A/N: Well this is my first story and English isn't my first language so please forgive me for any grammar or spelling error I did the best that I could.

Summary: Naruto is strong, smart, popular and a true prodigy… too bad he had to die to save the village and now finds himself in a different world where he isn't any of this things.

A change in scenery

Prologue

A stone memorial stood in the middle of the forest; if one were to look closely they would see hundreds of names written in it and right now a youth, probably no older than twelve, was staring at one of the names with eyes far too old and with too much sadness for one so young.

"I wish you were here mum, today more than ever" he whispered, more to himself than to anyone in particular. The boy was wearing black cargo pants, black combat boots and a dark blue tight shirt, which a dark green vest with many pouches over it, and the final piece completing his look, hanging loosely around his neck, a head band with Konohagakure no sato symbol in it, which in turn identified him as a konoha ninja.

He had unruly blond hair and the most beautiful and bright blue eyes that seemed to rival the sky, he was a little tall for his age, but that was mostly due to his training, and he seemed to have a commanding and powerful air around him, his name was Naruto Namikaze, konoha's elite jounin, son of the famous youndaime hokage, Minato Namikaze and national hero.

Naruto, even thought he was just 12 years old, was already claimed one of the most powerful persons in the village and that was mostly the reason why he was there staring at his mother name and wishing she was there to help him.

That day, for reasons completely unknown to anyone, the kyuubi no kitsune was about to attack the village and nothing nobody did was enough to stop it, and so his father had just decided to do something completely stupid (at least in Naruto's eyes) and was preparing to use a suicide jutsu in order to seal the demon into a newborn (which identity was yet to be decided) and all they could do was hope that the village was able to survive the whole thing without a leader to guide it, and that the villagers somehow honored his last wishes and treat the innocent baby as a hero instead of a monster (yeah, like that was gonna happen)

Of course Naruto knew that whomever the demon was sealed inside wasn't going to be anything more than his jailor, but that didn't change the fact that most of the villagers wouldn't see this fact and they would probably blame the baby for the burden that was about to be placed in his shoulders, and to top it all the death of the most powerful and loved Hokage of all ages.

Yep, the baby's life was looking just great, but his father refused to listen to reason insisting that the villagers would see past their fears and they would treat the baby as the hero that was protecting them from the demon and that it was his duty as the Hokage to sacrifice his life and that there wasn't anybody else available he could trust to do it (and blah, blah, blah).

So Naruto was left there wishing his mother was there to stop his father and that he didn't have to do what he was about to do, because he honestly wasn't ready to do it but he honestly didn't see any other way that this whole mess could work for the best, he had already gone over the plan in his head for at least a hundred times and the time for the truth was soon approaching.

Finally when he knew he couldn't wait any longer for an answer he knew wasn't coming, he picked up his coat, which reach just above his ankles and that was an exact replica of the one his father wore except it was orange instead of white with black flames instead of yellow ones, and in an orange and black flash Naruto disappeared from the forest with a last sad goodbye "see you soon, mum"

At the same time that Naruto was trying to come up with an answer, in the Hokage tower four people were having a heated argument about what one of them was planning to do.

"This is the only way we can stop it, there just isn't time to do anything else about it" said a blond man who look remarkably like and older version of Naruto.

"But there must be something else we can do, sensei" said a younger man with spiky silver hair, and who wore a mask over his lower face and had one eye cover with his head band "Or at least someone else who could do it"

"No, Kakashi" answered the first man firmly, with the air of someone who has already heard the same argument a hundredth times "this is my duty and I can ask anyone else to be sacrifice for it"

"Minato the villagers will need you in order to overcome this whole ordeal" said a nice old man with a grandfatherly look "Allow me to take your place, I have already done what I came to do and can go in peace knowing the village is safe at your hands"

"Sarutobi-sensei I couldn't ask that from you, moreover you have already done your job as a Hokage and now is my turn to do what it must be done" answered Minato without any doubt in his voice, he had already accepted what was about to happen and wasn't about to back down.

"Minato think about my godson he is still young and he still needs his father, this is not fair to him" argued a big man with long white hair "I could take your place and you could stay by his side, wouldn't it be better?"

But Minato only shook his head and said in a calm and stern voice "Naruto is already a jounin and he understands that sacrifices must be made, he is going to be fine" for the first time since this discussion have begun he started to doubt if what he was doing was the best solution, but then just as quickly as that thoughts came he remembered all the people in the village he loved and cemented his own resolve 'I have to do this, there isn't any other way to protect them, it's my duty' were the only thoughts running through his mind as he begun to prepare for the battle to come.

"Who will be the one?" asked the white haired man apparently giving up on changing the other one's mind, after all being his teacher he knew first hand just how stubborn Minato could be.

"Kurenai is about to give birth to a baby girl, she has already agreed to let us use her" here he looked to Sarutobi whit an apologetic expression, after all this was his granddaughter they were talking about, but still…"As soon as the baby is born we will go along with the rest of the plan, we need to be ready" And with that they begun to work.

None of them noticed the shadow that left the room as they finished the preparations, or the small scroll that appeared next to the Hokage's desk when the shadow was gone.

He looked at the baby girl in his arms and couldn't avoid to feel sorry for her, her life was not gonna be easy he hated to be the one who was (quite literally) sealing her fate but the choice was already made and there was no turning back, after all he was his father son.

He summoned Gamabunta, the frog boss and hop on top of his head.

"Are you ready" he asked the giant frog.

