The Jutsu
By Anieca Sophistica (Girl of Light Writer)
Author Note: All my story ideas come in a dream. This one was originally about my life and I was like, I wouldn't change it and then suddenly… Naruto. He might. Started: 12:35am 5/2/11.
I. The Jutsu
Naruto complained as he sat at a chair with Jiraiya and Tsunade. "We have a present from your presents. Well mainly your dad but you know how gifts like this are…"
"Not really but what is it?" He said in annoyance, confusion and excitement.
"A jutsu," Jiraiya spit. "The greatest jutsu every devised."
"Wow, for me?"
"Just for you, but you have to answer the question."
"What question…? I didn't study." Naruto asked skeptically.
"If you could go back… and change your childhood. Would you?"
"Course I would, the stupid villagers hating…" He was promptly hit in the head by a scroll.
"These are the rules. We couldn't read it but we could only give it to you if you said you would change your childhood. You can go." Tsunade told him. He got up and jumped home as fast as he can.
He sat on the couch with the jutsu. It was an extremely long scroll he could tell. He opened it and began to read. It read:
Naruto,
My son. I apologize that I couldn't be there. That's why your mom and I made this jutsu. It's no substitution for our love and surely no excuse. We created this jutsu. It propels you into the future and lets you see yourself, get one day to view it and then send you into the past to the day you were born and if you want to change it all you have to do is make contact with yourself. Hold yourself as a baby. Then you will remain in this time. It will create a clone to live with you so that you can raise yourself. Give yourself an ideal life. You should pretend to be someone else because else you screw up time but other than that, there is nothing more I can advise.
There is only one rule. You must make sure you, on the same birthday that you decided these things to use this jutsu that the new self that did this decides to use the jutsu. What he decides does not matter, the jutsu must be used.
This is my only advice to you. Take someone with you. Do not do this alone.
Naruto decides he's going to try the jutsu on his birthday and he'll follow his dad's advice to take someone with him. He goes to the academy to talk to Iruka.
"Iruka-sensei, I have a request." Iruka looked up at Naruto.
"What is it?"
"Um it's really important…" he asks nervously. "I have a jutsu from my father to take me to the past and I want to know if you'd go with me to take care of me as a child." He shouts out quickly.
"What?" Iruka asks.
"I said…" Iruka shakes his head.
"Naruto, are you serious about this? Is it true?"
"Course, my old man left me a jutsu. He said I can change my childhood. I need a parent who could make me awesome so of course I want you."
"Naruto, I know you see me as a dad but I don't think this is what you want." Naruto explains to him about the scroll and everything. "Naruto… you are supposed to be your own father. You should find someone else though, I agree. It just can't be me. I think you should try to find someone who might also want to change how things happened to them."
"Should I tell them about the jutsu?"
"I don't think you should tell anyone until you're sure. I think you'll know, Naruto, when you find the person. Just ask around."
Naruto walks around. "Guess he's right. If I have to be stuck this person forever and raise myself then they better be good. I guess they should also want to do it for themselves. If I could do more than help myself that would be better. If only Sasuke were here…" Naruto mumbled to himself. Meanwhile he crashed into Kiba and Shino.
"Kiba! Can I ask you a question?"
"Ahem," Shino asked.
"I guess I could ask you too…" Naruto secretly knew that he couldn't pick Shino. Being stuck with Shino would be the worst. "If you could change your childhood, would you?" Naruto would ask if they would help raise him. If they wanted he would do it alone. He would need lots of help. "Sakura!"
"What about her?" Kiba asked.
"He didn't hear our response, Kiba." Naruto laughed.
"We would not. We found our lives with our clans happy and enjoyable. It is a very regrettable thing that you did not get the same chance with your own clan or simply family." Shino recapped quickly and quietly.
"We gotta go Naruto, see ya. We wasted enough time talking." Kiba said as they ran off.
