So we are back for the next installment of this great story. I promise there will be more action in this chapter compared to the others. To recap Naruto and Sakura admitted their feelings for one another and took it all the way. What will happen on this episode of A Fox among the Cherry Blossoms? Read below to find out.

As always I do not own Naruto.

Disturbance

Feeling his partner shift in the bed stirred Naruto awake. He looked around and guessed by the sun peaking through the window it was roughly ten. Quickly throwing a robe, he had a plan and snuck out of the room ever so quietly. He made his way down the long and snaking hallways until he managed to find the continental breakfast. Ordering a full breakfast for the both of them he hurried back to the room. Opening the door he noticed Sakura had begun to stir, "Good morning beautiful."

She smiled sweetly at him stretching her arms over her head. "Hey. What do you have there?" she asked.

"Well I figured you could start your day off right with some breakfast in bed." he said setting the tray down. She eyed her food hungrily as he set her food down on the bedspread causing her to sit up and begin to eat.

"You are seriously way to nice to me," she said scarfing her food down not really caring how she looked at the moment.

He laughed heartily, "It may be because I love you. I want you to have a relaxing day so enjoy all this place offers. I hear the massages are wonderful."

"Well they maybe wonderful but they won't ever be as good as you are," she said playfully punching his arm.

"Aw you are way to kind. So while you do that I am going to go train for a while in the next canyon over." he said. She frowned and asked him to stay. "I will be back around lunch time and we can do something together I promise." She caved and agreed continuing to eat her breakfast.

After they had finished she put her robe back on and they went their separate ways. She had called the receptionist to set up a back massage for ten minutes from now. So she made her way down to the massage parlor and prepped to be pampered. She thought to herself, 'I really need to do something special for him when we get back to the village.' The masseuse came in and her session began. It was like Naruto said. They got rid of all of the knots in her back and she drifted into serenity.

Naruto had used his sage mode to make it quickly over to the canyon to begin his training. He first called upon Kurama and as a team they formed the massive Kurama beast that they had used against Sasuke. They worked through several jutsu getting down their teamwork and making sure his chakra control. For the next several hours the young jinchuuriki worked to perfect all of his specialty jutsu. He decided it was time to go see his wonderful girlfriend again. As he walked back his keen fox-like senses picked up on several new chakra signatures approaching him from the west.

Naruto knew they had spotted his chakra signature from a mile away so hiding was out of the question. "Who is there?" he called out once he was sure they were close enough to hear him.

"My name is Jugotsu!" a voice called out. "It is a pleasure to finally meet the hero of the Fourth Shinobi World War."

"You and your friends are pretty powerful based on your chakra signatures. What are you doing out here?" he asked trying to pry something out of them.

"You will find out soon enough. We will meet again soon Jinchuuriki…" and without even laying eyes on him the chakra presence of the individuals disappeared.

'Kakashi-sensei needs to hear about this. That was a little too ominous to not do something.' he thought. With the swift movement of his hands he summoned one of his toads.

"Hey boss!" shouted a orange and black toad giving Naruto a salute.

"Go give Kakashi a message. Tell him to alert all the other villages. They could be in danger. See what he can find on a ninja by the name of Jugotsu. Tell him I am at the Hot Springs to the East. If he needs me to send Pakkun but I will be back sometime tomorrow night."

"You got it boss!" shouted the toad before poofing into a cloud of smoke. Naruto was deeply concerned by what the ninja had said. He made his way back toward the cluster of buildings that surrounded the Hot Springs.

Sakura hadn't realized how much time had passed as she sat in their room contemplating her life up to that point. She was coming to the same conclusion over and over again. For the first time in a long time she was content with where her life was at. She had finally found a man that took care of her and cared about her so deeply that it hurt. She knew that she was ready to face any challenge the future held as long as she had her Naruto by her side. 'Her Naruto,' chuckled to herself. She was about to go look for Naruto as the time ticked away on the clock. As she moved to stand up she was greeted by Naruto who entered.

"Hey." she said to him giving him a very warm smile and coming to embrace him. He returned the hug but Sakura could tell something was off. "What's going on?"

