Hey, welcome to chapter 2 of my fic. Once again this is unbeta'd. Only 2 reviews ;) but it's to be expected with new stories. For those of you who tried to go to the forum I mentioned at the bottom of last chapter; the forum had a technical difficulty and you would have saw a white page. Yeah, that has been fixed and the skins are back online. You can find the link in my profile; it's called A Demon's Desire. You can find me on there most of the day, I usually hang around irc. So, if you want to chat Naruto, anime or just talk come on over. If you join make sure to post an introduction for quick validation ;D Onto the story…….

Drip…..drip…..drip…..the sound drove Naruto up the wall the first couple days, but he has finally gotten used to it. His foot tapped against the earthen wall as each drip impacted the dirt floor. He had woken up four days ago to find himself locked away in a cell. The bars of the cell were made of what look liked tree trunks which to Naruto displeasure refused to break. The ground was just dirt, but it was reinforced with chakra to he couldn't dig out and the walls were simple planks of wood. There was never a guard present in the room his cell was placed. He knew that one stood guard on the outside of the door for safety precaution. No one had come to talk to him yet, the only human contact he's had was earlier in the day when a bowl of slop was thrown into his cell for him to eat.

Naruto's foot tapped against the wall as another drip hit the floor 10,134……10,135……10,136….. he heard a shuffle outside the door to the room. Naruto gave a small grin, just like clockwork. In the few days since he'd awake he had already figured out the rotation schedule for the guards, thanks to the irritating water drips.

He pushed himself up into a sitting position. The knot on his head was starting to feel better. He no longer saw stars when he tried to sit up and the pain only came if he touched it; which brought his train of thought to his current predicament. What the fuck is happening? Dozens of scenarios and ideas recycled through his mind for days, every one of them just as unlikely as the next. Konoha, the Hokage Monument, the people; all of it gone. Everything Naruto knew about Ninjutsu told him that this just wasn't possible…but that seal array of Sasuke's was bigger and more powerful than anything he'd ever seen before. All he knew was that he was being held prisoner by some people he didn't recognized and it was really starting to piss him off.

Naruto scooted back to his back was against the wall. He wasn't provided any replacement clothing. His shirtless torso was covered in bruises that would have been healed in hours when had the fox. Hmph, I guess I will miss the damn fox. Now, I have to heal like normal people, Naruto grumbled internally.

A shuffling sound echoed from within the cell. Naruto snapped his over to the opposite side of the cell. He thought he saw something moving in the shadows, but he brushed it off as a trick of the very little amount of light in the room. Being locked in a small cage with no contact and little light can play tricks even on the strongest minds. The shuffling sound came again, but this time Naruto didn't even look. He leaned back and closed his eye hoping to get some sleep.

"Hey, Naruto," a voice whispered in his ear.

Naruto jumped up from his seated position so fast he was a blur. He applied chakra to all of his limbs and stuck himself to the ceiling, searching the ground below him. A small shape was moving with the shadows of the cage, slowly slinking forward toward the small amount of light that would give Naruto a visual of his visitor. He watched with bated breath as a small toad shuffled out of the shadows. His old face was covered in a beard and he was wearing a black cloak. His walking cane clunked against the ground with each step. The elderly toad looked up at the ceiling straight at Naruto.

"Oi, bozo, come down and give yer ole' pappy Fukasaku a hug," the old toad croaked.

Naruto dropped from the ceiling and landed in a squatting position before the old frog. Fukasaku-sama, one of the elder toads of Mt. Myouboku, second to only the great Sage himself. The toad responsible for teaching Naruto (and Jiraiya) everything they knew about Toad Ninjutsu and Fuinjutsu.

"What are you doing here?" Naruto's question was whispered, but you could hear the surprise in his voice.

The old frog thunked Naruto on the head with his cane causing a small hiss of pain from the blond. "Ya really got yaself into a bind, Naruto," he said gesturing to the surrounding cage.

"I don't know what's happening," Naruto whispered frantically, "one minute I'm fighting Sasuke and the next I find that nothing is as it was anymore. Konoha is no longer where it should be, the people of the village are nowhere to be found. What the hell happened!"

Fukasaku waved a hand at Naruto telling him to calm down. "We know what happened. The Great Sage foresaw this moments before it happened."

