Changes In Fate

By: DarkReaper8095

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Chapter 5 – Team 7

~Naruto's Apartment – 5 am~

Green eyes opened groggily in the darkness of the bedroom. Sakura was still waking up and was trying to figure out where she was. Her eyes widened as she realized she had her head up against Naruto's chest and she was being held gently in his arms. Her eyes softened as she buried her head further into Naruto's chest and breathed in his intoxicating scent. She shuddered and smiled softly in his embrace.

She felt completely drained of energy after what had happened earlier that morning with her mother, but she felt a little better now. She smiled happily with tears in her eyes. 'I don't know what I did to deserve you Naruto, but I am ever grateful that I'm with you. Thank you for being there for me when I need it.'

Smiling a smile full of joy, she wrapped her arms around him and brought her head from his chest so she could bring her face up to his. She had a strange urge that went through her as she stared at his face. She gave in and brought her face to his. Sakura started rubbing her cheek against his own lovingly and eventually buried her face into his neck and gave his neck a few licks of affection. She suddenly blushed a bit as she felt him lick the side of her neck in response.

They broke apart and Naruto's lovely blue eyes stared deep into her own. "How are you feeling, Sakura-hime?" Sakura blushed brightly at the suffix and smiled in happiness. "I'm feeling a lot better. Thank you Naruto-kun." Naruto turned to lie on his back as he stared at the ceiling. "So, what are we going to do with the bell test tomorrow? I know we're still going to be on the same team because my grades were probably shit for the whole year before we came back." Sakura giggled and replied in a soft and loving voice. "Well, we could wait to talk about that tonight. The bell test isn't until tomorrow morning anyways. Well, more like around 11:00 almost noon because of Kakashi-sensei's tardiness. He still can't seem to let go of the past."

Sakura frowned a bit at that last part, but she shrugged and decided to think about that at a later time. Naruto nodded. He smiled a sly smile as he wrapped his arms around her and flipped them around so he was on top of her in between her legs. He kissed her passionately and Sakura moaned loudly into the kiss while wrapping her legs around his waist. They broke apart slowly and laughed a bit in joy and relief as they rested their foreheads together.

Naruto frowned a bit and spoke. "We should probably go shopping this morning to get you some new clothes, seeing as your Mom isn't going to let you in her house." Sakura nodded. "Yeah. I could still sneak in and get some clothes easily, but I don't have any clothes in my Mom's house that I really like anymore. They're all too... girly." They both chuckled and got up to get ready. They both took a shower, separately, because neither of them were ready to take their relationship to the next level just yet. Plus, they only had about two and a half hours before they had to be at the academy, and considering their stamina... well, you get the picture. (giggle)

After they both got cleaned up, they both put on their clothes from yesterday after washing and drying them quickly with a quick water and fire jutsu. They both opened Naruto's front door and breathed in deeply. They loved the scent of Konoha early in the morning. It was peaceful. A few birds were singing and they could still hear the crickets chirping away in the twilight.

They both walked at a comfortable pace down the streets of Konoha until they arrived at a civilian clothing shop that was open. They walked in after putting henges on and got a variety of civilian clothes to wear for when they weren't on missions. Walking up to the still half asleep cashier, they bought all the clothes and put them into sealing scrolls before continuing on their way. They both got to the Higurashi's next and walked in without the henge, knowing that they accepted Naruto and wouldn't kick him out or overprice him.

Mr. Higurashi was at the front desk and raised an eyebrow at Naruto and Sakura. "You two are up early. Anything specific you're looking for?" They both smiled and walked up to the cashier's desk. Sakura spoke. "Yeah, we're both looking for some shinobi clothes like this." She pointed at what they were currently wearing. "And we're looking for some new shinobi clothes so that if we have to, we can change clothes depending on the climate of where our missions are."

Tenten's father raised an eyebrow. "I'm impressed. Usually genin don't think about that until after they go on one of those missions. You two are ahead of the game." Naruto and Sakura looked at each other and laughed nervously. Naruto then had a thoughtful look on his face. "Ah. Do you have any trench coats in stock?" Mr. Higurashi smiled and nodded.

After they picked out all of the usual shinobi clothes, Mr. Higurashi led them to a section with trench coats. Naruto and Sakura smirked as they looked at the variety of them all. Eventually they both picked one to their liking. Naruto picked a black one that went below his knees. The trench coat had a high collar that hid half of his face from the side and it had tons of pockets both on the inside and on the outside near his hips. It had some silver designs that outlined some parts of the coat. Naruto loved it.

