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Not So Different

Chapter 2

Academy Years

It has been few years since Sakura and Naruto had joined into the Ninja Academy and many things had changed since then. While being there both Naruto and Sakura had earned many friends, which was some kind of surprise to Sakura. Since she joined the Academy, she had thought that nobody wouldn't try to interact with her. But then she had met this blond haired and light blue eyed girl called Yamanaka Ino. In few years, those two had become good friends. Even though Ino made fun off her forehead, it was more like friendly teasing and after some time, Sakura started to get over it.

But she was also starting getting worried about Naruto. While she was making friends, he had barely made none. And the other thing that kind of worried Sakura was the constant pranks Naruto threw at people. They were harmless, but that didn't make any good what people thought about Naruto. But Sakura knew why he did all of those pranks. It was only because he wanted people to acknowledge him, just like Sakura. And she felt really bad.

Because she had somewhat actual friends while Naruto had few, who mostly hang out with him because of his "tricks". But they were still friends to him and Sakura had to admit that they were nice people.

And when she found out that was also the reason why he wanted to become Hokage, she had some sort of urge to help him.

As the years passed Sakura started to become little more confident, which meant now days if someone talked about her in some bad way, she might get little violent. Although she was still worried about the voice in her head and same had been with her dreams. But after six months they seem to stop, but the voice sometimes talked to her, even gave advices.

While she had somewhat perfect numbers in the Academy, Naruto was way behind. She did everything she could to help Naruto out. She mostly helped him out with many writing tests, in which he complained that they were "Waste of time and talent!". She tried to sink the information that he needed to do these kinds of things and that becoming Hokage wasn't childs play, into his head. Which wasn't easy, but still Naruto made some success.

But at training Naruto had shown LOT of success, his random fighting styles were just random. Not placing much thinking to the fighting, which was both advantage and disadvantage. It would make the enemy reading his moves little harder, but if Naruto wasn't careful, he might be find himself in rather painful situation.

But it still showed that he had some talent with Taijutsu. His Ninjutsu would be amazing also if his Chakra control was that horrible. Sakura had noticed that Naruto had large Chakra coils, but he couldn't channel it right.

Which meant that he might be horrible with Genjutsu, but if he would just try harder he might master simple and maybe some other complicated Ninjutsu's.


Right now Sakura was at Academy Training Grounds, trying to enchant her Chackra control even better. She was trying to climb up a tree which wasn't that long, it was about half shorter than the Academy and Sakura had almost reached the middle.

She was sweating since had spend about an hour to train. She was right now sitting on the ground taking few breaths. "Okay. One more time and then I'll head home and shower." she thought. She took few deep breaths and ran towards the tree. She channeled the Chakra to her feet and stepped on the tree.

She was closing on the end of the line she had drawn, but when she was only few steps away, she heard someone entering the training grounds with a hurry. "Sakura-chan!" she heard Naruto calling her. She then stopped and was about to turn to look at Naruto.

But then all of sudden her Chakra disappeared from her legs and she started feel as she fell from the tree. The last thing she saw before hitting her head on the ground was Naruto's horrified face and him calling her. Then everything went dark and the horrible pain in her head disappeared.


Yeap. Kinda lame still, but I hope you still liked it someway. And the next chapter will be longer. So don't worry as we go even further the story will turn out to be little better that it is right now. BUT, I will be jumping some episodes from the "Naruto ". Like the fillers and some other stuff that aren't "important".

Till next time, ARIGATO TO OYASUMINASAI!