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Assistant: Title: face like thunder
        Author: hopeyoustay hopeyoustay 
        Chapter: 7/16 
        Summary: He can see the golden rooftops of the buildings, taste the salty air, feel the rough stone of the sun-bleached buildings, watch his feet roam over the intricate tile and stone floors of the village. He can feel energy rush through his veins as the sea breeze blows red strands of hair into his eyes. Everything is okay at that moment, everything is at peace. He is at peace.Then Naruto wakes up.
        Contents: Chapter 7: Dismaying Discoveries
    

    


      
        
          
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  After ramen, Team 7 went their separate ways. Sasuke back to the Uchiha Compound, Sakura making her way home in the civilian district, and Naruto heading towards the shinobi shop just outside the civilian district. 

  After a month and fifty-two D ranks plus his savings from under his bed, he finally had enough money for new clothes and a certain shiny nagamaki. He got a lot of dirty looks as he strolled down the street, but he didn't care. He'd had a great lunch with his surprisingly cooperative team, which had been a shock. Sakura hadn't even tried to hit on Sasuke once, and the brooding Uchiha had offered to pay for their meals.

  Pushing open the door, the first thing he saw was Tenten, who had clearly just gotten back from practice. She had dirt smudged all over her face, and her usually flawless buns were astray. Still, she sat behind the cash register with her feet propped up on the counter, reading what looked to be a weapon catalog. 

  She looked up when the front doorbell rang, and a smile filled with delight overcame her face when she saw Naruto standing in the doorway. Tossing aside the magazine, she bounded from the counter over to him.

  "I didn't hear anyone on the roof. You came the civilian way this time?" She joked.

  The blond rolled his eyes, "Yeah, didn't want to give you a heart attack again."

  "Like you could give me a heart attack." Tenten scoffed, "You've met my team, nothing startles or embarrasses me anymore."

  She drifted back over to the counter, hopping up to sit on the edge, spreading her arms out, and gesturing to the store, "Feel free to look around again. Let me know if you need any help."

  "Actually, yeah, I do." He cringed a little, glancing down at himself, "I need, uh, new clothes. I've been a genin for a month and I think it's time."

  Tenten smiled brightly, "I can help you with that! We sell shinobi clothing, too, imported from the Land of Tea. Quality fabric, really soft but durable, too."

  "Great sales pitch." Naruto followed her to the back of the store, "Got any orange?"
Tenten gave him a sideways glance, "Look, as your friend I feel obligated to tell you that Neji might kill you on principle if you get another all-orange outfit. Besides, we don't carry neon shinobi clothes. Kind of, you know, defeats the point. "
  "I was joking." He scratched his cheek, sheepish, "I'll miss it, sure, but I don't know if it's worth getting killed."

  Naruto gave it all a once over, his mood picking up as he saw a few kimono shirts in dark, burnt orange. Smiling, he grabbed what looked like a small one and pulled it out. A short-sleeved, kimono shirt fully colored dark orange that would probably land mid-thigh. Smiling wide, he turned to Tenten and held the shirt up for inspection.

  "A little orange can't hurt, right?" He asked.
She sighed, a smile twitching on her lips, "I guess.  I think that'd look nice with some black shinobi pants and sandals. Maybe a black haori, too, short-sleeved of course."
  She dived seemingly headfirst into the racks of clothing, muttering to herself as she looked through the clothes. Naruto glanced around, eyeing some senbon as he waited for her to find whatever she was looking for. Poison wasn't really his thing, but Sakura would probably love learning how to poison senbon since she's going down a more medical route. 

  "Found the haori!" Tenten popped back up, holding up the thin, black fabric with looser sleeves than the kimono shirt.

  "I think this would look cool." Naruto held up a dark red obi laying in a bin, the color matching the nagamaki he planned on getting, "What do you think?"

  "Hmm, you're not color blind after all." She considered it momentarily, "Maybe we could find some strips of cloth the same color that could act like bandages and secure the loose sleeves of the kimono shirt."

