December 28th 2011

DISCLAIMER: I DO NOT OWN NARUTO.

WARNINGS: Quite not AU, but may be somewhat AU-ish. Starts after end of Fourth Shinobi war. You may consider this Super!Naruto fic. This is also Time-travel. I do not want to hear complaints that Naruto wouldn't do this or do that. This IS fanfiction. May contain some slash-ish elements so consider yourself warned.

Keys to reading: "Normal Speech", 'Thoughts', KYUUBI / "Summon" speak, "Jutsu Name [English version]!"

SUMMARY: Nearly three years long Fourth Great Shinobi War had finally ended and Madara was defeated and killed, but with terribly high price. Jinchuuriki of Kyuubi no Kitsune, Uzumaki Naruto was only survivor of whole Elemental Nation wide war. Kyuubi wanted to change things and absorbed Senju Clan's Mokuton ability and his own knowledge to Naruto. Together they cast time-travelling jutsu.

Now Naruto has ended in past nearly 5 years before his own birth, and met finally his parents alive. Now Naruto has gained new change in his life, but will he be able to change future for better and defeat and kill Madara again, and prevent Fourth Great Shinobi War this time?

A/N: This is older story that has been in my PC for some time now that I have thought publishing. This fic is pretty much completed, and there might be sequel coming if I can get myself excited about this again, but I seriously doubt it. We'll see.

And now, forwards.

Stillnight

Presents

Twist of Fate

[ Prologue ]

Naruto wiped water from his face as he wandered amongst the ruins of formerly known as Konohagakure no Sato. Heavy rain beat the ruins and Naruto, but teen barely cared about it at all. He was searching something. This was village where he had been born and grown. War against Madara had been tiresome, but it had been finally won - with extreme price. He, Naruto, was the only survivor of whole war. Everyone had died in battle. And Naruto had survived only thanks the Kyuubi.

He walked tiredly around and scanned ruins with his gaze. He sighed sorrowfully as saw only death and destruction around him. He had lost everyone and everything, he felt empty and dead inside of him.

He finally spotted something he had been searching for. Tears formed into his eyes as knelt to pick up lifeless body of familiar woman. Tears mixed into rain as he carried woman in clean place and placed her down into ground.

He sat next to woman's lifeless form and gently stroked her blond hair. "Tsunade-baachan..." he said, without even trying to wipe his tears away. "... you were the last one who was missing."

Then he took meditative position and fell into meditation trance. Soon he found himself in familiar place, and walked down to familiar path of forest floor. He sighted soon very familiar flaming red fur of Kurama, the Kyuubi. He stopped in front of giant demon fox, and said thickly, tears in his eyes.

"I found her."

Kurama's big, crimson eyes opened upon hearing Naruto's sorrowful voice. SO YOU FOUND HER FINALLY? he asked with deep, booming voice. GOOD. I HAVE BEEN FORMING PLAN SORT OF, BUT I NEED YOUR PERMISSION TO PUT IT IN ACTION.

"What kind of plan?" Naruto asked. Though sadness was heavily weighing him, he was somewhat curious what fox had been planning.

NOW, LISTEN TO ME CAREFULLY BEFORE YOU LAY MY PLAN COMPLETELY FLAT, Kurama said. DON'T INTERRUPT, UNTIL I HAVE FINISHED MY EXPLANATION.

Naruto nodded, and decided to listen what demon had planned for them. Kurama started his explanation.

I WANT TO TAKE TSUNADE'S GENETIC INFORMATION AND USE IT TO GIVE YOU POWER OF MOKUTON ABILITY. AS YOU KNOW, MOKUTON HAS ABILITY TO SUPPRESS MY MALICIOUS CHAKRA. AND I WILL DO SOME CHANGES INTO YOUR APPEARANCE, NOTHING TOO MAJOR OF COURSE.

AFTER THAT LET'S PERFORM TOGETHER FORBIDDEN JUTSU AND TRAVEL IN PAST, NOT TOO FAR MIND YOU, AND LET'S START OVER OUR LIFE. HERE WE DON'T HAVE NOTHING MORE THAN JUST DEAD WASTELAND AND DEATH WHERE EVER WE GO. WE ARE ALL ALONE HERE.

I WILL AWAKEN YOUR ANOTHER KEKKEI GENKAI, AS IT IS CURRENTLY BEING IN DORMANT STATE, HAS BEEN YOUR WHOLE LIFE, AND IT COMES FROM YOUR FATHER.

Naruto listened intensively whole time and nodded from time to time. He understood Kurama's desire to start from fresh. Demon was correct, in their current timeline there was only death waiting them, nothing more.

