DISCLAIMER: Naruto and the rest of the characters are not mine. They belong to Masashi Kishimoto.

~A New Future~

"Thoughts"
"Inner Sakura"
Writing
Jutsu
Flashback

"Sasuke and I have formed a plan. If we do die, we want you two to go back to the past and make sure this war doesn't happen. Too many lives have already been lost and we can't let that continue. Can we trust you two to follow the plan?"
"Hai!"
They only had one chance to change the future.

Chapter 1: Going Back

Birds were chirping away and singing their happy tunes, blissfully unaware of the destruction that was just a few feet away from their nests.

The battle ground was destroyed, no part of it left untouched from the chaos that had taken place. Bodies littered the clearing-none of them having an evident pulse. They were all presumed dead by the two pairs of eyes at the edge of the clearing, hidden by the shade of the trees. Their causes of death were numerous: burned to ashes, heart ripped out, body shredded to pieces, fatal stab wounds, head blown off, and many other causes to add to the list. Some bodies had a seal tag on them, irrevocably stating that they were once reanimated corpses.

It was a gruesome, but expected and now normal, sight. Most of the dead could be distinguished as being from the Sound, except for a few which had been the living corpses for the infamous jutsu of Summoning: Impure World Reincarnation.

The two figures who had stood unmoving in the shadows of the trees suddenly moved out into the light. Now basked in the sunlight, one would notice that both had on a light gray coat that covered their entire body up to the bottom of their chins. The one with pink hair noticeably shook and did a mad dash to the center of the field, her partner not far behind. As they reached their destination, they abruptly stopped. The midnight blue haired ninja fell onto her knees as the pink haired ninja closed her eyes at the scene ahead.

In front of them were two bodies with their ANBU masks on the sides of their faces. The masks were badly cracked with some parts having already fallen off. Their faces were covered with a few scratches, burns, some dried blood, and dirt.

The one closest to the new arrivals had blonde, spiky hair that was messy and quite dirty. His eyes were hidden behind his eyelids and he had three whisker marks on each cheek. His face was colored a sun-kissed tan, with dried blood speckled here and there. On the side of his face, his ANBU mask was badly cracked, but the design was still visible. It had a red spiral over the right eye hole. Some of the parts of his mask, that hadn't chipped away and fallen, were covered in dirt. The blond was wearing a red Jounin-like vest with black trimming that was zipped down. On the upper left of his vest were two metal plates with insignias-one of them was for the Leaf Village, the other was the symbol that stood for Shinobi. Underneath the vest was an orange shirt that reached his wrists, where black, fingerless gloves with a metal plate covered his hands. His shirt had a gaping hole on his right side, the obvious culprit of his death being that someone had punctured his right lung. On his chest, you could see a necklace with an emerald-colored crystal at the end of it. This necklace was passed down to him by the late Fifth Hokage. Continuing onto the rest of his body, the blond was wearing black ninja pants that reached to the middle of his calves. Black ninja sandals that went a bit above the ankle covered his feet. The skin that would have been showing was covered with white wrapping. Parts of his clothes were ripped, showing wounds that had bled but were now crusted over with dried blood. Blood was pooling near his knees, revealing that someone had severed the tendons at the back of his thigh-his hamstring. This injury most likely helped his attacker land the fatal attack to his right lung, where blood was already starting to pool in there.

The other body had dark blue, almost black, hair. His hair was spiked up in the back, with bangs stopping by his eyebrows and two longer layers of hair framing his face. Most of the right side of his hair was burnt. He was pale with a white mask resembling a hawk on the left side of his face. He had an identical vest to the man next to him, except that his was gray with black trimming and zipped up. Underneath the vest, he was wearing a black, form-fitting shirt with sleeves that reached his wrists. On his right shoulder, the symbol of the Uchiha clan was proudly emblazoned. The sleeves were torn in several locations, and a few senbon were embedded into his left arm. If the vest had been opened, a peculiar necklace around his neck-that was once possessed by the infamous missing-nin, Itachi Uchiha-would have been noticed. The ninja had gotten a hold of this necklace during the war. His ninja pants reached an inch below his knees and his ninja sandals-with shin protectors-continued on from there, no trace of skin noticeable between the change. Kunai, senbon, and shuriken were dominant on the left side of his body, excluding the chest area. Blood continued to pool out of the wounds, the apparent cause of death was blood loss.

