Sorry it took so long to get this out, the past month has just been extremely busy for me. Anyways, I'll start off by answering a few questions/comments.

1. Will Naruto be a brother? (I think this is one thing a lot of people have been wanting to know) I am thinking perhaps a miniature Kushina.

2. What will happen to Sai? He'll be in here, don't worry. Sai's just too funny to leave out.

3. What about Kurama and Naruto? It'll happen, eventually.

Well, that's kind of all I feel like answering for now. Onto the story!

Disclaimer: I don't own Naruto…at least not until I figure out the whole time travel thing myself…

Posted: 4/8/13

Chapter 11: The Fated Night

It was a calm and quiet night all throughout Konoha. The skies were clear and the moon shone brightly. At first glimpse, it was rather peaceful and serene, but there was something wrong. For a ninja village, it seemed too quiet.

Two young boys were walking home from a late night survival exercise at the Academy. They had managed to slip away from the usual mob of fan-girls and were enjoying a conversation with one another. The blonde boy, who just so happened to have memories of a future he was trying to prevent, was also trying to contemplate how exactly he was going to prank his next victim, a rather unfortunate white-haired school teacher.

About a month ago, said blonde had managed to prevent a horrible event that befell his best friend in the previous timeline. The funny thing is that he didn't have to really do much to prevent it. All that he had to do was stop one event from happening, which just so happened to be the destruction of the village at the hands of the Kyuubi no Kitsune, or as he liked to call the giant furball, Kurama, almost nine years ago. Yes, Naruto wasn't the only time traveler. The Kyuubi had also traveled back with him as a last resort measure from the Fourth Shinobi War. Ever since coming back, Naruto was careful not to change too many things, or else he would be left in a world of uncertainty as to what would happen next. Well, as fate may have it, that uncertainty was about to bite his plans in the ass…hard.

The two friends, Namikaze Naruto and Uchiha Sasuke, came within sight of the gates of the Uchiha Clan Compound and it was at that moment that a blood-filled scream of terror pierced through the crisp night air. Hearing the sounds the screaming coming from his own clan compound, Sasuke raced through the gates to see what was going on, leaving Naruto standing in the road hoping that what he was thinking was not happening not.

"Sasuke!" shouted Naruto as he tried to catch up with his friend. When Naruto finally caught up with Sasuke, he raven-haired boy was standing in the middle of the street, eyes widened in horror as he took in the scene around him.

Naruto's reaction mirrored Sasuke's…it was happening, the Uchiha Massacre was happening right in front of his own eyes. Looking around the streets of the compound, one could see bodies littering the sides with the blood flowing from the cuts, wounds, and slashes on them.

"No…How?...I thought the date had passed" said Naruto to himself. "Please tell me…Please tell me Dad didn't order the execution of the Uchihas. There was nothing going on this time around!"

For a few seconds, Naruto could only help but to observe as the fated night repeated itself once again; however, a quick observation would have told anyone from the future that this wasn't the same as it was in the previous timeline. The first obvious difference was that there was more than just a single figure jumping across the rooftops, killing people. Naruto managed to catch a glimpse of one of these figures and he could instantly see that they were wearing ANBU masks with no insignias on them.

The second most noticeable difference came when a gigantic fireball came erupting out of one of the buildings, blasting one of the masked attackers into a wall across the street. This wasn't some mindless slaughter anymore…the Uchiha had begun to put up a resistance and were starting to fight back.

The last change, yet one which was more discrete and really only noticeable if one looked at the corpses long enough, was that some of them were missing their eyes.

About a hundred yards from where Sasuke and Naruto were standing, three Uchiha, one of which was Sasuke's father Uchiha Fugaku, had taken a stance against three of the masked attackers, Sharingan ablaze.

The masked attackers made the first move, charging into the Uchiha…big mistake. The Uchiha fighting style was specific to situations like this, where their opponents would make the first move and they would use their style, in conjunction with the hypnotic effect of the Sharingan, to quickly and effectively counter.

As was expected, the attackers were repelled with ease as they crumpled to the round, dead at the feet of Fugaku and his two comrades. Whatever was left of the once strong Uchiha clan now began to mount their counter-attack against the masked attackers, whose advantage of surprise had gone by this point in time. Still, that didn't mean that they weren't able to take good advantage of it. Before this night, the Uchiha clan had numbered just a little over 100 members and looking around the street, Naruto could easily count 50 bodies just lying there, and there was a good chance that there were more than just those scattered throughout the compound.

