Disclaimer: I don't own Naruto in any way, Kishimoto does.

Some Things Just Don't Change

Chapter 1

The candle's fire flickered as I painted in some Japanese symbols on a scroll with chakra infused ink. I could use the lights that actually run on electricity, but I found the dancing flame somewhat comforting when I make my scrolls. I guess it reflected on the same habit I had when I just had a reading light on when I programmed on my long gone computer. Fuinjutsu is quite similar to programming after all, except it doesn't have the classes, the methods, the variables, the actual typing involved... But it's close enough. Once someone in this universe create computers, I will spend my hard earned money to buy one or wait for laptops.

How I got here? It's a long story. A story I don't even understand myself. Somehow, somehow I'm in this universe. Sure, I could make the excuse of how I got crushed by a car, and reincarnation got me here, but… It isn't that simple. I've thought through many possibilities, but I don't think it'll ever be possible for me to confirm any of them.

(5)

The only thing I'm 90% sure about is that the last thing I remembered when I was in my own universe was trying to fall asleep. I guess I could be in a strange dream that I'm forever stuck in, but with everything that has happen so far, I don't think a human brain can create something as detailed as this world. No human brain can create a plot that actually makes sense. Sure I've spent a good portion of my childhood reading the manga, watching some of the anime, and drawing pictures of the Akatsuki, but my brain isn't capable of creating a world of specific consequences, the physics it has, and I haven't seen random clowns popping out of nowhere to haunt me, so... Definitely not a dream.

I yawned as painted the last stroke. My storage scroll was complete and there's no reason to think about it since it happened a long time ago. I glanced at my window; the wind was causing it to rattle a tiny bit, but I was outside a few minutes ago, and there was just a light breeze that couldn't move a simple window, which mean there are other causes to it… A silver-haired cause.

I threw my paintbrush on the table creating another black ink stain. I guess it couldn't hurt. His chakra signature is present.

"Hey Kakashi, what's up?" I called out. It was silent for a few seconds, maybe he isn't here... Until the sound of my window opening confirmed my assumption, "Was making your presence known like that really necessary?" He could use something called a door. It's made out of wood, and can open. Usually used to, you know, enter someone's house.

Kakashi's head popped in as he used one hand to climb in and in the other hand was his favorite series, Icha Icha. (3)

"Hey, hey, don't be so rude Hoshi, how else am I supposed to enter your house, using your door?" Kakashi replied as if he read my mind about my frustrations with his entrance.

"Yes. I don't want you walking in my house, triggering my alarm seals, and then having me accidentally maim you in some way thinking you were an enemy nin." I have a freaking sword, and I don't want him to find him on it.

Kakashi decided to invite himself on my couch, and then he shrugged, "You don't have to worry for my well-being. Relax."

He's asking me to relax? After Ob- I mean He-Who-I'd-Like-Not-To-Name was crushed and then brainwashed to take chase some frilly dream? After the nine-tailed fox attack? After Minato-sensei and Kushina was freaking killed? Fuck, I should've been able to stop it... I don't want anything to happen to Kakashi either. Even worse, most likely because of me. I shouldn't have been even born into this universe. (And looking back on this, I seem to still have issues I need to work out…)

Kakashi seem to have detected where my thoughts were going since he strolled next to me and patted my back, "Hey, things aren't what they used to be, and that's a good thing, we may have lost Minato-sensei, Kushina-san, and Rin-san, but we're still alive, carrying on their will, and that's what matters." He wisely avoided his name. (Shit, it just makes me so pissed thinking about it, was it really that unavoidable?)

I took a few deep breaths. He was right. I shouldn't freak out over this… But they were my closest friends, despite two of them being older than me by quite a few years… (Kashina-San, if you can hear me, please don't kill me). I repeated 'some' of this out loud, "You're right."

Kakashi chuckled, "Of course I'm right," and he went right back to sprawling himself over my couch. At this point, I'm starting to think I don't own that stupid couch anymore, "Anyways Hoshi, I've came to you to ask you to help me administer the bell test with me."

What…?

"Why? You've never asked me to help you with that before." He's planning something, isn't he? He's going to pretend there's a bell test, and then 12 hours later he comes by and tells me it was canceled.

It wasn't the first time he did something quite similar… The last time he did something like this was when he told me there was an important meeting between him, the Hokage, and me. The Hokage didn't know about it, but decided to wait with me anyways thinking it was something severely important. Freaking 5 hours later, Kakashi comes strolling in and says, 'Here's my mission report.' At that point we were prettyyyy pissed.

Kakashi's eyes pouted, "Hoshi! How can you distrust your old friend! I actually do have to administer a genin test tomorrow! I thought since we took the bell test together before, we should give it out together now! Besides, Naruto and the Uchiha's on that team."

Wait what? Naruto's twelve already? I mean sure, I used to stalk him with Kakashi a lot… But jeez, time went by quick with all the missions I had in between.

"Naruto has definitely grown up in an interesting way. He wants to be the Hokage," Kakashi nonchalantly said, still looking down on his book. I smiled at this. I'm really glad that Naruto still wants to be Hokage. No one else deserves it as much as he does, "Uchiha Sasuke wants revenge on Itachi for what he's done."

"Jeez, the Uchiha are an emotional bunch..." I commented.

