Next-Day - Konoha's Torture and Interrogation Building
Screams were heard as the Third Hokage entered the T&I Departments Building, as soon as he entered he saw ibiki with a scowl on his face.
"What did you find Ibiki?" asked Hiruzen.
"What I found? Well, I found nothing."
At this statement, Hiruzen frowned as well "What do you mean ibiki? There is no way you couldn't have found nothing."
"That is the thing they have no memories, I have had inoichi check them. It seems as they have been wiped, a clean slate as you will."
Hiruzen's eyes widened in surprise "That is concerning. From what it sounds it is like it is some sort of seal to stop others from finding out. Though usually a tongue seal is applied to stop them from talking. Though for us that usually isn't a problem so it must be someone with inside knowledge of people who work in this department. I shall get ANBU to investigate this lead."
Ibiki nodded "I will get back to my duties lord Hokage."
Just then an ANBU appeared and whispered something in the Hokage's ear. He just nods before disappearing.
Konoha Hospital
A Groan was heard as eyes fluttered open, A blond mop of hair moved. 'Kurma? Are you there?"
A Growl was heard 'Yes I am and you just interrupted my sleep kit, but at least you are alive'
Naruto Flinched as he propped himself up and looked around 'Ah shit I am in a hospital, huh wait isn't th…'
"Shikamaru!" Naruto tried to get up but his legs wouldn't move so he resorted to using his charka chains to pull himself across until the door opened.
"Naruto!? Your awake my boy, how are you feeling." Naruto's eyes welled up with tears but he blinked them away.
"I am doing good old man; how did I get here?" Hiruzen frowned inwardly. Did he not remember anything?
"Do you not remember my boy? Well, I see anyway, you and these other four were found outside the village gates. With major injuries and you had severe charka exhaustion. You must remember something."
Naruto put on a thinking face pretending to try and remember what happened. "I think I remember some bits but most of it is too funny. So all I remember is some ANBU lookers with white masks that had a weird symbol on the masks"
The Thirds eye's widened but he kept shock off his face. If he was right, then ROOT were involved. 'shit if this is Danzo's doing then they are in trouble.'
"Well Naruto get some rest and we will talk more once you are all awake." Naruto just smiled and nodded
"of course, Old man"
With that Hiruzen departed, leaving Naruto to his own thoughts. What would he do now? And what year is he in? his thoughts were interrupted by a weak groan coming from the other side of the room.
Shino lifted up his head, feeling his bugs agitated he tried to calm them down but felt as though he had no control over them 'oh right logic dictates that they are just trying to heal my injuries.'
"Shino? Are you awake?"
"yes I am Lord Hokage, are you aware we are in our 11-year-old bodies again?"
Naruto sighed, Shino was always good with that stuff "No I was not Shino and don't go around calling me Hokage we are not in our time anymore."
Shino looked apprehensive but conceded nevertheless "that would be wise Naruto, Why because it would not be prudent to reveal our identities just yet"
Naruto had a thoughtful look on his face "I think It may be good to at least reveal ourselves to the old man."
Shikamaru groaned at that. "do we have to, I finally have some time to relax, and we have to tell the Hokage about this, with that he would probably fast track us to jonin. It is too much of a drag."
Naruto just sighed "He won't Shikamaru we need to go through the academy anyway to get placed in our original teams. So there is no point in setting us forward"
"I don't think it would be best to tell him anyway as he would have to tell the shinobi council about it." Neji had been watching the conversation and the area around them.
Shikamaru Sighed. "The best idea would be to keep it to ourselves at the moment, otherwise we risk getting held back when it is really needed for us to be somewhere."
Neji looked over to the bed opposite. "Anyway, we should talk about this later we don't want anyone to find out about us this soon. Lee should be waking up in about 3… 2… 1"
Right then and there, Lee woke up his youthful attitude already lightning the mood in the room. "Youthful friends it seems we are in fact alive; this is great so we may continue our journey together!"
