Disclaimer: I Don't own Naruto, Kishimoto owns the manga and Hinata owns the character and then Boruto and Himawari have rights after her.

If I Could Do It Over

Chapter 3: A Dreadful Revelation


Authors Note: Tailed beast being referred to as It instead of He/She. I complete forgot that technically the Tailed Beast don't have genders. But I just find it easier to refer to them as he or she based on their voice in the anime. However, I corrected it thanks for pointing it out SilentSambo88 and please go easy on me for any grammar mistakes or other stuff.

My beta Lu Lu-Chan25 had to quit because of school so sorry if the chapter isn't as good as last, but I tried my best, to go over it, which is why it took so long to get done.

So I need a new beta/editor please.


Naruto and Kurama turning towards the new voice, were shocked at who they saw "Super Gramps/Old Man!" Shouted a shocked Naruto and Kurama respectively "What the hell are you doing here!" They asked in sync.

"Long time no see Naruto-Kun, Kurama-Kun I've been watching for a long time now observing you and am quite satisfied with what the Shinobi world had become thanks to you." Greeted the ancient sage.

Both Naruto and the fox nodded dumbly at the sudden appearance and casual greeting of what could be arguably one of the strongest beings in existences and how he greeted them like they were having afternoon tea.

The almost omnipotent sage went on to answer the duo's question as if it was ordinary to show and talk to them out of the blue. "Now I am here to inform you of what's going on and where you are my children." TheSage answered fatherly since he was speaking to his son's reincarnation and one of the children he created.

"Wait! You know what's going on!" Naruto asked excited beyond believe that he was finally going to get some answers to his mystifying ordeal.

"Yes Naruto-Kun it is quite simple in fact, you see you and Kurama-Kun have travelled back in time about roughly 20 years into the past." The sage told them without a care in the world like he didn't just tell them they did something the space time continuum shouldn't really allow.

"WE WHAAAT!" Screamed the two time travellers before they both fainted and Naruto hit the floor on his back and Kurama followed his legs hanging in the air.

The sage looked at his two children like figures in confusion before asked to no one in particular "Was it something I said?"

After a few minutes in the mindscape, which only to amounted almost zero seconds in reality, Naruto and the fox woke as they both jumped to their feet in sync and shouted at the God of all Shinobi "What the hell do you mean we travelled back in time!"

The sage looked at them as he sipped green tea while levitating in the lotus position and both the Jinchuuriki and Tailed Beast had to fight to stay conscious at the casualness the ancient sage was treating the situation, as both of their eye's twitched.

"Ah, finally awake good and it's exactly as I said we are all now 20 years in the past." Both Kurama and Naruto faced palmed and cried anime tears, at the Sages casual approach and answer, they both discovered the source of the legendary Uzumaki unfounded and clueless behaviour.

"I mean; how did this happen? Time travel shouldn't be possible should it?" Naruto asked having adjusted to the crazy situation.

"Well, that is where you are wrong, nothing is really impossible with the right power and knowledge, even time travel I myself actually use it to travel to the future quite a lot to see the results of peoples actions." Naruto and Kurama were left dumbstruck at this revelation, all their prior knowledge of the universe meant nothing.

"As for how you travelled back that is because of you Naruto-Kun." The sage finally revealed pointing an aged finger at the man.

"Me what the hell did I do!" Naruto shouted as the sage told him, he was the one who caused the situation they were in.

"You Naruto-Kun have had half of my power and Chakra, along with the chakra of all of my children the Tailed Beasts. I believe you subconsciously tapped into that power and brought yourself and Kurama to this time period." The sage told them, the answer to all the questions.

Naruto remembered thinking if he could do it all over the night before, but he never really wanted it to happen, to be away from his family. Shaken by the revelation Naruto asked in a shaky voice "How can we go back?"

The Sage looked on sadly to the man in front of him before he told them "You can't go back Naruto-Kun." He answered in a sad voice showing some true emotion for the first.

"What do you mean we can't go back!" Naruto screamed.

"It's exactly what I said you can't go back it's impossible to reverse what you've done." The sage sorrowfully told them earning a shocked and outrageous look from the two.

"But you said that time travel to the future is possible why can't we go back." Naruto questioned the almost omniscient being's logic.

"Yes travel to the future is possible." Naruto smiled as the sage said this "However, sending you back to where we came from cannot be done." The sage finished much to the dejected Naruto.