  "That'd work great." He grinned, "I think I'll buy a few sets if you don't mind?"
"Not at all." She grinned like a shark, "My parents said I keep twenty-five percent of any sales I make while they're gone. Spend some more, if you like.""Okay." He pointed at the nagamaki, "I'll take those."Her eyes popped a little bit, "Wow, really?""Yeah." He raised an eyebrow, "Why, don't think I can handle them?""It's not that, it's just no one in Konoha wields nagamaki. Tou-san nearly took them to the Land of Iron because he was afraid they wouldn't ever sell here." She grabbed a stool, stepping on it to grab the staff-sword hybrids before jumping down and handing them over, "Here you go, I guess. Good luck figuring out a technique."His gut told him he wouldn't need luck, so he just nodded. He grabbed the senbon, too, and tossed in some chakra channeling gloves and makibishi spikes before he checked out. Gifts for his team, even if they didn't appreciate them. He handed over most of his money to Tenten, who looked like Christmas had come early.He spun one of the nagamaki experimentally in his hand while she bagged his clothes, careful the long blade didn't damage any merchandise. It felt natural to him, the weight just right like he was welcoming an old friend.
   (Katsuro held the blade out for Amahiko hilt first, the thick gloves he wore and years of skill protecting his hands from the deadly slant of it.

  The hilt was light blue and silver, with a red Uzumaki swirl at the very bottom of it. The blade were dark, nearly black, and Amahiko could almost see his reflection in it. The elder Uzumaki smiled as his younger brother gripped it with such reverence you would think Kami himself had bestowed upon him the nagamaki. Katsuro ruffled his hair slightly, and Amahiko huffed out a laugh before stepping back and bowing towards his elder brother.

   "Thank you, nii-san." He spoke before straightening, "This means...a lot to me." 

   "Just let Tenma-oji teach you how to use it." There was laughter in his green eyes, "Don't chop anything off by accident. Wouldn't due to have our future Uzukage without an arm, would it?" 

   The younger scowled, "I'm eleven, not incompetent." 

   "The two of those things are basically synonyms, otouto.")

  He was pulled from his mind when Tenten handed two heavy-looking bags out to him. He put both the nagamaki in the cross sheath he had strapped to his back and accepted the bags with a nod.

  "Come back any time!" She waved him goodbye before sitting to count out her cut of the money.

