AN: Thanks for the reviews, it's always nice to get some feedback on how the story is liked and getting ideas on what could maybe, possibly, eventually, happen ;)

And like I said before, I'm not totally anti-Sasuke or anti-Sakura, it's just with the canon base, it's so damn easy to bash them and so damn hard to make them not look like whiny, bitchy, arrogant, useless, traitorous, selfish, training dummy, stupid, asshole, duckbutt, banshee, and weaklings. So kudos to who manages to write them in a positive way and not give in to the temptation to just simply bash them.

But now, let's get on to the chapter.

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Chapter IX – Housecleaning

Hiruzen had a massive headache, it hasn't been twenty minutes since he removed Sakura from active duty and the forces altogether, gave the order to arrest her mother and sentenced Sasuke to five years in prison with his Chakra sealed and banned him from being a Shinobi ever again. But here they were, his advisors, Danzo, and the civilian council, and they were loud, too loud.

"ENOUGH" Hiruzen roared and reached his goal, they were silent, for about 5 seconds until Koharu demanded an explanation to why Sasuke was sent to prison, Sakura didn't matter, only Sasuke did.

"Why is Uchiha-sama sent to prison, you can't do that!" she commanded.

"I can and I did. As to why, he has committed insubordination, he has a stick up his as that is so large that I'm surprised it doesn't come out of his mouth, he sexually harassed not just one but two Kunoichi of our village, endangered his teammates with his arrogance, to make it short, he is a prick, and its your damn fault because you all just shoved him everything he wanted and demanded up his ass since the massacre just so could have some control over him that you never had and never would have gained with that!" Hiruzen retorted.

The civilian council was fuming, they wanted to reprimand him on how he dared to speak with them, that plan backfired, massive with a huge bang.

"How I dare to speak with you?" he asked rhetorically in a dangerously low voice "I AM THE HOKAGE OF THIS VILLAGE AND YOU ARE JUST ADVISORS AND NOTHING MORE, YOU ALL HAD FAR TOO LONG GAINED TOO MUCH POWER BUT THIS ENDS HERE AND NOW!" his voice boomed and could be heard even in the last corner of the village. "Since the beginning of the mission to Wave, I've been sifting through all the edicts you smuggled in my office while I was too occupied with the rest of the paperwork, but I managed to get them all, and since not a single one of them was voted on I'm reverting every single one of them that harmed this village in any way to benefit you power-hungry, greedy, bastards. And since there were, even more, I didn't even signed myself but had my signature on them, I am declaring the whole civilian council traitors to our village and to be executed, I am also banning a new civilian council from forming. Koharu, Homura, Danzo, you three are also considered traitors to this village since you actively supported the civilian council, you three are to be sent to prison for life! ANBU, take them away," were Hiruzen's orders, good thing he placed Chakra suppression seal throughout his office who only affected people who didn't have the counter seal on them.

ANBU quickly applied additional suppression and paralyzing seals on the three veteran Shinobi before they could do anything, they were all just too shocked about what just happened to register that they were suppressed, they thought they could come into his office and walz over him, just like they always had, but not this time.

Since the chakra suppression seals were already in place on Danzo, he couldn't activate any of his stolen Sharingan, they were all useless, even the eye he stole from Shisui couldn't help him anymore, he was fucked.

What complicated things even more, was the fact to which prison they would be sent to, it wasn't the 'Blood Prison', no it was something even more gruesome, it was 'Iron Wolf Prison', in the heart of the land of Iron, guarded by the best Samurai, every centimeter was chakra suppressing metal, the same seals would be placed on the together with a paralyzing seal and a pain seal, in a way it was even more sinister than the caged bird seal, there was no way out once you're inside, the only way out was in a little box with your ashes inside.

Hiruzen was tired, he just once more felt his age 'I'm too old for this shit, its time for a new successor for the hat' he thought.

Outside of Konoha, only 2km from the gates the were four dead bodies, all four were Chunin of Konoha. Besides their bodies on the ground were iron shackles, but the person they once held was nowhere to be seen. What happened here was pretty simple infact, Haruno Sakura managed to escape her own guards and then reach the group who was transporting Uchiha Sasuke to the 'Blood Prison'. She actually managed to get the drop on them, killed one before the other three could react, get the chakra suppression tag of Sasuke while the rest was still stunned for a moment. He broke free of his shackles and fought the other three, he had managed to awaken his Sharingan from all his anger and together with Sakura he killed his remaining guards.

