Author's Note: Well here's chapter 10!! Wow 10 chapters I can barely believe it. Anyway this chapter is quite an odd one I actually had the last scene written out before anything else I couldn't get that bit of pure amazingness out of my head. The imagery almost killed me. Lol in any case without further ado I bring you the chapter!

Disclaimer: I do not own Naruto.. For if I did, Itachi would have... nevermind...

"Talking"

'Thinking'

"/'Kyuubi Talking'/"

'Kyuubi Thinking'

Flashback/ Dream scape

Revelance of the Future

Chapter 10

Tides of Change

By: Ginriku

Kakashi looked down his arm and at who it wasn't in or rather who it was...
Hinata was dreaming. No dreaming wasn't the right word not even close. She was reliving the most disturbing moment of her life.

-- Naruto had been gone for about two weeks and for the whole two weeks the feeling of dread hadn't left her. Hinata and Naruto had been together for a few months now when the mission had came up. He had been prepared but Hinata still had an awful feeling. The feeling had grown steadily worse as the days went by and she could do nothing but remembering his and Sakura's shrinking backs as they left into what the midnight haired seventeen year old prayed wouldn't be their utter demise.

Thankfully however they had returned but they weren't the same.

She ran to the village gates the moment she heard that the duo had made it back but what met her was a harsh reality.

Naruto had wounds everywhere and his clothes were torn and dirty. Blood matted his hair and stained his skin. What really shocked her though were the tears. In all of the years that she had known him she had never seen him cry like that. Naruto wasn't supposed to cry, he was like the sky, her shining sun. The light beacon in a dark and shadowed world. And now... now he was crying.

'What happened? Why is he crying?'

Naruto still hadn't noticed her as she silently came to a stop a few feet off to the side from him. Tsunade was standing in front of the blond trying to console him. It did not appear to be working.

"Tsunade-sama what happe-"

She broke off as Naruto's head quickly snapped up to meet her gaze, and the look she received shook her to her core.

He was petrified. There was no other was to describe it. The blond eyes went wide, more tears leaked out of those blue orbs. He looked like a pinned animal as he shifted his weight onto his right leg before spinning on his heal and dashing towards some unknown destination. Just as she was about to follow him, Hinata felt trembling but firm hand on her shoulder.

"Wait Hinata." The young woman turned to look at her Hokage.

"Tsunade-sama?"

The elder had a distressed and sorrowful look on her face as she continued.

"Not everything had gone as planned on the mission. And before you jump to conclusions Sakura is fine, she's in the hospital at the moment. Listen before you go off demanding answers, please be gentle with him, he's... fragile right now. He will tell you when he's ready."

Hinata nodded solemnly before bounding off with her byakugan already activated in hopes of finding him quickly.

Five minutes later she landed in a clearing not far from training ground seven. Naruto was currently sitting in the fetal position. His shoulders shaking with some unbearable emotion. It hurt her just to watch.

Approaching him slowly afraid to make him run again she slowly sat next to him. She didn't say anything just softly ran her fingers through his hair and down his arms and back hoping to sooth him. After a few moments Naruto stopped shaking and eased himself out of the fetal position before scooping his startled girlfriend into his lap and burying his face into her shoulder.

Though surprised at his sudden actions Hinata continued to play with his hair as she felt a few wet tears run across her shoulder and hot breath on her neck.

A few more moments passed before he began to speak.

"I- I killed him Hinata. I killed him."

Though she was slightly shocked at this statement she kept up with her ministrations while saying, "What happened?"

Holding her tight Naruto whispered, "He almost killed Sakura, Hinata. I couldn't let him do that. I just got so angry, he threw her around like a rag doll and played with her, I couldn't stand for that. S- so I killed him... With my own hands. I killed Sasuke."

Not asking for more Hinata just shushed him and started to rock back and forth.

Eventually Naruto regained his composure enough to stand and they both walked hand in hand back to his apartment and Hinata new one thing for sure.

Never again did she want to see Naruto like that, never again did she want to look into his eyes and see him terrified of himself and what he had done, never again would she leave his side.

