Sakura's Training

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Name: Sakura Haruno Gender: Female

Date of birth: August 8th Age: 1 year old

Registration Number: 01601 Team Jonin: Kakashi Hatake

Personal Profile: My hobbies include researching Chakra and Water Release Ninjutsu. My favorite element is water, and my least favorite is impure water. +Top Says

The photo also included a picture of Sakura wearing a simple red turtleneck tracksuit, standing gracefully with her emerald green eyes gazing quietly ahead and a faint smile at the camera.

The Third Hokage exhaled a puff of smoke, his fingers unconsciously tapping on Sakura's ninja registration form. He pulled out the second registration form from the bottom layer; the boy on the form had strange markings on his face and was making a bizarre expression that made everyone chuckle.

The Third rolled his eyes, speechless at Naruto's penchant for pranks and mischief. He then turned to the next picture, which featured the last member of Team 7, Sasuke Uchiha. In the photo, he stared coldly at the camera, his eyes sharp and sinister.

Finally, Jonin Kakashi Hatake's report. The Third Hokage flipped through it while speaking to Kakashi behind him.

"Kakashi... Now that they've passed your test, I'll have to trouble you to take good care of them from now on. You need to be very attentive to them; you can't let your guard down with any of the three kids... Huh? What's this?" The Third flipped to the end of the report, where a sheet was attached.

"Training Ground Damage Report..." The Third grew increasingly uneasy as he read, a bead of cold sweat beading on his forehead. He finished, "...80% of the forest used for the exercises has been destroyed... The estimated cost for repairs is approximately 150,000 taels..."

Beads of cold sweat rolled down the Hokage's face. Kakashi awkwardly scratched his head. "Um... I didn't expect Sakura's Ninjutsu to be so powerful... Ahahahahaha..."

"Let's find a more open space for next training session..." the Lord Hokage, rubbing his forehead in exasperation.

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Konoha Ninja Sakura Haruno's ninja career in Konoha has officially begun.

Team Kakashi's schedule is usually: Monday, Wednesday, and Friday are missions; Tuesday, Thursday, and Saturday are training days; Sunday is either when Kakashi gives a summary and guidance to Team 7, and they practice tactics together, or they have a day off for free activities.

Under Kakashi's guidance, Sakura's training gradually got on track.

Learning new Ninjutsu is secondary; Sakura has her own system when it comes to Water Release. Although Kakashi has copied many Water Release Ninjutsu, most of them are not very meaningful to Sakura, only enriching her Ninjutsu repertoire. Kakashi teaches Sakura a few Water Release every week, and with Sakura's Chakra control, she learns these common Ninjutsu very quickly.

As for the Water Blade Technique series and Ultra-Pure Water, which are the core of Sakura's Ninjutsu, Kakashi didn't offer much guidance. Even the well-informed Kakashi was helpless against these two strange Water Release, especially the Ultra-Pure Water -based Ninjutsu. He had witnessed and was convinced of its power, but he just couldn't understand its underlying Kakashi.

Could such an effect be achieved by infinitely purifying water? Kakashi was completely baffled. He couldn't even understand it, let alone grasp its meaning.

As for improving the Water Blade Technique, Kakashi couldn't think of a good method at the moment. However, Kakashi was experienced in applying the technique.

"Your Water Gun Technique isn't fast enough, which is the biggest drawback in actual combat. If you could be 0.5 seconds or even 1 second faster, you would have had a real chance to beat me in the previous assessment!" Kakashi said to Sakura one Sunday after several weeks of training.

"There are no shortcuts to improving speed; you can only rely on constant practice! I suggest that after you finish a mission, if you still have stamina, keep practicing this move until you run out of Chakra. With consistent practice, you'll definitely make significant progress."

Furthermore, to prevent Sakura from becoming too reliant on the Water Gun Technique and neglecting her Taijutsu and other Ninjutsu, Kakashi forbade her from using this Ninjutsu in sparring practice.

"In short, during regular sparring, you are not allowed to use the Water Blade Technique series. First, for safety reasons, the consequences of hitting someone with this Ninjutsu are very serious. Second, to prevent you from neglecting other aspects of your training. The Super Water Gun Technique is not invincible. If you rely on it too much, you will be at a great disadvantage if you encounter an opponent who counters it, your strength will be greatly reduced, and you may even die as a result."

Of course, there was another reason Kakashi couldn't explain. The Third's expression was already grim when he submitted the damage report to Hokage training grounds last time. If Kakashi had to submit a damage report after every Sakura practice session, the Third would probably kill him... Thinking of this, Kakashi couldn't help but shudder...