"… but I wanted to ask you if you knew someone…" he trailed off as they were gone. He went to the hospital like he often did and asked for Sakura. She would be on lunch break about now.
"Hey Naruto," she said smiling at him. She was taking Sasuke's betrayal better and better as time passed these days. "Do you want to ask me on a date to lunch because…"
"Not today, I wanted to know if you want to change your childhood." He paused. "If you could, I mean." He quickly added.
"Change my childhood? If I could bring Sasuke back… maybe. But as much as I was hated it turned out alright for me. I had Ino for a while there. Sasuke brought us apart but we're okay now. Is this a survey or something, Naruto?"
"No, I just wanted to know." He jumped out the window and went about asking people. Sakura shook her head and hopped out the window to go get lunch. She always expected Naruto to buy her lunch.
Naruto walked through the streets and stopped at Yamanaka Flower Shop. "Hey Naruto, what brings you here? Hopefully not flowers for forehead-girl. You know you really should move on."
"No, not flowers for Sakura-chan. I wanted to know if you wanted to change your childhood."
Ino broke out into laughter. "I was pretty and talented. Everyone loved me. Why would I change that?"
"I would. Sounds troublesome. I wish my life was less troublesome. Mom and Dad always expecting stuff of me. Asuma-sensei too. It's so hard." Naruto shook his head as Shikamaru walked in complaining.
He went to check on Gai's team. Neji and Tenten were eating with Lee. "Naruto!" Lee greeted. "Are you here to spar with me?"
"Not today Lee, I was wondering if you wanted to change your childhood."
"My childhood was hard however in Gai-sensei I found happiness in content in the stuggles that made me strong and the person I am today." Lee responded.
"It is silly to think on these things Naruto. We cannot change the past. Destiny is set and we should not dwell on such things."
"He is sort of right Naruto. You have to move on. Things are good now and that's the important thing." Tenten told him. He couldn't agree. Not if you had a chance to make it better. He couldn't turn his back on the chance to make things that he had always hated and wanted changed better. His dad gave him this jutsu and he had to use it.
As Naruto though more and more, most of his friends had good lives. They had family and friends who loved them and supported them. Choji would be the same way. He'd wish he was fed more… like he needed more weight. He laughed. Everyone he knew wouldn't change their life if they could. He was the only one.
Naruto walked to the training area he always went to when he saw someone training. He was far away and hid. He slowly snuck up on them until he realized it was Hinata. He thought about Hinata. She was an heiress of a great clan. She wouldn't want to change that. "Naruto?" He jumped back on guard.
"Why'd you sneak up on me!" He yelled.
"You snuck up on me, Naruto. I was training." She told him. She had grown out of most of her nervous tendancies. She was strong, but not strong enough. She could not beat her father, or her sister either. She would be sealed and left behind like Neji despite all her years.
"Oh yeah, sorry Hinata." He realized she wasn't paying attention. "Hinata!" She jumped.
"What Naruto?"
"Would you change your childhood?"
She took a deep breath and looked behind her. Walking toward a practice post. Naruto followed at a distance. She kicked and punched and pushed chakra at it and grabbed it and fell to her knees. "If I could Naruto, I would change everything."
"Huh?" The words were lost to Hinata as she sunk into her story.
"My mother died shortly after when my sister was born. My dad wasn't the same. He couldn't lead and he entrusted us into the elders' care. They saught to do horrible things to the branch and I didn't agree. They saw that and wouldn't train or help me. Dad saw me as weak because they wouldn't and favored Hinabi. Hinabi never knew our mother and fathers once love and kindness and turned into a family hating monster. Neji's father was sacrificed when I was kidnapped one day and that's why he hates me. He could have been the greatest heir and head we had ever had but my father was born first and I have this burden. Time has passed and in December I will have to fight my sister and father for the chance of head. I never had the chance to be strong enough. I try so hard and I have to believe I will but some days it's so hard." She cried, resting her head on the post. Today she had been told her 21st birthday was when the battles would take place. She had come her knowing she had only a few months left to train.
