Sorry for the repost of this one everyone, but I received a complaint that this one was too short so I went back and added what I was saving for the next chapter to make up for it.

Disclaimer: I don't own Naruto.

Chapter 2: Getting Started Pt. 1

If there was anything Naruto hated about his mornings, it was waking up to blinding sunlight and an extremely uncomfortable bed.

He groaned in annoyance at his 'somewhat' peaceful sleep being disturbed as he rolled over and burrowed himself deeper into his blankets.

"I've really gotta ask Tsunade-baachan about getting a new apartment." he mumbled tiredly into his pillow. "That dream was pretty strange though." he finished as a tired afterthought as he tried to resume his slumber.

He was having relative success at it before the memory of said 'dream' played through his mind again.

His failure at beating Madara, cheating death, meeting with the fox and learning that it had been in a Genjutsu all along and then going back in time.

Naruto's eyes flew wide open as the realization that his dream was an actual event and that he was indeed back in the past. Slowly, ever so slowly, a grin formed on the blonde's face and he sprang to his feet on his bed and cheered loudly…

…at least that's what would of happened had Naruto not found his face being intimately introduced to the wall, hard enough to leave behind a faint impression of his shocked expression in the plaster.

"What the hell?" Naruto asked in surprise as he lifted himself from the floor, only to find himself once again thrown to the side of the room by seemingly nothing.

Though as he once again tried to stand, and being sent back into the wall as a result, Naruto realized what was happening. He was throwing himself around his room in his efforts to move! Literally!

Fearful of why this was happening and being unable to explain why he was having problems in moving, Naruto turned to the only one who he knew could provide some answers. That being the one who brought him back.

'Kyuubi!' he shouted in his mind as he continued to try, and fail, to use his limbs correctly.

A tired grunt was his response before his mind went quiet again.

Sighing quietly, Naruto tried again. 'KYUUBI! WAKE UP!"

This time he got the response he was looking for as a tired groan rang in his mind. "What is it kit? Working the jutsu to send us back took a lot out of me and I'm trying to rest." Was the tired mutter from the fox, "and I told you before, my name is Akane. I hate being called by my title."

A small bead of sweat appeared on Naruto's head at that. 'Sorry Akane, but every time I move I end up sending myself into a wall! Why can't I move properly? And when did you send us to exactly?' he asked as he tried to move again and was met with much the same results as before.

Naruto heard her grumble something as he continued trying to move and was suddenly met with an amused chuckle.

'This isn't funny!' he exclaimed in annoyance as he gave up trying to move and instead settled for laying where he was on the floor.

From his position he saw that everything in his room was much larger than what he was comfortable with. A few Ramen themed posters dotted the walls, and several of his old orange jump suites littered the floor around him.

Naruto sighed in exasperation at the sight of his room. Was he really this messy when he was younger? But more importantly, why the hell was everything so much larger than what it was supposed to be.

"Hm-hm," Akane chuckled, "sorry kit. But what you going through is the result of putting an older mind inside of a younger body." Akane explained to his original question. "Basically, your mind commands like an adult, but your body moves as a child. All the signals are meant for a different type of body structure, thus the reach and strength your limbs are told to use is overkill and why you keep throwing yourself around especially since you are used to using much more than your body's current level of strength. And if your memories are anything to go by then I'd say I brought us back to the day you had off before your team placements."

Naruto sighed at the explanation. 'So if I understand this right then I'm in my younger body and my brain is trying to tell it to move like it would when it was older?' (1)

He heard Akane's hum of confirmation, "that's a dumbed down version of what I just said, but yes."

'Great.' Naruto groaned. 'I'm back to being a midget! And to top it all off I can't even move right!' he complained as a mental image of himself sat in a small ball and cried waterfall tears as a storm cloud pored rain down on him. The only upside to this that Naruto saw was that he didn't need to be anywhere and could use the day to get used to his body again and then do whatever he had left to do in the time remaining afterwards.

One of Naruto's eye brows twitched when he heard another amused chuckle from his tenant. But there was something different about it this time. It was lighter, much more so than what he was used to hearing when he talked to the fox. It sounded more human than before and it was almost…feminine? The Kyuubi of all things was...giggling?

