Systematic Shinobi - Chapter 33.1 (Patreon)

After letting Daiki know which room Sakura and Naruto currently occupied, Kakashi cheerily disappeared with a shunshin, off to go…most likely take the piss out of Sasuke while they waited on him to heal up Sakura.

'That guy's good.' Daiki begrudgingly accepted. He had a counter for literally everything the tan genin threw at him, verbally at least.

He'd have to work on his material if he wanted to rinse the crap out of the famous copy ninja it seemed.

Just another thing to add to the grind.

As always, the grind was eternal.

Putting Kakashi out of mind, Daiki made his way towards the room he was directed to, down the hall.

Team Seven it seemed had picked a room near the middle.

Not that they would get to enjoy it much. It seemed there was only, roughly twelve hours or so before the second round ended and the third round began.

Then again, the rooms were utter crap anyway.

Stopping in front of the door, he wrapped it with his knuckles. He probably could have just walked in and gave Sakura a good startling for a laugh, but, he had manners.

…Sometimes.

"Eh, come in?" Sakura's voice called out, echoing from behind the door.

Accepting the invitation, Daiki opened the door and stepped in, shutting it behind him. He was immediately greeted by loud snoring. Naruto was in the bed closest the bathroom, fast asleep, sprawled out messily, drool trickling from his mouth, down his chin and onto the pillow he was snuggling.

Sakura herself was sitting at the edge of the middle bed, both arms held together in a set of slings made from bandages.

"Daiki?" she blinked, looking surprised to see him, "What are you doing here?"

"What do you think I'm doing here?" he raised an eyebrow at her, "I'm obviously here to check in on my favourite pink haired lady friend."

"I'm the only pink haired girl you know, it's not exactly a common hair colour." she replied, giving him a deadpan look.

"That you know of." he shrugged.

Hmm, actually, was there any other pink haired girls around? He actually couldn't remember any.

The closest was probably Tayuya or Karin.

Sakura sighed, "If you're just here to tease me, I'm kind of not in the mood," she replied, then gave him a small glare, "Besides, I'm still not happy with you, you felt me up and slapped me on the ass before running off." she reminded him.

"I did indeed, good times, good times," Daiki nodded sagely, "But, as fun as riling you up is, I'm not actually here to annoy you for funsies."

She raised a sceptical eyebrow, "Uh-huh, and what are you here for then?"

He raised one of his own eyebrows at her in response, before forming a single hand seal, warm green healing chakra coating his hands.

He gave the healing chakra an obvious glance, before looking her in the eyes.

"Oh," Sakura blinked in realisation, "Wait, how did you know I was injured?" she questioned.

Hmm.

He was tempted to tell her he'd saw them through the walls and mess with her a bit. See if she'd gotten nude at all while in this room and get her all embarrassed.

…But, it was probably better to heal her first, then tease her.

Priorities and all that.

He walked over and sat on the bed beside her, "Kakashi stopped by and told me," Daiki replied, "Though, I already knew you were injured before he came along, I heard you did good in the forest, even took out one of those Sound genin."

"How'd you know that?" the pink haired girl asked, before blinking and freezing, "Wait, were you watching?"

"Nope, Tenten told me," her replied, "Turn around to face me."

"Oh, the bun haired girl on Lee-sans team?" she asked, and did as he said, sitting fully up on the bed and turning to face him, crossing her legs.

"That's the one, I actually finished up not long after I left you guys, I got bored since there was nobody interesting to fight." Daiki replied with a shrug, before reaching over, hovering his hands over hers and directing the green healing chakra into them.

There was an immediate reaction.

Sakura sighed in relief as the mystical palm jutsu numbed the pain in her arms. And Daiki whistled as he got a good look at the damage she'd done to herself.

Her wrists were snapped of course, but beyond that, there were multiple fractures spreading up from her hands to through her forearms.

"Better?" he grinned at her.

"Much, thanks," she smiled, her face seeming to be much less strained now, "And I really do need to thank you for the jutsu you gave me, without it, I wouldn't have been able to beat that bitchy sound girl and they might have killed us before Sasuke-kun woke up."

"Not a problem, I'm a generous guy like that," he waved off her thanks, before his grin turned impish, "Though if you're dead set on thanking me, I'm a big fan of lap dances."

Sakura sighed, "And you ruined it."

"Hey, at least I'm consistent," he shrugged it off, "Besides, I'm mostly joking anyway, while I'd love a lap dance from you and that awesome ass of yours, I'm just giving you a hard time for a laugh."

"No, no I think a hard time is exactly what you want to give me." she responded, voice dry, eyebrows raising almost challengingly at him.

He blinked, actually surprised and almost taken aback by Sakura throwing some innuendo his way.