  He carried his bags home, setting his clothes out for the mission tomorrow and arranging the gifts he'd bought in a nice little pile before passing out. 
Naruto woke up to a tap on his bedroom window. He blearily wiped a hand over his face, seeing a pink blob on his window sill through his blurry vision. He glanced at the clock; it was only seven-thirty. No way he was late, Kakashi-sensei probably wouldn't even be there until eight. That was what they'd decided the day prior, at least.Still, he removed himself from the soft cocoon of blankets and pried open his window, wincing at the creaking screech it made as he raised it. Sakura, already fully dressed for the day, slid in like this was totally normal and held out a...plate?"What's that?" He blinked, his sleep-addled brain slow to process."My mom made pancakes this morning." She glanced down at the foil-covered plate, "They should still be hot if you eat now. I brought syrup, too, just in case you don't have any."Good thing she brought some, he knew he definitely didn't have any syrup."How'd you even find out where I live?" He asked, suddenly self-conscious of both his apartment and neighborhood."I asked Iruka-sensei this morning when I passed by the academy." Needless to say, it wasn't the most upscale of places. A street over was the red light district, and a lot of crime was concentrated in his area. Not to mention his apartment probably looked like the scummiest place she'd ever been. No matter how hard he tried to keep it clean and replace things that were broken, people would just break in and do it all over again.He'd tried painting seals on the doors to keep them out, but someone had gotten burned on the protection seals and the landlord had threatened to kick him out if he did it again. So all he could do was patch up broken furniture, hide his money, and light scented candles to get rid of the aroma of p@ss.He really hoped Sakura couldn't smell the p@ss.She scrunched her nose. She could definitely smell the p@ss.Wanting to literally crawl in a hole and die, he led her into the kitchen and sat down at his two-person table, Sakura sitting on the counter by his sink since he didn't have a second chair."So...you've lived here how long?" She glanced around."Since I was kicked out of the orphanage. ANBU used to guard me, but they stopped when I was eight," He snorted, taking the foil off the food he'd been brought, "It's not much but...it's all I can afford.""Now that you're a genin could you afford somewhere else?" Her eyebrows furrowed, "Somewhere that's...not in the shadiest parts of Konoha?""On a genin's salary?" He laughed, "Fat chance. Like anyone would even rent to me, anyway. Pretty sure Jiji threatened my current landlord."Her eyes grew even more worried, and he quickly backpedaled, "It's not that bad though, honestly! I have running water, electricity, a stove-""The lovely aroma of urine and graffiti on your walls?" She interrupted, gesturing to his living room wall."Ah..." He'd forgotten about that. He'd replaced the lock on the door but he hadn't bought paint to cover up the spraypaint yet.GO BURN was written in an ugly green color, covering up some of his already ugly beige painted walls. They hadn't even gone for red paint this time; Naruto was kind of disappointed in them."They, uh, they spraypaint anywhere and everywhere." He explained it away, shrugging with a forced laugh, "It's not-""It's okay if you don't want to talk about it." She said quietly, pursing her lips, "I've seen how people treat you, though. So has Sasuke. We're not blind."He swallowed his emotions, refusing to cry in front of her. He shoveled in a bite of food, savoring the taste, before responding, "It's not as bad as you think.""Oh, so you p@ss all over your own walls and couch?" She grumbled, "Finish that up, I have some fruit in my bag you're going to eat."Sighing sharply, he looked at her with narrowed eyes, "Why are you even doing this? Shouldn't you be babying your precious Sasuke-kun? Since when do you give a single sh@t about me or my life? If you haven't noticed, it's been sh@t pretty much since I was born, and I've made it this far."She faltered, wilting under the harsh words, and he bit back his anger. She was just being nice. What did she know about the trauma he went through as a child by being ignored by literally everything and everyone? What did she know about reaching out for help only to get your hand smacked away for your troubles? He pushed the empty plate away, looking anywhere but at her."I'm sorry, Sakura. I shouldn't have said that." His voice was tight, "Tell your mom thanks for me.""Don't apologize." Her voice was quiet, "You're right, aren't you? When you tried to be friends I ignored you, Sasuke ignored you, we all did. Most of the parents wouldn't let their kids around you and we followed suit. Sasuke and I both sat back and watched you get bullied and did nothing. I even...contributed, as ashamed of it as I am now."He finally looked at her, eyes wide, "No you didn't. You never once-!""I never beat you bl@@dy, no, but I still called you names. I insulted your intelligence without knowing you or your situation. I punched you when I thought you were annoying." She looked down at her lap, "You were only ever nice to me, too.""You're not obligated to like someone back just because they like you, Sakura." Naruto laughed quietly, "The fact that I had a schoolboy crush on you means nothing. You didn't owe me anything.""I didn't have to like you back, obviously, but it's messed up that I bullied you when all you were was kind." She spoke quietly, "I was a bully, plain and simple. I hated it when I was called names and picked on, but I still did it to you. Everyone did. Even if I didn't like you at all, not even as a friend, it was no excuse to be cruel."He sat quietly for once in his life, just blinking at her."Naruto..." She felt an overwhelming amount of sadness, "Has anyone ever apologized for the way they treated you?"He didn't respond."You know emotional abuse is just as bad as physical abuse, right?" She was basically pleading with him, "That even people who bullied you without violence were in the wrong? That you didn't deserve it?""I mean, no one has to apologize to me." He let out a nervous little laugh, "Really, I-I get it, you all were just copying your parents or your friends. It's okay, Sakura. Really. I don't