While exploring the Team 7 training ground, a young Naruto happens to stumble across a strangely shaped kunai embedded in a tree. Years of frustration and deciphering later, he finally cracks the fuinjutsu formula hidden along the handle to surprising and painful results. History is rewritten as the descendants of the Otsutsuki clan are finally all gathered onto one team.

Kakashi knew that going after Sasuke was a bad idea. He hadn't planned on Naruto dying, nor on Sasuke letting him live. Now the remainder of the Shinobi World desperate, close to extinction, want to use a newly created 'Naruto' as a weapon against Sasuke. Only Kakashi can't seem to accept that. So he takes the child and goes to the only place he'll be safe, the past.