AN: From this chapter, the rivaly bet between two sides would continue onwards to see who would win Konoha's Cherry Blossom, the Haruno clan's sweetheart, and the two most important clan's best friends' prized daughter? More characters, both major and minor, supporting or not, would increase the voting, to see who would be the winner for the heart of Haruno Sakura, and the longer term friendships and in-laws bonds of the Haruno Patriarch and Matriarch? Note: this will mainly focus on the team 7 group. Their parents will be minor supporting characters from this chapter on.

List of the votings for either Sasuke's or Naruto's, major or minor.

Sasuke's side of winning Sakura.

Itachi
Mikoto
Fugaku
Madara
Shisui
The whole Uchiha clan
Kakashi
Hinata
Shino
Kurenai
Asuma
Ino
Tenten
Neji
Juugo
Suigetsu
Karin
Orochimaru
Kabuto
Kisame
Sasori
Deidara
Kazuku
Zetsu
Tsunami
Tazuna
Izumo
Ayame (the Ramen Girl)

Naruto's side of winning Sakura.

Kushina
Minato
Rin
Obito
The whole Uzumaki clan
The whole Namikaze clan
Kiba
Asuma
Lee
Gai
Jiraiya
Konohamaru
Moegi
Udon
Tazuna
Inari
Nagato
Yakiho
Konan
Hidan
Kotetsu
Karui
Koyuki
Yota
Teuchi

Vote either for both.

Tsunade
Shizune
Shikamaru
Chouji
Izumi
Iruka

Team 7 - age 3.

The battle started two year ago. They still get along well between the three families, or so the Harunos thought.

Although there was still some tension when the Harunos weren't there to ease the moods. Minato and Fugaku would still verbaltically, fighting on whose son would win their best friend's daughter.

Kushina and Mikoto would had a silent cat fight. Both still had a hissy fit agaisn one another on whose son would touch Sakura-chan's heart first.

The said son respectively from both side had a childish rivaly, that it was more intense than who could outmatched who.

It was a fight that demands on who would be the winner.

In one of those day, Sasuke was idly playing with the white cat headband, that his brother had brought back from one of his mission.

He looked at those ears poking out from the top of his head, wondering if a certain pinkette would like it.

It had also had to be one of those day the Uzumakis would visit them too.

And when Naruto barged into his room and caught him looking at the mirror, with the cat ears on his head, the blond had laughed his butt off and rolled down on the floor.

That started a fight between two three-year olds with punching and kicking.

Sasuke was very irritated.

His eyes narrowed almost into slits, his cheeks burned with anger, and his teeth was clenched, grinding agaisnt by his jaws. His small fists kept aiming at the blond boy's face. And he mostly susceed in punching that goofy smile out of his face.

The fight stopped once Itachi had called out to them that the Harunos had arrived.

The elder Uchiha led Sakura by hand to where his little brother and their friend were, to which all the sound of the previous fight was.

And as soon as they reached the room, both Sasuke and Naruto had stood on the door frame to greet Sakura. Both had a blush on their faces as they saw a pretty smile on her pretty face.

Itachi had a knowing smirk.

But he still concerned about whether this rivaly would ever stopped. Unless another girl made one of the boys falls for her, it will settled the love war.

The future ruler of the Uchiha clan had spotted a girl following, or stalking Naruto numerous time.

It would be dangerous hadn't he know who she really was. It was the shy heiress from the Hyuuga clan, Hyuuga Hinata, who had a crush on Naruto.

To said he was very amusing upon finding out the not so secret.

The girl by some point, had been saved by Naruto from a couple of older boys during one snowy night. And from that moment, she'd developed a puppy love on him, to his obliviness.

Speaking of obliviness, it seems that the little Sakura was unawared of the rival between her friends, and also her friends' parents.

She may smart than average for a three-year old.

But when it comes to romantic feelings related to her, she has no ideas. This was getting more and more interesting.

He watched as the three children interacted. Sasuke was shyly showing Sakura the cat headband. Naruto was snickering at him in a silly assorsary, but Sakura had the opposite opinion.

"Sasuke-kun, what a cute headband you got there! It looks great on you~

Did Itachi nii-san get it for you?"

Naruto ceased his snickering with a gaped face while Sasuke brightened up, his face was blooming more with the color of tomato red. He nods vigorously.

