Here is another story that I felt had to be done. I hope that you will enjoy this story, cause I have a feeling that this could actually be a very good story.
In her office sat the Sixth Hokage filling out the paperwork of a dying shinobi village. After the death of Naruto Uzumaki, who was to be the Sixth Hokage, Sakura Haruno was named the Sixth Hokage out of sheer desperation of the village.
Naruto's death had left a deep wound in the village of Konoha; no one ever knew how much he meant to them until his death. Morale was at an all time low, missions weren't coming into the village as they used to, and without Naruto many villages began attacking the Konoha. Cloud, Iwa, and Sound formed an alliance to take down Konoha, shortly after the fall of the village's hero, the one who held the demon Kyuubi at bay Naruto.
"I can't believe that he's gone," says a depressed Sakura. "He died just to save me, a worthless medic. He should be the Hokage, not me," Sakura says guilt heavily laced in her voice.
Flashback
In the Hokage's office sat Naruto as Tsunade prepared him for his future position as Hokage. Excitement was building in the village, as everyone prepared for the big ceremony and for the party afterwards for the newly appointed Hokage.
"LORD HOKAGE," shouts out an ANBU as he burst into the room unannounced. Turning their heads to ANBU that had just interrupted their lesson; both gasped as they saw his injuries. "THE MISSION IT WAS AN AMBUSH!"
Not even thinking Naruto takes off out of the village to save his friends. Running as fast as his legs would let him, Naruto begins a series of hand seals "Summoning Jutsu," shouts out the future Hokage, as a blast of smoke fills the air. As the smoke clears we see Naruto standing on top of Gamabunta, the boss of the Frog Summoning Contract.
"All right brat, what do you need me for this time," bellows out Gamabunta.
"Hurry boss, we need to get there, NOW," shouts out the blond shinobi pointing to the general area of where his friends should be.
"Alright, hang on," Gamabunta says as he launches off in his long toad leaps, cutting down the time it took to get there to virtually nothing.
Arriving at the seen Naruto's blood ran cold, the team that was sent on the mission was destroyed, and nothing was left of them. Except for one medic Nin who was using her insanely strong strength to keep her enemy back.
"SAKURA," the blond haired shinobi shouts out, charging towards the nearest enemy Nin to help out one of his closest friends.
End Flashback
That was the mission that he had died on; one of the ninjas had somehow sneaked up behind her. As he brought his blade up in the air, ready to remove her head, Naruto using his inhuman like speed appeared behind Sakura and stopped the blade with one of his kunai.
As the Nin was pushing with all of his might trying to push Naruto back with his sword, Naruto was doing the same with his kunai. That's when it happened, the shinobi who Naruto was fighting before threw a kunai at him. And that was how it ended for Naruto, a kunai in the back.
Not long after this reinforcements appeared causing the enemy shinobi to retreat. It was confirmed at 19:00, that Naruto Uzumaki Namikaze had fallen in battle against enemy forces.
When the funeral was held, everyone that Naruto had ever meet in the shinobi world, attended to pay their respects for one of the greatest ninjas to ever live. The mourning lasted for a whole month, black banners with the Uzumaki and the Namikaze symbols on them were hanged all over the village in respect for Naruto.
It was shortly after that the council in sheer desperation, decided that Sakura was their only choice left, since she was trained by Tsunade and all. There was no ceremony, just Sakura being handed the Hokage Robes, along with the keys to her office.
Shortly after that, everything went to hell. With the constant attacks caused by Sound and its allies, Konoha forces were dwindling and dwindling fast. It only took a few months for Konoha forces to drop to just a handful of Chuunin and Jounin.
Everyone knew that Konoha would fall, there was nothing to save it: no Fourth Hokage, no Third Hokage, no Tsunade, and no Naruto Uzumaki Namikaze.
"I have to save the village," Sakura says to herself determined. "I have to do it to honor his memory, and I will not let him down."
"CHA, WE WON'T LET HIM DOWN HE'S OUR LITTLE BROTHER!" shout out inner Sakura, who had begun to see Naruto as a little brother after he had returned from his training trip with Jiraiya of the sannin.
"I know but what can we do? There's almost nothing left of our ninja forces, and Suna has been completely cut off from us." Sakura tells her inner self.
"YEA, but we still have to try and do something, doing nothing will get nothing done!"
"Maybe there's a jutsu in the forbidden scroll that can help us?"
"Yea, there might be something there that might be useful."
As she poured over the scroll she noticed a few things. "Sexy Jutsu and Harem Jutsu are both on here; Naruto did have a knack for creating very effective, highly unorthodox jutsus."
"They're still perverted," grumbles out inner Sakura.
"But still very useful," Sakura says.
"Hey look at this, The Halls of Time is a jutsu that allows the user to travel back in time, however it is not known if the jutsu was has ever been successfully used before."
"I wonder why it was never used successfully before."