'I promise you that.'---

Hinata jolted awake covered in a cold sweat. No matter how hard she tried, and add the fact that the horrible feeling in her stomach was identical to the one in her dream and memories, that dream was once again haunting her. Still those eyes lingered in the the back of her mind. Those terrified glassy blue eyes.

Naruto's team had been at Tazuna's for a night now, and Inari had yet to make an appearance. Naruto supposed that was because of the hour they got in at. It had been rather late, and now it was rather early. In any case he was contemplating in the kitchen at about 7 am when Tsunami walked in.

"Oh! Naruto! You startled me. I wasn't expecting anyone to be up yet."

Indeed she did look rather startled. None the less Naruto calmly replied, "Sorry Tsunami-san, but can I ask why you are up this early?"

With a kind smile the woman walked to the stove before answering, "Please, just Tsunami, no need to be so formal especially when you brought my father back to us, I can't thank you enough. And as for why I'm up, lets just say that everyone needs to eat, ne?"

Naruto chuckled lightly before asking, "Need any help?"

An hour later everyone was seated around the table. Well everyone except for Kakashi he was still sleeping. Chatter was light as they all ate their breakfast at least in was before Inari suddenly had a small outburst."

"Who do you people think you are! Your never gonna defeat Gato so why are you even trying. He'll squash you like a bug just like everyone else who has defied him. He'll kill you."

The young boy said this so gravely that it seemed like everyone had lost their voices well except for our beloved blond.

"I'll tell you who we are."

Naruto ominously rose to his feet before continuing.

"We are Konoha Shinobi and we fight for the good of the world. I will not quit just because some little brat like you tells me too. One day, in my village, I'm going to be Hokage and this is my first step towards it. We will defeat Gato. You just watch."

He silently disappeared from the room leaving everyone shocked, Inari stomped out soon after.

Sakura looked back and forth from the door to where they had been sitting.

"What just happened here?"

No one could answer.

Naruto was sitting on the roof waiting for Kakashi to wake up.

'Well I hope that will turn out all right..'

'Meh it wasn't't the exact same as last time, I mean it was in the morning this time, but essentially it should be fine.'

'You better be right fox. You better be right.'

It was then when he heard quiet sobbing from down below. Inari was crying in his room. Deciding to make another small change he entered through the window.

He heard a sharp intake of breath as he landed on the floor and a young voice speaking.

"Why are you in my room. Get out."

"Well I was thinking that I should explain more as to why I'm not giving up."

The boy's eyes widened, "Wha?"

The blond slipped a gentle smile onto his face before launching into a story about how he was always alone when he was younger, how the village hated them. And how he wanted to gain their respect and be their Hokage. And finally about his precious people, and the most precious one to him of them all. His Hinata and how one day when they grew up they would get married, and have kids and be the family he always dreamed about.

Naruto ended with a sad smile remembering who he had to leave behind in the future.

'I'm so sorry my little Tenshi...'

"How were you able to do that?"

He looked at the boy with the small voice and replied, "I'm not quite sure to tell you the truth, at first I had no one, I nearly went insane but then my teacher reached out to me. He made me want to live. I guess it was him that saved me."

Inari nodded, he was so amazed, "Do you know what? Your pretty cool!"

Naruto laughed at the new enthusiasm in the younger boys face. He hadn't been able to make a change like that so quickly the last time.

"Well anyway I gotta go with my team now, see ya later twerp!"

Inari watched as his new friend leaped back out the window.

'Wow I wanna be like him... Wait...Twerp?'

Kakashi had woken up around an hour ago, feeling quite stiff and using a crutch I might add, in any case they were all in a small clearing a little ways away from Tazuna's.

The jounin was the fist to speak, "Well since I obviously lack total information on your progress you will be demonstrating for me."

"What do you mean sensei?" The pink haired girl asked with a questioning look about her face.

"I want you to tell me what you can do then I'm going to get you to do a few exercises, after which I will be making pointers."

"Oh."

The others just took the information with a shrug.

"Well Naruto you start."

