Chapter:37 Uzumaki!
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"I know, I know, but that kind of excuse can't hold out for everything." Kizashi said slightly impatiently, "Most people would try and reach out, create new bonds to replace those they had lost, at least after a while. Sasuke? He rejects bonds with others, from everything Sakura has told me, plus what little I've seen of the boy myself, because he fears that those bonds will be used against him or taken from him like his brother did to his parents. He has little to nothing to hold him here."
Mebuki didn't question her husband's conclusion. He was a retired lifetime Genin, who had charmed his way into her heart with his quick and ready humour and devotion to her. When Sakura had been born, he had retired from active duty.
He had been missed because of his skill at reading people. While not as sharp as a fully trained member of ANBU T&I, he could make a snap-judgement about someone, which usually turned out to be right for one reason or another.
"Sakura thinks that she can break through to him." Mebuki said quietly.
"She can't." Kizashi shook his head, "The boy has to make the first step himself, otherwise he will never truly recover."
"True." Mebuki sighed, "What do you think about Sakura tutoring Naruto…-san?"
"I knew Yondaime-sama." Kizashi said quietly, "If he believed his work would hold against…that monster…,then I see no reason to be worried. Besides, now that Sakura can't diet, she'll finally be able to train properly. I owe Naruto-san for that if nothing else."
Mebuki nodded slightly. Her husband had tried to convince Sakura about eating properly, but she had been more stubborn about that than she had been about anything else. Well, at least now that she was legally barred from cutting back on the amount of food she ate, it was a non-issue now.
"We will just have to wait and see." Mebuki said as she stood up to get dinner ready.
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The Next Day, Lunchtime
Final Year Classroom, Konohagakure Shinobi Academy
"Hey Forehead!" Ino called as she slid onto the seat next to Sakura, who was eating a bento, "Given up on dieting? Sasuke-kun's all mine then!"
"PIG!" Sakura growled, "I've been forbidden to diet by Naruto-baka."
This made the platinum-blond girl blink. "Why the heck should you give a crap what Naruto tells you to do?"
Sakura sighed. "Because, Pig, one of my clanswomen has been harassing Naruto for five years, vandalising his property and stuff. She was caught a few days ago and Naruto was given the choice of what punishment the Haruno Clan was to be given yesterday."
"And…he banned you from dieting?" Ino asked in confusion.
"No, he made me his tutor until graduation AND banned me from dieting." Sakura growled before finishing the bento.
"Pretty light punishment." Ino commented, "Daddy's told me that one clan harassing another has serious consequences most of the time."
"Cousin Isuca was the only member of our clan who had anything to do with it." Sakura replied, "None of the rest of us had any idea what she was up to, which was why Hokage-sama didn't add any additional punishments on the Clan, at Naruto-baka's insistence."
"He has it bad for you, Forehead." the Yamanaka Heiress commented, "You should snap him up while I take Sasuke-kun."
"Tch. Yeah right, Ino-pig!" Sakura snorted.
:Shannaro! Like I'm gonna let you take Sasuke-kun from me, pig! Cha!: Sakura's Inner personality roared defiantly.
Sitting a few rows behind them, one Hyūga Hinata glared at the back of Sakura's head. She had a crush the size of Hi no Kuni on Naruto and would give anything to have him be even half as attentive to her as he was to Sakura and that pink-haired hussy was scorning him?!
'One day…' the shy girl vowed, 'One day, I will be brave enough to stand by Naruto-kun's side as he becomes Hokage, and you two will gnash your teeth at the lost opportunity!'
Yes, she was shy, but she was also more than slightly contemptuous of Fangirl Kunoichi. Her mother hadn't been a shinobi, but she had spoken to Hinata of how those who never took their duties and training as Kunoichi seriously caused the deaths of their teammates.
Hinata was jerked from her thoughts as she spotted her blond-haired crush walking back into the classroom, making her face flush red as she drunk in his new look. He had been good looking in the orange jumpsuit, but looked even better in his new outfit of black shirts and black/grey trousers.
"Naruto-kun…" she whispered as she looked at him.
With Naruto
Uzumaki Naruto was unsure what to think at this point. The previous day, he had been able to help his crush, Sakura, by deflecting most of the backlash of her cousin's actions and stopping her from dieting.
OK, so he had also manipulated things so he could spend more time with her and raise is grades, but hey, he needed all the advantages he could get to get Sakura-chan as his girlfriend. No way did he want to be friend-zoned.
The main problem was that he had scoured the [Guide] from top to bottom and he couldn't find anything to do with romance. Typical really. The guide to living one's life as a videogame and they skip one of the most important things!
Still, he supposed there wasn't really much point at this time. His relationship with Sakura was only a few hundred points short of Neutral, so maybe it was waiting for him to move his Reputation with Sakura-chan to at least friendly?
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