Hello everyone! It's been quite a long time since I last wrote anything for Fanfiction. About 3 years. Man, does time fly. Anyway, here I am, writing another story, taking a shot with Naruto. I had this crazy idea, that I think people will like it, so here it goes.

First things first, before you read, there's a couple of things you should know. In this story, the events of "Naruto: The Seventh Hokage and the Scarlet Spring" and "Boruto: Naruto The Movie" have happened. What has happened in the anime until the Momoshiki arc is also "canon" here. But, what happens in the Boruto manga and the anime (anime is still in the Chunin exams arc as I'm writing this) after that is off the table. We are taking an entirely different path from that point onwards.

Sarada is 16 years old. We are picking it back up after a 3 year timeskip. Sasuke has been back in the village since then. This story is going to shift the protagonist role to the Uchiha family, you're going to see a lot more of Sarada and a lot less of Boruto, Sasuke and Sakura's relationship will be explored and told with flashbacks. Basically, I think that the current series is not doing a good job with these characters, and I'm doing just that with this story. I'm not going to go into more details and spoil the BIG thing I have under my sleeve, so I'll let the story do everything now.

Enjoy!

Disclaimer: I do not own Naruto. Please support the official release.

Warning: Expect curses, violence and sexual content.

Uchiha Clan House

Hashirama Senju's cells. That's all that Sakura Uchiha could think about at the moment. A Hidden Leaf shinobi had his hand cut off in a recent mission. Another case of hundreds of shinobi who had limbs severed. The Hidden Leaf's medical shinobi were proud to say that they found a "cure" to this condition ever since Tsunade Senju first used the method to give the Seventh Hokage another arm after losing his in the 4th Great Ninja War. That is at least, on record. Madara and Obito Uchiha were the pioneers of this method, but the world can't know about that. Tsunade, now retired, passed down this secret to her disciple, Sakura, and now, it was up to her to develop this technique. Make the process more efficient, faster, cheaper. Improve and share this procedure so that every shinobi in the world could get what they lost back. She had made some progress. The process no longer took months. Last time she did this was with her own husband, when she took it upon herself to give her husband a new arm after finally convincing him that he should not go around missing his dominant hand. Shizune used to be in charge of this project. But Sakura took over, after all , she had plenty of motivation, her husband being the trigger. Being the gifted medical ninja she was, she made important breakthroughs, but not enough. How to mass produce artificial limbs without making human sacrifices and growing white Zetsu's, that was Sakura's current determination.

Sakura was sitting at the table of her kitchen, looking at everything she had at her disposal to do that. It was her day off, but she couldn't afford to just rest. This was one of her many responsibilities as the Head of the Hidden Leaf's medical shinobi. She couldn't find anything. She couldn't help but let out a frustrated groan.

"You should take a rest mom, I doubt you'll accomplish anything like that" Sarada said, who was washing the dishes.

Sakura looked up and felt a bit of diziness. She really was overdoing it. She hadn't even noticed that her daughter finished breakfast, got dressed and started washing the dishes. It was very odd for her to do that without telling her. Sakura felt pride for her daughter. It seemed like it was yesterday when her daughter was a little girl, and now she was a graduated chunin.

"You are in a good mood today" she pointed out. Sarada was a teenager, add the Uchiha genes, so she was prone to being a bit moody and rebellious with her now, so it surprised her to see Sarada so... happy, without a reason. Sakura grinned "you wouldn't happen to have a date with a boy today wouldn't you? You can tell me. Your father is still asleep" she taunted.

"Nope. You are the one who has a date today, mom" Sarada answered, with a smile. Sarada never showed any amusement to her parents being close, not since Sasuke came back. Weird. Sakura thought. She got up to get closer to her daughter, and there it was, that strange diziness, again. She couldn't pinpoint it, but something felt odd, and familiar. "I'm sure you are looking forward to getting some time alone with dad, it has been a while" Sakura raised an eyebrow. Something began to click in her mind "I'll even make sure I'm out so that you can-" before Sakura heard something she didn't want to hear from her daughter's mouth, she raised her hand, index and middle fingers raised.

"Release" she said. Sarada began to vanish, and dirty plates appeared on the sink. "That little!" Sakura yelled. That sneaky daughter of hers! Sakura was oficially pissed, her angry fist colliding against the kitchen counter making that clear.

"Sakura. What the hell." her outburst was a bit too strong (Sakura had troubles to control her monstrous strength) and woke Sasuke up, who suddenly appeared behind her, in his underwear, but with a kunai and ready to fight.

"Your daughter used a sharingan genjutsu on me to avoid washing the dishes!" Sakura hissed. For a moment, Sasuke let out a sigh of relief, then he processed the information, and he let out a small chuckle "You think this is funny?" Sasuke gulped as he saw that this made his wife extremely angry "Did you teach her how to do that?" She demanded.

"No" he said "but I find it pretty amusing that she would do exactly the same thing I used to do when we have never even talked about it" he admitted "this means you have gotten soft, falling for a genjutsu of Sarada's level is an embarrasment for the counter genjutsu specialist you once were" he teased.

