When the time for her summer exams arrived, Sakura was once again feeling ragged. Although she didn 't really have to study hard herself, she had been helping Naruto daily, and the study groups with her friends had increased in frequency; all the while, she kept up with the nightly visits of Team Ro and, occasionally, Shin.

For hours, she would make copies of highlighted notes for pretty much everyone, but especially for Naruto and Kiba. Not that she minded. Sakura truly hoped that they would score high on their tests, and it reminded her of when she had been younger, when her only worries and goals had had to do with topping her theoretical classes.

And then, she 'd have almost two months of summer vacation to ' hopefully ' relax a bit more.

In the last week of June, Sakura, along with Naruto and their parents '

their

, because he had started calling them

kaa-chan

and

tou-chan