Shunshin no Naruto

Chapter 4: Graduation

Naruto enters the classroom. The blonde is very excited, because today is the day he graduates from the Academy, and get's a hitai-ate.

It's been six years since Shisui died, and Naruto trained really hard to learn Shisui's Shurikenjutsu, Kenjutsu, Taijutsu, and Ninjutsu. While Naruto has mastered how to use his Sharingan, and even his Mangekyo Sharingan. Thanks to the Kyuubi, the stamina problems of the Sharingan doesn't affect Naruto. Also, thanks to the Kyuubi, and his Uzumaki blood, the Kotoamatsukami has a significantly reduced wait-time: once a day.

Not that Naruto has told anyone about his Sharingan. He didn't even tell Sasuke, who has become one of his best friends, along with Ino Yamanaka, and Shikamaru Nara.

All though, Saruka, and Naruto has grown distant. Well, not that they were close to begin with, or anything. Now, Naruto feels bad about what happened to the Haruno family. He has even told Sakura sorry multiple times. While Sakura is somewhat angry at Naruto for putting her mother in prison. She still understands that her mother was drunk, and that it was her own fault, and not Naruto's necessarily. But, it still hurts the pinkette.

Also during these six years, Naruto became a prankster, and barely came to the Academy. He knew Shisui would be somewhat angry at that, but Naruto was very busy training. So, Shisui would probably forgive him.

If anybody asks, Naruto did not glue all of the chairs in the Academy to the ceiling. Nor did he super glue whoopie cushions to the chairs. Naruto, also didn't switch out all of the Hyuga's underwear for hot pink thongs. The Uzumaki never, ever stole his Jiji's Icha Icha, with books for babies, and then henged the covers of the baby books to look like an Icha Icha. Naruto also never stole an Icha Icha book from a silver-haired Jounin. All though, Naruto does think that the Jounin is a big pervert.

Naruto still wears a somewhat baggy blue t-shirt. Over the t-shirt, Naruto wears what appears to be a black leather-like harness for his tantō which ran across his chest and fastened over both his shoulders. The blonde also wears orange pants, with a shuriken holster above his right knee. All though, Naruto added a pair of black high-top shinobi sandals that went up to his mid-calf, and readded his green goggles to his forehead, a couple years ago.

Naruto then sits down next to Sasuke, When the whole classroom hears the thunderous stomps of Sakura Haruno, and Ino Yamanaka.

Sakura typically gives the outward impression of being polite to her superiors, considerate of her peers, and confident in herself. She has occasional moments of bashfulness around Sasuke and competitiveness around Ino, but otherwise appears quite collected. This reservation, though never disingenuous, frequently masks how Sakura feels: in certain situations, she has pronounced feelings of delinquency, jealousy, and anger. Rather than display these emotions to others, she projects them inward, allowing a manifestation of who she truly is — what is labeled "Inner Sakura" (内なるサクラ) — to have the opinions Sakura wants to keep to herself. Inner Sakura, whose appearances are marked by an exclamation of "Shannarō!", is in a sense a personality separate from Sakura herself.

Sakura has fair skin, green eyes, and pink hair. In her youth, she wore her hair as bangs in order to cover her large forehead and fend off her classmates' calling her "Forehead Girl" (デコリーン). Ino encouraged her not to do this and wear her hair back instead, so that others could see her face. Later in her Academy career she let her hair gets longer because of rumours that Sasuke was attracted to girls with long hair.

Sakura wears a red qipao dress — at various times either with or without short sleeves — with slits along the sides accompanied by a zipper and white circular designs. She also wears tight dark green bike shorts with a shuriken holster around her right thigh, and blue sandals.