A/N: By now you would have noticed that the first chapter is the same as "No more mistakes". Well, this is more like an alternate version. Enjoy reading.
In the rupture of the Space-Time Continuum
Naruto checked his possessions, his memory was still intact, he possessed the scroll Hinata gave him. He went into his mindscape to ensure Kurama was with him, he needed someone to guide him.
He was surprised. And very badly surprised at that too, the immortal nine-tailed beast was not with him. He then remembered that the old clone still had Kurama's conscience when he left and then he realized why he did so. The beast was immortal, 2 nine-tails would affect time stream in a very bad way.
He refocused on the time period of the exam finale. He would wake up for the duration of that one month. However, time travel was never a simple thing. Him messing with time would have a side effect.
Time god or whoever took care of it would have his sweet revenge.
There was a blinding flash and he was now gone.
Unfortunately, our dear knucklehead just thought about his graduation day, right when he was about to leave. And so, Naruto woke up the day he was about to leave pass his genin exams.
Naruto woke up and looked around, same apartment, same midget sized body. Same fucked up ceiling and windows. Naruto shrugged, seemed that he found success in his recent escapade.
He got up to grab his forehead proctor and go to the bathroom. He heard a beeping noise, 'more like that screeching banshee's voice!' Naruto screamed in his head as he shut down the damnable clock. He already reached the bathroom door when he felt that his proctor felt wrong. Naruto looked at his hand, wait, what!
His hands had the goggles that were green in color with a 'Naruto' etched right below the center of where the forehead should be. He smiled at the goggles, he had later found out that his loving wife had given it to him and was too shy to do so directly.
He put it back in his drawer safely, made a quick sealing to make sure there was no damage done to it, whatsoever.
Naruto sighed and went to brush his teeth. He tried to shower only to find ice-cold water running in them, he had complained it to his landlord, he remembered. But the fatass bastard kicked him out of his office and asked him to leave the apartment if he had issues. To solve the issue temporarily he decided to skip it altogether. But then he realized that he had spent all of yesterday to train for the stupid clone technique that he had never been able to perform. Not even after becoming the Hokage.
He sighed, switched on the shower and put seals on his body so he didn't freeze in the bathtub. As soon as he got in, his initial reaction was to jump up, then slowly ease into it. The seal made his life so much easier!
He then went to the kitchen to eat breakfast, he found out that his milk was rotten by weeks. He just threw it in the trashcan as if he were throwing a basketball.
He needed to do many things as soon as possible, he looked at the time. 'Still, a few hours left' Naruto thought as he went to his bedroom and made some shadow clones, he made a shitload more than he had anticipated, "No wonder why people said my chakra control sucked" He laughed.
He dispelled a few and left the rest for some cleaning, one went to the market in a transformation to get him some quality clothes instead of the shit he wore. Neon Orange? Seriously? And morons believed he liked it! Bloody motherfuckers! He had been looted legitly, then he got them from a trashcan and decided to wear it instead of regular clothing.
Naruto settled down in a corner of his bedroom to contact Kurama. He needed a partner if he needed to get his life back on track.
Mindscape
Naruto opened his mind in a sewer and walked ahead to see mammoth sized golden bars with a seal placed as a lock. He sighed, this would be a long day. Kurama was evil back then, or now. Whatever! He just walked ahead. The fox opened his eyes and leaked huge amounts of killer intent as Naruto looked into his crimson eyes. Involuntarily he gulped, Kurama still had it in him. Although, when Kurama decided to pounce his paw right in front of Naruto, the blond didn't even flinch.
This took Kurama by surprise, the kid showed by pissing his pants by now? What was the hell going on?
"Listen here Kurama" Naruto started. The great fox stood up in surprise, completely awake and attentive. His head hit the 'ceiling' which Naruto didn't even know existed. He chuckled a bit as Kurama hit the floor again. This time he started patiently.
"Calm down Kurama, I am your friend here, no need to worry about this" Naruto spoke and then he was hit by a shit-ton of KI.
"You are not my friend mortal, what do you want?"
"I want to talk to you, and you are right, we were not friends yet"
Kurama's eyes narrowed dangerously, the tension was thick in the air. The ankle level water made a lot of ripples as Kurama's tails swished behind.
"Explain"
"I am from the future, you used a Kinjutsu to send me back. I am willing to give you access to my memories if you give your word to wait until the end and watch it all."
"Understood"
Naruto went ahead and did so. Kurama took some good amount of time to process it all.
"So you are him, the child of Prophecy that is supposed to unite us. It is almost fitting to see that you are Asura's reincarnation"
"True. Although I am not going to save Sasuke or any of his family anymore, fucking bastards don't deserve me"
"So, after all this time... You finally snap eh? By the way, what are you planning to do now?"
"I have no idea, I would love to get you free of this shitty cage but I don't have the key and I can't go around asking for Jiraiya. That would be way too suspicious. I need a reason to get angry, I guess I will get one tonight with Mizuki doing his thing. In the meantime, I would like you to weaken the seal as much as possible. I would like if I could at least go to the one-tailed state. I will soon free you up though, so don't worry!" Naruto gave a fox-like grin. To which Kurama gave it back full force as if showing who he inherited it from.