"Why are you here?" he asked her in a harsh voice, his Sharingan still active.

"I came to save you, so we can get away together," she answered.

"Get away? I'm an Uchiha elite, I don't run away like a coward!" he barked at her.

"I know you are no coward and all this is Naruto-baka's fault, he has to pay for this, but first we need to get away from here, come with me, we will get our revenge on them all," was her reply.

"Why would I want to come with you? You are just some fangirl bitch in heat," his voice was harsh and his eyes cold.

Sakura came closer to him and did something Sasuke didn't anticipate, she threw her arms around his neck and deeply kissed him not giving him any chance to react, as she broke the kiss she said in a sultry voice "but I'm your bitch in heat, so let me help you revive your clan, take me and let me bear your children!"

Too stunned to say anything, his instincts kicked in and he grabbed her ass tight and began to kiss her just as deep as she had only moments before. They broke again just for a moment and she whispered in his ear, "let's get away from the road, then we can continue and you can give me your seed" while grabbing his manhood under his pants and leading him away from the road.

As all that was happening, our favorite couple was finally home again, and this time would hopefully get their week off. Haku and Zabuza were staying at another apartment, provided by the Hokage. Kurama decided to finally enjoy a nice cup of tea and a certain little orange book.

Hinata was outside tending to their little garden while Naruto decided to go through his father's study. He found many notes on sealing, some scrolls on wind and lightning jutsus that ranged from lower B to upper A rank, some storage scrolls, scrolls on his parent's taijutsu styles and a large scroll with a blood seal on it.

Most of the notes on sealing were about space-time, some others on sealing something away, something with huge amounts of chakra. He was happy to find all that, but when he opened the big scroll with the blood seal and saw what was inside, he was ecstatic, there were all of his parents biggest jutsus, not only his dad's but also his mom's. There were instructions on how to learn each jutsu and the first one's were the 'Shadow Clone' and the 'Rasengan'.

As he saw this he came up with an idea, he memorized the instructions for the Rasengan and went outside to where Hinata was. "Hina-chan, I've found a cool jutsu in my dad's stuff and I think we should learn it together, it would also fit you perfectly since you have even better chakra control than me!" he said with a huge grin. Hinata smiled and nodded at him in response and he told her he only needed to buy some equipment and they could start with the training.

Once they had everything to start on the first step of the Rasengan, Kurama came out of the house and asked what they were doing, "we are going to learn one of my dad's jutsus, the Rasengan" that concerned her a little, she knew of that jutsu and she knew it would require a lot of chakra.

"Before you two start with that, you should know that it requires a lot of chakra and Hinata might not have enough to pull it off," she said hesitantly, she didn't want to crush their spirits about learning a new jutsu together especially since it's one of Minato's signature jutsu, but it was dangerous if Hinata didn't have enough chakra. As she saw the downcast look on their faces she remembered an exercise that could help them, and it was perfect for them. "There is something that could help you to enlarge here reserves, but it is a dangerous technique since it requires almost perfect chakra control, one of the two needs to have significantly larger chakra reserves and the two who perform it must be absolutely in sync!"

The look on their faces went from downcast to ecstatic in mere seconds, they were eager to learn it. And so Kurama told them what they had to do, they had to sit cross-legged facing each other and have the plans of their hand's touch. They need to breathe in sync and their heartbeat has to be in sync. Then Naruto would slowly push small amounts of chakra from his palms into Hinata's from where it would circulate through her chakra network and slowly enlarge her chakra coils. Naruto had to slowly add larger amounts of chakra and be careful not to send too much at once or her coils would rupture.

After only a few hours her chakra reserves were considerably larger, and since she now had the reserves and the ability to recover more chakra she could now also learn the Shadow Clone Jutsu, she learned that jutsu rather quick thanks to her near perfect chakra control and could produce four stable clones without her being completely tired out, that would help her with her overall training and with more chakra reserve sessions she would be able to learn the Rasengan together with Naruto.

They spent the next four days on the Chakra Symbiosis training, that's what Kurama called it, and they made quick progress, her reserves were now almost as large as Kakashi's which meant they could now safely learn the Rasengan. Naruto had waited on Hinata with beginning the training, he wanted them to train together, from the beginning, step by step, always together, this would be their jutsu.

