Here's another chapter for one of my favorite series, it is one of the more challenging series that I've written. So I like writing it, though I'm not going to lie, I hadn't had any idea's to write it about... Though I'm back with some more idea's, so please review and enjoy!

- Time for a Change -

Naruto yawned lightly as he sat up in his bed, rubbing the sleep from his eyes as he looked at his alarm clock. He had woke up a few minutes before his alarm clock had went off, so her turned it off so it wouldn't annoy him. 'Time for my first day at the academy it seems...' Naruto stretched a bit as stoic expression crossed over his face as he remembered the events of last night that happened as they saddened him that his adopted mom had died.

Ayame looked up the stairwell leading to the house that was above their restaurant where Naruto had moved in last night after the funeral. "Naruto! Come down for breakfast before your first day at the academy!" She exclaimed lightly, heading back into the kitchen as she cooked breakfast for Naruto, Teuchi, and herself as she usually did but making a little extra this time.

Naruto's eyes widened a bit as he remembered that yesterday JiJi finally let Ayame, and Teuchi adopt him. So he rushed downstairs with a small smile on his face, he just didn't have the energy that he usually did to smile like normal. "It smells good Ayame-nee-chan." Naruto commented as he hopped up onto the chair sitting in front of their little dining room table.

Ayame noticed that he wasn't nowhere near as cheerful as he was the day before but given what happened yesterday. She couldn't exactly blame the little boy before her as he had lost the woman who he accepted as his his adopted mother had died. "I'm glad you like the smell, but it tastes even better than it looks I promise." Ayame said with a soft smile as she handed Naruto a plate of bacon, scrambled cheese eggs and two waffles covered in syrup.

Naruto gratefully accepted the plate and set it down in front of him, normally he would have just inhaled this delicious food. Though he now consciously noted that this was bad manners, so instead of inhaling his plate, he just ate his food like a normal person. "You're right Nee-chan, it is better tasting than it look's." Naruto said with a hum approval as he took a sip of his OJ. Ayame was a bit worried about Naruto, as it was a huge personality change from his usual outgoing persona.

Though maybe it would fade with time as Naruto was able to grieve and take the time to cope with his emotions. "Why thank you Naruto, but guess what I've also been working on since you were asleep." Ayame said with a grin on her face as she backed up to the counter to hide the the bento box she had made for him for his first class at the academy. Naruto's eyes flickered over to Ayame before he turned to face her and cocked his head to the side. "I saw it when I came in here, it was just sitting on the counter, so it wasn't hard to see." Naruto said as a matter-of-factly, causing Ayame to sigh in defeat as she realized it was her own fault that she wasn't able to surprise Naruto quite the way she wanted to. Though he sniffed the air as he tried to figure out what the content's of the box were. They smelled familiar but the smell of the breakfast was overpowering any nearby smell so he shrugged a bit as he'd find out later.

Ayame sighed in relief as he couldn't smell what she had made for him, she had planned on giving this to him before. Though now that they lived together, she could make food for him like this all the time. "Well do not open it until you get to your lunch break at the academy got it?" Ayame warned with a faux glare at the boy before her. She had spent a lot of her time making her equivalent of cup ramen, but Ichiraku style and taste, making it much better.

Naruto raised an eyebrow at this but nodded in affirmation at her request, as he could be a bit more patient as he wouldn't need to eat for some time after breakfast. "Alright Nee-chan, but tomorrow can we go clothes shopping? Because this gaudy orange jumpsuit might get me killed, so I need something better." Naruto admitted, he liked the collar orange, but even he had to admit in his line of work, that bright color was not the smartest idea for a ninja.

This was Ayame's turn to be confused as she cocked her head to the side curiously as she gazed at her adopted brother. "What do you mean? I thought orange was your favorite color." Ayame mused lightly, causing Naruto to nod in confirmation at her statement before she continued. "Well that's fine, I'll ask dad if I can have tomorrow off to take you clothes shopping, considering of how hard I work, and it's you. Shouldn't be too hard to convince him to give me the day off or at least a fair part of the day off." She mused with a light smile on her face.

