Prologue: Innocence

If Naruto could do his life over again...he would. If he knew back then to what he knew now, he would done certain things a lot differently. First off, he would have trained harder back in the academy years, then with his senseis too. He would have paid attention to other certain details - like how sweet and beautiful Hinata was, and her being in love with him for the longest time, or how Sakura really a bitch that would betray him in a heart beat for Sasuke's affections. He would have listened to Pervy-Sage about giving up on the traitor. He would have done many things differently, but as they say, hindsight is 20/20. Man it really did bite him in the ass, yeah he made a lot of good choices following his nindo, but the bad choices - especially the one he just made, are gonna haunt him for quite sometime. Next time someone tells him not to touch the strange glowing object, he's gonna stay the fuck away from it.

The mission had started pretty good. Tsunade had called him and Shikamaru to her office as she had a scouting mission for them to check out, a strange looking temple that was recently found underground 30 miles west of their village. It was only found due to team Kurenai coming home and found an unusual scent when passing through the area after their originally completed mission. Normally it would a different setup of people for this kind of mission, but those teams were needed else where and team Kurenai had other duties to take care of.

So off went Naruto and Shikamaru, not knowing what they would find or what was going to happen because one fox got too curious.

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Chapter 1: DON'T TOUCH THAT NARUTO!

Konoha Front Gate:

It was early, about 6 in the morning. The morning mist that day had yet to disappear with the early light. Standing there was Naruto waiting for his lazy partner to get a move on. It had been about a month since Naruto had come back and saved Gaara, and had failed to bring back Sasuke for the second time. Since then things had not been going too well with his team, Sakura has been more temperamental since they fail that mission, and Kakashi is more or less doing as he had been before Naruto left for his training trip. Although he occasionally tries to help Naruto with his training that damn bastard had a habit of not being very clear on what he wanted Naruto to do.

"What does he mean by I still need a better foundation. Damn it, Ero-sannin worked that out already, he said so too, damn it!" Naruto ranted quietly to himself. As the sun rose higher he noticed a figure walking towards, as it got closer he could see the slouching shoulders, the slow gait of the walk, the Chunin flak vest, the mesh net under his black shirt and pants, with his hair up in his normal pineapple fashion.

"Yo, man mornings are so troublesome" yawned a tired Nara as he met up with his mission partner, scratching the back of his head,"So you know where we are supposed to be heading towards that strange underground temple and explore for the science team make sure there aren't any trap or missing nins hiding in the grounds. Got it Naruto?" Shikamaru questioned.

Naruto nodded "Yeah yeah, no worries man. We'll make sure its all good for the white coats!" giving Shikamaru a big thumbs up with his foxy grin before turning around and headed through the gates to take for their destination. Shikamaru shook his head and chased after the blonde speeding ahead of him, also wanting to finish the mission quickly.

It was a nice day in the forest the sky was mostly clear with the few occasional cloud to make it look interesting. A couple of hours later they found the tunnel like cave that would lead them to the temple. The tunnel was thankfully only a mile and half long, couple feet high and wide. It only took them 15 minutes to ninja run through the tunnel to large cavern with the dirt path they were following into cobblestone path that led to a stairway down towards one of the weirdest looking place they had ever seen.

The temple, if you would call it that, wasn't very large in fact for a temple it was a bit on the small side. The roof of the building had a faded but smooth orange with a white strip around the edging, with what looked to be a two colored ball on the center of it. The ball's top half was red with the bottom half being white with a little white button in the middle, the walls were also white in color. The doors, if that was what they were looking at, looked to be made of solid glass. Naruto looked at Shikamaru, wondering what he wanted to do.

"Troublesome, Naruto make some shadow clones and scout the area before we try the front doors. I wanna know if there are any other entrances,traps or possible clues to what this place is. But keep your real body here to relay the info as it comes in. Got it?" ordered Shikamaru, this place set him on edge, but didn't have enough clues yet to as why that was. Naruto nodded and with a shout of his famous phrase, 16 clones popped to life and scattered to see if they could find anything. About 10 minutes later the clones started popping to send back their findings to the original.

