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Her eyes fluttered open and she looked around her. She was surrounded by a muggy darkness and she couldn't see much around her other than the imposing Gedo statue before her. er heart raced as she tried her hardest to get away from it. An old man sat beneath the statue and he watched her with unamused eyes as she scrambled away from the statue. When she was a good distance away from him, he shook his head at her and stood. "So, you're the one that dared to stand up to me… Pitiful." He sighed and her eyes widened in fear as she realized who the old man was.

"Madara…" she stammered and he only managed a small grunt as he flew through hand signs. She flinched away from him as he reached to touch her forehead, squeezing her eyes shut the moment his fingers made contact with her. She waited for the sound of him sitting down once more before she cracked open an eye to see what he had done. She saw no noticeable difference until she realized her clothes were now baggy on her and her sandals were now a few sizes too big. She looked at her hands and noticed they were slightly smaller as well. She rushed over to the small body of water in the cave and looked at her reflection.

Her hair was the same length, but she was younger. Her eyes began to water as she continued to look at her reflection. She was younger, but why? She sat back on her feet and looked over at him silently. He just sat there with his head propped up on his hand. "W-why?" she asked and he showed no interest in her strife. He just sighed deeply and continued to watch her. "You wanted to stand up to me, but now you cower before me like the little insignificant weakling you are…" he said as he watched her. "Did you really think you could do anything about me? Even in this state you're scared of me." He said and her lips trembled.

He was right… even in the near-death state he was in sitting before her, she was still terrified of him. What could she do? If she tried to attack him even now, she didn't know how strong he was so he could still kill her no matter what… she bit her lip as she struggled to stand, holding onto her clothes so they didn't fall off of her. He also put her at a disadvantage by de-aging her. not only were her clothes too big and would hinder her movements, but she also didn't know if she could use any of the jutsu she had learned… She pulled a hair tie from her vest pocket and used it to tie a loop in the hip of her pants so they wouldn't fall off. She then tied a knot in the hem of her shirt so it wouldn't be so baggy as well.

Even though her clothes were less hindering to her movement now, she wasn't going to attack the man before her. "What do you want from me?" she asked and he scoffed at her. "I want nothing from you, you were the one who challenged me. So, if you think you can stop me, then go ahead and do it. Try your best." He said with a smirk. She fisted her hands at her sides, thinking of how she could try to stop him, only for a thought to cross her mind. "Why did you make me younger?" she asked and he frowned at her once more.

"You said you wanted to stop me, so you have two choices in how you can do so. Either kill me here and now, or you can go try to save him from me out there in his time. So, make your choice and I will even give you a bit of assistance in your attempt."

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Her eyes fluttered open as she struggled to push herself off the ground. She sat up and looked around her, trying to figure out where she was. She thought about the sgreement she had made with Madara and figured she could do her best to stop him. 'I can make it to where it isn't suspicious that you randomly show up in the village. You'll be a late admission student and no one will be the wiser. That will be all the assistance I will offer you, though. If I succeed you will go back to your own time, if you succeed, I will leave the boy alone.' She was going to do her best to try and save Obito, she had to.

She looked around and noticed she was on the ground outside of the academy. She looked around and saw a group running over to her. Teachers all surrounded her and continually asked if she were ok. She nodded and they proceeded to ask what had happened to her. "I… I don't know…" she said and they frowned. "Come on then, let's get you to a medic." One teacher said and she took his hand as he led her away. She followed behind him, but turned and looked behind her to see a group of twelve year old's gathering at the entrance to the academy.

"You must be the new transfer student. What happened to you?" the medic asked when they got her settled in her office. She proceeded to listen to her heart and look in her ears while she spoke. "I honestly don't know…" she whispered and the medic frowned. "What a shame… well you seem to be ok, thankfully." She said and Hinata nodded. "Well, let's get you back to class then." She said and Hinata nodded as she followed the woman back to the academy.

When she entered the room, she felt embarrassment flood her as she realized everyone was staring at her. She took her seat near the front of the classroom and sighed softly as she listened to the other students all chatting amicably. Someone tapped her shoulder and when she looked, Kotetsu was looking at her oddly at her while Izumo was glaring at his friend. Kakashi had been the one who had tapped her shoulder. "He was talking to you…" Kakashi said, pointing to Kotetsu and Hinata blinked.

