The three of them were all seated together in Sasuke's house, on a luxurious L-shaped couch. They'd all been dragged there by Naruto after their introductions and first meeting with Kakashi which had certainly been… interesting, to the say least.

The less that was said about that, the better.

"What I don't understand is… how come none of us was able to figure out that the other two were reincarnated too?" Naruto asked, lying lazily in the sun with one eye opened.

Even she didn't care much about keeping up appearances when there was a comfy couch to be used shamelessly.

"I just thought I was in an alternate universe," Sasuke said, shrugging. He was currently covered in at least three pillows, and there may or may not have been a blanket with a handstitched cat piled up behind his head. "With you being a girl in this universe and all that."

"Same here," Sakura said, munching on some more dango. Currently, she was using Naruto's legs as a pillow (and unexpectedly, she didn't protest). Surprisingly, not a single crumb fell from the stick.

It vaguely reminded Sasuke of Itachi, or how he managed to bypass their mother's rules about not eating on the carpet or bed because he someone never let a single crumb fall anywhere.

It was maddening.

"And here I was, thinking that you two," Naruto said, lazily pointing a finger at Sasuke and Sakura, "were different from canon because of me."

"I mean, you're not wrong," replied Sasuke. "I think all of us have influenced each other, at least a little bit. You were the top kuniochi, but you gave me incentive to actually try. Sakura was technically in the middle, between Hinata and Ino, but Ino was always going to be on a team with Shikamaru and Choji anyway."

"Hey," complained Sakura, "it's not my fault that Japanese is a pain in the ass. Or that Iruka-sensei looked like he was going to pop a blood vessel when he called me after class to discuss how I wrote that Hashirama was married to Madara instead of Uzumaki Mito. Which he might as well have been," she added.

Naruto didn't bother suppressing a snort at hearing that. "He was a man with his best friend's face on his nipples. Kurama laughed his ass off at that."

Even Sakura froze at that statement, mid-bite in her dango.

"Kurama?" asked Sasuke. If his voice had risen in pitch a little bit, Naruto and Sakura weren't exactly in the position to tell anyone. "As in, the Kyuubi? The tailed beast, which I might add, is the most dangerous of them all?"

You had to forgive Sasuke for how his heart jolted when Naruto rolled her eyes. "He's not as salty as Shikaku, Sasuke, relax. All it took were a couple of meditation trips. Kurama was a bit of a dick in the beginning, sure, but now that he knows about Kaguya and Madara he's totally on board with helping me out. He's still a dick and a bastard the majority of the time, but I think I can count on him when it matters."

"Plus, he makes the most hilarious jokes. Yesterday, he called the original Naruto 'a total simp' for the original you. I was so proud when he said that," Naruto said, grinning. She looked a little feral.

"He sounds like my kinda guy," said Sakura, "I'd love to meet him."

It was at least reassuring when both Naruto and Sasuke were able to look at each other and unanimously come to an agreement that they should try and prevent that at all costs.

Sasuke squinted when the sun came to rest just above his eyes. Sakura did him a favor by placing a pillow over them.

"Hey, Naruto," began Sakura, "can you still do your sexy jutsu?"

"…yeah. It's been dead useful, actually. I've gotten away with a shit-ton of things because of that. How do you think I learned the shadow clone jutsu after I got Mizuki fired last year?"

"That was you," said Sasuke, eyes wide. "Nice."

"Oh, so that was what Ino meant when she said her dad mentioned he'd gotten a visit from an academy teacher," said Sakura, contemplative. "So you could theoretically do the harem jutsu, right?"

"Um, yeah," said Naruto, now a little hesitant after seeing the way Sakura had changed upon hearing her answer

"Great," grinned Sakura. Her eyes were gleaming, and there was a tinge of madness radiating from her.

"How do you think Kakashi would react to being surrounded with Gai in lingerie tomorrow?"

Sasuke choked on thin air. Naruto cackled.

"Sakura," Naruto said, teeth bared in a smile. "I think we'll get along just fine."