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"Naruto" – Speaking

'Naruto' – Thoughts

Naruto – Flashback

Naruto – Jutsu

Spiraling Comet of Konoha

Enter Naruto, the Unexpected Chunin

"WHAT THE HELL DO YOU MEAN!?" Birds fled, squirrels and rodents fled, and the villagers just flinched at the sonic-boom that came from the Hospital of Konohagakure, of the Country of Fire. Konohagakure is not only a village, it is a Shinobi village; and one of the oldest, still standing village in all the Elemental Continent. And there were some to say that Konoha is also the strongest, still standing village since they won every single Shinobi War they fought in; but of course, they were the ones that started those wars but no one cared about it at all.

"Young lady, this is a hospital and you need to keep your voice down. There are patients that are trying to sleep." But all that is not important and now it is time to get to what is happening. Within the hospital was a sight to behold indeed. A woman of blonde hair was walking in a hallway to a patient room with two children in company; one of which had gotten her anger.

"B-b-but Tsunade-sama…" One of those kids was a girl of average height and with hair as pink as Sakura flowers. "W-why did y-you…?" She addressed the older woman like a scared and confused employee to her boss. But Tsunade was more than the boss of the Konoha Hospital, she was in charge of pretty much the whole village; she is the Hokage after all.

Tsunade has brown eyes and straight, shoulder-length blonde hair that she usually keeps tied in two loose ponytails. Her personally created technique, Strength of a Hundred Seal - taking the appearance of a violet diamond shape - is clearly visible on her forehead. Tsunade has large breasts; she is in fact widely regarded as the most beautiful kunoichi in the world. Despite being in her fifties, Tsunade maintains the appearance of a young woman. She has not been shown in full when not transformed, but what little of her body that is seen is heavily wrinkled and frail.

Tsunade often wears a grass-green haori with the kanji for "gamble" (賭, kake) written on the back, inside a red circle. Underneath she wears a grey, kimono-style blouse with no sleeves, held closed by a broad, dark bluish-grey obi that matches her pants. Her blouse is closed quite low, revealing her sizeable cleavage. She wears open-toed, strappy black sandals with high heels. She has red polish on both her fingernails and toenails and uses a soft pink lipstick.

"Why did I promote Gaki instead of you or your little childhood crush? Call it woman's intuition." Tsunade answered and before she could continue,

"And you shouldn't talk like Hokage-sama made a stupid choice Haruno-san. She is the best Kunoichi in the village, where can she go wrong?" The other kid with Tsunade was a boy with blonde hair the Hokage's but spikier compared to her smooth and contained style. He also has some kind of birthmarks on his cheeks that resembled the whiskers of cats and foxes. Then there were his ocean blue eyes that seemed to be as vast as the clear sky

His outfit was something to consider to be fitting his wild look. The boy wore black pants, a black t-shirt and a red-orange jacket with a vest above it all. The vest looked like that of a veteran's and contained several pockets. Then there were his hands that had fingerless gloves and the black sandals on his feet.

"Thanks for the backup Gaki, but I can handle my own Genin Naruto." Tsunade responded to the blonde boy, finally calling him by name. Still,

"B-but why did you make the Baka a Chunin!? Sasuke-kun is a much better choice!" This girl is something of a comedic horror that goes by the name of 'fan girl'; and this one with pink hair was a loud and disrespectful one at that.

"That will be up to debate Sakura Haruno. I have not asked you, asked your mother or the civilian council because I prefer to get this from the Shinobi side of the council." Tsunade retorted and that got the newly named Sakura to recoil back.

Sakura has fair skin, green eyes, and pink hair. In her youth, she wore her hair as bangs in order to cover her large forehead and fend off her classmates' calling her "Forehead Girl" (デコリーン, Dekorīn). Her former friend encouraged her not to do this and wear her hair back instead, so that others could see her face. Sakura wears a red qipao dress - at various times either with or without short sleeves - that has a zipper and white circular designs. She also wears tight dark green bike shorts, sandals, and the standard Konoha forehead protector.

"Let's drop this please Tsunade-sama?" Naruto asked, "Because this is supposed to be the Teme's room." Without waiting for any type of response, Naruto opened the room to show a standard patient room with plenty of 'get well' gifts on the bedsides. And lying in the bed was a boy about Sakura's and Naruto's height with a rather handsome face for someone his age and his raven hair had always caused the girls to scream in affection. Thankfully, Sakura isn't going to do so with Tsunade making sure of it.

"So this is the brat that you want me to heal?" Tsunade said neutrally, with no sign of her against or with the idea.

