Well, heres another story from me. This time Naruto, didn't think I'd every write something this fandom again, but here we are. Have some fun and please, don't scream out "what is this" "this happened like that in the story" "Who are they and where did they come from". I plan on answering these questions over time, so just roll with it and have some fun.

Chapter 1

Team 7

Sakura felt left out of place, and she really, really didn't like that. This morning she had been assigned to her team, with Sasuke, her heart had skipped a beat that moment, and Naruto, she wished her heart had stopped and killed her that very moment. They had then been picked up by their new sensei, second to last team, while poor Team 6 had still been waiting for their new sensei.

Sensei Kenta had seemed nice, he had introduced himself, smiled and told them to meet on a training field, so they could have some privacy and he could explain them what they would do. Now they were sitting here, in a small clearing and waited for their sensei. He wasn't late, it's just that Sakura had been half an hour too early, Sasuke had shown up only two minutes ago and ignored her and Naruto was just now walking towards them.

The moment her blond, annoying teammate sat down next to her, their new sensei showed up, casually strolling towards them. She had noticed the death glares, Naruto and Sasuke had shoot at each other before and was now surprised, that they both looked at Sensei Kenta, almost smiling and grinning with glee. She had never seen Sasuke really smile before and to be honest, it was freaking her out a little.

Sakura had not really had a chance to look at Sensei Kenta properly till now and she had to gulp a little, once she saw his face. There was a big crater of a scar running across the middle on his nose, she couldn't even believe that he could breathe with such a messed-up nose. The rest of his face was rather handsome or at least not ugly.

He had warm brown eyes, a patch of messy black hair and a wide, nice smile, but she still couldn't help herself but to constantly look at the massive scar, even as he was standing right in front of her. He mostly wore the standard uniform of the Konoha Jonin uniform, except for a few alterations.

His uniform seemed to be a bit more buffed than the usual one and he wore reinforced shoulder pads and gloves, which were not standard issue. He also wore a large sword on his hip, easily the length of a Katana, but with a straight blade and a, at least to Sakuras knowledge, strange hilt. Again, not too unusual, but also not what a normal Konoha Jonin would look like. But Naruto and Sasuke didn't seem to care about anything, they seemed to be glued to the man's words.

"Since we all already introduced ourselves to each other, let's get down to business. You are now my students and while some Jonin like to test their students again, I do not believe that to be fair."

Sakura relaxed a little, she had heard those stories before and had feared the worst. However, Kenta was not finished.

"However, this does not mean that I will accept any excuses from you. I expect you to know the stuff you were taught in the academy." Naruto audibly gulped at this and Sakura could hardly hide her snigger, "I will also not tolerate you stagnating out of pure arrogance or laziness. We will train, we will train a lot and you will probably hate me for it. You will sweat, you will cry, and you will have cramps in places you didn't even knew you had muscles there."

He still smiled widely while saying that and it made Sakura shiver a little, honestly, combat training had never been her favourite thing. She preferred learning and book knowledge and was honestly not so good at fighting.

"You have passed the Ge-nin exams, so you are capable at a basic level." Sensei for some reason smirked at Naruto and the blond boy blushed in embarrassment." So, I won't tell you how to hold a Kunai or how to punch somebody. We will start with simply traininging your stamina."

That made sense to Sakura, as she went through a lesson in her head, which had boiled down to "Stamina=potential amount of chakra you can use". So yes, training to increase their stamina sounded like a great idea, at least until Sensei explained his idea of training.

"We will do some warmups, so I'd say jogging to Training Field 12 should be enough." Training field 12 was on the other end of the village, even if you would manage to walk there in a straight lane, it'd be at least 6 miles.

"Since you are all well trained by the academy, I'll give you a ten-minute head start. You do not want to be there late, trust me." He was obviously playing with the hilt of his sword and her believe that he was messing with them faded away quickly, cause Sasuke and Naruto had already taken off running.

"Clocks ticking Sakura." Kenta Sensei only said with a smug grin and the pink-haired girl took off, running after her teammates as fast she could. The fact that Sensei was still standing there, until he was out of sight, not even moving, did not help with the pressure Sakura felt.