"Probably because if someone went back in time to change it, then would be no record of it happening would exist either. And if someone did try to claim that they traveled back in time, they probably end up in an asylum.
"Yea, you're probably right on that one."
"Ok let's see what else they have on the jutsu here, all right this jutsu requires yatta, yatta, yatta, and whoa that is a lot of chakra. I don't even think Naruto could ever produce that much!"
"So what are we going to do?"
"Let me think. What can I do? Ahhh," Sakura screams out in frustration.
"Hey I got it!"
"Got what?"
"You know that there are seals that can be used to store chakra right?"
"Yes I know that; but where are you going with this?"
"You can use a seal to store a hell of a lot of chakra, and then you can use that chakra to use the jutsu."
"That's genius!"
"Let's do this thing!"
It took a total of five days to draw the seal that would hold all of the chakra required to do the jutsu. The reason it took five days was because; Sakura was not a master of sealing, she only knew the basics of it. It took her a while to settle on a design that she felt comfortable with, it took even longer for her to do some small tests to see how large the seal would need to be, and it took her a day or two of practice before she decided it was time to do it for real.
The seal wasn't that complicated of a seal, most Jounin knew how to use these type of seals. It was a basic storage seal that was modified to hold chakra. Using what little knowledge she had of seals, she was able to draw out the seal on the floor in the Hokage's office.
"I should tell them," Sakura tells herself.
After a few minutes all of the shinobi forces and what was left of the Village Council were gathered in the council chambers. The rookie nine were dead along with team Gai, all of them fell in combat in some act of bravery, except for her the only one left.
"Lady Hokage what have you summoned us for," asks one of the councilmen.
"As you all know Konoha will fall," Sakura tells them all.
"We all know that," shouts one of the jounin. "But what are we going to do about it?"
"It's not what we are, it's what am I going to do about it," answers Sakura looking into the eyes of her shinobi noticing the look of defeat in their eyes.
"What are you talking about ma'am?"
"I have discovered a jutsu that allows the user to travel back in time."
"So were going back in time? What good, will that do?" shouts out some of the ninja.
"If we can send someone back in time, then we can prevent many of these things from happening" was the answer that they got from their Hokage.
"So who are we going to send back," asks someone from the council.
"Me, I was there when it all started, my personal knowledge of those events far surpass everyone else's. And as I said if this works then all this will have never have happened."
"You know that if you change things you won't be the Hokage anymore," one of the council members says.
A small depressed smile appears on their Hokage's face. "I was never meant to be the Hokage, and I'll gladly give it up to save the village. My only goal in life was to prove my usefulness as a kunoichi, that was my dream after Sasuke left," she replies.
"What do us to do Lord Hokage," all the shinobi say in unison going down to one knee to show their loyalty, and how well they agreed with her plan to save them all.
"This jutsu requires an immense amount of chakra, to get past this obstacle I have come up with the plan of using a seal that will allow us to store up a large amount of chakra, so that it won't draw on my reserves."
"How come you don't want to use you chakra ma'am?"
"The jutsu is not all that accurate from what I can tell from the description, the more chakra you use for the jutsu the further back you go. Since there is no real way of telling where I would end up, I would need to be at full strength. There's something else, after I use the jutsu I want you to destroy all of the scrolls in my office. So that all of this has been in vain, we can al least had a proud death just like our friends," replies Sakura as she looks to the heavens expecting to see her friends smiling down on her.
"Yes ma'am," shouts out all of the proud shinobi of Konoha, The Village Hidden in the Leaves, in unison.
"All right let's do this," Sakura shouts out pumping a fist in the air mimicking her long lost teammate, causing al of them in the room to be filled with a determination that they have never felt before.
Nodding there heads, they all head towards her office ready to use their chakra to charge up the seal. As they arrived in the room they noticed a large but simple seal covering the whole entire floor of the office.
"Now all I need you to do is to channel as much chakra as you can in the seal, but before you do please take these." Sakura says as she hands them Akimichi food pills.
"Where did you get these," asks one of the chuunin.
"Chouji gave them to me before his death; now take this so that we have enough chakra to do the jutsu."
"RIGHT," they all shout out as each one take at least three pills apiece.
"Now remember you are to pump in as much chakra as possible," receiving a nod of confirmation from her men she continues, "and then you are to destroy all of the scrolls even The Forbidden Scroll of Sealing."
"Yes ma'am," answers one of the jounin.
"Good, now please stand back I don't want any of you to get caught up in this jutsu," she says as she begins a long series of hand seals. Landing on the last hand seal she shouts out, "HALLS OF TIME JUTSU!"
It was a quite night for Konoha, the festival which was held every year on the tenth of October to celebrate the defeat of the Kyuubi had ended just an half an hour ago as everyone was returning home to get a good nights sleep. As it was said before it was a quite peaceful night in the village, except for one little boy whose birthday just so happened to be today the boy's was Naruto, and he is currently running for his life.
