THE ENEMY
Soldiers young and old remained huddled together for warmth from the early morning chill and vigilance for the signal. They couldn't start a fire throughout the entire night for fear their army will be discovered before the designated time. Come morning, hundreds of shinobi, from jōnin to even genin, are low and quiet in the forests of Konoha ready to fight, ready to invade. Huddled together as the cold slowly seeps from their bones, they whisper to each other to distract themselves and pass the time.
"What'll you do with your piece of land?"
"How will you spend your bonus?"
"They told us no looting but I heard the Sound guys are going to rape, pillage, and plunder. I don't care for the raping but how would command know if we took valuables?"
Many Sand shinobi whispered about the possibilities after the invasion and the answers were the same.
"Get away from the heat and sand. Find a nice spot for my wife and daughter… finally be a man who can support them."
"I'd love to invest in a new puppet. But I should really help the family out. Kami knows I can't stand them half the times, but it's family. They'd starve without me. What can you do, you know?"
"It wouldn't surprise me. Those Sound-nin have no honor; why would they care? If you want to take something for your little girl, I don't see how they could have a problem with that, but anything more might get you in trouble with the brass. Look, we're getting the better part of this alliance. After today, Sunagakure and Wind country will finally be able to prosper. No more waiting outside HQ for scraps of work that's just going to go to bills and feeding the family. Once Konoha is gone, we'll get all the land and all the jobs."
Opposite the sore and vehement Sand-nin, the Sound-nin wanted to expand their village and country to become one of the five dominant nations; only they're willing to do so by any means necessary; taking the land, wealth, and jobs by right of conquest. To that end, they will kill the men and boys of Konoha and gift the corpses to their great leader, Orochimaru, for his breakthrough experiments. They will rape the women so they give birth to Sound citizens, and they will kill anyone who stands in their way.
KURENAI
'Will this boy ever stop surprising me,' Kurenai can't help but ask herself, smiling at the sight of Naruto in the arena below, his white coat billowing in the wind along with his sunny blond hair. 'The Fourth Sun,' the red characters on his back read and Kurenai wondered if, 'Sun,' is intentional or not. Knowing Naruto as intimately as she does, she's fairly certain it wasn't and would even expect him to groan about how it should've read 'Son,' not, 'Sun.' She couldn't help but giggle as she could see his mopey reaction so perfectly and it only endeared her to him; after all, he wasn't a flashy sort of guy. Kurenai loved him better this way.
She doesn't subscribe to astrology but she knows many girls who do and recalls the Sign of the Fourth Sun means home. Looking at her golden boy, like the world fell away and no one else existed, Kurenai's whole body tingled with warmth, as if pleasantly thawing from the cold in front of a comforting fire. It took her breath away when she realized she never knew how cold she was until now, so much so, she could cry if she weren't so focused.
'Fuck,' Kurenai mentally groans, feeling her dainty nose heat as her heart sings,'yeah… I'm in love.' It's the last moment of indulgence she'll allow from her pure heart, because in her charge, her love—'Kami, he really has me… all of me'—left his cousin, his only family, in her care, and it was pretty clear a delicate event had occurred.
Squeezing the redhead's shoulder, Kurenai gets Karin's attention to ask, "what happened?"
Though Karin doesn't know Kurenai, it's clear to her Naruto trusts her, which means she can as well, and begins to tell her everything she can remember.
SAKURA & INO
The rest of the crowd is finally starting to openly doubt, mock, or demand answers. The rumbling voices from hundreds of spectators slowly increases in hazy volume, as if the mob didn't know what to make of this image before them and that confusion annoyed them. The Yondaime was too heroic and Naruto was just a loud, annoying, hooligan with many horrid rumors surrounding him. What everyone saw just didn't feel right.
Ino had long since learned the truth of Naruto's character, and to look around, it surprised her how much she's fallen for him since then. His status in the village had only mattered to how she thought her parents might react, but after gaining their support, being the village's pariah didn't factor in her love for him at all.
Looking at him now, looking so similar to the Yondaime, wondering if he really is the son of the Fourth Hokage or not, Ino felt incredibly aroused. She just stared at him, blushing at the possibility that somehow, Naruto can be even more amazing than she previously thought. It was enough that they could be great friends and lovers, but seeing him in his new clothes, wondering if her first time was actually with the, possible, son of a Hokage, Ino was so excited she was getting wet at the thought of being with him again. Ino squeezed her legs together, concentrated on her breathing, and tried not to get triggered.
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