Fugaku and his two partners were doing well to stave off the invaders. Shortly after the initial assault, three more masked attackers threw themselves as the Uchiha, only to be cut down in a few swift strokes.

In less than a minute upon arriving at the compound, Naruto had witnessed what he had hoped to prevent in the first place, and the last thing he wanted to think was that his dad had ordered the attack. To the best of his knowledge, the Uchiha had never planned a revolt, not to mention that his dad and Sasuke's dad were rather close friends, having been on a team together along with Hizashi back in the day.

"Tousan!" shouted Sasuke as he caught sight of something materializing out of the air behind his father.

Fugaku instantly whipped his head around horrified that his youngest son was here. This was no place for a mere child. He was about to scream out to Sasuke, but saw immediately what Sasuke saw, a man materializing out of the air. A quick glance told both Fugaku and Naruto exactly who was behind the attack. The man who had appeared behind the Uchiha trio wore a white shirt with a black robe over top of it. His hair was a shaggy black and his right eye was covered by bandages…Danzo.

"Shit!" swore Naruto. He had been so focused on Itachi and the Uchihas that he forgot about the third player in the Uchiha Massacre. His memories came back to him and he remembered that Danzo was truly the one who ordered the massacre, not Hokage-jiji.

With a single swipe of his fingers, Danzu unleashed a wind jutsu on Fugaku's comrades, cutting them down with relative ease as he turned his attention to Fugaku trusting a kunai into Fugaku's stomach.

"Tousan!" shouted Sasuke as he ran towards his father, only to be intercepted by two more masked guards.

Now that Naruto knew Danzo was behind this, he knew who those masked ANBU were…Root. As to why Danzo and Root were doing this though, Naruto still wasn't sure.

Without another word, the two Root threw a volley of kunai towards Sasuke, hoping to cut him down as well.

"Sasuke!" shouted both Naruto and Fugaku, one of which was bleeding out from the wound in his stomach as Danzo thrusted a few more kunai into the elder Uchiha's body.

"What the hell Danzo? Why?" asked Fugaku.

"This village possesses a certain power, one that has grown weak over the years. His village needs to learn a lesson. It's begun to grow too soft over the past few years" said Danzo as he reached out towards Fugaku's eyes with his hand. "I'll be taking that power from you now." With that, Danzo ripped Fugaku's eyes from the man's socket and dropped the man to the ground to die with the rest of his clan. The mummy then turned his sights on the two children behind him. "Well, what do we have here? The little Uchiha brat and the Namikaze brat."

Sasuke fought back up to his feet, having been knocked to the ground by the Root operatives. The raven-haired Uchiha had been saved from the volley of kunai from the Root members by a shield of shadow clones from Naruto.

"Lizard, Tera, kill the Uchiha like the rest of his clan, but bring the Namikaze to me" commanded Danzo.

The two Root nodded and leapt towards Naruto and Sasuke.

"Kage Bunshin no Jutsu!" shouted Naruto, making a dozen clones to try and intercept the two Root members. It was clear that he would have to fight now if he had any hope at saving his best friend.

Naruto's clones managed to get one, maybe, two hits off on the Root operatives before they were dispelled and continued on with their task. Both the Root members hit the children in the stomachs with strong punches, sending the two flying backwards. Not even allowing Sasuke a chance to recover, the Root threw a pair of kunai straight towards Sasuke's head, at a speed too fast for anyone with untrained eyes to see, especially a 9-year-old kid.

"Uzumaki Kushina, you are to come with us immediately" said a masked ANBU with no markings on his mask. Kushina had stepped outside the Namikaze estate, past the protection seals that Minato had littering the property, to wait for her son to arrive home from his late night Academy lesson. It was at that point that she was confronted by the three ANBU.

"What's going on?" asked Kushina out of concern.

"Nothing you need to worry about. We simply request you come with us" said the ANBU again. Kushina's instincts were on high alert, telling her something was up. Why would two ANBU suddenly appear in front of her like this. If there was some sort of emergency, either Minato or a shadow clone would come to get her. And also, being the wife of the Hokage, she was the only one besides Minato and Sarutobi who knew the village inside and out, and she certainly didn't recognize these ANBU.

"If you must know, there is a village emergency, and it is imperative that you come with us" said the other ANBU.

