Hurray I have finally updated! Unfortunately, I don't seem to have as time or inspiration as I used to have, if anything happens were I can't update my stories anymore than I'll have them put up for adoption. Where a good author will be able to complete them for those who seem to love my fics. Hopefully, that won't be happening soon if not ever, as I plan to finish all of my stories.

Konohagakure no Sato the village hidden in the leaves, known as one of the most powerful of the shinobi villages, was enjoying a peaceful morning as the sun rose out of the sky.

"NARUTO"

Or at least it was, rushing through the village at a speed that rivaled most jounin we see a blond haired boy being chased by his green eyed red haired mother. It appeared too many that the young blond named Naruto had just played a prank on his mother again. What he did this time no one knew, except that it had to have been good to get his mother this riled up. Seeing the blond being chased by his mother caused many of the villagers to burst out laughing thinking of what the boy did this time and thinking of what he had done the other few times. Over the years the villagers had soften up to the boy and treated him fairly. This change in the villagers started shortly after he was adopted, his mother, Sakura Uzumaki, didn't let anything slide when it came to her son. It started when she began to literally beat some sense into them, making all of them stop their violent actions towards the boy. It also greatly helped when the boy began to prank many of the shinobi as training given to him by his mother, providing the villagers with much entertainment. It started as something simple such as: dumping paint and or water, sneaking itching powder into their equipment, and even going as far as following them around and taking embarrassing pictures of them posting them around the village.

Since it was common knowledge that tomorrow was graduation day for the blond and all he had to do was to pass their final test, it was easily assumed by the entire village that the young blond had some big prank planned before graduation. Many knew that the Hokage wouldn't put up with any nonsense when it came to his ninja, shortly after Naruto's adoption the Hokage began to be far more strict with the shinobi of the village, requesting that they had to check in every so often and from time to time would ask comrades to spy upon their own or past teammates. For many this was shocking and appalling that their Hokage would suddenly become so paranoid, and it was another shock when over six of their fellow comrades where charged with treason. Even more shocking was when it was discovered that an academy teacher was found spying for one of Konoha's greatest traitors ever.

"Naruto get back here you brat," shouts out Sakura Uzumaki chasing after her son with flames in her eyes. Her normal red hair was dyed black and cut to look like a certain over enthusiastic taijutsu master, he even glued a pair of extremely thick eyebrows to boot, and adding further insult to injury he even somehow got her into one of those green spandex suits that Gai was famous for wearing. All in all she looked like a female clone of Gai, and she was not very happy with her son at the moment. Thankfully she was able to use a genjutsu to hide her new appearance from everybody, except her son knowing that he would dispel the illusion if he knew that she was using it to hide her new appearance.

"Heck no, I want to live thank you very much," Naruto Uzumaki says running away from his mother. It started out great and it was drop dead hilarious, until she saw herself in the mirror, and that was when all hell broke lose. Fearing for his life, as his mother was the only person that he was scared of, he took off running with her right after him screaming out death threats to her son.

Leading his mother through the village hoping that either she would get so embarrassed about being seen like this would either make her stop and go back home, or she wouldn't kill him in front of all these witnesses. And just his luck, it seemed that his planned was only making his mother even more angry, meaning that he was dead for sure.

"Time for plan B," Naruto mutters to himself. Leading his mother through more of the village taking her to a place was he knew he would loose her if everything went right.

"Look Naruto," Sakura says with her hands on her hips. "Why don't you take your punishment like a man? After all, in most villages once you receive your headband you'll be considered an adult in the eyes of the village. And anyways you have nowhere to run."

And of course she was right; he was trapped in an alley with nowhere to go. He considered using his chakra to scale the walls, but knew that she would just knock him down either using kunai or shuriken or she would her super strength to shake the wall causing him to loose his concentration along with all of the other skills ninja are well known to keep hidden.

