A RIPPLE IN TIME
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The longest and most volatile battle in the history of Konohagakure no Sato was finally over, but all was far from well in the Village Hidden among Leaves. In fact, nine men were able to do what entire armies had failed to accomplish in the past, burn Konoha to the ground. Just beyond the wreckage, you could see a man in a long, black, cloak adorned with red clouds leaping through the trees carrying the limp body of a young man with spiky blond hair and three whisker-like marks across each of his cheeks. Although the boy seemed lifeless to those on the outside, Uzumaki Naruto, Konoha's number one most surprising ninja, was very much active if only in his own mind.
"SON OF A BITCH!" the blond screamed at the top of his lungs. He was currently pacing in front of a large cage at the end of what appeared to be a sewer. Inside the cage was a gigantic fox with nine tails waving violently behind him. This was the infamous nine tailed demon fox that ravaged Konoha nineteen years earlier only to be sealed inside our blond protagonist, Kyuubi no Kitsune.
"CALM DOWN YOU BRAT" Kyuubi roared from his cage "You're giving me a headache"
"CALM DOWN CALM DOWN! DID YOU SEE WHAT HAPPENED? THEY'RE ALL DEAD! THE VILLEGE IS GONE! HOW THE FUCK AM I SUPPOSED TO CALM DOWN?" Naruto became more hysterical with every word. "SAKURA-CHAN, SASUKE, KAKASHI-SENSEI, IRUKA-SENSEI, ERO-SENNIN, BAA-CHAN, HINATA, KIBA, SHINO, SHIKAMARU, INO, CHOJI, ASUMA-SENSEI, LEE, NEJI, TEN-TEN, GAI-SENSEI, GAARA, TEMARI, KANKURO, DEAD! ALL DEAD!
The blond sank to his knees and grabbed his head "I…I failed them. I failed them all."
The Kyuubi sighed and leaned his head against the bars of his cage. Great now I have to comfort him. Comfort was not exactly the Kyuubi's strong suit as one can expect from a malevolent demon. However, Kyuubi has gotten into the habit of comforting the boy when he suffered from his bouts of depression for the sole reason that humans can and do take their own lives. "Kit… I know you feel a need to protect your 'precious people' but you have to realize that all of the people you mentioned are perfectly capable of protecting themselves. I mean some of the people you mentioned were as strong or stronger then you. You shouldn't blame yourself for their deaths. Especially since most of them were killed when you were nowhere near them, you may have me inside you but all in all you're still a pathetic bald monkey."
Naruto sighed and looked up at Kyuubi with tear-strained eyes. "I appreciate the effort Kyuubs I really do but it really isn't necessary. In a little while you are going to be extracted from me, the Akatsuki will have all the tailed beasts and the world as we know it would end. Worst of all there is nothing we can do to stop it." Naruto groaned and once again buried his head in his hands.
"Weeeelll," Kyuubi exclaimed "That might not necessarily be true"
Naruto's head shot up immediately. "What are you getting at fox?" His tone was stern and serious, almost out of character for the happy go lucky demon vessel.
"Time travel" Kyuubi stated
"Time travel?" Naruto asked
"Yes well there is this technique that demons can use that allows us to go back in time but it's very risky. The time stream is so fragile that going into the past and killing a butterfly could cause a ripple in time that could cause the world as we know it to end." Kyuubi explained
"The world as we know it IS about to end so what does it matter." Naruto cried. He was quickly loosing his patience with the fox. "Anyway, if we do go back in time what would we do to change things."
"Actually, only I would go back in time. You would explode." Kyuubi stated a little too calmly
"EXPLODE!! WHAT THE HELL DO YOU MEAN EXPLODE?" Naruto screamed. He was definitely not liking the way this conversation was going.
"If I could do this inside you I would have made you go back in time and warn me about Madara when you first came to me 7 years ago." Kyuubi explained
"Wait. What? Madara?" Naruto questioned
Kyuubi sighed "Uchiha Madara helped find your village, went nuts, fought the first and second Hokages at the valley of the end and ended up running away with his tail between his legs." Kyuubi seemed very amused as he said the last part.
"I know all that, but what does he have to do with anything?" Naruto asked
"Well after the fight at valley of the end, he somehow managed to find his way to my den, and demanded that I give him some of my power and unfortunately instead of smashing his arrogant ass with my paw I decided to just give him what he wanted to make him go away." Kyuubi explained
"Wait. Why the hell did you do that?" Naruto asked
"Well my mate was in heat and I was just about to …uh… well you know and I didn't want to get my paws all bloody." Kyuubi confessed
Naruto tried to stifle his laughter "Who would have thought that the infamous Kyuubi no Kitsine, god of the Buiji was such a pussy whipped…"
"Finish that and you could forget about me helping you." Kyuubi growled
"Ok I'm sorry please go on" Naruto chuckled
"Well, I only gave him a fraction of what I normally give you so I didn't think it would be a problem. However, the son of a bitch figured out how to store it." Kyuubi explained
"Wait. What do you mean store it?" Naruto asked
"When demonic chakra is put into a human body it automatically burns itself up without the human even using it. However Madara managed to find some sort of stone that holds stores the demonic chakra allowing him to use it whenever he wants." Kyuubi said
"How come that doesn't happen when you give me your chakra?" Naruto asked
Kyuubi sighed. He knew the kid was not going to take this well. "Kit, except for the first two or so hours of your life you have never been fully human. My chakra has been mingling with yours and being absorbed by you since day one. You're a far cry from being a demon but you're not human either."
