This happens between chapter 15 and 16.
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A tap on her window pulled Sakura's
focus away from her notes. Outside her dark window a large white owl
hovered.
Sakura stumbled up from her desk and
opened the window to allow the white owl inside her room.
“Did Harii-san send you?” Sakura
asked the pristine white owl when it landed on her chair. “He
didn't have to bother you about that. The more I think about it, the
more I shouldn't have asked him. I was just so annoyed with work at
the hospital and how I couldn't get access to the research samples
that when I heard you helped them get venom, I just asked him and,
Harii-san must think I'm very selfish.”
The owl looked at her with amber eyes,
as though confused.
“You delivered venomous snakes to the
Suna hospital, so I...” Sakura hesitated, unsure about her selfish
request. After all, she wanted venom for her own research rather than
making useful anti-venom. “Harii-san said that I should ask if
you'd be willing to bring me any venomous snakes in Konoha. We don't
have any saw-scaled vipers like Suna, but...”
The owl interrupted her with a loud
hoot, and she swooped out of the window without a backward glance.
Feeling like a failure, Sakura
swallowed down her disappointment because the owl wasn't obliged to
help her, especially because Sakura was being selfish with her
request. She was only glad that no one had been around to witness
Sakura get rejected by an owl.
Rejection would always be a part of her
life.
Sakura snorted at the dramatic thought
and moved to close her window. If she had time to give in to dramatic
thoughts, then she definitely had time to do some more reading.
As she placed her hand on the window,
the owl swooped back in with a triumphant hoot. Sakura gaped. “Is
that a saw-scaled viper?”
The owl straightened with pride as she
held up a hissing snake.
“You found it in Konoha? No, with how
quickly you returned, it must have been close by.”
The owl hooted once again.
With a green glowing hand, Sakura took
the snake from the owl's grasp. Her soothing chakra calmed it so that
it didn't struggle and looked up at her with dazed slitted eyes.
She turned the snake over, finding an
old jagged scar. Someone had tried to kill it, not shocking,
considering Konoha's dislike of any sort of snakes after Orochimaru's
invasion attempt. This snake could have been brought over by the
Suna-nin during that very invasion.
A hoot brought her out of her thoughts.
Sakura loosened her hold on the snake.
“I better milk it.” She grabbed an untouched research kit from
her closet, a gift from Shizune, a gift that was supposed to be used when they started working on poisons together.
But they had both been too inundated with
work to make that plan a reality.
Work had become the biggest part of her
life. Everyone else was training and learning new things and she was
stuck trying to keep up with the hospital backlog on behalf of
Tsunade-sama so that she could concentrate on her Hokage duties.
She had been honoured to take Tsunade's
work load but now it didn't seem all that great.
Naruto was out learning water techniques
from Kakashi-sensei while she was stuck reading medical journals.
After opening an empty container,
Sakura physically coaxed the snake to unfold it's fangs with her
chakra-coated fingers. With an insistent twitch of her chakra, tiny
drops of venom gleamed a fluorescent green under the light of her
chakra as they dripped into the container.
The instant the snake's venom glands
emptied, Sakura sedated the snake with her chakra and labelled the
container.
“Would you like some food?” Sakura
asked, satisfaction thrumming through her body.
The owl hooted and flew to Sakura's
shoulder. Surprised at just how heavy the owl was, Sakura used her
chakra to deal with the extra weight comfortably and glanced at the
sleeping snake. “Maybe I should keep it. I'd be able to take it's
venom regularly if I kept it.”
The owl on her shoulder turned and
chirped.
“Yes, I'll keep it.” Sakura said as
she carried it down into the kitchen. Placing the venom container in
the fridge, Sakura pulled out some leftovers. “My dad made this
before he left on his mission. He's an awesome cook. So help yourself while I find a container to house the viper.”
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