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A 14 year old Naruto Uzumaki blinked as he found himself in a white looking area and when I mean white I mean that all there was besides himself was nothing but white light.

Blinking several times to try and get the spots out of his eyes he heard a male voice say "Well this is a fine mess you got yourself into Naruto."

Naruto turned looking around and saw a man standing there he was sure hadn't been standing there before and Naruto asked "Who are you and what are you doing here."

The man said "People have given me many names over the years. Shinigami, death, Anubis...Call me that. Anubis. As for what I'm doing here. The question you should have asked is what are YOU doing here. You see Naruto, this is Limbo. A place between life and death. You remember Sasuke Uchiha stab a Chidori through your chest when he went to join Orochimaru...Well he killed you."

Naruto eyes widen as he paled and Anubis said "Normally this would be were I would take you to the other side but there are a few problems with your situation."

Naruto blinked before he frowned and said "What problems."

Anubis said "You were not suppose to die yet. In fact you and I should not have met for many years to come. If you would have been able to hold on a little bit longer, your sensei Kakashi would have shown up and then he would have taken you back to Konoha where Tsunade would have healed you."

Naruto frowned and said "Then what am I doing here."

Anubis said "You know your signature jutsu, the Kagebunshin no jutsu. It's forbidden for several reason. First it cost a lot of chakra to make them. Then it divides your chakra evenly each time you make it. That right there would be enough reason to have it listed as forbidden but because of the fox both of those problems never really became an issue. Now another fact about the Kagebunshin no jutsu is that what ever it learns when it is dispelled is transfered back to you...The reason it is able to do this is because when you create a kagebunshin you are also giving your clone a little bit of your own soul. Every time you created a kagebunshin you were weakening your soul which is why you were unable to last until help could arive...but this wouldn't be a problem if you had actually read the complete instructions on that jutsu when you first learned it and followed them."

Anubis saw Naruto was shocked and Anubis said "The part of the directions you missed when you learned that jutsu besides missing the part about getting the memories back is that in order to effectively use them you have to process those memories and absorb your piece of soul back in your body. In order to do this you have to arrange your mind. Now I know when you think about your mind you are thinking about that sewer like place Kyuubi is sealed away and your right. It is there...but what you have to realise is that it is YOUR mind. YOU have the ability to change it by concentrating on what you want your mind to look like. Are you with me so far."

Naruto nods and Anubis said "Good because you will be tested on this later. Now in a few minutes I want you to sit down and close your eyes and concentrate on appearing in that sewer place. Are you with me so far."

Naruto said "Yes...but what does it matter. I'm dead."

Anubis said "It matters because I'm the god of death and I get to decide what to do with you. I don't like to take someone soul to the other side until it is actually thier time to go unless someone tries to cheat me in order to try and stay alive longer then they were meant to so I'm going to send you back to the land of the living but before I do I want to make sure you live until the day you and I should actually meet in many many years."

Naruto eyes widen and Anubis held up his hand and said "Before you get excited there are a few things you should know. I will be sending you back to life the night you learn the Kagebunshin no jutsu but you will not be able to tell anyone about what happens in the future. If you do I will be forced to take your life and I will be very displeased."

Naruto gulped and said "I understand. Don't tell anyone about the future."

Anubis nods and saw Naruto was about to open his mouth and Anubis said "Your about to ask me if you can change the future and the answer is yes. You can change the future but there are things that will still happen. Konoha will be attacked by Suna and Oto. There is nothing you can do to prevent that. You can however work to get stronger and help others get stronger by saying that you heard someone say the Chunnin exams were comming to Konoha this year and that it would probably be a good idea to try and make Konoha look the best it could in the exams, especially with so many heirs of Konoha clans being among the Gennin who might be in the exam. Also you might say that it would be a good idea to work on making Konoha security stronger in case someone tries to kidnap someone important or steal somethng valuable with all those guest in Konoha. You understand."

Naruto frowned and said "I think so."

Anubis said "It's your choice what to say or do Naruto. I'm just making suggestions but remember, you can't tell anyone about the future so you have to be subtle in trying to change the future...You can't tell Kakashi that Tazuna lying about the mission because if you do then there is a chance that he won't want to continue the mission when you meet the demon brothers which means that Tazuna would die and Gato would have complete control of Wave. You wouldn't want that, now would you."

