The difference she made

“Alright Sakura, since Kakashi-sensei is still in the hospital, we’re going to start your training,” Naruto informed the pink haired konoichi as team 7 met at their designated training ground the next day, “first things first, we’re going to see how good your chakra control is, then either improve it, or increase your capacity.”
“Now, channel chakra to the soles of your feet and attempt to walk up a tree, anyone will do, without using your hands. If you use too much chakra it will repel you and if you use too little you won’t stick, now get started!” Sasuke continued where his friend left off.
“R-right!” she replied before forming the ram seal and channelling chakra to her feet, before she walked straight to the nearest tree and walked straight up to the first branch before sitting down, “that was easy,” she cried out obviously ecstatic that she could perform a ninja technique with such ease.
“Then why did you stop there?” Naruto enquired already knowing the answer.
“B-because I used most of my chakra to make it here,” the now frowning girl answered.
“Exactly, if you don’t have the chakra to perform a technique without getting tired out, either don’t use the technique or make sure it will finish off ALL your enemies so they can’t take advantage of your weakened state. Of course WE are going to make sure that you have enough chakra to perform your techniques, so carry on with the exercise until you can’t continue then come to me,” Naruto advised the girl, who in turn started to climb higher. “So, what do you want to do?” he asked as he turned to his best friend who took on an exaggerated thinking pose.
“I think… that I want to finish off perfecting my Hi no yaiba ,” the dark haired member of the group answered quickly.
“Well then, I think I’ll just work on my Fūinjutsu then,” the blonde informed the others before pulling out a couple of scrolls and an inkwell before starting to work on… whatever it was he was doing.
“Um, Naruto-san,” Sakura said hesitantly as she walked towards him, almost completely drained of chakra, “I’ve run out of chakra.”
“Lift your shirt.”
“WHAT!!! YOU DAMN PERVERT,” “Sakura, shut up, I just want you to allow me access to your gut, that way I can inject you with a small portion of my chakra and force your coils to refill quickly, but I need you to lift your shirt to do that,” the blonde explained without looking up from his equipment.
“S-sorry, it’s just, you know, that book you’re reading.”
“When I told Kakashi-sensei my reason for reading that book, I was being honest, I don’t even like reading it, it’s nothing but senseless smut, no trace of a story,” Naruto claimed looking downcast.
“Don’t most men like it that way?”
“Maybe, but I prefer the real thing,” he informed her causing her to stare blankly for a few seconds.
“Fine then, whatever,” she said as she lifted her shirt to reveal her stomach to the blonde, who quickly placed his hand over her naval and started to, very slowly, inject some of his chakra into her system. It didn’t take long for the resistance against his flow to inform him that she was nearly full again .
“Alright Sakura, continue the exercise,” after hearing the instructions the pinkette restarted the tree climbing exercise. The group continued to follow this routine until lunch, when they decided that they should get something to eat.
“Alright, I say we let Sakura decide where to eat, since she’s never eaten with us before, is that okay with you bro?” Naruto commented when the group was trying to make their decision.
“Sure, don’t see why she can’t,” was the charcoal eyed Uchiha’s response.
“Um, are you alright with dango?” she asked cautiously, not wanting to disappoint her teammates.
“Dango it is then!” the blue eyed teen shouted enthusiastically before they headed off into Konoha.
-
“So, when we get back, do I continue climbing trees?” Sakura asked her temporary sensei after they got their orders.
“No, after we’ve finished lunch, we are going to report to the Hokage and receive our first mission, just because Kakashi-sempai is in the hospital doesn’t mean we can avoid doing low rank missions,” Naruto stated as he ate his dumplings at a subdued pace, “anyway Sasuke, how ya doin with your jutsu?”
“I’ve got it down, I’ve just got to refine it now, it uses too much chakra for a single hit,” the dark haired boy claimed.
“Wait, did you just say that your jutsu uses too much chakra? I thought you had a ton of chakra?” his pink haired teammate claimed in surprise.
