When lunch was over Sakura and Naruto both in their armor walked out into the courtyard where some of the other squads had been gathering and they walked in silence a moment and Naruto said "So how bad is this actually going to be Sakura."

Sakura said "For you and me....not to bad....For everyone else, a living hell."

Naruto said "Oh, and here I thought I was going to be bored."

Sakura snickered and said "Well it's almost time, lets get ready....by the way, where is Kaze and his family."

Naruto said "Theres a cave on the east side of the castle that cringer, my grandfathers tiger lived in. They moved into it and like our rooms they have a magic tray portal as well so they can get food though I think they are still going to hunt when they can."

Sakura nods and as they walked to where the other Gennins were gathering Kiba asked "Who are you." in a snobbish attitude.

Naruto said "Chill dog breath. It me and Sakura. I already had my armor and Sakura got here earlier and I was able to get hers."

Kiba looked at the armor and said "We have to wear that....I don't like it."

Evelyn appeared behind Kiba and said "Tough kiddy's, your not here to like it, your here to train. Now get into 3 rows, sensei also." as the 3 Jounin walked up to the group.

Everyone started to get into rows and Evelyn clapped her hands together and a person in armor came over and held a machine that had a red beam that shot out of it and scanned each person and Asuma asked "What is that."

The person holding the machine said "It's a scanner. It measures your height, weight, build, arms and leg length along with your elemental affinities so we can make armor that will fit you. It will be ready in 10 minutes." as he showed the scans to Evelyn before he walked away.

This shocked everyone and they looked at Sakura and Naruto and Ino said "10 minute, how is that possible."

Evelyn sighed and said "Magic." making everyone look at her.

Kurenai blinked and said "Excuse me but I don't think I heard you right but did you say magic."

Evelyn raised her hands and said "Power of gravity and weight, make these people levitate." all 9 of the rookie Gennins and the Jounin's were picked up off the ground 4 feet into the air making most of them scream.

Sakura put her hands together and began to whisper to herself and Sakura fell to the ground as did the others.

Evelyn looked at Sakura and nods her head slightly and Ino said "What the hell was that." as she glared at Evelyn.

Evelyn said "On Eternia before we ever learned to use chakra people learned to use magic. Not everyone can use magic. In fact it wasn't for 200 years before we learned exactly who could use magic and who couldn't. Eternia is considered a magical kingdom along with Etheria because both are a combination of technology and magic. There are those here in this group who can use magic....in fact there are 5 here who can use magic in your group besides me." shocking all the Konoha nins.

Naruto said "5 of us, who."

Evelyn said "Well if I remember your names right from the files I was given then Choji, Hinata, Sakura, Kurenai, and you."

At this all of the Konoha nins looked shocked and Kurenai said "How do you know that we can use magic and how do we do it."

Evelyn said "Your elemental affinities. Sakura, Choji, Hinata and you Kurenai all have water affinities as your primary element and Naruto has water as a secondary element with Wind as his primary. Water is also called the spark of life because without water life dies. Anyone with a water affinity can use magic. The stronger your affinity to water the stronger you are with magic....however the stronger your secondary element is the weaker magic gets. That is why Sakura here has the strongest affinity to magic while Naruto has the weakest. Hinata is second strongest with Kurenai 3rd and Choji 4th."

Naruto said "So your saying that I can't use magic."

Evelyn said "No, that's not what I am saying. In fact if your father and grandfather did not have such strong wind affinities then odds are you would be stronger in magic then me since your mother, grandmother, and great grandmother were all powerful sorceresses......in fact that's kind of strange, all the men down your line had powerful wind affinities and married woman with strong water affinities....strange...I wonder why dad was a water instead of a wind then." as she put her hand over her mouth.

Ino said "Wait, are you saying your related to Naruto-kun."

Evelyn said "Hmm....oh yeah, I guess you wouldn't know. Hell most people didn't know about my family line until recently anyways. I am Princess Evelyn, daughter of prince Keldor who was the brother to King Randor, the father of King Adam who was the father of prince Minato who was the father of prince Naruto so that makes me Naruto 3rd cousin."

Kakashi said "Wait, if what his cousin then why is it he's next in line for the thrown instead of you."

Evelyn said "Because Eternia and Etheria are sister Kingdoms and Naruto is the next in line for the thrown of Eternia and Queen Adora has offered the thrown of Etheria to me since if I tried to take the thrown of Eternia it could lead to a civil war with those who believe Naruto should be king and those who feel I should be." letting everyone think over her words.

