There was taking risks, and there was taking foolish risks.
"Lesson two: Taijutsu," said Kakashi, twisting out of the range of Sasuke's taijutsu and quite aware that Sakura was holding kunai with explosive notes tied to the rings of said kunai. He then proceeded to whomp Sasuke's butt by grabbing the arm extended in a punch. "Boot to da head."
The jonin instructor then moved out of the way of the path of the kunai, frowning under his mask when the expected explosions did not occur.
Kakashi turned to Sakura, who held her hands up in a horse seal. Then she wavered like mist and was gone.
"Oh hoh," said Kakashi. So she knew a bit of genjutsu? Well, that was easily dealt with. "Kai!"
Sakura was kneeling next to Naruto. "Kai!"
"Lesson three: Ninjutsu," instructed Kakashi, tossing a smoke bomb down. "Doton: Moguragakure no Jutsu."
Now to see what these little genin came up with. So far, they had actually been impressive for snot-nosed brats straight out of the Academy.
"He's kicking our butts," said Naruto.
"I told you he could, but we've made him flee underground," said Sakura. "No doubt he's planning his next move. If it was me, I'd do a replacement to get out of the ground and attack from a different direction. Kakashi though - I'd expect him to use an attack from below in order to drag his next target underground."
Sasuke made a grunt that sounded like agreement.
Sakura looked around at the ground, looking for the traces that would indicate an exact location. "Since he attacked Sasuke with taijutsu, Naruto with genjutsu, I'd expect him to come after me next with ninjutsu."
"So, Plan A was a bust, Plan B failed," said Sasuke. "Got a Plan C?"
Sakura grimaced. She was very limited in what she could do at this time. Not only was she trying to keep her time travel secret, but her chakra reserves weren't up to where they needed to be to pull off anything impressive. She couldn't even use Tsunade's strength technique without better control than she had at present. "Well, we can tryyyyyyyyyyyyyyaiiiiiiiiii!"
Sasuke looked down at the hole that had resulted from Sakura being pulled underground.
"Maybe her plans haven't been working out, but she's been predicting the way things have been going pretty good," pointed out Naruto.
"Like that's doing any good," said Sasuke, leaping up into a tree to give himself a better field of vision and also remove him from a similar underground attack.
"Actually," said Naruto, "there IS one thing I can try. Shadow Clone Jutsu!" That way Kakashi-sensei might attack one of the clones instead of him.
Sakura had a moment of panic when bad memories of similar events threatened to overwhelm her. In her panic, she used one of the higher level jutsu she knew.
She immediately passed out from chakra exhaustion as the jutsu went off.
Kakashi still had a hold of her unconscious form when he broke out of the ground, then proceeded to tend to his own wounds.
"Earth Spikes, eh?" said Kakashi eventually to the completely limp Sakura. Had she not known about the chakra cost somehow, or had she panicked? Considering the way she'd acted when he had pulled her under, Kakashi considered the latter most likely. Claustrophobic or scotophobic? Maybe, in which case it was something to keep in mind and to try to work on with her. The whole thing about phobias was that it was an unreasoning fear after all, one that caused the panic to overwhelm rational response. Which pretty much seemed to sum up her reaction.
Kakashi paused as he realized he'd already considered this team as having passed.
Meh, he'd better go inform the other two so they could get Sakura medical help.
Naruto didn't think Sakura would mind if he waited by her bedside for her to wake up. This fuuinjutsu stuff needed to be studied anyway. Just the implications for making different explosive tags was interesting. The problem was that he didn't know what his chakra elemental affinity was - or even if he had one. Maybe Sakura would turn out to know a way of figuring that out when she woke up.
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