I do not own Naruto, this is a fanfiction only.

The following morning I was released from captivity, I mean I was allowed to leave the hospital, and well since I was feeling more than a little hungry I decided to visit my favorite restaurant in the entire village, Ichiraku. I know having ramen this early in the morning is not what anyone would call a good idea for breakfast, but I am starving here.

You try eating that garbage they call food in any hospital and tell me you actually enjoyed it. I was running from rooftop to rooftop, I swear if some rogue ninja even tries to get in my way right now, I will kick him hard enough he falls off the roof and I won't even stop to see what is left of the idiot.

I finally made it to Ichiraku and I told the cook that if I could have some ramen, for some odd reason he was trying to invent recipe for people to eat for breakfast, sausage, hard-boiled eggs, vegetables on a light broth, if I was willing to tell him how it tastes, he would let me eat a bowl or two if I gave him an honest opinion.

For a second there I actually felt insulted, I am always honest, I took the bowl and began to eat it, well the vegetables were crisp, the hard-boiled eggs were tender from being in the broth, and the sausage could have been cut to smaller portions to make it easier to eat with chopsticks, I even told him if he ever considered breading the sausage into bite-size pieces.

Since he seemed to like my comments he gave me a second bowl. I was hungry so I didn't even notice Teuchi laughing for some reason. I finished eating and was ready to pay my bill. I was told the meal was on the house for being honest. "I can always count on your honest opinion, I know you are hungry Kisaru, but your fly is undone."

Wait for what? I look down and I felt embarrassed to find indeed I left the barn door open as it were. That is why Teuchi was laughing like that, ha, bloody ha, I guess my hunger pretty much made me focus on getting food.

As I left I heard Teuchi getting lectured about not laughing at their customers no matter how goofy they look. I decided to go to the Hokage's office. I hope I get to work with my squad again, or my concern that I been replaced might actually be true.

As soon as I walked towards the entrance of the office I began to feel like something was off, something didn't feel quite right. The secretary was nowhere to be seen, and I knocked on the office door. I honestly wanted to enter through the window but the Hokage made a point that I should enter through the door like everyone else.

As I opened the door I knew why I got that feeling like a bucket holding two dozen raw eggs fell right on my head, now I got two dozen eggs plastered on my head and I am wearing the bucket. I sometimes got to admit, I do like the classics, but this is not the right time to prank me, as my anger flared and pretty much cooked the eggs that were on my face and fell to the floor, alright the second part didn't happen.

I took off the bucket to find Inari and Hiruzen giving each other a high five. Relax, he is just a kid, you want Tsunade to be happy, beating and cutting her baby brother to pieces is not the way to do it. "Can I have at least a towel? What exactly did I do to deserve such treatment? And can I please go back to do a mission with my team. I do miss Snake ever so much. His warm smile and great jokes make the rest of the team smile."

That is when the rest of my squad came from hiding, "First that is a lie, Snake doesn't have a funny bone in his body, Second, we can't do missions together because you are too busy protecting your girlfriend, and Third, the Hokage is going to tell us some rather tragic news, right sir?"

I looked at Wolf and began to fear the worst, that the dreaded even was finally looming on the horizon. "In the past few days since you were assigned to help Doctor Senju, we were sent to a couple of missions to the borders of Fire Country, and what we found was shocking and yet caused a great deal of worry."

I was not about to simply sit there and I needed to say it, "So the people of Suna have begun their search of their missing Kazekage. It is not shocking it is a tragedy that someone who stood for peace between the villages is no longer there, to keep that village from taking up the warpath yet again."

The Hokage looked at me with some surprise clearly showing on his face, "So tell me, Weasel, do you know exactly where the Third Kazekage? Sunagakure will want to know." I looked at him and began shaking my head.

"I tried my best to prevent that tragedy, killing those bandits was the first strike to prevent that tragedy, but when you assigned me to guard and help Tsunade I realized that I could not prevent it, the goods that these bandits were not for the purpose they told you about. They were stealing goods to sell to help fund the Suna Puppet Research."

"By killing that bandit pretending to be a rogue ninja, and eliminating the bandits, I thought that maybe they would think twice before messing with our village, clearly they did, and instead of stopping they took hasten their plans. Suna may look for the Third Kazekage, but the fact is by now he is long dead."

