New story! Honestly, I just can't help it. I write whatever pops into my head, even if I really should be focusing on other, already posted, stories. :P
A notice! Sometime in the new year, I'll be changing my pen name. Both here and on AO3.
In any case, this is a time travel fic, naturally. Kakashi here's about 23-24, not long before the Hokage would kick him out of ANBU and make him take a gennin team. Which he failed, of course. Past Minato will be 21, with Kakashi, Obito, and Rin at 11. Well, actually I might have Obito 12 already. My head cannon is that Minato is ten years older than Kakashi. Obito's birthday is first, then Kakashi's, then Rin's, so to me, she's the youngest. Call it influence of growing up in the southern hemisphere, with school starting in Jan-Feb, and finishing in Dec.
Anyway, I hope you enjoy this, and remember that I don't own the Naruto-verse!
Unsealed From Time
Chapter One
The scroll was… well, in a word… interesting. For someone with over a thousand jutsu in their inventory (according to the bingo books) that was quite the thing to say. Hatake Kakashi sat perched atop a small boulder, blatantly ignoring all the corpses around him as he examined the scroll with his sharingan eye exposed. What to do, what to do?
Of course, he really should just take it back to the village. Let them have a look at it, study it, find out what makes it tick. And surely, if the scroll had been the objective of the mission, he wouldn't hesitate to do so. The active state of the scroll, as well as the nature of its contents, was giving him pause.
The mission that he'd been sent out on was an assassination mission. Not the ones currently dead around him. Those were the ROOT that Danzou had sent in an attempt to get Kakashi's eye. (The shady, old councillor made an attempt once in awhile, despite the Hokage's orders not to. It was kind of a tradition now; Danzou would send a squad out after him on one of his solo's, Kakashi would send them back in pieces…)
No, this scroll had been on one of the ROOT. Kakashi figured they'd had their own little side adventure before encountering him, and this was a spoil from that. No doubt, Danzou would have been extremely happy to get his hands on this, especially if what Kakashi was reading was actually true. It boggled the mind, the idea laid out in this scroll.
But had the agent activated this on purpose, or accidentally?
It was a complex series of seals, each set out carefully, with all kinds of fail safes in place. The slightest mistake, and this could blow up in the user's face. Literally. Everything in Kakashi was telling him not to use it, that it was a bad idea. Well, almost everything. There was that little bit, that curious part of him, that wondered what would happen if he did use it…
The scroll would apparently open a portal. Not to another dimension, though, but another time. The concept of time travel, which was what this basically was, wasn't unheard of. Both in theory and in practice, though the practice was usually in accidental circumstances. Though Kakashi himself had never experienced time travel, his position as an ANBU captain gave him access to all sorts of classified information, and he'd read a couple of interesting files where time travel had been documented.
Of course, if he hadn't seen those files, he'd likely be sceptical about the scroll.
Activating the scroll apparently wasn't easy, a fact that lent credence to its activation being deliberate. It required a lot of chakra, for one, and some kind of sacrifice. Glancing around at the carnage around him, Kakashi knew that the conditions had been met, because he'd noticed the scroll gathering the chakra of each ROOT member that he'd killed, as he'd killed him. In fact, that was why he'd searched the bodies, instead of immediately disposing of them (and then the scroll, by proxy) once he was done.
He really should just seal the scroll away into another, take it back to the village for proper study. The only thing was, he was a little concerned that it might just set the scroll off anyway. The activation kanji was already aglow with chakra, just waiting for something to set it off. Kakashi sighed, then pulled out a sealing scroll, hopping down off the boulder. He couldn't spend all day just staring at the thing, he needed to get back to the village.
Laying the sealing scroll out, Kakashi carefully placed other scroll on it, then stepped back. Biting his thumb, he summoned Pakkun to him.
"Yo, Boss," Pakkun greeted him, then noticed the scrolls. "What's with the paper?"
"Pakkun, I need you to take a message to the Hokage," Kakashi said. "I need you to tell him that I've come across an active time travel scroll. Tell him I'll attempt to seal it in a storage scroll, as per regulations. But the fact that it's active… Well, I could end up accidentally fully activating the sealing jutsu on here. I need you to get him to send a team out to meet me, just in case."
"Will you be alright on your own, Boss?" Pakkun asked, eyeing the scrolls warily now. "Looks like you've already had some action… Hey! Are those ROOT? Again?!"
"I'll be fine," Kakashi promised. "I still have plenty of chakra, as well as some replenishing pills just in case, and I'll wait an hour before I activate it."
"Alright," Pakkun said reluctantly. "Though I'd feel better if you'd at least summon the rest of the pack. Just in case."
"I will if I need to," Kakashi promised. "Now go."
With one last glance at his summoner, Pakkun took off. Kakashi gave enough time for his ninken to be a good distance away, the village was two or so hours away for him, much less for Pakkun. He used that time to gather up all the ROOT and dispose of them off to the side. Once that was done, he returned to the scrolls and, keeping a bit of a distance, activated the sealing scroll. As he feared, the other scroll didn't react well, and it seemed to almost swallow up the sealing scroll.
Kakashi jumped back, pulling his ANBU mask back down and readying himself. He had no idea who or what was going to come out of the scroll. Just who had the scroll registered at the user, himself, or the ROOT that had started feeding it the chakra to activate it? He pulled out his kunai, readying himself.
Bolts of what seemed like electricity (though to the sharingan, they were bolts of yin chakra) shot out all around, and Kakashi had to dodge to avoid them. Finally, the portal opened, and four figures appeared. The yin chakra went crazy, shattering the portal, leaving behind four people standing right there in front of him. Kakashi forced himself to stay calm and still as he regarded them.
One of them was a man of similar age to himself, with blond hair and blue eyes, a jounin. The other three were pre-teen gennin, one an Uchiha, one a brunette from small clan, and the other a perfect miniature version of himself. All of them stared around in confusion, kunai's drawn. Naturally, the jounin was the first to notice him.
"Who are you?" he demanded, then as the smoke from the yin chakra cleared, noted his ANBU attire. "What is going on?"
'Welp, this was going to take some explaining,' Kakashi thought.
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