Here you go…managed to be able to have just enough time on to upload this chapter…although nothing's changed on it except for spelling corrections :)…yet again I don't own any of the Naruto character's!

After completing her training with Tsunade she went home to freshen up and back to the main gates to welcome back Naruto. Sakura was patiently waiting for her friend and teammate to return from the four-year absence. Over the past four years Sakura, now at 16 has grown not only mentally but also physically strong, even though she has inherited Tsunades inhuman strength, she can still demolish trees without chakra. Sakura has also filled out in all the right places and much to Ino's displeasure has grown into her wide forehead. Her outfit is also something that has changed as well. She now wears a fishnet top underneath a black sleeveless top with a hood attached to it. On the sleeves on the fishnet top go down past her wrists which then are looped at he end onto her middle finger on each hand. She wears black cycling shorts underneath a long black skirt which stops at mid-calf, the split down each side of the skirt goes up to her hips for easy mobility.

White bandages are wrapped around both of her thighs; she straps her Kunai pouch on her right thigh while her shuriken pouch is strapped to her left thigh. Her medic pouch is attached to her headband that is tied around her waist. She also has on regular styled open toed ninja boots. Her hair was a lot longer and was safely tied up and tucked under her hood so you could only see her face. Throughout her time she was not only working at the hospital but also going on solo missions, sometimes with her Anbu team, when she was not doing her hospital duty, she was a successful Anbu captain B. While not working on missions and in the hospital, she would always hear the injured Anbu, who are recovering, talk about how the Midnight Blossom has had another successful mission, and how they would like to be on her team. The name Midnight Blossom refers to Sakura as the Anbu captain, no one knows that she is in Anbu except for Tsunade and the Anbu captain A, who helps assign her a team and missions. Sakura also had a lot of fan boys but she turned down all their requests for dates and proposals. Many people think she still in love with Sasuke. Oh but how wrong they are. She had gotten over him a couple of weeks after he left her on a stone cold bench in the middle of the night.

She hasn't thought of him or love since.

As Sakura was waiting she was talking to Inner Sakura about how she thinks Naruto has changed.

Do you think he has gotten stronger?

HELL YEAH, Would he be returning now if he wasn't!!!

Hmmm...I guess your right, I can't wait till he gets back here, and I haven't seen him in three years

I bet you 50 that he is till an idiot!

Whatever

Sakura reached up under the hood and tucked a piece of hair back into place where it can't be seen, she was about to return to the conversation with Inner Sakura when she sensed a familiar chakra approaching. She quickly checked to see that she still had her chakra masked to the amount she had when she was younger for people not to feel threatened by her true power, she then looked out of the gates and saw two figures heading towards her in the trees.

(One of the figures POV)

I was heading back to Konoha after my four years of training finally. I couldn't wait to see my friends again, to see how much they have changed. I looked around to see the forest hasn't changed much, but it was also not like the forest's he had traveled through throughout the four years. Being in this forest so close to his village, his friends and his home, made him feel happier knowing that they will be reunited soon.

(Normal POV)

Naruto and his sensei could see the Konoha village gates come into view from their positions jumping in the trees. They jumped down from the treetops and headed the rest of the way on foot, they looked at the gates and saw a dark figure standing at the side of the entrance.

As they got closer the figure stood up straight and turned towards them, they weren't close enough to tell who they were but by the stance of the person they were female, who had toned muscles which could be seen though the skin like top she was wearing. It didn't help either to identify the mystery figure that she was wearing a hood that covers her hair, so they couldn't tell from that point either.

They reached the gates and the figure approached them. Naruto was about to ask her who she was, until she opened her eyes and two forest green eyes gazed back at him. He gasped, then a fox like grin spread across his face.

"SAKURA-CHAN" shouted Naruto tackling Sakura in a bone-crushing hug.

"Urgh...N...Na...Naruto...I...I need to ...Urgh breathe" replied Sakura

"Oops" Naruto rubbed the back of head while he replied "Sorry Sakura-Chan"

Sakura stood back up and dusted the dirt off her skirt and then brought Naruto in her own bone-crushing hug, and then she let him go and hit him over the head.

"OWWWW...Sakura-Chan, why did you do that for?"

"It was for being away for so long and no letter, I missed you, you baka!"

"Sakura-Chan sorry, but I couldn't send letters, since we wanted to keep hidden"

"I know that...never mind, do you want to get some ramen?"

"RAMEN, RAMEN, RAMEN!!!!" Naruto shouted dragging Sakura off by the hand to Ichiraku's. Jiraiya stood there watching the two friends and ex-teammates talk until Naruto dragged Sakura off shouting ramen loudly.

"I guess I better go and see Tsunade so I can go and do research for my next book"

At Ichiraku's

Naruto was already on his tenth bowl where as Sakura was still on her first.

"So what's been happening to my future village since I've been away?"

"Well Ino and Shikamaru are going out..."

"Ha that lazy-bum and Ino?" chuckled Naruto

"Not only them, but Tenten and Neji are going out as well"

"Well that was bound to happen, what's happening with Kakashi-sensei?"

"Don't know I haven't seen him in along time, probably been on a long term missions"

Later that day Naruto and Sakura went to Tsunades office, Sakura raised her fist to knock on the door with two quiet knocks. They could hear Tsunade reply to the knock.

"Enter!!"

They stepped through the door and stood in front of Tsunade.

"Ah...Naruto, welcome back. Jiraiya has already reported in this morning and told me of your achievements"

"Hai Tsunade-baa-Chan"

"NA-RU-TO!!" replied Tsunade gritting her teeth, Sakura quickly hit Naruto over the head.

"Naruto" Sakura hissed.

"OWWW...Sakura-Chan" complained Naruto.

"Quiet now" said Tsunade.

"Hai" came the answer.

"Right now, we all know that you have improved, so to test your strength I am setting a spar for you both to test your abilities"

"Both Tsunade-Sama?" replied a confused Sakura

"Hai both, you both have improved and I want to see how much, your opponent should be here now..." Tsunade was cut off by a knock on the door

"Enter, your opponent is..."

The door opened and a gloved hand gripped the door, it was...

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