Naruto only looked at her. He knew about Neji but her mother, and how her sister became like that, what she was forced to do. To fight her family. "Come with me." Naruto told her.
Hinata snapped back and looked at him. She was on the ground with her skirt rolled up in her hands. "What? What do you mean?" She said near stuttering.
"I have a jutsu that lets me and someone else go to the past and fix it. I'm fixing my childhood. You can fix yours." He had never intended to ask her, never guessed what she had been trough. She was weaker than Neji but Neji was strong. She tried real hard but going through all that. It slipped out but once he said it, he was glad. Iruka was right. He knew she was right to go with him.
"I can't just leave and go there Naruto."
Naruto laughed. "It makes a real copy to send back. You go on living your life and you start on my birthday and we can fix the village. Fix our childhoods. Together."
Hinata was glad she was sitting because it was overwhelming. It was like a dream. Not only could she change her whole life, make sure that she was strong, help Naruto live a happy life, but she would be with Naruto."
"How long would it be?"
"As long as we live, I guess. We are separate people from ourselves who live in the normal time. We'll become different people. We'll take care of ourselves as we grow up and see everything we've already seen. This time though, we get a chance to make a difference. Make it better."
"So we would go back and relive our lives as we are now?"
"Yeah, I guess that's how it works. Dad said it does. He left it to me for my birthday but I get it before so I can use it by this birthday. First, we see the future to make sure we want to change it, then we are sent back. In order for us to stay in the past we have to hold me as a baby." There was a long silent pause.
"So…?" Naruto asked her.
"Yes, I will go with you."
"Really?" He had a hard time believing her.
"Yes, of course. To change only a few small things is worth it. It is something bigger than us by doing this. We can help everyone, our village, save lives." Naruto realized he had thought selfishly while she had not. She thought about herself but about her sister, mother, parents, Neji's father, Neji and her clan. He had only himself. He laughed, he could change that. He would teach himself to be less selfish, to have love.
"Hinata, meet me at sunset here on my birthday okay. You wouldn't need much I suppose." Hinata nodded and started to walk away. "Hinata…" he called out.
"Yes Naruto, have you changed your mind already?" She seemed worried.
"Course not…" he kicked dirt and looked at her. "I'm going to raise myself as my own father." She waited for him to finish understand there was more. After a while she realized he wasn't going to finish.
"Naruto?"
"Would you be my mom?" That was her limit. Hinata collapsed and came to a few minutes later. Naruto had propped her against a tree.
"Don't worry Hinata, it doesn't impact my choice in taking you if you want to go off on your own."
"Yes," she responded.
"Okay, so you take care of you and I'll…"
"No," she took his hands. "I'll be your mother Naruto. I can't be as great as your own but I will try as hard as I can."
"Wait… really?" She nodded fiercely. He hugged her tight. "You're the best. I mean I knew you were cool and stuff. You're gonna be the best mom ever. I'm so happy." That was her limit. Being his mother, and held like that. She passed out again.
"You sure you're up for this?" He asked her concerned.
"Of course. I don't go back on my word. I will see you around Naruto." She ran off before she would pass out again. She made it home and collapsed in her bed. She began to compile a list of how she would change things. When and how things would be done. She shook her head. It seemed impossible. But they were ninjas, things like this happened all the time. She would prevent wars, and save lives and the village would be grateful. They wouldn't know it was her but this time, she would not care that no one saw her.
Naruto meanwhile told Jiraiya and Tsunade what he planned to do. That he and Hinata would raise him as his own under different names. They weren't sure but Naruto assured them he knew what to do and that everything would be great. He was super excited and he would make sure everything was great. They talked to him about his plans. He told them about his personal plans, they tried to get him to help other people. People like Sasuke, Gaara, Neji and other people who had suffered alone like he had. He had a chance to save the village. Naruto was still focused on the fact he would see his parents and raise himself with Hinata. They would have a great life.
