DISCLAIMER: I don't own Naruto, though I really wish I did. *sniffs*

WARNING: Language, Crazy plot, Spoilers, Plot-holes, and OH! Sakura's fists! Stay away from her, that girl is bat-shit crazy!

The Village Hidden in Whirlpools –also known as Uzushio- was situated on an island surrounded by vast ocean from all sides. The waters were very deep, and various sea creatures lurked in them. Not only that, but during the tides the Ocean rose up to an alarming level, which could be death for any novice sailor or fisherman.

The name of the village really justified it's location.

The Ocean proved as a Natural Barrier for the Hidden Village. If any lucky person even managed to cross the unpredictable Ocean, their next obstacle was to get through the Sealing barriers around the whole village, which is nearly impossible as only an Uzumaki can get you in with their sealing skills and Blood recognition by the Blood seals around the borders.

So, it really wasn't a surprise that even a moron like Naruto figured out how a Hidden Village such as Uzushio was destroyed- there was clearly a traitor among the Uzumakis, who let the enemies enter the Hidden Village.

"So, how're we gonna do this then?" Sakura asked. "It's not like we can just barge in the middle of battle, kick ass and take names."

"Why not? " Naruto sounded honest-to-god confused at her words, which made Sakura want to throttle the blonde for his cluelessness. "Isn't that the main reason why we're here, in the past I mean?"

"Yeah Sakura, why not?" Sasuke spoke in a mocking tone, making Sakura's thread of reason to 'not-pummel-her-moronic-teammates' waver dangerously.

It took her a while to calm down her admittedly short temper, before she said, "Didn't you suspect that originally Uzushio's defeat might've been because of a traitor amongst them? Then wouldn't our overwhelming victory against the Kiri-Kumo-Iwa alliance be counterproductive since if the traitor can betray Uzushio once, then they can do that once again. They might even rat us out to others, and that'd blow our cover earlier than planned."

"What's the big deal anyways!" Naruto whined. "We're too overpowered to be defeated by mere thousands of shinobi grunts. Just let them come, dattebayo!" Naruto exclaimed as he smacked his fist into his palm.

Just hearing Naruto's stupid boasts -no matter how true it may be- made the very thin thread of patience in Sakura snap and Sasuke amused smirks didn't help, at all. With a glower, she cracked her knuckles, and by the rapidly paling face of Sasuke she could tell that the ravenette had figured out that his not-so-subtle egging -along with Naruto's ridiculous pigheadedness- had pushed Sakura's patience to the limit. Before the ravenette could shunshin away from the furious pinkette, Sakura grabbed him by the collar of his dark cloak, and with another hand grabbing Naruto's jacket before he could get any ideas, she thoroughly and violently demonstrated to them why needlessly egging on her already thin temper was a BAD idea.

"We"

CRACK!

"are"

SLAM!

"going"

Whack!

"to"

SMACK!

"follow"

KICK!

"a"

CRASH!

"legitimate"

BANG!

"plan,"

THWACK!

"Got it?"

The two of them whimpered, which she took as their agreement.

"Thought so." she chirped in satisfaction when she got off from the twitching and whimpering bodies of her teammates and she pulled off her chakra conductive gloves.

"Aah, that was cathartic~" Sakura sighed happily as she stretched her limbs. Hmm, that was certainly a good warm-up.

Some distance behind her, the other two members of Team Seven lay in the midst of a crater, with dark bruises and wounds littered on their body -to say nothing of the numerous broken and bruised bones they definitely had due to Sakura's recent 'warm up' session.

"Damn it Sakura!" Naruto groaned in pain as he sat up and rubbed the bump on his head. "Why did you hit me?!"

"Because you were being an idiot and Sasuke was being an asshole, as usual." Sakura replied flippantly, earning an offended "HEY!" from Naruto and a grunt from Sasuke.

"Alright!" Sakura then cleared her throat to grab their attention, and when the two of them finally stopped grumbling about Sakura's monstrous strength and her unruly temper -the only reason she hadn't hit them again for their offensive comments was because she was feeling generous enough, for now- she continued on, "Like I said earlier, we need a plan."