Naruto let a small smile grace his lips as he nodded as well, if needed he could probably convince Teuchi to let her go with his patented 'Puppy dog eye's no Jutsu.' So he stood up, and grabbed his kunai pouches, and attached them in their various places. "Well I've got to go nee-chan, but come here for a second." Naruto said with a small grin on his face as Ayame came closer with a curious look on her face. Naruto motioned for her to bend down to be at his height, Naruto hated to admit it, but too much ramen had stunted his growth as Ayame wasn't much older than he was but is significantly taller than he is. "I love you Ayame-nee-chan." Naruto said softly, a true smile coming across his face as Ayame blushed at his comment.

Ayame stood up slowly as she did her best imitation of a fish out of water as she tried to figure out how to reply to that sudden confession. So she decided to just go back with the first emotional reaction she felt after his words settled in. "I love you too otouto-kun, have a good day at the academy, you might want to get going before you're late." Ayame said with a light smile.

Naruto nodded at this before he ran off to the academy as fast as he could with a small smile on his face as he entered the gates right before the bell rang signaling the start of the school day. 'Good, I'm not late for my first day of classes.' Naruto mused to himself as he sat down at the middle left corner, the one closest to the door for a tactical advantage when leaving. Though he didn't notice a familiar pair of pale of green eyes looking at him from her spot one row behind and to the right of him as he sat down excited for his first day of training as a ninja.

Sakura couldn't believe it, it was the boy from the other day that had used her lap as a pillow as she wasn't perfectly sure of it, but she was sure that Naruto was younger than her. 'What's he doing here? Better yet does he remember the promise he made me yesterday?' Sakura thought curiously as she got up, ignoring the jibbering of her best friend Ino. She walked down one set of desk's and stood at the edge of Naruto's desk causing him to look at her.

Naruto raised a curious eyebrow at who it was that had come and interrupted his quiet reflection time before the class started. Then his eyes widened a bit as he realized who it was and he let a small smile grace his lips. "Hi Sakura-chan, so you're in my class? I'm glad to see that, are we still on for our time at the park?" Naruto asked curiously for a moment causing Sakura to gain an smile of her own at the fact that Naruto had remembered the promise they made yesterday.

Sakura nodded in reply to both of his questions, but she was curious about his first question. "Yeah, but what are you doing here? Aren't you too young to join us so soon?" Sakura asked honestly, it's not like she minded, though usually Konoha was pretty big sticklers on rules. Though the only way that he could have gotten past the age barrier is if he was friends with the Hokage himself, and while Naruto was full of surprises, she couldn't believe that yet.

Naruto nodded at her observation but looked as if he was going to elaborate on her observation. "Yes I am in fact too young though I am best friends with the Hokage himself, in fact I call him jiji, and he allows me to." Naruto said with a bit of a smug grin on his face as Sakura's jaw dropped in an incredulous expression, as she couldn't believe he was friends with the Hokage.

Sakura shook her head a bit to clear out any star struckness in her head before she narrowed her eyes lightly at Naruto. "Oh yeah? If that's so, then prove it! Before we go meet at the park later today, we're going to see the Hokage! Cha!" Sakura exclaimed lightly, mentally chastising herself for letting a bit of her inner personality come out in front of someone she hardly knew.

The rest of the class filled in as they had their little debate, and the whole class after a while was looking at them with amusement in their eyes.

Just on day one, Sakura and Naruto had made complete asses of themselves and class hadn't even started yet. "Alright you two love bird's sit down now!" Iruka exclaimed lightly as he came into the classroom using his right hand to hold the class roster book on his right shoulder before using demon head no jutsu![1]

Naruto's attention snapped forward as Sakura firmly rooted her bottom in the chair right next to Naruto as to not enrage Iruka further with a small 'eep.' Naruto's eye's followed Iruka around the classroom as he began the lesson plan for the day. 'Ok time to pay attention, I don't need to be like Ms. Bookworm Haruno to my left...' Naruto sweatdropped as his self appointed friend Sakura was listening attentively to every word that Iruka said and note taking. 'Though I need to be much better than Mr. Laze-a-Lot's over there.' Naruto mused in slight amusement as his gaze flickered over to Shikamaru who was fast asleep with his head on the desk.

