Chapter 6

This is where I originally planned to start the story, but then it would be too complicated to start there without some background. Make sure to review.

Six days later. Everybody in Konoha was shocked to hear that the whole Uchiha clan was slaughtered in one night (except Sasuke), but of course they don't know the full story.

Sakura's plan almost worked if they weren't interfered with a guy calling himself Madara Uchiha. After the plan failed, Itachi created a genjutsu for Sasuke showing him killing their parents and the whole clan. Itachi then left Sasuke with tears streaming down his face and had a talk with Sakura.

Itachi has entrusted Sakura to take care of Sasuke and look out for him. She accepted his wishes and gave Itachi a tight hug. He returned her embrace with one of his own and then left the village.

As the years passed, Sakura has been taking care of Sasuke without him even noticing she was there. She's like his guardian angel. She has seen how cold and emotionless he has become and how he is driven by revenge for his brother. She has seen how he cries himself to sleep every night. She has seen him train to the point where he passes out from exhaustion. Every time he passes out like that, Sakura would always come out of her hiding spot to heal all of his major injuries, while she leaves the small cuts and bruises he has so he won't get suspicious. She has seen him grow, but of course she hasn't forgotten about Naruto. She will never leave their sides and will guide them as best as she can.

As for Itachi, he has now joined a dangerous group of S-ranked class missing ninjas called the Akatsuki. The Akatsuki's goal is to make the world a better place, but their methods to achieve that are cruel. She has learned this from Itachi himself. When Itachi bumps into Sakura while she is on a mission, he tells her everything he knows about the group so she could go report it back to the Hokage.

Now Sakura is sixteen years old while Sasuke and Naruto are now twelve.

Sakura has become even stronger than anybody could ever dream to be. She has become so strong that she has now taken among herself to complete the suicide missions that the Hokage has to offer to avoid losing a lot of ninjas and to avoid anybody losing someone close to them. Sometimes there would be no more suicide missions and she would take military missions that would consist of her leaving the country. She would never take a mission that would last many months, worried what would happen if she leaves Naruto and Sasuke alone without much supervision. Also her base that is under the village has become even bigger than it was before. She keeps a lot of weaponry from the military. She has even learned how to build tanks and cars, planes, large guns and explosives. With all the missions she takes, you can guess how much money she is willing to waste.

Today was the day where the academy will be having the final test to graduate and become genin.

"Naruto, it's time to wake up. You have a big day today." Sakura said as she entered Naruto's room.

Naruto didn't respond and kept sleeping.

She gently shook Naruto's shoulder, "Come on Naruto, wake up. Breakfast is getting cold."

Naruto groaned and shifted so his back was facing her.

Sakura sighed and mischievously looked at Naruto, "Don't make me pour a bucket of ice cold water on you again."

Naruto quickly sat up on his bed, "Ok ok, I'm up. I'm up."

"Good, now get ready for school. Today is your final test to become a genin and officially be a ninja." She said as she left his room.

Naruto then smiled with excitement and quickly started to get dressed.

After breakfast, Sakura walked Naruto to the academy. As they were walking, Naruto glanced at his older sister who was wearing her mask and cloak.

"Aneki?"

Sakura without looking at him answered "Yes?"

"Why do you always wear that mask and cloak every time you go out?"

"Well, I am an Anbu."

"But you even wear it when it's your day off."

Sakura stayed silent for a couple of seconds before saying, "It's complicated." She then turned to Naruto and tapped two fingers on his forehead saying "I'll tell you some other time."

Naruto rubbed his forehead and grumbled something about 'why do you always do that?' while Sakura chuckled and continued walking.

Sakura then remembered when she first did that to Naruto while Itachi was watching.

Flashback

An six year old Naruto ran up to Sakura while she was talking to Itachi at a park.

"Aneki! Aneki! Can we go train now? Pleeease?"

Sakura looked at him sadly "Sorry Naruto, I have to go on a very important mission with Itachi right now."

Naruto looked down to the ground sadly and quietly said "Ok"

Sakura smiled at him, crouched down to his height and tapped his forehead with two fingers and said, "Maybe some other time Naruto."

As they left Naruto at Sakura's house to go on their mission, Itachi turned to her, "Why do you tap his forehead every time you say sorry to him?"

"Well when I still had my family, my older brother would always do that to me to make me smile again instead of pouting all the time and I guess it kinda rubbed off on me."

Itachi then turned his gaze back on the road thinking about something before smirking.

A couple days later Sakura saw Itachi tap Sasuke's forehead with two fingers just like she does with Naruto. When Itachi walked up to her, he noticed her eyes were narrowed at him and her mouth was slightly open.

"You…"

Itachi smirked "What?"

"What do you mean 'what?' That, is my thing that I do to Naruto."

