Yesterday~By SoddenEye
Naruto is 22 years old and is newly appointed the position of Hokage. He had failed to bring Sasuke back in his life, never able to officially kill Madara, and failed to protect the one person he had cared for with deep emotions. He views his life as a failure and decides to do something about it. Naruto decides to travel back in time and fix something he just has a feeling will help him in his life.......and for that reason he will erase his current history.
Chapter 1: Tomorrow Never Knows
Narutowalked through the streets with a small frown on his face. His eyes were dark and gloomy and his bright complexion seemed to have disappeared from him. Well one thing was good. He had finally become Hokage. Yes the prestigous title that stood out among all others. The one true thing in his life that was always thought down upon by others. People smiled when they saw him and bowed but this didn't seem to take away the sad sullen look on his face. It wasn't so much visible on the outside though. It seemed that Naruto was wearing a mask so as to not be caught of his feeling. The feeling of loneliness. He had wandered all day but had never seemed to go anywhere particularly.
Naruto had wandered all day until he stumbled onto his teams old training grounds. He stood at the posts and just lost it. All the emotions eating away at him burst forward and all the anger he felt coursed through him..
"This is what I've always wanted right? HA-Ha I mean I'm the fucking Hokage! I!.......I should be so..*sniff*..god.....damn happy." He said to himself in sadness as a tear rolled down his face. "This is what I've wanted the most my entire life right? But this pain is just to.....much. Why has my life turned out like this!?" he punched the ground in disgust leaving a huge crater. "I mean a Hokage that can't even save the one he loves! That's just bullshit! I should have saved her, I should have never left her side! But NO! I'm the Hokage and they don't leave! It's so much bull shit!" he roared at no one. His cries met deaf ears and as he sat their sobbing the sun crept slowly down towards the horizon.
Naruto sat himself down and starred out at the falling sun. He felt more at peace now.....and yet something in him said for him to take action. He layed down on the grass and looked up at the new starry night that came int o full view. It was a beautiful sight no doubt but the call for Naruto to take action nagged him away from looking. He closed hi eyes and pushed his hands over them.
"Nothing will save Hinata. I have already failed to protect her. Now she's dead." he removed his hands from over his eyes and started to laugh. His eyes fixed on a single star. "I mean it's not like I can go back in time and stop all of this from ever happening." Naruto smiled and closed his eyes again. That thought however had not left him. Narutos smile slowly subsided and he sat up right. "Maybe I can." he whispered to the night.
Naruto was in the Hokages scroll room a while later. He had figured it out. It was as plain as can be. He was going to go back in time. He was going to fix everything bad that had happened to him in his past. The only problem was the designing of such a technique. At the moment he was looking for a scroll that had it shown in it. Naruto had no luck finding it however. He thought about it for a second then laughed.
"Why would it be in the open?" Naruto smiled and punched the wall causing a hole to replace the area once their. Naruto hunched over onto the wall and started to sulk. That was until he had noticed it. The hole that he had made actually held something in it. Narutostuck his hand in it and retrieved a scroll with the Sarutobi symbol on it. A seal was on it however. It was definitely not something a Jounin could even break. Naruto suppresedthe seal with ease and skimmed through the content until a single jutsu caught his attention.
Toki Ryoko no Jutsu
"This is it." Naruto practically sprang up as he clutched it. "This is it!" he screamed. He read on through it and noted the warning.
"No matter who you are a return to the present now is impossible. The now will change along with everything and you will be stuck in the time you travel to. Before going back say what day you would like to go to and it will take you back."
"That's alright I wasn't expecting to return." Naruto smiled to himself as he vacated the room.
The street lights were glowing and the shop lights flooded the pavement at the moment. People cheerily moved along throughout the night life. Naruto, however, was running through the village now and looking for a certain person. He wasn't surprised when he came across him on the street. It was the man named Kakashi, face buried in book. Naruto ran up behind Kakashi and placed his hand on the mans back. Kakashi turned and raised his visible eyebrow.