"C-can't b-be…done, why not." Naruto asked weakly a look of loss and despair appearing in his eye's for the first time in years.

"Simple Naruto-Kun for you, see the future we came from no longer exists." Naruto dropped to his knees and his mindscape cracked a bit.

"What?" He whispered weakly, but on the inside, he didn't want to hear it.

"Time travel is complicated, while possible, it changes the universe drastically." The Rinnegan wielder started his lecture and with a wave of his staff a, blue river of light appeared in front of him.

"For you see time is like a river ever moving forward, never stopping, this is how events are supposed to play out only happening once." The sage told them.

"But when something goes against the current and the river flows in reverse, it destroys the river." The sage demonstrated and Naruto felt his heartbreak as an orange dot appeared in the river and went backwards against the current and the river of blue light disintegrated as it did.

"When the river is destroyed, it begins to form a new river, but this new river is different from the old one and will never be completely the same. I can send you back into the future, however it won't be the future, you came from." The sage finished as a new river of blue light formed.

"But why, if that's the case shouldn't a time paradox have happened. I shouldn't exist now if the future, I came from is gone!" Naruto shouted in desperation hoping what the sage said was a lie that he can still go back.

"True, but you see because you are the one that travelled back in time you became similar to me a being that exists outside of time." The orange dot flew outside the river of light before the sage continued "Because of that the laws of time don't apply to you and you exist even though the future you come from doesn't" Naruto fell into despair as the hopelessness of the situation filled him.

"S-so I can't go b-back to… my time?" Naruto asked to confirm.

"Yes, that is circumstance you're in. I could send you 20 years in the future, but since the laws of time don't apply to you, you will be sent, but it will be like you just disappeared from this point onward and then reappeared in future you arrive in, entire events will take place as if you never existed." The sage finished his explanation of time.

"So I can't go back, Hinata-Hime, Boruto, Himawari, they're gone and it's all my fault." At the revelation Naruto fell into despair, his eyes hollow and empty all fire that they held gone, extinguished as the truth of the situation hit him and his mindscape cracked even more.

The family he loved, the dream he spent his entire life building gone and all because of him. He destroyed it all because he was selfish, because he was greedy and wanted more than he already had he ruined and destroyed hundreds of lives.

He'll never wake up with his Hime in his arms. He'll never see his children smile again because they don't exist anyone they're gone forever because of him. So many lives were unborn, Boruto, Himawari, Sarada, Mirai they don't exist. All the good he's done or the sacrifices made all pointless, he and Hinata aren't married, there's no Shinobi alliance, all his friends lives and happy futures were destroying all because of him.

All was ruined, he lost everything because of him it was all his fault, there was no way around it.

"AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH!" Naruto screamed in anguish and his mindscape was torn asunder as his scream of utter agony and despair echoed through his mind collapsing it, much to the Sage's and Fox's shock.

"NARUTO/NARUTO-KUN" Shouted the two supernatural beings as they watched horrified as Naruto's mindscape reformed to reflect his state of mind.

They watched powerless to stop the transformation as the once clear water and walls of the swear became a void of darkness and despair. Radiating nothing, but guilt, sorrow, anguish, torment, grief every negative emotion known to man was carved into his very soul.

Now Naruto's mindscape was nothing, but an empty void, all that stood in it was the cage Kurama was in and that was only because he was focusing on keeping some ground under him. The rebuilt fourth seal had cracks in it as big as his ever seen, the bars of his prison were fractured and rusted. Like it would break completely if the fox so much as breathed. The paper for seal that served as the lock and centrepiece of the prison was almost completely gone and all that remained that was keeping the seal together was a single piece of paper about only 1/10th of its original size and it looked like that would go any second.

The other occupant the sage hovered within the void his Ripple eyes gazing sadly at the boy in front of him.

In the centre of the mindscape hovered Naruto Uzumaki, in a little boy's body of roughly five years old. He was no longer the invincible man that made the impossible possible. He wasn't the person that was known for his guts to never give up and prevail no matter the odds against him. No standing in front of him was no longer the boy that fought fate and destine. Naruto Uzumaki was a shell of his former self, his eyes ringed hollow filled with only the hopelessness and despair. His once bright and spikey hair now hung lifeless and dulled and his five-year-old body looked weak, suffering from malnutrition. He was nothing, but skin and bones as his lifeless pale white skin was the only thing that could really be made out in the darkness.