She ran and jumped as fast as she could, slowly catching up to Naruto, while Sasuke was still speeding ahead. She knew not to exhaust herself immediately and tried to keep her breath controlled and regular, so she could run if possible. Naruto didn't seem to have any problems with keeping his speed and his breathing in check and Sakura had to admit that it took her almost everything to keep up with him.

Since when was Naruto this fast? And how fast was Sasuke? She wondered for a few minutes, as she did her best to keep up with Naruto, whose face suddenly paled.
"He is coming." He mumbled between his breaths and his tone honestly shocked her, it sounded like somebody who had just seen the devil. Her breaths were getting irregular a little, she felt exhausted and tried her best to keep up and barely did. They must have already run for at least 15 minutes and Sakura honestly was starting to fall behind, when they heard a whistle from behind and turned their heads.

Now she also turned pale. Behind them, maybe 200 metres, was Kenta's Sensei, casually jogging at a ludicrous speed, happily waving his sword at them, saying.

"Remember what I told you, you don't want to fall behind me." Naruto only left behind a small cloud of smoke, as he seemingly run for his life. They couldn't be serious; no teacher would be allowed to do something like this. right?

Even from the quickly shrinking distance she could see the almost maniac glee on her teachers face, as he waved his double-edged blade at her and Sakura decided, that she didn't want to find out what the punishment was. She did manage to get to the training field before Kenta, even if just by maybe two seconds and she collapsed to the ground, heavily panting.

Naruto and Sasuke seemed exhausted, too, but nowhere near as bad as she was, dammit she was making herself look pathetic in front of Sasuke, so she raised herself up and forced her breathing to normal levels.

"Nobody is judging you for being exhausted, you don't need to hide it." Kenta told her, in a much softer and friendlier voice than he had used before. Sakura looked at him with surprise for a moment, before the dizziness of too little oxygen made her head feel light.

Kenta sat down in front of her and gave her commands, in a soft and understanding voice." Deep breaths, in…. and out. In…. and out." Sakura did as commanded and after a minute or so, she felt how her senses returned to her. Kenta smiled at her warmly before he stood up again.

"This was a comparison for you. You had a ten minutes head start; I wore heavy gear and armour." He knocked his chest to prove his point, which generated an almost chirping, metallic sound.

"Still I had no problem catching up with you. Not breaking a sweat or even trying, while you are in differing states of collapse." He was right on that and Sakuras head hang down with shame, since she was the worst of them in this.

"Don't see this as me trying to knock you down. Many Shinobi don't really care about training their basic physical abilities and it took me years to reach the level I have now. As I said, just a demonstration, to motivate you."

How was this supposed to motivate her? She had just been shown that she was slower and had less stamina than even Naruto. The blonde annoyance in question noticed how beaten down she was, so he tried to cheer her up.

"Don't worry Sakura. I was even worse than you, before Kenta started training with me." Sakura raised her head in surprise, and she could see how both Sasuke and Sensei Kenta had just facepalmed. Naruto on the other hand seemed to have just now remembered, that he said something he wasn't supposed to.

"I mean I, I meant that I was training myself and with Stamina and ehh I" there was a loud slapping noise, as Sensei Kenta hit Narutos head with the scabbard of his sword, silencing the stuttering boy.

The Jonin just sighed and stayed silent for a moment, before he straightened himself up again and said.

"Alright, this should be enough for today. We'll start proper training tomorrow. You can go home. But Sakura, would you please walk with me for a bit, I have to explain something to you." The girl just nodded and as Sasuke took off in another direction, she just followed as Kenta walked away and for some reason Naruto accompanied them in the beginning.

Well, maybe they lived in the same part of the city, so this wasn't too strange. But Naruto just continued to tag along, happily humming, as Kenta only did a tiny bit of small talk with him. Finally, they reached a large estate on the outer edges of the village, with a large, strange villa in it. It didn't look like any place Sakura knew, it had the shape of a U and seemed to be several stories high and made from massive stone or at least bricks.

"I'll go ahead to eat dinner, big brother. See you tomorrow Sakura." Sakuras jaw almost dropped to the floor, as the happy blond ran towards the villa, seemingly not caring about them anymore.