The blond just shrugged, there was no way on earth that Kakashi was going to get the truth from him, like he was even suspicious enough yet. Instead he gave a brief monologue.

"Well Kakashi-sensei I have the kage bunshin, been wearing weights on my wrists, ankles and I have a weighted belt, some other wind jutsu's as that my chakra type, a few fire jutsu nothing fancy, I can walk up trees and on water... umm... Oh! I can do chakra drawings and my claws!"

"Chakra drawings?"

"Ya like this."

The blond held his hands out and began to form chakra. At first it was a royal blue before it started to change the colors of the rainbow, first he made a butterfly, then the sun and a few clouds before stopping. "It's a chakra control technique. I taught Sakura and Sasuke how to do it too."

Kakashi nodded before turning to Sakura.

"How about you Sakura?"

The girl fidgeted for a moment before speaking.

"Well I have been studying some medical jutsu with Hinata, I can do quite a few genjutsu and have been studying up a lot on them. I can do tree climbing, water walking and the chakra drawing thing but not as good as Naruto. I've also been wearing weights on my wrists and ankles for about a month. I think that's it..."

She just trailed off. Slightly startled about the girl's progress Kakashi turned to Sasuke.

"And as for you Sasuke?"

The stoic boy's expression did not change as he rattled off, "Mainly fire ninjutsu, Uchiha style taijutsu, a few genjutsu, tree climbing, water walking, chakra drawing, weights on ankles, wrists, and belt, and my kodachi, I have not been able to activate my sharingan yet however."

'So... They really have come quite far without me even realizing it, and for some reason I seriously doubt that Naruto is saying the whole and complete truth...'

Kakashi let out a long breath before looking at them once more. "Well team lets just say that, that was not what I had expected, but pleasantly surprised. Now I want you to demonstrate a few things."

The three nodded standing up as they did so.

"Okay lets go over to that pond that we passed, I want you to first show me your water walking."

Roughly two hours later they were back at Tazuna's. The three genin were laying on they floor completely wiped from the exercises that Kakashi had put them through.

The first to move was Sakura, and all she did was roll onto her back and ask a question.

"Ne, Kaka-sensei, didn't you say something about pointers or something like that?"

All three tilted their heads to get a better view of the said jounin.

Looking up from his book Kakashi gave a lazy look.

"Well I guess I did didn't I?"

They nodded.

"Alright I'll start with you Sakura. You need to do something about your hair. It's to long and gets in your way distracting you, so then you have to take a few seconds getting it out of your eyes which can mean the difference between life and death in a battle. You should either cut it or tie it back somehow. You also need to work on taijutsu. Besides that your pretty good for now."

The head of pink hair nodded once again.

He then addressed Sasuke.

"Well Sasuke, you need to work on your speed and maybe some different attire, the wide turtleneck thing you have could be distracting and could be an opening for attackers, you also need a proper teacher for kenjutsu. I will take care of that."

Sasuke stared at the ceiling not giving any response what so ever.

Naruto was the last to be spoken to.

"Naruto... you need to work on agility and dexterity. You almost seem like your not quite used to your own body. Precision is key. Also a bit of stealth could go a long way. Aside from that you seem pretty well rounded although I feel a few other things need to be clarified at a later date.

Naruto stared at his teacher.

'I wonder if he knows, Kyuu.'

'I doubt it, well about the time travel bit anyway. He may suspect something about me, but its not that important. He will find out sometime anyway.'

'I guess but still... He said it seemed like I was not quite used to my body, and that is true. Well to an extent, I thought I covered it up quite well. Hinata didn't have this problem although she was only about four or five inches taller then she is now and I was over a foot.'

'I understand that kit, now just deal with it.'

Grumbling the demon fox walked farther into the depths of Naruto's mind, giving his tails a final flick as he did so.

'Well that was interesting.'

"Naruto?"

He was broken out of his reverie by his sensei's voice.

"Wha?"

"I said that you and Sakura are to guard Tazuna as he goes to the village today."

"Oh."

After getting to his feet Naruto hauled Sakura up (Who seemed to be feeling a lot better) and went to find Tazuna.

