For starters, I wanna say I am sorry, for I am now stuck on yet a different laptop, which is worse than every other laptop I have ever used… my sister decided to get a miniature thing that she could flip around and use as a touch pad… and the damn thing is so tiny I have to scrunch up, I now know how Mr. Incredible feels at his desk… I would have knocked the midget of a boss through the wall sooner than him for that alone…
But anyway, I had this idea from when I read a story about Naruto going back in time, but instead of him being the jinchuriki, a random orphan girl was, and Hiruzen was the one who sacrificed himself, while Minato and Kushina raised Naruto, except Naruto was a spoiled little brat, who wanted to date Hinata because of her family name.
I have no idea who wrote the story, and I can't find it again, but this idea spawned from that story, so, any similarities there are, I got them from whoever wrote the other story.
And if anyone happens to find the story and gives me a heads up, will give the author full credit in a author note, as well as give a shout out to whoever finds the story.
Enjoy.
=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=Konoha, five years after the fourth war=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=
Naruto was somewhat in good spirits, he had been approved by the Hyuga elders as a suitable shinobi to wed Hinata to.
Sasuke even came back three years ago, after being confronted three more times after the war.
Naruto also has retrieved his inheritance from both of his parents, which included every known seal note from Uzugakure, along with his father's own notes, as well as the money both his parents had, which included the money from the before mentioned village that was recovered.
Naruto had actually got forced by all four the girls from the Konoha twelve, to buy himself new clothes, which made him, feel like a giant doll.
Naruto now wore black anbu style pants, along with an orange long sleeved shirt, a green flak jacket, and his red sage coat, and black sandals, while he kept his headband how he had it from returning with Juriya.
So all in all, he could go nowhere but down, which is where he was going.
Naruto had stopped off for some ramen, and in his ramen, was a still frozen fishcake, which was slightly yellow, and a bit discolored, which caused the red to smear at three spots around the spiral, which he slightly admitted, made it look like a sharingan, a yellow and red sharingan, but a sharingan none the less.
Naruto was interrupted from his musings when the anbu interrupted his meal, telling him to head to the tower.
=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=said location=-=-=-=-=-=-=
Upon entering and seeing everyone there a little glum, he began to rush to the Hokage office, where he found the two living elders, Sasuke, and a dead Tsunade leaning against the front of her desk, who looked like she got hit by a chakra drill.
A wound which looked very similar to a rasengan wound.
Naruto stared at the four people in the room, only to notice Sasuke holding the Hokage hat, and looking at him in disappointment.
"Naruto, how could you do this to our beloved Hokage?"
Naruto looked shocked.
"What do you mean teme? You know I wouldn't do something like that to ba-chan!."
Sasuke smirked at Naruto as the elders looked down, Sasuke's eyes flashed slitted yellow for a second before returning to their original black.
Naruto stood there in shock, recognizing those eyes, but before Naruto could do anything, four anbu, all of whom didn't appear to enjoy it, grabbed and restrained him. Koharu explained.
"It is no secret that the council was talking about how you couldn't be Hokage due to you unusual position."
Homura elaborated at the boy's confused look.
"You are the sole possessor of eight of the nine biju, and Konoha and Kumo's relations with the other three major villages are becoming strained, ours more so than theirs. People have been coming to our village more than the other four, but Kumo has not had much of a decrease in missions, but they have still lost clients to us."
Koharu sighed as she spoke up again.
"Iwa, Suna, and Kiri, all are getting less and less clients, if you become Hokage, more clients will flock to us, and that means less clients will request aid from the other villages, causing them to try to eliminate us to stop their own economic decline."
Sasuke smiled 'sadly' at Naruto.
"And in order to protect this village from the clutches of war once again, and as punishment for murdering the Godaime Hokage, I sentence you, Naruto Uzumaki, to the Konoha, max security prison."
Naruto widened his eyes in shock and anger. Sasuke smiled at Naruto.
"This is your punishment instead of death, because of all the feats you have accomplished in the fourth war."
Naruto gritted his teeth in rage.
"I should have realized there was something wrong with you. You were weaker than you should have been. I should not have defeated you as easily as I did in all of our spars."
Naruto was suddenly covered in a gold chakra cloak as chakra claws grabbed the anbu, and hurled them into Sasuke and the elders, before he blasted a hole in the wall, and throwing himself out of the tower with Hiraishin.
Sasuke yelling for the blonde's head.
=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=with Naruto=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=
Naruto didn't know what he would need, so he packed everything.
He was currently within his home, not his little apartment, but the house he had obtained from his father and mother when he got his inheritance, nothing was in it besides furniture to begin with, but he with the help of Hinata had decorated to their liking.
Naruto had just grabbed up and sealed everything of importance to him as well as all of his seals, seal notes, and seal inheritance.
He didn't want Orochimaru to get anything from him.
He had no clue how Orochimaru managed to take Sasuke's body, but he did, and now he ruled Konoha, and made him a criminal.
