashi first found her after the Preliminaries to seal her Curse Mark. Kakashi looked into her eyes, and understood immediately, because Sharingan-to-Sharingan was somehow capable of passing on emotions and subconscious desires, meanings, messages- and Kakashi lived for Obito post-Obito-death, and at the end, belatedly gained understanding of Obito's tones and messages.

So he knew what Sakura wanted without even asking, or even if she wasn't asking for that, he knew he should protect her from the Elder Council anyway. Because they almost got their hands on Sasuke in the past, he wouldn't have allowed them to get their hands on Sakura now that she was part-Uchiha….

Which was the cover-story he submitted, Sakura was part-Uchiha, that's where her Sharingan came from. There were no parents to dispute the story. He used his ANBU class skills, and forged a few documents here and there, rung up a few shinobi connections in multiple Records department to make the story fit, and no one could do anything about it, whether they knew or not. It was Hatake Kakashi.

The Third Hokage was shocked at first, but having met Haruno Sakura before, he knew she was a kind child, and he was already won over by her concern and care for the old and elderly; being old himself, Sarutobi gained a soft spot for her, that he didn't ask too many questions about her, due to bias (besides not wanting to deal with the headache of Kakashi subtly throwing a fit.) Sarutobi knew that Danzo existing and lurking about, was enough punishment for the girl, so he didn't need to add onto that or ask too many questions. Because even without him, Danzo probably would. (Those who knew of Danzo, knew of Sarutobi's propensity to be passive and enable Danzo.) Nonetheless, the public situation with Sakura's Sharingan was resolved, cover story and all.

"You're up against Zabuza Momochi, that Swordsmen of the Mist... However, I can't comprehend why, but the Kazekage's son, Gaara, seems to have it out for your life; he came all the way out here. That's more dangerous, and… having seen him here act out in person, I believe you need to learn everything you can learn," Kakashi had told Sakura, which she didn't answer because hey if Kakashi was offering her free knowledge and jutsu, she wasn't going to open her mouth and jinx herself until after she got the knowledge. "Activate your Sharingan."

When Sakura did, Kakashi demonstrated a thousand ninjutsu of all chakra natures in front of her. She witnessed water dragons, fire walls, earth walls, Rasengan, Chidori.

"There's one more Jutsu I can't teach you, because I can't pull it off myself."

Kakashi showed her Water, Earth, Lightning, Wind, and Fire techniques. He popped in a new soldier pill each time he ran out of chakra, while Sakura kept her eyes activated. For 24 hours. The eyestrain drained all of her chakra to near zero.

Sakura only needed to watch Kakashi demonstrate each ninjutsu once, because Sharingan had perfect, permanent memory. By the end of his demonstrations, Kakashi had consumed and used up several soldier pills and all his chakra, while Sakura had also used up all her chakra in her eyes (but no soldier pills.) practically destroyed and they had to relocate to a different canyon. (They relocated multiple times.)

By the end of the night, they were staying at an entirely different canyon mountain. (Kakashi picked Sakura up and carried her to another mountain because she didn't eat any soldier pills, and spent all her chakra mentally copying ninjutsu.)

After making a campfire, Sakura and Kakashi ate a giant meal, the prepared food that they bought along in their food-preservation storage scrolls, along with the nutrition pills Sakura made.

Then they collapsed and fell asleep in their sleeping bags.

Fast forward to now:

Sakura woke up by her sleeping bag and watched Kakashi look over the horizon. Her eyes felt strained.

All this training had been helpful. It helped Sakura get a grip back onto reality. Keeping her eyes on Kakashi's thousand ninjutsu demonstrations, keeping her mind focused on copying and memorizing each one of them, stopped the insanity she was suffering in Konoha; she stopped returning to those hallucinations of Orochimaru's temptations and augmented reality mindscape in which all she saw was endless fog and deaths of all her loved ones and insanity and Orochimaru telling her to defect from Konoha and join him to avoid killing her friends. While the temptation was still there, Sakura's willpower managed to overcome all that.