The will of fire had gone out and Naruto Uzumaki faced defeat.

Both the two supernatural beings looked over their charge in grief, not expecting that the boy they knew so well as the brightness and most determined person could be drained of all life and reduced to this pitiful state. Both of them felt their stomach turn, a look of disgust overcame them as the concentrated emotions around them, suffocated the two. Making them both feel and look weaker their sensitive senses being overloaded by the sheer anguish that Naruto was going through.

"Old man what the hell have you fucking done!" Roared the enraged fox feeling anger at its creator and father figure for what he did to its kit.

Hagoromo looked at the empty shell of Uzumaki with regret and flinched at the anger one of his children was giving him, having not felt it since Indra strayed from the right path. "I'm sorry Kurama-Kun I didn't mean to cause this to happen." The sage told him in sorrow, he only wanted to help the young boy out and explain the situation he was in.

"You didn't mean to! You basically told him, he ended the world, destroying everything he cares about and you just say you didn't mean to!" Kurama bellowed in outrage, feeling something he never thought he'll feel for its father pure hate.

"You should know how sensitive the kit is after the life, He's lived through, that hell and being told that he lost everything he loves and took his entire life to get is gone now because of him! And you didn't mean to cause this!" The fox raged and made the sage grimace. Feeling guilty knowing everything the fox told him was true, when it put it like that. He knew the life Naruto went through was hard and it was a miracle he became who he was before.

But because of that he misguidedly thought that nothing could bring him down and extinguish the fires of determination that always burned in his soul. But he forgot one simple fact Naruto was only human and even he has a breaking point. That breaking point was losing the dream he never thought he have, the family and love he always wished for and all because of him.

The sage shoulders sagged in regret, shame and guilt as he apologised to his two boys "I'm sorry Naruto-Kun and Kurama-Kun I truly am." Even near omniscient and omnipotent can make mistakes if they're not careful.

"Sorry isn't going to cut it, we need to get the Kit back to his old self." The Kyuubi told his maker and the sage agreed.

"You're right, there is one thing I should mention then." With a wave of his staff the blue river from before appeared, but it only had a dull light to it now because of the atmosphere draining his powers.

"Even though it is impossible to create the exact same future as before, some things will still happen and not change as long as you or anyone else interferes with it. For you see like all rivers when a new one is formed it flows and forms on the remains of the previous one." A faint canal appeared under the river of light, it curved and turned and the blue river poured into it and flowed down the channel.

"You see; this is what is known as fate as long as specify conditions are met, then so will events from the preceding timeline be recreated. Even if the timeline has changed it will continue to run the course that is the most easiest to run and already set, only beings like ourselves can change the outcome." The sage lectured again about the theory and logic behind time.

"If you started with this maybe you would have been able to keep the kit together long enough for him to fix his mistake." Kurama growled as it gestured, to Naruto who, much to both being's dismay hardly reacted.

The sage continued his speech in hopes of getting a reaction from the broken boy. "Anyway, even though your children aren't born yet, regardless of when or where as long as Hinata-Chan gets pregnant again by you. She is granted to give birth to Boruto-Kun and Himawari-Chan, so you will see them again, you just need to make it happen." The sage finished and managed to get the boy to at least look at him with his lifeless eyes.

Kurama seeing this was working, but not as well as he hoped added in his own two cents "In other words, you can fix all your mistakes and make a better life for your family as long as you get back together with your vixen." Kurama told its kit and Naruto reacted and spoke back for the first time.

"But even if I did get back with Hina-Hime what's to say it won't happen again, that I won't destroy my future and life again ruining everything we made and had together." Naruto argued weakly.

"No worries there Naruto-Kun now that you are aware of your powers, you will only travel in time if you physically will it to happen, you will never do it by your subconscious again." The sage spoke up, but Naruto snapped at him.

"Even so, I don't deserve Hinata-Hime anymore, she was happy we all were and I ruined it. I'm a monster that took away everyone's life and future. I don't deserve to be loved, I don't deserve to be happy!" Naruto snapped the revelation that he caused it seemed to bring back all the fears he had of becoming the monster the villagers saw him as when he was younger and in the end they were right he ruined everything and destroyed everything.

Kurama looked at Naruto sadly, feeling pity that the only human it really ever came to respect as an equal, the one who pulled itself from the darkness, gave it a life of happiness and a future worth living for. The one that saved it and all of his brethren from the path of darkness and destruction they were heading for. The one who freed them from their hate. Was falling into the same darkness and self-destructive path. Kurama would not let it happen, this time it was its turn to save its family and the closest thing to a son he had.

