38 hours have passed since Naruto and Sakura arrived in Kirigakure. Yagura learned what happened to his army of 400. He wasn't impressed. Not enough to make an appearance himself. When the sole survivor of the attack came back to inform him of what happened. Yagura killed him but thanked him for the information.

As of right now, the three tails jinchuuriki was thinking what his next move should be.

"I think I will test to see if these kids are legit or not. Any A-rank shinobi can take out 400 regular shinobi on their own. But if these kids can do more than that. Then they could pose a threat similar to that of the Yondaime Hokage during the third great shinobi war. My forces are 12,000, let's see I'll send 3,000 men to completely get rid of the rebels. But if these kids are capable of overcoming that. Then there's a lot more to them than I want to admit. I'll even use my crystal ball to see how they do." Yagura said to himself.

He saw one of his subordinates walking passed. "You!" Yagura called out to him.

The man walked up nervously. He did not want to risk being killed by his leader. "Y-Yes sir?"

"I want you to go tell 3,000 of the soldiers to get ready to launch an attack on the rebel's base." Yagura ordered.

"3-3000 excuse me sir, but isn't that g-going overboard?" The man had fear in his voice.

"Maybe but maybe not if those kids turn out to be the real deal. Next time you question my word I'll kill you. Do you understand?" Yagura threatened.

"S-S-S-Sir yes sir!" The man ran out as fast as he could to carry out his orders.

"Now." Yagura brought out his crystal ball. "Let's see if these kids are going to become legendary in the shinobi world."

Back at the rebel's base, the couple were in their room spending time together. As of right now, they were playing cards. Games between these two are always intense since their skills as well as luck are equal. One would think it's impossible for one person to have such luck, let alone two. But that's just part of the uniqueness of the couple. So far they have played 10 games. Even in amounts of wins and losses between the two.

Besides the bathroom, their room has really been the only place they have been ever since the end of the meeting with Mei. Going outside to train or travel in a land that's mostly enemy territory is not a smart idea. Which is why they had everything they needed thanks to fuinjutsu. Even fresh food and cooked food are stored in a special fuinjutsu scroll made by Naruto.

Mei has spent the most time with them during these last 38 hours. According to the rebel leader, the aura that surrounded the young jounins were welcoming, comforting and relaxing. Not to mention in the short amount of time she's known them. Mei said that she felt her resolved renewed because of them. Apparently the soldiers that they saved are grateful for Naruto and Sakura. They believe in the couple. However, those who haven't seen the skills are still skeptical. The main culprit being Ao. Although he wasn't unnecessarily rude to them. He kinda just stayed out of their way.

"Damn I still wish we could send out a shadow clone to scout the area." Naruto said as he played his turn.

"Me and you both, but we don't know this land. Sure we could follow Yagura's chakra signature to get close to him. But it's no telling if he has spies hidden. It's best to just keep waiting for him to attack. The more of his forces we take out. We'll be able to storm to his location or he'll come to us himself." Sakura voiced.

"Couldn't we just go straight to him? I mean he is really the only threat here. It would be easy to just use hiraishin to get to his location and take him out quickly." Naruto asked.

"You're forgetting that he's in the hidden mist village my love. Knowing how destructive we can be. It's best to not risk him unleashing his bijuu where innocent people are living. Even if we are able to speed blitz him and grab him. I'd rather not take any unnecessary risk when it involves innocent people. Letting him decide to come outside the village to fight us himself is the safest bet." Sakura replied.

Naruto sighed. "Ok you make a good point. I wonder if Obito will show up."

"I doubt it, I'm sure the Mizukage is only a pawn to him. Losing him is not like losing that Nagato guy you told me about. Besides Obito is just going to take the three tails from Yagura anyways once he sees the need for it. We still have a couple years before the akatsuki makes any big moves. So we have to use this time to get as strong as possible. I win by the way." Sakura smirked.

