Saturday, September 1st, 2012.

Hey, everyone! I decided that after 3 weeks of not updating, no one would add another review on A Couple Moments on the Road of Life. I'll keep doing these 2-3 weeks of no updates if I don't get reviews on it. Seriously. I'm pushing that much on it.

I worked hard on it, you know? It was my best work so far.

I might change the summary sometime, to see if that'll help readers. Cuz what I put wasn't much of a summary.

I also read the new Naruto chap. So it was Obito's FULL body. I see that he also has Obito's memories, but it's not the Obito we KNEW. First of all, the original Obito ACTUALLY died. I think something happened when he was brought back to life. I mean, same memories and bodies, but not same consciousness. Why the hell would Obito kill people so easily without remorse? Why would he do what he did? Do you think that if the Obito we knew was brought back and in his own consciousness and state of mind that he'd do what he did? No. So I think that he's sharing the body with something/someone. That's not OBITO is any way. Just body, memories, and eye. Not personality or anything.

We'll just have to wait and see what the deal is.

Anyway, disclaimer.

Me this time.

Dislcaimer: If I seriously owned it, would I be saving up for a PS3? Would it take at LEAST 1-2 years to get it out of my own and my sister's money? Would I be riding on the hope that I graduate 8th grade with at max 2 B's, and the rest A's so my dad will get it for me with some money I didn't know he had? No. No. No. I didn't think so.

Now read, suckas!

I'm seriously not going to update for at LEAST 2 weeks, without those reviews on A Couple Moments on the Road of Life! You can put as many reviews for DoOver as you wish (which would put me in a better mood at least and make me feel better) but I still won't update until those weeks are over!

Oh, and just to let you know, this story is going to be longer than I expected. Everything's going so slowly and I like keeping things canon, so Sasuke can't be madly in love with Sakura already, and same for Shikamaru to Temari. Just a warning: this story isn't ending anytime soon.


Chapter 12: Karin & Scrolls

Normal POV

Kakashi stood up. "Well," He said. "If we're done here, why don't we leave? We already know who's going against whom in the Finals. I suggest we rest for a couple days to recuperate then start training. Agree?"

Hokage-sama stood up, too. "I agree with Kakashi. Karin you are to come with me." With that, he exited the room; the Grass-nin he called for trailing behind him.

Slowly, adult by adult, team by team, the inhabitants of the room began to leave.


*In the Hokage's office.*

Karin POV

"All right," began the bearded Kage in front of me. "We'll start with you, Karin."

I gulped, wondering what he was going to ask. Luckily it was only him and I in the room. I didn't sense any presences outside, so we were totally alone. I just had to hope there were no listening devices in here.

"Do you have a last name? Are you part of a clan?" I was caught off guard. Of all the questions I thought he'd ask I didn't expect those.

"Y-yes. But you have to promise to keep this only to yourself." He nodded, his expression grave. "I'm an Uzumaki. I don't know my exact relationship to Naruto and his mother, but I do know that I'm an Uzumaki. No, the healing you saw me do has nothing to do with it. It's not a bloodline trait."

"But how?" He asked. "How do I not know of you? I thought Kushina was the last pure-blood Uzumaki. And how do you know of her? Do you know of any others?"

I sighed. "I didn't know myself until recently. The only clue despite it being fact is my red hair, but lots of non-Uzumakis have red hair. I guess she isn't, really. I know a lot of things. Yes, one but I can't tell you who quite yet. Don't worry; it's no one in this village."

"What about your healing ability? You're very young, how do you have that kind of training? I looked up your files and there was nothing on that or anything but your ninja career. I've never seen that kind of healing before."

"So far, it's only been used by few in Grass and Sound, besides myself. I came across it one day. It was incredibly underdeveloped so I took it upon myself to further it on my own, for myself. The whole reason really was because I hated hospitals and anything to do with them. So I furthered this healing ninjutsu –it's called Heal Bite, by the way- and made it into what I did today. By biting me, healing chakra can be pulled into the one biting and heal them quickly. But it also depletes my chakra reserves and it heals the whole body rather than just one specific area. Because of that, the resulted healing is not entirely complete. But if I work harder on it, it can do just the same as regular medical ninjutsu.
There isn't much about me because I'm pretty straight forward. I know nothing about my parents, and I have a favor to ask, if it's not too much trouble."