"Fuck you Sasuke!" she barked.

"That is the plan. Sarada's out. Perfect time for you and me to..." Sasuke tried to seduce her, it's what worked best to calm her down when angry.

"No" she said as she dodged Sasuke when he leaned in for a kiss "not now" she stormed to the front door.

"It's our day off, do you really want to scold our daughter instead of making up for lost time?" he tried to stop her.

"Someone needs to teach our daughter to not use her sharingan on her family, you obviously won't" she retorted as she slammed the front door when she left.

Sasuke sighed. Living with two women was difficult. Way too difficult.

Hidden Leaf Training Grounds

Rasengan Barrage!

Fire Style: Phoenix Flower Jutsu!

Wind Style: Wind Scythe Jutsu!

Ten massive fireballs collided against the surface of a lake, causing an explosion and the water rising to the height of a tsunami. The water cleared to reveal Konohamaru Sarutobi, a Hidden Leaf Jonin, captain of Team 7.

"Nope... the timing wasn't just right" he noted as he looked at his students, at the other side of the lake.

"That was Boruto's fault" Sarada instantly answered.

"Geez, I'm so sorry Sarada" Boruto Uzumaki rolled his eyes "syncing 10 shadow clones making a rasengan and throwing them at the same time is not as easy as it seems" he said as 9 copies of him disappeared.

"Why are you making excuses? This was your idea!" she yelled as she poked his chest with her finger.

"My idea was for you guys to come up with something much cooler! Not just use the lame jutsus you use all the time! What is Mitsuki even doing anyway? He might as well just do nothing!" Boruto yelled back.

"Wind style magnifies fire style. This way we make the firebllas much bigger and stronger" Mitsuki calmly chimed in.

"Whatever, just forget it, let's do something else" Boruto dismissed as he threw his arms behind his head.

"So you just give up after failing on our first try. Typical" Sarada retorted as she folded her arms and looked away.

"I don't. Give. Up." Boruto growled.

"When are both of you going to stop bickering every single day?" Konohamaru sighed as he jumped next to them.

"They're just like a married couple" Mitsuki randomly said.

"What the fuck Mitsuki? Stop saying stuff like that!" Boruto snapped.

"Yeah I guess it has more to do with your fathers. They were just like you because they were rivals, although, my parent would argue that there was more to it..." he said.

"Of course Orochimaru would say something like that. Now that is someone who's really gay" Sarada countered.

"Damn" Boruto couldn't help it. He couldn't get over how 'savage' (as he and his friends would say) Sarada could be sometimes.

"My parent is asexual, not homosexual" Mitsuki explained, nonchalantly. Konohamaru could only facepalm as his students got in yet another weird argument of theirs.

"Asexual or homosexual, your father is a total creep Mitsuki" a female voice said out of nowhere. Team 7 turned around to see Sakura sitting on a rock behind them.

"Mom..." Sarada nervously said as she gulped and took a step back. She knew she was in serious trouble.

"Sakura! To what do we owe this surprise?" Konohamaru exclaimed.

"It's my day off, so I thought I could come down and see how my daughter is doing with the current team 7" she said that glaring at Sarada, who felt a shiver of fear going down her spine.

"This is perfect! We could have them spar against you to practice their new teamwork techniques!" Konohamaru happily suggested. An evil smirk appeared in Sakura's face.

"That sounds like a great idea..." She said as she got up and cracked her knuckles.

"I'd really rather not..." Sarada complained.

"Oh come on Sarada! This sounds awesome! I've never really seen aunt Sakura in action!" Boruto beamed.

"I'd like to test our abilities against the disciple of Princess Tsunade, too" Mitsuki added.

"It's decided then!" Konohamaru declared before Sarada could say anything.

"Don't hold back on me just because I'm a medical ninja, I can assure you I can take whatever you throw at me" Sakura said as she adopted a fighting stance.

"Here we go!" Boruto grinned as he performed the shadow clone hand seal.

Twenty shadow clones appeared around Sakura, she scanned the field as she saw that Mitsuki and Sarada had vanished. Before she could do anything, Boruto's clones charged at her. She handled them with extreme ease, making them disappear with quick and precise punches. She knew this was only a diversion, this was really Naruto's son, she thought. She made the last clone disappear, of course, Boruto went into hiding with the other two. Sakura stood there, anticipating what would happen next. Fire balls rained from a tree behind her, she noticed that they were actually shuriken coated with flames, a trick her husband taught to her daughter. She was bringing in the big guns right from the start, someone's desperate to not get her punishment, Sakura thought as she smirked. She easily dodged all of them, and she would have been surprised when one of them turned into Boruto, but she was totally expecting this. She was there to witness the birth of this technique and knew Konohamaru would teach it to them. She grabbed Boruto by his arm, spun once and threw him back at where he came from. Boruto crashed against the tree, and both him and Sarada fell down to the ground.

"I really hope you can do better than that" Sakura mocked them.