Naruto shook his head no and Anubis said "Now another thing you should know is that there is a chance that you won't even get that mission to Wave. Who can say for sure."

Naruto frowned and said "Is there anyway to make sure I definately get it."

Anubis said "Life is about choices and chance. You can't be sure of what will happen. Only what you think might happen and what choices you make based on what your think might happen. You see, right now you and I should not be meeting but we are. There is a chance that after you go back the day I was originally suppose to take your life will change to either an earlier or later date. It all depends on choice and chance really."

Naruto sighed and Anubis said "Now enough about how you might change the future. I only gave you an example so you know that just because you know how things happened once doesn't mean it will happen again...Now since I am sending you back in time you should know that I am taking half your soul as payment."

Naruto eyes widen and Anubis held his hand up and said "I am doing this because I am going to be sending someone else back with you. She will be the one in charge of helping make sure you don't screw up to bad. The girl I am sending back with you was just like you in a way. She died before she was suppose to and I sent her back in time but kept half her soul as payment so that I could use it later to help me if something like this happened again. She will help you like I had someone help her and then sometime in the future the half of your soul I am taking will help someone else. This is my price. Do you understand."

Naruto nods and Anubis said "Good. Then when you appear back in time imagine yourself appearing in your mindscape and you will meet the girl who will begin to help you and explain things to you. Do you understand."

Naruto said "Yes."

Anubis said "Good. Then make sure you and I don't see each other again for a long time." as the world around Naruto went dark.

When Naruto opened his eyes he found himself in his apartment in Konoha and blinked a few moments as he looked out at the village and saw the Hokage monument wasn't damaged from the war and thought "So I really am back. I guess I better do what Anubis said." as he sat down and closed his eyes and began to concentrate on appearing in his mind.

A few minutes later Naruto opened his eyes and saw himself in his mindscape when he was suddenly hit on the back of the head hard and he screamed "Ow." as he jumped back.

Naruto saw a girl about 16 years old with red hair which was up in a single ponytail and green eyes wearing some sort of armor standing there and the girl said "You shouldn't drop your guard ever. Anubis told you that someone would be here so you should have prepared in case you were attacked because you had no way of knowing if I would be an ally or an enemy."

Naruto opened his mouth and the girl said "Stop. You will stand there and be quite and follow my orders because I refuse to work in these conditions. You will refer to me as Captain Luna or Captain. I am not here to be your friend. I am here to pay off my debt to death by making sure you live until you are suppose to die. Do you understand me."

Naruto frowned and said "Yes."

Luna said "You will answer me with Yes Captain or No Captain. Do you understand me."

Naruto glared at her a moment before Naruto remembered Anubis words and said "What every you say Captain." with a smirk on his face.

Luna opened her mouth before she was hit in the face by the water on the floor jumping up and hitting her.

Sputtering a few moments Luna glared at Naruto and said "You will pay for that boy." as she held up her hand and a staff appeared in her hand shocking Naruto.

Luna smirked and said "This maybe your mind but death gave me access to half of everything you have. Half your chakra, half your body, and half your mind."

Naruto paled as he heard this and Luna said "Now you have a choice boy. You can either follow my orders or I will beat the hell out of you until you do. Choose." as she twirled her staff in her hand.

Gulping Naruto said "What are your orders Captain."

Luna said "Good, now since you have already demonstrated that you realise this place can be controlled by your mind I want you to imagine instead of a sewer that this was a giant stadium where you can train and fight."

Naruto thought a moment remembering the Chunnin exam stadium and the area changed to look like it.

Luna said "You constructed this after a place that you already seen. Haven't you."

Naruto said "Yes."

WACK.

Naruto was hit on the head by Luna who said "You forgot the Captain part."

Naruto who was rubbing his head glared at Luna who said "This could be of use to start with but we will have to make a few changes later...Alright, now I was watching when you and Anubis talked so I know you know the Kagebunshin no jutsu. I heard everything Anubis said about it but there are other things about it that he didn't tell you."

Naruto asked "Like what Captain."

Luna smirked to herself and said "Every time you create a kagebunshin you split your soul. When you absorb the soul back into your body you gain the memories that soul gained...but this is the part that Anubis didn't tell you. You can also send memories to that soul."

Naruto looked confused as he saw Luna looked excited and he said "I don't get it."

