"How dangerous are we talking here?"
"It would involve introducing her to several kunoichi that would break her, break her in a way that she may never recover from. The alternative is to let her grow out of it," said Sarutobi.
"Ah, well, she may not live long enough to grow out of it," said Naruto seriously.
"I'll talk to some people, if you pass your test tomorrow, I'll arrange for her to meet some people."
"Thanks, jiji."
"Get out of here, brat."
Naruto grinned and left with a wave.
"What took you so long?" demanded Sakura.
Naruto rolled his eyes but answered anyway. "Kakashi-sensei showed up and jiji read him the riot act. You ready to go?"
Sakura frowned. "This isn't a date right? You're not trying to trick me and surprise me with some kind of romantic picnic are you?"
"While that's not a bad idea, this is not a training field to do that in, in fact, bringing food to this field could make things much worse."
"Alright, let's go already and get this over with, I have plans tonight," she said gruffly.
"Okay, let's go," said Naruto, leading her to the training field.
As soon as they arrived Naruto pulled a handful of weapons and sprayed them across the field behind Sakura, causing her to jump in surprise and charge to hit Naruto.
Naruto ducked under Sakura's swing and sliced a rat in half that had jumped after her.
Sakura turned to try and strike Naruto again only to see the bisected rat falling out of the air.
"Chakra rats, arm yourself and fight," ordered Naruto. "Kage Bunshin no Jutsu," called Naruto forming twenty copies of himself, all armed with kunai.
Sakura blanched and pulled a pair of kunai herself when she felt something bite into the back of her ankle causing her to cry out in pain.
"Damned ankle-biters," complained Naruto, stabbing the one that bit her. "You've got to watch the ground as much as the air. The next wave is coming now."
Sakura turned to see Naruto attacking another wave of rats, including some larger rats that were half as big as she was. She was stunned to see Naruto attacking them so fiercely, him and his clones both. It was unbelievable, the boy she knew to be the dead last, an annoying pain in the ass that never stopped bugging her for dates and here he was protecting her, showing just how big the gap was between them.
"Sakura-chan, stop spacing out and start fighting or you're going to really get hurt," demanded Naruto, exploding into smoke a moment later as one of the larger rats bit into him.
It worked to snap her out of her funk as she began helping Naruto to kill rat after rat. They must have killed a hundred rats in the course of the afternoon. Sakura was definitely breathing heavy, feeling exhausted by all the fighting. When the last rat died, she dropped to her knees, gasping for air. She'd never felt so tired in her life.
"Okay, here comes the big one," said Naruto, he wasn't nearly as tired or beat up as Sakura but he still looked worse for wear.
"Big one?" she screamed in outrage. "What are you talking about?" That was when the ground began to shake.
Naruto pulled out a stack of explosive tags and held them out to Sakura. "I'm going to piss it off and keep its focus on me. While I do that, you need to put all of those tags on it. Understand?"
Sakura took the tags and nodded tiredly.
A moment later, the biggest, ugliest rat Sakura had ever seen burst out of the ground. Upon seeing it she was half tempted to lose her lunch and probably would have if she'd bothered to eat a lunch today.
Naruto charged forward, faster than anything Sakura had seen before.
"Come on you ugly bastard, I killed your food, I can sure as hell kill you too. I killed your brother the other day, just as ugly as you too but definitely smelled better," taunted Naruto, the rats eyes flashed red as it charged at Naruto in a rage.
Sakura saw her opening and ran forward, place tags on every open space she could see, as she was going around behind the thing she had to dodge several wild swings of its tail before she could get to the other side of it. With her last tag on she jumped clear. "It's clear, Naruto!"
Naruto, jumped back to create some distance, giving Sakura the time she needed.
"Katsu!" she called out priming her chakra into the tags causing them to detonate in one massive boom.
When the smoke cleared the rat looked much angrier but it was missing two legs and half its face.
"Kage Buki no jutsu," shouted Naruto throwing the two kunai he had in hand.
Sakura was mystified as the two kunai Naruto threw turned into hundreds of kunai stabbing into the rat repeatedly, finally killing the ugly bastard. She was again mystified as the rat rapidly decomposed leaving behind a stack of ryo.
"It left money?" she asked confused but also relieved.
"Must have eaten it at some point, or eaten someone that had it in his or her pocket," suggested Naruto with a shrug picking up the money and splitting it in half. "Here's your half," said Naruto holding out half the money to her.
"Thanks," said Sakura, still confused. "Do they always decompose that fast?"
"From what I've seen, the chakra mutation makes them unstable or something," explained Naruto.
"Oh," said Sakura, finally taking the money from Naruto.
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