I am surpise how many people are already following this story. It was only one chapter? And I only have a few scenes in mind for this story and the very basic idea of a plot. Thank you? I will try to make this interesting.
Sakura was a little disappointed to find out she wouldn't be meeting the green wearing freak just yet, as the medic wanted to go over something with him once he is available. Hopefully it was to design a program that will get her physically strong while also not straining her young body. From what she could remember about Might Guy and Rock Lee was that they were beyond crazy. Which was exactly what Sakura needed if she want to as insane as Saitama in One Punch Man. However that doesn't mean she is going to get sick pushing herself too far.
It was the closes thing she had to a goal in this new life. Ada spent most of her high school life getting ready to take the steps needed to become a doctor, but that didn't end up the way she hoped. What, with dieing and all.
She never consider herself to be the smartest or the strongest, but when it came to wanting something she did everything she could.
This will be no different.
"Class, we have a new student with us today." Her new teacher said and Sakura walked forward.
It looked a lot like her other class. There was long tables that sat three kids to a seat that was set up like an auditorium. Higher in the back then in the front. Some of the kids were staring at her, while other were still too busy talking.
"My name is Haruno Sakura. I hope to get along with you all." Sakura said with a polite bow.
"Why don't you take a seat Sakura-chan." The teacher said before grabbing a stack of paper.
All the tables were filled except for one that was empty. Sakura briefly wondered if there was something wrong with that table before coming to the conclusion she didn't have much of a choice. There was no other tables to sit at.
I just hope there isn't gum stuck to the bottom of it.
Why would there be gum under a table?
Sakura sighed to herself as she sat down and pulled her pens and papers out.
Don't worry. I don't think gum has even been invented here.
"Now class, since we have a new student with us, why don't we wait another day to talk about mission reports and instead talk about the founding of Konoha." The young man with a scar across his face said.
He looks like that teacher Naruto had in the show. Sakura realized once she finished getting her stuff out and got a good look. The one that yelled all the time and got nose bleeds from seeing naked girls.
What was his name?
Idk, Ruka or something? That was a long time ago.
"We will start with the dream the first Hokage, Senju Hashirama, had that led him to found this village. He wanted to achieve peace throughout the lands, but Senju-sama was born during an era called the Warring States. It was a time where there was no order or villages, only loyalty to your clan. Even so, Senju-sama gathered the most powerful clans at this time to form a village so the fighting could finally end..." The teacher said while Sakura furiously took notes.
This was all new and Sakura figured it might be useful to know. Hokages are like presidents, only for life instead of four-eight years. Learning about the leaders seems like a good first step in her new goal to become the most badass ninja ever. A long term goal for her to pass.
Then just as the teacher (I really need to learn his name) started drawing the symbols of the first four clans that Hashirama convinced to came, the door to the classroom was thrown open.
"Umino-sensei, I found your student playing hockey."
Sakura looked up to see a man looking ninja holding a blond haired boy by the collar of his dirty t-shirt.
"Naruto. Go seat down right now." Umino said though he didn't even bother to look at the boy.
"Heh. Okay!"
Sakura stared as the boy bounced over to her table, only to notice she was there at the last moment.
"Eh? W-who are you!?"
"Sakura. Nice to meet you again." Sakura said, noticing how everyone was watching them now.
"Again? ... Oh you're that pretty girl from before!" Naruto yelled as Sakura shorted out of her nose from trying not to laugh.
A 6 year old with a crush on her. That's a new one.
"NARUTO! What did I just tell you to do?"
"Sorry Iruka-sensei." Naruto said with a laugh as he sat next to Sakura with a huge smile on his face.
"Right. Now as I was saying..." Iruka said as he drew four symbols on the chalkboard.
"Senju-sama asked the leader of the Aburame, Akimichi, Hyūga, and Uchiha clans to join. After years, the leader of the Uchiha, Uchiha Madara, was the first to accept. After that, it didn't take long for the other Clans to agree to the peace treaty and more clans came..."
"Hey, what are you writing?" Naruto asked in a whisper, and Sakura thinks this is the first time she didn't hear the boy yell.
He is very loud. Is that why Kaa-chan didn't want us around him?
I doubt it.
"Taking notes." Sakura stated, not even stopping her writing.
She was still slow at writing, and has a problem of switching between Kanji and Hiragana, so Sakura wasn't getting a lot of time to write what Iruka was saying even with only writing the key notes.
"Why would you do that?"
"Studying."
"But... isn't that what the books are for?"