"He may be a jerk but he was my former teammate, so please heal him before the Civilian Council starts giving you a real headache compared to the ones I make." Naruto chuckled and Tsunade just sighed before giggling along. Sakura said nothing and watched Tsunade's hands get covered in a bright green glow with healing energy.

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"Sasuke-kun!" Sakura forgotten every single warning about yelling and embraced her crush as soon as the said boy finally opened his eyes and got his body upright. Tsunade, of course, was not happy about this. Not that a boy waking up was it, it was that Naruto had a forlorn look on his face and then disappeared with a slight gust of wind left behind; so gentle that only Tsunade saw it and felt it happen, the two children never did.

'Whatever. I definitely need to look into this.' Tsunade thought to herself as she left the room and the hospital to her office in the Hokage Tower. Tsunade just ignored Sakura calling out to her. She had a good feeling that Sakura isn't exactly the type of Kunoichi anyone will want to hang out with.

And then a week later, Sakura was once again in Sasuke's room, peeling an apple. She hummed happily, like Sakura was in paradise; all alone in a patient's room with her crush sleeping in his bed. But there is always trouble in paradise, "You are still here? You seriously don't have a life."

Sakura noticed that Sasuke was no longer sleeping. Apparently he never was the whole time. "B-but…" Sakura was shocked to hear such harsh words from Sasuke; she seriously thought that she was being a good teammate and kept him company. "I-I t-though t-that I-I was…"

"That you will get a date with me by wasting your time in my room? It was hard to sleep with that stinking perfume of yours." Sasuke retorted with the same tone that just scared Sakura even more.

"Perhaps you should be more thankful Teme. I thought that you hated to be alone." A voice had interrupted the rising tension and both Genin turned to see a face that they weren't expecting at all.

"Dobe. I hope you don't think that your new outfit and that stolen vest is going to prove anything." Sasuke sneered at Naruto who only chuckled. Sakura just said nothing to point out that Naruto was wearing the exact same as a week ago but with an additional sweeter that was wore on the shoulders, with his arms not wore through the sleeves. Somehow, this looked both professional and 'badass' to the pink haired girl; Sakura tried to shake such feelings out of her foolish 'loyalty' to Sasuke, which everyone knows as an obsession instead.

"Good because I am not here for some advice about a fashion sense. In fact, I came here to say hello. I am still your former teammate." Naruto said but Sasuke didn't take the friendliness as well as anyone would expect.

"Shut it, you are annoying." Sasuke muttered with a glare that Naruto easily shrugged off. "Anyways, since you are here…" Naruto raised an eyebrow when Sasuke paused. "Fight me!"

Sakura was shocked and Naruto sighed as well. "I had a feeling you say that, given that you woke up grouchy. And I don't fight Genin anymore Sasuke, it is a bad example for my rank. The Hokage said so herself."

"The Hokage is a woman!? Are you trying to ruin our village!?" Sasuke shouted as this is the first time he actually got a hint as to who took over as the Third Hokage was killed during an invasion over a week ago.

"I think not Sasuke. She is Tsunade, granddaughter of the First Hokage himself and one of the Three Great Sages of Konoha. We will be just fine with a woman of such caliber." Naruto responded and Sasuke just snorted rudely.

"Whatever. Just fight me dobe!" Sasuke brought up and this time, Naruto moaned.

"I already said no. I don't have time for such nonsense." Naruto said and when Sasuke glared stubbornly, the blonde decided to do something different. "Fine! I will find a time and location to…"

"Here and now!" Sasuke shouted and no one in the room said another word. "I said here and…"

"I heard you and I don't believe you Teme!" Naruto interrupted Sasuke's rant after a good ten minutes of silence. "You are only out of a coma for a week compared to about two weeks in the coma! No one recovers that fast naturally. You are in no shape to fight Sasuke."

"Shut up!"

"No you shut up!" Naruto roared and Sasuke was wondering why he was shivering in front of the 'dobe'. "And secondly, this is a hospital Teme. People don't come here to get hurt. They come to get healed!"

"I don't care!" Sasuke retorted and Naruto once raised his eyebrow at this while Sakura stayed silent about this. "If they get hurt that means that they are weak! They can't take care of themselves! It is a waste of time with such pathetic weaklings! I want my fight and I want here and now!"

Naruto didn't speak a word as an anime shadow covered his eyes. "So…" He finally spoke after what seemed to be another eternal silence. "If you feel that reckless and aggressive for someone who is still recovering for a coma, then I will have to refuse. It is nothing proud of to push yourself that hard. Something even I won't do." Naruto then turned to exit the room but heard some rustling followed by something searing through the air.

