This has got to be the longest one-shot in this whole SasuNaru series
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Sweetest Couple
After Tsunade-hime takes the seat as the Godaime Hokage and becomes Konohagakure's first female leader, Iruka notices a rise of females attending the ninja academy. These girls are strong and seem to have no troubles keeping up with the boys, and even surpass in areas like chakra control. For the longest time the job of shinobi was one held in the majority of males, but now females seemed to be getting a different idea. Iruka notices one day that his classes almost have an equal number of girls and boys.
The changes are so dramatic that the academy has to throw out the old system of matching genin teams, which had consisted of pulling together two boys who balanced each other out (usually meaning they were opposites in some manner) and a girl who could match them. Now the teams are simply put together in order to balance them out equally, regardless of each new genin's gender. As a result there are some teams with two girls and one boy, or even all girls.
It was much easier for teams to be made equal this way. Some teams got the poor end of the deal when teams like Naruto, Sasuke, and Sakura were put together based on the old system. However, this means they also have to raise the number of teams that will probably pass the tests their jounin team leader give them. The number of shinobi in Konohagakure suddenly rose as a result.
While Iruka got first choice in putting together the teams, the Hokage usually allotted the sensei. In a show of Tsunade's cruel sense of humor she gave Shikamaru a team made up entirely of all girls. However her twisted humor didn't end there as she decided to put an Uchiha under Naruto's command. This, of course, was the cause of many disastrous fights between the two that managed to bring about major property damage and eventually got Naruto evicted from his apartment building. Also, Sasuke had taken this as an invitation to pop in during training to express his disapproval of Naruto's teaching methods.
This resulted in more property damage as well as environmental damage as trees couldn't withstand Rasengan or Chidori quite as well as either of the two men could.
However a few months later some had to wonder if Tsunade had the right idea when she matched up Naruto to teach Sasuke's bastard child. Even though Sasuke continued to heckle Naruto and Naruto continued to tease and prod Sasuke, the two no longer fought seriously and even got together once a week for sake, and twice otherwise to go out for dinner (once to Ichiraku's and once to a place of Sasuke's choice).
Everything had settled into an easy sort of peace with Sasuke's son acted as a connecting bridge between Sasuke and Naruto. The two found reasons to be around each other while the boy was under Naruto's tutelage.
A few years passed and Sasuke's child had moved up to chuunin easily and then jounin shortly after that, and the boy grew up and wanted to move out and in with a group of his friends. Plus he was always out for solo missions which left Sasuke at home to worry and Naruto at home with no real job until he was name Rokudaime. Suddenly it seemed like the two old friends had no real excuse to be around each other constantly, always in the presence of one another and a lot of truths seemed to come to light all of a sudden. So the two moved in together.
And a mere three months after that, they were, according to any girl asked, the sweetest couple in town.