They all sighed happily as they relaxed getting ready for long explanations ahead of them.
Around an hour later
Hiruzen was walking down the corridor to the room that housed the children
"Lord Hokage parents of the patients are here."
Hiruzen put on a smile and opened the door, "Thank you, doctor, they can come in."
Then the Parents came in Shikaku and his wife, Shibi and his, Hizashi and of course most importantly the Great Gai-Sensei who went bounding over to lee as soon as he entered the room. With him embracing lee crying tears. The rest of them did the same in a less exaggerated manner.
Hiruzen walked over to Naruto sitting down next to him and staying with him and watching him go through different emotions. Happiness, anger, and sadness just to name a few. He put a hand on Naruto's shoulder and smiled at him. This helped to calm Naruto a bit as he looked over and smiled at Hiruzen.
Shikamaru had been talking with his parents "Mum, dad can I ask you something?"
Shikaku just nodded "I am guessing you want Naruto round for tonight, right? if it is fine with your mum I won't object."
His wife, Yoshino, just nodded "Yeah I am fine with it as long as you don't do anything too lazy."
After a while of talking and introducing Naruto to Shikamaru's parents, the nurses came in and checked everyone out. With that everyone said their goodbyes while knowing they will meet up later.
Next-Day – Nara Household
The three Nara's woke up to the amazing smell of food being cooked. Both Yoshino and Shikaku were the first ones down to see 4 plates of amazing food ready for eating. "Well, I'll be dammed, that kid can sure cook."
Shikaku reached to try a piece of the food but was whacked on the hand by a spatula. "No, not yet we have to wait for Shika first" A deep male voice rang out around the room.
Shikaku heard Yoshino gasp as he looked at what he thought was the spitting image of the Fourth Hokage, though there were a few differences such as the lack of his normal uniform or that he had whiskers dawning his face. "Naruto can you not scare my parents, or from the looks of it make them think they are in a time paradox?"
Naruto just scratched the back of his head and laughed "oh yeah, sorry about that. Yeah, it is me Naruto I just take this form to help with menial tasks that wouldn't normally work, I like to make it look like my father though" Naruto said the last part without thinking.
Shikamaru just sighed, Shikaku just started a coughing fit and Yoshino gasped even louder. "Naruto you know you are supposed to tell anyone that"
Naruto's eyes widened "Oh shit, forgot about that."
"So, you know?"
"Yeah, me and Naruto figured it out a while ago."
"Well anyways I can see you are all dying to eat something so let's do just that." Naruto created a shadow clone, and they grabbed the four plates taking them to the table and putting them down.
Yoshino was practically glowing; she was happy that she would have some time to lay back and relax without having to be active the whole day.
They all sat down at the table, Naruto back in his normal body, and they began to dig in. After a while of eating and small talk, Shikaku spoke up.
"Naruto, how did you and my son find out about your heritage." He did this for a few reasons. One so he could actually find out and two to gauge their reactions to the question.
Naruto knew this question was going to come up after the slip-up, so he had been mentally preparing himself for it.
"Well, it all started about a month after me and Shikamaru started hanging out. I asked him to help me find out who my parents were because it had been bugging me for a while that the Old Man hadn't told me anything about them and he agreed to help."
Shikamaru nodded "I only helped because I was genuinely curious as to who his parents were because his unique appearance made him stand out so much to everyone else in the village.
Yoshino nodded "You know I was teammates with your mother, I can tell you some stories about her sometimes if you wish."
"That would be amazing Yoshino-San." Naruto beamed
And with that the 4 of them continued their meal in peace, enjoying the now silent room.
"See you, boys, later"
"See you later Ma/Yoshino-san" both of them waved back to her as they walked out of the house and left the compound. they found Shino waiting outside for them to leave and he fell in step with them, both Shikamaru and Shino on either side of their Hokage.
We should teach the Hokage guard formations to Shino at the earliest possibility because without Kiba here it puts us at a disadvantage
It was then the trio started receiving glares from everyone around them. Naruto had already told them to ignore them as it would go off bad if they took action against them.