“I do have a shitload of chakra, but even then, I can only use my technique 4 maybe 5 times a day because of how much it uses.”
“Huh? Why does it use so much chakra?” she questioned.
“Because going by the standard rules of jutsu classification, Sasuke’s technique is labelled an A-rank assassination jutsu,” Naruto explained to the currently wide eyed girl.
“A-a-an A-rank assassination jutsu!” she spluttered out, “those are Jōnin and Kage level techniques!”
“Sakura, Kakashi-sempai is officially an S-rank ninja, and we managed to beat him, if you don’t understand, that means that me and Naruto are at least Jōnin level in our skills,” Sasuke informed their teammate.
“I see,” she said gloomily as they finished their lunch.
“Well then, are you ready to get our first mission?”
“I’m sorry Uzumaki-san but that will have to wait, Uchiha-sama’s presence has been requested by the council,” a rat masked ANBU stated as they appeared in a swirl of leaves, startling Sakura and receiving a sigh of irritation from the boys.
“Sorry guy’s but the ‘honourable council’ will probably throw a fit if I don’t show up,” the dark haired teen stated before shunshining away, leaving a shocked ANBU in his wake.
“Uchiha-sama knows the Shunshin?”
“Yeah, though mine’s faster, anyway I guess we should just do some extra training huh Sakura,” Naruto claimed before leaving the establishment (though not before paying the bill).
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Inside the council chambers, we find the Hokage, along with his two advisors, sitting before the two councils.
The ninja council consisted of several important clan heads, who were currently sitting quietly, waiting for their guest of honour.
The civilian council was filled with greedy merchants and other such individuals. Within the civilian council, only two individuals acted with the best interest of the village in mind, Kouriteki Subeku and Haruno Uzubeni.
Suddenly a swirl of leaves announced the arrival of Sasuke in the chambers.
“What the hell do you want? My team was just about to pick up our first D-rank,” he stated in an agitated tone.
“They want to talk with you concerning your status as the sole loyal, survivor of the Uchiha clan,” the Hokage stated with an unnoticeable amount of anger in his voice.
“In that case… I want my lawyer,” the raven haired boy stated, causing the entire council to sweatdrop at the comment.
“Of course, just tell one of the ANBU who you want to represent you and they’ll fetch them for you,” one of the civilians stated, knowing full well that every lawyer in Konoha was under the thumb of the council.
After the council approved of Sasuke’s right to a lawyer, a cat masked ANBU walked over to the Uchiha, before said Uchiha whispered in her ear, earning an ‘are you sure?’ in response, which he quickly confirmed, before the ANBU left via Shunshin.
After several minutes of waiting and silent cursing courtesy of the ninja council who realised the civilians plans, a konoha Shunshin appeared in the middle of the chamber.
When it cleared it revealed a slightly dishevelled ANBU and a pristine jinchūriki, which resulted in him receiving confused stares off of everyone except Sasuke.
“Yo, they want to talk with me concerning a clan responsibilities,” Sasuke stated calmly.
“(Sigh) so they want to discuss the CRA huh? Oh well, let’s get this over with,” the blond claimed before standing next to his best friend.
“Uchiha-sama, someone of your stature shouldn’t associate with vermin like that,” a random civilian stated while directing a sneer at the blond.
“Give me one good reason why I shouldn’t associate with Naruto.”
“Because that demon is a murderer!” a different civilian shouted out, before cowering at the Hokages killing intent.
“So are ALL ninja, or did you forget that?” the raven haired heir stated calmly.
“I thought we were supposed to be discussing Sasuke’s status, rights etc, not his social interactions,” Naruto intervened.
“Shut up you demon! If Uchiha-sama knew what you are, he wouldn’t even consider going near you let alone associate with you!”
“That is enough!” the Sandaime shouted out in an attempt to preserve one of the few friendships Naruto seemed to possess.
“It’s alright Hokage-sama, they are simply scared because I’m not under their thumb, so they’re trying to get rid of me so I can’t disrupt their plans,” the blond stated calmly, earning several glares off the civilian council.