Kushina sighed. It must have been really important for ANBU to come, meaning that her husband had his hands completely ties to even Hiraishin to get her. As the red-head kunoichi walked past the two ANBU, one reached into his side pocket to pull out some sort of syringe and as Kushina now had her back turned to them, she wouldn't see it coming when he injected the fast-acting sedative into her system.

The ANBU made his move, only to find himself completely immobilized. He managed to move his eyes to look at one of his accomplices, but saw that they were wrapped up in a series of glowing golden chains.

"What is this?" asked one of the ANBU. "Genjutsu?" In a quick act, the ANBU tried their hardest to dispel the 'genjutsu' they were entangled in.

"This is no genjutsu. My bloodline's chakra chains are suppressing your chakra. Even if it were a genjutsu, you wouldn't be able to dispel it" said Kushina. "Now, tell me exactly what's going on."

Although you couldn't see it, the ANBU was grinning underneath his mask. Sensing an incoming attack, Kushina dodged just in time to avoid multiple shuriken. Turning back to the 'trapped' ANBU, she saw them start to turn to mud, indicating that they had just been mud clones.

The ANBU took up positions surrounding her and began going through a series of hand seals.

"Our master has a desire for your power, Kyuubi" said one of the ANBU as the three of them completed the hand seals. "Secret technique: Restraining Chakra Barrier" both ANBU said in unison as a blue barrier appeared around Kushina.

Kushina momentarily panicked, but quickly regained her composure. Still, she tried to force her way out by punching against the barrier, only for a shocking pain to shoot all throughout her body. She collapsed to the ground as the barrier began to shrink around her, limiting her movements.

However, her attention was drawn to just outside the barrier when she heard a familiar voice, one she hadn't heard since the day she gave birth to her son and one she was desperately hoping never to hear from again.

"You're mine…Kyuubi"

Sasuke could only help but watch as the kunai sailed towards his head, at a speed too fast for any untrained eye to see. The moment the kunai left the hands of the attackers, all that Sasuke could see now, was his short life flash before his eyes. They said that only happens when you're about to die, and from the current situation, that looked to be the case for the young Sasuke. But then something happened…the kunai that were sailing towards him slowed down. They didn't stop, but they had slowed down to a point where Sasuke could clearly see them and react in time to avoid the blow. With a quick ducking motion, Sasuke avoided the kunai striking him in the head by a mere fraction of a second, having some of his hair clipped off in the process.

Naruto, looking over towards Sasuke and trying to move in time to save him, saw Sasuke's last minute dodge effort and when Sasuke raised his head, a pair of red eyes, both bearing a single tomoe. "Sharingan…" whispered Naruto.

Sasuke was still in shock by his ability to actually see the attack. If the kunai were anything like what Itachi-niisan could do, there was no way he should have been able to dodge it, but then he heard the word 'Sharingan' come out of Naruto's mouth. "Sharingan? Did I just…my Sharingan awakened?"

The ANBU, both surprised that Sasuke had avoided the attack and not wanting to leave it up to a simple thrown kunai to try and kill the two kids in front of them, charged.

"Katon: Gokakuyu no Jutsu!"

The attack came too fast and the Root found themselves hit by the fire jutsu, throwing them backwards and giving them a few nasty burns. In front of Naruto and Sasuke jumped someone that both of them were glad to see.

"Niisan!" exclaimed Sasuke.

Quickly surveying the battlefield, Itachi found himself mortified that something like this was actually happening to his clan and family, but he remained stoic as ever. "Sasuke, you and Naruto-kun need to get out of here and find some cover" said Itachi. "Naruto, do you have any way to summon Hokage-sama here?"

By this time, the arrival of Itachi had drawn the attention of Danzo. Even he knew Itachi would be a problem, but it only became worse when he saw the blonde pull out a Hiraishin kunai from his side pouch.

"Futon: Shinkugyoku!" (Wind Release: Vacuum Sphere) shouted Danzo, resorting to his fastest ranged jutsu to try and attack the Namikaze brat before…

"Jikukan Kekkai" (Space-time Barrier)

…before that. Danzo's jutsu sped towards the two Uchiha and Namikaze, only to meet head on with a seal that had appeared out of nowhere and be sucked into some dimensional pocket. Namikaze Minato, the Yondaime Hokage had arrived on scene.

With a quick movement of his eye towards a group of Root ninja down along some street and a quick hand seal, a seal appeared in front of the Root and the jutsu that Danzo had just used appeared before them, piercing them and not allowing the Root any chance to react. They barely knew what even hit them before the dropped to the ground to die.

"Touchan!" exclaimed Naruto.