"Hm...what's the favor."

I looked down, suddenly shy. "May I…become a Leaf ninja? I even have in mind who I want in my team but they aren't here yet…Also one more thing."

He raised a brow. "Who are they? And what's the other thing?"

I looked up, holding my shattered glasses. "Can't say yet and I've got terrible eyesight. I need new glasses."

He chuckled. "Of course I'll get you new glasses." His expression turned serious again. "What exactly is going on? What's going on between you and the kunoichi and Sai at the exams?"

I sighed again. "It's a long story. Be prepared; you might not believe me."

"What could it possibly be? Believe me; after training the students I have and partially raising Naruto, I've seen a lot of things. Nothing really surprises me."

I laughed slightly, but humorlessly. "Well, first of all, us kunoichi and Sai are from the future and I'm really 16 years old."

He sputtered. "Wh-wh-what!"

I held my hand out, palm facing him. "I suggest you don't interrupt. I should start from the beginning. In my past, in the Forest of Death, I made a run-in with Sasuke, who saved me from a giant bear thing. I'm not surprised he doesn't remember it. After that, Orochimaru had picked me up, since I had nowhere to go…"

I explained everything from the Forest of Death to the point where I had found myself in sitting with him and the other adults watching the preliminaries. And I also got the others' sides of the story -Itachi had fed us each other's memories so we know everything, but it's difficult to differentiate whose memories are whose- so I didn't miss anything. He had to know as much as possible.

"So…" the Hokage started. "Itachi sent you back, huh? And all of this really happened?"

I nodded. I had already told him that some deaths may be avoided as long as they didn't affect the future too drastically.

"And he's going to come back to tell Sasuke everything? Sasuke really is so obsessed with power? I almost can't believe that Tsunade is coming back, soon."

"Actually, to make Naruto stronger, we're going to leave it to him and Jiraiya retrieve her. You need to send those two to get her ASAP, after the exams. Maybe write a mission scroll to do so once the Exams end, cuz you'll be dead by the end, too. But Kabuto needs to be killed. Anytime soon would be fantastic. The Akatsuki are moving faster than they did before."

"Who are all of the members of Akatsuki?"

I hadn't told him yet. But I will now. "I'll go by pairs. First off there's Itachi Uchiha of Konoha and Kisame Hoshigaki of Mist. He ended up committing suicide, but I'd say Gai should be the one to fight him. Maybe with some help, but Gai indefinitely. He could be considered one other the Seven Swordsman of the Mist. He killed the previous wielder of Samehada and his master, Fuguki Suikazan. He's one of the only members of this generation's swordsman besides Mizukage Mei's assistant Choujiro and Zabuza if he's still alive.

"Next there is Deidara of Rock and his partner Sasori. After Sasori was killed, his partner was 'Tobi', but I'll get to 'Tobi' later. Deidara has mouths on his hands and one on his chest. He uses those mouths to make detonating clay. He was the one who captured Gaara in the future. He committed a sort of suicide- a giant bomb to take out anything within 10 kilometers in attempt to take Sasuke to the afterlife with him. He always hated Uchihas – Itachi beat him easily when they were younger and Deidara hated him and the Sharingan ever since.

"Sasori of the Red Sand. He is greatest puppet master ever and the maker of the puppets Kankuro of the Sand uses. Many don't know he's the 'Sasori', mostly because he has a larger puppet disguise that he resides in. He turned himself into a puppet and can only be killed by destroying or piercing the…violet cylinder in his chest where his heart would be. His strongest puppets are the ones he made of his parents. His grandmother is Lady Chiyo of Sand. She doesn't know he's alive. In the future he was killed by Chiyo and Sakura working together. Unfortunately, since Gaara was captured by Deidara to the Akatsuki, he had Shukaku extracted and died. Chiyo used a forbidden jutsu to bring him back, Naruto putting a little of his own chakra because Chiyo was already weak and needed a little more to revive Gaara. She died.

"Hidan of Yugakure and Kakuzu of Takigakure, known as the Zombie Combo. Kakuzu had other partners before Hidan, but he killed them all. Kakuzu and Hidan, or really Hidan, are immortal. That's why they're called the Zombie Combo.

