In the morning, Sakura, Naruto and Sasuke walked to school with her parents. The Haruno couple was supposed to meet Tsunade and Shizune at the Hokage Tower, to officially register Sakura as the Sannin 's apprentice and grantee.

Truthfully, Sakura had thought about leaving a clone with the boys, in order to meet Shisui and Itachi if they happened to be free for some training. She also had to apologize to the latter. Shisui may have made a joke of Itachi 's indignation at not being told that Sakura had been approached by ROOT when he visited her late the previous night, but they both knew that the Uchiha heir was displeased by their silence. The last thing she ' and Shisui ' wanted was to hurt Itachi 's feelings.