Time travel fic. Please Read and Review.
Edited and beta'd by Awesome Bird.
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The smell of blood is nauseating; it saturated the air, and the field around him. The colour of the grass, once so green is now painted haphazardly with the red and brown of those who died in battle. Lying in the middle of the blood-soaked field is a figure whose bright blonde hair is now dull and dirty, caked in dirt and blood.
The figure is the container, the jinchuuriki of Kyuubi and the son of two legends, Uzumaki Naruto. Naruto looked up towards the horizon. Warm orange and red coloured the sky, reflecting the rays of the rising sun, welcoming a new day...a new hope.
Naruto sighed,'No...there is no more hope. The war is over, but it has taken everything and everyone with it, destroyed everything he once swore to protect. Now there is nothing left, everything he held dear and close to his heart is gone.
He could still feel the phantom weight of Sakura while she whispered her last words in his arms, the blood seeping into his clothes.
He could still hear the desperate and anguished cries of Hinata at the loss of her sister, Madara's maniac laughter, his own desperate curses and Tsunade's pleas for him to save the village at the verge of her death.
Once this place, Konohagakure no Sato, was full of life and activity, but now it is the biggest graveyard in the whole Elemental Nations.
To him, this village is the memento of loss, pain, and all his sacrifices and he, as the Rokudaime Hokage of Konoha have to shoulder the burden of the deaths of his villagers...lying there, bleeding, hopeless and looking forward to the darkness and death to engulf him, to set him free from his pitiful existence.
He closed his eyes, he could see Sasuke, his last friend fighting with him in this battlefield, standing in front of Madara.
Madara's sword piercing through his heart while he held Madara with all his might just to give Naruto the opportunity to kill the man. And it worked, Naruto slammed a Rasengan through the madman's chest and ripped out his eyes, the cursed eyes which had caused this mass annihilation, this destruction. It is ironic how brutal he has became even without Kurama controlling him.
The sword soaked in his best friend's blood is now lying beside him, the friend he swore to protect even at the cost of his life has protected him. . .the traitor of the village has given his life to save the village. But all those sacrifices were for nothing the war has diminished the last drop of life from the sacred land of the earth.
Naruto would admit that they have lost. . .Even after defeating Madara, they have lost. He could feel his vision blur, small droplets of tear is running down his cheeks. Kurama was roaring in the back of his consciousness….he sighed again, "What is it Kurama?"
"Kit, why are you crying? Nothing is gonna happen mourning the dead."
"There is nothing left for me to do Kurama, I have failed everyone, Dad, Baa-chan, Gaara, Sasuke, Sakura, my friends, my villagers . . ."
"You are an idiot brat..."
"Yeah I know. . . ."
"Did you forget that you are a fuinjutsu expert who has made the seal to get back to time?!"
"Huh? Yes, I made that after pain's attack. I remember the seal perfectly."
"Yes, kit. Why didn't you ever use it?"
"I thought that if I play with time things might go from bad to worst. I thought I may destroy everything I was fighting to protect. . . . but now there is nothing to lose and there is nothing more to protect. . . .now I can use the jutsu Kurama at least I can try to make things happen in a different way. But. . ."
"Now what Kit?"
"I don't have any chakra left and we don't have any paint or scroll to draw the seal and Kurama we also don't have much time left."
"Use the earth as your paper and blood as paint Kit . . .now start drawing I have enough chakra to take us around 12 years in past. So think of any important event of that time."
"If we can't go back to the time before Uchiha massacre then I think the time around our first chunin exams should be fine. . . that is when all the things started to go to hell…" said Naruto while drawing the complicated seal carefully with his own blood.
"Kurama, what do you think will happen to us? Will I be in my 12-year-old body again? I can't do much at that form because my 12-year-old body can't hold or use your power and I don't think that I would be able to go to the sage mode in that body."
"I don't know Kit this is new to me as well. . . but I don't think that you would return to your that body. . . .according to my theory we would return to the past in this form but we will be a paradox there, we are changing the normal flow of time to do this Kit, so after a certain time we would just vanish from that world. . . .because that time already contains you and me."
Naruto stopped his drawing and frowned,"How much time Kurama? How much time before we cease to exist?"
"I can't say for sure, maybe a year or two. . . you will feel the effect of time kit I don't know how. Maybe you will feel weak or too exhausted after a certain time. Why kit afraid?" the demon mocked his jinchuriki.
"Yeah, but not about death or vanishing, afraid that I won't get enough time to make things right in that time line. I have lived long enough, seen too much death and destruction Kyuu I don't want to see that again. Well, at least I can give the Hokage this knowledge of future so that he could try and stop this fate in case I don't get enough time. It's worth a try." The blonde sighed,
"what about you, Kurama? You are immortal, aren't you? If I die now, you will regain your life after some time? But if you disappear with me what will happen to you?"
"Hehehe... typical kit till now thinking about me huh the monster who gave you suffering through all your life."
"If it's not because of you I would not be here Kyuu I would have been long dead. So tell me what about you?"
"No one is immortal kit. We have a lifetime which is much longer than you. I will live A few more thousand centuries if you die now but if we cease to exist I think there won't be any coming back."
"Then why are you helping me Kurama? Why are you willing to die for me?!"
"I'm not afraid of death kit you have shown me the values of bonds, your kindness has melted the ice of hatred in my heart I simply wish to repay you I don't like debts kit. Now are you finished?"
"Yes. Almost finished. Thank you Kurama this is the best gift anyone has ever given me. . .your chakra have always been a gift to me, throughout all my battle you saved me and now you are helping me to save my people. . .to keep my promise to them. . .this time we will not fail Kurama," Naruto said as he finished his drawing and started to transfer his chakra through it.
After a few moments a bright blue light appeared and blue flame covered the body of the only living shinobi in the battle field as they disappeared from the face of earth.
Sun was shining brightly in the graveyard of bravery and sacrifice as a cool breeze blew through the field, soothing the heat of hatred and bloodlust the war has shown the earth, wishing a lone shinobi to stop that cruel fate of shinobi world to stop the cycle of hatred before it's too late.
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