"Hidan killed Asuma in the future and Chiriku from the Fire temple, as they were hunting the last 12 Guardian Shinobi. Shikamaru permanently decapitated and incapacitated him by almost literally cutting him apart and blowing him up. He was buried in the Nara's forest. I think that was the best way because he doesn't necessarily have a heart and you could cut off his head and he'd be totally fine. I don't think he could have 'died' any other way.
Kakuzu would patch him back up. So cutting him up in mixed up pieces in a hole was the best way to go.

"Kakuzu was 91 when he died. He even fought Hashirama Senju; he lost obviously, but he still fought him. Kakuzu lived off others' hearts, using them as a life source. To kill him, you have to kill all of his hearts and then his. The hearts can separate to become creatures to fight, for a lack of a better explanation. He was fought by Ino, Chouji, Kakashi, Yamato/Tenzo, and finally Naruto. Naruto finished him off with a technique called Rasenshuriken, the finished version of Rasengan. But he should only use it in Sage Mode because that time he killed Kakuzu with it, he hadn't had Sage training and it destroyed the chakra cells in his arm. It was nearly unfixable and he almost lost it. He in the future he could have used it in Sage Mode without any defects. But he only had enough chakra to do it 2 times. In Tailed-Fox-Chakra mode, I think he could have used it as much as his chakra would allow along with other Rasengan tricks he developed." I had already explained Sage and Fox Chakra Mode.

"Then there's Orochimaru. You know him."

"You remember when I told you the original goal of the Akatsuki and the original members? How there were many but it was reduced to today's 10?"

The Hokage nodded.

I gave him the story of Yahiko, Konan, and Nagato -the other Uzumaki with the Rinnegan. I told him about their story with Jiraiya and Jiraiya's life along with the Prophecy.

Then I explained everything I knew about "Tobi" along with what I discovered from Itachi and the others and everything that happened in the war.

After a moment of thinking after I was done, he said; "So is this all? Are these Juugo and Suigetsu the ones you want on your team?"

I nodded, glad that I was finally done with the explanations. "Yes. Itachi is going to bring them from Orochimaru's hideout to here, but after Tsunade comes back. Juugo needs all the help he can get. I'll give you a written version of what I've told you and one with the stuff I could tell the others."

He nodded. "Yes. But I'll probably burn the one you give me; I already know now. And I'll try to get started on searching for proof of Danzo's and the Elders' crimes, to get them out of office. I always knew that they were up to something bad but I couldn't find any proof, even though I was there when the Uchiha Massacre was decided. Danzo's thinking of putting Sai as another member of Team 7, but I'll have you alone until Suigetsu and Juugo are here. Are you okay with being alone or do you want Sai to be with you until the others get here?"

"I'll be alone. The sooner Sai bonds with Naruto and the others, the better." I paused, suddenly remembering something. "Am I…a Konoha ninja now?"

He laughed, remembering he forgot too. "Yes, of course.I'll be done with the papers soon. I'll talk to your village leader later." He gave me a headband from seemingly nowhere. "Here's your head band. You can keep your other one for safe keeping if you want." He handed me a credit card and a key. "This should be enough for furniture and food and to keep you going for a couple months until you can support yourself. You'll be living in the same apartment complex as Sakura. One door down to the right. I knew I was right to save that one. That's the key. You'll be doing missions with any of the Rookie teams, or Konoha 12 as you called them. It may be Team 8 one day then Team Gai the next. Be prepared."

I smiled, saluting him. "Thank you, Hokage-sama! " I turned to leave.

I was about to open the door to leave, when he stopped me. "Wait!"

I turned around, seeing him hold out a slip of paper. "Go to the hospital and show them this. They should get you new glasses with the correct prescription. I called them a while ago."

I took it and left to the door, trying to do my best to not bump into anything with my poor vision and destroyed glasses.

Long time no see. I hope we can make it to the hospital, four eyes.

Shut up Inner.

Let's go home after we get new the pair. We're exhausted.

Yeah.


After getting my glasses and a check-up in the hospital (which the nurses insisted on) I sensed the girls and Sai not too far from me. Curious about what they were doing, I ventured over to their location. They were in a clearing some distance behind a stone bench.