"Very well. Till you don't become strong enough to protect yourself and your mate. Don't die. I may like you now but if you die you will be on my shit list for a long time. Do you know how much Yang chakra it takes to create a body?"
Naruto chuckled and nodded, then he paused. "Wait a minute. Did you just say that you created a body?"
"Duh, in the war do you remember which part was removed?"
"Yang half"
"Exactly. The moment I got out, I was pulled in my chakra form. Making it difficult for me to resist. When I was taken out. All tailed beasts, including me, used up most of our Yang chakra to make ourselves physical bodies. That was the reason we were so weak to resist the bastard's Rinnegan."
Naruto just dumbly nodded, he had never known this. Had this been true, he could actually do something to remain young enough or create some jutsu to regenerate without six-paths mode or relying on Kurama mode. Something along the lines of Tsunade's mitotic regeneration. Eh, too much thinking at the wrong time. Naruto scolded himself and forced himself to focus.
"So, what now?"
"For now, let me sleep, this shitty seal of yours is a pain in my ass. Not to mention the fact that Shinigami didn't go easy on me. I can't believe he still held a grudge for all this time."
"Grudge?"
"Pranked him when I was a kit. He pranked me back thirteen years ago." Kurama huffed in anger.
"Alright, I will leave for now. Do you want anything?"
"Change your mindscape, I know you can't take off the seal but at least do something!"
Naruto nodded and changed the mindscape into that of a forest with some giant rabbits that were perfect for Kurama's hunting sessions. A comfortable bed was now below Kurama. Kurama looked around and nodded in satisfaction. Naruto then left to do his thing.
Naruto looked at the clock, he still had enough time to go around and check which jutsu he could use, Naruto realized that his sage mode, Kurama modes, and six-paths mode were all out of service. FUCK! Naruto screamed in his mind. His Rasengan still worked but he needed to work on his wind element for his mastery and he needed to learn more jutsu.
Naruto looked at the sky and figured it was time to leave for the academy, he Hiriashined back home and went to school. Right now he was wearing his original hideous jumpsuit, he decided to change his outfit after he became a genin. It was almost 8:30 am, fifteen minutes to get to school. Naruto left at his leisurely pace, almost at the speed of a normal civilian and reached the academy.
On his way, he met an angry merchant who must have been having a bad day and decided to take it out on Naruto.
"Oh look who is here!" The merchant spoke loudly, gaining attention. "It is the demon brat!"
It was surprising to see how fast a mob gathered.
"Does the demon brat want to be a ninja? Let us see how well he can do without his hands!" The lead merchant yelled. Earning nods from the crowd.
Now you see, Naruto had faced this bullshit before, when he was younger he would be scared of these guys and would usually bolt right out of their way. But this Naruto was in no mood for bullshit. He used Kurama's chakra and channeled it to his eyes.
"Is that a threat?" Naruto asked, his eyes now crimson and possessed slits much like a fox.
The mob involuntarily gulped, shivers went down their spines and no one dared to make eye contact with the young genin.
"N-no" The lead merchant stuttered.
"Good, now fuck off"
The group dispersed at a faster rate than at which they had gathered.
Naruto walked to the academy, he entered the classroom just in time as the bell rang. Iruka was in the classroom and was about to scold Naruto. He opened his mouth.
"Naruto..." Iruka started.
"I am not late, if that is what you want to scold me for, keep it to yourself" Naruto replied in a cold tone.
Iruka and the entire class blinked, paused and blinked again. Naruto was never this cold when he replied to someone.
Naruto went ahead and looked towards the class. He saw the rest of his classmates, then he looked at Hinata, his heart fluttered a bit. She was so cute! Naruto resisted the urge to go and kiss her right away, he just gave a heartwarming smile to her. She looked at him and blushed intensely, she was about to faint when Naruto started to walk towards the vacant spot beside her.
Hinata was already red when Naruto sat down. However, before she could faint Naruto spoke up in a low tone so only Hinata could hear.
"If you don't faint right now, I will take you out on a date!" Naruto said. Hinata almost fainted. Keyword almost. She used all her willpower to stay conscious, "promise?" she asked, in the same low tone, without stutter.
"I promise, and you know I won't go back on my word..." Naruto said he was cut off by Hinata
"Because that is our Ninja way" She finished with a smile.
Naruto nodded. He was glad that his wife was awake. Not that she knew that she had married the love of her life.
The written test was simple, more like stupid. Naruto gulped, it was so hard NOT to ace this test. All of this happened after Naruto took off the Genjutsu from the test. He calculated which questions to answer so that he could barely pass.
Questions 1, 3, and 7. Yup. Perfect!
Question 1: Who was the First Hokage? What was his specialty?
Question 3: Who were the 3 legendary Sannin?
Question 7: Why is the Yondaime hailed as the greatest Hokage?
