"Talking"

' Thinking'

" Future'

" Flashback'

' Bijuu"

" Oi, Sakura-chan, what are you doing here? Ero-sensei said to meet him in the hokage tower." Naruto appears behind the godaime hokage new apprentice still in his hospital clothing his body covered in bandage from the battle with Sasuke. The pink haired kunoichi attention shifts around to the kyuubi jinchuuriki . " Naruto, I was about to go there too. Tsunade-sensei wants me to keep practicing my medical ninjutsu."

The blond blink a few times." Well let's get going." Naruto responded by grabbing onto Sakura's left wrist and began to run off, dragging Sakura with him to the hokage tower with his pink haired teammate who attempted to keep pace. The emerald eyed girl 's eyes swirl around. Across Konohagakure both of the remaining team 7 members are moving quickly through the village. The whisker shinobi stop once arriving in front of the tower entrance letting go of Sakura's wrist, the girl tips over catching her breath not used to those levels of speed. " Sakura-chan let go inside." The blond opened the large door, going inside the large tower.

" Okay." The girl picks herself back up and follows suit after the knucklehead ninja. Both ninjas saw the hokage room open with a few of their peers entering, Tsunade office. " Why are they here?" The self proclaimed future hokage pointing at their peers. Naruto walks into the office seeing it filled with a bunch of familiar faces to Naruto.

Ero-sensei (Jiraiya)

Hatake Kakashi, his sensei

Nara Shikamaru

Akimichi Chouji

Yamanaka Ino

Rock Lee

Hyuuga Neji

Inuzuka Kiba

Eruka

Hyuuga Hinata

Might Gai

" Sorry, Hokage-sama [ insert Tenten Last name] Tenten fell ill today." Gai apologetically adds to prevent any confusion that might arise. " Sarutobi Asuma, Aburame Shino and Yuuhi Kurenia still haven't come back from their mission, Godaime." Kiba politely interjects. The hokage nods before turning her attention to the orb warped around her hands. " Oi, baa-chan why call all of us here." The whisker boy asked in curiosity.

" All of you are about to see glimpses of the future." Tsunade said, confusing the newly arrived crowd. A couple looks at the recent kage as if she lost her mind. " Tsunade, have you drunk too much sake?" Jiraiya asked with concern.

" Is it true Obaa-chan? Can we see if I became hokage? If Me and Sakura get together, or If I knock some sense through that Teme's skull?" Naruto ran next to Tsunade in blinding speed, throwing a suggestion that popped into his head. His eyes glimmered with anticipation and wonder.

" Just shut up and let me explain. Originally I didn't think much of the orb until recently when I infused chakra into it. Afterward the thing started to reveal a future event-" Before Tsunade could finish her explanation. The mischievous ninja touched the orb and began to imprint chakra into it without consent. " Gaki!" Tsunade stared down at the jinchuriki finger already had made contact with the orb. The orb spinned around and split apart, a flashing erupt from the center where a large square made of chakra formed in the air. The audience watches in stunned awe at what the heck happened. " Maybe Tsunade-sama is right."

The orb show showed an image of Naruto and Jiraiya walking off the village gate with the inspiring hokage hand reaching up to the yondaime hokage stone monument to which his hand clenched into a fist. The kid gives a confident smile before running off to the distance. The image shifts to Konohagakure entrance, the imagery shows two shadows on the ground. " It's been more than two years"

" So it has ." The orb shows villagers going on with their daily life with the screen now covered with the sandal of someone, A full view shot of the village came to sight. " You haven't changed at all!" a young man shouts out, from the back the teen had a long black Headband wearing an orange jumpsuit with sleeves, sandals, waist and the top to shoulder having to be black in color. " Yeah" The boy's face was made visible with a confident smile, spiky blond haired, ocean blue eyes with the iconic whisker.

" Naruto, you've grown up nicely." Ino was stunned that the young man on screen was the one in front of her. The rest had a similar reaction.

" You're way taller too." Eruka was surprised but happy that the academy student he knew of grew up nicely.

" I can tell, Naruto gained strength. I'll wait and challenge him in the future." Lee blood pumps in excitement of future Naruto possible gains.

" I see you weren't drunk hime." Jiraiya was left silent that the orb wasn't faulty.

Naruto gazed up to the monument to see the face of the slug sannin, Tsunade. " Ha ha ha! Tsunade-baa-chan's up there now!" behind the hyperactive ninja his jonin-sensei watches him. " All grown up, eh, Naruto?" Both Jiraiya and Naruto attention directed to the masked shinobi.