A spark of hope lit in Naruto's eyes. Maybe everything is going to turn out alright after all. "So…everything's okay? Are my friends safe?"

The old toad titled his head to the side and gave Naruto a level look. "Tha depends on how ya define safe. Did they escape harm? Sort of. De' something happen ta them? Yes."

"Are they dead?" Naruto snapped in anger. The very thought of a yes answer was making it difficult to breath.

"They're not so much dead as thay aren't alive yet," the old amphibian said cryptically.

Naruto looked at the frog with a lost expression on his face. "Please, don't do what Jiraiya used to do to me and make me figure it out all on my own," he whispered tiredly.

A pipe appeared in the toads hand from with his cloak. He gave the pipe a couple puffs before answering the downtrodden blond. "Tha seal array your friend used," he said, ignoring Naruto's angered words at calling Sasuke his friend, "we on the mountain have never seen anything like it before. It took us days ta break it apart and find out what it did."

"What did it do?" Naruto asked desperately.

"It was a space time Fuinjutsu," Fukasaku rumbled," The first of its kind. The seal had so much chakra pouring inta it. It tore apart the space time fabric and folded it over on itself."

The explanation did little for Naruto. He pinched the bridge of his nose trying to comprehend what he was just told. "Sooo, that means what to me?"

Fukasaku sighed. "It means yer in the past, dumbass."

Dumbfounded, Naruto didn't notice had his behind hit the ground. The news washed over him like a tidal wave of emotions. To think, that something of such magnitude could be achieved. Naruto looked back to the old toad that was standing calmly puffing on his pipe. "That's not possible. The amount of chakra needed would be beyond astronomical," he muttered.

"Now, yer just talkin' silly," Fukasaku intoned, "tha Uchiha had plenny of power at his disposal for the seal. Don't ya recall him releasin' the combined mite of every single one of ta biju? As well as almost a century's wert of human chakra escaping from those stone crystals? Tha was more than enough power ta activate the seal."

Naruto started to shake his head refusing to believe the explanation. The wooden cane cracked hard against his skull causing white spots to cloud his vision. "Ya need ta pull yaself togetha;" the aged leader hissed, "the sooner ya accept wha' has happened the likelier ya will get out o' here alive."

He continued in a softer tone. "Wha ot'er evidence ya need, Naruto? Konoha is gone, the people ar' gone; you are in the past."

Naruto shook his head to clear the cobwebs from the toads blow to the head. "Let's say that I believe you. How come I still have a contract with the toads? I couldn't very well summon a toad to a contract I haven't signed."

"Thas a tricky question," his voice came out in a frog like croak, "the summonin' contracts are more than jus' signing yer name on a piece of parchment. The contract anchors itself within the very soul of the signee. By comin' back ta the past ya have also brought back the entire toad population o' Mt. Myouboku. Yer name has appeared on ta toad summonin' contract in tis time period."

The listening blonde's eyes grew wide. "Wait, are you saying that there are two of every toad now? There are two of you? Two Gamabuntas?"

"No," his voice came serious, "what we gathered the last couple days is this, and remember it well, Naruto. No two of the same being can co exist within the same plane of existence. All of the toads of this time period were banished once the older souls of the time traveling toads appeared." Naruto realized that the old toad spoke without his usual accent, something he only heard when he was beyond serious. "You MUST keep this in mind, especially if you are alive when your counterpart is conceived. If you are still alive when your parents procreate you then that procreation will NOT happen."

Naruto could feel a headache coming on and it had nothing to do with being smacked on the head a couple times. "So, does this mean that all the summoned animals have knowledge of the future?"

"No, the only ones that would know are those who were sent back in time with their signee. We only know of one other animal that came back with us."

He felt a lead ball drop in his stomach. Everything just sent from terrible to disastrous. "Sasuke," he whispered fearfully. His old friends words came back to him like a sledgehammer "This is the past the present and the future. It is the salvation of the Uchiha clan and the destruction of Konoha. With this seal I will set everything right and how it should have been in the first place." So this was what Sasuke had planned on doing, to come back to when it all began and change everything.

"Aye," Fukasaku frowned, "it would seem tha Sasuke was the only one within the seal with ya when it went off."

