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Naruto and Sakura are walking towards Training Ground Seven when she notices a square box painted like a rock following them with eye holes. She then turns to Naruto only to raise an eyebrow at his twitching eyebrow. 'Wow… he must be REALLY annoyed.' Inner-Sakura nods at this.
'Yeah, the only time that Naruto-kun has twitching eyebrows like that is when he's about to explode.' Sakura nods and watches as Naruto runs this way and that with the box following close behind making both her and Inner-Sakura sweatdrop. 'Okay, not even we were that pathetic before we took our training seriously… were we?' Sakura shrugs in reply.
'Nah… Well, I don't think that we were.' She nearly bursts out laughing as Naruto suddenly turns and points at the box.
"That's it Konohamaru! Rocks are not box shaped nor do they have eyeholes!" The box then explodes into a cloud of smoke as coughing comes from inside.
"Kuso Udon! You used to much gunpowder again!" As the smoke clears it shows three kids one of whom is Konohamaru. Suddenly they go into poses as the girl starts.
"Konoha's most sexy Kunoichi in training! Moegi!" The kid with the snot hanging from his nose goes next.
"I like long division, Udon!" Konohamaru crosses his arms in what he believes to be a heroic pose.
"And Konoha's number one genius future Hokage, Konohamaru and together we are…" And all of them shout the same thing at the same time.
"… The Konohamaru Corps!" Nothing happens for several seconds as a cricket chirps in the background and a tumbleweed rolls by. Finally finding his voice (and ignoring the laughing kitsune in his head) Naruto points at Konohamaru's head.
"Um… Okay… But what's with the goggles?" Konohamaru reaches up and wiggles them a little with a grin as does the two beside him.
"We got them to look just like the ones you had before you graduated Naruto-nii-chan! Pretty cool huh?" Naruto shrugs with a smile as Moegi looks at him.
"You said that you were going to play ninja with us today nii-chan! Remember, you promised?" Sakura blinks at this before giving Naruto a amused look.
"A ninja playing ninja? You do realize how ridiculous that sounds right?" Naruto shrugs at her with a foxy grin bringing out a small blush on her face.
"It doesn't hurt to do so once in awhile Sakura-chan. It teaches them and it helps me to unwind… What is it Konohamaru?" Konohamaru is grinning at the two.
"Hey… Naruto-nii-chan… Is she your this?" He raises a pinkie making Sakura blush and Naruto to give him a deadpan look.
"No Konohamaru. We're just friends and besides, she'd never like me that way." Sakura nods as he says that only with a note of sadness at the end. She claps him on the shoulder and starts walking away only to stop with Konohamaru's next words.
"Heh! I knew that you had good taste Naruto-nii-chan, I mean look at that huge forehead! I bet that if it was hot enough that you could cook an entire meal on it!" Feeling the KI coming from behind him, Naruto turns just in time to see Sakura's head turn one hundred and eighty degrees showing the pure white eyes and smoke coming from her nostrils.
"Konohamaru…" Konohamaru gulps as he looks at Naruto's serious face. "Run." At that moment Sakura takes off after a sprinting Konohamaru who's running for his life from the enraged girl. Shaking his head with a chuckle, he walks after them. 'Oh well… this should teach him that making fun of Kunoichi is a BAD idea…' Hearing a yelp as well as Sakura apologizing, Naruto rushes around the corner to see Konohamaru being held up by a teenage boy in what looks to be black cat Pj's with a wrapped bundle on his back as well as with war paint on his face. Beside him is a blond girl with her hair done up in four ponytails with a massive fan on her back and on both of their foreheads is a Hitai-ate with the symbol for Sunagakure no sato on it. Konohamaru starts wiggling trying to get free.
"Hey! Let me down you jerk!" The boy just scowls at him.
"You bumped into me punk and for that I'm going to hurt you!" The girl beside him rolls her eyes at him as she sighs.
"Kankuro, give it up. We were told not to start any trouble and here you are doing so. Just let the kid go before he shows up." Kankuro looks at her and snorts in derision.
"No Temari, the punk bumped into me and I'm going to teach him a little lesson in manners… beside, he's not around so it's safe." Temari tells him that she's not getting involved just as Naruto speaks up drawing attention to himself.
"Speaking of manners, where's your's? After all your in a different village and attacking a kid." Kankuro sneers at him and tells him that the kid ran into him making Naruto snort. "Are you really so weak that a kid running into you can actually hurt? Now THAT'S pathetic. Oh… And before I forget: Accio Konohamaru!" Kankuro falls flat on his face as Konohamaru is yanked out of his arms by some kind of invisible force. Snarling, Kankuro gets up and pulls the wrapped bundle making Temari's eyes widen.
"You're not actually going to use crow Kankuro!?" Kankuro nods from where he's standing.