" Yo!"

" Sensei you haven't changed at all." Both of Kakashi's remaining students looked at him with some level of disappointment on their faces.

" My youthful rival, I see you've haven't changed at all." Gai exclaimed.

" Kakashi-sensei, you haven't changed at all! Oh yeah I almost forgot." The knuckled haired shinobi scavenges his small bag. " WHAT! NARUTO! NARUTO YOU." The young man pulls out a book with the label Icha Icha Takutikusu ( Make-out tactics) " It's the latest in the Icha Icha series ( Make-out series), dattebayo. The first in three years! Figured you'd like it's probably totally boring." The blond hands it to Kakashi.

' Fool. It's cuz you're still a kid. Plus, that is an ultra rare advance copy.' Jiraiya looked stingy about Naruto's decision.

" arigatou gozaimashita, Naruto." Kakashi in the present bows as he swipes a tear off his face. Naruto was sorta confused at Kakashi's gratitude. The rest sweat drops from the conversation.

" Show of hands. Who wants Ichiraku ramen?!" The younger of three ran off. " As promised, Kakashi. He's all yours. I suspect the Akatsuki will make their next move soon. So I'm going back to gathering intelligence."

" WHOA!"

" Almost didn't recognize you. We've both really grown, huh?" An older version of the pink haired, emerald eyed wearing a red top with short black legging and a light violet cloth warped around her waist. " If you say So! You haven't changed at all!"

' Smooth, kid. Could you be any more oblivious.' The toad sannin criticized his protégé.

" You really haven't changed that much, Sakura-chan" A shiver of fear crashed into Naruto, very being in the middle of finishing those words of his. Sakura ends up sucker punching him a few inches away.

" Sakura-chan you've grown even more wonderful." Lee observes the appearance of the girl he's crushing on at the moment.

" Can we move on already?" Shikamaru sighs as Chouji munches on his bags of chips. The rest took a sit on the floor

" Naruto is right on some level." Kiba agrees with Naruto on Sakura's appearance not changing much.

" Well, maybe you're just taller than I remember." Sakura said, noticing the growth that her teammate gained.

" You really are way taller than you used to be." Ino points out which caused the blond to pout. " Hey, I'm a decent height."

" Naruto, you're literally the shortest person in this room." Iruka chuckle in amusement.

" Not true, Dattebayo." Naruto barks back.

" Naruto-nii! Check this out " Oiroke no Jutsu ( Sexy jutsu.) A pop of smoke surrounds the group as it dissipates a naked woman covered with the remaining smoke came out. The woman popped out and in herself a boy stood there. Naruto smiles a bit, chuckling to himself.

" Konohamaru, he grew big didn't he." Naruto was surprised at the older version of the child that called him nii-san and followed him like a duckling.

" Sensei grandchild."

" Konohamaru, I'm not a kid anymore. You gotta work on other jutsu too, Dattebayo."

" Did Naruto mature?" Neji was surprised by Naruto's future Naruto response. The other had a similar reaction.

" Never thought, Naruto out of all people, Naruto would mature so much." Sakura smiled.

' Naruto-kun has really matured.' Hinata thought as heartbeat accelerated.

" Knowing Naruto I say he probably hasn't changed much." Iruka was suspicious of Naruto's new level of maturity after being Accutane with the boy.

' So much more mature? Who is this guy and what has he done with Naruto? Wonder what else is up his sleeve? Some incredible new jutsu?'

' Seems Sakura-chan likes the new me.' Naruto though. He's happy though he's making progress with a possible relationship with the girl he likes.

" That jutsu is totally boring, Konohamaru! Now watch this! My new pervy ninjutsu invention! Here it goes!" Naruto loudly criticized the boy's proficiency with the ninjutsu he personally invented. " New pervy Ninjutsu? ARE YOU KIDDING ME?!" Both present and future pink haired kunoichi deliver a devastating punch on their respective jinchuriki faces causing the blond's body to fly a few meters off.

" He really hasn't changed much." Tsunade sighs.

' What monstrous strength and quick temper.' Jiraiya didn't like the combination since that reminded him too much of Tsunade's temper and tendency to assault the person that pissed her off.

" To be honest I didn't expect him to change much." Kakashi said with Eruka and Shikamaru agreeing with the masked shinobi. " Naruto, are you alright?" Kiba asked the boy once, seeing the aftermath of the punch. Naruto laid on the now broken wall of the building.