"NARUTO-KUN!" Naruto sighed and moved his hand to block what was aimed at the back of his head; a kunai, freshly sharp and yet smells a lot like girl's perfume.

"That wasn't a good move Sasuke." Naruto said calmly as he dropped the kunai away from anyone and on the ground. "But if you are resorting to backstabbing for what you want then I will show you just how 'strong' you really are." Naruto said before he just disappeared and reappeared on the other side of the bed from Sakura and grabbed Sasuke by the collar of the hospital garb. Then Sakura watched as they both disappeared from the room, leaving some water and a breeze behind.

Sakura just couldn't move, remembering what she saw in just half an hour. It still scared and confused her. The point of whimpering as Sakura clutched her head and her heart with each of her hands. She didn't care if someone saw here like this, just that Sakura wanted to know what is going on.

XXXXX

Once Sakura finally left the patient room to tell this to the Hokage, it took an entire hour to track down where Naruto and Sasuke's signatures were, that was to be where they were fighting. But it took a while and proven difficult because somehow, Naruto had spread his signature around to confuse the trackers. It took until they gave up and enlisted one of the Hyuga available to do the job.

The Hyuga were one of the noble clans of Konoha and their two clan inclusive Jutsu had made them highly valued; both their Byakugan, Pale Eyes, and their Gentle Fist styles are not allowed to be included outside the Hyuga Clan on Shinobi Law. Their Byakugan allowed them to use a variant of x-ray vision but only to see the Chakra pathways of Shinobi or Civilian enemies. And their Gentle Fist fighting style took full advantage of the Byakugan, to disable and damage their opponents from the inside out.

"Having any luck Hinata?" Tsunade asked the same Hyuga member who happened to be the heiress as her father is the current head of the clan. But elders are uncertain of Hinata since she was softer and caring than any other member; and for those, they think Hinata is unable to be a good example of a clan head. And pretty soon, everyone around Hinata's age though the same; not Naruto. He never thought such things about her and that is why Hinata feels strong affection for the blonde. "You always could find the brat's signature through anything."

"Y-yes H-hokage-sama…" And unfortunately, Hinata had developed a stuttering streak from her abusive childhood. No one could answer why and neither did Naruto understand why Hinata always faints when he talks to her. But those days are long past and Hinata is going to give it all she has ever since she heard that Naruto fought to the death for the sake of her honor well over a month ago. "T-the-there!" Hinata had found where Naruto was but almost lost herself seeing an outline of the blonde with barely any clothing on and somehow his chakra is making her feel a little warm around the color and her face.

And while Sakura and Tsunade wondered what was up with Hinata, they both ignored it and focused on following the direction of her finger. That was to be where they came across a training ground that was more like a battleground. Not with all the damaged land, craters and sharp deep cuts. And in the center were the two Shinobi they spent a good full hour wasted looking for.

Naruto looked a little banged up but a better look showed that he was merely covered in dirt and grim while Sasuke lied on the ground, fully beaten to a pulp and could only twitch on occasion. The blonde himself turned to face the newly arrived Kunoichi but no ANBU ever came; looks like it was just the girls and a dirty, nearly naked boy on the scene.

"You sure missed the party."

"What did you do to Sasuke!?" Sakura was wondering why she shouted out to Naruto back in the patient room and now, she doesn't even know why she couldn't bring herself to shout at Naruto like she usually does. Hinata was also shocked and yet both she and Sakura failed to noticed what Naruto did; Tsunade was not even spooked or even surprised to see Sasuke on the ground, in a crater and with his body covered in beating bruises.

"I have done what any of you would have done if you were a Chunin that got challenged by a psychopath who demands a fight right in the middle of recovering from his coma." Naruto simply said. "Now hopefully he will be a little more humbled, since he had learned just how powerful a Chunin-level, not Chunin-ranked, Shinobi is."

"Right Gaki. Now I will have to work the brat all over again." Tsunade grumbled and moved past both Sakura and the blonde to grab Sasuke by the collar and disappear with a puff of smoke left behind along with the young Shinobi.

"So what do you want to do Sakura?" Naruto said after what seems to be the third eternal silence that very day.

"I…" Sakura uttered with tears following down her cheeks from her eyes that looked terribly bloodshot. "I…I don't know!" With everything that happened that day and the feelings making a terrible storm within Sakura's mind and heart, the girl looked like she was only on the thin string of her sanity. But then she felt something fall right in front of her feet and Sakura looked down to see a kunai.

