This is a Naruto Fan Fiction only.

I truly expected our Lord Hokage to tell us my idea was beyond stupid, or at the very least naïve. Kakashi told him exactly what I told him. That Sakura's current training would be detrimental for the team and potentially lethal to her.

After Kakashi made the suggestion of sending shadow clones to complete the D rank missions. What ever the clones learned doing these missions would be learned by the one that made the clones. So far only Naruto and Sasuke knew the technique and could do it.

If Sakura learned proper chakra control then she could learn to use the shadow clone technique, but they needed time to train her. He accepted to everything Kakashi said. Five missions per day and all done by shadow clones. He did add one condition that the one with the best chakra control be in charge of her training.

This is how I found myself in my current predicament. I looked at Sakura fall down from the tree once again. "I should have kept my big fat mouth shut. I have the biggest reserve of chakra. How in the blasted hell did I turn out to have the best control? Kakashi was an ANBU Captain for goodness sake!"

Sakura made me realize that teaching was definitely something I would never consider for a potential profession if my students were anything like her.

She was loud, unwilling to listen, disrespectful, and hated anything that was either too hard or could cause any injury to her looks or the condition of her skin. The chakra control exercise was the basics of the basics.

It involved sending chakra to the bottoms of her feet. Using this chakra to walk on the surface of the tree. This required constant use of chakra and constant regulation on the amount and strength. Too much chakra and you get blown off the tree, but to little and you fall down.

I was kind enough to place a few dozen pillows under her but that was an empty and useless gesture. She either didn't appreciate it or she had the worse luck in the world. Every time she fell down she missed the pile of pillows every single time.

It took me an entire month to get her to actually do it correctly. The only way I got her to listen was to used the transformation technique and transform into a copy of Sasuke wearing nothing but a pair of speedos swimming briefs and some sandals.

I had to apologize to Sayomi profusely but she understood that it was for a good cause. The good news was that thanks to my clones and several of Sayomi's doing missions I got my family cat back, or should I say they rescued her from her tormentor. It turns out the ruler of fire country has a wife, and this wife had two qualities that were pretty unique.

She loved anything cute, and so she picked up Torah when she was out for her morning exercise and the lady has no control what so ever on the strength of her grip. I kid you not, one hug from this lady will send an Akamichi Clan member to the ER.

I guess I should thank Choji when I see him for substituting with my shadow clone. The lady in question tried to hug my clone thinking I was going to return Torah. I got back the memories when she punched him as he told her it was actually my cat. Like I said no control of her strength.

I decided to take Sakura's training to the next level. "Sakura for the next one it's very much like before you use chakra on your feet, but instead of walking on the tree you will walk on this river like I am doing." Always teach with an actual example.

"Unlike the tree here the water moves, and the amount of chakra must be constantly modified and regulated. This is a pretty shallow river, but the deeper it is the more difficult it is to walk on. Now remember you must keep enough chakra distributed on the bottom of your feet."

I helped get out of the water each time she fell until she demanded something I expected from her, I honestly expected her to complain a lot sooner.

"So mind telling me how is this beneficial to me as a ninja? Or are you just doing this to humiliate me!"

I was already walking on the river water as easily as if it was the ground. "It has several uses in fact. The first being that it provides a new way to reach an objective during a mission. Not many people would believe we can walk on water after all."

"Catching an enemy by surprise could mean the difference between life and death. Secondly if you put everything you practices together you will learn to quiet the sound of your footsteps, and thus be more difficult to track. Using the same chakra technique you could walk on snow or sand without leaving a footprint."

"The most obvious use is to improve the control of your chakra. Sasuke, the members of the shogi club and myself been practicing chakra control exercises since we started going to the academy which means we have better control of our chakra than you."

She glared at me from where she was seated. "Then why you never invite me or Ino to your little study club?" I walked up to her and smiled as I looked directly into her eyes. I told her to be honest with herself. She would never accept to join the shogi club, just because I was a member of it.

It took us a grand total of three months of training till Sakura summoned her first shadow clone. She could at most summon two. This to me it meant that she could go right back to being Kakashi's pain in the rear.

"Ok Kakashi I got her to decent control of her chakra. You can handle the rest from this point on. I will see if Sasuke's training hasn't suffered by me spending so much with the teammate that never appreciated my help."

I walked over to Sayomi as I heard Sakura scream good riddance. "I am doing alright Naruto. I just missed training together and no I am not happy you transformed into that version of me! I understand that it was necessary but that doesn't mean I am not angry about it!"