"Itachi, report" ordered Minato.

"I arrived home to find Danzo and his agents attacking my clan, brother, and Naruto-kun" said Itachi.

Minato looked around to survey the damage, which had now worsened since Naruto arrived; the only good thing was that there were now some Root shinobi mixed into the bodied that littered the ground. Minato also caught on that some of the corpses of Uchiha shinobi were missing their eyes. Minato then turned his gaze back to Danzo and all the remaining Root operatives that had gathered to face the Yellow Flash, regardless of how foolish of an endeavor anyone would have thought.

Kushina's mindscape,

Kurama for the most part was in the middle of taking a nap, or the best he could at least. Kushina's mindscape wasn't exactly ideal for sleeping, considering he had numerous stakes driven through his arms, legs, and tails. He seriously wished that he could try to convince the red-headed Uzumaki to change this mindscape to something much more accommodating…hell he was even missing the sewer that was Naruto's seal; however, there was a chance of him blowing his cover of being a time traveler.

In all reality, the stakes themselves didn't hurt at all, they just served to restrain him in a rather uncomfortable position, but after a few years, he got used to it. It also gave him an excuse to act like a total asshole to Kushina, which provided him with some form of entertainment.

The worst part about Kushina's seal however, was the restricted access he had to her senses. In Naruto's seal, he could at least see and hear the things Naruto could hear, but Kushina's seal was a lot more restrictive. Still, three words managed to slip through the seal…'You're mine…Kyuubi.'

It was these three words that roused Kurama and he knew exactly where they came from. In all honestly he hadn't expected to hear that voice for at least another 7-8 years, but that didn't appear to be the case.

With all his effort, the Kyuubi no Kitsune sent forth his chakra into Kushina, hoping that it would be enough to allow his vessel to resist the man he had come to loath so much.

Inside the barrier, Kushina looked up to see the same masked man from the night of Naruto's birth.

"You" she gasped as the masked man jumped down to examine his prize.

In all honesty, she probably shouldn't have looked, but Kushina looked up to see the Sharringan eye underneath the mask of the man who was behind her capture. Underneath the mask, 'Madara' grinned as he Sharringan began to spin and Kushina began to fell her mind go blank.

"No!" shouted a voice from inside Kushina's head, said voice belonging to her demonic tenant. "Whatever you do, don't give into that man!"

Having the barrier lowered, 'Madara' reached for his prize. Using Danzo's own selfish mission as a bit of cover to hopefully keep the Hokage busy, tonight would be the night where he would achieve what he failed to do nine years ago, unleash the Kyuubi upon Konoha. But he was stopped in his tracks as a gold flash eminated from Kushina and a surge of power threw him and the Root ANBU back.

When the light receded, Kushina was standing where she once was, covered by a shroud of gold chakra with some sort of weird seal pattern covering her and her hair separated into nine flaming gold 'tails'. "What is this? Is this the Kyuubi's chakra? But I remember it being a red cloak that was fox-like, not this. What is this chakra?"

"You shouldn't be so surprised, human" called out Kurama.

"Kyuubi? What's going on? Did you do this?" asked Kushina.

"I'm giving you complete control of my chakra for the time being, make sure you don't lose against this guy" advised Kurama.

"Wait! Why are you doing this? Is this another one of your attempts to break free?" asked Kushina, not fully trusting the Fox inside her head.

"I won't try anything funny, I swear on my tails. And I have a feeling everything will be answered shortly" said the Kyuubi. "Now, kill this bastard for me!"

In all honesty, that was one request of the Kyuubi's she really wasn't going to argue with. This man had attacked her and her husband on what was supposed to be the best night of her life, despite the labor pains, and from the sounds of it, he wouldn't have hesitated to attack and possibly destroy her family.

The ANBU were the first to move in to attempt to recapture the Kyuubi jinchuriki, but Kushina disappeared immediately, reappearing behind one of them with a cocked fist preceding a punch that knocked one of the ANBU into the other, and breaking the skull of the first one she had punched. The second and third were defeated maybe a second later with the same devastating results.

"Woah that was almost as fast as Mina-kun" thought Kushina in awe.

'Madara' was furious now. His second attempt to capture the Kyuubi had failed and any next attempt wasn't looking too good; however, if he wanted to succeed with his plans, he probably wouldn't have another attempt at the Kyuubi jinchuriki for another couple of years.