"These punks have asked for it!" He's about to do something when Naruto starts laughing at him. "What are you laughing at punk?! I'm about to kick your ass!" Naruto just grins.
"I don't think that you could do that in the first place, secondly I don't got to fight you seeing as my back-up has arrived." Kankuro's about to say something when he feels something alight on his shoulder followed by some kind of blade being pressed against his neck.
"Tell me Master Naruto… Can I please cut his neck and spill all of that ruby blood of his on the ground like I would like to? Please let me! Pretty please!" Temari jerks seeing a little girl with wings on Kankuro's shoulders with a massive blade-like thing… until that is she realizes to her shock that it's not a little girl but some kind of doll.
'What the hell!? A talking nin-puppet?! But how did Konoha get one?!' She gulps as she realizes that the situations gone out of control and reaches around to her fan. 'I've got to put a stop to this before…!' She stiffens as Naruto disappears with a crack only to reappear with a pop in front of her with a kunai to her neck.
"Now, now… There's no need for violence now is there… Temari was it?" She nods slowly as she gulps. "Now then Temari-chan… You won't be doing anything else now will you?" She shakes her head slowly with widened eyes as she feels the kunai dig a little into her neck. "Good, because we don't want any… accidents now do we?" She again shakes her head as she pales upon seeing Naruto's slitted crimson eyes boring into her's before he turns to look at a nearby tree. "You can come out now Sasuke… You too Suna-nin." Sasuke appears only to start as a redhead with a gourd on his back appears upside down next to him making his eye widen.
'Where did he come from? I didn't even sense him… And how did the dobe sense us both?' The Suna-nin looks down at both Kankuro and Temari with a emotionless gaze before teleporting down in a swirl of sand.
"Temari… Kankuro… that's enough." Kankuro is about to say something when the nin glares at him shutting him up. "I said that's enough. Now shut up before I kill you." The nin's eyes widen as Harry appears right behind him with a grin and a small pop.
"Man, I can't let my eyes off you for a second can I nii-san?" He looks down at the nin and frowns seeing the sand moving around him. 'Hmm… How is he controlling that sand now I wonder…' The nin's eyes go back to normal as he looks at Temari and Kankuro who look even more scared seeing the small grin on his face.
"How interesting… Now, if you would let my team mates go, we'll be on our way." Both Kuromi and Naruto do so as Harry walks around the nin towards the Konohamaru squad. Sasuke just snorts arrogantly as he points at the nin.
"What is your name?" Temari looks at him with a smile thinking that it's her that he's pointing at.
"Who? Me?" Sasuke snorts in derision making a sour look come over her face.
"No, you with the gourd." The nin looks at him as if considering him before looking at Naruto and Harry as well.
"It's only manners to give one's own name first. But since you asked, it's Subaku no Gaara. Now what's your's and your two companions there." He finishes by pointing at Naruto and then Harry making Sasuke's face darken.
"I am Uchiha Sasuke…" Harry takes over by pointing at himself and Naruto.
"And I am Uzumaki-Potter Harry and over there is my nii-san, Uzumaki-Potter Naruto." Blinking at the strange names, Temari's about to say something when Naruto grabs her hand and kisses the knuckle making her blush.
"And may I know your full name Temari-chan?" She tells him making him chuckle. "Ah! Rose of the Desert! Such a suitable name since it's said that the most beautiful roses have the worst thorns…" Temari's blush darkens as Sakura glares at him and Kankuro's jaw drops. Gaara just shrugs before looking at them with a insane glint.
"Good. Uchiha Sasuke… Uzumaki-Potter Naruto… And Uzumaki-Potter Harry… If we meet in battle then Mother shall have your blood." Suddenly Kuromi is there in front of him with stars in her eyes as she stares at him making him raise an eyebrow. "Yes?" She just looks slightly away demurely.
"So… You like blood too?" Gaara slowly nods making her squeal and jump on him making his eyes as well as Temari's and Kankuro's widen as the sand doesn't attack her. "That is so COOL! I have finally found someone that loves blood as much as I do! What do you like that most? The coppery smell? The redness when it's freshly spilt? Oh oh! I know! You love the sound it makes as it falls, right?!" Gaara blinks before slowly nodding making her squeal again.
"Yes… I like all of the above… Why?" Kuromi looks at him and starts off on a rant of how spilling blood is so cool at which Gaara nods with a slight smile as his "Mother" tells him that "She" likes her. Unnoticed by Kuromi, Gaara has his sand slowly swirl around her only to raise his eyebrows as it doesn't come into any contact with Chakra strings. "May I ask you something?" She nods with a fan girlish look. "How is it that you are moving without any chakra strings attached?" She smiles at him before whispering to him in a stage whisper that she's a "Magic" doll and thus is sentient making him nod as he accepts it. Sakura looks at them and is about to say something that would embarrass her when Naruto interrupts her.
