Author's Notes: Be prepared for some weird ass changes as well some possible spoilers (for those who haven't gotten far in the show/manga). This partly follows the series mostly up until the defeat of Pein after that things will branch off eventually moving on to my own idea. Some elements of the canon will remain. The idea of this came from when I saw the episode where Minato and Naruto get to meet for the first time, even though Minato was only an after image of his former self. It was such a bittersweet reunion that I just couldn't leave it alone.

Summary: With a massive catastrophe, killing many, a small team from the future takes an S-Class suicide mission to the past on the goal of altering the future by going back to Naruto's birth, preventing Minato from dying only to send him to the future to help prevent the Fourth Shinobi War from happening. Will the tragic future be diverted in time? MinatoXoc. NarutoXHinata. SasukeXoc. SaiXoc. KakashiXoc.

Thanks to LadySesshy for the permission of using her OC, Reiko, who is later paired with Sai.

Thanks to SasusRedhead for the permission of using her OC, Akari, who is later paired with Sasuke.

Many thanks to my friends, ShadowHachia and Ookamaikai for their wonderful ideas.

Prologue

He couldn't believe he was going to do this. But he, as the Fourth Hokage had to up hold the village's ideals. His wife just gave birth and he never got to hold his son in happiness before it was completely ripped away from when the masked man showed up, threatening to kill his newborn if he didn't move away from his wife who happened to be the vessel for the Nine Tails. The entire night of his son's first hours was scrambling around to save the village and his wife from this masked man, but it was a failure. He was losing both his son and wife at least his son was alive and he knew the Third Hokage would be sure to have him clothed and fed. It was a good thing a trust fund was set up for little Naruto.

Minato had just sealed part of the nine tails inside of himself and now was planning on sacrificing himself to be sure Naruto would know of his past as well as his mother. It was decided, much to Kushina's protests that the two would sacrifice themselves to save their son by locking the nine tails inside of Naruto and locking what was left of their chakra into their son as well so if and when the time would come, and it was sure to happen, Naruto would lose control of he seal, both parents would show up in his mind and tell him all that had happened on the day of his birth.

Minato had to act fast though as he saw the Nine Tails was attacking with a claw. The Nine Tails figured what the new parents were about to do and they were going to try and stop them. It would impale the newborn, leaving nothing but blood and its wake where the child rested.

"No!" Minato cried out as he ran as fast as he could, chakra fading fast because of the amount he used to do his Flying Raijin Jutsu, which he used several times more than normal. The last time he was this weakened was during the last ninja war when he got behind enemy lines and created all sorts of havoc.

"Naruto!" Kushina cried as she too rushed to save her son from being impaled. She was dying anyway and she knew that since the Nine Tails was now free.

Both parents were rushing towards the newborn not knowing something was able to enter the barrier, but was witnessed from the outside by the Third Hokage and a few others. Inside the barrier was a cloaked figure. One couldn't see the face nor what the person behind the cloak was wearing. The cloak was dark in color and reached the ground.

"No!" the former Hokage called out as he couldn't help but ignore the cloaked figure for the moment as he too was watching the infant and his parents. The baby was in danger and his parents were trying to protect the little infant.

"I can't let this happen!" called out a voice from within the barrier, which caught the attention of the Third Hokage.

Thanks to Hiruzen's trained eyes, he was able to see the cloaked figured rushing towards the parents. He barely was able to make out the figure say something else, which sounded a lot like, "There's only one chance! Here goes!"

He observed as the clocked figure pulled out his hand and fired something from within in his hand, shouting, "Winds of Time!"

Minato heard the words but he wasn't in any way going to stop from getting to his son. Sudden pain stung his back as he felt the pressure of a sharp claw begin to pierce his skin. For him it felt like everything was moving in slow motion. His eyes widened, knowing what was happening.

A sudden white flash crossed his vision, enabling him from seeing anything. The white flash was getting brighter and brighter. In that instant, no longer could he feel the claw continue its track into his back, tearing a hole that would no doubt go through him and out the other side to pierce his wife.

"Naruto!" Minato heard his wife cry out.

