(The drawing is because of the comment of ALMIGHT SAKURA!!!! I thought it was funny and decided to draw it!)

(Also enjoy this drawing, this would be a more cannon sakura having a sudden growth spurt and the idiot duo is trying to turn it into a competition on who can have a growth spurt faster )
Third Person POV __

Naruto was smiling widely as he carried a few large pictures, books and scrolls to his home. "Mama I'm Home!" He called out as he entered the house. He heard a slight grunt coming from Kiro's bedroom and he placed the things down in his bedroom.

"Back from training?" She asked as she was sitting at the foot of the table laying on one of the many pillows.

"I spoke with Jiji and Kakashi." he trailed off as he sat down near her. "They told me. They told me about my real mom and what really happened on the day of my birth." He sat down in front of her slightly clenching his fists. He wondered if she knew that he was the Kyubii Jinchuriki.

"Ah, So you know now. About the burden you carry?" She asked and he gave a meek nod. "I do but.... Mama, were you ever scared of me? I mean if you knew what I was. Were you ever worried?" He asked and she looked up at him with her golden colored eyes.

"Scared? Of what? When I first met you I was patrolling the forest. I felt a large chakra signature and followed it to check and see what was going on. I moved quickly but as I held you down all I saw was a small injured child. I became worried and asked you if you had a home and parents and then you told me that you were an orphan. I became worried that you were being neglected and decided to take you in. I made you my child even if it was not by blood." She stated and he looked at her small tears forming in his eyes.

" I am glad I took you in. My life has been much better. I was able to become a mother and I get to see my pup every single day." She stood up and walked toward him and licked his cheek. Naruto threw himself forward and hugged her tightly. " I love you, Pup."

Naruto showed his mother the things he had brought back from the Uzumaki Temple. He also chatted loudly about his training that he was going to be getting from Kakashi in the art of Fuinjutsu. That night he slept with a smile on his face knowing more about himself and his heritage and knowing that he was accepted

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"Check this out! Hell view illusions!" Sakura yelled excitedly as she did the handsigns for the genjutsu she learned. Sasuke let out a loud shrill and was backing away from her.

"What the fuck! Muscle Head!" He yelled backing away from her while forming handsigns and yelling Kai.

"Um, Hey guys." Naruto stuttered out watching in slight horror as he just arrived to the training ground they were going to be using.

"Oh hey Naruto. Wanna see the genjutsu Kakashi sensei taught me?" She squealed an evil gleam in her eyes making Naruto slowly back away as he glanced at Sasuke as the dark haired boy was shuddering and stepping away from their pink haired teammate.

"I think I am okay, Besides I'm not really good at releasing genjutsus." He replied weakly and she blinked a few times and stared at him before a large smile spread across her face.

"Well what do you know, I need a training buddy and you need practice in releasing Genjutsu. Looks like we are a match made in heaven Na-ru-chan." She smiled sweetly as she waved her finger side to side.

Naruto could feel his blood run cold and slowly began to back away. "Um Sakura -chan... why are you looking at me like that?" He gulped glancing at Sasuke who looked at him with pity.

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When Kakashi arrived he was a bit taken back as he saw Naruto face down on the ground whimpering while sakura was nearly bouncing around. Sasuke was a bit further away polishing his training bokuto.

"Morning Sensei." Sasuke grumbled as he stood up and sheathed his bokuto sword but stood a bit far away from Naruto and Sakura.

"Hello My cute little students. I hope you are ready for your training today." He asked and Sakura nodded eagerly and Naruto let out a whimper.

" We went over a few of the more basic techniques yesterday. Now today we will go over theories and then we will continue with learning the basics. For you Sakura chan we will go over your chakra control and attention to detail. Sasuke we will go over your first katas. And Naruto we will go over fail safes and practice your calligraphy." He stated and they all gave a nod.

"This does not mean we will neglect your physical training. Later today we will gather again and begin conditioning. You will also practice your normal Katas and spar against each other in taijutsu." He added and they all nodded. Naruto was slowly getting up.

"Great! Now lets start training." He grinned and two clones appeared beside him.

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"Who would have thought that genjustu was so great!" Sakura smiled as the three genin walked to the weapon shop. "Hmph at least someone is enjoying their training." Naruto sighed as he absent mindedly tried to wipe the ink stains off his face.

"Hnn." Sasuke grunted as he carried his training sword over his shoulder and glanced at his pink haired teammate warily.

"Bah, You picked something physical and Naruto you picked something of extreme precision, not only that very few shinobi even master the art." She pointed out and Sasuke grunted.