She saw Boruto's grin and instantly felt chakra underground. She jumped as a snake-like arm burst from the ground beneath her. She couldn't dodge in mid-air, so Mitsuki managed to wrap his arm around her body.

"Gotcha!" Boruto exclaimed. Seeing Sakura smirk once again wiped the smile out of his face. Chakra was visually manifesting itself in Sakura's foot.

"Jump!" Sarada screamed as she knew what was about to happen, but Boruto and Mitsuki couldn't react in time. As Sakura landed the ground started shaking, like an earthquake. This caused Mitsuki's arm to retract and release her, he collapsed, as did Boruto. Before Sarada landed Sakura was able to appear behind Mitsuki, a green glow formed around her hand and she hit him in the neck before he could recover. Mitsuki was out.

"What the-?" before Boruto could even process what just happened, Sakura appeared behind him as well and got hit just like Mitsuki, taking him out as well.

"I'm sorry boys but I'm really just here to teach my daughter a lesson" she said as Sarada was the last one standing "don't worry you'll be able to move again shortly, consider this a lesson on how a medical ninja can leave you unable to move if you give us the chance" she smiled.

"So I take it you noticed huh?..." Sarada asked, trying to appear as innocent as possible.

"Of course I did" Sakura said as she put her hand on her hips "you know, your father used to do the exact same thing to me when we started living together"

"He did?"

"Good, at least now I know for sure that your father is innocent of this" she said as she adopted her fighting stance again "but you? Well, you are about to suffer the consequences of using your sharingan on your own mother"

"You wouldn't hurt me, would you mom?" Sarada asked as she got ready to fight as well.

"You'll see" she said as she charged against Sarada.

Sarada managed to dodge every single one of Sakura's attacks. Sakura was impressed, she was greatly holding back of course, but she didn't know Sarada could keep up at this level. A look at Sarada's eyes provided the answers. Sarada awakened her third tomoe. Things made sense now, how she could have even fallen for her genjutsu. Sakura instantly noticed that as soon as she made eye contact, Sarada tried it once again. Although the visual genjutsu landed, Sakura broke free from it just as quickly.

"Sarada" Sakura said as she caught Sarada's fist "I am your mother and your father's wife, I can break through visual genjutsu very easily" she said. Sarada stood there, merciless at Sakura, waiting for a hit that she knew was going to hurt. To her surprise, Sakura let go of Sarada's arm "I'll let you finish your training for now, we'll discuss your punishment later when you get back home" she smiled, and then vanished.

Sarada stood there, confused.

"Your mom seriously kicks ass, Sarada" Boruto said as he managed to stand up.

"Just as I expected from Sakura Uchiha" Mitsuki said as he did the same.

"Well.. that was even more pathetic than I expected" Konohamaru said as he appeared from wherever he was hiding "Sakura dominated you in seconds, and that wasn't even a quarter of what she's truly capable of" he scolded "we have a lot of work to do"

"Yeah..." Sarada agreed.

Uchiha Clan House

Sakura went back home to see her husband sitting on the couch of the living room, reading the newspaper.

"You're back" he noted "I hope you didn't embarass Sarada too much in front of her friends"

"I wouldn't do such a thing!" Sakura defended herself "I might have been a bit too harsh on Boruto and Mitsuki though.." Sasuke raised his visible eyebrow.

"Actually, I don't want to know" he stated as he reached for a mug of coffe he had on the table.

"For your information" she said as he drank "there is a reason why Sarada was able to use genjutsu on me, even if she only managed to do it by taking me by surprise, and I easily broke through it, before you even think of questioning my abilities again"

"Which is..."

"Sarada has awakened the third tomoe" she stated.

"You're absolutely sure about this" he demanded as he put down the mug and the newspaper.

"Yes. I just saw it" she confirmed. Sasuke sat back and looked straight ahead, which told Sakura he was probably overthinking things "this doesn't necessarily mean anything bad has happened to her" she reaffirmed.

"I hope so..."

"Sasuke" she said as she sat on his lap and looked him straight in the eye "Sarada's sharingan develops with love, not hate"

"I know what you mean Sakura" he said "but I can't help it. She has been very distant recently. And now, you tell me this... what if she found out about certain things?"

"Don't do this to yourself" she said as she stroked his hair "Sarada is fine, I know it. Even if she did find out. She'd tell us, she'd understand us. She is the sweetest person I know"

"You're probably right" Sakura put her finger on his lips.

"I am" she said as she kissed him passionately "now... If I'm not mistaken, there was something we were going to do before I left..."

"I thought you said no" he said as she got up and grabbed Sasuke's hand

"I said not then. Now is a good time though" she winked as she took them to the bedroom.

"Maybe I should use that genjutsu?" he teased. She slapped him.

"Do not test me, Sasuke Uchiha" this only turned Sasuke on.

"Oh I will" he answered, Sakura jumped on top of him and they kissed passionately again, closing the bedroom door behind them.

And that's chapter 1 folks! Feedback is highly appreciated!

See you in the next chapter!