Hey everyone! I'm back with another story. This is my first attempt at a multi-chaptered fanfiction, so no flames, and please read and review.
Disclaimer: I sadly, do not own anything from Naruto. Not for lack of trying though...
Chapter 1: Back to the Past
"Naruto look out!" screamed a pink haired kunoichi.
Uzumaki Naruto turned, eyes widening almost comically as a bright light enveloped him. Bursts of pure agony ran through his body, it felt like he was being impaled on kunai and shuriken that were dipped in acid. 'I'm going to die.' Thought Naruto sadly, as he turned to where the tampered Hiraishin seal was. He smiled forlornly when he saw his three friends desperately trying to fix the seal.
Nara Shikamaru. Konoha's Lazy Genius, top strategist and negotiator, and Naruto's best friend.
Haruno Sakura. Apprentice to Senju Tsunade, Konoha's Deadly Beauty, and Naruto's childhood crush.
Hatake Kakashi. Naruto's sensei, Sharingan-no-Kakashi, a man listed in the top slot in bingo books all around the Elemental Nations. A man Naruto thought of as his older brother.
"Well looks like this is it. It was a pleasure fighting with you.
Shikamaru desperately shook his head. "No Naruto! W-we'll find a way. We gotta find a way..." Shikamaru tried in vain to hold back the tears that were threatening to fall.
"Do me a favour and don't let my Ichiraku coupons go to waste. Nothing worse than wasting free ramen,-ttebayo!" said Naruto with a chuckle.
And with that, Uzumaki Naruto, the dearly loved Rokudaime Hokage of Konoha, vanished.
'Goodbye...Naruto-kun.', thought Kakashi, a single tear running down his face.
"Minato-sensei! I can see Konoha's gates!" yelled an excited Uchiha Obito.
"Slow down loser. The only way you can see it because of your Sharingan. We are still two hours away." said a masked teen.
"Don't call me a loser you asshole!" screamed Obito, launching himself at Kakashi.
The third Genin, and the only female in the group, Nohara Rin, stepped between the two shinobi. "BOYS! ENOUGH!" She smacked them both on the back of the head, causing the two boys to stumble forward a bit.
"Owww, Rin-chan! What was that for?!" whined Obito. "Kakashi-teme started it!"
Seeing that Rin was about to explode, the Genin teams Jounin sensei, Namikaze Minato stepped in.
"Now, now children, behave. We're almost home." He said cheerfully, looking completely unconcerned that his Genin were about to kill each other. "If you don't stop fighting then I will assign you D-ranks until the Chunin exams." He added, effectively shutting all three teenagers up.
"Hmph." snorted Obito, crossing his arms and looking away.
The team continued on in a silence that was occasionally broken by snippets of conversation between the three Jounin as they talked about the mission.
The Rouran mission squad consisted of Namikaze Minato's Genin team – Uchiha Obito, Nohara Rin, and Hatake Kakashi- and two other Jonin, Nara Shikaku and Akimichi Chouza.
Suddenly, Kakashi stopped, peering into the forest to their right with a frown. Minato noticed, and asked "Kakashi? What's up?"
Everyone stopped and looked at the silver haired teen. Obito was about to tease him, but noticing the 'I'm-dead-serious-don't-fuck-with-me-right-now-or- I-will-seriously-injure-you' look on Kakashi's face, he grew serious himself.
"I can smell someone injured out there." said Kakashi. "There's a lot of blood. He or she was probably in a fight, and the people this person was fighting are probably still around."
"Well let's help them then, and if anybody attacks, we'll put up one hell of a fight!" yelled Obito, before heading off into the forest.
"Baka! Wait for Kakashi-kun to show us where to go!" shouted Rin exasperatedly before heading after them.
"Tch, troublesome kids." muttered Shikaku. Chouza and Minato both sighed at their fellow shinobi's behaviour.
Kakashi led the group to a clearing. The light tinkling of a fast moving stream was broken by the heavy gasping of the man that lay unconscious in the middle of the clearing.
The man was clearly a shinobi, with a tall, lean body that most shinobi could only dream of. He was around 6'2, with bright blonde - yellow, really - hair, and an angular face with high cheekbones. The only markings he had on his face were three whisker-like markings in each cheek. He wore loose black pants tucked into steel toed combat boots. He wore a form fitting black shirt on top of a standard steel mesh shirt. On top of his combat clothes, he wore a white robe with an orange flame pattern along the bottom. Normally these clothes would have looked magnificent, but now they were tattered and frayed, with large gashes in the cloth that came from multiple sharp weapons. Most of his body was covered in blood, so much in fact, that it seemed like a miracle to the other shinobi that he was even alive.