"Would you look at that, she is still able to think despite all of that muscle that's accumulated around her big forehead." He grunted making Sakura punch him lightly on the arm which made him stumble slightly and then rub his arm in pain.

"Don't be such a cry baby. Just because I found my calling and am doing well doesn't mean you have to hound me for it hime." Sakura pouted.

"Are you ever going to stop calling me that?" Sasuke asked quirking a brow.

"No, at this point your basically the personification of that name Sasuke-hime. Your moody, you have what seems to be a superiority complex and you are spoiled rotten. How many times does Sakura carry you out of the training ground because you don't feel like walking. It's sad to say that we enable your bad behaviors." Naruto sighed and shrugged.

Sasuke's cheeks flushed in embarrassment. "I don't ask her to. She just picks me up and slings me over her shoulder and the one time she carried me like a proper human being and not a sack of potatoes was the time I twisted my ankle."

"Blasphemy, I plead slander. He simply expects us to leave him on the floor after he collapses from exhaustion. I, the good, law abiding kunoichi of konoha only pick him up from the kindness of my heart!" Sakura huffs and points at Sasuke, who in turn stares at her in confusion.

"What?"

"Hmmm, I concede. Sakura is to pure hearted. Sasuke-hime shame on you for belittling her chivalry acts. Also your a certified tsundere your practically asking to be picked up." Naruto nods and crossed his arms.

"What?!"

"Now don't get your panties in a twist. We have to get our supplies so c'mon." Sakura smirked and dragged Sasuke behind her.

"You two are impossible!" Sasuke quickly exclaimed as he was dragged away.
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"So we are gunna see who made it to the finals?" Naruto asked excitedly as they followed their sensei to the barbeque restaurant were all of the rookies were going to meet up.

"Yup and all of the sensei's are treating, so here we are on our way to eat lunch there." Kakashi shrugged as he read his book.

"I can't wait to hear how it went." She smiled widely. Although they were not participating she wanted to know how her classmates fights went.

As they arrived at the barbeque joint they saw their classmates and they were quick to great them. "Well, well. The Pup has arrived!" Kiba jeered with a grin as he saw Naruto.

"Down boy! I am surprised they let you on the table dog breath!" Naruto jabbed right back making Kiba chuckle. "Ah, Kakashi I am surprised you guys showed up. I would have thought you'd be later." Asuma chuckled making Kakashi cock a brow.

"And miss a free meal, course not." He replied.

"Rival! I see you have brought your students." Gai stood up and pointed at Kakashi as team Seven took a seat at the table.

"Ah, Hello Kurenai-san." Kakashi eye smiled as he greeted the Genjutsu mistress ignoring Gai.

"KAKASHI!" "Huh, You say something Gai?" "Gah! Always so Hip!"

"So how was the test?" Naruto asked as he made himself comfy and got ready to order.

"Troublesome, We almost all passed the second round. But in the end Lee, Neji, Kiba, Shino, Tenten and I passed. " Shikamaru sighed.

"Oh yeah, You guys haven't met Team 9. Tenten, Rock Lee, and Hyuga Neji." Choji pointed them out .

"Pleasure meeting you guys, I'm Sakura, that's Sasuke and that's Naruto." She pointed to her teammates as she introduced them.

" Pleasures all ours." Tenten smiled as she looked them over. "So what kind of team are you guys?" Tenten asked as she looked at them. She could tell that team 8 was a tracking team and Team 10 was a capture team.

"Oh, us? We are frontline assault team." Naruto replied, Sasuke Hmphed and gave a firm nod.

"You're sensei must not have high expectations, seeing as they didn't even enter you in the exams." Neji sneered and glared at them through narrowed eyes.

Sasuke seemed to get annoyed and glared right back at the Hyuga prodigy. "As if we need some test to show case our skills. We would rather get our promotion through a field promotion." He sneered right back making Naruto and Sakura sigh.

'There he goes, his superiority complex is showing.' Both Naruto and Sakura groaned internally.

"Sasuke-kun, I'm sure that with your skills you will be promoted in no time." Ino gushed making both Naruto and Sakura want to face palm. 'His superiority complex isn't getting better if your stroking his ego.' They groaned internally.

" We decided we would prefer having more specialized training rather then try for chunin this year." Naruto pipped up.

"Neji, don't say things like that." Tenten tried to jab back at her teammate through gritted teeth.

" Is it me or are we seeing two genin try to prove who's got the biggest ego through a glaring contest." Asuma muttered to his fellow Jonin.

"Ah, Little Sasuke-Hime likes proving that he has the biggest ego. I am sure he will win sooner or later." Kakashi shrugged as he placed some meat on the grill.

"Hime?" Kurenai asked incredulously. Kakashi raised an eyebrow at her. "Did I stutter?" He asked making her face go pink.

