Characters: Naruto and Sarada

Rating: K

Genre: Humor

Summary: Thirteen-year-old Sarada boldly asks Naruto to be his apprentice.

Sarada walked absentmindedly around the village. She tuned out all of the background noise as she overanalyzed everything that has happened in the last fifteen minutes.

Her dark brows furrowed together, remembering that encounter with the Nanadaime, and thinking up more ways how it could have gone better. She just loved to overthink and stress herself over nothing. Sarada's cheeks flushed, and felt like she wanted to tear her hair out.

"Hokage-sama!" She called out for the highest shinobi in Konoha. Her dark eyes full of her steely resolve. Naruto turned his clear blue eyes to her, giving her his fully attention.

"My goal is to be the hokage," she proclaimed. "I will train my best to become the best, and be acknowledged by everyone to reach this goal." Her voice never wavered, however the hard part was coming up.

She bit her lip momentarily to stop it from quivering. "Please," she bowed low from the waist, "take me as your apprentice."

Naruto did not flinch at the request. Sarada was his best friend's daughter, and his goddaughter. His gaze was soft. "Sarada," his voice came out even softer, wanting to lessen the blow as he tried to deny her request.

She knew that tone. She could not take no for an answer. "Please!" She begged again, biting down hard on her lower lip. She was desperately trying to fight back the tears. Sarada wasn't sure what was causing her heart to hurt more, her hero's rejection to accept her as his apprentice, or putting her Uchiha pride down by begging. "I know you're very busy, Hokage-sama. I promise, I will do everything I can not to add to that burden. Instead," She rose up from her bow. Sarada looked at him straight in the eye, "let me help you carry it."

Recalling her own words, Sarada let out a shout of frustration. Was she too forward? Audacious? Presumptuous? How bold for a thirteen-year-old to offer to carry the weight of the village with the strongest shinobi in the continent! Her cheeks were flushing with embarrassment. She looked at her feet as she walked. Sarada was now out of the village's center. There were less houses now, as it lead to the Uchiha district.

She was spacing out, but instantly snapped out of it when she felt someone darting towards her from behind. In an instant, she pulled out her kunai with her right hand, and aimed to pierce through her attacker's jugular. This was instantly blocked. Using her momentum, she twisted and lifted her right leg to try to land a hit. This was blocked again.

"Tch," this guy was pretty good to block her slightly chakra enhanced kick.

She dropped her right hand to the ground to lift her weight, her left leg was glowing from the knee down to her foot with chakra as she decided to no longer hold back. Sarada needed to end this right now.

"Shannaro!"

Her left hand landed on the ground to steady her as she landed a clean hit with her left foot on her assailant's head.

"Aaaah!" Her attacker screamed in pain as he flew a good distance from her.

Sarada cartwheeled back on her feet, and a triumphant smirk on her face. She didn't even need to use her sharingan. However, her dark eyes widened in utter horror as she saw who she had kicked. She was able to take a good look before the clone disappeared in a puff of smoke.

There was only one person who dared to wear that much orange.

Back in the hokage office, Naruto doubled over on his seat as his clone's memories came back to him. He held on to his head, comical tears streaming down his face. "She really is Sakura-Chan and teme's daughter," he muttered. The swiftness and finesse she had shown in her taijutsu, sharply reminded him of Sasuke. While her precise timing and chakra release had painfully reminded him of Sakura.

The door to his office opened. "How did it go? Was she excited?" Shikamaru approached Naruto's desk.

Naruto absentmindedly rubbed on his head. He could still feel the painful way his clone had gone. "Ah, well, I wasn't able to talk to her," he laughed nervously. "I guess I kind of scared her and she kicked my clone."

"How troublesome," Shikamaru smirked. "Did she use one of Sasuke's taijutsu techniques?"

"Yeah," Naruto agreed. "Topped off with Sakura-Chan's monstrous strength." He added, shuddering at the memory.

Shikamaru laughed. "Looks like you're going to have a handful."

Naruto nodded in agreement. "She's got Sasuke's talent, and Sakura-chan's ferocity."

Shikamaru regarded his words with a fond smile. That was definitely a lethal combination.

"But most importantly," Naruto added seriously. "She's got resolve, and cares for her comrades. That is what will make her a fine hokage."

The Uchiha couple walked down leisurely back to their house. Sakura held on to the crook of Sasuke's arm as they chatted lightly with each other. Sensing another presence ahead, their gaze moved away from each other to the path ahead. They spotted their daughter, lying in the middle of the road. Both parents dashed towards their daughter.

"Sarada!" Her mother quickly lifter her head, hand glowing with healing chakra, already scanning her for injuries.

Sasuke looked around, searching for the perpetrator. He was going to kill whoever did this to his precious daughter. There were faint traces of chakra that felt awfully familiar.

"She's unharmed," Sakura assured her husband. "She just fainted."

"Ho…Kage…Sama," Sarada mumbled.

Both of her parents looked at her questioningly. Hokage-sama? Naruto has something to do with this?

"Tried to... Kill... Hokage...Sama." She continued to mumble things in her sleep. She was dreaming about her killing Naruto, and worrying that he would no longer take her to be his apprentice after showing such rude behavior.

Her parents, however, took her words the other way. Did their daughter just say that the hokage tried to kill her? Sasuke quickly made a shadow clone, who scooped his daughter into his arms and brought her into their house.

His long hair covered his eyes as he stood up. Once he reached his full height and straightened his gaze, the sharingan activated.

His wife stood next to him, cracking her knuckles. A violent aura was being emanated from her entire being. "Na-ru-to."

"I'm going to kill that dobe," Sasuke's voice was lethally quiet.

Both Sasuke and Sakura's killing intent were flaring menacingly.

Half way across the village in the hokage tower, Naruto sneezed and shuddered.

"Naruto," Kurama drawled, waking from his nap. "Do you feel that?"

"Yeah, it feels like Sakura-chan and teme's killing intent," he shuddered again, pulling his hokage cloak to cover more of his body. He suddenly felt so vulnerable.

Kurama smirked. "They must be really pissed."

The hokage nodded in agreement. "I would hate to be the pitiful bastard their killing intent is directed at."

A/N: For those who previously followed this story, sorry but I scrapped the first one chapter! I wasn't happy with it, and I wanted to rewrite it. I'll probably put that in here some other time when I can polish it up.

This will be a compilation of one-shots, ranging from the Naruto to Boruto series.

I will be posting two more Apprentice stories, about Mitsuki and Boruto.

Please let me know what you thought by leaving me a review! :)