Chapter 2

Naruto walked into the yamanaka flower shop around 8:00 a.m. Ino was in the back room taking stock.

"Hey Ino are you in here?" Naruto asked.

"Yeah, I'm back here." He heard her say. Naruto walked back there and watched as she finished her work. She ran all around the room making sure they had enough of everything from seeds to plant food.

"So you seem to be here a little early." Ino said as she hung up her apron.

"Normally I'm the one waiting on you at your house." She said with a smile.

"Well I thought I could be the responsible one for once." Naruto replied smiling back. Ino walked up to him and pulled him into a kiss that to Naruto lasted a lifetime.

"When are we going to pick up Sakura?" Ino asked when they finally broke apart.

"Well I figured she is a big girl she can walk herself." Naruto said

"Plus it would give us some alone time." He said sheepishly.

"Well fine." Ino said huffily. As they walked out Naruto grabbed her hand, but she pulled it away. They walked in silence until they made it to the academy. They walked into room 102. Once they entered Sakura came up to them.

"You two are a little late, Kakashi Sensei has been waiting for 10 minutes."

"What the old fart got here before us, how late are we?" Naruto asked.

"Well it is 8:45." Sakura said accusingly, "Any later and Kakashi would have left with only me, at least that's what he said." Sakura added.

"So if Sensei was here before us, where is he?" Ino asked.

"Right behind you." BOOM! Kakashi appeared out of thin air. "You two are over a half an hour late! Get here on time or turn in your resignation form, now lets go." Kakashi said, with a tone that closed the conversation. As they walked toward the training field Kakashi looked at how much they all had grown in the year they had been a squad. Naruto was finally starting to show leadership qualities, and the girls were finally listening to him. Sakura still freaked out on Naruto when he got F's on his test's and Ino still comforted him afterwards, that part would probably never change though. When they arrived Kakashi looked them over one last time. "Alright lets begin"

Authors note: I know it is still not very long but I am trying.