"So N-Naruto-kun what are you guys studying?' Hinata asked with a slight stutter.

"Oh, I'm diving a bit into fuinjutsu. They picked their own subjects, I am not sure what though." Naruto smiled at Hinata as he responded.

In Truth he did know what his teammates were studying but it would be wrong to give out information like that. If they wanted to tell everyone what they were studying they could but he was not about to do that. It would be rude of him and it wasn't his place to do so.

"Just some chakra control for me. And refining my taijutsu." Sakura smiled not being specific about what she was studying, she liked having the element of surprise.

"I am training with a Bokuto." Sasuke stated not going into detail.

"Ah, So Sakura-san are you a taijutsu specialist?" Lee pipped up and Sakura glanced at him. Sure he dressed a bit weird and the haircut did not fit him but even with the spandex she could tell he was either a taijustu specialist or had very good taijustu.

"Sorta, But I do like to be well rounded" She stated with a firm nod. "We should definitely spar sometime Sakura-chan!" Lee declared with a bright smile and a slight blush on his cheek.

Ino's mouth dropped as she looked at Sakura and Lee. "Oh my god he has a crush on her." She whispered lowly as Sakura agreed with him about sparring sometime.

"Lee you can't just challenge someone you just met!" Tenten exclaimed looking at her teammate with slight disapproval. "Sorry about that Sakura-san, Lee just has a bit of a one track mind when it comes to training and weights."

"Well look at that Sakura, Someone that can probably keep up with your brute and manly obsession with Taijutsu training." Sasuke elbowed her side with a quip smirk.

Her face flushed and she socked him in the arm harshly making his eyes widened as he leaned on Naruto for moral, physical and emotional support as he was in pain. "Just because you can't handle a love tap and some more training doesn't mean I can't." She smirked as she flexed.

Tenten's eyes nearly crossed as she saw what she had thought to be a girly girl with bright pink hair flex her muscles. Sure you could tell that she worked out but seeing her flex and show off her very toned muscles was something else. Aa a matter of fact they were quite big and seeing her cute girly face with large muscles it seemed odd.

Tenten looked over at Lee who had hearts on his eyes. Kiba shuffled away slightly. "Naru your teammates concern me, you guys are getting crazier everytime I see you." He told his close friend and Naruto laughed. "Nah this is nothing." He patted Kiba's back.

"Kakashi, You have one set of odd genin." Kurenai stated as she was looking at the three Genin on team seven.

"I try my best." He shrugged as he ate.

Ino stared at her old rival in shock. "Hey! Forehead don't hit Sasuke-kun like that!" She yelled at the pink haired girl in shock.

"Eh? I barely touched him!" Sakura crossed her arms and cocked a brow. " Don't think I am blind billboard brow! I saw you hit him." Ino stammered out indignant.

"Yeah, you heard her. Don't hit me like that FOREHEAD. " Sasuke hissed at Sakura. Sakura coughed and looked at Sasuke in shock.

"What did you call me? Hime?!" She asked in shock. " You heard me Forehead, or is all that muscle that has grown around your massive forehead also making you deaf." He huffed looking away as he was still rubbing his arm.

Naruto gasped and looked at Sakura wearily. " Sasuke-hime you can't say things like that. It's rude and impolite." Naruto tried to be the voice of reason. "Sakura-chan you know how Sasuke is, He is just being petty." Naruto tried to calm her down.

"Sakura-san doesn't have a massive forehead." Lee tried to defend his newfound crush.

Choji was starting to sit back with his plate of food knowing that the drama was sure to come. Ino was even more shocked, Sasuke had always been very reserved and didn't speak much. But he was being really mean. Surely he hadn't meant it. right?

Kiba and Hinata glanced at each other and then back at the two members on team seven. Tenten blinked and was shocked to see another version of her Prodigy teammate on team seven. Why were all cute boys cute until they opened their mouths and just ruined it?

Kurenai and Asuma were gawking at Sasuke's retort and Kakashi sighed and shook his head.

Sakura stared at him and blinked. "You are dead." She stated plainly with a sweet smile and Sasuke's eyes widened in utter fear at his teammates reaction. Naruto clasped his hands together and prayed for his teammate.

Kurenai can safely say she had never seen a girl sling a boy out of his seat with such ease, slam him on the ground and place them in a scorpion deathlock. Sasuke tried to hold back any pained expression but reluctantly apologized.

Then he sat quietly at the table again somehow seemingly more polite than before and Kakashi gave Sakura a thumbs up.

Neji stared at the seemingly small pink haired girl and then at his glaring contest rival from earlier and scoffed. "Weak." He grunted in distaste.

