"So, our world will be waiting for us when we get back?" Naruto asked Shikamaru as he surveyed the scene that quite frankly shouldn't exist. It wouldn't do to do the thing he was thinking about doing if it turned out to be the butterfly that went and changed everything, destroying everything he and his Precious People had worked for.
"As I've told you five times before Hokage-sama, our world will still be there when we find a way to return." Naruto's ANBU chief replied before muttering a quiet "Troublesome."
"Really?" the Rokudaime Hokage Uzumaki Naruto asked, making septuple sure. It really would suck if everybody got back only to find they'd destroyed the world.
"For the last time, yes." the rest of the group that surrounded Naruto and Shikamaru replied exasperatedly.
"Great!" Naruto exclaimed before he shucked off his ragged white tee-shirt with spiral on the front, his little brown shorts, and the day-of-the-week panties his caretaker had bought him when he was four. "I've always wanted to go streaking."
Every time he'd tried back when he'd been this size before, there'd always been someone to stop him, catch him and wrestle him into clothing. Now nobody could. Not with everything he knew.
"Let me get this straight, we're in the past, and the first thing you want to do is GO STREAKING?!" Konoha's Head Medic Haruno Sakura asked, yelling towards the end, looking like she wanted to pound the now naked Naruto into the dirt.
"It's not like it's our past." the pint-sized Nandaime Hokage said as he turned and ran down the street before anyone could argue or try to stop him.
Everyone stared after the naked six year-old who'd been in his late-twenties only an hour before in open-mouthed shock as he ran down the street leaving a cloud of dust in his wake, too stunned that Naruto had seriously actually gone streaking to argue. As they watched, one of the Uchiha police dropped off of a roof and gave chase.
"Take a flying fuck at a rolling doughnut copper!" Naruto yelled after the pursuing officer as he disappeared around the corner.
The huddled group of small children whose ages ranged from six to nearly eight turned to look at each other as one. Nobody seemed to have an answer for this, since they all knew that they'd never be able to catch their Hokage, especially considering Shikamaru was signalling that he would be staying out of the matter. As one, they all turned to the more sensible of Naruto's advisors in the immediate vicinity. Up until Sasuke had proven himself to be an asset to the village which he mostly stayed away from, everyone had been wary of the fact that Naruto had chosen to name the mostly absent man as an advisor the minute he'd been named Hokage.
"Don't look at me!" Sasuke snapped. "I'm going to get drunk."
"W-Well, Naruto-sama might be right." Hinata finally said as the group watched Sasuke depart muttering about where he remembered his father's stash being. "It's not our past, so what happens won't have an effect on anything really. When we go home, everything will be the way it was when we left, and everyone who died will be dead."
"Troublesome." Shikamaru muttered as he turned and walked off.
That was apparently the signal as the rest of the group slowly parted and started going their own way to do their own thing, whatever it may be.
Edited 7-8-17.
