[Naruto] Haruno Sakura Preface

"Sakura, get up quickly. If you don't get up, you'll miss the opening ceremony!"

Early in the morning, Haruno Meabuki was making breakfast in the kitchen and shouting upstairs. She was very busy.

As soon as he finished speaking, a figure walked out from the stairs.

"Really, I said I was up."

Sakura yawned and slowly moved to the dining table, feeling sleepy.

It’s all because I read the medical book too late last night and couldn’t get up today. Sakura thought secretly.

"Hurry up, don't walk like an old man."

Meabuki turned off the fire on the stove, took the two's breakfast out of the kitchen, and explained to Sakura who was still dilly-dallying.

"Hey, hey." Sakura tried her best to overcome the sleepiness in her mind, pulled out the stool at the dining table and sat down.

"By the way, where is dad?"

Sakura looked around. Haruno Ou, who should have been sitting at the dining table, eating slowly and reading the newspaper at this time, was nowhere to be seen.

"Dad, today is the opening day of the ninja school and there is a heavy flow of people. He has been sent to maintain order at the scene."

Meabuki placed the dishes smoothly on the dining table and answered Sakura's question.

"Eat quickly, mom will take you to school later."

Meabuki placed the bowls and chopsticks in front of Sakura and urged.

"I'm gonna start now."

Sakura picked up the bowls and chopsticks in front of her and ate the breakfast in front of her.

After a while, the food in the bowl reached the bottom.

Sakura burped regardless of her appearance and rubbed her swollen belly.

"I only go faster when I'm eating. Just follow your father's example."

Meabuki knocked Sakura on the head and said helplessly.

"Humph."

Sakura got off the table and hummed unhappily when she heard Meabuki's complaints.

"Then let's go to school and register."

After Meabuki put away the leftover breakfast, he led Sakura out the door.

Along the way, the streets today were undoubtedly much busier than usual.

There were many people coming and going with their children to register for the ninja school.

"Sakura!" A familiar female voice suddenly came from behind.

Sakura and Meabuki turned their heads and saw a mother and daughter.

They have the same light blond hair color and light blue eyes, and their clothes have the crest of the Yamanaka family printed on them.

"Good morning, Meabuki, Sakura." The woman bent her eyes and smiled as she greeted the two of them.

"It's Keiko and Ino."

Meabuki happily stepped forward and hugged the woman, after saying hello to Ino. The two of them walked forward on their own, safely leaving the two children behind.

"Sakura, you look very beautiful today."

Ino looked at Sakura's outfit in front of her and praised it without hesitation.

"No, she's just a natural beauty." Sakura accepted Ino's compliment very naturally.

Ino shushed her, stepped forward and held her hand, closely following Meabuki and Keiko who were chatting happily in front of them.

Sakura looked at the profile of the girl next to her and couldn't help but think of the day they officially became friends.

It was a crisp autumn day, and she was kicked out by her parents as usual. It was said that children should play outside more, and friends were coming to the house tonight.

But as a woman determined to unify the ninja world (Daiki), she took advantage of the two of them not paying attention and went in from the balcony to take out her daily reading - a basic medical book.

After finishing everything, Sakura went to the park to practice medical ninjutsu while watching under the shade of the trees.

But just when Sakura was reading Selfless, two naughty children suddenly appeared. After a confusing operation, they inexplicably laughed at her as a monster with a wide forehead. After seeing that Sakura continued to read without responding, they started laughing exaggeratedly.

And just when she was about to get angry and determined not to pull out the shirts of the two naughty children even if they were clean, two flowers were thrust into their smiling mouths one after another from behind.

The two naughty children had never seen such a battle before. They held back their vomiting and took the flowers out of their throats before running away in a mess. Only Sakura and Koino, who had saved the beauty, were left staring at each other.

So Ino began to introduce herself, and Barbara talked a lot.

Later, he gave her a hair tie and said that when she tied it up, she would look like a flower in Konoha (it didn't).

In the end, everyone was happy, and the two naturally became friends.

When they were about to go home, the two reluctantly said goodbye to each other. It wasn't until Sakura returned home that she realized that the people who came to her home as guests were the Ino family she had met when she was a child.

Thinking of this made her feel embarrassed, and several black lines appeared on Sakura's forehead.

"Sakura Sakura!"

Ino looked at her friend's lost look and gently shook Sakura's arm. Seeing that Sakura hadn't come to her senses yet, she called out again.

"What's the matter?" Sakura came back to her senses and asked subconsciously.

"It's almost time to arrive at school."

Ino was a little dissatisfied that she was distracted. She snorted and pointed to the two families walking together not far away.

"Didn't I tell you about our family's family friends before? Well, it's right there. The fat guy over there clutching snacks and the two families with hair like fried hedgehogs are our family's family friends."

Sakura looked over there curiously, somewhat admiring Ino's ability to summarize. The two families standing there formed a sharp contrast.

As if feeling their gaze, the children of the two families turned to look at them. The fat boy wearing the uniform of the Fairway Clan gave them a friendly smile, and the hedgehog with the Nara Clan emblem printed on his clothes He glanced at them both nonchalantly with his head swaying.