Sakura's was an all red one that went to her knees in length. Her trench coat also had a high collar and had more pockets than Naruto's for all of her med supplies that she would put in sealed in scrolls. They both put the clothes in their bags except for the trench coats and some other clothes and went into the changing rooms.

When they came back out, Mr. Higurashi whistled in appreciation. Naruto had black shinobi pants and a light gray muscle shirt on underneath a black shinobi vest. He put on black shinobi boots instead of sandals. To complete the image, he had on his trench coat that looked like it was billowing in an invisible gust of wind. Sakura looked similar except she had on a pair of tan shinobi shorts along with a purple tank top with an unzipped black vest showing off her cleavage. She put on red shinobi shoes instead of boots so she could move easier. On top of it all she had on the red trench coat that made her look as badass as Naruto.

They both smirked to each other and laughed. 'These are fantastic Naruto-kun! This was a great idea!' Naruto nodded. 'Yeah, they're perfect, but they will be better than perfect after what I'm going to do to them. After we get your med supplies, lets head back to the apartment so I can add some things to them.' Sakura nodded as they both walked up to the counter. They both paid for them all and shunshined out of there. Mr. Higurashi laughed and shook his head. 'There's more to those two than meets the eye.'

Naruto and Sakura arrived at the hospital and laughed. Sakura turned towards Naruto. "I'll be right back Naruto-kun. I know exactly where to go. It'll be about 5 minutes." With that she walked into the hospital, leaving Naruto sitting on a bench in the cool morning air.

~5 minutes later~

Sakura came back out and tapped Naruto on the shoulder. Naruto glanced back at her and she smiled. "I'm done." With that, they both shunshined to Naruto's apartment, leaving some leaves that swirled in the air. When they arrived Naruto took off his trench coat and asked Sakura for hers. Sakura took hers off and handed it to Naruto, wondering what he was going to do.

Naruto got out his sealing supplies and got to work. The first thing he did was put weight seals on the inside of the coats that could be changed with chakra. This would be convenient, because they wouldn't have to go buying weights all the time. He then put damage repairing seals on them to make sure they could auto-repair anything that happened to them. The last thing he did was put some storage seals on the inside of the sleeves near the hands so they could put their kunai, shuriken and senbon in the seals. This way they could have any of the three out in the blink of an eye to surprise their opponent.

After Naruto was done Sakura stared at the coats in awe. "That's so cool! I wish I knew how to seal stuff." Sakura pouted. Naruto smiled and responded. "Well, I could teach you if you wanted." Sakura's eyes lit up like a Christmas tree. "Really!?" Naruto laughed and nodded.

Sakura squealed and glomped Naruto and they both rolled around on the floor. Naruto came out on top and pinned her arms above her head. "I win." Sakura giggled and brought her face up to lick the side of his neck. Naruto started purring as he did the same to Sakura. They both started purring loudly with a bit of growling as well as they rubbed their cheeks together and sighed in happiness. They both widened their eyes. Sakura spoke first. "Woah. That was different." Naruto laughed. "I guess our fox instincts are coming into play." They both shrugged and decided to get up to get to the academy. They had about half an hour before they needed to be there but they could get there early by teleporting there with shunshin and relax on the roof.

After they got their trench coats on, they shunshined to the roof of the academy and relaxed next to each other to look at the horizon to the east. Sakura smiled sadly. "I wish things could stay like this." Naruto smiled sadly as well. "Yeah. But we both know that's not going to happen." Sakura nodded silently as they continued to stare at the horizon.

~30 minutes later~

The kids in the classroom were almost bursting with excitement as they talked about how ninja life would be. Well, all the kids except for Sasuke and Shikamaru. Shikamaru was too lazy and Sasuke was... being Sasuke. Everyone ignored Naruto and Sakura as they entered the room, because they were used to their change in attitudes. Everyone except Sasuke that is. He narrowed his eyes as he took in their new clothing. 'So, they got new clothes once again. The dobe and the slut will get what's coming to them either way. They're weaklings compared to me.' Sasuke then continued to have his staring contest with the wall. Oh how foolish he was.