When Naruto opened his mouth to speak (probably to say something stupid, again) she quickly interrupted him, "a legitimate plan."

Naruto pouted at her immediate interruption of his supposed 'awesome' idea, but nevertheless, let her continue on, "-and since we know that among the three of us, I'm the only decent strategist, I'll be the one making the plan and you'd make sure to follow it to a T. Got it?"

Sasuke scoffed, "I bet I'd make a better strategist than you."

Sakura's expression darkened and she glared at them with hellfire burning in her eyes as she hissed, "What did you say?"

Before Sasuke could tempt fate once again, Naruto quickly slapped his palm across the Uchiha's lips and hastily reassured Sakura with a wide grin, "Nothing, Sakura! I'm sure whatever plan you're gonna come up with is going to be awesome!"

Sakura's temper mollified a bit at his genuine words. Naruto waited for Sakura to walk away. The Uchiha had taken to glaring at him now, and the moment he saw Sakura to be at a reasonable distance, he smacked away Naruto's arm.

"What the hell, dobe?!" Sasuke sputtered.

"Be glad I shut you up at the right moment, or else Sasuke would've pummeled you. Again." Naruto said as he glanced back at Sakura, who was checking over their supplies. Even though she was back to normal right now, Naruto knew her mood could change faster than the flip of a coin, making him shudder. "Sakura's so scary~"

Sasuke grumbled under his breath, but didn't disagree with his statement. "Hn."

(A few days later…..)

The wind ruffled their hair, bringing with it the salty smell of the sea that made them sigh. The weather was nice for nice for once. The sunlight wasn't too hot, and the weather especially cooled down due to the clouds that sometimes hid the sun.

"Ah, This is nice~" Naruto sighed in content as he leaned against the railing of the ship, and watched the waves splash against the bottom of the ship.

"I know right." Sakura said as she stood next to him, with her eyes on the horizon.

"Hn." Sasuke grunted while sitting on the deck beside his teammates.

After deciding their first objective as well as finalizing the plans to save Uzushio, the three of them decided to visit the Village Hidden in Whirlpools at once. Figuring out the timeline had been easy, since after asking around a nearby Village they found out that Uzushio did exist at this point in time, which meant that they happened to be around the time before Second Shinobi War. A little more of spying, infiltration and information gathering told them that while the war hasn't been officially declared, the skirmishes around the borders were getting worse. So, it might not be long before the Second Shinobi War is officially declared.

That means, if they play it right, they might be able to save Uzushio.

"I don't understand why you have to make everything so complicated." Sasuke grumbled. "Why can't we just overthrow the Kages and be done with it? In that way, they won't attack Uzushio."

"Yes," Sakura replied sarcastically. "Because then they'll be busy chasing us." She glared at her pseudo-brother and complained, "Why are your ideas always borderline treacherous?!"

"Borderline?" Naruto scoffed. "What a joke."

Sasuke stared at Naruto, unimpressed. "Well, at least my ideas aren't as stupid as yours, dobe."

Naruto exclaimed, "Hey! I'll have you know my plan was awesome okay?!"

His two teammates just shot him an unimpressed look. "You wanted to forcefully kidnap the kages to convince them to not -let me quote you here- 'bully Uzushio, please~'" Sakura stated.

"Yeah! It was such a good plan!"

Sasuke said. "You even planned to threaten them with Kakashi's stupid 'a thousand years of death' if they don't give into your demands."

"It's such a good threat, right?" Naruto said, "Works like a charm every time~"

"How the fuck is literal poking in butt threatening enough to scare a Kage?!" Sasuke hissed.

"You're saying that 'coz you have never experienced it!" Naruto argued back. "I still get nightmares about that, you know!" He shivered, as if he remembered something very traumatizing.

Ladies and Gentlemen, to think the strongest Hokage in the history of Konoha was afraid of a butt poke. What a disappointment.

Sasuke and Sakura shared a look and that sighed. Their Kage is hopeless….

"Konoha is doomed…." Sakura groaned.

Sasuke sympathetically patted her shoulder.

