I do not own Naruto.

now that is out of the way please read and I hope you enjoy. Keep in mind that I am looking for a beta and if you are interested pm me because I'm not great at responding to reviews. Warning this is time-travel so some facts will be changed but lets hope that everyone likes it anyway. I basically have the first four chapters written but this will be really slow until I can get a beta because this is not an anime that I know off the top of my head like bleach and black butler and a few others. The point is I'm nervous about posting if I think facts are wrong. I know some of you didn't bother reading this but for those of you who did thanks and I hope I get a beta soon. Just so you guys know I am posting this to see if there is anyone who likes the story and wants to beta or something like that but even if there isn't I will still try to post new chapters up but you will notice with my other stories as well some take a while and its because I get busy. I've had this on my computer for almost a year so that's why you'll notice certain things aren't really 'up to date' but I'm not going to change it. Anyway hope you like it.

Also warning before you start some names are probably spelt wrong and that would also be something I would need a beta to fix.

Their dead, they are all dead. This isn't fair and it's definitely not how it was supposed to be. We were supposed to win. Danzo wasn't supposed to have killed Lady Tsunade and Naruto wasn't supposed to be captured by the Akatsuki and killed. Danzo shouldn't have been killed by Mandara, and Mandara shouldn't have led the surviving members of the Akatsuki on raids against Kohona so close together there wasn't a possibility of fighting back. There shouldn't have been so many Akatsuki still alive and they shouldn't have joined up with sound, and root, and cloud, and lightning. This really shouldn't have happened. All she was left to wonder was how it had happened in the first place.

Sasuke returned not long after he killed his brother. He was angrier now then he had ever been as a child after finding out the brother he killed was still a loyal Kohona shinobi. He was angry though no one was around to take his anger out on since all of the elders who had made the decision were now dead, killed by Danzo before his reign was brought to an end.

This wasn't how things were supposed to happen. Sakura closes her eyes to try to think and remembers how Hinata became depressed and how it was Neji who died to save Hinata during an attack. With no Hokage available at the moment and no way they could get one Sakura had been temporarily appointed, though it turned permanent seeing as that was five years ago and everyone said she was doing so well. She was the only choice available at the time since Kakashi had died in an attack about a year before and Shikamaru had refused adamantly after almost dieing in the attack that killed Temari and TenTen.

Sakura sat in the library thinking of a way to get them out of this. Their numbers were dwindling and their chances of surviving were zero to none. She was only a shadow of the person she used to be. Her soul was almost gone now but her abilities were better then ever. She had surpassed Tsunade at her highest peak. Almost every book in this library had been memorized and with her new position the same applied to every top secret book and scroll as well. She knew just about everything on every mission ever taken, including Itachi's.

Sasuke and Hinata had even allowed her full access to their clan's library as well. Shino and Kiba and Shikamaru had followed their lead. They were all friends and trusted each other so it wasn't even a hard decision. All they wanted now was a way to win this war, no matter the cost, and as Sakura read over a history book in the restricted section of the library, meant only for those with the Hokage's permission, or the Hokage themselves, she stumbled upon something she had never knew. She read it aloud to make sure she wasn't dreaming:

"Throughout time there have been powerful clans. This is nothing new or anything that someone would be surprised about. However there are a few clans that though powerful are only gifted only every century or so. These are not usually looked into and the child is seen as an anomaly and over looked. One of these clans is the Haruno's. Their clan, majority civilian even now, are one of the few gifted with a child every few centuries with abilities that are unique. One such ability is the appearance of an 'inner' during childhood. The 'inner' is their raw ability and power. As their potential integrates with their actual ability the 'inner' starts to vanish. Sometimes though if the child has no wish for power when they are younger their 'inner' may give them another ability not quite so demanded in that of a shinobi like courage or confidence. Another noted ability is their chakra control. Most Haruno's have good chakra control, if they have enough chakra to become a shinobi at all, but this child will have excellent if not perfect chakra control."

Sakura stopped reading for a moment. She couldn't believe that there was something written about her family at all in here. Her mother and father had been shinobi killed when she was four but they were never powerful and her aunt, her father's sister, who had taken her in had been civilian to the core. She had never dreamed there would be anything about her family in these books, and apparently neither had Lady Tsunade or she would have told her about it ages ago. Silently she took a deep breath and continued to read because soon she would have to get back to their problem.

"Because of this person's chakra control and 'inner' they also have another ability though little is written on this closely guarded secret. In fact it is believed that this family owned jutsu has been lost to time. This is because once the abilities of the Haruno's had flourished and every generation a child was born who at least had one of these abilities. It is assumed the lack of power comes from a lack of shinobi blood and being married to civilians so consistently. The jutsu has been noted below though only a Haruno with the proper qualifications can activate it, as it has been attempted by Uchia's who have tried to copy the technique. There are no noted successes."

At the bottom of the page there was a drawing meant to be copied as a circle on the floor and the hand signs noted as well as where a person should be standing. The only thing it lacked was a description on what the jutsu would do. From the symbols and certain warnings and markings she guessed it had to do with time or the flow of time. She fingered the drawing carefully before deciding to copy the bottom part then headed up to her office with the book to call in Sasuke and Shikamaru. They were the only two alive that she trusted so fully and with the power and knowledge to help her.