"You're here for the Chunin exams aren't you?" They nod at him making him grin. "Then hopefully we'll meet up… And I especially hope that we'll meet up with you my desert rose." Having finally gotten her blush under control, Temari almost groans as it comes back full force as he kisses her knuckles again before letting go of her hand with a wink. "Until we next meet Temari-chan." And with that the Subaku sibling leave, but not before Kuromi gets a promise to meet Gaara later to continue their discussion. Harry just sighs seeing her float around with a dreamy look on her face.
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Temari and Kankuro are discussing what happened with the Konoha genins they met while Gaara's looking out the window in thought. Finally after listening to the whole story Baki nods with a sigh. "I've actually heard about them… but the nin-puppet, now THAT'S interesting… Now how does it move and talk without chakra strings?" At that point Gaara joins in.
"Because she's magical." Everyone stares at him as he looks at them. "She told me that that she can move thanks to magic." Baki looks at him and nods.
"That makes sense since the Uzumaki-Potter's are supposed to be able to use a different energy then chakra known as 'Magic'. Now whether or not it is magic is debatable, but it's still able to do things beyond what should be possible so a doll talking and moving under it's own power might be possible… creepy, but possible." He nods before looking at his students. "While you know that the Kazekage has ordered us to try and kidnap any Bloodline user that we can for Suna during the invasion, those two have been given a priority just because their's seems to limitless…" None of them notice Gaara quietly sigh.
"Kuromi…" He smirks a little as a thought occurs to him. 'Heh. Since your not alive I don't have to prove my existence by killing you… Now I wonder…'
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Walking away from Training Ground Seven, Harry sighs as he looks at Sakura and Naruto. "So what do you think? Take it?" Sakura nods slowly.
"I think that I will… though I'm not quite sure yet…" She smiles as she notices Haku walking towards them. "Hey! Haku, over here!" Seeing them, Haku speeds up towards them with a large smile on her face.
"Hey guys… So you going to the Chunin exam as well?" They look at her speechless.
"But I thought that you and the rest Zabuza's group were on probation?" Haku grins as she shrugs.
"Apparently three weeks was long enough for the Hokage." When asked what team she's going with she sighs. "I'm going with the Demon Brothers… unfortunately…" They look at her in surprise as Sakura scratches her head.
"Wait I thought that they were Chunin already? So why do they have to take the exam?" Haku sighs with a shrug.
"Despite what you might think, they've never been Chunin. Chunin-level, yes. Actual Chunin… No. So Zabuza-sama is entering us in the Exam so that we can have a chance to advance." They all nod as they start walking. Haku notices that Harry and Naruto are quiet making her blink. "What's wrong with you two?" Naruto sighs as they look at the two girls.
"It's the Suna Team we met earlier…" After explaining what happened, Haku nods and asks what's wrong. "Simple… That Gaara, he stunk of Youki." Both girls stiffen and look at him in surprise. Sakura gulps as she pales.
"He's… A jinchuuriki… Are you sure?" Naruto and Harry both nod. "So which one…?" Harry sighs as he answers.
"Shukaku I think." He nods as he thinks it over. "Yeah… It would probably be him since Wind Country was his territory. Also, all jinchuuriki have some kind of outside evidence like Naruto's whiskers for example so it's not all that hard to imagine that those rings around his eyes might be a sign of the Bijuu within him." Haku groans as she looks up with her eyes closed.
"Oh great, just what we need. Two Jinchuuriki and a Inu-Youkai-to-be in the same exam… It just got that much harder." Sighing, she looks at the two while shaking her head. "But knowing you two, you think that it just got that much more fun, right?" Their grins are enough of an answer for her making her shake her head again in amusement. "Thought so." Sakura turns back to her thoughtfully.
"Hey, what were you doing here anyways? I would have thought that you'd be busy training to get ready or something." Haku nods before pointing at Harry.
"Harry-kun told me that my sword was ready for me… you know the one that he was forging just for me?" Sakura snaps her fingers as she looks towards Naruto.
"Hey, that's right! I nearly forgot about my own sword… So how's it coming around?" Naruto grins and tells her it's complete, it just needs one last thing before it's truly complete. "Really? What does it need?" Naruto takes a breath as he looks between her and Haku.
