Disclaimer: I do not own naruto or any other character from other sources used in this fan fiction, the only thing I own is the plot

"Normal speech"

"Toughs and flashbacks"

"Kyuubi"

"Inner Sakura"

"Kyuubi's thoughts"

(AN): authors note.

AN: okay here in this chapter Sasame might be a little OOC and Naruto is taller than Sakura and shorter than Sasuke (Remember that his mentor didn't let him eat ramen).

This is a filler chapter but there is some important stuff in it.

CHAPTER 2: they are back

The blond blurred and the next thing the orange-haired girl knew was that she was being hugged, it took her a moment to register the fact, but when she did she reddened to a Hinata-like point, the boy she liked was hugging her!

"He is back? He is back! He really is here!"

In a really out of character moment she buried her face in his chest and murmured, "you're here, you really are here" at the same time she returned the hug

"I promised you I will, remember" Naruto said kindly.

Hinata was at the verge of tears, she felt somewhat betrayed. The boy she knew all those years ago, the one that will always smile and shout that he will become hokage one day; her source of strength was hugging the Fuuma girl in the way she wanted to be hugged.

The whole ordeal was stopped by the chunnin who was teaching at moment by clearing his throat and with a speed that surpassed his own Sasame was standing at the end of row sporting a bright blush, while Naruto was standing in the same place.

"Now if you've finished with that could you come and introduce yourself?"

Naruto scratched the back of his head looking sheepish and walked back in front of the class, after a an instant he decided he did not like being scrutinized by his soon to be classmates, sure he always wanted some attention, but he was not some lab experiment.

"Okay now that you're here could you introduce yourselves to the class, ladies first" Iruka said with a smile looking at Sakura.

The girl smiled back and then turned to the front to present herself "hello my name is Haruno Sakura it's nice to meet you" "SHANNARO!!!" her inner persona added. After hearing her presentation the eyes of a blonde girl widened.

The next was the ever stoic Uchiha, who eyed the class discreetly before saying in a cold and uncaring tone as to not attract troubles for himself "my name is Uchiha Sasuke"

This however had the opposite effect when he eyed the classroom again he become white as a paper sheet, why? Because most of the female population of the class had the 'look'

Oh he knew that look aright, it was the look that the girls back in sound had, the fan girl look.

This of course made his yellow haired friend snicker loudly; it would have been laughter if Sasuke shouldn't have glared at him.

The blond then grinned and give his introduction "hello my name is Uzumaki Naruto!" he said enthusiastically but in a normal volume of voice, this caused a reaction in the rest of the girls in the room, including a certain Hyuuga and the orange-haired girl.

In that moment the girls thought that Naruto was worth keeping an eye on, as he seemed more than he let on. Some even started developing the look. In that moment the blond remembered the vindictive words of his friend.

"Keep laughing dobe, one day it will happen to you and we'll see if you think it's funny"

So for the very little time that was left of the class the new students manage to avoid paying attention in their own ways, Sakura by talking to Ino, Sasuke either brooding or watching trough the window, and Naruto either sleeping or talking to Sasame.

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When the school ended the three went their separate ways, Sakura went to see her mother, the last the girl heard of her is that she was well enough and overcame her husband's demise, Sasuke went to the Uchiha compound and Naruto went to seek his beloved ramen, this time however he was accompanied by his orange haired female friend, who aware of the 'look' decided not to take any chances and it gives her the time to catch on with her friend.

"So Sasame-chan how long have you been here?"

"We moved to konoha about a year ago Naruto-kun"

"And do you like it?"

The girl nodded and answered, "huh-huh the people it's really nice here"

"That's good"

After a couple of seconds of silence he asked, " How is he?"

The girl lowered her gaze and answered in a sad tone close to tears "Arashi-niichan haven't woke up yet"

He mentally smacked himself for this, before the Fuuma came to konoha Sasame's cousin Arashi saved her life during a night raid made by cloud, he was gravely wounded and was currently comatose.

In a move that he himself couldn't explain he scooted and wrapped his arms around her in a comforting hug "don't worry now that Baa-chan is here she will heal him and then everything will be like it used to be".

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To say she was nervous was an understatement, Sakura was a wreck in the moment, the last time she saw her mother was when she allowed her to go with her sensei, back then when her father died and she was being consumed by grief, for a long time she cried and she hated her mother, after all what kin of woman makes her child go away when her daughter needed her the most, but eventually she forgave her because she understood as she grew up that her mother was not invulnerable, she was just another human being, just like her.

Then she stopped and asked herself, would her mother accept her now? After all these years apart? After what she become? She was a shinobi now, the very same profession that took her father's life, she could save someone or kill someone with relative ease, hell it was expected that down the line she will have to take lives, if not for a mission then for self defense.

"Well I guess there is no point in delaying it" she knocked on the door that used to be her house.

"One moment please" said a voice making Sakura's inners churn.

A moment later the door opened and Haruno Mika steeped out, she was by all means a bigger version of Sakura, from head to toes with only two exceptions, the eyes that where honey-colored and the fore-head.

"Mom" the girl whispered.

Mika stood there, seeing her daughter for the first time in years she saw her eyes water and she knew hers were too, it was a relief to see her again, all those years she berated and punished herself for her weakness, for being unable to pull herself when her baby needed her the most, for not being a mother, day and night she prayed that one day she will be able to correct that mistake.

"S-Sakura?"

"Mom, it's me"

The woman wrapped her in a tight hug, never wanting to let go and it would a while before she did.

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Sasuke just stood there in the compound in the same spot where his bastard sibling murdered his parents, the whole place was eerie, to him it didn't matter if he was four at the time or eighty he still didn't do anything, and seeing the scene it strengthened his oath, nothing had changed since then.