He couldn't get help here, but he had completed an old seal that Uzugakure seal masters were working on.
He would get help from the past.
Naruto started running from his home as he sensed people coming, and activated his personal hiraishin seal.
Naruto stood still as seals formed over his body, similar to how a cursed mark would cover someone when they used the first stage, and his body took on a yellow glow, as his molecules began to move at estrange speeds.
What everyone saw when they made it to Naruto's house, was a yellow shinobi, who appeared in constant movement, with black seals similar to the hiraishin of the Yondaime.
But what shocked them is when the person moved, he became a flash.
Kakashi, the reluctant leader of the search and capture team of Naruto watched in awe with his sharingan eye as Naruto appeared to become a yellow flash and move at speeds only the hiraishin could match, as he rushed around them and straight out the gate of Konaha before anyone could react.
=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=clearing in the forests, miles away from Konoha=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=
Naruto had used a quarter of his chakra to get this far away, and he knew he had at least a few hours to pull off the seal.
Naruto had made five clones that spread around him as they all began to form the strangely pentagram shaped seal around him, with him in the center.
The seal he was making would usually require six people, but since he had so much chakra, as well as shadow clones, he would be able to pull it off.
He had no idea why this seal was barely used; he also pondered how simple it really was.
As his clones finished the seal, and all six of them began to activate it, he caught a glimpse of the Konoha team that was sent to retrieve him, but they were too late to stop him.
=-=-=-=-=-=-=randomly into the past=-=-=-=-=-=-=
Naruto appeared in the middle of the pentagram as his clones kept the time portal open.
Naruto knew he had a time limit here, the seal took him to the past, but that was it, in order to send him back, he would have to cancel the seal while he was still in the pentagram.
So, with that in mind, he gathered enough sage chakra to locate his target.
=-=-=-=-=-=-=a little ways off in a Konoha training field=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=
Hiruzen Sarutobi was watching his three students as they did personal training.
Jariya was once again failing to stack up to Orochimaru, Tsunade was teasing Jariya over his crush on her, and Orochimaru was proving why he was a once in a generation prodigy.
Hiruzen sensed someone enter his sensing area, though they felt calm, they also felt urgent, rushed almost.
So leaving his team to their free time he gave them, he decided to go see what was wrong with; who he assumed was a frantic anbu.
As Hiruzen made it to the source of chakra, he found a frantic young man in a jounin flack jacket, panting as if he ran a good distance to meet him here.
Naruto knew he had to warn Hiruzen, but he had to do it right, and not get caught, with his power being cut in fifths, as well as after using his perfect hiraishin before splitting his chakra, he knew he couldn't waste time.
So as Hiruzen entered the field, he wasted no time in explaining the situation.
"Hiruzen Sarutobi, I am from the future, I came back using a seal of the Uzumaki clan of Uzugakure."
Hiruzen began to be suspicious, but he knew very well the sealing skills of the Uzumaki clan, having met Mito Uzumaki, so he kept an open mind about this.
Naruto continued, heedless of his response.
"Time is of the essence, I used the kage-bunshin in place of other ninja for the seal, and I have no clue how long it will last before the seal absorbs all their chakra."
Hiruzen took minute note of how the boy was becoming younger by the minute.
"What is happening to you? It's as if your body is de-aging."
Naruto looked at himself, and noticed as well.
"Must be a side effect, the seal that brought me here is fixing my age so I am as old as I am in this time."
Hiruzen looked curious.
"And how old are you in this time?"
Naruto actually began to sweat at that.
"Actually, I'm not even born yet, so if I take too long, then I will just disappear, but I must first warn you."
Hiruzen noticed how serious the young man was, and figured if the boy was on a time limit, he would hear him out and decide whether or not to follow through with this warning or not, so he nodded.
"Your student Orochimaru, if he goes down the path of darkness, if he becomes evil, he will destroy the will of fire, he will use forbidden jutsu, as well as kill Tsunade, and forcefully take over Konoha. Orochimaru must be shown the light, or be killed. Following my warning is your choice. I have said all I can. I know he has yet to commit such acts of evil, so I decided to give you the warning. He will grow up to be a powerful shinobi of Konoha, or become the ruthless nuke-nin that I know. Whatever path time takes all depends on your actions."
Hiruzen actually looked shocked. Who was he to this boy that he would risk his very existence to give him a chance to save his student from the evil he could become.
Now, in some timelines, as Hiruzen watched the boy, who he found as a ten, walk away as a boy about twelve. He would do one of many things.
He would kill Orochimaru to save Konoha, he could leave things as is, or he succeeded in saving Orochimaru from himself.
But in this story, he fails to save him, and realize he didn't have the heart to face off against his student he saw as a son, causing him think ahead of the rest.
