Disclaimer: I do not own Naruto. Masashi Kishimoto does. I own OCs and plot.
Warning: OOC. SasuNaru centric. Time Travel. Grammatical Errors. Slow update.
English is not my first language so please bear with me.
He wished with all of his heart that it was not blood splashed from his s ignificant other.
He saw the body trembling before falling on the blood-colored ground. Some of the blood landed on his body even before he approached.
Eyes widened.
Words died in his mouth.
Instantly, it felt like half of his soul was shredded. Sluggishly. Cold at first then excruciating more than death itself.
Tears fell on his cheeks. Along with a scream to his beloved blond.
"NARUTOOOOOOOOOO!"
XXX
"I'm off, Kakashi-sensei," Naruto waved tiredly at the Rokudaime who sat behind Hokage's desk. The blond wore a black long sleeve shirt with orange long pants. The Hokage said, "Tell your kids to visit me sometime. I miss them."
It has been 5 years since Naruto back to his original timeline. He married Sasuke and was currently under Kakashi's tutelage to become the next Hokage after he gave birth to his twin, Menma, and Suma. Last year, Yuma, his third child, was born. Usually, if not Iruka who helped him to take care of the children then he would ask Sakura or Hinata or Ino.
Naruto smirked and voiced out his opinion, "If you want kids, propose to Iruka-sensei already. You know Orochimaru creating a Jutsu to allow a man pregnant based on Shodaime's medical scroll, right? It's still missing from the scroll room."
Kakashi chuckled, "You noticed that."
"Of course," he grinned, "I'll be Hokage after all! I have to read the scroll from my predecessor."
"Easy, Naruto. You still need to learn more," the Hokage reminded him.
Naruto saluted, "Yes, Sir!" Then, walked to the door with a smile, "I will pick up my children now. Bye, Kakashi-sensei."
On the street, his eyes located the Hokage Mountain where the statue of Hokage's faces were present. Kakashi's face with his mask was there as well and Naruto daydreamed about his face will be there as well. Someday. His training was harder than he imagine because he needed to understand politics, culture, and social aspects. Not only just a strategic in a battle or advanced ninjutsu. He had a lot of help from everyone he knew and he was grateful for that. He won't give up no matter how crazy he had to learn.
He continued his step until it ended in Sakura's house. When he knocked on the door, a little boy opened it. The four-year-old boy was a copy of a certain taijutsu master in Konoha, "Uncle Naruto!" The kid smiled.
Naruto smiled, "Hello, little Lee, is your mom inside?"
"Sweety, who is it?" Sakura went outside with Yuma in her hand. "Oh, Naruto," She smiled, "Is it the time already?"
"Yes," he smiled at the pinknette, his hands reached out to his son and Sakura gave the one-year-old baby to the father. "How's Yuma? Was he giving you a hard time?"
"Just when the food a little late, other than that, he is such a good boy," smiled Sakura.
"Good," Naruto kissed Yuma's cheek and the blond baby laughed. "Thank you for your help, Sakura-chan."
"Don't mention it. My son loves to play with Yuma as well," Sakura ruffled her son's straight black hair with a helm cut. Naruto teased her, "Maybe it's time to give him a little brother or sister. I don't think Lee will mind."
Sakura blushed, "Naruto!"
The blond laughed and leave her flustered. Naruto chuckled as Yuma laughed as well because his father did so. He was grateful Sakura didn't make a fuss when she knew Sasuke and Naruto were together. She did say that she was suspicious about the two since their genin time and she thought Naruto as a brother so she wished for his happiness. Little did he know, Sakura and Hinata were broken hearts. However, they were mature enough to let go of their first love and move forward. They just want Sasuke and Naruto to be happy.
"Dad."
His train of thought halted and blue eyes looked down at his mini version with black hair. "Menma!" Naruto beamed and ruffled his firstborn. "What are you doing here?"
"I just got back from My shuriken training," Menma pointed out a location where he went to do his solo training. Despite Menma having Naruto's face, eyes and hair, the boy was truly an Uchiha. He showed a talent that matched his late uncle and grandfather, Itachi and Minato. If Sasuke or Naruto has time, Menma will train with them. If not, he prefers to train alone. Uchiha's prodigy through and through.
