The Ghost of Konoha

by That one author from terra

After the mission to the land of waves, Naruto begins to have strange dreams, not knowing that they are actually memories of his past life

3. Chapter-03-Bootcamp

A/N: Hellow Hellow, everybody let's get down to business. Grab some popcorns some juice and enjoy the show.

Chapter-03-Secrets learned and Bootcamp.

Naruto is in a particular situation, granted any hot-blooded young male worth his salt would love to be pinned to the ground by a naked girl and for that girl to be on top of them (not counting gay's of course).But in this situation Naruto is more scared for his life and confused than turned on, For one, he has a kunai at his throat that would send him to meet his ancestors in a second if he made even one wrong move. And the second the girl? who threw him on the floor and who is on top of him might be naked but is furious at him, and oh yeah until now he thought she was a man and not a woman. 'Seriously, what's up with me always meeting guys pretending to be girls and vice versa' He thought before Sasuke's or whatever her real name might be, voice pulled him out of his thoughts.

"Speak why you're here?! And give me one good reason not to jam this kunai down your throat." She said in an angry tone her Sharingan blazing making him gulp down the lump in his throat. "Okay, okay." he said fearing for his life "And I can give you three reasons but first please move the blade away from my throat." She did so but still had close enough to ram into his throat if she had to.

"Ok now talk." She said to him to which he complied and began "The reason I'm here is because Kakashi sensei told me to come and inform you that he won't be in the village for the next couple of days because of a mission he's going on." She nodded and urged him to continue. "And now the reasons why you shouldn't kill me. First even tho your the last of your clan, that won't save you. If you kill a fellow Konoha Shinobi, you'll either be arrested or killed." She contemplated for a second but still didn't let go of him "And now the second and third reasons are because they are related. First I didn't know you were naked and second I didn't know you were girl. And now, can you please let go of me and get dressed? This is already both awkward and terrifying for me and I don't need it to be even more of eather."

In that moment it was like she just realise their situation and squealed with a huge blush on her face. She jumped away from him covering herself with a blanket "Get out and wait for me downstairs in the living room, is that clear?" she said before continuing "And if I just get a sense the you are peeping I will castrate you before I kill you, Consequences, be damned." She said with a menacing tone in her voice, He quickly nodded and got out of her room.

After about fifteen minutes she came down the stairs and sat in front of him crossing her arms and saying "I don't think I need to say that this should remain a secret, right?" He shook his head and said "No, you don't" Then he asked "But can I ask if anyone else knows and if so who els knows it?" She sighed and said "Apart from you, only Lord Hokage and Kakashi sensei know." He nodded and said "One more question." She rolled her eyes and said "Ask a whey." He then asks "Is Sasuke your real name or is that also fake?" She rose an eyebrow at that and asked him back "Of all the questions you could ask me you ask that why's that." He shrugged and said "Honestly just so i know what to call you, and as for the other questions I might ask them later." She rose an eyebrow again and said "You're really strange you know that right?" He just shrugged one's more and said "You're not the only one who told me that, you know but okay." looking at her he rose an eyebrow this time and said "So is it your real name or not?"

She sighed again closing her eyes she said "No it's not." opening her eyes she looked at him and said "My real name is Sayuri Uchiha." (A/N:I know it's a generic name, but it's the best i could come up with so get off my back with it.) Naruto nodded and said "Alright then Sayuri." then there was silence for a few minutes before he asked again "I understand the need to hide the fact that you are female after your entire clan was massacred but I'm sure you were pretending to be male even before that so the question is why exactly is that? Sayuri looked him in the eyes and said "You could say it's a clan tradition." Raising an eyebrow Naruto asked "Could you elaborate?" Sighing ones more she began to explain "Ever since the Clan Wars it has been a tradition for the Uchiha to hide their true gender, at least for women I mean.Well accept for those whose faces were more womanly that's the reason most Uchiha that are prominent are male or people think so at least." Naruto nodded and said "So thats why are your clan's traditional uniforms so baggy to hide the real body right?"

She nodded but rose an eyebrow ones more saying "I didn't know you were so informed about the historical uniforms of the Shinobi clans?" He chuckled and said "Well history and geography were my favorite and best subjects in the academy after all." Then he was quiet for a moment with a strange expression on his face before he started laughing like crazy."What's so funny?" Sayuri asked a bit tickt off, After a few minutes Naruto calmed down and started to speak "Well, you see, we guys in the academy thought you were playing for the home team, from how many times you turn down all the girls who asked you on a date." That actually made Sayuri stop and think for a moment before she started to laugh too "Ok now I can imagine how you could have thought of that." she said as she then noticed the strange look Naruto was giving her "What do i have something on my face?" He shook his head saying "No its only a little strange to hear and see you of all people laughing." She looked at him and asked "And why would that be?" she said crossing her arms under her impressive breasts for a sixteen year old that is. Naruto shrugged and said "Well i was more used to you brooding and frowning all the time that's all. And let's be honest you only smiled or i should say smirked when you were beating somebody in something." That made her think for a bit and say "Ok fair enough but i don't Brood" Naruto just gave her a deadpan look which made her say "Ok fine i do brood sometimes." Naruto just raised an eyebrow and asked "Sometimes, you sure about that?" That made Sayuri glare at him and he just shrugged it off before she sighed and said "Ok fine i do brood alot." He nodded and said "Yes you do." At that she flipped him the bird which he did back in return with a smirk.