"All that's needed now is to perform a ritual…" The two girls look at each other and then back at Naruto making him sigh. "We need to perform one to make it perfectly suited to you." They both nod and start towards the Uzumaki-Potter apartment and once they get there they watch as Harry and Naruto head into a nearby room and bring out two packages and give them to Haku as well as Sakura. The two gasp as they open them and see the swords inside. Sakura's sword is a large claymore made out of some kind of red metal with a silver hilt with a emerald as a pommel stone. Naruto points at the blade. "Now remember those broken shackles that we found back at Gato's hide out?" She nods still staring at the blade. "Well, they were the same ones that were used to bind the powers of the Countess Elizabeth Bathory… The Blood Countess. How Gato got his dirty paws on them I'll never know, but I melted them down and forged the blade in a pool of magma in a cave deep beneath Lake Avernus since it was said to be an opening to the Underworld at one time. The hilt is forged from Moon Silver which has protective abilities against undeath and darkness." Now Harry points at Haku's cutlass whose blade seems to be made from a diamond with the hilt being pure white and seemingly carved from ivory with a sapphire as the pommel.
"Now your's is different since as you no doubt guessed the blade is non-metallic right?" She looks up at him with a nod. "That's because it isn't. A few years back me and nii-san came across several shards of what appeared to be diamonds in an area of Japan, bit closer examination found a trace of Youki showing that they came from some kind of attack. Thankfully, they weren't hard to forge the small shards we found into a true blade, which I forged in Mount Erebus in Antarctica… A continent at the south pole of my world eternally covered in ice." He then taps the hilt. "Now the hilt is carved, not forged, carved from a sea-unicorn's horn… Don't worry, it wasn't harmed since they fall off like a deer's antlers once a decade." Harry watches as Haku's disturbed expression melts into one of relief. "Come on, I may be crazy, but I'm not EVIL." He shrugs as a thought occurs to Haku making her stare at him.
"Wait a second, I thought that you said that they weren't finished? They certainly look finished to me." Both Haku and Sakura stare at a sheepish Harry and Naruto. "Ok, what are you not telling us?" Harry sighs.
"You're right that it's not really needed but… but we found this ritual in a book that nii-san bought that is made for blades to imbue them with aspects of their owners… and we though that maybe…" Sakura shakes her head with a smile.
"You thought that we might want to do so to improve our swords?" She watches as the two scratch their heads making her chuckle. "Well… as long as it's safe I guess, right Haku?" Haku nods with a smile as Harry and Naruto sigh in relief. Looking up, Naruto gives them both a grin.
"Well, there's two more people to get and then we can get started…"
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Having walked through the new Uzumaki-Potter compound (their own rooms still mostly empty as they've only just started moving in) Sakura, Haku, Anko, and Hana are still in shock. Anko finally shakes it off as they enter a large hemispherical room and she observes several Kage Bushin carving symbols into the rock floor making her raise an eyebrow before looking at Naruto and pointing at them. "So what are they doing Naruto?" Naruto grins as he shrugs.
"Well, we're going to need to use the ritual array more then once Anko-chan, so we have carve it and then fill it with the necessary components each time." She nods before a pot of something catches her eye making Naruto smile. "And that Anko-chan is part of it. It's a potion brewed from several components such as Re'em blood to give the blades strength and make them all but unbreakable, dragon's blood to give magical abilities to it… and others." At this point Harry takes over the explanation.
"The potion contains the components for the array. However, the reason as to why we're using a pot, each time the potion must be modified for each person with different components added each time to the main potion… which are over there on the table." They walk over to the table and look at the vials containing various things, some liquid, some in powder form. Looking at them, Sakura then turns and looks at Naruto.
"So what components are for whom?" Naruto starts pointing at the ones marked with a cherry blossom.
"Those are yours, Sakura-chan. We have: Phoenix tears and blood from Row to protect you, a powder made from the shield of a Viking berserker, dust made from dried Skeeters, ground vampire bat wings, and finally saliva from a Chupacabra." Harry points at the ones marked with a snowflake.
"These are yours Haku-chan. Here we have: Like Sakura-nee-chan tears from Row, but no blood, instead we're using blood from Hedwig because of her control over ice, powdered Kraken bones…" He trails off seeing her confused expression. "Krakens are powerful monsters of the deep." Haku nods and motions him to move on. "Anyways, we also got: ground Lindorn teeth, and finally saliva from a year old unicorn as well as powdered horn from the same unicorn's first horn." Taking over, Naruto points at the ones with the kanji for snake, but before he can say anything Anko interrupts.
"And let me guess… These are mine, right?" Naruto rubs the back of his neck sheepishly. "I thought so. So what do we have then for me?" Coughing into his hand, Naruto begins.
"Well for you, we have: Blood and venom collected from Sal, some dust from that dragon Revenant that we destroyed (Anko looks shocked at this), ground scales from the serpent that guards the Lost Duchman's Gold mine, saliva from a Peruvian viper tail, and finally powdered eggshell of a Runespoor." Anko whistles at this with an impressed look.
"Nice. Must be a powerful ritual for you to go through all this." Naruto shrugs with as he rubs the back of his neck.