Sakura follow Naruto's gaze up to where Shikamaru was sleeping in the back of the classroom, so she took a piece of her mechanical pencil's led. Taking a few moment's as she calculated exactly how she would have to throw it to hit his ear. 'Got it!' She thought to herself as she flicked the piece of lead hit Shikamaru's ear, giving him an impromptu piercing.

Shikamaru sat up quickly as he felt what was like a bee sting on his ear as he looked around quickly scanning the area for a potential threat. Causing the class to look at him like he was crazy before beginning to laugh at his antics. 'What the heck? Was that just a figment of my imagination?' Shikamaru mused lightly as he blushed in embarrassment before sitting back down and laying his head back down on the table to resume his sleep that was interrupted.

Naruto raised a curious eyebrow at this antic that Sakura had just done, it reminded him a lot of himself just a couple days ago. Where he put an itching power bomb in the anbu's laundry before giving chase to the anbu for several hours until he got tired. 'Hokage's elite my ass... I lead them around town in broad daylight with this gaudy orange jumpsuit.' Naruto mused lightly with a chuckle before he poked Sakura's side, causing her to 'eep!' in surprise.

Sakura glared lightly at Naruto before she donned a curious look on her face at Naruto as he never seemed to do anything without a good reason. 'What is it Naruto-kun?' Sakura asked, her voice just above a bare whisper as she leaned close to Naruto so only she could hear him.

Naruto raised an eyebrow as to why she got so close to just to listen to what he said, but he shrugged this off. 'Well I was going clothes shopping tomorrow, as I can't be a ninja in this gaudy thing... I was wondering if you would like to go with me as well?' Naruto asked curiously with a light smile, as smart as he was, it didn't dawn on him that it sounded like he was asking Sakura on a date. So when Sakura blushed, his eyebrows furrowed in confusion as she had thought he was asking her out on a date even though they'd just met.

Sakura's mind was going into overdrive as she over thought Naruto's words, as the inner personality she had was giving her a pep talk. 'Cha! Go ahead and take Naruto up on that offer for a date! He's just like Sasuke, but better, all the silent brooding handsomeness, but actually shows emotion!' Sakura nodded to herself as she garnered up the confidence to speak again after Naruto's question stopped her ability to speak for a moment. "Yeah that sounds like fun Naruto, but this isn't a date right?" She asked curiously as it dawned on Naruto why she was acting so weirdly just a few moments ago after his question.

Naruto blushed a bit at this before shaking his stupor before regaining his normal stoic look on his face. "No it's not a date, my sister Ayame is coming with us, though would you like it to be a date?" Naruto asked curiously, cocking his head to the side as a plethora of emotions crossed across Sakura's face.

The first emotion was defeat at the rejection of the idea of a date, annoyance that someone would be tagging along, then happiness when Naruto offered to make it a date just between the two of them before she nodded quickly at this.

Iruka had gone silent as Naruto and Sakura had stopped whispering and were having a full blown conversation just under normal speaking volume. So he stood there for a few moment's with a tick mark on his forehead as he waited impatiently. "Are you two love birds done? If so, I'd like to continue my class if you wouldn't mind..." Iruka stated with an icy tone to his voice. Sakura apologized for the both of them as Naruto just seemed disinterested in being apologetic about his actions.

So as if to make him repent regardless if he wanted to or not, Sakura forced Naruto's head down in an apologetic bow towards Iruka. 'You dolt, even if you don't mean it, you should always apologize for your actions when they disrupt class!' Sakura whispered slightly annoyed but let Naruto up as Iruka turned back to teach the class like usual.

