Naruto: Reborn as Sakura with Manyuu Chifusa Template

Before parting ways, the previous evening, Sakura, Karin and Ino had agreed to visit Tenten in the hospital. They had also invited Hinata, but she'd unfortunately been forced to decline, since she was quite busy with training these days. The loss of her Byakugan had rendered all of her previous specialized Hyūga training completely useless— but despite this major setback, Hinata still wished to remain a shinobi. As such, her sensei Kurenai had prepared a whole suite of training sessions for her to get used to her new mundane eyes and for her to pick a new fighting style.

And so, the following morning, Sakura stepped into Konoha Hospital's Entrance Hall, where they had all agreed to meet.

"Over here, onee-sama!" Karin called out to Sakura, ignoring the nurses shushing her. "We're over here!"

"Remind me to take you clothes shopping after this," said Ino critically, giving Sakura a once-over. "That dress needs to go— that zip has clearly seen better days…"

It was true that Sakura's dress no longer quite fit her explosive physique— her cleavage was quite literally bursting out of her clothes; breast flesh bulging over her dress's edges. Sakura couldn't zip her dress all the way up to her neck— not if she wanted to turn the zip into a lethal projectile weapon. As a result, she had adopted Tsunade's style of dress that revealed her inner sideboob.

"Maybe another time," said Sakura, who definitely couldn't afford new clothes. "So, are we going to see Tenten, or not?"

"But you can't keep walking around looking like this!" argued Ino. "Sooner or later, those things are going to cause an accident!"

Sakura was now pretty sure that Ino was just jealous— how could she ever hope to seduce Sasuke, when she had boobzilla as a competitor?

"Low-cut dresses help with airflow," Sakura insisted. "Look, when you're as big as I am, you tend to get sweaty boobs— I just don't want to get a rash, you know?"

Besides, the weapons of mass distraction were very distracting— that was the entire point, they were very useful when Sakura needed to fight against men!

"But…"

Ino scowled at Sakura's breasts, desperately trying to find an argument that would get her to show less cleavage. And when she couldn't, she turned on her heel in a huff and stalked away, heading up the stairs to Tenten's hospital ward— dressing inappropriately was one thing, and proper skincare was quite another!

A short walk later, Sakura and Karin followed Ino into Tenten's room, where they found the Fifth Hokage hunched over a bed. Tsunade was holding her palm over Tenten's forehead, her eyes screwed shut in concentration.

"What's wrong with Tenten, Lady Tsunade?" asked Ino worriedly. "Will she be all right?"

"We're not quite sure yet," Tsunade sighed, opening her eyes. "Tenten doesn't exhibit any signs of having received any external trauma or having been subjected to any soporific substances."

From what Tsunade had been told, Tenten had fainted after trying to attack the two strangers in a rage, which would have led her to believe that Tenten had experienced a simple syncope. In her opinion, emotional stress was clearly the culprit behind Tenten's state— extreme emotions can cause one's blood pressure to drop so low that the brain shuts down temporarily as a result.

However, fainting fits weren't supposed to last this long…

"What were you doing with your hand?" asked Sakura curiously. "That wasn't the Mystic Palm Jutsu, was it?"

"I'm creating a weak electric field around my hand using Lightning Style," explained Tsunade. "I was 'reading' Tenten's brainwaves to help me categorize which type of coma she's fallen into. Judging by her brainwaves' frequency, I can tell that she's dreaming— and she might even be able to hear us."

Sakura stared curiously at Tenten's cute sleeping face. Her defences were unprecedentedly low— it would be the perfect opportunity to see what made her tick…

"What it if I tried to put her under a Genjutsu?" Sakura proposed. "If she's awake in there, I might be able to talk to her in her dreams, convince her to wake up in real life…"

"Too risky," said Tsunade, shaking her head. "I will not allow it."

When Sakura wanted to perform a Genjutsu on someone, she would have to make the chakra flow in her victim's brain synchronize with hers, thus plunging them into the imaginary world she had created within her own mind— but synchronizing was a two-way street, as Kurenai had discovered when Itachi had reversed her Genjutsu. If whatever had affected Tenten's consciousness infected Sakura as well, she would also fall into a coma!

"Listen, I know that you're all worried about your friend— Tenten is my precious disciple too," said Tsunade, her expression softening slightly. "Sooner or later, she'll wake up, so we'll just have to wait until then."

A strange expression drew itself on Sakura's face— had Tenten seriously gone behind her back and stolen her rightful spot as Tsunade's number one disciple? Sakura knew that Tenten had always wanted to study under her idol, but her chakra control had never been good enough for Medical Ninjutsu…

It suddenly occurred to Sakura that by this time in the original timeline, the original Sakura would have already begged Tsunade to take her as her apprentice. She couldn't just sit on her laurels and wait for Tsunade to headhunt her— she actually had to take the initiative to ask her to become her disciple!

"I'd like to make a request of you, Lady Tsunade," said Sakura, looking her straight in the eye. "I would like to become your apprentice as well!"

"I also want to study under you, my lady!" Ino hurriedly added. "I'll do whatever it takes!"

"Then, me too!" said Karin excitedly. "Whatever onee-sama wants to learn, I want to learn it too!"

If there was one person who really didn't need to study Medical Ninjutsu, it was Karin. Her blood could already heal all injuries on its own, but the sheer vitality of her yang chakra could very well make her the greatest healer of all time…

Tsunade was touched by the girls' desire to study under her— and all it had taken for them to want to learn Medical Ninjutsu was for their dear friend to get hurt! After years of medic-nin shortages, the medical field was finally popular!

"You're all hardworking young girls with good hearts and bright futures ahead of you," said Tsunade seriously. "Are you really certain that you want to train under me? I'm warning you ahead of time, I won't go easy on you— I will be stricter than any teacher you've ever had!"

"Yes!" Sakura, Ino and Karin cried out.

In truth, their motives were less than pure:

Sakura didn't care about Iryō Ninjutsu, she just wanted an excuse to use the Yin Seal in public!

Ino hated to lose to Sakura, so she couldn't let her one up her again!

As for Karin, she just wanted to be next to her beloved onee-sama at all times!

"Then, it's settled," declared Tsunade. "From now on, you are my disciples!"