After a few minutes of silence Naruto spoke again "Alright, since I know your secret I think it's only fair you learned about mine." She raised an eyebrow and asked in a sarcastic tone "What are you secretly a girl too." He chuckled at that and shook his head saying "No, but my secret you can say it's a delicate one." That peaked her interest as she listened to him. Sighing Naruto said "You know about the Kyuubi attack on the village sixteen years ago right?" To that she nodded wondering what does it have to do with anything "And do you know what people say, about how was the Kyuubi defeated?" She nodded and said "Yes, Yondaime hokage killed it." To that Naruto chuckled ones more but this time it sounded more sad than amused. "Yes, that is the official story they have been telling to generations from ours and onwards, but those who are old enough to remember that night know the truth." Now she was really interested "You see Bijū are made of living chakra so they can't be killed, to defeat the Kyuubi Yondaime had to seal it away." Sayuri had a surprised look on her face after hearing that before she could say anything Naruto continued "But the Bijū especially the Kyuubi cannot be sealed into anything so the Yondaime had to seal him into a person, in this case a newborn baby whose chakra coils haven't been developed yet."

In that moment everything clicked into place for her the stears he received as a child. The words she heard civilians talk about when they've seen him.And the times when it was his Birthday and he didn't come into class. "In to you." She whispered and he nodded "On that day wen i was born i lost my mother and father as well. And I gained a burden that would be with me until my grave." She looked down into her hands and whispered "I'm sorry." He then spoke and said "You don't have to be, it's not your fault." She shook her head and said "No i mean i'm sorry about how i was to you before The Land of Waves." Then she continued "I thought you were just an idiot with no manners and that the only thing we have in common is that we both know what it's like to be alone but you know that way more than I do." Naruto just chuckled and said "Oh we have more in common than you think believe me." Then he got up about to go "But we'll talk about that som other time, i got to go." He said as he exited her living room and then her house.

She just looked at his back as he walked out and she thought 'Who are you really Naruto Uzumaki.'

~With Hiruzen: In a private meeting room.~

Hiruzen is in his chair looking at Inoichi and Ibiki and he said "Report." Inoichi cleared his throat and stepped forward saying "Lord Hokage The investigation into the Enemy Shinobi who managed to infiltrate the village and intend to sabotage and kidnap your grandson in the case of the latest one who was caught is as follows." He said and continued "They are all former Shinobi's from one of the other four major villages or one of the smaller ones and they all were told by the leader of the newest village in rise Otogakure to try to do this as a way to show their worth." Hiruzen frowned at that and motion for Inoichi to continue "And even tho we used all the means to get information out of them none of them know who the leader of that village is or where exactly the villige itself is, they got the missions from one of the Oto Shinobi." Hiruzen frowned even more and said "This is really concerning, no other minor village was ever this boled as to try and antagonise one of the great five." He looked at Ibiki and said "You can deal away with them now." Then he looked at Inoichi and said "I'll have to contact Jiraiya about this, You two are dismissed." The two snapped at attention and bowed before they turned around walking out.

Taking a puff of his pipe Hiruzen thought to himself 'This is truly concerning if we only had a another war deterrent like Minato or Itachi, it would be easier to deal with this.' With a sigh he said to himself "I'm truly to old for this shit."

~With Naruto:At his apartment.~

Naruto was finishing up a set of push ups wiles his clones were studying Fuinjutsu and som chakra theory, after that, he started doing sit-ups and after an hour he finished them while his clones were dispeling in smaller groups as he got all of their memories he got up and made another clone who went and made him dinner as he took a shower.After eating he went to bed and laid down as he drifted off into his mindscape.

~In Narutos mindscape~

As he opened his eyes he saw Jin at the tree meditating before he got up and smiled at him saying "Well looks like you had a very interesting day today didn't you Naruto." He said in a teasing tone as he chuckled. Naruto's eye twitched as he said "Don't push it Jin." Jin just laughed and said "Okay, Okay, I won't tease you anymore." He said as he motioned for him to come over. Naruto came over and asked "So what's on the agenda today?" Jin smirked at him and said "Let's test your efficiency in Ninjutsu." Naruto nodded and got redy.

"First your lightning." Jin said as Naruto started a sequence of hand signs. -Boar, Ram, Snake, Horse, Dragon.- "Lightning Release: Electromagnetic Murder!" Screamed Naruto as he released the Jutsu and destroyed a boulder.

Jin nodded and said "Good now your water" Again Naruto began a sequence of hand signs -Ox, Monkey, Hare, Rat, Boar, Bird, Ox, Horse, Bird, Rat, Tiger, Dog, Tiger, Snake, Ox, Ram, Snake, Boar, Ram, Rat, Yang Water , Monkey, Bird, Dragon, Bird, Ox, Horse, Ram, Tiger, Snake, Rat, Monkey, Hare, Boar, Dragon, Ram, Rat, Ox, Monkey, Bird.- "Water Release: Water Dragon Bullet!" He screamed out again as behind him a huge dragon head made of water big enough to submerge a section of the forest in front of him formed.

