Disclaimer: Naruto will always be rightfully belong to Masashi Kishimoto
Warning: Gender Bender, Time Traveling, OOC (Maybe), miss Typoo, Grammatical Error, and many more.
!Author Notes!
Why hello there my dear reader, I just want to say hello and welcome to my translated with a little bit of rewrite of my Indonesian Fanfiction: To The Past.
As you can see, English is not my first language and I apologize for any grammatical error, grammar nazi are welcomed—or maybe I should get a beta-reader.
The pairing will be announced in the next chapter! I assure you; you will not be disappointed!
See you later folks! I see you in the next chapter and please enjoy the prolog!
Chapter 1: Time Traveling is possible, but with consequence
He is in the middle of war and he is the only one that can save the world.
So dying is not an option, he knows that.
But life doesn't always work like you wanted to.
So here he is, dying in the middle of war when everybody need him the most.
He can only hear the scream of everyone, his comrade, while his consciousness starting to fade.
He didn't know who killed him, Madara? No, he is looking at him with shocked face; like him dying is not the part of his plan.
Obito? The last time he saw the Uchiha is when he was fighting his father and sensei and judging from the reaction on his so called master face, it is not him either… or is he?
The last thing he sees is Madara charging at him—or someone who killed him, before his vision become completely black.
It was nothing but darkness who accompany him, before he realize that he can open his eyes, he is still breathing, and the place he is currently right now is not the place where he should be.
If his memory serve right, he got killed in the middle of war; on a hard ground where the earth have been shattered and damage from Madara's freaking gigantic meteor, if the Uchiha can bring a meteor, he didn't want to know what power he will gain when he got him; maybe he will bring a planet—or the moon.
This place, the place where he lay 'dead' is so soft, like he is actually sleeping in a bed made of fur and he feels really warm, not too hot (like when Madara bring a meteor to the Shinobi alliance), but warm; he is actually feel very comfortable right now and he didn't want to wake up.
He is exhausted, fighting various resurrected Kage, resurrected Jichuriki, Obito, and Madara while sharing his chakra (and Kurama's) to everyone is a bit too much, even for him.
But he insist, even when his body protested and his eye feels very heavy, he tried to move; trying to see where he is right now.
His vision is very blurry, he can't really see that good but he realize he is not in the battlefield but in a place where there is nothing—literally nothing since all he can see is color white; is he in heaven? Probably not since he can see seven people in front of him.
Do he know them? He feels like he have seen them recently but where? Oh and he just realize too that he is indeed on a bed of fur; dark orange fur that feels and look so familiar to him that the image of him sleeping on Kurama's stomach comes to his mind.
"Hush, it is okay little fox" A beautiful woman with light yellow hair walked closer to him and starting to pet his head, she gave him a soft and gentle smile and her voice sounds like a gentle purring of a cat; it made him relaxed and very content "You are going to be all right"
"Now back to sleep, you have a lots of work to do later" The woman closed his eyes and start humming, lulling him back to sleep.
"Good luck, Naruto Uzumaki"
Two shadow leap from one tree to another, both of them look in a hurry and also little bit panicked, even though they are wearing a mask; it doesn't take a genius to realize that the two of them looks so nervous, just need a ninja with a good observation skill.
The two of them is a private ANBU of the third Hokage, tasked to find the Konoha's Jinchuuriki who got reported missing yesterday.
It can be a huge problem when the information of Konoha's Jinchuuriki got kidnaped right under their nose spread around the nation or even worse: the identity of the said Jinchuuriki, especially to Iwagakure. So the two of them were tasked to find the Jinchuuriki as soon as possible, kill the kidnapers, keep one for interrogation (who will be killed later after they extract their information), and bring back home the Konoha's pariah save and unharmed.
It put so many stress for both of them and nearly almost impossible, especially when the kidnapper's identity is still unknown and they can be from anywhere.
But it seems that god is smiling to both of them.
They hear splashing sound and a mop of yellow hair near the river where they are.
"Co…cold…" The person who just came out from the river whispered, well no wonder since she just came out from the river, it is mid-summer but the river can be very cold on night time.
"Uzumaki…Naruto…?" The one with crow mask asked, his voice sound really weird; like he didn't even know why he asked her in the first place, since the one they are tasked to find are male not female like the little girl in front of him.
It is just a coincident right? Even thou the little girl is the same age as Naruto, have the same yellow hair, blue eyes, and three marking on both of her cheek; doesn't meant that she is Uzumaki Naruto right? Last time they checked, the Jinchuuriki is still a male—a little boy who can't stop pranking people.
"Ye...yes?" The little girl is still shivering, she is hugging herself, trying to warm herself before she looked at the ANBU in front of her "Did any of you bring some blanket? Or… something like—wait, why my voice sound so weird"
They watched the little girl—Naruto coughing while holding her neck, like she is trying to get something out that made her voice sound weird, according to her anyway.
"Why…why did I sound like a little girl? And... uuh… why is my head feels so heavy? And what is this?" Naruto tugged at her own hair that suddenly grow so long that she is on par with Sakura when she is still had a long hair years ago "Umm… little help here?"
