Hiya! :) So, I've decided to put a whole bunch of my time travelling ideas into a drabble-slash-oneshot fic. These are all ideas I've had for stories, mostly over the last five months or so. Some may even still one day end up in full blown fics, some may just end up only here instead. This is at least a way for me to get them all out there. The character filter reflects who does the time travel the most in my ideas. ;)

Just so you know, I consider anything under a thousand words a drabble, and anything over a one shot. This particular one is inspired by Farscape, where Crichton accidentally goes back in time with that wormhole, and has to fix what changed because of his 'messing with time and space' thing that the Ancient guy told him about. Y'know, the part where he set up his younger self to be in an 'accident' to prevent his father ending up on the Challenger mission.

So, disclaimer that I don't own, and enjoy this drabble!

Time Travel Drabbles & One Shots

Desperate Measures

He was getting desperate.

Some time ago, a thirty four year old Hatake Kakashi had somehow ended up back in the past, in the body of his five year old self. He had no idea how it had happened, just that it had, and after some thinking about it, he'd decided that he'd use the opportunity to do something about everything that had happened. Already he had a pretty good idea on what to do about his team (even if they weren't his team yet) and even the far off Fourth War, but when it came to his father…

The mission in which Hatake Sakumo had chosen his team mates over the mission was fast approaching, mere days away, and the grown man in a, by now, six year old's body had no idea what he was supposed to do. He wanted to save his father, but there was no way… Sakumo was a shinobi of Konoha, it wasn't like Kakashi could ask him to not go on a mission, or even tag along to keep an eye on them. (hello!? only six, here!) At least, not without telling him everything. And Kakashi had already decided not to tell anyone about his circumstances.

Not that anyone was likely to believe him, anyways.

Right now, Kakashi was just walking through the streets of Konoha. The Academy had only let its students out an hour ago, and this whole time, Kakashi had just been walking as he desperately brainstormed. Back in his original time line, he would have been back home already, training in the Hatake backyard. His father would have been watching, carefully supervising his son's training, at least, if he wasn't on a mission at the time.

Being back at the Academy was boring, to be honest. More than it had been the first time. But Kakashi had wanted to make sure that there were no changes to some things, like who his team mates would be. And that time he'd kinda, sorta defended Gai when those shinobi had been making fun of Gai's father. Attending the Academy as before was one of the ways he'd do that, and he still planned to enter ANBU one day, in the hopes of being able to find people like Tenzou once again.

Though he was hoping to leave out following Danzou's orders ever again.

Looking up to where he was now, Kakashi found that he'd entered a civilian residential area. He was currently walking along a road that had row upon row of tightly packed homes along its entire length. In fact, he was pretty sure the house that his former (future) student Sakura lived in was somewhere around here. Somewhere.

Turning a corner, he saw a group of people working on a building. The scaffolding looked pretty wonky, like it could collapse at any moment. It wasn't a huge structure, obviously just enough for them to access the side of the building, and even get up on the roof, as well. The workers weren't currently on the scaffolding, they were up on the roof of the building, hammering and shouting away. Kakashi was wary about walking past it, since it was such an obvious hazard. He had no desire to become crushed underneath the planks and metal pipes, something that would likely end with him up in the hospital, clinging to life…

A dark thought entered his head.

If he ended up in the hospital, then it was possible that his father wouldn't go on that mission. It could be delayed, a replacement could be added to the team, or even another team sent entirely. This was a bad, bad thought, how could he be sure it would even work? How could he be sure he'd even survive? There were still things he needed to change. His father's mission was in two days… Would this even be enough?

The Hokage… Sandaime-sama would likely allow Sakumo to sit out the mission, considering that he was Kakashi's only family. At least, Kakashi thought he would. It wouldn't be unprecedented for him to do so, certain people already thought he was too soft anyways. (coughDanzou) His heart was beating fast even as his steps slowed ever so slightly as he approached the unsafe structure before him. Besides, what was the guarantee that it would even fall as he passed it? It wasn't like he could just stand under it, waiting on the off chance that it fell on him.

All of these thoughts passed in mere seconds.

One of the workers was stepping off the roof, onto the scaffolding. It wobbled violently under him, he panicked and leapt back onto the roof, then the whole thing started falling. This was it… could he really do this? By now, Kakashi was walking under it, he still had the opportunity to get out of the way. But then it was suddenly too late, it started to collapse, and the choice was taken away from him. He heard cries as someone realised there was a child under there, even as the wooden planks started falling.

They were heavier than he'd expected, as his hands came up in an automatic self defence move. His small, childish hands were no match for the weight that fell on him, and even as he was partly buried under the collapsing wood and metal, Kakashi's mind briefly spared a thought, and he wondered if it had hurt this much for Obito when those rocks had crushed him in Kusa, before he blacked out and knew nothing but darkness.

So what did you think? I'm gonna work on some of my other time travel ideas soon, get them ready for posting as well. Also, I really need to get back to my other fics, but I've just been more interested in reading fics lately, instead of writing them. :(

In any case, review please. :)