Evelyn said "Ah here we go." as the person who left before came back with several boxes with the names of the Gennin and Jounin's on them and Adora said "Slip those on over your cloths."

As each of them began to get dressed Evelyn looked at the other teams and when they finished getting the armor on she turned and said "Now those who I said would be able to use magic except Naruto please step forward.

As the 4 did Naruto asked "Why not me, I don't want special treatment."

Evelyn glared at him and said "Shut up before I kick your ass. Your not getting special treatment. It's just that since your a wind element you won't be able to learn what I am about to show the other 4. In fact the only spell I think you could learn is transformation."

Ino said "Do you mean Henge."

Evelyn turned her glare to Ino who flinched and Evelyn said "No, I mean an actual transformation. Now be quite and stand in line while I teach these 4 something real quick....Now, I want each of you to put your hands near your temples and imagine yourself in your mind.....once you have that picture of yourself in your mind I want you to imagine a white light going from your head to your feet and think the word refresh and everywhere the light touches your body will become refreshed."

Sakura who knew how to do it already was covered in a white light shocking those around her and the light finished and Evelyn said "Good Sakura, I would have expected that from you."

Soon Hinata, then Kurenai and then Choji were all covered in the light as well. Once they finished Evelyn said "Magic is like chakra, the more you use it the more you have but at your current skill level you won't be able to use that spell more then once a day so don't use it unless your running low on energy and are tired and need to keep going. Now I have one more spell for you to learn and Naruto, you can join in on this one. It is the transformation spell."

Once Naruto walked over to the group Evelyn said "Now, I want you to think to yourself, what animal you are most like. Me, I am more like a snake then any animal which is why I changed into one back in the academy. I am fast and deadly and strike to kill just like a snake. Now have you each got the picture of the animal in your mind that is most like you."

As she saw all of them nod she said "Good, now imagine yourself like you do to refresh yourself or you are are getting ready to henge and then imagine yourself changing into that animal form while thinking the word transform."

Naruto said "Wait, if that is all the transformations spell is then I've been doing that for years now when I henge." As he was covered in smoke and appeared to be a fox.

Sakura soon was covered in smoke and turned into a falcon which made Evelyn frown and Hinata turned into a swan and Choji turned into a butterfly. Kurenai blushed and stood there and Evelyn asked "What's wrong Kurenai, why are you not doing the spell."

Kurenai saw everyone look at her and she sighed and was covered in smoke and when it cleared Kiba burst out laughing as did Kakashi and Ino asked "What's so funny."

Kiba pointed toward Kurenai and said "She's sees herself as a bitch."

Kurenai had a tick on her head and changed back and said "I am going to make your life hell Kiba."

Evelyn said "Alright, change back everyone." as everyone changed back.

Once they did Evelyn said "Alright, now I am not going to teach all of you any other magic spells. Those were just a few simple spells that can help you later in life. Now we have 1 month to train together and there is something you don't know about that I will now tell you. Since Naruto and I are both in line for our respective kingdoms we both have to have a personal body guard. Naruto will have to have one that is female and I will have to have one that is male. It has always been like that and it will always be like that in our Kingdoms as a bond between a personal body guard and a member of the royal family is considered as sacred as a bond of marriage since our body guards will know things about us that most won't know. Now Naruto and I have both picked who we want to be our guards but they have to prove they are worthy of being our guards. Since the bodyguards are responsible for the protection of a member of the royal family they have to be strong enough to defend them. It is because of this the person we chose will have to prove they are strong enough to defeat someone if they challenge you for the position of the royal body guard. These rules are known to the people of Eternia and one of them may challenge you for the right to guard either myself or Naruto. The 2 we have chosen as our current protectors are Sakura Haruno and Uchiha Sasuke." making everyone wide eyed and Naruto looked at Sasuke and said "Teme, no wonder you knew I had asked Sakura to be my guard."

Sakura eyes were wide and Sasuke said "You maybe a prince but your still a dobe." with a smirk.

Kiba said "Wait, all we have to do is challenge Sasuke to be your bodyguard."

Evelyn said "And a woman has to challenge Sakura to be Naruto guard."

Kakashi said "If you don't mind me asking but who were Minato-sensei and his fathers guards."