Jin clapt and said "Very good Naruto and now your wind." Nodding Naruto began again -Tiger, Rabbit, Dog, Ram, Dragon.- "Wind Release: Wind Cutter"He said as he cut down at least 15 trees and 5 boulders with the attack.

Laughing Jin said to him "Naruto if I didn't see everything you see during the day I would have thought you got help from someone for those Jitsu's." Smirking Naruto performed a mok bow and said "Thank you, thank you, I'll be here the whole week." After that he and Jin started practicing hand to hand combat first without weapons then with weapons and finally practicing with bow and arrow. "Alright kid that's it for today now go eat." Naruto nodded and got out of his mindscape.

~Back in reality~

Naruto woke up and got up starting to do his morning stretches before grabbing his equipment and going to hunt.

~Few days later:Team 7 training ground.~

For the next few days it was his routine, training most of the day in his mindscape, Now he went down to his teams training ground thinking about what he was going to learn with his team today.

Arriving at the training ground he saw Sayuri or in this case Sasuke and Sakura ther, and surprisingly longside them Kakashi as well. When He came before them He looked up into the sky and said. "Alright pigs don't fly in the sky so can someone explain why Kakashi sensei was on time." At that Sasuke rolled his eyes but Sakura screamed "Shut it Naruto dont try to be cool" as she tried to hit him.

The key word being tried, he grabbed her hand and went behind her with a tanto at her throat and whispered in her ear "Try that one more time and you won't live to open your mouth again.Is that clear." Then he let her go and returned the tanto into its sheet. Sakura shivered at how dead and cold his voice sounded, she thought 'Since wen has Naruto has been like this, he's always been letting me hit him and following me around like a love sick puppy' She thought and then they heard Kakashi's voice.

"Ok settle down all three of you." Kakashi said and then looked at Sakura he said "Sakura don't antagonize Naruto anymore." And then he looked at Naruto and said "Naruto don't threaten your comrades either." Naruto just crossed his arms and nodded waiting for the explanation. Kakashi looked at them and spoke "I called you here to tell you to prepare things for a three-month absence from the village." Sasuke rose an eyebrow and asked "Are we going on a mission that long?" Kakashi shook his head and said, "No, this is more of a Boot-camp for you three." Sakura spoke up and said "Why do we have to go through that." She asked in a whiny tone.

Kakashi glared at her "That is exactly why." Kakashi said and continued after looking towards Naruto and Sasuke "During the battle in the land of waves, almost all of you three were killed, and even tho we all survived it is not guaranteed that you will survive in the next battle like in that one." He said looking over all three of them and continuing "If the attacks that have occurred in the past two weeks are anything to go by, war is upon us." when they heard that all three had surprised and nervous expressions on their faces though because of the mask naruto wasn't noticed unless you looked into his eyes. "For now, there are only speculations and everyone hopes that we are just too on edge,But in six months the Chunin exams will be held in our village, I have that much time to prepare you for them and god forbid in case of war." He said completely serious without an ounce of humor in his voice. "For the first three months I will train you to the bone and for the next three you will gain experience on high-ranking missions by the end of the fourth month you three will have your first kills." He said before asking "Is that clear Genins?"

Naruto quickly snapped at attention and said "Yes-Sensei!" He was then followed by Sasuke and then by Sakura. Kakashi nodded and said "tomorrow we are here at 03:00, is that clear." Again, he got an affirmative answer "Good now you three are dismissed."All three turned and quickly left for their homes leaving Kakashi to think 'I hope that the Lord Hokage is wrong and that these three don't have to see war this young.' He thought to himself remembering his meeting with Hiruzen.

~ Flashback: at Hokage's office earlier this morning~

Kakashi was standing in front of his leader waiting to hear what he wanted to tell him "Kakashi as you know in the past two weeks there have been attacks on our village." Kakashi nodded and continue to listen. With a sigh Hiruzen continued "I fear we are close to a outbreak of a war Kakashi, I hope i'm wrong but just in case i'm not i'm giving you this task."

Kakashi asked "What task Lord hokage?" Hiruzen looked him directly in the eyes and said "Kakashi i need you to prepare your team. Prepare them not only for the Chunin exams in 6 months but for war as well." He said as he pulled some papers out and continued "For that reason i give you this, the training routine my teachers used to teach me, the training routine i made my own team train with."Kakashi's eyes widened as he asked "Lord Hokage you don't mean." Hiruzen nodded and said "You are going to the training ground 0. In short, I want you to turn thes kids into at least Tokubetsu-Jonin material in this six months."

~Flashback end~

Kakashi just sighed as he disappeared in a leaf shunshin going to the Memorial Stone.