Why is that familiar?

Maybe it was in one of the memories Itachi gave us of the others so anyone of us could tell the Hokage what happens in the future; so we get all sides of the story that we all know. But who's?

Don't know.


Sakura POV

After leaving the building where the preliminaries were held, I gathered Hinata-chan, Temari, Tenten, Ino-pig and Sai-kun to a clearing I found behind the "Infamous Bench" as I dub it. Remember there were some trees behind it? There's a clearing farther in.

Now that I think about it, we never told anyone what happened there. But the others probably figured it out; especially with the memories that Itachi gave us.

Maybe. I just hope Pig won't question me about it anytime soon.

Don't count on it. You know her.

Before I could reply to my Inner, Karin came out from the bushes.

"What's goin' on?" She asked.

"A group meeting. We're going to open the scrolls." Sai answered, his fake smile on.

He didn't completely trust her, but enough to work together for the mission. I don't blame him either; I don't trust her that much either.

She sat down at an empty spot in the circle we arranged.

"Is anyone around?" Temari asked.

"No one." She replied after scanning the area.

Everyone got their scrolls out. At the same time, we opened it, and Temari began to read.

Normal POV

Uchiha Itachi: spared Uchiha Shisui, but still somehow managed to attain the Mangekyo Sharingan. Uchiha also spared his mother, Uchiha Mikoto and his brother Uchiha Sasuke.Tenten and Rock Lee: had met each other and Hyuga Neji a couple years after the death of his father, staying friends since.Fourth Kazekage: had not cared much for Temari and Kankuro, letting them be with their younger brother, Gaara, when they grew older. Gaara used to regard the two as his siblings and some of the only bonds he has, however his attitude changed. The only reason he has not killed them yet is because he still feels like he shouldn't, though he doesn't know why. He also needs some company and doesn't want to deal with any crap from Baki or anyone else for doing so.Matsuri: at age 11, she met Gaara. He had broken her leg on accident, but she still insisted on being friends with him. He let her be near him and trained her to be a ninja. He is as reluctant to kill her as he is to kill his siblings.Matsuri: her parents had died in a fire after her house had been raided by Sand ninja and rogue bandits when she was 9. She had been on the streets until she had met Gaara and Temari shared her room with her. Umino Iruka: had adopted Naruto as his foster brother (1) when Naruto was 9. They still live separately, with Iruka visiting and feeding him properly, once in a while, however. The Mizuki incident had still happened.Haruno Kizashi, Haruno Sakura's father: is a drinking civilian. He believes in male domination and that only men can be ninja, amongst other chauvinisict and sexist ideals. Is to die in the Invasion. Beats daughter sometimes. His wife much less than Sakura, but it still happens. Haruno Mebuki, Sakura's mother: is still the supporting mother she was. She supported Sakura becoming a ninja. Is a civilian and will die in the Invasion with her husband.Sakura: has an apartment for herself prepared. She is to move into it anytime now. Sarutobi Hiruzen supports it until she can pay for it.Hyuga Hiashi: harsh, and treats Hinata as a defect. He treats Hyuga Hanabi similar to a robot, and is soon going to disown Hinata. It may happen any day now. Hanabi is sweet to her sister and genuinely loves her, but does not have the freedom to act as who she is, nor does she know how to or who she is. She follows Hiashi's words without knowing anything else. She is going to take Hinata's place as heir after Hinata is disowned.Hyuga Ko(2), Hinata's primary caretaker: Is always watching over Hinata. The two have a brother-sister/father-daughter sort of relationship. He is always there for Hinata. The two are very close. He also has a separate apartment with 2 bedrooms. When Hinata is disowned, he plans on having her move in with him there.Hyuga Tsuki, Hinata's mother, had died in childbirth at Hanabi's death. This advanced Hiashi's plummet to who he is now. His brother's death clinched it.Shimura Danzo: had set up the test a 1-2 years sooner, resulting in Shin's death. Shin: As he stabbed himself, Sai, startled, jerked toward his brother and his book had fallen out. It was open to the final, finished page. Shin smiled, and passed peacefully. Sai knows the other details.Naruto: had been in the village's orphanage until he had been kicked out at 8. He then moved into the apartment he has today with the support of Sarutobi Hiruzen.Tenten: Had been in the village's orphanage until she had convinced Sarutobi Hiruzen of letting her live alone in an apartment (that he pays for until she can pay it) at 9. Shortly after Naruto had. She had met Naruto when she was 8 and him 7. They had become friends but had not properly spoken to each other since the day after Tenten had gotten her apartment. They still feel as if they are friends, though, like aforementioned, they don't speak.Hyuga Hinata: had talked to Naruto a couple times after Naruto had saved her from bullies at 5.Yamanaka Ino: nothing really changed.The scrolls: has a consciousness. My consciousness is in all of the scrolls. We can speak to you through them. So we're…living…scrolls?You all: are able to communicate through the scrolls, as long as you have them with you. Insert a tiny bit of your chakra into them and think of a message and who you want it to go to.

