With the world in ruin, a few lone survivors find a scroll that could change everything. But when the wrong person gets sent back, what can she do to change the fate of the world? My name is Shoko Hyuuga, and I'm going to change the fate of the world.

It's dark, it's always dark now. My eyes let me know where everyone is, where those…things…are. Sakura is nearby, her chakra is green and thick, bleeding out from her pores as she leads the way. Gaara is just behind me, his chakra is blood tinged yellow, like the sand infused in his very soul.

Sumie, hers is red. Hot and fiery, like she is. Shikamaru rounds off our group, his chakra is green to, but it's thinner, lighter. More connected to his head than his heart.

We, are it.

Everyone else, as far as we are aware, is gone.

Naruto…dead, Sasuke…dead, my entire clan…gone.

Kaguya has taken, and killed, all of them.

I couldn't tell you how we managed to get away, I was an accident, you don't get to choose who you free from the jujtsu it just happens. Shikamaru and Naruto only had the ability to save four, in exchange for Naruto's own life, and we were the four they got.

But we have one final piece of hope.

It's a good thousand years old, and it took just as long to find it as it did to translate it from the strange coiling ancient language of my ancestors but we did it…Shikamaru did it, rather.

A time-altering jujtsu.

"Are we all ready?" Sakura asks, as if we have any other choice.

I nod anyway, and set the scroll onto the table. It's a Hyuuga scroll, I'm the only Hyuuga left, it's my duty to use the scroll and take us back. Or rather, take Sakura back.

She's the only one of us with a pivotal role in Naruto and Sasuke's growth from start to finish, it has to be her above all else.

"Alright," I breathe, "let's get started."

I pour everything I have into the scroll, so do my only remaining allies…my friends. I can feel it, I can feel all their chakra swirling around and coiling in the scroll.

But I can feel something else too, something dark…something ancient.

"Wait I-!"

And the world exploded into darkness.