Uh I only got one possible vote for the Harem, which made sure that there is finally a sure lead: Temari.

This chapter will be short, well short for me.

Disclaimer: Owning Naruto would be a dream come true, however it is improbable that I ever will.

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Naruto: The Crow of Konoha

Chapter 6: Sakura's Training and Council Beatings

Sakura stood up panting as she looked across from her and saw Saya with her sword lying against a tree a few feet away. She then got into Saya's stance; a stance that involved a lot of kicking and using the hands to either twist on the ground or use any number of weapons. Sakura currently could only use a katana and kunai while using the fighting style. However, it was only three days ago that her team left for their first C-rank mission. She knew she couldn't go on that mission, she was way too weak. The first thing she started working on was her abysmal reserves. She had perfect control, and it was only because she was weak. Saya kept at her to increase her reserves by utilizing the ultimate training material: making Sakura disguise herself as Sasuke and run from his fangirls while maintaining the Henge. Sakura saw the fangirls and wondered if that was truly how she used to act; she felt disgusted at her previous actions. Saya eventually even got Sakura her own katana, a beautiful blade with a red gem on the hilt and a slight curve in the blade along with a groove. (The Katana that Saya uses in season two of Blood+.)

Saya stood across from the girl that Naruto had her train while he was away on his mission and realized that she was training her to be more like her than she had realized. 'Well, dear sister, do you approve?' Saya then unsheathed her katana and made a "bring it on" motion with her other hand. "Come on Sakura, I thought you wanted to get stronger than me? Do you truly believe that will be possible if you don't attack me, if that is the limit to your ambition maybe I should train that Ino girl instead." Saya chuckled when she saw the death glare she was receiving before Sakura disappeared and reappeared behind her with her sword in motion. Without even looking Saya blocked the blade with the sheath of her sword as she kicked out at Sakura forcing her to move backwards. Sakura dodged the second kick and retaliated with a kick of her own. When the kick connected Saya went flying back and slowly got back up, her eyes glowing red and her small wounds healing quickly. She then sheathed her sword and motioned for Sakura to follow her.

When they stopped they were in front of the tattoo shop. Walking in, Sakura noticed that Kylar was in the back staring at a black blade with the word RETRIBUTION across the blade. He then looked up and his appearance changed to look like a lean twenty year old shinobi. "So Saya, she beat you this time?" the man asked, his blue eyes cold with strength. He then stood up and moved over to Sakura and looked down at her. "So, you're the one who Naruto wanted us to train? Damn kid must think I'm a miracle worker, first he brings me that Rock Lee kid and has me find out what's wrong, and now he brings me you. I can get you up to par, but you will need to follow my very strict training plan, starting with a set of fifteen laps around the village, one thousand punches, two thousand kicks, and swinging a blade one thousand times in each direction. Do you have any complaints?"

Sakura thinks about it and then looks at him, "Yeah, that plan leaves no time for me to focus on my Genjutsu, medical ninjutsu, or my chakra reserves."

Kylar looks down at the girl and notices a spark in her eyes, the same spark that Durzo had seen in his eyes. He then grins when he hears her reasoning. "Good, I was hoping you would realize that I purposely left those out just to see if you were sharp. Cut all of that in half and add in Genjutsu training, training your reserves, and finally some time at the hospital where you will be learning medical ninjutsu from a friend of mine. Just one warning, my friend at the hospital can be a little harsh and rough around the edges, you'll recognize her by her red hair with white strips." He then shivers as if though it was cold in the tattoo shop. "Oh and Sakura-san, don't touch her hair." Everyone just stared at him as he then went into the back cursing about immortal people who just wouldn't die. He then came out with a box. "This box has some clothes that I used to wear, also the person who you're gonna be training under has a set. These are, by our standards, called Wetboy Grays, and they are the clothes that the shinobi of our lands wore." Sakura took them out of the box and went into the back room and changed. When she came out she had the grays on and was testing her ability to move in them.

"Wow, their like a second skin almost, these are awesome. But I surely can't just take them." She said after looking at them.

"Don't worry Sakura, they haven't been worn in so long that I almost forgot what they looked like. Let's just say that I have a set for your teammate Sasuke and Naruto already has a set. His plan will be for you three to wear them in the Chunin Exams so that it looks like you all are the closest team in the exams." Kylar then picked up another box; in this box was another sword. The sword was a nodachi and it had the appearance of an obsidian black blade, a handle that was wrapped in yellowish leather, and the inscription of Sicut proditione ambulationes, mortem vivit libere. (As betrayal walks, death lives freely.) (Any guesses as to the origin of the idea for this blade?) "I found this sword in an old ruin I was riding a storm out in, whoever it cuts will feel their life-force drained and transferred to the wielder. However, it will grow stronger if fed the life-force of someone close to you, but I wouldn't advise that. Naruto was actually almost able to find a seal that would strengthen the weapon by absorbing the life-force of anyone." Kylar then noticed the glint in her eyes.