"Actually we could do the ritual with less powerful ingredients, but the more powerful the ingredient used the more powerful the ritual. Also, the more magic consumed, the same thing…" Naruto goes and touches a small gem covered in runes that's glowing softly. "That's why we have these. You see these gems were created by me and nii-san to act like magical batteries and currently hold the equivalent of at least three of us for each of you." Harry points at another group marked with the Kanji for dog.
"These are yours Hana-chan. Even though your claws originally belong to Suikotsu of the Band of Seven, and since I had to reforge them the ritual will strengthen them." She nods in agreement. "Now, for you we have: Tears from Row, blood from a sixty year old werewolf taken on the night of the full moon, saliva from a hell hound… not fun to collect let me tell you…" Hana laughs a little as does Naruto remembering how that turned out. "Anyways… We also have: Powdered bone taken from Inutaisho himself… Don't ask. Also: ground moon rock, and slivers of wood from a thousand year old cedar." Hana nods before pointing out the ritual knife also on the table.
"I suppose that our blood is needed as well?" Naruto nods making them all sigh. "Fine… Let's do this I guess." Harry motions over a Kage Bushin which retrieves several cauldrons marked with different runes each.
"Now, you guys have to fill the bottom of these with your blood… hence the blood replenishing pills." After they're done and Hana and Sakura start healing their wounds, Harry and Naruto start chanting as they add first the individual components and then the actual potion. Once done, each cauldron's runes are glowing a different colour as well as having a different smell waft from them (Anko: A dark purple and cinnamon, Haku: Icy blue with a mint smell, Hana: Silver with a forest smell, and Sakura: Red with the smell of clean night air). Finally finished with most of the preparations, Naruto tells them the last thing needed… with the usual results.
"YOU WANT US TO DO WHAT!" Naruto bows his head with a massive blush as he looks at Sakura while rubbing his head where she hit him.
"We need you to… (gulp) Strip out of as much of your clothing as possible… You can still wear bras and panties… but the rest has to come off." Sakura's about to scream as Haku looks mortified when their attention is grabbed by Hana taking off her vest. Sakura looks at her in shock.
"Wha… what are you doing?!" Hana looks over at her and snorts as she drops her shorts and grabs the bottom of her shirt.
"Sakura, I've known them for a long time as has Anko. We both know that if they ask for something like this then it's needed. They aren't perverts after all." She pulls off her shirt showing that she's not wearing a bra, she puts it into the pile of clothing and starts walking out into the array. Looking back, she gestures to Harry. "Well? Aren't you coming?" Shaking his head free, Harry rushes over.
"Er…Right!" He gets Hana to sit down with her legs crossed as he fills the carved array with the potion before he starts drawing runes with some of it on Hana's body (during which she shivers from the cold liquid) and weapons and then he links the runes with the array with another set of runes leading from her to it. Taking a breath, he looks down at her. "Are you sure of this Hana-chan? You don't have to if you don't want to." Hana looks at him and snorts.
"Hit me." With that Harry starts chanting as the array fills with a silver glow that runs up the runes on her body and weapons making appear them appear to be made from molten silver. She suddenly gasps and arches her back as a ghostly wolf appears in front of her before howling and transforming into a silvery mist that then gets sucked into the weapons. Finally the light vanishes leaving her to fall backwards gasping as Harry does the same. "W… whoa… What a rush.." Harry nods as he to falls to the ground out of breath.
"Ye… yeah. Whew!" His eyebrows raise as he looks at her claws that have now changed. The blades now appear to be made of sliver and have small serrations on them while the guard is now pitch black with the design of a wolf howling at the moon done in silver on the back of the hand with the kanji for loyalty beneath it. He hands them over to Hana who rolls them around, examining them as she gets her clothes back on (The runes having vanished). Finally she puts them on and gasps as they seem to shrink to fit her hands snugly. Nodding, she looks at Harry with a smile.
"Well… Looks good, I can't wait to try these puppies out in battle." She walks off as Naruto and a already striped Anko walk over to the array as Harry follows Hana. A few hours later finds all of the rituals done with a different "Spirit" having appeared during each ritual (Anko's: A purplish black Western/Eastern dragon mix that roared before being drawn into the blade, Haku's: A Icy blue polar bear that entered her cutlass, Sakura's: A reddish humanoid bat (Imagine Jenny the Bat's beast form from Bloody Roar three) that screeched before transforming into a mist). Now, all three are examining their weapons. Where before Haku's resembled a normal cutlass except for being made from diamond, it now appears to be made from a blue diamond with white swirls inside of it and the Kanji for "To protect that which is precious" along the blade itself. The hilt is now a bright snow white colour while with a wired basket hilt and the sapphire now softly glows with a white snowflake design at it's center. She takes a drink of the pumpkin juice with a smile as she can feel the hum from the power contained within the blade before looking up at Harry.
