Let the Genin test begin!

Chocho is onto Sarada.

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Bolt woke up earlier than usual the next morning, unable to contain his excitement. He was about to get dressed in his normal attire, when he noticed a new orange and black jumpsuit, under armor, a weapons pouch and sandals hanging up on his door. There was a note pinned to the jumpsuit.

Good luck, Bolt
Mom and I are very proud of you.

Love, Dad

Bolt put on the fishnet under armor first, it was a little heavy, he then put on the orange jumpsuit. It had two pockets on either side and a zipper in the front. The young-Uzumaki filled his weapons pouch with as many Kunai and Suriken as he could fit. He tucked the note his father had left him in his front pocket. He looked down at his jumpsuit, it was bright orange, with black stripes going down the sleeves, the Uzumaki clan symbol was embroidered on his left sleeve and the Hyuuga symbol on his right. Once he was done admiring his new attire, Bolt made his way downstairs to another surprise at the kitchen table.

"Nice!" His father looked up from the documents he had laid across the table.

"You're still here?" Bolt was surprised, his Dad usually had left for work by now.

"I wanted to see how it looked on you" Naruto was smiling while holding a scroll in his hand.

"Thanks" Bolt thanked his father for the jumpsuit, before turning to his mother who was standing behind the stove "what's for breakfast"

"No breakfast for you" His dad was laughing "your Genin test is today, right?"

"So?" What did that have to do with him eating exactly?

"Probably best you don't eat" Naruto stood up, and patted his son on the head. That remark gave Bolt an uneasy feeling, just how bad was it?

"Why?"

"You'll just end up throwing it up" His father waved as he walked out the door.

"You'll be fine honey" His mom walked over and kissed him on the cheek. "Now get going or you'll be late"

Bolt walked out the door and made his way to the Third Training Ground, he wondered just how hard Konohamaru-Sensei's test could be. He actually started to get excited, a feeling of excitement he hadn't felt since his competition with Sarada the other day.

Sarada woke up later than she had meant to, she had been too busy stressing over both the test and her new teammates to get any sleep. She made her way downstairs to find her mother getting ready for work. Sakura was dressed in a pink vest, with a white medical jacket, and gloves. Sarada watched as her mother packed a medical pouch. She waited until her mother noticed her presence.

"Sarada, there are some new clothes on the chair over there for you" Her mother pointed towards a chair in the corner of the room. "Take this too" Sakura tossed the tan pouch she was packing, Sarada had barely managed to catch it... Her mother wasn't good at controlling her strength. The pouch had a red cross in a white circle on the back, to differentiate it from a normal weapons pouch.

"Thanks" Sarada smiled a little

"You're going to need that to take care of Bolt" Her mother winked at her, and Sarada seriously wanted to kill the woman. What the hell did she mean by that exactly?

"What's that supposed to mean?" Sarada unconsciously tightened her fists in anger.

"Oh, nothing" Her mother winked again "It's just, if he's like his father, he'll get himself hurt five times more often than anyone else"

"Right" Sarada sighed

Sarada picked up her clothes and went into the bathroom to change. She had been provided with a pink vest and a black jacket, along with a weapons pouch and a skirt. The jacket had the Uchiha Seal embroidered on the back and was open in the front, the vest had two pouches on either side of the buttons. Once Sarada had finished getting dressed, she went into the kitchen to find something to eat.

"What are you looking for?" Her mother asked.

"Breakfast"

"You're better off not eating today" Her mother was walking out the door already

"Wait! Why?" Sarada didn't like the sound of that.

"Don't worry" Sakura turned around and looked at her daughter "Also, you look cute in that outfit"

"Th-thanks" Sarada felt herself blush, she never really got compliments like that. She was told she was strong or smart a lot though.

"I'm sure Bolt will think so too" Her mother winked at her again, before running out the door.

"MOM!" Sarada was beyond annoyed. How could her mother think that she cared what Bolt thought? Sarada slipped on her sandals and walked out the door angrily, she wasn't nervous about the test anymore, she just felt like hitting something.

"YOUTH!" Guy yelled as he woke up. Seconds later he heard a reply.

"YOUTH!" His father yelled from downstairs.

"Both of you! Cut it out!" His mother screamed in response.

Guy ran downstairs, where he saw his father holding up a new, bright green jumpsuit, leg weights and a red headband belt.

