Greetings my friends. As usual, I'm rather fast with the first chapters and while Chapter 3 is already in "Production" you can expect my upload scedule to slow down soon. Still, have fun and see ya soon

Chapter 2

More training

Slowly, Sakura was getting a routine with training, and she liked it. About one month had passed since Sakura had become a Genin, and she had gained several pounds of weight since then. In the academy, this would have made her mad, but now it made her happy, because she knew that these pounds were muscles.

And that felt great. She was slowly working her way towards being on the same level as Sasuke and Naruto, and it felt great. She didn't know how it had happened, but something had clicked in her mind. Instead of being depressed about everything the others could do, that she couldn't, she started to feel happy and a little triumphant about every bit of progress she made.

Lasting half a minute longer sparring against Naruto made her happier than losing weight had ever before. And managing to land a hit on Sasuke felt like three birthdays had happened at once. Best off all, being praised by the others made her beam with pride; even Sasuke had given her a tiny compliment yesterday when she had landed that hit on his left shoulder.

They usually trained for five days in a row, did a mission, and then had one day of regeneration and leisure. Today was one such leisure day, and she was laying on her bed, relaxing and reading some scrolls about martial art techniques she could maybe soon employ. Maybe Sensei could even help her with them if she showed them to him. They could certainly be useful.

"Hi, Sakura, what are you reading?"

Sakura didn't scream but jolted up in shock, which caused Naruto to also jump back, losing his balance on the ledge he was standing on. He was flailing with his arms and was about to scream, but Sakura's instincts kicked in. She jumped forward and managed to grab Naruto's collar, dragging him into the room before he fell.

She fell on her behind and Naruto on top of her. Immediately, rage was building inside of her, Naruto blushing in embarrassment,

"Naruto, you've got three seconds to explain what you are doing here before I turn you into fine paste on the ceiling."

Naruto jumped up and backed up as far as he could, almost falling out of the open window again, but just barely regaining his balance.

"I just wanted to ask you if you wanted to hang out, since we are a team and should get to know each other." Sakura's rage lessened a little from this explanation, but she also knew what Naruto was trying to pull here.

"Let me guess, by team you mean only us two and not Sasuke?" she replied. Naruto blushed and started to stutter, having been busted immediately.

"Well, yes, I mean no, I mean I already know Sasuke, but not you an…" he was just talking himself into a corner. Sakura, with her rage having returned to a manageable level, felt a little pity for the bumbling, blond mess in front of her, but not enough to fall for his original plan.

"Actually, your idea is great. Meet me outside in 5 minutes and we'll pick up Sasuke to hang out together." Naruto was visibly torn up for a moment, though he finally nodded and marched off to leave, through the door. Sakura immediately stopped him and pointed to the window.

"No, you get out the way you got in." Naruto's shoulders sunk a little. Nonetheless, he sulked out the window, jumping out and to the ground. Sakura glanced out for a second, seeing Naruto now waiting down there, sitting on a bench and playing with his thumbs.

Sakura took her time. She didn't have anything to prepare, but Naruto still had to wait as punishment. Finally, she told her parents where she was going and went outside. Naruto immediately seemed to glow, as he jumped up and moved to walk next to Sakura.

"So, we're going to pick up Sasuke and then we can go shopping or maybe eat something." Naruto nodded, but also slowly tried to move closer to her.

Sakura would not tolerate that.

"You and your hands stay away and where I can see them." At her order, the boy immediately returned to his previous distance, if not a litle further. Kenta had almost cracked his skull when he had asked him to use his position as Sensei to help him get closer to Sakura. After that there had been a two-hour explanation on how to properly act when around girls and to not force yourself on them.

"Not like he has any experience; he's been single for years." Naruto mumbled to himself just outside of Sakura's hearing as they now approached the Uchiha house. There had once been a large Uchiha quarter, but since the massacre, the few survivors all lived here. Sakura immediately rang the doorbell and while she seemed to beam with excitement, Naruto's happiness was slowly fading.

