Authors Note

After an excruciating amount of time I was finally able to get a hold of the author Forever Gypsy with the request that I adopt this abandoned story. Please do understand that while she is the original author of this story, I have decided to make adjustments to it but the general plot line is still being kept too, with her permission of course.

All characters belong to Kishimoto Masashi.

Chapter

I

To End At The Beginning

The cave was dark and damp but it was the only place with nothing besides the last standing shinobi's alive inside. Taking in a calculated breath she turned her attention back to Naruto who was uncharacteristically quiet. Considering the situation she understood completely the need for silence; across from her was Obito and Kakashi talking in hushed tones as they strategized and tried to figure what to do and leaning in the darkest parts of the cavern walls away from all of them was Sasuke. She knew he was finally not sure what was going to happen. Nothing he had done had helped put even a single dent in Kaguya's defenses.

Everyone else was caught or had either died trying to fight against Kabuto, Obito, Madara and Kaguya.

Leaning her head back against the cavern wall as she took careful breaths, the cavern was small and they didn't want to make to much noise or use up to much oxygen. They couldn't risk Kaguya finding them. Her eyes landed on Obito to find him staring hard at her, she would even allow herself to use the word inquisitively for the way he was looking at her .. possibly maybe even contemplative. She didn't like it one bit, it made her feel uneasy.

He looked back to Kakashi and began conversing even quieter this time. Even in the dark she could see that whatever he was saying made Kakashi's body go rigid, Obito words putting him on edge.

"No" She looked back over at Sasuke only to be stopped dead in her movements as Obito was in front of her, the tomoe of his Sharingan was spinning and she had never realized how truly pretty the sharingan was until then. What seemed like millennium of looking into his eyes was only mere seconds and she was brought back to the real world to find Naruto and Sasuke angrily pulling Obito away from her.

Obito straightened himself up and placed his hands up in a surrender form. "What did you see Obito"? Kakashi asked as he stood up from his position. Naruto looked over to them finally realizing that something was going on, Obito was up to something again. "What did you do you damned Uchiha?"

Kakashi protected Obito from Naruto and Sasuke though as he got in-between the Older Uchiha and the boys. "Now, now let's all calm down" Obito didn't need his protection though. "We don't have much time, I needed to see why she had survived when no other's had … She's only a girl and yet here she is … Now I know, she was a key".

She could feel her brow twitch in agitation. "A key?" She looked over to Naruto and Sasuke who looked just as perplexed as she was. Obito nodded his head. "Itachi was a genius like no other, he had the ability to see what others couldn't … I suppose that when he was reincarnated by Kabuto that he had begun to put the pieces of everything together when he saw that Madara had been reincarnated as well. … In that small amount of time that he'd been here with us he put the puzzle pieces together and devised a a fail-safe, safety-net if you will inside of the girl" She was really getting pissed off that he was not using her name.

Naruto looked back to her and she caught his eyes and she knew that just by looking at him that he was at his wits end. They needed to finish this fight and he was willing to do anything to save the world. For some odd reason Naruto trusted Itachi, they barely even spoke to one another but Naruto had found a trust in him that she couldn't understand but considering they were at war she supposed she didn't need to.

Obitos words made her blood run cold though. "Itachi now only gave her a fragment of his chakra but he embedded a blue-print in her mind on how to do a time travel-jutsu".

Was that even possible? "Time-travel is a Kinjutsu for a reason!" She tried to explain it to them, she needed them to realize what they were about to do. "Shinobi have gone mad, they've died and some have even disappeared and torn their bodies apart trying to attempt such a feat! Doing it could kill us all if we make even the slightest mistake!"

The air in the room seemed to thicken around them all and they knew that Kaguya was not far away, thanks to Obito's use of the Sharingan she was on their trail now.

Sasuke protected his older brother though and Naruto backed him up as he nodded his head in agreement. "Itachi would not place such a task inside your head if he even thought that it would hurt us all, besides I'm sure you can all feel it, Kaguya is almost on us, we have no other choice, all of our chakra reserves are low and if we face her now we'd might as well have surrendered to her. The jutsu is the only other way".

She swallowed hard, Obito was keeping something out of the equation though, he knew that whatever else was there was to it would make Sasuke and Naruto change their minds.

He looked over all of them then. "We need to get started on the preparations, I need to use Kamui but I don't have the necessary chakra to do it".