As the two ninja from before stared at the bodies, the blackish blue haired one turned on her ocular power. As she continued to stare intently at the bodies, her eyes widened considerably. She turned to her pink haired partner and gave an overjoyed smile as tears welled in her eyes.

"They're still alive!"

The pink haired ninja joined her partner on the floor and they both began to heal the pair in front of them. They had a determined look on their faces, not deterred by the fact that it was a hopeless cause.

The bubblegum haired ninja's face was contorted into a face of utmost concentration. A few strands of her pink hair covered her vision, but she paid no mind to it. Her pink hair was covered in dirt, signifying the fact that she hadn't given it a proper cleaning for a while. It was tied up in a ponytail, the ends only grazing her shoulders. Her bangs were framing her face with the help of her red headband. Her eyes were an emerald color, focused entirely on the task in front of her. Sweat dripped off of her forehead and was slowly moving down her face. She rubbed it off and in the same motion took off her cloak and laid it behind her. She was wearing an identical vest as the two men before her, however, unlike theirs, hers was white with black trimming. She had a red cross in a black outlined circle on the right side of her chest. The vest was zipped up to her collarbone, allowing a glance at what lay underneath: a black, no-sleeved shirt that went up to the middle of her neck. On her hands, she had on black gloves that were damaged from being constantly in use during battles. She had on black ninja pants that reached about two inches below her knees. Her shoes were black high heels, with straps that reached up to her ankle. Most ninja would realize they were an exact replica of her shishou's.

Her partner had very dark, blue hair that could almost resemble a soft black. Her hair reached to the small of her back, with her bangs' tips barely passing her eyebrows. Her eyes were a cloudy white. She was trying to hold in her tears by harshly blinking them back. Slowly, a traitor tear moved down her pale face. As she wiped it off, she took off her cloak. She was wearing the same vest as the others, though hers was black with white trimming. Her vest's zipper was pulled all the way up, with light purple, loose sleeves the only thing escaping. Underneath the vest, viewers would have noticed a ring held onto by a thin chain, serving as a necklace. The dark blue haired woman was wearing black ninja pants that reached right below her knees. Her shoes were the standard black ninja sandals. She was working on the dark haired man in front of her, trying desperately to save him.

Slowly, the two men in question opened their eyes. The women widened their eyes and a look of pure happiness passed through them.

"Naruto!/Sasuke-kun!"

"S-Sakura-chan? What are you doing here?" asked the blond.

"Hinata?" the darker haired one added.

"We are here to save you both and take you back to the base. Now don't strain yourselves and let Sakura-chan and I heal you," Hinata told them.

"Hinata, you know it's pointless. We've lost too much blood and have too many wounds," Sasuke pointed out, stoic even as he was dying from the blood loss.

"Sasuke-kun, don't say that! We can save you! Sakura is the best medic in the world, and she taught me! We can save you, don't give up hope Sasuke-kun," Hinata demanded from Sasuke, more tears streaming down her face. She didn't, no couldn't, accept the reality in front of her.

"Sakura-chan, you know Bastard is right. Don't waste chakra on us," Naruto told Sakura, smiling widely. his happy-go-lucky personality shining through.

"Naruto, if we have still have chakra left in us, we will do whatever we can to save you two! Don't be an idiot and tell us to give up!" yelled Sakura, tears pouring out of her eyes.

"Don't cry Sakura-chan, you know that it hurts me when I see you in tears," Naruto told Sakura, slowly lifting up his hand and wiping away her tears. How many times had he had to wipe away her tears? It didn't necessarily matter, Naruto knew that he would continue to do it until he was dead.

"Ironic since I'm dying right now," Naruto thought, a mirthless chuckle reverberating in his mind.

"N-Naruto, you can't leave me. You promised that you would never leave me," Sakura sniffled, trying her hardest to not break down. In an effort to distract herself, she continued to heal the wound in Naruto's chest.

"I would never leave you, Sakura-chan. I will always be with you," Naruto, with all the remaining strength left in his body, moved his hand and poked the left side of Sakura's chest, "right here. Our love has overcome so many hard obstacles, this is just another one."