Naruto grumbled lightly as Sakura forced him to bow, running his hands through his hair to return it to the controlled mess it usually was. 'But if there's no sincerity behind it, then why do it at all? I'd rather do it when there's actually meaning behind it.' Naruto whispered sagely, though Sakura didn't seem to hear him though he didn't repeat himself.

Sakura actually did hear him, but she couldn't think of a valid reply to his question, as he had a good point, she just thought it was always the polite thing to do. Though she just acted like she hadn't heard him and just continued listening to the lecture.

A few hours later...

The bell rang, signaling that it was time for lunch as

Naruto grabbed his bento box from where he had placed it next to him. Noticing that Sakura was taking out her box here, he kicked her chair leg lightly to get her attention, motioning his head towards the door. "Let's go eat on the roof, not many people should be there." Naruto said as he started walking towards the door, he just didn't want to be around many people right now, so the roof was perfectly secluded now.

Sakura couldn't fault his logic, so she packed up her lunch as she followed Naruto to the roof, where he was sitting comfortably in the shade of one of the tall tree's they had planted. "Wow, the best spot on the entire roof just for us to enjoy?" Sakura asked with a light smile on her face as she sat down next to Naruto and unwrapped her lunch for the second time.

Naruto hummed in acknowledgment that he heard her statement and opened his own bento box. What he found was a bowl of all the necessary ramen ingredients dehydrated in a bowl sitting in the middle of the box with a note on top of the food. The note read:

Dear otouto ~ It feels weird that I can actually call you that without it being just in the familial sense, but it actually meaning we are family now. It's been so long since me and dad have been trying to adopt you. Ever since the first day you came to our stand and told us you were an orphan, I instantly knew... That I just knew I instantly needed you as my brother, you were just so full of life, and exuberant. Bringing so much life to our little homely ramen stand, regardless of what anyone say's, never stop being yourself. Well enough rambling otouto, I love you, and see you when you get home! :P

Instructions for the proper way for ramen to be prepared: Add hot water (I've already done the rest for you, you can thank me later!)

As Naruto read the little note it brought a tear to his eye, never had anyone except for Shina told him that they loved him. So it was a bit surreal that someone actually loved him, but he had the foresight to bring enough hot water to fill the bowl.

Something told him that his sister had made him his favorite ramen: Pork ramen with extra pork, light on the veggies! "Itadakimasu" Naruto lightly said as thank's for his meal before taking his first bite of the food. Sakura raised an eyebrow at the tear that Naruto had shed while he was reading the note, she knew if it was something serious. Naruto would probably tell her about it, so she didn't say anything, and just enjoyed the comfortable silence that settled between them.

The only sound that came from the pair was the occasional slurp courtesy of Naruto, or the content hum as Sakura took a bite of her food, savoring her own cooking that wasn't a piece of charcoal.

A little while later...

They wrapped up eating their lunch, and packed up, just as the bell rang signalling their next class was about to start, so they headed to the sparring grounds. Their next class was the practical capabilities of a shinobi, not the history of the shinobi world. As they reached the sparring ground's, Iruka was already there with his sparring partner Mizuki standing off to the side.

Naruto noticed that Mizuki's eyes seemed to be not so subtly following him around as he walked. 'Huh..? What's Teme's problem? Whatever, as long as he stays in his lane.' Naruto thought to himself as he disregarded the white haired man as he stood next to the rest of his class, only half listening to Iruka as he thought. 'Well even compared to the other civilian's, I am outclassed at the moment. As all of them have probably at least had some training with their families before. So in order to circumvent that problem, I'll have to have a battle of attrition and hope they slip up for me to capitalize on.' Naruto thought to himself as Iruka neared the end of his spiel.

Afterwards he began breaking everyone up into pairs of sparring partner's based on who he thought would go best together and by gender.