She knew exactly what that meant. She looked down, maybe this was it, maybe this was why she was able to stay alive in order to sacrifice herself in order to help them get back to the past.

She stood up only to be shut down by Obito. "Not you girl" Naruto looked quizzical trying to understand what was happening. Kakashi then finally spoke up. "I'll do it" Naruto sounded confused as he finally decided to question what was happening. "Do what? What are you all talking about?" Sasuke kept his look on Kakashi as he spoke.

"The only way to take chakra when you don't have much of your own left is to take it from another … You have to kill the other person and force their chakra into your own body".

She didn't want to do this, she backed as far away from all of them as possible and Obito was next to her then, pulling her back. "You're not going anywhere" She struggled against his grip on her arm "Let me go! I'm not going to do this!" He stopped then and grabbed her other arm as he shook her in anger "You have too!" She was worried she had just made Obito yell and he wasn't exactly someone who yelled. Since this war began she hadn't heard such a thing from him and it made her stop. "I didn't understand at first but now I do, I always wondered why the Sandaime had placed a useless girl with the Jinchurriki and one of the last surviving Uchiha's on a team with Kakashi but now I realized, now I understand why not the Hyuga girl, why not the Yamanaka girl, but you … It all makes sense now" He looked cold at her as his hands moved from her arms and he gripped her wrist harshly. "I will force you if I have to".

"Sakura" She turned towards Kakashi then and he smiled at her as he slipped off his mask and revealed his handsome face that he hid away from everyone.

"It's okay Sakura, sacrificing myself for the greater good ... protecting you three, it's the most honorable way to die". He pulled a kunai from his pouch and looked down at it as he continued. "Obito, as soon as you get to your dimension you need to make sure that you do everything quickly Kaguya isn't far". Obito's grip on her wrist loosened as he let her go and walked over to Kakashi.

"Don't worry Kakashi, I'll take care of them". Obito looked back to them, "Hold onto to me". Sasuke appeared before her then and grabbed her hand wrapping her between him and Naruto while they held onto Obito.

There was no way any of them could actually harm Kakashi, it was too complicated, he was their brother, their father, their confidant. He was everything to them, even if none of them ever admitted it.

Kakashi stabbed himself, Obito quickly reached into his chest and grabbed his heart, she could see his chakra reaching into Kakashi's heart and grabbing the last bits of his own chakra. Kakashi fell before them and they were whisked away from the sight and into the Kamui dimension.

They let go of each other and Obito grabbed her roughly by the arm and dragged her away from Naruto and Sasuke. "Listen here girl". He let go of her then and sighed as he attempted to cool himself down. "You need to understand the situation. Sasuke and I are not going to be able to go with you and Naruto … Naruto needs our chakra in order to seal Kaguya again when you guys get there. " She shook her head. "I don't understand how are me and Naruto going to be able to do this without you two?"

"Kaguya is coming for us, she can't be too far, just far enough, You need to trick her, I'm going to start preparing everything after I speak with Naruto, but listen to me you need to get Kaguya into the circle and trick her into using her chakra in the point so that she can transport you specifically back to the beginning of Konoha … Kaguya can't die Sakura … you understand don't you, if she dies everyone that has even the smallest amount of chakra will die with her, no matter the timeline, no matter the dimension, she cannot die".

That worried her, wasn't all of this the point to defeat her? "I don't understand if we're not going to kill her then what do you want me to do with her?" He looked at her hard. "Kaguya's chakra will be sealed inside of you".

She was going to become a Jinchūriki … was that even possible at this point? "I'm too old though, nobody has ever had so much chakra sealed in them as an adult …. I might not even be compatible, I don't even descend from her bloodline!"

Obito leveled his gaze on her, "You're more than compatible … Naruto is a Uzumaki sealing jutsu's come naturally to them, he'll be able to do it".

He left her then to pull Naruto away from Sasuke and she watched as Naruto listened carefully. Sasuke blocked her view as he stood straight in front of her. "We don't have much time Sakura". She scrunched her brows together as she took in his body language carefully. He was so taught that it seemed like he was a snake ready to strike at any moment.

