Prologue: What did we miss?
Minato's POV
I didn't expect this. Not at all. However, let's start at the beginning…
Flashback no Jutsu
"Sensei, how far are we now?" Obito whined at me after an hour and a half of tree-hopping. "Shut up, dobe. Do you really don't know if we're near the village?" Kakashi (obviously) snapped back, even if the question wasn't directed at him. "WHO asked YOU, teme?" "You shouldn't whine. You're a shinobi." "I wasn't asking YOU that question! I wanted to know for sure!" "Hn. As if…"
"ENOUGH!" I finally shouted. Really, they shouldn't argue like this. Not after two years and a half of knowing each other. "Kakashi, don't snap at Obito!" the silver-haired boy ducked his head, while the other snickered. I felt my left eye twitch. "Obito, DON'T argue with Kakashi!" The Uchiha looked like he wanted to argue, but wisely shut his mouth. "And we should reach Konoha in half an hour, just to let you know."
The mission, at least, wasn't too difficult. We intercepted the team of Iwa-nins near the border and won with barely any wound. Thanks to Rin's medical abilities, Obito's Katon, Kakashi's skills and my ability, we managed to finish the B-ranked mission half a day ahead of schedule. If it wasn't for their bickering I would be very happy.
After some minutes, a very loud voice called, "Oi, Minato-baka! Returning with your little students, dattebane?" Ah, Uzumaki Kushina… very, very cheerful red-haired beauty...
…And as stealthy as firecrackers, but this was beside the point.
I replied with a, "Kushina-chan! Nice to see you around!" while checking her chakra: who knows if someone followed us? … Nope, she was definitely the love of my life: her very large reserves where all there, as was the Kyuubi's evil chakra.
We talked a bit about our missions ("… and then I sent him flying across the clearing with a punch! He DARED to mock my HAIR! That bastard!" … I thought that Kushina was a little sadistic, but this much?), when we felt two very familiar chakra signatures.
"Jiraya-sensei? Tsunade-sama? Are you returning too?" I asked to the Sannin to my left. Was this a coincidence? I didn't think so.
"Oh oh oh! We found a team and the two lovebirds!" Jiraya said with a perverted tone and moving his eyebrow suggestively…
…For which Tsunade punched him. Hard.
We left sensei twitching half inside a tree, but somehow he managed to reach us a minute later. I would have suspected genjutsu if I didn't know he sucked at them.
"Bakakashi!" Obito shouted "I'll reach the village before you! Would you bet?" the boy didn't even wait for the other's reply, instead he increased his speed with a burst of chakra. Rin sighed. I face-palmed. Kushina giggled.
We decided to sped up and arrive at the village before Obito did something stupid…
End Flashback no Jutsu
We found the Uchiha kneeling in front of Konoha's gates. His shoulders were shaking. "Obito, what's wrong?" I was wondering that, too, so I decided to look past the gates; my blood froze. This wasn't Konoha.
This was a giant hole in the ground, full of what once were buildings. Not even the Hokage's monument, usually towering protectively over the village, was there.
Everyone else seemed to freeze (not that I could blame them). Jiraya and Obito were desperately shouting "Kai! Kai!" while flaring their chakras in panic. I found myself shaking.
What happened without us?
Jiraya's POV
Deep breaths. Deep breaths. After some minutes I finally calm down a bit. After many fruitless attempts to dispel any genjutsu, I tried to think rationally. I still came up only with 'What the fuck?'
Tsunade cleared her throat. "Maybe we'll find some survivors and an answer about what happened if we go in there." she suggested. No one disagreed, so we entered Konoha's ruined walls.
I and Tsunade were in front, Minato's team was behind us and he and Kushina took the rear. We searched every sign of survivors and clues that could tell us who managed to destroy Konoha during the time we were away. We looked into the rubbles and stretched our chakra to feel the lingering traces of energy that took to destroy Konoha.
We came empty-handed.
We didn't find any chakra that could help us in this self-assigned mission. But we still found something that was suspicious.
There was a strange stone monument at the center of the crater. It portrayed a boy (sixteen perhaps?) with spiky hair and three whisker-like marks on each cheek. He wore a jumpsuit and a Konoha headband and was smiling widely, looking at the sky with his right hand raised, like he was stopping the sunlight from going towards his eyes.