"You are Narutos older brother? But you don't even have the same family name." Sakura blurted out, but Kenta just smiled and replied

"He is not my 'real' brother, we just took him in two years ago, because he didn't have anybody. No parents, no family. He can't be my official adoptive brother cause both of my parents are dead, but he pretty much is anyway." Sakura almost didn't notice the next bombshell, cause Kenta just said it so casually, but then she started blurting again.

"You parents are dead, but…" Kenta just gently waved her question of and replied

"It happened a long time ago and doesn't matter right now. What I wanted to show you is, that Naruto and Sasuke had a head-start on you. Yes Sasuke, too. Not only is he from a rather prestigious family, he has also been raised by one of the best shinobis in our village for the last few years."

Sakura just looked at him and slowly, she was understanding what he was trying to tell her.

"You are not bad. In terms of physical abilities, you're average and that is ok. We will work to improve that as good as possible. And you got a bright head on your shoulder, at least Iruka told me so, so we'll put that to use to."

Sakura blushed slightly, she had not expected to be praised by her sensei, so she was also surprised, when he offered her a fist bump.

"I'll do my best to be fair and not pay any favours and I already told Naruto he shouldn't expect any. We'll work together to get the three of you fit and ready for everything, I promise that."

After a moment of hesitation Sakura nodded at him but wasn't sure what else to do. She understood why Kenta was telling her this, but she had no real idea what to do else. Kenta seemed to notice this and just told her.

"Don't worry about it. Just wanted you to know." He waited for a few moments and when Sakura still didn't react or returned the fist bump, he just lowered his hand and told her.

"I'll go home now. See you tomorrow, training at the same time, same place as today. See ya." Sakura now snapped out of her stupor and just nodded and said her goodbyes. She walked away from the estate but turned around one last time and saw Kenta entering, waving at her again as he noticed her looking back.

"Why didn't you invite Sakura to dinner with us, big brother? It would have been…" Naruto couldn't finish his sentence, cause his head was already caught between both of Kenta's fists, who almost crushed the boy's skull.

Naruto screamed out, it was painful, but only for a moment, cause Kenta of cause didn't want to cause any actual damage. "What was that for big brother?" Kenta only looked at him for a few moments and Naruto remembered why. He had promised Kenta to not blurt out their relation immediately.

"I explained all of this to you. I know it wasn't much, but you need to keep this in mind. During training and on missions, I am your sensei, nothing more, nothing less. I cannot give you any special treatment or care, just because of our relation." He let out a sigh and sat down on the ground next to where Naruto was still sitting, rubbing his head.

"Sandeime wanted me to be your trainer, because he wanted to make sure that you were save and well cared for, something he couldn't guarantee with most other available Jo-nin. Also, I am one of the few who can even remotely do something, if this guy acts up." Kenta pointed his finger towards where the seal to contain the Kyubi was located. The mood darkened immediately, even now Naruto was still uncomfortable with it. He had isolated himself for days after finding out that he was a Jinchuriki and he still had nightmares. Nightmares about how the fox would take him over and make him kill everybody, while he had to watch.

"Don't worry about that furball inside of you. If I am here, he won't dare to act up." Kenta gave him a reassuring smile, while putting his hand on the blonde boy's head and messing his hair up. Narutos mood improved again and he even grinned, before Kenta went on.

"I can't give you special treatment, it wouldn't be fair towards either Sasuke or Sakura. So, don't you dare slack off and bank on me dragging you through this. If you become deadweight, I'll drop you in a ditch.".

Kenta jumped up back to his feet and with a wide grin remarked.

"I can already smell the food from the kitchen, so let's hurry up before it gets cold." Like on que, Narutos stomach agreed with a loud growling and both busted out laughing, as they walked to the kitchen. He would do everything he can do to make his brother proud and become a great shinobi.

Sensei Kenta had not lied when he told them about his training regime and yes, Sakura felt pain in muscles even she didn't knew exist. Every day they would start with jogging around the entire village perimeter and they had to stay ahead of Sensei, or he'd blow them up again. They'd be blasted in front and if they weren't back on their feet running again before he reached them, they'd be blasted ahead again. It wasn't painful, Sensei seemed to make sure of that, but it was humiliating and probably very funny for any on watchers.