Luna slapped her head and said "Baka. Look at your body. Your body isn't that of your future self. You are younger and weaker then you were when you died. Anubis didn't send your body back in time. He sent your future memories back in time through the kagebunshin you created the first time. You can do the same thing. You can use any kagebunshin that you create from today on to send your memories to your past self."

Naruto eyes widen and Luna used her hand to cover his mouth and said "Yes, I know that is amazing but it is only your memories. Anything you gained physically will be erased by doing this."

Naruto moved her hand from his mouth and said "So I could go back in time to avoid getting hit by an attack."

Luna sighed and said "Not the way you are thinking. The Kagebunshin no jutsu was designed as a scout jutsu. An advance warning. You could use it to warn yourself that there is an enemy ninja coming for you and you could prepare for it but once you get in the actual fight against him you won't be able to use it to avoid being hit from a single punch or something like that. That is where your own experience will come in. Do you understand."

Naruto said "I think so." as he looked confused.

Luna sighed and said "I guess you will have to just experience for yourself later to see what I mean...Now I want you to imagine yourself leaving this place and create a kagebunshin and have it go into another room and touch something. I don't care what it touches. Just have it touch something. Then have it dispell. Once it dispells I want you to come back in here to see me. Go."

Naruto frowned and closed his eyes and faded away.

A few minutes later Luna was sitting on the ground when Naruto appeared.

Luna said "Good, your back. Now since this is your mind I want you to imagine that when a kagebunshin dispel in the real world it appears here."

Naruto blinked but a few moments later there was a puff of smoke and a kagebunshin appeared.

Luna pointed toward the clone and said "You, come here."

The clone came over to Luna and Luna turned to the real Naruto and said "Place your hand on his head and you will absorb the memories, chakra, and soul that this kagebunshin has."

The kagebunshin and Naruto went wide eyed and Luna saw both about to open thier mouth and she held up her staff and said "Do I need to use this on both of you. Do what I told you."

Both Naruto frowned but the real Naruto did as was told and placed his hand on the head of the kagebunshin in front of him and he suddenly saw the entire short life of the kagebunshin.

Luna said "Good. Now what you just did is what you need to do with every kagebunshin you create. Come into your mind and absorb it's memory, chakra, and soul back into your body. This is how you should have used the kagebunshin no jutsu...but now I am going to explain how to send your memories back in time. Now I want you to create a kagebunshin right here. Just one but make it look different then your other kagebunshin."

Naruto thought a moment and put his hands together and said "Kagebunshin no jutsu."

A puff of smoke appeared and a when the smoke cleared Luna blinked and said "I'm not even going to ask why you created a female kagebunshin...I guess that will work. You won't mix her up with your regular kagebunshin."

Luna closed her eyes and took a deep breath and said "Since we are inside of your mind you will notice that unlike a regular kagebunshin, this one doesn't move or do anything. It's because you can't take something from nothing. We are in your mind so it is impossible to create another mind inside you own one...well not impossible but it could cause all kinds of problems with multiple personalities so I won't go into that. What I will tell you is that if you need to send your memories back in time you will have to create a kagebunshin in the real world and instead of absorbing it's memories you will have it place your female clones hand on it's head and absorb it's memories. It will know everything you knew up to the moment it was created as well as anything it learned after it was destroyed. When it gives it's memories to your female clone here it will take those memories back in time until the moment you created her at which time she will come to you and ask you to absorb her memories. When she does you will gain her future knowledge. Do you understand."

Naruto nods and a puff of smoke appeared beside the female clone of Naruto and a male clone of Luna appeared and Luna said "I have done the same thing so that I will know everything you know in order to help you to get stronger so that you will not die until it is time for you to. Now let's leave this place." As she faded from view.

Naruto saw her fade and thought "How can she leave this place." as he also faded.

When Naruto opened his eyes he found himself back in his apartment and he heard Luna voice say "Damn it. How in the hell am I suppose to live in this mess."

Naruto eyes widen and he moved to the other room where Luna stood and she pointed her finger at Naruto and said "YOU...I will not be living in a pigsty. You will create a couple of kagebunshin to begin cleaning this place under the orders of one of my kagebunshin while you and I will head out to find a training ground to begin training."

Naruto looked at the clock on the wall and said "But it's 2:21 am in the morning."