"Guy! I got these for your first day as a real ninja!" Tears were falling from his father's eyes, which made Guy cry as well.

"Thank you Father!" Guy hugged his dad, and took the new clothes.

"You're both morons! Now eat your breakfast" Tenten pointed to the table, and Guy ran quickly to eat.

After breakfast, Guy began to make his way out the door, when he heard his father scream.

"GUY!" His fathers hands were in the air "Good Luck!"

His mother shook her head as she waved at him "Have a good day, Guy" She smiled and then hit his father over the head.

Guy walked to the Third Training Ground unsure of what to expect when he got there, what was this Genin Test exactly? Whatever it was, it must be full of YOUTH!

Bolt was the first to arrive at the training ground, he stood around with his hands in his pockets waiting for the others to show up. He thought about what the test was going to be, and how hard it could be. The blonde thought about his bout with Kakashi, and decided if he could survive that, he could survive this too. Sarada was the next person to arrive, and Bolt noticed that she had a new outfit too. He took notice a little too long in fact, because Sarada thought he was staring at her.

"What are you looking at?" She questioned him. She seemed annoyed and this scared Bolt a little, especially after seeing her fight.

"I-I like your outfit" Was the only excuse he could think of, that wouldn't end up with her hitting him.

"uh.." Sarada turned away from him, and looked down at the ground "th-thanks"

Bolt smiled a little, maybe she wasn't so scary after all, as long as he was sure to be nice to her. Although, now she wasn't looking at him, which worried him a little bit. They both stood there in silence for a little while, until Guy showed up.

"Teammates!" The green-suited kid yelled while running towards them "are we ready to display our power of YOUTH!"

"So... you're all here now?" Konohamaru-Sensei had appeared from behind a tree. Had he been there all along?

The three teammates all just nodded in response.

"Okay, your test, is to get theses bells from me" The Jonin held out two bells.

"Again?" Bolt was confused "That's the same thing as Uncle Kakashi!"

"It won't be easy" Sarada noted, while pushing up her glasses

"Let's go!" Guy shouted, while taking a stance.

"Well, he is weaker than Uncle Kakashi" Bolt noted "Plus, there's three of us" The blonde smirked.

"How come there's only two bells?" Guy was the first to ask.

"Now you get it" The Jonin smiled "Whoever fails to get one, goes back to the academy"

"Wait..." Guy's enthusiasm had dwindled to nothing.

"Figures..." Sarada sighed.

"Who cares?" Bolt began to charge at Konohamaru-Sensei "We can figure that out later, for now, let's just beat him up for making this stupid test!" Bolt had decided that whatever happened, he at least wanted to beat up Konohamaru-Sensei first.

Konohamaru was impressed by Bolt's sudden attack, the kid hadn't exactly seen through the test, but at least it was something. The Jonin blocked a punch from the blonde, and back fisted him in the stomach, sending the kid flying into the water. Konohamaru then turned to see Guy attacking him with a spinning kick, he ducked and let the green-suited ninja hit the ground. Finally, he turned and blocked the seven Kunai Sarada had thrown at him. The Jonin laughed, these kids weren't playing around.

"We have to work together, or we won't win." Sarada was dictating to the two boys, one of witch was now drenched in water.

"Right!" Bolt and Guy yelled in unison.

Konohamaru watched as Bolt leaned in and whispered something into Sarada's ear. He also noticed the brunette's face turn bright red, and wondered exactly what Bolt was saying. Then, they both turned and whispered into Guy's ear. So, they have a plan then? The Jonin chuckled to himself, just what could they be hatching? Konohamaru noticed that both Sarada and Bolt had begun weaving handsigns, and Guy had ran off. He tried to make note of them, to figure out their plan.

"Water Style: Water Trumpet!" The blonde had announced while charging. He can use Water-Style?

"Fire Style: Fire Ball Jutsu!" The brunette followed suit. So they're both cooperating?

A giant plume of steam enveloped the field, blocking the Jonin's view of his students. So, there plan was to make a smoke screen? Then, Konohamaru realized that Guy would be the one attacking. It made sense, he was the strongest at hand to hand combat. Sure enough, the Jonin took a kick to the side from a bright green leg. He grabbed the leg and spun a few times before sending Guy flying off. Konohamaru could hear dozens of footsteps now, meaning Bolt had sent in shadow clones too.