The day Hiruzen met Minato; he got a hunch about where the young man came from, and when he found out Minato was dating a young Kushina Uzumaki, he clarified his hunches, only to know who the young man was when he found out Kushina was pregnant.
Hiruzen secretly followed Minato and Kushina, along with his wife as they left the village in order to keep the Kyuubi at bay.
Hiruzen was on his way back to his office, as he heard the screams, causing him to return to the building, where he found his dead wife, as well as several dead anbu, and a masked man running off with Kushina.
Hiruzen knew when it was time to plan ahead, and he knew what he had to do.
Hiruzen returned to the village, locating Tsunade, who he forced back for emergencies.
Tsunade had called him paranoid, believing Biwa, the woman who taught her some tricks, could handle the situation.
Hiruzen got her to follow him, and picked up a young brunette baby, who was sadly a girl who's single mother died from birth complications.
Tsunade mentioned her mother being from the red light district, which made him feel worse for using her.
Hiruzen raced back to the safe house with Tsunade, before tracking down the masked man, finding him as he was releasing the Kyubi upon Konoha.
Tsunade rushed to Kushina, aiding her by sealing up the leaking chakra coils, keeping her from dying of chakra exhaustion.
She knew Kushina could have gone a bit without the aid, but not much longer before her chakra would have all leaked out.
Kushina was out cold after the task though, Tsunade watched from afar as she saw the Kyubi disappear in a flash, while hearing the sounds of battle between the fourth Hokage and someone else.
Hiruzen got to the village as it was being crushed under the feet of the giant fox.
He used the only sealing technique he knew was strong enough to seal away the fox.
'Hopefully, Minato has the will to do what I cannot, and kill Orochimaru before he can destroy Konoha. I am sorry for leaving such a burden to both you, and this little girl.'
Hiruzen died, as he used the last of his chakra to seal the full Kyubi into the child with the help of the shinigami.
Minato and the masked man stood shocked that someone had stopped the Kyubi, causing the masked man to run away.
Minato rushed to meet up with Tsunade in the hospital, where he flashed them to when he found Tsunade healing Kushina, to find Kushina sleeping soundly, their baby in the crib next to her, while Tsunade stood nearby with a brunette child, a disappointed frown on her face.
Tsunade explained everything to Minato, causing him to look down sadly, feeling slightly guilty for picking on Hiruzen about his paranoid tendencies.
Minato had listened to Tsunade explain how Hiruzen struck Kyubi on it's head with his adamantine staff, hard enough to make it flinch, only for Jiraiya to jump in, already using sage mode in order to hold it off.
As Tsunade mentioned, the toad sage walked into the room after paying his respect to his now diseased sensei.
The village was in bad shape, and Minato had to lead the village back to its former glory.
=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=with Naruto after he left Hiruzen=-=-=-=-=-=-=
Naruto had made it back to his clones, and tripped into the seal when he stepped on his pant legs, finally shrinking enough to cause him problems.
Naruto's clones were all still the same as they stared at their creator, watching him stumble into the seal as a seven year old.
Naruto was hoping the effects would reverse themselves when he returned to his own time.
The five clones did some hand seals as they reversed the seal array and canceled the technique.
Now normally, the technique would actually return the person to their time and re age the person back to their normal selves.
But normally, they wouldn't cause a timeline altering event, as well as having an anchor to their own time.
The seal though, still did its job, but there were complications.
Without an anchor, which would have been five more people recasting the seal after he left, which would tell the seal when to return to, the seal instead sent Naruto, the only real person there, forward to the point in time where he is as old as he physically was.
Leaving Naruto, with the problem he currently was in.
He was an eight year old in the middle of the Konoha forests, with generations worth of seal notes sealed on his person, along with a lack of power due to his body not having big enough coils, which were still pretty big.
Just not big enough to let him defend himself against someone of high chunin rank, leaving him with his seals to use for defense if needed.
Naruto used a kunai to cut the ends of his pants, before using the ends as a belt to tie his pants up. Naruto then unsealed his giant sealing scroll and added his jacket and cloak to the long list of items the scroll contained.
Naruto proceeded to walk towards Konoha, unaware of the time he returned, but wishing Hiruzen did what needed to be done.
Naruto reached the top of the Hokage monument, only to notice that things weren't in a giant crater, meaning he stopped the invasion from happening, or he didn't go all the way forward.
"Fuck."
Naruto suddenly became surrounded by five anbu. The first one, with spikey white hair, that went straight up, who spoke in a kind voice.
"Naruto-kun? Why aren't you in class?"
Naruto placed his bet on the second outcome.
=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=end chapter=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=
3,046 words.
Well, I hope I did better on this fiction than on my ruby trap fiction, which I am redoing, I just wanted to post this idea, mostly to get it out of my head and make room for ideas on my other fictions.
Though I still have a few ideas for the next few chapters of this one, meaning I will most like add to this fiction again, at least two more chapters before I have ideas for my other fictions.
Well, I hope you all enjoyed this fiction.