"Damn it I swear I'm winning the next game." Naruto told himself.

"You may win the battle but you won't win the war." Sakura teased him.

"Oh is that right? I'll definitely win this war. After all, Naruto Uzumaki doesn't give up!" Naruto felt his competitive spirit rise.

"No he doesn't, but Sakura Uzumaki doesn't either you know. She's learned it from her husband after all." Sakura said.

The blond blushed profusely. He never thought hearing his last name with Sakura's name would cause him to blush. Naruto couldn't wait for the day she took his last name. Of course if Sakura wanted to keep her last name as well. That was perfectly fine too. But just knowing that someday she was going to eventually share his name made the blond feel unbelievably happy..

Sakura noticed her boyfriend's strange behavior. It took her a minute to realize why he was acting like that. A blush formed on her cheeks. She smiled too. "Has a nice sound to it doesn't it Naruto-kun?" Sakura asked him.

"Too nice if you ask me." Naruto pulled Sakura over into his arms. Her body messed up the deck but he didn't care.

The pinkette leaned into his body. Taking in his scent. She loved being in Naruto's arms more than anything. It didn't matter if she was pissed at the world. Whenever he held her, it would make her forget what she was even mad about. How did he do it? She didn't know. Sakura was pretty sure Naruto was the only one who could do this to her.

Unfortunately their moment was cut short when knocking was heard on the door. They could sense it was Mei knocking. "Come in Mei, it's unlocked." Naruto said.

Mei opened the door, she had a worried expression on her face. "Naruto, Sakura we have a problem. One of our scouts just informed us that Yagura has sent 3000 soldiers in this direction. I didn't expect him to send so many already." She said frantically.

"That's nearly 10x the amount we took out yesterday. He's sure isn't playing around." Sakura looked at Naruto. "You ready to go wild?"

The blond smirked. "Of course I'm always ready Sakura-chan."

Sakura smiled before pecking his cheek. "Good cause it'll only get crazier from here."

Mei watched these two. Amazed at how calmly they took the news. She envied their confidence. Now Mei understood why they were given their ranks so early. She didn't know how, but somehow Mei felt like she was in the presence of war veterans.

"Are you going to take care of it yourselves? Do you need any assistance?" Mei asked.

The couple were stretching their muscles. "Nah it's fine, trust me it'll be over quicker than you think." Naruto replied to her.

"Ah." Mei said.

30 minutes later, the enemy shinobi of 3000 were approaching the rebel's base. To most this would seem like suicide. The numbers are so one sided, it's easy to assume who is going to come out on top. Yagura has his eyes on this fight through his crystal ball.

Sakura and Naruto were standing away from the base. They didn't want to risk destroying the place. Mei and her group were watching from the sidelines. Ao thought this was crazy. Mei had faith that they would come out victorious.

Soon the enemy was close enough to the couple. Naruto and Sakura made their move. They each took out one tri-pronged kunai. Threw them deep within the masses. A person would think you would do something to deflect the kunai. But apparently not to these guys.

Surprisingly nobody attacked from the enemy side yet either. The couple looked at each other. Shrugged then nodded to each other. It was at this moment, they disappeared in a pink and orange flash.

For Mei and the other rebels. They would never forget what they witnessed at this very moment. In less than a second, 2000 of the enemy forces dropped dead in an instant. Naruto and Sakura killed them all only using the hiraishin and a rasengan. Neither of them have ever performed anything like that before. So it took more chakra than they assumed it would. The average jounin would've died 5x over doing what they just did. Even a kage would either be dead or forced into chakra exhaustion. These two on the other hand barely felt the drain. Sure it took more chakra than they assumed it would. But not enough for it to affect them.

The battlefield was silent. Nobody could believe what they just saw. It seemed like the second coming of the Konoha's no Kiiroi Senkō. If Konoha had 2 people who could perform the same feats as the Yondaime Hokage. Who knows just how much of a powerhouse that village really is?