"I can't go with you, this is unfortunate it would have been easier … Remember Sakura, women aren't allowed to practice ninjutsu and it was a norm to seal a woman's chakra away, women who use chakra are witches, sorceress, they don't survive long at this point in time … Throw out all of your training from the academy, it's all shit, you cannot be Haruno Sakura, you have to stop being Haruno Sakura, you need to forget your insecurities. If you're going to survive then you need to listen to my words. Haruno Sakura is dead. She died with us … with me". He took a step closer to her and rubbed her shoulders. "And always remember … I'll always be right here when you need me". He tapped her forehead then as he backed away from her and she was once again grabbed by Obito, she was getting real tired of being manhandled but she had no say in the matter at this point.

"Now girl your going to listen to me because right now I'm the only person in the entire world that knows everything about Madara so what your gonna do is this, your gonna save Izuna, but understand that once you change events you split the universe as we know it into two distinct realities. One where we're all dead and the other you'll be in, Madara needs to marry so find him a wife and make sure he has an heir … He needs something to ground him to reality anything if something were to happen to Hashirama and Izuna again do you understand, also keep in mind that Madara is not only the Uchiha Patriarch but also a genius, he doesn't need his Sharingan to destroy an enemy, he's trained to not have to use his chakra and if he does, with his chakra he can go an entire day fighting before he can't fight anymore, he's also equal to you in chakra control … you may even be better which is could help you.. if anything use your medical ninjutsu, medics haven't come into play in his time, they won't for a few decades, it should give you a one-up". She understood, but she wasn't sure she was going to be able to, thankfully she had Naruto, he'd help her.

"We need to hurry, there's not gonna be much more time before she gets here". She looked over to Naruto and Sasuke and they nodded understanding what they all needed to do. "Sakura-chan, you got this" Naruto gave her his strength and she was thankful because she wasn't sure how she could do this on her own.

A kunai was slipped into her hands then and she shuddered at the feel of it as she looked too Obit at some point he had slit his palm and had been encasing them in a giant circular seal, five circles, with a small seal in the middle, the one she needed to get Kaguya inside of.

"Sakura" Narutos scared voice pulled her away and she saw that he couldn't look away from the kunai in his hand. She couldn't hurt Sasuke, there was no way she could ever … Naruto though he had to do it and he knew he had too because she would shatter and never come back from that … he might not either is what was worrying her more. "Focus girl". Obito captured her attention and he forced her hand onto the kunai and placed it right above his heart. "Focus, Sakura, you need to stay focused for all of this".

It was the first time he'd called her by her name and she knew then that this was happening, that she had to do this, really do this, go back in time and fix everything.

It took all her will to do the exact thing that she'd learned to undo, hurt someone, kill them, she knew she could do it, knew how too, knew what would make it hurt, make it fast, make it slow, make it painless. The thought of hurting someone though when she had been trained to heal, to save. It was so hard for her, but not for Obito, he was ready for this, he was determined to fix his wrongs.

The blade went in smoothly and she resisted the urge to heal him, with all her might she allowed her chakra to scream and cry at the sight before her, and quickly she reached inside his chest and pulled out the only thing that was keeping him alive.

It was heavy in her hands, his heart red like the moon. She could feel the chakra inside of it, straining to stay alive somehow. Her chakra reached out towards the remaining chakra inside and glued itself to it. Although, it felt all too consuming, powerful and pure, the chakra inside the heart was warm and glowed like nothing she had seen or felt before.

"Sakura". The spell broke and she came to herself as she felt the electricity buzzing all around them and the thickness in the air. Kaguya was here.

"Sakura hurry!" She ran towards him with the heart, he needed the chakra so he could seal Kaguya's chakra inside her.

The heart glowed bright like the sun as she forced the chakra out of the heart and into Narutos body. She watched him squirm as she forced it inside him and she tried her best not to let the feeling, the awful feeling that filtered through her body as she forced Obito's chakra off her own, she tried everything in her to keep it from effecting her as well.

The dimension opened then and she watched with bated breath as Kaguya came up on them. "Sakura get in the circle!" She realized that the Alien Goddess, the Mother of All had stopped in front of her and watched her carefully. Her face void of anything but hate.

"You have their chakra! My precious chakra!" She seethed but she didn't make a move, why didn't she move against them? Did she realize what they were up to?

She stepped back carefully, hoping the other woman wouldn't take notice but she did and she watched her with those eerie eyes of her, that third eye so shocking alien, nothing about the woman looked human and she finally understood why the families she created were so beautiful to them all. So celestial.

"You think you can steal from me and get away with it!" Sakura ran fast towards the point and she forced herself to flare her chakra up just to get the woman to flare hers.

