Hello, World and all who inhabit it. Here I am with a new chapter of my most recent story. I could use some kinda feedback. Even if it's just a 'Yo, good job, dude' or a 'Dude, this sucks!' No flames, though. Those aren't particularly helpful.

Inoichi led us to a small room with a relatively large table and five chairs, four around the table and one against the wall. We were directed to the table and sat down, pulling our chairs together, Sophie and I flanking Zoey, who hadn't let go of me yet. Inoichi stepped back outside, the nurse following him. I assumed they were waiting for the Hokage.

As soon as the door clicked shut, Sophie turned to the two of us. "What are we gonna do? I'm not as big a fan of Naruto as you two are, but I still know that it's not every day a trio of orphans meet the village leader."

"So you two figured it out too?" I pondered. "Well, the first thing we need to figure out is how much we wanna try and change things. Do we wanna do our best to not change anything, or do we want to avert every single disaster?"

We sat there for a few seconds, before Zoey said, "There are things that happen that I wouldn't be able to let happen. We can go over specifics later, but we can't stop everything and I can't in good conscience let some things stay the same."

Sophie and I looked at her, then at each other. I nodded and Sophie shrugged. "So how do we go about that?" Sophie asked after a moment.

Zoey fell into thought for a few moments, before turning toward Sophie. "You'll be speaking, we all know that you're the best when it comes to people." Sophie nodded. "Now, we tell the Hokage that we'll need to speak to him in private. Now, we won't lie to him, he'd see it instantly. So we'll give him an edited version of the truth. We're from another world, and we have knowledge of the future. Tell him we've been brought here to make changes for the good of the world." Sophie nodded again. "We'll discuss specifics later. We don't know when we are, so we'll have to ask the Hokage about recent events."

Sophie and I continued staring at her, slightly shocked. 'I've never seen her so serious,' I thought. 'It's kinda cute.'

As if she had heard my thoughts, Zoey blushed and buried her face in my shoulder. Seeing this, Sophie burst out laughing, driving Zoey farther into my shoulder. I smiled at the scene before freezing. 'This feeling. Is this the Hokage's presence? It's so overpowering.' Almost instantly, I felt Zoey tense, and several seconds later, Sophie's laughter died. 'No one else has had that kind of presence. Inoichi just set me slightly on edge, and I guess the ANBU were suppressing theirs.'

We sat like that for several minutes, the overbearing aura washing over us, before the door finally opened. The light from the brighter hallway caused the figure to be silhouetted. To be honest, it was kind freaky. The figure only paused in the doorway for a moment before continuing into the room. Hiruzen Sarutobi, wearing the Hokage robes and hat, sat at the table across from us, Inoichi and the nurse following him. The nurse sat in the chair against the wall and Inoichi stood next to her.

"So," Sarutobi began, hands folded on the table in front of him. "Who are you, where are you from, and what were you doing on the road into my village?" He stressed the word 'my' with enough killing intent to cause my heart to skip a beat, Sophie to gasp, and Zoey to whimper into my shoulder.

Zoey's response filled me with something along the lines of righteous fury, although it was more like righteous defiance, so before Sophie could come to her senses, I spoke up. "We don't mean you or your village any harm, but in order to explain further, we need to be in private. Just the four of us."

The Hokage narrowed his eyes. "And what makes you think that I would be willing to be alone with three complete strangers?"

"Surely," I retorted, slightly sarcastically, "the great Third Hokage, the God of Shinobi, wouldn't be afraid of three kids without weapons or chakra."

Inoichi and Sarutobi gasped. "It's true, sir," the nurse spoke up. "When they were brought in, they had so little chakra a civilian should be dead. We assumed that's why they were unconscious, but they woke up before they passed the threshold for a conscious civilian. Either their bodies are used to running on little to no chakra, or they are running on pure willpower right now."

Sophie and I glanced at each other, and her gaze was asking me what I was doing. I shrugged slightly, I really wasn't completely sure, but I knew that if we were to be known that we knew the future, we would be wanted.

Dead or alive.

Probably dead.

The door clicked shut, breaking the two of us out of our stupor, Zoey still buried in my shoulder. Glancing around, I noticed that Inoichi and the nurse were gone and that there were significantly fewer shadows in the room.

