Story: Someday
Author: life is short so am I
Rating: T
Genre: Adventure, humor, family, and friendship
Chapter: Goodbye
Warning: Fem!Naruto
Pairings: Kakashi/Naruto, Minato/Kushina, Obito/Rin
Author's Note: I don't know what the heck I'm doing guys. I just… Tumblr. I've only been on it for a few weeks and it's ruining my life (I'm never going to get off it!). I feel kind of cautious posting this. I've started the next chapter, but it just doesn't feel quite right yet. Maybe it'll be better if I get a proper cover image for this...
Summary: AU! The night Naruto stole the Scroll of Seals, the Hokage discovers the scroll missing just a little bit later, giving Naruto time to learn one more technique… Includes time travel, fem!Naru, smart!Naru and KakaNaru.
Disclaimer: Naruto is not mine.
A small girl with long red hair in loose braids snickered to herself as she sat down next to a large, unrolled scroll. Her blue eyes glinted mischievously when she picked the scroll up, the whisker marks on her cheeks only highlighting the impish nature of her face.
"Let's see," Naruto hummed as she scanned the newly acquired Scroll of Sealing for another jutsu. Shadow Clone Jutsu may not have taken too long to learn, but she knew that Mizuki or other ninja should be on their way to capture and bring her and the scroll back to the Hokage.
Or try to kill her.
It really depended on who got here first.
Naruto knew that Mizuki was trying to trick her when he told her about the 'big secret'. It was glaringly obvious. She had debated actually going through with it for a while, but then she decided on doing it when she realized that there would be no punishment for her.
As much as she loved Hokage-jiji, the man seemed to be blind to all of her non-broadcasted flaws. It would be quite easy to fool him into believing her innocence on this matter. She was careful to always show him and the rest of the village that while she may have been mischievous, it was always playful instead of being harmful like she sometimes wished it could be. He would never consider that she would actually steal the Scroll of Sealing for her own purposes.
Naruto had been in the clearing where Mizuki told her to wait for a little less than an hour. It shouldn't have taken this long for Jiji and the ANBU to figure out that she had stolen the Scroll of Sealing and Mizuki to get over here.
Still, she had never been one to waste time.
"Aha! Found one!" Naruto announced quietly after she had filtered out all of the techniques that would take too long or would be downright impossible for her to learn at her current level. "Time travel… sounds difficult. Eh, what the hell, if I can't learn it, I can't learn it."
Simplified Version of the Original Time Travel Seal
Whereas the original seal was lost with the last of the Uzumaki Clan, Uzumaki Mito contributed the simplified version to the Scroll of Sealing when she married the First Hokage, Senju Hashirama.
The Original Time Travel Seal could send the user as far back as one million years if enough chakra was provided. However, this is incredibly dangerous as each decade would completely drain a ninja with B-Class level chakra reserves of all of their chakra, killing them or leaving them otherwise incapacitated.
The Simplified Time Travel Seal can only send the user back to a maximum of thirty years and a minimum of five years. The user cannot specify how many years they can go back in the seal, but instead the years increase with the amount of chakra used.
In the Original Time Travel Seal, the user's soul would have replaced their younger selves had the user traveled to a time where they were alive, but the Simplified Time Travel Seal allows the user and their younger variant's soul to remain separate, and therefore they will not have to share a body. This seal is unable to be used by the same person twice.
The Simplified Time Travel Seal has never been used before, so it is unknown whether it has possible consequences. The use of this seal is forbidden with the exception of a severe emergency.
The description went on to give a detailed explanation on how to draw the seal properly and the ramifications of activating the seal if drawn incorrectly (an instant, painful death, as per usual) and a drawing of the seal. The language wasn't as complicated as many of the other scrolls Naruto had read about fūinjutsu. Naruto figured it was to make sure any idiot could understand and utilize it in case of a major emergency.
Naruto stared at it for a good few minutes, trying to comprehend that she had honestly stumbled upon a genuine method for time travel, a thing that she had only previously heard was possible in civilian fiction novels.
When she finally managed to wrap her mind around the seal, Naruto took out a notebook that she always carried around with her and quickly jotted down the all the information of the seal in as much detail as she could. She then drew the seal underneath her notes. Finished with that, Naruto rolled the scroll back up and placed her notes in a secret Storage Seal in one of her jumpsuits pockets.
Deciding to make it look like she had been trying to perfect the Shadow Clone Jutsu this whole time to the person that happened to find her first so that they didn't realize that she had learnt more than one thing (Naruto found that it was always good to have more than one ace up her sleeve), Naruto undid one loose braid, messing the other up. She smudged some dirt across her face and after messing with her jumpsuit for a little bit, she decided on tying her jacket around her hips.
It would do no good to have anybody realize that she wasn't quite the idiot she had fooled them all into believing she was.
Naruto sat back down on the ground beside the scroll. Frowning deeply, she began to concentrate on the chakra signatures around her. Naruto was rather new at sensing chakra, so she couldn't sense any ninja that were skilled at hiding their signatures, but she suspected that high ranking nin wouldn't be looking for her. She wasn't even a genin yet, after all. Though that was a rather stupid mistake.