Naruto slammed a fist into the ground. "Damn it," he yelled in frustration. Nothing ever seemed to go his way. "What am I going to do?"

"Well," the old toad began, "the timeline has started out as a blank slate. Ya could do pretty much whatever ya want to change the future. Or ya could leave things alone and let them run their course. Though, who knows what repercussions have already happened because of yer presence here."

"I guess I'm stuck here," Naruto sighed. Many thoughts flew his head at once. His friends were now gone, not even born yet, all the work he'd done to be recognized was now for naught, everything that happened was now irrelev—Naruto's mind hit the brakes. Everything that happened hasn't happened yet! The old lady will still be alive, Jiraiya will be alive and kicking, every bad thing that has happened within the last two years is irrelevant. Naruto's mind worked as he started to gain more hope. "I can do this," he said to no one in particular, "I can make everything better."

Another cane smack was heading for his head, but this time Naruto blocked it with an open palm. "Yer forgetting somethin', lad," Fukasaku grumbled, "the second ya do somethin' ta change history all of yer future knowledge becomes unreliable."

Naruto rubbed the sore spot in his palm from the cane. "I know that, but I also have to think about what Sasuke is doing right now. I have no doubt that he is going to start to position himself in some way in order to benefit the Uchiha."

"Very well," the sage inclined his head, "I leave you to your bidding. Try not to die, Naruto. As the only person who holds the toad contract in this time period it will be up to you to make Jiraiya sign the contract." His departing word were without his accent once again implying how serious he was.

With that the old toad disappeared in a puff of smoke leaving nothing but the cell and Naruto. He contemplated the old frogs' last words. He remembered how sad Fukasaku was when Jiraiya died. It would seem he's depending on Naruto to pass on the contract to the young pervert when he becomes a ninja. Naruto, as the primary contract signee was the only person permitted to go to Mt. Myouboku, which meant that unless Naruto lets Jiraiya sign the contract the unborn legend will never get the contract. If he recalled correctly, the original Jiraiya found Mt. Myouboku by accident and since no one had the contract at the time he was allowed to enter the mountain, but with Naruto here he won't be able to.

So, Naruto made himself a vow that no matter what, he would pass that contract on to his old sensei just like he passed it on to him. If he could, he would make him even stronger than his older counterpart so he won't ever fall victim to a person like Pain again.

The door to the room opened. Two guards walked stiffly into the small square prison of one. They were both wearing dark green body armor made of some kind of metal. It was certainly old fashion to Naruto, or rather to be correct; it would be considered "what's in" for a shinobi. They looked to be student and teacher. One had long white hair and a mean wrinkled looking face and the other was young with long black hair. The boy looked to be about thirteen years old, but his face already carried the scars of battle. One scar crossed over his eye very much like Kakashi, but this kid got lucky and didn't lose his eye.

They looked at Naruto like he was a disgusting bug on the bottom of their shoe. The older man nodded to the younger ninja. Taking his cue he stomped over to cell and placed his hand somewhere on the outside of the bars. The wooden bars lowered into the ground and left the front of the cage open. Naruto didn't make a move toward the open front of his cell. To do so would guarantee an act of violence directed at him. So, he just sat coolly on the ground allowing his captures to do what they wanted.

The old man with the mean face shooed the younger shinobi away from the cell and approached the entrance of it, about four feet from Naruto. "Name," his voice came out harsh and demanding. He was obviously a man who got what he wanted. This made Naruto figure that he was the equivalent of Ibiki, the predecessor of the ANBU Torture and Interrogation Squad.

He knew it was pointless to lie. Besides, he wasn't trying to make enemies. "Naruto," he answered calmly.

His interrogator either didn't care or it was very common that he had someone who didn't give or have a last name. "You were found trespassing on Senju Clan territory," the aged man said in a deep baritone, "this crime comes with a high price as decreed by our leader. What say you?"

"Well," Naruto started, unsure of how to answer, "I made a wrong turn somewhere?"

The answer didn't get him any reaction. The interrogator just started back impassively as the attempted joke.

"What? They don't have humor in these parts?" Naruto prodded his captor verbally.