During the first week, Sakura had been blown up two dozen times, Naruto four times and once even Sasuke had been blown up, when Kenta had caught up with the entire group at once. Sakura was sure that Iruka sensei and many other shinobi would condemn such training and if any other person would do this, Sakura would feel ashamed and quiet. But Kenta Sensei had something about him, that made it fell like this wasn't bad.

He never scolded them or laughed about them, always just told them to stay ahead with a friendly and cheery voice. And he was fair, Sakura was sure of that. Never, except for that one time he blew all three Genin up at once, did she felt like he was picking on her or was pushing her to the point where she would hurt herself. If she was concentrated and gave it her all, he would never catch up to her.

So, it wasn't Sensei who made her feel inadequate, it was Sasuke and Naruto. They were enjoying these runs, because they only had to keep up with Sakuras speed, which wasn't too hard for them. This made Sakura mad and motivated her more than any cheesy speech could. She wanted to improve her stamina, she wanted to run faster and longer, so that she could keep up with them.

After these runs, there'd be basic combat training. Each of them would do a one on one sparing match with sensei for half an hour, during which he advised them on how to improve their style and what mistakes to avoid. The other two students would spar with each other during that.

As expected by her, Sasuke was completely out of Sakuras league and she could feel and see how he was holding back. During the entire week till now she had landed not a single hit on him and had always ended up on the ground after at most a minute, without Sasuke even breaking a sweat. It was a bit better against Naruto, she landed some hits against him and generally lasted longer.

But she realized that Naruto also held back, cause his matches with Sasuke usually lasted longer and were far more evenly matched then hers. And both seemed to give it their all. It frustrated her, almost as much as the fact that Sensei was correcting her fighting constantly while they sparred, while he spoke far less with Naruto or Sasuke.

"Correct your stance, throw your punch this way, you are open here, be ready for a counter." If it wasn't for Sensei's kind and understanding tone, Sakura would have gone nuts already, but she went on.

By the time sparring was done, it was usually around 1 pm and they did a break and ate something together. Her idea of doing a diet and losing some weight was however shoot down by sensei immediately.

"You are thin enough and you'll need all the food you can get." He commented while handing her most of his lunch, when she had appeared without any food. At first, she had hesitated, since the food looked a bit strange to her, but after Naruto had started to devour his food, she had also tried it.

It was a sort of sandwich, the was crispy and filled with some ham, greens, tomatoes and a strange white cheese she had never seen before. It tasted good and she was not at all surprised to see Naruto eating three of these within ten minutes.

Kenta seemed to be satisfied with her eating and for the following days Sakura made sure to follow her sensei's instructions. Eat something before training starts and preparing something for lunch break. Although, she had to admit, that everybody's food, Sasukes lunch included, looked better than hers, which she had prepared herself, cause her mother and father usually left early for work.

Strangely, they had not had a single mission for the entire week, and she was certain that Iruka-sensei had told them that missions would be important once they became Genin. Well, it was probably up to Sensei Kenta's, so nothing she could change there. Not that she had much strength left for missions or jobs.

Every evening she fell on her bed, covered in bruises and dust, more exhausted than she had ever been before. Mom was complaining a little, that her sensei was too harsh with them, that they were obviously overdoing it, but there was something strange.

After the first day, she would have agreed with her mother and had been very close to just giving up, it had seemed impossible. But with every day, tiny step by step, she could fell improvement. It wasn't much and the rational part of her brain screamed that it was impossible to make any meaningful improvement within only a few days. Still, she couldn't help but also felt good, it felt good to be exhausted and to fall asleep quick. She didn't even consider a diet anymore and it had only been a few days.

Whatever Kenta sensei was trying to achieve with his strict training regime, Sakura felt like it was already working for her and it felt great. She felt pain, but it felt good and she liked it. The Sparring however was another problem, she still landed no hits on Sasuke and it seemed like even Naruto was slowly getting bored of holding back against her.