"Oh… umm… I'm sorry I was going to wait until you were done bickering." She said softly with a smile and Kakashi chuckled under his mask, the Brown haired girl, who she now knew as Rin giggled at Kotetsu's exasperated look. "I told you she has no interest in you." Izumo laughed and Kotetsu looked deflated. "Oh… sorry, Kotetsu-san…" she said, feeling slightly bad that she had ignored the syrup loving kid. The teacher walked in and everyone rushed back to their seats.

"Oh! I see our new student has arrived! Would you please stand and tell us about yourself?" he asked and she nodded with a slight blush. She stood and all eyes were on her, as if that made her any less nervous…

"I love cinnamon rolls… I… I really don't like bean paste or anything bitter…" she trailed off with a disgusted look on her face and the teacher smiled at her. "What are your goals, dreams, and things of the sort?" he asked and she looked at her hands. Obito's face flashed within her mind and she almost felt like crying… what was going to happen to him? Where was he now? In her time, was he dead? Her heart clenched painfully and she tightened her grip on her jacket sleeves.

"My goals…" she began and the class listened intently. "My goals are to protect a friend of mine… because… I know that something bad is going to happen to him… I don't want him to get hurt…" she whispered and they looked at her oddly. "I understand you want to protect them, but how can you be sure something will happen to this person in particular? We are shinobi, accidents happen all the time." Her teacher asked calmly, truly curious as to what she would say. She fiddled with her fingers. "Because I know he is in danger and my heart won't let this feeling go…" she whispered and Her teacher nodded his head, while smiles were on everyone else's faces. They all knew what it felt like when you want to protect someone. "Thank you Hinata." The teacher said and she sat back down.

That was how her first day back in the academy had gone. It hadn't actually been that bad, so she hoped the next day would go just as smoothly. She slept out in the konoha forest near the training grounds that night.

She arrived at the academy the next day, only to see the words "Genin Testing Prep" written on the chalk board in all caps. She blinked and sighed, she really didn't want to go through with this again… She took a deep breath and walked into the classroom. At least she had the advantage here. The teacher nodded to her as she walked over and sat by Rin. The same seat was empty as it had been yesterday. The teacher caught sight of her and smiled.

"I know you haven't been here long enough to study for the genin test, so I won't make you take it." he said and she stood. "I can take it! I promise I won't fail!" she said and he looked at her wearily. "If you think you are ready…" he sighed and began passing out packets. He handed her two instead of one. "I need you to give that to someone for me, Kakashi and Rin will let you know who it is…" he sighed, he obviously looked agitated about the missing person. "You will know him when you see him. He looks like an idiot." Kakashi sighed and Hinata smiled a bit, he reminded her a bit of Sasuke when he would talk about Naruto.

She looked around at all the familiar faces with a soft smile, she saw Sasuke's parents sitting together in a corner; Mikoto was talking animatedly with Fugaku and he would crack a tiny smile every now and again. Her parents and her friend's parents were all older than she, Rin, Gai, Kurenai, and the other sensei were, they weren't there for the actual academy, they were just there because they had family members getting the details on their genin test prep. Hiashi was there for his younger cousin.

When the adults left the room the only ones there were Hinata, Kakashi, Rin, Kurenai, Asuma, and the other sensei. There were some other people there too but she didn't know who they were. Well, she didn't until she spotted a girl in cargo shorts chomping on dango. Anko Mitarashi. Anko spotted her and jumped from her seat and walked across the desks until she crouched in front of her. "Yo, newbie. Hang with me sometime and I think I can make you awesome." She said and tossed a dango at her. Hinata caught it, but when she looked up Anko was back on the other side of the room chowing down once more. Hinata was completely confused, Anko was so weird, even in her time she had thought the tomboyish woman was weird…

"Anko, stay in your seat until I say otherwise…" their teacher complained and Anko smirked at him. "Yeah, yeah I get it, because you're the boss man…" she grumbled and the teacher glared at her, obviously she cared very little for authority, even when she was younger…

"Alright everyone, now that you all have your preparation packets, you can leave." He said and everyone stood to leave. Hinata followed Kakashi and Rin out and they were the last to leave. Kakashi just kept walking, but she figured he wasn't a very sociable person. Another kid with spiky black hair wearing orange and black clothing and goggles ran up as everyone was leaving, his excited grin fell into a frown right away.

She felt sorry for the kid. "Looks like you were late again, Dobe." Kakashi said and the kid glared at him. He looked towards them and Hinata blushed lightly, he was actually kind of cute. "Oh! Obito!" Rin called out and Hinata's mind went blank… Obito… the black haired kid turned towards her and grinned as she waved. "This is Hinata, she has something for you…" Rin said and Obito looked at her. Hinata blushed and a faint blush covered his cheeks as well.