"What did you say about my Hime-chan?" Sakura asked sweetly and Neji suddenly found that the room seemed a bit colder.

It was like some miracle had come to fruition. Tenten was taking notes. If she had known that the way to get Neji to act polite was through utter fear, she would have placed her foot down a while back.

Sakura had somehow caught the prodigy so off guard She lifted his body up in the air horizontally before slamming his body on the ground in an ultimate jackhammer move and got up wiping her hands and as he laid on the ground disoriented she put him in a Scorpion deathlock as well and held him like that until he apologized and was almost begging to be let go.

Ino was trying hard to process what just had happened. First Sasuke actually talks to them and is a complete jerk, Sakura then takes it upon herself to literally put him in a Scorpion deathlock and force him to apologize. Then the cute boy from team 9 mocks her Sasuke-kun and then Sakura also makes do with him and forces him to apologize. Now the pretty Hyuga boy was sitting as far as humanly possible from her rival and staring at her in what seems to be horror.

Kiba was cheering her on the entire time, Naruto looked like he was praying for them and then their sensei's don't do anything to stop the escalating situation.

And no one was calling Sakura out on the situation and she was pretty sure Lee- san was falling head over heels for her and the Tenten girl looked at Sakura with new found respect.

She then glanced at her teammates and they didn't looked to shocked and were focused on actually eating. The only thing she could think was "What the fuck is going on?!"

"Haha, Rival your student is the most youthful." Gai laughed and patted Kakashi's back.

The genin were eating and had seemingly calmed down. All Kurenai could think was how the whole situation had been a rollercoaster from start to finish and a slimmer of hope that Hinata would hang out more with Sakura and some of her confidence would rub off on her.

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Team Seven was running a few laps around the village, Somehow Sakura had become friends with Lee. She found that they could definitely try one of her new friends training regimens.

Now usually Naruto and Sasuke would not join her in her pursue of better and crazier training regimens. But the pink haired menace went and told Kiro who thought it was a great way to work on the teams stamina considering they would be expected to run across countries later on in their careers.

Kiro told Kakashi and Kakashi being the evil slave driver decided that once a week they would work on their stamina by running a few laps around the village at a fast constant speed.

And so they found themselves running. Sakura had her hair tied back and was wearing comfortable training clothes. Sasuke looked annoyed but was running alongside her and Naruto was leading the small team by a couple of feet and setting the pace.

"Isn't this great." Sakura smiled as she felt the burning in her muscles and lungs. Sasuke glanced at her incredulously and grunted as he kept pace with her.

" It's not bad, and in the long run it will make us stronger." She stated and he grunted again and she sighed. Sasuke was just so stubborn. Sure he wanted to be strong but there was just certain training like endurance and stamina training that bored him or that didn't interest him as much.

"c'mon guys, we can definitely go faster than this!" Naruto chirped and his two teammates looked at him incredilously.

"Naruto, we aren't stamina power houses like you!" Sakura yelled at him so that he could hear her over Sasuke and her labor breathing.

Naruto cocked his head and then chuckled. " Oh yeah."

They both rolled their eyes.

All three gennin collapsed on Kiro's porch. She was waiting on them with three water canteens which they readily drank. "Well aren't you three looking great?" Kakashi smiled as he made his presence known.

"Now that your stamina is over we are going to go ahead and do some important team things." Kakashi stated.

All three of them pipped up, "What are we going to be doing Sensei?" Naruto chirped as he was already recovering from the run.

"Remember when I told you their was the Genin, Chunin, and Jonin attire? Well you have all been ninja for more than 6 months. Your Shinobi status are now considered permanent unless you die, are crippled, are on maternally leave or somehow piss the Hokage off enough that he strips you of your shinobi rank. The grace period that allowed you to quit if you thought you were not ready or made for the shinobi lifestyle is finally over." Kakashi clasped his hands as he spoke.

"So now it is time to finally pick up your genin attire so come along it's time for you three to be fitted into you ninja attires. The first set of seven is standard and given for free although adding special features like clan symbols or styles cost a bit more. Replacements can be ordered on later dates. Also you will be required to wear them whenever you are on duty." Kakashi stated with a smile.

"Wait, define on duty." Sasuke pipped up.

"When you wear your headband, you wear your Genin attire. Does that make sense?" Kakashi responded.

"Wait, sensei. We always wear our headbands." Sakura added a bit confused even when they weren't on missions and were relaxing in the village.

"Did I stutter?" Kakashi asked and all three of them shook their heads. "Great! Now lets go." He smiled at them and they all followed behind them as he took them to the Rusty Kunai.

