In the blink on an eye, around 12 years passed.
Sakura trained and studied a lot during this time, and has become a capable ninja despite her previous life giving her some drawbacks, though the benefit far outweighed them.
Afterall, climbing trees, survival exercises where she had to kill animals, skin them and cook them herself, and generally a lot of gross stuff that gave her the yuck.
It took her a lot of time to get used to such things.
But she has finally graduated.
Sakura stared at her graduation certificate as she laid on her bed.
She got 1st place amongst kunoichis, and 2nd overall. After Sasuke, of course.
They were tied in everything but shurikenjutsu, in which Sasuke won.
Well, she wasn't that upset about it. They are more or less equal in actual battle, but she knows stuff like walking on water and can already make chakra threads.
In fact, she can already create a Rasengan. Since she has great chakra control, and can did the 'separating different sizes of grains of sand exercise', it wasn't too hard actually.
Though using it twice takes her out for the day.
Despite being a reincarnator, she obviously can't match Naruto in the chakra department.
Still, it's great comparatively. Sasuke with two tomoe could only use Chidori twice, which probably took less chakra compared to Rasengan, since both are A-rank and Chidori has nature transformation, while Rasengan doesn't.
Guess greater spiritual energy due to training, and the training she has been doing worked out great huh?
...
Still... at this rate, she still wouldn't be able to keep up with Naruto and Sasuke later.
After getting reincarnated as Sakura, having so much potential, while she doesn't have the delusions of one-shotting Kaguya, she wants to atleast be on the same level as Naruto and Sasuke.
She wants to have her own kaijuu mode! Wouldn't it be cool!?
And she has thought various ways for it.
First is getting implanting a pair of Eternal Mangekyo Sharingan, active Susanoo, and then remove them.
Susanoo works even without Sharingan. The only requirement is to awaken it once.
And it is actually feasible if she gets the EMS.
She can handle two EMS and Susanoo for a short while by using Byakugou seal.
The problem is actually getting a pair of EMS.
She can't just ask Sasuke to lend his eyes for some minutes, can she?
So, that idea is shelved for now.
Her second idea is to create her own artificial bijuu, since only Kurama actually gives a kaijuu mode.
She doesn't know if Boruto and the movies are canon, but there are plenty resources to work with.
Anyway, that thing is complex and will take lots of efforts and work.
The third way is like Orochimaru's Yamato-no-Orochi. Though it was small, just around the same size as Itachi's MS Susanoo, if she uses Katsuyu, maybe the result might differ.
Anyway, she has thought of another way.
Since she has great chakra control...
She let out a chakra thread from one finger tip, and it entered another finger on another hamd, sending chakra from one finger to another.
The chakra in the body flows in a pattern. And all 361 tenkutsu are there only for releasing chakra. The chakra can only go outwards for most people.
But she can stop the flow, and even reverse for a bit to let external chakra enter her.
With a lot of effort, she might be able to change the entire flow of chakra in her chakra network to create a defensive wall of chakra which circulates through her body and wastes the least amount of chakra.
And at the extreme of extreme, she might even be able to create her own Kaijuu mode!
Still, this concept of jutsu is dangerous and needs Tsunade's supervision to create.
Anyway, she has lots of ideas, but it will be only worth it if she can execute them.
With that in mind, she started to get ready for Academy.
Today, the teams will be assigned.
And there shouldn't really be any unexpected team for her. It should be Team 7 only.
Sasuke—>1st Shinobi
Sakura—>1st Kunoichi
Naruto—>Last Shinobi
And since Kakashi will be her sensei, she will have to annoy him a lot to get some useful jutsus from his 1000 jutsus that he mostly never uses.
Her chakra nature is Earth and Water, right?
So aside from upping her defenses with Earth style jutsus, Water style will suit her a lot with her chakra control.
Perhaps she can learn Water severing waves or whatever that Tobirama's jutsu is called?
Then there is genjutsu. She will ask him to help her develop sound based genjutsu. Since visual genjutsu doesn't really matter much in the long term if you don't have a Sharingan.
Aside from that, fuinjutsu is something really critical for her goals. Since Kakashi is the student of Minato, and Tsunade being part Uzumaki herself, both should be pretty good at it, even if not at the level of Jiraiya or Orochimaru.
Afterall, if the movies are canon for this world, there is no way she is going to miss out on the Gelal Stone, Ryumyaku and Zero tails.
'Don't overthink this much. You will be late!'
Her inner voice said, and she shrugged.
She will also try to somehow use her Inner in some way. She isn't exactly sure what it is aside from being just her separately in the mindscape, and she can't really ask a Yamanaka and be in danger of exposing her previous life.
Still, it's similar to her being her own Jinchuriki, right?
Maybe she can turn her Inner into a Bijuu?
Oh well. That is still too far off for now.
"Sakura! You will be late!"
"I am ready, Mom!"
She looked at herself. A dark pink jumpsuit with some white designs. Guy-sensei gave her the green one, during the few times she could get a hold of him and learn some Taijutsu.
So she got the shop's details and got it custom made for herself.
It looks cool, somewhat sci-fiey, and way better than the green one.
With it, she has kunai and shuriken pouches, ninja boots and gloves, and a belt which has a bunch of useful scrolls and daily use stuff in a seal.
'Damn, I look great! Tough my forehead does seem to be a bit big, when I get Byakugou seal there, it will also look great.
Though it will be okay when I grow up anyway.'
Taking one final look at herself, especially her Konoha headband which she is using as her hairband, she left for the Academy.