Blinking her eyelids to adjust to the light, Sakura took another deep breath, before exhaling from her mouth. Meditating in the Senju estate was ' different. In a good way, of course, since the natural energy was much stronger, much more concentrated between the walls of the compound, and she was the only one there to benefit from it.

Patting the bark of the Hashirama tree she had been leaning against, Sakura rose to her feet and went back to the engawa where she had left a few ninjutsu scrolls. Shisui and Itachi had been trying to teach her some low-rank Fire jutsu, since Itachi insisted that she shouldn 't only rely on the techniques based on her elemental affinities.