Madara lowered his chains that were attached to shackles on his wrist and dashed towards the glowing Kushina. Kushina saw this, and being the headstrong person she is, charged head on towards Madara. When she swung at him, she merely passed right through him and Madara grinned as he jerked forward on his chains to entangle her in them. Before he could wrap her up in them though, Kushina jumped upwards with blinding speeds, and before he could react, dropped down upon him, slamming her fist into the back of his head before he could activate whatever ability of his allowed him to become intangible.

Madara's head slammed into the ground beneath him and a cracking sound could be heard. Kushina backed away as Madara peeled himself off the ground, some chunks of the right side of his mask peeling away, partially revealing his face, but not enough to be able to piece together the masked attacker's identity.

"What the hell do you want?!" demanded Kushina.

"I want…the world. One day, I'll claim your power as my own, Kyuubi, and everyone you hold dear will suffer my wrath" said the masked man. "You cannot oppose my will. It will come true."

"Oh yeah, I'm definitely going to kick your ass, dattebane!" exclaimed Kushina.

Madara's attention was momentarily sifted elsewhere. "Perhaps another time, there is another issue I must attend to." And with that, a vortex in space itself enveloped 'Madara' and he was sucked in. The Kyuubi chakra receded from Kushina when it was clear he was gone.

Danzo and his Root forces stared down the one individual who struck fear across the elemental nations. To most people, it would be a foolish request for death, however for Danzo, it was necessary in his ploy to obtain certain powers that would give him the ability to return to Konoha one day and claim his rightful seat as ruler of the village.

On Minato's side, Itachi had finished filling Minato in. Alongside the various pieces of information he had on Danzo from Sarutobi's archives, Minato could piece together some idea on Danzo's plan. The first possibility was that this was an attempt by Danzo to weaken the village during his flight. The Uchiha were a significant factor in Konoha's overall power and by eliminating them, which could throw a major wrench in the village's defenses and security. But Minato figured something else was up. Why were the corpses of the fallen Uchiha missing their eyes? Danzo was up to something, and Minato was certain that he wasn't going to let the old war-hawk get away with it. Grabbing about a dozen of his infamous kunai, Minato prepared to throw them into the enemy ranks but hesitated the moment he saw a distortion in the space behind Danzo. Much to his dismay, the same man from nine years ago appeared out of the vortex in space.

Naruto saw this as well, and couldn't help but glare at the man. If looks could kill, 'Madara' would have been dead right about now.

"Were you able to capture the target with my subordinate's help?" asked Danzo.

Madara shook his head. "Something…unexpected happened. How did things go on your end?"

"I was hoping for better results, but I have enough for my purposes" said Danzo, holding up a case. 'Madara' nodded and before Minato could get his seals in place, Danzo, Madara, and the remainder of Root had vanished in a spiral vortex.

There were a few members of Root that still remained, not having gotten in position in time for the evacuation. With a few quick throws of his knives, Minato had rounded these Root members up and sealed their chakra. He wasn't going to kill them…at least not until Ibiki and Inoichi had their way with them.

It was at this point where the gravity of the situation began to set in as Sasuke slowly rose to his feet and staggered towards his fallen father.

"Tousan…" was all Sasuke could muster as tears began streaming from his eyes by the time he reached his fallen father.

"S-sasuke…is that…you?" Fugaku muttered out. He hadn't died yet, but anyone with experience knew that these were his last moments in this world.

"Tousan! Don't…don't…" Sasuke cried.

"Sasuke…I'm sorry…I wasn't…a better father. Please…forgive me…" and with that, Uchiha Fugaku departed this world for the next one. Sasuke fell to his knees and began to cry, a comforting hand coming to rest on his shoulder. Sasuke turned around to his brother's hand on his shoulder.

"Niisan…father, he's…" Sasuke sobbed out.

"I'm sorry, Sasuke" said Itachi.

"What about Kaasan? Is she?" asked Sasuke, looking for some ray of hope that his mother had survived the whole endeavor.

"I don't know" said Itachi.

"Naruto, are you okay?" Minato asked his son.

"Yeah…I'm just…fine" Naruto said quietly. In all reality, he wasn't fine. This is pretty much exactly what he had been hoping to stop. He knew something like this was going to happen. "Damnit! I could have done more! I should have done more to stop this!" On the inside, Naruto was practically beating himself up. This had been one of the things he wanted to change the most, and yet it still happened. Sasuke's family had been murdered and now Naruto was also beginning to question himself. The differences between this massacre and the one from his old timeline were that some Uchiha were still alive and Danzo was the culprit behind the massacre, not Itachi.

