Disclaimer: Naruto is property of Masashi Kishimoto. Not me. Which is a wise decision. As I'm a obsessive compulsive and a total naruto nerd. Raven and this fanfic's original techniques however, are my property. I'm willing to allow people to share, but please ask me politely and respect my decision if it's a no.

Authors notes: In response to this fic's first review, i'd like to first thank Thyrokio2 for reading and reviewing. I must admit, most my other fanfics have always been so 'Raven' based I havent tried writing in perspectives other than 'Raven' or Ino. So I'm glad that i didn't do too bad. As for who Raven is, it'll be more obvious later when I show the relationship between him and Naruto. Or lack there of. Theres many narutoverses in my mind and in my own verse Raven and Naruto hated each other, but Naruto was still worried about him, angry at him for past experiences and things.. so he cares. But he's no Sasuke replacement. So yeah, keep reading and by chapter 3 or 4 you'll see a bit more of him.

Enjoy!

After the sudden flashbacks, and flooding of memories into the young Naruto's mind had finished

After the sudden flashbacks, and flooding of memories into the young Naruto's mind had finished. And he was aware of the fact his friend Raven would need assistance; he climbed out of his bed and got to work finding some clothes.

Not his usual orange clad clothing though, for his future self had finally come to terms that as hokage he would be unable to wear orange, so might as well get used to it.

Finding a lonely looking pair of black trousers and matching jacket. Naruto put them on quickly and picked reached out on his dresser for his kunai holster.

Only when his hand touched bare wood and failed to find said item did he realise that at this age, he did not have a kunai set and holster. Something he knew he would have to rectify.

Shaking his head to clear his thoughts, he got back to the task at hand. Walking over to one of his mirrors he smiled back at the reflection of his young body and stretched his muscles.

Upon looking at himself he suddenly heard the kyuubi mentally knock before talking, "Brat, the merger is nearly complete. Whilst I'm enjoying the power increase, I feel a strange urge to give you a warning."

"Warning? Of what?" he mentally replied back, not stopping his stretches for a moment.

"The merger for me is easy, it's because when your blasted father sealed me inside you, I lost my physical body and became nothing more than a soul with immense youki."

"And that affects me how?"

"You have a physical body, you have a limit to how much chakra you can contain because of it."

"So, what will happen?"

"You'll explode."

Instantly Naruto's eyes widened to the side of saucers, but before he could start screaming at the fox to fix it. He heard a loud bellowing laughter.

"Despite you giving me such great entertainment, it's time I get serious. You wont explode as long as you seal away a portion of your chakra."

"You damn fox! If it wasn't for me, you'd have died along with dad!"

"Hahahahaha, I'm entitled to have some fun every now and then, it's not fun and games being inside you after all."

"Damn furrball. How much chakra should I seal away?"

"Well, I'd suggest half, once you've trained your physical body with weights. Then you can slowly start unsealing it bit by bit."

"How many points seal should it be?"

A long while ago Naruto had given up on arguing with the kyuubi, and instead started listening to its advice. When it wasn't making fun of him, he realised the kyuubi, being a fox, was very intelligent.

When it came to seals and other such complicated jutsu, he often relied on the kyuubi to help.

"Seven or nine points, on the safe side."

"Awww man, does it have to be odd?"

After news of Naruto's father being the fourth hokage, most of his friends tried ushering Naruto into the sealing jutsu. Trying to make him follow in his father's footsteps.

Just to shut most of them up, he gave in and tried it out, he had to admit, sealing was very useful. But when sealing things containing chakra, or sealing chakra itself, things got complicated.

Chakra had to be placed into special seals that store vast amounts of chakra, without leaking it, or allowing just anyone to use it.

The amount of chakra that can be sealed, depends on the amount of points to the seal. Each point of the seal is created by each finger, or at least it does when being used on a human.

Gaara's seal that holds Shukaku for example is a 3-point seal, and because of that, the ichibi has a small amount of control. A 3-point seal is too weak to contain it all.

Back in Naruto's time, after Naruto had figured this out. He did gaara a favour and added another 2 points to the seal, sealing Shukaku's bad influences away, while allowing gaara to finally get peaceful sleep and not having to worry about releasing his demon.

Gaara, despite already claiming to be in Naruto's debt, after being allowed his first night of blissful sleep, demanded Naruto marry Temari as payment.

When Naruto tried altering the gobo no bijou's seal, kyuubi suggested turning it into an 8-point seal. Being his first 3 point sealing in actual practise.

He hated it.

Odd point seals were just awkward, he didn't know why, and didn't care to find out. Despite how many times jiraiya berated him for it. So whenever he needed to do an odd point seal, he'd do anything to try and get out of it.

"It's either that or the demon pact way."

"Despite hating the whole sacrifice something aspect, I'd gladly choose it over the stupid odd point seals."

"Fine, but we have half an hour yet before the merger is complete. Check on your fellow pack member first."

"Ah! I almost forgot about Raven!"

"True pack leader mentality there kit."