" WHAT IS YOUR PROBLEM? WE HAVEN'T SEEN EACH OTHER FOR TWO YEARS AND YOU PULL A STUNT LIKE THAT?!" The young woman latches onto the young man's collar and violently shaking him as Konohamaru hid behind the copy ninja who stared at the scene. " Do you have any idea how that makes me feel?! Huh?! Do you. I was thinking you were so grown up!"

" Now, now, Sakura calm down. You're scaring Konohamaru." Kakashi attempts to calm down the raging kunoichi from accidentally killing the individual that her rage was aimed at. " Jiriaya, don't tell me Naruto is becoming more and more like you?"

" For your sake Jiraiya I hope not." Tsunade glared at the boy godfather who gulped in fear from what the godaime may do to him. " I understand, hime."

" All right! Enough with the emotional reunion, Kakashi." Tsunade sighs as Kakashi shuts his newly acquired book. " Wow, It sure has been a while. From here on out, you two are going to be part of my team again. Not as sensei and student, but as equals. Fellow konoha shinobi." Kakashi brought out two familiar two bells to those who were part of team 7. " Now I want to see how much you've grown. The rules are the same as when we first met. Attack as you mean to kill or you'll never stand a chance!"

" The bell test again!" Naruto huffed in annoyance.

" Aren't you wondering how much stronger we've gotten, Naruto." Sakura asked in curiosity to her teammate.

" Yeah, now everyone, we'll see how awesome team 7 is, Dattebayo." Naruto shouts.

" Well, let's see the power of the future version of team 7." Lee and Gai said in excitement as Neji sighs at the two antics.

The reminisce of team 7 walked into a new location ' Practice field 3' " The rules are the same as before. You may use whatever tactics you wish to take the bells from me. You have until sunrise tomorrow." Both students of Kakashi view the training field. " Huh. Brings back memories of this place, dattebayo."

" Yeah."

" We haven't been in that place for a bit." Naruto thinks back to how long he hasn't gone there since he was busy training for a month with Ero-sensei, spent a few weeks searching for Tsunade and lately he had been in the hospital from the injury he sustained against Sasuke. ' Geez, has it been that long.'

" Oh, right. This was the site of your very first exercise." Kakashi's attention moves from his Icha Icha Takutikusu ( Make-out tactics) book towards his team .

" Team seven."

" The three man team."

" Back then. We had Sasuke, too, didn't we." Kakashi mumbled eyed his team begin to get depressed from the name he utter. ' Guess Sasuke's name is taboo."

" Interesting."

" Bastard."

" Sasuke-kun."

' I wonder who is going to tell them Sasuke is female.' tsunade though knowing the fact since she is a head medical ninja and the hokage of the village.

" Anyways, let's begin." Kakashi shuts his book close. " Heh Heh, not gonna read this time, Kakashi-sensei." Naruto's arm reaches behind his head as Sakura tightly tug her glove. " Or have you finished it already?"

" I mean both of you are about to train with one of the sannin." Kakashi notes.

" Nope, just saving it for later. Besides, I get the feeling that this time." Kakashi lifts up his Hitai-ate as his sharingan flare to life. " I'm going to have to make more of a serious effort." The tension built as the members of team 7 get on an intense stare off.

" At Least we know where strong enough to force sensei to use his sharingan." Sakura assess from the way Kakashi decided to fight.

" Of course if he didn't he would have lost!" Naruto confidently declares.

" That's it, Let the power of youth explode!"

" Let's see which one of us trained our apprentice better, Jiraiya. Loser buys a sake for the victor." Tsunade challenges the pervert. Jiraiya thinks about it for a bit before getting an idea. " If I win, you are not allowed to hit for a month after I return with Naruto then it's a deal." He was going to ask for a date, but that's too outlandish even for someone like him.

" Fine." Tsunade agrees. Jiraiya cheers that the news he wasn't going to get assaulted by the busty blond for a while.

Naruto starts off by throwing five shuriken to the sharingan user who ducked down at the incoming rapid fire shuriken. The copy ninja retaliates by firing back 3 of his own at his attacker. Naruto avoids the attack by forming the clone seal " Kage Bunshin no Jutsu ( Shadow clone jutsu)" a clone appears grabbing the original, dragging him out the way from Kakashi's shuriken. Henge no Jutsu ( Transformation jutsu) Naruto clone turned into a fuma shuriken.

" Fine utilization of the Kage bunshin." Eruka was surprised nearly tearing up that the boy that in the past could barely manage to form a clone or henge was now effortlessly creating, forming, and effectively usage of the two techniques.