The shop looked a bit run down but this was apparently where all of the village shinobi got their heavy duty shinobi attire and acording to Kakashi the place they would find the best clothes for their shinobi lifestyle.

A tall dark haired woman stood at the counter, she looked to be in her late fourties and was reading a news paper.

"Hello Riku-san. I have brought my genin team to be fitted with their first genin uniform." Kakashi smiled at the woman and she glanced over at them.

She was very beautiful with dark brown slanted eyes and a beauty mark beneath her eye, Her hair was pulled in a low pony tail and she had dark olive skin.

"I would have thought that you would never take a genin team Kakashi-san." She stated as she looked at Kakashi with a quirked brow.

"Well they are a good bunch of kids." Kakashi responded with a closed eye smile.

"Hmm." The older woman set her paper down gently as she glanced over the three students.

"They must be splendid. Now I know you aren't here for pleasantries. So what can I do for you today." She spoke quipped as she gently placed her hands on her table.

The woman moved with grace, her features moving delicately and with purposes.

Kakashi chuckled. "My students have finally moved from rookies to official instated genin. And I expect them to look the part." He explained.

The woman leaned forward placing a hand beneath her chin and looking the three genin over.

"Hmm, I see. And they have an interesting fashion taste. That they do." She looked them over.

"I guess I can work with them. Come I will lead you three to the back, Eiko watch the counter." She stood up and began walking towards a door behind the counter.

A girl stumbled out of the workshop. Her clothes seemed a bit out of place her dark brown hair slightly frizzy and had light colored skin.

"Of course Riku-sama." The girl squeaked out as she noticed the shinobi and her face flushed as she tried to straighten out her clothes.

"Honestly child, now hurry." Riku sighed as she saw her apprentices appearance.

"Come along genin." She led them in the room.

It was her workshop. There was clothing designs pinned to the walls and stacked neatly on what seemed to be a desk. Different fabrics were laid out alongside some half baked ideas.

"I'm going to take you to the back one at a time for measurements. Afterward we will discuss designs and prices." She stated as she glanced them over.

"But before that, fill these forms out. " she handed them a slip of paper which asked for name, address and where to send the bill.

"Now, I don't believe any of you introduced yourselves." Riku stated as she handed them pens.

All three of the genin flushed.
"I'm Haruno Sakura." The pink haired girl squeaked out shyly.

"Uchiha Sasuke."Sasuke spoke up.

"Uzumaki Naruto." Naruto finished off the woman turned and looked at him.

"Uzumaki? Haven't heard that name in a while. Good to know the clan still has some survivors from the great fall of the Uzumaki clan." She stated glancing at something and turned back to her work station.

Naruto's eyes widened, Did this woman know any Uzumaki? He turned to see what she had glanced at and noticed a small shrine there was a few pictures of people he didn't know but there was also a small portrait of his mother there.

But before he could ask the woman spoke up. "This right here is the basic uniform. As you can see there is the standard navy blue, also the green helps blend in. The material won't cut as easily and you have pockets. Here and here." She began showing off a basic model.

"Now gear like the arm guards, mesh armor, shin guards, and weapon hoisters cost extra to have them added. But if you buy them with your uniform I'll throw in some discounts. Seeing as your sensei is a valued client of mine and has been coming to my store since he was in diapers. As his pupils I'll even throw in another discount."

"Now any modification to the design can be done. You can personalize you uniforms to a certain extent. If you want I can do more personalized work for you. The village will cover most of the price tag." She added.

"How much to add my clan symbol?" Sasuke asked and Riku turned to him with a small smile.
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All three genin walked out with an excited smile on their face.

They had just ordered their first uniform sets. Also they had spent almost all of the money they had earned. Riku was quite the sales person and soon enough she had them set up with equipment and armour. The weapons shop didn't have most of what she offered and it went well with their outfits they had choosen.

Naruto was happy with what he had gotten but a bit upset that he hadn't had the chance to ask about the shrine. It wasn't like he was given clearance to speak of his mother to strangers or reveal her identity with anybody.

So all of those questions had to wait. So he was slightly bummed out because of it. But his uniform still made him slightly giddy.

(This is what they will look like 'the uniform')
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Please read this is important
I was going to write more but I went to the doctor and Guess who might have a brain tumor.

This stupid bitch hahahaha

God shit's in my dinner once again.

I'm currently crying and making death jokes to my bestfriend about the possible lump in my brain.

Sorry that I didn't make it longer. I'm busy making jokes about my own situation. 🤷🏻‍♀️🤷🏻‍♀️🤷🏻‍♀️

I'll still update, because naruto would not want to see me this sad.

Love you guys

Rosymalik