Sakura looked over at Naruto who seemed to still be deep in thought, but she might have been book smarts. Though she knew enough that the best laid plan's go out the window once combat actually starts so right now her thoughts were different. 'Crap... Now I really hate myself for dieting so much, my sparring partner is a well built girl... She's going to toss me around like a rag doll! Though maybe I can use her size against her since I am flexible.' Sakura thought to herself as her inner self gave her a pep talk to help lift her spirits.

Iruka looked at the pair before him, they seemed to be going through plan a through z in their heads but as they reached their sparring spots they gained determined looks on their face. "Remember, you lose if you step out of bounds, cannot continue, forfeit, or the timer runs out. Hajime!" Iruka said as he lept up to the lower tier roof of the academy to watch the matches.

With Naruto...

Both boy's stood there with a one handed seal of camaraderie silently Naruto was the first to react out of his sparring partner's, he launched forward, not giving his opponent time to breathe. As he through out the war of attrition plan and just went into a heavy handed offense. 'If I take him out before he get's the chance to counter attack it won't matter if I don't have any skills.' Naruto thought as he wildly swung in what resembled a right hook, but his opponent was ready for that. Catching Naruto's wild swing, and judo flipping him over his shoulder. "Whoa!" Naruto exclaimed as he was flipped over the kid's shoulder by someone who seemed to weigh less than he did in a matter of moments.

The kid was surprised when Naruto landed on his feet, expecting Naruto to be flat on his back in order for him to move into an armbar to make Naruto tap out. "Huh... For someone who fights like a drunken sailor, your reflexes are good." The kid off handedly commented as he threw a feint towards Naruto's face, causing Naruto to block it.

Though he realized too late it was a distraction as he saw a leg swiftly coming for his side. Naruto knew he couldn't block it in time even if his reflexes were fast, so he braced for impact, by clenching his side in order to lessen the blow to his ribs. 'This kid is good, his parent's must have taught him how to defend himself from a young age.' Naruto mused as his face lightly scrunched up from the blunt force of the kick against his ribs. Though he capitalized on this, and grabbed the boy's leg. Logic dictated that he would use his other leg in an attempt to free himself, so brought his other arm up to guard his head. The boy he was sparring against narrowed his eyes lightly at Naruto, as he seemed to be a lot better than he originally let on.

Though he seemed to only be fighting on instinct, not practiced skill so he was surprised when Naruto wrapped his arm around his other leg. "Oh crap! Not good!" The boy exclaimed as a signature foxish grin crossed Naruto's face.

Naruto nodded at the boy he had trapped in his clutches sentiments as with a good amount of force, he lifted the boy into the air. Before gracelessly slamming him back into the ground of the ring with a solid 'Thud!' causing the boy to lay prone as he tried to catch his breath. "Surrender, you're defeated." Naruto said with a firm tone to his voice as he had his knee lightly on the boy's chest with his fist cocked back in a punch that was aimed to knock the boy out should he resist.

The boy looked at Naruto with a curious look as he hadn't expected to be defeated by someone with no prior fighting experience before. "Just who are you really?" The boy mused out loud before he signaled to Iruka his defeat. Standing up with the help of Naruto as he got off of him, they both formed the seal of reconciliation and interlocked fingers for a moment. Showing there was no hard feelings after the sparr, as they both gave it their best and the best man won.

Naruto let one of his true smile's out as he stood off to the side, his eyes panning over the battlefield until his eyes locked onto what he was looking for. 'Go Sakura! Kick her butt!' Naruto thought to himself as he stepped under the shade of a tree to watch Sakura.

With Sakura...

Sakura was currently being circled by the other civilian girl who had a predatory look on her face, she was also sporting a split lip courtesy of the girl. The girl seemed to be quite literally out for blood as she had smacked Sakura's hand away when she formed the seal of camaraderie followed by a suckerpunch. 'Huh... So she's the brute force type? She had caught me off guard with that suckerpunch earlier. So I gotta watch out for dirty tricks like that from now on.' Sakura thought as she licked the split lip and spit out the blood before settling back into her defensive stance.

