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Sakura woke up with the oddest sensation of looking at where her body was sitting on a table a few feet away. "AGHHHHHHHH!"

"That's quite enough of that," said a blonde girl, looking up from where she was raising the table on a winch. "No screaming. This is delicate work."

"B-b-but," began Sakura.

"Look, they explained what happened," said the girl. "Someone used some sort of magic to turn you into a clockwork golem. An enemy going out for revenge. Unfortunately he or she got you."

"This is Naruto's fault!" said Sakura, gritting her teeth.

"No, it's not," said the girl. "It's the fault of whoever done it. You're one of these 'ninja' right? Better get used to people swearing vengeance on you. As I understand it, it's an occupational hazard. My name's Winry Rockbell, by the way. I'm working on your upgrades and rehab."

"Just turn me back!" suggested Sakura.

"Okay," said Winry. "How?"

"How?" asked Sakura.

"How do we turn you back to normal?" asked Winry. "Look, I'm an expert at magimechanical systems. I build automail systems, which are artificial limbs for people who have lost limbs and can't handle the regenerative drugs for whatever reason. I've never run into this. I've seen self-willed golems before, but there are only two groups that do it. Najirea is one. The other is a bit more friendly, but still not exactly sharing with its technology. Turning you back to human? Love to. How do we do that?"

"So it isn't that you can't do it, but you don't know how," said Sakura. "So what are you talking about upgrades?"

Winry began going over Sakura's body. "Your joints aren't strong enough to support your body's strength, your split soul is manifesting as a seal-array that's unstable, and you cracked your knuckles when you hit Naruto."

"Oh," said Sakura.

"We've got a way we can possibly get you a NEW human body, cloning from some hairs and cell samples, but it'll take a year and we need your permission to proceed."

Sakura frowned, then tried to nod. On finding she couldn't, she made a face. "Go ahead. Do it. A year with a mechanical body."

"Yeah, since you're a ninja we have to reinforce this body a bit," said Winry. "The TSAB is picking up the tab on this, so at least it isn't going to cost you anything."

"Oh," said Sakura. "So this is like a ninja puppet?"

"I suppose. I've never seen a 'ninja puppet' but I think I have the idea."

"Can you add any hidden mechanisms, storage compartments, gadgets?" asked Sakura, thinking she might as well get some use out of it.

Winry looked up, and her grin gave an immediate answer.

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