It wasn't Sasuke who opened the door, but a man in his mid-twenties. A man who's appearance made Sakura move back a little in shock. His face was covered in scars; it looked like the right side had been smashed in and was covered in bandages. He was also missing his right arm and had a prosthetic right leg.

"Hi Obito, is Sasuke home. Sakura and I wanted to hang out with him for some team-building time." Naruto asked, completely unfazed.

The black-haired man replied with a wide and boyish smile. "Naruto, long time no see. Yeah, Sasuke is home; just wait for a moment I'll get him. Also, you must be Sakura, right? Sasuke told me about you." Sakura could only look on in bewilderment at Naruto whilst the man closed the door. The blond didn't even raise an eyebrow, though, so she could only assume this to be business as usual.

It only took a minute for a visibly annoyed Sasuke to come to the door, Obito in tow, asking them, "What do you want? Today is our day off, and I have no nerve for that." Obito facepalmed behind him, but Naruto, although also annoyed, didn't let himself get deterred.

"We thought that we could hang out a little today. You know, team-building, having fun - that kind of stuff." Sasuke only frowned, but before he could respond, Obito used his good foot to push Sasuke out the door.

"Sounds like a great idea. You really need to relax from time to time, Sasuke. See you in few hours." He spoke rapidly and the door was already closed before Sasuke could speak a word. Only a few seconds later, one of the upstairs windows opened and Sasuke's wallet came flying out, accompanied by, "Have fun." From Obito.

And, although all windows were closed, they could clearly hear Obito running around, screaming, "Rin, Rin the house is empty, meet me in the bedroom in two minutes."

None of the Genin really needed to hear that, and even Sasuke now resigned to his fate, as they walked away, still in shock. Finally, Sasuke sighed and just walked off; not like he could go home for now. It had been three months since Rin and Obito had some private time, so he would give them this chance.

He stopped for a moment and looked back, since Naruto and Sakura were still standing there, staring at the house, completely dumbfounded. Sasuke just shrugged and decided that without his gear, he could also hang out with his team.

"Do you want to stand there all day? Didn't you say you wanted to hang out?" His words finally made them snap out of it and they headed to the town centre. Sakura happily walking next to Sasuke and Naruto walking next to Sakura trying to catch her attention. "As if one idiot wasn't enough already," Sasuke mumbled to himself as they made their way, but he was ready to endure this, at least today.

They went to a large convenience store first, and while Sakura was busy wondering which brand of soda she should buy, Naruto pulled Sasuke aside. The Uchiha boy really didn't want to minimize everything, but Naruto practically shoved the magazine in his face. A very adult magazine, one certainly not meant for them. Sasuke blushed heavily, he had closed his eyes but still caught flashes of the nudity and then heard a booming voice.

"Now you're corrupting others too. I told you that these magazines are off limits brat." The owner of the store grappled both boys by their collars and before Sasuke could react, they were thrown out and on the street.

"Are you happy now?" Sasuke grumbled as he dusted off his clothes, but Naruto had a shit eating grin on his face and just replied in a sly voice.

"Oh, come on, be honest. You like what you saw. You're a dude, too, after all." Sasuke blushed and just turned away from the grinning blonde pest. Obito would pay for forcing this onto him. To his surprise, however, Sakura had not seemed to notice the commotion. She just looked at them puzzled as she came out with her Soda.

"Why didn't you buy anything to drink?" she asked, confused, but Sasuke only huffed and mumbled, "Just forget it." And Naruto still grinned. He grinned far too wide for Sakura's taste and her intuition was screaming that he was up to something or had done something new. Their next activity was slightly less annoying to Sasuke, since they went clothes shopping - or Sakura went clothes shopping to be precise.

Sasuke just sat in one of the chairs normally reserved for husbands and shot daggers at anybody trying to claim his seat. Naruto meanwhile had volunteered to be Sakura's living clothes rack. So Sasuke let himself sink into the comfy chair and just let his thoughts run free while his teammates were busy.

