Hey there everyone! Sorry again for the long absents believe me I will be continuing the old stories as soon as I get a chance for those who are still interested but for now I had an idea to write this! Anyway I do not own any Naruto characters from the manga or otherwise. I do however claim any OC's that I will most likely scatter as supporting characters throughout the fic. I cannot promise anyone how often I will be updating this due to the fact I will be starting college next week. This is my first Naruto fic so if anyone had any ideas or suggestions feel free to PM me. No flames please leave that in the comments. Any as always this is B.B. Miller please enjoy the fic!
Approx. 5 years after the war.
Naruto was standing atop the Hokage mansion alongside Tsunade and the Konoha 11 facing the entire population of Konohagakure. As the elders began their speech welcoming the new hokage into office Naruto had a faint smile on his face
"Can you see me dad? Can you see me Ero-sensi? Can you see me Jiji? I finally did it!" Naruto thought to himself as he stood behind the two elders.
"And now everyone I know present to you are newest hokage! Uzumaki Naruto!" The elders said in unison.
Naruto walked up next to the two elders and turned to face them as they handed him the signature hat that all kage wore. He gave a respectful bow and place the hat on his head.
"Congratulations young man please lead and protect this village for years to come." Koharu said as she gave a bow to the new hokage.
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7 years prior
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Naruto and Jiraiya were walking down a path of their way back to Konoha after their 2 and a halve years of training. Jiraiya looked down at his young pupil and saw a look of excitement and nervousness on his face.
"Ero-sensei, do you think that I can become hokage?" Naruto asked the great perverted toad sage.
"Well I'd say that you have a better chance at becoming hokage than most people I know my young friend." Jiraiya responded. "But I get the feeling you already knew that is there something else bothering you?"
".." Naruto said nothing at first not sure if he should tell his sensei what was really going through his mind. Sure the hokage thing was part of what was plaguing the young shinobi but the main thing that was on Naruto's mind was a certain pink hair kunoichi that had stolen Naruto's heart so long ago.
"Thinking about Sakura again are you?" Jiraiya asked knowing his student well.
"Yeah…. I just don't know if there is any way I can get her to really see me the way that I see her." Naruto responded glumly.
"Well only one way to find out. Just make sure you don't do anything to stupid when you see her again after almost three years." Jiraiya said, "I would excpicially keep that little sexy jutsu down to a minimum around her."
Naruto laughed slightly at the last comment think of what might happen if he would do that after her not seeing him for several years. The two shinobi remained silent for the rest of their trip. After about 30 minutes or so the gate of Konoha slowly came into view. A large grin slowly formed on Naruto's face as he switched into a full sprint towards the village.
"Well he is certainly exited" Jiraiya thought to himself as he watched his young protégé sprint towards his home village.
"Hey there!" Naruto said.
"Well look what we have here it's been quite some time Uzumaki." The man at the gate said as he allowed Naruto entrance.
Naruto began walking taking in the village once again after his long absence. As he brought his view back towards a forward view he saw a certain very lazy looking shinobi walking his way next to a blonde sand kunoichi sporting a large fan on her back.
"Hey there Shikamaru! Temari!" Naruto exclaimed, "Long time no see!"
"Well holy shit if it isn't the Baka himself! Naruto it's about damn time you came back!" Shikamaru stated. "Troublesome, I was getting used to the quite in the village but it wasn't the same without the blonde dumbass."
"Well it looks like the little big mouth short stuff finally grew up! It's good to see you Naruto!" Temari stated.
"I would love to hear about how the training trip went but I have to escorted the annoying blonde here back to her village. It's troublesome but it's an order." Shikamaru stated lazily barley dogging a kunai aimed for his back.
"Come now you lazy shit you know you love being around me." Temari said.
"Troublesome." The Nara said as he looked back at Naruto, "welcome back! You'll have to fill me in when I get back."
"See ya later then." Naruto said waving as he continued into the village.