Even Yagura, who was watching from his crystal ball was shocked. He didn't think the couple would actually prove to be a threat of the Yondaime Hokage's level. "This was highly unexpected." He said to himself.

Just because everyone else was stunned. Doesn't mean Naruto and Sakura were. They quickly got to work on the remaining 1000 shinobi. Sakura jumped high into the air and came crashing down with a chakra enhanced fist. Forming another huge crater that only Tsunade herself can make. Many shinobi faltered. She took advantage of their hesitation by taking them out. Whether it was from his fist or jutsu.

Naruto was charging his way through. He channeled 2 chidoris and used Chidori Stream to take out multiple opponents. He had to bend back to dodge a sword swipe at his neck. The blond sent a strong kick to his attacker's stomach. While releasing a huge torrent of water from his mouth to cut down his enemies. Afterwards he put both of his hands on the ground. Using his magnet release to turn the ground into sand. He caught about 50 people within the sand. Making the sand rise up to cover their bodies. Once they were surrounded with enough sand. Naruto used a move he watched Gaara do. He opened up his palms then closed them tightly.

"Sabaku Sōsō." The blond said.

50 bodies were soon crushed by the sand. Naruto quickly spins around to face another group of enemy shinobi. He used the water in the air to form multiple ice pillars. Then sent them straight to the enemy. That took out many in their path. He quickly followed up with several hand seals.

"Yoton: Magumabomu" (Lava Release: Magma Bomb)

Naruto took a deep breath while molding his chakra. He spat out a huge ball of lava that exploded once the closest opponent was hit into mini lava balls. The mini lava ball hit anyone in the surrounding area. Many were burnt badly or died due to the intense heat. Those who were burnt badly either were able to keep going or were just missing limb and waiting to bleed out.

Sakura was running through enemies. She raised her arms and shot out multiple vines in rapid fire. Each vine were strong enough to pierce the enemy straight through. Many dropping like flies. Sakura called this move Vine Missiles. She learned a lot about her ability to create vines from her body in a short amount of time. Next she slammed her hand on the ground. Sakura created two wood lions next to her. She sent them out to cut through the enemy shinobi's. Next she made wood spears and spikes. Then created long vines from her arms. First she sent the wood spikes and spears to go through anyone in their trajectory. Next she infused her vines with chakra. Then ran straight to the heart of the enemy. Slamming and slicing through bodies with her vines. Shooting out torrents of water out of her mouth to also slice through the enemy.

It was a bloodbath on the battlefield. No matter how hard their opponents tried to land a hit on them. Naruto and Sakura ducked, dodged and blocked their attempts. Eventually the couple found their way to each other. They were back to back still facing a huge number of opponents.

"Should we end it with a bang?" Naruto asked.

"I thought you would never ask. You looked like you were having so much fun." Sakura smiled.

Naruto snorted. "If I was having fun then you were having a fucking ball. I saw that look on your face when you were using your vine missiles. You had these guys dropping like flies. He paused for a second. "Did you just enter sage mode?"

Sakura indeed did just that. "Let's end this with senjutsu."

Naruto nodded. "You got it hime." The blond started drawing on the nature energy in the air. Right afterwards he held his hand up in the air and made a huge rasenshuriken.

He jumped into the air and threw it dead at the enemy. Causing a massive explosion to take place. Killing a good portion of the remaining enemy.

Sakura followed right up going through hand seals "Sage Art Wood Release: Deep Forest Emergence! (Senpo Mokuton Hijitsu: Jukai Kōtan)

A vast amount of branches grew from the ground. Immediately covering the battlefield. Sakura sensed that it was still a little over 200 chakra signatures left. The pinkette submerged them all. Crushing them to the ground. She added more chakra to her technique to create vines to come out of the trees. The vines were stabbing multiple areas in the ground. Taking out anyone who was trying to escape the forest. Some tried to retaliate by using their water style ninjutsu. Even as they took out some branches. In the end it was all for nothing. Eventually all of the 3000 enemy shinobi were dead. Not a single body left alive.

