Naruto :The sealed shinobi

Sakura had been confused at first after Team 7 had been for all intents and purposes disbanded following Naruto's promotion and downright distraught following Sasuke's defection to Orochimaru so it gave her somewhat of a pickup when she was told that she was to be the first selected to train in the new medic-nin program set up by Tsunade. This meant that she was trained and overseen directly by the legendary slug sannin herself.

A small smile came to her face as she recalled asking why she had been chosen, let alone the first chosen, to be in the program. She remembered the smirking face of her master telling her to credit it to Naruto. "Hey pinky!"

Sakura broke her concentration to look over at the Oto kunoichi that was captured by Naruto during the retrieval mission, Tayuya she was told her name was, "What do you want?" Sakura stated in a cold tone. She knew that the girl was under direct protection of Tsunade due to the copious amounts of information she handed out after being caught during the retrieval mission, and also that Tsunade told her that any attempts to cause physical harm to the girl would end with Naruto breaking his foot off in her ass, she had finally come to terms with the fact that Naruto was one-hundred percent willing and sure as hell able to go through with such a thing on his 'Sakura-chan'. Not that he had even called her that since after the invasion. However she also somewhat blamed her for getting Sasuke out of the country and into Orochimaru's hands. It was a useless grudge right then anyway; even if Naruto wasn't around to beat her ass for harming Tayuya she wasn't too sure she could pull it off herself anyway. Instead she treated the girl with cold indifference, which suited Tayuya just fine anyway, if you didn't like her she wasn't going to fall all over herself to change your mind.

Tayuya shrugged off her tone, "Tsunade sent me to tell you to rest for now. It's time for you to knock off for the day."

Sakura frowned and nodded, "Why do you call me pinky and yet call Tsunade-shishou by her name."

Tayuya smirked, "I may be pretty vulgar and everything, but I know well enough to not piss off people that can kill me, and that Tsunade lady sure as hell can. The only reason I don't call shithead by his real name is because he let me call him shithead and get away with it."

Sakura sweat-dropped as she heard Tayuya's name for Naruto, although calling him a baka as if it were his given name for roughly four years and trying to wail on him didn't really seem better. Kami, why didn't he ever kill her with his bare hands again?

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Elsewhere in Konoha, Team Gai was still hard at work training their skills, even during the waning light of sundown. Tenten and Neji were seated off to the side as the brown-eyed kunoichi was starting to lose her patience, "Lee! Gai-sensei! Can we please go home now? Maybe you two can train until you can't even see your nose in front of your face, but both me and Neji have things to do back home!"

Gai halted the ongoing spar between him and his clone-like pupil, "My dear student Tenten, our flames of youth will light the darkness of the night! I am simply instructing Lee on how to defeat his eternal rival, a struggle that I myself can understand and respect!"

Neji rolled his pupil-less eyes, "Yes, I understand he wants to beat me, but do I really have to be here to witness him training to do so?"

Lee, who was stuck in his stance waiting on Gai, blinked blankly and stood straight up, "I am sorry Neji-kun, but despite my desire to overcome you in battle you are no longer my rival." Neji almost dropped his jaw in shock ,but his Hyuuga stoicism kept him for breaking into joyous dance and jinxing himself, "Really? Who is your rival now then? Do I know him?"

Lee's eyes burned with literal fiery intensity, "Naruto-kun! The way he simply defeated you all effortlessly, and dispatched an opponent that I myself was being overwhelmed by when he interfered! He even made defeating Sasuke-kun look easy even while he was under the cursed seal's influence… He is truly the measuring stick of which I will need to compare my flames if I ever want to achieve my goal of being a splendid taijutsu using ninja!"

Neji nodded outwardly while on the inside he had already started making plans to build a small shrine to the blonde destroyer of men, 'Naruto Uzumaki you have already freed me from one burden, one that I was sure would follow me even beyond death unlike my seal. I now have no doubts about your ability to change the Hyuuga Clan in time.'

Tenten sweat-dropped and then began worrying for her blonde friend's future sanity, "Lee… Just don't bug him too much. I don't want Naruto-kun to kill you to get the voices out of his head." Neji smirked at hearing Tenten call Naruto '-kun' and was about to call her on it before Lee broke into a 'youthful' rant.

However it was too late. Lee had gone off on a tangent, "Yosh! I will challenge Naruto-kun to a challenge of his choice upon his return to Konoha just to prove that I can defeat him! And if I cannot win I will carry each of my teammates up and down the Hokage Monument one-hundred times each, and if I cannont do that I will-."

While Gai stood alongside him crying tears of pride, Tenten and Neji simply walked off towards their homes… This could continue on for hours and it was already getting dark.

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(Back in Kumogakure – Nightfall)

Genma stood over Naruto, who was seated on his bed with a firm gaze affixed on his displeased superior. Rolling his senbon in his mouth he sighed heavily, "Kid you seriously need to let us know when you're going to go somewhere and you don't think you'll beat us back to the hotel. We almost had a mini freak-out about where you were until you came ambling back in."

Naruto knew he deserved this. In his defense he didn't know he was actually leaving the village altogether when he decided to take up Team Samui on their invitation to spar, but still, that was no excuse.

Naruto sat through Genma's half-hearted tirade. Honeslty he knew it really wasn't Naruto's fault… fully, but he still had to get it into the kid's head that things like this couldn't happen on missions. What if there were people actively trying to kill them?

Naruto took the lecture with a grain of salt. He wasn't mad at Genma, he was the leader of the mission, and what do leaders do when easily preventable mistakes are made? You chew someone's butt out. Naruto could now see why he wasn't ready to be a jounin, he was still working like was flying solo. Sure he spoke to his team, and was on good terms with them all. He listened to them, seeing as how they were his seniors and wouldn't go against orders from them, but he was still used to being left to his own devices, doing things at his own pace and in his own way, things like that.

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