Naruto Remodeled
AN: This is my first attempt at a story, so I'm not sure if it'll be too good. I probably should've started with one-shots, but I decided to challenge myself. The pairing will be NaruSaku along with the other ones I thought would be most likely (ShikaTema, NejiTen, etc.) though most of these won't show until far in the future. This will follow the story, mostly, obviously with some changes. Sometimes the people may get out of character, but it won't be so far that it's ridiculous. Rated T for now, like the show it'll have a few references or substances probably not suited for younger readers. I plan on making this rather long, so it might, eventually, end up after the time skip, if that happens the story should go to M since there might be more adult content.
Disclaimer: I don't own Naruto, anime or manga, those belong to Musashi Kishimoto and the animation studio's staff and cast.
"Kyuubi/Inner Sakura"
Flashbacks
'Thoughts'
"Speech"
Written Words
It's just another day in Konoha: sunny, cheerful, busy, but today is special, especially for a noisy young blonde. He had whisker marks on his cheeks, yellow hair, wore an orange jacket with a thick blue stripe running along his zipper, and white stripes on either side of it, and a pair of orange sweat pants. If you took off the jacket there'd be a black muscle shirt, but that's rarely seen. Naruto was going back to the academy one final time to be assigned to a team and a Jonin Sensei. He was thinking of the day before:
He's walking around the village, ignoring the looks he was getting. Many of the villagers have stopped calling him names and assaulting him. Now they are content with ignoring his presence, except when drunk so he keeps away from bars. Now, however, he couldn't care as much as normal because he has finally accomplished his goal of becoming a Shinobi, one step further to being Hokage. He'd been thinking about this when he noticed someone trying to hide from him while following him. After a while of this he told the person to show himself. A young boy came out from behind a cloth that was made to look like the fence. He had black hair, some sort of hat on his head, wore a yellow shirt and grey cargo shorts. Naruto recognized him as being the Old Man's grandson, Konohamaru. This didn't stop Naruto from yelling at him whenever he got too annoying. It didn't happen too much and the whole day was kind of fun. Naruto showed him his sexy jutsu, a naked, well-endowed female version of himself, and Konohamaru immediately liked it. Naruto momentarily thought it was wrong to show him after he dispelled the jutsu, he knew Konohamaru didn't truly understand the full idea of the jutsu, but quickly discarded the thought when he saw Konohamaru's excited expression.
He was brought out of his reminiscing when he realized he'd gotten to the classroom. It was already full with the only seat left being next to Sakura. He almost flipped for joy, but then he saw who she was next to, Sasuke Uchiha. Regardless, he sat down next to her a wide grin on his face. Sakura looked at him and almost did a double-take "What's he doing here I thought he flunked the test,' just thinking of it as a fluke, that they'd send him out as soon as they realized he was here, she went back to thinking of Sasuke. Not long after did Iruka enter the room and stand at the podium, looking, with pride in his eyes, around the room at the many new Shinobi. "Good morning graduates," he said searching for anything out of place. Sakura saw him look right at Naruto and he just smiled wider than when he entered 'So he has graduated, how'd he manage to do that in two days. Oh well, as long as he's not with my team I'll be okay,' she thought.
Iruka started calling out the teams, but she wasn't listening, being too busy thinking of Sasuke and her together. Then she heard a name she knew, "Sasuke Uchiha…" this was the moment she'd been waiting for, would she be on Sasuke-kun's team, or would she end up somewhere else. "…Sakura Haruno…" She immediately stood going "Yataaa!" 'Chyaa! In your face, Ino-pig!' she looked at Ino, stuck her tongue out at her and made a v-sign, never noticing the grim figures next to her. Sasuke looked as calm and uncaring as usual, but on the inside he was most annoyed 'No, not one of the fan girls, they are so annoying, almost as bad as Naruto.' Naruto was depressed, his crush is on her crush's team, how could he get her to like him when she was with Sasuke. He had almost decided to give up on her until, "…and Naruto Uzumaki." It was like their emotions transferred from one to the other, now Naruto exclaimed "Yataaa!" and Sakura was depressed 'Now how can I get to Sasuke-kun with Naruto in the way."