"Seeing how lazy he looks makes me angry." Ino clenched his fists with a ferocious expression. It seemed as if he was about to rush forward and fight with that hedgehog at any moment.

"Alright, alright." Sakura comforted her little girl in a familiar manner, while looking over there a few more times.

Nara clan and Akimichi clan?

Sakura tried hard to recall the names of the two people just now. Although they were very familiar, that memory had long been washed away by the torrent of time and was difficult to retrieve.

Although she had chased Naruto for a while in junior high school in her previous life, she had forgotten some of the plot because it was so long ago, so she had some impression of Haruno Sakura in it.

Harmful. Sakura sighed. For the first time, she hated the way she turned a deaf ear to what was happening in junior high and only read books about saints.

"Really, why do I have to be friends with this kind of person?" Ino complained.

"By the way, what are their names?" Sakura curiously asked Ino, who was complaining beside her.

"The fat one is Akimichi Choji, and the spiky one is Nara Shikamaru." Ino answered Sakura's question smoothly. As a family friend, I had many interactions with the two of them, so I naturally remembered their names.

"Oh." Sakura said nothing and secretly wrote down their names.

"By the way, has Naruto come to sign up?"

Ino looked around and saw that as he got closer to the ninja school, the flow of people on the street also increased.

She looked around but couldn't find the familiar golden retriever in her memory.

When she first played with Sakura, she was still a little resistant to Naruto, who was hated by the villagers, but as she came into contact with Naruto more often, her impression of Naruto changed a bit.

"I do not know."

Sakura also looked around but couldn't find Naruto.

The Third Hokage should have already made arrangements. Sakura thought to herself. If she remembered correctly, Naruto was the son of the Fourth Hokage of Konoha and the jinchūriki of the village. There's no reason not to go to ninja school.

"By the way, I have recently successfully learned our family's secret technique."

As the two were walking, Ino suddenly thought of something and showed off to Sakura very excitedly.

"Really?" Sakura looked at her child in surprise.

"Of course. If we weren't on the street now, I would have demonstrated it to you."

Ino said proudly with her hands on her hips.

Butterfly effect? ​​Sakura thought silently in her heart.

You must know that Sakura in the original book was not very motivated when she was a child, so the two of them would only compete to win the favor of Erzhuzi when they were together.

But now Sakura is no longer the original Haruno Sakura. She only wants to improve her strength in order to protect herself and her family in this troubled world.

At the same time, Sakura's hard work also promoted Ino's practice. In the original work, the art of turning the mind, which can only be mastered at the age of twelve, can already be roughly used at the age of seven. It is undoubtedly a leap forward. And because of her diligent study of ninjutsu after seeing her daughter playing with Sakura, Sakura was successfully classified in Yamanaka Kai's heart as a friend worthy of his daughter's friendship. This also provides a channel for Sakura to rent some medical books monopolized by the Yamanaka clan from the Yamanaka clan.

Finish sorting out the thoughts in your mind. Sakura raised her eyes and looked at the building gradually coming into view in front of the road.

The whole building is covered in red and white colors, and the building cannot be called tall. There are only six floors. The four characters "Ninja School" hang at the top of the building.

At this time, the building was crowded with people. In addition to the parents accompanying their children, there were also some chuunin who were maintaining order at the scene. The noise of people reached their ears across the street.

"This is your future school."

Meabuki and Keiko in front stopped and pointed at the building Sakura and Ino were looking at just now.

"Oh." Sakura and Ino nodded at the same time.

"Don't fight with your classmates when you go to school. Don't bully other classmates just because you're good."

Meabuki walked up to Sakura, tapped her on the head with her hand, and said verbosely.

"Okay, okay." Sakura said dissatisfiedly, covering her head.

"Really." Meabuki sighed.

"Then you go to the school to register together. There are too many people there and it's not convenient for your Aunt Keiko and me to go there."

Meabuki waved his hand, pulled Keiko to the side after finishing talking to Ino, and waved goodbye to the two of them.

Seeing Sakura and Ino's backs slowly disappearing into the sea of ​​people, Meabuki couldn't help but feel worried.

"It's just school, there's nothing to worry about." Keiko patted her shoulder to reassure her.

"Let's go." Meabuki pulled Keiko and disappeared into the sea of ​​people.

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"First-year students please gather here."

As soon as Sakura and Ino stepped into the school, the sound of a horn attracted their attention.

In the open space in front of the school, a group of children stood bustling together, with several men wearing ninja uniforms standing next to them.

One of them held a timer in his hand and kept tapping his feet, as if he was very impatient.

Ino and Sakura obediently joined the group. The man seemed to notice it, but he just glanced at them indifferently and did not say anything.

After a while, the man pressed the timer and signaled to the people next to him: "The time is up."

"Freshmen, come here." Several people nearby made some moves, waving their hands and leading the large group towards the playground in the school.

Because Sakura and Ino entered the team late, they had no choice but to follow the main group at the end.

Along the way, Sakura consciously looked for the twelve little heroes scattered in the big team.

