(AN) Hellooo readers, welcome to my new fic. I hope that you enjoy, anyway, on to the summary. Naruto has grown old, he has outlived his friends and family, and just when he though it couldn't get worse, he's back in his 8-year-old body, what is he to do with this new opportunity? (summary end) So that's it, Time Travel? Yes, this will be a fic of a veteran Naruto, meaning he will start out with PTSD, mainly nightmares, war time instincts in everyday life, and possibly some mental issues. He will be a hardened warrior, so no spouting random things and no bright orange jump suit. Hope you like it. Pairing not decided, but heavily leaning towards a NarutoXTracer (P.S) Tracer was a last minute decision to add, so she won't appear till later chapters, and she WILL be the only Overwatch Character added, unless if it's something like an appearance as a spirit. Will be OOC Tracer at most times (AN End) (Revised AN) Hey guys, after hearing so many comments of the wall of text, even though I have already changed the formatting of my new chapters, I decided to reformat the Prologue and Chapter 1. The prologue is still fairly blocky, but that mainly comes from the great detail I went Into with the background and everything. (Revised AN End)

I don't own Naruto so please don't hate me for anything that happens in cannon that I don't follow, here I control the story, not Kishimoto.

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"Speaking"

"Special Speech"

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Naruto was tired, tired of waking up from nightmares and thrashing in his sleep, Tired of living day to day life absorbed in the paperwork of a Kage. Tired of being alone. Tired of being alive. He'd seen a lot, war, been there, killing for the sake of peace? Done that. Peace? He conquered that problem with diplomacy and politics.

It helped that everyone saw him as a hero for his actions in the Fourth Shinobi War. Hell, he had many marriage proposals and people even offered him their children, seriously, what is wrong with people?

He had long since shown he was the best Kage ever chosen. Speaking of being a Hokage, he wondered how Kona was doing (Konohamaru's granddaughter. Yes, even Kono died of old age.) She was almost finished with her training to be a Hokage, though at this point she could probably just sit in the chair and do paperwork and be fine. But with him stepping down, it was best to be prepared.

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"Kona!" Naruto called out as he walked through the Hokage tower. People left and right bowing, but he ignored them, he had long since gotten use to people showing respect for him in some way (some weirder than others.) but he just continued down the long corridor. Walking past statues and painting of various Kages, some not even from Konoha, such as the statues of the Kages that fought in the Fourth Shinobi War, Gaara, Tsunade, A, Mei, and Onoki. He cried every time he saw them, so he tried to avoid this part of the tower as much as possible, but this time he couldn't, he needed to find Kona for her coronation, so he could finally take the long-needed vacation he's needed for years. "In here!" He heard Kona call to his right, as he walked through the door into the archive room, Even he had to admit that Kona was beautiful, he didn't stay on that track long though, as he saw Kona as a granddaughter, even if she thought he was annoying with his constant spacing out and his random breakdowns (AN) Remember, this is the shinobi world, while I'm sure there were problems with PTSD problems in the past, they didn't really know how to treat it.(AN End) but she still loved him like a grandfather.

"-Ruto!" he snapped out of his thoughts to realize Kona was shaking him while yelling into his ear,

'she was a lot like Kono in that way' He mused, always impatient, though he was one to talk, he knew that he was just as bad if not worse.

"Yes Kona?" he asked amused by her behavior, even as she fumed and pouted at his amusement.

"What are you always thinking about Old Man?" Questioned Kona as she calmed down.

"Old Man?" She repeated.

'Old Man Ruto is weird' She sweat dropped as she saw him fall asleep standing up, trying to wake him produced nothing but a murmur of ramen, she saw the bags under his eyes and realized he was tired, he didn't sleep much because of the nightmares, as her eyes softened and she slowly pulled him back into a chair in the room, after moving the files she had been looking through, she ended up tripping back into the chair with him in her lap.

One struggle to slip him of her later, and she stood there amused as he drooled onto his shoulder. Placing a spare blanket over him, that she had a guard conveniently grab, she watched as he snuggled into it. She tip toed out of the room and slowly closed the door, cringing when she heard a loud squeak from it, then realizing he was the heaviest sleeper she knew and that he was probably still asleep.

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As Naruto awoke he knew something was wrong, he could smell smoke and what smelled like laundry detergent and gasoline. (If you can name the smell you get a cookie!) He knew immediately what was going on, a battle, he quickly jumped up and ran out the doors, finding himself to be standing on a ledge and watching in horror as the entire other half of the building burned. He ran down the narrow ledge looking for Kona, he knew that if she died he didn't think he could live with himself. As he ran he saw an unknown person in front of him, he saw the mask and stiffened, NE,

'Root!' Naruto thought as he dashed towards the Root nin, To the Root nin one second he saw the old Kage, the next all he knew was black. Naruto may have been old but he still had the skills of a man in his prime. As Naruto continued his run, sheathing his tanto back to his side, shedding his Hokage cloak as he did, revealing his battle gear underneath. Call him paranoid, but Naruto always wore his armor (Think Genji's setup from overwatch, with Tobirama's armor.) it made him feel closer to his predecessors. As he ran down the hall, he ran across sixty root nin In all, as he ran each motion was fluid, the first one died from a swipe to the neck from Naruto's tanto, the next caught on, and was able to get a swipe with his sword before Naruto reached him, but Naruto rolled forward under the blade, slashing his tendons in the back of his legs, then slitting his throat as he fell to the ground, this pattern continued with the remaining Root nin, they swiped down, he dodged to the left, slashing as he passed them, never stopping in his movements. It all became a blur as he instinctively fought his way down the hall, turning left he almost ran into a blade, jumping over it he resheathed his tanto and pulled out his katana, the new hall being wide and high and allowing full range of motion with such a weapon. Landing behind the man, he stabbed back under his arm, stabbing the man in the high chest, hitting his heart, and continuing forward.