Sarutobi sighed, drawing my attention to him. "We are alone now."

"No ANBU?" I asked.

"No ANBU," Sarutobi answered, before his face hardened once more. "Now talk."

"We," I began, "are not from this world." Seeing his deadpan stare, I shrugged. "I don't know how to convince you. The reason we don't have much chakra is because in our home world, there is no such thing. However, our world is much more advanced in technology. Now, as to why we're here. We don't know how, or who, but we were summoned here with knowledge of the future in order to prevent several major disasters from befalling humanity, many of which are centered around, or originate from, the Leaf village."

"Are you saying," the Hokage interrupted, "that my village is the cause of global disaster?"

"Not directly, no," I returned. "However, mistakes made here in both the past and the future cause a ripple effect that, if left unchecked, will bring the world to its knees. Now, would you be so kind as to give us a summary of recent major events so that we can have a timeline as to when we are?"

"I still don't believe you," the Hokage retorted, leveling a glare at me. I, however, was on a roll.

"If you tell us the last major event in the village, then we can give you a little more proof."

Sarutobi sighed, "Well, the most recent major event that would be public knowledge would be the attack of the Nine-Tails. That was just under two years ago."

"See?" I asked. "Now we're getting somewhere." I smiled and leaned forward. "How about your students? What are they up to?"

The Hokage scowled. "Jiraiya is the village's spy master, Tsunade is taking some personal time and training an apprentice." He paused, then sighed. "Orochimaru has defected."

I smiled, trying to be disarming, before leaning across the table to whisper conspiratorially. "And what is the status of Danzo and his Root?"

Hiruzen was instantly towering over me, leaking so much killer intent that Sophie was now whimpering and Zoey was shaking. I, however, had all the defiance I needed. "How do you know about Root?" the Hokage thundered.

"Danzo and his Root play a major part in events of the future," I replied in a calm voice, only sweating slightly. "We are also under the assumption that he is going against you for a significant portion of the coming years."

Hiruzen slumped into his chair, letting the aura of fear and death dissipate. "Fine, say I believe you, what would you have me do?"

"Listen," I replied. "For now, the three of us will need somewhere to stay and something to do. The next major event won't take place for something like ten years. Until then, we need some way to talk to you easily, to pass on news and stuff. That's about as far as I've gotten. Honestly, we've only had about thirty minutes to think about this. The next time-sensitive event is in about a year, so we've got time. At this point, I think my mouth has caught up to my brain, so I'm just rambling." I chuckled a little. "I think I'll stop talking now."

After a moment of thought, and probably trying to sort through my jumble of ramble, the Hokage nodded thoughtfully. "Would you three object to going through ninja training?" He must have seen our stunned faces, or at least mine, because he chuckled. "You all seem to have the physique to be a ninja, and we've had ninja with worse handicaps than not growing up with chakra."

I nodded, it made sense.

"Good, then I'll get it set up so you have an apartment and allowance, and are enrolled in the academy. When you are released from the hospital, I'll have an ANBU pick you up and bring you to my office, where we will discuss further. For now, you will recover here, and do some light physical therapy, just to make sure you've recovered. Okay?"

I slowly nodded, slightly off kilter from the abrupt change in mood. Not five minutes ago, he had been threatening to completely obliterate the three of us. Now, however, I was reminded of my grandfather. 'Weird, wonder if he's bipolar.'

He clapped once, drawing me out of my musings, and stood. "Well, I best be off. Lot's to do. I'll see you all in a few days." And with that, he left the room, speaking quietly to Inoichi as the two walked away.

The nurse came to us and led us away from the interrogation room. "Wow, Will," Zoey gasped, staring up at me from where she was still clinging to my arm as we were walking down the hallway in the hospital. "How did you do that? I could barely breathe just from his presence, and then he let off that killing intent." Sophie, on Zoey's other side, nodded in agreement, staring at me in awe.

I just shrugged. "I'm not really sure, to be honest. I think it was mostly adrenaline and desire to protect you girls. However," I said as we walked through the door into the girls' room, "I do know that I'm about to pass out."

They were both confused at that, Zoey looking slightly more worried. I just smiled at them.

I was out before I hit the ground.