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Prolouge

"Dobe."

"Teme!"

Sakura watched on in awe as her two teammates had a glaring contest. After the chūnin exam, she figured that maybe they might get along more, but it seemed that their rivalry was at its strongest. It seemed to be getting a bit better, but then something must have happened when Naruto left to go get Tsunade. She looked up to Kakashi pleadingly, hoping that he might be able to do something to stop the inevitable battle.

Said teacher was simply scanning over his porn with his usual apathetic demeanor. She bit back a growl as he just stood there while the shouting matches started getting louder. She was starting to wonder if she could get a new leader. He was clearly not up to-.

"I hate to interrupt this love fest, but we have more important matters. We're almost back to the village, so you guys are going to need to settle down."

Sakura looked up at the Jōnin, surprised that he even said anything. Maybe he wasn't so useless after all.

Kakashi continued, oblivious to Sakura's train of thought, "You two really should get along more," he said.

Naruto frowned, "Like I'd get along with that jerk!"

Sasuke's "hn" was said in agreement.

Kakashi shrugged, "Whatever, I tried. I guess I'll see you guys back in the village," With that, he disappeared in a plume of smoke.

Sakura stared, mouth agape at the spot where her instructor once was.

Naruto frowned, "Wow, Teme, he's worse than you."

Sasuke grimaced, "Whatever dobe."

Sakura couldn't take it anymore. She walked over and hit them both in the head, "I can't take it anymore! Just stop fighting!"

She stopped, realizing that she just attacked her crush. She was about to start apologizing profusely to the brooding Uchiha, but she was stopped when the two looked away from each other.

"Fine," Naruto said

"Hn." Sasuke agreed.

Sakura let out a breath as she wiped imaginary sweat from her brow, "Phew. Thank goodness that's over."

They walked on in silence as Sakura thought back to what happened. They were currently on the return trip to Konoha after escort mission to Suna. After they completed it, something happened that seemed to cause an even greater spark of rivalry between her two teammates. She wasn't sure what, but it made them fight all the way until they made it close to the outpost of the village.

She was pulled out of her musing as she heard a shout from her louder teammate. She looked up to see that the two had pulled away from her and out of her view. She ran further down the road to see Sasuke stand next to what looked like an old well.

"Tch. Dobe, are you okay?" Sasuke shouted down the well.

"Teme!" she heard from below, "Yeah I'm fine. I can't believe I fell down a well! That's so lame! Hey, go get me a rope."

Sasuke frowned, "Just walk up the wall."

It was like she could hear Naruto scratch the back of his neck, "Oh right. I'll be right up."

Suddenly, there was a large crescendo and a flash of light from within the well and Naruto let out a shout.

"Naruto!" Sakura shouted, "What happened?"

There was no answer, so without a word, Sasuke jumped down, "He's not down here!" he jumped back up and looked over to Sakura, "Stay here! I'm gonna go back to Konoha to see if I can get help!"

Sakura nodded mutely as he leapt off. She could only look down into the well with worry.

XxOxX

Sakura watched as Kakashi made his way out of the well with a look on his face that was close to a grimace, "Did you find him?" she asked.

Kakashi solemnly shook his head, "It appears that the knucklehead had accidentally stumbled onto one of Orochimaru's old labs that we hadn't cleaned out. It looks like he tripped a transportation seal, so he could be anywhere."

Sakura paled, "Can't you trace where he went?"

Kakashi's appearance dropped further, "Usually we could, but the seal seems to have been damaged with age."

Sakura worried her lip, "So we have no idea where he is?"

Kakashi solemnly shook his head.

Chapter 1

All he knew was pain. It coursed up and down his body in waves. He would have screamed, but his throat was already raw from overuse. He only saw black as the pain flowed over him, when suddenly, it stopped, and he found himself lying on the ground.

He heard words exchanged above him and someone picked him up. His body was still sore from whatever happened, so the contact caused him to whimper quietly. Whoever held him, seemed to hear him, so the grip around him loosened.

They seemed to start moving and the jostling caused him to whimper more and he saw a flash of green and the pain seemed to lessen. He turned toward the green light and felt his consciousness slip away.

XxOxX

The first thing that came to him was the scent of blood and disinfectant. Next was the sound of the vital monitor next to him. It looked like he was in a hospital. He slowly opened his eyes and shut them quickly when he was hit with a flash of white. Yup it was the hospital. He opened his eyes slowly and looked around his room and frowned. He was fine, but he knew that Baa-chan would kill him if he tried to break out. That and since she was teaching Sakura, that would give him two scary women at his throat, so he reached toward the call button.

There was a buzz and he could hear the shuffle of rushing feet outside his door. The door flew open with a crash and Naruto saw a flash of pink and he started speaking quickly, "Hi, Sakura-chan, what happened? Why am I in the hospital?" he closed his eyes, smiled, and scratched the back of his head.