Sasuke didn't change at all, even internally 'Really? Now the dead last? How do they expect me to get stronger if neither of my teammates are capable of giving me a challenge.' Iruka ignored each one of these outbursts, knowing full well what they were thinking, and announced "You three will be Team 7 and your Jonin Sensei will be Kakashi Hatake."
He then went on to the other teams "Team 8: Kiba Inuzuka, Hinata Hyuuga, and Shino Aburame; Jonin in Charge: Kurenai Yuhi…Team 10: Shikamaru Nara, Choji Akimichi, and Ino Yamanaka; Jonin in Charge: Assumed Sarutobi… That's all the teams; now sit quietly while you're taken out by your respective team leaders." Iruka finished speaking and opened the door to let in the Jonin. One by one the teams were taken out, Iruka saying his goodbyes and wishing them luck, until one team was left: Team Kakashi.
They waited…and waited…and waited. An hour later Iruka went out, then half an hour later came back in, then another half-hour later he told them he had to go or else he'd get in trouble for not reporting in to the Hokage and they were left completely alone. It was now about 11 and Kakashi still had not shown up. Naruto was incredibly bored and was about ready to start messing with Sasuke, then he thought 'Maybe this is a test, he could be watching us right now expecting us to do something,' he walked to the window to see if he could possibly get a glimpse of something out of place on the buildings or streets nearby. Not really surprised that he hadn't seen anyone of interest, 'Jonin should be able to hide in plain sight anyway,' then he had an idea. "It seems like he's not going to be here anytime soon I'm not waiting around anymore, this might be just something he likes to do, making people wait for him and watching what they do, because I'm sure he's watching us somewhere from outside, and I'm not about to become one of his victims so I'm going to the field outside to train," he started to walk out.
"But what if he comes and we're not here I don't want to anger him on the first day, and what makes you think that he's watching - Sasuke-kun where are you going," she said as she saw Sasuke get up and move towards the door.
"The dobe actually had a good idea, for once, and I thought that he might be watching us as well," Sasuke said, getting as close to a complement as possible with him.
"If you're so worried, Sakura, why don't you stay here and tell him where we are when he comes," Naruto suggested
"No way, I'm not going to sit here and look stupid when he asks me where you guys are," Sakura said.
"Then let's leave a note," Naruto concluded, already knowing what to do. He grabbed paper, a pencil, some tape and a chalk eraser. He wrote We're Training. and he stuck the paper to the top of the eraser, motioned for them to follow him out, and got the chair that the hall monitor used, and stood on it to close the door on the eraser. "There, now he gets the message and we get to laugh at him for falling for this and making us wait in the first place."
"I guess, but I'm not really sure he'll take it lightly," Sakura stated. 'Too bad! The bastard can go to hell for all I care.'
As they walked to the field, a silver haired man stepped out of his hiding spot and jumped down to the road. 'That blonde kid actually did have a good idea, he's working on his own skills, and he got the other two to do it as well, which is to be expected. If what I know about them is true, Sasuke wouldn't have refused, and thus Sakura would go with since Sasuke was going. I really hope the kid actually thought of this when he made his decision, otherwise, it'd confirm what was true about him.' He thought this and started walking to the classroom, 'I'll let them have this.'
Meanwhile, they got to the field and Naruto picked one of the trees to practice his shuriken throwing. He missed with two out of the five he threw, one was almost at the top of the tree 'How the hell did he manage that,' Sasuke thought, one was near the bottom of the trunk, and the last one he actually managed to get around the area that was designated as a good hit zone. Sasuke came up next to him, using a tree that was just to the left of Naruto's, and threw his five, which all were good hits. Naruto, obviously annoyed, retrieved his shuriken and threw them again and again, each time getting worse and Sasuke just kept throwing his and never faltering. Eventually, Naruto had become really annoyed, and slightly intimidated, and was pretty close to pitching a fit.