The battlefield was silent. You could hear a coin drop of the ground being this quiet. Sakura took a couple subtle deep breaths. She wasn't exhausted by any means but doing a jutsu on that magnitude takes a lot of chakra. All she needed was a couple minutes and she'll be fine again.

Naruto whistled. "Damn I ain't know you could use that jutsu yet. With sage chakra at that."

"I did it twice before…just not to this..magnitude.." Sakura breathed out.

"Even added your vines too. Damn that was awesome. I swear I wish I could use Mokuton too!" Naruto voiced.

"Like you don't have 3 other nature transformation kekkei genkais." The pinkette rolled her eyes.

"Fair point but none of mine is mutated like yours. You are literally revolutionizing the wood release even more than the first hokage did." Naruto pointed out.

"Oh please I'm nowhere near that skilled yet. Even with my vine release. But I appreciate the compliment." Sakura replied.

"Don't sell yourself short Saku-hime. You really are amazing. I'm in awe of you everyday." Naruto said with honesty and love in his tone.

Sakura blushed hearing his tone. She was really happy he thought highly of her and has so much confidence in her. If they weren't in front of so many people. Sakura was sure she would have lost control and had her way with Naruto. "Thank you Naruto-kun." She smiled.

Mei walked up to the couple. She couldn't believe what she had just witnessed yet again. Truly to see the hiraishin used in person was a whole different experience than just hearing stories about it. Before she walked away from her subordinates. Mei saw the expression on Ao's face. He was truly speechless just as she was.

She cleared her throat to get the couple's attention. When she saw them look at her. She smiled at them. Two words, Holy shit." Mei said.

Naruto and Sakura broke out into laughter. Internally they were thankful for Mei's comment. It helped them to not think about the many lives that they just took. Granted they fought in a war before. But that didn't mean taking lives was a pleasurable feeling. By now all they could feel was the numbness feeling that they gained through their past battles.

After settling down Naruto spoke up. "Well I wonder what's Yagura going to do next."

"Well considering we just took out about a third of his forces by ourselves. He may come handle us himself. Making our job that much easier. It wouldn't be a good idea to slaughter Kiri's entire shinobi forces. That wouldn't do well for Kiri." Sakura replied. Not to mention they'll be needed in case avoiding the Fourth Great Shinobi War is unavoidable. Which most likely will be the case. But she kept that part to herself.

"True I would appreciate it if you didn't kill everybody. It's kinda a massacre right now as it is." Mei voiced.

Which was true, taking a look around the battlefield. You could see the thousands of corpses all over the place. It wasn't a pretty sight at all. It made the couple all the more pleased that they convinced Ino and Hinata to stay in Konoha. Neither of them were ready to handle this much bloodshed. This is truly part of the dark side of the shinobi lifestyle. Not everybody is cut out for this part of the job.

Yagura who was still watching from his crystal ball. Is trying to come to term with what he just witnessed. 'If that girl is able to use Mokuton to such a degree at her age. She's a bigger threat than I originally thought. I can no longer afford to take either of them lightly seeing as how quickly they took out 2,000 of my men. It seems I'll have to go handle the rebels myself.' He thought to himself.

Soon the rebels were celebrating their huge victory against Yagura. While they have yet to take down Yagura himself. The rebels still dealt a massive blow to his forces. So it was something worth celebrating.

Naruto was busy stuffing his face with food. Next to him was Sakura, who was sitting across from Mei. They were having a conversation.

"Do you know what Tsunade-sama may ask of us in terms of an alliance?" Mei asked.

"Probably something similar to what we have with Suna. Basically we trade with one another while also helping out as backup in case either village needs it. Nothing too out of the ordinary I'm sure." Sakura answered Mei.