Naruto sighed. "Yeah, the differences were subtle but I noticed them. I guess I didn't want to admit it to myself."
Trying to get Naruto's mind off the subject as quickly as possible, Kyuubi continued with his explanation. "Anyways, somehow Madara managed to use the power to make himself immortal. Now, one of the many differences between humans and demons is that humans have an infinite amount of potential to become stronger while having a rather finite lifespan, while demons have a finite amount of power and a pretty much infinite lifespan."
"What the hell does that mean?" Naruto asked
"Well, each demon is born with a set amount of potential and no amount of hard work or determination would make him stronger. I was born as powerful as I am now and am going to have the same amount of power when I die. For humans its different, all humans start out the same as strength wise and grow into however strong they wish to be. Sure, some have certain advantages over others, but through hard work and determination whatever disadvantages you have could be overcome. In short, just about every human has a limitless amount of potential." Kyuubi explained
"So if you combine infinite potential with an infinite lifespan, add in the power of the sharingan and whatever demonic chakra he had left after the immortality technique and…" Naruto reasoned out
"It was only a matter of time before he became more powerful then even me" Kyuubi stated
"Shit" exclaimed Naruto
"Yeah using his new found power he was able to summon me and use those stupid eyes of his to make me attack you pathetic little village." Kyuubi explained
"Wait a minute, so you didn't want to attack the village?" Naruto asked
"Kit, a little thing you might want to know about demons is that we only look out for our own best interests. Why the hell would I want to attack your pathetic little village? Did you do anything to me? No. Were you a threat to my existence or the existence of those under me? No. Did any of you engage in some form of demonic bestiality with my mate? No. I had absolutely nothing to gain by attacking your village and everything to lose. In fact, I did lose everything!" Kyuubi roared
"But you always talk about how if you were to get out you would burn, Konoha to the ground while killing, raping, and disemboweling everyone in it... especially me!" Naruto declared. This little revelation by the Kyuubi was beginning to confuse him.
"Well yeah, now that they sealed me inside of you, essentially handing my over a death sentence, making me look like an idiot, and leaving my own kind without a leader and vulnerable to attack." Kyuubi stated
"But they were only looking out for their own best interests. Isn't it hypocritical for you to damn them for something that you do yourself? Naruto asked
"Kit I'm a demon. Hypocrisy is one of my favorable traits." Kyuubi stated
Naruto sighed "So how do I know that if I agree to this you won't just go attack Konoha anyway for vengeance and find away to destroy it without getting caught by the Yondaime's jutsu?"
"I guess you will never know for sure but if my word means anything I promise that if we do this that I have no intensions of attacking your village again. I would have no reason to. Nobody else would know that the past 19 years ever happened, I'd regain everything I lost being sealed inside you and my mate would probably be going into heat later that week so its safe to say that it wouldn't be in my best interests." Kyuubi reasoned
"That sounds good but how am I going to bring back Sasuke, and defeat the Akatsuki without your help?" Naruto asked
"Well you don't have to look out for the Akatsuki because Madara was the one who started it; also I doubt you have to worry about Sasuke either. During the night of the massacre I was able to feel the presence of Madara coming from the area around the Uchiha compound so chances are he had something to do with it." Kyuubi stated
"Wow, the Uchiha massacre, the Akatsuki, you attacking the village, its hard to believe that one man could do so much damage. It seems like the world would truly be a better place without him." Naruto stated morosely
"It may seem that way now but it might not be true. All those events killed a lot of people. Although you humans usually think of that as a bad thing, all and all it might not be. Not all of the people that he killed were saints. There is a chance that some of them would do more damage than he did or have kids that grew up to do so. When messing with the space-time continuum these are things we must take into account." Kyuubi said
"If things could turn out so horribly then why are we even thinking of doing this; especially if by doing so I have to explode?" said Naruto
"Because you have nothing left. All the people you loved and cared for are dead, the village you grew up in has burned to the ground and as soon as we get to the hideout and Akatsuki extracts me from you your going to be killed. Kit you have nothing." Kyuubi reiterated
"Thanks for the reminder Kyuubs" Naruto stated sarcastically
"The thing is when you have nothing, you have nothing to lose. Oh, and don't worry about the explosion thing. It would happen so fast you won't feel a thing. Just rip the seal off my cage and I'll take care of the rest" Kyuubi said
"Alright then let's do this" Naruto exclaimed as he ripped the seal off of Kyuubi's cage. Kyuubi was right. Naruto didn't feel a thing as his body exploded into a large wave of chakra.