This disappointed Sakura more than just a little. She had hoped that she would find something here that Sasuke would complement her on, but now he was sitting there with an empty gaze, minutes away from falling asleep. Naruto didn't really improve the situation. He just stood there and complimented her on everything. Not that she really cared. He was probably just complimenting her to flatter her.

"That looks really good on you." Naruto again complimented her, but just like before, Sasuke just sat there and didn't even look at her. She just sighed and went back to the changing room. What use was this if Sasuke didn't care. She didn't know why, but when she closed the curtain, Naruto walked off, like he had just gotten an idea, though she didn't really care.

She was ready to leave when she came out again, but before she could tell Sasuke that she was finished, Naruto reappeared and handed her some clothes, smiling shyly. Sakura was dumbfounded, having not expecting this from Naruto, but the blond boy shyly scratched his nose and spoke.

"I saw those and thought you'd like them."

At first, Sakura thought that Naruto was trying something perverted, but the clothes were neither underwear or anything else she would beat him up for. Sasuke's mind was seemingly still somewhere else. She could take two minutes... not like it would hurt. So she nodded and took the clothes from him, disappearing into the changing room again while Naruto seemed remarkably glee.

The clothes weren't even half bad, Sakura had to admit. It was a pink shirt with cream sleeves and a blue skirt. Nothing special, but still nice and fitting of her style. And, what surprised her most, it fit her well. She left the cabin again and Naruto smiled widely, but Sakura's eyes were narrow and angry, chasing that grin away immediately.

"How do you know my measures so well? You got one chance before I beat you up." Her voice was cold, full of just barely controlled rage, but Naruto had a perfect defence, since for once he knew that he had done nothing wrong.

"We've been here for two hours, now, and I put away dozens of clothes for you, so I just looked at those." For a few moments, Sakura was frozen in surprise and then started to laugh. This one was really on her.

"I'm sorry, Naruto." She finally managed to say. They were now both laughing. This had been stupid of her. Finally, once they stopped laughing, Sakura took another look at herself in the mirror and a genuine smile spread on her face.

"They look really nice Naruto, thanks." Naruto's face lit up like a Christmas tree.

With a wide smile he replied, "You look great, Sakura, but you look great with any clothes." Ok, he was back to flirting again, but Sakura admitted, that he had earned it this time and just replied with a light laugh and a warm smile. Now just as Sakura had changed back to her clothes, she heard a familiar voice and her just now great mood was tanked again. She stormed out of the cabin, leaving behind the clothes Naruto had picked and her ears had been right.

There was Ino, right next to Sasuke, flirting with him. Sakura stormed towards them, right past Naruto, who wanted to ask about the clothes, but was ignored.

"Hello, Sakura, why didn't you tell me that you were around, I always like spending time with Sasuke." Ino greeted her with a mocking voice, causing Sakura's rage to boil up in a second.

"We were just about to leave, Ino-pig. And we're hanging out because we're a team, so you're not invited." Sakura'ss voice was sharp, and to everybody's surprise, she grabbed Sasuke's arm and dragged the stunned Uchiha out of the store, leaving a baffled Ino and Naruto behind.

"Well. Seems she doesn't include you in the team. Tough luck, Naruto," Ino said, sincere pity in her voice as she also left, leaving Naruto behind. He stood there until a surprised shop clerk returned from the storage area, not having noticed the scene.

"Didn't your girlfriend want to buy these?" she asked and Naruto just defeatedly shrugged his shoulders and left, trying to find his team.

A few blocks away, Sasuke had finally got Sakura's hand off his arm and was obviously angry, as he went off at Sakura.

"I can take care of myself, Sakura, so leave me out of you girls' dumb games." He had no interest in this crap and to be honest he was pretty pissed about what Sakura had just done.

"Also, you just left Naruto behind, so good job with your teambuilding effort. I'm done and going home even if I have to kick Obito's naked butt out the door." With these words Sasuke jumped away before Sakura could say anything, leaving her alone and shocked. Once she snapped out of her stupor, though, she almost tore out her hair in anger. Anger at herself.