hold it against you. Or Sasuke, for that matter."Her eyes were sad, "It's not okay, Naruto."She looked around again before picking up the empty plate, "You should get dressed. We'll be meeting at the missions desk soon."The window was still open in his bedroom and she slipped out of it again, leaving him alone. He quietly got ready, putting his gifts in a storage seal, and left his apartment after locking the windows and doors. It wouldn't stop anyone who really wanted to get in, but hopefully, it would work to deter petty @ssh@l@s."Kaka-sensei! This is where you've been hiding?"The jōnin practically jumped out of his skin, his concentration on the memorial stone broken when he heard none other than Sakura's voice behind him. He stood up, turning around fast as a whip to stare at the pinkette incredulously. "I've been looking for you all over." The little genin huffed, crossing her arms, "I need to talk to you.""How did you even find me?" He asked, narrowing his eyes."This place is right next to our training ground, sensei, and I get bored waiting hours for you." She informed him in a matter-of-fact tone, "Sasuke, Naruto, and I have made a game of running around Konoha for a few hours while we wait to see if we can find you. None of us ever have, and I'm running out of places to check. It was just a process of elimination.""Right." He said slowly, drawing the word out as he silently wished he'd failed them just on principle, "And what was it you needed, oh cute genin of mine?""It's about Naruto." She said seriously, her face sad.He froze for a second, body stiffening, wondering what about Naruto she was referring to. Did she find out about the Kyūbi somehow? Or did something happen to Naruto?"I know you know something Sasuke and I don't. That's okay. He's still a human being though, no matter what!" She insisted, voice growing impassioned, "I just...do you even know where he lives?""Of course I do."Of course, he does. He used to do ANBU rounds there all the time when the boy was little more than six after he'd first gotten the apartment. Kakashi had already tried adopting him at that point; he'd fought verbal battle after verbal battle with the councils and had even come seconds away from ending Danzō's pathetic life. So he settled for the boy getting his own place, even if he'd been against the location, what with it being so close to the red light district.The Hokage wanted him as far out of the public eye as possible, though, to prevent harassment from closed-minded civilians. Still, crime wasn't too bad in the area, at least back then. The kid was eight or nine when they'd stopped patrolling for both his safety and Konoha's. On one hand, he wanted Naruto safe, on the other he was looking for possible signs the Kyūbi was influencing him. There were none, and the Hokage removed their patrol."Then you know about the people breaking into his place?" She snapped, "About the graffiti on his walls? The fact that people break into his home and pee on his furniture and walls? You know, he tried to go grocery shopping with me the other day. Can you guess what happened?"He didn't get time to even attempt an answer. "They wouldn't let him in the store." She frowned, "That's what. He had to go back home."F@ck@ng sh@t. He'd hoped the librarian was a one-off incident. He knew the civilians had no love for the boy but he'd hoped...he wasn't sure what he'd hoped. That humanity and empathy would prevail after all? He should know better. He did know better. He'd just buried his head in the sand due to grief, and every second he spent here mourning the boy's parents was an insult to those very same people. 
  What would Obito say?
"And you're wanting me to do something?" Kakashi asked, trying to seem calm while on the inside his blood was boiling, "I have no legal rights to-"Wait a minute. Yes, the f@ck he did have legal rights. He was their jōnin sensei now; if he deemed a living situation hazardous to the young shinobi, it was well within his rights to remove them from said situation. Well, then, it looked like the Hokage was in for a bad evening."Actually, you know what, Sakura, thank you for bringing this to my attention." He gave her an eye smile, patting her on the head, "I'll take care of it.""Really?" She huffed, blowing some of her bangs out of her eyes with a harsh breath, "Or are you just saying that to shut me up."He crouched down in front of her, meeting her at eye level. "I'm being serious, Sakura. I'll take care of it.""Good." The girl brightened slightly, some of her bad mood lifted at the promise, "Now come on, sensei, we have a mission!"To his complete bewilderment, she grabbed him by the arm and started tugging him towards the Hokage Tower and the missions desk. Judging from the expressions of the ninja he saw along the way, he'll never live this down. He just let it happen, simultaneously a bit too shocked to really stop her and also not wanting to upset her further by jerking his arm away.Naruto was wearing an entirely new outfit when they arrived. Even weirder, Sasuke was almost smiling and had new gloves on. Special chakra channeling gloves. He raised an eyebrow to himself, wondering what had possessed the boy to buy those. Then, of course, Naruto opened his mouth."Don't worry, Sakura, I got you a present, too." The blond grinned slightly, holding out a package of handmade, steel senbon that glinted in the artificial lighting of the room.She accepted them with wide eyes, "You can put poison on these.""Exactly, dattebayo!" Naruto said excitedly, "Perfect for an aspiring medic! I got Sasuke the gloves so it's easier to control his fire jutsu and maybe he won't burn his hands as much."Sasuke's face soured, "I don't burn my hands."Naruto waved a dismissive hand, "Yes, you do. Oh, can't forget Kakashi-sensei!"The boy tossed him a small linen pouch that jingled as flew to him. He caught it with ease, opening it up."Makibishi spikes!" He explained, "I know you probably already have some, but they're really nice and handmade. I didn't want you to feel left out, either."Iruka passed Kakashi the mission scroll silently, a knowing look in his eyes. His genin chatted behind him as they all walked to the village gates, and his chest felt suspiciously tight the whole time.
  "I never thought I'd see the day you ditched the orange, dobe." Sasuke rolled his eyes as they walked, "About time."