Why he was running for his life, the answer was simple there was an entire mob chasing him with anything that could be used as a weapon. Running as fast as fast as he could, the four year old child took down the streets heading towards the Hokage Tower.
Sadly he would never make it as a villager threw a rock at him hitting him in the back of the head; causing him to cry out in pain, as he fall face first into the ground. Like a pack of wild animals they surround the poor boy all of them readying their so called weapons.
"This is what you deserve."
"You monster," shouts a woman.
"You're going to pay for all the pain you caused us!"
These were the shouts of the villagers as they began to brutally beat the young defenseless child. The lynch mob did whatever they could to hurt the small boy either by cutting him, kicking, punching, stomping on his body, and even going as far as to hitting him with whatever they had at the time.
"What did I do to you?" Naruto asks the mob as tears roll down his face, pain could be seen radiating from his eyes.
"Nothing but being a-"
The man will never be able to finish his words because of a kunai buried deep in his throat. Looking to where the blade had come from, everyone sees a woman standing on a roof of a building that is behind Naruto. The woman had pink hair, green eyes that were filled with a type of determination that hasn't been seen since the Fourth Hokage, and in her hand was another kunai just itching to be thrown to next person who dared hurt the young child.
"Get out of here NOW," shouts out the enraged woman.
"WHY SHOULD WE," bellows out a drunken villager.
"Maybe it would be better if I show you," the woman tells them as she jumps high into the air raising her right leg, bringing it down into an axe kick.
BOOM!
An earthquake shakes the whole village, causing all of the villagers to scramble to safety from this monster of a woman. Turning her head she notices the boy who she had saved starring at her with fear evident in his eyes.
"Don't hurt me," screams out Naruto curling up into a tight ball, hoping to protect himself from this woman.
Seeing this come from her unbreakable teammate brought great pain to her heart, as if someone took a kunai to her heart and twisted the blade intensifying the pain.
"Naruto, I'm here to help you," she says softly holding her hands out flat with the palms facing upwards to show she wasn't going to hit him. "See, I'm not going to hurt you," she continues to say as she starts to slowly walk towards the small blond hair child.
Naruto watches this woman closely; looking into her eyes he notices that there is no deceit in them. Deciding to trust this woman for a while he says, "Thank you for saving me."
"You don't need to thank me, Naruto," she says kneeling down next to the boy, noticing how closely he watched her waiting for her to hit him. Going through a quick set of hand seals for a simple medic jutsu, she notices Naruto flinching expecting an attack, she says, "Naruto, I'm here to help okay."
Nodding his head, Naruto lowers his guard a little, but not completely. Watching the woman bring her hands to the heavily damaged areas of his body, he notices a calm caring feeling radiating through his body, as his wounds begin to magically heal. Naruto begins to drift off to sleep, knowing that for now he can trust this woman.
"There you go, all better," she says not knowing that Naruto is asleep. Not hearing a response from the child, she looks at his face and smiles seeing him sleeping. Seeing such a peaceful expression on his face made the moment bittersweet for her.
Deciding it would be in Naruto's best interest if she took him to the Hokage Tower, she scoops him up gently in her arms holding his body as close to her as possible. Naruto begins to snuggle in her wanting to be warm, and the comfort of being held by someone who cares for you brought. Snuggling his face in the crook of her face Naruto barely says above a whisper, "mommy?"
Hearing this cause Sakura to freeze in shock, deciding to take over inner Sakura speaks through her in a kind caring quite voice, "Yes Naruto, mommy's here."
Rubbing his back in a soothing manner, she begins her walk to the Hokage Tower.
"Why did you say that," she mentally screams at her inner self.
"Why I did that, well duh he needs a mom Sakura. And you made a promise to yourself to help Naruto in anyway possible," her inner self shouts back.
"But I don't even know how to be a mom," she replies.
"Well if you ask me, I say what you did back there was considered motherly."
"What are you talking about, I just did what I thought what was best for Naruto," she tells her inner self
"See that's exactly what a mom does; remember what your mom told you. She said 'being a mother is the most challenging but rewarding job there is, you never know what to do. But you do what you think is right and pray that you are'."
"Yea, but-"
"No buts, you're his mom now like it or not."
"Well I always did wonder what it would be like to be a mother, and Naruto certainly deserves one."
"That's the spirit."
"This is going to be a long night," Sakura tells herself as she continues to walk towards the Hokage Tower, doing whatever she could to mentally prepare herself for the role of a mother.
Well there it is for you. I would greatly appreciate any comments that you have on the story. If you're wondering why I wrote this, simple writers block. So I decided to work on another one of my stories, and I felt that this one was ready to have the first chapter put out. And before any of you ask, yes Naruto will be the sixth Hokage by the end of this story instead of Sakura. That's why she went back in time, to make sure that Naruto becomes the Hokage.