Then his attention was drawn to some movement to the side of the field that wound to the front of the school, and he saw a man wearing a flak jacket, a mask, and a Leaf Headband that was tilted to cover his left eye. He walked straight to Naruto saying "Relax kid, quit tensing as your throw your shuriken, rock back when you grab at the next one, and lean forward a bit when you throw it, you don't want to use your arm when giving the throw power, and as you let go, flick your wrist towards your target," the silver-haired man said, 'you should have known this, but due to you playing hooky you missed those lessons,' he added in his mind. Naruto went through this in his head, taking his stance he noticed that he was tense and changed it a little to make it more relaxed. He moved his arm in an arc between his chest and the tree before him, letting his body move with this action. He took out some shuriken in his left arm, pulled his right arm in for one, leaning back a bit, then he leaned forward as he moved his arm and when he got to the right spot, he released the shuriken, flicking his wrist towards the center of the 'good hit zone' and allowing the shuriken to slip from his hand.
The shuriken flew from his hand in a sort of arc towards the tree and hit the good zone right in the center. Naruto looked back at the man with a happy expression, and saw the man nodding his head. Naruto then continued until the other four were embedded into the tree close to the first one. When he was done he excitedly retrieved his shuriken. "Thanks mister, does the same technique work with kunai, wait, who are you?" he asked only now questioning the guy's presence.
"I'm Kakashi Hatake, your Jonin instructor."
Now they found themselves on the roof of the academy after eating the lunches they packed earlier, Kakashi on the railing, students on the steps. "Now, I've kept you waiting long enough, let's say we get to know each other now," Kakashi said. "And what do you want us to say, sensei?" Sakura asked.
Kakashi almost sweat dropped "Introduce yourself, name, likes, dislikes, hobbies, dreams for the future, whatever you want to say, say it…I guess you need an example, I'll go first. I'm Kakashi Hatake, I don't feel like sharing what I like, I dislike many things, dreams for the future…hmmm…and I have many hobbies. Your turn pinky."
Now it was their turn to sweat drop, but got the idea anyway. "I'm Sakura Haruno, what I like is…" she looks at Sasuke, "…my hobbies include…" looks at Sasuke twice, "…my dreams for the future are…" looks at Sasuke and giggles, then suddenly turns serious, "…and what I dislike is Naruto."
Kakashi and Naruto did sweat drop that time. 'Well, this team is off to a good start,' Kakashi thought. "Small, dark and quiet, it's your turn," he said.
Sasuke paused a bit, "My name is Sasuke Uchiha, I don't like many things, I like power, my hobby is training, and my dream is more of an ambition, one that I will make it reality, and that is to kill a certain someone."
'This one is going to be troublesome,' Kakashi thought. "Blondie, you're last."
Naruto immediately began talking, "I'm Naruto Uzumaki, what I like is ramen, the Ichirakus, and my forehead protector, what I dislike is the three minutes it takes to cook the ramen, being ignored, and Sasuke-teme, my hobbies are eating ramen and training for my dream to become Hokage, so that the villagers will have to respect me and will stop ignoring me and treating me like dirt."
'This kid seems to be very simple, and has very big plans, like the Uchiha, and seems to be a bit more down to earth than Sakura, though I did notice the look he gave her when he talked of his 'likes',' Kakashi thought. "Well then, now we know more about each other I guess I can let you go do whatever. Just know that I want to see you at 5 o'clock at training grounds 3, oh and don't eat, or you'll throw up." With that Kakashi disappeared in a puff of smoke.