Not only did the training help, but Inner Sakura's presence too. Inner Sakura was a corporal body of her inner self inside her mindscape, and while Inner Sakura was suffocating, Inner wasn't going to die. (Inner Sakura doesn't just die from lack of air and too much Curse Mark fog.)

And Inner Sakura, while her presence wasn't strong enough to erase the Curse mark presence, Inner still served as a throttle blocking Curse Mark from taking over her ENTIRE MIND…. The Curse Mark only took up 40% of her mind because Inner Sakura was just fat.

So the combination of both the distraction from Kakashi's training, and Inner Sakura's existence, grounded Sakura back to reality.

She felt so much better. Sane again. It was time to return to Konoha.

The sunrise was breaktaking that dawn.

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"This training was amazing, Kakashi-sensei." Sakura stated, wind blowing through her wispy hair. "Thank you for teaching me how to protect myself, and to protect my friends. And for giving me the tools to fight..the enemy."

Kakashi gazed, standing a few feet to the side, proud of his student, as they stared over the horizon and the endless lands beneath them. "Haruno Sakura, I taught you the fundamentals of everything I know. There's… more to it. There's a lot more to the ninjutsu I taught you, you have to hone these techniques through years of practice. Those can't be taught to you overnight, you have to train your skills and chakra through using the techniques yourself."

Sakura nodded, feeling the crisp, strong mountain wind blow at them both. The cold prickled her skin and gave her goosebumps. "I can learn the rest by myself, if you don't have time to train me in the future. You didn't just load me with quantities of ninjutsu using Sharingan that we both possess, you taught me how to learn. " You taught me how you managed to gain mastery over 1000 ninjutsu, instead of simply passing 1000 ninjutsu to me.

Although, Kakashi-sensei had done that. He made her sit there and watch as he demonstrated each and every ninjutsu, and made her explain the chakra theory behind each of the techniques. She didn't have to perform 1000 ninjutsu, but she watched Kakashi, in front of her, perform each of the 1000 ninjutsu he'd stolen from enemy nin, in front of her. As though she was watching a show, or a live tutorial. Sakura learned how each technique worked… At this rate, she suspected that she was possibly, maybe even capable of inventing ninjutsu the same way Orochimaru could….

For one month, Sakura had been practicing her taijutsu (learning Kakashi's martial arts and taijutsu, including techniques Kakashi picked up from Might Guy, and his own assassination-type taijutsu.) For one month, Sakura attempted to use a Chidori each day until she could manage two Chidori per day. And for one month, Sakura built up her chakra reserves by walking up and down the mountain walls, and watched Kakashi demonstrate endless ninjutsu, taijutsu, and genjutsu techniques in front of her, inscribing each technique into her memory using the Sharingan.

These were all Kakashi.

Sakura wanted something of her own.

Low-level sealing (fuuinjutsu) was her own, and medical ninjutsu was hers too, along with Fireball Technique which she learned from the Uchiha Libraries before everything was abandoned post-massacre. She also knew how to enhance her strength to make powerful punches, something she wishes to say that she invented, but a lot of this knowledge came from Obito-kun telling her outright what to do and pressuring, demanding her to pretend she had the Byakugan and Gentle First (even though she didn't,) and forcing her to study up on how to perform chakra enhanced punches but specifically medical ninjutsu (both went hand-in-hand due to the pinpoint chakra control required.) While those were hard times, those aggressive demands from Obito-kun helped her in the end.

But everything was learned from other people.

Sakura wanted to invent a ninjutsu of her own from scratch, without a teacher telling her exactly what to do or a book telling her exactly what to do. Sakura heard of Kakashi inventing the Chidori and the Fourth Hokage inventing the Rasengan, she wanted to do something with that Chidori of hers, in combination with that medical ninjutsu she learned.

And she instantly had an idea. "Hey Sensei," Sakura called out, "I want to invent a ninjutsu...So I'm going to try something right now. Watch me."

Kakashi's eyes snapped to Sakura instantly. "Wait," Kakashi quickly summoned and pulled out a very long scroll from his ninja pouch. "Sakura, sign…" my Ninken (Dog) Summoning Contract.