"I'm ready, are you ready?" Gamabunta shot back

"As ready as I'll ever be" he answered back with hi favorite foxy grin in his face, and he immediately begun the sealing process; the baby in his arms woke up and started crying but he ignored her, the voices around him seemed to grow loud and the sounds of the battle going on in front of him appeared to reach a deafening volume, but he keep going.

Finally the most terrifying vision he had ever seen appeared in front of him, the king of demons, the nine tail fox in all his glory, it was probably the scariest thing he would ever see but he didn't stop and suddenly another being appeared right in front of him, it was even scarier than the Kyubbi himself, the death god in person, but he kept going and finally the seals were finished and he yelled out his jutsu:

"Shiki Fujin, Jigoku Koka Kyoten Chiten Numa no jutsu"

And just as he did it the world seemed to stand still for a moment, he used all his remaining strength to stay up as the death god rose his arm, grabbed the Kyubbi and seemed to pull him into the baby that was still being hold by him and seal it inside her, all the while the Kyubbi trashed madly and fought to no avail but it wasn't meant to be, the sealing was completed and he felt the life leaving him just as the seal appeared in the baby's tummy and whisker like scars became visible in her face.

He started to fell, just as the noises that had seemed to stop while the sealing was taking place came back with a vengeance, he felt gamabunta's tongue warping around his waist and lowering him gently to the ground, and he faded to unconsciousness just as a male voice screamed his name at the top of his lungs.

"NARUTO!"

Five minutes ago hokage tower….

Minato couldn't shake the feeling that something wasn't right; he had made sure that everything was ready for the sealing, but the feeling in his gut wouldn't leave him and it was starting to freak him out.

He looked around his office, looking for something that would explain the feeling, and just as he was about to go back into what he was doing and dismiss the feeling again, he spotted a small innocent looking scroll, and for some reason his heart started to bit a little faster and his hands were shaking as he took it. His breath seem to get caught as he read the first line.

Dad

If you're reading this then I'm probably no longer alive.

I love you too much to not say goodbye and at the same time I couldn't risk being stopped so I wrote this letter and hoped that you would understand why.

I know you said it was your duty, but I think you are mistaken the world needs Minato Namikaze, the yondaime hokage much more than they need Naruto Namikaze, his son, so I decided to do what I feel must be done and hope you could forgive me for doing it.

I didn't used Kurenai's child instead I used Yugao's, simply because this way you can give the love that she would need to carry this burden as his mother died just before I took her, I know you can protect her and teach her just like you did for me.

As my last wish I beg you not to tell anyone of the demon she carries I asked Rin to take her as soon as the sealing was done so no one should be the wiser about what happened. I don't want her to live a harder life than she must, so please let her grow up without the hate that I know would find her otherwise.

I love this village and you more than my life, so I took the only way I could to protect those things, that is after all my ninja way.

Never forget that your son loves you and protect those that I couldn't. When the time comes we will see each other again.

Your son

Naruto Namikaze

He couldn't stop the tears that felt from his eyes even as he got up and disappeared in a yellow flash and reappear in the battle field a moment later, just as his son's body fell to the ground.

Minato screamed his name but he knew deep inside that it was too late, he saw Rin take the baby girl in her arms and run away from the battle place, he saw how the ninjas cried in happiness at the end of the battle and in sadness at the lost of one of the best of the village, he helped them take his body and he announced to the village that his son was a true hero, that he died for them and that he loved them all. He didn't mention the baby girl that right now slept in his office, his daughter and the jailor of the most powerful demon who his son had defeated, he will keep his son whishes it was after all the only thing he could do.

Naruto was pretty sure he was dead, because there just wasn't any other way that the white nothingness that surrounded him existed anywhere else.

"You know this is the first time I have met someone in hundreds of years, but you are probably worth the wait" A powerful yet beautiful voice seemed to speak from all around him, he wasn't sure if it was male or female but it didn't seem to matter at the moment "Not many would be willing to give their life at such young age with such conviction, you truly are one in a kind"

"But what I'm supposed to do with you" the voice seem to speak to herself "There isn't anywhere for you to go back but you can't move forward yet, I guess you could wait here until the right time comes but that would take too long…mmm, what to do?"

"Excuse me" Naruto said when it seemed the voice was done with its musings "What exactly do you mean?"

"Well you see, you weren't suppose to die yet so I can send you forward, but you are dead so I can't send you back, which leaves you stuck in between and we can have that either, so I'm trying to figure out what to do…um, yes I guess that could work, but it could be problematic…oh well it's the best I can think of for now, so I'll figure out the rest later" The voice went back to thinking at loud, while Naruto tried to figure out what the hell it was taking about

"Sorry, what are you saying?" Naruto finally asked, but the voice either didn't hear him or just decided it was too much trouble to answer him, instead it started with a different subject

"You know there just isn't one world and one destiny…more like every decision could change something and then there would be a different world…but since you can go back to your own world instead you could go to a different one, you would remember everything of course but you would also get the memories of your other self so in a way you would become someone else but still be you…What do you think?"

"I…I'm…I'm not sure…" Naruto really didn't know what he was supposed to say to any of that and currently he just hoped someone would explain what was going on or at least try to make it easier to understand… this was just a little too much.

"I think this is the best idea I'm going to come up with, so you'll just have to figure it out, don't worry I'm sure you'll be fine and if it doesn't work… we'll just see each other again, so it isn't such a big deal" the voice sounded as though everything it said was just a simple game and that really scared Naruto, but he didn't really got a chance to protest as the light that surrounded him seemed to grow and finally blinded him and the last thing he heard before he fainted (again) was the sound of a beautiful laugh that sent shivers through his back.