That is when he looked at me and told the rest of my squad to leave me alone with him, "If you know this much, why didn't you tell me?" I slammed my fist against the floor making a privacy seal appear in the entire room.

"How could I? You would never believe me, no person would. I have knowledge of the future, a future I very much wish to prevent, I did not lie to you about my family or the fact that I always wanted to help you and our village now that at the very least. But how would anyone believe me if I told you I came from the future?"

He began to laugh, "So I gather the other reason is that you didn't want to change the future too much by telling me, honestly Kisaru, your actions always seem to be driven, almost like you were focused on something, now I know why, how did you come to travel to the past?"

I looked at him as I took my mask off, and touched it, "How? I died, I failed to protect the people who were most precious to me before my life ended I made a wish, a wish apparently got the attention of the Shinigami, my wish was granted, so here I am trying to make that wish come true."

"That is why I saved Minato and Kushina that day, they are the parents of a little kid, I once loved as a brother. The other you know very well for you are her teacher. So you why I have such mastery of my abilities and skills. Now it is time I ask you, what will happen to me, Lord Hokage?"

He sat down on his desk ending the seal with a snap of his fingers, "I say nothing, your loyalty to Konoha was never in question, so that is why you fear Tsunade having a bad opinion of you so much, you must have loved her a great deal. Your squad leader was about to tell you, all ANBU Operations have been suspended, Suna's search for their missing Kazekage has caused then to declare war on several ally nations to the south of us."

"He was going to tell you that we were going to begin mobilizing our forces to help our allies and sadly a new Shinobi war is about to start, but I gather you already know that. How would you think I should react to that?"

I looked at him and could not help but to smile, "I say keep an eye on Snake, or should I say Orochimaru, he is running research labs that you don't know about, I tried my best to become his friend to be able to deal with how he reacts when you choose someone else to be your successor."

"It is no secret that Orochimaru has had a very hard childhood, and his desire to become Hokage is fulled by this. If he is still doing the research I know from my time, he is doing research on several things, one is to find a way to implant the Wood Release trait in other people, second how to resurrect the dead, and finally how to gain immortality."

I looked at the floor, "None of that can be achieved without making a few sacrifices, human lives, by the hundreds. All power comes at a cost, originally I think this happens after the tragedy that happens to Tsunade, first her lover a man by the name of Dan is killed in an enemy ambush, then her baby brother, causing her to leave the village."

"Both of these things happen after the war is over, however, so I think I have some time, since I know or at least hope she loves me as much as I love her, it means that I am the one that the enemy will try to ambush, but I am a master of the inner and outer paths, so they will not succeed."

"Has Tsunade made her proposal to add healing arts to the curriculum for the Academy yet?" He began to smile and told me she did that yesterday, when I was still in the hospital, wanting to increase the number of medics to prevent deaths. "I gather you will tell me to support her efforts then?"

I told him that would be for the best, in this coming war we would need as many healers as we can get, "The other villages will use their trump cards in this war, the Jinchuuriki will be sent into battle, if they have a mastery of their connection to their Biju, these battles will become worse than nightmares."

He looked at me, "What do you want to do?" Honestly, I want to take Tsunade, Minato and Kushina go off into a cave somewhere and wait till the war is over, who am I kidding? I want to protect the people I consider precious to me but not at the cost of the entire village.

"Well if you could send me to the places where you send Minato and Kushina while keeping Tsunade safe, that would really help me out." Don't I know what would happen? Couldn't I tell him what the enemy was planning to do before they do it?

If I had everything in every single history book memorized to the point I could recite every word with verbatim then yes, but that is clearly not the case, I know only exactly major events, causes, reactions, and a ton of regrets that I have that I could never stop, first was the death of Naruto's parents, the second was to prevent Tsunade to become the way she was.

I loved Tsunade, but as I remember her, a lady that often drank till she was unconscious, was lousy at gambling, racked enough debt that she was constantly running away from the debt collectors, and freaked the hell out at the mere sight of blood. I really want to prevent that from happening, if I can then maybe I can keep my promise.

"Alright, you trusted me, I will trust you, any battlefield deployment that Kushina and Minato are a part of, you are going to go with them, and to make things more interesting I will send Tsunade as a medic for that camp while Kushina and Minato are present. The council will complain that I am risking the life of the granddaughter of the First Hokage, but once I mention she is there to keep the Jinchuuriki of the Nine-Tails, those complaints will stop."