“You’re only talking tough because Uchiha-sama doesn’t know what you are!”
“If you’re talking about Naruto being a jinchūriki, then I’ve known for over a year,” Sasuke informed them, earning wide eyes in the process.
“Sasuke… may I ask who informed you of Naruto’s status?” the aged leader enquired cautiously.
“I did,” the blond stated calmly.
“And who told you?”
“No one,” Naruto replied, earning several disbelieving stares off the council, “What? The seal on my stomach is a combination of a containment seal, with a conversion and limiter seal, with a conditional summoning seal combined with a chakra storage and an impression seal,” he continued earning confused stares in the process.
“Would you care to explain exactly what that means?” the head of the Hyūga clan asked, allowing no emotion to play on his features.
“(sigh) it means that the seal, under normal circumstances, filters a malignant chakra and converts it into normal, human chakra, before injecting it into my coils therefore increasing my reserves at an inhuman rate. The second part of the seal only works under certain conditions, which I can only assume is the release of a certain level of the Kyūbi’s power, the seal uses chakra stored in a separate seal to activate a summoning seal that is linked to an impression seal… which probably contains a copy of the Yondaime, probably to reinforce the seal and prevent the Kyūbi’s release,” he explained.
“So are you saying that you could recreate the seal?” the head of the Inuzuka clan asked in confusion.
“Recreate it… yes, make alterations to it… no.”
“Huh?” was the only response of everyone in the room.
“(sigh) anyone can read a seal matrix if they can figure out how the individual seals interact with each other, however, it takes a seal master to figure out how to link the different seals and predict the effects of how altering a single link can affect the seal matrix’s integrity, and I’m no seal master,” Naruto explained drawing looks of realisation from many of the ninja present, except the Hokage who’s expression changed to a look of pride at his surrogate grandson’s knowledge, “now, back to the topic at hand… Sasuke’s responsibilities as the last loyal member of a bloodline clan.”
“Ah yes, as the last member of the Uchiha clan you must adhere to the CRA… which indicates that you must take at least five wives before you turn sixteen,” a random civilian stated smugly.
“Objection! Clan law 32a states that if only a single member of any bloodline clan is left.. then they are allowed to practice polygamy, but it is not enforceable,” the blond genin stated calmly, which resulted in one of the Hokages advisors checking to ensure that he was correct.
“Uzumaki-san is correct, it is entirely up to Uchiha-san how many wives he decides to take,” the council member confirmed, earning several sneers off the civilian council.
“Before any of you civilians attempt anything else… I think clan laws 5c and 2b should be explained to you,” Naruto said, prompting the advisors to look up said laws.
“Clan law 5c states that all arranged marriages between clans must be approved by the heads of both clans… law 2b states that if no heir to a clan is announced before the death of the current clan head, the oldest available clan member is automatically passed the position until they declare an heir.”
“So to put it simply, in order to arrange a marriage with Sasuke, you must get it approved by the head of the Uchiha clan… which just so happens to be Sasuke himself,” the blond explained to the civilian council, resulting in their hate for him increasing.
“Why don’t you just shut up demon!” another random civilian shouted.
“Because as Sasuke’s lawyer, I’m required to look out for his best interests, which also means ensuring that he isn’t being deceived about his duties as the last loyal member of the Uchiha clan.”
“That is correct… the job of a lawyer is to ensure that their client is given fair treatment and that their rights aren’t violated,” Utatane Koharu, one of the Hokages old teammates, confirmed.
“Fine then… however Uchiha-sama is required to take his seat on the council when he either turns sixteen years of age or reaches the rank of Chūnin,” a civilian stated with his anger at Naruto noticeable to everyone in the room.
“That is correct… now I believe that, that is all of Sasuke’s duties as the head of the Uchiha clan, so this meeting has technically finished,” Naruto stated calmly, before looking towards the Hokage for confirmation.
“Indeed that is all for THIS meeting… however, due to the level of skill I am made to believe you possess… there is another meeting that must take place,” the old leader informed them quietly.
