They wandered through the streets leisurely taking in the sights of the old Konhoa whilst Rin and Sakura pleaded with them to reconsider messing with the young future third Hokage.

"Guys PLEASE what about if you mentally scar him for life like...like so bad that he visibly flinches every time he sees a cat!"

Naruto snorted "Oh yeah Sakura like it's our fault that he makes genin do missions like catching that demon cat Tora."

The genin froze mid step, the Mist ninja and Gaara paused taking in the leaf shinobi's depressed aura's and gloom, Zabuza tapped his foot impatiently "What now?"

Obito had a furious eye twitch "Sensei can cats live to be like fifty years old?"

Minato relaxed instantly "Nah that's ridiculous we shouldn't having considered that possible haha."

Sasuke pointed out "You know summons can seemingly live forever."

That made Minato's face morph back into a horrified frown "Oh sweet Kami... You don't think?..."

They all glanced at one another "Nah."

Then out of the alley pounced a brown fat furry thing with a red ribbon that leaped onto Naruto's face scratching ferociously, "Not the face! Anything but the face!"

The cat pounced on his crotch yowling Naruto screamed louder "OK OK THE FACE!"

The cat resumed tearing up his face and he sighed contently "You know this feels pretty good after the crutch."

No one dared to argue in fear of their bits, a muffled curse came from the alley followed by a brunette teen "There's that stupid cat! Guys I gotta him in sights... Yeah I can handle it."

He turned his attention to the time travellers ignoring his radio, the first thing anyone said was Iruka's blunt statement "Dude... you're short."

Sarutobi stamped his foot irritably "I AM NOT SHORT!"

Naruto frowned "I hate to disagree butcha shorta than me and Gaara now THAT'S saying something."

Sasuke did a lil victory dance "HA you admit it!".

Kakashi sensei eyed him amusedly "You're character seems to have mellowed out a lot lately."

Sasuke shrugged "Well when there's certain things you wanna avoid you tend to have a serious look at your life and think, 'You know I could do SO much better' and put your life priorities into perspective. That... and I had a ten minute anger management session with Haku."

Said missing nin waved cheerfully.

Sarutobi looked at the casually chatting nin in disbelief than not being put off tried to look as intimidating as possible "Just give me the cat and we can call it a day."

Sakura and Rin had a fangirl squeal "So cute! He's trying to make himself look bigger than he is! Aw!"

Sarutobi flashed a kunai "DON'T PATRONISE ME!"

Rin blinked "But I'm being sincere."

Sasuke eyed the moggy that was chewing on Naruto's ears without any sign of stopping "Dude doesn't that hurt?"

Naruto shrugged "Meh not so much."

Sasuke stared and replied "How can it not?"

Iruka said "Easily foxy is fixing him up as fast as that fur ball can dish it out."

Rin scratched the side of her face in contemplation "I thought foxy was Naruto's favourite minty sweet."

Iruka shook his head "True but it's also his pet name for Kyuubi."

Sakura yelled at Naruto, Gaara and Obito (Really big head, like the anime when she's really pissed) "HOW DID YOU CORRUPT HIM SO FAST!"

The boys in question simply sweatdropped and shuddered at the killing intent unleashed.

Sarutobi had enough "STOP IGNORING ME DAMMIT!"

Kakashi raised an eyebrow "You still here?"

Zabuza stopped polishing his sword to make shooing motions "Be a good little shinobi and go play in enemy land."

Minato met his gaze dryly "That was harsh."

Zabuza continued polishing away replying mildly "Why that's what my parents told me when I was younger, I did as they said and look how I turned out."

-Cue wind blowing noise-

Minato edged away "OOoooK then."

Sarutobi finally took action "You will respect my- umph!" He tripped over a empty ramen cup face planting to the ground.

Obito looked to Sasuke for help "His whata?"

Sarutobi sprang up charged brandishing his kunai, only to be tripped again and land harmlessly in sand.

He coughed up the offending dirt out of his mouth, to which Gaara whined in his monotone "Did you have to do that? You just SPAT in my sand! Gross now I'm gonna have to make more."

Naruto stared... stared...and stared some more.

Gaara turned to him the face of innocence "What?"

Naruto made hand gestures as he spoke "Oh I dunno you carted around a gourd of special sand with you since you were six stained with blood dating right back to your save-able uncle yet... you find spit gross? Even though I reiterate that you had 6-7 year old BLOOD in your sand."

Gaara blinked "And your point is?"

The group shuddered, Sarutobi freed himself of the grainy substance shifting uncomfortably as his pants itched, "Stupid sand gets everywhere!" he thought bitterly.

He pounced on Naruto determined on reclaiming the damn cat!

Naruto side stepped, to which Sarutobi pivoted and tried again Naruto side stepped again and started wiggling, Sasuke noticed and groaned.

Sakura not getting it asked "What? What's he doing?"

Sasuke shook his head "Just wait."

And unsurprisingly to Sasuke Naruto started singing "Waka Laka's a thing to play forever, Just to be together (Just to be together), Waka Laka's a place to be forever, Waka Laka love and fantasy..."