"Naruto, do you have something to tell the class?" Iruka asked, and Sakura could tell he was close to losing it.
Why do they have a teenage teaching a bunch of kids anyways?
Isn't he an adult like Tou-chan and Kaa-chan? He's really big... and tall!
"Umm, No! I wasn't talking or nothing!" Naruto said after giving Sakura a look that had her raising a brow at.
Teenagers might look like adults, but that is only on the outside. On the inside they are only a little more mature then children.
"Then listen! You all will have homework about this tonight!" Iruka said and the class groaned at the mention of homework.
"... Alright that is it for now. Remember, after lunch you have Taijutsu class then Tactics for the boys and Kunoichi class for the girls." Iruka said even though more the half the class was already done.
That was really long.
Sakura hummed in agreement as she looked over her five pages of notes.
I can't believe there is such a big different between the civilian class and Shinobi class. How to they ever expect Civilians to catch up if they normally don't start until their eight?
Maybe there is lots of repeating?
"Um... Sakura-chan?"
Sakura turned to see Naruto was still in his seat. In fact, they were now the only ones in the class besides Iruka who was busy at his desk.
"Yes Naruto?" Sakura asked, only noticing afterwards that she forgot to add an honorific.
Again.
"Are you going to eat lunch?"
"Ya, I was just packing up. Do you want to eat with me?" Sakura asked as she stood up, so she didn't see the wide eye look Naruto gave her.
"You want to... SURE! Let's eat lunch together 'ttebayo!" Naruto yelled loudly enough that Iruka looked to them.
Ttebayo? Is that short for something?
It might be short for... Dattebayo?
Sakura made a face at that, but quickly reeled it in so Naruto never saw. It was annoying how after 6 years of being here there was still words that Sakura doesn't know. Sure, Sakura knew it would be impossible to know everything, but what was the point of remembering her past life if she doesn't use like a life hack?
"Hey Naruto, where is your lunch?" Sakura asked when she notice the boy wasn't carrying anything.
Not even a bag for his school stuff.
"I normally go back home to eat." Naruto said as he rubbed the back of his neck.
"Oh? Do you live close by?"
"Um... Kinda?"
Sakura wondered what he meant by that, but from how uncomfortable the boy was looking she was henetient to ask.
Naruto doesn't have parents...right?
I guess? I think they died because of the demon or something.
"My dad packed a lot. I don't mind giving you some." Sakura said when it didn't look like Naruto wanted to go home to get his lunch.
I wonder why his guardian didn't pack him any. Not like they have school lunch here.
"REALLY?" Naruto yelled and Sakura had to lean away since it was almost in her ear.
"I don't even like rice that much." Sakura said with a shrug as she opened the bento box her dad prepared.
Kizashi always packed more for her lunch then Mebuki, but since today is her first day of Ninja school he packed even more. Sakura knows she will be more active from here on out, but there is still a limit of how much she would eat without getting sick.
Naruto didn't even wait for Sakura to go and find an extra chopstick before digging in.
"Mumm mis soooooo good!" Naruto said, chucks of food flying out of his mouth.
"Glad to hear it, but if you keep this up you'll end up just throwing it back up." Sakura pointed out as she started on her half of the meal.
"Ah! Okay." Naruto said after he swallowed.
They eat in silence after that. Which Sakura enjoyed a lot but from the way Naruto was fidgeting it seemed he had very different thoughts. It might have been a little mean, but Sakura waited for Naruto to speak up.
However, someone else bet him to it.
"Hey new kid, why are you hanging out with that thing?" A boy with blue hair asked pointing a finger at Naruto who seemed to pale at the attention.
"Why wouldn't I?" Sakura asked.
She remembered what her mom said, and Sakura remembers that Naruto is a demon or whatever, but he seems to be just a lonely boy. Being afraid is one thing, but it was like people were going out of their way to bother Naruto.
"My mom said that he is a bad boy." The boy simply said, like he just told her the sky was blue.
There was two other kids behind him who nodded in agreement.
"Well, I like to form my own opinions about people. Just because someone else says he is bad doesn't mean it's true." Sakura said slowly, hoping that this idea wasn't too complex for the children.
"But my dad said the same thing?" The girl said, or asked.
"Have they ever personally meet Naruto?" Sakura asked, and all three shook their heads.
"Then they don't really know Naruto. They just heard someone else say he is bad, and assumed that was true. You want to be a ninja right?"
"Yes!"
"Of course."
"Um, Maybe?"