"Honestly Sasuke do you think I was happy training a girl that the kindest name she ever called was to call me that thing? I never realized how much fun it was to train with my club and you till I had to teach her."

We both sat down and looked at the sky. "I guess it wasn't all bad. You got your cat back, Sakura should be easier to train with her shadow clones. When do you think we will get a better rank mission? We been doing D ranks for three solid months."

I was happy to spend any time with her, even if she was in her male disguise. "I guess you are right. I should try to focus on the positive side of things. But you are wrong if you think we did only D rank missions. My clones cleared a few C Rank, B, rank and a couple of A rank missions."

She came close enough to me that I could see the tick mark on her forehead. "And why are my clones only doing D rank missions?" I just told her I did what she suggested. The clones asked for higher ranked missions.

"Ibiki was pretty upset I beat his old assassination speed record, but I know he doesn't hold grudges. In fact I imagine he is secretly pretty happy someone tried and beat his record.

She asked me what was the record? I told her eliminate ten targets under a minute. "With my current techniques I can eliminate a bandit camp under ten seconds. So my clones had no difficulty whatsoever."

As we finished the last day of training for Sakura. We all walked into the Hokage's office. We expected to find him seated behind his desk, I expected that and the regular ANBU protection team watching over his security from the shadows. Instead we found him talking to a fat, old, bald man who by the smell coming off him been drinking. I mean really drinking.

As we walked towards the desk the Hokage seemed to be glad to see us, I figured with the current client standing so close to him who wouldn't want an excuse to put a little distance between him and the drunk?

"Excellent timing Team Seven! This man is Tazuna and he is the master builder from Wave. He came here to make a contract with some of our merchants to provide building materials, but he needs an escort back to his home and probably help with a bandit problem his construction site been having."

I was Tazuna walk towards a place he could take a better look at us. "Lord Hokage you aren't telling me this is the lot that will help me! We got a blonde brat I wouldn't hire to scrub toilets, a pinkette who is the single most flat chested weak girl I ever seen, a guy who loves to suck on lemons and a scarecrow that would fail at his job of scaring anything at all."

I didn't like him from the smell, him insulting Sayomi even if she was looking like a guy that was the last straw. "Lord Hokage I gather he has not actually signed the proper paperwork. Nobody insults my team and gets away with it! How about I kill him, dispose of the body and then I come back to clear the stench of booze from your office? I might even do it for free!"

I loved the look on Tazuna's face as I said that while holding a kunai right at his neck. "Unfortunately he has signed the proper paperwork, so I regret to tell you that you can't kill a client of the village. It could give the village a bad reputation."

I looked at him while I pulled my kunai back. "Sure we can, there is bandits sometimes in the area around here. I can kill him and make it look like bandits did it."

I hear Kakashi clear his throat and walk towards me. He placed a hand on my shoulder. "Sorry Naruto, I know you haven't gotten to kill anyone in a while, but you can't kill our client. Tazuna you might want to apologize if you value your life at all. He might try to do as he said and not do as good a job of keeping you safe otherwise."

Tazuna looked at me and I could tell he knew I was not kidding. "I was just testing to see if they had any backbone. I hate to cause people younger than me to die, just because they think they are invincible. Most kids their age do and end up finding out the truth the hard way. Sorry to hurt your feeling kids."

Kakashi decided tell him something that made me smile. "These may look like kids, but they are highly trained ninja. Naruto alone could make your town a graveyard in less than half a day. Now I would suggest you clean up and meet us in thirty minutes by the south gate. Team Seven pack for seven days, and no Naruto you are coming with us."

I went home and began packing. Torah was happy to see me home. She jumped up and began rubbing herself against me while purring. "Glad you are home too Torah, I have some bad news though. I have to leave on a week long mission. I left you enough food and that shadow clone summon seal to use. I am sorry girl, hey I am going to a fishing town I will buy you some fresh fish to make it up to you."

'Sure Naruto, I take care of this place but please try to come back alive. This village might celebrate your death, but me and Sayomi would definitely be very sad if you died.'

I finished packing and after giving my caring cat a kiss on her head I left towards the meeting point. Tazuna was carrying a gourd of what smells to me to be fire whiskey. Great he is drinking again and this time it's the stuff me, Ibiki and Anko like to drink to relax after a long day.

"Since we are all here Diamond formation I will take the head, Sakura to the right, Sasuke to the left and you guard the back Naruto. We will rotate the positions every hour. Be sure to say something if you spot something suspicious."