I do not own Naruto anime, manga, games or other materials. This is a fan fiction
Naruto checked and rechecked, he was not injured, he was feeling a little low on Chakra, but consider what he just went though that would be expected. He then asked Kurama to see if she was alright, got no reply, he screamed the question, and again no reply. He flat out went inside his mind and in the place no chakra from Kurama at all. Instead he found a letter pinned to one of the trees.
"To my dearest Naruto, if you are reading this it means the seal worked and I am no longer there. I know that you had nothing left in the village, so when I remembered there was a seal hidden in the valley of the end, I decided to use your susanoo to open path to it. I activated it, and knowing you, you are probably wondering where are you? Well my beloved son, the question you should be asking is not where but when are you? I used all of my chakra to send you as back in time as I could. I hope that you will find yourself in the time when your clan still lived, and can find the happiness you almost had with Toya. You will have to sign the contract and summon the boss all over again. Please Naruto the cause of much of your misery is the feud between the Uchiha and Uzumaki, I know that you will figure a way to put a stop to it, and make the Uzumaki Clan strong enough to survive. Love, your mother Kurama Uzumaki."
"Well that was a really long letter just to tell me she sent me back in time, I am stuck here and should not sit on my rump and do something to make the future better." He felt wrong in signing the contract without first meeting the boss, so he tried to summon the boss. Sure enough a huge blond tiger with black strips showed up and he was not to happy to be called.
"Who are you, human? and Why did you summon me?" Naruto asked what had happened to Byaku? "Byaku? How do you know my son's name, he was just born a few month ago. Speak human, I am in no mood for jokes or fooling around." Naruto told him he was a summoner for the tiger clan from the future, and the boss of the clan was Byaku, his good friend.
The tiger did not seem to believe him. "I know the names of the three sages, Urd, Skuld, and Hild does that help?" The tiger was surprised that he knew the sages by their first name. Mostly would just called them the revered sages. "I am forced to believe you, and if my son considered you his friend, I see no reason for you to sign the contract once again. My name is Fubaku. I sense you want to ask me something so go ahead, and I shall answer your questions."
Naruto of course he asked about current events, and Fubaku was more than happy to tell him all about current events around where he was. The Uchiha and Senju were fighting each other, The Uzumaki were in decline and lived hidden somewhere around the land of eddies and he had no clue on how to reach the hidden village. He told him he was in fact in a cave what once in his history would have been the valley of the end. So he thanked the tiger and decided to have a look around, and catch something to eat.
As soon as he was out of the cave and deep enough into the forest he saw something that caught his attention. A group of Uchiha were chasing a young red haired woman, from what he could see, this lady had one hell of a good physical condition, so he decided to pretend to be an Uchiha ninja sent in as back up. He jumped down and he caught the woman in his arms, only whispering not to worry, to pretend that he was her enemy.
"So who the hell are you?" The lead Uchiha asked him. "Geez, I am one of mutt Uchiha in our clan, I know I am not popular with the Elites, but I would think at the very least my Clan would treat me nicer. I sometimes think I should have stayed back in that stinking orphanage." The man saw the pattern in his eyes, and concluded it was a very skilled Uchiha, since only a few managed to unlock the Magenyou Sharingan stage.
"Nah, think nothing of it, this Uzumaki bitch has been giving us a hard time, me and the boys simply wanted to have a little fun with her." Naruto looked at him and smiled a rather sinister smile. "Well you know it's taboo to breed with an Uzumaki, you would be having a kid with a Senju, are you ready to shame the clan that way?" One of the three men asked what he had planned for her. "Oh, I plan to have my fun too, but I will kill her with one of our clan's jutsu. Do you want to stay and watch? Cause this bitch is mine, I caught her after all."
"Nah, go ahead and have your fun, hope to see you around." The three left and the young woman was not pretending, she really felt like he was an enemy. When the men where gone he told her it was an act, to relax. "But you have the sharingan, how do I know you are not lying?" He handed her one of his three prong kunai. "If I try to do anything to harm you, you can use that on me." When she finally saw that he was looking at a bear, he suddenly had 5 chakra chains come out of his back and killed the bear and dragged it where they were. "Hope you like roasted bear meat."
He took one kunai and skinned and cut the bear into pieces, storing most of it in a scroll. He began to cook the meat and looked at her sheer look of confusion. "If you want to ask something go ahead." The young woman relaxed. "I thought only my clan could use Chakra Chains, what is your name?" Naruto finished cooking and handed her the portion he prepared for her. "Oh, how rude of me, I am Naruto Uzumaki and you are?" She tensed up and pointed the strange kunai at him, calling a liar, no Uzumaki have the sharingan.
"I pretty said it before, my mother was an Uzumaki that wanted to live in peace, my dad was an Uchiha that wanted the same thing. So the two eventually fell in love, and then I was born. My dear mother and father died a couple of years ago. I was taught everything they knew, and on their death bed they made me swear to look for my mother's clan. I saw you, and figured that you were an Uzumaki. I guess it is true, the sad fate I always feared came true. I guess I am destined to be alone, with nobody to call my family. I will walk you our of these forests, and then I will be on my way. Be sure to eat your meat, you will need it to make it wherever you are headed."