"Look," Naruto shouts out pointing towards the Hokage monument, trying to draw her attention away from himself. Now being the mother of a legendary prankster who had strategic abilities that could give a Nara a few splitting headaches had many advantages, such as getting a lot of great laughs when she wasn't the target. Unfortunately it also had many drawbacks, one of which was that it was damn near impossible for any one to predict his actions, even his own mother.

Out of reflex she immediately turns to look at the monument that had the four faces of the previous and current Hokages. Her fear and nervousness soon tuned into shock and anger, a type of anger that a parent has for their child when they do something extremely stupid causing said child and sometimes the parent or parents to be in the same if not more trouble than their child for letting their kid pull something so ignorant.

"Naruto," cries out Sakura, her eyes ablaze with fury and pulling out her hair turns towards her idiotic son. "Rahhhhh," she growls out noticing her son gone with a smiling stuff fox sitting were he once was. "I'm going to kill him," she says turning her attention back towards the Hokage monument looking at the disaster her son made by painting the faces of the Hokages to look like they were wearing clown makeup.

"NARUTO," cried out the whole village seeing what the blond had done to the monument. And just like that, one of the largest manhunts to ever occur in the village happened that very day.

Back in the alley the stuffed fox left behind by Naruto Uzumaki began to shake like it was laughing. Suddenly it was hidden within a small plum of smoke that irrupted from the fox.

"I cant believe that actually worked," says a voice from within the smoke. Knowing that leaving the area would be a good idea we see a blond hair boy leaping out of the smoke and onto on of the tops of the buildings. Looking at his work he couldn't help but laugh at how ridiculous the Hokages all looked as clowns. "Might as well get to class before mom finds me," he says using the transformation jutsu to change his appearance to that of someone who most if not all of the ninja would overlook.

Jumping down from the roof, Naruto begins to walk towards the academy at a civilians pace, as to not attract any more attention towards him.

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"Where is he," a pink hair girl huffs out sitting down in her chair staring at what her best friend did to the Hokage monument. Seeing the state that the Hokage monument was in when she woke up she decided not to wait for him at their usual spot knowing that he wouldn't be able to meet her there knowing that his mother will be chasing him all over the village.

"Hey who are you?" shouts out one of her classmates.

"That mutt is too loud," Sakura Haruno mutters out turning to see what Kiba was yelling about. Standing their in the doorway was a dark hair boy that she had never seen before, and she had one of the best memories, almost photographic, in her class.

"Hey is Iruka-sensei in here?" asks the boy walking into the room looking around for what seemed to be any type trap.

Realization suddenly hitting Sakura Haruno like one of Tsunades punches she hollers out, "Naruto drop the jutsu and sit down, Iruka-sensei is probably helping your mom look for you and wont be back till he gives up searching for you!"

"Okay, thanks Sakura," Naruto says dropping his jutsu revealing his real form. "Hope I'm not late," Naruto says scratching the back of his head like he always does when he seems nervous or when he wants you think that he was nervous.

Shrugging her shoulders, Sakura replies, "does it matter? Iruka-sensei left before class was supposed to begin to go look for you, so you're technically not late since you got here before him."

"That's good," Naruto says as he goes to sit down next to his best friend. Their friendship started a few months after his adoption when his mother had to talk with his friends mom, at first he thought she would be mean to him like everyone else had been. To his great surprise she hugged him, heck she treated him almost he was her son!

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Across the village we see a pink and red haired woman sitting at a small restaurant having a casual, for them, conversation.

"So how long did it take for him to loose you," the pink haired woman asks the red haired one taking a sip of her drink.

"Considering that he had the whole thing planned out, Id say that he let me follow him on purpose. If he had wanted to he could have turned that into a trap," Sakura Uzumaki says taking a small bite of her food. "Sometimes I really hate having a prankster for a son, and the only way that I can get him to train at times is to have him use only certain skills in his pranks as a challenge. And you know how he can never let down a challenge."

"He got from both of his parents Minato, Kushina, and you," she says with a smile on her face. "So will my grandson-future son-in-law pass."