Most of the rookie ANBU failed to find her after she did played her little pranks, and she wasn't even trying that hard to hide then. Then again, she was trying even less than usual now. It's not like she didn't want Mizuki to find her. That would ruin the plan.
She learned how to sense Iruka's chakra though, and he had a pretty good grasp on how to hide his chakra. He mostly thought that she was sleeping in class (which, to be fair, she sometimes did), but what she had really been doing for the past year was practicing her chakra sensing abilities.
Mizuki was easy to sense. His chakra was fluctuating with his emotions, broadcasting his presence to any who had even an ounce of skill in sensing chakra.
Naruto scoffed. She had no idea how that idiot had managed to make chunin. She had known from day one that the bastard had it out to get her.
She just wished that he hadn't been so successful in screwing up her taijutsu.
Turning her attention away from the obvious, she began searching for Iruka. He was a lot closer to her 'hiding spot' than Mizuki was and he was rapidly approaching, which wasn't that big of a surprise. What always did surprise her was that he wasn't a jonin. He had the skills, he had the experience, and he had enough chakra.
Some promotions just went to the wrong people.
Honestly, the white haired chunin was so stupid she half expected him to spill the beans on her being the Kyūbi jinchūriki in hopes of her handing over the scroll on her own free will when it became clear that she wouldn't just give it to him.
Naruto painstakingly drew out the seal she had learned all those years ago in her own blood. Her blood was easily accessible because she was laying in a rapidly growing large puddle of it. Her hand shook with the strain of being lifted and black dots danced at the edges of her vision.
Fortunately she know that this wouldn't affect the quality of the seal in any way. The intricate and complicated lines of the seal were still flawless. She had practiced drawing the time travel seall so often that she knew how to make it with her eyes closed.
Even still, she was cautious. One small mistake could ruin the entire seal, and then she would be dead.
Tears were gathering in her blue eyes, turning red as the fell down when they came into contact with the blood that stained most of her body. Naruto hadn't allowed herself to cry until now.
Stupid Kaguya for being such bitch. What did she even want anyways? To take chakra from humans? Revenge? Did Kaguya even know, or was she just running on bitch power?
Stupid Madara for starting this whole mess. The bastard. Honestly, there were easier ways to go about getting peace. What an idiot.
Stupid Obito, even if he tried (and failed) to redeem himself by sealing the Ten-Tails.
Stupid Ten-Tails for being goddamn fucking indestructible. For not even dying after their last 'what the hell, we're all going to die anyways, let's give it all we've got' attack. It fucking eradicated everyone.
Seriously, Naruto tried, but she couldn't sense any chakra signatures.
Naruto was going to die soon, right there on the final battle ground, surrounded by the corpses of her friends and comrades.
Her precious people.
She missed them all. Her friends, the people that finally accepted her after a life full of loneliness. They had died days before she did, killed by the poisonous nature of the Ten-Tails chakra or by the Ten-Tails itself. Naruto herself had only survived because of the protection of being the host of the Nine-Tails offered her. Though it had seriously weakened Kurama to make sure that she continued surviving while breathing in air saturated with the Ten-Tails power.
The wounds that the Ten-Tails had inflicted on her were life threatening and she couldn't feel usual rush of chakra underneath her skin mending her wounds. Kurama, Naruto deduced, was even more exhausted than she was.
Finished drawing out the seal, Naruto closed her eyes. The tension completely drained out of her, leaving her even more weak than she had felt before.
Naruto brought her trembling hands together to clap, then lowered them to the the seal, activating it with a feeble, "Fūin."
Naruto's vision swam and the edges gradually started fading out. A small smile played on the edge of her lips. She could feel the chakra starting to drain out of her, leaving her feeling empty and taking her only remaining strength with it.
Maybe she could find a better place, a place where she wouldn't have to worry about watching her back all the time. Where she wouldn't have to worry about friends dying to crazy psycho-maniacs who believed they had the power of the gods.
Maybe she would die.
Maybe nobody would find her in time.
Dying sounded peaceful.
She wouldn't need any ambitions, to train to keep her skills sharp enough to survive.
No accusing, hateful glares when she had to tell families what happened to their loved ones.
Nobody trying to kill her because they were idiots and thought that she was a demon.
No more of the anxious feeling of not being able to do anything while people were out dying.
No more watching helplessly as her precious people died in her arms.
Only peace, tranquility.
She could finally, truly be free. No more simply surviving. She could finally live.
If she was really lucky, she might be able to see all of her precious people. Konoha Twelve. Sai, Gaara, Killer Bee. Gai, Kakashi, Asuma, Kurenai, Iruka, Yamato, Anko. Jiji, Tsunade, Ero-Sennin. Konohamaru, Ayame, Teuchi. Haku, Zabuza, Inari, Tazuna, Tsunami. The other eight Tailed Beasts. Her parents. The ninja of Konoha, the villagers of Konoha. The ninja from Suna, form Mizu, from Kumo, from Iwa.
Yes, dying sounded nice. Hopefully nobody found her and she died right in whatever time she landed in and this whole seal was for nothing.
Naruto's small, painful smile turned into a daring grin. Dredging up the last bit of her will, she whispered out a small, "Goodbye."