Sasuke got up and started walking home before Sakura had a chance to react and so was gone before she got up. Looking a bit disappointed, she also started to go home. Naruto wanted to say 'Can I walk you home', but knew that she'd say no, so he stayed quiet. He really didn't have much to do now, so he just sat there. Then he remembered that technique Kakashi told him about and he got to thinking 'I think that was kind of text book, the way he said it made it seem like I should already know this, maybe I missed something when I ditched class one of those times.' He got up and went back to the training field to continue to practicing the technique.
Close to dusk, a full six hours later, he had mastered the technique and could now throw five and hit everything he aimed at. He started walking home, thinking along the way: 'I think I've been going about this Shinobi thing wrong, I kept thinking that it would just come to me like it seems to do with Sasuke-teme. Now it seems my problem wasn't that I didn't try to do it, I just didn't try to learn things that would help me do it. Now, I don't have to memorize the techniques and can just do them until I get it right continually, but to do that I need to go to the library and they don't like it when I'm in there, they'll just chase me out.' He mulled this problem over until he got to his apartment. 'I need to get Sasuke-teme or Sakura-chan to do it. Sasuke wouldn't and I won't let him know, and Sakura-chan isn't likely to want to help me.' He ate a lot of ramen so that he wouldn't be too hungry in the morning, showered, and got dressed for bed. 'I'll think of something tomorrow, I have to sleep now or I'll be too tired in the morning.' He then curled up in his sheets and waiting to get to sleep.
As Sasuke was walking home from the meeting, he began thinking 'So far, my teammates seems like they're going to be getting in the way of my goal, especially Sakura, she's just like those other fan girls, they neglect their physical training just so I'd "go out" with them. Why would they think that I want to date someone who I'd have to protect because they can't help themselves, even in the best circumstances? What is it about me that they like so much, anyway? I can do everything five times better than anyone else my age, if that's it then that's not liking me, that's liking what I can do. They completely ignore my actions towards others and only focus on my abilities. It seems that ignoring them makes it worse because they say it's cool and it means that I'm shy. That's not even close to what it means and if they need to ask then it's not worth my time to tell them.'
He got to the Uchiha Estate and turned to head down the street his house is on. 'Sakura definitely can't help me with my goal. Naruto, however…' Sasuke pauses remembering the time spent on the training field '…it seems that his only problem is that he's stupid, that shuriken technique was one of the first taught when we began that training and it appears that he had ditched that day, like so many times before and after the fact, pulling one of the many pranks that set him on bad terms with the academy kids and the villagers. However, whereas the kids are only annoyed with the pranks and misplaced cockiness, the villagers seem to be more angry at him, and I don't think it's the pranks that have caused it, because they were all minor, kind of clever, I must admit, and easily erased and forgotten. If it went deeper than that then Naruto must have done something pretty bad, and if he did I'm sure someone would talk about it. There were even some women on graduation day that had started talking about him and one hushed the other before the other could reveal what Naruto was or what it was he did.'
He got home and trained for a bit. He worked on his taijutsu until the tree he was hitting split, it wasn't very big, but it still took a few hours of him imagining that it was Itachi's face, then he practiced hitting 9 different targets using shuriken or kunai, the same one Itachi showed him where one target was in a blind spot behind a boulder. Sasuke accomplished hitting the target just recently, but it's not consistent or quick and so he's just getting used to releasing the 9th and 10th shuriken or kunai at the right time. After that he practiced his ninjutsu: making hand signs faster and new ways to use the jutsu. He did this until he was too drained of chakra to stand. When he was able to stand back up he went inside the house and started looking through the pantry for some suitable dinner. He quickly realized that what he had wouldn't be enough to make anything and so he needed to go to the market. He went to his room, took out some money from his safe and started walking out of the house.
Sakura lived a little while away from the academy and so it took her almost an hour, with a few distractions, but her main thought being of her and Sasuke getting together and the future they'd have. Once inside she took off her shoes and started towards the stairs when her mother called to her from the kitchen "Sakura come and help with the cleaning since you're home so early."
Sakura groaned and reluctantly went into the kitchen where she saw her mom doing the dishes. "Hey Mom," she said as she came up next to her and reached for a towel and a wet plate "how was your day today?"
