(A/N) Shunshin today.

"If you guys manage to learn the shunshin by the end of the week, I'll make Kakashi take you on a C-rank," Tenzo said, triumphantly waving a scroll at them.

Naruto looked up from a sapling, Sakura looked up from a water ninjutsu scroll from last week, and Sasuke looked up from carefully carving a tiny dog figurine. "Really?" They chorused.

Tenzo nodded, smiling proudly. "I managed to even get Kakashi to promise with Gai nearby to make sure he keeps it."

Naruto blinked in amazement at his sensei. "Woah."

Sakura grinned, making grabby hands at the scroll. "Faster we learn it, faster we go, right?"

Tenzo nodded, obligingly handing her the scroll and watching with some amusement as the boys abandoned their projects to stare at the scroll.

Sakura blinked at the somewhat vague instructions on the scroll. "Did Kakashi write this?"

Tenzo chuckled sheepishly. "Well, the shunshin isn't exactly the most precise thing. It works a bit different for everyone, so actual written instructions aren't usually very detailed, as opposed to most other jutsu."

Sakura scanned the scroll with a more critical eye, reevaluating the scroll and the instructions therein.

"I, unfortunately, do have a mission for the next two weeks," Tenzo apologized. "So I will not be here to guide you. I apologize, and will have to see you later."

They nodded, understanding that as a wood user, he didn't exactly always have a choice about what missions he was assigned. He shunshined off, and Sakura stood up. "Alright! We have four days to do it, so let's get started!"

"The instructions aren't even recognizable as a jutsu," Sasuke said, taking the scroll from her, turning it every which way as if he thought she'd been reading it upside down.

Naruto plucked it from his fingers neatly, scanning the pages. "You're right, it reads a bit more like a chakra exercise."

"It does?" Sakura asked, taking the scroll from him and looking over it again. "Huh, you're right. It does look like a chakra control exercise."

"What do you mean?" Sasuke asked, taking the scroll from her.

"Well, it mostly details the fact there's a specific amount of chakra per distance, in addition to a bit about what it does." Sakura pointed to the areas she meant. "Remember? In describing our chakra exercises to us, Tenzo-sensei mostly told us there was a specific amount of chakra for each thing, and how to convert our chakra. Otherwise he said we had to figure it out ourselves because it was different for every person."

"That does make sense," Sasuke agreed, squinting at the scroll. "So, what do we do now?"

"Same thing we did when we had problems with the chakra exercise!" Sakura chirped.

"Work ourselves into the ground?" Naruto asked in confusion.

"No silly, we go ask other people who know the shunshin how they do it!" Sakura said quickly, taking the scroll from Sasuke and tucking it into her pocket. "Come on, we know of at least a few people that know the shunshin."

"Like your parents," Sasuke agreed.

"Jiji should know it," Naruto said, thinking hard as he trailed behind them. "Tou-san and Kaa-san should also know it, being jounin and all."

"Kurenai-sensei and Asuma-sensei should both know it," Sakura added, tapping her leg. "Anyone else we know?"

"Hinata-chan and Kiba's parents," Naruto said, wrinkling his nose. "But we don't know them much."

"My parents have a lot of chuunin friends, some of whom I've met, if only briefly. We can ask about them if we still can't figure it out," Sakura said finally. "We're approaching the Aburame compound, we can start with Shibi-sama and his wife, then move on to my parents, and whoever we can find in between."

Naruto and Sasuke nodded, following her into the Aburame compound.


"I do know how to do it," Shibi agreed. "Why do you require my input?"

"Our instructions read more like a chakra control exercise, and since last time asking other people how they did it worked out really well, so we're trying it again," Sakura said, smiling.

Shibi inclined his head. "A logical strategy. Alright. I use shunshin as a way to move distances quickly. The leaves are a distraction for the shinobi using it to race away using it. It is, to a degree, something like being squashed through a slightly too small hole when it is used to cover longer distances."


"Well, I suppose I view it as a sort of power boost," Mebuki said, thinking as she prepared the kids some lunch for their trouble. "It can be used outside of the jutsu, but the jutsu itself makes it a bit more accurate and easy to control."

"Like gathering and spitting water, except with the jutsu it has aim and power behind it?" Sakura hypothesised, making a gesture with her hands to illustrate her point.

"I suppose," Mebuki agreed, ruffling her hair. "My little kid, growing up so fast. It seems like just yesterday you three were running around and causing trouble as little 8-year-olds."

Sasuke groaned. "This being one of the few reasons I am glad to be on the same team as two people I did quite a bit of growing up with…"

"You can't get any more embarrassed by baby picture moments then you were the first four times around," Naruto agreed, sighing and patting his full stomach. "Your mom makes good food, Sakura."

Sakura giggled. "You say that like you don't say it about every time we have lunch over here."

"Which he does," Mebuki volunteered, grinning and ruffling his hair. Naruto tried to fix his messy spikes, even if her ruffling didn't seem to do anything.


Naruto had somehow managed to convince the secretary that he was here to see his Jiji on very official ninja buisness, and got them into his office. Now that same old man sat smoking his pipe.

"Have you asked many others?" He asked first. "Teamwork is one of Konoha's virtues afterall."

"We asked Shibi-sama, his wife, and my parents. We'll ask Kurenai-sensei and Asuma-sensei about it after you," Sakura said, smiling polietly.

The Hokage smiled kindly. "That seems like it would work just fine, is there a reason you came to me?"

"Well, you taught a team, so you probably taught them the shunshin, and given you have far more experience, we figured asking you was a good idea," Sasuke said, gesturing slightly with his hands.

The Hokage smiled. "Excellent deductive reasoning, Sasuke. Very well. I will inform you as to how each of my students learned the shunshin. Jiraiya mostly refused assistance, trying time and time again until he finally got it, crowing about how it wasn't any more complicated than the seal matrixes he was designing at the time.

"Orochimaru asked me, disappeared for a few days, then came back with a perfect knowledge of how to complete it, spent a day practicing, and had it down by sundown.

"Tsunade, with her near perfect chakra control and medical training, quickly figured out exactly how it worked and had it done within two days."

Naruto screwed up his face. "How does that help?"

The Hokage shrugged. "Perhaps I'm saying you should try it before you question any more people."

Sakura considered that. Perhaps that was a good idea. Very well, they would practice for the rest of the afternoon, and ask Asuma-sensei and Kurenai-sensei tomorrow.

"Alright, see ya jiji." Naruto said, smiling and waving.

The Hokage waved back, and they left.


"Oww," Sakura groaned, rubbing her head where she'd run into a tree for the fourth time. "Too far. Again."

"Try less chakra," Sasuke called over, then promptly crashed into a tree himself.

"Back at you," Sakura called back, rolling her eyes and walking back to her starting spot. Just a little bit less chakra, then she could have it down.

"I think I got it," Naruto said, shunshining to his tree and not landing in it, crashing into it, or landing several meters away.

"Oh it is on," Sakura hissed, trying to shunshin again.

(A/N) Ignore me and my theories about the shunshin. To normal buisness, to those also reading Lilo n Stitch, do you care when the Uchiha mess occurs? Like, if it occured in the next few chapters, would you mourn lost opportunities for fluff or something? Also, thoughts on a discord server anyway? Also, are any of you having problems keeping up with the end of year stuff? Like, seriously, we only got a couple of weeks until school ends for me.