I do not own Naruto anime, manga, games or other materials. This is a fan fiction
It can be said that life can be both funny and cruel. After a long life of hardships, pain and suffering Naruto achieved what he ones wished for. The people of Konoha had finally accepted him as a good and honest person. I know people will say that it should not taken so long, but stupidity and rage tend to make people a little blind and hardheaded. Naruto was accepted, but yet he was utterly alone. Kakashi the man he had come to treat as a big brother, died killed by Tobi to get his eye back. It turned out that Tobi was the original owner of the sharingan eye Kakashi was given by his friend. That friend that now went under the name of Tobi.
The 5 Kage decided that Madara was a major threat to the entire world. They agreed that they needed to put past grievances and problems behind them or they would all end up being Madara's mindless puppets. Tsunade and Onoki were the last 2 kage to agree, Tsunade had a bit of a beef with that, since the death of her lover was never going to be avenged, and Onoki had a problem with allowing the son of the yellow flash survive, he would never avenge the shinobi that died by Minato's hands. The other kage simply told the two needed to grow up and see the real danger in front of them. They agreed that they needed to work together, they were not happy being called immature by a guy no older than Naruto, but they knew they had to do it.
The United Shinobi Force fought against Madara and his subordinates with everything they had. Madara even told them that he was simply trying to bring about world peace. In the end he achieved his goal, just not the way he pictured. The 10 tails was brought back into the world, and she was not as easy to control as Madara had hoped. A six foot tall, raven hair beauty in her human form, and with a body that would make Tsunade look like a teenager. But the juubi was told that Madara wanted to be her jinjuriki, at that point she flat out flipped him off, and told him that if she was going to be inside someone, it would be someone she respected, as far as she knew the only one she respected was Naruto. He was the only one to ever treat all the 9 tails beasts as people, even managed to forge a true friendship with each and every one of them. So when given the choice she practically jumped into Naruto's seal. This made Madara angry as all hell. He needed the power of the 10 tails to do his plan. He tried to kill Naruto many times, but having mastered his beast mode with Kurama, it made using the beast mode with Shinju that much easier.
The fighting seemed like it would never end, and Madara's forces were being slaughtered by a single, extremely angry shinobi. After 10 years of fighting and the death of all the 5 kages the war finally came to an end, but the sad thing was that every young man and woman, even the children had died. The only people that remained were old men and women, and 1 young man, Naruto Uzumaki. He knew that there would be no more children, and that Madara had achieved world peace, but it was the peace of the grave.
Without anyone to talk to Naruto closed into himself and spent all his time inside his mind. Shinju was not complaining about that one bit, she actually loved spending time with Naruto, she even made a joke that if she got out of the seal, they could be the new adam and eve for the shinobi world. Which he simply told her that means that she was willing to be pregnant and suffer labor pain many times, that pretty much squashed that idea flatter than a pancake.
It was not the pain that she did not like, it was the headache of being a mother to a whole horde of children. She laughed that he mentioned the fact that they were talking about pregnancies and children and they had not even gone on a single date. She told him the war kept him pretty busy, but nothing was stopping them now? But she put her foot down on one topic, and that was if they did go out, there was no way in hell that their dinner was going to be ramen. He told her that the only ramen he liked would never again be made, Deidra blew up the ramen stand and killed the ramen stand owner, his daughter and 20 customers.
Shinju could always tell how her Naruto felt, it was a connection they shared. There was no real explaining it, but as far as she knew she always had a deep connection to him. It had the positive side that she felt closer to him, and enjoyed every moment that they were together, but the negative was that she would see every lousy moment of his past. His dreams had been memories of the pain, abuse, and neglect he suffered growing up, calling them dreams was a kind way of calling them. To her they were nightmares, and she hated everyone of them. How could someone so warm, caring and tender had to suffer so much? why did the most wonderful guy she ever met, suffered more than any man she ever met too? She wanted Naruto to be happy and truly smile, but these nightmares always remind him of his hellish past. She had to find a way to free him from those horrible memories, so he would enjoy life more.