"We are meeting up with the others after the academy, although that is if Neij does not jump Tenten as soon as he sees her" Shikamaru whispered to the others. They laughed quietly to themselves.
They soon got to the academy and got ready to see their friends. Friends they haven't seen since they died. They knew this would be hard, but they knew the hardest thing would be seeing the man who killed them even if it was unwillingly.
They entered the classroom to find it empty, sighing in relief they went and found a seat at the back sitting next to each other, Shikamaru and Shino subtly looking for the fastest exits to get their Hokage out of the building as soon as possible.
Iruka came into a weird sight Naruto sitting with Shikamaru and Shino. Nobody ever sat with Naruto but smiled back at Naruto when he looked up at him while smiling a big simile.
Dad
Soon people started entering the academy, sitting down. It took a lot of willpower to not jump them and smother them in hugs. So they just settled down ready for a boring day at the academy
Hokage Office
There was a knock at the door. "Hokage-Sama, Shikaku-Sama is wanting to speak to you."
"Alright, send him in" Hiruzen took a puff of pipe as Shikaku entered the room.
"Sorry for disturbing you Hokage-Sama, but I have some news concerning Naruto."
Hiruzen gestured for him to sit at the seat in-front of his desk. "Well, go on then"
"Naruto knows who his father is."
Hiruzen's pipe dropped out his mouth with a look of shock on him. "Alright well, that was unexpected. How did you find out exactly?"
Shikaku then went on and explained what had transpired this morning. "well then, I think it is best that he get what he should is his by birth."
Shikaku nodded at his words, knowing that Naruto would love that.
After the academy
"Neji did not jump Tenten, in fact, he did something funnier. He just looked at he and started crying before asking her out on a date. Gai-Sensei just looked very happy for them but also confused at Neij's change of attitude."
All of the time travellers met at training ground 7 to begin training for their plans. Though at the moment they were telling stories of the day.
"You weren't any better Lee. Two words: Ichiraku Ramen" Lee just blushed while the others laughed even harder.
"Alright, alright. First, we need to figure things out here." Shikamaru stated when their laughter had calmed down.
"Yeah, but before all of that. Neji get over here" Neji raised his eyebrows but complied and Naruto took off his headband where his seal was. Everyone else gasped. Naruto pulled out some sealing supplies he had Shikamaru get from his father and started drawing sealing lines on his forehead and over his face.
After he finished he leaned away from Neji's face making sure to not smudge the lines, he made a few hand seals and slammed his palm onto his forehead and the lines glowed.
Just in the trees outside the clearing Gai and Shikaku were watching them, and their eyes were wide as the light dissipated and the birdcage seal was completely gone.
Gai then started to cry as the pain that hurt one of his students so much was gone. While Shikaku was still in a state of shock as he had no idea that Naruto knew anything about seals, he then realised something
"Gai, this is big, like really big."
"I know Sir."
Shikaku knew this could change the Hyuuga clan for the better. he listened in to what they were talking about.
"Naruto, will you help me in combining the Hyuuga clan."
Shikaku smirked these kids are going to be big. "Gai, can you give these to Naruto I need to report this to the Hokage."
Gai just saluted and disappeared.
"Naruto, will you help me in combining the Hyuuga clan."
Naruto just smiled and shock the Hyuuga's hand. "Yes, I will."
"LEE, NEJI YOUR YOUTHFULNESS HELPED ME FIND YOU." Gai ran into the training ground and over to them and Neji without thinking turned around showing off his clear forehead.
Gai saw this "NEJI YOU SEAL IS GONE, WHAT A MOMENTOUS OCCASION I SHALL WALK AROUND THE VILLAGE ON MY HANDS 100 TIMES!"
"YES, SENSEI LET'S DO IT RIGHT NOW!"
