"SAKURA CHAAAAAAN!!!" Haruno Sakura yelped and fell out of bed as her loud-mouthed blonde friend squatted grinning on the foot board of her bed. "Dammit Naruto!" she yelled, "How many times do I have to change the locks on my doors and windows to stop you from doing that?" He just grinned and said," If you don't hurry we'll be late for training with Kakashi-sensei." "Don't rush me!" she snapped back, gathering her clothes from the floor. He clasped his hands behind his head and said almost innocently, "You know I could always help you shower if it'll help us get their faster…" Her eye twitched and without hesitation her fist went sailing into Naruto's mouth, sending him sailing out the window and into the roof of the apartment complex across the street.
The poor couple who lived there already had five dents in the mistreated roof and this would be the sixth Naruto induced hole they would have to fix. Sakura sighed as she stepped into the shower. Ever since Sasuke went missing on that ANBU mission a year ago Naruto insisted on waking her up every morning and walking her to train with their former sensei. She knew he meant well but it could grate on ones nerves when an ADHD blonde shin obi was screaming 'Sakura-chan' into your ear every morning.
She towled off dressed, grabbed her gear (which isn't as perverted as it actually sounds) and headed out the door wear Naruto was currently rubbing a welt the size of a baseball on the side of his face.
He mentally chuckled to himself. Sakura's training with the Fifth had not only turned her into a top medic-nin and a deadly master of Chakra control, but it had also transformed the once meek little pink haired girl into a confident young woman who was desired by many a man in Konohoa.
The two companions walked until they reached the training ground. As expected the spiky haired jounin was nowhere to be seen. Sakura sighed in exasperation. No matter how long you worked with the famous Copy-Nin you never quite got over his lousy sense of time. The familiar sound of thunder rumbled overhead.
Hatake Kakashi I swear to the heavens If you don't hurry up I will clock you, Sakura thought bitterly. "Ohio!' said an all too familiar voice. "Kaakaaaaashiii-seeeenseiii….your laaaaaaaate" whined Naruto. The man sitting on the fence glared at Naruto. "For the last time you two I'm an equal now, so call me by my name."
Sakura was in no mood for this, she felt crappy because she hadn't eaten and to be honest the next person who looked at her the wrong way was asking for a beating. "Are we going to start training or what?" she asked waspishly. Kakashi raised an eyebrow and smoothly jumped down from the fence. "Well I wanted to try something new today." "Like?" "Instead of me defending myself against you, you defend yourselves against me." "What for Kakashi?" asked Naruto who had his hands clasped behind his head as always. "The Hokage informed me today that she planned on sending us on a newer mission in which you might need better defensive skills"
Sakura pulled on her gloves over her strong, delicate hands. Thunder rumbled again overhead and dark clouds blocked out the sun, threatening to unleash all hell on them sooner than later. Naruto looked at her nervously and at the sky again. He wasn't very fond of the idea of getting soaked to the skin in a chilly autumn storm. "Go!" Kakashi shouted unexpectedly.
Without hesitation Sakura and Naruto jumped into the tree tops as the Copy-Nin disappeared in a sheet of rain. She and Naruto had become a flawless team against Kakashi, and pretty much anybody, from all their time training together over the past few years. But rarely did Kakashi turn the tables on them like this. What was he up to?