Warning : I do not own Kishimoto's characters or story, but I do own all OCs in here. This story was punctuated by both me and pale rose.

Sieg350 : HA! I love this girl. She is so dame crazy!!!! w00t!!!

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Naruto and Hinata just stared as they saw the cloud of black smoke drifting up into the air. The explosion was loud and big enough to shake them where they stood. They rushed to the nearest roof top to try and see the Hokage Tower. As they tried to see through the smoke, even with Hinata's eyes, they could not find the Tower anywhere. Naruto was getting scared and so was Hinata, but Naruto wasn't scared because of the explosion itself. He was afraid of losing one of his precious people, either of them. Since after he graduated from the Academy Iruka went to work at the Tower as a secretary for the Hokage, mainly to help stem the amount of paper work. Hinata feared for the Hokage and feared an attack on the village; her kind heart was thinking of the villagers and her friends that were busy or in the hospital. Lt and the rest of his marines were busy cleaning their gear and playing music through their own means using some headphones, thus making it nearly impossible for them to hear the explosion. Naruto and Hinata both started rushing towards the pillar of smoke rising into the sky, both of their hearts racing with fear. Then the alarm started going off, and the alarm inside of the base of Marines' started blowing away their music. The alarm signaled an air assault on the village, yet no-one could see any planes in the sky. Then they heard the noise of what seemed to be an invisible plane, yet there was no other explosion.

"Hey Lt, wasn't there something like this that happened last year?" K9 asked putting his tooth brush down.

"Yeah the thing was going so fast it hit us before the sound did and was gone." Lt replied as he kept cleaning his rifle.

The marines were worried about the new threat but weren't going to stress over something they couldn't control and went back to their business. Naruto and Hinata on the other hand kept running towards the blast site, and as they got closer the Tower was still nowhere to be found. They had now reached exactly where the Tower used to stand tall, but the only thing they found was smoldering ruins and crying civilians. Then amongst the ruins the two noticed a familiar pair of bodies, a spiky haired tan man and a long blond haired woman. Naruto rushed over to the two while Hinata collapsed to the ground as tears welled up in her eyes. As Naruto neared the two bodies he noticed neither were breathing or moving, yet with a closer inspection of the bodies he noticed something sticking out of them. Now he was directly on top of bodies with tears blurring his vision, the charred bodies were skewered with spears through their hearts. The spears were thrusted clear through the bodies, from how little the bodies were charred they were dead after the fire was over. Naruto was angry at whoever did this and wanted revenge, but everything told him to calm down. His training as a ninja taught him to hide his emotions, yet none of his team was good at that except Sasuke who was always wearing a special ops mask. Naruto dropped to his knees as the anger brought on sorrow, and the sorrow bringing tears. Sakura and all of their friends soon arrived on the scene, all of them horrified at the sight of the Tower being demolished and the two bodies skewered.

"Kiba go get those Marines, tell them we need their help." Sakura ordered as she moved towards Naruto.

Naruto had learned of his father and his little prisoner a few years ago. Tsunade and another of the Three Sannin helped him gain control over the creature to the point to where he could summon him at will, the beast also no longer was able to gain control. Naruto summoned the Kyuubi in a miniature form, about the size of a great dane, and begged him for help.

"Naruto, you had better calm yourself before you lose it." Kyuubi said before returning to his slumber in a puff of smoke.

Naruto was crying harder and harder as the memories he had of Iruka and Tsunade came back. Hinata walked over to the crying teen and wrapped her arms around him, she hated to see her crush like this. Naruto never even noticed who was holding him, yet he still wrapped his arms around them and buried his face in their shoulder and cried even more. Everyone who was close to the Sannin and former teacher were shedding tears, and there were some who were fighting it off to help the ones who were crying.

Kiba had reached the marines in almost record time, and explained the situation about as fast as well. Lt was looking at the teen standing in front of him panting as if he were speaking an entirely different language. The other Marines were busy laughing at Lt's expression as Kiba slowly explained the situation again. Now Lt was saddened along with the others, none of them had really known Iruka but they were all close to the Lady Hokage. Kiba started to turn out of the tent when Lt loaded his rifle and stood signaling to the others to do the same, Kiba was confused at what they were up to.

"We were all friends of the Hokage and now we're going to help avenge her." Lt said looking at his men.

"Blue get started on the radio calling for support, K9 check the storage and make sure we've got enough ammo, Schatten..help Greased make sure the vehicles are loaded with ammo and fuel." Lt ordered holstering his pistol after whipping it over with a rag to make sure the grease was off it. The others kept cleaning their weapons.

The men saluted him and rushed to do as ordered. Kiba was a little taken aback by how much they wanted revenge, the only person he remembered who was like that was Sasuke before Itachi was killed. Lt put on his combat armor and grabbed his rifle, this time it was an M40A3 sniper rifle with a woodland camo paint job, and made sure it was loaded before slinging it across his back and loading up on ammo. After his preparations were done Lt took Kiba to a small jeep that he used to get around the village in, Kiba always wondered why he never used it for anything else.

"Who all is at the site?" Lt asked as he cranked up the jeep.