As he neared the end of the hall he started to slow, the bodies in the hall behind presenting a terrifying image, he heard screams, and rushed down the hall kick the door to the Hokage's office down and unsheathing his katana, feeling the rush of a kunai behind him, he ducked and stabbed backwards, hearing the cutting of flesh, he pulled his sword out, being slightly bent after stabbing twice, he discarded his katana, as he turned to face the person who he just thoroughly stabbed through, he heard a whimper, and his heart dropped, fully turning, he saw Kona, with a man behind her wide eyed with a kunai to her throat, that wasn't the most shocking thing though, no what horrified him was the bleeding stab wound going through Kona's stomach and into the man's chest. As his mind registered what he had done, the man's body slumped, leaving Kona there with a hole in her stomach.

Kona whimpered again, snapping him out of shock, hurrying he grabbed his med kit out of his pouch, injecting Kona with this new invention called morphine. He held her tight after bandaging her, picking her up bridal style, he jumped over the desk and out the window, running down the side of the building he heard Kona start talking.

"Naru- Cough Cough- to, stop please." She whispered as he kept running. He had to get to the hospital, he had to. As he saw the hospital in the distance, he stumbled. After hitting the ground, he tried to get back up. Feeling a pain, he looked down to see nothing, reaching around his back, he pulled a kunai out of his back, hearing a sizzle, he inspected the kunai. There was an explosive tag on the handle! Throwing it would do nothing, the timer was too low, so in a split-second decision, he coated it with wind chakra and threw it into the ground, it sunk a good 8 inches the ring being the only thing exposed, realizing the blast would kill Kona with her wound, he teleported to the mark on her back that he placed there for emergencies. Running as far as he could, he felt the blast behind them, even as the pain in his back from the explosion made him stumble, he kept on. Running the final distance to the hospital, and getting Kona into a bed to be helped, as he screamed for a doctor, he felt Kona grab his arm,

"Naru, NARU!" as she screamed, he paused to look at her, only to see her looking at his chest in worry, looking down. He realized he was bleeding, he undid his armor, to see a sharp rock about a foot in length and 8 inches in width, sticking from his chest, as the adrenaline wore off shock replaced it, staring at it for what felt like an eternity. He barely remembered the rush of a doctor running to help after realizing the problem, He didn't remember hearing Kona scream his name as they rushed him away after prying her off him to treat her own wounds. All he remembered were flashes, hearing voices, one voice he remembered the clearest. A doctor giving a report on their wounds.

"She looks like she'll be fine, but we need to operate on him right now!" The doctor yelled, hearing those words, hearing she would be fine, he felt at peace, like the whole world was alright, relieved him, after that the flashes were all he remembered, the time flew by, as they operated on him.

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"Gahhh!" Naruto jerked as he awoke standing up. The weird thing was he could see himself, he could see the beeping machines and equipment hooked up to his body.

"Uzumaki Naruto." He heard the voice from everywhere, the voice echoed and felt like heaven,

'wait, he could feel their voice?' wondered Naruto, as even through all the weird things in life he had been through, this was the strangest.

"Yes, you can." The voice said again, this time he felt like it was some parent talking to him like a child, the condescending tone followed by what felt like mirth.

"That's not the point, the point is, You Naruto, are dead." Said the voice.

"Wait what? So, this is the afterlife?" Asked Naruto, hoping this wasn't the afterlife and that this wasn't how he would spend the rest of eternity.

"Yes and no" replied the voice.

"This is what is simply known as the place of nowhere and nothing." Continued the voice.

"Wait so why am I here. If I'm dead, shouldn't I be resting peacefully as opposed to here?" Pushed Naruto as he tried to figure out what the hell was going on.

"I have a proposal before I let you go." Said the voice.

"Well out with it, what's your proposal?" Naruto said, wondering where this was going.

"Uzumaki Naruto, what do you regret?" The voice questioned, and for once in his life, he truly pondered.

"I wish… I wish I could've been strong enough to save, Kona, to save all the lives lost in the Fourth Shinobi War, I wish… That I did things the way I should've from the start. I guess I wish that I did things right, I regret playing the fool instead of taking the time to get stronger." Said Naruto, as he now felt relieved after expressing his regrets to someone.

"Well then, how would you like a chance, to change it all?"

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(AN) Phew, 2,000 words, that's a new personal best! So Whaddya' think? Did you enjoy it? Sorry for the lack of dialogue, but I'm not the best with writing long conversations and speech, so I instead try to tell the story through actions and description.

So, if you have any criticisms, please be constructive not destructive, don't just rip on it, but point out the flaws and I will try to fix them. If you want something done, suggest it and I will see, remember though, in the way of NeonZangetsu "how do you spell author? G-O-D." because if I don't like it, I won't do it, I aim to please, but I'm not your whore, so if you request something and it doesn't happen, then pm me and ask me why, it could be because I don't like it, or I may not have gotten around to doing it yet, who knows?

Hope you all enjoy, and please review so I know you want me to continue. No fun in being an author if no one likes your stories. (AN End)