"Dad, we'll meet again," was the last thing the Fourth Hokage heard before everything vanished around him.

The cloaked figure who fired the sudden ball of light, stood where he was, breathing heavily. "Did I do it?!"

The light slowly faded leaving Kushina pierced by the claw, preventing her son from being killed. Behind her appeared to what look like her husband, but there was something off about him. His eyes weren't glassed over in pain.

"Yes! I did it!" the figure threw a fist in the air. Then he watched for a few minutes as a few tears slid down his cheek. He never truly knew how much the Fourth Hokage sacrificed for his son to live. He gasped then as Kushina then slumped over, dead and what appeared as her husband then disappeared in a puff of smoke. The cloaked figure suddenly collapsed in extreme pain just as the barrier disappeared allowing the Hokage and those around him to move in.

The Hokage's men ran to the infant and his dead mother while the older man himself went to the cloaked figure.

"What's the meaning of this!?" he demanded just as another cloaked figure came out of the bushes. He walked straight over to the fallen cloaked figure.

"I'm sorry about this," spoke the one who was now kneeling before his friend. "But this is a top secret assignment."

"No…" groaned the one on the ground. Weakly he pulled his arms up to lift his body up off the ground. "Sai… help me to stand."

"Of course." The one called 'Sai' helped the other to his feet. The fallen cloaked figure kept his face well hidden while the one known as Sai did not.

"Lord Third Hokage," replied the man in pain. "Listen to me and please try and believe when I say this. My… Minato has been sent somewhere into the future to prevent a disaster from happening a second time. I came back to change what is to become because where we come from, everyone is dead."

"That's impossible! Why can't I see your face?" the Hokage demanded.

"It's to protect his identity," Sai replied.

"Please, I need you to make everyone in the village believe the Fourth Hokage died heroically, saving the entire village from the nine tails. If it weren't for my intervention just now, he would have died anyway. Also…" he winced in pain again. "Where Minato is still alive, people will think he's dead and he'll need something to prove he is who he says he is."

"And why should I believe you?" Being a well trained shinobi, tears were something he couldn't afford. Answers had to be done first. He just lost his wife and now the young man who had was his successor.

"Perhaps I can help with that," replied another voice as he stepped forward and revealed his face to the Hokage, causing the man to gasp in shock.

"How can this be!?" Hiruzen gasped, recognizing the face. "Kakashi... I saw you in the village." But how was this possible?

"Because we are from the future. How far, that I can not tell you," replied the man. "What we can tell you is this is a top secret assignment and it must be followed through everyone in the future depends on this. If this fails then the future will be destroyed. We are the last remaining members of the ninja society where we come from."

"But time travel, it's forbidden," Hiruzen explained.

"That it is," answered Kakashi. "We obtained the jutsu from what was left of Konoha to travel here. Some time in the future there will be a Fourth Shinobi War and with that, will kill everyone and we must stop it."

"What you say is quite the tale." Hiruzen looked up to see what the man bore as a ninja headband. "You do not wear a Leaf headband."

"No," he shook his head.

"But I do..." Keeping his head well covered, the one beneath the cloak, pulled out his headband, showing he was a Leaf shinobi.

"Lord Third," Kakashi began. "Perhaps we can discuss this at a better time. The village was just attacked and Lord Fourth has, in all tense and purposes, been killed by the Nine Tails. Why we are here, can probably wait."

Hiruzen turned back to the corpse of Kushina Uzumaki and the crying infant. He sighed. "Yes." He then turned back to Kakashi. "Remain here until I return. With the Fourth Hokage gone, this village will fall apart."

"Not if you take back the control of being Hokage. You are the Third Hokage after all."

"Yes, I am."

"I urge you though, not to discuss this with anyone, not even with Danzo or the counsel. The less who know the better."

"Then why tell me?"

"Because you're the only we can trust at this point."

With that said, the Hokage moved away from the cloaked figures and worked on dealing with the infant who was now an orphan and bared the sealed nine tails in his body who would grow up with no friends until he was 12 when he'd graduate from the academy.

Edited: February 27, 2017