With Sakura

The blonde haired nuisance had been unnaturally quiet and un-annoying for the past two days. It was strange, Sakura expected at keast 3 requests for dates now that Team 7 finally had some down time, yet she was left mildly disappointed as Naruto seemingly dissapeared to focus on his own training.

This left Sakura with a lot of time to think about what she was going to do and focus on and also time to socialise with her fellow genin, namely Ino-pig.

"Hey, pig, how have you been these past few weeks? My team of course has been busy saving villages and getting stronger. How about you guys?"

"Ah billboard-chan, you grace me with your ugky presence. Where should I begin. Chouji eats, Shikamaru looks at clouds, and Asuma-Sensei smokes. We've been doing a lot of team exercises and clan training but so far Sensei has left us to our own devices."

Sakura was... confused. So far Kakashi had been running them into the ground and teaching them about the individuality of team fights. Most of the elemental nations employed the 4 man squad. The term "A chain is only as strong as its weakest link." was incredibly eveident out in the big bad world of ninja. When the weakest fighter in one of then teams falls other members enter a 2v1 fight.

Teamwork was out to the side until their indvidual skills were up to par. For Kakashi the par skill level was incredibly high and according to him none of them had reached it yet. They ran teamwork drills and made combo jutsu. However, most of that was in their own time. Learning how to kill effectively, efficiently and quickly had been Kakashi's focus since day one.

"Pig, doesn't Asuma-Sensei run drills with you and help you reach a higher level until teamwork finally becomes important?"

"Eh? why would that matter Billboard brow? We're a capture squad. Why would our individual skills need to be better than our teamwork?"

Sakura felt slightly nauseous. How would team 10 fare in an actual fight to the death with real Shinobi? Did they not realise the real world was far harsher than just allowing them to capture everyone they came across? What would happen when Asuma couldn't get there in time and they had to use their individual skills to get out of a hairy situation that could potentially lead to death.

All of a sudden Sakura gained a huge appreciation for Kakashi's intense and cruel training methods. For as much as she hated him for putting her through those incredibly intense training sessions, it helped keep her alive when she fought real enemies that wanted to kill her. Finely honed instincts by a man that had trained her in the way of warfare as someone who had walked into the third shinobi world war as a child and come out a hero.

"Ino, what are you going to do when you encounter a team that doesn't allow you to use your teamwork against them? How are you going to deal with a 1 on 1 situation?"

"Sakura what's wrong? You shouldn't be so concerned, Chouji and Shikamaru will always have my back!"

Sakura stood still, was this what Kakashi saw in them when they had joined his command? This naivety? This inability to understand reality? People outside of Konoha killed quickly. Not being able to defend yourself put your whole team in danger. Sakura had learned that quickly when Kakashi decided to teach them how to fight properly. Yet here was someone from the same generation as her spouting foolish ideals, still not ready for what awaited her beyond these safe walls.

"Nothing's wrong Pig-chan!" Sakura strained to put on a smile. "Just be ready for the next time I face you, I wouldn't want to embarrass you in front of your whole team!"

Ino gained a tick mark. "Shut up billboard! There is no way I'll lose to you! See you later!"

Sakura watched her not-friend run off, only concern clouding her eyes. How was Konoha meant to be safe, when the future generation was so weak?

With Naruto

Naruto had spent his two days actually resting, of course he'd spend his mornings doing his daily routine that Kakashi had drilled into him and gaining a small bit more mastery of his wind techniques than the day before. He generally didn't get up to too much.

Naruto felt like he'd reached the peak of his mastery with cutting a leaf in half with pure wind chakra and was excited to learn the next step from Kakashi-Sensei. That is if he knew how to improve upon the wind element. It was very clear he favoured Lightning flavoured chakra.

Naruto walked into training ground 7 with Sakura at his side watching Sasuke get his shit pushed in by two random shinobi.

He turned to Sakura, "Should we help him?"

"I don't think it's wise Naruto, this seems like another plot set up by Kakashi-Sensei."

"Hmmm, you're not wrong Sakura, he does like to make life and death situations seem like training."

