Gravity
Summary: After their first time travel experience, Naruto is determined to do even more. Now however, the stakes are even higher as unexpected problems arise. Will things end up the way their supposed to? Or will every go terribly, terribly wrong? (SasuNaruSaku ages-16)
Note: I'm bad at translations into Japanese, and I'm also not the best with grammar and spelling, so please bear with me and kindly point out my mistakes thanks!
Pairings: no pairings, I don't want to be flamed for it by angry fan-girls. :p
Warnings: T in general, there will be mentions of rape in the story, and the chapter(s) corresponding to that content will have warnings placed upon it.
A/N: Gravity falls into the same universe as Grace. Same people, same story Line, just different time. Although it's not a prerequisite to read Grace, reading the story before this one might help you (the reader) understand some things.
Disclaimer: I don't own Naruto or anything to do with naruto other than this story which all ideas and plot twists have been of my own creation (unless specified, where as certain ideas will have credit given due)
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"BAKA!" Smack.
"Dooobbbeee!" Smack, smack.
Naruto chuckled and rubbed his bumps and bruises that he had been given by his siblings. Instead, he just smiled softly at them, looking up into the clear blue sky through the canopy of trees. It was no surprise they had landed in a forest near where they had originally left.
He actually didn't answer them, just walked a little ways until he reached a small hill in a clear patch of forest. Lying down, he looked up at the sky. Sakura and Sasuke were very angry with him, and they made sure he knew it.
"Have you ever felt the earth?" Naruto asked, causing Sakura and Sasuke to blink at the random question.
"To have the power to change things… when you come across your first patient, a dying one, you have the power to change everything, but will you use that power to make things better? Or will you stumble and fall backwards unable to move because your petrified of all the things that could go wrong?" Naruto reached upwards with his hand and drew a lazy pattern in the sky above him.
"Are things really complicated, or could they be simplified? Heh, even I have to have a moment to be philosophical sometimes. Say you had a chance. A chance to change everything, prevent people from dying in the first place. Would you take that chance? Not because you could, but because it would be the right thing to do?" They were silent. Naruto just continued on speaking as if he were confessing to Kami himself.
"A chance for a happy ending? The probability of me becoming Hokage is actually rather slim, simply because I cannot take back the lives Kyuubi took. Because of this my dreams are almost impossible to accomplish…"
"Don't say that! Naruto stop being an idiot for Christ sakes." Sakura snapped at him. Naruto grinned.
"I took us back because I cared. I wanted to change things because it hurts." Sakura settled down on his left, Sasuke on his right.
"Hurts, Dobe?" Asked the dark haired one of their group.
"When your clan died, you felt helpless. When your father died, you felt helpless… What if your father never died, Sakura? What if your Clan never died, Sasuke? Everyone says Time cannot be changed. We don't know that unless we try, right? I've never been one to gamble with material possessions, it's either all or nothing. If we don't try, we'll never know. And then we'll be plagued with 'What ifs?' for the rest of our lives."
"What if I killed you right now?" Sasuke growled at him. He was slightly frightened of this side of Naruto, he had never seen it before. Sakura had, once, but only for a second.
"What if I never existed? There are some things I rather not find out; but if I can change everything and make it better, than I will try because I hate seeing my precious people pain over what they couldn't help."
"Naruto… you went back to change everything so that our families wouldn't die?"
"Not just your families, but everyone else's as well. If we hadn't been there, they wouldn't know that stone and cloud would attack at dawn, but because we were there, so many families were spared."
"Naruto, do me a favor." Naruto looked over at Sasuke with a questionable gaze.
"Snap out of this funk. You're not like this at all, and frankly it's freaky." Naruto blinked at him, and smiled softly.
"Lets head back to Konoha and see what changed and what didn't." Naruto sat up and yawned.
"What do you mean?" Sakura asked. Naruto merely grinned.
"Well, I'm not entirely sure. But I suspect that people who are supposed to be dead will just randomly appear and come back to life, their graves completely disappearing, but their memories will not. Everyone will remember that they died, and they too will remember they died, but… well maybe not. Maybe everyone will think they were in a coma or something. I don't honestly know. I do know that the memories that people have of us before we went back in time, will stay the same and will not alter." Sakura grumbled under her breath and threw Naruto a threatening glare.
"This is really confusing, I don't understand at all." Naruto shrugged at her.
"Ma, I need Ramen!" he suddenly bolted and ran down the hill, only to stumble on a rock and roll down the rest of the way.
"What the hell was that all about?" She asked, standing as well.
"No clue. He's completely strange. One too many bops to the head, ya know?" Sasuke even demonstrated much to Sakura's amusement.