"Dammit! Stupid Ino-pig, why didn't I just ignore her?" she asked herself.

Inner's angry voice replied, "Get back to the store and at least apologize to Naruto."

She hurried back, but neither on the way, nor in the store did she find Naruto.

Great, now both of her teammates hated her and Ino would probably make fun of her for that for eternity. She sighed as she mindlessly looked through the clothes in the store, before the store clerk snapped her out of it.

"Oh, it's you again. Your boyfriend didn't know if you wanted those clothes, so I put them to the back in case you returned." The lady explained with a kind smile, handing Sakura the shirt and skirt.

Boyfriend? She thought Naruto was her boyfriend?

"We're just teammates," she corrected, "but thanks." She looked at the clothes again. They were still nice...

The lady just laughed a little and apologized.

"Oh, I'm sorry, my dear, I jumped to conclusions. I just thought that you two were close because he helped and complimented you while your other friend didn't seem to care." Sakura sighed at these words, but just because Naruto showed interest and Sasuke didn't, for now, didn't mean she'd give up.

Still, the clothes were nice.

Naruto had returned home already, not up to anything anymore. He just lay down on the roof of the Ryotu villa and stared at the clouds for a few minutes, before he got company. Sasuke sat down next to him, two Sodas in hand. He handed him one.

"I told you that it wouldn't work. Still, she didn't have to leave you there like that." Sasuke said as he took a sip from his bottle. Naruto turned his around in his hands.

"I shouldn't be disappointed, but it seemed like she liked the clothes. She looked happy for a moment... but I guess I was wrong." His eyes stared into the sky. Sasuke just shrugged and sighed before replying.

"Why are you even that smitten with her. At best, she ignores you most of the time. I'm pretty sure girls that aren't that into me would give better chances." Naruto laughed slightly at his comment.

"All girls are into you."

Sasuke grinned smugly and replied, "Can you blame them" and struck a pretty boy pose, causing Naruto to almost choke on his drink from laughter.

"It's only because they don't know how boring you are." Naruto retorted and this time Sasuke slightly chocked on his drink, before he threw his drink at Narutos head, hitting him right between the eyes. Before they could start arguing or brawling, they were interrupted by Eri, Kenta's younger and Naruto's older sister.

"Hey, guys, Mom's almost done with dinner. She said you could come too, Sasuke, since Obito and Rin are still 'busy.'" The mention of food stooped them and they jumped down to the older girl, who greeted them friendly.

"So, I guess your little plan with Sakura failed, little brother?" the dark-blue haired girl asked. Naruto scratched the back of his head, slightly embarrassed, and Sasuke sighed as they headed inside.

"How did you know?" Naruto finally asked. Eri just grinned and pounded her fist on her chest.

"Well, I'm a girl too, so I recognize this kind of stuff." Naruto wanted to say something in return, but the smell of food made him forget anything else.

Sakura on the other hand felt horrible. She just lay in her bed again, feeling much worse than this morning, unable to stop thinking on how Naruto and Sasuke probably hated her.

She wanted to tear every single hair off her head. Why did she have to go and do something so stupid like that. If it hadn't been for Ino-pig, everything would have been fine. Everything...

No... No, it was her fault. It was her fault and now she had to make it up to them somehow. The scroll from this morning was still on her desk, but she really had no more motivation to read it.

All she could do was her best in training and hope they wouldn't be angry for long. She screamed into her pillow to let at least some of the frustration out of her. Maybe Sensei could help her with this? No. Again, it was her fault, and it was her job to both accept and deal with.

She jumped up, pumping herself up with confidence. She would work hard to be strong, yes, but also to bond with her team.

The next day, neither Naruto nor Sasuke acted like anything had happened, but they did notice that Sakura seemed even more determined than before, doing more stretches, more push ups, and running faster than before. Kenta seemed to notice, but only watched her, knowing what would soon happen. However, Sakura surprised him by keeping up this routine the entire day until they were done, although she seemed to almost fall over afterwards.