~Time skip: Tomorrow morning 03:00~

Naruto was the first one to appear in the clearing having all of his equipment on him or sealed in storage scrolls, he sat down against one of the tree stumps and waited for the rest of his team to arrive. After a few minutes Kakashi appeared he and Naruto nodded their heads at each other and continued to wait, after a few more minutes 'Sasuke' came and sat next to Naruto waiting for Sakura to come,Two minutes later said girl came in looking like she was half dead "Alright so everybody is here." Said Kakashi as he then continued "We are going to training ground 0 now, so you better prepare, cause the tread to that place is very tiresome, believe me." He said to which all three stood up and got ready to move. "Team seven move out." He said as he disappeared in a burst of speed followed by Naruto and Sasuke and eventually by Sakura as well.

~Time skip: Ten hours later at Training ground 0~

They started towards hear while the moon was already high in the sky and arrived when the sun was already halfway up the sky.Sasuke and Sakura fell to their knees breathing heavily while Naruto leaned against a tree and had a bead of sweat running down his forehead.

Looking at them Kakashi exclaimed "Welcome to training ground 0, Also known as the Kages playground." He said as he instructed them to get into their battle stances. Thus, they are already starting with their training. "Now into your fighting stances." Said Kakashi as Naruto quickly did so and Sasuke followed afterwards. But Sakura was still on the ground panting, that prompted Kakashi to quickly blitz behind her and kick her to the ground and poot a kunai to her throat. He then leaned into her ear and whispered "When I order you to do something you do it, especially now when we are training. Now I'm no longer your Sensei, But an enemy Shinobi who can and will kill you. Is that clear Genin's?" Naruto and Sasuke nodded although frightened they understanding what ther Sensei ment.

Sakura is another completely different story she had tears running down her eyes, which made Kakashi lean to her ear and whisper once more in a sickeningly, sweet tone. "Oh don't worry Sakura you won't be killed you will be captured." Then his voice took on a darker tone "But you don't know what they do with the captured Kunoichi do you." She shook her head tears still running down her eyes. "They make them into their personal plaything or sell them off to some rich fat old man who loves to rape young girls." Her eyes widened because of what she heard and Kakashi just continued. "In short, your life is to become Nothing but the most horrific nightmare for every young woman." Sakura was now openly crying from what Kakashi told her.

Letting go of her and walking backwards he stood ready for battle and said "Now get up and be ready to fight." Sakura did so and got up slowly and stood in a poor academy stants. In a moment the fight started and in short it was a massacre, Kakashi beat all three of them so much they thought he was trying to kill them.

Bloody and Broken all three were now standing in front of Kakashi who ordered them to start push up's when Naruto asked how much Kakashi said "Until i'm tired" (A/N:Whoever catht the reference, good job, Here's a cookie.) So they started, for next Three hours they all did push-ups stopping ones in a while to vomit and continuing when Kakashi told them to, And after Three hours Kakashi ordered them to do sit-ups and so they did them for Three more hours again stopping only to Vomit until the end. Kakashi then said "Ok it is is time for you to go and hit the showers and eat, then go to bed you get up tomorrow at 03:00." The trio just nodded and went to do as they were told.

~Later that night~

In the dead of night Naruto woke up but kept his eyes closed listening around and quickly jumped into action pulling out his Wakizashi and Tanto as they were the closest to him blocking the front of the two swords.At that moment Naruto felt a third attack and quickly used Kawarimi and appeared in the hole way of the smole barracks room screaming out "WE ARE UNDER ATTACK!" Sayuri was thrown out of her room a bit benged up but redy to fight but in Sakura's case she screamed and Naruto rusht to try and save her. Entering the room, he saw three more assailance one of whom had his blade at Sakura's throat and other two ready to fight him. "Drop your weapon and surrender or my hand will slip and pinky hear will die." Naruto gritted his teeth and looked behind him and saw the three who attacked him longside three more facing off Sayuri.

Throwing the weapons on the floor he said "Fine but let her go." The assailant chuckled and said "No. You two kill him." He said and the two attacked him, Naruto started to dodge the two swordsman trying to fight back he throw few kunai and shuriken at them making a hand sign for the shadow-kunai and shadow-shuriken jutsus. The two used Kawarimi and kicked Naruto in the back making him fly towards Sayuri and the other six assailants.Crashing into Sayuri two of them fell onto the floor and were quickly surrounded by the eight assailants who had their swords at their throats.

Before the squad could kill the trio Kakashi's voice was heard "Tiger squad, Stand down." The eight who had Naruto and Sayuri at the sword tip jumped behind Kakashi, And the one who had a blade at Sakura's throat let go of her and jumped back as well. The trio looked at Kakashi and at 9 assailants now revealed to be a squad of ANBU "Naruto you did good by fighting back and waking the other two up, but you were stupid to throw away your weapons even tho it was to save a teammate." He looked at Sakura and said "Sakura you were quite frankly, pathetic. You let yourself get captured and almost got your team killed for that.I never said that this place is going to be safe for you even tho im to train you Three you can't be off guard even in friendly territory." He looked at Sayuri and said "Well it looks like the secret is out from Three people knowing it's up to Fourteen. You did well too Sayuri. And don't worry, you can trust these nine I personally guarantee that"

Sayuri nodded reluctantly, but Sakura made herself known by asking "Who is Sayuri? And wear is Sasuke?" She said looking around before meeting her eyes with Sayuris "I'm Sayuri." Sayuri exclaimed and Sakura looked like a fish out of water before fainting. Kakashi sighed and said "Cat." The cat masked ANBU nodded and used a D-rank water jitsu to wake Sakura up. Sakura woke up with a start and said "I had a horrible dream, Sasuke was a girl and we were in some hellscape of a training ground for a boot-camp." She said looking at Naruto. But before she could continue Kakashi said "It wasn't a dream." He said in a bored tone.

