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NOW FOR THE CHAPTER YOU'VE ALL BEEN WAITING FOR…

After a few questions are answered.

I don't think that Sasuke is ready for the long-range chidori. I know it looks cool, but many people have reminded me that Sasuke's and Naruto's chakra levels and control aren't up to normal. One thing that I would like to make clear is that Sasuke and Naruto CAN MANIPULATE THEIR NATURE CHAKRA. If I'm correct in my logic, then chakra manipulation is more a function of mentally learning how to do it. Naruto's clones don't transfer physical training. Also, their chakra capacities are slightly better than originally, but still small compared to their pre-warp levels.

Thank you for all who helped me with the biju stuff. I really needed those names.

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HERE IT COMES!!

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Chapter 4: How Do You Do That???

Sakura was surprised to say the least when Sasuke didn't show up for classes the next morning. Iruka didn't even bother to call his name while taking attendance. When he finished, Sakura's hand beat Ino's into the air allowing her to ask the question first.

"Ano, Iruka-Sensei?" Sakura asked.

"Yes Sakura?" Iruka replied as he put the attendance list away.

"Where is Sasuke-kun?" Saskura asked the one question everyone had. "You didn't even call his name."

"Well Sasuke won't be coming to class until your exams come around." Iruka answered. "He's busy training since, as I'm sure you all remember yesterday, he has shown incredible promise."

"But he has always shown promise hasn't he?" Ino asked as the Question and Answer session unofficially began.

"True, but for him and Naruto to be able to do what they did is beyond genius." Iruka explained. "Even Sakura couldn't match their performance even though she is the next best in the class." Ino hissed at Sakura looking to kill as her rival for Sasuke's affection received the praise and glory from their teacher.

"By the way, that reminds me something." Iruka suddenly said. He pulled out a slip of paper and gave it to Sakura who was sitting in the front row. "Hokage-sama asked me to give this to you. He also said for you to be at the Uchiha compound by three for your training."

"NANI!!!" Ino exploded along with the rest of the Uchiha's fan girls. "How does that BAKA get extra training? That isn't fair!"

"Apparently Sasuke asked the Hokage to let her out of classes to train with him and Naruto." Iruka replied calmly before realizing his mistake. The entire Sasuke club descended upon Sakura intent on killing the pink haired ninja. They backed her up into a corner where she had nowhere to run before Iruka could react.

"Now girls, please calm down and return to your seats at–" The poor Chuunin couldn't get another word in as Sakura shocked everyone. Reaching up behind her, she channeled her Chakra into the hands and placed them against the wall. With that grip, she quickly swung herself up onto the wall and planted her feet as well. Scurrying up the wall and out of the reach of the mob, Sakura waited for Iruka to police the girls back to their seats.

For the remainder of the lesson, Sakura felt the glares of her rival, along with the rest of the fan club, boring into the back of her skull. Seconds after Iruka finished his lecture and dismissed the class; Sakura fled the classroom with angry fan girls chasing after her. They tore through the academy and out into the ninja village, causing a general ruckus and required several patrolling members of the ANBU to stop them and return order to Konoha.

Nearly an hour later, at three o'clock precisely, Sakura arrived at the Uchiha compound where she found the Third Hokage waiting for her. Rushing over to the old man, Sakura apologized profusely for keeping him waiting. "I'm so sorry for keeping you waiting Hokage-sama." She said respectfully.

"There's nothing to apologize for." The Third replied. "I actually had to be here earlier to discus things with your new training partners."

"What did you want to talk to me about?" Sakura asked, trying to get to the point quickly.

The old man chuckled. "My my. Can't wait to see Sasuke-kun?" Sakura blushed slightly at his words.

"H-Hai." Sakura stammered.

"Well I don't want to keep you long." The Third stated. "You have been removed from the academy and will not return until it's time to take the Genin exam." He paused. "That's only two months away, but two months is plenty of time to become better."

"Who will be training us?" Sakura asked. "Will you be?"

"No. No." Saratobi chuckled at her question. "Unfortunately I'm not able to leave my office often with all the paperwork that I have to do. However, Naruto and Sasuke will be teaching you, and they are better than you could possibly imagine." The Hokage chuckled as his words surprised Sakura. "I will let you go to your training now. I have to inform your parents of this shift. In order to improve, you will be living here until the exams, so you'll have to go get your things tonight."

Sakura couldn't believe the old man's words. Me? Live with Sasuke-kun? SWEET!!! Her inner self began dancing around with joy as she entered the abandoned clan compound. As she walked towards the Head Family's mansion, the sounds of battle increased in volume. Sasuke must be beating Naruto up for training. Sakura decided, but as soon as she rounded the last corner, she stopped and gawked at the scene.

Tens of Narutos flew around the street attacking Sasuke from almost every angle possible. Whenever Sasuke managed to hit one with enough force, that Naruto would disappear in a poof of chakra smoke. It took her a long moment to realize that Naruto was slowly, but surely driving Sasuke backward towards a pair of Naruto's holding something blue in their hands. Sakura was about to yell to Sasuke when electricity started to flow off of her crush's body, quickly expanding until all but the two Narutos remained. Sakura couldn't help but feel the power the two boys put out during this fight. It was like watching two juggernauts plow into each other intent on killing the other.