"Someone showed up as I finished my training session." Naruto said trailing off as his eyes dropped to the floor deep in thought.

"What did they look like?" she asked her heart jumping as she spoke.

"I don't know. I didn't see anyone. I could feel their chakra signiture's and I heard a man speak to me." he told her.

"Signiture's as in multiple people?" she asked. He nodded.

"The man said I would see soon what his plan would be." Naruto said.

"Well then you know where we need to be." she said their eyes locking. Seeing a determined look in her eyes he nodded again. They would spend the next hour preparing to travel light and reach the village by dusk.

xxxx

Kakashi sat in contemplation at his desk in the Hokage Tower. He knew that it was to soon for any new information to be making its way back to him yet. He had heeded Naruto's message, and dispatched extra patrols to the border regions with the Hidden Sound, and Hidden Mist Villages. The young jinchuuriki had seen something that he didn't know how to handle on his own and was protecting his village as best he could. Kakashi smiled at the thought, 'The kid will be alright.' A knock came from his office door.

"Sir," Shikamaru entered.

"Yes Shikamaru?" he returned.

"I have a theory on what they might be doing." he said approaching the desk. Laying out a map the young advisor spoke again. "So there are three jinchuuriki left among us after the conclusion of the war. What if they are trying to wipe out the hardest targets first? We bump up security for the other villages and assume that because our enemy may not want to fight a jinchuuriki we are not as prepared."

"Honestly the thought had crossed my mind. For now I will keep the deployments where they are. I am going to do this just because Naruto said that he saw the felt the signatures move toward the direction of Suna." Both knew that eventually the enemy would find its way to Konoha.

xxxx

The kunoichi and her jinchuuriki boyfriend travelled quickly across the hundreds of thousands of trees that separated them from home. Time seemed to be moving quickly which Naruto was thankful for. As the sunset on the days travel, Naruto noticed two ninja drop on either side of them keeping pace. It was Kiba, Akamaru, and Shino.

"Hey Naruto, Sakura! What are you guys doing out here?" Kiba said in his loud boisterous voice followed by a just as loud bark from his buddy.

"Just taking a few days off. I need to speak to Kakashi-sensei immediately though!" he replied.

Not taking that answer at face value he chuckled to himself before responding. "The Hokage is in the Tower." Soon the two had crossed the main gateway into the village and decided to make a quick stop.

"Sakura, you go ahead and head home. I will see you later, I really need to debrief with Kakashi." he told her looking into those green eyes. She gave him a quick hug and kiss and he was off.

She was left there gazing off toward the Hokage Tower in awe at her amazing boyfriend. She wondered if she should go home, a lightbulb clicked and she instead began heading in the direction of Naruto's apartment.

xxxx

The knucklehead ninja blew into Kakashi's office, surprising the Sharingan user. "Oh Naruto, I hadn't expected to see you so soon."

"I know but I felt like this was something I should try and be early for." he said shrugging his shoulders.

"Naruto, I just want you to describe for me exactly what happened?" he said gesturing for Naruto to take a seat. He sat there for what felt like hours going over every detail of the incident and how he had felt an immense hatred coming from this group and that they also had a pretty big chakra signatures.

It wasn't too long after this that Kakashi would send Naruto home and told him to take tomorrow off. The blonde ninja took his time walking home. He gazed up into the night sky and wondered how serious this threat was and how things were so much easier back when it was just Kakashi-sensei and Team 7. Before he realized it he was standing in front of his apartment. Making his way upstairs to the top floor he put his key into the lock and stepped into the dark apartment. Locking the door and flipping the light switch he then noticed her.

I'm sorry guys I know this is super short but I have to cut this chapter short. I apologize in advance if this is too short or it wasn't well written. I am trying to wrap my head around my new job. I promise that the next chapter will have more lemons from both couples in this story and will be better written. I am working full-time now so I will be struggling to write as much in the next few weeks but know I am not ending this story. Once I get done with my work I will write more and hopefully upload at night sometime hopefully before the weekend. Once again thank you so much and Favorite and Follow!