But he didn't finish his sentence, because he didn't want to risk interrupting Sakura lest she screw something up dangerously. He held his breath beneath his mask and stared at her for life.

Sakura closed her eyes, ran her Chidori up her ;eft arm, feeling the way her chakra pathways and nerve pathways adjusted to allow the lightning to flow through her veins to the palm of her hand, forming the Chidori. She's performed this jutsu once a day, until twice a day, for a month. It was time to try something new.

Using the palm of her other hand, she altered the tenketsu and nerve pathways of the rest of her body (including her other arm, her legs, her waist, and basically her entire body) to copy the chakra and nerve pathways that connected her stomach to the hand that was holding the Chidori. She altered all these pathways of her body, into lightning-natured pathways, that could channel electricity.

She had full focus, but she managed it. Now, her entire body can run Chidori, not just her hand.

Lightning flickered and sizzled back and forth across her entire body. (Note: Imagine A from Naruto Shippuden, or Killua from Hunter x Hunter, or Remi from UnOrdinary.)

Sakura had cracked the Lightning Release Cloak.

(Canon Description of Lightning Release Cloak:

It was with this technique, that Ay became the fastest ninja in the world after Minato's passing. The Lightning Release Cloak works by coating the user's body in lightning chakra, greatly amping their strength, reaction, durability, and speed.

The lightning chakra used by this cloak stimulates the user's nervous system, which directly results in an extraordinary boost to speed and reaction time. The cloak is also durable enough to deflect most attacks and Sasuke's Chidori was only just barely able to pierce the cloak. The lightning chakra also enhances the user's taijutsu, combining to create a powerful variant known as nintaijutsu. The Lightning Release Cloak allowed Ay to thrash Sasuke with a newly awakened Mangekyo Sharingan and keep up with Madara Uchiha alongside the Five Kage.)

In other words, Sakura has invented one jutsu that Kakashi-sensei never copied, never showed her, and never seen.

It was the Lightning Release Cloak, (a technique which, coincidentally, somewhere far away, in Kumogakure, the Raikage A also possessed a variation of. )

Kakashi's scroll dropped all the way down to the ground, with the sound of a papery clak, a thump, paper colliding with dry canyon rock.

"How did you….." Kakashi's Single Tomoe underneath his headband spun to life, his Sharingan glowing underneath his headband even before he pulled up his headband to get a better look at Sakura's body. He pulled up his headband to see whether rit's for real, and watched lightning sizzle all throughout Sakura's body.

The Sharingan showed Kakashi that if he touched Sakura right at that moment, on any part of her body, that he would be electrocuted to death if he were a civilian or low-level ninja. However, Sakura herself was standing fine, immune to the lightning, as though it were a light breeze or light tickle, or simply an extension of her body, or simply her own chakra running through her chakra pathways (even though it was hot lightning.)

Kakashi was shocked, his Sharingan spinning to copy the technique. However, he couldn't pull off this technique because it combined medical ninjutsu into it, and Kakashi didn't have the chakra control for the precise medical ninjutsu (and ninjutsu combination) required for Sakura's variation of the lightning cloak. (It was like using Sharingan to copy the pinpoint chakra-enhanced strength and advanced medical ninjutsu. Kakashi only copied the most basic iryo ninjutsu.) There was a reason Kakashi only performed the most minimal healing jutsu, and why he always carried med kids, it was because Sharingan couldn't copy that precise without the chakra control for it; for that reason, Sakura held potential to surpass Kakashi; and Sakura had both eyes and, as far as he was concerned, a native Uchiha... He imagined that. (He would've never imagined those were skilled implants, as well, just like him, just more professional and pre-planned.)

Regardless, finally, Sakura had invented a technique no one else had, that she could teach Kakashi-sensei over time. The same way a student who surpasses a Sensei teaches a sensei; how the Yondaime Minato invented the Rasengan and taught his Sensei, Jiraiya.