Sensei seemed to notice, so two weeks into their training, he asked Sakura to stay a moment longer after their had finished, to talk to her alone.

"First, your making good progress with your stamina. That makes me happy and you also seem to enjoy it a bit." Sakura nodded as an answer and a genuine smile rushed across Sensei face, before he went on.

"I know that you are frustrated with your current combat skills and it will take a lot of time for you to catch up. But sadly, there is no shortcut. Right now, your fighting is rigid, you pretty much just repeat one move from the academy after the other. That's ok, I don't expect you to use something you were never thought."

Sakura wanted to say something herself, but before she could, Sensei raised his hand, signalling that he was not done.

"I can understand that sparring with Naruto and Sasuke is frustrating. They are ahead of you, they had more and personalized training, all you had was the academy. We can't change that for the moment, so what I want to say is this.

I see your progress, no matter how small you think it is. I'll help you as much as possible on your way".

Sakura smiled a bit, getting praise, no matter how small, always felt nice and in relation to her skills in combat it was a rather rare occurrence.

"I'll try my best sensei. But it's still annoying to have absolutely no chance against Sasuke and Naruto." Sakura finally answered and gained a warm smile from Kenta, before he also left.

"Don't worry, that's all I ask for.".

"You really need to start doing missions with your team." Kenta frowned at his best friends' comment, he was neither the first to say this, nor was it the first time he said it. Kenta put his cards down and leaned back a little, honestly, he didn't want to deal with Masamunes comment right now.

"Masas right. Even we had missions in the beginning, although Jon hated it." Tara chirped in and now Kenta was under attack from both of his former teammates. Kenta sighed, before answering.

"We were different, we were already 15 back then and it was a completely different situation." His defence didn't really work sadly, as Tara was quick to point out.

"In difference to us they've been training since they were six. Not that I like it, but both they and you need some experience in the field. Can't just train them for the next few years."

"Why do I need a mission, I'm already a Jonin." Kenta replied to Masas comment, but the brown-haired man just answered.

"Because you're broke and Hiku and the others won't be happy if they have to make up for you not earning anything for years. Also, you just lost all the money you betted against my four aces."

Well, Kenta was fucked. Not only had Masa just taken all the cash he had on him with this hand, he was also right. There weren't many Ryotu earning money and him not doing any mission would soon be felt by his entire family.

"Its just that I don't think they are ready. Naruto and Sasuke maybe, but Sakura is still at the very start. Seeing her makes me wonder what they teach them at the academy. She only knows the very basics and that's already more than she was taught in the Academy. I don't want her to feel like she's just deadweight."

His friends nodded as Hiku gave out a new round of cards, before the also gave his two cents on the matter.

"D-Class missions aren't too dangerous, even with only basic skills she should be able to handle them. It's also good for team building, even if its just babysitting, cat catching or helping some farmers." Tara explained, but Kenta had something else that caught his attention.

"They still send Genin to find that cat? How much money has the daimyos wife spend on people finding that cat?"

After a moment of silence, they broke out laughing, even they had been sent out to save that cat 8 years ago and Masamune still had a scar on his left arm, from when that demon cat went crazy.

"Maybe a D-Mission won't hurt." Kenta finally gave in as they continued to play.

"We're going on a mission. YAY!" Narutos reaction the announcement was about what Kenta had expected, the blonde boy was running around like he had just drank a gallon of coffee, excited for their first adventure.

Sasuke only nodded, while Sakura appeared unsure, she was sure that she wasn't ready for this. Kenta however remained completely calm and after Naruto had finally calmed down, he explained what they were about to do.

"We will go on a search and rescue mission. Our client belongs to the Daimyos family. To be precise, we are to find the missing cat of the daimyos wife." You could pinpoint the moment when the excitement left Narutos face and was replaced with shock and Kenta had to mobilize all his composure to not break out laughing.

They would be the 56th team to follow the time-honoured tradition of finding this cat, which always got lost around Konoha. And well, since it was a good opportunity to train actual team operation, Kenta had brought all the equipment they needed for that.

"We'll use radios, search patterns and will generally take this mission serious. It's a really good chance to train that." Neither Naruto not Sasuke really seemed satisfied, but to their surprise, Sakura seemed to love that idea, as she immediately took one of the radios and started to fiddle with it with an almost unnatural energy.