"Thank you Harry-kun… it's wonderful." Harry nods as Sakura looks up and gives Naruto a small kiss on his cheek.
"It may have been embarrassing to go through with it but it's an awesome sword now." The blade has now changed slightly to include a blood channel while it's tip is now as keen as a mid-winter's icicle (imagine a larger version of Martin's blade from Redwall). The metal it's made from also changed to be a blood red with pure white circles making the blade appear to be covered in her clan crest with the kanji for her name running along both sides of the cross guard. The hilt now resembles a skeletal dragon with the now softly glowing emerald held in it's mouth with two eyes made from amethysts. Anko nods in agreement as she's still examining her blade in shock.
"Yeah, now it's super sick." The blade is now such a silvery white colour that from a distance it could be mistaken for a tooth. It also now has serrations along the blade making any wound from it far more grievous then before. The winged serpents are still there but are now outlined in purple-black, while the hilt is pitch black with a strange deep purple stone with brown swirls through it. She sighs in enjoyment as she sips a hot chocolate before looking up at the genin around her. "So you guys are entering the genin exam huh?" Sakura looks at her in shock as does Haku.
"What? How did you know that?" Anko snorts before taking another sip.
"Because I was there and let me tell you, Iruka nearly blew a gasket when Kakashi nominated you guys." Harry just rolls his eyes as he drinks his butterbeer.
"We defeated high A-rank enemies back in Wave while he was in sight and he STILL can't let go." Hana chuckles a little drinking her own hot chocolate.
"Not to surprising with Iruka since he has a problem letting go… though with that possible jinchuuriki from Suna he just might have a reason." Hana gives Harry and Haku both a serious look. "I know you'll probably ignore me, but please be careful… there's always deaths in the Exams and I don't want one of you guys to be one." Both Harry and Haku smile as Haku leans over and gives Hana a hug and a kiss on the cheek.
"Thanks, but don't worry, I'll look out for Harry-kun in the exams." Hana smiles and thanks her making Harry wonder what's going on between those two. Anko just hides her smirk having heard through the grape vine that Haku's been spending a lot of time at the Inuzuka veterinary clinic. Clearing her throat, Sakura focuses attention back on her.
"So Anko-san… can you tell us anything about the exam?" She starts laughing making her glare. "What? What's so funny?!" Anko just waves her off before speaking.
"Nothing. I hate to tell you this gaki, but I'm not allowed to tell you shit dick, sorry… not." Sakura huffs at her making her laugh. "What fun would it be to reveal it? None. Besides with Harry and Naruto you already have an unfair advantage." Sakura screws her face up as she looks at her.
"Wait. What about Sasuke? Doesn't his Sharingan give us an advantage?" Anko looks at her and nods granting her a point.
"Yes and no. Yes, in that it can see through and copy all ninjutsu, genjutsu, and taijutsu. But no in that because of that any team that knows that you have it will be just that much more careful when facing you." Taking another sip, she leans back. "It's a useful tool, but the way that the Uchiha works is that he'll broadcast that he has it from the start taking away from it's usefulness because then EVERYONE will know about it. So then they will be on guard and be that more difficult when you face them because they will be expecting it… And I would be careful if I was you because I'm pretty sure that the Uchiha will not hesitate to steal any jutsu you use. This goes double for you girly (points at Sakura) because unlike the other three here you don't have any jutsu that require a bloodline to use." Sakura nods with a sigh, conceding the point.
"You're right… but all I have is a few minor genjutsu and some medical jutsu I've picked up. And maybe two or three real ninjutsu as well." She shrugs a little embarrassed only to blush as Anko smiles at her.
"You know, for a rookie genin that's not half bad. If you ever want to know some Kunoichi-centric jutsu, come and look me up." Anko checks her watch and sighs before looking back up. "Sorry guys , but as much as I enjoyed this I've got to get going." Finishing up her hot chocolate, she straps her sword to her hip. "I left Tsuki-chan with Nai' chan for the day so I need to go and pick her up." Naruto nods with a smile.
"Tell her that I said hi, will you?" Anko chuckles before telling him that she'll do that. Soon after she leaves so does Haku and Hana with Harry walking them both home thus leaving Naruto alone with Sakura who's sitting there with a proud smile. Realizing what that smile means, he chuckles. "So you did it huh?" She nods with a happy look.
"Yup! Thankfully all I needed was spiritual energy which I have a lot of." She pulls out a piece of paper cut in the shape of a person with the kanji for Inner on it and chants before a explosion of smoke occurs along with coughing coming from the cloud. "Un(Cough) fortunately I kee(Hack!) p getting to much (Wheeze!) smoke from it." As the smoke clears, Sakura can see Naruto there shrugging.