"Then that should help." Naruto said as Sakura just stared at it until the girl realized just what kunai this was; the same one that Sasuke tried to strike Naruto on the backside with. Sakura then remembered that she brought that kunai as a present she thought that Sasuke will love and instead, Sasuke tried to use it to kill a comrade when his back was turned.

That was it, Sakura couldn't think of anything and just took the kunai with reverse handle, to use it on herself! "Sakura-san!" Hinata cried out but Sakura then did what any suicidal person does in those graphic novels. She tried to fend off Hinata by swinging the kunai like it suddenly became a sword. But before Hinata could recoil, something else happen.

"Arrgh!" Sakura felt like she suddenly tried to stab a piece of iron with the kunai in hand and she recoiled instead. But then Sakura felt like being surrounded by iron that she struck hard no matter where she moved her kunai to. Sakura then suddenly felt something coming and she hastily tried to use her weapon to block it, she was successful but Sakura had felt the same thing again and moved like so. "What is this!?"

"The power of a Chunin Sakura. And the rest are something that you never knew until today." Naruto said calmly, the complete opposite of Sakura, but both she and Hinata could notice that the blonde's fingers twitched along with Sakura's movements to block and deflect. "Behold." Sakura thought she was really going crazy until she saw that she was surrounded by a few blades that took a turn to try and hack at the pink haired girl.

But the pain was too real to be a trick so Sakura managed to take out another kunai and tried to truly fight back against the blades. But it seemed that they won't stop coming and Sakura was now within a buzzing storm of clashing steel and cuts; all the while, Naruto was unharmed and well in control by his still and strong stance.

"You can rest now." Naruto then said with a calm voice when he shot both his pointer and middle finger face down, to cause Sakura to feel an incredible pain. Pain that was at the back of her head, it was like a tree had fallen from the sky and landed on that spot as well. But suddenly, she felt something else. Sakura felt dizzy, her vision was blurry and growing black. Her hearing was also fuzzy and almost completely deaf. And her skin felt numb as well, she could tell she was falling but didn't feel the dirt of rocks at her legs or arms. That was all before it became dark, silent and numbing; Sakura had fallen unconscious.

XXXXX

"N-naruto-kun…" Hinata almost felt fear to see that Naruto had struck down his former teammates without any sight of remorse; even the one the blonde once had a crush on, even if she only got a few cuts compared to Sasuke. Just what will Naruto do to Hinata?

"Hinata-chan…" The said girl gasped almost silently to hear her crush say her own name with that kind of affection. "I know you are scared. And trust me, it is okay to be. Because fear is not evil, it helps one grows by helping them understand their weakness." Hinata couldn't say a word with Naruto practically inches from her own face. "And when you know your weakness then you will not only grow stronger but wiser and kinder. Fear is what makes us human and what makes us even better than before."

"N…n…Naruto-kun…" Hinata could only say with her body growing numb but this time from some kind of warmth. "I am afraid." She said without hesitation or stuttering this time. "I am afraid of what my future will be for my clan, for my father and for my little sister. And above all that, I am afraid for you Naruto-kun." Who would have thought that she stuttered when she didn't want to show weakness but it took doing the opposite to get Hinata to speak clearly?

"Good that you are willing to let your fear known Hinata-chan. I am going to make this idiot make up for a lifetime of ignoring your feelings. Believe it!" Naruto smirked and Hinata found herself giggling and feeling a little proud of herself for pulling herself together.

"You better and you can start with this." Hinata said with new found confidence to close the gap and seared her lips on Naruto's. It finally made the blonde widened his eyes since the start of his career as a Chunin. But the blonde had a good recovery rate, in more ways than one, so Naruto was able to complete the interaction by returning the passion Hinata is pouring into this kiss.

"Far out Hinata. This will work out just fine." Naruto said after gently separating each other for the sake of breathing. "This is going to be fun, you'll see." Hinata just smiled and nodded with her head resting on the blonde's chest.

"I will. Believe it!"

End of Chapter 1.

*Looks like I did it again, I pushed aside updates and make two new stories. And I hope you don't mind me copying a scene from the Seven Deadly Sins anime series, with King dominating and defeating Helbram, the rogue fairy disguised as a human knight. I loved that scene and I give full credit to the series and its creator for the inspiring battle scene.

And if I am bashing anyone then I apologize because this is the best way I can portray the characters and for the record, I never found out what Sasuke did when he learned that Tsunade became the Fifth Hokage.