Sakura's eyes widened and she looked at Kakashi then at Sayuri then back at Kakashi before she was about to faint again,But before that happened the cat mask ANBU used the same jutsu again and made her stay awake, Kakashi then spoke up "That is enough Sakura. You three get your gear and go to the obstacle course,You will run it Ten times before breakfast and at breakfast everything will be explained to you Sakura. NOW ALL THREE OF YOU GET THE FUCK UP AND MOVE!" All three quickly got up and did as they were told.

~At the obstacle course~

Obstacle course on training ground 0 is nothing like anyone of the Three had seen,The usual obstacle courses have low walls, stepping stones and such but this obstacle course looked more like a torture machine or something you would find in an ancient tomb or a temple.

The 'low' wall is a 30 meter tall monstrosity covered in oil and metal spikes that are sharper than the sharpest razor.

Stepping stones were jagged, sharpe and tolle things underwitch is a river of quick sand.In place of Rubble are 10 meter tolle Stones and 1 meter low tree stumps but instead of several of them there are almost 50 pieces of rubble.

The tunnel is underground and high enough for a person to lie on their stomach and the top of the roof to be 2 inches from the person's back with their head on one of the two cheeks and wide enough for just one person to crawl through it the entire tunnel is over five hundred meters long.

Instead of Dodging Panels they have to dodge kunai and shuriken for 100 meters of forest.

The 'low rope' was 50 meter and tolle and thin piece of shinobi wire and the ditch they head to swing over with it was more of a bottomless pit.

The corridor was narrower than a nun's cunt.

Balancing Bridge was so narrow and tolle that if any of them was to slip they would break all of their bones and die.

Windows were more of rabbit holes.

Apex Ladders were in a 90 angle and slippery as hell.

The terras clime was a 90 one with a 50 meter dash and a 10 meter drop.

And they had to run it Ten times and without any chakra.

~Five hours later in the smole canteen~

The trio barely made it to the canteen, even Naruto who is a stamina freak was out of breath but still on his legs, His clones were actually caring the other two on their backs.

Dropping the other two on the ground besides the closest tabel Naruto's clones dispelled and Naruto himself sat at the table a moment later Sayuri and Sakura followed.Kakashi came and gave them each a Bento and they all devoured them like men starved.After they ate Kakashi started talking "Okay Sayuri I think it's time you explain your situation to Sakura."

Sayuri nodded and started "First, don't interrupt me until I'm done, is it clear?" Sakura nodded and Sayuri continued "It is Uchiha tradition for Kunoichi of the clan who look more like boys than girls when young to hide their true identity and gender until they start to look more feminine or are strong enough to protect themselves." She finished and Sakura nodded in understanding.

Kakashi notice that naruto didn't look surprised and he brought it up "Naruto it seams you weren't surprised about what Sayuri said." Naruto looked at him and said, "I already knew about that it was about a week since I found out." He said and both he and Sayuri had a small blush on their faces. Kakashi noticed there blushes and chuckled a bit and said "Well i guess you saw the proof first hand." Both of them got even more red in their face but not only from embarrassment but from anger as well. They both yelled in anger "Pervert!" and threw kunai at him who just dodged them like its nothing continuing to chuckle in a perverted menar.

Sakura turned to Naruto with an angred face and asked "What did he mean by 'You sow the proof first hand.' ?" She asked before cracking her knuckles. Naruto golped and looked at Sayuri who just looked away embarrassed "Well." He started looking back at Sakura "I kinda accidentally saw her naked." He said before dodging Sakura's punch who yelled "You pervert!" Before she could try and punch you once more Kakashi grabbed her hand and said "Okay Sakura that's enough, It happened by accident so sit down and calm yourself." He said before letting go of her hand.

Sakura huffed and sate down. Sayuri then looked at Naruto and asked him "Are you gonna tell her about you know what as well?" That peaked Kakashi's and Sakura's interests and they both asked "About what?" Naruto looked at Kakashi and discreetly motioned to his stomach to witch Kakashi's eyes widened a bit and he asked "You told her?" He said while motioning to Sayuri. Naruto just nodded and said "It seemed only faire sents i learned her secret for her to learn about myne too." Kakashi nodded to that but Sakura was still confused and asked "What seacret?" the three of them looked at her before Kakashi looked at Naruto and said "It's your call to tell her if you want. It's your seacret after all." He said to Naruto.

