Naruto should have remembered, nothing in his life was ever simple. Case and point, this new seal of his which in theory should have worked just fine even if it would leave him with less then a third of his enormous chakra reserves. But he had forgotten that in theory everything was possible, reality on the other hand was completely different.
It only worked when it felt like it.
In all fairness to his current situation. He was still in one piece at least. He was no more or less injured then he had been already from before he activated the seal in a last ditch effort. All the strange lines, curves, swirls, and miscellaneous other patterns that had taken up the space on a rather large scroll had all been perfectly drawn out.
He had just forgotten one tiny. little. detail.
Kyuubi had made his disagreement with the plan known. Of course, it had to have happened at the worst opportune moment when there was nothing to be done but go with it.
Thus he found himself in his current predicament. In the Hokage's office, flat on his back, having to apparently disrupted a briefing between the Jounin Sensei and the Third.
Naruto looked around for a moment, noticing the fading seal on the floor and sitting upright.
The only reason nobody has carted me off to visit Ibiki for happy hour yet is probably because their all to shocked to move yet, Naruto thought to himself quietly chuckling.
"Yo, can anyone tell me what time it is?" He asked.
Of course, these were ninja and it didn't take much effort to snap them back to reality. Only a harmless, mostly, question.
"Who are you?" Someone, a voice he vaguely recognized as Kakashi's, said coldly as the edge of a kunai came to rest directly against his artery.
"Ma maa, Kaka-Sensei. I'll explain in a moment…maybe." Naruto said in a lighthearted tone. He knew Kakashi wouldn't kill him until they knew where he had come from at least.
Telling them where he came from would be easy, getting them to believe it on the other hand… not so much.
"Time?" Naruto repeated.
"1850," Asuma, Sensei to the Ino-Shika-Chou team his memory helpfully supplied to him, answered.
"Oh not that time, the year…and date if it's not so much trouble." Naruto replied, enjoying this moment of confusion.
Asuma, again, complied with the information requested.
"So that means that tomorrow is the Gennin test, the real one not the academy one right?" Naruto asked calmly as if he wasn't sitting in an office in front of people who were all dead when he woke up this morning.
He had meant to go back farther, back to when he became the container for the furball. He had been intended to seal the fox himself, thus preventing his father at least from dying. That should of set of a chain reaction and hopefully a better life for all those concerned.
He should have known the fox wouldn't like that idea. The seal had been chakra consuming at best, but when the damn fox had to choose that moment to pick a fight with him it had nearly drained his reserves completely.
"How do you know that?" Kakashi asked, emphasizing his point with the sharp and pointy little friend of his.
"Damn, that means I arrived even later then you Kakashi-Sensei. Twelve years to late, stupid fox. Oh, and I know because I'm from about eight years in the future." Naruto said gleefully even as the room began to get blurry and he fought himself to stay conscious.
Predictably, the room exploded into noise, arguments and curiosity.
"Prove it." A voice said from the back of the room.
"huh?" Naruto intelligently replied craning his head to look behind him, not even caring that the moment drew blood.
"Prove it, if you are really from the future then there should be a way to prove it." Nara Shikaku stated.
Naruto had thought that only the Jounin and Hokage had been in the room. Proving that his condition was worse then he thought he was at the moment if he had completely missed the clan heads in the room also.
He shouldn't have been surprised though, after all his graduating class had a record number of clan heirs in it.
"Hmm, how about I tell you who will be on which team with which Sensei?" Naruto asked as a worrying thought occurred to him. What if this isn't the same timeline but one parallel to it where something had changed the events he knew? Oh well, to late now.
"That would work as the teams had only just been agreed on before you… ah, dropped by…" Sarutobi said awkwardly.
"Team 10, under Asuma is Yamanaka Ino, Nara Shikamaru, Akimichi Chouji." Naruto said confidently, "Team 8, under Kurenai consists of Abarame Shino, Inuzuka Kiba, and Hyuuga Hinata."
At this the whispers started again. The Ino-Shika-Chou combination was an obvious team and that he knew the right Sensei could have been a lucky guess but this hinted that he might very well have been telling the truth.
"Next is Team 7," Naruto continued raising his voice a bit to be heard, "under the perpetually late Kakashi-Sensei is Uchiha Sasuke-Teme, Sakura-Chan, and…" Naruto paused for dramatic effect. He gave himself the excuse that it had been years since he could these people in a prank like this.
"…Me, Uzumaki-Namikaze Naruto!" He said with an entertained laugh. It had been a while since he had laughed he suddenly realized. And he continued to laugh until he felt his conscious slip away, his final though was to wonder why the damn fox was being so quiet.
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