Kapitel 64: Chapter 63
"I remember this park…" Sakura said as they approached it from down the path, "I sometimes would come here with the training kunoichi to gather flowers for our assignments. It hasn't changed much from that time…the trees are bigger, as expected, but…"
"Do you see the lake?" he asked her as they drew closer.
"Hai…" she replied absently, "It looks a little gross today because it's reflecting the overcast sky, but it's not raining, so I suppose I shouldn't complain."
That last statement brought to mind the conversation she had had with Sasuke after he had finished talking with Mitarashi Anko, questioning him casually over why he had been concerned over why she was out in the rain or not. He gave a typical Sasuke answer, and Sakura wondered why she had been so surprised. Of course Sasuke wouldn't want a sick healer, why else would he care? Her own illness would hinder his recovery.
She hadn't bothered to explain to him that you could not catch a cold from being out in the rain, but the cold weather would weaken your body so that you were more susceptible to catching something from someone else. Either that or you could get hypothermia, but only if you stayed outside for a ridiculously long time and it was a lot colder than it had been when they were outside.
"Is the dock fastened down?" she asked him as they descended the walking path down to the lakebed, "Or does it change with the water level of the lake?"
"It is fastened down," he replied evenly, "Why?"
"Well, you feel dizzy and unsteady without my holding onto you, and I can't imagine a wobbling dock would make you feel any better," she mused lightly, taking a turn towards the dock.
"How wide across is the lake?" he asked her, not going further into the matter.
"Um, about a hundred meters across both ways," she replied, taking her turn to ask a question, "How come?"
"My jutsus are more powerful than before I left, I don't want to scorch the other side," he replied, "It should be fine as long as I just practice the minor ones."
At the end of the dock, Sakura let go of Sasuke's arm and took a step away from him, close enough to grab him if the lightheadedness overrode his sense of balance and caused him to fall over. He braced his feet into a defensive stance, preparing himself for training.
"Show me all the hand signs," she instructed, clasping her hands behind her, "Just to see how well you do them without hand-eye coordination—remember how Iruka-sensei would always reprimand the students who looked at their hands while doing the different symbols? Yeah, well, just checking."
He showed her each of the twelve different hand signs that were unique to each animal of the zodiac, starting with the rat and ending in the boar. Impressed, but not the least bit surprised, she uttered a small 'okay' and stood behind him as he began to work out a pattern of hand signs to use the first jutsu.
As he performed the last seal, he brought his hand to his mouth, and holding it so that it looked like a pipe was between his fingers, he exhaled with a great force, fire spilling out over the lake's waters. Sakura couldn't remember the name, but had seen this jutsu before; this time, however, it was probably eight, or ten times larger than she had seen it before. The huge fireball easily covered the lake's entire surface, reaching a height as tall as the hospital. Her eyes widened as he continued to blow, the duration lasting considerably longer than she had expected. The searing heat of the flames washed over her and she gazed in amazement as the center of the enormous mass of fire glowed white hot. After a couple more minutes, the fireball died away, and Sasuke straightened up, a crooked smile on his lips.
She stared out over the lake, the water level was lower and there was a distinct dampness from the steam in the air. "Wow, Sasuke, that was just—" she started, absolutely amazed, but then was cut off as she noted on the far side of the lake, the grass had caught fire, "—kuso."
"What?" he asked her, turning to face her, but she was busy making some hand signs of her own.
She used the last of her expendable chakra to force the water's mass to roll up onto the far shore, extinguishing the flames that had begun to spread. After all the flames had been encompassed by water, she let her grasp on it go, and it rolled neatly back down the hill into the lake. She blushed as she saw that a number of people who were out for a stroll had stopped and stared at the two of them on the dock.
"I think you underestimated yourself," she told Sasuke as his inquisitive look had turned into a troubled frown, "Don't worry, I extinguished the flames on the other side of the lake, but I think we need a better practice spot."
A grin passed over Sasuke's face, and she was sure that he found the whole prospect amusing rather than alarming.
"And we'll have to wait for a torrent of rainstorms before the lake water level will return to normal," she added, a smile coming to her face, "Either we can continue to evaporate the lake, or we can work instead on chakra control."
"It always had too much water in it," he told her, turning towards the lake again, starting a routine of different hand symbols, "But I will try not to incinerate the other side."
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