Example: Sakura to Tenten:

(From) Sakura: Hey, what's up?

Tenten: Not much. You?

Understand?It is much too difficult for Itachi to communicate through this often, so don't expect it. Itachi: he could be saved from the illness that ultimately killed him. However, it's not easy. It is possible to transport things from scroll to scroll, using the summoning technique. However, it takes a lot of chakra, so don't do it often or for trivial things.Like I said, We're alive and watching. We're immortal. We also speak pretty informally as you can see. That's all for now. You can't do anything with your scrolls for the rest of the day: only read.Bye. Any questions for us will have to wait until tomorrow.

"Well…that's interesting." Comments Temari.

"Definitely. I didn't expect being friends with Naruto at childhood." Tenten says, looking at her red, white and green scroll. (3) It also had 2 dragons wrapping around her name on it.It's amazing that it didn't remind me of Christmas; it looked cool.

"I'd better be going. I'll be spending some time in the Foundation's HQ. I'll try to find Yamato if I see any ANBU Black Ops members. Bye." Sai picked up his things and left, not sparing the others a glance.

He may be feeling sad from what happened at his brother's death. I wonder if he'll tell us if anything else happened. Ino thought, her heart clenching at seeing the pale boy's sad eyes. What I've been feeling for a long time now, even in the future…is this…love? Or just a crush! I don't know…UGH! I need to sleep on this.

Ino stood up, also gathering her things. She turned to leave, calling over her shoulder as she slowly disappeared into the distance, "I need sleep, I'm tired. See ya, guys."

Soon, everyone was gone, at home.


(1): Iruka said that he thought of Naruto as his younger brother and that he felt the need to protect him. If you don't remember, it was when he tried to stop Naruto from leaving the island when he heard about the war. I think the anime's almost at that point, but I know this happened in the manga.

(2): Remember him? Ko really is Hinata's caretaker, sort of. He was seen again trying to stop Hinata from fighting Pain. He's obviously almost old enough to be Hinata's father, so I'm making him younger. Like 21. So when she was a child, it wasn't too odd to have a 13 year old looking after her. So he's 8 years older than her.

(3): All the time travelers have a color-coded scroll. Yeah, Tenten's reminds me of Christmas when I wrote about. Ino's is yellow, royal blue, and violet, and "Ino" on it. Weird, combo, but what I have in mind looks nice. Hinata's is indigo (a cross between blue and purple), lavender, white, and her name is on it. Sakura's is red, lime green, and a white circle around her name. Temari's is lavender with a black outline, and has a picture of her fan on it. On said pic of her fan, is her name. Sai's is gray, white, and a deep purple. His name is in what looks like black paint. It's the design of the scroll, but if you looked at it, you wouldn't be sure if it was the scroll or him. Yamato's is tan, dark brown, and green. His name is in a deep blue. Weird combo, again, but looks cool. Matsuri's is teal, yellow, has black outlines, and her name is in a dark brown color that reminds you of wood.

No, I don't have pics of the scrolls. I came up with the designs in my head.

Just about all of the info in this chap is true. (Meaning the Akatsuki) I looked them up weeks ago. Or I got it while following the series.

I like keeping things canon, but sorry if Karin is a little OOC.

At first, the chap stopped at when Karin's Inner said, "Don't know." But I decided to combine it with the next chap. I combine 2 more future chaps, to lower the number. Like I said, this isn't anywhere close to ending.

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