So…
Here I am. Again. Yeah.
My name is Uzumaki Naruto, if anyone cares. I'm a time traveler. Oh no, not by choice of course. I'm stuck in a loop of sorts and I can't get out.
I'm acting really calm about this aren't I? Yeah, this isn't my first time through. That was the time I was convinced that this was just a genjutsu and killed myself trying to break it. Yeah. That was when the furball realized it didn't have to help me in order to save its own skin-er, soul… whatever.
Anyway, I look around in my dingy apartment and try to think about how this is pretty good considering what I am. As a jinchurriki, I'm lucky to have a relatively intact roof over my head, air conditioning, (sometimes) and running water. Ah, who am I kidding? I just miss the place Yamato sensei built for me after Konoha was flattened; it was the size of a house fit for a full family-all of it just for me.
So, yeah. Yesterday I was fifteen and dying, and today I'm a kid. Yeah, last run through I made it to age fifteen. In my first life, (it's still weird to think like that) I made it all the way to seventeen. I've yet to make it that far again. I would smile and say third time's the charm, but… it wasn't. I stopped counting, but I don't think I've managed to get myself killed a dozen times yet.
It's surprising how lucky I was to live that far in the first place. I mean really, nearly every S-class shinobi there is wants me dead for one reason or another. The one that aren't seem to get some sick twisted pleasure in watching me dodge bullets. Yeah, that's enough about that.
Care to guess when I am?
Anyone?
I bet you all think I'm at the day at or before I became in ninja. Wrong. Day of team assignments? Nope. Just after the mission to wave? No. give up? It is a year to the day before I became a shinobi. Yup, I just failed my second academy test. I have a full year before I can become a genin.
The sad thing is that there is very little I can do in that year other than making my own reputation better and perhaps getting the bastard informed on what kind of sick pedophile the snake is.
Alright when you have multiple lives it's like sex; only the first and the last matter. Yeah, you have no business being here if you have no idea how my first life went so I'll skip onto my last. Last time through I tried to play my life as close to my first as I could while actually being much stronger. Well, we all can guess how that went.
This time, I have a plan, you'll see. Let's just say no one's going to find out I can make hordes of Kage Bushin until Akatsuki show up at the very least. They will think I only have one skill set. A very different skill set. Then when it matters, I can switch back to being a one man army that chucks around A and S class jutsu like its nothing.
As to how I'm a time traveler? I have no idea. I have my suspicions, but really, no idea. I suspect Super Sharingan Shenanigans. Yeah, I blame Madara. See, in my first life I managed to destroy the statue they were using to seal away the Bijuu. He was pissed.
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Authors Note
Yeah a first person time looped Naruto? Not exactly an original idea but whatever. After finally getting some sort of drive to write back, I'm not going to complain. Yeah, Naruto will probably stop saying yeah so much when thing start to get rolling.