Naruto said "Kushina Uzumaki, my mother was selected to be my fathers guard and died from child birth and Teela, my grandmother was my grandfathers body guard and she died shortly after giving birth to my father when the castle was attacked.......hopefully the mistakes of the past won't repeat history." as he turned toward Evelyn.

Evelyn said "I'm sure it won't. The past is the past after all and I am sure we both want it to remain buried so we can live a long and happy life."

Naruto said "Yes. I agree with that."

Sasuke looked at Naruto and Adora and said "Is there something I don't know about here."

Sakura said "Prince Keldor and King Adam died side by side together along with Lady Teela when the castle was attacked. It was a sad day for those close to them. Like Naruto Evelyn did not get to meet her father because he died before she was born."

Sasuke saw Evelyn nod and said "Ah...how do you know that Sakura though."

Sakura said "I have a photographic memory when it comes to reading things and I read a couple of books on the history of Eternia to help Naruto understand his people better last night."

Ino asked "Are we done here because it seems the 4 of you are just chatting."

Evelyn smirked and said "Actually I am judging you all right now to see how long you can stand at attention and remain silent while observing what is going on for information that might be useful later. If this was a diplomatic mission where you are tasked with guarding a client for a trade dispute then you would have to remain silent and listen to the conversation for information that could be useful to either you or your village later. So far you Ino and Kiba are both failing in this task but the hour is up so my test is over." shocking some of the Gennins

Kiba said "Wait, this was all a test."

Evelyn said "Yes. Being a ninja and a member of the Royal guard is not all about fighting. You have to have diplomatic smarts as well because you could mumbles something under your breath like calling one of the people talking an idiot thinking no one would hear you and result in both of the countries who were talking to declare war on your village for insulting them. Ask yours sensei if you don't believe me."

Asuma said "She's right. I've seen this situation when I was a guard of the fire temple. You have to be on alert but also show respect to your employer and their guest unless ordered not to."

Kiba frowned and Adora said "Now, all parties in squad formation. Since my test is over it is time to give you all a test of what to expect tomorrow. I will not baby you and tell you what exercises you need done for warm up and cool downs. If you can't remember then I will force you to remember and you won't like that. Now give me 1000 jumping jacks, sit ups, push up, squats, punches and kicks with each arm and leg and then you will run for 2 hours around the court yard. As soon as your done you can leave but know that I have someone watching each of you and if you do less then the 1000 or skip one of the training you will have to do 2000 of each tomorrow, even if you only miss it by 1 so make a few extra just to be safe. Begin." as she dropped forward and began doing push ups and Naruto and Sakura both quickly began to do push ups as well before they moved to squats and then sit ups as to not over work one muscle area over the others. The Jounin's began following the same pattern while some of the Gennins tried other exercise patterns.

After an hour Sakura and Naruto were still keeping pace with Evelyn but Ino was panting and she asked "how the hell are you still going Sakura."

Evelyn said "Quite cadet. This is not social hour. If it's not directly related to the mission leave it at home." as she went back to training.

At the end of the day the only ones not groaning from the pain was Evelyn, Naruto and Sakura.

Asuma was rubbing his back while Kurenai rubbed her stomach and Kakashi laid on his back looking at the sky and Evelyn said "Ah come on wimps, it wasn't that hard of training."

Sasuke glared at her and said "I hate you, I despise you, I want to stab your heart out and piss on it........are you sure your not related to my brother."

Evelyn chuckled and said "Ah poor Sasuke-chan, want me to kiss it and make the pain go away."

Sasuke glared at her as did Sakura and Ino and Evelyn rubbed her hands under Sasuke chin and acted like she was going to kiss him before she kneed him in the stomach and hit him in the back of the head and she said "Don't get soft on me Uchiha. I won't have a pussy for a bodyguard. Remember to be here at 5 am ready to go in your armor because if you don't I will make your lives hell. Dismissed." as she turned and walked away.

Naruto her all the Gennin groan as well as the Jounin's and he said "Welcome to my world." as he placed his hand on Sakura shoulder and shushined away with her.

They appeared outside of Sakura home and she looked at it and said "It's weird coming here."

Naruto said "Well I am sure your mom's worried about you. Goodnight Sakura and I will see you tomorrow." as he left in a swirl of leaves before Sakura could say anything.

Sakura lowered her hand she had started to raise and walked inside her house.

When she got inside she removed her helmet and walked into the living room where her mom was and she looked at Sakura and asked "What's going on dear, why are you wearing that armor."