"Oh the usual, laundry and vacuuming were the only things to do so I was finished quickly, anyway, how was your day, who's in your team and who's supervising it?" she asked.
"I'm in team 7, the Jonin Sensei is Kakashi Hatake" she began, her mother slightly tensing as she said Kakashi, 'I've heard he's failed every other team that he's had the opportunity to train,' but without letting Sakura notice it, "I'm teammates with Sasuke-kun," she went on with a slight blush on her cheeks and a tone in her voice making it obvious what she thought about the idea.
"Really, you mean that Uchiha boy you've been crushing on ('With about 10 other girls your age'), you must be really excited about that!" her mother said with a sort of sarcastic tone that Sakura didn't notice.
"Yeah, I was…" Sakura paused, a bit embarrassed by talking to her mother about it, "…but then they added some really annoying kid who always gets in the way of him and I," she said, her tone leaving no doubt about what she thought of the other team member.
"Really, who is it."
"He's really annoying, ditches a lot to pull off various pranks around the village and is the dead last because of it, his name's Naruto."
Her mother almost dropped the plate she was cleaning, but regained her composure almost as soon as she lost it. "N-naruto U-Uzumaki, w-why did they put him with your team, I thought you said he failed…again."
"Iruka said that they made up the teams based on each person's grades, Sasuke-kun had the highest and Naruto had the lowest, and apparently he was able to pull off some sort of makeup exam, why what's wrong with him," she asked having noticed her mother's slight reaction to the name.
"O-oh nothing really, I just heard about him putting paint on the Hokage Monument's faces, anyway, I've got the rest of this covered, why don't you go to your room, I'll call you when dinner's being made."
"Okay," Sakura said quickly going to her room before her mother changed her mind. 'That was weird, the only thing I said was that Naruto was on my team, she didn't flinch when I said a troublemaker was on my team, only when she learned it was Naruto, sure he's annoying, but it's not a big deal, it must be more than what she's letting on. Oh well, he doesn't seem too bad, so I guess it's okay.' She thought this while she remembered what happened today. 'Why did Naruto and Sasuke-kun think that Kakashi-sensei was watching us, when I didn't, well I understand that Sasuke-kun did, but how did Naruto, the dead last, think of it when I didn't, and it seems that he came up with something that Sasuke-kun agreed with. None of the girls have been able to make Sasuke-kun do anything other than walk away or reply with a "hn" and ignore them. Then when Naruto practices his shuriken throwing, failing every single time with each try getting worse and worse, then one phrase from sensei and he's immediately two-thirds as good as Sasuke-kun, I wouldn't be able to do it immediately, and I've even known the technique longer than him.'
She thought about this for a few moments longer, but it failed to interest her when she looked to her book shelf and saw the book that she'd been reading: Basic Ninjutsu and Tips. She got it and started reading from it seeing things like Kekkei Genkai, and Chakra Control, and Element Release. She stopped on chakra control, remembering what Iruka said when they started practicing the ninjutsu.
"Now let's get started with the next aspect of being a Shinobi: using ninjutsu. It's the art of controlling your spiritual energy, or chakra. You do this by making hand signs like this," he made a few hand signs and, suddenly, a second Iruka had appeared next to him. Everyone was in such awe of it they almost missed the second part. One of the Irukas was engulfed in a puff of smoke and out came the Third Hokage, but when he spoke he sounded like Iruka. "See, cool huh, it's also important to know that you need a certain amount of chakra control for any jutsu, as in you can't put too much or too little chakra in a jutsu, or else it'll come out like this:" he did the first few signs again and another Iruka appeared, but this one looked sick and it didn't move whatsoever.
She closed the book and put it back 'That's why Naruto couldn't use the jutsu properly, he has poor chakra control, maybe I should tell him about it tomorrow, especially since—wait, what am I thinking, why would I want to help Naruto, he's never helped me before, and he's always been getting in the way of me and Sasuke,' she quickly discarded the thought.