Naruto finished his small speech with one of his wide smiles, some blood trickling down his mouth. Sakura leaned down and laid a kiss on Naruto's lips, tears escaping out of her eyes. As she pulled back, Sakura could see Naruto smiling sadly at her.

"I love you, Sakura-chan."

Naruto's eyes lost the remaining life that was left in them after the words escaped his lips. Sakura stopped trying to heal him and instead opted for holding his body close to hers. No sounds were coming from her. Tears were cascading down her face freely and her body was racked by her silent whimpers.

"Naruto…You damn idiot, I love you too," Sakura whispered.

With Hinata and Sasuke

"Sasuke-kun, don't say that! We can save you! Sakura is the best medic in the world, and she taught me! We can save you, don't give up hope Sasuke-kun."

"Hinata, be logical, you know I can't survive from these wounds. I've lost too much blood. I love you. Don't forget that," Sasuke said as he looked into Hinata's eyes and conveyed all his feelings that had taken him so long to understand. Knowing he was going through the last moments of living, he freely expressed all his love for her in those moments of eye contact.

"I love you too, Sasuke-kun. Please don't leave me, not like this! You just can't, everything has been going so wonderful. We were suppose to get married when this war was over. You can't leave me, not yet…" Hinata trailed off. Sasuke slowly lifted his hand up to Hinata and pushed the hair that covered her face behind her ear. Hinata stared woefully at Sasuke's eyes. She leaned down and kissed him, not noticing that his last breath of air left him as she did. When she lifted her face back up, she stared down at her beloved's face. Sasuke had died with a small smile on his face, the last expression to ever cross his face. Hinata looked down, her hair shielded her face.

"I couldn't save him. I couldn't save the man I love," Hinata spoke silently. She lifted her head up and looked towards where Sakura was. Feeling eyes on her, Sakura looked up into the melancholy eyes of Hinata. They nodded at each other and laid the bodies of their loved ones next to each other, then they groggily stood up.

"There's nothing we could have done for them," Hinata breathed out.

"I know. Why d-did they have to be so reckless and do this by themselves? They could have asked for back-up, they could have asked for us! They didn't need to do this by themselves…For fucks sakes, we could have went with them! We could have prevented all this! Why didn't they ask for backup?!" Sakura's foot stomped onto the ground, creating cracks on it. She rubbed her eyes with the heel of her wrist, wiping away the tears that escaped her tear ducts.

"We had to help all the wounded that were pouring in, and everyone else was on important missions. Sasuke-kun and Naruto-kun were only at the base because they had to protect it. There is a war going on, Sakura-chan, don't forget that. The base is in a fragile state since Lady Tsunade was killed just a few months ago. We already lost Konoha, we can't lose this base too! We can't lose this war," Hinata looked up into the sky and a forlorn smile graced her features, "We already lost, haven't we?"

Sakura let out the breath of air she didn't know she was holding.

"We can't win, there's just no way. Kabuto keeps summoning more dead ninja to fight for him…The Allied Shinobi Nation can't beat them all, we just can't."

Sakura clenched her fists in frustration, an insistent prickling in her eyes told her she was about to cry once again. She took in deep, steady breaths to calm her nerves and stop the tears from falling. She knew once she started, she wouldn't be able to stop. Noticing the state her fried was in, Hinata decided to change the topic into another.

"Sakura-chan, we have to put Naruto-kun's plan into action. It's probably the only chance that we have to change everything."

Sakura's eyes widened fractionally before she nodded. She couldn't let the war end with their side losing and she knew that the plan would drastically change everything.

Flashback

"Naruto, did you need something?" Sakura asked her boyfriend.

"Dead last, are you seriously going to tell them what we planned? Right now?" Sasuke questioned, trying to discourage Naruto from speaking.

"Bastard, I have to tell them. You know why!" Naruto yelled at Sasuke. Sasuke closed his eyes for a moment. He slowly opened his eyes, defeat clearly evident in them.

"Tell them."

"Tell us what, Sasuke-kun?" Hinata asked her own fiancé.

"You know that we are in a war with Madara and the Sound. There is a very high possibility that Sasuke and I will die in battle. No, more like we will die in battle," Naruto raised his hand up to silence the argument Sakura and Hinata were about to start. "We are way outnumbered. The only possible outcome for this war right now is with us losing. Sasuke and I have tried strategizing with Shikamaru, but we can't find a way out of this. This war will end with us losing, no doubt about that. Sasuke and I have formed a plan. If we do die, we want you two to go to the past and make sure this war doesn't happen. Too many lives have already been lost and we can't let that continue. Can we trust you two to follow the plan?"