"OF COURSE, LEE, BUT BEFORE THAT. NARUTO THE HOKAGE IS EXTREMELY BUSY AT THE MOMENT SO HE ASKED ME TO HAND YOU THIS. USE IT WELL. ALRIGHT LEE, LETS HEAD OFF WE CAN GET SOME FOOD ON THE WAY!"
"YES SENSEI" Lee saluted, and they both ran off on their hands
They all sighed as they watched them runoff, and then looked back at Naruto who had opened the scroll. He gasped. Shikamaru looked over his shoulder and saw what it was.
"It is a complete scroll of all of Naruto's inheritance, including his father's jutsus."
Naruto smiled now he would have an excuse for knowing the Rasengan and Hirashin. "This is the best scenario that could've happened"
"Alright, so we need to change things in the village. First topic would be the teams. Should we try and get on the same team or stay on our original teams."
"I think staying on the original teams would work best as we would be able to give tips on how to improve themselves. Naruto, your team especially needs a rework on how they use their abilities quicker."
Naruto nodded "Yeah, we need to do something before the wave mission. It wouldn't bode well for us to have our shit teamwork again."
"That brings us onto our second point. The Kubikiribocho. You need to be able to keep it if Zabuza dies."
"Yeah, that will definitely help in the chunin exams. Which we should plan after the wave mission otherwise it would be planning too much."
Naruto looked over at Neji "Neji you need to start gathering support in the branch house soon otherwise your father may be killed soon."
Neji looked serious "What are you talking about Naruto"
"Kumo never tried to kidnap Hinata so they could try at any point."
Neji nodded understanding what his Hokage is talking about.
Shikamaru sighed and leaned back on the grass "I think that covers everything until the wave mission."
Naruto nodded and Shino spoke up who had been quiet this time. "My parents have asked if you all would like to stay the night because they want to meet my new friends." If they didn't know Shino that well they would think he was speaking in an emotionless tone, but he had an embarrassed blush on his cheeks.
Neji Smirked "That sounds good I'll go find Lee and find him, then I will tell my dad."
Shikamaru sighed "Yeah I'll be there but will have to tell my parents."
Halfway through the academy year
As it so happens Kumo did try to kidnap one Hinata Hyuuga, but they were stopped by Neji who knocked them out and brought them to the Hokage personally. They were then taken to T&I where they were given a nice stay with tea and crumpets. Just kidding they were interrogated in a dark and damp room. This nearly led to war but was quelled when Kumo sent a sizable amount of money to the leaf.
First day for Genin teams
Everything had gone about the same for the academy students with each of them befriending their teammates somewhat. Well in Naruto's case that was barely but he had drawn in the spars he and Sasuke had. So Sasuke had come to respect him as a worthy opponent.
But anyway, today the gang finds out their team placements. They were sat in the same position that they had at the start of the year. Ready to hear the team announcements.
"Team 7: Naruto Uzumaki, Sakura Haruno, Sasuke Uchiha" Iruka stated while reading his clip board. Sasuke grunted at this while his other teammate had another reaction.
"Sensei why did me and Sasuke-kun get put with that idiot."
Iruka just sighed "The reason is because Team 7 has always had the combination of dead-last, Top Kunoichi, and the Top Student. These rules are made by the Hokage so they cannot be disputed."
"Alright, sensei" Sakura sat back down with a defeated look.
Iruka just looked tired as he continued "Team 8: Hinata Hyuuga, Shino Aburame, Kiba Inuzuka"
All three of team 9 had looks of confidence on their faces as they all looked at each other.
"Team 9: Still in rotation."
"Team 10: Ino Yamanaka, Shikamaru Nara, Choji Amajki"
Iruka continued to list out the rest of the teams but the three did not care, they were ready to face their new (Second) lives as ninja.
Holy shit that took me a while, I had left this for ages forgetting about it but when I remembered I looked it over and realised I hated how I wrote the chapter so this is how it is now. If you want to know what it was like before it consisted of the story continuing in a way different fashion because they had told the Hokage about them being time travellers. Thank you all for reading this chapter.