Naruto's eyes went to back to the normal black, and they had a look of deep sorrow, and sadness. It was as if his eyes were void of any hope. "My name is Mito Uzumaki, if you are telling the truth, there are test to verify if you are indeed an Uzumaki." He looked at her and told her no test, no exam, and no questioning could create trust. If she already made her mind to reject the notion, the test would be useless waste of time. He would keep his word, so she better eat, they would leave towards the exit of the forest in a few hours, so she needed to eat and rest, he would carry her out of the forest if she did not move fast enough.
Naruto knew that gaining the trust of these people was no possible, after what he lived through Konoha, he knew that nobody would actually trust him. He summoned a rather fast looking tiger and asked him to watch over Mito, make sure she was safe, When asked where he was headed, he simply told the tiger to take a bath. He walked to a nearby stream and he took off all his clothes, Without Kurama the scars seemed to have returned at least the ones on his back.
"I don't know what I was expecting, my old village treated me like garbage, why would they be any different. They say the Uzumaki, Senju are different, boy what a sick joke that is. They are all as selfish as they come, Greed is the thing that makes them the very same. I will keep my word, and I will keep looking, if the none of them will accept me, as I fear, then I will have to look somewhere else. It's not like I haven't been rejected my whole life. Toya, my love. You have no idea how I miss you, and how I wish I had died with you."
Naruto did not know it, but Mito heard the whole thing. She could not believe it, the number of scars were horrible to look at, the amount of pain he must have gone through was inhumane. She could not understand why rejecting him could be understood as greed, but deep down inside she began to think, that maybe he was thinking that accepting him would mean giving access to missions, and those missions would go to a pure blooded Uzumaki if he was rejected. Resources would be kept to the people the clan considered trustworthy. Finally she heard him call a person and wished he died with her. Indeed this man had no home and by the sound of it he lost his own wife.
If Naruto had asked the tiger why she let her spy on him, he would simply said he asked him to keep and eye on her and keep her safe, and not to keep her away from him. He simply knew the tiger would answer that way, so he did not bother. One of the Uchiha that tried to capture her decided to try and take him out, and have his fun. He simply followed them until they were getting close to the exit of the forest.
He indeed have to carry her. He hide in the large opening in an old tree. As the young fool passes him by he looked directly into his eyes and placed him in the worst genjutsu he had ever been, if he had his sharingan active he would have escaped his fate, but he was overconfident. In the genjutsu he was strapped to a cross, with barbed wire. "This is my world, and I control everything within it. You will tell me why you are following us, and not this bullshit about you wanting a piece of tail."
It looked like he froze for a second to everyone else, but inside the genjutsu he inflicted horrors that no man would dare describe. When he finally was allowed to exit the genjutsu, he told Naruto, that their leader did not buy his lies, that he was ordered to follow him and the girl. Maybe even find the way to the Hidden Village the Uzumaki called home. "We are at war with those blasted Senju, and they are allies of the Uzumaki. It makes sense to kill the weak Uzumaki and eliminate one of their allies. No Uchiha has red hair. You will never be able to fool an Elite like our team leader."
He began to threaten him to do much worse that what he had done, Naruto simply took his sword and cut the man's head off and burned the remains to ash. "So it seems that I will need to travel faster, hold on tight, this will not be as easy as before. He took several of his weird looking kunai and tied a small string to each. He threw then and the tips began to glow. He then used a weird jutsu, or at least weird to Mito. He traveled faster than Mito could believe, the purpose of the wire was to pull the kunai and take hold of it as he jumped to the next.
In a matter of seconds they were at the beach. "You should be able to reach your home from here. I hope you make it alright, so this is good bye, Mito." Before he had walked about ten steps she asked how did they travel so fast, he turned around and told her that he was an Uzumaki, he simply used Fuinjutsu nothing more. To the young woman it was something she never even heard of someone doing something like that.
"Look, I may not trust you, but if you swear to keep it a secret, I will guide you to my father, and the home of the Uzumaki Clan. At the very least you can be rewarded for saving me. You might even be able to take some of the test I told you about, if you are an Uzumaki we never abandon our own." He continued to walk away. "Or you could tell your father that I am an Uchiha you managed to trick, and I could be tortured and eventually killed. Thanks, but no thanks."
As he was a good foot away, "What do I have to do to get you to trust me?" Naruto turned around and simply said, "Stop treating me like an enemy and you trust me as well." Mito understood what he meant. "Very well, for as long as we travel I shall treat you as an Uzumaki. But my clan has been betrayed before, so you will need to take those tests if you wish to remain in the village."
Naruto walked over to her and took her up in his arms, "Lead the way." Mito was amazed how easy he walked over the ocean, the whirlpools did nothing to slow his walking speed. When they reached a large gate she touched a seal and simply said that she was home, the gates opened and several ninja ran towards him, while they pointed a sword at him or held one by his throat. The lead ninja took Mito from Naruto's side. "Well, you are home, and I am betrayed just like I told you." Mito looked at him almost waiting for the ninja to cut his head off.
"This man saved my life and this is the gratitude you show him. His red hair should tell you that this is one of our long lost clan members. He saved my life from three Uchiha, and kept me safe till he returned me home. I was going to ask father to give him the usual tests, but you bunch seem like you want to disgrace our clan even more, than see me home safe."
The weapons were drawn away from him and they apologized to him for their actions. "Trust is not something that is given, or awarded. Trust does not come as a result of a test it must be earned. I still say this village will not welcome me, my last didn't why should this place be any different." Mito smiled, "Why don't you take the tests and see for yourself."