So Sakura and Naruto watched their Sensei and the crazy purple haired lady give the business to Sasuke until he reviewed his sharingan.

"Oh wow so thats how you unlock it?"

"No wonder they all went crazy."

Sasuke walked over to his two teammates, excited to share his progress with them. "Eh, look idiots, I gained my heritage, now I'll surely leave you two wannabes in the dust."

Sakura and Naruto looked at each other, smiled, and nodded. "Is that so, Sasuke-kun?"

Sasuke felt something shift in the air. There was something ominous about the way Sakura had said that to him.

All of a sudden he was in a headlock courtesy of Naruto.

"Oh no."

"Oh yes." responded a Sakura with eyes as red as the devil. She instepped, readied her punch, swivelled her hip and brough her first over and through. A perfect hook by all accounts, however this was powered by chakra, on a stationary target. Which, unfortunately for himself was Sasuke.

Sakura's punch flew true and landed straight into Sasuke's abdomen. It happened in slow motion to his newly acquired sharingan. He watched as her fist hit his stomach, his stomach rippled, and he felt the pain of a thousand hells shortly after.

The impact hit so hard that air pressure flew out either side of his body.

Sasuke whined, groaned and passed out.

"That'll teach him to talk to us like that! Shannaro!"

"Yeah of course Sakura. Haha!" Naruto was reasonably terrified of his overly violent team mate. On top of feeling the displacement of air he was hit by the blow back of her violence.

His team was scary 'ttebayo!

He thought about all of this before all of a sudden he felt two prominent glass cutters press against his back and why was his cheek wet? He felt a tongue scrape against the side of his face and slowly turned his head.

"Hello Gaki-chan."

Naruto was truly terrified now.

"Uh, hello? who is behind me?"

"Oh only the lady you helped out with her back problem, you really helped me after my back was blown out. I really want you to know how much I appreciate your help after that Genin-kun."

Naruto went beet red, he was both terrified and.. aroused? Oh wait he was 12 and barely even into puberty. It's almost as if other weird authors allowed CP to be written into their stories and defended it with old enough to kill old enough to fuck.

"Ne weirdo-chan, thanks but no thanks, I'm a bit young for what you want."

"Don't worry Naruto-kun. As soon as you're old enough Anko-Sensei will show you a very good time. I can't wait to repay you for the help you've given me!"

She turned to face him, winked, and left the training grounds.

"NARUTO! WHAT WAS THAT!"

"OI! I don't know what her issue is! She just wants to repay me for the help I gave her a couple months ago."

"Oh that's fine." Sakura said, seemingly placated.

'Phew I got away with it.'

"NOT!" Sakura indented her fist into Naruto's skull.

Naruto had too many things going through his head and promptly passed out.

Sakura was now left with two unconscious genin in front of her. 'What to do'

Out of nowhere a could of smoke appeared and inside of that cloud was Kakashi.

"Before I forget I've signed you idiots up for the Chuunin exams! but before that we have to take an A-rank mission to show this unit is competent enough to take them! Ummm, why are two of them passed out?"

"Don't worry Sensei, I'll pass the message on." Sakura said with a sweet and sincere smile.

Kakashinhad never been prouder of his lone Kunoichi. She had knocked out both of her teammates. He might even reward her for this.

"Alright, excellent. Let them known they a day to prepare for this. We're going to suna, so pack water!"

"Hai, thanks Kakashi-Sensei, see you in the next chapter!"

"Huh?"

"Don't worry about it."

"Hai."

ANSo short chapter, again I don't really care about word count. This is another set uo chatper for what will be my favourite event. The Chuunin exams! Im going to enjoy fucking with you guys in that :))))Also seeing as all of a sudden the guest reviewing Geralts got real brave last chapter. Fucking fight me idiots. Give me your details, I will punch you nerds up.Join the bloody damn Discord Server. Invite code is StPc5VSEE YA NEXT TIMMMEEEEEOh btw I'm even busier than before so expect less regular updates. On a side note, fuck all of you.