"With this sword I will protect my teammates until my dying breath, and if I must fight the entire fucking village to ensure they are safe, then so-fucking-be it." Sakura then places the sword on her back with chakra and walks out to start training.

A month later…

Sakura got up and put on her grays, equipped her nodachi, and went off to start her laps around the village. She was up to fifteen laps easy, her punches were strong enough that that only Tsunade of the Sannin could take one of her punches directly, her kicks were to the point that she was learning some things from the taijutsu master Might Guy, who she found was Kakashi's 'Eternal Rival' and the sensei of the kunoichi that replaced her for the C-rank, her reserves were equivalent to Sasuke's, and her knowledge of poisons, medical ninjutsu, and Genjutsu were almost equal to Tsunade's knowledge. She had even managed to cast a Genjutsu that Kurenai couldn't match, and one that covered her hands when she did any medical ninjutsu. Her four teachers: Kylar, Saya, Anko, and Vi, had made sure that Sakura was one of the strongest kunoichi the village had ever produced. The only problem she had was the sword, without the help of Naruto, who was the only person in the village to actually use a nodachi; she would be stuck at her current level. She had gone on one C-rank with Guy's team and had acquired her first kill: a bandit who had been about to rape another woman. Unlike what everyone thought she would do, she didn't freeze up or start to freak out; instead she just diligently moved on and took out more bandits. At the end of the mission report Guy had asked her why she didn't and she merely replied, "Scum like that doesn't deserve to call itself human, and therefore is less than human and needs to be put down permanently before they do anything else."

Sakura finished her training and suddenly Ino and a few other girls showed up and noticed her. "Hey Sakura, why are you training? Don't you know that Sasuke won't like you if you think you can be stronger than him? Or maybe you're trying to make yourself stronger so that he can use you as a human shield?" Sakura just ignored the girl, who got pissed at the attitude of the "fangirl princess" as she was once named. When the girl tried to grab Sakura, Sakura suddenly grabbed her wrist and twisted it before pushing her away with a warning to never touch her again. The girl then tried to pull out a kunai, but all of a sudden three blades were pointed at the girl's neck; two nodachi and one wakizashi. Sakura looked up and saw Naruto and Sasuke standing there. Naruto had four new weapons on him: one katana, one chokuto, and one broadsword. He also had a sword wrapped in bandages in his hand pointed at the girl.

"We would like it if you left our teammate alone." Sasuke said in a monotone voice.

"Otherwise we might just slip and let you bleed out." Naruto stated with a blank look.

"Too bad you have no training; otherwise I would consider a spar against your pathetic ass. I guess I'll just stay back and laugh my ass off as you flounder around in the dirt." Sakura finished with an Anko-ish grin. The three suddenly sheath their weapons and disappear in different swirls; Sakura in a swirl of cherry blossoms, Naruto in a swirl of ice, black fire, and purple lightning, Sasuke in swirl of black fire and white lightning. Ino just looked on in wonderment.

At Sasuke's house…

The three showed up at the same time and Sakura was pulled into a hug by Sasuke. She was blushing when she heard the click of a camera. Her and Sasuke looked over and saw Naruto with a camera. He had a Kitsune-ish grin. The camera suddenly burst into black flames. As Naruto was in the corner crying about his newest camera being burnt Sakura and Sasuke were talking about what all happened on the trip. When it got to the point of Naruto's secrets Naruto nodded his head and allowed Sasuke to tell Sakura both of them.

Sakura took a look at Naruto, "So, your father, our Yondaime, didn't kill the Kyuubi like we were told, but instead sealed her into you? What the fuck is up with that shit!?" she then went into a rant about the stupidity of the villagers.

'Well I see she met Vi and Anko, and more than likely got along with both of them.' He then clapped his hands and told Sakura and Sasuke that they should get some sleep before they stayed up so late that they missed the call to the council that was sure to come in the morning.

