Chapter:32
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"Awesome!" Naruto cheered, "let's try it out…up on the roof."
One of Naruto's favourite additions that this new apartment was connected to the roof via a door next to the kitchen. On the roof, there were empty flower beds that Naruto itched to plant something in, but restrained himself from doing so…for now, at least.
"Right then…" the blond muttered once he was out on the roof, "Ram…Monkey…Horse…Ram! Doton: Iwa Bunshin no Jutsu!"
Naruto spat out a large rock (feeling like he was barfing up a watermelon) which split and turned into five exact copies of himself.
"Whoa…!" Naruto gaped at the sight of duplicates of himself standing in front of him, "This is surreal…"
"Try seeing it from the other side." one Iwa Bunshin retorted, "We only have enough chakra to last an hour if we don't use any jutsu."
"Hey, I'm sorry that you're only a clone, but them's the breaks." Naruto shot back, "How the hell are you even replying to me like this? Are Iwa Bunshin supposed to do this?"
"How the hell would we know?" another Iwa Bunshin asked, "We have your physical capabilities, not your knowledge of anything but Doton jutsu…which is a single Jutsu!"
"You know we're lucky to even be able to use this jutsu at all." Naruto reminded his clones, "The Jutsu Library at the Academy doesn't have anything but E-Rank Jutsu, and none of them are elemental Jutsu. The Jutsu section of the actual library would be good, but we can't get in there without that crabby old lady throwing us out."
"This sucks." another Iwa Bunshin grumbled.
"That's life." Naruto shrugged.
By thinking deep thoughts, your WIS has gone up by one!
"Shut up…" Naruto growled as he closed the window.
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The Next Day, End of the Academy Day
Final Year Classroom
"Haruno Sakura, Uzumaki Naruto." Neko said, appearing just after Iruka-sensei dismissed them for the day, "Your presences are required by the Hokage at once."
"What did you do Forehead?" Ino catcalled.
"Nothing!" Sakura retorted, "Naruto-baka what did you do?!"
"I did nothing." Naruto replied, "A member of the Haruno Clan broke the law, which is why we have been summoned. We'd better not keep Jiji waiting. Side Along Shunshin again, Neko-san?"
"This summons does require that method, I am afraid." Neko replied.
"Side Along what now?" Sakura asked as she came down to stand in front of the ANBU, more than slightly intimidated by the Black-Ops kunoichi.
"Shunshin. As in 'Shunshin no Jutsu'." Naruto explained as he moved next to her, "You haven't eaten much today have you, Sakura-chan?"
"No…" the pinkette shook her head slowly as she replied pensively.
"Good. You might throw up otherwise." Neko said bluntly, "Hold still."
She grasped their shoulders and made the three of them vanish in a large puff of chakra smoke.
Upon reaching their destination, Sakura began to dry-retch at the unfamiliar sensation of the Shunshin. A hand rubbing soothing circles into her back made the faux-vomiting sensation fade to nothing. The pinkette looked up to see a concerned Naruto looking at her before he removed his hand from her back.
"You OK Sakura-chan?" he asked.
"Y-Yeah…that was really unpleasant though." Sakura replied, "Urgh…is that what it's like to use the Shunshin no Jutsu?"
"No, merely the after-effect of being Side Along Shunshin'd." Neko replied, "This way please."
Sakura then noticed they were in front of the Hokage Tower and hurried to follow the ANBU operative, Naruto trotting along in her wake.
"What's this all about, Naruto?" Sakura asked, dropping the 'baka' from his name in the seat of government of the Hidden Leaf Village.
"You'll find out in a few minutes, Sakura-chan." Naruto replied easily, "I will say it is something that the Haruno Clan will find…embarrassing."
Sakura frowned. Naruto was being unusually evasive today; any other day he would be falling over himself to tell her what was going on in order to impress her.
'Now that I come to think about it, he hasn't asked me out in…how long has it been?' Sakura thought in mild shock, 'A couple of days, at least. Has he given up on me?'
Rather than the delight that she had thought she would feel at the prospect, she felt a pang of loss. Sakura was, contrary to her bold and brazen front, rather lacking in the self-confidence front. The frequent taunts and teasing by Ami and her clique regarding her forehead and pink hair as a child had only been made bearable by her friendship with Yamanaka Ino.
Then, both of them had started crushing on Uchiha Sasuke and they had become rivals, constantly competing with each other for Sasuke's approval and affections. A small, but persistent, part of her railed at what she had done to her relationship with her best friend.
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