Story: The Future, the Past and the Present
Author: life is short so am I
Rating: T
Genre: Adventure, angst, humor, hurt/comfort, family, romance and friendship
Chapter: And the Journey Begins
Warning: Fem!Naru
Pairings: Future: Kakashi x Naruto, Sasuke x Sakura
Author's Note: Just to let you know, I'm not one of those people who have half of the story done before they post the first chapter. I don't have the patience for that. My updates are going to be random, and most likely a few months apart. Thanks to the two people who reviewed and the people who followed and favourited!
Summary: Uzumaki Naruto is infamous for doing the impossible. Why should changing the past be any different? She may have not started learning seals until after the war, but damn, she was good at them. So what's not to say she can make a seal that changes her world? Watching the show fic.
Disclaimer: Nope. Sorry to say, but I haven't gained ownership of Naruto since the last time I posted.
When Naruto told them about the seal, she had failed to mention that it was located on the roof of her apartment. Her apartment complex was one of the largest in Konoha, being only a little smaller than the Hokage tower. The seal took up the whole area of the roof. It was a beautiful, intricate thing, and Naruto had placed a barrier around it so that nobody other than the people she wanted to could see it, let alone tamper with it and the elements couldn't damage it.
They stood on the parameters of the seal, dressed in comfortable civilian clothes, with more clothing and other things they thought they might need and storage seals full of food.
"That is the most complicated seal that I have ever seen, and I've seen Mito-baa sama's Jiraiya's, Minato's and Kushina's greatest work," Tsunade said, a tinge of awe in her voice.
Naruto beamed at the compliment, "Thank you! For the viewing the memories part, I had to ask Ino a lot about her family jutsu so I didn't mess anything up. Don't want me to end up brain dead, yes?"
"Hn. So you mean you'd get smarter, dobe?" Sasuke asked, eyes teasing and mouth lifting up in a smirk.
"Shut it, teme!" Naruto yelled, narrowing her blue eyes in playful anger before tackling the Uchiha.
The wrestled on the ground for a little, before Tsunade pulled them apart and held them up by the scruffs of their clothes, both of their feet hanging off the ground. She raised an unimpressed eyebrow at the both of them.
Sakura placed her hands over her eyes in embarrassment, "Bakas. My Hokage is a baka, and her ANBU guard, who is well on his way to become the head of ANBU, is a baka."
"You know, every once and a while I think about how much you three have changed, but then you do things like this…" Kakashi sighed and shook his head.
"He started it," their Hokage whined in defence of her actions.
Sasuke grunted and glared at Naruto.
"You provoked me!" Naruto insisted, taking immediate offence to Sasuke's grunt.
"This is their version of 'did not, did too,'" Kakashi muttered to Sakura.
"Okay, brats," Tsunade, setting them both down and flicking them on their foreheads. They both go crashing to the floor, thankfully not harming the seal, "Naruto here is going to activate the seal and we are going to this pocket dimension. I don't want to be in there any longer than I have to. The quicker we get in, the quicker we get out. Get it? Good."
"Alright. I have to concentrate on this for an incredibly long time. It'll take me exactly an hour and a half. I have to continually pump a steady stream of chakra for that amount of time into the seal for it to work. Just sit there and don't do anything distracting, or else my concentration will be shot and the seal will backfire," Naruto warned.
Naruto had sat in the middle in a meditative position and the others had sat at the cardinal points while Naruto pumped chakra into the seal. She entered her Tailed Beast Mode after ten minutes, signaling that she couldn't burn any more of her own chakra without risking severe chakra depletion and had switched to using the Kyūbi's. An hour and fifteen minutes later, her hands started trembling and she stared swooning drunkenly. Five minutes after that, the shroud was suddenly extinguished and Naruto slumped over and landed flat on her face.
None of them had any time to call out in alarm, as in a spout of dizziness and nausea, their visions blacked out.
She woke up to voices that belonged to people who felt panicked and worried, lying on something that felt like a couch. Naruto felt like she suspected a chakra depletion felt like. Her head was spinning, her limbs felt like they were made of rock and she just knew that even opening her eyes would spell pain. She couldn't remember what she had done to get this way, but she was sure it had something to do with a seal.