First up were Kiba Inuzuka, who was holding a puppy in the front row, and Shino, who was wearing a pair of scaled-down sunglasses and a scaled-down windbreaker.

Pushing back are Hinata who is alone and dare not communicate, Choji who is eating snacks on the side of the team, and Shikamaru who has his hands in his pockets.

As for the second pillar, there is a man with his tail spread out noblely at the back, a good skin that is inherent to the Uchiha clan, and a peacock look that disdains communication with mortals.

When he noticed Sakura looking at him, she curled her lips in an extremely noble and cold manner, as if she was used to this kind of behavior.

Sakura looked away calmly, she didn't want to be regarded as Uchiha's licking dog.

The training ground inside the school was not far from the teaching building. As soon as Sakura regained her sight, she arrived at the training ground.

There are not many decorations in the training ground, just a desk for one person to give a speech is simply set up, and two posters welcoming new students are placed on both sides.

"Quickly find a seat and sit down. The Third Hokage is going to give a speech later."

At the mention of the name Hokage, the originally noisy team immediately fell silent, and many people's faces showed admiration and yearning.

"Shadow", as the highest evaluation and affirmation of a ninja's strength, is what countless ninjas dream of.

"The Third Hokage?" Sakura was a little timid, afraid that the Third Hokage who was about to take the stage would spy on her identity as an outsider.

But this idea was quickly discarded. From the first day she came to this world, she did not make any overly eye-catching actions. The only change was that she got involved with the most important Jinchuuriki in the eyes of the third generation. At that time, she helped Naruto, partly because of her expanded sense of justice, but also because she wanted to rely on Naruto to gain the protection of the Third Hokage.

After she enters the ninja school, she will undoubtedly show her strength to a greater or lesser extent. And without a prominent family background, she didn't think she could escape Danzo's clutches. In order to prevent this from happening, the only thing she can rely on is the only Sandaime in the village who can overwhelm Danzo. The only bridge to the Sandaime was undoubtedly Naruto, who was hated by the villagers.

In the past few years, she has gradually formed a bond with Naruto, in order to become a link between the jinchuriki and the village. Although she felt guilty towards Naruto, she had to take this approach in order to protect herself and her family.

And since she took this measure, she had her own confidence.

When watching Naruto in his previous life, he often had questions about Haruno Sakura's identity. As a civilian, Sakura was actually able to be assigned to Team 7, which is under Konoha's focus of observation. This led him to once wonder if the Haruno family had some hidden identity that Kishimoto had not written down.

But everything was answered after her soul passed through Haruno Sakura. The Haruno family is a civilian family and has no special status. This also shows that Haruno Sakura's entry into Class 7 was not based on her family background, but her bond with Naruto and Sasuke that made her enter Class 7. In the original work, Haruno Sakura can rely on her bond with Naruto and Sasuke to enter Team 7. This method is undoubtedly applicable in this world.

Although the risk was high, she undoubtedly made the right bet.

In recent years, except for the vague sense that the Haruno family is being observed by ANBU from time to time, the family's life has not been disturbed by it.

This is also because Sakura's actions did not have a strong direction, so the purpose of establishing diplomatic relations with Naruto did not arouse the Sandaime's suspicion.

Sakura can be sure that the Third Hokage has investigated all her details, including her superior talent in learning taijutsu and medical ninjutsu.

And since the third generation has not yet attacked the Haruno family, it is enough to show that Sakura's identity and purpose have not been exposed. Otherwise, the third generation would not have allowed an unstable factor to be next to the jinchuriki of the village.

It can not only provide a guarantee for the village to stabilize the Jinchuuriki, but also harvest a seedling with great development potential.

Ying herself didn't even think of a reason not to do such a business that was sure to make a profit without losing any money. Not to mention the Third Hokage who only cares about the village.

Sakura calmed down and pulled Ino beside her to find a seat to sit down. Quietly waiting for the arrival of the Third Hokage.

The third generation was not long overdue. Under the gaze of everyone, a slightly stooped old man stood on the podium.

The old man's face is covered with traces of time, but the eyes under the Hokage hat are very sharp and clear, without the turbidity and old age of ordinary old people, and they don't look like an old man who is over seventy years old.

For a moment, there were only cheers and unstoppable excitement in the training ground.

But Sakura was not in such a good mood. Although she lowered her head, she could still feel a sharp gaze falling on her across the entire audience, dissecting her piece by piece like a dull knife. Although that look only lasted for a moment, it was enough to make her break out in cold sweat.

Is this the aura of a shadow-level powerhouse?

Sakura bit her lip, and started cheering along with the crowd around her in order not to discover the flaw.

But until the old man raised his hand to stop, the look just now never fell on her again.

After the venue became quiet, the old man on the stage slowly spoke out. Although his voice was not loud, it could be clearly heard by everyone present.

"As long as there are leaves flying, fire will burn. The shadow of the fire will shine on the village and make new leaves sprout."

"The true power of a ninja is revealed when you want to protect the people you cherish most..."

The dullness in the old man's eyes had all receded at this time, replaced by incomparable determination.

Wherever the leaves are flying, the fire is endless.