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.

What if Naruto had been selected for a different team? What if he'd had a different mentor? Who would guess the consequences would be so large?

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.

Naruto looks like his father but got his mothers personality. What if it was the other way around? What if he looked like his mother and acted like his father? How differently can this change affect everything.