Gulping slightly, and praying to Kami that the sudden feeling in his gut was wrong and that his next actions weren't going to get him killed, Naruto closed his eyes and allowed his consciousness to drift into his mind.

'Mindscape'

Naruto opened his eyes as soon as he felt himself enter the familiar area of his mindscape. Looking around the area Naruto saw that his surroundings were much the same as they were. Still the same dank, dark and wet sewer, but just as he looked at the cage holding the Kyuubi, he froze.

Sitting right behind giant bars of the cage was a girl, staring at him with wide eyes. The cause of their surprise? Well, the girl was completely naked!

You can do the math as to why both parties would be surprised.

Although frozen in shock, Naruto's eyes were hard at work in taking in the girl's form. Doing so allowed him to see that she had lush red hair, from which a pair of black tipped fox ears were visible, a pale and unblemished face, a small button nose and thin red lips. The girl's eyes, although wide with surprise, were a dark blood red and held slitted pupils.

Unable to stop them from doing so, Naruto's eyes traveled past her face and his eyes met the sight of a pair of B-almost C-cup breasts, with her nipples being a slightly lighter shade of pink than the areolas around them. The sight captivated him for several long seconds before he managed to pry his eyes away long enough for them to finish their trail downwards to her finely toned stomach and wide, curvy hips and then down her long, almost endless legs, which were laid out before her and slightly spread, allowing Naruto to catch a glimpse of the prize between them and the neatly shaved patch of red above it. The fact that she had nine tails sprouting out from her tail bone was lost on Naruto as he continued to stare. (2)

Had Naruto not been so captive with the sight of the goddess before him then he would have been cursing Jiraiya for somehow causing the situation he was in. He knew that, somehow, the old Toad Sage was responsible for the situation he found himself in.

Having finished their inspection, Naruto's eyes flew back up to the girls face as a cherry red blush bloomed on his own.

They simply stared at each other before the girl's expression changed to a smirk and she leaned forward slightly, bringing her arms forward and between her legs to brace herself against the wet floor of the mindscape with. Doing this had the added effect squashing her breasts against each other.

Naruto's blush grew by epic proportions and a trail of blood started to leak from his nose at the sight.

"Like what you see…Naruto-kun?" she asked, her tone of voice husky.

The question, mixed in with seductive tone she asked it in, caused the blood leaking from Naruto's nose to increase until it was a literal geyser strong enough to lift him off his feet and fling him against the wall of the sewer and into the land of dreams.

Akane giggled at the reaction of her host, and although she was still slightly shocked that he had chosen to come into the mindscape and saw her in her human form and naked on top of it that, she found his reaction rather refreshing.

'Well, one thing is for certain.' she thought to herself as she stood and made some cloths appear on her figure. 'Things are certainly going to be fun this time around.

She took a deep breath and braced herself as she stepped between one of the wide gaps between the bars of the cage. (3)

Even though she had prepared herself for it, Akane still gasped and hunched over, breathing deeply when she felt her power try to follow her through the cage, but was stopped by the seal.

Taking another breath and standing straight, Akane saw what remained of the seal on the cage glowing an angry red.

She grinned, obviously pleased with herself, before turning and walking towards the unconscious blonde, intent of waking him up and explaining a few things to him.

'Several minutes later'

Naruto awoke with the feeling of his head resting on a surface softer than what the surface of his mindscape should have been. Opening his eyes he saw the face of someone he could only describe as a goddess smiling gently down at him, which he returned with a small grin of his own.

They stayed that way for several moments before Naruto's eyes widened as he remembered just how he had ended up on the floor.

His face paling considerably, he sprang to his feet and bowed deeply to her.

"I'm so sorry Akane! I swear I didn't mean to see you like that! Please don't be angry!" he begged.

Akane frowned at this. Did he expect to be hit for getting an accidental peek? It was only an accident after all so it wasn't like she was going to suddenly turn back into her fox form and tear him limb from limb for seeing her like that.