"More than likely, mom," Sakura Uzumaki says smiling back at her mother. "I basically drilled the importance of chakra control and all of the chakra control exercises I can think of into his think skull. If he cant use the clone jutsu, then Ill have him perform the shadow clone jutsu in front of the Hokage to prove that he can use a clone jutsu."

"How strong is he exactly?"

"Strong enough that he can hold his own against a jounin for a short time; heck he might be strong enough to beet an averaged ranked jounin with how unpredictable he can be. I'm still working with him to help with his summoning skills, I would of have had him working on that earlier but I wanted to make sure that he use his own chakra for the jutsu."

"Yes from what you told me about the original timeline, using that demons chakra causes the seal to weaken. So I can see your reasoning for him to not touch that things chakra at all."

"Thank you, I'm glad that someone agrees with me. Both Jiraiya and the Hokage threw a fit over that one, I'm just glad that I was able to get them to give up on teaching him on how to use that chakra. You know that Jiraiya was actually thinking of not letting Naruto sigh the toad contract", Sakura Uzumaki says her agitation from that toad sage tantrum returning full force.

"You're not serious are you," her mother asks.

"Yes, I actually had to beat him into a pulp to get him to let Naruto sign the contract."

"Did the toads ever find out, cause if I remember right Gamabunta and the elder toads wanted Naruto to sign the contract as soon as possible?"

"Yep," Sakura Uzumaki says taking a sip of her drink. "A few weeks after I had Naruto signed the contract, a few ANBU that were out on patrol on the Iwa border discovered Jiraiya lying in a giant footprint that any decent shinobi can instantly recognize as one of Jiraiya's toad summons. Knowing Jiraiya he probably summoned a toad to either help him travel, deliver a message, or peek on woman. And anyone with common sense knows that the toad contract demands a lot of respect and loyalty, and Jiraiya had really made them upset with what he did with their contract. I know that Minato and Kushina appointed him as Naruto's godfather, but he was never there for him. I know that did what he did to protect him, but he didn't have to leave Naruto here to take care of himself. I mean couldn't he have at least written him some letters, you know too let Naruto know that he wasn't alone and that someone actually cared for him besides the Hokage," she says finishing her rant for the week. It had become a hobby of hers to rant about the stupidity of the village that she never noticed before.

"Lets forget about that perverts stupidity and talk about something else. Hmm, I know," Sakura's mother says with a smile, "hows Sasuke's progress coming along. You should know since you are his doctor."

"He's doing a lot better now that he actually has friends. By forcing him to spend time with kids his own age has helped him with coming out of her shell, Naruto actually has more of an affect on Sasuke than anyone else," Sakura Uzumaki says smiling feeling the same motherly affection she felt towards Naruto.

"You think they would be fighting all of the time, with how they act at the academy is any indication," her mother replies raising her eyebrows in surprise.

"Yeah a lot of people think so too," Sakura answer laughing. "Its just who they are, both of them want to be strong so they compete against each other in everything to get stronger. All of the arguments and name calling is just for fun, Sasuke spends most of the time over at our place either training with Naruto or just hanging out."

"Why does Sasuke spend so much time at the Namikaze compound with Naruto?"

"Just to get away from the villagers I guess," she says shrugging her shoulders. "They put a lot of pressure on him, which probably made him into such a jerk in the original timeline. I never realized how much of one he was because I always wanted him to be my prince charming when I was a little girl; I never noticed how much pain he was in until it was too late to help him. All he wanted all along was for someone to just acknowledge him as Sasuke not the last Uchiha of the legendary clan that wielded the Sharingan. Its a good thing that without the villagers and fan girls pressuring him, he was able to get over his brother, all he really wants from Itachi now is the real reason why he slaughter his entire clan."

"That's good to know. Just wondering, how long do you think it will take for Iruka to give up looking for Naruto?"

"Ill give him five more minutes."

"Why?"

"Lunch break for the academy will be over by that time and hell notice that he spent more than half of the academy's day looking for that brat of mine," she replies with a sly smile on her face.

"Also how long will it take for Naruto to notice that my little Sakura has a crush on him as well as Hinata?"

