SORRY FOR THE LATE UPDATE. I INTENDED TO HAVE THIS UP SOONER BUT I JUST TOOK MY CHEMISTRY REGENTS, I HAVE TWO FORUMS AND A PODCAST TO HANDLE SO I WAS A LITTLE BUSY. SINCE SUMMER IS ENDING I SHOULD HAVE CHAPTERS UP ONCE EVERY OTHER WEEK, MAYBE SOONER. NOW ON WITH THE STORY.

"Hello, Naruto". Not believing his ears Naruto turned around to see none other than Sasuke Uchiha staring at him. "Sasuke, you've been jumping through time as well?" the blond ninja asked. "The fuck are you going on about? Jumping through time? That's the most absurd thing I've ever heard". "Sasuke I need you to listen. Were you in a ten mile radius of where Madara was?" Naruto asked.

"Probably, all I know was the sky lit up and it was sundown" the Uchiha replied starting to get annoyed. "Shikamaru, when I give you the signal I want you to run into the woods and find the rest of the group" Naruto whispered under his breath while putting one hand in his pocket. "What do you plan to do?" Shikamaru whispered back. "It doesn't matter, just do it. As it is we don't stand a chance against Sasuke. It's been a while since we had anything to eat or drink, all we can do is run. So get ready".

"It's a shame that we couldn't do this longer Sasuke," the blond genin said as he pulled a round metallic object out of his pocket. Sasuke put his hand on the handle of his blade and poised to strike. "But unfortunately we have somewhere to be right now" Naruto finished. "Shikamaru, go!" Naruto shouted and the Nara sprinted into the woods. Sasuke was about to go after him when Naruto interfered. "Not so fast, Uchiha", he said. Naruto hit the button on top of the orb and threw it at Sasuke.

"Electromagnetic cataclysm mode"* as the object expanded until it released a white humming light mixed with a faint sound of electricity. Naruto then dashed into the forest to meet up with the rest of the group. Before he even made it ten yards in the sky started to light up again and the odd buzzing/humming sound started. When it finally subdued Naruto opened his eyes and heard an explosion followed by a high pitched scream in the distance. He sprinted towards the origin of the sound to see who it was.

He saw that it was Lee who had given off the girlish scream. "Lee, were you the one that just gave off the girlie scream?" Naruto asked. "No?" the bushy browed ninja said/asked embarrassed. "Whatever. What's so terrible that made you scream?" Lee pointed downward; apparently they were on top of a hill. On the bottom of the hill was one of the red shirt chunin blown to bits and his bloody stumps were smoking.

"Son of a bitch" Naruto exclaimed, "What happened to him?" "After the sky lit up again he was stumbling around and he activated a trip wire… and then he blew up" Lee answered. "Lee, did you happen to see what kind of explosives it was?" Shikamaru asked while coming out of the bush. "I don't know, the explosive kind. What does it matter anyway?" Lee asked in a frustrated tone.

"If we know what kind of explosives were used we can determine what time period we're in" Shikamaru explained. "Well the only way to find out is to go down and inspect the scene. Hopefully we'll be able to tell from down there" Naruto chimed in. With that the three of them walked down the slight incline to inspect the scene.

As soon as they got the corpse Shikamaru spotted shrapnel embedded inside of the many different parts of the body. "Since there is fragmentation in the body it means it predates the exploding tags. I'd say we're about thirty years in the past, give or take".

"Thirty years? That means we're in the great ninja war" Naruto stated. "Well that's just awesome" Lee said sarcastically. "The most we can do now is find the rest of our group and hopefully find away to stop these flashes" Shikamaru said. After a moment le shouted "wait a minute" as if he had an idea, "if this is the war that means we can participate in it. We can prevent so many casualties if we warn the village of the up coming attacks".

"If only it worked that way" Naruto said. "What do you mean exactly, Naruto" Lee asked. "You can't change anything. Do you remember hearing about a group of lone ninja fighting for the side of Konoha? No, because it hasn't happened. You can't change the past. Whatever happened, happened".

"How could you possibly know something like that?" Shikamaru asked. "I've conducted several experiments on this subject. Right outside of Konoha I have my own lab where I spend most of my free time when I'm not training. Why do you think you never see me go to my house inside the village, because I don't live there. On the upside it didn't get destroyed when Pain attacked the village".

"Well good for you. But right now I think your living arrangements should be the least of your concerns. We haven't eaten anything in a full day, and to top it off more than half the group is missing. So I think our primary objective is to find…" Naruto shushed Shikamaru before he could finish because he heard people coming their way. They went and hid in a near by bush.

They saw three people pass in front of them. The people appeared to have been wearing leaf ninja uniforms. "Do you think that those are the same people that laid the land mines earlier?" Naruto asked in a hushed tone. "Do you want to go out there and ask them?" Shikamaru asked less than seriously. "You don't have to be a wise ass. I…" Naruto was interrupted by somebody pulling him out of the bush by his hair. Shikamaru and Lee jumped out of the bush and took defensive positions.

The person who appeared to be the leader took a big machete and put it to Naruto throat. "I'm only going to ask you this once, who are you people and what are you doing on our territory. You don't appear to be affiliated with any village. Answer truthfully or I'll slit his throat" the man said as he pushed the blade up against Naruto's throat.

Just then a small rock came spiraling though the air and lounged itself into the head of the person holding Naruto, and the rock narrowly missed Narutos head. Understanding they were under attack the other two people started throwing shuriken in the direction that they estimated the rock came from. While they were busy with that Lee took the initiative and knocked them out.

Once Lee tied them up with ninja wire Sakura walked out of the forest for rendezvous with the group. "Sakura!" Naruto shouted, happy to see that his teammate was alive. He ran over to her and asked where everyone else was. "One of the other chunin tripped a wire and he plus an enemy blew up. Everyone else was captured by the people who planted them". "Well it looks like we have two captives, if we can convince them to talk we should be able to rescue the rest of our group" Shikamaru said.

"With that Naruto grabbed the two captives by their wrists and hauled them to their feet. "Okay look, we don't want anybody else to get hut here. Please just bring us to your camp. We aren't your enemies; all we want is to get the rest of our people back" Naruto said, trying to reason with them. "If you aren't enemies then let us go" one of them said. "We'll let you go only if you tell us where your camp is" Shikamaru chimed in.

"After a moment of visibly thinking over it one of the prisoners finally agreed. "Okay… okay. We're going to have to go about two miles until we reach the creek. Then we go west…" but before he could finish his comrade delivered a devastating kick to his head, making it fly off. With the group busy looking at the head flying through the air the other one started to run. Sakura was the first to notice and told lee to go after him. Unfortunately right before Lee could tackle him Lee fell into a well his ditch.

The rest of the group goes over to see if Lee is okay. Once they get over there Lee requests that they help him out. Shikamaru goes into his pouch and takes out some wire and feeds it down to Lee. The bushy browed ninja climbs the wire and gets out.

"Since the captive got away the only thing we can do is follow his trail. Hopefully he'll lead us right towards their camp" Naruto states. With that they take off in search of their friends.

Author notes

*This will have a role in the future of the story.

Sorry if this chapter was short, I just wanted to let you know I was still making the story. Sorry if the chapter was a little short, I just wanted to give you something since it was a while since I posted a chapter.

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