Naruto: Reborn as Sakura with Manyuu Chifusa Template

Sakura thrust the Rasengan spinning in her palm at Sasuke's Chidori, but the instant before their two Ninjutsu could make contact with each other, a man clad in dark clothes flickered from out of nowhere and appeared between the two of them. In a flash, he grabbed them both by the wrist and flung them away from each other, causing their Jutsu to explode harmlessly against the ground as they crash-landed.

"How could you direct such a dangerous Jutsu against a comrade?" said Adult Sasuke, just barely managing to repress his anger. "You could have killed each other!"

"So what?" Sasuke sniggered. "What's it to you, old man?"

Adult Sasuke's eyes flashed dangerously, and before anyone could react, he slapped his younger self. Young Sasuke held a hand to his stinging cheek, his eyes widening in disbelief as his brain processed the fact that some stranger had just slapped him— something that not even his own parents had done to him.

"You bastard!" Sasuke hissed. "How dare you…!"

Adult Sasuke once again raised his hand, but before he could slap himself again, Kakashi appeared out of nowhere and seized his wrist.

"Sakura, can you explain what's going on?" said Kakashi calmly, keeping his gaze firmly fixed on Adult Sasuke as he spoke. "Do you know these two? I've never seen them before in the village."

Kakashi had taken a short break from training Sasuke to pay his respects to Rin and Obito's war memorial close by, but to his surprise, he had found a stranger slapping the shit out of his disciple upon returning to him.

"They're travelling performers," said Sakura, struggling to keep her voice steady. "Sasuke and I were just having a friendly sparring match to share pointers, and I guess we went a little bit overboard—but luckily for us, Sasuke-san over here managed to stop us before we went too far…"

Adult Sasuke visible eye widened in surprise— he had never mentioned his name in front of Sakura, and he had expressly forbidden Boruto from disclosing his name, just in case Sakura figured things out.

"Is that so?" said Kakashi, relaxing his guard slightly and letting go of Adult Sasuke's arm. "Sorry for grabbing you by the arm, then…"

Upon seeing this play out, the young Sasuke harrumphed and turned to leave.

"Wait, Sasuke!" Sakura cried out. "You forgot about the Seal of Reconciliation!"

When two shinobi from the Hidden Leaf wanted to spar, they would perform the Seal of Confrontation with their forefinger and middle finger before beginning the fight. Once they were done, they would perform a sort of handshake with those same fingers with each other. It was a way of saying, 'I may have kicked your ass, but no hard feelings, we can go back to being comrades again.'

"Do it by yourself," said Sasuke darkly, as he stormed off. "I'm done playing ninja with you lot."

Despite herself, Sakura felt her eyes begin to sting and moisten.

After spending so many months together as a team, Sasuke had become so much more to Sakura than just 'that guy that Inner Sakura has a crush on.' Sasuke was Naruto's and Sakura's friend, and seeing him trying to shatter the bonds they had forged by sticking together through thick and thin was breaking her heart.

By removing Orochimaru from the equation, Sakura had thought that everything would go well, but things weren't so simple. Witnessing Sakura's strength had only reinforced Sasuke's conviction to gain power at any cost!

"You don't want to make the Seal of Reconciliation? Fine, then!" Sakura shouted angrily, wagging her pointer finger and her middle finger menacingly in Sasuke's direction. "You can just go and Thousand Years of Death yourself with these, for all I care!"

Sakura was so distracted by Inner Sakura's bawling, that she completely missed the fact that she had basically just threatened Sasuke with a good time by proposing to fingerbang him with Kakashi-sensei's signature technique.

"Sakura-san…" said Boruto tentatively, as he watched her making lewd gestures behind Sasuke's back. "Are you okay…?"

"You two are coming with me," said Sakura lifelessly, her arms falling to her sides. "And if you try to run away again, Sasuke-san, make no mistake about it— I will call a sensing specialist, and you will spend the rest of your stay in a cell— got it?"

And without even bothering to wait for Adult Sasuke's answer, Sakura stalked away in a huff.

"I didn't tell her!" Boruto pre-emptively whispered in Adult Sasuke's direction, noticing his menacing stare. "I have no idea how she found out!"

"Are you coming?" Sakura yelled at them over her shoulder. "Keep up the pace!"

Adult Sasuke sighed— he knew better than to argue when Sakura was in this sort of mood. He'd give her the slip later, when she calmed down…

And so, Adult Sasuke and Boruto began following Sakura through old Konoha's winding streets. To Sasuke, it felt slightly nostalgic seeing this scenery— by the time he'd returned to his birthplace a few years after his departure, the village had already undergone a complete makeover, after Pain had completely levelled the place…

The sound of Sakura suddenly rapping her knuckles against a wooden door snapped Adult Sasuke out of his nostalgic reverie.

"We're here," said Sakura flatly. "Tonight, you'll be staying in our apartment's guest room— which is to say, the living room's sofa."

A few seconds later, the door to Sakura's apartment swung open. Adult Sasuke's heart sank when he saw who had come to answer the door— anyone but his in-laws!

"Welcome home, Sakura-chan," said Haruno Mebuki affectionately, before turning her gaze toward Boruto and Adult Sasuke, who were standing awkwardly in the background. "Oh, and who are these two handsome gentlemen? Is one of them this Sasuke I've heard so much about?"

'You have no idea, mother-in-law,' Adult Sasuke wryly thought to himself.

"Knock it off, mum," said Sakura embarrassedly. "I'm supposed to keep an eye on them for the village, but since they're harmless, I thought I'd bring them here."

And that's when Sakura caught a blur of red out of the corner of her eye in the corridor behind her mum.

"Oh, and by the way," Sakura's mum continued. "Your little friend came to visit."

"Onee-samaaaaa!" Karin shouted, as she ran past Mebuki and dived into Sakura's arms, nuzzling her nose in her deep cleavage. "You're finally back!"

With some effort, Sakura managed to extirpate Karin from between her breasts. At least she still had Karin, even though the red-haired girl was much too lacking in the chest department for her liking…

"Aren't you that Sasuke guy…?" said Karin uncertainly, adjusting her glasses and peering at Adult Sasuke's face over Sakura's shoulder. "Why do you look like that?"