"That's what I would like to know." Naruto was surprised at the voice. It was definitely Sakura, but it seemed different; somewhat deeper.

"You sound different, do you have a cold?" he said, opening his eyes. He jumped away from the girl in front of him, "Who the hell are you!"

The girl in front of him looked about fifteen. She wore a red top, with black gloves, black boots, black shorts, short pink apron skirt, and pink elbow protectors. Her red Hitai-ate was worn as a headband like Sakura's.

She crossed her arms, "Naruto, what are you talking about? Also, what's with the appearance? Are you taking example from Tsunade-sama?"

He jumped back again to get the bed between him and the mystery girl, but as soon as his feet touched the ground, they gave out and he collapsed.

"Damn it," he swore. He looked up at the girl as she rushed toward him and he quickly backed up into a corner, "Stay back, whoever you are!"

"Naruto!" she said, worry laced her voice, "What's wrong? You've never been this injured before!"

He swore in his mind again. If only he wasn't so damn weak. Whatever was up with that well must have sucked his strength before sending him into this weird place. He started looking around frantically looking for an escape.

Normally, he wouldn't be panicking so much, but the stress coupled with the pain he just endured made him jump to conclusions. He made a jump for the door, but he was stopped when the girl grabbed him and kept him in place. He began to wriggle, but he stopped when he felt a prick on his neck and he began to get really tired. His eyelids became heavier until he final couldn't hold up and he gave into the darkness.

XxOxX

"Report!" Tsunade yelled down at her apprentice, "I want to know what happened to Naruto!"

She looked down at her fidgety student and frowned. It had been a simple C-rank mission. She sent Naruto, Kakashi, and Sai to transport a cargo to Nami no Kuni. They had received a messenger bird that said there were complications, but later, she had received that they had found Naruto in one of Orochimaru's old labs. There was nothing at all in the cave, for it had been cleaned out years ago, so there was no way to tell what had happened to him.

Sakura looked up at Tsunade and started rubbing her hands together, "You see," she began, "when he woke up, he reacted the way that he usually did, but as soon as he saw me, he claimed to not know me."

Tsunade's brow furrowed, "Was it amnesia?" She asked.

Sakura shook her head, "He knew my name, so that means there was some recognition. It was just after he opened his eyes that he freaked out. There was also no damage to his brain reported, so he should be the peak of health. If anything, the Kyuubi should fix it anyways."

Tsunade nodded, Alright, I'll go down and see him. Maybe I can find something you didn't."

Sakura nodded, stepping down to her superior. Tsunade made her way to Naruto's room and opened the door in time to see the blonde in question reaching for the call button. He turned to her and gave her a bright smile, "Baa-chan! I was just about to call you. I had this weird dream where this weird girl pretended to be Sakura and tried to kill me in the hospital."

Tsunade held back a smirk at the indignant huff she heard behind her, "Are you sure she was trying to kill you?" I did send one of my best medics down here and she reported you being distressed from her presence."

Naruto went bug-eyed, "Best medic? You better not tell Sakura, she might get jealous."

This time she heard a snort behind her and she couldn't help but smile and shake her head good-naturedly. Fortunately, she figured her next words might help the situation, "My best medic IS Sakura. She has been training under me for the past three years and she has nearly surpassed me. I wouldn't let anyone less check up on you after all."

Naruto seemed to light up at her reassurance, but he deflated, "Wait… but you've only been the Hokage for a couple months."

Tsunade smiled and shook her head, "I have yet to quit from back when you got me when you were twelve. I am still counting down to the day when I can hand the job down to you."

Naruto looked taken aback by the statement, "I am twelve," he said.

Tsunade's smile slipped away from her face and she turned to Sakura, "Make sure no one comes to this room. I want a word with Naruto alone."

Sakura nodded and closed the door, and Tsunade turned to the aforementioned blonde, "Tell me what you remember last that happened," she said.

Naruto nodded, "I was returning on a mission from Nami no Kuni with Kakashi, Sakura, and Sasuke when I fell down a well into a dark cave. I was preparing to climb up with my chakra, but as soon as I pushed chakra to my feet and stepped on the ground, Pain shot through my body and I collapsed. I remember being picked up and a green light and it then only black. I then woke up and that weird lady came in and checked up on me. I panicked, got sedated, and here you are."

Tsunade frowned and rubbed her chin, "I was afraid of this," she said, "I think you may have stumbled into one of Orochimaru's old transportation seals and you activated it on accident. Luckily, we were able to catch the influx of chakra and we found you before you were seriously injured."

Naruto huffed and crossed his arms, "Some transportation seal. It only transported me to another base, and if the influx of chakra can be sensed, wouldn't it make secret travel useless?"