"Aa, Nii-san got it for me. It was used for talking with ninnekos!"

He spoke with an air of pride, with his crush clapping her hands with visible admiration.

"How cool!"

"Do you want to try it on, Sakura?"

Couldn't take anymore of this, Naruto tried to grap the headband away from Sasuke's hand. His intention was to put it on head to look impressive in front of the pink-haired girl.

"Naruto! What are you doing?!"

"Give me that headband, Sasuke-teme! I want to look cooler than you in front of Sakura-chan! Dattebayo!"

"You Usuratonkachi! I was about to lend it to her!

"Well i was about to, too, 'ttebayo!"

Now the cat headband was the subject for tug-of-war, again. Itachi signs at the boys' antics to gain the girl's attention.

And this makes him had a flashback of his group along with Kakashi's, his senpai's group.

Itachi's flashback.

"What? The Uchiha clan head, Fugaku-san is having a feud with the Yondaime, Namikaze Minato? Because both Sasuke-kun and Naruto-kun fell in love with the same girl?"

One question came from Izumi.

"And it's over a merchant's daughter's hand in marriage, too? Pft-haha."

That one came from Shisui.

"That's not just a mere merchant, Shisui. He's one the most important person to them. Kizashi-san is their best friend.

And his daughter is Haruno Sakura,  Konoha's sweetheart.

The Haruno clan isn't just a merely civilian clan, it held many mysteries, that many clansmens from there are said to be powerful. But Kizashi-san didn't reveal what they were.

Chichi-ue and the Yondaime liked him for who he is."

"Not to mention, that man had traveled through lands and had seen and recieved countless finely fortunes. It's like he was born out of pure luck or a silver spoon in his mouth. I suspect he had something beyond our knowledge that was hidden within him. He also makes the most delicious patries that made a local bakery shop become popular.

He was like a somewhat luck magnet.

That was something Fugaku-jii must be after. But i'm surprised that Minato-san would also follow.

But afterwards, they get along well and always stick together like glue. The same goes to their respective spouses.

Team 7 of that past, had passed down to the next generation by fate.

No wonder, they'd been so close since childhood, of course their children would repeat the history." 

Uchiha Obito, his seventeen-year-old cousin commented in. His group, consisted of his former teammates, Hakate Kakashi, Sakumo, the White Fang's son, and Rin's, Obito's girlfriend.

"I don't know if the Sandaime would let me be their teacher when they become Genin? It maybe difficult, but it will also fun to have a love triangle for a team.

"I know he will, Kakashi-kun.

Because no one could handle them well more than you do. And besides, i'd love to see your cousin ended up with Sakura-chan, Obito-kun. They look so cute together, don't you agree?"

Said boy flustered and agreed immediately.

"Y-Yeah, that Sasuke, he maybe bratty, but he's willing to put his pride down when it comes to Sakura. I'm sure they'll be a couple someday."

He said that, but he also implied something too.

Itachi knows that his cousin is also had more than a crush on his female teammate, and would want himself and her to be a couple. He won't anything opposing, since his brother is in love with a girl outise their clan too.

Team 7 - age 6.

Both Sasuke and Naruto stood on either of Yamanaka Ino's side as they had Sakura behind their backs.

They're protecting her from a group of bullies that tried to make fun of her forehead. Luckily they're just in time to rescue her and managed to teach those brats a lesson they will never forget.

"Listen here Watanabe, no one cares what you think of yourself when it comes to apperances. But apperently, you're just too stubborn to learn. Like no one in the class has commented on your eggplant hair or muddy eyes."

The two boys and one girl stand up for their important person to the meanie girl along with her cronies.

Said brat was shivering along with her minions upon seeing Sasuke's glare.

"You're such an eye sore.

I won't ever let anyone harm Sakura without getting away with it.

If they try so far to insult her unique features, they're going to face with the entire Konoha police force."

"And the Hokage too, 'ttebayo!"

Those brats just sat there huddling in fear of what concequences they might face if they ever mess with Konoha's beloved cherry blossom. With a glance to Sakura, the black-haired boy's glare softened at her sincerely look.

His gaze hardened again when it was directed to the bunch of brats.

"Scram before i have to use my Sharingan on you. I'll make sure you'll get the worst genjutsu that you may never get out. Like a living nightmare."

