Perhaps, unsurprisingly it didn't take Sakura very long at all to understand and get the basics down of the Mystical Palm Jutsu.
She easily understood the concept behind it. It only had one hand seal to remember and the chakra drain on it wasn't too bad to deal with for short bursts.
Within just two hours of training with the jutsu, with him giving pointers to her to help her here and there, Sakura got the jutsu down, for the most part.
She had trouble keeping the chakra transformation consistent, but was able to do it properly, the exact opposite of the problem Tenten had.
Then again, Tenten hadn't been told about how the image of the jutsu in her mind and shaping it was important and Sakura had him to tell her it straight up instead of just having to piece things together from a scroll.
But it was still quite impressive to get it mostly down after two hours.
Her chakra control really was something impressive indeed.
"…I'm exhausted," Sakura wiped sweat from her brow, bent over in front of him, sweat soaking her top, "I feel like I could keel over any second."
It was just too bad he was sitting in front of her and not behind, or he was sure to have been getting a real good view.
As it was, he was sitting cross legged on the ground with a scroll open and an ink brush in hand. He was in the process of writing down the instructions for the body flicker jutsu, since he had long since realised she wouldn't have enough chakra to continue training to get it down as well.
The Shinkugan was handy like that.
"You gotta work on that stamina, you've only been going a couple hours," Daiki rolled his eyes, finishing up what he was writing with a little flourish and sealing the ink brush away, "Tut tut, what would your dear Sasuke-kun think about that?"
The pink haired girl huffed deeply and rolled her eyes, "I don't think he's ever considered how my stamina would apply in the bedroom," she retorted, "I think you're just projecting." she added and with a deep breath, stood up fully and tugged on the collar of her dress to to air it out a bit.
"Oh, I guess so, fair enough," Daiki nodded, rolling up the scroll and standing up, grinning at her, "In that case, you should really work on that stamina, this is for the good of your future Hokage after all."
"Sorry Hokage-sama sir I'll be sure to work on my lacking stamina, sir." Sakura snorted, giving him a mock salute.
"Good soldier," Daiki nodded, pleased, "It'd be a shame if a lady with an ass like yours didn't have the stamina to use it properly after all." he added, holding the scroll out to her.
She blinked, taking it, "What's this?" she asked, easily ignoring his comment about her ass.
"Since you're too drained of chakra to continue and I'll be out of the village come tomorrow, I wrote the instructions down for the body flicker," Daiki replied as she took it, "It's pretty simply you should be able to get it down even without me coaching you with this, you're pretty talented after all and smart enough to understand it easily."
"Oh…thanks," the pink haired girl smiled at his compliment, before her green eyes gleamed with mischief, "And, about my stamina. You're the one always going on about how big and fat my ass is, have you considered that it's making me waste stamina quicker cuz it weighs me down?"
He blinked, before laughing at her reply, "I didn't actually, good point," he agreed with her, "That's a whole lot of ass. Still doesn't mean you can be content with pitiful stamina though, if you want though, I know a good training method for increasing the stamina of girls with asses like yours."
"Uh-huh?" Sakura nodded, "And lemme guess it involves a whole lot of me bouncing and probably moaning."
"Squealing actually." he corrected her, "And your ass cheeks clapping."
"Sounds about right with you," she shook her head, before blinking, "Wait, how do ass cheeks clap?" she asked, looking confused.
"Poor Sakura, for all your intelligence and knowledge, you clearly don't know about the true important things in life," Daiki clicked his tongue and shook his head, "I suppose, I can take more time out of my busy schedule to teach you though."
Sakura nodded, "I'll ask Ino."
"You're talking to her again? Did you make up?" Daiki wondered. In the other timeline, they only really made up after fighting in the prelims. That didn't happen here.
"A bit after the forest," Sakura shrugged, "But since I'm not going after Sasuke-kun anymore, there's really no point to continuing the rivalry over him with her anymore."
"Fair enough," Daiki nodded, "Though, just because you're not doing it anymore doesn't mean her chances are going to improve."