"Yeah, I had that problem at first, but it goes away with practice." The smoke fully clears revealing a white eyed Sakura standing beside the original with a huge smile. "Why hello there Inner-" He doesn't get anything else out as she chooses that moment to leap on him and he only has time to set down his mug before being knocked to the ground with Inner-Sakura straddling his waist. "Itai… Hi Inner-Sakura-chan…" She notices his thoughtful look.
"What's wrong Naruto-kun?" He shrugs before trying to move out from under her.
"Um… Can I get back into my chair first?" Blushing she gets off him and waits until he's back into the chair before sitting down in his lap making him groan. " Do have any kind of inhibitions at all?" She taps her chin in mock thought before shrugging and going back to snuggling into his chest.
"Nope!" Naruto just sighs.
"That's what I thought." He looks her over and taps his own chin. "Um… just a question but can I call you something else besides Inner-Sakura-chan? It's just that it might get confusing after a while." She blinks and looks at Sakura who shrugs and tells him that she just refers to her as Inner or Inner-me. Inner-Sakura nods emphatically.
"Yeah, I don't have any other name but that…" She trails off sadly before bouncing back. "But that's okay! Shannaro!" Naruto watches her making her blush and asks her to say that last word again. "What? Shannaro?" Naruto nods as she shrugs. "It's nothing, I like ending my sentences with it, why?" Naruto gives her a foxy grin making her blush darken.
"I got it! I'll call you Shannaro-chan! How does that sound?" She mumbles it before smiling.
"I like it…" She looks at Naruto and taps him on the nose. "But only you'll get to call me that, got it?" He nods but is unable to say anything as she decides at that moment to see how far her tongue will stretch down his throat. Naruto stiffens a little at this.
'Kyubi-chan? What should I do? The first time I let her because she wasn't sure if Sakura could pull this off, but now it's different.' Kyubi giggles some before answering.
'Silly Naruto-kun, it's no different now then it was then. My suggestion? Go along with it. She obviously loves you so why not?' Naruto gives her a mental nod and smile.
'Thanks Kyubi-chan.' She gives him a mental shrug with a smile as he melts into the kiss and wraps his arms around Inner-Sakura's waist before moving his hands down and squeezing making her start before she moans. Sakura watches this for a few minutes before a slightly sad expression comes over her face as she gets up and walks into the kitchen. Sakura stands there looking out the kitchen window with a sigh.
'It's really creepy seeing someone looking like me do that… but why can't I-' She gets cut off as she feels two arms identical to her own wrap her into a hug. After a few seconds she sighs as she speaks with a slightly bitter tone. "Why aren't you in there with Naruto Inner-me?" Inner-Sakura sighs as she tightens the hug.
"Because I can feel you hurting. You don't have to fear Naruto-kun walking in on our conversation since he's busy at the moment clearing the table. So what's the matter Outer-me?" Sakura sighs making Inner-Sakura give a sad smile. "Let me guess… It's because I was kissing Naruto-kun and you like him?" Sakura stiffens as Inner-Sakura moves her head to lean on her Outer-self's shoulder and is about to deny it when Inner-Sakura shushes her. "Shhhh. It's okay. I'm part of you remember? I know all your true thoughts and feelings after all." Sakura sighs before a single tear falls from her eye.
"I'm… I'm just so confused. I just don't know what I feel anymore. I know that I had a crush on Sasuke and that a tiny bit of it is still there but Naruto…" She closes her eyes as another tear escapes. "I don't know what I feel with him. Is it love? Lust? Another small crush? What is it?" Inner-Sakura smiles as she reaches up and brushes a piece of Sakura's hair away from her face.
"Tell me something? When you imagined what life with Sasuke would be like, what was it like? And how do you imagine life with Naruto-kun?" She can feel the raised eyebrow from Sakura so she chuckles. "Just do it. I think that you might find your answer there." Sighing, Sakura takes a deep breath.
"When I imagined life with Sasuke, I imagined him coming to get me and riding off into the sunset… How he would passionately love me everyday once I got him out of his shell… And that's about it really. Kuso, it sounds like something out of a really bad romance novel doesn't it?" Inner-Sakura chuckles as she observes movement out of the corner of her eyes and brings her finger to her lips before turning back to Sakura.
"That's one way to look at it. Another would be an idealised view of life I suppose. Now, how do imagine life alongside Naruto would be like?"
"Beside the whole sharing thing?" Inner-Sakura laughs a little and shakes her head.
"Yes, besides that." Sakura thinks it over before a soft smile comes over her face.