When the Chakra smoke cleared from Sasuke's last attack, Sakura could see Sasuke's chakra forming a ball in his hand. It spewed lightning and made the most beautiful noise, somewhat like a thousand birds chirping their songs. Sasuke launched himself at the two Naruto's driving his fist into one and then the other, but not before receiving a Rasengan to the stomach. Sakura watched in horror as Sasuke flew backward nearly 30 meters before crunching into a thick slab of rock…and disappearing in a poof of chakra smoke.

Naruto stood in his room inside the Uchiha mansion. "Man this place rocks!" he said to the black haired boy standing in the doorway. "It's so huge and it's got all sorts of cool nooks and crannies."

"Hn…" Sasuke replied. "It gets boring after a while."

"That's why I'm here!" Naruto declared. "I'm Konoha's number one unpredictable ninja!"

"Our fight outside is finished." Sasuke stated. "Want to go for another round?"

"Nah…" Naruto replied. "Sakura was supposed to be coming around now. If we started to fight, then we wouldn't be able to stop ourselves from going all the way until we were too exhausted to move anymore. Besides, we need to train Sakura."

"What we really need is that Tsunade person to teach Sakura how to do medical ninjutu." Sasuke said. "I don't know any of that junk."

"Oi!" Naruto said. "It isn't junk. Even with the basic field aid that Tsunade taught me, I was able to save lives. Besides if you get good enough with medical Ninjutsu you can fight with it like Kabuto was able to do. You know how powerful he was." The blond knew he sold the Uchiha with that last sentence. Sasuke wanted power.

Outside the Uchiha mansion Sakura carefully picked her way through the rubble on the street looking for a clue on where Sasuke and Naruto were. There weren't any clues. Nothing remained except destruction. Not even one of the millions of Kunai and Shuriken she had witnessed Naruto throw were left. This is very strange. She finally gave up and decided to look inside the Mansion for any trace of the boys. What she didn't expect was for the boys to walk out of the gates look at the destruction and not even care.

"Oi! Sakura!" Naruto called out. "When did you get here?"

"Umm…" Sakura looked a little unsurely at the two boys. "How did you do that?"

"Huh?" Sasuke asked. "What do you mean?"
"HOW DID YOU DESTROY THE ENTIRE STREET AND DISSAPEAR AND NOW WALK OUT AS IF NOTHING HAPPENED????" Sakura shouted completely confused, worried, and nervous. The Third was right to say they were strong.

"Shadow clones Sakura!" Naruto replied bouncing up and down next to her. Sakura used their closeness to examine them. They were wearing their normal clothes, but they wore leggings around their ankles. Both were black and looked as if something bulky was underneath the cloth.

"What are you wearing?" Sakura asked pointing at their feet.

"They're training weights." Sasuke told her. "We've got a pair for you as well."

The pink haired girl looked at them with a blank expression. "Why do I need to strap weights to myself? They'd just get in my way."

"That's kinda the point Sakura." Naruto tried to explain the point of the weights, but he wasn't very good at it. Sasuke had to interrupt him and give her a quick sentence that summed up their purpose. "Humph. Show off." Naruto said with his arms folded across his chest. Without speaking a word to each other, the boys turned and walked back through the gates leaving Sakura to follow them.

"What did you mean by shadow clones Naruto?" Sakura asked the blond.

"With the Kage Bushin, you can multiply the time you spend training." Naruto answered, for once knowing the whole answer. "Whatever chakra exercises or memories your clones gains while still active, you get when they are dispelled."

"But that's a Jounin rank technique! Sakura complained. "You two aren't even Genin. How'd you learn that?"

"It's a story for later." Sasuke replied quickly putting the matter rest for the moment. "Right now you need to learn the jutsu so we can get to training. The quicker you master it, the faster you can train."

"How hard is it?" Sakura asked nervous at the prospect of having to learn a Jounin technique quickly.

"The hardest part is the chakra control, but that shouldn't be a problem for you." Naruto replied. "After that, it's just a matter of putting a lot of Chakra into the technique."

"You should try for one when you start." Sasuke warned her. "Naruto can do about 100 if he needed to. I don't have the same chakra reserves, so I'm limited to around a dozen." Sakura's eyes widened in disbelief.

"But you're so much better that Naruto!" Sakura exclaimed to Sasuke.

"Oi!" Naruto complained. "We're even." Sasuke nodded in agreement, further astonishing Sakura.

"He's already mastered the Kage Bushin and uses it as a platform for many of his other major jutsus." Sasuke informed the girl. Sakura just nodded mindlessly too astonished to say anything.

Two days later.