  "Oi, I have orange on my shirt." Naruto said, "Besides, it's a perfectly respectable color."

  "It's not neon orange, though." Sakura pointed out, "Burnt orange is perfectly respectable. Neon orange isn't."

  Her eyes crinkled around the edges as she grinned, just slightly, and she had such a striking resemblance to...Akane, that was her name, his sister in everything but blood. Akane, with the bright red hair and brighter red eyes. They looked nothing alike, were as different as day and night. Akane's smile had always made him happy, though, just like Sakura's.

  "What, is common sense finally getting to you?" Sasuke said, "I guess we should just be happy you finally ditched the jumpsuit."

  "I think it looks great, Naruto." Sakura laughed slightly, "More presentable for a ninja."

  "Next on the list is getting you to ditch all the pink. And the dress." Sasuke commented without missing a beat, "Kakashi-sensei and I are the only sensibly dressed ones on this team. Naruto now too, I guess."

  The pinkette's eyebrow twitched, "How can I ditch all the pink if my hair is pink?"

  Sasuke shrugged, "The hair isn't a problem. Put it up in a ponytail or cut it, do something with it. The clothes, however, are noticeable. Especially now since Naruto is wearing mostly black, I wear dark blue, and Kakashi-sensei usually wears black and green. We're all wearing pretty concealable colors. Just tone it down some or you'll be exposing the whole team. You don't want to be dead weight."

  Sakura frowned, looking to Naruto, who just scratched the back of his head, "I think you'd look great in dark reds, Sakura. Maybe try that, at least while we're genin. I know a place you can get some great clothes for now. When we get super-powerful, then we can dress however we want."

  "Power doesn't mean you should be reckless." Sasuke snapped, pausing to glare at Naruto.

  "You're only angry because you care." Naruto crossed his arms, "Come on, Sasuke. Admit it."

  Sakura sped up slightly, nearly bouncing up to Kakashi and tugging on his sleeve, "Sensei, should I cut my hair?"

  Kakashi shrugged and continued reading that Kami-damned book, "Just braid it."
"Braiding!" Naruto brightened, "That's a great idea!"Sasuke just nodded.Sakura accepted the answer, taking her spot between Sasuke and Naruto back, "I'll braid it, then. And...get something that's not a pink dress, I guess.""Thank Kami," Sasuke muttered, making Sakura accidentally trip and step right on his toes. The Uchiha looked both shocked and angry, like he couldn't fathom anyone doing that but especially not Sakura."Okay, children, that's enough." Kakashi's monotone drawl broke up the fight before it could begin, "Gather round now. You're about to learn something."
  The jōnin whipped three sheets of paper out of his pocket, giving one to each of his students as they continued to walk towards the farm, "Now, we know how to channel chakra to allow us to walk and run on trees and water. So, channel the chakra to your fingers instead and infuse the paper with it. Give it a decent amount too, sometimes you have some hidden affinities that can still be useful."
Naruto smiled to himself. His seals let him use them all, however, he did as requested along with Sasuke and Sakura.  Naruto's paper immediately tore into small shreds before the paper actually turned to water in his hands. Sasuke's crinkled up as soon as his chakra hit the paper, the sheet becoming a ball not even a fourth the size of what it was originally. The paper then burst into a flickering, dancing flame that Sasuke dropped onto the ground and stamped out with his foot. Sakura's paper got slightly damp before crumbling to fine specs of dirt in her hands. 
  Dropping the dirt, she brushed her hands off and turned to look at their sensei along with her teammates. However, Kakashi had stopped a few steps back and simply stared at the three.

  "Sensei?" Sakura asked hesitantly, "What's going on?"

  I have actual monsters, Kakashi thought ecstatically, three little genin monsters!

  "Well, Naruto has a very strong wind and water affinity." Kakashi coughed slightly, motioning to the cuts on Naruto's now wet hands, "As you can see. Normally wind makes the paper cut into two and the water affinity just makes it dampen as Sakura's did."

  Naruto looked perhaps a tad smug, even though he knew his affinities going into this. In his dreams he ran on the rooftops and rode the waves of the ocean; it seemed fitting.

  "And Sasuke, you have a high affinity for lightning and fire, as your paper overreacted too. Sakura, your earth ability is the strongest, it absolutely crumbled. That's probably the strongest earth release in Konoha since Tsunade of the Sannin."

  Sasuke was pleasantly surprised. Not even Itachi had a natural lightning affinity, the so-called prodigy that he was. Sakura, meanwhile, was over the moon. Smiling brightly, she stared down at her earth powdered hands, the dust of the dirt still there, and her eyes were wide in reverence.

  Kakashi observed the three carefully before smiling to himself; he was happier and happier that they passed as the days wore on. Sure, they were annoying brats literally all the time, but they were his annoying brats now.