So, as Sasuke and Naruto walked off, Kenta told Sakura to stay, and once the boys were out of eyesight, he sat down, sighed, and spoke toher.

"Let me guess: every single one of you muscles hurts and you have to use every bit of strength you have to not immediately fall over. Am I right?" Sakura looked at him slightly surprised, before she let herself fall on the ground, letting out all moans about her hurting muscles and bones she had repressed till now.

"I told you this would take time; you can't rush your development like this. All you'll achieve is hurting yourself and ruining all the progress you've already made." He was scolding her, and his tone was harsher than usual, causing Sakura to feel worse and smaller than she already did.

Kenta sighed again as he looked at her, and for a few moments, just looked at the tiny pink person in front of him before he also sat down and asked, back with his kind and understanding voice, "What happened Sakura? You're far too smart for this. What's wrong?" Sakura just looked at him for a few moments, before she finally told him everything that had happened yesterday.

"Aren't they still a tiny bit too young for teenager problems?" Kenta thought to himself, before he scratched the back of his head and answered.

"Well, from a neutral standpoint, no, it wasn't very nice to let Naruto just stand there like an idiot and since he and Sasuke are friends I can understand why Sasuke would be angry." Sakura's head shot up in surprise, as she just stared at her sensei, who did not feel at all comfortable in this situation.

"Sasuke and Naruto are friends? But during training they always act like they hate each other. They barely even accept the presence of the other." Now Kenta was just as surprised as Sakura. He'd never payed attention, but it was true. During training and missions. those two interacted like water and oil, but Kenta had just ignored that, since he knew that they were friends.

"Well, me and Obito are old friends, so those two were bound to hand out from time to time. So why would they act like this during training…" Slowly, very slowly, the gears started to turn in Kenta's head, as he looked at Sakura, who's face slowly turning red in rage, and understood what was going on. In his head he face-palmed so hard and already said goodbye to all the money he had to spend on Ramen to make up for this.

Before he could do something, Sakura had already stormed off, steam coming from her ears as she loudly cursed out both boys. She headed for the Ryotu home. Kenta on the other hand decided not to go home right now. He wasn't one for drama, so he really didn't need to see Sakura tearing both boys a new one.

Sasuke was the first to sense danger approaching. He was at the Ryotu house again and they were just on the roof as usually, when he saw Sakura approaching. Even from this distance he could see the red colour of her face and feel the poison in the glance she shot at him, once she stopped him. He had enough experience with the Ryotu and his own home to know that he didn't want to deal with this, but, to his shock, Sakura wouldn't allow it.

With a speed he didn't expect from her, especially not after today, she charged onto the roof, facing both boys, with Naruto looking like he was about to wet himself.

"I didn't know you guys got along this well. Seems like yesterday really helped you with that." The poison in her face made even Sasuke shudder, as both boys slowly moved away from, but Sakura just followed them, step by step.

With a wide, almost manic smil,e she went on: "You don't need to act, Kenta spilled the beans already. I know that the two of you have been best buddies long before you became teammates. So, I guess yesterday was planned by you, Sasuke being completely disinterested and Naruto being so friendly.".

"You wouldn't be acting like this if he pushed nudes in your face," Sasuke mumbled to himself, but Sakura didn't seem to notice, as she just kept closer and closer, and the boys had now reached the edge of the roof with no more space to move backwards. Naruto was stiff and sweating in fear, his eyes fixated on the mad girl in front of him, with Sasuke in a not much better condition.

Finally, there were only two feet left between them, and Sakura stopped, just staring at them for a few moments. The boys readied themselves for the worst, but to their surprise nothing bad happened. Quite the opposite. To the boy's utter amazement, Sakura bowed her head in apology.

"It still doesn't justify my behaviour. Even if you two tried to set me up, you were genuinely nice, Naruto, and I left you just standing there. That wasn't fair, so please forgive me." Naruto didn't know how to react. There was now a small wet spot in his underpants from the fear he felt just a moment ago and now Sakura was apologizing?