"Oh? Well if it isn't the Hokage. To what do I owe this pleasure." Kakashi smiled underneath his mask. Naruto smirked at the title his teacher had called him.
"Cut it with that Kakashi." Naruto returned the smile but the remembered the reason he had looked for the Jounin. "Kakashi.......I'm going to leave today and I figured you were the only suitable person to tell this to."
Kakashis eye brown rose once again. "Is it for a meeting somewhere else Naruto?" Naruto shook his head.
"No....I.......I need to go for good and right what has been wronged, but I felt it a duty to not act selfishly." Naruto began explaining his plan and Kakshi stood their listening Narutofinished he took in a breath and looked his former sensei in the eye. "So I need an opinion. Is it selfish? I know it might sound that way but something in my heart is telling me to do it."
Kakashi breathed in deeply. "Naruto the plan you just proposed very well may be the best thing that you will ever do in this life. For a better future you must defeat the past I suppose. What you have said to me is something to not be held lightly however. Now ask yourself is it right?" Kakashi pointed his index finger at him. Naruto stiffened.
"Yes........For a better future to be made a different tommorow needs to be built." Naruto hand the scroll to Kakashi and smiled. "Thank you sensei." Naruto bowed to him and turned away. Until he heard his sensei call out.
"Naruto. If you do what you're saying you will......well then I hope your father has a different way of doing things." Kakashi held his thumb out and smiled. He knew that this would be the last time he spoke to Naruto. However that wasn't true at all. Naruto turned away and jumped off for the forest. "Good bye Naruto" Kakashi closed his eyes and continued to walk but went much slower.
Narutolanded in the middle of the forest with nothing but his Hokage robes on. He made all of the hand signs necesary for the jutsu and called it out "TOKI RYOKO no JUTSU" A vortex began to form from his hand and it began sucking in everything around it. Naruto held his ground and contemplated what he was going to do. "22 years ago October 9"
With those five words the vortex began to suck harder. Naruto was pulled from the ground into the vortex. He was gone from then, but, let us rewind the clock and see what happened on that faithful night many years ago. Somewhere in time everything began to turn backwards. The times were changing and rewinding however it all stopped at one moment in time.
Naruto stood in the forest just as he had been before. It was bright outside however and the sound of battle was near. Naruto hurried along through the forest to the spot where the battle was. Their he saw his father, the 4th Hokage, and Madara Uchiha battling against one another. Naruto forced himself to stay back as Madara read through every single technique his father pulled out. The 4th Hokage shunshined behind the masked man and pulled him down to the ground by his shoulders. Madara slammed down only to move through the earth. Madara came back up and pulled the Hokageslegs out from underneath him.
Naruto continued to watch, intently looking at Madaras jutsus. What Naruto had failed to notice was that someone had comeup behind him.
"Sensei! Hurry we need you back at where the nine-tailed fox has attacked." Naruto turned and saw a young Kakashi before his very eyes. Kakashis eyes widened at the person. Indeed he did look similar, and was doning the robes, however many aspects of him were different. Naruto stared horrified. This was not something that was suppose to happen. He looked at Kakshi and decided to take the easy way out. Naruto punched Kakashi in the face and sent him flying into the open area where the battle was going on.
Kakashi hit the ground knocked out while the other two men stared at him. "Kakashi?" Minatowas able to get out before the brush he had came from cleared. Out came a man with a hood over his face so that he wouldn't be seen up close. Both men stared as Naruto made his way between him. The reason they had stopped the fight was simple. The guy in the middle was wearing a Hokage robe, but this one read Rokudaime Hokage.
"I had always wondered what it would be like to meet you in real life. Now I suppose is not the time to be getting nostalgic." Naruto made two clones and each knocked out the men that stood to the side of Naruto. Each Naruto picked up a body that he had knocked out. The real Naruto layed his father up against a tree while under the shade. The other two were ordered to take the bodies to the nearest patrol and tell them enough so that they could know the situation. One would then find his mother and bring the original to her.