The fact that Sakura had invented anything at all, Kakashi was incredibly baffled….She's truly a prodigy, no, a legend… and now, with all that I taught her….She'll be even more capable, and someday….may even become Hokage…..

Kakashi remembered back then, about Obito's dream to become Hokage and carve his face, goggles included, onto the Hokage Monuments, and his heart clenched. He held no regrets on teaching Sakura everything he knew about ninjutsu and showing her the thousand up his arsensal. Because a Hokage, facing the entire world, daimyos and foreign countries, lands, and enemy shinobi villages, needed everything they could get.

For Sakura, the girl who he secretly planned to ensure to become Hokage eventually, to be able to take on that mantle and survive, she needed to become Hokage-level in terms of raw power and battle capacity and skill. And that was why, Kakashi had no problem showing her the majority of his techniques so that she could have an idea.

Because, while she hasn't even performed these techniques, they'd give her something to pull out and practice while he wasn't there. (Although he made sure to remind her to not practice any of these thousand techniques unsupervised.)

Nonetheless, Sakura Haruno was a Legend in the making, and Kakashi Hatake was proud to think, he trained this one….. And while it wouldn't make up for all his sins of his past, it alleviated a tiny amount of his life failures towards failing Obito Uchiha. While it didn't, and never would, make up for how he failed Obito, this was the least he could do for Obito; by sticking up for her (politically) and giving her everything (jutsu related.) The least he could do to pay Obito back for getting him on the right track of life; shinobi who abandon their comrades over the rules, are worse than scum.

"I am proud of you, Sakura," Kakashi said deeply. "Come here. I have something to give you."

Sakura's entire body glowed of blue lightning as she walked over to Kakashi.

Kakashi picked up his Ninken Summoning Contract, and held it out to Sakura. As Sakura reached for it, Kakashi held it UP and out of her reach (he was nearly twice her height.) "Hey!"

"Turn it off, we wouldn't want your lightning accidentally incinerating this Summoning Contract, it's extremely valuable. Only one of its kind in the world," Kakashi exaggerated. It was custom-made by members the small Hatake Clan (technically, at this time period, he was the last Hatake though.) Regardless, the Hatake could make multiple versions of these scrolls should any of them get destroyed, but that wasn't the point. His father, Sakumo, created this scroll, so it was a family heirloom.

Sakura turned off her lightning release cloak skillfully, as though it were her own chakra she had perfect control over. Sakura opened her mouth, "Of course Sensei. I can control the voltage, I would never destroy a summoning contract."

Kakashi-sensei quirked an eyebrow. Then, he eye-smiled, holding out the scroll for Sakura to take. "I'll kill you if you leave a scratch on this one," he jovially threatened as Sakura carefully took the scroll, with Sakura internally praying to all the gods that this scroll was insured.

Sakura used a thumb, to wipe some of the blood tears bleeding from her eyes (from the Sharingan Eye strain,) and signed her name Haruno Sakura right after the row that stated Hatake Kakashi. She skimmed the names and saw, above Kakashi's name was Hatake Sakumo, a name which history books went down calling him a traitor who sabotaged a pivotal mission that started an entire Shinobi War, and committed suicide out of shame and lost honor. This all was prior to her birth.

And it dawned to her that Kakashi was, essentially, the son of the hisotrical pariah who was branded as a war traitor to Konoha who eventually committed suicide.

Perhaps, maybe, this was why Kakashi threw himself into countless suicidal missions, again and again, and again. His ostracized and estranged, black sheep father, his friend Obito-kun, and Rin who he killed, all met unfortunate fates.

There were a few other Hatakes before Sakumo, but those scarce names were faded out and indicated Ninja Hounds were an old summoning, but not ancient; these ninken and this type of contract were only a few generations old.

Sakura signed her name respectfully onto the Contract, and handed the scroll back to Kakashi-sensei. Kakashi whistled as he held open the scroll and eyed the signature.

"You have quite messy handwriting," Kakashi observed. He smiled and tucked the scroll away inside his pouch. "You will meet Pakkun, Bull, Urushi, Shiba, Bisuke, Akino, Uhei, and Guruko. Those are my eight ninja hounds. You may summon them at any time you need them while I'm not using them, and I'll teach you who does what." Kakashi smiled. "Think of this as your reward for working so hard this month."