She held the envelope out to him and he scratched the back of his neck nervously. "Oh… Uh… thank you Hinata-san…" he said and she smiled at him. "Not a problem, Obito-kun." She said and he looked at her oddly, it wasn't a bad type of odd look it was more of a confused one. He took the envelope and she smiled at him again, trying to hold her blush back, but it wasn't working very well. Rin began talking to Obito and Hinata saw how he brightened up ten times more talking to her, than he had been talking to her.

Her heart fell and a frown crossed her lips, so this was the Rin he loved… She folded her hands behind her back and held the envelope there as she walked away. She felt someone watching her and turned to see Rin looking at her with a frown on her normally smiling lips, she looked over to Obito and he looked about as clueless as Naruto had been all through academy years. Her heart sank and she continued to walk away, so that… Was Rin Nohara…

Hinata found somewhere out in the forest surrounding konoha to rest for the night, there was no way she was going to ask someone for a place to stay. She read over her prep and was disgusted with how simple the stuff was. Clones? Henge? Kunai accuracy? So simple… But then again, she had been a chunnin and pretty close to getting jonin where she was from… She heard a noise and decided to investigate. This felt familiar. 'thud' thunk' thunk' thunk' "Ah Dammit!" she blinked as she rounded the tree and saw Obito there struggling with his kunai.

She frowned; he was going to be one who was going to have trouble with that part… "Um… Obito." She called out and he jumped and turned around to look at her. He looked visibly upset. "Are you alright?" She asked and he nodded wiping his eyes from under his goggles. "I just got dust in my eyes is all, training hard gets the dust moving." He said and she smiled a bit. "I see…" she said softly and he grinned, although the slight redness of his eyes didn't hide the fact that he had been crying.

"Who are you anyways?" he asked and she smiled. "I'm the new student. I will be taking the genin test with you tomorrow." She said and he nodded, the eagerness fading from him completely. "Would you like some help?" she asked and he shook his head. "No! I couldn't ask you to help me! it's alright. If I'm going to be Hokage, I have to do it all by myself." He said and she smiled. "Hokage need some help at times too you know." She said softly and he blushed lightly. "Well, I will be the one that won't." he said and she smiled. 'He wanted to be Hokage… That was his dream…' she thought her heart fluttered at the thought, she wanted to help him accomplish that dream…

"Good luck, Obito-kun, if you need me, just call for me, alright?" she asked and he gave her a haughty look, but as she turned away, she saw him sigh, a blush dusting his cheeks. She smiled as she made her way over to a secure looking tree and she climbed into the parted roots and she lay there and went to sleep.

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Obito sighed and calmed his racing heart, girls… they did the weirdest things to his heart. No other girl had ever made him feel that choked up and nervous but Rin, and now this girl… Hinata. She was nice to him, unlike Kurenai. He thought that over and an irritated look crossed his face. Kurenai was awful to him, she would hit him at every chance she got, whether he had said something to her or not. But this new girl seemed to genuinely want to help him. She was pretty too. Another blush covered his cheeks at the thought of her.

He walked home with a goofy grin on his face, his family thought nothing of it since they always saw the same goofy grin. The black sheep among the Uchiha, that's what he was called. He was out of place, reckless, weak, looked down upon. He knew he was, but that only reinforced his dream of being Hokage. He grinned and headed straight for his room, where he flopped onto his bed and went to sleep.

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He woke up the next morning and got ready. He took off running towards the academy and when he got there, he saw both of them talking, Rin and Hinata. Kakashi watched him with a bored look. Rin grinned and waved him over. That was why he loved her, she cared for him, she treated him like she truly wanted to be around him, and her smile… it was contagious. He grinned and ran over, Hinata blushed and looked at her feet, he really wasn't used to people doing that…

"Hey Hinata-chan!" he greeted and she blushed darker. "Hello Obito-kun." She greeted softly fiddling with her fingers. He watched her curiously, then… he decided that it was cute when she was all flustered and shy like that. He began talking with Rin, but he watched her out of the corner of his eye. She made him wonder about her… what she was really like, was she really as nice as she played it off to be? He heard them call her name for her turn to take the test and she blinked and walked over to the testing area. Everyone watched the others as they took their test, no one knew who would fail, but they could all see how the others made mistakes and they could learn from them.