Sakura with the banter, huh?

Nice.

"Well, you're not wrong," Daiki laughed, "I'd love to give you a real hard time. All night long in fact. I'm free right now in fact if you're up for it."

"You're such a pervert," she snorted, shaking her head, "Honestly, you should be more careful. What would you do if I accepted? And no, fucking me isn't an acceptable answer, I'm talking about after that fact."

Daiki opened his mouth to respond, before pausing. He wasn't at all expecting her to be so blunt about it, that his shtick.

And also-

Because he actually didn't have an answer for that.

Railing her into the bed and making her scream his name to the heavens was one thing. But, the after fact was something different. For one, he couldn't promise her anything.

Because he'd already more or less lined things up with Tenten to see about how their relationship would progress.

"That's my point," Sakura rolled her eyes, breaking him from his thoughts, " You know, you gave me some hard truths about Sasuke-kun and my naive thoughts about loving him in the forest, but isn't this more a case of the pot calling the kettle black now? You flirt so freely with girls, spread your attention all around but can't focus on just one. Then again, maybe you aren't interested in love or a relationship and just want to sleep around. I'm not really interested in that."

…This took a turn he was not at all expecting.

Sense and logic, his greatest weaknesses!

How did she know?

It actually took him a few moments to organize his thoughts in response, "Honestly, you're only half right," Daiki replied, sighing, "Do I want to sleep around? Yes, most guys our age do, but it doesn't mean I'm not interested in a relationship, I'm testing the waters myself you know to see who I mesh well with."

Also, he was kind of surprised.

About how reasonable she was being about her infatuation with Sasuke. He kind of expected her to dig her heels in more, she'd spent years thinking she was head over heels for the guy after all.

Granted, in the other timeline, she realised that her infatuation was utterly childish and not real love if he remembered right. And her infatuation turned into real affection later despite Sasuke being a traitor.

And she was already older here than there.

"Still, I'm more surprised of you even talking about the possibility even being there," he pointed out, "What, with you liking Sasuke and all."

"Guess we're both just a couple of hypocrites then," Sakura snorted derisively, "What can I say? Those hard truths of yours hit home, you apparently know far more about Sasuke-kun than I do, you're closer to him than I've ever been and probably ever will be, and I'm not even his type at all. It's funny how a single little fight to the death with enemy ninja can put things into perspective and it just got my mind wandering."

"About?" he prompted, raising an eyebrow at her in interest.

"A few things," she shrugged, "How useless and weak I am compared to Naruto and Sasuke-kun, how I've not been serious enough at all, thinking back to bad decisions I made around Sasuke-kun, you."

His second eyebrow joined the first, his interest totally piqued now, "Me?" Daiki repeated in askance.

Pretty emerald green eyes stared into his own and Sakura gave him a half smile, "Sasuke-kun never showed an ounce of interest in me looking back, no matter what I did," she replied, "You did though, actually you couldn't make your interest any more blatant. You're good looking, strong, successful, help me out…even if you're a pervert about it, so yeah my mind wandered and I thought, what if I tried going after you instead?"

Well…this was unexpected.

Not at all unwelcome though.

"Of course, then I remembered, you mostly just seem to want to bed me," she continued with a shrug, then snorted, "And I realised how shallow I was being."

"I'm mostly playing it for a laugh you know," Daiki sighed and responded seriously, this wasn't really the time for jokes, "Sure, I do want to bed you if I'm being totally honest, but that's just instinct cuz you're hot. You're not perfect, but nobody is to be honest, you've got your problems but I can already see them easing out of you."

Actually, right now, he felt more like he was dealing with Shippuden Sakura, rather than the pre time skip one.

Age wise, she was only a few months off of Shippuden Sakura was at the beginning, and despite having the outfit of her pre timeskip self, she was looking more like her Shippuden self as well, especially now that her hair was cut short.

It was what, October now? If he remembered right, her birthday was in March, so she was six months from being fifteen.

Sakura chuckled lightly, "Now see, if you were serious like this all the time, then I might have went all in and chased you." she teased.

"That'd be so boring though," Daiki laughed along, "I did the serious thing before remember? All through the academy in fact, life is much more fun now that I've changed things up."

They fell into easy, more comfortable conversation after that while he continued healing her. He asked mostly about what went on with them in the forest after he left behind and got more or less the full story of what went down.

Which more or less lined up with what he already knew and what Tenten told him.

After that, they took the sound teams earth scroll and continued on, struggling here and there, before they ran into Kabuto who had been separated from his team.

And from there, things progressed as he remembered, with them running into one of the other rain teams, Sasuke being unable to do anything, the same with Sakura since she was injured, with broken wrists and all and Naruto carrying them to victory.