Apparently they didn't. He beckoned to the young ninja standing on against the wall behind him. "Bring me the tools, boy." He came at his superiors command pulling out a wrapped cloth. He slowly unrolled the cloth revealing a multitude of worn torture devices; small carving knives, clamps, a small brand, a feather and some other things Naruto had never seen before. All he could see was that they were all covered in blood having not been washed from their last victim.

"Now," the torture master growled, "you will tell me which clan sent you and what your mission was."

Naruto rolled his eyes, not scared by the pony show the elderly man was putting on. The gesture of his eyes rolling seemed to throw the stoic man into a fit. His eyes narrowed dangerously and his jaw muscles were clenching and unclenching. "Have it your way," he turned to the adolescent ninja, "restrain him, now."

As if he had done this a hundred times the youthful ninja marched to where Naruto sat calmly within his chakra enforced cell. He grabbed a length of rope from within his green armor and entered Naruto's cell. He approached his captive without hesitation, clearly not expecting a person whose spend the last four days locked in a chakra drainage cell and with little food to put up a fight.

As soon as the boy was in range Naruto's foot lashed out and connected with his knee cap. The boy let out a strangled yell as he fell to the floor with a shattered knee. Naruto rolled back to that his palms touched the ground over his head and he pushed upward throwing his body back onto his feet.

The old ninja jumped up from his chair as soon as his foot hit the teenagers' leg. He grabbed one of the carving knives and threw it at the now standing blond. Naruto bent over as the knife passed over him and he crossed the distance in three long strides. The old man started to flip through a series of seals when Naruto clamped down the seal making hands. He pulled the old man toward him, unbalancing him, and slammed a knee into the green armor. The blow was strong enough to cave in the spot he hit and drive straight into his gut. The old man dropped to his knees and Naruto put him out of commission with a stiff blow to the neck.

Naruto inspected his handiwork. Both interrogators are unconscious, the teen having passed out from the pain of his knee being devastated. As expected of a person whose specialty relies in torture and interrogation; they were fiends at their job, but weak as field shinobi.

"All in a days' work," Naruto mumbled. He got on one knee and searched the old man until he came up with a single key. Naruto pressed an ear to the door listening for any guards and checking for traps. He didn't sense anything so skipped the lone key into the lock and pulled open the thick wooden door.

He stepped out into the hall and regretted it immediately. Two tree trunks burst out of the ground at his sided. They waggled in the air for a second before darting at the escapee. Naruto quickly clapped his hands together and two shadow clones poofed into existence. The two clones intercepted the large tree trunks and held them in place and Naruto jetted past them, his body leaned forward to give him more momentum.

The tunnel was only lit by a series of torches along the walls. He felt the tunnels were underground because he felt himself running on an incline leading upward. Naruto kept at full speed, even as another large arm of wood burst in his path. He pivoted on his right foot and swung his body in a the hundred sixty degree turn out of the way of the path blocking wood. Another one erupted through the ground and shot at Naruto looking to impale him. He leapfrogged over the wood, his hands pushing off the top and guiding him past it. He continued around a bend bypassing a group of vines trying to wrap up his ankles. An entrance way was lit up before him, sunlight pouring into it.

Light grew brighter as he drew nearer. A dark silhouette appeared in the light facing Naruto. His eyes narrowed as he saw the figure shift its stance. He propelled himself toward the offending obstacle. The shadow lunged forward with a punch aimed to knock Naruto silly. Naruto saw the punch before it was thrown. He allowed his forward momentum to carry him to the ground. His shoulder smacked the dirt as he shoulder rolled under the punch. He rolled up all the way back up to his feet and kept running when a foot appeared in his vision. He dug his feet into the ground and threw his arms up to his face catching the foot in between his forearms.

The person who threw the kick pulled back with his leg and thrust it outward breaking Naruto's hold on his foot. This was the first time Naruto got a look at his surroundings, the previous tunnel vision having blurred his perception of his environment. He was in a village of some sorts. Wooden huts scattered throughout the area leaving no real space for a street and he saw even more houses up in the trees. All around him were people dressed in metal armor just like his two previous interrogators, each a different color. Each and every one of them were glaring daggers at Naruto and holding all sorts of pointy weapons. Naruto felt the weight of all their stares, the subtle killer intent that some leaked at him because of his attempted escape.