A bandaged Iruka then walked in with a clipboard in his hands. Ino spoke up. "What happened to you, Iruka-sensei?" Iruka smiled. "Well, you see, there was this rock that came across my path and I accidentally tripped over it. Little did I know that there was this cliff on the other side of the rock. I fell off and ended up in a gigantic ancient stadium that had this huge dragon in it that I had to fight to the death. It was a long and hard battle, but I eventually came through. I then climbed my way back up the cliff with my bare hands and took myself to the hospital. On the way to the hospital there was this evil kitten that I had to fight, but I eventually won by punting it into the Forest of Death and watched it get eaten by giant centipedes!"

Iruka smiled happily as all the fangirls had terrified looks on their faces. The guys had twitching eyebrows and Naruto and Sakura burst out laughing. "HAHAHAHA! Ha... ahhh... that was a good one Iruka-sensei! Although, it would have been better at the end if you caught one of the centipedes and cooked it up and ate it." Half the class started scooting away from Naruto while Sakura had a thoughtful look on her face. "Hmm, I wonder what that would taste like." She then wipped out a recipe book out of nowhere and started scribbling some notes on it. The class scooted further away. Iruka spoke up with a cough. "-cough- Ok guys, settle down. Now, I will call out the names of the people in each team and their sensei."

~2 minutes later~

Naruto and Sakura smiled and were glad that everyone had the same teams as before. Iruka called in every team's sensei and everyone watched in anticipation as some Jonin walked into the room. The Jonin that Naruto and Sakura recognized instantly were Asuma Sarutobi and Kurenai Yuhi. They smiled thinking about how those two got together in the future before everything went to hell. Naruto and Sakura shook themselves. Now was not the time to think about the other time. 'We will change things this time. They will live.'

Naruto and Sakura both nodded to each other with determined looks on their faces. The Jonin all called their teams and walked out while Team 7 had to stay put to wait for their sensei. Naruto sighed and spoke mentally to Sakura. 'Ugh, I can't believe that we're going to have to wait three hours again just to wait for Kakashi.' Naruto then got an idea and smirked. 'Hey, want to do whatever for the next couple of hours before Kakashi-sensei gets here?' Sakura giggled. 'Sure.' They both got up and walked to the door.

Sasuke spoke up. "Hey! Where do you two think you're going?" Naruto looked over his shoulder at him with a bored expression. "What else? We're not gonna sit around here waiting for Kakashi-sensei to get here. You can stay here if you want. Sakura-chan and I are gonna go do whatever until he gets here. See ya!" And with that Naruto and Sakura walked out of the room. Sasuke got up to run after them, but when he got outside the door, the hallway was empty with no one in sight. He growled angrily.

~On top of the Academy~

Naruto and Sakura were relaxing on the roof with Naruto sitting down against the railing while Sakura leaned back against his chest. He leaned forward and buried his head into Sakura's neck. "So, what do you want to do?" Sakura shrugged. "I don't know. I'm kinda hungry though. How about you?" Naruto's stomach chose that moment to rumble loudly and he scratched the back of his head with a silly grin on his face. "Yeah, I'm hungry. Hmm... where should we go..."

Naruto thought for a second before he widened his eyes in a look of horror. Sakura giggled as she already knew what he was about to say. That was before he grabbed her by the shoulders and started shaking her comically. "Oh... My... KAMI! Sakura-chan, I haven't had ramen in like... FOREVER! RAMEN! The food of the GODS!" Sakura just blinked as he kept on shaking her. "Please Sakura-chan! Please please please please...!" Naruto continued to beg as Sakura put her hand up to her mouth trying to hold in her laughter. She got it under control and set both of her hands on each side of Naruto's face. She brought up his head and put on an extremely fake stern face. "Naruto Uzumaki Namikaze." Naruto nodded fearfully. Sakura smiled. "Lets go. I'm hungry." Naruto sat there for a second before yelling a "WOOHOO!" and grabbed Sakura before using shunshin to teleport near the Ichiraku Ramen stand. They were both happy that they would see Teuchi and Ayame again, but food was in the front of their minds.

~Ichiraku Ramen~

Teuchi and Ayame were casually making some ramen when a loud noise broke through the air. "RAAAAAAAAAAAAAAMMMMEEEEEEEEN N!" Teuchi and Ayame both looked at each other before bursting out laughing as Naruto ran inside the ramen stand while dragging Sakura behind him comically. Sakura was currently flailing around horizontally behind Naruto with squinted eyes.