'Well today's the day that the note said. I have to get some herbs for Zabuza-san anyway I shall see what this Uzumaki person has to say. I just hope I'm making the right choice.'

Haku walked tentatively towards the clearing. He knew which on it was as he had gone there previously for herbs. Only a few feet away now, he thought he saw a flash of yellow through the trees.

Haku disengaged with the forest as he stepped into the open. The blond boy wearing black and red sat on The opposite side against a tree, apparently dosing. Because Haku was so sure that the boy was asleep (there was a bird on his head) it came as a surprise when he spoke.

His voice was soft yet firm and low enough to not disturb the bird.

"Hello Haku. I'm glad you could join me."

Haku took a step closer, "How do you know my name, and all of these other hings about me."

Naruto's eyes opened now and before replying he gently lifted the bird off his head (it was also asleep).

"How is of no consequence. What I'm here to do is make an offer."

"What kind of offer?"

Naruto took a deep breath and motioned for the other boy to sit in front of him.

"I was wondering if you and maybe Zabuza would like to come back with us to Konoha. We could use Shinobi like you."

The boy's eyes widened as he sat, he hadn't expected anything like that.

"J-join your village? But Zabuza-san is an A-ranked missing nin and I've had no proper ninja training. We would never be accepted. Besides Zabuza-san would never devote himself to a village and I will never leave him."

Well Naruto hadn't expected it to be as easy as that. He supposed it would all come down to the battle of the bridge now.

'I hope it works though...'

"I see. Although please promise me that you will think about it and maybe mention it to Zabuza too. Please you deserve a better life then this. A real home."

Haku nodded, "Alright, I will Naruto-san, although I cannot promise you anything. However I do thank you for your offer, maybe if I do come, maybe we'll be friends..."

Naruto smiled his one-of-a-kind smile as he stood up, "I look forward to it."

Haku also stood, "Me too."

Naruto extended a hand and Haku shook it. Both offered one last smile before dashing off in opposite directions.

"Naruto! There you are Tsunami-san was worried about you."

Naruto had just stepped into the house. Only Sakura was there as Kakashi and Sasuke were out at the bridge today.

"Sorry Sakura I had to check something out by the village."

She looked slightly suspicious but shrugged it off, he probably needed to talk to Kyuubi or something as far as she knew.

"Okay. Umm... can you help me a bit with the chakra drawing though? I still can't seem to change to colors. Oh and Inari wanted to speak with you too."

Naruto smiled.

'At least I managed to change her attitude quicker this time around.'

"Alrighty then. Let's go and have you decided what to do about your hair yet?"

She just gave him a dirty look before leading him off down the hall.

Hinata shivered. In the past few days the dream kept recurring with increasing forcefulness. The gut feeling kept intensifying as the days wore on, her teammates had started to notice as well as Kurenai-sensei. She tried to cover it up but seemed unable.

"Hinata?"

The girl looked up into her teachers worried eyes.

"I'm fine sensei. I'm sorry for worrying you."

Kurenai hesitated.

"How about you go home and rest, I don't like seeing you like this."

Sighing with defeat, the midnight blue haired girl rose to her feet and nodded before plodding off for home, her teammates staring at her back.

Today was the day Naruto had both been waiting for and dreading. Today was the day of the battle of the bridge. So many scenarios had run through his mind and he felt that he was ready for anything that Gato, Zabuza and Haku could throw at him. A few days ago Kakashi had made the connection between the Hunter nin and Zabuza so like the first time line today was the day.

Naruto had left a few of his clones behind today to take care of the two fools that would attack Tsunami and Inari, when they went to the bridge.

They had been there for a total of fifteen minutes when the mist rolled in.

"It's Zabuza!"

It was Sasuke who shouted as a few senbon rushed past his cheek missing him by mere centimeters. Naruto used a low level wind jutsu to clear away the fog while Sakura grabbed Tazuna and got into position.

"Ha ha I see the brats have gotten better. Eh, Kakashi?"

Zabuza had appeared in front of them Haku beside him. A sneer under his bandaged face.