It worked to because as she skidded to the opposite side of Naruto in the circles Kaguya had stopped right in the middle to separate them and she flooded the room with her chakra.

The light was bright and it felt like she had been burned by the sun, and she realized she was falling.

Her body turned and she noticed that Naruto was up above her falling along with her and above him was the sky, dark and clear with stars shining upon them. He was yelling as he reached for her and she reached for his open arms. "Sakura!" "Naruto!" They held each other as they prepared for the impact, and they impacted hard against stone, Naruto took the brought of the fall as he had switched them at last second so she wouldn't get hurt.

Her senses were on high alert and she was quick as she got up from the floor, Naruto took a small second to get his bearings together and she helped him out of the crater they had made. "Where is she?" She looked around and saw another crater not far from their own and realized that Kaguya had been knocked unconscious. They jumped in the crater carefully. Naruto looked over to her as he whispered careful not to wake the sleeping alien. "How long do you think we have?" A groan escaped her and she turned wide eye at Naruto as he started forming seals. "Naruto we need do this now!" He nodded and she went closer to the alien woman.

"Sakura lay down over here" Naruto patted the side next to him, using his body to separate her and Kaguya. Sakura's body shook from fear and chakra exhaustion, her muscles weak she plopped down and laid her body down. She undid her vest then and she looked over and Naruto whom was staring at her head, not truly looking at her. This would be the first time that anyone besides her had seen her without her complete uniform on. So much had happened and in this single second she couldn't believe that she was feeling so insecure about her body still. She had thrown herself onto a scythe to protect him and Sasuke from Madara and yet here she was.

She threw herself onto a scythe for Naruto and Sasuke … She could show some skin in this moment.

Quickly she moved her shirt over her head and placed it behind her, Naruto was still not looking at her and she laid down. Her bindings seeming more tight on her than ever before and she could feel her stomach clench as Naruto didn't look at her. His hand hovered above her tummy and she grabbed his hand, his head finally turned towards her. His eyes wide and fearful.

He was scared.

She placed his hand upon her belly and didn't let go of his, intertwining their fingers she took in a deep breath. "Don't be scared Naruto, I trust you".

Naruto looked on the verge of crying. "What if I hurt you?" She shook her head. "You won't". He nodded his head and he turned away from her. On the other side of Naruto, she could hear as he used his other hand and began to tear at the clothing Kaguya was wearing. Naruto let go of her hand then to turn his complete attention towards Kaguya as she heard the groan escape the other woman. "Shit, she's waking up". Her eyes were wide then. "Hurry Naruto". He turned back towards her and grasped her hand in his again, their fingers lacing together again and he was crying again as he placed his hand on his stomach. "Ne Sakura this is rather ironic, a Jinchūriki creating a Jinchūriki huh".

"It really is". She took in a deep breath as she felt the cooling chakra begin to invade her system. The more he began to push into her though the more it started to hurt. The more he pushed into her and the harder it was to find sense in that moment. She'd never felt anything like that chakra before. It was delicious, it was pure, it was strong, filled with love, with hate, with power.

Narutos hand pressed harder and suddenly she felt hands on her ankles, she could barely see through the cloud of chakra that was filling her system. It wasn't all she could feel though, as if she'd become part of the world, she could feel the stone, the soil, the air, the wind, the sky. She could feel Naruto and everything that was inside him, the fear, the love, she could feel Kaguya and all her fear all her hate, her ... love. She could feel the humans all around the surrounding area and she took in a deep breath as she felt them and all their emotions.

It ended as soon as it began and she took in deep breaths as Naruto smoothed back her hair. "It's okay Sakura, it's all over now". He leaned against the walls of the crater and she breathed out deeply.

Something wasn't right though, she could feel it deep in the depths of her soul she knew something wasn't right and her stomach clenched hard as a stabbing pain shot across her stomach. "Oh god!" "Sakura!" Naruto was there to cradle her against him and the pain only got worse and Naruto began to cry. "I'm so sorry Sakura". The pain in his voice almost broke her.

"I'm sorry Sakura". There was something else that scared her though, she could feel it, in that moment as she clenched in pain she could feel Naruto's life beginning to slip away. "Naruto you're dying!" Through all the pain she moved out of his grasp and placed her hand over his chest.

She tried to tap into her chakra but something wasn't right. Naruto grasped her hand in his. "Sakura it's okay" She choked on a sob as she felt the tears begin to fall. "I'm sorry Sakura, I wish I could stay with you but using the Hakke no Fūin Shiki and then having to do Tensei Ninjutsu on top … My chakra is gone now. It's okay though, it was worth it".