The next morning in the council room…

Sakura, Sasuke, and Naruto all used their respective shushins to appear in the council room in their Wetboy Grays. Sakura's had an inversed Uchiha fan on her grays; Sasuke's had a regular Uchiha fan on his grays, Naruto had his trench coat over his grays but the front had an Uzumaki swirl. They also each had a weapon on display; Naruto had his bandaged weapon out with the others in seals on his arms, Sakura had her nodachi on her back, and Sasuke had his chokuto in the small of his back. The Civilian Council members then shiver as they notice the cold look that adorned the face of each member of Team 7; Kakashi then appeared in the room looking as serious as a heart attack. He had his father's tanto on his back and he also had something else; a set of bracers with wolves running across them. Naruto pulled the bandages off the sword on his back and everyone saw that it was covered in scales, Sakura drew her nodachi and everyone watched as the blade glowed red before returning to its regular pure black blade, and Sasuke pulled out his chokuto and watched as it was covered in black flames. The three then sheathed their weapons and saluted the Sandaime as he walked in to the room.

Sakura's former mother stood up and pointed at the three, "See how the demon has corrupted Uchiha-sama and my daughter!?" She then noticed that none of them were listening to her. "Uchiha-sama, surely you wish that you could be on another team, I mean surely you would like to have the power to defeat your sister, right?"

Sasuke suddenly looked at the woman with as much hate as he could muster and his Mangekyo Sharingan activated. "Watch what you say around me and my team; all of us are stronger and worth more than you are. If not for Naruto, how many of us would not be here right now? How many of you merchants wouldn't be spending your dirty money? How many of you who complain and call him demon would be sitting with true demons right now? All of you should be ashamed of yourselves, I heard Naruto's secret, from his lips, and I haven't changed my opinion of him. The very fact that none of you are shinobi makes it so that you don't know anything of our arts, so how would you know what the Yondaime did? Answer those questions before you insult my brother and remember: without Naruto you all could be maggot food right now." Sasuke then sat down in a chair that magically appeared. (You know the chair, it's the same one that always appears when your moving in the dark and is put right where your toe is gonna be.) All of the civilians suddenly looked down before Sakira looked back up with a venomous look.

"See what I mean? He obviously has done something to Uchiha-sama-." She would have finished, had Sakura not brought her nodachi out and held it up to her throat.

"Please don't talk about my teammates like that Haruno-san." Sakura then appeared right next to Sasuke and sat down in the other chair. Naruto then sighed and pricked his thumb, gathering blood at his fingertip and having it form the shape of a small bullet.

Sakira suddenly saw red, "FUCK THE KYUUBI AND ITS FUCKING HUMAN FORM-!" She suddenly shouted before a small hole appeared in her forehead.

"By order of the Sandaime you are sentenced to immediate execution for the breaking of an S-ranked law." Naruto stated coldly as he lowered the hand he used to fire his blood bullet. He then stared at everyone in the room; his cold calculating eyes causing even the stoic Hyuuga and Aburame heads to shiver. "Sandaime-sama, I believe it's time we revealed just who the civilians have been abusing this entire time, especially with the Chunin Exams right around the corner, even more so since Iwa, Kumo, and Kiri supposedly appearing in these exams. With the information circulating we could see who wishes to truly have peace with us, or see who could go to war with us."

Hiruzen sighed and looked at everyone. "Naruto-san is referring to the proponent of him being the son of Yellow Flash and the Hot-Blooded Habanero, or Namikaze Minato and Uzumaki Kushina." As the words were spoken all the civilians suddenly shrunk even further into their seats as the shinobi council suddenly spiked their KI.

"You mean to say that you lied to us?" Hiashi asked the Sandaime. 'I should have seen it, he acts so much like a combination of his parents.'

"Yes, but not with the intent of not trusting anyone. The intention was to not tell him until he could adequately defend himself against Iwagakure. I had to be sure that he could defend himself; otherwise Iwa and all of Minato's enemies, foreign and domestic, would have jumped at a chance to kill him." Hiruzen replied, cursing Minato once again for dying that night.

As everyone turned to Naruto to see his reaction he was in the middle of playing poker with Sakura, Sasuke, Kakashi, and three ANBU. Everyone sweatdropped when Naruto suddenly won everyone's money….. In one hand.

As Naruto pocketed the money he saw everyone looking at him. "What, you all were talking and I didn't care." He then looked right at the Sandaime. "So, did my parents have a house?"

Kakashi was the one to speak up this time, "Actually yes they did, it also happens to be my house."

"Wait, you mean that large compound you live in was my parents? Why the hell do you live there?" Naruto shouted.

"I was your father's student, and after the war he even officially adopted me as his son. So technically the house belongs to both of us, at least until you're eighteen, then it's all yours. For that matter, we could officially adopt anyone we wanted into the clan, so long as they agree to it." Kakashi replied, before Naruto hit him over the head with a ukulele.

