It was a bright and sunny day in Konoha. Naruto looked out the window, there were birds singing in the tree just outside. This day did not reflect how he felt on the inside, not one little bit. He was eating Ramen while sitting on his bed, he had no missions today, another reason for him to smile. Yet, despite it being a beautiful day with little to no work, and a hot cup of ramen in his hands he just couldent smile and put up that usual cocky, optimistic Naruto Uzamaki smile everyone knew him so well for. Their was the reason facing him on his desk. It was an old picture several years old, a picture that was taken when, it could have been raining all day and Naruto could have had a day full of missions with not so much as a seconds rest to enjoy some delcious pork ramen.
The picture was of team Kakashi. In it were four people all of whom Naruto called his closet friends with whom he shared the strongest bonds. He was one of the four in the picture. He had grown up a lot since the day that photo was taken. Every since he was little he was looked down upon and rejected by most if not the entire village. This was all because of the Nine tailed Fox. It attacked the village he lived in many years ago and many brave men and women died protecting the village from it. It was not until Naruto's father, the strongest ninja in the village at the time sacrificed him to stop the Fox's demonic rampage. It cost him his life along with a great deal of Naruto's childhood. For Naruto's father had sealed the great tailed beast inside his one and only son. While on his deathbed his father asked the villagers to look upon Naruto as a hero and not simply a cage for the beast, his last request fell on deaf ears. It was not until Naruto met those three other people in the photo that he truly felt loved and appreciated. That was ultimately his dream. He dreamed of matching or even surpassing his father by becoming the best ninja in the whole village, the Hokage. He certainly was on his way to doing it, he trained under one of the most powerful ninjas in the whole land, the same ninja that trained his father the legendary Jiriya.
Alos in the picture was a young beautiful pink haired girl. Her name was Sakura Haruno. Ever since Naruto first saw her her was hypnotized by every aspect about her. Her beautiful pink hair, her deep green eyes, her beautiful soft skin. Not that he ever had a chance to tell her that thou. When they first met calling her his friend would be stretching the truth to the point of breaking it. She did not bother to beat around the bush about how she felt about Naruto ether "Your annoying" would be the words she used to describe him, but Naruto thought of her as much more than just a pretty face. She was the top of her class in terms of grades. She knew all the laws and guidelines to Ninja conduct. She was not jumping for joy when she found out she was on the same team as Naruto, actually her reaction was the equivalent of getting a drink spilt on her. Despite all of this they grew close over the course of many missions having to rely on each other in combat, eventually they came to call each other good friends, thou Naruto has never been 100% honest with how he felt about her. She still lived in Konoha too this day, hanging out with Naruto had become one of her most frequent pastimes. As Naruto thoughts lingered towards Sakura he thought about her growth as he had just thought about his own. While at the beginning she had proven a library of valuable knowledge and insight, she was often "a burden" on the battlefield. She had no real form of offensive abilities short of a kunai and several basic jutsus. Her intelligence would surprise their enemies every once in a while but other than that she left fighting to her three comrades. But that was the old Sakura. If anything she grew the most out of the four of them. Ever since the Chunin Exam, she had taken it apon herself to grow and protect her comrades. She too trained under one of the most powerful ninjas in the land. The legendary medic Tsunade. With that training Sakura had acquired an even greater wealth of knowledge especially in the medical field. She could a wide variety of injuries, whether it be her own or her comrades. She had developed the foresight to predict and interpret enemies attacks to greatly enhance her evasion. Most notably was her ability to precisely control her chakra to the point she could enhance her strentgh to the point where she could break threw boulders as if they were cheap dry wall. A small grin finally found its way onto Naruto's face at the thought of his teammate.
His eyes and thoguhts lingered towards another character in the portrait. He was quit an odd character that was for sure a genius, an ex member of the ANBU Black Ops team and the most respected and widly considered the most powerful jonin in the village the legendary Copy Ninja himself Hatake Kakashi. He was the team's sensei; he had failed every team of genin that had been offered to him, until team 7 arrived. They were very lucky to have him as their sensei. He became a jonin at a very young age and he trained under Naruto's father as well. It was funny how everyone was connected. What was possibly even more famous than his early age admission to the Jonin status was his eye. One of his eyes possessed a unique and very deadly genetic weapon called the Sharigan. While Naruto often speculated how Kakashi managed to have this trait in his eye while not being a memebr of the famous Uchiha clan. Kakshi says it was a gift from a very good friend of his, for becoming a Jonin. Naruto would never ask any more questions after that as he knew Kakashi liked his secrets. Naruto did know a few things about him thou. Kakashi did have a dirty little fetish called Make Out Paradise. What it was about and how it appealed to him Naruto did not quite understand, it was written by his other sensei Jiryia. He also knew how powerful Kakashi was seeing him first hand in the heat of combat. He knew over 1000 different techniques all courtesy of his sharigan eye. He could perform lighting, earth, fire and water techniques, all of which came from different ninjas he met and fought from all the different ninja villages across the land. While the situation has yet to occur Naruto has heard from a variety of higher ups should the Hokage position ever become vacant Kakashi would be a prime candidate for a replacement.
While his mind was set on Sakura and Kakashi he was slowly becoming his old good ol get up and go Naruto Uzamaki self, untill his thoughts turned to his last team member, comrade and closest friend he ever had Sasuke Uchiha