"So that's it you are just going to give and let everyone down, you're going to abandon your friends and family, you precious mate!" Kurama growled as taunted its container.

"I never said that! I just don't deserve to be happy after what I've done, I failed, I always fail." Naruto responded downcast.

"Well, it sure bloody sounds like it, or have you forgotten that it was you who saved your mate from her suffering, that it was you who became the hero of the world and saved everyone, ending all wars as we know it and brought in a golden age." Kurama voiced boomed throughout void and Naruto shouted back.

"Some hero I ended up destroying the world as we know it and caused everyone we know to loss their happiness!" Naruto responded with red eyes and tears. The weight of what he done too much to bear alone, well good thing he won't have to carry it alone because he's never alone and never will be.

"Then fix it or are you just going to let everyone suffer, because you're having a pity party. Who will stop that Uchiha from going down the path of vengeance? Who will stop Madara and Kaguya? who will save Obito? Did you forget all the good you did, did you forget that it was you who saved your mate from her suffering and gave her a life worth living!" Kurama spat and Naruto shook in denial as he whispered.

"I'm sure Hinata-Hime would find someone else and live a much happier life." He told himself half heartily, hating every word he spoke like it was poison, but his Hime deserved better then him.

As if reading his thought, the fox had a sarcastic grin as it gave a response. "That's assuming if she didn't kill herself to escape her torment."

At those words, memories of when he and his Hime first got together flowed through his mind.

"Naruto-Kun if it wasn't for I would have probably, gave up on living long ago and don't give me that look, I know it's true, you've always been the sun that guided me. You were the one who showed me how to be a proud failure." His Hime smiled at him

"If it wasn't for you, I would of took my own life to escape, believing that I was a failure that didn't deserve to live and deserved death. Hoping it would make all those that I failed happy. When I fought Neji-Niisan and Pain I didn't expect to live and a small part of me wanted to die, to be free of my pain no matter the cost. But you saved me Naruto-Kun, you smile gave me hope, your will to never give up, allowed me to walk down the right. It was your Nindo that allowed me to have the life I'm living now. It was all you the happiness I have now, the wonderful life I live was all thanks to you. Thank you Naruto-Kun." Hinata cried before she finished.

"Thank you for loving me, thank you for making me fall in love with you, because it was thanks to my love for you that I am who I am today."

"I love you Naruto-Kun and I always will and no one else can ever change that."

Naruto memories finished and told the fox he was wrong in denial "Your wrong Hinata-Hime can live without me she's strong."

"But will she be happy, she could end marring that mutt because she doesn't have you and sees no reason to care about the life she lives. She could end up being married off to some bastard, who doesn't care and will only rape her over and over again." Kurama told him, just what could happen to his mate, just how bad she could have it without him.

Naruto finally reacted for the first time, in pure anger at the thought of 'his Hime' with anyone else, the thought of her being abused, by some filthy lowlife "I will never a let my Hime be hurt like that I'll kill anyone who so much as looks at her wrong!" Naruto roared.

"But that's exactly what will happen without you there and what about the little Kits Boruto and Hima-Chan, are you alright for them to loss there chance of life? To be erased from exists because their father, can't bring himself to care and fight for them, to get them back!" Kurama snapped.

"No, I don't want that; I would never give up on them!" Naruto snapped back.

"Well, that is exactly what you're doing! What happened to the Naruto that never gave up? The one that always fought till the end? The Naruto that your mate loved the one your kits loved and were proud to call their father. You moan and moan, but where did Naruto the proud failure go? The one that didn't live for himself, but for his loved ones and would have sacrificed everything for them!"

Naruto looked at the fox, some of his past light and determination returning as the fire in his sapphire orbs was lit a new. He stared at his closest friend and family, the one who's always been with him in his own way and watched over and protected him.

"The pathetic human in front of me is not the one I came to call my friend and family. The Naruto I know lives for others not himself! Now are you going to keep on whining or are you going to do something and get your family back. If you won't live for yourself, then live for them, your Mate, your children, for Hina-Hime, Boruto and Hima-Hime, fight and live for them, like you always have!" The fox spoke with passion and purpose as he grinned at seeing the light of hope shine in his containers azure eyes.