"Hm, well it seems the place on the outside has a large multipurpose terrain in the back for either training or raising certain types of animals. Although I'm guessing a bit of both since there is a small arena and the rest of it is many different terrains further back. There is also only one other door and it leads to the backyard, I guess you could call it that. But there doesn't seem to be much in the animal life, just lots of plants and the like. The outside also seems to overgrown too," reported the blonde genin, looking to Shikamaru on what to do next. Shikamaru squatted down and took a few minutes to process what Naruto gave him, it didn't help that uneasy feeling he had been having about this place and the longer they were here the worst the feeling got. He shook his head, there wasn't much he do about it, their mission was to see if this place was safe for the "white coats" as Naruto called them, to come down and study this place.

Decision made Shikamaru stood up and turned to Naruto, " Alright make four squads worth of clones, one to cover each entrance and the other two to patrol the area, I don't want any surprises or trouble if we can avoid it, we will do the inside ourselves to avoid accidentally blowing up the place or set off alarms. We will do this slowly and thoroughly, one room at a time and keep in sight of each other. Let's go!"

Once the clones were made and given their orders, the real Naruto and Shikamaru went to the glass doors to try and get inside. Imagine their surprise as they stepped up to the doors, they opened wide with a soft swoosh releasing stale air and bringing some fresher air in. Quietly and lightly they stepped in together, turning on the automatic lights, freezing when that happened. Once they were sure that they didn't set anything off, they both relaxed slightly and started to take in their surroundings. The first room they entered looked like some kind of waiting room, there were chairs lined up for people to sit in, there were some desks with what looked like a computer with a phone connect to it, and a big reception desk straight in front of the doors for greeting people and the like.

Naruto looked around in awe of the place, as he explored his surroundings, trying to watch where he stepped but was more interested in the new place. Shikamaru's warning flags stayed the same, that not enough for them to leave but enough to keep his guard up, despite the place being old as indicted by the stale air and plant growth outside, but the inside was very different, the chairs that had cushions on for comfort weren't rotten in the slightest, the floor and the counters were dust free. The place looked clean, like someone had been taking care of the place or the structure was sealed air tight before they activated the doors to let the new air in.

"Naruto, be on your guard, this place is way too clean and nice looking, in any case let's look deeper in" the lazy Nara stated, Naruto nodded and follow Shikamaru's lead, down a hallway, that led to several rooms that looked like for sleeping or scarily enough were sex rooms. Both guys blushed and searched those rooms quickly and moved on to other ones. They found a few rooms that looked like to be medical exam rooms with some weird equipment, but didn't touch anything seeing as how they knew nothing of such stuff, that would be the Medical and Science R&D departments. As they got further in, they found the end of the hallway led to stairs deeper in, the guys looked at each other, before nodding and Shikamaru leading with Naruto to watch their backs. At the bottom of the stairs there was another long hallway but this time there were only three doors.

The first door on the left was locked this time, but didn't keep our skilled ninja out, it took them a half a minute to get in with kunais raised,only to realize that they were in some kind of storage room. A room filled to the brim of tiny red and white balls about an inch to an inch and a half wide. They actually looked like the giant red and white ball on the roof outside this very strange place.

"Um, why do these little balls look like the big one outside, what is this place?" questioned the blonde, looking at the shadow user for help. Shikamaru sighed, "At least he hasn't touched anything, and I don't wanna know what's in these things" thinking to himself but to Naruto " I think its some kind of storage place, there probably a couple hundred if not thousands of these little balls, but we won't open one, that's for the other groups to decide, so don't touch them okay Naruto, man what a pain this place is" muttering to himself. Naruto just smiled sheepishly and put down the small ball that he had picked up gently on its' place holder.

