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WHAT DID YOU THINK OF NARUTO SHIPPUDEN 475? For me, it was like the best thing I've come across this entire week.

To answer a guest question: I'm starting high school (again...) on Monday, which means I won't be able to write as frequntly as until now. I'll be trying to update once a week, I don't know where. I don't plan to make this story very long anyways. So please bear with me in this journey! Enjoy!


SARADA: Spring Lightning

chapter two - Uchiha

Maybe if she found those people that Lord Seventh was saying were her parents, maybe then, she'd have a place to belong to. She couldn't know. She had to try. That's why she turned again to Naruto and Hinata, before they left her room, and uttered with her most confident voice, "I want to find them. We must find them."

The chances were so low. They almost didn't even exist. But she had to hope. She had to hope.

Naruto nodded, a smile invading his face. "We'll find them. Believe it!"

He turned again to leave, but Sarada stopped them. "Lord Seventh... there's something I'd like to ask you. Please stay..." She didn't know what force drove her to want to ask him what she had in mind to, but there was no other way but do it. After twelve years in which she'd known nothing about her true origin, after twelve years in which she'd lived in a lie, Sarada thought she deserved some answers, something more than just a promise to keep fighting for those disappeared ninjas... Sasuke and Sarada Uchiha...

He nodded to Hinata, who smiled to the young girl and wished her a goodnight, leaving and closing the door after herself. "What is it, Sarada?"

"My parents... who were, are they? I mean, how were, are they like?" she asked.

Naruto raised his eyebrows and looked surprised at her. He sat next to her on her bed and smiled as he thought of a good answer. There were so many things to be said and things that she should've been told, had the circumstances been different. Sarada was just like he had been - an orphan, pushed away by all the villagers that knew nothing of her heritage - it didn't matter that the Hokage himself was posing as her father... And the only way he thought of protecting her from whoever might've attacked Sasuke and Sakura was the same as how he had been protected, by hiding the truth. Even so, he and Hinata had made sure there would always be someone to wait her home with greetings full of love and a warm meal.

Her eyes, black again, told him of her impatience. It was time he finally told her something real about his former teammates. "Well... Sasuke and Sakura-chan... They were at the top of the class, just like me. Sakura-chan has always been so smart and Sasuke... there was nothing he couldn't do... That's why you're just like them, smart and strong, Sarada."

Her fists were clenched and shaking.

"When we graduated Academy, we were put in the same team, and Lord Sixth became our sensei. We all had come from different places and none of us, not even Kakashi-sensei believed we'd get along, but we did. Ya know, Team 7 was the family I had never had at that time and somehow your father felt the same. He never admitted but I was his best-friend and so he was to me. And Sakura-chan... being with us motivated her to fight and be strong, get stronger. The last time I'd seen her, she was the strongest kunoichi in the world. Believe it!"

Sarada's eyes sparkled with pride. It was her mother Naruto was describing. Then it hit her, it was the mother she'd never got the chance to meet that he was describing. It hurt. It hurt having such a mother and not getting the chance of knowing her. She wished she had. She wished she had time with both of them, so they'd teach her techniques and help her with homework or help her train.

"You father, well, if I hadn't been chosen for Hokage, he would've. He's the most powerful ninja the world has known, besides me, of course. Maybe that's why I don't believe he's dead. And knowing Sakura-chan, I don't believe she's dead either. They aren't the kind to go down without a fight. I know that better than anybody. I know how much she's fought for him. And I know how much she's endured and how strong she's aimed to become. Something really bad had happened to Sasuke when he was a kid and all his younger years he'd fought to avenge the people he'd lost. He got stronger, motivated by revenge. That's bad, really bad. And at some point we had to fight, me against him. But, you know, I tried to knocked some sense into him so he'd be able to see..."

"To see what?" Sarada inquired.

Naruto sighed. "That there are other things that matter more... I may have influenced him one way or another, but Sakura-chan changed him. They've always had something special. Most girls at the Academy liked him, but he couldn't care less about them. After we've been put in the same team, he'd always make sure she was ok. When somebody had hurt her really bad once, he broke the guy's arms. When a boy, jinchuuriki as I am, attacked the three of us during the Chunin Exams, he fought with all his might to protect her. And she'd saved him, from darkness, from loneliness, from himself. That idiot couldn't even see he loved her... Or he may have noticed, but thought he didn't deserve her... I don't know."

"So, was he a bad guy?"

The Orange Hokage shook his head. "No. Everything he's done was for what he'd believed in."

Sarada released a relieved sigh.

"Does any of what I've said make sense?"

She nodded. "They seem like nice people."

"They're the best. Believe it!"

And the young Uchiha believe him. Uchiha... Uchiha Sarada... That seemed just perfect.