It was on a support, on which was carved something that I decided to read out loud:
"To our brave and fearless Rokudaime Hokage…"
"EEEH? ROKUDAIME? HOW IS IT POSSIBLE?" Obito shouted in my left hear. Ugh, I didn't want to become deaf! But still, I was wondering the same thing. I shrugged and continued to read.
"...Namikaze-Uzumaki Naruto…"
"WHAT THE HELL? – DATTEBANEEEE?!" Kushina decided to scream in my other hear, while Minato (fortunately) only took a shuddering breath.
"…who gave his life to save Konohagakure no Sato's citizens and shinobi from the demon godness Kaguya Ootsutsuki, the one who declared the Fourth Great Shinobi War…"
"The FOURTH great shinobi WAR? But we're in the THIRD!" Rin exclaimed with a high-pitched voice. Not that I can blame her, but I'm still reading!
"…fought by the Shinobi Alliance of the Five Elemental Countries working together…"
I heard Kakashi and Tsunade spluttering incredulously on my left.
"…to save the world from its end. It's signed 'Gokage'".
I stared dumbly at the stone. I blinked.
What the actual fuck does this mean?
Tsunade's POV
If I didn't know any better, I would think this was a really wild dream. Or a genjutsu. Or something. This looked like another version of the world.
I examined the statue. It was really well done, I had to admit: the boy looked like Minato's twin with shorter hair and some of Kushina's traits. It was little wonder his surname was Namikaze-Uzumaki…
…! Did I imagine that sound? It sounded like a gasp. I looked around: it seemed that I wasn't the only one that noticed. I stretched my chakra and I felt something behind us. 'Finally a clue!' I thought, turning around towards the quiet noise.
I froze. Who was she?
There was a blonde-haired fourteen-years-old girl with fair skin. She wore a yellow knot on her neck, a black jacket that reached her waist (with yellow edges on the short sleeves and lower part), black ninja boots and shorts of the same colour. She wore gray armguards and black gloves that reached her elbows. Her hair was slightly spiky and short; on her forehead there was a white headband with Konoha's metal plate and she had the standard weapons' pockets. What made me pause were her eyes.
They were completely white, but she obviously saw us. A Hyuuga, then?
Obito, of course, decided to made his presence known with a shout, "OI! Who are you? Why is Konoha destroyed?! TELL US!" I fought the urge to face-palm, but that was a close-call.
Understandably, the girl took off at full speed.
Kakashi's POV
Obito was an idiot (still is, sadly). Fortunately, Minato-sensei wasn't known as the Yellow Flash for nothing and managed to grab…
…a Kage Bunshin?
We heard footsteps from all around us and then we saw five different copies of the mysterious girl. They didn't attack us, but instead started to jump away in blurs of black and yellow. Who was the real one? "Split up!" Tsunade-sama ordered. We managed to (somehow) divide in five groups: Obito and Kushina, Tsunade and Rin, while Jiraya, Minato-sensei and I were to pursue our own Bunshins alone.
We started running after the blonde-haired girls with bursts of chakra, hoping that we could find the answers we were searching.
A/N: Aaaaaaaand CUT! Cliff-hanger, followers! :D
As I said this is an AU!Ending story, so it isn't necessary to ask me "why aren't there Himawari and Boruto?" In this future the Rokudaime was Naruto and, nine years after the Fourth Shinobi War, Kaguya attacked Konoha, destroying it and killing Naruto-chan. (I know I'm cruel towards him, I know… sigh) But all the others survived (it's written that they did)!
As you have guessed, the girl is Naruto and Hinata's daughter. Plus, there's a monument for Naruto! To see the new Konohagakure you have to wait and review! Eheheh! ;)
And about 'Kaguya started the Fourth War': the winners write history, and Kakashi argued that at the end Obito helped them against the Demon Lady, so… If they wrote 'Madara Uchiha' they should have rewritten the history books… thus, Kaguya started indirectly the War. :3
Kage Bunshin: shadow clone.
Beware of the Kitsune's rage!
-Shiiroi Kitsune21