Title: There's Power in Numbers

Summary: Left alone in a demolished Konoha, Naruto resolves to go back in time to change Konoha's future. Right before he departs, he meets a group of people who agree to accompany him on his journey. How will things be different with these new allies?

Pairings: None

Warnings: Time Travel, OOC

Disclaimer: I do not own Naruto or Negima.

Chapter Ten - Questions

Naruto looks around at the twenty-one panting mage. 'Wow. They all finished that at genin level, some even made it within the chuunin time!'

"I TOLD YOU THAT THEY WERE DESTINIED FOR GREATNESS!" Kyuubi says with pride. Naruto tilts his head to look at the fox with a look of disbelief. Kyuubi frowns. "WHAT'S WITH THE LOOK?"

'You said no such thing, Kyuu!' He crosses his arms and glares daggers at the Kyuubi. 'You said that it was a bad idea to team up with these guys! That's what you said! I know you said it!'

Kyuubi sighs and growls, "QUIT ACTING YOUR PHYSICAL AGE!" He jumps up onto one of the logs and glares back at Naruto. "I MEAN, MY GOD, YOU'RE TWENTY! NOT TWELVE!"

Naruto scowls and turns back to the children. "But you did say that," he mumbles to himself. He sighs and shouts, "Let's call it a day."

"No!" Kotaro shouts as he weakly stands up. "That may have been the obstacle course from hell, but I'm not done yet! I'm not calling it a day until you teach us something! You promised!"

Naruto sighs and opens his mouth to say something, but Kyuubi beats him to it. "THE BRAT TOLD YOU TO GET YOUR ASSES TO BED, AND YOU HAD BETTER LISTEN TO HIM!" The kids shudder under the booming voice before jumping up and running into the hotel. Naruto blinks before looking at Kyuubi in appreciation. "DON'T GO THANKING ME JUST YET, KIT! THAT OLD SENSEI OF YOURS IS HEADING TO YOUR OLD APARTMENT! YOU HAVE TO GET THERE AND USE A GENJUTSU BEFORE HE FINDS OUT WHAT'S UP!"

Naruto's eyes widen before he nods and disappears in a puff of smoke. He looks around his empty apartment and takes a deep breath. 'Man, I hope my genjutsu will be enough to fool Iruka-sensei.' He gulps and speeds through the hand seals and the world morphs and churns into his old apartment. Naruto inspects his work before nodding and performing a simple henge into his sleepwear before jumping on his lumpy couch and lounging, making the scene look as real as possible.

Suddenly, a knock sounds through his room and Naruto groggily gets up and stumbles towards the door. He unlatches the door and opens it as he rubs his eyes while looking up at his old sensei. His eyes light up and he grins. "Hey, Iruka-sensei! Um…not to be mean, but I'm a genin now, so why are you here?" he asks innocently.

Iruka can't help but smile at his twelve year old favorite student. "I just came by to see if everything's okay. Can I come in? I'll make you some ramen."

Naruto blinks blearily before looking into his sensei eyes with his patented "puppy-dog look". "Forgive me, Iruka-sensei, but I'm kinda tired from training so much and I need to sleep 'cause I'm getting up early for Kakashi-sensei's test."

Iruka falters slightly. 'He never turns down ramen. What's going on with him?' "O-okay, Naruto, I guess I'll see you tomorrow after your test. I'll treat you to some Ichiraku's later, okay?"

Naruto nods and grins. "Okay, see you later, Iruka-sensei!" He moves to close the door, but right before it shuts, a hand holds it open above Iruka's head.

"Ah, not so fast, Naruto," Kakashi says in his usual lackadaisical manner. He opens the door a little more and slightly pushes Iruka inside. "Ne, how about we have a talk?"

"AW, SHIT! NOT THE SHARINGAN SENSEI!" Kyuubi shouts in Naruto's head. "DON'T LET HIM IN! HE'LL SEE THROUGH THE GENJUTSU!" Naruto gulps and rubs the back of his head. He had to think of something; it had to be quick and believable.