There were four chakra signatures surrounding her, but before she could panic, she realized that they were the signatures of Kakashi, Sasuke, Tsunade and Sakura. Their signatures were rough with worry and anxiety. There were five other chakra signatures further away from the group surrounding her, but they were all unconscious. Two reminded her of people she used to know, and three were exactly like the chakra of herself, Tsunade and Kakashi, but they felt different. Naruto felt that this should have meant something to her if she hadn't had been unable to even think due to her awful pounding headache.
"Shut up, she's waking up," a female voice demanded. The voice was familiar and Naruto couldn't quite place it, but her chakra signature told her that it was Sakura.
The voices stopped talking. Their chakra signatures smoothed out slightly, a little less panicked and concerned.
"Naruto, you have severe chakra depletion. I know this isn't something you have often, or even ever had, and never to this degree, but I need to to open your eyes. I know it hurts, but just open them, okay?" Sakura soothed.
Chakra depletion? Naruto couldn't get chakra depletion; Kurama usually refused to let her, unless he was really mad at her, and even then her Uzumaki genes came into play.
Naruto fought with herself to open her eyes but her eyes didn't seem to want to open. Finally, she opened them, but then snapped them shut. Because, well, everything was bright, and worst of all, pink.
Pink. Pink… who did she relate pink to? Something about flowers. Oh. That's right, Sakura had pink hair, "Your hair burns my eyes," Naruto tried to moan, but ended up rasping and coughing up a storm. Probably a good thing too, because Sakura wouldn't take kindly to a comment like that to her hair, especially from a girl who used to wear such a blinding shade of orange.
"Help her sit up," Tsunade's voice sounded.
Naruto let out a groan of protest as somebody lifted her back up for a moment then settled her back down on a few pillows. She was sitting up, and forced her eyes open. It was still very bright, and she couldn't quite make out clear shapes. She shut her eyes again, because she really didn't like the way the brightness hurt her eyes.
Something cold touched her lips, and Naruto spluttered, feeling something cold and wet spilt down her front. A moment later, she felt something cold touch her lips again, "Drink," Sakura demanded. It wasn't until she started swallowing the water did she realize how thirsty she was.
"What happened?" Naruto rasped once Sakura took the glass away from her lips.
"You passed out when you were activating your memory time travel like seal. Fortunately, it was enough chakra to work," Kakashi assured.
Oh, that seal. That's why she had chakra depletion. It probably depleted a lot Kurama's chakra too.
"Why aren't they waking up?" Sasuke's voice sounded further away from the others, and his chakra was close to the people from the past.
"They wake when I want them to," Naruto slurred.
"What do you mean?" Sakura asked curiously.
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"You knew that the seal would be this taxing on your reserves," Tsunade accused, "You knew, and you didn't want them interfering without you woke."
Naruto would have nodded, had she not felt like that would make her head spin to an unmanageable level.
"You knew you would end up like this, and you didn't warn us?" Sasuke sounded pissed.
"Time to open your eyes and face the pink, brat," Kurama's exhausted voice snickered.
Sakura put on her best grumpy face, knowing from Naruto's change in expression that she was speaking with Kurama. While normally Tsunade or Sakura would heal anybody with chakra exhaustion, Kurama hated it when ever somebody other than himself healed his jinchūriki, even going as far as to nullify their attempts. It was a subject of endless complaint from the end of Naruto.
"Just hurry up and heal my chakra exhaustion so I can give you a temporary body and wake all the others up," Naruto shot back in the confines of her mind.
"You took just over a quarter of my chakra! You're almost as bad as you blonde meat bag of a father! And I have been healing you! You were on the brink of dying from chakra exhaustion!" Kurama snarled.
"Oh. Well, I do seem to be feeling better already," Naruto realized, "My nausea has gone down, and I don't feel like the room is spinning anymore. Can't say much for my headache though."
"Shut up, do you know how hard it is to completely heal people from chakra exhaustion? Especially somebody who has never had it severely before?" Kurama sulked.
"Then why don't you just let Tsunade, Sakura or any other medic-nin heal me whenever I have something that won't go away with Uzumaki healing and a bit of your chakra?" Naruto challenged.
"I'm going to sleep. Don't bother me," Kurama growled after a moment.
"Bastard," Naruto snarled aloud.
"Naruto-baka," Sakura snapped, "Now that you aren't ignoring all of us for the voice inside your head, I'm trying to tell you that a little warning would be nice next time! You really worried all of us!"
"Sorry Sakura-chan," Naruto quickly apologized.