The brats nod their head vigprously, fledding away screaming, almost got tripped in the process.

When the four were alone, the three protectors turn back to Sakura.

The ravenette was about to lend his hand to the pinkette when he was pushed aside to the ground by the knucklehead blond. That leads to a brawl again.

"Usuratonkachi! Knock it out, will you?"

"Not in your life, arrogant and snotty b*stard!"

"Loser!"

"Jerk!"

"Dope!"

"Emo!"

"Dobe!"

"Teme!"

The Yamanaka shook her head slowly at the childish fight between the boys she once deemed cute.

"I used to like them, but now i pity for you, Sakura. Idiots." She mutters.

"Don't let them influence on you."

She held up the girl that still has tear stains on her pretty face. Sakura didn't like to see her best boy friends argueing so she decides to break in.

She approaches the angry boys and scootch cutely in between them.

That stops their verbal fight as they look to the pink-haired girl stuck between them. Both have a visible blush on their faces. Sakura, unawared uses her soft voice to calm them down.

"Sasuke-kun, Naruto, don't fight. We're suppose to be friends, right?"

Entranced by her green doe eyes, both of the boys flutered with their words.

"Sorry, Sakura-chan. It was my fault.

I just wanted to help cleaning you after pulling you up, dattebayo!"

"S-Sorry, i shouldn't be riled up when in your precense."

"If you're both feel bad for what you did, do the good thing boys do and shake hands or enclasp your fingers."

Too obeydient to protest, the two reckless boys murmured their apologizes and clasped their fingers as a way of truce, pouting. Sakura smiles radiantly and embraces them close, much to their visible joy.

Ino watches the trio from afar and catches the murdering glares the boys throw at one another behind Sakura's head. The pinkette didn't notice at all.

She signs internally.

Seriously, Sakura will be the death of them once she fully known what their true intention over her.

She may have caught a glismpe of shy lavender eyes staring at Naruto.

Although the shy Hyuuga girl wasn't mad at Sakura for having the blond boy's affection, she's still staring longingly at him from a distance.

Team 7 - age 8.

Sasuke and Naruto still fight over the same girl that was their closet friends even in the Academy.

That only boosted their rivaly higher.

They always hide their feud when Sakura was around but would silently seething behind her back. And moat people would have commented on it haven't they witness the glares two said small boys could pull off.

In the Academy, they would find any way possible to show off their skills to Sakura, heightened by their rivaly.

Not only Sakura would praise the one who was better, but she would also agree to be that person's sparring partner too.

Neither of the boys could lose to the other. They're just too stubborn.

Unbeknownst to them, most of their classmates had started to vote who will end up with Konoha's Cherry Blossom.

Even the teachers participated.

In the Academy's background, the kids were cheering on both Sasuke and Naruto as they tried to outwit themselves in the sparring sessions.

Kicks and punches exchanged. A blow here, a blow there non-stop.

"Go Sasuke-kun! Go Naruto! You both can do it!"

Sakura cheers for her boys, because to her it maybe a friendly fight. But to said boys it was one of those fight they try to release their heatful competitiveness on one another.

"This is for Sakura-chan's love, teme!

I'm doing this to win her heart, dattebayo!" Naruto raised a swift kick, aiming at Sasuke's torso.

"I have higher chances to be with her more than you do, dobe! Not on your life! Sasuke dodges a fist and quick to elbow the blond's head.

At the end, since partly Sasuke's speed is more advanced. And he was distracted by said boy's trick, Naruto loses. Most the girls cheers for the Uchiha prodigy. The blond Junchuriki silently curses at his b****** of a best friend, while said winners smirks triumphiantly at his friend's defeat.

Sakura runs to hugs Sasuke as to congratulate him, and the boy relishes it blissfully.

"Sakuraaa-chaaaaan...."

Naruto whines like a kicked puppy with hurt and betrayal in his eyes at the closure between his two friends. He then narrowed his eyes at the smug b*stard who smirks secretly behind Sakura's shoulder.

But Sasuke's internal victory was short-lived before the pinkette released him too early for his liking.

"Don't be sad, Naruto. I couldn't leave you out. I'm sure you'll win next time."

She then hugs him next, much to Naruto's delight and Sasuke's horror. In turn, the blond boy hugs her back as much as tightly while stucking his tounge out to match with Sasuke's infamous death glare.