Sakura woke up from her dreamless sleep when her accursed alarm buzzed next to her ear. The unfortunate piece of machinery quickly suffered one of Sakura's trademark punches, quickly shutting it up. She groaned as she rolled out of bed and stood up to stretch. Leaning back, her back began to crack and pop as she twisted and bent, leaving her feeling refreshed. She shuffled her way to the adjacent bathroom and began the half-hour long process of getting ready for training.

After a quick, yet thorough shower she brushed her teeth, combed her long hair, and slipped into her regular crimson ninja outfit and topped her outfit off with a red ribbon to hold her hair back. She left her room feeling ready for the day and gazed at the sunrise through the window as she walked through the hall. As usual, Naruto and Sasuke were practicing Taijutsu in the lawn. They were just streaks passing through her field of vision, revealing part of their true speed and combat abilities.

Having found the boys eating unhealthy foods while putting their bodies through incredible strains on her first morning, Sakura assumed the duty of preparing the meals. She did so because, one, she didn't want to eat the same things they were accustomed to, and two, saw it as a chance to impress Sasuke with her abilities. Within fifteen minutes, Sakura had prepared a light breakfast for the three of them and the aroma made the boys stop and come in to eat.

They had quickly established a routine. In the morning Sakura would practice the Kage Bushin technique with Naruto and work on climbing trees. Afterward, Sasuke would work on her Taijutsu and stamina by having her attack training posts and run around the inside of the compound. In the evening, Sakura would watch Naruto and Sasuke run through their ninjutsu libraries and learned how to plan an attack with a three-man cell. In the evenings, after dinner and after night fell, the three would work on stealth and try to sneak up on patrolling ANBU and other ninja responsible for guarding the gates of Konoha. By ten o'clock all three were in bed exhausted from a solid days worth of training.

They passed a month following this schedule, and as Sakura advanced through the lessons Naruto and Sasuke gave her, she began to learn more powerful techniques, as well as some medical ninjutsu that Naruto gave her to practice. As it turned out, she was perfect for the role as medical-nin as her chakra control and chakra reserves grew exponentially better. The three occasionally saw old academy friends while shopping for food and other necessities in the village markets, but as their training progressed, they grew more and more distant from the academy students. A month before the Genin exams, the Third Hokage summoned them to his office.

"I know that you three aren't officially ninja yet, but I think it would be appropriate to give you a few missions a week." The old man smiled at Naruto's smile.

"We'll do 'em!" Naruto exclaimed. "So what's first?"

The hokage pulled out a slip of paper from his desk drawer and handed it to Naruto for him to read. After a few moments, he passed it to Sasuke and stared at the old man. "You can't be serious."

The Third smiled at Naruto. "I am serious." He waited for Sasuke and Sakura to finish reading the paper before continuing. "Your mission is to find Jiraiya and Tsunade and bring them back to the village."

"BUT THAT"LL TAKE MORE THAN A MONTH!" Naruto shouted. "We won't be back in time to take the exam!"

"I'm sure that you can do it. The two of them are currently staying in a town not to far from here." He replied.

"Hokage-sama, isn't this a C-rank because it takes us out of the village?" Sakura asked.

"No." his response surprised them. "This is a B-rank mission." Sakura's eyes shoot open and her jaw fell loose. "They will be harder to get back, but when they read this scroll they will probably come back." He handed Sasuke a scroll that was sealed with a complicated ink seal.

"We'll bring them back in a month." Sasuke promised.

"I'm glad to hear that." Replied the Hokage. "Good luck."

It took the three of them no time at all to return to the Uchiha compound and gather the supplies they needed.

"Kunai, Shuriken, first aid kit, tent, sleeping role, soldier pills, blood replenishment pills, traveling rations…" Sakura trailed off. "I think that that's everything. Can you two think of anything else we need?"

Naruto shook his head while Sasuke emptied another armload or gear onto the pile of supplies they gathered. He placed several ninjutsu, sealing, and tactical scrolls into their packs and topped everything off with an extra weapon holster. "Now we're ready." He said as he stood up.

"How are we going to find these two?" Sasuke asked looking to Naruto.

"Well Ero-sannin–" He began but was cut off by Sakura

"NANI??? Who's Ero-sannin?" she asked.

"Jiraiya…the pervert, also known as Ero-sannin can be found at hot springs peeping at the ladies side, or at some perverted store or other." Naruto explained. "Tsunade baa-chan can be found at casino's and is known as the Legendary Sucker. She loves to gamble, but stinks at it. She's an amazing medical-nin and can pound Ero-sannin like no tomorrow."

"Eh? How do you know all this?" Sakura asked.

"I-I read a lot when I was younger… They're two of the legendary Sannin of Konoha." Naruto replied. "They're some of the best ninja that Konoha has produced."

"Let's get going you two." Sasuke called from the gate. "We've only got a month!" Naruto and Sakura followed the raven-haired Uchiha out of the compound and the village to start their first mission.

Alright!!!! I've finally got a good idea of how the next few chapters will turn out. Continue to review and comment/ ask questions. I love all the feed back.

I'm further along with my side story and I just need to sort out a few things before I'm ready to start incorporating it into this story as chapters or parts of chapters.

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