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"There's a town not far from here." Sasuke spoke up. "Actually it's just around the bend." He mentioned, much to the tired delight of Naruto and Sakura, the former complaining loudly about having to walk.
"Yush! So who are we going as?"
"Why not as a family, since that seems to be the topic of the day." Sakura suggested.
"Hai! I'll be the daddy, Sakura can be the mommy, and Sasuke can be the kid." Naruto was grinning from ear to ear. Sasuke cracked his knuckles and Naruto paled considerably.
"Heheh, I was joking!" he threw his hands in front of him and waved to fend off his angry friends.
"Naruto, you know the Akuma-henge, you have to be the kid." Sakura explained while she threw on a Henge. Sasuke followed her lead. Naruto sighed. He looked at Sakrua who was now a brown haired older version of herself, and Sasuke a blond haired older version of himself.
"Fine, fine… Akuma Hange!" unlike the normal henge that created a genjutsu around a person, akuma henge actually physically altered the body. His body took about 5 minutes to shrink to that of an 7 year old. His clothing of course, was now too big for him. But the second part of Akuma henge solved this problem as his clothing puffed into smaller sized versions. Even his voice changed.
"Mooom, can I get an ice-cream?" He asked Sakura while taking her hand. Sasuke was trying his hardest to not laugh, and Sakura was blushing, reminding herself that it was 'good practice for the future'
"Ask your father." Sakura replied, desperately trying to not laugh.
"dad?" Naruto pouted. Sasuke was shaking with the effort to refrain from giggling.
"Ah.. sure.."
"Yatta!" He grabbed Sasuke's hand and swung in-between them, like any normal child would. Naruto wore a big grin on his face. Being a kid again wasn't so bad actually.
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Naruto sat on a public bench licking his ice-cream cone while 'mommy and daddy' went to go clothing shopping and supplies shopping. They were, at the very least, 3 weeks walking distance away from Konoha. They would need it the supplies.
He was happily licking away when he smelt a familiar scent. It tickled his nose as he tried to place where it was from. Was it….. Ramen? No. something else. Dango maybe? Nope. Ah well, it wasn't his concern. Instead he occupied himself with finishing his ice-cream. Once he was finished, he pulled out a piece of paper and a pencil. From there he started to write.
When he was finished, he put the paper in an envelope, and from there wrote 3 words as two who the note was addressed to. Looking around to make sure he wasn't watched, he calmly went 'exploring.' The truth being he was taking an indirect root to the local park. It was empty.
Sighing, he began the one handed seals again.
To Sakura, Sasuke.
Gomen. But like I said, if you have the power to change things for the better, would you hesitate? Or go for it? You know where to go, so go there. I'll come back later, tell Obaa-chan about our adventures!
It's just that… this time… I want to selfish for once…
Naruto.
"U….. ZU… MA… KI!" Naruto froze in his second to last seal. That voice. That putrid and vile voice. Naruto turned around slowly and gasped horrified. No, he hadn't been back a full day yet! How could he find them?
The man chuckled, red hair stirring in a sudden breeze as lifeless black eyes grinned sickly at him.
"I found youuuuuuuu!" Naruto was frozen; he realized it was Kanashibari no jutsu and he gulped. Akira came at him again, he felt a strong sense of déjà vu happening. He felt the kunai press against his neck this time…
Kyuubi was the one to take control of his hands and perform the last seal, breaking the kanashibari as well. The familiar sense of being frozen in time as red chakra swallowed both of them whole, they stared at each other. Akira was trying to move, but he couldn't move, neither could Naruto for the matter as everything started to wind backwards…
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"Survival test? But we've already done one of those." a strawberry blond haired and hazel eyed girl spoke up
"Ah. Still…you have to get these 2 be-" The man speaking was interrupted as a globe of red chakra with enough force to whip trees out of the ground arrived some feet away. Thinking fast, the man grabbed his 3 students and vaulted backwards.
"Nani?"
Two figures immerged from the red sphere. And as if released from some spell, the larger red haired man slashed what looked to be a young child's throat. The Jounin gasped, horrified.
"Hey!" The Red Haired man looked at the other person, and seemed to realize something upon looking at his face
"Oh? Well this is interesting." He giggled, licking the blood off his kunai before he disintegrated into sand. The Jounin instructor couldn't get to him in time to engage in battle, which was probably a good thing.
"Rin, Obito, Kakashi, go home, NOW." The blond haired Jounin picked up the bleeding child and disappeared in a yellow flash.
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Wooo! First chapter done. If you notice, this is also the ending chapter of Grace, because I combined epilogue, prologue and chapter 1 of Gravity and Grace. Obviously I cut some things out that were strictly having to do with the Grace plot line, so I apologize if this chapter seems short.
If you have any opinions on what Yondaime's name should be, please let me know!