Because their first priority was to save Uzushio from it's destruction, they decided to head over the Village Hidden in the Whirlpools disguised as wandering merchants. They concocted a cover story for themselves, so as they don't get mistaken for spies and be sent to Uzushio's T&I. That would be such a waste of time~ (Since no shinobi in this world -Kaguya doesn't count, she's a freaky alien not a shinobi!- an force them to stay somewhere they don't want to be. And the only one who could tame these monsters *cough* Kakashi *cough* was stranded in the Original Timeline, wondering where his cute lil gremlins have gone to spread mayhem this time~)

A-Ahem, back to the topic. While Sakura could pass off as a wandering merchant, it would be redundant to do the same for Sasuke and Naruto. Because Sasuke looks like a typical Uchiha and Naruto's chakra screamed 'Uzumaki'. Considering that Uzumakis had amazing chakra sensing abilities (Naruto doesn't count; he only acquired typical Uzumaki bull-headedness, chakra reserves and hyperactive personality from his mother's side; and not any useful trait like Chakra sensing) their ruse would be up the moment they see them. So it's better to have all their bases covered up.

"Alright let's go over our identities once again." Sakura said anxiously as she fretted over the 'what-ifs'. "I am a travelling merchant, who is looking for business opportunities in Uzushio."

"-and I'm your curious friend who tagged along for the ride!" Naruto grinned.

The two of them turned to Sasuke, who didn't continue on. Seeing the imploring look in their eyes, Sasuke huffed and mumbled reluctantly. "I am your ninja escort that you had hired for this task."

"Perfect!" Sakura clapped her hands. "As long as you suppress your chakra and act according to your character, we'll be fine" A thought crossed her mind and she glanced at them, "By the way, what score did you get in infiltration part of your Jonin test?"

the two of them stared at Sakura dumbfoundedly.

"Infil- what?" Naruto scratched the back of his head in confusion.

Sasuke frowned and asked in surprise, "...There was an infiltration section in the Jonin Test?"

Sakura, "..."

"HOW THE FUCK DID YOU GUYS GET PROMOTED TO A JONIN?!"

"Uh, they actually handed us the jonin rank on a silver platter, because we saved the world." Naruto explained with a sheepish grin.

Sasuke pointed a finger at Naruto, "What he said."

Sakura, "..."

(ノಠ益ಠ)ノ彡┻━┻

"I SWEAR WHEN I GET BACK, HEADS WOULD ROLL!"

"Uh... Sakura," Naruto said hesitantly. "not to rain on your parade but you don't have that kind of power, even if you're the head of Konoha's Hospital."

Sakura grabbed his jacket's collar and pulled him towards her. Naruto broke out in cold sweat as he saw literal hellfire burning Sakura's green eyes when she glared at him.

"Oh yeah?" She hissed. "Just watch me."

Naruto and Sasuke gulped in terror and nodded vigorously. Arguing with Sakura right now would be akin to poking a hornet's nest. And they weren't that stupid to mess with Sakura when she was on warpath. Nuh-uh. They were stupid shinobi, not suicidal!

She released her hold on Naruto's collar -and the blonde quickly scurried away from her- she muttered darkly, "I swear, the moment I get my hands on the dumbass who is responsible for this, I will-"

Her threats, however, were cut off because of a loud proclamation by a sailor.

"LAND HO!"

The three off them immediately turned towards starboard, and leaned against the railing to look at the land that they had never had a chance to visit in their previous life. The silhouette of the island, with a blanket of fog spread around it. It looked quite small from this distance. To think the people of this tiny island gave the Kumo-Kiri-Iwa Alliance a run for their money.

"...They must be quite strong, huh." Sasuke mumbled.

"Lady Tsunade once told me that a proper Uzumaki Fuinjutsu Master can fight toe to toe with a sannin."Sakura mused. "If only they had been alive during the Fourth war..."

"They're really amazing..." Naruto said as he stared at the island's silhouette with glazed eyes. Sakura and Sasuke turned to Naruto, as the blonde shook his head to drive away the sad thoughts in his head. He then grinned mischievously and exclaimed cheerfully,

"I can't wait to meet them, dattebayo!"