He heard a clapping sound behind him. He twisted his head to the sound and saw the man who tried to slug him earlier. The man wore deep red armor and had long black hair and deep black eyes. A small smile fit his face giving him the appearance of a snake. It vaguely reminded him of Orochimaru, Naruto shivered at the thought.

"Very impressive," the red armored man announced in a very deep baritone, "you are the first person to ever escape our guest quarters." The man's voice was one you never wanted to hear in a dark alley at night.

Another man stepped up next to the one who had spoken. Naruto recognized him as the man who tried to kick him. His armor was blue, his face was adorned with three red tattoos; one on each cheek and one on his chin, and his hair was dark gray. "Yes, indeed, very impressive," his voice was the opposite of his partner, light and slightly high pitched.

Naruto watched them warily. He had no escape out of his current predicament, unless he whipped out some serious Toad Ninjutsu. He spread his hands out, palms facing up; a universal sign of peace.

The red armored guy raised an eyebrow at the gesture. "You're giving yourself up? Pity, I haven't had a decent fight in months, not since the Tea mission and Madara."

"Look," Naruto said carefully, "I don't want any trouble. I just got lost and found myself in your territory." Naruto had never felt so nervous in his life. The two men standing before him; he recognized them. How could he not? Their pictures were hanging in the office of the Hokage. Senju Hashirama and Senju Tobirama, the Shodai and Nidaime Hokage were standing before him.

"Not looking for trouble he says," Tobirama slightly mocked, "you should've thought of that before you attacked two members of our clan."

Hashirama placed a calming hand on his shoulder. "Enough, Tobirama. Our guest has done what any prisoner would have done." The future Shodai Hokage walked over to Naruto like they were best friends. "Welcome to Fire Country. My name is Senju Hashirama and congratulations of passing your test."

"What test?" Naruto didn't know what the man was playing at, but it set him on edge.

Hashirama grinned big at Naruto and placed a hand on his shoulder. "The test that tells us if you are too dangerous to let live or not."

Naruto felt the ground behind him shift under him and only had a millisecond to perform a replacement as a jagged piece of woodland ripped through the spot he previously inhabited. Man, I didn't think Shodai-sama would be so…cold hearted, Naruto thought. The air around Naruto dropped in temperature and he could vaguely see the water vapor in the air pull away from him. He twisted his head to the right to see a giant wall of water racing toward him being guided by the future Nidaime Hokage.

Water came rushing at Naruto like a tsunami; he could feel the moister looming down on him as the shadow of the giant wave swarmed over him. Dodging was impossible, but who said anything about dodging? Naruto brought his hand up to his mouth and bit into his thumb. His hands blurred through a series of seals and he extended his hand out in front of him, "Kuchiyose no Jutsu."

He only applied a small portion of his chakra into the jutsu. The area in front of Naruto wavered for a second before exploding in a cloud of smoke. From within the smoke a dark green toad the size of a house appeared, its head easily reaching the top of the trees. Strapped to one arm the giant toad had a huge metal shield and on his back clung a long katana. Without instructions the toad swung the long square shield over his head and slammed it into the ground, horizontally, to block the oncoming water.

Naruto leapt onto the toads back and easily climbed his was up to its head. He watched as the water slammed into the shield and went around him and the toad. The summoned animal grunted and dug its heels into the ground as the water pushed even harder. Naruto looked out over the wave at his attackers. Senju Hashirama stood wide eyed at the sight before him. His brother, Tobirama, also had a flabbergasted look as he controlled the water. The other clan members looked at the display with a look of apprehension. Geeze, you'd think they'd never seen a basic summoning jutsu in their life, Naruto thought incredulously.

The water subsided and no one made a move. "Hey, Gama," Naruto called to the toad, "make us a path out of here."

"Right, boss," the toad said. The toad reared back its head and started to make loud gulping sounds. His gullet grew in size like a balloon and just when it looked like it was going to pop the toad threw its head down, mouth opened. Green goo erupted from its mouth. It sprayed and splashed all over the place. Nothing was safe from the onslaught of goo. People were drenched, wooden huts were drenched, the tree branches ground from the weight of the slime landing on them. As soon as the gunk touched something it immediately stuck to them like glue. All of the Senju clan present found themselves stuck to the ground, unable to move.