Sakura said "Since we have a new alliance with Eternia they decided to change the way things are done with Gennins Over the next month we are all going to be joint trained by both the Royal guard and Jounin sensei and then the 9 who show the best skills will become ninja while the others that don't will become part of the new Konoha police force."

Suki said "I see....that does sound like a good idea to make it where we have a bigger police force and to make sure our ninja get stronger."

Sakura nods and moved her shoulder and said "We have to be at the castle for training at 5 am so I got to get up at 4."

Suki nods and said "So....have you figured out anything about your....problem."

Sakura sat down and said "No....I've talked to them both today and Sasuke doesn't seem like he cares at all and then he.....well he's been a gentlemen to me and everything but I notice others are starting to look at him."

Suki said "I see.....greed makes people like that."

Sakura eyes widen a moment and asked "What do you mean mom."

Suki smiled sadly and said "When you see him again....tell him I'm sorry."

Sakura frowned and asked "What are you talking about mom. Tell who your sorry."

Suki sighed and said "I maybe getting on in my years dear but I'm not stupid. I know of only one person who ever treated you like a princess and would do anything to make you happy.....I admit that I was a fool like most of the people of this village and I blamed him for something he didn't do.....I don't know if he told you but when you invited your class over for your birthday party that one time I stopped him at the door and told him not to come because it had only been a few years after your father died for being an idiot. It was because of that that I never let you have a big party again because I realized after he was gone how big of a mistake I made. I tried to tell him I was sorry but I must have hurt him more then I knew because as soon as he saw me he would leave the area as fast as he could and he's fast."

Sakura looked down and said "So you know...."

Suki reached into her pocket and pulled out a lock of blond hair and said "I found this on your bed when I took your cloths to your room....I guess when you must have grabbed a hold of it during some time....by the way, you ripped the roots out." as she laughed.

Sakura look mortified and said "MOM..."

Suki sighed and said "He's a good kid. If you decide to be with him I won't mind but please wait to make me a grandmother....I would rather wait until I get gray hairs before I worry about grandkids."

Sakura sighed and said "I still don't know what to do. I do care for him but it's not like I care for Sasuke and I don't know if what I feel is respect or love or a simple crush for either of them and it scares me. What if I make the wrong choice."

Suki said "Life's about learning from our mistakes.....you remember when I said every woman makes that mistake at one point in our lives."

Sakura looked at her mom interested and nods her head and Suki said "I was engaged to someone I had dated for 2 years and he was everything I could ever hope for, rich, powerful, good looking......but after those 2 years of waiting for the fireworks or the passion I always dreamed would be there never came....I made myself the model fiancé to him dressing the way he liked, ate the foods he liked, I learned about things he was interested in and acted like he wanted me to.......He was ninja from a respectful clan and he was offered a chance to do something that he wanted to do and he took the job. It was suppose to take 18 months and we were to get married when he returned.....After the first 2 months of still being who he wanted me to be I grew tired of it because without him there to see it I felt hollow inside.....I first started to go and drink tea at a tea house...he hated tea because it put him to sleep.....I met some new friends, in fact that was where I met Ino mom."

Sakura sat with her legs tucked under her listening and Suki continued "After that I noticed I was putting on a few pounds and I started to run in the morning. It was on the morning run that I met your father."

Sakura said "So what happened next."

Suki smiled and said "Well....your father had fell in a hole and broke his ankle actually. He was sitting on the ground nursing his ankle when I ran by the first time and when I came back by on my return run he was still there with tears in his eyes and....I felt sorry for him and helped him to the hospital. After he got his leg in a cast he asked me out to tea as a thank you and I agreed....After that we spent more and more time together and 6 months later I learned I was a month pregnant with you."

Sakura eyes widen and Suki said "What happened with your fiancé."

Suki said "Well.....as luck would have it, I made the right choice. That 18 month job he went on...it turned into 8 years.....The last card he sent me the week I found I was pregnant was asking me to send him a box of cigarettes because they didn't have any at the temple he was guarding."

Sakura blinked and blinked again and her eyes got wide and said "You were engaged to Asuma Sarutobi."

Suki blinked and asked "How did you know that dear."

Sakura bit her lip before bursting out laughing and said "He's one of the Jounin's who are working with my squad. He mentioned that he had to guard the fire temple."

Suki said "You got that lazy ass as one of your sensei."

