Beginning of Change
Chapter 2: The Return
We join our Blonde-haired hero as he nears the gates of Konoha once again. The three months of training he did was the most difficult time of his life Kakashi could be a real slave driver when he wanted.
Flashback
Naruto and kakashi just arrived at the location where kakashi will be training Naruto. (It is the same place where Minato and Jiraiya trained in the sixth naruto movie)
"Alright naruto we have three months to prepare you for the chunin exams," said kakashi actually not reading his book 'So here is the plan, the first month of your training we will be working on the basics like fixing holes in your taijutsu, Chakra control, stamina, and genjutsu defense. Then next month we will begin on more advanced forms of taijutsu, and some elemental ninjutsu, and we will also continue chakra control. Then the last month will really be difficult you will continue working on your taijutsu forms, and I have a couple high ranking ninjutsu that I would like to show you that I will show you then. Ohh and speed will be a necessity so we will gradually be working on that."
"ALRIGHT! Lets get started" yelled naruto obviously excited
"Ohh and naruto you will also be changing your clothes once we are done with this training," Said kakashi with an eye smile.
"EHHH!"
Flashback End
Naruto looked down at himself. He was wearing his blue shinobi sandals,his legs were taped up to his knees, white shorts(like sasuke's), a blue muscle-shirt with a hood with an orange stripe going down the middle. His physical appearance also changed. His hair was longer and looked more like minato's, and thanks to not eating ramen in three months, which actually did stop his growth, he is now three inches taller making him the same size as sasuke, and the intense taijutsu training making him look leaner and gave his muscles more definition. His face even looks sharper and thinner too.
He was getting excited getting closer to konoha he would be able finally be able to get his beloved ramen, and he would see his friends again, especially Sakura
"Naruto you know, you look better with less orange and that bulky jumpsuit" said kakashi
"EHHH WHAT THE FUCK is kakashi-sensei trying to come on to me?" said naruto with wide eyes, while slowly inching away from him
"WHAT! NOOO! I was just saying that its a nice change," Yelled Kakashi waving his hands in front of his face.
" NARUTO! Is that you?"
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Earlier that same morning….
Sakura woke up that morning with a sigh. Today was the morning before the chunin exams, which she has been nervous about for a while. The last three months were good without Naruto it had been just her and sasuke training, with their temporary sensei. Their temporary sensei was alright, he spent a lot of time with the Third's grandson Konohamaru. He really didn't teach her or Sasuke anything new only exercise and some chakra control exercises. Sasuke was greatly frustrated the last couple months since naruto got to leave on a training mission with kakashi. Though without Naruto here thing were unusually quiet missions were boring, granted D-ranks are usually always boring anyways, but D-ranks were now quiet and boring, instead of loud and annoying. Sasuke lately though has seemed a little happier for some reason, and has been slightly more talkative albite still frustrated, but sakura just took this as her finally getting through to him with her charm.
Sighing Sakura got out of bed and took a shower and got dressed. Today she was supposed to meet up with Sasuke at the bridge and then they would go to meet naruto and kakashi at the front gate.
"huuuu today Naruto will return just as loud and annoying as he was before he will probably ask for a date as soon as he sees me," Sighed sakura in her head
Sakura walked downstairs said goodbye to her mom and left without eating, she is on a diet after all.
Getting to the bridge she sees sasuke leaning in his usual spot as always.
Walking up to him she says "Good morning sasuke-kun" in her most cheerful voice she could muster
Sasuke eyed Sakura as she walks up to him. Lately he has been trying to be nicer to people since a certain someone asked him to try and be nice to people. He weighs his options on merely grunting to Sakura or actually saying "hello", he figures that more talking to her would more than likely just lead to her asking for more dates, but he decides to go through with it anyways.
"Hello" came the Monotone reply
Sakura, surprised by him actually saying something instead of grunting, smiles even brighter at him.
"Are you ready to go to the gates Sasuke-kun" said Sakura still smiling
"Hn" he gets up and starts walking, Sakura walking by his side
As they get arrive at the gate sasuke says"Do you think the dobe has gotten stronger in the last couple months" honestly curious
"Naruto, I doubt it he probably goofed around the whole time, you know naruto" Replied Sakura dismissively
"Actually I thought I did know Naruto, but after the last mission I have no clue," said Sasuke kinda darkly.
Sakura looked confusedly at him, "What do you me-" suddenly they heard familiar voices
"EHHH WHAT THE FUCK is kakashi-sensei trying to come on to me?" they heard a familiar voice say
"WHAT! NOOO! I was just saying that its a nice change," They heard another familiar voice say
Suddenly two figures appeared from out of the treeline. One they recognized as their sensei who looks absolutely the same. The next though completely surprised them next to kakashi stood someone they could only guess was their teammate.
" NARUTO! Is that you?" Exclaimed Sakura, she couldn't help but form a small blush look at Naruto.
He was taller, he colors of his outfit really complimented his eyes and hair perfectly. The way his longer hair swayed in the wind and how his body flexed slightly in order to turn to look at them made him look downright hot.