The bigger girl cracked her knuckles, she loved knocking pretty girls down a peg or two, it made her feel better about herself in her tomboyish appearance. "Come on now, you can't tell me you're only a pretty face? Or is that it? You need to stop worrying about how good you look, cause that won't matter if an enemy smashes your face in like I plan on!" The bigger girl growled out as she televised her attack, allowing Sakura to easily step past her.

Sakura dodged to the right side of the big girl, kicking the back of her knee, causing all that leftover inertia to slam her knee into the ground. 'Good... That will at least slow her down a little bit as she recovers from her knee nearly breaking.' Sakura thought to herself as she attempted an axe kick like her father had taught on the girls back her but she didn't have the muscle mass to put much force behind it, so it just slightly annoyed the bigger girl. "Jus drein jus daun.[2]" Sakura's eyebrows furrowed in confusion after what had just come over her, as she had spoken a language she had never heard before, though she shook it off.

The other girl slowly stood up, he stance unsteady as she shifted her weight to her other leg, as it was evident from her bleeding knee. That she had taken so substantial damage to her knee as she glared daggers at Sakura. "You'll pay for that through your pretty face!" The burly girl growled out in annoyance as she swung at Sakura yet again. Though this time her frustration and anger at the smaller girl caused her attack to easily be televised to her opponent. As she realized she had overextended herself. It was already too late with a quick hip check, Sakura had her arm, causing the girl's own force to cause her to flip over Sakura.

Sakura had been surprised how easy it was to Judo flip the girl, she figured since she was from the Akimichi clan or so it seemed. Her weight would make it near impossible for the much smaller female to flip her but she had anyway. "Give up now." Sakura said, narrowing her eyes as she knelt on the girl's chest in a reminiscent way of what Naruto had done.

The girl growled under her breath but sighed as she nodded, conceding her defeat to the girl she had previously thought was going to be an easy win. "You're not just a weakling, I respect that, but get in my way, and I'll crush you." The girl postured as smacked Sakura's hand out of the way as she had offered to help the girl get up, even though she was easily defeated.

Sakura rolled her eyes lightly at this before dusting off her sleeveless pink qi pao dress off as she looked around and saw the rest of the student's staring at her. "What?" Sakura asked curiously as she was clearly confused as to why she was the center of attention. The crowd suddenly burst into applause and cheers as everyone had been rooting for her, since she was the underdog.

There was even a few groans of annoyance as some lost a bet as they had bet on the bigger girl. "Seem's everyone was watching your match after theirs finished, as from what I could gather, you were facing the local neighborhood bully." Came a voice as the crowd parted to let out a Naruto with a small smile on his face as he lightly clapped as well.

Iruka landed next to the pair with a proud look on his face at Sakura, but an indifferent look towards Naruto. "Good going you guys, you won your matches, and did surprisingly well for two kid's with no formal training or any clan's to train them." Iruka doted lightly as he wrote down their grades in the notebook as he did for the other student's who had sparred.

Sakura hadn't missed the indifferent look Iruka gave him, but filed it away to ask Naruto at a later time, as now was not the time. "Thank you Iruka-sensei! She really messed up when she got mad at me. Everyone know's the more angry you get the more likely you are to mess up!" Sakura exclaimed lightly as she looked over to Naruto who was looking into the forest.

Naruto narrowed his eyes, as he sensed the malice coming from the woods, he couldn't see where it was coming from. He just knew it was aimed at him, he could only guess why it's because said person hated what he contained in his seal. "Alright, well since class is over, how about that playdate I promised you?" Naruto said with a faux smile to not to alert Sakura.

Iruka noted the look Naruto seemed to be giving Mizuki, as to the untrained eye, Mizuki was well hidden, but he could see his fellow teacher. Though since the malice was aimed at Naruto, he couldn't feel the malice coming from Mizuki or see his face. "You two are free to go today, you passed with flying colors. Also..." Iruka trailed, garnering the ten, and eleven year old's attentions respectively as they turned to him with curious expressions evident on their faces. "Have fun on your date guys!" Iruka teased before bolting off to another set of student's before Naruto and Sakura could cry out in annoyance at his statement at their expense.