Naruto quickly jumped up onto a nearby pole as so he could look over the village which he missed so dearly. As Naruto was doing this a certain pink haired kunoichi was on her way back from picking up the daily report from the front gate now with the knowledge that Naruto had returned to the village. She was begging to wonder where her blonde friend had gone till she saw the orange perched atop a pole seemingly lost in thought. She made her way over to him quickly as she began a bunch of strange thoughts ran through her mind.
"I wonder if he still likes me" Sakura thought to herself as she looked up at the young shinobi, "what are you thinking what does it matter."
Sakura was trying to rid herself of these thoughts as she announced her presence, "Hey Naruto! Long time no See!" Sakura shouted at her friend
"Sakura-Chan!" Naruto shouted as he jumped down from his vantage point, "it's been to long! I really missed you!" Naruto said.
Sakura paused for a minute to look at the man in front of her. Naruto had significantly grown since she had last saw him, and now that she was up close she had to say he looked quite handsome.
"Wow Naruto I have to say time as treated you nicely, you're actually taller than me now." "And good looking" she thought the last part to herself as she blushed slightly looking at her friend.
"Wow thanks Sakura-Chan!" Naruto said, "umm… you look… um… even better than I remember..." Naruto said scratching the back of his head nervously at that last part.
The complement made Sakura blush slightly as she looked towards her feet trying to hide it from Naruto.
"Thanks Naruto..." Sakura said, "well I guess you should be going to Lady Tsunade to let her know you retuned I walk with you and you can fill me in on your trip!" Sakura said trying to regain her composure.
The two made their way to the hokage tower as Naruto began to fill Sakura in on everything that had happened whilst he was away with Jiraiya. Sakura on the other hand was not listening to intently on what Naruto was saying as other thoughts were creeping into her head. She could tell the blonde knuckle head she once knew had matured quite a bit since he departed but the old Naruto was still there. The biggest thing she had noticed was how much he had changed physically. Naruto was now standing almost a head taller than Sakura, he was also sporting his new outfit that still had the trademark orange but with a good bit of black mixed in. Sakura had liked the change in attire as his old outfit was much too obnoxious for her taste. She had also noticed he seemed much more toned and physically fit as she could see his build through his clothing.
"Wow, he sure had changed, thankfully not too much." She thought to herself as she continued to half listen to the tale of his training.
"So anyway after Ero-sensei messed with the seal on me I blacked out and when I came to he was all bloody and we had to take him to a medic." Naruto finished as he met Sakura's stare, "Hey Sakura can I ask you something?"
"Of course Naruto." Sakura responded.
"After we go see Ba-Chan would you want to come and get some ramen with me? My treat!" Naruto said hopefully.
Sakura looked at him for a moment and thought about the question. She supposed that it couldn't hurt any to let the blonde treat her to some ramen and the thought of going on a "date" with him made her heat up a bit.
"Sure thing!" Sakura responded with a warm smile
"Really?! Yeaaaah!" Naruto exclaimed as he began to jump up and down in exitment.
"There's the Naruto I remember." She thought as she giggled at his antics.
The remainder of the walk consisted of Sakura filling in Naruto on her training with Lady Tsunade which Naruto was quite impressed by. As they made their way Naruto couldn't help but notice how much Sakura had grown as well in his time away. Though her outfit stayed mostly the same he could definatly tell that she had a much more feminine and was even more beautiful, or "sexy" as Jiraiya would say, than he had remembered. He was now barley listening to what she was saying as he took in the beautiful girl walking beside him. After a few minuets they arrived at the Hokage tower and made their way up to Tsunade's office.
"Good morning Sakura." Lady Tsunade said as Sakura enter the office.
"Good morning milady" Sakura responded, "something came in this morning that you need to see!"
"Oh and what would that be?" The hokage instisted.
Naruto then entered the office and saw the look of joy rise on to Tsunade's face.
"Hey Ba-Chan!" Naruto shouted as he looked at his pseudo-grandma.
"Well isn't this a surprise looks like the trash man brought us something back." Tsunade teased.
"Good to see you too." Naruto groaned as he watch Tsunade laugh at her own antics.
"Welcome back Naruto I trust your journey was successful?" she inquired.
