Chapter 6
Naruto planned on slowly and painfully obliterate the person who sic the snake on them. It was obvious who it was and she knew as she was now she would not be able to get the best over Orochimaru one of the legendary sennin but that didn’t mean she couldn’t use Kurama’s power to temporarily subdue him, just long enough to sound off a flash rocket to let them know where Orochimaru was.
Of course, they would have to find the hebi first, and considering the forest of death was full of snakes, it wasn’t going to be easy to tell the difference between naturally evil and possessed evil.
Sakura seemed to be the most annoyed about their current predicament, her new shinobi outfit had been ruined by the goo on her and she now had goo on her skin, since her belly button area was uncovered. (A/N think of Sakura’s new outfit in Boruto, no I have not watched it but I did watch the movie)
She muttering curses under her breath, swearing vengeance. It was enough to cause both Sasuke and Naruto to stand a good distance ahead of her since if they were behind her, they would be accused of going too slow.
They carried on making their way through the forest yet it wasn’t long after that they were intercepted by Kiba and his team.
Or at least people pretending to be Kiba and his team. They smelt absolutely off and like snakes.
“Hey guys… We just saw this god awful red head kill a bunch of people with sand. Sand!”
Naruto had to give it to them, they had Kiba’s personality almost on point, yet it wasn’t perfect, “Do you guys wanna tell these Oto idiots why their henge it awful or should I?”
Sasuke and Sakura leaned against a tree on either side of the blonde, smirking as they gestured for her to do the honours, “Well first of all, Kiba hardly ever has his hood down, almost always has his dog Akamaru either in his hoodie or his head yet you don’t have Akamaru. He’s an Inuzuka, he would rather die than be away from his ninken.
“Hinata doesn’t act shy with people she knows, she acts very, very forward. Too forward in fact. Shino… you got him right at least. Another thing you forgot to do was change you scents. You smell of snakes. That should be it. I’ll let my team do what they want with you now.”
Doing what they wanted required her to use her KI to freeze them as Sakura broke all the bones from their fingertips to their shoulders. Once she had done that Sasuke proceeded to use his ninja wire and tied them up high on some trees at a good distance from each other.
Kurama was praising their creativity.
She would have thought it was overdone if her favourite shirt hadn’t currently been covered in snake essence and if she didn’t stink. Also the humiliation she was feeling due to Kurama’s comments right now were most definitely not helping her mood.
They made their way through the forest on edge, waiting for the inevitable attack that would occur however as they passed the river a clone hiraishined in front of them with the second scroll. That left them with a heaven scroll and an earth scroll.
The team stopped and waited for Naruto as she dispersed all of her clones. When they had stopped at the river earlier she had made extra clones to create traps and such in order to lessen the amount of competitors in the next round. She had to be careful not to allow those clones to disperse yet.
Once she was sure she dispersed all of the ones she needed to do, they all hiraishined to the tower where all the jonin were.
Her face became red as she saw all the jonin instructors looking at them, before she grabbed a hold of her teammates, mumbled an apology and dragged them out of the room. They bumped into Kakashi sensei on the way and he had said they needed to enter a room before he poofed away.
They made their way into the room and saw a riddle in front of them. Deciding to simply let Sakura figure out what the answer was she started to strip herself of her hoodie when she heard a familiar voice.
Turning around she saw Iruka sensei talking to them and decided to blank out what he was saying. Sasuke seemed to be doing a similar thing but was at least partially paying attention.
She did however notice he said they could go to their room. Singular. They would be sharing a room together.
They shrugged their shoulders as they made their way upstairs. Sakura going to the kunoichi showers downstairs where Sasuke went to the shinobi ones. Naruto went to the en-suite bathroom in their room. She changed into a set of clothing she had sealed and earlier gave Sasuke and Sakura scrolls that had their belongings in as well.
Her new outfit was different to her usual. A black spaghetti strap bodice top with an orange zip up shawl like top which uncovered her left shoulder and breast and went to her upper thigh. She also wore thigh high shinobi heels with her holster in place. On the back was of course the Uzumaki swirl and her right hand and arm were covered with standard gloves that had a fishnet going up to her upper arms.
Just as she finished getting dressed Sakura returned and gave a wolf whistle at her appearance, “Well, if Konoha doesn’t get many treaties from the other nations by simply looking at you I don’t know what will.” She laughed at the girls comment and noticed her hair.
Before you bore me with your nonsense girl talk I will be going to sleep. Don’t wake me up unless you’re dying.
“Sakura… why do you keep your hair long? You’re a hand-to-hand combatant. Wouldn’t it be easier to have it either cut or tied?” she asked as she braided her hair with the help of a clone.
“Sasuke prefers girls with long hair. That and I can do a lot of things with my hair with it long.” She shrugged her shoulders as she watching Naruto do her own hair with a clone.
Naruto jutted out her lips, it made sense. Sakura did put her hair in different styles each time she saw her and each one looked good and convenient.
“I also noticed your infatuation with the teme seems to have lessened since we came back from Wave country… how comes?” she asked as her clone finished her hair and dispersed itself.
“Well I noticed a lot more things about him and realised we have nothing in common besides our careers. That I realise that Sasuke would have to take part in the CRA and I’m not sure how I would feel knowing the man I was in love with had kids with other women. And it would be selfish for me to say he can’t take part in it.” Naruto was so happy that Sakura had matured she had to hold back her tears.
“Well, you made a good choice. You wouldn’t want to be stuck with a guy with Sasukes deadbeat personality. That and he says ‘hn’ way too much. He’s also anti-social-”
“You have no room to talk! I happened to see the red head you’ve been stalking recently and he no personality so to speak! Unless you call being a psychopath having a personality!” she yelled with a large smile on her face.
Said smile grew larger when Naruto took the bait, “Gaara’s here? Since when?”
“Since 97 minutes after the exam started.” Replied Sakura as she checked her nails, teasing the blonde.
Just as Naruto was about to speak up her stomach growled and not a moment later a half wet shirtless Sasuke Uchiha entered the room.
Naruto barely gave him a glance as she declared them to be going for dinner. Shrugging, Sasuke put on a shirt and team 7 made their way downstairs together.
Sasuke looked for onigiri and tomatoes, Naruto looked for ramen and Sakura who had long since abandoned her diet looked for chicken. As they were serving themselves Naruto felt a poke at her mind and her back heated.
She could sense several people in the room but she couldn’t sense who was looking at her, “Sasuke. I want you to discreetly look around the room and tell me who’s looking at me. I feel a glare burning into my very soul.” Overly exaggerated yet she didn’t care.
He looked around but it was Sakura who answered, “The kazekage’s son. He looks pissed off. What did you do to offend him so badly?”
Naruto looked baffled, hands splayed out in front of her as she replied, “All I did was ask him out. So I fail to see what I did wrong.”
“What did he say?” asked Sasuke, clearly wanting to be let in on this part of the gossip. Something Sakura and Naruto learnt when they became a team was Sasuke liked to know gossip, but didn’t like to spread it outside the two girls. Apparently it was something Itachi encouraged so he would know anything and everything about people. He had also been told that not everything he heard would be true and too simply listen but not act.
“One word; no.”
Both her teammates raised their brows and pointed to her chest, “Did he even look at your chest?” asked Sakura, confused as to how Naruto was rejected.
“He did! Still didn’t change his mind.”
“Well.” Said Sasuke with a glint in his eyes, causing the two girls to curse. Whenever Sasuke got that look it was never a good sign. “Why don’t we get him to notice you then? Follow me!”