Sakura blushed at the prospect of going on a date with Naruto, she didn't hate the idea, but she hardly knew the kid, so she wanted to get to know him first. "Iruka-sensei is a jerk for that comment, come on Naruto! I know the playground is nearly empty around now, so we have it all to ourselves!" Sakura exclaimed with a bright smile that made Naruto's heart skip a beat as it was directly aimed at him using her full beaming power's.

Naruto blushed a bit as well, though not as badly as Sakura, he was particularly happy the park would likely be empty. Because he didn't want Sakura to see the stare's other kids gave him because their parent's told them to stay away from the boy. "Good, that mean's I can show you my favorite hiding spot too!" Naruto exclaimed lightly, regaining a bit of his original happiness as they unofficially raced each other towards the park which was in the middle of town.

A little while later...

They made it to the park, it was about a twenty minute walk from the Academy, but the two blurr's had made it in a record time of five minutes. As they stumbled into the gate, both were breathing pretty hard, as they had run full force all the way here. "I won!" Sakura exclaimed with glee as she finally caught her breath, jumping up and down as she spun in a circle slowly.

Naruto rolled his eyes lightly as he finally caught his breath as well, standing upright again as he leaned on the fence that surrounded the playground. "Yes you did, what would you like as your reward my queen?" Naruto jokingly asked as he peformed a mock bow, just barely missing the evil grin Sakura had on her face at the joking name Naruto had just given her.

Sakura thought about it for the moment of all the prospective things she could get Naruto to do with this plan before nodding as she decided. "Queen huh? That has a nice ring to it! I'm your queen for the day! Within reason you must listen to whatever I say got it?" Sakura asked with a light playful glare at Naruto which he gladly returned before silently nodding at her request.

Naruto couldn't help but give her what she wanted, as she was sensible person, so he knew she wouldn't ask for anything stupid. "Alright my queen, what is your first order of buisness?" Naruto asked curiously as they started walking towards the swingset together.

Sakura put a hand under her chin, her pointer finger and ring finger on her chin as she contemplated her first order. She didn't think Naruto would go along with her request, but she would capitalize on this as much as she could for the day. "Push me on the swing my loyal subject." Sakura said with a grin on her face as Naruto chuckled and nodded at this request.

Naruto got behind her on the swing as she sat down and began to pump herself lightly as Naruto pushed on her lower back to make her go faster and higher. "Yes my leige, your wish is my command." Naruto said with a grin jokingly as he pushed her higher and higher with each push on the lower part of her back as Sakura let out a content sound as he pushed.

Sakura was just enjoying the company of Naruto and how he was obeying her order's and was playing with her. "You have pleased me my loyal subject, continue to do so and I might have a special reward for you." She offhandedly commented, glad that Naruto couldn't see her face as she was blushing at the idea that she had in mind for his reward for being obedient. Naruto was curious as to what this could be, but he was learning to gain more patience as he went along.

So he decided to play nice with Sakura, and listen to whatever whim she had, within reason as he really enjoyed her company too. "Why thank you my queen, you're beyond generous, and I shally humbly accept any gift you should deem fit." Naruto said with a grin on his face as he stepped away from Sakura to his own swing as she reached a good height.

Sakura smiled lightly at this as Naruto joined her in his own swing, pumping quickly enough to catch up with her in term's of height and speed. "Two little monkey's, sitting in a tree, k-i-s-s-i-n-g!" Sakura lightly exclaimed with a grin on her face at Naruto's blush.

Naruto rolled his eyes as a soft blush crossed his face and he grinned lightly as he picked up on her teasing kids rhyme she was trying to do. "First come's love! Then comes marrige!" Naruto continued on as Sakura was caught off guard by the continuation. Though they continued the next line in sync with each other. "Then come's the baby in the baby carriage!" They exclaimed together at the same time before bursting into giggle's of happiness at their little moment.