"Then you should get use to forming your own investigations. Ninjas go on missions right? Some mission require you to figure out who the... bad guy is because it can be hard to know. So, you should find out yourself if Naruto is a 'bad boy' before saying so." Sakura concluded, lightly staring the kids down as they talked to each other.
"Alright then. We should play ninja then. If you cheat then we will know that you are bad!" The blue haired boy said pointing at Naruto dramatically.
"I don't cheat 'ttebayo!" Naruto yelled, pointing back at the boy.
Honestly, Sakura would much rather have them just leave, but Sakura's big sister was showing. Or maybe it was all those years she spent babysitting. Either way it was hard to let the child think it was okay to bully someone because their parents that he was a bad kid.
And from Naruto's reaction I doubt this is the first time this has happened.
Should we tell Iruka-sensei? He's a teacher, so he should know what to do.
That's not a bad idea.
Sakura found out the names of the three kids who confronted Naruto. The blue haired boy was Yamamoto Osamu, a civilian raised kid who family was well known for running the bank that everyone in Konoha used. Apparently there have been a lot of ninjas in his family which was why he didn't start in the civilian school like Sakura. The girl who seemed to always talk in a questioning tone was an orphan named Midori, and the other girl who was a year older than them was named Tenten. She was also an orphan and was good friends with Midori who was Osamu's only friend.
The name Tenten sounded vaguely familiar, but Sakura couldn't place it. Even having her 'little sis' look through her memories as they played Ninja didn't help. Sakura figured that Laura must have mentioned Tenten, meaning that she might be a important character in the far future... or just one of Laura's 'girl crushes' who was mentioned once.
And that is assuming that Tenten was a character from the show and not a common name for japanese cartoon characters.
Sorry I couldn't figure it out Nee-chan.
Don't worry about it.
"Break is over! Go to your classes now! Class 1-b meet outside in the training yard for your taijutsu class." Someone yelled and the kids slowly stopped what they were doing before heading off.
"I'll meet you here after class Midori-chan." Tenten said before leaving with a wave.
"That was really fun! We should play after class!" Naruto said, not winded at all despite the fact that he was doing the most running.
Sakura was even a little tired and she has been jogging every day since she found out about being able to go to the ninja school.
"You don't seem too bad?" Midori said as they walked to where the training ground was.
"That's because i'm not 'ttebayo!" Naruto yelled and Sakura sighed.
How did I end up befriending the two kids with weird verbal habits.
"You are loud though." Osamu accused, still pouting since he was 'dead' for most of the game.
"I AM NOT!" Naruto yelled even louder, but thankfully they arrived.
Iruka wasn't there, but there was another man wearing that green jacket that Sakura is starting to think is a rank type of thing.
"okay everyone line up, we are going to stretch and then practice the first set of katas today." The man said in a very quiet voice that Sakura was surprised she even heard it.
"Huh? Where are you going?!" Naruto asked once Sakura walked away to do what the teacher asked.
"Class is starting." Sakura told him and Naruto gave a slow nod before following.
When the teacher said they were going to stretch, Sakura assumed it was going to be yoga or something. Apparently stretching in the ninja world was kicking her leg in the air so your hand could touch it before running around the field for twenty minutes. Sakura wasn't able to finish the 'warm up', and even though a few of the kids were in her position it didn't make Sakura feel any better.
Sakura assumed since the academics were still easy for her, that the PE class would be similar.
No this is more like walking into a third year calculus class after taking algebra 1-2. Sakura thought as she bent over, hands on her knees, trying to caught her breath.
Those... are math classes right? What does this have to do with math?
"This is boring! When are we going to start fighting 'ttebayo?" Naruto complained loudly next to Sakura.
Sakura looked to Naruto who was looking that same as when they started. Naruto wasn't able to complete everything their teacher told them to do. Yet here he was complaining while Sakura was out of breath.
It seems I was right about this world being crazy. I just need to get to that level. Then break through the roof.
"Get in your rows and copy what I do." The teacher said, and regretfully Sakura stood up and got behind some kids.
Naruto followed her, but Sakura didn't know what happened to the other kids she was hanging out with. She lost sight of them while they were doing laps.
Sakura had an easy time following the teacher's lead, but the same couldn't be said with Naruto. By the time they went gone through the reaps a few times, Sakura could see Naruto's attention leaving him. Which considering he is a six year old boy, is to be expected. But Sakura has noticed that the other kids didn't have that problem.
