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Chapter one- The Seal

His eyes opened, and he was back in the hospital. Running over escape plans in his mind, the blonde jinchurriki wondered what had happened that would put a Hokage such as himself back into the sterilized white room he hated so much. He mentally checked himself over for injuries, but nothing seemed to be wrong, except maybe a little bit of chakra exhaustion. The oddest thing was, though, that he couldn't think of any reason why he would have been sent to the hospital. His memory was drawing a blank. The last thing he could remember was investigating that mysterious seal that was found in one of Orochimaru's old hideouts with Captain Yamato and the returned snake sannin. Even Orochimaru himself had absolutely no idea what it was. Maybe the seal… He shot forward to sit up, but he couldn't.

"What the…"

Naruto wondered aloud, as chains restrained him and pulled him back to the bed. He took a better look around the room, and noticed something even more peculiar- the walls of the room were made of a sort of hardened sandstone, and an iron door stood out in the middle of the wall in front of his bed. Why was he in a cell, in Suna? He tried to sense Gaara, but he found he couldn't. Maybe it was because of the many chakra suppressing seals on his arms, legs, and everywhere else. Suddenly, he heard the sound of footsteps in the hallway, and a key turned in the lock and opened the door. The man was wearing a standard beige flak jacket and cloak, the uniform here in Suna, maroon pants, and he had light blue circles around his eyes, most likely clan markings.

"I knew it!" Mumbled the restrained shinobi as he saw the man enter.

"Let me speak to Gaara!"

"Gaara?" The Suna shinobi wondered out loud, while locking the door behind him. "You mean Lord Kazekage's son?"

A gasp managed to escape the 22 year old Konoha ninja.

"Whaaa?"

"Anyway," said the mysterious Suna shinobi, "I never thought I'd hear those words. You'd have to be crazy to want to talk to the demon child. But anyway, You are in no place to make demands, Leaf Ninja. I'm the one who's going to be talking, and hopefully, for your sake, you're going to be answering."

The Suna Shinobi revealed some kind of small, black rod, and tapped it to Naruto's forehead. Suddenly, liquid fire flashed through his body. The pain was incredible, but he managed to keep in his screams. He had been injured much worse, and besides, his Senju body was extremely resilient.

"Hm…"

The Suna shinobi voiced his concern as his clan jutsu didn't produce even a yelp from the blond boy. He would have to turn it up a few notches.

"Where did you come from?" He asked, pain rod just centimeters above the blonde's forehead.

" how did you end up on the floor of Lord Rasa's office?"

Naruto's head was spinning.

Rasa? Wasn't that Gaara's father? He mentallyConfirmed that statement, remembering what the Suna shinobi had said before. Rasa was the fourth Kazekage, if his memory was correct. Did that mean… He was stranded in the past? The thought was terrible. He could never see Captain Yamato, Kakashi, Sasuke-Teme, Shikamaru, or any of his friends again. Then he thought of Hinata. She would be so worried, and the village- their Hokage- gone without a trace. Then, he remembered- the seal. A flicker of hope crossed his pouting face. If only he could remember what it looked like… Maybe Kurama would remember it, but now he was too busy napping, and he knew the consequences of waking him up from his mid- morning nap. Or his post- mid-morning nap. Or his Noontime nap. He wouldn't wake up the lazy Bijju just yet.

"Answer me, dammit!"

The Suna shinobi smacked Naruto on the head with the rod again, but he was prepared for it this time. The blonde ninja smiled, and closed his eyes. When he opened them again, his irises were yellow, with black rectangular pupils. The chakra absorbing seals sucked up all of the sage chakra with exitement, but immediately popped off and turned into frogs, hopping off of him as he broke the chains and sat up.

"Whew, it is nice to feel your chakra again." Said Naruto, stretching his arms and getting off the bed. The interrogator looked on in fear, then backed up against the door with his tanto pointed toward the Konoha soldier.

"I won't let you escape!" The Suna shinobi said, sounding more like he was trying more to convince himself rather than Naruto. Suddenly, the room flooded with chakra, and the sand ninja was tossed off his feet like a piece of paper in a tornado. Naruto picked up his tanto that had clattered to the floor, and slit the left calf of the man, who had backed away in fear and astonishment.

"Stay here," Naruto said, and sniggered to himself at his joke. Without his left ACL that man wasn't going anywhere anytime soon.

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Naruto walked over to the door and blew it off it's hinges with a modified explosive tag, and walked out into the dark sandstone hallway. It was very long, and the blonde ninja followed his gut feeling and turned left. There were many iron doors along the walls of the underground tunnel that most likely led to more cells, though all were unoccupied. Naruto blew past the doors, and entered his mindscape. He walked the paths of his mind, until he came to the open cage with his Bijju snoozing lazily inside. Naruto rapped on one of the bars of the open cage, the sounds echoing throughout his mind.

"What do you want, kit?" The massive fox asked.

"Kurama, there's something I need to tell you"

He said, staring at his feet below the water in his mindscape.

The jinchurriki didn't know where's to start.

"I already know. I was listening."

"Oh.. Well then, do you remember what that seal looked like? The one we were investigating?"

"No," responded the Kitsune, "But I think I remember the first three symbols- earth, queen, and space."

"How do those symbols cause time travel? That doesn't make sense." Said Konoha's number one knucklehead ninja.

"Whatever, kit. Doesn't matter too much to me, but I admit I miss that guy Shikamaru. His intelligence is respectable."

That was an unusual thing for furball to say. Maybe he was turning over a new leaf? Probably not. Utterly disappointed at the prospect of being lost in time, Naruto yelled,

"But can't you do something?!"

"No, but you can."

"What do you mean, Kurama?"

"This is your only chance to save the precious people in your life who you lost. Life has given you a second chance."

Kurama said thoughtfully. Naruto thought about the implications of this. But if Gaara was already unstable and killing shinobi left and right, that meant his parents were dead. Again. Naruto had failed them. His optimistic smile turned to a deep frown as a wave of sorrow hit his heart. He thought of everyone else he could save- Neji, the casualties of the fourth world shinobi war, Obito, Jiraiya, the Sandaime… his heart flooded with determination. There was a god after all, and they had given him a second chance.

"Okay," he said, reverting back to his natural optimistic personality,

"First stop, Konoha!"

So, what do you guys think? The first chapter is 6 pages long. Chapters will vary in length, depending on what happens during the chapter. Feedback is highly encouraged, and thank you all for reading. See ya next chapter!

-Conoreo