Disc: - I don't own Naruto.

Going to put a short story on this, while I don't have time currently, after June when my exam would be finished there would be more updates, bye...

I was woken up from my nap, and it was definitely a nap as looking at the clock confirmed that only 20 min have passed, I looked around the room to see where the sound originated from, in the post-apocalyptic world that we live in, it's better to see what even the smallest the sound is about.

I first looked around the room properly, while searching with both chakra and my senses to see if there was someone else, finding nothing I relaxed marginally and thought about the room I was currently sleeping in, this was the 5th underground house that we were currently sleeping in, seeing nothing amiss I flared my chakra in a pattern code and received back one from Naruto getting an all-is-well.

Now I know that there was no emergency I thought back what happened after the death of Sasuke at the hands of black Zetsu when Kaguya appeared from behind both Naruto and Sasuke there was nothing I could do, I could only watch what happened to one of my students, as I could do nothing but watch.

The death while a single one was very emotional, Sakura lost the will to live and had activated something that was definitely a suicide technique, Naruto was rendered catatonic with the death of his rival, it was my experience that saved our lives.

While Sakura attacked Kaguya with reckless abandon, I went to check upon Naruto and thus was able to save him from another sneak attack by Zetsu, I sent the bone to different dimension using Kamui, seeing as there was no plan we could continue that would achieve our current objective, I tried to call Sakura back, but it seemed she had no plan to abandon her current activity, that too changed when finally Kaguya killed her with a black orb.

Not like our current predicament, I used Kamui to send myself and Naruto to a different dimension and from there, we went to different Konoha safe house that was scattered around the continent, to get food and general knowledge of outside world.

The outside world was fighting a losing war with thousands of white Zetsu that were once our comrades, really they were perfect for Kaguya, a mindless army of ninja that followed her every command, even I hesitated to attack them as they had all the mannerism and face of my old friends.

Shaking my head I once again considered our predicament.

Both marks were necessary to seal away Kaguya and with one death, black Zetsu had taken our only way to end the current war, the death of my two students was still hard to swallow, even when it had been a month since that day, I can't even consider myself in a stable mindset even if I have seen much death during my long life, in one day I lost all my comrades

Before I could lose myself in memories once again, there was a knock on the door and I found myself face to face with Naruto who must have been calling me if his annoyed face was to go with.

"What were you doing Kakashi-sensei, I was calling you for last few minutes," he asked heatedly.

While I was stunned to see emotions on his nowadays emotionless face, I still had an image to maintain, "I heard you, Naruto. I was going to reply, when a fly tried to enter my mouth, seeing as I am a very hygienic person, I kept quiet"

The face he made was priceless, sputtering he just shook his head and said, "I don't know why I am even surprised by your excuse, anyway, I just now received memories from my future self, he made a seal some 14 years in future from now, to send someones spiritual power like memories back in time, I was thinking of ones again sending my memories back"

As he was speaking, I shook my head, only Naruto was crazy enough to do something like that, still, it was a decent plan all things considered, "Did you came up by the plan yourself?"

"Well, it was more like SAGE-Jiji (six path sage) helped me, as it looked like he himself didn't know what to do now, so first he taught me all about seals, then after our first proper success, which was using smallest chakra, we made plan to see what would happen if I used my whole chakra, and so now I know all about my future"

Thinking about it for a few seconds, I asked the main question that had been bugging me, "So you can jump in past anytime you like, from now?" If he could do that, the war was won if you consider the full implication, Naruto would always know the future, a scary concept if you ask me.

He shook his head, "It's can't be like that, you see it's against nature to travel time like that, If someone does cross time they would get thrown back even if they want or not, Kami-sama would be very angry if I use it lightly, it was agreed upon by jiji and I that I could only use my ability only three times, one time happened for the first success which I was seeing if it worked, the second one happened to reach the current time and I have one more, after this if I try to do this I would die and have a very interesting afterlife" he looked a little green in the end.

"So, what now?" I asked, no I was not going to ask about the last line, seriously I don't want to know, as we are talking about Naruto.

"Well I was making the seal, after finishing it, I thought I should at least inform you the whole thing before making the jump"

I just stared at him, he really was an idiot, still what to do, in a way of stalling and getting more information I asked, "So what's your plan?"

"what plan?"

I facepalmed, I should have expected that too, "what time are you thinking of going?"

"Well, if I put my whole chakra once again, I would make a jump of about 12 years as my future self-had more chakra than me, I was thinking of going there and winging it"

I just shook my head and said, "you do remember that you have a 24 hour ANBU watch, till you join team 7 and they would take interrogate you the old fashioned way as no one is idiot enough to search in your head and finally even if you tell the truth they would think someone had tampered the seal or something and kill you, even Sarutobi-sama didn't have enough power to stop that"

With each word, Naruto's face fell more and more but just as suddenly he was smiling again, shaking his head he said, "then I have to put just enough chakra to go a few years back and kick ass"

"While this is better, you have to consider all the options" thinking about it a bit more I asked, "Can only you go back in time?"

"yep, Its made for my chakra signature, only I can use it"

I once again thought about what all facts and asked hesitatingly, "Can you target only your body or can you send your memories to someone else"

"Well you see, the seal has two component, first is keyed to my part the second one is the target, so I could send it to someone else, but he would die as all his spiritual memory would be gone instead I would be there"

"so can we use white Zetsu of someone or someone else to send you back as someone else?"

Naruto shook his head, "Can't happen that way, white Zetsu contain a small part of Kaguya chakra so that's a big no-no and you have to get a chakra signature of the target and we both know we are the only ones who still has chakra"

I brainstormed like a Nara and thought about all the facts, while Naruto can go back only a few years, it wouldn't change much, as the main problems, falling of mist, near extension of Uchiha clan and while he could get powerful fast, he would be only one person, statistically this would be a huge burden on him. He was a child so no one would take him seriously both because of kyubi and his earlier lifestyle, a shinobi must cultivate his image, Naruto while going back would be seen as a prankster and kyubi limiting his options.

While thinking about that, I thought about what he said, "As we were the only ones remaining" so he could go back as me.

I thought about it some more and was startled to see that I was genuinely happy if he went back as me, I am burdened with so many deaths that it would be relief to die and join the other side and help secure a better future, I was not coward like my father and so suicide never appealed to me, but this would be fine, it was not a suicide, thinking some more and made my decision.