Well, some do but they also seem to understand why this is important. Does chakra make people's brains develop more quickly as well as being able to be physically strong and do magic?
But then wouldn't Naruto be like them?
Sakura thought about that as she punched twice in the air.
Maybe we could check the library. I bet the one in the academy is bigger than the old one. Or I could ask that medic once she has us come back to meet with Guy.
"UZUMAKI NARUTO! If you are just going to goof off then you can leave." The seemingly quiet teacher yelled.
"Sorry sensei I-"
"no back talk. you can go wait in your homeroom class."
"BUT-"
"now."
Sakura watched silently as Naruto moved, only half listening to the other kids talked. Some complaining about how Naruto always does this thing, and other are just happy he's gone. Sakura was the only one who keep going over the Kata while their teacher escorted Naruto back inside.
Naruto has done this before? Why is he being so weird?
It seems like he is having a hard time, and none of the adults want to help.
Sakura has no reason to try and help Naruto. When it comes to all this ninja stuff, Sakura will need all the time just to help herself. She doesn't like all this obvious discrimination against the boy, but Sakura has been here one day. It very well could just be a bad day for Naruto.
He was late today.
Sakura agreed. She doesn't mind being Naruto's friend, but it isn't Sakura's job to go around trying to fix everyone's view of the boy.
Sometimes, you just have to stay in your own lane.
Sakura didn't see Naruto again that day since right after Taijutsu she had to go to something called Kunoichi class. It was outside, but on the other side where the garden was. It wasn't just their class, but also had the other first year class, 1-A.
Sakura wasn't sure if there was anything different between the two classes, but the whole A, B thing made her think there was.
"Welcome back class, I see we have a new student with us today." The woman with long purple hair said with a kind smile.
Sakura couldn't tell how old she was, but the woman didn't seem like a teenager like a lot of the other teachers in this school.
"I'm Haruno Sakura, nice to meet you all." Sakura said, starting to get tired of introducing herself.
"Nice to meet you as well Sakura-chan, I'm Yamaguchi Kiku. Now today we are going to talk more about Cryptofloricon."
The class wasn't as interesting as the Taijutsu class, but Sakura did like how it felt like she was a spy with trying to make messages sole based off flowers. When they were sent off to go make their own bouquet, Midori appeared and dragged Sakura off to her group of friends.
Sakura mostly stayed quiet as the other girls talked. They were all from her class, and Sakura found out that the difference between the two classes were the A class was clan only for the first three years. B was for orphans and minor clans, or kids from first-third generation ninjas.
With that, Sakura looked around to the kids from the other class who were from the major clans. They just learned about it, so Sakura was interested.
There was two girls that looked like twins that wore the Uchiha symbol on their backs. There was a blonde girl surrounded by lot of other girls that Sakura noticed after watching for a bit had no pupils in her eyes. It was a little creepy, but Sakura was getting use to this world's laws.
Or lack of laws.
"That's it for today. Be sure to walk for your parents or guardians to pick you up before going home."
"Hey Sakura-chan, do you want to play with us?" Midori asked, and Sakura was happy that it was a question this time.
"Maybe. I'll have to ask my mom." Sakura said when she saw Mebuki standing talking to some other parents.
"Hi mom."
"Hello Sakura-chan, did you have a good day?"
"Yes. I learned a lot." Sakura said, being truthful for once.
"That's good. I heard back from Yuko-san, the medic we talked to the other day. She wants to meet with you today."
"Awesome! Let's go. Sorry Midori, maybe we can play tomorrow." Sakura said pulling on Mebuki's hand.
"Well, I was going to ask if you were tired, but it doesn't seem like it." Mebuki said with a smile as they walked away from the courtyard area in front of the academy.
Sakura just looked up to her with a smile. She was so far behind in the Taijutsu class, but now she was going to be personally trained.
I need to make sure this doesn't end up being only a one time thing.
Sakura listen politely as they talked to the medic ninja from the other day. She handed Sakura a medical approved work out for her to go over with Guy.
"It is good that you are willing to do this for your daughter. You wouldn't believe how many times parents think imbalance chakra will just correct itself over time. Though I still haven't seen a case as extreme as your daughter..."
"I can't believe you got us a active shinobi to help. I would have thought we would have to pay for a mission..." Mebuki said before the medic held up a hand.
"I told you. Maito-san wouldn't have accepted a mission like that. He comes to the hospital all the time to motivate some of our patients, or at least tries to. He told us to meet him at training ground 5, so we should get going."