Naruto just sighed and after few minutes of contemplation looks Sakura directly in the eyes and spoke up "I will tell you everything about my secret, but first you have to know that this is a S-class secret and that if you reveal it to someone else, you will be killed on the spot along with the person you told it to." He said to her who just looked at him and laughed nervously "Haha good job Naruto but seriously what's the secret?" She asked and the only answer she got were blank looks from all three of them, "He was joking right?" She asked looking at Sayuri then at Kakashi "Right?" Kakashi just shook his head and her eyes widened 'What kind of secret is it when I can really die if I tell someone of it?' She thought as she swallowed the lump in her throat. Nodding her head she said "O-okay, I promise I won't tell anyone." Nodding back at her Naruto took a deep breath and began.

"I won't go on too long because we have to get back to training, So my secret is that sixteen years ago on the night the Kyuubi attacked the village and I was born the Kyuubi was not killed but sealed inside me." He said to which Sakura had a bewildered look on her face but before she could say anything Naruto continued, "Bijū are pure masses of chakra and can't be killed, they have to be sealed off but they can't be sealed into anything especially the Kyuubi. Only thing that can hold the Kyuubi is a New borne whos chakra coils haven't been developed yet." He said looking carefully at Sakura who was now as white as a sheet.

With a shaky voice, she asked, "So that's why the older villagers look at you like that, they know if it don't they?" She asked and received a nodd of his head as an answer. That made her confused so she asked "But wait I don't understand why they look at you like that you should be considered a hero for holding the Kyuubi at bey for so long? And why is it a secret that you hold it?" Naruto rose an eyebrow and said, "I'm surprised you think I should be considered a hero." he said with a chuckle and continued. "But the answers to your questions are as follows, The villagers at least the civilians are bitter and

ignorant. None of them know a slightest inkling about Fuinjutsu so they think if I have the Kyuubi sealed inside me then I am the Kyuubi." Sakura frowned when she heard that and growled "That's a retarded way of thinking." Her reaction honestly surprised all three of them.

She continued to speak "I mean a first year academy student isn't that stupid." She said and it made Naruto happy that Sakura didn't see him as a monster, Kakashi gave an eyesmile at how she describe the stupidity of the civilians in the villige, Sayuri just smirked and said 'At least she shows why she was the smartest in the academy.' Naruto chuckled and said "Sakura you don't know how happy i actually am you don't think of me as some monster." He said with a soft smile. Sakura smiled at him and said "If you're a monster then Kakashi sensei is a Demon." she said to witch all of them even Sayuri and aforementioned Kakashi laughed.

Kakashi chuckled darkly and said "Hmm a Demon ey well i guess i have to live up to my new title." He said as he had a dangerous glint in his one visible eye. The trio thought in unison 'We are fucked.' Naruto then turned back to sakura and continued "Now the answer to your second question." He said and Sakura lissened, "The reason for the secrecy of my status is that the children of our generation and onwored will continue to think of me as just another child and not as a living weapon, which is the purpose of every Jinchuriki.And before you ask Jinchuriki is the name given to people like me who holed one of the Bijū in them." Sakura nodded at that and Kakashi spoke up, "Okay, that's half an hour, it's time to go back to tortu- i mean training." He said with his eyes smile to which the trio goulped and got up.

~Time skip:Month and a half later.~

For the previous month and a half, Kakashi had concentrated strictly on physical training and hand-to-hand combat along with teamwork exercises. Sometimes he would get help with their training from either one of two ANBU squads who would also attack them in the middle of the night every few days but they always try to make it difficult for them to discern when they will attack,ANBU squads that wuled help him are either Tiger squad or Hawk squad.

So their routine for the previous month and a half looked like this, Getting up at 03:00 personal hygiene until 03:10 then morning stretching until 03:15 and heading to the obstacle course after the course Breakfast at 05:30 to 06:00. Then training consisting off push-ups, sit-ups, squats and ect until 09:00 then training hand to hand Combat combined with teamwork exercises until 14:30 with a lunch break at that time then Chakra control from 15:00 to 16:30 then Sparring against each other until 18:00 and again on to obstacle course until 20:30,then shower and dinner until 21:00 to 21:15 sleep and all that unless ANBU attack when they attack then getting up at either 01:20 or 02:30 and straight to the obstacle course without warming up running it until breakfast, And so on and so on.

This routine has bore fruit by having each of the Team 7 trio look how respectable Shinobi and Kunoichi of their age should look like, Each of them became a few centimeters taller Naruto being the tallest and almost as tall as Kakashi as for Sayuri and Sakura they both are now same height but Sakura was a centimeter or two shorter. Naruto has gained the body of a professional swimmer which is perfect for a Shinobi neither too muscular nor too skinny, And as for Sayuri and Sakura, to put it mildly, they look like super models, And in Sayuri's case, when she's in her Sasuke persona, she has the same body type as Naruto.

The trio has also become very close to each other during this month and a half, so much so that they no longer react if one of them sees the other two naked, And by what Kakashi and ANBU squads told them that is a good thing cuz in the field there is no room for privacy, especially when they are on a long-term mission or in case of war.They even started to sleep in the same room all together after the second week, and had one of them keep watch for the ANBU attacks changing who is on the watch every two hours so that each of them could get at least four hours of sleep.