"Ukulele no good." Naruto said as he handed it over to the random guy that was holding it beforehand. (Yes I took that line from FLCL the anime, no I don't own that, and yes it was funny as hell.) "So, since I refer to like seven people as nii-san or nee-san, we could have them be members of or family?"

"Technically yeah." Kakashi replied, not even letting the bump on his head faze him. "Unfortunately you still need for them to agree."

Naruto suddenly disappeared and when he reappeared seven people were with him: Anko, Hinata, Yugao, Saya, Vi, Kylar, and Natsuki. When everyone saw all the people they suddenly were about to attack Natsuki before Naruto, Sasuke, Sakura, and Kakashi suddenly had their weapons out. They all sat back down, causing everyone to let out a small breath.

Hiashi saw that his oldest daughter was in the crowd. "So, Naruto-san, is there a reason my oldest daughter is in this group?"

"Yep, I told you that I called people nii-san or nee-san. Hinata was also my first friend in my own age group. Besides like Kakashi-onii-san said, it's their choice." Naruto replied, keeping his cool.

Kakashi saw everyone in the group and suddenly had a very devious smirk. "Since Sasuke and Natsuki are the last Uchiha, they could agree to merge the Uchiha and Namikaze clans. This would probably have to be made official before the Chunin Exams."

Sasuke suddenly smirked as Naruto smirked as well. "I, Namikaze Naruto, would like to officially adopt Sakura into my clan." Sakura looked at the two and saw their matching smirks before she nodded her head. "I, Uchiha Sasuke, would like to ask Namikaze Sakura to marry me?" Sakura suddenly smiled and ran up to hug him, which caused them to hear a click. When they turned around they saw that everyone hand cameras out. They glared before the Sandaime officially married the two together and with that allowed the merger of the Namikaze and Uchiha. Afterwards all the people Naruto brought with him suddenly agreed to become a member of the Namikaze clan, until only Hinata was left.

She looked at her father who suddenly had a devious plan. "Say, Namikaze-san, would Hinata be allowed to keep the Hyuuga part of her name? If so, I wish to extend an olive branch of sorts from my clan to yours; in exchange for keeping my daughter safe from the Hyuuga elders, I wish to be allowed to send my other daughter to your compound in case of the elder's negative influence."

Naruto looked at Kakashi who nodded. "Yes sir, Hyuuga-san."

Hiashi then looked upon Hinata, "Hinata, if you so wish it, then I have no other problem." She smiled, hugged her father, and then walked over to Naruto and hugged him.

As Hiruzen saw that before that meeting, the Namikaze clan was down to one official member and one unofficial member, it was now up to ten members, with two of the belonging to two of Konoha's most influential clans: the Uchiha and the Hyuuga. It was gonna be a glorious and dangerous Chunin Exams this year.

In Iwagakure in the Tsuchikage's office….

Onoki was looking over the news from his spy located in Konoha and noticed that Namikaze Minato had a kid, and the kid was already becoming known as the Crow of Konoha. He then noticed the other weapons the boy had on him. "Get me Kaita Taggala." In a flash of light a woman with red hair and pure blue eyes appeared in the office.

"What is it, Onoki-dono?" He showed her the picture and pointed out the weapons. "So, he's using my brothers' swords, hell he even has Tomohiro's." Onoki then tells her to choose the genin that she will take to Konoha for the Chunin Exams.

In Kumogakure in the Raikage's office….

E was lifting weights when suddenly in a blur of black wind a woman with dark green hair suddenly appeared with the latest reports from around the Elemental Nations. She showed him the news from Konoha and even pointed out that her brothers had apparently trained a gaki from Konoha. He ordered her to take a team consisting of Yugito and two other genin along with Bee and his team. She smirked and wondered who the kid was.

In Kirigakure in the Mizukage's office….

Mei was laughing as she saw that the Namikaze kid was obviously trained by Kisame, he had a fragment of Samehada after all. She called for a list of people that consisted of Shihiro Taggala and his team, as well as Fayt Taggala and her team. When they appeared she showed them the picture and noticed when they paled slightly. "What's wrong?"

"This boy will be the strongest opponent Konoha will ever be able to throw at anyone; I'm talking about S-rank by eighteen. He has four blades he shouldn't have: Thanatos, Armageddon, Ruin, and Nilfheim. These blades belong to three people, two of which are Taggala family members. He probably could take on most of us if he is as trained as we believe." Shihiro and Fayt stated alternatively.

And that is a wrap on this chapter. As you can tell, the Taggala family has noticed that Naruto has some of their family blades. Also until I have the harem members finalized and the votes tallied I will not update. So November 8th is the deadline for your suggestions and harem votes.

Flames will be used to burn the houses of flamers.

Vermiculus-umbra-chorus out.