"Alright, we have a rough idea where the cat is, so I prepared some maps. Everyone of you will search several designated zones and once one of you spots the cat, the entire team will corner it. Any questions?" he now handed out the prepared maps and showed them how to choose the right radio channel. None of his students asked a question.

"Well, let's do this team."

Sakura had never had much interest for the woods surrounding Konoha, if she was honest with herself, she had never actually left the limits of the village in her entire life. So, the woods felt a little alien for her, so quiet. She was almost surprised by hearing her own breathing and heartbeat, as she sneaked through the woods, as silently as she could. The cat was supposed to have a red ribbon, so it should be too hard to find out here, after all cats were not forest animals.

She tried to focus on any tiny irregularity, but except for a red candy wrapper somebody had thrown in the bushes she found nothing, until an annoying voice from the radio almost shattered her eardrum.

"I found the cat; its heading east wards towards sector 7." She was in Sector 7. Sakura didn't think, something new for her, she only sprinted towards where Naruto and the cat probably came from and soon, she could hear Narutos scream towards the feline, as he is chasing after it.

The screams were getting closed and it should cross right about now. Sakura leaped out of the bush, giving the cat and Naruto a heart attack, as the pink haired girl threw herself on the cat and wrapped herself around the struggling pet. Naruto fell backwards on his bottom, shocked by his teammates appearance and only watched in amazement as she and the cat struggled.

The cat was not ready to give up, clawing at Sakura face, scratching her nose, her cheek and finally, her hair.

"DON'T YOU DARE CUT MY HAIR YOU SACK OF FLEAS!" Sakuras almost demonic outburst froze the cat in its tracks, just like Naruto, as they both eyed the enraged and panting girl. Sakura didn't say anything, she just stood up, handed the shaking furball to Naruto, where it immediately tried to hide from Sakura under Narutos jacket and then she started to clean the dust and dirt of her.

Sensei Kenta and Sasuke arrived only a minute later, but they refrained from explaining that Sakuras scream lead them here so quickly. Kenta just checked on Sakuras scratches and the bruises she got from tackling the cat, before exclaiming.

"Mission successful. The client's cat has been found without any casualties. At least for us." Sasuke eyed the still shaking cat while Kenta said that, it still didn't dare to peck out and Naruto seemed awfully confused by the entire situation. Sasuke really didn't want to know what had happened, it would just be bothersome.

The client was relieved and for the first time in history, the cat also seemed happy, as it tried to find cover in its owners squishing arms, as far away from Sakura as possible. Payment wasn't much, but still good for a D-Rank, so everybody seemed satisfied.

"Well done Sakura, you acted fast and precise. Just refrain from the animal cruelty next time." Kenta had a weak smile on his face as they walked out the office, but Sakura only puffed herself up a little man replied.

"Even a cat should know that you don't damage a woman's hair. It got what it deserved." All her team members made a mental note about this fact, the cat had been warning enough for them.

"So, all we need to do is let any attacker cut Sakuras hair and we won?" Naruto finally asked jokingly and Kenta, not expecting this, broke down laughing, having the mental imagine of the current Raikage getting beaten down by a furious Sakura. Sakura took a moment longer, she wanted to retort something, but after thinking about also started to giggle, before breaking out laughing.

Only Sasuke kept himself from laughing, although he couldn't deny that the imagine of Itachi being squashed by an angry Sakura was putting a smile on his face.

"I'll refrain from using that as a training method, but I guess we can keep it as an emergency back up plan." Kenta joked, after he finally regained himself, only to be shoot a death glare by Sakura.

"Or not." He corrected himself, which made Sakura giggle again.

"Man, it was only a simple mission, but we finished our first real job. We should celebrate. Let's go eat at Ichirakus, Sensei buys." Naruto raced off and before a surprised Kenta could react, Sasuke and Sakura had joined him, leaving him behind.

Now he regretted losing all his money against Masa even more.

Chapter 1 End

Authors Note:

So this was the first chapter and I hope you enjoyed it. Have a nice day and see ya soon.