Also during these month and a half Naruto's skill with his blades and bow and arrow has gotten even greater and Sayuri and Sakura also picked up Kenjutsu as well, Sayuri is more akin to use a chokuto willes Sakura dual wields two ninjatos. In short Kakashi is really proud how good his students have become in such a short period of time, If his estimations are right they all are on a level of a middle class Chunin.

"Okay guys," He began and his team listened up "I think it's time to start teaching you elemental Ninjutsu but first," He said taking out a chakra paper and handing it to Sakura "I have to know what your Chakra natures are Sakura, Just channel your Chakra into this." He told her to which she nodded her head and did as he told her, And so one half got soaked up and the other turned into dust. "Hmmm, Earth and Water a good combination of offensive and defensive capabilities. Oh and speaking of water Naruto I forgot to find someone to help you with that." He said with a sheepish tone in his voice as he rubbed the back of his head giving an awkward chuckle.

Naruto just smiled and said "No problem Sensei somebody already showed me the first two parts of water manipulation training." Kakashi was surprised at that and asked "And who might that be?" Naruto said, "The owner of the Black dragon Weapons shop was a friend of my mother's, and he said that if i have a water chakra nature like her, he'd gladly help me with it." Kakashi nodded at that and said "Well i guess you can help Sakura with that later then?" He asked and Naruto nodded in confirmation.

After that ended Kakashi told Sakura how to mold her chakra for the first chakra exercise for the earth release. Then he gave Sayuri and Naruto each a lightbulb for the second chakra exercise for the lightning release. Actually for Naruto was more like 30 lightbulbs sints he used shadow clones to train it, and created another 60 for other two. 30 to cut boulders in half and 30 to manipulate water in small ponds. If Sakura and Sayuri are honest they are jealous of Naruto's large chakra capacity what they wouldn't give just to be able to create at least 5 of thos shadow clones.

Naruto turned to Kakashi and asked him "Sensei i have a question?" Kakashi spoke "And what would that be?" Naruto then asked, "If you are to create a Shadow clone with a minimal amount of chakra and give it a soldier pill, would it work and would it have the consequences to the original after you disspelled the clone?" Intrigued by this question Kakashi asked Naruto "Hmm, I've never tried that before why do you ask?" Naruto rubbed his head in a sheapesh manner and said "Well, whenever Hawk was here i'd ask him to shunshin my clones to my home and to the black dragon weapons shop to learn Fuinjutsu and Forging. So I thought wouldn't it be easier for him to shunshin one group and have them take soldier pills every couple of hours, then for him to do it every few day's,And it might help the two of them learn their elements faster and easier as well." Naruto said gesturing towards Sakura and Sayuri at the end of his sentence.

The three of them all just blinked and Kakashi said "Let me test it." He said as he used the minimal amount of his chakra and created a Shadow clone to who he gave a soldier pill and the clones Chakra levels rose, "Ok here we go." He said as the clone dispelled and after almost 15 minutes nothing happened to him "Naruto i think you just made our training slightle easier."Kakashi said with his signature eyesmile and Sakura and Sayuri quickly copied their sensei and teammate using minimum amounts of their chakra to summon 5 shadow clones each, quickly Kakashi threw each of the clones a soldier pill and they they devoured them as if their lives depended on it, perhaps because they did.

Sayuri and Sakura gave Naruto a kiss on the cheek each, Making him blush like a maiden and Kakashi to giggle pervertedly to which he received a kunai form each of them, "I hope you won't get used to this." Sayuri said with a smirk and Sakura continued with a smirk as well "Yeah this is one time only." they said teasing him. "Shut it, both of you." Naruto grumbled with a glare pointed at the two.The two of them just laughed at him and soon he did as well after witch they went back to training.

~Time skip: Another month and a half later.~

After another month and a half, Team Seven left Training ground 0 ready for their missions,Except for Kakashi, everyone looked different than when they entered the training ground.

Sakura whose hair was long and soft due to the countless hours she spent making it that way is now in a short bob with bangs, Instead of her old red battle dress, biker shorts and sandals, She now wore a Red Battle Kimono Top with a bit longer Black biker shorts and a front and back White loincloth and knee high combat boots.She had a kunai pouch on her left thigh and a smole firstade kit on the smole of her back longside two ninjatos placed parallel from the left of her back to the top of her right shoulder, She had her head banned placed similar to her original one but instead of her dark blue cloth she had a red one. In short she looked like a beautiful yet deadly flower who is ready to strike.

Sayuri or in this case Sasuke had a longer hairstyle in a high ponytail and now wore a traditional Uchiha Shinobi outfit but slightly modified. Instead of completely wide and baggy sleeves, most of the sleeves are tapered and only wide at the end to hide the hands, On the left sleeve there is his (hers) headband medal pleat proudly displaying the Konoha symbol, on her back she had the Uchiha clans symbol on the left side of her belt she had her chokuto and on her right thigh she had a kunai pouch,In short if she was to ascend into the time of the Clan wars she wouldn't be out of place only thing that would be out of place is the Konoha symbol.