"Oh Kami!" gasped Rin "We need to get him to Konoha!"
She moved forward to use some of her medical jutsu. She was still in training , so ishe wasn't sure how much good she would really do. Before she could move more than a couple steps, Kakashi stopped her.
"Wait. We need to check if he's an enemy."
"He isn't." said Obito. "Look, he has a Leaf headband."
Minato walked up to the blonde ninja. He appeared to be around 20, a year younger than Minato himself. Shifting his clothes, he gasped when he saw all of the ninja's injuries were healed. "What the hell?" he murmured in wonder.
"It appears he has advanced healing abilities, probably from a bloodline or something. We are definitely going to have to bring him back to Konoha. Tch, troublesome." muttered Shikaku.
"Oh don't be such a lazyass." said Chouza, cheerfully whacking the Nara on the back. "Besides, he looks too skinny." He added.
Shikaku snorted. "Yeah just because he isn't big and beefy. I swear you're like my grandmother. Always trying to stuff people with food."
"Hey! I resent that! I'm not old!" laughed Chouza.
Minato, Obito, and Rin all tried in vain to hold back their laughter. Even Kakashi cracked a small smile at the older ninja's antics, before choking back his laughter and saying, "Um guys? Can we focus on the half dead ninja here?"
"Not exactly half dead kid. More like wondering how the freaking hell I'm still alive. And where am I?"
They all turned to see the mysterious ninja slowly sitting up and looking around, blinking owlishly.
"You're almost two hours away from Konoha." said Minato.
The shinobi turned and looked at the Namikaze for the first time, and jerked backwards with a gasp, and then a pained groan at jostling his sore body.
"W-what the-...y-you're the-...Holy s-shit..." stuttered the younger blonde.
Eyebrows rose as everyone stared at the speechless blonde.
"Oh great, another Minato-sensei fanboy." mumbled Obito. Rin promptly elbowed him in the ribs.
The blonde ninja looked around, first at Shikaku and Chouza, then at Team Minato. His eyes widened even more when he saw Kakashi.
'Wow. Kakashi-sensei sure was a shrimp...' thought Naruto dazedly.
"Hey-do you have any injuries we haven't seen?" asked Rin. She was worried because the man was too pale for his own good and he looked like he was going to faint.
Ignoring the kunoichi's question, he asked "Who's the Hokage?"
"Why?" asked Minato suspiciously. He was starting to think the blonde shinobi was a bit crazy, or suffering from some form of a severe stress disorder. Who didn't know who the five Kage were? And he had a Leaf headband tied around his forehead. 'Maybe he stole it...but why?'
"Just answer the question!" yelled the blonde man. "Please?" he asked, a hint of desperation worming its way into his voice.
"The Sandaime Hokage is currently in power." answered Shikaku slowly.
"For how long?"
"15 years." said Kakashi.
"So then..." the blonde man looked up at them with narrowed eyes."This is 20 years ago..."
Getting more and more confused at the blonde mans mumblings, Minato asked, "Alright can you please explain why you look like you were dragged through the seven levels of hell? And why are you muttering about this being 20 years ago?" He hadn't meant to sound so annoyed, but they had just come back from one of their toughest missions yet and he was just so damn tired!
So the blonde spent the next ten minutes explaining how he was from the future, and how he had been fighting a powerful opponent when he attempted to use a Hiraishin. At this Minato's eyes had gone wide. 'He know the Hiraishin?! But very few people have the body type for space/time jutsu's like this. And when they do share body types they're usual...ly...they're usually...family. Who ARE you?' Tuning back into the blonde's story, he heard the man say that the most probable reason he was even in their time was because the Hiraishin seal had been tampered at the last second by the enemy. The Rouran mission squad sat in shock for a few minutes, trying to analyze everything they heard.
Obito, wanting to break the heavy silence asked, "Sooooo weird ninja from the future" here he dodged Rin's elbow to the ribs, "what's your name?"
The blonde chuckled a bit nervously. "Hehe, sorry I probably should've introduced myself. My name is Uzumaki Naruto."
Thank you for reading! Again this is my first attempt at any kind of multi-chaptered fic so please review. Any feedback or suggestions will be much appreciated. :-D
I will make a point of putting up a new chapter every Friday.
Toodles!