"HaHaHa!" Naruto laughed and he stood up "You're right! You're right. I just can't give up. I need to fight for them for my family." Naruto grinned, he was still a long way from being the man he would become, but his blond hair went back to its normal colour and wild state, his skin took its natural tan hue, his cobalt orbs burned with the will of fire once more.

To Kurama this was the image of the boy it watched over as he grew up from a baby to the man that he would become. The one that succeeded where all others failed, the proud failure that all ways stands tall no matter the odds. The boy that it saw as a son and was proud to do so. Someone one worthy of being Hokage and successor to its old man's will. He was Naruto Uzumaki, he who shall always move forward and down his path without regrets.

Naruto still had a long way to go before he was who he used to be, but now he was finally starting to look like the man he was going to be someday, the man that changed the world.

Both boy and fox stretched out their fists and bumped them together, a sign of their friendship, respect and partnership as equals. As long as the two live they will always be by the others side.

The Sage of Six paths couldn't help the tears that fall from his eyes from seeing the bond the two shared. For a time, he given up on the humans that persecuted the children he had created, but looking at what the two shared. He knew that he made the right choice. Humans may make mistakes, but the bonds they share know no limits and give them strength far beyond what they could ever achieve alone.

"Naruto-Kun I'm sorry for the distress my words caused I was only trying to help you." The sage spoke up, but Naruto waved the old man off.

"Don't I needed it to hear it anyway. It would have happened either and it's better than being blind. Thanks Super Gramps!" Naruto saluted, his mindscape was still a wreck, but it to will heal in time.

"Look on the bright side kit, now you can fix all the mistakes you made the first time around, like noticing your vixen sooner and delaying being Hokage so you get more family time." Kurama piped in, happy to have the old Naruto back.

"Yeah your right, just you wait Hina-Hime! I am going to make sure you and our future children are the happiest family in the world!" Naruto shouted to the sky his fist in the air.

The sage faded from the mindscape at peace knowing the young boy will be fine in the end, especially with the help of all those who support him.


Authors Note: I loved this chapter, writing the Sage and Kurama was amazing. I really wanted to show how, all three see each other. Also with river analogue when I explained time travel, please don't be mad if it's wrong it just made sense to me when I thought of it so I used it to explain why Naruto couldn't go back. If anyone can tell me something I can use instead that is similar to how I explained it tell me and I'll think about changing it.

There we go I figured since Naruto was happy in his life before he travelled back in time he would take the revelation of what happened hard, sure he said that if he could do it over he would, but never actually wanted to lose everything he's already built. Naruto lost all his friends and the family he's worked so hard to get, that he never had before. He had all the love he wanted, but didn't have as a kid, losing it all and being back to square one after the hell his life has been would have made him even give up. I wanted to show Naruto was human and not someone who can keep going no matter what and even he needs someone to help and support him. I really showed that in the first chapter when Naruto is speaking with Hinata.

And finally Hinata flashback that I showed, was because I don't think her life would have turned out well if it wasn't for Naruto. She may end up safe, but not happy Naruto was the one who gave her, her strength and let her persevere with her own life, by leading by example. I really wanted to show that Hinata wouldn't be better off without him like Naruto thought at first. Most of what I said was just speculation of what could happen please do not read into it to much.

Hagoromo may be OOC, but I wanted to show him as someone who was fatherly and lacks social skills, despite how smart he is. He hasn't really talked to anyone in over a thousand years beside the business he had during the war and he is still technically a human being. When he first showed up and Naruto couldn't understand him, but then he suddenly did a 180 in how he talks, made me see him as someone who can be a bit clueless like Naruto is when it comes to people. I also added that it was the source of the Uzumaki/Senju own clueless and with how Asura was shown to be like Naruto, I thought he need to get it from somewhere.

And I wanted to show him as more human and really get his personally and emotions down.

The speech with Kurama I did because I wanted to really show how he's come to see Naruto; it's watched him grow up from a baby to a man who would eventually have his own family. I figured since Kurama has been with him every step of the way, that he would have formed an attachment to Naruto and come to see him like a son. I also wanted to show that Kurama respects and cares for Naruto after all he's done for its kin, he was the one that saved Kurama and the other tailed beast from their hatred and opened up a new path that Jinchuuriki and Biju could walk down of together.

I also showed the bond is mutual and that Naruto sees Kurama the same way and as a member of his family and trust him above most other people.

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