Seeing that the ANBU in front of her didn't even move or trying to help her, she remove her orange jacket and tried to squeeze the water out of it and then realize that her body feels really weird and proceed to grope herself "Eh?"
She realize it is a female body—an under developed body of a little girl who haven't hit her growth spurt.
And it's her body.
"EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEH?"
"So… you don't even know how can you become like… this?" The third Hokage is relieved to see that the (supposedly) boy that he already considered as his grandchild is okay, with an exception that he just become a she in one day and he—she didn't even remember, or know, how.
The girl shook her head dejectedly, she look so tired both mentally and physically, like she didn't even want to be there right now; all she wanted are a good night sleep and talking are not sleeping.
Seeing that he will not get any answer from the little girl, the third Hokage send two of his ANBU to escort the little girl to her apartment before sending another ANBU with a cat mask to keep a close eye on her while she is on her apartment alone.
"So… the result?" When Naruto are out of earshot and out of room, the third Hokage looked at the Yamanaka that stand beside him with a document on his hand.
"Negative, I can't read her mind at all since the nine tailed fox completely blocked me out—or more like it send me to it's place and I came face to face with it… not a very pleasant thing" Yamanaka Inoichi shuddered a little, he have to admit that facing the fox alone, even when the fox are inside a cage, are not a nice thing; especially when the fox are showing him it's impressive set of teeth that can chew him so easily.
"Also negative, I can't smell any specific scent that can make me pin point the culprit, only a smell of ink and river that I can pick from her" The Inuzuka that stand next to Inoichi shook her head, Inuzuka Tsunme can't believe that someone is able to wipe their smell so perfectly, even her and her partner's superior nose can't pick it anymore "Damn, whoever kidnap her probably know about us pretty well"
"But at least we know that he can't be brainwashed or even got her memory wiped out by the kidnapers, since as Inoichi say; you can't get to Naruto's mind without facing the nine tailed fox, which is nearly impossible" Shikaku took the document from Inoichi before standing in front of the third Hokage, it is kinda strange and really weird seeing that the kidnapers can break in undetected, kidnap the Jinchuuriki for one day and then throw her in to the river save and unharmed, and wipe their trace perfectly so they remain unknown. He can feel it; he is missing something.
"Except…maybe… if it is an Uchiha's doing" Tsunme growled, she know that it was nearly impossible for the Uchiha traitor to did it and there is no more Uchiha other than the said traitor and his little brother who is still in academy right now.
"…Negative, it can't be him since the last time we heard him, he is on the land of lighting; which is two days ago so it is imposible for him to travel in such a sort time to Konoha and kidnap the Jinchuuriki" Shikaku shook his head, the information he get is from the frog Sannin so they can be trusted and accurate even thou they still don't know what the Uchiha doing in the land of lighting.
"So we have a little information about this kidnapper" The third looked at Inoichi, to Tsunme, and then to Shikaku; the three of them look embarrassed with their so little achievement "It's okay, for now strengthen the guard on the entrance of Konoha, check the border, and report if you see someone suspicious or immediately catch him then bring them T&I Division"
"I will send an ANBU to monitor and tail Naruto too" He taped his desk three time and an ANBU with a fox mask immediately came out of his hiding and bow respectably to him "Kitsune, you will protect and monitor Naruto for three days, stay hidden and report anything suspicious or change on him—her"
"Yes, Hokage-sama" And the ANBU immediately body flickered and disappear from the sight to prepare for his next assignment.
"You three also dismissed" The three that he mention nod and one by one leave the room. Leaving the third on his own, thinking about what just happened and what should he do about it; since he knows that the information will go to his friend soon or later and he know, that his friend will have something to say about it.
Now to counter that friend of him that named Danzo, he need a good reason and backup since he know that his two other friend will always on agreement with Danzo.
Naruto sighed and sat on her already place futon before laying down and buried her face on the soft pillow to go to the dream land, she ignore the feeling being watched since she know that the third had send an ANBU to keep an eye on her.
At least she knew who is the ANBU and she know that she will never hurt her and will do her job nicely, not like the usual ANBU that was send to keep an eye on her who can't do their job even if their lives depend on it since they hate her for being Kurama's Jinchuuriki. He knows it, the memory of 'it is still so fresh on her mind even if it was long time ago—or now—or 'his' past—ah screw it, noun are a pain in the ass from now on.
She closed her ayes and then open it again when she know that she is now in her mindscape together with the nine tailed fox that currently still in his cage, looking at her expectantly and waiting.
"Nah, later. Lets just say that this is a little pay back for what you did to me, but at least I will change the scenery" Naruto did change his mindscape from sewer to nothing, just like before she was send back to past and still a he.
"Why the hell you did something like this…" She grumbled softly before position herself in front of Kurama's cage and lie down lo sleep with his hand as a pillow.
"Lets just say: For your own good" Kurama rolled his eye and looked at Naruto, amusement is clearly can be seen on his face.
"For my own good my ass, you mischievous cranky fox" She may not seen it but she can feel it, the fox is grinning, clearly amused.
Damn Kurama and his 'logic' of how to save her from being damaged while time traveling.
To Be Continue
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