Once I decided to be a ninja, I didn't hesitate any more. I got ready for the day and headed out to discover how strong or weak I really was.
Strong, incredibly strong. Now I know why the me from yesterday didn't feel any need to train hard anymore. Jumping over 10 feet in the air, easy. Running over 100 meters in less than five seconds, easy. Throwing ninja weapons wherever I wanted them to go, easy. Doing hundreds of pushups, pull ups, crunches, easy. Running over 20 miles, easy. Katas done correctly and accurately, easy.
This is already better than super soldiers, while not as good as Spider-Man, it is definitely stronger than Captain America.
It is normal for a 12 year old girl to let this kind of strength go to her head and think that she doesn't need to train anymore, she was already stronger than her Genin parents.
The one that really blew me away was how fast I was. Due to our shape and wind resistance as humans run faster than 100 meters per 10 seconds things will become exponentially more difficult. The air will become like an invisible concrete wall, just leaning down in a ninja run is not enough to reduce this effect.
100 meters in 5 seconds was actually faster than what Master Roshi ran in the original Dragon Ball before training Goku. The reason being that running 100 meters in 5 seconds is definitely much more than 2 times as difficult as running 100 meters in 10 seconds, it is more like 100 times more difficult.
The reason I can run this fast is due to chakra. Obviously, chakra increases my strength, but not enough to run that fast or jump that high. I just leak chakra out of my skin, around my body making the chakra slippery, and the air just slides right around me. It's an easy technique that all ninja use.
It is one of the ten ninja techniques.
Ten not three, there is no such thing as the academy three. No one calls them that and the academy taught 10 ninja techniques on top of all the other things a ninja should know.
1. Putting your chakra on your skin and making it sticky - the Leaf Concentration Exercise.
2. Putting your chakra on your skin and making it slippery - the Rope Escape Technique.
3. Adding your chakra to an object and letting the object's color and pattern blend into the environment, this is normally done with a sheet or cloak - The Cloak of Invisibility Technique. Often used by Konohamaru to sneak up on Naruto.
4. Covering yourself with your chakra and using it to change how you look - The Transformation Technique.
5. Covering an object with your chakra to make it appear to be yourself - The Body Replacement Technique.
6. Shaping your chakra in the air to appear to be yourself - The Clone Jutsu.
7. Leaking your Chakra to reduce wind resistance.
8. Sealing something, usually into a seal scroll - the sealing technique. The scrolls made with Fuinjutsu do not do this for you automatically, you still have to learn this technique to seal things. This is just the basic sealing technique.
9. Unsealing something - the unsealing technique. These two techniques are actually different techniques. Often used with explosive scrolls.
10. Chakra pulse, used to release yourself or others from illusion - The Release Technique.
These ten ninja techniques are the foundation for becoming an excellent ninja. They even teach you a lot of different ways to manipulate your chakra, making it easier to learn new techniques.
My proficiency in all of them is extremely high, even better than my parents. This explains why Original Sakura's growth as a ninja exploded when Tsunade trained her for 3 years. While Naruto's time with Jiraiya was spent practicing his foundational skills and he didn't appear to get much stronger during that time, but after he came back from this training he started to get stronger like a rocket.
A strong foundation for your skills gives you the ability to gain strength at a faster rate. This is why, so called, geniuses learn faster than normal people, as you know more, it becomes easier to know even more, and it snowballs.
There was a joke back in my old world that said one year of constant effort is not as good as one month of cheating. This was obviously referring to Sasuke's speed equaling Rock Lee's one year of effort in only a single month before the third round of the Chunin exams.
This joke is humorous, but untrue. Guy once said that when he met Lee he didn't have any talent, not even in Taijutsu. When Rock Lee became his student his foundation must have been terrible.
Sasuke's foundation is actually extremely strong. Currently, he is only a little weaker at chakra control, but he beats me in every other foundational skill. Once he learns tree climbing during the wave mission he will become much stronger than he is now, while tree climbing will not actually increase my strength much because my chakra control is the least of my problems.
It had nothing to do with genius. There is no such thing, in order to become great so called geniuses have been working hard when other people have been playing around.
He didn't say this exactly, but Jiraiya once told Naruto that there are two ways to get stronger. One way is to strengthen and make up for your weaknesses and another way is to strengthen your strengths to the extreme, this is right before he taught Naruto to summon toads.
I already know both my strengths and my weaknesses, the question I have to ask myself is whether strengthening my strengths or my weaknesses will keep me safer in the future.
Obviously, I don't have a lot of time to get stronger, my main worry is not about Kakashi's test, I don't need to be any stronger to pass it. My worry right now is about the wave mission. I have about a week and a month to prepare for it. Original Sakura didn't fight at all during it, during all the fighting she was standing in front of the client protecting him according to the mission requirements, but that doesn't mean that I will not have to fight either. The future has already changed and I cannot guarantee my safety.
I once hear a conspiracy theory that Kakashi never trained Original Sakura like he did Sasuke because she did really badly during the test. He was testing her in Genjutsu, which the ninja school had marked down as her greatest talent, and she lost instantly at the lowest level of test.
This is unlikely, Kakashi is not actually obligated to teach me anything. Jonin leaders of Genin are not obligated to teach anything. They are called sensei, but they are not actually teachers like Iruka. We are actually his subordinates.
This was also common in Japan in my previous life, many people are called Sensei, but they are not actually expected to teach anyone anything. People under them are just given a chance to watch what they do and copy them, while working for them.
Original Sakura's strengths were a double personality, chakra control, and great memorization ability.
During the Chunin exams Ino got into Original Sakura's mind and confirmed that Inner was a separate personality. Since I got here I have not noticed any signs of a separate personality, but this doesn't mean that I have lost the talent that came with it.
In the world of Naruto, a second personality is a sign of being talented at Genjutsu and Yin Release, but it is usually only there because the person is unable to handle their own talent, and it doesn't bestow any real benefits, except maybe fighting against ninjas that invade your brain for you, which is obviously uncommon, the second personality disappearing is a sign that the main personality has become strong enough to handle their own talent. So, I am not worried about Inner Sakura being missing, the talent should still be there.
Me having a talent for Genjutsu is already known by the Konoha higher ups and my classmates. The Original Sakura was constantly tested in Genjutsu, Kakashi and Iruka both tested this talent after the she graduated. Even Sasuke got the her to brag about the class number being wrong, when she was obviously spacing out. She only failed during Kakashi's test and she never did anything with this talent.
Medical ninjutsu is actually the hardest kind of jutsu. While this is true for all medical ninjutsu, it is especially true for Yang release medical ninjutsu. Despite Tsunade's wishes, we will never have enough medical ninja to put one on every squad, they are just too rare and precious.
The reason for this is that medical ninjutsu requires a very large amount of biological knowledge. The people who are able to memorize a large amount of knowledge easily are generally of the Yin nature. Yin nature is the power of the mind. Being Yin natured means that using Yang Release is extremely difficult, like trying to teach a Fire Natured person Water Release.
On top of this, this person also has to have extremely good chakra control.
The difficulty of being able to do this at all is so high that actually being talented at it is definitely at a cheat level.
Original Sakura was definitely a talent at medical ninjutsu. She became one of the best in only three years. The normal speed for smart people is more than ten years to learn.
It would be like going to the hospital and finding out the doctor is actually only 15 years old, most people would not even believe it.
This is an amazing talent, although this talent doesn't look as amazing as doing an eye replacement surgery in a cave when ninja could swoop down to attack at anytime at 12 years old.
Original Sakura' weaknesses were lack of bloodline and lack of ninja family.