Luna said "So what. If your able to stand there and talk then you are able to train. Now create a couple of kagebunshin to leave here and then show me where you normally train at."

Luna saw him begin to open his mouth when a puff of smoke appeared in front of her hand and her staff appeared and she said "Do I need to use this to educate you." as she looked ready to hit him with it.

Naruto gulped and said "No Captain." as he created several kagebunshin and Luna created one and both left the apartment to be cleaned by the clones.

20 minutes later Naruto and Luna were on training ground 7 and Luna looked around and said "Alright, tell me what chakra control excercises you know."

Naruto said "Well...I know the tree climbing and water walking."

Luna looked at Naruto and raised an eyebrow before she frowned and said "I hate you Anubis." as she walked over toward a tree and walked up it before she got several leaves of a leaf off of a limb and she walked back down the tree.

Naruto watched as Luna had a leaf begin to float on top of her head, on top of both her hands and on top of both her feet.

Luna said "You can do the kagebunshin no jutsu so that means you have big chakra reserves. I notice when you created them that you have very little chakra control. Chakra control is one of the most important things a person has to have if they wish to survive in battle because the better your control is the longer you can make your chakra last and usually battles are won or lost because someone got tired and made a mistake because of being tired. Now as you can see I am floating leaves on 5 different areas of my body at the same time. This excercise is just like tree climbing and water walking where to much chakra and the leaves blow off and not enough they fall down. I want you to create as many kagebunshin as you can and have them divide up into 5 even teams. One team will work on the head while another on the left hand, another on the right hand, the left foot and finally the right foot...Well what are you waiting for. Make your clones."

Naruto jumped slightly at the commanding tone at the end and created 40 kagebunshin.

Luna took a deep breath and said "I told you to make as many as you could but I guess this will be good enough for now. Now divide like I said and get started. Work for one hour and then dispell one from each group every minute after that. The real you Naruto are to come sit with me." as she turned and walked toward a tree and sat down.

Naruto walked over and sat down beside Luna who said "Alright, let's enter your mind again." as she disappeared in a puff of smoke.

Naruto blinked and entered his mind and saw Luna standing there and asked "How were you out there."

Luna said "Kagebunshin no jutsu. Now when your clones appear you are to absorb them and thier knowledge and then go back out in the real world and make as many as you can and have then start doing the leaf floating excercise again just like they were before coming back in here and continue to do what I am about to have you do. Have the clones dispell after an hour of work like this first group is. That way you will get about a weeks worth of training done in a single day since you are currently resting to recover your lost chakra while your clones train so when you create more they will be rested and have the knowledge of all those who trained before you. Get it."

Naruto eyes widen and said "Yeah. I think I get it. That's so cool." in an excited tone.

Luna sighed and said "Shut up and listen. I swear I'm going to kill you myself at this rate...Now you know the 12 primary handsigns, right."

Naruto said "Yes."

Luna said "Good. Now the chakra inside your body follows a path and flows through that path like a river. When you make handsigns you are trying to control the flow of the river in order to make it go where you want it to go. Now I want you to imagine a giant glass statue of you to appear in the middle of the arena."

Naruto thought a moment before a glass statue of him about 30 ft tall appeared.

Luna looks at it and said "Good. Now I want you to place your hand on it and send chakra into it."

Naruto looked from the statue to her and asked "Why."

Luna said "What you are going to do is send your chakra into the statue. The statue is a perfect copy of you so it will have a map of your chakra network. By sending chakra through the network you will be able to see where the river of chakra actually goes. This will not only help you learn to better control your chakra later but also help you keep track of the actual amount of chakra in your body. Now like the other chakra control excercises you know. If you send to much chakra into that glass statue where it doesn't follow the rivers path the statue will break and you will have to start all over again. Once you have learned your entire chakra network you will have to make another glass statue but this time holding one of the 12 primary handsigns and map that river. You will have to do it for all 12 primary signs...but looks like it's been an hour. Your clones are starting to appear."

Several hours later Naruto was standing in a huge pile of broke glass and Luna had an amused smile on her face and said "263 statues and you haven't even gotten half of a leg much less the rest of your body."

Naruto glared at her and Luna said "Well it's morning. You need to go take a bath, you stink."

Naruto glared at her even more before he faded away and Luna laughed to herself.