"Well Zabuza. Soon you'll see just how good they are. Sakura protect Tazuna, Sasuke and Naruto take the younger one. Zabuza is mine."

With a few nods all around (which made them slightly look like bobble heads if you ask me) they sprang into action.

Sakura stood slightly crouched in front of Tazuna, gloves in place and kunai at the ready, a fierce glint in her eye. This time she would be strong.

Meanwhile Sasuke launched himself towards Haku, the boy had his mask on and had drawn a senbon needle as the Uchiha rushed him with his kunai. They parried for a few moments before Naruto ran at Haku from the side, claws drawn.

Ducking under the blond boy, he made a few one handed seals while throwing a handful of needles towards an incoming barrage of shuriken courtesy of Sasuke.

Dodging another of Naruto's attacks he initiated his jutsu.

"Mizu senbon no jutsu!"

A wave of water needles formed behind him and started speeding towards the two genin, acting quickly Sasuke performed a fire jutsu and turned the water to steam.

"Hah your pretty good leaf ninja. See if you tow can handle this!"

Making a few More on handed seals Haku created his ultimate jutsu.

"Hitoshirezu Mizuton: Aisu Hitoya no jutsu!"

As it had been before giant mirrors of ice had sprung to life with Naruto and Sasuke in the middle.

Quietly Naruto whispered, "Uh–oh."

Back at the house the Naruto clones were upstairs quietly talking amongst themselves when they heard the sound of breaking glass and a cry of, "Mommy!"

One of the clones was sent to go down the stairs to head them off while the others went through the window to ambush them as they came out of the house.

The first clone had just made it to the bottom when one of the attackers had shoved Inari into the wall. Whipping out a kunai he flung it at the one who had done it.

"Just what do you think your doing!"

The one with Tsunami over his shoulder chuckled.

"Oh look the little brat doesn't like us, what ever shall we do!" They both laughed.

"Well bye bye little kiddies we shall be on our way now!" He laughed once more before turning on his heel and going out the door followed by the one with Tsunami.

Knowing that the other two clones would deal with them, the first one turned to Inari who was currently leaning against the wall cradling his head, tears streaming down his face.

Kneeling quietly next to the boy, the clone put a hand on his shoulder, "Come on Inari it's alright. The other clones are taking care of the bad guys. In fact they're almost done."

And true enough they heard a few wails and retreating feet as the door swung open once again with the two clones carrying Tsunami.

"The one on the right mumbled something about being short before informing him that they would lay the unconscious woman in her room for now.

With Inari seeing that his mother was alright he perked up quite a bit.

"She's okay?"

Naruto looked down into those wide innocent eyes while replying, "Yes she's fine. Now why don't you stay here and guard the fort like a big man while I go to the bridge okay? Can you do that for me?"

Inari nodded eyes still slightly glazed, as he watched the clone leave. A moment or to after had changed his standing. No way was he staying here, he was going to help! His mother was fine and he severely doubted that anymore attackers would come so he decided to be what Naruto had proven to him to exist. He wanted to be a hero too!

Getting to his feet the small boy ran from his house.

Back on the bridge Naruto received the information from his clones and was distracted for a mere second by it. It also wasn't the best moment to get side tracked.

Haku had already entered his mirrors and was attacking from all sides. Despite all of the training on Sasuke's part and being from the future from his hadn't spared them from getting hit at all angles by Haku's senbon.

They currently had needles sticking out of random places and scratches all over but that wasn't the worst. The worst was that Sasuke couldn't keep up. He really did need to work on his speed and perception. He needed to activate his sharingan.

Looking back on his memories, Naruto remembered that it was during this battle that Sasuke had awakened this power. He just didn't know how. Which brings us to this moment.

As was mentioned before Naruto had, for one single moment, had been distracted. And it was in that single moment that Haku struck.

The mist nin came flying out of the mirror behind and to the left of him, sending a volley of senbon straight for his back. By now it was far to late for him to react when a hail of shuriken intercepted them. Looking back over his shoulder the blond saw Sasuke's arm still raised from throwing the stars with eyes both shocked and determined.

