Naruto & Sasuke: Noble Potential

A New Rivalry! The Lady Uchiha VS The Heir Sabaku

Author Notes: I didn't realize I had already written a full two chapters for this story a while back ago... oh well, better late than never! Anyway thanks for deciding to read Naruto & Sasuke: Noble Potential, my name is PK and I'm glad you're here, looking at my story right now. This is the third part of an unintentional trilogy which started as a story I wrote about Naruto and Sasuke as kids like a million years ago. If you haven't read Naruto & Sasuke: Hero Potential yet, you might want to as things would make more sense. Then read N & S: Daddy Potential, then this... in that order! NSDP got amazingly popular unexpectedly for me, and people wanted more so I'm back with a third part which I'm really hoping will live up to all of you guys' expectations and hopefully be worth the two-something years wait. Without further ado, enjoy!

Life in Konoha was nice and slow and easy going as usual these days.

The last time the hidden village had had much excitement was six months ago when Riku married Miyaki, and was now an official part of the small-yet-ever-growing Uchiha clan. Since then, not much has happened. There was a nice wedding for Namkishi and Harumi Lee, which was not nearly as hyped up but still nice. In that time Kushina had turned seven and the triplets, Katsuo, Tetsuo, & Kasumi, had a birthday as well, turning four. They still followed Kushina around the house like little ducklings annoying her half to death, mimicking their favorite cousin. Everyone missed having Miyaki around the house, but since he and Riku left their little apartment for a two bedroom house on the Uchiha estate, he was always closer to home (yet Naruto had to stop Sasuke from going over constantly.)

Meanwhile in the Hatake-Umino-Uzumaki household, now that the twins were both married and out of the house, none of them really knew what to do with themselves anymore…

It was apparent however that Riku's mother, father and siblings really missed having him around, and they came over a lot during those first six months before they began to adjust to him not being around as much.

All in all though, everyone in Konoha was pretty calm and happy.

Until now, as there was a frantic knocking at the Uchiha door, and Sasuke begrudgingly came to answer it, hoping whoever it was on the other side wasn't there because of Kushina for once.

It was his old sensei Iruka, standing with a upset looking Kushina beside him. "What do I owe the pleasure this time Iruka-sensei?" Sasuke asked, looking right at his daughter.

"Kushina, please tell Sasuke what your sensei said you tried to do to a classmate today," Iruka said, in his no-nonsense voice.

"But he started it-!"

"Kushina…"

"Well… I told this boy if he keeps messing with me, I'm gonna splinter his nuts off. I would've cut them, but we only use wooden kunai in our class, so he kept messing with me and I was going to splinter him before the teacher caught me," she explained.

"Kushina are you aware that everyone in your class thinks you're a bully?" Iruka asked.

"Yes! But the thing is, I'm little and I have to stick up for myself and what I believe is right, and if going after their manhood is wrong I don't wanna be right!" she argued.

"Well it is wrong and you have detention tomorrow again," Iruka informed them both. "I don't know how I'm ever going to retire in peace knowing that every sensei you get has problems with you."

"I would rather be in your class though," she pouted.

"Kushina I teach twelve year olds, look if you don't get kicked out of the academy before then, you can be in my class," Iruka explained.

"Well thanks for bringing her home Iruka-sensei, I appreciate it even though I wish it didn't have to keep happening…" Sasuke said, ushering Kushina inside the house before waving goodbye to his former sensei.

After closing the door, he turned to look at his guilty daughter. "You know the drill, go to your room and do your homework until dinner time, then we'll talk to your dad about this." She begrudgingly obliged and stomped off to her bedroom, slamming the door.

Sasuke sighed and was going to go back to what he had been doing beforehand, before Naruto came through the door excitedly, hugging Sasuke and lifting him up in an embrace, "Sasuke I have great news!" he exclaimed.

"I'm stunned, what's going on?"

"This is the moment I've been waiting all my life for! Grandma finally decided after all these years that she's going to give up the title of Hokage to me! Like I'm going to be inducted soon! So we need to go out and celebrate! Let's go out to eat, the whole family tonight!" he cheered.

"I'm glad you've finally got what you worked so hard for all these years dobe," Sasuke congratulated him with a smile and a kiss.

"And also, apparently Gaara is in town. Him and his son Ryota are here and I saw him and I invited them to stay with us!- I hope you don't mind. This is going to be great! I need to call some people!" Naruto said before running off into the kitchen where the phone was.

"I guess I'd better do something about the guest rooms…" Sasuke sighed again.

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Kushina had been alone in her room for some hours, having fallen asleep, before she was stirred by the sound of someone knocking. "Who is it?" she muttered.

"Ryota, your dad said I should come meet you,"

Confused, Kushina jumped out of bed and went to open her door, seeing a slightly taller black-haired, green-eyed, pale-skinned boy standing at her door. "Who are you?"

"Our dads are friends. My names Ryota, I'm eight, and I'm from Suna," he explained.