Kakashi sensei actually looked shocked "When the heck did Naruto get a chance to play DDR and more importantly why's he singing that song now?!"

Sasuke answered "Simple he's moving left, right, forward, back, and so on."

At the blank stares he sighed "It's like he's playing DDR k?"

A series of Oooo's reached his ears.

Sarutobi wasn't giving in he would complete his mission even if it took a while!

Obito was growing steadily more and more bored so he said "Naruto dude are we gonna corrupt him or not? If not just give him that damn furry menace and lets ditch this joint."

Naruto grinned "K! Hey shorty catch!"

He flung Tora into Sarutobi's waiting arms where it proceeded to scratch him, he startedrunning in a circle yelling "GET IT OFF! GET IT OFF!"

Haku looked and Zabuza with puppy eyes, Zabuza groaned "Oh for pete's sake... Help him if you want."

Haku created a water jutsu completely encasing the young nin and cat, Sasuke crept up behind him "Damn if that wasn't a bloodline technique I'd SO sharingan that."

He surprised the poor ninja making him freeze Sarutobi in a block of ice eyes wide, arms spread, feet in a running motion with a cat hanging on his but by its claws.

They gaped, looked at each other than inconspicuously turned around whistling innocent tunes and walked away.

As soon as they went outta sight, Minato said "So who's turn is to do my super awesometastic jutsu?" Kakashi sensei commented "More like you're bumming it off to one of us who has enough chakra to pull it off as you don't yet have enough to do it yourself."

Minato shrugged "Eh details."

Obito whined "Well can someone do it?! This era's really boring."

Kakashi stated "And go where exactly? Are you hoping to hit a specific point?"

Obito muttered "My death might be nice, you know save my life nothing important." Louder he added "But I wouldn't mind hitting somewhere like Naruto's wedding, now that would be a fun shindig!"

Sasuke shook his head "Noooo it wouldn't."

Obito asked "Oh why is that cousin dear?"

Sasuke looked at him with 'Are you kidding me' expression but seeing Obito's honest cluelessness Sasuke informed him "Naruto married the heiress of the Hyuuga clan.. Do they look like the type to party?"

All imagined Hiashi Hyuuga charging into the room with a lampshade on his head, bottle of sake in his hand yelling "LETS GET THIS PARTY STARTED"

They all went deadly quite, Obito said quietly "I see your point.."

Sakura added "I wouldn't mind if we got to Sasuke and I's wedding though."

Sasuke sighed "No pink."

Sakura glared "We're marrying under the cherry blossom trees."

Sasuke started "But.."

Sakura put her hands on her hips "Sasuke Uchia I don't really care how formal/informal are wedding is, it can be dirt cheap for all I care but we are, and I repeat ARE marrying under the cherry blossom trees in bloom. UNDERSTAND?!"

Sasuke muttered "Yes dear."

Minato turned to Kakashi sensei "Did Kushina and I marry?"

Kakashi sensei thought for a but "I think so... It was a bit hard to remember if it was real or if I hallucinated, I was pretty smashed at the time."

Zabuza said "Pah women are more trouble than their worth. Like for example back in the day I had this girlfriend before I became a genin, stubborn as a mule."

Minato looked interested "Oh? And what happened to her?" Zabuza answered nonchalantly "I killed her when I graduated along with every other student and teacher present."

Gaara shocked them all temporarily by saying "Dude...Harsh."

Kakashi sensei cleared his throat "Anyway I'll do that jutsu so we can get moving, I-Inu-Hitsuji- Tatsu-Uma-Tori-Tora" He pricked his thumb on a kunai. "Ninja art time travelling jutsu!"

They vanished in a grey smoke, Obito coughed "Ack! I will get that smoke yet!"

He turned to Sasuke who was wearing a gas mask -hee kccck-, Obito pointed his finger at the masked figure "WHERE THE HECK DID YOU GET THAT!"

Sasuke pulled it off as Naruto started saying "Oh you know he pulled it out of his-"

Sasuke cut in "Some things are better left unsaid."

Hiding behind a fence nearby Orochimaru tilted his head "Huh where have I heard that before?"

Minato cracked his knuckles "Wonder where we are? Ooo Sasuke can I borrow that gas mask for a sec."

Placing it on his face he said too Naruto -hee kccck- "Naruto I am your father" -hee kcck-

Rin bashed him on the head for his stupidity. A fiery red head walked up to them, she had seen them appear from a cloud of smoke and they seemed to be shinobi so mustering her courage she said rather loudly "HEY WHO THE HECK ARE YOU GUYS!"

They examined the teenage red head and Minato gasped and said "Kushina?!"


Sarutobi's team mates got tired of waiting and went to find him, and when they did he was still encased in the ice with a pigeon perched on top, they dug him out and from that day forth he flinched and scowled if anyone even mentioned the name Tora, and as a sort of self gratifying execricise he assigned poor newly graduated genin the task of catching the cat when he became Hokage, particularly taking it out on Uchiha's and loud blondes.

Those were times when being Hokage were simply awesome.