"Also, uh... Water Release made of Ultra-Pure Water are difficult to create, so it's best not to use them lightly. I heard that all of them were destroyed by my Fire Style last time?" Kakashi chuckled awkwardly. "Ahaha, I'm really sorry—have you fixed them yet?"

"It can't be that fast!" Sakura glared at Kakashi fiercely; the losses from last time still stung her for a long time.

Sakura's greatest improvement lies in her practical combat experience, skills, and Taijutsu.

The combination of Water Release and Taijutsu — Nintaijutsu —was developed long ago, but it was basically in a semi-abandoned state before.

The special feature of Nintaijutsu is that it greatly enhances Sakura's strength, speed, and explosiveness, while also providing some special points of leverage to facilitate her exertion in various situations. For Taijutsu master, this Ninjutsu is like adding wings to a tiger, but for Sakura, whose Taijutsu is only half-baked, Nintaijutsu can only be used at a half-baked level.

Kakashi was initially very interested in this technique, but after practicing it himself, he quickly realized that to use it in actual combat, one must have extremely high Chakra manipulation skills. In his optimistic estimate, it would take more than ten years to reach Sakura's current level.

Sakura's smugness didn't last long. She soon discovered that compared to her Chakra endowment, her Taijutsu endowment was mediocre at best. In the original story, Sakura didn't have any Taijutsu endowment, and as an ordinary city girl who had transmigrated, she had absolutely no connection with martial arts masters. Her 06 was barely greater than 1, which was nothing compared to her extraordinary Chakra manipulation endowment.

As for the legendary Shadow Clone cheat, it's useless against Sakura, who doesn't have Naruto's abnormal stamina and Chakra. The Shadow Clone is Ninjutsu that creates physical entities by Chakra equally. If a person's Chakra can support them for 8 hours of training, then after creating Shadow Clone, they can only train for 4 hours. Each hour is a double training efficiency, so multiplying by 4 or 8 is meaningless.

The real ninja world doesn't have as many cheating methods as many people imagine. Sakura, who realized that she couldn't use the Shadow Clone Technique for the time being, felt very tired.

As the saying goes, "Early bird catches the worm," and diligence can make up for lack of talent. Sakura could only honestly improve her Taijutsu, punch by punch and kick by kick. Fortunately, with the guidance of Elite Jonin like Kakashi, Sakura's Taijutsu were steadily progressing.

In addition to mastering the timing of Ninjutsu releases and the rhythm of battle, there is another, more important, aspect in actual combat that is not detailed in the manga: the perception of Chakra.

All Ninjutsu is the movement of Chakra.

If we compare Chakra to sound, then each person's Chakra fluctuations are like each person's voice having its own unique vocal pattern, each person having their own unique Chakra aura. Just as we can recognize someone from afar by hearing their voice once we are familiar with them, Chakra fluctuations can also allow us to distinguish different people. Some sensitive people can even memorize a person's Chakra fluctuations after sensing them only once.

Similarly, each Ninjutsu is equivalent to a sentence—the fluctuation of Chakra is the language of Ninjutsu.

When a novice like Sakura faces an elite ninja like Kakashi, the opponent doesn't even need to look; just sensing the Chakra is enough for him to guess what Ninjutsu Sakura and her companions are using. This is because novices don't know how to conceal their Chakra fluctuations when casting techniques, which is tantamount to loudly announcing to others what Ninjutsu they are using.

This is precisely why Kakashi completely saw through Sakura's plan during the assessment. Kakashi had already sensed what Ninjutsu they used. His intelligence advantage was like having a full-map cheat in a game; he knew exactly who was selling out and who was lying in ambush.

Sensing others 'Chakra while Chakra one's own.

This is a skill that every ninja must learn, and it's the most important knowledge Sakura acquired after leaving school.

A ninja's strength is not only reflected in the obvious data such as Ninjutsu, Taijutsu, and Genjutsu, but also in these experiences that cannot be measured by numbers.

In terms of perception, the difference between a sensory ninja, the Byakugan, and an ordinary person is as great as the difference between walking with the lights on and walking in the dark.

Sakura is not a sensory ninja, but thanks to her strong innate mental strength, her perception is much stronger than that of ordinary people, especially at close range, where she is sometimes even more perceptive than sensory ninjas.

However, mastering this skill is no less difficult than learning a foreign language. Even though Sakura considers herself exceptionally gifted in Chakra, she can only rely on hard work and constant practice to accumulate experience. There are no shortcuts.