Though he apparently had a much easier time of winning this time around and defeated them within around ten minutes apparently.

'Probably because he didn't have to worry about his chakra being fucked from the five elemental seal.' Daiki mused inwardly.

And also because he was apparently able to box in the rain shinobi's clones with the Earth Style: Barrier, making it easy to catch them out and tell they were all fakes.

Before he knew it, over a half hour passed and he finally finished up healing her, taking care of both the broken wrists and the fractures going from her hands to up her forearms.

"Medical ninjutsu is really amazing, my arms feel pretty much fully healed." Sakura flexed her hands after removing her slings once he was done.

"Yeah, it's super helpful," Daiki nodded, "I've taken care of all your injuries, but your arms might be a little tender, so don't strain them too much for the next little while and just rest up until the next exam starts."

Alright, I'll do that," she nodded, before eyeing her hands thoughtfully, "Hey? Do you think I'd be able to learn medical ninjutsu as well?"

"Yep." Daiki replied instantly.

Sakura blinked, "That was fast." she noted, looking surprised.

"I know how good you are," he shrugged, "I don't doubt you'd be able to learn medical ninjutsu pretty easily, hell I wouldn't be surprised if you had a real talent for it, maybe you could even rival Tsunade one day if you go for it?"

Of course, he already knew she did and could do so. She had the potential to be the best medic ninja in the world, rivalled only by Tsunade herself.

Her cheeks took on a red flush at his words, "You think so?" she asked.

"Not a doubt in me." he confirmed with a grin.

The flush got deeper, and a pretty smile spread across her face, "See, you can be charming when you want to be." Sakura teased, a slight giggle escaping her.

"What do you mean? I'm always charming." Daiki's grin widened and he gave her a wink.

"Only you think that," she shook her head, and looked up at him, pretty smile aimed straight at him, "Thanks."

"Not a problem, getting some alone time with you is a pretty fair deal in exha-" he was cut off by a resounding snore coming from a certain spiky haired blonde, "Well, mostly alone." he amended.

Sakura looked over her shoulder and gave the sleeping blonde a dry look, "Well…he's earned the rest I guess, he really pulled through for us there at the end," she mused before turning back to look at Daiki, "And I wouldn't mind doing this again sometime."

"Hit me up whenever you want," Daiki shrugged, "I can even help you get started on learning medical ninjutsu if you want."

"Let me guess, in return for a lap dance?" the pink haired girl's pretty smile turned teasing.

"Well, I definitely wouldn't say no." he grinned.

Her teasing grin just got wider, "Hmm, I'll think about it," she responded, stepping forward and surprising him by standing on her tip toes and pressing a kiss against his cheek, "Right now though, I've got doctors orders to rest, so I'm going to sleep a bit, so it's time for you to go bye bye."

"Or I could join you." he wiggled his eyebrows.

"There'd be no sleeping or resting involved then I'm afraid, right?" she snorted, stepping by him and opening the door, "So bye bye for now perv boy."

"Fair enough." he chuckled, turning around and leaving out of the door. Just before he stepped passed her though, he reached out faster than she could react, and took a nice big handful of her ass and squeezed, "Just grabbing my payment." he grinned widely.

He was expecting to have to dodge a punch, but instead, Sakura barely reacted at all.

And merely raised an eyebrow at him, "I knew you were gonna do that." she snorted.

And yet she didn't try to stop him, and wasn't attempting to remove his hand.

He gave her full, round ass cheek another hefty grope, grin widening.

Sakura sighed, "If you leave that hand there much longer, I'm keeping it." she told him dryly.

He gave her ass another nice squeeze, getting a fell for the bouncy cheek filling his palm, before letting go, "I'm tempted to let you, but sadly, that annoying guy Kakashi needs me to do something else for him." he huffed, stepping outside into the hallway.

"That's too bad," Sakura suddenly pouted at him, leaning on the door, "I was kind of liking that there and was thinking of giving you that lap dance."

And another confirmation that a kunoichi could give a lap dance. Seriously, what did they teach in those kunoichi only classes?!

But more importantly-

"Really?" his eyes lit up excitedly.

"Yeah, no, you're not that lucky buddy." Sakura snorted, and promptly shut the door in his face.

"That's not nice Sakura." he called through the door.

"Ah, I'm soaked with sweat and this thong I'm wearing is just digging in, I should really take it off~" her voice echoed back, definitely teasingly.

That's not fair.

That's not fair at all.

He of course could just peak through the door and wall themselves with his Shinkugan.

But that would mean he lost.

'Fucking Kakashi.' Daiki huffed, mustering his mighty grind enhanced will power and self control and walking away.

It wasn't really the copy ninja's fault.

But, it just felt good to blame it on Kakashi.