Chapter One: Strange Visions

The academy: Naruto's Second Year

" Now, last year we taught you all about why ninjas are needed, some of the kinds of jobs they get, the five great villages and their names along with the great ninja wars. Today we will learn about what makes a Ninja and how they do the amazing things they do. We will start with Chakra." The day carried on normally, with the exception of Naruto paying attention to the first few lessons, one about chakra in general, one about ninjutsu and one about taijutsu. He had no interest in genjutsu because he thought it was a bad way to beat someone, messing with their mind when they can't do anything about it and medical ninjas because he thought them pointless, not yet realising that he healed a lot faster than others.

It was as Iruka began to explain these in detail that our favourite blond fell asleep.

'Mmmmm. doesn't matter about those silly things, just gotta wake up a little before lunch so Iruka won't notice.' It was at this thought that a crippling pain burst through Naruto's skull.

"EUAAAAAAAAA!" The entire class jumped at Naruto's unearthly scream. Much to the shock of everyone, massive amounts of chakra was rippling in the form of a chakra cloak along his body. No one knew what this was of course. The amounts of chakra were astounding; the chakra was near enough on the level of a kage. No one except Iruka actually saw the chakra though as no one else had been through the process of awakening the chakra that wasn't needed to live.

Inside Naruto was an entirely different story. At the same time everything was happening outside, chakra coils and a chakra network easily big enough to hold kage level amounts of chakra grew in an instant, separate from the ones that had small amounts of the kyuubi chakra.

All these changes were physical and, in Naruto's opinion, didn't matter whatsoever compared to what was happening mentally.

He had flashing images and memories going through his head. Four years of academy training, a teacher he didn't know yet making him commit crimes, becoming a ninja, going on missions, meeting a demon in his belly and taking something called 'the chunin exams'. Next was even worse. A friend who he thought of as a brother abandoning the village, training for two and a half years with a pervert, who he came to think of as a father, and massive battles against strong opponents. The next part was much worse than anything before. The death of the said pervert-father, him training to avenge him and the entire village getting destroyed. He may not have liked the way the village treated him, but it was home. Finally came the worst memories he ever had. The almost-death of the strange girl at the back of the class (who he now knew loved him) saving the village, mastering the demon in his belly, fighting a war against one of the founders of the village, and more fighting. He remembered a strange ninja appearing in a war battle and helping them, becoming friends with the nin, getting 'close' to Hinata and the death of all his friends. The strange nin offered him a chance to try a lot of his life again, to which he agreed. And as him and the strange nin died, he got to where he was now. With that last memory he lost consciousness.

In the classroom all the chakra suddenly seeped into Naruto and he fell to the floor. This had all happened in just four seconds. Everyone shot up and rushed towards the boy with worry written in their faces.

Hokage Tower: The Hokage's Office

"Hokage-sama!" Iruka burst through the door with an unconscious Naruto on his shoulder. "What happened! Who did this, how is Naruto, why did this Happen!" This was all shot out of the old shinobi's mouth within seconds. " I'm not sure hokage-sama, a chakra cloak of an easily kage level amount of chakra formed around him as he screamed, and then he dropped to the floor, all within four seconds." The young teacher said all this while being perfectly calm, despite the urgency that was written on his features.

"hmmm. So, was this chakra blue, red, or some other colour?" The kage was incredibly calm all of a sudden, as if he had dealt with this before. He had it happen to him once, though it was when he was a jonin so the cloak was barely able to keep stable. The second hokage said that once in a ninjas' life one can send their soul back to merge with a younger self and try and change everything, though they had to reach kage level to do this, and had to have a solid will, good heart and help a lot of people. It was relatively unknown, but to those who did know of it they called it 'Kami's touch' because it was like Kami giving them a second chance to make things better.

If so then this meant that Naruto would be a powerful and kind shinobi, or is now that all his spiritual chakra had joined him and all his memories.

"Leave him on the sofa over there, he will be fine." He could see the questioning look on the chunin's face, but knew he wouldn't disobey. Sarutobi watched Iruka exit through the door in a normal manner. 'At least I have one shinobi who knows how to use a door'.

A few minutes later Naruto bolted upright and stared at the kage, though he seemed to be in a daze.

"Naruto, are you OK?"

At hearing the old man's voice Naruto's face took on a look of shock and confusion, before the boy dashed out of the office and ran home.

Hiruzen had seen the look on his face, like he had seen a ghost. The souls merging usually took a few hours, but he could gleam a few things from the look. The longer the person was unconscious meant they had more experience to absorb. The time meant It was no more than 10 years experience, and it looked like Naruto had seen someone long dead. This meant that he was probably going to die within the next six years.