Kumo: 1 hour after Sasuke's victory, Sakura's POV

I watch, panting as the bruised, battered, and bloodied body of that wretch Karui falls to the ground. Her neck is bent at awkward angles due to my chakra infused punches. I look around and see that everyone else's battles have also ended. I wonder how long it took Sasuke-kun to kill his opponents.

"Well, it seems everyone has won their battles, so we should now carry out what we came to do." Kakashi says in his typical bored drawl. We all turn to the busy village of Kumo. How many lives will we extinguish today?

We all go in different directions, and start massacring civilians and shinobi alike. Kumo does not have a very strong defense other than their elite soldiers, which have already been disposed of. Suddenly, I see a mother running to save her child from under the debris of one of my punches. My power is not meant for mass annihilation. But I have to carry out my mission nonetheless. Everyone in Kumo must die.

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I see the carnage we have created. Corpses of Kumo shinobi and citizens alike. Men, women and children. We killed everyone. The village has been set alight with black flames and crackling lightning. We are all murderers. The worst part is, I feel nothing. No remorse. This is our regular now. I guess this is the life of a shinobi. But when will Naruto find out about this? It's only a matter of time before Suna sets that monster after us. When the time comes, will we have what it takes to kill him? Just how strong is he? Wait, what am I thinking? Sasuke was always stronger than Naruto, and with our help, he won't last a minute. But the power when he fought us... no. We can beat him. We'll win this war.

"Alright people." says Kakashi, "We don't have much time at all before Suna finds out about this. We have to crumble Iwa today."

It's time to go I suppose. After healing the minor wounds of the team, we all set out at a quick pace for Iwa. At the speed we are going, it shouldn't take more than an hour or so.

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Yorokobi and I are walking home from a much needed date night. We were going over wedding plans, invites and such. Suddenly I get panicked telepathy from Gaara.

"Naruto! Come to the conference room immediately! It's very urgent!"

Gaara is never this panicked. This must be something big. Really big.

"Sorry Yoro, but I have to leave now. I've gotten an urgent message from Gaara that cannot wait. I love you, and I'll see you at home" I say in my business-like tone. I teleport to the conference room where jaws have dropped to the floor. Shock and tension are in the room.

Gaara starts at once. "Thank goodness you are here Naruto. Konoha has assembled an extremely advanced task force that has leveled both Kumo and Iwa. I think they plan to end the war tonight. The members have confirmed to be Sasuke, Sakura, Shino, Kakashi, Kiba, and Hinata. Sasuke appears to have Jinchuriki powers. The only one that can stop them is you. I would like you to intercept them. Please get going now."

Jinchuriki, huh? Maybe he will almost be able to equal my power. I had better go. I go outside, and take off my weights. I'm not gonna need these. I take off at incredibly high speeds to intercept those monsters.

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I can sense the chakra of the group from here. I had better be extra stealthy, the trackers are part of the team. I should separate the tracker team with the heavy hitters for now. As I approach the enemy, I cast a strong cube-shaped barrier jutsu around the tracker team and I.

"Hello there Team 8, it's been a while, hasn't it?" I say as I lean up against a nearby tree.

"Naruto-kun?" Hinata says.

"I would prefer you didn't refer to me like that. You all betrayed me the day you let me leave, and now you've massacred two villages of people. You're a murderer now Hinata. We are by no means close enough for me to stand for you calling me 'kun'. In fact, we are enemies. I am here to kill you all. Prepare yourselves." I growl.

"Yeah, right!" Kiba laughs, "You don't have nearly enough strength to take us on! Where are your allies?"

"I assure you that I have no allies Kiba. I have more than enough strength to take you on, especially with my weights off." I say.

Kiba puffs up his chest indignantly, and jumps at me. I teleport behind him, and put a kunai to his neck.

"Careful, Kiba. Don't get too riled up. I want this to be at least semi-enjoyable. I heard you took on a strong cloud ninja. Theoretically, you should be better than this." I whisper in his ear.

Shino sends his parasitic bugs at me. He thinks he has me beat. Classic Shino. Unfortunately for him, those won't even make it past my chakra. I release a wave of chakra, and the bugs disintegrate. Kiba falls to his knees, but unseals Akamaru, who is now too big to be left unsealed. Akamaru tries to hit me with his paw, but by that time, I have already driven a chakra uppercut into his chin. The chakra uppercut is enough to break his neck. He falls to the ground, and I kick him out of the barrier. As Kiba tries to get up, I axe kick him in the back of the head, and his face is smashed into the bottom of the barrier.

"HOW DARE YOU TOUCH MY KIBA!" Hinata screams with bloodlust. I guess she is more like Sakura than I thought. That's a shame. She lunges at me, Byakugan raging, and I get into an open-handed stance as well. I have practiced the gentle fist technique, and I have tried to hone my sharingan to the point where I can see chakra points. As she goes for a palm-strike to the chin, I dodge, grab her elbow, and strike a chakra point in her shoulder to cut off the chakra flow to her left arm. She pulls her arm away, tries to roundhouse kick me with her right leg. I catch it, and deliver a strong front kick to her chin, snapping her head back. With this opening, I strike all her torso chakra points. Even though I can mimic gentle fist, without the Byakugan, I could never learn any 8 trigrams techniques. Let's finally use some ninjutsu.

"Wind style! Mini Rasen-Shurikens!" I yell as a small Rasen-Shuriken appears on each of the fingers on my left hand. I fire two of the five at Hinata's head, and the remaining three at Shino. The two I aimed at Hinata's head connect, And she falls to the ground, dazed and nearly unconscious. Shino manages to dodge one, but the two get his knees, and he falls to the ground.

"How did you get this strong Naruto? How is that amount of strength even possible?" Shino asks.

"All it took was hard work. I nearly puked my guts out every single day for years. Everything was training." I answer. I'm almost sad that I have to kill Shino. He was never particularly against me, and he seems like a pretty cool guy. I guess he still neglected and betrayed me as much as the others though, so I shouldn't feel bad.

"That's not possible! Achieving that level of power from only hard work?" Shino says in bewilderment.

"It wasn't only hard work. I come from the Uzumaki clan and the Namikaze clan. That gives me a definite advantage when it comes to jutsu. However, had Kurama and Jiraiya not pushed me to my absolute limits I would not have gotten nearly as powerful as I have.

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