"My name is Kushina Akemi Uchiha!" she exclaimed, standing dramatically with her hands on her hips.

"You look silly," he muttered, "You're such a little kid," he teased, rubbing her hair before walking off back to the living room.

"Silly?!" she growled, upset at being basically dismissed and ignored. "He better learn really quick that no boy insults me and lives to see his family jewels unharmed!" And from then on, it was decided that Kushina did not like Ryota one bit and was bent on making his life a living hell.

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The family gathering had turned into a rather large to do with many of Naruto's family and friends at the restaurant, so many people showed up that they were forced to get a private room. Everyone was talking and laughing and eating good food and generally having a good time… except for Kushina of course who was too busy brooding that she couldn't sit with her dad and was instead told to sit with Ryota at the kids table. At least she had Seiji there with her to make it less unbearable.

"Seiji can you tell Roy over there to pass the salt?" Kushina spoke bitterly, staring at her food.

"Kushina asked can you pass the salt? Seiji relayed.

"Kushina this game is really immature, and I'd appreciate it if you'd stop calling me Roy," he replied, but the girl refused to acknowledge she heard a thing. He sighed heavy and asked Seiji to relay that to her.

"Seiji tell Roy that I'm the goddamn Lady Uchiha and I'll call him whatever I want to unless he feels like losing his nuts today,"

"But Kushina…"

"Seiji tell him," she growled and he gulped in fear.

"She says she's the god-"

"I heard her!" he all but yelled. "So-called 'ladies' of the house know how to behave like a lady and I can already tell she's not it. Her ponytail is sticking out in all kinds of directions, she doesn't know how to address men properly, she cusses, and in general she lacks proper manners."

"Kushina is unique! Don't insult her!" Seiji spoke up for once.

"She threatened to cut my nuts off, she's freaking psycho," he concluded, turning back to his food.

"You know why? Because I don't understand how as the lady I'm expected to bow to you when you don't deserve it. You're a man and all men like to wave their power around, but if I were to kick you in the nuts you would be rolling around on the floor crying. Girls are so much stronger! I won't bow to the heir Sabaku," she explained.

"I'm going to go tell Sasuke I do not feel safe being in the same house with a psycho," Ryota said, getting up from the table.

"Go! I don't care, the sooner you go home the better," she replied, waving him off.

"Yknow Kushina, I always feel slightly uncomfortable when you threaten to cut guys' nuts off…" Seiji whined.

"You know I won't ever do it to you Seiji," she said with a smile. "Roy over there is going to have to earn my respect, I'm not going to be hospitable to the heir Sabaku if he's going to be such a prissy little spoiled brat, he wears the panties around here better than I do!-"

Kushina paused as Seiji was looking at her with this face of shock, as there was a gentle tap on her shoulder. She calmly turned around to see who else but Sasuke standing there with a very smug looking Ryota.

"Kushina…" Sasuke sighed. "Come with me we need to talk for a second. Now."

She got up with a huff, glaring at Ryota before Sasuke guided the little red-head into the back of the restaurant by the restrooms where it was quiet.

"Kushina, I'm not going to yell at you this time because we never seem to get anywhere when we do that," Sasuke grumbled.

"Thank you mama, I feel like our relationship is making leaps and bounds of improvement-"

"I'm not done young lady. You do realize that Gaara is one of your father's closest friends, right? And by not making his son feel welcome, you are in turn making Gaara feel unwelcome. And in turn, Gaara is going to feel like our family has been inhospitable to him and will leave, and your dad won't be happy about that, because Naruto just wants his good friend to have a good time in Konoha. Do you see where your behavior is involved in this Kushina?" Sasuke began to explain.

"I think I'm picking up what you're putting down," she agreed, giving Sasuke a bit of a side glance. "But I don't agree with Roy over there saying I'm not a lady either. He's being rude to me mama, and last time I checked, he was staying in my house."

"Actually it's my house," Sasuke corrected.

"Give it another forty or so years and it'll be mine…. But continue mama,"

"Kushina, men aren't going to respect you as the lady Uchiha behaving the way you do-"

"I don't want his respect or anyone else's if they don't respect me as the wild-haired, nuts-kicking, pink frog hairclip-wearing lady Uchiha I am! My behavior doesn't reflect on whether I deserve respect or not, he should give it to me anyways!"

"Can you just do this for daddy?"

Kushina pursed her lips as she looked up at Sasuke, then over at her dad at the table laughing and talking with his friend Gaara and having a good time, then back at Sasuke. She did figure now was not the time to express her dislike for Ryota, and would try to be as hospitable as possible to the boy. "Fine," she grumbled.

"Thank you," Sasuke said with somewhat of a smile, considering the Uchiha didn't smile often.

"But he better remember that the lady Uchiha is no one's bitch," she muttered to herself, before putting on a face of amusement and went back to the table to pretend like she liked his face. And this was the start of the rivalry between the Heir Sabaku and the Lady Uchiha.

To Be Continued