The ground was between the hospital and academy, but was hidden in the woods. There was only a few training post, most of which were broken, along with broken trees and a few broken Kunai here and there. It wasn't that big and as they walked up to it, there was only one person using it.
"Gai-san! Here is that girl I told you about." The medic called out before they even entered the dirt that marked the beginning of the training area.
"Yes! I have been waiting for the young child."
The man turned around and seeing him was even weirder than seeing Naruto. It might have been the fact he looked like Bruce Lee wearing one of those novelty glasses, only instead of a mustache it was eyebrows. And no glasses. The jumpsuit wasn't as bad as what Sakura remembered, but that might just be because a lot of ninja seem to wear similar looking under wear. It was just Guy only had a green jacket over and leg warmers.
I don't like it.
There is a good reason those were out of style when I was first born.
"I'm Haruno Sakura. Nice to meet you Maito-sensei." Sakura said, being sure to give her cutest smile for good luck as she bowed.
It was only when she got back up that she noticed there was tears running down the man's face. Actual tears!
"I am honored that you would call me your sensei Sakura-chan!" Gai said with thumbs up, not even bothering to wipe is tears away.
Sakura gave a smile while she looked back, only to see her mom in a serious conversation with the medic-nin. Meaning that Sakura was practically alone with a crying grown man.
This wasn't what I was expecting.
"Yuko-san told me about your situation, and I think it is great you want to continue being a ninja regardless of all the extra work you will have to do to keep up. I can see the spirit of youth is strong in you and I have complete faith that you will be successful in whatever you decide to do in life!" Gai said and as faith has it, the sun was shining behind him as he smiled making Sakura squint.
"...Ok."
"GREAT! Let us begin with going through the workout Yuko and I designed. Feel free to speak up if you have any questions or concerns Sakura-chan!" Gai said moments before dropping down into a plank.
"Let's start with some push ups! How does 100 sound to start off with?"
100? That's a lot! I don't even know 100 people.
"I think I can do ten max right now." Sakura said, and even that was pushing it.
She was physically 6, and Sakura had a feeling that this wasn't going to be the only thing they did today. She would be disappointed if this ninja training ends up just being a more extreme crossfit routine.
"We can break it up. Well, Yuko-san recommended to start off with no more than twenty... Tell me when you want to stop and move on." Gai said as he stood back up after showing Sakura how to do a few.
Sakura sighed, thinking that this man probably wasn't aware of the limitations of children, but this was what she wanted.
Someday I will be able to do 100 pushups without a second thought. Sakura promised herself as she got down. Almost as soon as she did, Gai moved her hands.
"You want them farther apart, but not too far. Keep your back straight." Gai told her as Sakura started her push up.
Her arms started shaking after 5.
"Try one more Sakura-chan!" Gai said as soon as Sakura did her tenth push up but stayed on the ground.
Sakura looked at him with a blank look. It was pretty obvious she was already at her limit.
"Gai-sensei? I just had my first day of academy today, so forgive me if I don't meet your goals."
"Sakura-chan! You don't need to meet my goals, you need to meet your own. What do you want to get out of this?" Gai asked and Sakura closed her eyes.
"I want to become a ninja. Then once I'm a genin, I want to special in taijutsu so that at some point I will be strong enough to defeat any one with only one punch." Sakura said before noticing how childish that sounded.
Why would that be childish? Children can't punch hard.
"There aren't many who choose to specialize in taijutsu." Gai said, looking serious for once.
"That's because kids like the idea of throwing fire out of their mouths." Sakura said, even though she would also like to do that.
"Yuko-san wanted me to just go through this with you today so that you know what to do, but I often train here. If you come here and I am training, I wouldn't mind helping you with your goal. It sounds very youthful Sakura-chan, and I would love to be the one you helped you making it a reality."
"Really? But don't you have better things to do then to help a kid?"
"Of course I don't! Helping the next generation is one of the most respectful and fulfilling things a ninja could do! You should never be guilty to ask for help Sakura-chan!" Gai said and for a moment he reminded her of her dad with all the hand movements he was doing.
"Thank you." Sakura said, before gathering up the strength to do one more push up.
"GREAT! Now try 30 situps! After that we can go on a jog around this place before doing kicks and punch. I bet you haven't learned the proper way to hit a training post if you just started the academy so we'll spend more time on that."
Sakura felt like she was going to throw up.
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More canon characters next chapter, and for any One punch fans, if Sakura is Saitama, then who would be Genos?
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