After getting thoroughly berated by Sakura, with both Kakashi and Tsunade adding in their opinion, getting glared at by Sasuke, and finally opening her eyes, Naruto decided that they all ought to explore.
Their pocket dimension took the form of a two story house. With two bedrooms on the top floor, they were quickly separated into boys rooms and girls rooms ("Woah! These futons are so comfy!"). In between the two rooms was a bathroom ("No Naruto, don't-! Eugh!" "Baka! Why did you turn on the shower! Now we're all wet!").
The first floor was split into two, with the kitchen ("Look! A toaster!" "Of all the things to focus on, why a toaster?" "Toasters are the bane of my existence. One day, I will destroy them all, dattebayo!") being smaller than the room that they had all woken up in, and now discovered to be the room that would show Naruto's memories. There were three couches in the room, all facing towards the wall with the gigantic television on it. They assumed that was where Naruto's memories would be playing.
The basement was a giant training ground, larger than the house should allow. It had a multitude of weapons in it, but very little of anything else. There was one window down there, the only window in the whole house, and it was big enough to show the entire seal ("Jiraiya is going to flip!").
After their tour through the house, they crowded into the tv room, examining the people from the past.
"This is weird," Kakashi said, staring down at himself.
Tsunade nodded in agreement, "When he wakes up, Jiraiya is going to be so happy. Two of me. How are we going to tell me and other me apart? Or that Kakashi and you apart?"
"You're wearing different clothes," Sasuke noted.
"Aw," Sakura gushed staring at the eleven year old Naruto, "You were so adorable when you were young, Naruto! I don't ever remember your clothes being this big on you!"
Indeed, Naruto's pant legs and sleeves were rolled up several times just so her hands could be seen. Her jacket dwarfed her, making her look smaller than she really was and the only reason her pants stayed on was because of the belt that was wrapped around her hips.
Naruto smiled a little uncomfortably, but said, "They were the only clothes that I could afford. The owner probably thought that he could have me killed, wearing clothes as bright as that. Jokes on him though! I loved orange so much that I dyed everything in his shop the exact same colour!"
Everyone reacted a bit differently to this little tidbit, but all of their emotions slipped slightly onto the murderous side. A slight frown twisted Naruto's lips. She didn't usually tell them about the days she was thought of as the Nine-Tails for fear of them acting just like this (also, she really didn't like thinking of those days herself).
She coughed awkwardly, and said "Well, I think it's about time we woke them up? Er, we might want to immobilize them though. Waking up in an unknown area with people claiming to be from the future really wouldn't be good for their cooperation."
They decided to wake all of them, with the exception the eleven year old Naruto. So Naruto placed a seal on all of them that stopped them from moving, though they could talk, and said the password that would wake them up (it was their names then ramen).
The others glanced at each other, deciding with one look that Naruto had the most chance of convincing four shinobi that they were from the future.
Jiraiya, Tsunade, Sarutobi and Kakashi each woke, the fact only made obvious by their slight change of breathing. It was to be expected, as they woke to an unfamiliar area with five foreign chakra signatures.
"We know you're awake~"Naruto sing-songed.
They didn't take her word for it.
Naruto heaved a sigh, and muttered just within their hearing range, "Of course they wouldn't believe me, the shitty old geezers."
Predictably, Tsunade from the past broke first, though both Kakashi and Tsunade from the future fumed behind her.
"I am not old, you little - Kushina?" Tsunade asked startled when she noticed the resemblance.
Both Kakashi's and Sarutobi's mind went to similarity between the woman and Naruto. She looked just like a grown up version of the girl.
"I am not Uzumaki Kushina," Naruto said, "Though I am related to her."
"Who are you? Why have you brought us here? Why can't I move?" Jiraiya demanded, his Killing Intent filling the room, upset at the resemblance between Naruto and his old students wife.
"I placed a seal on you! And I know that's it's a little hard to believe, but were from the future!" Naruto grinned despite Jiraiya's suffocating KI.
"How far in the future, exactly?" Sarutobi asked, humoring her. They all had experience with the ninja that cracked under pressure, and you didn't attempt to fix their crazy unless there was a psychologist (or an equally crazy Uzumaki) around.
"Well, if I'm correct, then it should be April 23. So eight years exactly," Naruto informed them, knowing that none of them believed her.
"Who are you?" Kakashi spoke up.