'OMG Naruto turned into a sexy beast' exclaimed Inner Sakura
Sakura couldn't help but reluctantly agree with her inner self
Naruto turned to look at sakura, if it was possible she turned even more beautiful, her Emerald eyes glowed and her long pink hair flowed down all the way to her perfect behind, which looks like she she has been training more than usual because her butt was perfectly toned, as a matter of fact her whole body looked toned. Sasuke looked slightly less stoic and kind of happy. He flashed Them a fox grin and said "Hey Sakura-chan, teme how have you been?"
Sakura's blushed intensified under his fox grin 'Damn it stop blushing, I Love Sasuke-kun'
"What happened to you Dobe you look completely different" Said sasuke
" Ehh do I? I just changed my clothes and let my hair grow longer." Said Naruto
The two genins and their sensei all sweat-dropped at the density and obviousness of that statement
"Well I better go report to Hokage-sama, why don't you guys go catch up, Ja-ne" said their sensei, before poofing away
"YATTA! Time for Ichiraku" exclaimed naruto with a large grin plastered on his face
HIs teammates once again sweatdropped 'he will never change they both thought at the same time'
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At Ichiraku….
While eating Sakura and Sasuke were staring at their blonde-haired teammate once again thinking how someone could change so much physically, but yet not even a little bit mentally.
Meanwhile Naruto was slurping noodles haphazardly, not really even tasting the food just shoveling it down. He turned to look at both his teammates staring at him. "What" He said
"Nothing" replied both his teammates at the same time
"So dobe," started Sasuke " what did you do the last couple months?"
"hmm train mostly" replied naruto
"What did you learn?" asked Sakura genuinely curious
"Now thats a secret Sakura-chan" Replied naruto with a fox grin, causing a small blush to form on sakura's cheeks, "but I will say that I learned some really cool jutsu!" he exclaimed
Sasuke grunted a little jealous that Naruto did something useful, while all he did was exercise and chakra control exercises
Ayame, the daughter of the owner of the ramen stand, walked up to the trio " Can I get you anything else naruto-kun?" she said trying to flirt with naruto a little (In this story shes only a year older than naruto, because I have a plan for her later in the story)
"No thanks Ayame-nee-chan, I'm pretty full" Naruto said rubbing his stomach, oblivious to Ayame's flirting, although Sakura picked up on it and honestly felt a little twinge in her stomach
Sasuke stood up "Well i have to leave, bye" he waved while walking away
Sakura stood up " wait sasuke-kun do you want to go for a walk with me"
"Nope, sorry" Sasuke said remembering a certain person's order to be nicer to people.
Sakura looked downtrodden while expecting Naruto to yell out that he would like to go for a walk with her, so she was surprised when naruto simply stood up and said " See ya later Sakura-chan Ima go train" Sakura dejectedly started walking home thinking about todays turn of events
While Naruto's first thought was to offer to go for a walk with Sakura he remembered Kakashi's advice a couple weeks ago…
Flashback
Naruto was sitting on the roof of the large training complex he was thinking about Sakura, when kakashi walked up.
"Hey naruto you look like your thinking about something pretty hard" said kakashi not looking up from his book
Naruto already used to kakashi's antics just sighed "yeah I was thinking about Sakura-chan" he said " I really like her, but all she does is yell at me and hit me, and shes all over the teme."
Kakashi looked up from his book and sighed as well " Naruto have you ever thought that she hits and yells at you because you constantly bug her for dates, maybe you should take it easy on asking her out for a while I'm sure she just has a little girl's crush on Sasuke, so don't worry about it your too young to let these worries trouble you." And with that he walked back down stairs
Naruto sat in silence for a couple of minutes "You know sensei I think I might just do that" he said to himself.
Flashback End
' I hope your right sensei' Thought naruto as he left to the training grounds
At an unknown location…
Sasuke walked up to a flower field. He looked around for a couple of minutes before he felt a pair of soft hands around cover his eyes from behind.
Sasuke smirked "How did you manage to sneak up on me"
A velvety, feminine voice responded "Hah wasn't very hard you were clearly desperately trying to look for me, so all I had to do was hide my chakra signal and sneak up behind you"
"Heh, too bad I did sense you as soon as you walked into the clearing" sasuke said while poofing into a log
The unknown person was surprised until she felt a pair of rough hands cover her eyes
She giggled "You got me Sasuke-kun"
End of second chapter
Author's notes
First of all will usually only write these notes if I am going to explain some stuff. Next I want to say that I kind of skipped the training for a reason mostly cuz I felt it would be a waste of time to describe the training in full detail when i could summarize it. Also because I wanted to do some flashbacks to points in the training, while keeping some of naruto's abilities a surprise. Also I want to say that naruto will not be godlike or anything he will just be stronger than he was in the canon series. Also there is hints of Narusaku here, but they won't get together yet simply, because I feel like it would be boring that way, and I like to write about a jealous sakura so that will be happening some more. Also as for sasuino there was a minor part in here for a teaser, but there will be more soon to come. Keep in mind that Sasuino is a secret so it will be happening more The later into the story it gets.