Just then she heard her mother call her down, looked quickly at the clock and saw that she had been reading for a few hours, being a slow reader, but a good memorizer because of it. She went out and when she got to the steps she could hear her parents talking, or kind of arguing as their tones were slightly antagonistic towards each other, she moved in closer to hear what was being said without being seen as well. "I think we should get the Hokage to reform the teams, I don't want our daughter being on the same team as that boy," she heard her mother say and knew it was about Naruto.
"Come on, I don't think we should be condemning the boy so soon, it sounds like he just wants to be noticed, and it's working. It's not like he can help being what he is, and it's not like that part makes him bad for anyone to be around. The thing's not going to escape, I mean it's the Fourth's own jutsu, so it should be pretty strong. I also don't think the Hokage is even going to listen to such a request for such misplaced reasons. I think the kid's more valuable to the village anyway, the village is kept safe due to his containing it and he can use it to protect the village further, if you did your research you'd know that those people can utilize it as an extension to their chakra reserves, and even use the chakra to enhance their abilities. Sakura will be fine especially with someone like Kakashi as the leader. He famous for being one of the top ANBU captains, so I'm sure that if this team appeals to him, which it has much to do with teamwork, then she'll be fine," her father reasoned.
"Okay, but if I hear that that boy has done something to her then I'm going to make the Hokage reform the teams," her mother said cracking her knuckle (something Sakura did when making threats as well).
They stopped talking and so Sakura went into the kitchen, "Yeah, Mom, what is it?"
"I need you to get some groceries, I can't make the full meal without these things," she hands Sakura a shopping list with about ten things on it, as well as quite a bit of money.
"Okay, I'll go and get them," Sakura says as she walks out, puts on her shoes and makes her way to the market. She starts thinking of what her dad said 'What is it that Naruto is, and what has mom so worried. Apparently, Naruto is containing something that would be bad for the village if it isn't, and he can use it to his advantage instead. What is it though, it sounded like something terrible, and why is it "inside" Naruto, or how is it? He was careful not to put a name to it, too, and what does the Fourth have to do with it?' She mulled over these questions for a while then decided 'I'll go to the library tomorrow to look it up, I'm sure I can find something there.'
She was brought away from her personal questions as she neared the market. She took out the list and went to the various stalls, paying for the things she needed. She was just about to leave when she saw something that made her totally forget what she was doing, or, to be specific, someone: Sasuke. "Sasuke-kun!" she yelled making him turn around.
'What the hell is she doing here?' he thought a little bit annoyed that she was here. 'I guess it can't be helped,' he thought resignedly.
"Sasuke-kun, what are you doing here," she said excitedly.
He just held up his bags of food.
"Oh, yeah, well if you have anything else to get, I'll walk with you," she said.
"hn," was his reply and he continued along his way to the stalls he needed to go to, which were, she remembered, stalls she still needed to go to. As they walked, she talked about how good it was to be a Shinobi, how she was relieved that she didn't have to do any homework, or memorize anything, or take tests, or have to stay someplace where the only thing keeping you sane is the occasional interruptions from the other students: Iruka noisily waking a student who nodded off during class, someone throwing something across the room and making a huge mess of the classroom if it hit a pile of stacked papers or someone who reacts badly, causing things to fall over or a fight to break out, and, most of all, the times where Iruka has to leave to go in search of Naruto, thus allowing everyone to take a break from the learning and socialize, and the eventual return of Iruka holding a Naruto either flailing about animatedly or just hanging there in shame, and once he was in a headlock and Iruka was giving him a noogie, which was a punishment as well as a sign of affection. All Sasuke would do was occasionally "hn" when it seemed appropriate.
They had all their groceries and Sasuke was heading home, Sakura followed until she felt that she got too far from her house, already thinking that she took too long getting the items. "It was fun being with you Sasuke-kun, but I have to get these back home otherwise my mom will kill me," she say starting to turn towards her own home, then she heard something she didn't expect: "Sakura, wait."
