Kyuubi – 'thinking'

Kyuubi – "talking"

'Mental thought'

'Mental conversing'

"Shikaku-san, why is it you want Shikamaru and naruto on the same team. I would have thought you would want the second coming of the ino-shika-cho to come around."

"Well hokage-sama, everyone already knows of the formation. Also both boys trust each other, and know everything about each other. They both know about the Kyuubi, and naruto's family. Well anyone who thought about it could figure it out, I mean people are talkative and blunt, not to mention the kid looks just like his dad. Besides they have lived together since before the academy."

The hokage was shocked, he thought naruto still lived in his apartment, suddenly also feeling very guilty for never checking up on him.

"Ok, but who should their other teammate be?"

"Well hokage-sama, how about we watch the genin tests to see who they get along with. Both boys keep to themselves and both are really smart, thou their grades are the worst."

As the hokage turned on his viewing ball the academy room came in view, and they saw the two boys in question walk into the room.

The two boys walked up to the top row and kept a close eye on the classroom door. They watch as everyone came in and took their seats. So far hinata was out, she was still shy. Suddenly ino came running into the class room and bullet lined strait for sasuke. Causing Iruka to yell to try to get the fangirls to quite down.

Suddenly the whole class was quite and in shock as sakura walked into the room. Her hair was cut short, and she was wearing a black and dark red medic outfit slightly altered to fit her style better. She also did not start fawning over sasuke the second she entered the room.

Naruto stood up and slowly started to walk towards her. The whole class thought she would yell and hit him, but she ran to him and hugged him and started crying.

"Shhh, calm down its ok now."

"I missed you so much nii-san, it's been so long." Sakura mumbled.

Naruto looked up and motioned for Shikamaru to come on. As soon as he got down there she latched on to him too. As they were making their way up the stairs, ino snapped out of the stupor and yelled, "what the hell happened to you forehead? What's with the whole 'I missed you big brother' thing?"

The three stopped and sakura looked over at ino and then the rest of the class, "before the academy, they were my best friends and when the academy started I kinda lost my mind. Yesterday I just started thinking about why I wanted to become a ninja and remembered the reason. It was so I could help by brothers here." They continued to the top and took their seats as sakura remembered what happened yesterday.

FLASH BACK

Sakura was floating around in darkness, she knew she died. She sensed a strong aura coming towards her, then she saw the silhouette of a man with tails, nine to be exact.

"Hello kit, don't be scarred. Naruto and Shikamaru and I made a deal, your part of it."

Sakura started to not like the sound of it.

"Now don't be scared, I sent both boys back to the past to start over and try to change things. I also plan to send you back to the day before you genin exam. You will get a mental like with us, but have them explain it all, it's kinda troublesome. Damn im spending too much time with that Nara, anyway good luck."

Sakura groaned as she got up out of her bed. She felt so weak, she was defiantly going to change that fast. She looked in the mirror and thought 'first the hair must go, and then shopping. I can not believe I wore this outfit. Its so hard to move around in it.' She threw on a pair of shorts and a t-shirt and went shopping. It took a while to pick her new outfit. She got a blood red tank top, black shorts, and a black medic skirt with slits up both sides. She got a pair of gloves with metal plates on the back of them till she got stronger, healed black boots that came up just below her knees and a set kunai and shrunken holders both blood red.

Next she went to one of the training grounds that no one used and started training. She got home late that night smilling as she thought, 'tomorrow I get to see my brothers.'

END FLASH BACK

The three sat together ready for the tests.

"Ok class, time for the tests."

Shikaku and the third just looked at each other. It was obvious who the third member of that team would be.

"So who will be their jonin sensei?"

"That we will have to wait and see."