"Take us out of here," Naruto called out to his ride. The toad squatted down on all fours and pushed off hard from the ground. He jumped high into the air easily clearing all of the people below. They landed a couple yards over with another dozen jumps they were out of reach of the Senju and on their way out of captivity.

Back at the small village two brothers up in a tree, not covered in goo watched the retreating figure hop off into the distance.

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Only twice had Senju Hashirama been startled so much that he found himself too shocked to respond. The first time was when his father fell in battle against the leader of the Uchiha, Uchiha Madara. The second time happened just moments ago when some unknown blond haired warrior did an actual summoning jutsu in front of him. Something like that most would think wouldn't shock a man like Hashirama, but when someone comes into your home and does a form of Ninjutsu thought lost for over a century you have cause to be shocked.

His brother, Tobirama, landed on the ground next to him. The enormous toad and the blond were well beyond the horizon and it would take days to catch up. "Did you just see what I saw?" Tobirama questioned?

"If you're referring to the guy who just did a summoning jutsu in our home, then yes, I did."

Tobirama frowned. "I thought summoning died when grandfather was killed. Grandfather was the last known person capable of summoning an animal, when he died I thought summoning died with him."

"It looks like someone found a contract," Hashirama spoke quietly.

"I hope him living doesn't come back to bite us in the ass," Tobirama warned his brother. Always the pessimist was Tobirama. He always looked for the negative in any situation.

Hashirama gave his brother a calming wave of his hand. "Actually, I don't think that man will be a problem for us. I don't think he meant us any harm."

"How can you be sure," Tobirama questioned, "that man was obviously extremely powerful. He spent four days in a cell designed to drain the chakra of its inhabitants and yet he was still able to summon a moderately sized animal and ride it out of here. Not only that, but he didn't look winded at all."

"Because," the red armored ninja spoke, his voice deep and carrying over the clearing "if he truly meant to cause the Senju clan harm he had his chance when he incapacitated the entire clan with that sludge. One swing of that toads sword and he could have crippled our entire clan. Instead, he simply left without killing a single soul."

Crease marks lined Tobiramas' head as he processed the information. "Damn," he mumbled, "we just attacked a potential ally."

Hashirama laughed. "Don't worry, he'll be back eventually."

"Oh? How do you figure that?"

"Because," Hashirama grinned, "we still have all of his equipment." He held up a small bad that ninja wear on their hip. "This," he reached into the bag and out an oddly shaped kunai, "is not something commonly used. I don't think it's something he uses in combat either. He only has one of these tri pronged kunai and a dozen normal kunai. It's either a family heirloom or an experiment of his. I have no doubt he will come back just so he can reclaim that kunai."

"Maybe. You have been wrong before. I hope he comes back, it's not every day you meet a person who can do the stuff we just saw," Tobirama spoke.

The older brother placed a hand on Tobiramas' shoulder. "We will think on this later. For now, call up a storm and wash away all of this mess."

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The toad gave one last hope before Naruto told it to stop. He slid down the back of the toad onto the ground. He looked up into the cloudless sky. It was around dusk, the sun had set, but the sky bled orange. The toad inclined its head at Naruto and disappeared in a puff of smoke leaving the blond all lone.

He found himself back where this all started, back in Sun Forest, with its beautiful waterfall and the stone crystals glimmering form within the water. Naruto cracked his sore neck and rubbed his arms over his shirtless torso. Naruto quickly made some shadow clones to go gather some wood and leaves. As they went off to collect his materials for a camp fire he sat down on the ground to contemplate the last couple of events in his like.

"Okay," Naruto said aloud to no one but himself, "so, I am somehow in the past in a time before the hidden villages were even founded. I was captured by the eventual founding family of Konoha, the Senju clan. Their leader, the future Shodai Hokage, is a cold hearted bastard who will kill anything that poses a threat to his clan. His brother isn't much different, just a little bit more sarcastic. Fuck, what I am supposed to do now?"

Naruto crossed his arms in thought. The answer was obvious; he had only one mission right now and that was to find Sasuke and stop him from whatever he plans to do. Even Naruto could figure out that to find Sasuke meant to find the Uchiha clan. Naruto sighed tiredly, Great, going from one lion's den to another. Isn't life grand?

That's it for the second chapter. A little shorter than chapter 1, but still over 5 thousand words. Please, drop me a review and let me know what you think.