"Sucks to be her." Sakura shrugged with a smirk.
She glanced at the scroll in her hands, before the smirk left suddenly and was replaced by a frown, "Which reminds me," she said, and looked him in the eye, "If you want, you can get rid of the Force Palm seal you let me use. It meant a lot you let me use it, and it really helped me a ton, but I know it isn't mine or anything like that."
He'd forgotten that he had given her that, hadn't he?
"Eh, keep it," he waved her off, "Just remember to work on toughening up your arms so you can endure it more."
A pretty smile replaced the frown just as quickly as it had appeared, "What do you think I've been doing all this month in the first place? It wasn't like Kakashi-sensei left me with anything else to do," Sakura replied, before surprising him by stepping forward and pressing a quick kiss to his cheek, "Still, thank you, I mean. This seal actually kind of means a lot to me, it was kind of the origin point for me y'know? Of me getting my head screwed on straight about what being a kunoichi really means." she said as she pulled back, cheeks flushing a light pink.
"Don't mention it," Daiki just smiled back at her, "I'm glad it helped you out." and he was. He was pretty proud of his his first seal and its applications in combat and still used it even now quite often. But he wasn't sure if he'd fucked some things up that were important, especially intervening as he had in the forest of death.
The fact his seal that he gave to Sakura had smoothed it over and even gave better results, was totally worth giving her it.
They stayed there like that, staring into each others eyes. Ten seconds passed. Then thirty.
Before long a minute had passed and Sakura's eye twitched, "Oh come on what are you waiting for?" she growled at him.
"…What?" Daiki blinked, confused.
"Seriously? Aren't you gonna squeeze my ass or spank me like you always do when we're heading different ways?" Sakura gaze him a dry look, "I thought it was pretty obvious we were more or less done and splitting off here for tonight, what with your mission tomorrow and all."
"I mean…I didn't want to ruin the moment?" he offered, "Hey, you're also the one who gave me into trouble for it before when I was healing you remember? And told me you weren't really interested in me if I wasn't being serious. So I backed off beyond the flirting."
That was a good talk even. Helped him sort his head out a bit. And now he was just waiting for Tenten sort her own self out before they started things off and tried out dating properly.
Sure, he believed he was a free lad to sow his wild oats until then, but Sakura explicitly wasn't interested in just a casual fuck like Anko had been…and that wasn't so much as a casual fuck as a…transaction?
It had been fun either way.
"Well, it's not about dating right now is it? I'm just willing to let you have a feel, it's a gratitude thing," Sakura coughed and explained and pivoted gracefully, bending forward to reveal her ample, curvaceous ass and enticingly wiggled it at him invitingly, "Come on, y'know you want to Daiki, you've been making quips about this 'fat ass' of mine for the last two hours."
"….Once every while, and you instigated a lot of it," Daiki sighed, but his eyes were locked on the view she was giving him and then mentally smacked himself for looking a gift horse in mouth, "Not that I'm gonna say no to this."
Reaching forward, he took a nice big handful of her ass and squeezed and was honestly surprised when she looked over her shoulder at him with a pleased look.
…What was even going on here?
"Is that all you want?" she smirked at him.
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There was a bit of a spring in Sakura's step as she made her way home after parting ways with Daiki.
And a sting across her ass from where he'd spanked her.
She was in a good mood. She'd learned a lot over the last hours. Some useful, some kind of crazy, but all in all, she was quite happy with how things had went.
She had no idea why she had been so forward with Daiki. She hadn't changed her opinion, she didn't have any interest in just sleeping around even if she was really grateful to him, and he was really hot….and those muscles were drool worthy.
But she couldn't deny…she enjoyed his attention, and his compliments made her puff her meagre chest out with pride.
…Her fat ass had always been one of the things she'd been most self conscious about, especially because Ino always used it against her when they insulted each other.
Nowadays, she was quite pleased with it.
'I have no idea what I'm doing here.' Sakura realised, but, it was fun at least.