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Unwanted Changes

By NEOHOONS

Chapter 1: That Time of the Month

It was yet another beautiful day in Konohagakure. The flowers were blooming, the birds were chirping, and the sun was shining. At least, that is what most people would think on a day like this.

Uzumaki Naruto was different. He hated the sun. Despised it. Loathed it. Sure, if he was awake he would think differently, but Uzumaki Naruto was not a morning person. Not a morning person at all.

As Naruto rolled to the other side of his bed, which was absent of annoying bright sun rays, his entire body screamed in pain. Every joint was a bundle of fire and his muscles burned with each movement he made. Maybe he had trained too much the previous night. With the Chuunin exam coming up, he couldn't afford to waste any of his time.

After failing to achieve the rank of Chuunin two times, he couldn't allow himself to fail again, especially since it had been a whole year since the first Chuunin exam. He was so sure that he had made Chuunin on his first try after defeating both Garra and Neiji. To his complete surprise, only Shikamaru had been promoted and in the following exam Shino was the sole leaf Genin to attain the Chuunin rank. The only reason he wasn't extremely annoyed with his two failures was that Sasuke had also yet to become Chuunin.

Naruto grinned to himself, "There's no way I'm not getting the Chuunin rank this time!" With that, he carefully crawled out of bed, groaning for the entire time, and slowly staggered to the bathroom. When he dropped his pajamas in order to relieve himself, he realized that he had a problem. A big and annoying problem. He glanced down and after a moment screamed, "ARGH! NOT AGAIN!"

Sakura sat down on a boulder and rested for a few moments in order to catch her breath. She raised her right arm examining it carefully. Her arm was more muscular and toned and she was proud to say that her chakra level had gone up a notch or two also.

After almost getting killed in the previous Chuunin exam, Sakura had decided to take her occupation of Konoha ninja much more seriously. Training vigorously everyday for the past 6 months had definitely shown its results. Although still lacking in skill with ninjutsu and taijutsu, she excelled in genjutsu under the guidance of Kurenai-sensei. Although Kurenai-sensei had her own team of Genin to guide, after a few weeks of pleading from Sakura, she came to the conclusion that she couldn't let Sakura's determination go to waste. Plus she knew that Sakura's idiot of a teacher, Kakashi, was probably spending all his time with his nose in the latest volume of Come Come Paradise.

Sakura looked up at the cloudless blue sky and smiled. A couple months after she had started her intense training, her improvement in performance was noticed by none other then Sasuke! This meaning that Sasuke simply glanced over at her after the mission and while smirking told her, "You got better." Although she was happy with the comment, when Naruto laughed loudly and exclaimed, "Of course Sakura-chan improved! She's going to be the best female ninja in the village!" Sakura's heart warmed immensely and she immediately blushed. Of course Naruto, being the slow person he is, looked at her in worry and kept on asking her if she was sick.

Ever since Naruto had risked his life to protect her from Garra in their first Chuunin exam, Sakura had looked at him in a different light. Gone was the annoying, loudmouthed brat that she used to see, but now, whenever she was with Naruto, she saw a annoying, loudmouthed teammate and friend. Maybe even a best friend. Due to the nature of her occupation of ninja she did not have time to associate with many other people besides her teammates and on occasion the other Genins. Because of this, her friendships with both Sasuke and Naruto had improved. Sakura had finally dropped her silly crush for Sasuke, but she still admired Sasuke's handsome features.

Sakura suddenly broke out of her thoughts and noticed that the sun was high in the sky. "Hmm, it's noon already? I guess I should have lunch before continuing my training," she said to herself, "I haven't seen Naruto or Sasuke-kun in a few days, maybe I should find one of them for some company. Lets see … where would they be right now? Oh yeah, Sasuke-kun left the village to train with Kakashi-sensei, so I guess I'll look for Naruto." She then picked up her kunai off the ground and began to walk to Naruto's house.

It is not an everyday sight to see Naruto balling his eyes out. But then again, today wasn't a normal day. Naruto was sitting on his bed with his legs pulled to his chest and his head resting against his legs. He cursed the fact that he was reduced to this crying heap. Why did this have to happen to him every month? Not only was he cursed with the stupid fox in his stomach, he became this idiotic wreck for a few days every month! Granted this only started happening to him a few months ago, he still hated it. He comforted himself with the fact that at least no one knew about this problem of his and would not be hated or teased for it also.

All of a sudden the doorbell rang. "Kuso!" Naruto silently cursed, "Out of all the times for someone to come over, why now! Maybe if I just don't answer they'll just go away."

Sakura stood at Naruto's door waiting for a response. After a few minutes of waiting she sighed, "I guess I'll have to eat alone today." She closed her eyes and leaned against the door, and suddenly fell over as the door swung open.

"Itai! That idiot Naruto! Doesn't he know how to close his own door?" she screamed. Carefully she picked herself up wincing at the scrape she got on her elbow and looked around. "Naruto's not home? Hmm… Well I might as well find something to clean this scrape with. He probably keeps his band-aids in the bathroom" She walked around carefully trying to avoid stepping on the mess called the floor. "Jeez! How does Naruto live in this dump?" she exclaimed annoyingly.

When she reached the bathroom, she thought she heard someone crying. She strained her ears trying to locate the source of the sound. As she tiptoed towards the source, she became confused. "Why is there a girl crying in Naruto's room?" she wondered with a flash of jealousy, "Did that baka bring a girl to his house?" Slowly she put her hand on the doorknob and carefully turned it, gently opening the door.

"Sakura-chan? What are you doing in here?" Naruto cried out. His eyes opened in horror when he suddenly realized that Sakura was about to learn of his monthly curse.

"Na- Naruto?" Sakura's mouth fell open. In front of her sat a beautiful blonde girl with brilliant blue eyes looking as if she were about to burst into tears. Naruto looked down at himself, or herself, and upon seeing his own breasts simply broke down again. Sakura, after a moment of shock, screamed out, "What in the world is going on here?"

Author's Notes: Hey everyone! This is my first fanfic ever … please review it! I need feedback! How else am I supposed to be motivated to write more. P Is it too short? Too many grammatical errors? Doesn't flow? Feedback please!

By the way, if you haven't already figured it out, this will be a NaruSaku fic … Yay to NaruSaku! There are far too few good NaruSaku fics out there (