Naruto put his coat back on, pushing Sakura lightly on the back signalling her to wake up.

Sakura yawned loudly, her yawn sounded so much like Hana's it was uncanny, Naruto reached over to the basket on his left grabbing out a bento.

"Morning." The blonde smiled.

"Morning." She smiled back, taking the bento while giving him a small kiss.

"Are you ready to go Sakura?" Naruto asked, he was never the one to sit around and wait.

"Yeah, just let me change." Sakura said, standing up and moving behind the tree.

By the time Sakura re-emerged from the tree in her regular ninja wear, Naruto had already folded up the tents and putting out the fire.

"You look beautiful Sakura." Naruto smiled, making the pink-haired konochi blush at the comment.

"Thanks, Naruto." She smiled, before taking his hand and walking with him.

They were steadily making their way across the Land of Fire, despite a few incidents with road ninja the trip was going smoothly.

"Naruto..?" Sakura nervously asked

"What's up Sakura?" He raised an eyebrow

"I..I.." Sakura looked at him nervously.

"Spit it out Sakura." He said

"I want to learn the rasengan." She said, releasing a sigh.

"Why didn't you just say so Sakura!?" He smiled

"You mean.. you'll teach it to me?" She looked surprised

"Of course! You're going to be an Uzumaki after all!" The blonde smiled

"But.. why do you want to learn it now?" He asked

"You never know what dangers we could come across when we reach Hana." She said

"Ok." He said, handing her a rubber ball.

"What's this meant to do?" Sakura asked

"Pervy Sage did this with me when I learned the rasengan, you need to pop the rubber ball using only your chakra." He said

"How am I meant to do that?" She asked, annoyed.

"Send your chakra into your hand, then instead of putting it around your hand like you do with that medical jutsu stuff, try to shape it into a ball." He explained

Sakura got the general idea of what he was saying and worked on popping the ball while they continued with their travels.

It took almost 3 days but Sakura was able to do it, she was so happy with herself.

"Naruto, I did it!" She smiled

"Great job Sakura." Naruto smiled, giving her a kiss.

"Now we'll move onto step two." He said

"What's that?" Sakura asked

"You'll be making the rasengan." He said, as he stood up and summoned a shadow clone, Sakura did the same.

"Now, use your clone to help mould your chakra into a ball like this." Naruto said, as his clone began rapidly tapping his palm making a huge swirl of chakra.

"Ok, now you try." Naruto smiled

Sakura started funneling chakra into her hand, her clone hit her palm but instead of a making ball she just punched the hand of the original Sakura.

"What'd you do that for you big dummy!" Sakura said.

"I don't wanna hear it, that was YOUR fault!" Her clone argued back.

"I never knew being a sensei was so hard.." Naruto thought to himself.

- KABUTO'S LAIR -

"Yes, these results are amazing!" Kabuto smiled, eyes widened.

"Lord Kabuto, Naruto Uzumaki and Sakura Haruno have just reached the border Land of Fire border." Kabuto's minion said.

"Well then, we'll have to speed this process up." Kabuto said as he pushed a button, Hana's screams could be heard from inside the room.

"This time, I'll crush the Leaf Village and that brat Naruto." He smiled to himself.

- NARUTO AND SAKURA'S CAMP -

"Naruto! She's not doing it right!" Sakura said.

"No, it's her fault she's not controlling the chakra correctly!" He clone said.

"You're both doing it wrong." Naruto stated, making both clones gasp.

"Sakura, you need to concentrate more on making the ball instead of focusing on your clone."

"And Sakura..2? You only need to slightly tap her hand, not punch it." Naruto said.

"HE'S SO WISE, I'VE NEVER BEEN SO TURNED ON BY A SENSEI BEFORE!" Inner Sakura screamed to herself, Sakura had to quickly shut out her thought to avoid any more lewd comments from her Inner self.

"Ok Naruto, we'll try that." Sakura said.

The two started to get a pattern going and eventually made the ball for the rasengan although it didn't last long.

"Good job Sakura." Naruto smiled before motioning his fiancé to take a rest.

"You're doing an amazing job." He said before kissing her cheek.

"Thanks Naruto sensei." She said teasingly.

Naruto smiled at her then continued to look back at the scroll.

"Naruto, what are you looking at?" Sakura asked, before moving so she could see the scroll.

"It's a map of the Sound Village, I've gathered enough of Hana's chakra to pinpoint her location. We'll be making a move tommorow." Naruto said.

"But, I haven't finished mastering the rasengan." Sakura said.

"Yes you have." He smiled

"You mastered it when you broke that rubber ball, now all you have to do is believe in yourself." He said with a grin, causing Sakura to hug him.

"Naruto, we finally get to see her tommorow.." She smiled, a tear rolled down her face.

"Yeah, but first we've gotta take care of that Snake." He said, with an angry look on his face.

"Calm down Naruto, get some rest. Ok?" Sakura said as she pointed towards the tent.

Naruto sighed, he knew there was no point in arguing with Sakura and he'd need his strength for tommorow anyways.

Dawn approached thought the forest, the sun glistened off the tree's causing Naruto to wake up.

He looked out of his tent to see Sakura hard at work mastering the rasengan, he was proud of his fiancé.

"Sakura, you're getting so much better" He said, startling Sakura.

"You really think so?" She asked

"I know so." He smiled

"Do you want to get moving?" She asked

"Have you had enough rest?" Naruto said, raising an eyebrow.

"Of course I did, I'm not like you." She said teasingly.

"Alright then, let's go." He said before planting a kiss on her cheek and jumping off.

It took almost half a day bu they stumbled on what appeared to be Kabuto's Lair, it was a giant cave that lead deep underground.

"Sakura, stay close." Naruto said as he took Sakura's hand.

"Do you think this is the place?" Sakura whispered

"Yeah, this place just screams Kabuto." he whispered back.

"There!" Sakura whispered, pointing towards the small vent. She could see Hana being chained up against the wall.

"Alright, let's go." Naruto said as he kicked the vent open and crawled through.

The place was very unpopulated considering it was a Sound Lord's hideout, something was off.

"Daddy.. Mommy!" Hana yelled, trying to rattle free of the chains, Naruto and Sakura quickly ran to the aid of their child trying to undo the chains.

"Hana, are you ok?" Naruto said, as he saw the seal on the small baby girl's stomach.

Hana just nodded her head, she was too sore to speak.

"It's ok Hana, we're here now." Sakura said as she cried her eyes out.

Naruto had loosened off the last chain and took Hana into his arms, he gently examined the seal on the small childs stomach.

"A tetragram Seal, that's exactly like mine." Naruto said.

"Awh, what a touching reunion." a voice laughed from behind them.

"Kabuto!" Sakura screamed angrily.

"You dirty snake, what did you do to Hana!" He screamed

"Oh, nothing to much. You should be proud of your Daughter. Because of her the Leaf Village will crumble." Kabuto smirked.

"You monster, I'll rip your head off!" Naruto growled

"Hmm, I don't think it's the right time for that yet Naruto." Kabuto smirked, before placing his hand on the ground for a reanimation jutsu.

"HE will be your opponent." Kabuto laughed as the door on the coffin fell.

"No way.." Naruto and Sakura's eyes widened.

"Pervy Sage?" Naruto yelled in shock