Taking another look Naruto noticed with both pride and wariness that his best friend had awakened his lineage.

Things weren't good. Sasuke had numerous cuts and needles sticking out of various places. This really went bad when Naruto got a glazed look in his eye.

'What is the dobe thinking! Zoning out at a time like this, I outta-'

It was then that he noticed Haku. The nin sensing Naruto'd distraction had acted. Senbon hurtling at breakneck speed towards him. With out thinking or anything he could discern in that one moment, everything seemed to slow down. Everything that was, except him.

His hand reached lightning fast into his weapons pouch and extracted the weapons already sending them flying before the raven haired genin had even realized he had been moving.

It was metal striking metal that had awakened him from his trance. When he finally began to take in his surroundings he noticed the awe on his teammate's face.

"What just happened?"

Naruto's face spread into a wide grin as he remarked, "Your sharingan happened Uchiha."

After feeling his face split into a smile for the first time in a long time, his world went black.

Naruto's grin turned to stone as the Uchiha dropped. Haku had hit a sensitive nerve on Sasuke's neck as they had been distracted (as if they shouldn't already have learnt their lesson), effectively knocking him out cold.

Eyes hardening into slits Naruto got serious. Knowing that there was little time left but also that Sasuke would be fine (if a little stiff) he got to work.

"Have you thought about my offer Haku?"

The nin calmly replied while also throwing a couple more senbon at the last genin standing.

"I have Naruto-san however I've decided that I will stay with Zabuza-san I owe him my life."

Naruto charged up a fist and slammed it into the mirror closest to him, smashing it with brute force.

"You know he's only using you, right, Haku?"

Shocked at what the boy had done to his mirror, he reciprocated none the less, "Yes but I will follow him to the ends of the earth. Now I believe we have a battle to finish."

Eyes turning a slight shade of violet at the edges Naruto countered, "Very well."

Creating as many shadow clones as there were mirrors, all of the Naruto's charged up their fists and laced them with chakra. He wasn't nearly as good as Sakura or Tsunade but he could still pack a punch. And with all of them he unleashed a mighty blow. Shattering every and all mirrors, while throwing Haku a good twenty feet from his place.

The fake hunter-nin landed with a dull thud.

Haku looked up into Naruto's eyes as the blond appeared in his line of vision.

"I'm taking you back to Konoha whether you like it or not."

It was then that they heard the sound like a thousand birds chirping...

Zabuza was bound tightly by his dogs now. The battle had not been too long but they were both bloody and sweaty nevertheless. But now Kakashi had the Demon of the Mist pinned. There was no escape for him.

The finishing blow was mere seconds away as he began the hands seals.

One... Two... Three... Four... Only four hand seals for the devastating assassination jutsu.

The chirping of the electricity began to sound from his hands, reminding him of a timw when he first mastered the dreaded technique, as he shouted out the name of this jutsu.

"Chidori!!!!!"

Hinata ran from the middle of the training session with her father.

She ran straight to the bathroom and puked up all she was worth.

There was a moment of complete blindness and deafness as the world seemed to stop. Kakashi had ran at Zabuza, Chidori in hand, when someone had came in between.

Kakashi looked at the person his arm was stuck through. It was not Zabuza.

'No! No! No! It can't be...'

Oh but it was. His arm holding the Chidori was not through Zabuza, nor Haku.

All Kakashi saw as his vision swam was a pair of terrified glassy blue eyes...

Author's Note: -peeps out head- Anyone with pitch forks? Lol If that's not a cliffie I don't know what is.

Anyway It's out Wednesday as promised. Albeit late Wednesday. (8:54 PM) Anyway what did you think? I think I did a rather good job if I do say so myself. Also another 5000 plus word chapter. Oh the plot bunnies!!! Although now they have scampered off somewhere... I have about enough for a third of the next chapter maybe but that's it. I'll think of something don't worry.

Anyway expect about 2 – 3 weeks till the next chapter! Tootles!

Mizu senbon no jutsu – Water Needle Technique

Hitoshirezu Mizuton: Aisu Hitoya no jutsu – Hidden Water Style: Ice Prison Technique

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