Naruto gave off a lone tear at the last answer he wrote. It was so hard to remember that his father had died. No matter. He will soon be alive.
He answered the questions and left the class after submitting the answer sheet. This was going to be a long day for Naruto. Half an hour later the practical exams started. Everything went the same way as it did in the last lifetime.
Naruto was then called by Iruka to do the 3 academy jutsu.
Before Iruka could even command to do the substitution jutsu, Mizuki threw the blunt kunai at Naruto. Naruto looked at the silver-haired prick and decided to give him a taste of his own medicine. Naruto substituted his place with Mizuki. Now, to substitute with a person was a Jonin level skill. Iruka knew about it, but before he could praise Naruto for it. Naruto went on to the next jutsu.
"Transform" He muttered.
Naruto changed into the Yondaime Hokage. Iruka nearly fell out of his chair when he realized that the young blond had transformed into a man that Iruka knew for sure Naruto had never met before. Oh, how wrong was Iruka!
"Clone jutsu" Naruto spoke as he tried to use as little chakra as he could. Naruto still ended up overloading the crap jutsu and produced one sick looking clone. It took all the control for Mizuki to not jump out of his chair and celebrate that the Demon brat failed.
Mizuki used his acting skills and pretended to convince Iruka to pass the kid. Iruka replied in a simple 'no' and said sorry to Naruto. The kid sighed and left the room without even giving the two Chunin a glance.
'I am sorry Naruto. But I can not let you go and get yourself killed.' Iruka thought.
Sasuke Uchiha came in next and passed as the rookie of the year. The graduation exam ended and Mizuki left to meet Naruto.
The kid was sitting on his patented swing looking depressed, Mizuki went to him and offered him the opportunity to an alternate test. AKA stealing the scroll of seals.
Naruto used all his skills to stop himself from beating the man in front of him. Naruto nodded with fake enthusiasm and left for the evening. He left for his home, wrote a letter to the Hokage and Hiraishened to the graveyard. He collected the bodies of one Kushina Uzumaki and Minato Namikaze. Naruto knew that he needed to free his father's soul. He decided to go to the Whirlpool village and get the Shinigami's mask.
Naruto, unfortunately, couldn't do all this in one day. So, he made a blood clone and sent him to search for the mask. The clone would need about a week to reach there and then Naruto could Hiraishin to the clone. Naruto presumed.
For now, he needed to write a letter to the current Hokage - Hiruzen Sarutobi and tell him about the plan. So, Naruto wrote a letter and left it at the Hokage office and stole the scroll.
Oh boy, how crazy was that night!
Naruto had made a copy of the scroll of seals and sealed the bigger scroll into a smaller one. That scroll went to his home and the original went back to the Hokage. Naruto pretended to practice the Kage Bunshin while Iruka caught him and Mizuki came into the picture.
Naruto was pushed back by Iruka and Iruka was soon pinned to the wall with Kunai. Courtesy of Mizuki.
"Naruto, never give him the scroll!" Iruka yelled. "It is a dangerous item that contains forbidden jutsu. It was sealed. Mizuki used you to get it for himself."
Mizuki cut him off by saying that "Naruto, Iruka is only afraid of you holding that scroll. I will tell you the truth!"
Iruka who realized what Mizuki was talking about yelled. "NO! Don't it is forbidden" Mizuki smirked as a reply.
"It was a rule that was meant to be kept from you. The rule that was made 13 years ago. It is that you are the Demon fox spirit that attacked our village and killed so many!"
Naruto pretended to be shocked beyond belief. Then Mizuki threw his Fuma shuriken at Naruto. Iruka came just in time to use his body as a shield, but Naruto pushed him away and caught the shuriken with one hand.
"What are you looking at bitch?" Naruto asked Mizuki who was shocked by Naruto's actions.
Mizuki came out of his stupor and attacked Naruto. Naruto caught Mizuki's punch in one hand. Twisted his arm behind his back and kicked Mizuki in the butt. Mizuki who couldn't keep his balance fell down. Naruto came over and broke Mizuki's legs.
Naruto then heard a thump behind him, he saw Iruka fall down because of blood loss.
Naruto sighed and sealed Mizuki in a stasis scroll. Ignoring the cries of Mizuki who was whimpering in pain. Naruto was about to pick up Iruka and leave when a sound Chunin came over and attacked Naruto.
Naruto figured that the said Chunin must have come to aid Mizuki, that poor bastard was knocked out as well and kept in the same scroll as Mizuki.
Naruto sighed and picked up Iruka, reported back to the Hokage about the issue, the Hokage had seemed to read the letter and agreed with Naruto's report. Naruto was given a field promotion to genin and the scroll of seals was now back in the Hokage's office.
Naruto went home and slept that night in peace, what he didn't realize was that his heart was now tainted because of the ritual he used to get back in time, he is starting to become more cold and darker in his methods. He was starting to become more ruthless when he was on the battlefield.
However, Kurama realized this, he opened one eye and sighed. His breath making small ripples on his bed. These were going to be a few long years.
