Chapter One: Future to Past; Dimension to Dimension

Hatake Kira yelped loudly as she flew through the air and slammed into the wall of the village she loved so much. The wall was the only significant thing left of the Village Hidden in the Leaves, the buildings and structures within having been destroyed long before. Konoha had been under attack almost continuously for the past ten years by the villages of Oto, Kumo and Iwa and those attacks had left Konoha almost completely destroyed. The civilians had been evacuated along with the academy students, teachers and three teams of genins. Unfortunately, Kira, her two partners and the last four genins in Konoha had gotten trapped on their way out of the devastated village. Kira was the most powerful person left in the village, followed closely by her partners, Maito Jinenji and Mitarashi Hatori and as such they had to make sure that the four young genin with them survived to become chuunin. There was only one way for them to do this as far as Kira knew and only Kira herself could do it.

"Jinenji, Hatori, get the kids and get over here, now!"

The two shinobi, one black haired, the other purple haired, nodded and grabbed two children each, quickly dispatching the men that the kids had been struggling with and jumping over to where Kira was just getting back to her feet. She was in terrible condition, though truthfully they all were, and was struggling to get to her feet. She had a slashing wound that went from her left hip to her right shoulder, crossing between her breasts and through her collarbone in a wound that all but immobilized her right arm, and a deep stab wound caused by a kunai in her back. She had also been burned by a katon jutsu, slammed by a suiton jutsu and hit with more doton jutsu then she would have thought possible to survive. She could see that Hatori was limping badly on the left side and his right arm was useless, as hers was, and Jinenji was clutching a deep wound 

in his side. The kids were injured as well, but not nearly as badly as the jounin protecting them. Aburame Tohru had a deep cut on her face, her ever-present shades, reminiscent of her lost family, gone. They had been shattered days ago by a doton jutsu that had sent the little bug user into a tree. Next was Hyuuga Kiko, the only Hyuuga left. He was not really like the rest of his family in that he was shy and kind; very much like his aunt Hinata had been before her death. He had a wound in his head that simply refused to heal or stop bleeding. His cousin Kionay was in much the same boat, her brilliant, pupil-less green eyes shining with the bloodlust that her father had been known for. She pulled her sand back to her, allowing it to twine around her body like a serpent, before allowing herself to be grabbed by the passing Hatori. The last of the little ones was Nara Houjo, Kionay's best friend and cousin from his mother's side of the family. Houjo's hair was burned and his scalp was scorched, but he was in the best condition of all of them.

The jounin and their genin gather tightly around the last of the Hatake clan and face outwards in an effort to protect their leader.

"We've only got one chance at this! It's a jutsu that Naruto-sama taught me and requires a massive amount of chakra."

"What's it supposed to do?"

"It's a dimensional shift jutsu. It'll take us to the past of another, similar dimension."

The others were shocked and told Kira so, but she was adamant.

"Listen, you guys! We are the last of the Konoha and Suna shinobi here. Everyone else has been evacuated. We need to get out of here and the best way to do that is to leave entirely."

"But what about – "



"They'll be just fine Hatori! They have the library, they have the sensei and everything else they could need to start over. We're the only liability as Oto is after us as the last of our clans."

The others considered this and realized that Kira was right and slowly, they all nodded for her to commence with the jutsu.

It didn't take long.

132 hand seals, including thirteen that the others had never seen before, fifteen words and three gaping wounds later there was a flash of light and the last of the Konoha shinobi left their ravaged world for one that they hoped would be better.