And people wonder how Sakura couldn't notice the tension between her  two friends?

Team 7 - age 12.

"And now team 7 will consisted of Uzumaki Naruto, Haruno Sakura---..."

"Woohoo! Alright, we get to be i  the same team, Sakura-chan, aren't you excited, 'daatebayo?!" Naruto cheered ethusiastically looking at a smiling Sakura. Sasuke sulks beside her.

"Yes, Naruto. It will be nice to work with you as a teammate." Sakura grins earnestly at him in response.

"Hah, she'll be in my team, Teme!

Looks like you're have to---"

His speech was interuppted by a loud cough from the Chunin structor in front of them from a few rows. All three of the friend trio look at him.

"Would you let me finish, Naruto?" Iruka asks a little irritated.

Said boy rubs his head behind his back sheepishly. Sakura smiles politely at her former teacher. Sasuke didn't even bother to hear, but still a tad hopeful of the possible third member.

"Hehe, sorry Iruka-sensei.

You may proceed, 'dattebayo! It won't happen again."

The teacher nods, satisfied with the answer. Then he continue to proceed with where he was left of.

"And the final teammate of team 7 is, Uchiha Sasuke." As the final words come out from Iruka's mouth, there is a loud wail of disappointment echos in the classroom.

"NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!"

Naruto shouts loudly then collaspes dramatically on the desk, face agaisnt the wooden surface.

The pinkette beside him rubs his back sympathetically. Meanwhile Sasuke cheers in his mind with a flutter of congratulation in his heart. But the beating organ was now clenched in jealousy of the attention his subject of affection was directed to his arch-rival.

"Aww, don't say that Naruto. Sasuke-kun is our friend.

He maybe your rival at some point, but that doesn't mean he's your full-time riavl or something." She said with a sense of logically naivety.

Oh, if only she knew it was the truth.

"Hn, he'll be find, Sakura. Don't pity on him or else he'll keep depending on you to sooth his damaged pride."

That immediatly riles Naruto up from his devastated form.

"Hey in case you know, Sasuke-teme. You'll be the one have you pride destroyed as soon as Sakura-chan sees how uncool you are, 'dattebayo!"

"Hn, in you imagination, do-be."

The two stood up about to have a match when Iruka hushed them down.

"Hey, no fighting in the class. All of you will be receive your mission tomorrow. Class dimissed."

As people leaving, in between Sakura's hand holding, the two boys were exchanging seething glares and silent threats at one another.

Meanwhile at the Haruno household.

Mebuki was preparing drink and snacks for their friends while Kizashi was assisting her after welcoming the Uzumakis and the Uchihas in. What they didn't know was that the two other couples were having a heated conversation about therir children.

"So, your son happenes to be put on the same group as ours and their Sakura?"

"Yes, Fugaku-san. But thatbwouldn't hinders our Naruto one bit. He'd fight for her, fair and square."

"Good, because our Sasu-chan wouldn't back down from winning his true love. It would be interesting to see the battle between them, wouldn't it, dear Kushina-chan?"

"Yes, i hope so, dattebane."

"May the best wins." Minato raises out a hand for Fugaku to shake.

The Uchiha patriarch raises his own hand to grasps Minato and shakes firmly. They shared determined looks not even blinking once.

"Sorry for the wait."

Mebuki brings out the beverage and snacks for her guests.

"I'm sure you're having a great chat while Mebuki and i were busy with the food. So, mind if we hear a bit?"

Kizashi slumps down the couch and put his hands under his chin, smilling curiously at what just transferred between his friends.

"Oh, it's nothing. Kizashi-san.

Just a friendly chat about our kids on  the same team." Minato reverts back to his friendly self.

"Yes, a friendly chat indeed." Fugaku also masks with his politeness.

"Well, things will be more exciting with our kids hanging around more now that they're teammates, right?" The pink-haired man chirped, peppy at the thought.

"Oh yes, but i keep feeling that there would be more between them." Mebuki leans her cheek on her knuckles, pondering at the prospect of something deeper. The four other adults each give one another knowing looks.

Oh yes, because the love-triangle battle is officially began.

Let's see where this will lead.

AN: Sorry for the long update. For thise who had read my story and assumed this had discontinued, do not be dissapointed, because it won't. I'll updat