Bolt was breathing heavily while standing outside the plume of steam. Shadow Clones and Water Style took up a lot of his chakra. The blonde could tell that most of his clones had already been defeated, meaning the plan had been a failure. He looked over at Sarada, who seemed deep in thought.

"What should we do next?" He asked, as carefully as possible.

"Can you use anything besides Water-Style?" She looked at him for a second, and then looked away again. That was starting to bother Bolt.

"I can use a little Wind-Style, but that's about it" Bolt paused for a moment "No one really taught me, I kind of just picked out some Jutsu scrolls from my Dad's study" He admitted.

"Sensei is really strong" Guy had rejoined the group, and then proceeded to throw up from the spin he'd been given.

"That's why" Bolt and Sarada sighed in unison, coming to the same conclusion about their parent's advice.

"Of course I am!" Konohamaru-Sensei was walking out of the plume of steam with his hands behind his head.

"What are we going to do?" Guy sighed

"Nothing! You're all out of Chakra, and you weren't able to take either of the bells" The Jonin laughed.

"So... we fail" Bolt dropped his head, what was his father going to think now? Just when he had finally become a ninja...

"Nope, you all pass" Konohamaru-Sensei smiled while laughing.

"What? Why?" Sarada questioned.

"Yeah Sensei, you said we had to get those bells" Guy was pointing at the bells attached to Konohamaru's waist.

"Not the point, the point was to see if you would work as a team, even if one of you was assured to fail" The Jonin pointed out.

"You tried to get us to abandon the team?" Sarada asked while pushing up her glasses.

"Yup!" The Jonin nodded. "Team 5 starts its first mission tomorrow, meet me at the Assignment Desk at 6 AM."

"six in the morning?" The all said, in unison.

"That's when they give out the best missions" Konohamaru gave the team a thumbs up, and then disappeared.

"Oh well, I'm gonna go train, anyone wanna join me?" Bolt posed the invitation to the team.

"I will!" Guy followed Bolt as he started to walk off.

"I-i'm all set" Sarada looked down at the ground, and walked off.

Chocho was walking around the village following her Genin Test. Mirai-Sensei had done some puzzle game involving all sorts of weird numbers, she didn't understand any of it. Luckily, Shikadai managed to figure it out, so they all passed. The young-Akamichi wondered where Anko-Sensei was, if she could find her, she could sucker the woman into buying her some dumplings. However, Chocho noticed Sarada walking down the street, with her head looking down. She decided to see what was up.

"Hey girl! What's up?" Chocho walked up to the Uchiha and waved. The two of them spent a lot of time hanging out in the Academy during lunch breaks, Sarada was the only girl in the class that Chocho ever felt she could actually talk to. She suspected Sarada had felt the same way about her.

"N-nothing" Sarada kept walking. That meant it was something, and Chocho knew exactly what it was.

"Not following Bolt around today?" The fat girl braced for the reaction, the blonde had always a tricky subject with Sarada.

"I don't do that" Sarada's head was still down. Chocho picked up on something though.

"You didn't call him stupid"

"What?"

"Whenever I bring him up, the first thing you do is say 'boys are stupid' or something. What happened?" Chocho felt devious, just what could she get her friend to tell her?

"H-he, said he-" Sarada paused, and gripped onto her skirt. "Liked my outfit" Chocho watched as a smile crossed Sarada's face for a split second.

"Really? Maybe he likes you" Chocho elbowed her friend lightly in the side.

"I'm going home" Sarada announced.

"Then I'm coming over!" Chocho decided abruptly, she wasn't about to drop the subject.

Sakura was standing in the kitchen making lunch, after just finishing her shift at the hospital. She wondered how Sarada's test had gone, she had her answer when both her daughter and Chocho came through the door.

"What's up Mrs. U?" Choji's daughter asked, rather loudly.

"How are you Chocho, would you like something to eat?" Sakura was holding out a sandwich she had made.

"Why? Cuz I'm fat?" The girl asked with her hands on her hips.

"No... I just-" Sakura's apology was cut off.

"Sure, I'm hungry" Chocho sat down at the counter across from Sakura.

"Sarada, come eat." Sakura looked at her daughter, who was making her way upstairs.

"One second, Mama... I want to take off all this gear" Sarada continued her way up the stairs, and out of earshot.

