NARUTO POV:
Naruto had been living in his new apartment for about 2 weeks now. Jiji had said that if he needed anything he should either buy it himself or go to hokage tower and ask him for help. Naruto was obviously not going to disturb his Jiji from his important work (*cough**PAPERWORK**cough*) so he had stored up on instant cup ramen.
He was currently just running around the perimeter of Konoha. He had seen a black-haired boy looking a bit older than him making a fireball near the Uchiha district and figured that he ought to get training too or his future classmates might be very far ahead of them due to their parents training them.
Naruto didn't know what exactly he should do so just decided to run and strengthen his muscles. Or at least that was the plan. Of course, like any sane person, he had not expected to meet a loud man wearing a green jumpsuit and a bowl style hair shouting about how 'youthful' it was for a 5-year-old kid to be running.
Naruto was torn between whether he should be running away from the man or joining him. Before he could finish choosing though the man was already matching his pace and introduced (shouted in Naruto's ear) himself to be Might Gai the self-proclaimed 'handsome devil of Konoha'. Naruto just nodded; half surprised at the fact he had not started rolling on the ground laughing already.
Gai then said " WELL WHILE RUNNING AROUND THE PERIMETER OF KONOHA IS CERTAINLY A GOOD WARMUP. I WOULD LIKE TO-" but before he could finish Naruto shouted
"WHAT DO YOU MEAN BY WARMUP DATTEBAYO?".
Gai looked at him strangely and then said "...is it not?" looking like he was a 2-year-old instructed to solve college level calculus problems.
Then he just shrugged and said " I SEE. SO, WHAT MAKES A YOUNG MAN SUCH AS YOURSELF WANT TO RUN AND EXERCISE INSTEAD OF PLAY WITH HIS FRIENDS?" Gai asked with his booming voice.
"I don't really have any friends, and I don't have anyone to teach me the basics the rest would be taught by their families, so I figured I might as well catch up to their level to prevent becoming the dead-last of my class before I even enter the academy dattebayo."
Gai just stared at him before saying " How would you like to learn a little something from me?".
Naruto just looked at him suspiciously before asking " what would you achieve from that?".
Gai said " As you said, the others in your class will most likely have a head start over you. I was the dead last of my class and yet here I stand before you as an elite jonin and Number one Taijutsu expert in the country. I wish to teach someone with burning fires of youth and determination to carry on my teachings."
"You are the No 1 Taijutsu expert of Konoha and an elite jonin?" Naruto asked skeptically.
"YES" Gai said.
"Well why didn't you say so from the start?" Naruto said with a big grin.
2 week later:
'MY EVERYTHING HURTS' Naruto thought as he dragged himself through the market district after another day of training with Gai sensei.
While Naruto had been asking Gai sensei to start weight training, it would affect his growth. Gai sensei had told him that once he would be 11 years old his body would be grown enough to be ready to train with them. Gai, while a training freak, knew the limits of kids.
Naruto had just been running laps around the village, push ups, pull ups, punches, kicks and various other physical exercises to strengthen Naruto's body.
While Naruto was grateful, he was still just a 5 year old boy who had been eating scraps of food in the orphanage and then mainly Instant ramen once he moved into his apartment, so he couldn't exactly keep up with even this basic training. Gai sensei had not missed this and had told Naruto to learn how to cook and gave him a good diet to follow.
However, shopping for food was easier said than done. Even going near a few stores would result in him being shouted at and being kicked out. He had cried the first time this happened. Now, he was used to it.
Originally, there had been a few stores where he could buy groceries but after seeing the amount of money the other costumers had to pay was 1/3rd of how much he did he had realized that he was being cheated. Since then, he had been extra careful. Now he was searching for a good shop from where he could buy some groceries for not an outrageous amount.
He was taking another turn and going to search for ANOTHER shop when he heard a few kids laughing and a girl crying. He saw a pink haired girl being teased and being beaten by 2 girls and 3 boys. He just stared at them before sighing " I seriously shouldn't get involved but that's just so cliché."
SAKURA POV:
'Why are they so mean to me?' Sakura thought as she clutch her stomach in pain.
"Why are you crying forehead girl?"
"That forehead looks like a country could be created there"
They teased her as the lead girl raised her fist to punch Sakura again. Sakura closed her eyes, expecting pain. Instead, she heard a pained hiss and opened her eyes to see the girl who was going to hit him holding her hand in pain and the other 4 just looked around in confusion.
"Oops. My hand slipped" she heard someone say. They all looked around till she saw a blonde whiskered boy around her age crouching on a branch, tossing a few pebbles in his hand.