Deciding not to get further into an argument, else he might end up forgetting again. Naruto threw on his jacket and jumped out of his open bedroom window, instantly heading to the hokage tower.

After all, despite his enthusiasm, he actually didn't know Raven back around this age. So he had no idea where to find him. Not to mention Raven never spoke of his early years in the village. Or his time outside of the village. Or anything else for that matter.

Raven was a secretive type person. Not that he wouldn't answer if one asked. But unless one asked, then he'd rather not talk about any past experiences.

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After about 15 minutes, Naruto finally made it to the Hokages tower, he would of made it their in half the time, but his the time travelling technique only brought over mental aspects. Not physical. He'd have to train his body viciously until he was even a fraction of his speed.

Once at the tower it was somewhat easy for Naruto to sneak past the guards. Even at the age of five he had good sneaking skills. If nothing else.

A few minutes later and a few close calls later, Naruto finally made it into the office that would one day be his again. Finding it to be empty was just the icing on the cake really. Without having to worry about old man Sarutobi asking him questions which he'd of been hard by to answer without suspicion. He was quickly able to find the list of orphans of konoha.

Whisking through the list Naruto was able to quickly find Raven. It was a highly unusual name after all. It sounded more like a ANBU code name, than it did a persons given name. At least Raven claimed it his given name.

Either way, he found him. Looking over the case number, Naruto fished out the corresponding file and looked over it for the address.

To say the blonde headed boy was surprised at the information would have been a huge understatement.

Raven, was right next door to him, two doors down, living with an ANBU carer.

It wasn't so much as being with an ANBU carer that was so shocking. After all, foreign orphans often got looked after. Nor was it the note by the side on the thirds hand writing, stating that having received payment from the child's parents, that he'd be put under ANBU care.

No, it wasn't those things that made it shocking. It was the fact he was only two damn doors away from him the whole time. He actually passed the door on the way.

Loosing control for a moment Naruto groaned at the stupidity of it, but he knew he had no way of knowing until now. But the annoyed groan alerted a nearby passing guard. Leaving Naruto no choice but to jump out of the Hokages office window and run along the ledge until he could safely jump down.

Once safe from the security, Naruto quickly made it back towards his apartment. Until he received a yawn and a knock from the kyuubi.

"The merger is complete. It's time to seal the power away."

"But I got to go check on Raven."

"Not my problem, you can go if you want, but you'll just burst like a balloon from chakra overload if you do"

"I can last a little longer, team-mates come first."

"The fact you didn't hear any screaming when you first arrived should assure you he's fine. You've got more pressing matters"

"Look furrball, me and Raven might very well have been at each others throats once or twice, but if it wasn't for him we would be dead. We're going to check up on him, then I'll seal it away"

Putting up mental barriers, Naruto blocked out any replies from the fox. He learned how to block out the annoying voice after becoming Hokage. Saved him from many unneeded headaches.

Continuing on his way back, Naruto steadily noticed the affects he was warned about. Despite using chakra to enhance his muscles to move faster. Something he shouldn't have been able to do yet in his current timeline. His chakra levels were not lowering, more so they were rising faster than he could use it.

Thankfully, he managed to make it back before he was injured or worse from his condition. Making it to the door, he realised Raven would be about.. three? Raven three years old. That would be priceless.

Knocking on the door he waited for a moment, hearing shuffling coming from within until finally he heard a faint reply. Waiting a second longer Naruto watched as the door opened up and in the doorway stood someone he did not expect in the least.

"Anko-san?"

In the doorway was none other than a Mitarashi Anko in a chuunin standard uniform minus the vest. A few meters behind her, a mountain of dirty clothes and magazines.

"Who are you? And what do you want kid?"

Looking up at Anko, Naruto bowed and put on his best most polite smile he could muster. His arms by reflex, one that he hadn't gotten into the habit of this timeline yet, raised above and behind his head.

"My names, Naruto, I live two doors down. Do you have a kettle? Mine broke and so I can't cook my ramen. And without the ramen, the dango for afterwards will go to waste."

In all honesty Naruto did in fact have a stick of dango in his apartment. And on the way out of his apartment he did take notice of the stare of his kitchen. Or lack there of.

He had a microwave, a broken kettle, a broken oven which didn't surprise him in the least considering it wasn't until he started the ninja academy that old man Hokage upped his allowance to compensate, some cutlery and a fridge. Which always seemed pretty much empty, no matter the timeline.

"Why do you need ramen when you got a perfectly good dango stick?" Anko replied. Though betraying her own words she stood aside to let him in so she could fetch him a spare kettle.

Taking a few steps in and closing the door too, Naruto smiled up. "I've always felt it tastes better after miso ramen broth."

"Dango is good by itself it needs nothing to accentuate its divinity other than a shot of sake."

"I'm five, I can't drink alcohol yet."

"Shame, it's the nectar of kami."

"Isn't that supposed to be love?"

"Exactly."

"..Nani?"