Naruto wanted to hold it in, but he began to break the moment he felt a pair of caring arms embrace him. It was also around this time that the medics had arrived at the compound and began their search for any other survivors. Following the medics, was a certain red-head who was in panic mode.

"Naruto!" shouted Kushina as she jumped on her baby, practically smothering the poor blonde. "I'm so glad you're okay!" She had just finished fighting off the masked man, when she saw a large number of medics rush past her. One of them told her something happened at the Uchiha compound and Kushina was immediately running towards the compound, fearing something might have happened to Naruto.

"Minato! It was him! That masked man from 9 years ago! He attacked me and…wh-what happened?" asked Kushina as she finally saw the horrific sight of the aftermath of the Uchiha Massacre.

Minato briefly explained the situation to his wife and Kushina had immediately darted off into the carnage, no doubt searching for Mikoto, her long time best friend. Naruto also made his way forward, heading towards Sasuke to try and offer some sort of comfort.

If anything, he needed to make sure someone was there for Sasuke. From the looks of things, Sasuke had his brother this time around, but Naruto still didn't want to leave it up to just that. That had been one thing that drove Sasuke to madness the last time around…the loneliness. No one was there for the young Uchiha before and Naruto knew all too well what that sort of emptiness did to you.

It was at this time that Itachi got up as well, joining the search himself. His search came to a quick end when he found the person he had been looking for, leaning up against a tree along the edge of a small river that flowed through the compound. Unfortunately, the battered body of the one person Itachi considered his best friend wasn't real promising.

"Shisui…" Itachi said as his famous stoic mask began to crumble and the Uchiha genius ran towards his fallen comrade.

"Itachi?" said a weak Shisui, with one eye closed.

"Shisui, are you okay?!" said Itachi with more emotion than most people thought possible.

"No…Danzo, he got my right eye…" coughed Shisui. Itachi's eyes widened in horror as a small crowd, including Naruto, Sasuke, and Minato, gathered. Even Minato was taken aback by this announcement. Shisui was the only one in the Uchiha clan to possess the Mangekyo Sharingan, the evolved and more powerful form of the current Sharingan. If Danzo got his hands on that and found a way to utilize that, then only trouble could come from it, and everyone already knew it was possible to transplant the Sharingan thanks to Kakashi.

"Shisui, we need to get you to the hospital…" shouted Itachi before he was cut off by Shisui. Looking over Shisui, his body was riddled with multiple shuriken wounds and blood was pouring out at an alarming rate from his wounds.

"No…I won't make it anyways. I know I'm going to die, but the very least I can do…is to make it so you're the one who kills me…" said a weak Shisui. Everyone's eyes widened.

"What?" Itachi gasped.

"Danzo…has my eye…the Mangekyo...if he learns to harness it…the only way to stop him will be with another Mangekyo…" said Shisui. "Kill me, and get your Mangekyo…Danzo will be back, I know it…If I'm going to die…then at least allow me to give you the tool that will allow you to protect the village from him…"

"But…" Itachi said.

"I don't think I have much time…just do it. You've always been like a brother to me and it's the only thing I can do to help you in the future…" said Shisui, placing a kunai in the hesitant Itachi's hand.

"I don't think I…" said Itachi.

"Please Itachi…do it" begged Shisui, clasping Itachi's hands around the kunai and his own hands around Itachi's and lifting the kunai up to his own chest. Everyone looked on at the event that was unfolding, most people to stunned to even breathe. "Do it Itachi…and let me rest knowing the village is in good hands."

Itachi took a deep breath. This was the last thing he wanted to be doing right now, but even he could see that Shisui was just barely clinging onto life and that he wouldn't survive the night. With much remorse, Itachi pushed the kunai forward, into Shisui's chest. "Thank you…Itachi…" said Shisui as he died and Itachi eyes widened as tears streamed down from them. Those who were watching Itachi's eyes saw the three tomoe in his Sharingan begin to swirl until a sort of three-pronged spiral formed, indicating that he had in fact gained the Mangekyo Sharingan. Itachi finally collapsed into the dead body of his friend.

"I NEED A MEDIC! GET A FUCKING MEDIC OVER HERE NOW! DATTEBANE!"

Naruto and Minato turned their heads to the direction that Kushina's screaming had come from and a pair of medics went rushing in that direction, Naruto, Minato, and even Sasuke following closely behind.