With both of them using shadow clones, they completed the first step of the Rasengan in only a day and began with the next step which soon proofed to be way more difficult. At the end of their week off, they were still trying to get the second step done and it seems that they would still need more time to master this step.

The first day after their week off, team 7 met with Kakashi at training ground 7, there already waiting were Kurenai and Kiba, "hey, what are you doing here and where is the rest of your team?" Naruto asked as he spotted them.

"There are some changes but we should wait until Kakashi-kun is here," was Kurenai's reply.

Shortly after said Jounin with silver gravity-defying hair showed up in a poof of smoke, "Yo, how was your week off?" he asked casually.

"We were getting used to our new home and training, Hina-chan can now also make shadow clones and we are working on a new jutsu together, I found it in a scroll from my dad," Naruto said with a huge grin on his face.

The two Jounin were surprised to hear that Hinata could use the Shadow Clone Jutsu, they didn't know that Hinata had now about as large chakra reserves as Kakashi, "Hinata, you know the risks of using that jutsu?" Kurenai asked worriedly.

"That's no problem for me, we also worked on my chakra reserves, I can make now up to 7 clones and still be able to fight without major drawbacks," she replied.

The Jounin were once again surprised, and Kakashi asked, "how were you able to increase your reserves so drastically in such a short amount of time?"

Naruto and Hinata looked at Kurama who was in her fox form on Hinata's shoulders, she nodded and Naruto told them, the others all had eyes wide as dinner plates, this technique was beyond anything they knew, it was simple, yet brilliant and extremely difficult at the same time. It was clear to the two Jounin that this technique to enhance the chakra reserves was easily high A rank if not S rank, and could be considered a kinjutsu because of the difficulty in performing and the potential risks if anything goes wrong.

"We had to increase her reserves so she could learn that new jutsu we are learning together, and no we won't tell you what jutsu, it's a surprise," Naruto said with a foxy grin.

After some more casual talking, Kurenai began to speak with a serious tone, "Okay, now that that's all cleared and everyone is here, let's go over the changes. First, Uchiha Sasuke and Haruno Sakura are both no longer Shinobi of Konoha, due to their poor performances during training and missions, and their character overall, they were no longer deemed to be worthy being Shinobi of this village. Second, Sasuke was sent to prison for a combination of offenses, Sakura and her mother were sentenced to be executed for violating a specific law that was coupled with an S ranked secret. Sakura had somehow managed to escape and is now considered an C ranked nuke-nin with a kill on sight note. Sasuke also never made it to prison, his guards were found dead on their way to the prison, he also is now considered a C ranked nuke-nin with a capture dead or alive note. Third, The Civilian council was executed for high treason and the Hokage's former advisors were sent to prison for life on the same charges. Fourth, Kiba and I are now part of team 7 and I will be your second Jounin-sensei."

This news shocked the four Genin, but they also wouldn't lose any sleep over Sasuke and Sakura, especially after what happened in Wave. Concerning the civilian council and the former advisors, they couldn't care less, they never had a high opinion about them, they knew they were corrupt but nobody seemed to be able to prove anything, so if at all they were glad that they were gone.

After some sparing to get to know how the new team 7 would work together, they were working on a new training routine to get Kiba on the same level as the rest of the team. Naruto came up with the idea of using gravity and restriction seals and quickly applied them to everyone. They trained until late afternoon before everyone headed home.

When Naruto and Hinata came home, they both were tired, they showered and afterward made something to eat. After they ate, they went to bed and quickly fell asleep in each other's arms.

The whole process continued for about a week where they did every other day some D rank missions. At the end of the week at a team meeting, Kakashi brought them some application forms and when they asked what they were for he told them it was for the upcoming Chunin exams. He also told them that everyone had to decide for them self if he or she wants to participate and if they do want they had to bring the signed forms to room 301 at 8 am at the academy in five days.

They were all excited and decided to participate, they had only five days to train for the exams so they had to step up their training. Naruto and Hinata were also another step further with their Rasengan training, they had only the last step to complete but that was also the hardest step.

AN: So, the Chunin exams are about to begin, what will happen, now that Sasuke is no longer in Konoha? Where did Saskue and Sakura go? It all remains an S ranked secret that is for me to know and you to find out during the next chapters! So I hope you enjoyed the chapter and keep reading and reviewing.