"Hai!" Sakura and Hinata replied, full of confidence. They weren't about to fail, not with such an important task as this one.

"Good, here's the plan…"

Flashback End

Sakura looked towards Hinata, determination radiating off of her. She reached into one of her vest pockets and took out a pink scroll. Hinata did the same, but she took out a purple scroll. They turned around to face the bodies behind them and did a few hand signs. Both sucked in a breath of air and blew out a stream of fire, saying the name of the Jutsu as they did.

"Fire Release: Fire Stream."

Sakura and Hinata burned the bodies of Naruto and Sasuke, leaving no trace of their bodies behind. They couldn't risk Kabuto getting their DNA and using it to bring them back to life as reanimated corpses.

The two female ninjas turned to look at each other and nodded. They stepped back from each other so that there was a meter between them. They unrolled their scroll so that it crisscrossed with the other. Then, they stepped into the middle with their hands in the ram sign.

"To change the future?" Sakura asked smiling.

"To change the future," Hinata replied with a small smile.

As Hinata finished replying, both kunoichi started to go through hundreds of hand signs-their hands only a blur.

"Past to Present Jutsu!"

Two bright lights enveloped the women. As it died down, the clearing appeared as if the two were never there. The scrolls that had helped them with the Jutsu had disintegrated once the jutsu was completed.

Invisible forms of Naruto and Sasuke smiled. They were now ghosts, waiting to head to wherever they may need to go now that they were dead.

"Dead last, do you think they can do it?"

"Bastard! I'm not a dead last anymore!" Naruto replied, pumping an invisible fist up towards Sasuke as he did, "I bet they can do it, they can do anything, believe it!"

"Don't start with that stupid catchphrase now, Idiot. The fact remains that you died first. My conclusion being that you suck and are still a dead last," Sasuke said haughtily, baiting Naruto.

"Why you little! Fuck you! I killed more people than you!" Naruto screamed at Sasuke. The latter only smirked.

"Only because I heroically saved you from dieing, by sacrificing myself. If I hadn't done that, I would've easily killed many more than you."

"You didn't have to! I could have saved myself!"

"Don't be delusional, your hamstrings were torn. You wouldn't have been able to save yourself, no matter how hard you tried."

"I still killed more than you," grumbled the blonde, pouting. He crossed his hands over his vest and looked away from the Uchiha.

"Because I saved your sorry ass," a very smug Sasuke replied.

"Fuck you, Bastard!"

"Whatever, come on Naruto, our friends are waiting for us."

"They're waiting for me, not you! They've always loved me the best!"

"That's some bullshit, I've changed. At least one of them likes me better than you."

"You changed because of me, so their Sasuke-likeyness just rebounds off to me!"

"I did NOT change because of you!"

"Yes you did!"

"No I didn't!"

"Yes!"

"No!"

"Yes!"

"What does Sakura see in you?"

"What does Hinata see in you?"

"Touché."

With that, the two souls of Naruto Namikaze-Uzumaki and Sasuke Uchiha disappeared, leaving the destroyed clearing behind them.

They left this future to make a new one. Maybe, they will finally get their Happily Ever After.

Review and tell me what you think! Constructive criticism will be much appreciated, so don't be afraid to give it.

For my returning readers- As you can see, many things have changed. I realized how many of the things I added were just unnecessary and would've made Sakura and Hinata Mary Sues. I didn't mean for that to happen, but now I realize I would've made them overpowered and way too OOC. I have also changed the Jutsus from being in Japanese to English. I realized how pointless it was, since I would search for the translation just to put the English version at the end of the chapter.

For my newer readers- I hope you have enjoyed this chapter and continue to read my story.

I AM STILL IN NEED OF A BETA!

I searched for one myself, but none met the criteria that I was searching for.

Anyone who wants to beta this story should PM me and we can talk details.

I would also much appreciate it if someone would like to hear some of the ideas I have for future chapters and give comments about them.

I hope this version is much more to everyone's liking!

~gaasakufoevah (I really need to change my name on this. -sigh-)