"Kaasan!" shouted Sasuke as he saw the woman Kushina was kneeling over. The medics immediately went to work. "Is she?"

"She's alive, but we need to get her into surgery stat!" declared one of the medics.

"MINATO! QUIT STANDING THERE AND GET US TO THE HOSPITAL NOW!"

Minato gulped as Kushina began to take on an enraged 9-tailed appearance. He placed his hand on Kushina's shoulder while everyone joined hands to connect themselves to Minato before he Hiraishined to the seal that he had setup in the hospital for emergencies like this.

The hospital was already in a frenzy as some of the still alive Uchiha began to arrive. Of course, the sudden appearance of the Hokage and a critically injured woman helped to stem the chaos…okay not really.

Kushina, Sasuke, and Naruto were left outside in a waiting room while the medics took Mikoto into the OR for surgery. About an hour later, Itachi joined them. A few more hours passed, and by now Naruto had fallen asleep in his mother's lap, before the light outside the OR door turned green and a doctor stepped out, wheeling a gurney.

"Mitkoto!"

"Kaasan!"

Kushina and Sasuke bolted to Mikoto's side, unfortunately dropping Naruto on the floor and waking him. "How is she doctor?" asked a frantic Kushina.

"She'll live. It was close, but she'll be fine after some rest now" said the doctor, receiving a sigh of relief from Kushina.

The following day, Minato had assembled the village council to inform them about Danzo's treachery and plan the next move. By now, Kushina had informed Minato on the attack by the masked man and also the weird chakra cloak she got from the Kyuubi.

In a single night, the entire Uchiha clan, which consisted of a little over 100 members, had been reduced down to Sasuke, Mikoto, Itachi, a young boy who was a year older than Sasuke, a young girl who was 2 years younger than Sasuke and that girl's father, and half a dozen more Uchiha, leaving only 12 survivors. It was more than in the previous timeline, but it was still a significant loss.

The entire council was outraged that such an event had occurred without anyone being able to see it coming. Danzo and Root had immediately been listed as S-rank criminals and Minato had already unleashed a few squads of hunter-nin to try and track down the rouge organization, but the squads were already having trouble even picking up a trail…which was kind of expected when someone traveled using space-time ninjutsu. Also, at the meeting, two particular old crows were sweating bullets at the further implications Danzo's actions might have on them, having had dealings with the man in the past.

Minato also had the ANBU scouring through any remaining Root basses in Konoha's underground with the hopes on finding stuff, but so far it appeared as if Danzo had done a good job with the clean up.

Naruto had kept an eye on Sasuke and even Itachi via shadow clones. The last thing he wanted was for Sasuke to start breaking down and go off the deep end on the whole 'I'm an avenger' path. But so far, it was too soon to get any sort of indication as to what Sasuke was going to do, especially since most of his time was spent at the hospital waiting for his mother to awaken from her unconscious state.

School was cancelled the day after the Massacre, but Naruto just spent most of his time locked in his room that day thinking.

"Damnit! How the hell could I have forgotten about Danzo. He was the one who ordered the whole attack in the past timeline. I was so focused on Itachi and the Uchiha clan themselves that I forgot entirely about Danzo. And I can't believe Tobi's back, that bastard. Damnit, calm down Naruto. Let's just think this through. I came back and somehow managed to stop the Kyuubi attack, although that really wasn't me because I couldn't really do much. Still, my parents are alive, so that definitely has to impact something, after all Dad's the one calling the shots. Also by preventing the Kyuubi attack, the village's much stronger and the resentment towards the Uchiha clan was never formed as a result, leading me to believe that their attempted coup was never going to happen, but then that bastard Danzo had to go and screw everything up! I never saw that coming and now I don't even know what's going to happen anymore. This is completely different from my original timeline. How can I save everyone if I don't know what I have to do to save them anymore?!" Naruto's frustration was at the point where he was about ready to rip that spiky blonde hair out of his head and bang it against the wall repeatedly in order to see what would give first, his head or the wall. It took him a few minutes to calm down, and also learn that his skull was stronger than the drywall in his room.

"I just don't know. Everything feels like it's completely changing on me. I don't know what to do anymore. I was able to save Neji's dad because, well I don't really know anymore! Gagh it's so frustrating! How the hell am I supposed to save everyone I don't even know what's going to happen anymore?"

It was at that point that the words of a certain Uchiha from the previous timeline came back to him.