"Clones. As many as you can." The teacher said with a small smile and Hinata furrowed her brows. "Any type of clone will do." He added and she sighed. "Are you sure? As many as I can?" she asked and he nodded. She frowned but nodded and she flew through the hand signs for some sort of clone. "Kage bunshin no jutsu!" she exclaimed and twenty five shadow clones stood around her. Her teacher dropped his pen in shock. "Where did you learn that jutsu?" he asked and her eyes went wide, Obito was curious as to why she would get into trouble for it…

She shrugged lightly and the teachers furrowed their brows. "Will we have to contact your parents?" they asked and she looked at her feet. "I have no parents…" she whispered and they exchanged glances. Obito felt sorry for her just then, he hadn't known anything about her and to find that she was alone… it made him feel bad. "Alright, we will speak with the Hokage about you using this jutsu and we will see what he wants to do about it." their teacher said and her clones vanished. "Now… choose someone in your class and henge into them. She looked over each one of them and furrowed her brows. He could tell she wasn't really looking at them too much.

She didn't need to look at them, it looked like she already knew who she was going to henge into. "Ok!" she said and performed the henge seals. Her hair became shorter and spikier, her image blurred and an exact copy of himself stood in her place, she grinned and gave him a thumbs up. He blushed a bit and looked away in embarrassment. "I know you can do it, Obito-kun." She said as she dispelled the henge. He scratched his head nervously and watched as she hit every one of the targets with expert skill.

He paled, he wasn't going to hit a single on of targets and he already knew it. He sighed as they called his name. The clones were easy, and so was the henge, he had turned into Rin and she smiled at him, while Hinata looked at her toes with a saddened look on her face. She wasn't looking at him but he could see it. Girls… they confused him more than anything. He took a deep breath and threw a shuriken, it hit the target, but wasn't dead center like Kakashi's had been.

He didn't care, he was hitting the targets! He grinned and continued to throw until he had hit all the targets. He grinned and his teacher smiled back at him, proud he had actually hit the targets for once and not another student. Hinata was smiling at him again and he felt that odd feeling in his stomach again, it was weird he never felt this way when it came to Rin, he supposed she just made him nervous. He grinned as they had all gone to go get lunch together, Kakashi sat at the very end and Rin sat beside him, so Obito sat on Rin's other side. Hinata didn't follow them though, she just went on her own way.

He watched as she walked down the street all by herself, she looked happy enough… he didn't figure that she was really as happy as she put off being, though… he looked to his friends who had been talking to him and he grinned. "Uh, sorry I was just thinking about something." He laughed and Kakashi scoffed loudly. "You and thinking should never go in the same sentence. Obito glared at him and Rin sighed. "Boys, please… we get to find out who our squads are tomorrow! Lets rejoice that we made it!" she said and Obito smiled. "Sure thing!" he cheered and Rin grinned at him.

"I wonder where Hinata is going…" Obito mumbled and the other two leaned back to look and see her walking towards the Hokage tower. "I think she got in trouble for the jutsu she used earlier…" Rin said with a frown and Kakashi nodded. "It was a forbidden jutsu, but it's the first time I have ever seen it. it equally distributes your chakra into every one of your clones. And whatever they learn, you learn when they are dispelled." Kakashi said and Rin looked at him like he was the smartest person in the world, it made Obito sick that she would look at Kakashi that way. There was no doubt he was jealous.

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Hinata sighed and made her way up the steps of the Hokage tower, she could remember these stairs very well. She traversed them a lot in her training with Tsunade. She reached the top and walked around the circular hallway and knocked on the door she knew was the Hokage office. "Come in." the voice of the third Hokage rang out. She gently pushed open the doors and walked inside. "Ah, the Hyuuga girl." He said and she fiddled with her fingers.

"I understand you know a certain forbidden jutsu that isn't one children your age should know…" he said and she nodded. "I know a lot of jutsu…" she said softly and he furrowed his brows. "I have no idea who you are, where you came from, and what you are doing here, but I would like to ask… were you born here?" he asked and she nodded. "Yes… but…" she bit her lip and fiddled with her fingers. "But what, dear?" he asked, he was trying to be fatherly, but she didn't think he would believe her.

"This isn't the real me…" she said and he furrowed his brows. "What do you mean?" he asked and she fiddled with her fingers more. "I don't want to change anything… but… this is the real me." she said and henged into what she had looked like before Madara had pushed her through the vortex and changed her appearance. "But I am trapped in this body… I'm not from this time… this man…" she said and henged into Madara. "Pushed me through this time space vortex and I ended up here like this…" she said and released the henge.

