This choice: Apprentice of the Queen of Medics, Tsunade! • Go Back...Chapter #6Convince Tsunade to teach Naruto-as-Sakura by: Triage   "Please!"
The fifth Hokage looked up upon hearing a voice, having ignored the incoming footsteps as she went over mission reports in her office. Naruto's teammate, Sakura, was bowing before her.
"Make me your apprentice!"
Fire burned in Naruto's eyes as he stared Tsunade in the eyes from behind Sakura's face. The queen of medics considered her for a moment, before finally replying. "Haruno Sakura. I've heard from Kakashi that you're intelligent and that you have a strong spirit." Tsunade smiled in a predatory manner. "Alright. I won't go easy on you."
Naruto beamed. "Alright!"
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What happened over the next few months was incredible. Tsunade had been led to believe that her new apprentice had poor stamina, but the reality was anything but. With a mind like a bear trap and the creativity and off the wall thinking to get around any problems she encountered, Tsunade's new apprentice was rapidly progressing at a pace that was practically unheard of. Tsunade had already begun to teach Sakura her strength augmentation technique and some higher level illusions in an effort to distract the poor girl from her missing teammate. After Naruto was missing for a full month and no word had been heard of the blond brat, Tsunade had concluded the worst, and only thanked the gods that the Kyubi appeared to have died with him. Tsunade assumed the curse of the First Hokage's necklace had struck again. When Jiraiya confessed that the toads could no longer contact Naruto, well... that was the final nail in the coffin.
The confirmation of Naruto's passing had brought Tsunade and Sakura together though, the two comforting each other as best they were able. Tsunade had smiled when Sakura declared she would take up Naruto's dream of being Hokage, and somehow suborned Jiraiya into lending his expertise to Sakura's instruction when she revealed an interest in sealing. And Sakura blossomed under the tutelage of the loyal members of the Sannin, rapidly receiving an out of testing promotion to chunin. It might've been protested as favoritism were it not for the fact that Sakura proved ten times over that she could back it up.
Meanwhile, Sasuke had more or less become Kakashi's apprentice as the man's sole student. However, he had become more and more withdrawn over the months that passed, until eventually, he abandoned the village.
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Naruto was shocked when he heard what her old teammate had done. Alongside Shikamaru, she prepared to retrieve the wayward Uchiha and gathered a team. Kiba was tapped for his nose and tracking skills, alongside Neji for his eyes and skills in non lethal takedowns. Chouji was considered, but passed over for his relatively poor travel speed. After a brief debate between the two chunin, Shino was tapped as well for his ability to drain chakra.
As the mission went on, team members were forced to drop out in order to counter the harriers that broke off from the Oto honor guard sent to retrieve Sasuke. After a drawn out battle between Naruto and a bone wielding Oto ninja, Gaara dropped in and took up the battle for Naruto. Thankful for the intervention, Naruto shot off to pursue Sasuke.
The battle was long and drawn out, but there was some interesting things Sasuke said that made Naruto think. Sasuke criticized Sakura for having it all; training under two of the Sannin, her family. And then he spoke of something far more interesting to Naruto.
Killing your best friend granted a Sharingan wielder a new dojutsu. Granted, he didn't outright state it, but memories of Sakura studying the history of the Uchiha clan as a little girl sprang up. This was the secret to Madara Uchiha's power. But the apprentice of the Hokage had access to reports and knowledge that was otherwise kept secret. Madara had needed to steal his brother's eyes for his new eyes rejected him. And all the members of Team 7 were well aware that Kakashi had an implanted Sharingan eye.
So Naruto wondered; what if she killed Sasuke... and took his Sharingan? Would that satisfy the conditions for the eyes of Madara capable of controlling ever the Kyubi?
Only one way to find out.
Crushing Sasuke's chest felt surprisingly satisfying, particularly with the immense surprise that appeared on Sasuke's face on having Tsunade's strength technique destroy his ribcage and spine. Rapidly shifting to triage mode, Naruto kept Sasuke's now disabled body alive with one hand while the other worked at taking off Sakura's face.
Sasuke's shock at that was even better.
Still kept alive and conscious, though paralyzed, by Naruto's medic techniques, Sasuke watched in shock as Naruto carefully removed an eye from her head, Sakura's mouth a parody of a hood around her face. Naruto tossed the eye and repeated the procedure on Sasuke's active Sharingan, placing it within her empty eye socket. Naruto's regeneration kicked in and integrated the foreign organ in a flash. Naruto grinned and repeated the process with Sasuke's remaining Sharingan.
Naruto felt that performing a double ocular transplant on herself with one hand was rather impressive. She removed the First Hokage's neclace from where it had been sitting beneath the Sakura skin and pulled it back into place, marveling at how the world looked so very different from behind the Sharingan.
"What's this called Sasuke-kun? These new eyes of mine. They're the best present you could have gotten me for my apprenticeship. Oh, you're so romantic." Naruto asked in Sakura's voice in a gross parody of her old behavior.
Sasuke, still in shock, answered numbly. "Eternal Mangekyo Sharingan."
Naruto smiled, not that Sasuke could see it, and finally allowed him to die. Crushing the skull with a Tsunade strength punch, Naruto felt she had disposed of the evidence fairly well. Still smiling, she sealed the battered remains of Sasuke into a scroll and prepared to return to Konoha to report the results of the mission. She would report that Sasuke had killed Naruto out of jealousy, confessed in the heat of battle, and had foolishly kept the First Hokage's neclace as a trophy. Sakura would return to Konoha the avenger of her teammate's murder, retrieving the First Hokage's necklace from a would be traitor, a hero with the tragic tale of being forced to kill her traitor teammate, and the apprentice of the Fifth Hokage. The spiffy new fancy eyes didn't hurt either.
Checking Sakura's appearance in the water of the surrounding battlefield, Naruto was satisfied to see that though she had the Super Sharingan active, only Sakura's green appeared. Twirling the scroll that held the corpse in her hand, Naruto left to Konoha, now the fusion of the greatest pieces of each member of Team 7.
Naruto considered how to break the news to Ino; two grief stricken girls might try to comfort each other in... wonderful ways...   indicates the next chapter needs to be written. |
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