She turned back around to see Sasuke was staring at her. For a moment she thought he was going to say "I enjoyed this time, too, I'd like to do it more". However, what he did say caught her so off guard: "What do you think of Naruto?"
She, for some reason, was totally annoyed by that question, and so replied "Naruto is an annoying pest, he's always asking me on dates, and he's so hard headed that he can't realize when he's overstepped his boundaries, and he's always pulling stupid pranks," she then changed her tone to a 'I know why' kind and said "it's probably because he doesn't have any parents, you know, he doesn't have anyone to yell at him for doing things like that. If I tried doing those things, my parents would ground me forever—" she was about to continue, until she saw a sort of death glare being directed at her from Sasuke. He's only given that look to a few people, one of them being Naruto, though it was more a challenge to them, this one was full of anger.
"Being alone…is a more painful feeling than it is to be scolded by a parent! Naruto even has people scolding him and ignore for no apparent reason, other than existing!," Sasuke almost yelled at her.
She was so caught off-guard that all she could do was reply "Wh-what are you saying Sasuke-kun."
Sasuke replied with "You're… annoying" and just walked away.
Sakura was so close to crying, after the initial shock of his words, and turned and ran home. As she neared her house she tried regaining her composure so she could get through dinner without alerting her parents, one of the reasons why she doesn't wear make-up anyway. She thought that she was good and entered the home saying "I'm back, sorry I'm late, but I met someone there and the time got away from me."
Her parents replied, though she didn't hear because she was replaying that moment in her head over and over. Dinner went by quickly, she remembers having a conversation with her parents, but not what they actually said. She was excused to her room and she walked as casually as possible up the stairs, but when she closed the door she almost immediately started crying, as quietly as possible so that her parents wouldn't hear.
'Why would Sasuke-kun say those things, all I did was answer his question of what I think about Naruto. Wait, I did say that his problem was his parents being non-existent. That's what set him off, he had his parents taken away from him, by the brother who was, apparently, a great source of pride for the village, and from those times that he picked up Sasuke-kun, it looked like they enjoyed each other's company.' She thought of this as she got ready for bed.
'Naruto… why was I so annoyed by Sasuke-kun's asking what I thought of him? Was it the other times he got between us and now he wasn't even here and he was getting in the way. However, if what Sasuke-kun says is true, then Naruto is annoying to gain the villager's attention, not to be in the way of anything.' She got out of the shower and put on her pajamas.
'I think I need to be nicer to Naruto. He can be annoying, but were the attempts to get to me just his way of showing affection? And if so, does that mean that he actually likes me, and isn't just trying to mess with me and Sasuke-kun? I'm not going to allow him to get me on a date, but I could at least be less of a bitch to him. However, that is best left tomorrow, right now I need to get to sleep or else I'll be too tired for the 'mission' tomorrow.' She curled up under her covers and was soon fast asleep.
AN: Well, that was long 8 pages is a good length, I think. I hope I didn't let the characters go too far out of character, I know Sasuke and Kakashi were a bit out. However, it was surprisingly fun writing this, I think I'll continue doing this. I actually researched some of the information, like the shuriken throwing and the target hitting thing Itachi showed Sasuke before defecting. I still am not sure why that's significant, I mean, what use is it, is there a formation he can counter using it, is it just for show, all I know is that it's useful to be able to nullify a blind spot so the one behind the boulder is good to train. Remember, this was my first post, so it probably won't fully satisfy someone's 'hunger' for a good fanfic. Also, this was fun to write so even if I get some flames I'll probably continue this story. I know I didn't have Kyuubi say anything, but it's so I can just copy the disclaimer and key. Anyway, review and, if possible, someone answer some questions, like: who are Sakura's parents, and what the 9 target blind spot training thing is for, and did I put anything in here that anyone thought was funny, even slightly.