She was an immensely powerful and intelligent person, but the only answer made her frown more than smile. In his younger years he suffered because of his inability to protect himself, in his academy years he suffered because of neglect and down right abuse by his teachers. She could hardly believe that someone could do that, and still be called a teacher. In his genin days he suffered from a leader that completely ignored him, while giving preferential treatment to the other genin in his team. Granted, the leader later made several attempts to apologize for his actions, and Naruto even began to think about him like a big brother. But in her mind that did not excuse his actions while leading the squad. In later days he was never given his due credit during mission reports, and finally he was blamed for the team not receiving the next rank after the exams. If Sakura Haruno was not already dead, she would make sure she would be after all the things she did to her Naruto. Sasuke's betrayal was the only thing she could not complain about, if someone was so self absorbed like him, would it be any mystery that he would betray his teams, in something that would benefit him in his idiotic quest for revenge. Naruto had found several records in the ruins of the Root Anbu Division Headquarteres, that it was in fact Danzo that blamed the Uchiha so he could get most if not all of them killed, so he could steal as many of their eyes as he could. Itachi was forced to take the blame, with the promise that his brother would be safe. Even as he died his only concern was for his beloved little brother, not that the idiot Sasuke would even notice.
The only solution was to quite literally restart time a few days after he was born, with the only exception that this time Naruto would remember everything he had learned to present time, and retain all the hard earned skills he had mastered, the only exception would be his toad contract, he would need to sign that again later if he wished. But this had 2 main problems, first it would mean sending him to a time where she was still divided in 9 beings, and more importantly she would be separated from him. She did not like those issues, and like the last one even less than the first. There was only one person who could resolve it, but she did not want to call on the spirit of that guy, but she did not want to be separated from Naruto. She had no alternative, and decided to take the bulls by the horns, and called the spirit of the sage of the six paths.
The spirit appeared and for the most part was very happy to hear that one of his descendants had managed the impossible, the kid had actually managed to make his former beast happy enough, that she was willing to call on his spirit from the sheer fear of being separated from him. Most tail beast merely put up with their jinjuriki, one actively tormented his jinjuriki and gave him no time to rest, then again some became friends with their tail beasts, but the situation never happened to any of them, and not even himself. There was the 10 tail beast acting like she was deeply in love with her jinjuriki. To the degree that she even summoned him to try and figure a way for them not to be separated. He mentioned several times that if the time reversal worked, he would be a little boy, and not the man she had fallen in love with. She of course denied that she was in love with him, all she wanted was to be sure he was protected. The sage did what everyone would do, and he did not believe a word of her excuse.
He quickly told her that there was no real reason why she could not travel in time with him, and take the place of Kurama. As far as he knew the act of traveling backwards through time, pretty much destroyed the original time line. That is why many shinobi who specialized in time and space jutsu never attempted it in the first place. She mentioned that there was only 2 as far as she recalled, and he told her that the place she was, was not the only universe.
She asked and asked if the things he mentioned would work, the sheer nervous look on her face made her excuse of not loving the boy, that much less believable. He never really got along with her in the first place, they always argued about everything, but this time she was truly caring about someone other than just herself. He decided to go an extra mile and told her of the place where his personal library of scrolls was kept, and if someone managed to learn what was there, they would be able to make the sealing matrix for the trime travel and so much more. But the only condition was that she never tell him who gave her the location, and who owned the scrolls. He did not want any thanks or even recognition. If she promised that the boy as he kept calling Naruto would be happy, and that she would share in said joy, then he would be more than rewarded. As the time expired on the meeting he wished her best, and she wished him a peaceful rest in the afterlife.
Naruto was excited to learn something new, the way things were going the future extinction of the shinobi, was a rather depressing situation for him and for the older survivors. Many of them had been shinobi who had lived long enough to honorably retire. They figured that they would serve as advisors and guides to the younger generations, but with how the war turned out, that dream was crushed into dust. He followed Shinju's directions and instructions and he was surprised, who would believe that their was a library underneath the Hokage Mountain, he was extremely happy to have so many scrolls at his disposal, but Shinju told him that he needed to be quick and efficient, the scrolls were old, and she was not sure how long they would last. He made 300 shadow clones and ordered them to learn each one of the scrolls. Then he had them written them up in new scrolls, it would take several weeks but he would manage what his dear friend and companion said. He would master the material in the scrolls, even if it seemed that he would never use it. Shinju simply smiled and told him to never say never, he might be in for a surprise after he finished learning everything in the library.