"The people behind me are Haruno Sakura, Uchiha Sasuke, Hatake Kakashi and Senju Tsunade," Naruto told them. Their eyes flickered behind them, skepticism colouring their gazes.
"Yo," Kakashi greeted lazily waving at them.
A vein throbbed in Sakura's forehead, "Baka!" she screeched, whacking Kakashi's head, "This is you from the past! Don't you want to say anything to him-you?"
Kakashi scratched his cheek, thinking for a moment, "Icha Icha Tactics is better than Icha Icha Paradise," he said decisively
"Of course it is," Naruto scoffed, "I helped write it."
"You did what!" Tsunade demanded, "Those books are only supposed to be for eighteen and above!"
"We should get back on track," Sasuke cut in, glaring at all of them, daring them to make him talk anymore.
They all glanced at the people from the past, who were staring at them with raised brows.
"Heh," Naruto scratched the back of her head sheepishly, "My name is Uzumaki Naruto."
"Alright," Sarutobi said agreeably enough, but his eyes flashed in anger. He didn't like anybody pretending to be her, Naruto realized with a sudden bout of affection towards the old man.
"I can prove it too," Naruto grinned and started channeling Kurama's chakra. While to a normal person it would be a risky move, considering the chakra depletion, Naruto was a Uzumaki. Her chakra reserves were almost halfway back to what they were normally, and Kurama's were healing at a rapid rate as well.
The others gasped as Naruto's whisker marks thickened and her eye's turned demonic. Fiery chakra cloaked her as she entered her initial jinchūriki form.
"That," Sarutobi pointed out, "Only proves that you are a jinchūriki."
"Yes, but there are only nine of them," Jiraiya countered, "And we know that she couldn't be the first, the seventh or the ninth as they are all children and one of them is here. How did you achieve time travel anyways?"
Naruto smiled triumphantly. Finally, one of them was starting to think that she could be telling the truth! "I didn't turn back time, and I didn't pull you into our time. This is a pocket dimension, a place in between times. And I did it with fūinjutsu!"
"Fūinjutsu?" his interest definitely piqued, Jiraiya eagerly forged on, "I haven't ever heard of a seal that did anything like that!"
"That's because I made it myself!" Naruto boasted, "Though it took me four years," she grumbled.
"Only four years! To do something like this?" Jiraiya shook his head, "You're either lying or a super genius."
Sasuke snorted in laughter, "Naruto? A genius? Ha! That's about as likely as me dying my hair pink on purpose!"
"But you looked so nice with pink hair!" Naruto grinned.
"You got his hair pink?" the younger Kakashi asked. And while he may not believe them, he did love annoying people.
"Ah," the other Kakashi said lightly, "She was 'experimenting' with fūinjutsu. I even keep a picture," he pulled out his Icha Icha book with flourish, then slid out the bookmark. In the picture Sasuke's face was shocked, murderous, angry and horrified all at once. His hair was fluorescent pink, brighter than even Sakura's. Naruto was in the background, laughing her ass off, her long hair pooling on the ground where she sat. Sakura was beside her, not quite laughing so hard, but it was a close thing.
He pulled out another picture, with Naruto, still laughing, was running away from Sasuke, who was blowing fire at her, the ends of her long hair catching flame. Sakura was running after him, waving her fist at him, a pissed look on her face. Evidently, Sasuke had insulted her hair colour.
Sasuke's face went a shade very close to purple and he lunged for the pictures. Kakashi quickly placed them back into his book.
"Oh man," Tsunade from the past snickered, "Whoever the Hokage is, I feel really bad for them. Think of all the paperwork!"
"Nah, it's fine," Naruto waved her hand at her, "I just use my clones."
"Of course you're the Hokage," Sarutobi shook his head, "What Hokage are you?"
"The Seventh. Tsunade was the Fifth and Kakashi was our Sixth!" Naruto cheerfully informed them.
Tsunade snorted, "And now I know you're lying. I would never go back to Konoha, much less be Hokage."
"Let's say she's really convincing," Tsunade grimaced, thinking of all the ramen she had been convinced into buying.
"We made a bet and I learned the Rasengan in a week!" Naruto exclaimed.
"What?!" Jiraiya yelped, "It took me three months to learn that!"
"It took Minato-sensei three years to make that!" Kakashi said, shocked, "He never perfected it!"