Naruto was the one whos apperents changed the most at least in his face department, instead of short spiky sun-kissed hair, he now has a longer, silky and darker one witch he had in a short ponytail (A/N:Jin's hairstyle just with Minatos hair color.) and his whisker marks became less noticeable.He still had his Face mask and headband that he got made by Kaguro for him, But his Shuzoku was much darker this time and with several armor pieces on his arms, legs and chest. His Tanto was on the smole of his back handel pointing to the left and his Wakizashi was same just to the right with its handel,On his hip he had the quiver with his arrows and a bow on his back longside his Katana. On the left side of his collar he has a metal plate from his Konoha headband just a bit darkened like the other twos,And on the front of his chestplate he had the Uzumaki symbol proudly displayed as well as on his back just smoler.

~Flashback:Month and a half ago in the canteen.~

Team Seven sat at the table along with the Hawks ANBU squad, Sayuri out of nowhere remembered about Naruto learning forgery so she turned to him and asked "Hey Naruto?" The mentioned young man stopped his eating looked at her and asked "Yeah whats up?" she spoke "You mentioned learning blacksmithing didn't you?" Naruto nodded and Sayuri continued "Why?" Naruto just looked to his meal and thot of what he was to say, The rest of the people just looked at him and waited to hear about his reason for doing so.

Naruto looked Sayuri directly in the eyes and said, "A family tradition you can say, Remember how i told you we are more similar than you think?" She nodded her head a bit confused but still remembering. Naruto then continued, "The day Konohamaru the Sandaimes grandson was almost kidnapped I learned the identity of my Mother, so i learned that she and by extension me were both part of a clan." Sakura spoke up "You're a part of a clan?" Naruto nodded and said "Yes, The Uzumaki clan were a distant cousins of the Senju Clan known by their Fuinjutsu, Swordsmanship and water affinity as great as Uchihas fire one."

Sayuri looked at him and asked "Were?" Naruto nodded sadly "Yes, with the exception of my mother lady Mito and few babes that lived in Konoha all other Uzumaki clan man and woman died either in the second great war or in defence of Uzushio." He said sadly and continued "Towards the end of the war Lady Mito died of old age and the babies either died of disease or died in their first years as genins, all accept my mother." Sighing and cleaning couple of strei tears he continued "A branch of the clan that lived in Konoha and came with Lady Mito to the village, couldn't bring their blacksmith family to Konoha so they all had to lurne forgery so they could mick the Swords our family was known for." He pulled his blade and spoke "These are good, but they are no Uzumaki steal. I have my mother's blades but cant use them for they are infused with her chakra during the forging process so only she could use them. So i have to do the same when making myne if i want to live up to my clans name." He sheathed the blades back with a sigh and looked up to see everyone looking at him.

Blinking he asked "What?" to that Kakashi answered to him "You sounded like a clan heir there." Still confused Naruto asked "Alright so what about it?" Sakura giggled and said "We are more used to the carefree idiot, then the responsible clan hair Naruto." Naruto made a Indignant remark to that and everyone started to laugh.

~Flash back end~

After Naruto told his team about the history of his clan and how they fell defending their homeland against Three of the Big Five and a few other smaller villages who together numbered a force of almost Sixty thousand and both Sanbi and Rokubi Jinchuriki against Two Thousand Uzushio Shinobi and Samurai, Returning without neither of the Jinchuriki and with five thousand shinobi in total and of thos five thousand half were crippled. In short, the Uzumaki clan were a dangerous and formidable bunch who died like they were born punching, kicking, screaming and covered in someone else's blood.That made Sayuri and Sakura to convince Naruto to wear his clans symbol proudly witch he now did.

Team Seven entered Training Ground 0 as a group of rookies fresh out of the academy and emerged as an elite group of genin who are on level of High Tokubetsu-Jonin only thing they need? Experience, and they are out to get it.

To be continued...

Holy moly that was a long ass chapter. And i hope i didn't fucking misspelled or miswritten something again.

OK, first of all I should mention the Story from which I borrowed a few things, The story is called ANBU bootcamp by rbear1231 a great story and one of the only two that have a NaruHina Ship that i love.

And now i have two questions about this story.

First about the Chunin Exams do you want me to do them the same way as in the original story or do you want me to do my own idea, if i do my idea then Konoha crush arc will be much different.

And the second is for the Ships.

My original idea for the couple was Naruto x Sayuri, but while writing this chapter I thought of doing Naruto x Sayuri x Sakura.

Now with my original idea I also made pairings for other members of Konoha 12 thos being as follows.

Kiba x Hinata

Shino x Hana Inuzuka

Ino x Choji

Shikamaru x Temari

Ten-ten x Neji

Lee x Sakur.

Now you see what the problem is if I do the second idea, My man Lee will be alone and I don't know who I'm going to ship with him.

So people please help, write in the comments which of the two Pairs and Which of the two options for the Chunin Exams should I do.

And if you choose another idea for a couple please give me ideas for a ship with Lee. and before you say Kurotsuchi it's a big no because of the course I'm going to take this story on.

That's all thanks for reading.

And as always Stay safe, stay healthy and bye. bye. :p