Tsunade and Jiraiya had been fighting Orochimaru and his damn annoying side-kick Kabuto for the last half hour. Both teams had received their share of wounds, but Kabuto was healing himself at an incredible rate whenever he got a wound, and Orochimaru would just regenerate. All three Sannin where on the heads of their summons, Gamabunta did not look happy Staring at the giant snake with so much hatred it would freeze and human in their place.

Orochimaru turned to look at Konoha and the damage his shinobi and summons had done. Konoha was now in pieces, all done in such a small amount of time. He smirked; looking over to his two former team mates he started to laugh. Tsunade could not believe this was happening to her village, after the last attack by sound the village had to repair half of their buildings and replenish almost half of their shinobi.

Crumpled building and bodies was all that could be seen, Tsunade kept herself from shredding any tears and turned to focus all of her anger upon the one man that had caused all this, Orochimaru. His cackled seemed to echo through her head as he disappeared from sight, she collapsed.

"HOW COULD I LET HIM DO THIS AGAIN!?" She screamed, mostly to herself.

She felt an arm around her shoulder, and turned to see Jiraiya's bloody face.

"Tsunade, you need to go assess the damage and try to gather your remaining forces."

He helped her up, and jumped down as their two summons left with a grim nod towards them both. She wiped her tears, and realised Konoha had no hope. Though Sounds forced had dwindled and Orochimaru had retreated his forces were still fighting.

"You go to the south fate and take any leaf shinobi you find on your way, away from this place Sound obviously will not retreat until we are all dead. Head to Suna if you can, they can either help us or we can at least help them if Orochimaru plans on destroying them next."

With that, she raced of towards the north gate knowing that Jiraiya would be able to get him and any leaf shinobi he may find on his way out of this now lost village.

They were surrounded, and she knew Naruto knew this fact as well, her Byakugan had seen the numerous clones that he had left in their trail transformed in to twigs and stones. As they came to a clearing they both stopped simultaneously, the remaining Naruto clones gathered around the children. Just as Hinata and Naruto had dropped in to their Taijutsu stances eight Sound Nin of jounin level dropped down from the trees surrounding the clearing. One of the sound nin sent many shuriken and kunai towards the two teens at an incredible rate, Hinata having used up practically all of her chakra only managed to dodge three quarters of the weapons sent in her direction. The weapons she could not deflect or dodge imbedded themselves in to her upper arms and legs.

Naruto turned to see Hinata's face contort with pain as she dropped to one knee trying desperately to catch her breath while she removed some of the abusing weapons. He knew he had to do something, he had 7 innocent children to protect, and Hinata had reached her limit. Crossing his arms in front of him, he bit in to both of his thumbs simultaneously drawing blood from both. He then slid each thumb along the inside of his wrists over identical tattoos, having done that he made a hand seal in and a brilliant blue aura of chakra surrounded him.

He looked up at the sound nin that had thrown the offending weapons and disappeared from sight. Reappearing behind the Sound nin he slit said shinobi's throat with a kunai, before the other enemy shinobi could react he threw the kunai at one of them, embedding it in to his right temple. Disappearing again he reappeared in front of another of the shinobi and ducked under a punch that had been aimed at his face, in return he reached up and twisted the mans neck so far that it broke, his body falling limply to the floor. In an instant Naruto had a rasengan in each hand as three of the remaining five enemy shinobi charged at him, plunging one rasengan in to the man coming from the right, he sent a roundhouse kick at the woman who had appeared in front of him; his kick connected and sent her flying through several tree's. Naruto spun on his heel, using his momentum he jammed his other rasengan in to the second mans gut, sending him spinning in to the forestry.

Hinata noticed that all this time Naruto's blue aura of chakra had not diminished; she was snapped from her thoughts as Naruto called out his next jutsu.

"Fuuton: Reppushou! (Gale wind palm)"

As Naruto shouted his jutsu, he aimed his palm towards another of the enemy Nin, who in turn simply widened his eyes as a gust of wind sliced past him, literally cutting him to shreds. Naruto sensed movement to the right, just out of his line of vision. He ducked just in time to see a Kunai imbed itself in to a tree, turning Naruto's mouth widened. The ninja who had thrown the kunai at him was now being pummelled by several identical brown haired boys, of about 12 years old. Not only that but a young Hyuuga girl was closing all of his tenketsu's while another girl, a red head this time held a hand seal she had obviously captured him in a genjutsu. The last member of their team also had his hands in a seal, which was obviously the reason the man found it impossible to move his feet as they were bound to the ground by thick routes that had sprouted from nowhere.

As the four young leaf shinobi walked away from the tattered body and towards Naruto, he smiled at them. Konohamaru had lost his childish scarf, now he wore a dark red T-shirt with the leaf insignia on each arm and black bottoms with standard blue zori. His hitaite was on his forehead, keeping his unruly brown locks from falling in to his eyes. Moegi now wore attire similar to Sakura's gennin style, though her top was a peach colour and pants were a light brown; her hitaite was around her waist. Udon was dressed in a long sleeved plain black top and long brown shinobi pants; his hitaite was wrapped around his left bicep. Hanabi looked like a feminine version of Neji, both in clothes and feature. She wore similar attire to what Neji had worn as a gennin though she wore it in kunoichi style with her hitaite was around her neck, like her older sisters.

"Heh, thanks for watching my back. You guys work really good as a team."

The four shinobi smiled, though in Hanabi's case it was more of a smirk. The young gennin headed over towards the children to help them calm down and treat any small injuries they may have gained from stray weapons during the fighting.

Naruto smiled at them and looked over to Hinata to see her standing, leaning against a tree catching her breath. He finally noticed how she had changed; her ninja attire was less bulky as it had been when he had left. Hinata had got rid of her large jacket; she now wore a dark purple form-fitting T-shirt with fishnet going down one arm, on the other arm she wore shinobi bandaging around her forearm. Her pants were tight fitting black shinobi style, accessorised with man different pockets that held various weapons. Her zori were now black, and the material on her hitaite which was still around her neck was the same dark purple as her top.

"Hinata, are you ok?"

Naruto's eyes showed the concern he held for the Hyuuga heiress, he slowly approached her over the dead bodies of the enemy nin.

"H-hai Naruto-Kun, I'm just drained of chakra - Gomen"

"Heh, don't be sorry Hinata-chan I saw the amount of jutsu's you used back there, im impressed."

He smiled his foxy grin while scratching the back of his head, a strange feeling stirring in his stomach but he just ignored it. Hinata blushed at his compliment and reverted her gaze to the floor, trying to keep the blush under control.

Naruto walked over to inspect any injuries she may have gained; meanwhile Hinata blushed at his closeness but tried to stay focused. Naruto took out some disinfectant and bandages from his pouch, treating Hinata's upper leg where she had been cut deeply by a Shuriken. Naruto couldn't contain the faint blush that reached his face as he touched her leg; he noted that even though it was muscular as every shinobi's was, it was also still feminine. Hinata's breath caught in her chest when she felt Naruto's hands on her leg, she managed to will away the faint that would surely have happened had it not been such a serious occasion.

As he finished wrapping her leg, he looked up to meet her eyes. When their eyes met the two teens just stared in to each others eyes thinking how beautiful or captivating they were, as if nothing else mattered. Naruto realised that he still had his hand on Hinata's upper leg, he unwillingly broke eye contact and stood up, holding out a hand to help her up off of the fallen tree she was sat on. Both froze in place when they heard a scream;

"Chidori!"