"Please don't bring that up, I find that disturbing that my younger self has a crush on my son," Sakura says groaning.

"Oh honey its okay, remember they're not related by blood," her mother says smiling knowing how it aggravated her future daughter. "And besides I know that you loved him more than a brother, you just held yourself back because you didn't think you deserved him."

"Don't worry about that, I'm more worried about how much of a momma's boy is to have to fall in love with the younger version of his mother," she says laughing at her little joke.

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Back at the ninja academy we see the graduating class sitting around the classroom chatting happily with their friends. Or that what was happening until the classroom door was violently kicked in with an angry chuunin with a scar across his nose and brown hair stomping into the room. Sitting down at his desk he begins to simple academy exercise that's used to one calm down, though many if not all forget once they get into the field, once he calms down he opens his eyes sighting his target from earlier sitting next to one of his best friends Sakura Haruno.

"Naruto," Iruka shouts out once again fuming at the blond prank master. "I... I'm... you need to... ah forget it. I know now that talking to you is useless, so I'm just going to give detention tonight. And it will end when you have all the paint off of the Hokage monument," Iruka says not bothering to lecture the blond anymore knowing that it will go in one ear and out of the other.

"All I have to do is clean the monument," Naruto asks with a grin barely hidden from his face.

Hopping to bring the blond down a peg or two, not out of hatred of the fox but to get even with leaving him on a wild goose chase wasting half of the classes time trying to find him says, "yep, and if your fast enough Ill take you out to ramen and buy all that you can eat."

"Sure sensei, but can I have that in writing?" he asks barely able to contain his smile.

Ignoring all of the warning bells and sirens going off in his head he grabs a blank sheet of paper off his desk and writes out the agreement and signs it ignoring the looks that his students were giving him that loudly said, "Idiot!"

Finished writing out the whole agreement Naruto had it passed around the room where he had everybody sign it as a witness just for kicks. After making sure that everything was in order, Naruto brings his hands together in a hand sign used for gathering and releasing vast amounts of chakra. Feeling that he had the required amount of chakra he quickly shouts out for affect, "RELEASE!"

With a load noise coming from the direction of the Hokage monument again, causing everyone in the room to scramble towards the windows facing the monument. When the smoke clears everyone sees the Hokage Monument back to the way it was without a single bit of pant of any of the Hokage's faces.

"Genjutsu," Naruto says with a grin covering his entire face, "don't you love it?"

"H-h-how, I know for a fact that you can barely cast the simplest of the academy level genjutsu. How can you pull that off," Iruka says his mouth flapping open and close like a fish on dry land.

"My mom taught me how to draw seals and how to use them to perform jutsus. And since I cant perform genjutsu thanks to my poor control I have over my chakra, mom taught me how to use the seals to perform my genjutsu." Pulling out what appeared to be a pack of normal playing cards he continues to say, "see I have a whole deck of genjutsu and even some ninjutsu, just in case I get stuck in a situation were I cant perform hand seals or my chakra is cut since I can use either my blood or chakra to activate the jutsus on these. Thankfully the old man Hokage and mom helped, they thought it was really cool when I came up with the idea."

"Wow that's so cool," the whole class seems to shout out at Naruto along with other things along the same line. The whole class except for Iruka and Sasuke were shouting praise at the blond. Sasuke usually didn't like crowds and loud noises that came with them, even though he didn't walk up to Naruto and praise him the same way as his classmates did; he did give his friend a smile that he rarely showed to others.

All the while Iruka is sitting down at his banging his head against his desk muttering, "Stupid, stupid, stupid; how can I be so stupid!"

I hope that you have all enjoyed my story, and if you have anything to contribute I would greatly appreciate it. Also I'm just wondering does anyone know the names of Sakura's parents. If not can you please offer me a decent oc name, since I'm horrible at coming up with names in most situations. Also I was also wanting to ask if anyone else is haveing trouble posting theri stuff, because I seem to be. I had to load this about three times before I actually got it loaded, and then I had a buch of stuff that was left out when it was loaded.