"A gift of a Summoning Contract…" Sakura realized, lips parted. She started hopping about in excitement. "Thank you Senseii!"

"Maa, maa," Kakashi petted her head, to try to calm her down. "It's for your safety as well, not only as a reward."

Sakura wiped a tear from her eye, trying to hold back a smile. "Thank you, Sensei. Tracking dogs, I love them. I can think of so many uses for them." So many pranks. "I mean official ninja uses," Sakura added upon seeing Kakashi's look.

Kakashi smiled at her.

Suddenly, there was a distant caw in the air. A messenger hawk.

The caws became louder and louder as the hawk closed in its distance.

Finally, as Kakashi reached out his arm gautlet, the Hawk landed onto Kakashi's arm and gave an encrypted, coded letter to Kakashi, in ANBU code that Kakashi would understand.

Kakashi opened the letter, and read the code.

"EMERGENCY. GET BACK TO KONOHA, NOW.

Signed,

Hiruzen Sarutobi

Lord Hokage."

Kakashi instantly burned the letter into crisp, as the messenger hawk squawked and flew upwards and away.

He turned towards Sakura.

"We need to return to Konoha. What a pity, I was going to introduce you to each of the ninken, but we have to go."

Sakura swallowed. It must be an emergency in Konoha; oh no, what's going on there? Are Naruto and Sasuke safe? Sakura swallowed.

"I have to report to the Hokage Office as soon as possible, for an ANBU mission that's assigned for me specifically. Will you be fine on your own?" Kakashi wasn't pressuring Sakura to come back with him, since he knew that Sakura left Konoha for a reason, Curse-Mark related. He wasn't going to pressure her to come with her, he knew and respected that Sakura needed to recover first, away from everyone.

What he didn't realize, is that thanks to him and all this, she already did.

"Let's return together," Sakura said bravely. She was fine now. Besides, even if she wasn't fine, she knew from Kakashi's reaction, that Konoha was potentially in danger, and that means Naruto and Sasuke might be in danger. Ready or not, she would go back as soon as possible, too. "Let's go. And don't wait for me if you're faster than me, Kakashi-sensei. Get to the Hokage Office first."

As though reading her thoughts, Kakashi nodded. "Be careful Sakura. Naruto is with Jiraiya for training, so don't bother looking for him when you get back, he's not in the village. As for Sasuke, you can check on him when you get back, he's still in Konoha, probably at home. However, it's late, so don't wander around at night," Kakashi warned her. "Checking isn't necessary, he's most likely sleeping fine and the threat is low otherwise the encoded message would've been something else entirely. Just go home and stay put, until the tournaments."

After I check on Sasuke, Sakura thought. "Okay sensei, thanks for caring," Sakura replied, impatiently. "Let's go." She was more than ready, and while it was a pity she couldn't meet the ninken yet, there was always next time.

Kakashi nodded, and they both smiled to each other, and gave a slight inclination of their heads, a slight bow, sensei and student full of respect. And they both held their hands into the Body Flicker hand seal (a technique Kakashi taught Sakura during this training,) and they both vanished. Kakashi in a whirl of leaves, Sakura in a whirl of cherry blossoms (genjutsu aesthetic and transformation jutsu.)

Leaf and cherry blossom blew in the wind, a thousand kilometers all the way back to Konoha.

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To be continued.

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Hello reader. Thank you so much for reading, 4/22/2020 update! Hope you're safe! Please leave comments. I'm going to continue updating this story because the plot is going to progress nicely. Yes some people might complain that Sakura is "overpowered" but that's their problem- think of Madara Uchiha. Think of Obito Uchiha (the real Obito.) Think of all the Akatsuki, of the Six Paths of Pein, and so on. (Also, Kaguya and Ootsutsukis won't exist in this story. I love all the political machinations and ninja politics, evil scheming, power grabs and plots. I need more of that.) So yeah thanks for reading!

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