“What would this meeting be about?” the blond asked.
“Your heritage,” the sandaime stated, drawing several confused expressions from the council, “please don’t hate me for keeping this from you,” he continued only to be interrupted.
“Hokage-sama… I’ve always known that you were lying to me when you told me you didn’t know who my parents were, just like I always knew you were lying when you said you didn’t know why the villagers hated me… and I have never doubted your judgement.”
“How did you know?” the Hokage asked in shock.
“Everyone has a tell, that little something that they don’t realise they do when they lie… I’ve known your tell since before I can remember,” the whiskered blond informed everyone.
“I see… anyway, onto this point of business, dear council, I believe it is time to reveal who Naruto’s parents are…” Sarutobi stated before giving dramatic pause, causing many individuals to lean forward in anticipation, “Uzumaki Kushina, the Aka shi, and Namikaze Minato, the Yondaime Hokage,” cue gasp’s of shock all round, that is until everyone noticed the lack of surprise on both Naruto and Sasuke’s faces.
“Why don’t you two look surprised?” the Inuzuka clan head asked.
“Because we’ve known for what… about half a year now,” Sasuke stated, looking towards his ‘lawyer’ for confirmation.
“Give or take,” came the quick reply.
“How did you find out?” the Hokage asked in shock.
“Hokage-sama… my birth certificate has their names on it,” came the response, bringing several sweatdrops from the many councillors.
“I can’t believe I forgot about that…” the ‘Shinobi no Kami’ mumbled to himself.
“It was a little too obvious,” Naruto informed him.
“So… Uzumaki-san is the son of the Yondaime… I believe that he would do well under the CRA,” one random civilian stated with a malicious smirk plastered on his face.
“Clan law 32b… only bloodline clans are applicable for the practice of polygamy,” came the nonchalant reply, resulting in a confirmation from one of the advisors.
“However… village law 3a states that a single relative of a former hokage may take a seat on the council,” Mitokado Homura, one of the hokages advisors stated.
“And I will do my best to fulfil my duties as an honorary member of the Konoha council,” was the professional response of the blond.
“(sigh) Now I declare this meeting over…” the Hokage stated, before noticing both Naruto and Sasuke disappear in swirl of leaves.
-
In training ground seven we find Sakura panting in exhaustion due to the physical workout she had been ordered to do by Naruto.
“So how was it?” came the jovial call of her blond haired teammate.
“(pant) you are (pant) evil...” she said with the venom lacing her voice being lost by the exhaustion that was racking her body.
“Yes I know… anyway, tomorrow morning we will be training from 7:00 till 12:00, then we will have an hour for lunch before doing missions until 5:00 then doing some more training until 8:00,” the jinchūriki told the girl, causing her to go wide eyed at the idea of a 13hour day, “that will be our routine until Kakashi-sempai is released from the hospital, do you understand?”
Sakura was originally horrified, but then remembered her teammates levels… she was going to catch up to them no matter what.
“Hai, Naruto-sensei!” she called out after catching her breath, earning an amused smirk from her raven haired teammate.
“Sakura… please don’t call me that, I hate it when people call me that,” Naruto stated with his arms crossed.
“Huh? People have called you that before?” the pinkette asked in confusion.
“Oh indeed they have, haven’t they… Naruto-sensei,” Sasuke stated before ducking a Fūton enhanced kunai aimed at his face.
“Get back here so I can skin ya!”
“Ya gotta catch me first!”
“Ok… so our sensei reads porn and is always late, Naruto is calm but bloodthirsty and reads porn as well and Sasuke enjoys annoying people and likes to joke around… am I the only normal one on this team?” Sakura thought as she watched the interaction between her teammates, before a small smile appeared on her face, “I wouldn’t change it for the world.”
- (five days later)
“This is hawkeye, I have the target in my sight.”
“This is KMO , in position to intercept target if required.”
“This is blossom, the containment unit is ready.”
“Hawkeye… initiate the attack.”