A reincarnation jutsu … On a woman she looked down at her belly as it continued to contract in pain she understood now. "Naruto why!" He leaned his head on her shoulder. "I'm not supposed to be here with you Sakura, everything … all of this it was to get you here, to seal her chakra in you so you could make sure that no one would try to bring her back, she can't hurt you if she's not whole". His voice was getting smaller and lower and she could feel his heart beginning to stutter under her hands and the sky began to roll with thunder and wind. Sobs began racking her body as she held him to her. "Naruto, Naruto stay awake! I need you to stay awake!"

"Sakura … I I couldn't con .. con" She scrambled as she felt his heart stop under her hand and she tried to force the chakra to come up. It wasn't working and she knew it was because of what he'd done, her chakra wouldn't work like it was supposed to for a few weeks.

There wasn't anything she could do to save him, to bring him back like she wanted to and she held him as she cried, she was all alone now.

Looking over to the other side of Naruto she saw that there was nothing left of Kaguya but her robes. Grabbing the thick robe she wrapped it around Naruto and her just as she felt the rain beginning to fall upon them.

She needed to shield him, she needed to protect him from everything just as he had her.

Locking herself under his arms and wrapping her own around his body hiding beneath the cloak she waited there, holding the only person in this old world that loved her.

It wasn't when the rain stopped or when her body begged for sustenance or when she starved for water that made her come out of her hiding place underneath the heavy cloak, it wasn't even Naruto's decaying body or the stench that forced her out. It was the moment they came that she was forced out, when they'd tried to take him away from her.

She'd killed the ones that touched Naruto, those that tried to take him away from her. The others ran away from her and it was in that moment that she broke down crying and screaming at the sight of Naruto. His beautiful face had turned grey and rot, it had began to stink days ago and in the light of the day she couldn't avoid the truth. He was dead and he wasn't coming back to her.

They'd left her all alone … and this time was final.

It was ironic that she'd find to have been dropped in the ruins of a temple. The irony was that people used to flock to temples in order to be saved and yet here she was burying Narutos body in a small dead garden in a little alcove on the side of the temple.

She set up her camp right next to his grave, too afraid to really leave him, to afraid of what could happen if she left him. Would they try to take his body again?

The days turned to weeks and weeks to months and along with it, her virginal body had turned against her and she found with the time her belly rounding with a child not of her own making.

Eventually she'd come down from the temple, quietly discreetly. At first she watched with bated breath in the shadows as people lived in the small civilian village, unknowing to them what had just occurred. She used her training to steal the food she needed, the clothes she needed as she watched them.

Listening to them gossip about the crying woman that fell from the sky and inhabited the haunted temple, because of course she'd get dropped in a haunted temple. They continued to gossip about spotting her wander the grounds of the temple and they gossiped about her belly.

In those moments she would look down at her swollen belly and wonder why her. ... In those moments she would breakdown again not clear of why she was the one that had to go through with all this on her own. So she would lock herself away for hours and days in the temple, crying and begging to someone to hear her, to kill her and the monster inside her. Starving herself, hoping it would kill it. A coward she'd become unable to actually take the kunai and do the job herself.

In the temple through all her screams and tears as she slipped further from herself she'd hear them. Her people calling her, begging her to eat, begging her too except, to be strong.

A state of self-pity and remorse for how she was acting she would go back down the mountain the temple sat on and continued her recon and search for food.

Slowly information necessary to her would come through. She'd somehow gotten dropped in Shimo no Kuni thousands of miles and even an ocean from Kaminari no Kuni. The frozen continent didn't have any shinobi to call its own and it made the civilians all the more weary of strangers, of her.

The clans in the shinobi world were still fighting though and most of all Uchiha Tajima and Senju Butsuma were still very much alive and still very much fighting. In her current state she wouldn't be able to do anything about them though, she'd just have to wait until it was time.

So she continued to steal food and clothing, collecting what she could for herself. It was rather easy especially considering that it was a civilian village and in these times civilians weren't trained unless they came from a shinobi clan. The chances were in her favor for the most part.

It was the day after she figured out what year she had been dropped into did she feel it a sharp cramp all across her stomach and she knew then it was time. She'd helped enough expecting mothers deliver their children in her original time to know the signs.