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Hinata was trembling the last time she talked with her father she ended up crying silently in her room, so it was no secret that she was nervous, silently wondering why her father summoned her, her inner thoughts were cut short when her cousin Neji stopped and moved aside so she could reach the door, inside was her father, Hyuuga Hiashi with his ever serious face looking down at her.

"Hinata it has come to my attention a certain rumor that some new students joined your class today"

"H-h-hai otou-san" said the girl trying her hardest to avoid eye contact.

Hiashi stood impassively in silence before saying "what can you tell me of them"

And Hinata talked about them, she saw how her father snorted in contempt when she mentioned Sakura, how he seemed enraged about Sasuke; but when she started talking about Naruto he, for a moment, let out a small, almost invisible smile that disappeared so fast that the Hyuuga girl thought she was seeing things.

"very well Hinata you can retire now"

"a-ano what's so I-important about N-Naruto-kun?"

"that is not of your concern go to your room now"

"yes otou-san" the girl looked crest-fallen

inwardly Hiashi was glad; his original plan of making Tsunade take Hinata as an apprentice so she could grow strong and get close to the Namikaze heir didn't work, but this was a great chance.

He left towards the hokage's office, there was much to do.

It was morning in konoha, the sun was just starting to rise from behind the hokage monument, making it an amazing sight to behold but more importantly it was the hour a certain blond boy was making the final touches to his plan, he started after dropping Sasame in the compound and endured a good amount of teasing, he snickered when he though of the reaction they will have, he was good, no, he was the best.

It was almost time for everyone to woke up and start their daily activities, completely unaware of the blonde's plans for some of them; as he finishing his master piece, he started making hand-seals.

"if this doesn't tell them I'm back nothing will"

when he finished the seal sequence chaos was unleashed with a short shout of "katsu" among the shouts were screeches of indignation, rage and humiliation, along with male screams of pain, as one of Naruto's targets were the walls that surrounded the female part of the local onsen, where his white-haired master was 'researching' at the moment.

Others came from the ANBU H.Q. as Naruto raided some of the lockers and bobby-trapped others so it sprayed their owners with different types of substances, paint, oil, grease, and other nasty and harmless if stinky and stingy substances.

And so more shouts of rage and bloody murder permeated the air or konoha, the blond finished his prank, admired konoha and sighed happily. Isn't it amazing what can one do with storage seals?.

"there you are brat!" shouted a chunnin before lunging for the blond, who front flipped and used his attacker as a stepping-board for his escape.

Apparently he also painted the hokage monument, in the fore-head of the yondaime he put 'Naruto wuz here' on the sandaime he painted the remnants of a rather strong nose-bleed and dribbled the words 'ero-jiji' (perverted old man) on his cheek and drabbled the faces of the first and second. Then a massive man carrying what it looked like a giant knife joined the chase.

Fuuma Hanzaki was in a murdering humor, when he woke up he discovered that everyone in his clan seemed to laugh at him, he didn't understood the why until he reached the flag pole at the center of the compound where his boxers were put at it's highest point with the words 'propriety of Fuuma Hanzaki' it didn't take a genius to find the responsible of the crime.

Not too long after a whole lot of shinobi came after him, but one trained by a sage doesn't become weak or useless in tight situations, so after avoiding a genin that flew over him using another chunnin's face as a spring-board to take the rooftops after maneuvering in the air to avoid another couple of shinobis that sported bald heads he was forced to wall run a couple of meters before taking the ground once again.

In that very same moment Sakura and her mother were leaving the house when the pinkette girl pulled her mother back with one arm making her yelp in surprise, she was about to ask the why when a black blur descended in the exact place she was moments ago.

"goodmorningSakura-chan,Haruno-sani'minahurrysoi'llseeyouatclassokaybye" he spoke so quickly that she was barely able to understand him "Naruto the academy is the other way!"

more shouts where heard and a second later Naruto was chased by even more ninjas while shouting "THANKS SAKURA-CHAN!"

"and this is only the beginning of the year" thought the elder hokage as he watched the whole ordeal wondering how much paperwork will this produce and shuddering at the amount.

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AN: another chapter finished, yeah, yeah I know that I should be writing a chapter for surrounded by cloud and lightning, but I was struck by inspiration and here we are; now to important stuff, no one, and I mean none will be paired with more than one people, Tayuya and Kin fan-girl crush are for humorous purposes, so it's either one or the other.

Now my theory behind Jiraiya's lousy training in the canon:

Before the white haired pervert came along Naruto already had a fighting style (granted lousy and almost ineffective at a times but a style nevertheless) and due to the amount of time given to him it was almost impossible to create another one from scratch, as it would require more time than he had, as the blonde's style was born after years in the academy both good and bad things, so he worked on his biggest weakness (genjutsu), make sure he would his strengths properly( kage bunshin), try to use correctly his biggest triumph card (the kyuubi, he kind of failed there in my opinion), and make sure that his unpredictability stay with him while making stronger and faster, and giving him some resemblance of taijutsu, in my opinion I think two and a half years are not enough to remade a fighting style but it's enough to modify one and make it useful, and besides he did teach the blond some sealing.

Now why I write this? Because one of the most popular theories is that if Naruto had someone who cared to teach him from the very beginning he would a hell of a better ninja and I based this story in this theory.

Now to other stuff: most of you ask me to pair Sakura with Lee and Sasuke with either Kin or Tayuya

Sakura/Lee: 3

Sakura/Neji: 1

Sasuke/Tayuya: 2

Sasuke/Kin: 2

I will repeat this: NO ONE AND I MEAN NO ONE WILL BE PAIRED WITH MORE THAN ONE PEOPLE IN THIS FIC.

That's all and please review criticism is greatly appreciated, flames find some one that cares for them.

JA NE.