"I perfected it. I can even add my element as well as Kyūbi's chakra to it," Naruto smiled, pleased with the stunned feel of the others chakra.
Sakura shook her head, amused despite herself, "Never, ever bet against Naruto. She has a freakish tendency to blow all of your expectations out of the water and quite possibly into another universe."
"Yep, I'm awesome!" Naruto bragged.
"This is all besides the point," Kakashi cut in, glaring at all of them, "We need proof that you are who you say you are."
"Eh?! But I proved that I'm a jinchūuriki!" Naruto whined.
"Yes, but there are six other enemy jinchūuriki out there," Sarutobi said, resisting the urge to roll his eyes, "Seven if you count the girl from Taki. And Kami knows that the alliance between Suna and us is shaky at best, so you might as well make it eight and count the boy as well, though neither of those two are ninjas yet."
"Yeah," Naruto mused, "Sora too. I'll give you that. Hey! I have an idea!"
"So beautiful," Jiraiya choked, staring up at the seal with utter admiration.
"You know," Naruto scratched her head, "I've never heard him say that about anything that wasn't a girl."
"I've never seen anything like this," Sarutobi breathed.
"Kurama - that's the Kyūbi's name - helped me with it. I also had to go searching through a whole bunch of old Uzumaki seals and a lot of this is based off of dad's hirashin seal," Naruto informed them, grinning, "I also had Ino tell me the mechanics about how to get to somebody's memories without giving them brain damage."
"Yes, I can see you included it in the seal. Why would you need it?" Jiraiya questioned.
Naruto waved her hand dismissively, "I'll tell you later."
"So," Tsunade said skeptically, "This proves that you're from the future?"
"Yes," Jiraiya confirmed, "It proves that they're from the future. However, it doesn't prove that you are how you claim to be."
"Maa," Kakashi shrugged, "You'll see later."
His younger self eyed him in disbelief, but shook his head and said, "I need something else to call you than Kakashi."
"Alright!" Naruto cheered, "Old Kakashi is is Kashi and younger Kakashi is Kakashi!"
"I am not old!" Kashi yelled in protest, "And what about you and Tsunade's?"
"Yeah, this'll be confusing," Jiraiya muttered, "Good thing my older self isn't here! Wait, why isn't my older self here?"
"You're right," Sakura nodded, after sharing a grimace with the people from the future, "It will get very confusing after a while, with two Naruto's, Kakashi's and Tsunade's."
Sasuke twitched, his face paling, "Two Naruto's."
Sakura paled, "Oh Kami, what was I thinking!? I was the one who told Naruto to bring herself here! I'm the baka now!"
Tsunade rolled her eyes, "And what's so bad about that? She can't possibly be worse than Kushina-chan was."
"I heard that before mom died, she was the undisputed Queen of Pranks," Naruto rubbed her chin thoughtfully, "But during our travels, Jiraiya told me that I had my moms pranking skills with my dads logic added into the mix, and that made me ten times worse."
"It's true," Sarutobi noted, also very pale, "She knows exactly where to strike as to weaken her targets. Be it their pride or their business, where she leaves a prank, destruction is left."
"Aw, stop," Naruto said, a large smile stretching over her face, "You're making me blush."
"Oh, please," Tsunade scoffed.
"Anyways, older Tsunade is Baa-chan and still old but younger Tsunade is Tsunade-baa," Naruto claimed.
"Why you little brat! I refuse to be called that! Anybody who calls me Tsunade-baa is going to be hit so hard they won't wake up for a week!"
"If anybody calls me Baa-chan besides the brat, I will make your life a living hell. I may not be Hokage anymore, but I am the head of the hospital and I outrank you all with the exception of Naruto," she snarled.
"I was just joking," Naruto muttered sullenly.
"How about Tsunade-shishou is called Tsunade and her younger counterpart is Tsu," Sakura suggested.
"I'm going to get this mixed up so many times," Naruto whined, "Why can't we just call the people from the future older and the ones from the past mini ? I'll be old-Naruto and the eleven year old me will be mini-Naruto."
"I don't see me being called mini-Kakashi," mini-Kakashi muttered.
"Suck it up," Sasuke said, "We're not spending anymore time on this subject, not when we still have to convince mini-Naruto. Knowing her, she'll either believe us straight away, or never at all."
"Whoa! Onee-chan is really me from the future? That's so cool!" Mini-Naruto cheered.