She screamed to whomever would listen as her water broke and the contractions began to get closer together and harsher. Completely alone in this world and about to bring a child into it without any guidance whatsoever she cried harder as she screamed in pain.

Crawling backwards on her bed, she sat up against the headboard and attempted to use her chakra to create a clone to help her. Nothing happened and she knew how silly it had been to even attempt it. Women couldn't control their chakra properly during childbirth, the hormones and contractions, the child and their own chakra caused a sort of … clotting, that made chakra use unpredictable.

Now she had Kaguya's chakra inside her too and it was very unpredictable, very unstable.

Taking in a deep breath she tried once more to create a clone, she didn't need it to last long, just a few seconds. She reached down to the very depth of her core and called on her chakra, it was Kaguya's chakra that answered her. The powerful chakra came out full force and she opened her eyes to find a clone doing her bidding as it moved a mirror to the foot of the bed before it disappeared in a puff of smoke. The contractions wracked her body hard and with how close in conjunction they were she knew it was time, she focused hard on the mirror as she looked her body over as she tore the pants she had stolen not long ago off of her and took in another breath as she tossed the garments away from her. Another contraction and she knew she needed to see if she was ready they were so close together now that she needed she couldn't handle the pain anymore. It didn't matter though, the child didn't care if she was ready or not, a more painful pinch in her body happened and she widened her eyes at the realization not understanding but knowing her hymen had been broken. With the next set of contractions she could literally see and feel the child begin to slid out of her.

Letting the natural course of things take their reign she began to push with each contraction that came and soon enough she felt her womb empty completely and her body felt tired and strained and she heard a child cry. Grabbing the kunai she kept hidden under the pillow she reached carefully around her body and felt for the umbilical cord.

Severing the connection between them she stumbled over as she went to grab for the child. Screaming as she saw the child that had come from her, the dark tuft of hair, the eyes … Was this a nightmare? Scrambling back towards the head of the makeshift bed she crawled into her own mind again terrified at what had come out of her, terrified of what it could mean.

Those beautiful large eyes and that silk hair, it didn't belong on a monster, she stole their innocents and she would not allow her to parade such a victory around. So she didn't touch the monster, stayed as far away from it as her body could get on the ratty bed. Her stomach churned in a lecherous way and she turned her head just quick enough to miss the bed as she threw-up what little was in her stomach. Leaning her head against the wall she began to cry just as the child did.

What was she supposed to do? Looking over to the garden where Naruto was buried she watched as his jacket swayed in the slight breeze. The ice on the metal of the jacket seemed to reflect her sole and she knew then what needed to happen.

Kaguya could never come back, not through her chakra and not in body. Her tears felt like acid as it fell against her heated skin. Grabbing the kunai she took in a deep breath again as she reached into herself for the courage.

That chakra seemed to grab onto her then and she could feel her body healing, her energy coming back to her. Like a babe herself she felt … alive.

As the minutes passed by them, the child'd cries slowed down, by the time an hour passed the child had stopped crying all together.

Crawling towards the child with the kunai in her hands she held it up, she knew what she needed to do. The babes blue eyes gleamed with innocence and love though and the blade comedown and she screamed.

So did the child, and with their faces mere inches from each other she realized that this is not what Naruto would have done. The child's stomach moved rapidly as they continued to cry and she looked away.

Naruto always believed in second chances, that anyone could be saved from the darkness. Standing up from the bed she moved across the room to the wash area and grabbed a towel to clean herself up before placing a dress on.

Nine months and she'd lost so much time, she could have been gaining important information but she had the child and she'd been stuck on the frozen island.

Looking back to the child who was still crying she went back to the washroom and grabbed the towel again, she summoned a small amount of chakra and squeaked as instead the top of the water caught on fire, looking around the washroom she found that an icicle had developed on a small portion of a flower and dropped it into the water to cool it down dropping the towel in with it before twisting out the water from the towel and walked back to the babe to clean her with one hand while the other searched for another blanket, and wrapped it around the child, the small girl ceased her crying as the warm material touched her skin and looked up at her.

There was no way she could take her with her, the journey she was about to take would be a dangerous one. The fighting and the hate that she would no doubt discover could even cause the child to remember her past life and they didn't need that. Leaving her with the only option to leave her there in the civilian village. It broke her heart as she tried to remain strong, thinking about the hardships Naruto went through as an orphan … being a Jinchūriki didn't make it any easier either.