Sakura was now in tear's as she lept from her swing, and rolled into a standing stance as she stood up with a flourish, her arms spread out in a sort of y shape. "Tada! The crowd goes wild for Sakura Haruno, as she perfectly execute's a ten point flip!" Sakura exclaimed to a crowd that wasn't actually there before turning back to Naruto, who landed a few inche's away from her.

Naruto's brain stopped for a moment at the close proximity he had to Sakura, he naturally inched closer as his heart beat started quickening as he did. 'What am I doing!? I should stop before she hate's me for what I am doing!' Naruto thought frantically to himself, but as he got closer, he noticed that Sakura wasn't backing away. In fact she seemed to be moving closer as well, he knew that she wanted this as much as he did when she closed her eyes.

Sakura's brain had also stopped all higher function at Naruto's close proximity, she wasn't against this, but it happened faster than she had expected. Though before she realized it, she had closed her eyes in anticipation for the kiss. 'I should probably stop this, but at the same time I don't want to...' Sakura thought to herself as inner Sakura was cheering her on as well in her endevours. 'Cha! That's it Sakura! Go get what you want, screw whatever our mom said about Naruto!' Her innerself cheered as all her inner thought's disappeared, even inner Sakura was nowhere to be found as Sakura's lips finally touched Naruto's in a small fire that formed in her, making her feel like she could do anything she set her mind to.

Naruto's brain finally started firing on all cylinder's again as he took a step back away from Sakura. "I'm not going to make an excuse for that, but let me say, I really enjoyed that, and if possible. I would like to see where it goes in the future." Naruto said with a small, but true smile that graced his lip's as Sakura's brain started firing on all cylinder's again. Naruto bit his bottom lip a bit in nervousness as he waited and tried to anticipate what she would reply with.

Sakura blushed a bit as she fully understood what she said, placing her hand's behind her back, she interlaced her fingers with her palm's facing outwards as small smile that graced her lips. "I'd like that honestly, but for now, I still have a small crush on Sasuke..." She admitted honestly, as he had been the center of her affection for a little while. Though after seeing Naruto's forlorn look on his face, she decided to quickly save face with the poor boy. "But..." She trailed in a slight sing song tone to her voice, causing Naruto to look back up at her. "Since he's an emo duckboy, and won't even give me the time of day. It probably wouldn't be hard to replace him." She said with a giggle, giving Naruto a quick kiss on the cheek before dissapearing in a burst of speed to the treeline's as she headed home, leaving Naruto with a new goal along with graduating from the academy, to replace duckbill and become Sakura's boyfriend.

Naruto rubbed his cheek lightly as the phantom feeling of Sakura's lip's was still there for a few small moment's after she left. With a look of determination on his face, he decided to walk home rather than run, as even the villager's couldn't bring him down at this point. 'Alright! Starting tomorrow I will show her that I'm much better than Sasuke!' Naruto exclaimed to himself as he pumped his fist in the air for a moment before exiting the park towards his apartment.

Authors Notes: Hardly anyone ever depicts the naruto BTS (Before time skip) ever depicts them as they are. kids, they automatically make them into hardene fighters/ killers. So I wanted to take a lighter approach to this as well. Though as always guys that's another chapter finito, so how did you like it? As your input on chapter's really give me motivation to continue on. So if you'd like to see more of this series, leave a review, please log into an account to leave a review. That way I can get back to you, as it's really troublesome to copy and paste guest reviews in the somewhat small chance that the same guest reviewer will see me get back to them. So please take a little extra time to log in to leave a comment, it make's my life a lot easier, and that easier may just help me make another chapter.

Translations or Elaborations:

demon head no jutsu!: When Iruka get's really upset or annoyed, he seem's to make his head grow three sizes and magnify his voice x5.

Jus drein jus daun: I'd honestly be surprised if anyone got this quote, it's a lesser known series that I love. Either way it mean's: Blood must have blood from the Series "The 100."