Tsunade nodded, "The problem is, I don't think that you were sent to a different base. I think you may have been sent through time to the future."

Naruto rolled his eyes, "I'm sure. And what good would using a future travel jutsu do?"

Tsunade shrugged, "Who knows? He could have studied history, maybe found out about his defeats, or it could have been part of another twisted plan for immortality again."

Naruto nodded sagely and shrugged, "So what do we do now?"

Tsunade smiled and brought out a photo from her pocket and showed it to Naruto, "I need you to henge into this person and I will send word to the gate."

Naruto nodded and made the hand seals, "Henge!" he yelled and there was a poof of smoke and in Naruto's place was his fifteen year old self.

Tsunade smiled and signaled for the ANBU. When Fukurō appeared, he snapped at attention as she spoke, "Send word to the gate that if Uzumaki Naruto is to show up, he is to immediately report to my office with as little delay as possible."

Fukurō nodded, "Hai, Hokage-sama," and with that, he disappeared. Tsunade turned around to Naruto and smiled to see that he was checking himself out.

"Wow! I'm a hunk!" He shouted.

She snorted, "I think that we will have to seal your memories as soon as we send you back as not to mess with the timeline, so you are free to explore the future as much as you want. As soon as your older counterpart arrives, I will send another ANBU to find you and we will have a discussion on what to do.

Naruto gave a mock salute, "Hai! Baa-chan-sama!"

Tsunade rolled her eyes and smiled, "Just get the hell out of here. Try to do your best to keep your being from the past a secret."

Naruto smiled and jumped out the window. Tsunade waited for him to be out of earshot before signaling her ANBU again. Sezume appeared and she spoke, "Keep an eye on out visitor. I will send for him when time comes.

"Hai! Hokage-sama!"

Tsunade sighed and rubbed the space between her eyes, "That blond child is going to give me a heart attack one of these days."

XxOxX

Naruto slowly made his way down the streets of Konoha taking in all the sights. There were some clear differences, but the village looked pretty much the same since he last left. He knew that the first thing he was going to do was check out his apartment. He stopped himself from frowning as he spotted the mass of villagers that blocked the way to his apartment.

He sighed before plastering a big smile on his face and the villagers turned and saw him. He braced himself for the glares, but was shocked to see them smiling and waving. He frowned and turned around and looked behind him, but there was no one there. They were waving at him!

"Good morning, Naruto-san!" he heard from the crowd. He gave a nervous chuckle before returning his greeting. He made it further down the street and another woman ran up to him and he braced himself for the yelling he was about to get, but he stopped when she smiled and said, "I'm glad to see you're okay. My brother and I saw you when you were brought into the hospital and we were worried. I would have visited the hospital, but I just got off work."

She smiled and handed him a loaf of bread, "I just made this today, I'm glad to see that you recovered, but think of it as a 'get well' present."

Naruto was stunned, "Um, not that I'm not grateful, but why would you want to give me a present?" he asked.

The girl just smiled, "After everything you've done to protect the village, coupled with your Infectious positive attitude, how can I not support you. I'm very happy for you."

Naruto gave a small, genuine smile, "Thank you," he said softly. She waved and ran off, leaving Naruto to stew in his own thoughts.

He made his way toward his house, loosing count of the friendly greetings he received from the villagers. This was truly something. Had he actually been able to be seen without having to be Hokage? He couldn't help but smile as he picked up the spare key and made his way into his apartment. The first thing he noticed was the new photos that were placed in the shelf. The original of Team seven was in the middle, and next to each photo was that of the other teams of the rookie 9 and Gai's team. They were of the time he came from, so he still didn't know what the others looked like in this period.

He pulled out a cup ramen and set it down, "Damn," he swore, "It's the future and they still haven't been able to fix the three minutes it takes. He sat down and started on his noodles as he started planning out his day.

A 'must' on the list was definitely to visit Teuchi and Ayame, that and Iruka-sensei. He figured he could probably find the others from his graduating class, maybe even visit the training ground. He was so excited. This was going to be fun.

Owari

O.k. So, I am going to try to space out the updates a little for this story, since I took three weeks for my last story and I have next to no reviews. I hope I will space it out, but I like posting chapters. Let's see how it goes.

I will try to cut back on the author notes for this story. As fun as it is to mess with the readers with my on sarcastic and witty comments, it really just wastes space, so this will hopefully be the only long author's note.

I plan on only using this space for relevant information. That and translations. Oh! And the disclaimer. That's my trollolo.

Plan.

I am up to suggestions for plot lines, I only have the first half preplanned, so it's cool.

Translations:

Fukurō: Owl

Sezume: Sparrow

Owari: The end

I think this is a nifty idea, so please don't crush my dreams. I am up for COSTRUCTIVE criticism.

Okay, bye!