Hey, this is my first Fanfic so please be honest with your reviews! Advice and idea's are welcomed.

Naruhina (Main) ShikaTema, NejiTen, (ChouIno? SakuLee? Maybe)

(Shippuuden timeline)

Enjoy!

Everybody's favourite blonde-haired, blue eyes ninja was slowly making his way home after his extensive training with the well known Jiraiya of the three legendary sannin. Slowly lifting his gaze from the path ahead of him, he could see the outlines of the bustling hidden village: Konohagakure. Sighing to himself he began to wonder how much this place had changed in his absence, along with how his friends; the infamous Rookie 9 and also team Gai may have changed.

'I wonder if any of them will recognise me.' Indeed most ninja's attire change once they became resolved gennin and grew out of their previous ninja gear; Naruto was not an exception, though his change may be more drastic than others. He no longer adorned his memorable orange tracksuit, no. Naruto had grown out of that long ago, but due to the perverted hermits continuous nagging he was not allowed to simply get another made to fit him. Jiraiya had pointed out that the tracksuit was obviously not good attire for any shinobi wishing to be taken seriously. So through some persistent arguments, which often led to Naruto being thoroughly tired due to excessive training which he could not keep up with, even with his insane amount of chakra and stamina.

Naruto's new style consisted of the common black shinobi pants; kunai pouch and leg strapping adorned. He no longer wore the simple blue zori, but he now wore a black pair to match his bottoms – Regular shinobi strapping keeping both articles of clothing stable enough for shinobi practise. Instead of the 'Hideous jacket' as Jiraiya referred to it, He now had a fishnet long sleeved top on; over which he wore a tight fitting dark orange short sleeved top with the Uzumaki swirl on that showed off his broad shoulders and muscles that would make any woman go weak at the knee's.

His hitaite that was now black and the material slightly longer (Think Naruto shippuuden) was still in its rightful place; upon his forehead where it was having a hard time holding back his unruly hair which seemed to have grown even wilder in his absence from the village. On each hand he now wore black gloves with a metal place on the back adorning the leaf village's insignia.

As he strolled up to the giant gates of Konoha, his infamous fox-like grin could not be contained. While Jiraiya was talking calmly with Kotetsu and Izumo who happened to be on guard duty, both where glancing at the seemingly matured Naruto before them. That was until he ran over to the three adults yelling something about getting Ramen.

"Naruto! You know very well that Tsunade wanted us to go to the Hokage tower as soon as we arrived, so that means your precious Ramen will have to wait!"

Jiraiya grabbed the back of Naruto's shirt to prevent him from escaping.

"Aww, but I haven't had any decent ramen for over two years!"

Naruto pouted while trying to squirm out of Jiraiya's grip.

"If you want me to tell everyone what happened at the bathhouses in Tikene then carry on-"

He was cut off by a rather surprised voice coming from behind this rather amusing scene.

"N-Naruto? ..."

The Ninja in question and his sensei turned toward the quiet voice.

"Naruto! It is you! When did you get back?"

The all too familiar voice called out. Naruto, upon recognising the voice and the exotic pink hair stuttered out a reply to her question.

"Sakura-chan! I just got back but this old grouch wouldn't let me go until I've seen Tsunade-Baachan"

Naruto jabbed his thumb toward the old lecher, who in retaliation to this simply dropped him while eying how Sakura had grown since he last saw her with his lecherous grin plastered on his face; much to Sakura's dismay.

Naruto rose from the ground rubbing his rear while giving the best glare he could muster to the old pervert. Once Sakura had gotten over her initial shock, she all but ran towards the blonde haired ninja enveloping him in a rather tight hug. Naruto, shocked by this returned the hug while stating the obvious:

"Haha! Sakura, it looks like I'm not the shortest any more"

Naruto pulled back and placing a hand on the top of her head to prove his point – He was now almost a head taller than her. Glancing up Sakura studied his features for the first time since his arrival; his once rounded face was now rugged and masculine, though it still held some child like qualities when he smiled his wide grin. His eyes obviously had stayed the same, though now we're in better proportion on his face with his baby fat gone. And his 'Whiskers' as many people called them we're now less defined on his face, this new appearance all in all was handsome, rather handsome indeed she thought to herself.

"Hey, Hey Sakura-chan. Earth to Sakura-chaaaan"

He dragged out the suffix on her name the second time while waving his tanned hand in front of her face. Snapping out of it, Sakura realised that she had been staring blinked several times before replying

"Oh, sorry Naruto; you've changed a lot"

To this Naruto grinned.

"I know, the old pervert made me change but I managed to sneak in some orange!"

Naruto tugged at his dark orange T-shirt with one hand while the other hand was scratching the back of his neck, the grin on his face widening.

Sakura sweat-dropped at the mention of his fetish with the vibrant colour orange, but realised that you can't change Naruto completely – no matter how hard you were to try.

"You've changed a lot too Sakura-chan, I bet you're really strong now! Hey! We should train later-"

Before he could finish Jiraiya had smacked him upside the head stating that they still needed to see Tsunade before they did anything else. Naruto sighed, wondering how long the meeting with Tsunade-Baachan would take – knowing her she'd want all the silly details and blackmail to use against Jiraiya. Sakura interrupted his thoughts;

"I'm heading there now for my training, I'll walk with you."

To this Naruto perked up and grinned

"Cool!"

Turning back to look at his perverted sensei,

"Well come on Ero-sensei, hurry so I can get some ramen!"

While Jiraiya sighed at Naruto's nickname for him, wondering if he would ever get a shred of respect from the blonde.

What did you guys think? Dw it gets interesting, im just getting all their appearances ect. out the way to give you an idea.

I know it's the usual 'Hinata and Naruto bump in to eachother' i know it's cleche(Spelling?) But it just seemed right to put in. [Shrug

R&R ! I will update every few days - a week at the most, usually on either Weekends or midweek.