The real Naruto was now walking towards the Kyuubi. The giant fox kicked and smashed about until his big eyes looked down upon Naruto. Narutoglared at the beast with eyes that could kill a child. Every ninja around him backed up. The Kyuubi also took a step back. "Get the hell away from me!"
Naruto didn't hesitate though and performed the Shiki Fuujin. "I won't let you get any closer to the village!" Naruto yanked the fox's soul into his body. Naruto felt pain that was unheard of to him before, but now, now was different one would say. Naruto felt the intense pain course through his body as the demon seal placed into his body. Naruto himself didn't fall though. He moved backwards as his clone came up from the bushes. "I found her"
Naruto entered the delivery room where his mother was holding the past version of himself. It was just them and no doctor was around. Naruto's throat tightened and he felt stiff. However that didn't stop him from doing what he felt was right.
"Please. Hand over Naruto." he said in a weak voice. Kushina was very weak at the moment but she knew when something was wrong.
"Where's Minato?" she questioned but Naruto stepped forward without an answer.
"Please I have little time. If you want to live you need to hand over Naruto." Kushina took this as a threat however and pulled her new born back.
"Get the hell away!" Narutotook a step back with wide eyes. The one person in his life he had always wanted from the beggining was yelling at him.
"You have no idea how hard it is......seeing you for the first time and having that kind........that kind of response." Naruto closed the gap between him and his mother. He embraced her warmly and her eyes widened quickly. Tears rolled down Narutos face and he unreleased the seal in the Shiki Fuujin and implanted it in the baby. The baby had been asleep the entire time and was now a newly made Jinchuuriki. Naruto made sure only one of the fox demons got out.
"Who are you?" Kushina asked as naruto got up from the embrace. With his last bit of strength naruto placed a jutsu over his mother.
"Intonami ataenushi no jutsu.(Life giving jutsu)" this was placed over his mother and her lifespan increased by quite a bit. Naruto stared at himself and then felt himself slowly go numb. Naruto looked at his hands and noticed that they were slowly disappearing. He smiled and thought to himself. 'Well.......my ride is up.'and with that Rokudaime Hokage Narutodied. However out of this death brought new life, new opportunity. A family kept together.
Kushina felt herself slowly drift to sleep and she stole a final look at where the man in the robes was. "It's alright. You can sleep well forever." She fell asleep as the entire village was in a celebratory state.
Naruto however drifted in darkness. 'Is this hell? That's alright, a demon is never expected to go to heaven.' Naruto closed his eyes until a bright light shone down upon him. He opened them up to see the bright white light.
"Naruto" he heard a voice whisper through the air.
"Naruto" another voice chimed in. This one hadn't heard from in ages.
"Naruto. It's time for us to meet.....for real" just then five shadows covered the light.
"It's time for us to be together, Naruto." he heard the soft voice call out to him. Naruto cried as the texture of the people came into view.
"It's time for us to return the favor." Naruto could see their faces now. His parents stood side by side with Jiraiya behind them. His hands on their shoulders. Next to them stood the Sandaime Hokage who was smiling and next to him was Hinata. She was crying from what Naruto could tell.
"But the future?" Naruto looked at them and walked slowly forward. Jiraiya shook his head and smiled.
"Naruto you should know best of all nothing is as it seems." he laughed and then smiled warmly at Narutos stupid expression.
"He's correct. The future, the past, the present, they are all different. All that is for real is now." his father finished talking. Naruto felt happiness course through his entire body. He embraced his parents and cried softly.
"That's right........I suppose tomorrow never knows." with that Naruto joined those he had thought precious and had lost, again. He was with his family and nothing would ever change that. Yesterday had nothing to do with now.
Man did I ever enjoy making this chapter. I hope ya'll enjoy it. Please read and review.......and hey, above all else......enjoy. SoddenEye~