"Okay, let's humor ourselves and do it. As you said, here is nothing but death to us. Let's see if we can change the future for better this time", Naruto said. "But I have question, Kurama."

ASK WAY, demon fox lifted his eyebrow.

"What happens to you? Will you cease existing or will you stay inside me? Or perhaps you will fuse with your past self as a one being and stay sealed inside me?" Naruto asked. He was curious about that matter quite much.

Kurama blinked in surprise. He hadn't thought about it at all. THAT WAS INTERESTING QUESTION, KIT. WHO ACTUALLY KNOWS WHAT WILL HAPPEN TO ME? TO THINKING MORE CLOSELY ABOUT IT, I THINK... IT WILL BE MOST SMARTEST MOVE TO GIVE YOU ALL MY ABILITIES AND KNOWLEDGE, JUST IN CASE THAT I WILL CEASE EXISTING. I DON'T WANT YOU TO BE LEFT STAND WITH EMPTY HANDS AGAIN.

NOW, KIT... SLEEP. I WILL AWAKEN YOU WHEN I'M DONE WITH EVERYTHING. IT'LL BE LESS PAINFUL FOR YOU THAT WAY.

Naruto fell on ground, unconscious, and fox's tails hurried to grab boy before he hit the ground. Kurama placed boy in forest floor gently and took then control of Naruto's physical body.

He opened his eyes in real world and saw Godaime Hokage's lifeless body in ground. He touched her cold cheek sadly and sighed. I'm sorry that I have to do this, but this is for the sake of our kit.

Then he steeled himself and started to work. He scanned woman's corpse and found vast amounts of information of the techniques and medics, and pretty much of everything else. He decided not to waste this change and memorized everything he could and absorbed this new knowledge into Naruto's body. He left dead woman's personal memories alone, although he saw - just for flash - that woman had carried huge regret not to accept Jiraiya's marriage proposal and have children.

Lastly he extracted from woman's lifeless body Senju Clan's deepest essence and genetic information of Mokuton ability. Then he absorbed all that into boy's body and did some changes. Naruto's body grew few inches and his appearance went through some changes. His face wasn't so round, but more angular and he looked shockingly much Yondaime Hokage, like his copy. His eyes were now narrower and left eye stayed as brilliant azure colored with some crimson red stripes. But his right eye went through some interesting change, as its color started to mix with several others and ended up multicolored with, azure, black, crimson red, violet and honey brown. Also his hair went some changes too, his dominant color stayed as sun-kissed golden-yellow, but it got some other colors too, lighter yellow came to accompany his bright yellow with white and black strands, and single deep blood-red strand in his left temple.

Kurama worked matching Naruto's new genetics perfectly together, mixing them into completely into new person's genetics, but boy's mind would still stay as same. Lastly he absorbed his own knowledge into Naruto and activated his kekkei genkais.

Demon fox felt immediately how his malicious chakra was suppressed and turned into healthy nature chakra. He felt how started to renew this new good and pure-natured, greenish chakra.

He finally woke Naruto and gave to boy his body control back. KIT, IT'S TIME TO WAKE UP, Kurama said and nudged Naruto with his tails. I HAVE DONE EVERYTHING I WANTED TO DO. IT IS TIME TO PERFORM TIME-TRAVEL JUTSU.

Naruto opened his eyes feeling completely different than earlier. "Thank you, Kurama. Let's get on with this... And just in case that you cease existing, I just want to say this to you: Thank you for everything you have to done for me. Thank you for keeping me alive and sane through all these years, all this time, it must have been hard. Thank you for being there for me and giving me this new change to start from fresh new life. Better this time I hope."

Kurama nodded understanding. THANK YOU ALSO FOR BEING MY BEST HOST AND TOLERATING ME. THANK YOU GIVING ME A CHANGE TO REPENT MY SINS THIS WAY. NOW THIS JUTSU I WAS TALKING ABOUT... YOU DO THE HAND SIGNS AND I LEND YOU ALL CHAKRA NEEDED. YOU KNOW... YOU HAVE THE OPPOSABLE THUMPS...

Naruto burst in laugh. "Yeah, I get it, Kurama." In Naruto's mind flashed pictures of hand signs needed in this jutsu and chakra surged through his body. Naruto formed hand signs and they both said same time: Jikan ryokō no Kinjutsu: Ryokō-chū e kako [FORBIDDEN TIME TRAVELLING TECHNIQUES: TRAVELLING INTO THE PAST!]

There was sudden gust of harsh wind and rain ceased for moment as there was bright flash of blinding light. Only wisps of smoke and rain remained in ruins of destroyed village, formerly known as Konohagakure no Sato of Fireland.

TBC.