  "Cool, dattebayo!" Naruto flapped his hands slightly, like an over-excited bird who didn't know what to do with himself, "Water, earth, fire, wind, and lightning! We've got all bases covered! We'll be the best team ever, everyone else can just quit now!"

  "Don't get overconfident." Kakashi rolled his visible eyes, "You haven't even learned how to use them yet."

  Sakura huffed, "And that's easy for you to say, Naruto! You've got that fancy seal all up and down your arm. You knew you had all bases covered before this."

  Kakashi stiffened slightly. Fancy seal? On his arm?

  "Not the one you think, sensei." Naruto smiled, rolling up the sleeve of his black haori and touching the skin there with chakra to reveal Uzumaki fūinjutsu covering his arm like one giant, elegant tattoo. Kakashi looked at it, slightly wide-eyed, before ultimately deciding he had either been blessed or cursed by Kami when he was assigned this team. The seal slowly faded away again, invisible to the naked eye.

  "Is, ah, is that your own design?" Kakashi knew the runt could make a decent exploding tag, but this was some next-level sh@t. Even Kushina-san would've paused at this.

  "Yup!" Naruto smiled before faltering, "Well, I got the idea from a book. But I made it my own, you know?"

  "And he's designing one for me." Sasuke looked at Naruto questioningly, "Right, Naruto?"

  "Hell yeah, teme!" The blond smirked, "I'm getting an Uchiha fire jutsu out of this deal. It's going down."

  Sakura sighed, "You two are too much."

  For once, Kakashi was inclined to agree with her, "Well, let's keep moving, your monstrous tendencies aside. Just...work on summoning elemental chakra."

  Kakashi looked at the blond suspiciously. He had known since the beginning Naruto wasn't really the dead last. He was too smart, too observant, and had sadly been declined many opportunities the other children had. He had certainly shown it a little before, that Uzumaki prodigy gene that kicked in more often than not, but it really shone through now. 

  He honestly acted like he'd grown up with the lot of them, and maybe Kakashi was tricking himself but he swore he could hear Kushina's Uzushio accent hidden under layers of the intonation every Konoha native had. He suspected it was the verbal tic that made him think that. After all, Kushina had an extremely similar one. Now that he was a full-fledged genin and had formed quite outstanding bonds with his team, if Kakashi said so himself, he seemed to be opening up more. He acted a bit less like the class dufus and more like his hot-tempered but extremely capable mother.
Now if Kakashi could just get him out of that hell hole. Then he'd be able to keep an eye on him and keep him safe, even from the f@ck@ng Kyūbi itself.  This was his little bratty genin, no one else's, and he'd be damned if he let any council member or any demon try to take control of the Uzumaki.
  Regardless, Kami help them if Konoha had a monster Kushina-mini on their hands.

  Then there was Sakura and Sasuke, who were in a whole other league regarding personal character development. Sasuke seemed to actually care for his teammates under that brooding facade, and Sakura seemed to forgo her crush for now and was taking her training seriously. 

  She had perfect chakra control and would make an outstanding medical-nin; maybe even a front-line one like Tsunade was. Hell, if she got her head together with Naruto's apparent fūinjutsu mastery, there was no telling what she could pull out of nothing regarding the limited front-line medical moves. Not to mention she genuinely seemed to care about her teammates, which is more than he could say at that age.

  Occasionally glancing over at their happy faces as they whispered together, Kakashi thought this time his team might just turn out alright.

  
  

    
      
        
        
          More flashbacks are! Next chapter, along with chakra chains ;) They come in the Wave Arc, which is after this time skip cause we don't need to see them plow a potato field ok, that'd be boring cause it'd be them sitting and reading while Naruto shadow clones planted seeds and Kakashi shoved books under their noses.ALSO...am I the only one that wants Team 7 to NOT be the Sannin OR Hashirama/Madara/Mito, but instead Hashirama/Tobirama/Mito? BECAUSE SASUKE IS BREAKING THE CYCLE OKAY. HIS TEAM'S GOT HIM, HE DOESN'T NEED OROCHIMARU.  (By the way, Sasuke is totally Mito in the situation. Just saying. Cause I headcanon her as a fire transformation, and I see Naruto as Tobirama and Sakura as like Hashirama cause she'll be a badass healer/earth user and she's gonna be trained by Hashi's granddaughter and also have certain talents ;) so idk ¯\_(ツ)_/¯)And yes, Kakashi is basically adopting Naruto next chapter. Stay tuned to watch Hiruzen and Danzō collectively sh@t themselves.'
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