They then left the room to see what the last two doors also held. They went next into the door directly across from them. In this one, it looked to be a R&D room, there were more of those balls that looked half finished, they were also bigger than the storage room one, the guys spread out again to see what else they could find in the room. They found a couple small red rectangular metal box that opened easily but wasn't working, there also some that weren't complete either. Searching the drawers proved fruitful as they found the plans for the balls and the weird metal box. The room also had some computers that again looked weird almost more advanced then the world currently had.

"Hey Shikamaru, I'm gonna check out that last room, ok?" asked Naruto, Shikamaru made a distracted shooing motion, he had found what look to be an old journal written by someone named Dr. Shikamaru Stroak. Shikamaru's warning flags that had been slowly going down, reared back up again with a vengeance. He didn't know why this book set him on such a hard edge but as he opened and started to read it, the sinking feeling in his stomach got steadily worse, he reconsigned the writing, "What the FUCK?! THIS IS MY HANDWRITING!" Shikamaru shouted within his mind. If that wasn't bad enough as he read, he begin to notice something, the journal wasn't written like other journals, this wasn't written like someone was retelling their day, this was someone telling him what was going to to be happening soon, panicking Shikamaru quickly flicked through the other pages only to see that they were blank.

"What the hell is going on here? I don't understand, only two pages aren't blank and I don't understand half or what is written here...wait what's in the other room? What does that have to do with Naruto?" Shikamaru paled greatly, Naruto said he went to the other room to check it out, he then turned running out of the room to stop Naruto before something bad happened to the blonde, he managed to just reach the second door when a boom and a bright light started to shine.

"NARUTO WHERE ARE YOU?! WHAT DID YOU DO?...DON'T TOUCH THAT NARUTO!" Screamed Shikamaru, now in full panic mode, blindly searching for the blonde in the white room, only to hear a sound he never thought he would hear.

"HELP! SHIKAMARU! IT"S DRAGGING ME IN!" Naruto screamed back in absolute terror. Somehow Shikamaru managed to find Naruto's outstretched hand and hung on as tightly as he could trying to save his teammate desperately. At first Shikamaru thought he was gonna be able to save his friend only for the something unexpected to happen,something that would haunt him for years to come, red chakra that normally stayed dormant in his fox friend burst out of Naruto's body, grabbed his wrists, burning them and shoved Shikamaru back. The bright suddenly engulfed Naruto completely from view and then slowly made him vanish from his sight, Naruto still shouting at Shikamaru for help. The light the retreated the strange tube like device that was about as tall as he was, Shikamaru collapsed on the ground, unable understand what just happened.

As he sat there dazed, the machine softly started humming again only to explode in that white light from before with more char from the Kyuubi, that reached out to Shikamaru wrapping him up in their combined light, entering him, changing him from the inside. When the strange light show was done it then slowly put him back down on the ground, looking very much the same as before but now he had two strange tattoos on his wrists where the Kyuubi's chakra had burned him. On his left wrist was a small red fox with nine tails that wrapped themselves almost possessively the wrist with writing that said "Eternity" on it, on the right wrist it was a small picture of the balls they saw earlier with also some writing on it that said "Professor" across the red top part. The machine stopped humming and went quiet once more, Shikamaru just barely managed to look at his wrists before passing out. It would be sometime before Shikamaru look up to truly find his friend missing and the consequences of this mission would have on the whole world.

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AN: Hey what u think of my beginning here. Hoped u liked it. I'm gonna be trying really hard with this story, I'm also hoping to do a side story eventually to what happens to Shikamaru and the others while Naruto is in the new world. Also I should mention I will be taking my other story down as I tried to put two different ideas together and now I can't make it work, so I will be separating them to make two new stories that I hope you'll like better. You should also now that I have a bad habit where I think too fast then I can type so sometimes my sentences may end up missing a word here or there, or I will even retype the same word or two in some spots. My word processor only had spell checker but no grammer check. So if something doesn't make sense please message me the spot so I can fix it or explain something you didn't understand.

Plz R&R comments n ideas welcome, n plz only constructive criticisms plz. Nity-nite!

Thanks, Adimera

PS: sry just so u know I'm horrible at being fast writing, but I will update as I can finish my chapters.