Rolling her eyes and shrugging his apologies off, Akane stood up and addressed her host with a smile.

"It's alright Naruto, I had only just changed into my human form when you appeared here and had yet to realize that I was naked so there's no need for any apologies. I'm not angry with you for getting a peek as I was just as surprised as you were." She said, approaching him and placing a hand on his shoulder.

"You're not?" he asked, looking up curiously.

Akane shook her head and Naruto sighed in relief as he straightened up. But as he did so he noticed for the first time since coming to that Akane was clothed in a sky blue kimono with snowflakes dotting it and a dark purple sash tied around waist to keep it closed.

Normally Naruto was hopeless when it came to the subject of cloths and looks, but the way Akane's outfit both contrasted with and brought out the color of her red hair and eyes made her look stunning in Naruto's eyes. She looked way better than any girl he knew, minus one exception, and he felt his face grow warm as his heart sped up.

'What is this?' he questioned himself at the feeling of his heart rate increasing. Why was he feeling this way? In all his life Naruto had only felt like this when he was around-

"Naruto," he lost his trail of thoughts when he heard Akane speak and he returned his full attention to her.

Seeing that she had his attention now, Akane continued. "If you really intend to fix the timeline then there are a few things you must know." As she spoke her voice was the optimum of serious, letting Naruto know just how vital the information he needed to know really was.

He nodded as his face became expressionless.

Akane nodded and pushed forward with the conversation. "First of all," she began, "you must never, and I repeat NEVER, let anyone know that you are from the future, the results of doing so may very well be catastrophic." She waited for Naruto nod before continuing.

"Second," here she fixed the blonde with a fierce gaze, "You're going to need to take everything seriously, no more acting like an idiot. Especially when I know you are so much more than that! Got it?" she asked.

Naruto nodded again. Most of his life he had been wearing a mask of false stupidity and happiness. The only times he actually got to show off his true personality was when he was around the old man, Jiraiya, Tsunade and a few other select people he knew he could trust with his life.

But he supposed Akane was right on this matter. It was high time he dropped his mask and showed the village just what he was made of, especially now that he was back before they respected him and saw him as an actual human instead of a demon in human skin.

"And thirdly," Akane spoke again; well aware of what was going through her hosts mind. "Get a better outfit." She said. "An orange jump suit is not a good choice of clothing for a Shinobi to wear. I'm actually surprised you got away with painting the Hokage monument in broad daylight wearing that thing."

Naruto's emotionless face broke out into a smirk at that last part. It was a testament to his stealth skills that he was able to get away with doing that, let alone in a jump suit that actually screams 'here I am, come kill me!' with how bright it was.

He digressed though, Akane was right again. He needed a better outfit if he was going to make any serious changes in the timeline and to do that he needed people to take him seriously, and wearing a Bright orange jump suit that was more than likely to give him away was not going to in achieving that.

He nodded again and Akane's expression softened to what it was before.

"Glad you understand Naruto, I can only work the jutsu to send us back once every hundred years or so, and even then I risk the ridicule of the other Biju. But I needed you to know just how important it is that you do not mess this up." She said, and Naruto nodded again.

"I understand Akane-Chan, and I really appreciate the risk you have taken to allow me the chance to make things right; if there's any way I can return the favor let me know." He said, smiling at her, unknowing that he had added the honorific to the end of her name.

Even though she could tell how honest Naruto was in wanting to return the favor, Akane mind was on something else, '-Chan?' she thought as a light pink dusted her cheeks. 'Did he just call me –Chan? We only just met though! Maybe he's just being friendly? Yeah that's got to be it. I mean he can't possibly like me like that already.' (3) She thought before Naruto's words registered with her and she smiled at him.

"Thank you Naruto, but the only thing I really want is a better living area, but I don't even think that it's possible as none of my previous jinchuriki have been able to…to…" she trailed as her eyes widened when the area around them began to change.

It wasn't much at first, but the change started with the walls of Naruto's mindscape wavering and then disappearing. After that it was the bars of the cage and then the floor vanishing, leaving nothing but a black void left to be the mindscape.