"Yeah! I'm a whole lot stronger now! I'll be hokage in no time!" Naruto said enthusiastically.
Sakura smiled at her friend noting how much she missed him. She was happy he hadn't changed too much and that he was still the little Baka that dreamed of being hokage.
"We'll just see about that!" Tsunade said with an evil grin on her face.
Naruto knew that look as he began to inch away not sure what to expect.
"Jiraiya sent me a message a few days ago stating that you two would be returning so I arranged to have you participate in the Jonin examination you pass and then I might just believe you." Tsunade said.
"But I'm still a guenin." Naruto stated dryly.
"I pulled a few strings, seeing as some of your friends are well ahead of you." Tsunade said, "And it might interest you to know that Gara has been named Kazekage."
"What! Well I'm not going to let him show me up!" Naruto shouted.
Though he meant what he said in truth he was truly happy for his friend. He thought back to when he had saved Gara from himself and had now knew that he truly had people there for him now.
As they all said their goodbyes Naruto and Sakura made their way out of Tsunade's office and began to head towards ichiraku's. the two had walked in a comfortable silence for the majority of the way which was not all that far of a walk.
"Hey old man!" Naruto said as he greeted the old shop owner.
"Well if it isn't our favorite customer! How have you been Naruto?" teuchi asked.
"Great I've gotten really strong!" Naruto said.
"Hey their Naruto!" Ameym said as she approached the two teens.
"Hey! Great to see ya!" Naruto said
"So what will it be for you two?" Amaye asked.
"One bowl of miso please!" Naruto said
"The same." Sakura said with a smile at watching Naruto's antics.
After they received their food they sat in relative silence until Naruto said something that caught Sakura off guard.
"I'm still intending on keeping my promise! I know how much Sasuke means to you." Naruto stated, "I never go back on my word!"
Sakura looked at Naruto in shock. After all this time he was still trying to keep his promise to her. As she looked at the blonde she realized that she couldn't ask for a better friend in the entire world. Though she had given up on Sasuke as to trying to be any more than friends long ago, she still wanted dearly to see him return to the village. She smiled as a tear dropped from her eye.
"Thanks, that means a lot." She said as she pulled him in for a hug to hide her tears from the blonde.
"Well look what we have here!" Said an all too familiar voice.
"Kakashi-Sensei!" they said in unison as they jumped in shock.
"Well I heard that you were back in town Naruto so I went looking for Sakura to let her know but it would seem you two have found each other, in more ways than one." The white haired Jonin stated.
Both Naruto and Sakura turned red at this as they tried to explain what happened.
"It's not like that Kakashi-Sensei! We were just…" Sakura started.
"Relax you two I'm just teasing, anyways I have some paperwork to fill out so I will be seeing you later." He stated lazily.
"Wait Sensei I brought something back for you." Naruto said as he handed Kakashi a book from his bag, "it's the latest one I know you love them! It's not even released yet!"
Kakashi had to hold back his excitement as he grabbed the book.
"Well I must say thank you Naruto now I must be going lots of paperwork to finish!" he said as he shisuined away.
"I guess I'll be going to, I have to get back to the hospital for my shift! Ill see you later Naruto!" Sakura said as she got up to leave
"Later Sakura-Chan!" He waved to the girl who had stolen his heart.
And that's a wrap! Hope I didn't do too bad but it should be pretty decent.
First off I would like to say (have to) that I own nothing from Naruto all rights go to their respective owners and so on.
Secondly I will say that I will try to stick a close as possible to cannon for this story though some chapters may jump completely off base.
Thirdly this will be a NARUSAKU pairing I have nothing against any other ships this is my personal favorite so please don't try and persuade me if you don't like the ship don't ride the ship (read)
Lastly thank you to those who read this and please leave comments on anything that I can improve upon I am well aware that some things will be misspelled such as names and some of the jappanesse names for certain techniques so please inform me if you pick up on any of these so I can avoid these issues in later chapters.
One more thing. Some chapters later on will get raunchy. I will say in the name of said chapters so if you don't like the dirty stuff don't read it. If you do then your in for a treat.
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