There was no way of turning things around … people were curious about her, she'd heard them call her many things, a ghost, a demon, a witch … a god. What would they think of the girl … It scared her but there were no other options.

Using the kunai she cut the sheets she'd been using and made a sling to hold the girl in. Looking around for a thicker coat she saw the rob that belonged to Kaguya and shook her head as she looked back towards the child. The girl could never know anything about her past.

With a suddenness she grabbed the coat that engulfed them both in warmth. The girl was hidden and protected perfectly underneath the coat. A sort of fullness impregnated her at the sight of the babe tucked comfily against her bosom.

Those big blue eyes looked up at her then, haunting her and she remembered why the girl couldn't be near her, the torture the little babe filled her with at the same time with those gem colored eyes.

The path down the mountain was difficult in the harsh wind, it bit at her skin and she knew that even if the child was warm right now, she wouldn't last that long in the cold temperatures. Shimo no Kuni was no place a child should be caught outside.

Retreating back into her mind she wondered how she was going to get back to Hi no Kuni from there. Remembering her lessons from school she realized that ancient geography was nowhere in the classes. She'd have to hope that there was still a boat that crossed the Aisu Bay, hopefully from there she'd be able to land in Tetsu no Kuni get supplies if not she'd have to stock up on supplies in Sora-ku. The child gurgled underneath the cloak and she stopped and adjusted the sling once before continuing.

She needed money though and there was no way she could use her chakra around civilians, she remembered the stories about how many of them hated shinobi during this time.

… There was also the Ninso. … In her time the Hingan-ji was very much still active, it would be in this time too. The Ninso were not shinobi and she knew that they had ways to tell when someone was truly confessing. They could help her, if they were willing. Ninso weren't fans of Shinobi but they were brothers in arms just like the Samurai, they were all connected through chakra.

She stopped in her tracks as she looked over the houses in the sleepy village. There were many families that could care for the girl, but she needed a family that was willing to protect and love her in ever possible way. Continuing on she looked over the house the only light to see coming off the moon.

There tucked in the corner was a small house that belonged to a bookkeeper and his wife, they hardly ever came out of their home now after the tragedy that had befallen them. She'd heard the others call them cursed.

A cursed child for a cursed family, seemed like a right match in her mind.

Knocking softly on the door, she pulled the child out of the sling and shielded her face from the rigid weather. The door made a screech as it opened, giving a more ominous feeling to the situation at hand she sucked in her breath and held her heart at bay. The man only opened it just enough to look out the crack of the door and she leveled him with her own stare.

"Who is it". He opened the door fully revealing his tall from, he was and older man, somewhere in his forties possibly with inky black hair that was balding and a matching full beard, his brown eyes were large as recognition dawned on him. "It's you!" She looked around the small area hoping nobody had heard anything. "Tachibana-san" He stuttered softly at the realization that she knew his name and instead showed him the child in her arms.

He looked frozen in that moment and she knew she needed to explain. "She needs a home, I cannot care for her". She held the girl out for him and he was hesitant until he took the babe from her carefully. "She's so beautiful".

Yes she definitely was, even through reincarnation the mother of chakra was able to keep her alien beauty. Rather unfair if she said so herself.

"You can never let her know where she comes from, I don't exist and you and your wife are her parents … do you understand me?"

The man nodded his head. "Of course … my wife will be so happy, the gods! You have blessed us!" She ignored his comment and she kept her eyes level on him, hoping he was intimidated by here. "Remember she can never know". Everything everyone had fought for, everyone had died for, all of this would be in vain if Kaguya ever remembered. She turned away then and she could hear the child begin to gurgle away.

She may not have wanted the girl, but her body had become attached to the child she had held and grew for the last nine months. She sucked in a breath and kept walking even after she heard the child begin to screech and the door shut. There was no way she could keep her, it wasn't an option.

Wrapping the thick cloak tightly around her she continued on her march, she tried to remember everything in her geography lessons. She needed to find the Ninso, they would help her.

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Translations:

Hakke no Fui Shiki - Eight Trigrams Sealing Style

Tensei Ninjutsu - Life Transfer Techniques or Reincarnation Ninja Techniques

Shimo no Kuni - Land of Frost

Kaminari no Kuni - Land of Lightening

Hi no Kuni - Land of Fire

Tetsu no Kuni - Land of Iron

Sora-Ku - Sky Ward

Ninso - Ninja Monk

- Aethi