Tile: Right the Wrong.
Author: Akinos
Summary: -AU- 10 years after the 4th great shinobi war, there nothing left in the world. Naruto sacrificed his life to in a desperate attempt to send his friends back in time. Now in the past, his friends must change their future to right the wrong.
Pairing: NaruHinaSaku.
Rate: M
Warning: OOC, violence and lot of thing that has to do with rate M, this is a ninja world after all.
Disclaimer: I do NOT Naruto.
Kamizumishinji help me beta this chapter, so thank you very much.
Chapter 1: A little prologue of the time before the team travel back to the past.
==== Prologue ====
They say the last moments of a person's life are the longest. He found it hard to believe until his time had almost come. In those few last seconds of his life, time seemed to slow down and freeze, and all noise seemed so distant. All he could see were the faces of his friends. The surviving ninja of the once-proud Konohagakure.
Sakura and Ino stood together, silver tears falling softly and swiftly as they wept. Tsunade stood to the side, fists clenched in unrelenting rage and regret, eyes screwed shut in a desperate attempt to stem the tears threatening to overwhelm her. Shikamaru, Neji, Gaara and Anko had their arms held loosely at their sides, clearly distraught over the sacrifice their blond muddlehead was about to make. Izumo and Kotetsu held an irate and bawling Kiba back, preventing him from launching himself at a certain blue eyed hero.
Ten people. All expressed it differently, but each carried the same sad and determined look in their eyes. They wanted to stay with him. He would have nothing of it. He would not make any more mistakes. There had been so much he had missed, so much he time wasted. And he regretted all of it.
The fourth great shinobi war had stared ten years ago leaving destruction and death in its path. Said war had ended three weeks ago, but there was nothing left. Only lingering memories of better days. Every single village had been utterly destroyed. In the ruins, there lay no one. There was nothing to be rebuilt. There was no one to protect. He couldn't save anyone. In those ten bloody years of warring, so many had been killed. So many.
It took a grueling week after the war to dig up scraps of the Yondaime's old research that had thankfully been spared the ravages of war. The next two weeks were spent completing the most dangerous, and prized jutsu his father had left behind. The jutsu that its creator-the fabled Yondaime Hokage, couldn't complete.
In the ruins of Konoha, he found a house with a relatively intact floor and drew the seal he completed in his own blood. It took him ten long days to complete the large seal, which had to be big enough to carry the ten precious people he had remaining back to the past.
He only told everyone about it once the seal was complete. They were elated about the prospects it brought until the price of this wondrous miracle was made known. They had threatened him, begged him, cried, groveled, pleaded and reasoned with him, but he remained resolute. They would go, and he would remain to pay the price.
Forcing them within the seal's circle, he flew through handseals and touched the outermost of the seal. A blinding light engulfed his friends as he collapsed slowly to the ground.
The light from the seal slowly disappeared, gone with it, his precious people. They would all go back and change the future, or was that supposed to be his past now? He didn't care anymore. Glancing at the warm bundle in his arms, he drew in a deep breath His wife. The only one had stayed behind with him despite his many arguments and tears. Her breath, like his, was slow and raspy, but her delicate features were peaceful. Looking at him lovingly, she gave him one last beautiful smile before her gentle lavender eyes closed for the last time. He stroked her soft cheek slowly, savoring the warmth that had yet to leave her body. Holding his dead wife closer, he closed his eyes as he felt the life seep out of himself.
'That's okay,' he thought to himself vaguely 'I'll be with her again. Everything's going to be alright now.'
His last act was to kiss his wife gently.
His last jutsu brought his friends back to the past.
His last jutsu cost him his life, and that of his wife.
==== TBC ====
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