"All of the shinobi except the ones on guard duty." Kiba replied as the jeep cranked.

"Old bastard....anyways..Did anyone see anything after the explosion?" Lt asked flooring the gas petal and taking off towards the ruins.

"Not that we know of." Kiba replied again.

The rest of the drive to the site was quiet except for the engine and the occasional squealing of the tires after a sharp turn. It took them ten minutes to get to the site in the jeep, a forty-five minute walk. But as they neared the site they heard screaming, screaming that sounded like Sakura. They didn't bother putting the jeep in park or turning it off, they just jumped from the jeep as it rolled to a stop and ran towards the screaming. Lt had drawn his pistol and turned on the laser sight while Kiba drew a few of his kunai, as they reached the screaming they seen Naruto and Sakura on the ground with a man holding a rather large Scythe looking weapon in front of them. The man was holding his free hand out and mumbling some kind of incantation, as he got half way through it the two dead bodies started to glow an almost whiteish blue light. When the man fell silent again the blue light moved towards him in the shape of the two bodies, Sakura screamed once more and Naruto just stared on in horror. Lt raised his weapon and fired off three shots and Kiba threw his kunai into the man after the three shots; all their attacks did were go through the man. As they looked on in horror as the spirits of their loved ones were absorbed by the man another figure emerged from the shadows of the ruins, this one holding a staff instead of a Scythe. This new man walked over to the other and both started glowing white and black, afterwards a bright light flashed and the two were gone along with the spears from in the bodies.

Lt rushed over to his friends holstering his weapon. Sakura screamed as Lt made a little contact with her to see if she was ok, when she screamed he moved onto Naruto. Naruto was still sitting there sobbing in Hinata's arms when Lt placed a hand on his shoulder and pat him before going to look for survivors. Hinata began to cry as well but held back on her tears to try and be strong for Naruto, yet the memories of the aid that Tsunade and Iruka gave them both flooded her mind as well. As Hinata began crying medics arrived to take Sakura to the hospital, she passed out due to lack of oxygen after screaming all the way there.

Three hours went by and Naruto woke up in the Hyuuga compound, his arms wrapped around Hinata's sleeping figure. He whipped his face dry of the remaining tears and tried to slowly remove himself from the bed without waking Hinata. As he sat up he looked back on the girl who curled up into a little ball to try and keep warm.

'She looks so cute.' He thought, his eyes went wide when he realized he had spoken his thoughts as well.

"Ahahahahahahahahahahahaha!" Kyuubi laughed from inside his prison.

"Not funny Kyuubi, what if she heard me?" Naruto sank into his mental world where the Kyuubi was held.

-Naruto's Mental World-

"Well kiddo if she did she may think you have a crush on her." Kyuubi replied in between gasps of air.

"Kami I hope she doesn't know about my crush." Naruto said shaking off the embarrassment he got from the thought.

"She does like you back you know." Kyuubi reassured turning into his human form.

The man that came out of the cage had almost maroon colored hair and was dressed in a forest camo (A/N: Google it.) combat dress (A/N:Google the way marines look you'll see.). The man placed a hand on Naruto's shoulder and smiled at him. The smile, while reassuring, was a little scary with the extra sharp canines in his mouth, yet Naruto smiled back before returning to the real world.

-Back in the world-

Hinata had woken up and was blushing fiercely at Naruto's stare, Naruto had just woken from his little trip to the Kyuubi and was still staring at her. When he realized what he was doing he blushed and looked away totally embarrassed. For a few minutes they sat in silence each equally embarrassed by the stare, yet each wanted to tell the other how they felt. Naruto decided the time was now to reveal his crush, yet so did Hinata. At first they sat there staring into one another's eyes blushing like crazy, then they both opened their mouths and at the same time spoke.

"I love you!" They said blushing like crazy never breaking eye contact.

For a while they could do nothing but stare into each others eyes still blushing, but with hearts pounding and eyes soft. Naruto reached over and pulled Hinata close after a few minutes, and placed his head upon hers. Their skin tingled as they came in contact with one another, yet they were smiling and blushing their hearts still pounding. It was the happiest day of their lives and they wanted to savor each moment of it, even though the tragedy that happened a few hours ago was still fresh in their memories. Naruto and Hinata both leaned their heads forward until their lips came in contact. Hinata's lips were set on fire by the sheer touch of her love's lips upon hers, there was no way this could be a dream not this time. Naruto's tongue shot forward from between his lips and begged for entrance into Hinata's mouth, blushing Hinata granted access and her tongue bolted into his mouth.

Elsewhere in the village the Marines were having a few drinks in honor of those that had fallen. Lt was busy trying to give a speech while drunk as his men laughed and toasted to the Hokage again. A few of the shinobi had joined their little drunken honor party, yet none of them knew who the other was by the fifth drink. After they were all good and drunk, about seven drinks, they stumbled from the pub and tried heading for their base.

-The following morning--

"We march for Konoha today." Orochimaru ordered.

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Sieg: was gonna make this longer but couldn't think of how to extend it sorry. R&R or I'll piss on your soul!!!