𝐈𝐦𝐩𝐨𝐬𝐬𝐢𝐛𝐥𝐞 | 𝐒𝐚𝐤𝐮𝐫𝐚 𝐇𝐚𝐫𝐮𝐧𝐨

horse of gold

They lost him for the third time that day.

   Every time Nico and Sakura would get close to their target, he would just disappear. All that they learned about him was his name:

  Gekkou Hayate.

  But that was all, besides his obvious jōnin stature.

   "This is a lot harder than I thought it would be," the pinkette groaned, resting under the shade of a large tree, with the eagle summon roosting up on a low hanging branch. Her forearm was covering her red, sweating face.

   It was the afternoon now, and a cool breeze swept through the trees, causing bells to ring in the distance.

  "Here, here. It's like every time we get close to him, he senses us, and then uses that damn shunshin to get away," he complained, flapping his wings in irritation.

  There was a pause, and then another groan from the pinkette.

"That's just it. He probably can sense us because we haven't been disguising our chakra.. Idiot, I should have realized it before," Sakura berated herself, and put her head into her hands, before pulling away her arms in disgust. She was really sweating.

  The eagle summon spread out his wings and stepped off the branch, drifting down to the pinkette's spot and resting his head on her knee in comfort. "Don't be too hard on yourself. After all, this is training and you're bound to make some mistakes. All that you can do now is learn from them," he said in assurance.

  Sakura nodded. He was right. This was what being a genin was all about. It was a learning process, where you either utterly fail, or you pass. And since she had already hit rock bottom, the only place she could go was up.

  Only fools believe in the impossible.

  She would not be a fool, not again. The weak and useless Sakura was in the past. She disappeared the same day the use of her eyes did. Now, is where she would start over.

  "Disguising my chakra," she started, raising her head and weaving her fingers together in her lap, "requires perfect chakra control and the ability to know your own chakra. The best way to do this is to preform exercises that strengthens your chakra control, such as walking on water or up something without you hands or falling. Mediation also helps to memorize and become familiar with the way it works."

  "What scroll did you swallow?"

   Sakura childishly stuck her tongue out at the summon, who laughed in return.

  "If you must know, I've read a lot of books on chakra due to my infatuation with Tsunade-sama, the Slug Sannin, and strongest kunoichi in the land. She also is the best medic," she explained, putting a finger on her chin in thought. "And even though I've read about a lot of things and understand how they work, doesn't mean I'll actually be able to do then. But I guess all that I can do is try," she finished with a loud sigh.

  There was a big difference about reading in depth something and actually executing the move perfectly.

  Standing up, Sakura forward to stand well away from the tree and turned back to face it. This would be the tree that she would test her chakra control and run up it with no hands.

  "I believe in you, partner!" Nico crowed helpfully, and moved out of the way to go back to his branch.

  The pinkette snorted, and smiled sadly. "You almost sounded like Naruto there for a second," she murmured, and then shook herself out of it. There was no use getting herself down about something that she couldn't help.