As Kurenai thought about the Heavenly Alliance she remembered when the Council had sent several of Konoha top infiltrating experts into Kumo and gather information on the Heavenly Alliance and it strengths as well as Kumo's. But within a few days of the Ninja's crossing into the boarder of Kaminari no Kuni they were caught by Kumo Ninja's before they even reached Kumo itself and were then delivered back to Konoha gates with a warning not to try it again.
As she remembered that incident Kurenai then thought how things had lead up to Konoha's current situation and the beginning of the Fourth Great Shinobi World War. During the time when the Heavenly Alliance was forming together Orochimaru decided to form his own Alliance or to be more precise his own Coalition of Nations to help him destroy Konoha since after his failed attempt at getting Uchiha Sasuke and the power of his Sharingan he decided to secretly rise a new army of Ninja's to destroy Konoha with as well as find new Allies that hated Konoha as much as he did. Which he did after recruiting and training his forces and creating a larger army of Sound Ninja's than he had when he first invaded Konoha he then went and got Iwa to join him in his Coalition due to their long standing grudge against Konoha, after which he then got Kusa to join him which was not too surprising since Kusa and Konoha were never really friendly towards one another and it was fairly common knowledge that Kusa wanted to take Konoha place as a member of the Five strongest Shinobi Nations, the next member to join was The Hannya Clan from Hayashi no Kuni (Wood Country) who were thought to have been wiped out Danzo Root division before they were first disbanded after the end of the Second Great Shinobi World War, which was why The Hannya Clan joined Orochimaru so to get revenge on Konoha for trying to wipe-out their Clan, the finally member to join was Kiri, who had joined due to the Mizukage wanting to expand his power and territory into the mainland of the Elemental Continent. With having so few Allies and Suna being the only one with Ninja's to help Konoha they knew that Konoha could not stand against such odd's where they soon declared War against Konoha and sparked Fourth Great Shinobi World War.
The War had only started two months ago and there had yet to be any major Battles there were some large skirmishes over some key positions in Hi no Kuni (Fire Country) but fortunately Konoha came out on top of most of them. Also lucky Suna had agreed to join Konoha due to the fact that they wanted revenge against Orochimaru for killing Yondaime Kazekage and for tricking them into attacking Konoha.
But even with this help Kurenai knew that in the long run they had little chance of beating Orochimaru Coalition since they were being attack on multiple different fronts and were vastly out numbered not to mention Konoha was in great need of supplies and money if they wanted to survive this War hence why this mission to escort Princess Sachi to Tsuki no Kuni was so important since it could help get them a Trade alliance with Umi no Kunai and possibly Tsuki no Kunai which they desperately needed.
Having enough of looking out into the endless sea Kurenai turned to face the main deck of the ship were the rest of her team where two of them were sparing while the third was reading a medical book. Kurenai team consisted of Akimichi Choji, Rock Lee and Haruno Sakura all four of them were Jonin rank and level, but since Kurenai was the most senior Jonin on the team she was team leader. As Kurenai watch Lee and Choji spar with one another she could not help herself but think how much the remaining Konoha twelve had changed a lot and grown up a lot over the past ten years since Naruto banishment or to be more precise since Naruto death. She then started to look closely a Lee as he spared with Choji and then thought.
"No I'm wrong not all of them have changed a lot since some had stayed the same especially Gai team" thought Kurenai.
Lee had not changed all that much at all to be honest Lee almost looked like a carbon copy of Gai he still wore the same Green Jumpsuit like Gai and wore his flak jacket over his jumpsuit much like Gai as well. When Lee started to rise in the Ranks most did not expect him to get any higher than Tokubetsu Jonin (Specially High Jonin), but he had proven them wrong since much like Naruto, Lee did not give up and despite his inability to use Chakra Lee rose through the ranks to becoming one of the strongest Ninja's in the village where he could open all eight of the Inner Gates like Gai. Lee had also become so strong that only Gai could stand a chance against him in a pure Taijutsu battle but even then he would lose most of the time to Lee since Lee had become stronger than Gai which had shocked most Jonin when they learned this since Gai was one of Konoha top Jonin. Lee soon earned the nickname The Konoha Nidaime no Kedakai Aoi Mōjū (Konoha's Second Prideful Green Beast). Another thing that happen to Lee which was properly the most surprising thing that happened with Lee was that he had gotten married to Kurenai old student Kurama Yakumo the new head of the Kurama Clan since with the help of Tsuande and Jiraiya they were able to permanently Seal away the Demon inside her and then heal her body to a certain degree where she could do physical activities at a certain level. After which she then went to Gai and Lee to help with her physical training where Lee had been more than happy to do, where eventually as they trained together they grew closer with one another since both had similarly dreams of being great Ninja's even with their disabilities and knew what it was like to struggle with them. Eventually both Lee and Yakumo started to date and after two years of dating they got married when they were both eighteen soon after Yakumo joined the Interrogation unit of the ANBU division due to the fact that she could easily use her powerful Genjutsu abilities to get Prisoners to talk which made her one of their top Interrogators. Also Three years after they had gotten married Yakumo gave birth to their Daughter Rock Kurama Fuku who thankfully looked more like her mother than her father although she did have his hair colour. Kurenai could not help put smile remembering when Lee fainted in the waiting room after the nurse came in and showed him the newly born Fuku soon after though Lee woke up and started to running around the village happily shouting out to everyone that he had a Daughter. Currently little Fuku was now two years old and was the cutest thing you could see and was the apple of her father's eye where he could go on for hours talking about his little girl. Also he and Yakumo and made her and Gai, Fuku's Godparents, Kurenai remembered how honoured she felt when they asked her to she also remembered how Gai had shouted to the top of his lungs about how honoured he was as well and how he and Lee would make little Fuku the next Konoha no Kedakai Aoi Mōjū (Konoha's Prideful Green Beast). That statement of coursed resulted with both Yakumo and her threatening the Two men that they would put them both in permanent Genjutsu coma's where they would experience their manhood's being cut off slowly over and over again if the ever tried to corrupt little Fuku with their Flames of Youth this of course got the desired result and got the Two men to go deathly white pale with fear and cover the Manhood's and agree not to corrupt Fuku when she got older.
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