She sighed and straightened herself up before they entered and she wished that even someone like Ino was here or Choji or Shino or even Rock Lee. They entered and before they could say anything that could even sound formal she cut them off, "Could you guys sit down here I need you to take a look at something for me."

Five years later and she still couldn't get used to being in charge. They both nodded. "What do you need?" Shikamaru asked when they were seated and he was leaning back, though he looked nowhere near relaxed and he hadn't in such a long time. Sasuke "hnned" in agreement.

"I need you guys to give this a look and tell me what you think," she handed the book to them opened to the correct page then added, "And not the obvious either. Tell me what you think it does."

She leaned back and closed her eyes as she waited for them to finish. Between her nightmares, duties as Hokage, and trying to find a way to win this war she had hardly gotten any sleep in these last five years, not that she had gotten much since this war started period. She now understood why Tsunade used to drink and had taken up the habit herself, although less publicly.

"Where did you get this?" Shikamaru asked curiously.

"Hokage's personal library. I've been reading everything I can get my hands on to find something we can use."

Sasuke nodded as he looked again at the drawing. "Aa."

"Which explains why you are never at your home anymore."

Sakura nodded ducking her head before she changed the subject, "So what do you think it does?"

"Based on the diagrams and symbols it looks like it has something to do with time travel, though I can't be sure due to the lack of detail on the effects or information."

Sasuke added, "Aa, and it seems like you can decide the when just not the where."

"So how is the where decided?"

"Wherever you cast it I think, it doesn't say." Shikamaru answered.

"Anything else?" Sakura asked frowning.

"No, not after one look but if you would like us to look into it…" Shikamaru started before Sakura cut him off.

"Yes, both of you look into it and I give you full permission to use anything you need to find more information. I'll give you two weeks. After that we can decide if it is worth attempting or better left ignored. We can't afford to spend anymore than two weeks on it no matter how powerful it might be." Sakura said before sighing as she slumped into her chair exhausted.

They both nodded and Sasuke looked at her and said, "Now go get some sleep."

Then they were gone and she was left alone. She guessed that she should get some sleep but didn't want to go to bed only to have nightmares, so it was decided. She would drink, then sleep, then wake up and remove the hangover she would have before finally getting back to work.

What she didn't expect was that almost two weeks later a little after one in the morning there would be another invasion and she would be left walking through Kohona looking at the bodies of the remainder of her friends as she was ushered away from the scene by her personal guards.

The sight of her friends would forever plague her nightmares. Kiba's body torn to bits and the bodies of his killers shredded by his pet and friend who had died because of poisoned kuni to the heart. Hinata's eyes had been torn out of her body and limbs in the process of being ripped away.

She was now back in the safety of her office as she watched death happen through her window. "That's it I'm going down there to help." Sakura demanded.

The guards disagreed and attempted to remind her that it was their job to take care of her, not seeming to get she didn't need any taking care of. Before she could threaten them and remind them who the Hokage was and who could pound them into the ground Shikamaru came in out of breath followed by Sasuke, both looked worse for wear. "We figured it out." Shikamaru huffed looking nothing like his usual laid back self, "We were right it is a time travel jutsu. The only thing we don't know is how you'll go back, if you will be your new self in the time or in your old body."

"You control when you go by thought and concentration." Sasuke added.

"Will we do it?" Shikamaru asked her.

Sakura looked down at her village as they lost. They were loosing bad and nothing they did would give them a chance of winning, unless the war never started to begin with. Sakura nodded, "What do we have to loose?"

Neither said anything, because she was right there was nothing left to loose. With a nod it was decided and they were heading out to the edge of the village in the forest. Her four guards were confused by their conversation and sudden decision to move but none were willing to speak against them.

Once in the forest far from the fighting Sakura leveled an area large enough to create the drawing. Shikamaru dictated which way she should sit and how she should be positioned and Sasuke guided her thoughts, "Think of a time during your life otherwise were not sure it is going to work and we don't have enough time or chakra to try this a second time. Shit."

She felt it too. A group of about twenty were heading straight toward them. Sasuke told Shikamaru to take the rest from there before leading her guards to where they were coming from.

"Don't worry about us. If this works then none of this would have ever happened," and Sakura heard the hope in his voice. He had lost almost as much as she had and wanted this to work as much as she wanted it to work. "Just concentrate and do the hand signs, they are relatively simple."

She nodded and did as she was told. As she did she thought of when she would like to go back to. When she was sixteen and Naruto came back? When she was twelve and assigned her team? When she was six and enrolled into the academy? When she was four and her parents died? If she went when she was four she could start training before the academy to get ahead, she could try to stop Itachi from killing his family, she could stop Sasuke from leaving, she could save Naruto, she could save her friends. She thought of all she could do and concentrated on going back to when she was four; to being four and not having a care in the world. She thought about all the good she could do if she was four. She started to drift off tired and sunk into her own mind.

Nervous about this one so please review. Keep in mind this is just the beginning and while I have an idea with what I am going to do anything can happen.