Mei was pleased to hear that. After this whole war with Yagura is settled. Kiri will not be in a favorable position for quite some time. Having a strong ally in Konoha will help Kiri greatly in both the recovery process and long term.

"That's good to know." Mei smiled. "Kiri will need an ally once this civil war is done with. Not to mention it'll take awhile for us to recover our military strength."

Sakura nodded. "That's to be expected when a village goes through a war. It's why Iwa still hasn't fully recovered after what the Yondaime Hokage did to them during the Third Shinobi Great War."

"Speaking of the Yondaime Hokage, how are you two are able to perform his legendary signature technique the Hiraishin? Never in my life would I think, I would see it with my own two eyes?" Mei asked in curiosity.

"It takes a lot and I mean a lot of knowledge in fuinjutsu to be able to use the Hiraishin. The fourth hokage did teach his guard platoon how to use it during his time alive. But they can only use it as a team. In order for them to perform it, they must encircle around one another. Using the seal of confrontation so that their thumbs, index and middle fingers are touching. Once that is done, they are able to teleport to a marked location. Neither me or Naruto needs a marked location. As long as we know the location or can sense for a strong chakra signature. We can teleport anywhere we want without any restrictions. Sometimes we still use marks for the hell of it." Sakura explained.

"Are you sure it's wise to tell me all of that?" Mei wondered.

"Well it's not like I told you who is in the guard platoon exactly. I just told you how they can do it. To be able to use it like Me, Naruto, Minato-sama and Tobirama-sama you must be a master in fuinjutsu. Not even Jiraiya knows how the technique works exactly. It's many sealing mechanisms to it." Sakura shrugged.

"Hmm sounds like a complicated technique. Although it seems the results are more than worth it. Konoha is lucky to have two young shinobi who are talented in fuinjutsu. Too bad the art is too complicated for most shinobi to get too deeply involved with." Mei sighed.

Sakura decided to change the subject. Besides her and Naruto were lucky to be given their fuinjutsu knowledge by Hagoromo.

"So you never finished telling us about your younger days in Kiri."

Mei caught onto what Sakura was doing. But she didn't mind it. "Oh that's right, where did I leave off?"

"You were saying how you knew Zabuza." Naruto cut in. He was done eating. Now he was paying more attention to the ongoing conversation.

"Yeah I did know Zabuza. In fact I knew most of the former Seven Ninja Swordsman. They were all...unique in their own ways." Mei said.

"You mean bloodlust crazy? Because that's what Zabuza was. He was stabbed over 12 times and still was able to walk afterwards." Sakura voiced.

"Well I guess you could put it that way. Although not all of them were like that. Kisame Hoshigaki actually was pretty nice before he started killing his comrades suddenly. Mangestu was funny most of the time. Raiga had to be the most annoying out of all of them though.

Ameyuri was a playful type. She would never miss her prey. Anybody who survived an encounter with her, would be hunted down so she can make sure to kill you for good. Not even 100 chunin all together could take her on. Just like all of the other members. She was skilled in the Silent Killing. However Ameyuri would show respect to her opponents if your skills and courage met her liking. It was sad that she died early due to an incurable disease. Zabuza, I was the closest to out of all of them. He made quite the name for himself in Kiri at a young age. Because he killed over 100 of the students while not being a student yet himself. Because of him, the practice of advancing to the shinobi ranks by fighting your peers to the death was discontinued.

It didn't take too much longer for me to meet him. He was very aggressive and scared most people he came into contact with. But I was one of the ones who offered to be his friend. That led him trying to kill me. Fortunately for me, I was able to hold him off. He accepted my friendship since so far I was the only one around his age to compete with him in terms of skill. Even though he came off as a bloodthirsty killing machine on the outside. He was nothing but a big softie on the inside. Him picking up Haku off the streets was one example of that."

Mei continued on explaining bits of her past to Naruto and Sakura. It felt nice having someone listening to her talk about her life. The three of them ended up talking for hours until it was decided to call it a night.