Me-yep, its been awhile I get it.. sorry :/

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The odd pair made their way to a quiet corner, out of everyone elses way. Itachi turned and looked t Sakura, almost making her bump into him. She had followed behind him closely, very excited to start her training.

In the back of his mind he could tell they were watching, analyzing him. The young weasel sighed and pulled out a paper.

"Sakura, do you know what this is?" He asked. The even younger pinkette tilted her head and took it from Itachi.

Her face lit up. "It's chakra paper! Used to figure out someone's chakra element or elements." She smiled up at him, waiting.

He nodded, motioning with his hands. "Good. Now push some of your chakra into it."

Efficiently, Sakura did as told and the paper crumbled, turning soupy at the same time. Itachi squatted down, examining the remains. Very curious as to what the results were.

"Earth and water." He mu,bled more to himself then to anyone else. His eyes flicked up as he felt people staring. Every Haruno was watching, even some from the windows.

The trained nin cheered as they finally found out what their heiress's chakra elements were. As they were the only ones keen enough to hear Itachi's mumbled words. The children ran up, glanced at the pile of wet paper before running off to tell their friends.

The Uchiha could see Tadashi's and Reika's contempt smiles, nearly bragging.

Itachi sighed silently, and stooped down, collecting the pile and glancing around for someplace to put it. He disposed of it, giving him some time to think of what he should teach his little student.

He sighed again and rubbed the back of his head. His little pink haired apprentice looked at him with her large green eyes, smiling. The weasel smiled just a little. He always did like water jutsu better. After fire jutsu of course.

"We begin with simple jutsus ad work our way up. Understand?" He asked Sakura, mentally trying to think of a plan to follow after this.

"Hai, I understand." she said cheerfully. Her pink locks floated in the soft breeze that went through the once again active yard.

The black haired boy decided to teach Sakura the secret jutsu he had picked up while on a mission to Wave.

"This jutsu is good for covering yourself. If you need to retreat quickly or attack silently, this is best." He made a string of handseals and suddenly their corner was filled with a thick mist. "You can make it thinner or denser, depending on how much chakra you have, or what you need it for." He started to dart around, purposely making no noise. Not that he normally made any noise.

Sakura could keep her eyes trained on her moving master for a few seconds but lost him as soon as the mist thickened.

She turned, looking through the mist for him. Nothing was clear and she just gave up.

Itachi saw this and sighed to himself. She would never be a good nin if she gave up so quickly. He pulled out a kunai, holding it to her shoulder. Just in case she did move, it wouldn't hurt as much as it would at her throat.

The pinkette froze when she felt the cold metal kiss her skin. Drops of sweat pearled on her skin, and she looked up ashamed. Even though he was probably only a foot away, she couldn't see him.

"Hn." Was the only thing Itachi said as he let go of the jutsu. His eyes never betrayed his emotions, and the pinkette looked down at the ground as he pulled away. The weapon was put away, and the rest of the mist had disappeared by then.

The clan heads had watched with mild interest, making sure to keep notes on what happened. Any of the little children had crowded around Sakura's parents despite the protests of their teachers.

Reika noticed the distraught teachers and waved them off, saying that they could always train harder the next time. Tadashi agreed and called for the whole training ground to a stop. Bending to his wishes the older nin dismissed their classes and some decided to retire to their rooms while others stayed to watch.

Oblivious to the attention she was getting Sakura kept her eyes on Itachi as he was explaining the technique he had just done. He made it easy to understand even though she was one of the top kids in the clan concerning book smarts and vocabulary. Her physical abilities were lacking and they have always been a sore subject for her.

"You know, they do make a cute pair." Reika had said as an offhand comment to her husband.

Tadashi, who had been sipping on tea, swallowed hard, coughing. His eyes grew wide and he sputtered out a few words.

Reika looked at him calmly, slowly blinking as her husband tried to put words in to sentences.

"You're mad, woman!" His face grew red from anger. "How could you think that? She's only eight for Kami's sake!"

The Haruno matriarch sighed at her partner, picking up her own cup of tea. "I was only stating my observations, dear. I know she is much too young to be thinking of marriage, or even dating. Well, hopefully." She paused, eyes glancing to the sleeping Uchiha that had climbed into her lap. "She can decide on who ever she wants when the time comes, and I will support it fully. As long as she is happy."

The patriarch relaxed a little, nodding his head once and crossing his arms. It was true that she was too young to be thinking of marriage. He had someone in mind to introduce her to, but if nothing happened, or if she had found someone else by the deadline Tadashi would support the two in any way he could.

Unlike the other clans, the Haruno's were very relaxed in who they married. While there were certain restrictions, their children had a lot of freedom compared to the other clans in Konoha. And the mostly pink haired clan was proud of that. There was no tension between people and that was exactly what they like, seeing as they were all mostly peace-loving. All of them had a temper when they were really pushed over the edge though.

You could just ask all the boys outside of the clan that manage to make their Haruno girlfriends mad. They usually end up in the hospital and most of them have the common sense not to push them that far again.

Those that can calm down their girlfriend before she beats him to a pulp is worshiped as a god by his friends and family. It takes a lot to bring them back, and those that can usually stay with the Haruno girl for the rest of their life because of true love between the two.

Tadashi watched his little girl go about her training with Itachi. She seemed to get frustrated with a technique and the Uchiha stopped doing what he was doing and fixed her stance. The next time she tried it came out perfectly and she calmed down, smiling even.

He sighed and thought about the future. It wouldn't be too much longer and then it would be time to let her live her life. No matter what she decided to do, he promised himself that he would let his daughter do what ever she wanted before she had to take control of the clan. Hopefully he would have time to enjoy his life after she took over the clan though.

He did like doing little pranks on her every once in a while. It was fun to watch her try to figure out who did it. The clan head knew that a few of the other Haruno's were itching to do a big prank soon.

They figured that with all the other clans being so up-tight someone had to loosen up. Knowing that none of the others would they were the less strict of all the clans. Besides maybe the Inuzuka Clan. They got pretty bad every once in a while.

He laughed and decided that he would skip out on the rest of the training session.

"Let me know how it all goes dear. I have some paper work that needs handed in to the Hokage soon and I need to finish it." He leaned over to his wife and kissed her cheek, smiling as she blushed slightly.

"I knew you were getting behind on that paper work." She said in a some what mad voice but ruined it by chuckling. "I will give you all the details over dinner later when little Sakura goes to bed."

He hummed and nodded his goodbyes to the rest of the clan members present. They in turn got up and bowed to the clan head as he left the training grounds.

The little kids of the clan had then gathered around Reika, demanded to be told a story. She chuckled and waved off the worrying mothers, saying it would not be a problem. Adjusting the still sleeping Sasuke she made herself comfortable and told them a story about a brave Hokage from a long time ago.

me-I can't think of anything else for right now. Thank you to all that have been waiting for a new update and I'm so sorry everyone had to wait so long for one. It's been a very busy few months, between my school swim team I joined, to this person I tried helping, to my oh soo much fun classes, to homework and work. And writer's block. Got to love that stuff... next update will hopefully not be so long away. I have 24 hour bus ride coming up in Feb so I might be able to get something out for all of my stories. I don't know. We'll see.