Just as Naruto was peering around a corner of the apartment, into what he thought was the kitchen. Being as it looked to be built somewhat similar in layout to his own. He heard a new voice enter the apartment.

"Dammit! I'm back with Anko Oneesan!"

"Raven san?" Naruto instantly called out, having partially recognised the voice.

"Karasu, get back to bed this instant! Your still grounded you little gaki!" Anko's reply came from the kitchen area.

"Shut up Kanko!"

"How dare you, you little runt! I've told you not to call me that!"

Straight away Naruto noticed Anko run from the way he saw her go before and dash into a room he guessed to be a bedroom. Moments later he heard crashing, thumping and bumping noises.

Walking over towards where he saw her go he poked his head into a doorway, only to be rewarded with a scene of Anko on the floor, being straddles at the chest by a 3-year-old Raven, mask and all.

Anko had teeth bared and hands around Ravens throat while Raven had his teeth bared biting Anko's arms. Trying desperately to open his airways yet again.

"I'll give you two a few minutes alone.." saying nothing else Naruto walked off with a smirk at having found enough blackmail material to last multiple timelines.

Not waiting to see about the kettle, Naruto made his way silently out of the door. The only noise being made coming from the room he left the two fighting in.

"Baka Ganko!"

"Damn gaki!"

"Slutty Buranko!"

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Making his way quickly to the nearest training grounds, Naruto unblocked the shields that he was using to ignore the kyuubi with, which was a bad decision.

Instantly being barraged by death threats, curses and swearwords that would make most sailors blush. Mentally shouting for it's container to get on with the sealing.

Making his way further into the training grounds, somewhere he was sure no one would stumble upon he set to work drawing a large circle and seals on the floor.

Doing it the demon sacrificing way was easier. Simply because, it starts with a seal, an offering of something and then what's written in the seal, happens.

Following the kyuubi's instructions Naruto finished the seals on the ground, throwing the stick he used away into the underbrush, he took a deep breath and started drawing up chakra.

Seconds later the seal on the ground started glowing and the blonde quickly started feeling the affects of an immense chakra drain. Sort of like when he first tried using the Rasengan. Or the Kamikaze no jutsu that Gaara gave him as a gift at his 18th birthday.

Either way you want to explain it, it was an enormous drain of his chakra.

The best way Naruto could word what would happen if it wasn't sealed was to imagine a balloon, the air being it's chakra. The balloon popping being when too much chakra is in, the balloon reaching its limit.

Naruto was a small balloon at the present time; imagine that balloon being inflated with a second kyuubi and a Hokage Naruto from many years in the futures worth of air.

It was close to popping. And that would be undoubtedly bad.

So the immense chakra drain was for the best.

When he felt enough had been sealed away, he started feeling very light-headed. Keeping his bearings enough, he looked down at the back of his hand where a leaf symbol appeared in blood. Above it 9 comma like toma's.

"Each toma is a section of chakra sealed away, you can release it in stages until your body is more able to use it." The kyuubi replied, answering his un asked question.

"I feel.. very light-headed… what did we sacrifice for the seal?" Naruto in turn asked back, sure that he sounded as groggy in his mind as his body did.

"Your firstborn"

"What?!"

Without a second to think upon it more Naruto almost rammed a kunai into his gut at an attempt to hurt the kyuubi. Despite the hurting himself part. But was stopped when he heard a loud chuckling coming from his tenant.

"Hahahahahahaha. You amuse me greatly kit. But did you really think I'd give up our offspring so easily. We foxes are noble creatures after all, our children are not treated as sacrifices." The fox chuckled out. More than pleased with his joke than Naruto was.

"Damn fox, don't scare me like that. Even the thought of losing little Arashi-kun… so what did we really sacrifice?"

"Just a small portion of my chakra. It will regenerate by tomorrow. Not that it would make a difference to my devastating power with the amount I have now anyway."

"Ok then.." not even having enough energy to mentally reply. Naruto was quickly unconscious. Fast asleep in the woods with nothing to protect his five-year-old self.

Authors notes: What to say first? 'Little Arashi-kun' is Naruto's aforementioned child in his previous timeline... No comment really..
I loved writing the Raven and Anko scene. It wrote itself. Especially that saucy position. I really did not plan that ahead, just one of those parts that you write and realise what you did and laugh like it was real.

Translations:

Karasu Raven/Crow
Kanko dry and harden ((referring to her lack of ability to bear children and/or her personality and humour))
Gaki Brat
Baka Idiot
Ganko Stubbornness (an), obstinacy ((referring to her personality))
Buranko Swing ((Do I really need to explain?))

I'm aware that the sealing away his power isn't an old thing. and i know that it might seem very very similar to another fanfic by the name of 'For The Love Of My Friends' But I swear right now, it was inspired by but not intended to rip any idea's off. I just felt that if it a timetravelling jutsu did exist. Such an affect would happen. And such a sealing would be needed.

Most timetravelling AU fics usually go along the canon plot changing things and showing the affects those seeming small differences make, so a lot of things will seem familiar. If you dont like it, then dont read.

Till next chapter!