Wooosh! Naruto was in his chair acting naturally while Sakura was on the ground breathing heavily. She eventually reached up for the counter and proceeded to drag herself up before sitting on the chair next to Naruto. She greeted Ayame and Teuchi with a smile and then acted like nothing happened. Ayame and Teuchi sweat dropped together as they stared at Naruto and Sakura with wide eyes. "Umm... are you two ok?" Naruto and Sakura looked at Teuchi at the same time and spoke at the same, which looked kinda creepy. "Yeah, we're perfectly fine. Why?"

Teuchi and Ayame sweat dropped once more when they both tilted their head to the right at the same time. Teuchi laughed loudly. "Ok, I assume you came here to eat some ramen, eh Naruto?" Naruto nodded excitedly with joy on his face as he started drooling. Sakura rolled her eyes and smacked him lightly on the back of his head, all the while stifling a giggle behind her other hand. Ayame turned towards Sakura. "Would you like some ramen too, young lady?" Naruto barged into the conversation. "Yes! Get her some ramen! She doesn't believe me when I say it is the food of the GODS!" Everyone besides Naruto sweat dropped. Sakura was a little hesitant. "I don't know. I've never had ramen before."

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All at once Naruto, Teuchi, and Ayame started freaking out. "AHHHH! This is bad. Very, very bad!" Teuchi had wide eyes and Ayame looked like she was about to have a heart attack. Naruto was staring at Sakura with a gobsmacked expression. "S-Sakura-chan... You've never had ramen before?" Sakura stared at his with a confused look. "Well... no I haven't. Is that a bad thing?"

Naruto turned towards Teuchi and spoke quickly. "Can you please get her a Miso ramen?" Naruto looked desperate. Teuchi simply nodded and ran to make some. 5 minutes later he came out with a bowl and set it down in front of her. Naruto spoke after giving her a pair of chopsticks. "Eat." Sakura looked nervous as she glanced at the bowl of swirling noodles. He hesitantly took the chopsticks and swirled some noodles around them before bringing it to her mouth.

It was silent as no one moved and Sakura's hair shadowed her eyes. Naruto was nervous. "Sakura-chan?" Sakura slowly turned her head towards Naruto with her hair still obscuring the top part of her face. Naruto flinched and gulped as Sakura suddenly grabbed his shoulders in a tight grip as she slowly brought her head up.

When Sakura's eyes finally met his, they were sparkling with excitement. She started shaking Naruto. "Oh my god! What the hell took you so long to convince me to have ramen!" Naruto smiled brightly and started laughing along with Teuchi and Ayame. "Yes! I knew you'd like ramen!" Sakura nodded her head happily as she dug into her ramen with gusto, rivaling Naruto's speed as Teuchi brought out his share. Teuchi and Ayame looked back and forth as Naruto and Sakura shoveled ramen into their mouths with a speed that shouldn't have been possible. Teuchi then started crying anime tears. "I'm so happy! Now we have two customers that can eat all of our ramen and make us more money!" Ayame giggled at her father's antics and smiled happily as Naruto and Sakura continued to slurp their noodles.

~5 minutes and 10 bowls later~

Naruto and Sakura set their bowls down as they both sighed happily at the full feeling of their stomachs. Sakura smiled happily. "Thank you Naruto-kun! That was delicious!" Naruto smiled as he turned his head to Teuchi. "Thanks for the ramen Ossan!" Teuchi nodded with anime tears running down his face. "Anytime Naruto-kun!" Naruto handed Teuchi the correct amount of money before he and Sakura left the store with a smile on both of their faces. Naruto turned to Sakura with a thoughtful expression on his face. "Do you think we should get back to the academy and wait for Kakashi?" Sakura had the same expression. "Hmm... Sure why not. Lets just stay on the roof until he gets there." With that they both used Shunshin and waited on the roof.

~3 hours later~

Kakashi walked into the academy and headed to the classroom where his team was supposed to be. As he opened the door he looked around and only saw one kid sitting there that looked like he had a wooden plank shoved up his ass. He sweat dropped and spoke, breaking the prick from his thoughts of making Itachi spontaneously combust. "Um, where are your teammates?"