Akane gasped in surprise when she felt the power she had left in the cage suddenly crash into her and almost drive her to her knees and a choker with the kanji for 'seal' appeared on around her neck. But what would come next would cause an even bigger surprise for her.

The dark sky started to lighten until it was a beautiful shade of blue, grass and flowers began to sprout beneath her feet until they were standing in the middle of a large meadow inside that stretched as far as the eyes could see. Then a lake appeared at the center of the meadow and then a few trees grew out of nowhere. One tree in particular was larger than the all the others though and would have dwarfed her fox form and held a hollow trunk, large enough for a few people to sit inside comfortably with plenty of room to spare.

And then Akane heard it, a small little yipping coming from the distance. Looking over she saw, much to her amazement, a small flock of fox kits playing by the edge of the lake.

Her eyes watered with tears of joy as she looked at the world around her. Never in all her years would she have imagined that there could possibly be a place as beautiful as this, but here she was, standing in that place. A place created especially for her.

Akane turned to the one responsible for its creation, the one who was now smiling at her softly as he watched her reaction to what he had created. She did the first thing that came to her mind.

Naruto smiled at the red head beside him as he watched her reaction to her new home. For some reason the way Akane smiled as she looked around made his heart react as it had before, it confused him, but he felt that as long as she was happy then he was happy.

But his eyes went wide when he suddenly felt something soft land on one of his whiskered cheeks. He blushed when he realized what it was. Akane's lips! She was kissing him!

Naruto stood there, stunned as to what was happening. But after a moment he felt Akane's lips retreat and she stepped back, a bright blush on her face and a large smile.

"Thank you, Naruto-kun." She said bashfully. "You have no idea how happy it makes me to be out of that sewer after so long. It wasn't exactly what one could call healthy living."

Naruto, although still blushing from the kiss and addition to his name, nodded happily and rubbed the back of his neck. "I'm glad you like it Akane-Chan. It's the least I can do for all the you've been already." He said.

Akane smiled brightly and nodded in return.

Naruto suddenly grimaced when he realized he had already been in his mindscape for longer than he expected to be, and while he didn't want to leave Akane just yet, he also knew that he had things to do.

"Akane, it been fun, really, but I've got to go. I still got to get used to this body again and then there's the rest of what needs to be done." He said, he was more than a little reluctant to leave, but there were things he needed to do.

Akane nodded, her smile never leaving her face. "Alright Naruto-kun, we'll talk later. But hurry back." She said with a small wave and a wink.

Naruto blushed, something about that wink spoke about more than what she was saying, and to tell the truth, it unnerved him a bit.

"O-Okay then, see you later." He stuttered out with a wave of his own as he disappeared from the mindscape.

Akane's smile morphed into a small smirk when he vanished, 'oh yes Naruto-kun, we'll be doing a lot of talking in the near future.' She giggled as she turned and started to walk in the opposite direction to explore her new home.

It was hard to believe, but during the few mere hours Akane had known him, Naruto had caught her curiosity. And when something caught her curiosity, she never let up until it was satisfied.

(1) One thing I noticed about most time travel fics, why isn't this idea used more often? I mean it would make since considering he goes from a fully grown adult to being a short 12/13 year old in literally a matter of seconds/minuets. He would have trouble in his older body would he not?

(2) It the same basic description used in the last version, but I decided to add a bit more detail to it.

(3) Did you really expect me to leave that part out of the original out? :P

CUT!

Okay everyone here's the second chapter and I really hope you all liked it. I'm going to have a lot on my plate for the next few days seeing as I've got a college tour tomorrow and then several other matters that will require most of my attention. But I will try to get the next out as soon as I can; so it should be up sometime within the next week. I'll admit though, the ending was a bit rushed but I'm tired and I've spent the last five hours working on adding on to what was here before.

Oh and I'm a bit undecided about something. You see, I've been tossing the idea of killing Zabuza at the end of the wave arc around and then having Haku go to the leaf as a last request from him. So I've put a poll up to let you guys decide. The final decision will be decided the day the next chapter gets posted, so hurry up and vote

Anyway, review and all that jazz and I'll be sure to get the next update out as soon as I can.