"The team dynamics should also be interesting, Naruto and Sasuke seem to strongly dislike each other, and there's also a third one who seems to be obsessive with the Uchiha," Kakashi's eyes crinkled in amusement. Probably thinking of ways to torture my favorite ninja team… He continued, "It kind of reminds me of the old times."

…Oh no, he did not just, he-he just imply that I was a fan girl… No… No… No, no, no. Not a fan girl, fuck, I thought I promised to myself not to be in anyway a fucking fan girl... Sakura was already annoying enough in the Manga and Anime. (4) Besides I was never obsessive with... Well I was super obsessive with Kakashi and Obito. I kind of spent a good time of their childhood trying to get them to be best friends. But that doesn't mean I'm a freaking fangirl!

Right before I threw a shuriken at him, (don't worry, I knew he was able to dodge it.) he quickly ninja'd his way out to the window and called out, "See ya tomorrow!" as he waved two fingers goodbye. He jumped out Batman styled and ran off to who knows where.

That son of a bitch. (No offense to Kakashi's mother, who I've never actually met… But I'm sure she's way nicer than Kakashi himself.)

Now I had to think about what I was going to do… I walked to the wall opposite from my bed and gazed at the large sealing scroll I had up for "aesthetics", but it actually held my notes. (1) Sure this action seem to be pointless, but it had been years since I watched/read Naruto. I barely remember anything. If you want an approximation of how long it's been, it's been more than 20 years. Jeez, what do you guys expect out of me?

I placed my hand on the circular drawing part of the scroll and released some chakra into it. Just the right amount, to make sure that the smoke wouldn't appear. (2) My large collection of notes then clunked onto the ground. The good thing is, to prevent bits of paper flying out, I used a string to keep everything together. The hardest part is just tying everything back up, so it isn't too much of a hassle anyway.

It was actually getting really late at this point, but it doesn't matter, the more information I had to be prepared the better. I flipped through the pages for – Team Kakashi – Bell Test 1 – and giggled a tiny bit as I read through the crooked handwriting that described the moment where Kakashi used his secret jutsu. Nothing particularly life threatening, and the best part yet, Kakashi will be in a full Mess-With-All mode. This will perhaps be more entertaining in person.

/* (1) The notes. A series of notebooks that has all the information I could think of regarding the Narutoverse. From Hashirama to Boruto. It used to be completely out of order, but I managed to organize it by all the members of Team 7. Though I started out with Hashirama's and Madara's history where they didn't have any type of Shinobi village structure. (But honestly I didn't know too much about it.) */

/* (2) The freaking smoke. It's actually really annoying. I've always thought that the smoke was just a normal side effect of using any jutsu… It turned out that it was either just wasted chakra or a shroud to catch enemy nins by surprised… Which is also why in the anime, whenever Naruto's clones get hit, there would be a smoke aftereffect and also that really annoying sound afterwards. Kakashi uses excess chakra for the fucking fun of it… But then again on my extremely happy days where I'm 110% sure I won't get attacked, I do too. Though it does make really good distraction. You use excess chakra, create shroud of waster chakra then boom, switch with a log behind them without them noticing and beat the shit out of them. (Sorry for rambling.) */

/* (3) Kakashi's Obsession. He's legitimately obsessed with those books, if anyone at home is wondering if this was all an act to make him seem weaker, sure it adds to that illusion he's been building for quite a few years, but his obsession is no act. Honestly, it's kind of hilarious, and that very thought makes me chuckle a bit every time. */

/* (4) Uncertainty. I'm actually not sure if this world is based on the anime or the manga. I mean if it's based on the anime, I'm pretty much screwed, I've never seen the ending to it due to the fact that the Naruto anime seem to never end. So much subplot, so much in between, so much content yearning for fans to keep watching as the team that creates the anime gets more money. Nothing wrong with that, especially since Naruto is a pretty amazing story, but the ending could've really helped me here. I really hope it's based on the manga, this way I can avoid any issues made by the anime. */

/* (5) Introduction. I seem to forget to introduce myself. I'm Nara Hoshi, and I used to live in an English-speaking country. I don't really live up to my last name since I barely know any shadow techniques, but at least I've got Fuinjutsu, am I right? */

(Note to whoever may get there hands on these particular notes*…Sorry for those who are super OCD, whenever I reread my notes I always feel like I have to add something, so the numbering is out of order.)

*Not a fucking diary, a recollection of events that just happens to have my opinions. You see? There aren't any dates on the top or anything that says, "Dear fucking Diary…" Also Kakashi, if you're reading this, you can go fuck yourself.

ACTUAL AUTHOR NOTES: Welp there's that. I'm not so sure how the formatting is going to come out on this website, but if it comes out bad, I'll just fix it or something. I hope whoever reads this enjoyed it. Also, if anyone has any questions, I'll try to answer them depending on what they are. Or I'll even make questions up and make the main character answer them for you. (Way to go Science, thinking way too ahead)

I'm kind of upset they won't allow you to use double slashes, but I found an alternative.

Also if you find any errors, please tell me. Autocorrect hates me and hates Japan.

And for whoever likes statistics as much as I do:

Word Count: 2,391

Character Count (W/ Spaces): 9,390

Character Count (W/out Spaces): 7,642

Time Taken: Too long

Paragraph Count: I'm too lazy for this

Possibility of Continuation: Depends on the small amount of motivation I have

Possibility of Drawing OC: Sure, if enough people asks