"It's ok, don't worry about it." He finally stumbled out and immediately Sakuras face got scary again.

"Still, this doesn't change what you two did. You acted like you hated each other in front of me. Why?" Sasuke now intervened and saved Naruto.

"I was not acting. Yes, I can bear Naruto on his own, but you two combined is just too much for me to bear alone." He defended himself and earned a look from Sakura, he however didn't melt away under it, or at least not as much as Naruto. Sakura just continued her stare for almost another minutes, before she finally gave up her façade and smiled at them.

"Ok, let's just forget yesterday, under one condition." She paused for dramatic effect, as Naruto stared at her like a dear in the headlights, Sasuke just wishing for this to be over.

"We from now on regularly hang out on our free days. I promise I won't just run off if you guys promise not to set me up for anything." She stretched out her hand and after a moment of understanding of what she had proposed, Naruto happily shook her hand and agreed. Sasuke took a moment longer and while he shook Sakuras hand, he was sure that Obito would do a little celebration dance once he told him, since he could now get more free time with Rin.

Once this was done, Sakura stood there for a few moments before asking in a slightly pleading voice.

"Could you guys help me home? I don't think my muscles will move another inch for today." She now slowly started to fall backwards, and the boys just barely managed to catch her before she hit the roof. Getting her home turned out to be easy, to hard part was convincing her mother that it had not been their fault that Sakura was this exhausted and that they had not taken advantage of her. In the end she took her exhausted daughter and seemed to at least partially believe the two boys, but still shoot a poisonous look at them before closing the door.

"Well, seems like you got what you wanted. But don't expect me to help you with this stupid stuff." Sasuke said, as they walked back home, but Naruto seemed to be very happy about how everything had worked out. He just grinned widely and said sheepishly

"Don't worry Sasuke, all you have to do is stay the way you are." Sasuke just sighed and hit his friend on the back of the head for this dumb comment. But maybe, if he was lucky, Naruto could at least stop Sakura from being so obsessed with him, because it was annoying. Many girls were and while it was certainly flattering, the girls were mostly just annoying, and he wished they left him alone.

"I hope you're proud of yourself Sakura, faking exhaustion so the boys carry you home like this. I thought you wanted to become stronger and more independent." Sakura's mother nagged her, but the girl just grinned.

"Well, I'm still a girl and a girl sometimes need to do what a girl does." Sakura answered, as she lay down on her bed again and her mom just gave her a sigh as she left her alone. Sakura was really exhausted, but she had acted a little bit to get the boys, Sasuke especially, to carry her home. But her muscles still hurt, and she was sure that it'd be worse tomorrow.

It was much worse the next day and Sakura felt dread as she walked to the training grounds, while every step another muscle hurt or itched. The others were already waiting for her, but to her surprise there would be no physical training today. Instead, the moment she was there, Sensei Kenta gave a thin piece of paper to each of them and then explained.

"You all learned about the five elements in the Academy, so I won't explain the basics to you." Naruto gulped at this and Sakura was almost certain she remembered him sleeping through that lesson.

"This paper is no paper. It's made from special trees, which have specially treated their whole life and the paper has been made in very complicated process. This has given this paper a special ability. Let me demonstrate." He held the small piece of paper between his thumb and index finger and once he was certain that his student's attention was on him, it combusted with bright red and gold flame.

"When you pour chakra into this paper, it reacts depending on your own chakra element. If you have a fire affiliation like me, it will combust like this. Like an affiliation it will become wet, with earth it will crumble, with lighting will wrinkle and with wind it will get cut." Naruto had looked in amazement at the bright flame and even Kenta was certain that he was probably no longer listening properly.

"So, you are still Genin, but you should have enough Chakra control for this test. Now focus on your chakra and pour some of it into your piece of paper."