"So" Chocho leaned in and whispered to Sakura "I think she's got a crush on Bolt"

"Really?" Sakura was trying to contain her laughter, so it was that obvious? "What makes you say that?"

"Whenever I bring him up... she gets all, you know.."

"Flustered?" Sakura asked, trying to supply the word Chocho was looking for.

"Ya" Chocho replied, with food in her mouth "plus, Bolt said he liked her outfit, and she seemed really happy when she told me"

"Wow" Sakura was a bit jealous that Sarada hadn't told her all this, but she was at least happy the girl had opened up to someone.

"So yeah, Sarada's probably crushing on Bolt... hard" Chocho announced, while spitting food onto the counter.

"She'd better not be" Sasuke had just walked through the front door to hear Chocho's proclamation.

"Sasuke?"

"Mr. U?" Chocho turned in her seat.

"Where is she?" Sasuke questioned.

"Upstairs" Sakura walked over to her husband and pointed her finger in his face. "and you'd better not say anything about it to her!"

"Why?" The Uchiha asked.

Sakura leaned in and whispered into her husband's ear, quiet enough so Chocho couldn't hear. "Because I won't do that thing you like tonight If you say even one word about it."

"Fine" Sasuke sighed, and Sakura smiled. She had that man wrapped around her finger, she was currently angry at him for not being home in so long, but that could wait for now.

"Papa?" Sarada was running down the stairs and into her father's arm.

"Hi, sweetie" Sasuke smiled down at his daughter as he picked her up and hugged her.

"Well, I'm gonna get going now" Chocho was walking out "Thanks for the food, Mrs U."

"Thanks for the update" Sakura turned and winked at the departing Akimichi.

Sakura watched as Sasuke put their daughter down and turned to hug her. She wrapped her arms around him as he wrapped his one arm around her, when the embrace ended she prompted him about his return.

"Naruto's going to want to know your back" Sakura informed him. "There's trouble brewing"

"I'm aware" Sasuke turned to walk out the door before stopping. "Sarada, congratulations by the way, Papa's very proud of you."

"Thank You" Sarada smiled and Sasuke walked out of the house.

Naruto was sitting in his office looking over missions for the new Genin, when Udon barged in.

"Lord Hokage-" Udon shouted, but Naruto cut him off, already knowing what he was going to say.

"He's back" Naruto stood up from his chair.

"About time" Shikamaru stood up as well, and then looked at Naruto.

"Call it" Naruto ordered to both his Advisor and aide.

"You don't mean?" Udon questioned

"Yup... It's such a drag to do." Shikamaru stretched his arms out.

"The Council of the 12 Heros?" Udon asked again, to make sure.

"That's the one" Naruto responded while pulling a scroll out of his desk, opening in, and lying in down on the desktop. It read:

Council of the Twelve Heros of Konoha:

Hokage: Naruto Uzumaki

1st Advisor: Shikamaru Nara

Spymaster: Sasuke Uchiha

Head of the Medical Corps: Sakura Haruno

Village Security: Kiba Inuzuka

Mission Assignment Manager: Rock Lee

Weapons Development/Stockpiling: Tenten

Head of the Academy: Shino Aburame

Intel & Interrogation: Ino Yamanaka

Food & Resources: Choji Akamichi

Clan Relations: Hiniata Hyuuga

Hokage Bodyguard Division(Honorary): Neji Hyuuga | (Acting): Konohamaru Sarutobi & Mirai Sarutobi

"Didn't the Daimyo threaten to cut funding if we did that again" Udon asked, sounding very worried.

"That's because he thought we were plotting against him" Shikamaru noted.

"This time, he's actually consented to it" Naruto smiled while holding up a red scroll with the Daimyo's seal.

"Why?" Udon was wiping the fog off his glasses.

"His life's in danger" Naruto said rather grimly. "We have to assure his protection as quickly as possible. I can't do that unless everyone is on the same page"

"Right" Shikamaru agreed. "We can't do this without everyone's cooperation and expertise. I'll call it now."

Shikamaru exited the room and Naruto sat back down in his seat, placing his head in his hands.

"I really hope this doesn't end badly"

What does Sasuke really think of Sarada's crush?

Who's after the Daimyo?

Also... Should I give Sasuke and Sakura a "romantic" night?