"I'm not about to let you see how strong I am, Sensei! Not right before our big fight!" He shouts angrily before trying to shut the door once more. "Why don't you just go and read your porn elsewhere!" He mentally sighs. That sounded alright. It was something he would normally say.

"Porn?" Iruka asks in shock.

Suddenly, a light bulb goes off in Naruto's head. He mentally laughs evilly before looking at Iruka with his puppy dog look. "Iruka-sensei, I'm just an impressionable child and he reads pornographic novels right in front of me! Do you really want him to accidently leave one in my house where I could accidently start reading it, thinking it was something else? Do you want me to be scarred at such a young, impressionable age? Do you?" He lets his lower lip quiver slightly.

A stunned Kakashi looks down at his student-to-be. 'What? Don't tell me he's trying to manipulate Iruka-san?' Kakashi gets his answer when Iruka turns around and death glares at him. 'Oh shit. I had no idea he could look that intimidating…' He takes a few steps back while rubbing the back of his neck. "Ne, you don't believe him, do you Iruka-san?"

Kakashi looks past Iruka to see Naruto smirking and mouthing the words, "Mother Hen Mode."

'What the hell is that?' He frowns and looks back down at Iruka, causing fear to rise up within him. 'Oh god, maybe I should've waited until tomorrow before I did anything…' Just before he runs away, something catches his eye. Naruto's full apartment behind him morphs into a dark, empty one. 'What?'

Now, Kakashi was more confused than worried. Naruto was keeping way too many secrets.

Naruto disappears into the darkness and slams the door. He grins and walks back into what used to be his room. 'That takes care of that! Kyuu!'

"YEAH, BRAT?"

'Do you know any long-lasting genjutsu that can trick the sharingan? I can't have Kakashi coming here without my knowing it,' Naruto thinks as he kicks the floor patiently.

"I GUESS, BUT IT DOESN'T STAY UP THAT LONG. JUST A COUPLE OF DAYS AND THEN YOU'LL HAVE TO COME BACK AND REDO IT." Naruto nods and shrugs, the hand-signs to the jutsu floating through his head.

"Got it," he murmurs as he copies them with ease and the genjutsu falls in place. "There. It's time to go see if the kiddies went to bed. If they didn't, they'll see what happens when they don't listen to Namikaze Naruto!" He says as he cracks his knuckles.

Negi sits up in the little bed that was deemed his. He can't get to sleep and he sighs out loud, waking Kotaro. The Inugami sits up, rubbing his eyes. He looks over at the three-year-old sensei. "What's up with you, Negi?"

"Hm? Oh, it's nothing; I just can't get to sleep," he mutters as he looks away with a distant look in his eyes.

"Okay, it's one thing to look philosophical when you're ten, but when you're three, it's just weird," Kotaro says blandly.

Negi snorts softly and sheepishly rubs the back of his head. "Well, I can't help it. I'm just thinking about the time travel thing. I'm just wondering, would this mean that the us in the other world are going through life living the same way we did the first time and then we will be sent here again but the us now will be sent there, so what I'm wondering is that if we go back to our world and Naruto-san fixed this world, wouldn't that mean we had no reason to go back in time? Wouldn't that mean that since we never went back in time, we wouldn't get these powers and we'd be stuck in this world and we wouldn't have been sent back to our world and finish off Fate? Wait…um…I'm confusing myself…"

"You're confusing me too," Kotaro grumbles. "Just go to sleep!" He lies back down and throws the blanket over his head, Negi following his example.

Naruto, who had been standing outside the door during the speech, frowns deeply. He scratches his head. "That kid might have a point," he whispers to himself, "but that was just too confusing for me to understand…"

He leans against the door with a deep frown before he groans out in exasperation. 'I can't think about it, it's making my brain hurt…' He gets up and walks over towards his room. "I'll let that little conversation slide, since they're already asleep now…"

He closes his bedroom door behind him and slips into his bed without changing his clothes. 'Too tired…' he thinks before slipping off to the dream realm.

There, sorry about not updating; I've been very busy. I'm hoping that I can update my stories more often now, but I can make no guarantees.

-MosukeHinata