Naruto politely knocked on the window again, staring at the shocked face of Tsunade while also grinning at the cyclops/copy-nin which was his sensei. He also took notice of Sakura screaming her head off, whether it was for good reasons or not, he could practically hear her through the thick glass of the window. "Haven't even been in the village for more than an hour and she's already yelling at me. Typical." When the Hokage finally did reclaim her composure she opened the window for Naruto, smiling at him while he made his way into the office.
"Ero-sennin will be here shortly, he took a small detour for 'gathering data' as he called it." Naruto remembered the white haired man saying he was gonna catch up, holding a brand new telescope as Naruto sighed, watching him make his way down to the Konoha hot springs.
"Konoha girls are always the best!" That quote rang in Naruto's ears, he visibly shuddered.
"Well, I think it's safe to say you've grown over these past 5 years." Kakashi gave Naruto his famous eye crinkle, displaying his happiness through just his one eyebrow and eye.
Indeed, Naruto had grown over the period of half a decade. The increase to his stature alone was remarkable. Growing almost two feet from his former height when he was still in his boyhood with Team Seven, Naruto now stood at a decent 6'0''. His attire also completely changed. Gone was the obscene orange and blue tones that composed his jumpsuit before leaving with the perverted Sage, now they're replaced with a much more sleek black and dark grey color pallet. Naruto now wore a light, full sleeved shirt with the collar resembling a short v-neck cut. The sleeves were black as well as the top of half of the shirt being colored in a similar way. Naruto also wore his old Uzumaki tassel, stitched to the upper portion of his right bicep. On the back of his shirt was another Uzumaki symbol, except it was a deep red and was situated halfway into the black upper portion of the garment while the other half resided in the dark gray of the shirt's lower portion, basically being centered on Naruto's back. The shirt also included a zipper running the full length of the shirt's front while also having smaller zipper on the side seams of the garment, for expanding or contracting how the shirt fit around the hip area. There was a small bit of orange however, in the form of the kanji for 'Mount Myoboku' and 'Konoha' located at the top of the shirt's back. Naruto's pants were pretty basic, straight black with white wrappings on his right thigh where his ninja tool pouch now relocated to, efficiently placed on the side of the thigh for quick access. The shins of the clothing article were also wrapped in white, following down Naruto's ankle and ending midway on his feet, his toes being visible through the front of his black ninja sandals. Naruto also wore a mesh, full sleeved undershirt which was now visible as the blonde had his sleeves rolled up. To finish of the look, his forehead protector remained on his forehead with the non-metallic areas also being black in color, thin wisps of blonde locks hung casually on the shiny silver plate as well. Naruto's hair on the other hand grew to a noticeable size. While not being as large as his father with the thick locks framing the sides of the face however, his hair grew to the point where he needed to have a small braid on either side of his face. Small, shiny precious stones with holes through the midsection held the braid in place as it dangled past his ears. All in all, it was a good look. The new clothing attire as well Naruto's physical features developing into much more sharper versions of themselves (such as the jawline, nose, cheeks, and muscles groups in general) from their previous round chubbiness made the jinchuriki look like a fortified, and respectably handsome, young shinobi. Now back to Sakura screaming at our hero.
"So you just up and leave when I'm away on a mission! Apparently you said goodbye to everybody except me! What's the meaning of this Uzumaki? I expect a full apology letter complete with flowers and chocolates. You hear!?" The cherry blossom turned completely red from her rant on Naruto's in-sensitiveness while the blonde in question raised his hands in a defensive manner, chuckling and grinning at the frustration of his teammate.
"Relax Sakura, I'm sure Naruto would have said goodbye, it was probably just time restraints." The calm and collected Kakashi tried to help Naruto's case, as well as holding back the fuming emerald-eyed girl.
"Y-Yeah, like Kakashi-sensei said, umm, time restraints!" This meek plagiarized excuse from Naruto made Sakura even more uncontrollable.
"BULLSHIT!"
Out of all the commotion there stood Ino Yamanaka, silently situated behind the group just in front of the door, the exact position she was in when she had entered. Onlooking at the ridiculous scene she thought of how friendly, and absolutely crazy the people were. The Hokage herself was laughing at the fellow blonde who was dodging kicks and punches from her mission partner at the time while one of the most capable shinobi in the village, Kakashi-sensei, was failing to calm his own student down. She certainly didn't perceive this to happen when she was filing into the medium-sized office. Ino also noticed the familiarity of the newcomer, Naruto. Even with her commendable intelligence and even more so, memory, Ino barely remembered who that person was. Hardly talking to the man as well as him leaving on such a long journey was probably attributed to her having no former information on him. The platinum-blonde also realized that this man would be her future mission partner for the infiltration and intel collection of the Hidden Rain Village, otherwise known as Amegakure, due to the increasing suspicion of Akatsuki activity there.
"Atleast he's cute."
At that moment in time Ino wished she could bury herself somewhere and stay there forever, or at the very least be more conscious of her actions. The whole gang froze from their own respective antics, wind chimes hanging outside of the open window became the only noise inside the whole atmosphere of awkward silence, and everyone turned their heads towards the person who made that comment from the front of the room, towards a certain Yamanaka who was now blushing profusely.'Shit'.
"What." Was the unanimous word that came out of everyone's mouth, even a resounding "oink" came from the pig sitting silently in the corner who just seemed to materialize into existence to witness such a fuck-up.
"How. Why." Thought Tsunade,shifting her gaze from the dying Ino Yamanaka to her ninja-pig, TonTon.