"That is very interesting indeed…" he said and she could tell he didn't believe her. "Please believe me… I was a chunnin, I had gotten recommended for jonin, but I never got to go through with the jonin… Madara Uchiha… he sent me here challenging me to fix what he is going to mess up…" she said and the third nodded. "Keep this to yourself, I am going to do some research, but in the mean time… I want you to keep this under lock and key, got it?" he asked and she nodded.

He smiled and nodded. "But first, I want to let you know, if your skills prove to be on par with a jonin, you will excel quickly. Now I want you to go meet with your team that I am personally recommending you to. You won't meet them today, but tomorrow morning first thing you will." He said and she nodded with a smile. "Thank you…" she said and sighed as she walked out of the office. "Oh, and Hinata… I would like for you to stay in this place, alright?" he said and tossed her a set of keys.

She caught them and smiled gratefully. "Thank you." She said as she rushed out the door and down the street. She rounded a corner and collided with someone. They made an oomph noise as she landed on them. "I'm so sorry!" she squealed and opened her eyes to see who she was face to face with, or well, face to goggles with. She blushed a deep red and scrambled backwards. "I'm sorry!" she squealed again as he stood up. She saw that he was blushing too, and darkly at that. "Uh… it's ok! Really…" he said but the blush didn't fade from either of their faces. "Well, goodnight, Obito-kun I have to go now…" she said and he nodded, he watched as she took off towards the apartment complexes.

He looked down at his hand with a blush. "That was purely accidental…" he mumbled and Kakashi snorted as he walked by him. "You're such a pervert, Obito… grabbing on a girl's chest cause she trips…" Kakashi scoffed and Obito glared at him. "I said it was accidental dammit!" he growled and Kakashi rolled his eyes. "Keep telling yourself that, you wanted to cop a feel because she has more boobs than Rin." Kakashi said and Obito glared at his back. "What the hell! What are you staring for!?" Obito yelled and Kakashi shrugged. "It's what guys do…" he said simply and Obito deadpanned at him. "Pervert." He grumbled and turned to walk away but Kakashi had stopped.

"Says the one who actually grabbed her." "It was a damn accident!" Obito yelled and Kakashi shrugged again before walking off. "Stupid jerk!" Obito growled as he shoved his hands into his pockets and returned home as well.

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Hinata woke to a knock on the door and grinned when she opened it. The man at the door smiled at her lightly, he was a tall blonde man who seemed younger than he looked. "Umm… Hinata Hyuuga, right?" he asked and she nodded. "Ok good, I was worried I had the wrong person." He said and she smiled brighter. "Meet at this training ground, we will introduce you to your new team, it's going to be a little weird because it's not a normal group, but I think things will work out fine." He said and she nodded and took the paper from him.

He waved and left. She ran back into her room and changed from her baggy khaki jacket and blue capris into something that felt more for the occasion. She wore a tight black sleeveless shirt, black pants that were a little tighter than she would have liked, and a dark grey coat that was a tiny bit baggy, but not overly so. She attached her medical pouches to her hips, while her kunai and shuriken pouches were secured to her thigh. On the back of her silverish grey jacket there was the Hyuuga symbol outline, it was solid black. Her jacket wasn't really a full jacket, it was short and reached below her ribs so she could have easy access to her medical pouches. She pulled on knee high flat bottom boots like Sakura wore.

The change in her attire felt nice, a new start she guessed. A new start for him as well… she was going to save him. She looked at the training ground number and smiled. "Alright! Here I go!" she said and took off out the door. She got to the training grounds, but there was no one there. she frowned thinking she had the wrong number and she felt a chakra pulse as she jumped backwards and skid away from the person who had lunged at her.

The yellow flash shot by her again and she lunged forward at just the right moment to send her smaller leg into his and sent him stumbling. He managed to grab his footing and he grinned as he scratched the back of his head. "You're better than I thought… I guess that's what I get for not believing the Hokage." He chuckled and she blushed. "Sorry, sensei!" she squealed as the rest of the team dropped from the tree. "Hinata-chan!" Rin chirped and Hinata grinned at her and hugged her friend. "Hi, Rin-chan!" she greeted. Obito just stared at her in disbelief. This was going to be more trouble than its worth, Minato could already tell.

"So you are our fourth member?" Kakashi asked and Hinata nodded. He didn't seem to like the idea, but she figured he was just grumpy again. "Yes, although odd and very out of the ordinary, the Hokage sees great promise in all of you and he wanted me to personally make sure you meet his standards. But first… we will all introduce ourselves since I don't really know any of you. And then I have something else for you all." He said and the group nodded.