"I see my self and the others standing beside Naruto as the Hokage. He loves us all equally and we love him…I see him taking me for moonlit walks along a beach… kissing me…" Sakura heavily blushes at her next words. "I see him… making love to me… to us Inner-me… Not just sex, but love." Despite blushing, Inner-Sakura nods. "I can see our kids… we have several, some with pink hair and other's with blond. Some with green eyes and some with blue and others with a mix… I see him right there with me while I'm giving birth… And… I see him still at my side when I'm old and wrinkly despite him still looking young… And finally I can see him staying beside me and telling me that he loves me as I take my last breath and then visiting my grave for the rest of his life before eventually joining me in the next life…" By this time Sakura, Inner-Sakura and their observer are openly crying as Inner-Sakura nods.
"That sounds so nice… But here's the question needing to be answered: Do YOU love him? And don't lie since I can tell if you do." Sakura sadly chuckles.
"Yes… Yes I love that knucklehead… or at least I think I do. I don't know why I didn't see it before… And I call him a baka. HA!" She sighs a little, with her eyes still closed not noticing the observer walking towards the two, but Inner-Sakura does. "Besides it's not like I can get together with him since he has far better choices available. I mean, I'm not even that pretty with my over large forehead and flat chest…" Inner-Sakura sighs as their observer stops right behind them.
"Why must you always be so hard on yourself? Sure we have a large forehead. But remember how Naruto-kun said that it being so large makes him want to kiss it? And sure we might not be the biggest in the chest department? So what? You know that unlike most boys he doesn't care about those types of things. Besides, Svelte can be sexy too you know!" Sakura sighs while shaking her head.
"Me? Sexy? HA! That's a laugh! Compared to people like Kyubi-san or Hinata I'm downright ugly." She shakes her head. "I'll let you pursue him since you're far braver then me… But I know that he'll never love me like that. I'll just stay in the background and never let him know." Inner-Sakura shakes her head and snorts, her next words making Sakura's eyes fly open in shock.
"Kind of too late for that since he's been in the same room as us for the past several minutes." Trembling, Sakura turns around to see a misty eyed Naruto right behind a smirking (and also misty eyed) Inner-Sakura who jerks her thumb at Naruto. "Thankfully he listened when I told him to be quiet otherwise you would have kept it bottled up." Sakura looks down with a red face as she starts sobbing thinking that he's going to reject her only to be shocked when Naruto gathers her in his arms. She's even more shocked at what he says next.
"You know that Shannaro-chan is right, you are very beautiful. I sure as hell don't know where you got it into your head that you weren't." Naruto moves her hair aside and plants a kiss on her forehead. "Your forehead is beautiful to me. It shows how intelligent you are." He gives her a shaky grin as he hugs her. "As the whole chest thing… who gives a shit. I don't. To me I consider you beautiful just as the way you are, understand me? I would never make you change." She giggles a little with a slight hiccup.
"Not even for all the ramen in the world?" Naruto shakes his head with a chuckle.
"Not even for all the ramen in the universe Sakura-chan." He cups the side of her face as their lips move closer to each others. "I'll love you for as long as you'll have me Sakura-chan." Tears start leaking from her eyes at hearing those words as she gives him a small smile.
"Then you better be ready to do so for a long time Uzumaki-Potter Naruto… Because I'm not going to be letting go for a eternity…" And with that they kiss. Sakura's mouth open, soft, probing but still fumbling because unlike Naruto she doesn't have any experience kissing. She shyly continues fully enjoying the sensation of his lips on hers but is saddened when they have to pull away to breath. Seeing Inner-Sakura watching them, Naruto opens a arm and without needing to say anything Inner-Sakura bounds into the hug, giggling as he holds the two close to him. Suddenly she gives him a perverted grin.
"You know… This probably a number of guys dreams right here." They both look at her making her grin grow. "Think about it. Me… Outer-me… We're practically twins!" The gears in their heads slowly turn until both turn completely red and shout the exact same thing.
"INNER-SAKURA(-chan)!" She just giggles at them before smirking again.
"What? You got to admit that it's something that you've thought about." Naruto sighs as the two girls drag him to a nearby couch. Sighing again, he sits down shaking his head.
"Actually no. Can't say that I have…" He trails off as Inner-Sakura pushes Sakura down into his lap causing him to blush. "Um… Hey?" Sakura glares at her Inner who just grins before pushing her slightly to the side so as to sit beside her. He becomes slightly nervous as she looks at him with a hungry look.
"Whatever… Now, I want some more Naruto kisses…"
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Steve: And there we go! Well? What do you think?
Yui: That you must be on something.
Pen-pen: Waarrk. (Agreed.)
Steve: Oh, for the love of... You guys just can never give me a break, can you?
Yui/Pen-pen: Nope/Wark.
Steve: That's what I thought (Sigh) Time for the polls. Hinata? If you would?
Hinata: Hai!
Poll:Should I do a yuri lemon like the ones I've been doing?
Yes: 5
No: 0
Steve: Thank you Hinata. Now, I'll see you guys in the next chapter, see ya!
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