Naruto, at 26, has lived through 10 years of war. At the end, with nothing left to call home, he sends himself back to the beginning, to the day of his younger self's graduation, in an attempt to change it all. Time travel AU.

There's something to be said for keeping the past as it was - makes it predictable, malleable. Naruto never bought those arguments. He's always been the one to power through adversity rather than wait it out, so why would now be any different? He'll do what has to be done, even if he steps on a few butterflies along the way.

Ino tries to pull a prank on Naruto that backfires in the worse way as she is trapped in his mind. After she never sees Naruto the same way again. Taken over from Gaming Ikari but with new chapters later on. Naruto/Ino/Sakura, Tsunade/Jiraiya.