Sakura said "Well he's more of a consultant since Evelyn is mostly running things and she's a slave driver."

Suki smiled and said "I can't believe were having girl talk about boys....it seems so unreal."

Sakura smiled softly and said "I know but.....you said you chose......how did you chose."

Suki closed her eyes and said "I thought about who I was with both men and I imagined what it would be like in ten years with them....With Asuma I saw myself staying at home doing laundry and cleaning the house waiting for him to get back from a mission and then watching as he played GO and smoked while I brought him a drink and remained silent until he asked me for something. With your father....I saw myself laughing, going for walks, remembering little stories about things we did when we were younger and trying to catch our children who would be running around getting into mischief." as she let a tear fall.

Sakura thought a moment and said "Sounds like Sasuke and Naruto. Sasuke acts so cold sometimes and he doesn't seem interested in anything but getting stronger and Naruto....oh where do I begin....he's a walking contradiction. He's smart but he acts like an idiot, he has 2 smiles....one that he shows everyone that he closes his eyes to keep people from seeing his real feelings and then he has this other smile that is not as big but.....it makes you feel all tingly when you see it. He's hyper but he's calm, he's rough but he's smooth....there just isn't a proper way to label him."

Suki watched Sakura and giggled catching Sakura attention and Sakura asked "What."

Suki said "You spoke 2 sentences about Sasuke and yet you don't even have the words to describe Naruto even after you talked for over 5 minutes about him."

Sakura blushed and said "What should I do mom."

Suki shook her head and said "That is something you and only you can answer dear.....dinner is in the oven. If you got to get up early in the morning then you need to eat and get to bed. Good night dear." as she got up and left.

The next day when Naruto walked out into the court yard some of the others were already there and he looked around when he heard someone walking up to him. He turned and saw a person in armor who said "Hello Naruto-kun."

Naruto said "Morning Ino. How are you."

Ino said "A little soar but other then that fine."

Naruto said "That's good."

Ino shuffled her feet and Naruto asked "Is there something wrong Ino."

Ino said "Um....I was wondering if your seeing anyone."

Naruto frowned inside his armor and flash backed to what Sakura said the day before and asked "Why."

Ino shuffled her feat and said "My family specializes in information gathering. I realize now that I made a mistake when I gathered information on you and missed who you are and because of this I don't know if it was just me making a mistake or what but I don't like being wrong...I was wondering if you wouldn't mind spending some time with me outside of training and team practice so I could get to know you a little better."

Naruto blinked and said "Well that's surprising. I was afraid you were just trying to be greedy and selfish because you found out I was a prince. I guess we both are wrong....Hmm....how about Tuesday...say 4 o'clock. Training ground 5. We can have a picnic lunch and talk to get to know each other."

Ino said "Alright, I'll bring the lunch."

Naruto said "Thanks. I guess we better get ready for training."

Just then a person in armor came running up and stopped beside Naruto and said "Morning Naruto."

Naruto said "Morning Sakura, how did you know it was me."

Sakura pointed to a scratch on his armor and said "I put that there so I could tell it was you."

Naruto nods and Ino said "Morning forehead."

Sakura blinked and looked at Ino and said "Morning pig...what's up."

Ino grabbed Naruto arm and said "Oh, just asking Naruto-kun on a date."

Sakura eyes widen and she frowned and asked "And..."

Naruto said "Ino said she wants to get to know me better. We're having a picnic lunch to talk to each other on Tuesday. There wasn't anything planned that I forgot is there Sakura. I don't have plans with someone else do I." as he rubbed his head.

Sakura said "No......I guess not.....by the way, my mom wanted me to tell you she was sorry for that one event. You know the one, right after my dad died."

Naruto said "Yeah. I remember.." as he looked at the sky.

Ino asked "Why did you ask Sakura about if you had plans."

Naruto said "With everything else that is going on it's hard for me to remember important meetings."

Ino nods and said "Well we better get ready. It's almost time to start." as she cast a glance at Sakura before walking back in line.

Naruto turned to Sakura and asked "Your not mad are you."

Sakura bit her lip and took a deep breath and said "No...I told you I couldn't tell you yesterday and I shouldn't string you along and use you as a back up. Evelyn is coming so lets get ready." as she walked over and got in line along with Naruto.

As they began to train Sakura thought "I couldn't tell you yesterday but I could tell you today but.....I guess I was to late. You better treat him right pig or I'll turn you into roasted boar."