And with that command a raven haired boy shot out of the overgrown forest the team was currently hiding in, before making eye contact with the target, using his sharingan to cast a powerful genjutsu on it.
The target was immediately caught in the genjutsu and in a couple of seconds, was sleeping soundly, before it was scooped up and placed in a small cage.
“Pink ribbon located on the cat’s left ear… definitely the correct cat, mission complete,” Naruto stated as he walked out of the foliage.
“It doesn’t seem right…” Sakura stated as she looked at the cat, “I mean, I was talking to Ino last night and she said that it took her team six hours to catch this cat and we just did it in 15minutes.”
“Sakura, we have more resources at our disposal than team 10, for them it is a case of trick it into getting caught in Shikamaru’s shadow and then contain it… for us it’s a case of use a genjutsu to put it to sleep and then contain it,” the blond informed the girl.
“That doesn’t matter… what matters is that we get this cat back to the mission centre so we can finish up for the day,” Sasuke said before the group started walking back towards the mission hall.
-
“Oh my cute little Tora-chan, I was so worried!” the daimyo’s wife shouted as she began to crush the poor animal. After a short smothering session, the woman left the room, leaving the many Chūnin in charge of handing out the missions gaping at how quickly a team that lacked their sensei was capable of catching the ever elusive cat.
“I must say I am amazed at the speed you managed to catch Tora… most Chūnin take between one and two hours to catch her,” the Hokage stated calmly, “now unfortunately we have no more missions you can participate in, so you will have to come back tomorrow.”
“That is perfect Hokage-sama, we were planning on getting some more training done anyway,” the temporary leader of team 7 stated calmly before they left the room.
-
“Alright Sakura… over the past couple of days your reserves have grown substantially, as such we will now teach you the theory of how to walk on water.
Water walking is essentially the same as tree walking, only instead of just getting the amount of chakra right, you also have to emit it in a continuous stream in order to create the propulsion required to not fall through the surface while constantly adjusting the level to accommodate the ever changing surface, do you understand?” Naruto explained to the academically bright girl.
“Hai Naruto-sempai!” she shouted before he pulled a scroll out of his waistcoat.
“This scroll has some towels sealed in it, just in case you fall in and need to dry off.”
“That’s very thoughtful of you Naruto,” came a lazy call from their side.
“I’m just looking out for my teammate Kakashi-sempai,” Naruto responded completely unfazed by the Jōnin’s sudden appearance.
“Yes… now can I please get my book back?” the man asked with a hint of desperation in his voice.
“Are we an official team?”
“Yes.”
“Then sure,” the blond said before pulling the book out and handing it to the silver haired Jōnin.
“My precious… I swear I will never risk you like that again…” the Cycloptic Jōnin muttered as he caressed the book, “oh by the way… Naruto, Sasuke, I have one jutsu to teach you before I dedicate my time to Sakura,” this comment brought small smiles to the boys lips, both a chance to possibly learn a jutsu they didn’t have access to and evidence that their sensei was going to focus on the member that needed the most help. “This jutsu is normally off limits due to the large chakra consumption and the possibility of killing yourself from over using it… however, I’m going to go out on a limb and say that I can trust you with it, it is called the Tajū Kage Bunshin no jutsu!” he called out while forming a cross like handseal before 20 or so copies of him appeared in the clearing, “now first things first… the kage bunshin is a solid clone that upon dispersal, transfers its memories to the original.”
“So it can be used to accelerate our training… thank you for trusting us with this technique,” the blond stated before both of them formed their hands into the same seal and started circulating their chakra in order to get a good feel of the flow, “Tajū kage bunshin no jutsu!” they called out simultaneously, filling the entire training ground with the solid clones.
“Physical training,” both of the originals said before the countless clones each began practicing a skill.
“Oh Kami… what sort of monster have I unleashed?” Kakashi asked in horror, after all, the duo had nearly managed to kill him WITHOUT the thousands of hours extra training this would give them, by the time they reached 16 they would probably be stronger than the Hokage.