"I know." he casually said

"You can't just steal my thing."

Itachi just ignored her and started walking away.

"Hey! Come back here, I'm not done with you! You... teme."

"Hn, dobe."

"Teme."

"Dobe."

"Teme!"

"Dobe!"

End of Flashback

Sakura smiled under her mask at the memory and looked up at the sky 'Itachi, I hope you're ok.'

"Aneki."

Sakura was snapped back into reality and looked at Naruto "Yeah?"

"Where're here. You can go now."

"Oh. Right. Well try your best and good luck. I'll pick you up later."

"I'm old enough to walk home you know and don't worry, I'm so going to pass."

The test is to make a shadow clone of himself. All the students of the academy have passed except for Naruto.

Naruto was sitting on a swing looking at all of the students who passed with tears in his eyes. 'I failed.'

"Naruto."

He jumped a little and looked at his sister who took off her mask, but still had her hood on. Naruto looked back towards the students that were celebrating.

Sakura kneeled down and hugged him with so much affection. "Hey, it's ok. Even if you didn't pass there will be other opportunities to try again. Alright?"

Naruto nodded and sniffed.

Sakura wiped away his tears and kissed his temple "Want to go eat some ramen at Itchiraku's?"

Naruto smiled and said "Yes! Let's go."

After eating ramen, Naruto decided to take a walk at the park. Sakura had to an Anbu meeting and would be back later tonight. He went towards the playground and sat on one of the swings. As he was staring up at the sky, a man approached him.

"So you didn't pass huh?"

Naruto narrowed his eyes, "Who are you?"

"My name is Mizuki, I am one of the teachers in the academy."

Naruto relaxed "Oh, what do you want? Are you here to criticize me like the rest have?"

Mizuki chuckled "Quite the contrary. How would you like another chance to graduate?"

Naruto's eyes widened "You could do that?"

Mizuki smirked evilly "Of course. All you need to do to graduate is to take the Scroll of Seals from the Hokage's residence without being detected. Can you do that?"

As Sakura was discussing the problem of the Akatsuki in the Anbu meeting, the meeting had to be cut short because someone has broken into the Hokage's office and has stolen the Scroll of Seals. Now everybody was on high alert.

Naruto, who has just stolen the scroll started to read it, desperate to learn the Bunshin no Jutsu (multiple shadow clone technique) unaware that the village was looking for him.

"It looks like you got the scroll, now give it to me." said Mizuki with a menacing voice.

As Naruto was going to give him the scroll, Mizuki was thrown back by a punch. Iruka has shown up just in time to stop Mizuki from taking the scroll.

"Mizuki. What are you doing?"

"What do you think I'm doing? I tricked this little demon to steal the scroll and as soon as I got it, I was going to kill him." He said with a crooked smile.

Naruto looked at him with fear and disbelief that he has been tricked to steal the scroll in order to graduate.

Mizuki and Iruka were now fighting each other to the death. As they were fighting, Mizuki started to talk to Naruto.

"Hey kid, do you know why everybody in Konoha hates you?"

Iruka's eyes then widened "Don't say it."

"It's because you are the nine- tails jinchuriki. You are the reason hundreds of people died when the nine- tails demon attacked. The reason why everybody hates you."

Naruto stared in disbelief with tears in his eyes. Mizuki has now attacked Naruto with dozens of shuriken. Naruto, unable to move, closed his eyes and waited for the shriken do pierce his skin, but he was quickly thrown down to the ground by Iruka. Iruka has protected Naruto with his body, having shuriken pierce his back. Naruto stared at him in shock that he had protected him and quickly grew angry. Naruto got up from under Iruka and did some hand signs before shouting

"Bushin no Jutsu!" and created hundreds of shadow clones and started to fight with Mizuki. He started to beat Mizuki to a pulp and then hit him so hard that he became unconscious.

After the fight Anbu ninjas have finally found Naruto and took them back to the village. As soon as they made it back to the village, Iruka said that for mastering such a difficult technique, he allowed Naruto to graduate.

Naruto has now received his headband with the leaf symbol on it. He was then escorted by Anbu ninjas to the Hokage's office where Sakura was waiting for him with an annoyed look on her face.

When he entered the office, he quickly ran up to his sister, "Look aneki. I graduated." showing her his brand new headband.

Sakura smiled at him and hit him on the head.

"Ow, what was that for?"

She then hugged him tightly and said, "For being an idiot. Don't worry me like that again."

Naruto then smiled widely and said "No promises."

Sakura then hit him on the head again. 'Stupid.'

I hope you enjoyed it. If you want to know about Sakura's plan on helping Itachi before she was interfered by Madara, then you will have to keep on reading. It might not be mentioned again until much later. Make sure to review.