Flashback no Jutsu

Naruto and Bee were standing on the battlefield, alongside Itachi, having just encountered the revived Itachi and Nagato. Itachi had just sealed Nagato using the Sword of Totsuka after releasing himself from Kabuto's control by utilizing Kotoamatsukami.

"I really hate this edoten jutsu or whatsit!" declared Naruto, currently in Kyuubi-chakra mode. "You're forced to fight people you don't want to fight…It's happening in the other battlefields as well, isn't it?"

"I will stop the Edo Tensi. I leave Madara to you" said Itachi.

"No! I'll stop it!" declared Naruto, making the hand seals for the Kage Bunshin no Jutsu. He made a shadow clone, but the Kyuubi-chakra cloak vanished.

"You used the Kyuubi-chakra mode for too long. Don't make any more clones, Naruto!" exclaimed Bee.

"Don't try to overdo it on your own. I'm perfect to stop the Edo Tensi" said Itachi. "I have a plan…"

"I'll deal with this war myself!" interjected Naruto. "I'll take care of everything…It's my duty!"

Naruto's clone dispelled as the real Naruto panted with exhaustion. "You've certainly become stronger. But you seem to be forgetting something very important" said Itachi, catching Naruto's attention. "Listen and remember. The reason people of the village, who used to have you started to admire you and consider you their comrade is that you've always worked hard because you wanted to be acknowledged by them. You said 'it's thanks to everybody that I could come this far'. If now that you are more powerful you start to forget about others to be arrogant and to be attached to your ego…one day you'll become just like Madara!"

Naruto's eyes widened in horror at that realization.

"No matter how powerful you've become, never try to shoulder everything alone. Otherwise you'll undoubtedly fail. Your father Minato became Hokage because he had your mother and all the others. You're dream is the same as your father's isn't it?" asked Itachi as Naruto began to think. "It's not that if you become Hokage everyone will acknowledge you, it's the ones who are acknowledged that can become Hokage. Do not forget your friends."

"Naruto…I made a promise to this guy called Iruka. I swore to protect you…I won't let ya go alone! I'm still alive afta all!" exclaimed Bee.

Iruka's words came to Naruto's mind. "You don't have to shoulder everything alone."

End Flashback no Jutsu

"I can't do it all alone. That's what Itachi and Iruka-sensei told me. This burden, to change the past for better, I can't do it alone anymore" thought Naruto as he took a deep breath and left his room.

"Mina-kun, do you think he's okay?" asked Kushina. Minato and Kushina were downstairs in the living room, listening to the banging of Naruto's head from above them. It was obvious that the whole incident had taken its toll on Naruto as well. He had locked himself in his room all day and his parents were becoming concerned.

"I'm sure he's fine honey. We're all worn out and in distress after today, we all just need some time to let things heal and settle down" said Minato, trying to shake aside his own grievances. He had also lost a good friend last night with the death of his old teammate Fugaku.

After a few minutes, the banging finally stopped and they heard Naruto's door click open as he came down stairs.

"Naruto-kun, sweetie, is everything okay?" asked a concerned Kushina.

"No. Everything's changing and I can't do anything about it. I need help if I'm to change everything for the better" said Naruto, earning a confused look from his father.

"Naruto, what are you talking about?" asked Kushina.

Naruto took a deep breath, it was now or never. "I've just gotta convince them to at least listen to me" thought Naruto. "Yeah, that should do it."

"Please just promise me you'll hear me out. This is going to sound crazy, but I swear I'm telling you the truth" said Naruto.

"What is it you need to tell us?" asked Minato.

"Do you guys believe in time travel?" asked Naruto.

Minato and Kushina both looked at Naruto wide-eyed and curious. Being an expert in time-space ninjutsu, Minato had looked into some theory behind time travel, but he didn't think it was actually possible at this point.

Naruto needed something to push them just a little further. He held out his right hand and channelled chakra. Minato gasped when he saw his signature jutsu form in Naruto's hand. "I'm actually from about 8 years in the future. I came back nine years ago to the day I was born with the hopes of correcting many of the problems that happened. But after tonight, I realized I can't do it all alone, I need help."

Author Notes

Well, there you have it Chapter 11.

For those of you who think I could have just killed off Danzo…yeah, I could have, but that would make things to easy, and frankly Danzo's a bitch who just keeps causing more and more problems (kind of like Kabuto and Tobito)

I think you guys know what's coming next. There will be a total of 6 people who Naruto tells. Two of them you already know, but I'll keep the last four to myself until the next chapter.

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