Just as Sasuke was about to answer two voices spoke at once from behind Kakashi. "We're right here Kakashi-sensei!" Kakashi swirled around with wide eyes and saw Naruto and Sakura standing there with matching grins. 'I didn't even sense them!' Naruto snickered as he thought to Sakura. 'This is the most fun I've had in a while! We should freak people out like this more often.' Sakura giggled and answered back. 'Yes, definitely.'

Kakashi coughed to regain his composure and spoke to them all. "Ok, now that you're all here, meet me on the roof in 2 minutes. Don't be late." And with that, he was gone. Not a millisecond later Naruto and Sakura were gone as well leaving Sasuke behind. Sasuke's eye twitched in anger as he walked towards that roof.

A couple minutes later all of team seven was on the roof waiting for Kakashi to speak. "Ok, now that we're all here lets introduce ourselves. Pinky, you're first." Sakura twitched. "It's rude not to introduce yourself first." Kakashi chuckled and scratched the back of his head. "Well, lets see. My name is Kakashi Hatake. My like are... hmm... My dislikes, well... I have lots of hobbies? Dreams? All of you are too young to understand." Naruto and Sakura twitched. He was still the same Kakashi alright.

Kakashi spoke up again. "Ok Pinky, you're up." Sakura twitched even more. "My name is Sakura Haruno. My likes are Naruto-kun, training, and tails." Sakura giggled perversely at this. Naruto sweat dropped. "My dislikes are my mother, Sasuke-teme, and another certain Uchiha. My hobbies are hanging around with Naruto-kun and training. My dreams for the future?" At this Sakura looked at Naruto and smiled softly. Naruto smiled back.

Kakashi looked at Sasuke. Sasuke grunted and spoke. "My name is Sasuke Uchiha. I don't have any likes and I have many dislikes. My only hobby is training and my dream. No, my ambition is to kill a certain man." Naruto and Sakura rolled their eyes at this. Itachi was twice the man he was.

Naruto spoke up before Kakashi could tell him to speak. "My name is Naruto Uzumaki! My likes are Sakura-chan, training, and ramen! My dislikes are Sasuke-teme, another certain Uchiha, fools who can't see the difference between a scroll and a kunai, and the three minutes it takes to cook instant ramen. My hobbies are hanging around with Sakura-chan and training. My dreams for the future are to become Hokage and one other thing." Naruto then smiled softly at Sakura who smiled back.

Kakashi clearly saw this and smiled with them. "Ok, now that we know something about each other, you have to take the actual genin test administered by me, your Jonin sensei. The test has a 66.6 percent failure rate, so be prepared. Oh, and I suggest you don't eat before you come tomorrow. Meet me at 7 in the morning on training ground 7. Bye." And with that, Kakashi was gone. Sasuke turned to tell Naruto and Sakura not to slow him down, but they were already gone. Sasuke raged. "GOD DAMMIT!"

~Naruto's Apartment~

Naruto and Sakura appeared in his bedroom and laughed. "Man, the looked on Sasuke-teme's face was hilarious!" Sakura agreed. Suddenly, Sakura hugged Naruto tightly and almost knocked him over. Naruto was startled. "Sakura-chan, wha..." "Thank you." Sakura whispered against his chest. If Naruto didn't have advanced hearing he wouldn't have heard it.

Both of their features returned to their fox forms and Sakura's tail curled downwards toward the ground. Sakura looked up at Naruto and had tears in her eyes. "I don't know what I would do without you Naruto. If I ever lost you I don't know what I would do." Naruto smiled softly and bend down to kiss her forehead, but Sakura whipped her head up at the last second and captured his lips into a soft kiss. After they both separated they smiled at each other. Sakura yawned suddenly and her ears flattened against her head cutely. Naruto smiled and led her to the bed. "Come on, lets get some sleep. It's not that late but I know your tired. I am too." Sakura smiled gratefully and whispered. "Thank you Naruto-kun." Sakura then started taking her clothes off until she was just in her bra and panties. Naruto did the same until he was in his boxers and they both climbed into Naruto's bed and faced each other. Sakura rested her head on Naruto's chest and both of their legs and tails tangled up together. Sakura yawned again. "Good night, Naruto-kun." Naruto smiled and kissed her on the forehead. "Good night, Sakura-hime." And with that, they both fell asleep against each other smiling.

Done! Ugh, college is so boring and it takes up a lot of time. Thank you for waiting patiently for the chapter to come out. Thanks for reading! REVIEW!