The three Genin now held their piece of paper the same way Kenta did, and they all closed their eyes to focus on it, making their Sensei chuckle a little. He didn't expect them to figure it out immediately, but after only a second, Sakuras paper crumbled away completely and she looked at Kenta with a wide smile. So, she had the best chakra control of them, that was good to know for him.

Sasuke took a little longer, then his paper wrinkled, and Kenta sighed. He had hoped for fire, because that would have made it easier to teach him, but thankfully he knew some skilled lightning users to assist him with that. Naruto was now last and focused so much on his paper, it seemed like he was only moments away from having and accident in his pants.

But, finally after three minutes, a small cut appeared in the upper half of the paper and Kenta was satisfied.

"Earth, Lightning and Wind, seems like we are a well-mixed group." Kenta commented, as he sat down on the ground and started to hand out scrolls to each of them.

"For the moment, you won't be able to do very much with that knowledge. You still need to train your chakra control and increase your reserves and stamina to use Ninjutsu in a meaningful way. There are however a few basic ways we can use this knowledge. Each of these scrolls describe several basic techniques for your elements. I want you to read through them and pick one technique that you want to learn for now."

The Genin nodded and even Naruto started to devour the scroll, while Kenta stood up and announced.

"I'll leave you for an hour now. Pick a technique till I come back, then we can start with the basics to learn these Jutsus.".

Sasuke frowned, he had already learned several Fire Jutsus before becoming a Ge-nin and starting to learn another element seemed a bit too much. But he would play along and looked through the scroll. A technique to shock opponents on touch, a technique to blow out electrical circuits, one to redirect electricity. His eyes widened, yes, the next one was fitting, it was perfect for a technique Obito was already teaching him.

Sakura had no experience with elemental Jutsu, so she really didn't know what to learn. Maybe just something basic and versatile she could use in many difference situations, maybe something she could use defensively and for movement.

Naruto had no idea what to pick. While he had bugged Kenta and the others for years to teach them any elemental techniques, he had always wanted anything cool like spitting fire or creating large walls of stone. But nothing cool like that was in this scroll. Longer jumps with wind, greater speed with wind, most of the techniques in this scroll didn't sound as cool as Naruto had hoped. Combined with the fact that half of techniques had names he didn't even really understand didn't make it much easier.

"Ehh Sakura, can you help me here?" he finally asked, not sure what to do, but he only got a puzzled look in reply. This wasn't some sort of text where he could copy answers, so what was she supposed to do. Before she could say something, Sasuke grabbed the scroll out of Naruto hands, sat down between the two of them and started to go through it.

"Your chakra control is bad, and you are generally not the fastest type. You could try to make up for weaknesses with techniques, but for now its probably better for you to actually be good in something." Sasuke started, sounding annoyed by this, but holding the scroll so that both Sakura and Naruto could also read and asking for their opinions. Better to help the idiot find something fitting, instead of wasting time later.

"Hmm, what do you say, they are actually working together on this one. And you didn't need to threaten them or use bells." Tara commented, as she and her old teammates observed the Ge-nin from afar. Kenta held back a laugh, while Masamune commented.
"Don't let Kakashi and the others know, or they might have an existential crisis." Masas joke was too much and Kenta started to laugh while covering his mouth with his hands, almost falling of the tree he was sitting in.

"Didn't you say you wanted to focus on Stamina and basic skills with them first? Elemental Jutsus are a bit more than that?" Tara asked her old friend, after he finally got his laughter back under control.

"Yes, I wanted to do that, but the Sandeime and elders are increasing pressure on me. All the other training teams have already done more and more difficult missions and they really don't like that. So, I have to increase the speed a bit." He explained and Masa nodded, before saying.

"Well, you were lucky with their elements, we can help you with that easily, outside our own mission load." Tara now also nodded in agreement.

"Yes, you will have to do more missions again. Or else you wouldn't be able to compensate us for our assistance." She said, sounding like she was joking, but Kenta knew her too well. He would have to pay for lots of drinks and food from now on.

"Times up, let's see what they came up with."