" Nice strategy." Shikamaru and Ino congratulate the blond who blush in embarrassment.

" Ai, good use of kage bunshin midair." Neji said.

' Nice! He used a Kage bunshin no jutsu to help maneuver in midair!' Sakura thought, meanwhile Kakashi grabs the back of Naruto's head and disarms him of his fuma shuriken. Behind Kakashi a Naruto manifests himself. " Not so fast. I didn't say go" A flashback of Kakashi reenacting the same event with a younger Naruto. ' You really have matured Naruto.'

" You really did evolve." Kiba laughed.

" Shut up." Naruto pouted.

" All right, go!" Kakashi pouf into smoke.

" Oh, come one." Naruto and Sakura yelled in unison

' Right. Above. Left. Behind. No sign of him anywhere so.' The Sakura readies a punch. " Below! Shannaro!" The girl uses a chakra infused punch down on the ground, shattering earth below. ' What.' Naruto watched at the damage done in fear. ' What raw power! Looks like medical ninjutsu wasn't all Tsunade taught you, Sakura." Kakashi hid between the debris.

" Kami" Naruto gulped in fear. ' note to self: Never get Sakura-chan mad ever again or else I'm dead meat.'

" What terrifying strength." Neji and Lee watched in awe.

" That's, forehead girl." Ino gulps. Shikamaru eyes bulged out as Chouji dropped one of his snacks on the floor.

" Definitely Tsunade number two." Jiraiya remarks in terror.

" I see all my work isn't going to be for nothing." Tsunade proudly smirked. Sakura gazed down paying attention to her hands, looking back to the orb to see her future self.

" Oh, Kami thought I would have died from the attack." the color in Kakashi's face disappears. " Happy you survived my youthful rival." Gai gave him a thumbs up. " Sakura really changed, hasn't she?" Eruka sweats.

' Note to self: Do not upset Sakura. She'll kill you!"

' To rapidly manipulate maximum chakra and instantly concentrate it into one's fist is no small feat. It takes an incredible amount of control.' Kakashi created distance between himself and his opponent. " Sakura was always adept at genjutsu but if this display of skill is any indication. She may just end up a greater kunoichi than even the godaime.'

" it possible if you try hard enough, dattebayo." Naruto proclaimed.

" Had your shot, kid, my turn now." The scenery changed from noon to dusk. Both members of team 7 sat down on a tree as Naruto scout around for their sensei. " I knew it would still be hard, but that sharingan sure is something. Plus, sensei's sign weaving speed. His arms we've got to disable them somehow tie them up."

" Yeah, Kakashi-sensei's as strong as ever. Smarter than Shikamaru, Keener sense of smell than Kiba, More adept at sharingan than Sasuke and his Taijutsu greater than bushy brow's."

" Seen the fact we're about to leave soon, comparing an elite jonin skill to a bunch of genins isn't too impressive, Gaki. It distinguishes to Kakashi's overall skill." Jiraiya questions Naruto's thought process.

" Leave my future self alone, dattebayo."

" He's got some weakness! C'mon think."

" Oh! There is one weakness. C'mon sakura! Think carefully, And you'll see it too." The blond covered his mouth trying his hardest not to laugh. Naruto whispers his idea to the pink hair kunoichi. " I see! I didn't even think about it."

" If we strike just right. Not only would it disable his arms. It'd block his sharingan, too. Naruto you're still the Number One Unpredictable Ninja."

" What are we standing here looking at each other for? Are you ready?!"

" Yup! Let's do it!"

" Naruto, what are you planning?" The lazy Nara mumbled

' Here they come.' Kakashi ready himself, rotating around to see his student jumping out the bunches. ' A frontal assault? They've got to be kidding me."

" Now, Naruto."

" Here I go! Kakashi-sensei." The unpredictable ninja gained the attention of the copy ninja. " Icha Icha Takutikusu ( Make-out tactics) final plot twist! The main character is really." sweat quickly drops down Kakashi's face. ' WH..WHAT?!" the white haired shinobi arms moved to cover his ears. ' N...NO!' Kakashi shuts both his eyes to prevent himself from lip reading. ' Cause of the sharingan, I can still read his lips.'

JI-JINGLE

" Shinobi read the hidden meanings within the hidden meaning remember, sensei." Sakura and Naruto both hold up one of the two bells, Kakashi opens back his eyes to view his apprentice with the bell's.