"I see no wound on your body, I take that it's successful then. Amazing, Menma! Congratulations!" Naruto smiled after his eyes check for any wound in Menma's body. The 5 year-old-boy wore an Uchiha outfit with short white pants. He smiled at his father with sparkled eyes. Menma has been trying the technic Sasuke taught him a week ago. Since then, sometimes, he went home with small wounds. Naruto always told Sasuke that Menma was too small to learn advanced technic but Sasuke trust Menma to master it despite the age by saying, "He is my son. He can do it."
With the proud face on Menma, three of them walked together. Naruto maybe should trust his husband and his son more than he did. He never thought Sasuke turned out to be a stringent father. It made Naruto remember the other Menma he met when he was going back in time to Founder's Era. Sasuke spent more time with this Menma by training him. Maybe that was because he didn't want their Menma to experience what other Menma had in another future.
"That's Suma," Menma looked at a group of girls on the playground. Naruto waved at his daughter, "Suma, it's time to go home!"
The girl with pigtail redhead waved at her friends and head to her father. From Tsunade and Orochimaru's comment about Suma, they said that the girl looked alike with young Kushina, Naruto's mother. "Dad!" She beamed and hugged Naruto's waist, "You are early today!"
Naruto laughed, "Yeah, I'm lucky." He patted her redhead. She asked, "Will father come home early today?"
"Well, he—"
[ "NARUTOOOOOOOOOO!" ]
The blond stiffened. His eyes widened in alarm. It was a scream in desperate, sadness, and sorrow. Naruto knew that voice. He never heard it in that sorrowful way but without a mistake, the voice belong to—
"Sasuke...?" He turned his face to look behind him.
—000—
"Oh, you're here, Sasuke," Kakashi looked up at the Uchiha. Sasuke opened his ANBU mask and put a scroll on top of the desk. He worked exclusively for Hokage. He rarely had a mission within a team. Most of the time, he had a solo mission under Kakashi's order. "You got it early."
"You said that I can use any way to get it," Sasuke gave him a pointed look with his Rinnegan on his left eye. The message was well-received. Sasuke noticed Naruto was not there so he took it, "Naruto has gone home?"
The Hokage confirmed, "Yes. He took off half an hour ago."
Sasuke turned around to go back home but, suddenly, his Rinnegan felt like it was burned from the inside. He grunted in pain and his hand covered his left eye. Kakashi looked at Sasuke and rose to his feet, "What's wrong, Sasuke?"
"My Rinnegan..." It was excruciating for him to talk and Sasuke closed his Rinnegan eyes instinctively. The moment he did it, there was a horrible sight where his nightmare was on display. The man he loved more than anything was there. Orange long sleeves and black pants. Stabbed on the stomach from behind. Then, a wave of excruciating pain washed over him once again and he blinked. Only to see the body of his beloved blond, with his black-orange training outfit like when they were teenagers, was on the ground with the pool of blood.
"Naru...to..." He muttered shakily. Grief and terrified colored his voice. His left eye started to bleed. Kakashi heard his muttering but before he could ask, Sasuke use his Hiraishin to teleport him to Naruto.
He appeared behind the blond who just turned his head to his back. Naruto was shocked to find Sasuke with bleeding eye and still in his ANBU uniform, "SASUKE!"
The twin was surprised as well. Menma and Suma called him in a panic tone, "Father!" They followed Naruto to get closer to Sasuke. The Kyubi jinchuriki gave Yuma to his firstborn, "Menma, please hold on Yuma."
As soon as Menma holding his baby brother in his hands, Naruto went to Sasuke intending to heal him. Sasuke himself was quite relieved to see Naruto was unharmed. Unlike the vision from his Rinnegan. What was that? Why did he even feel a double dreadful feeling from the vision?
He got no answer because the moment Naruto's hand touched his bleeding left eye, there was a strong force that blanketed them which felt familiar. Unknown indigo-colored chakra circled them. A Jutsu. It felt like a pull. Sasuke and Naruto widened their eyes as they realized what was this feeling. It was like what they felt when they were on jutsu for time-traveling 5 years ago. Will it happen again?
They snapped their heads to their children.
"Menma! Go to Kakashi with your sister and brother!" Sasuke shouted as he felt the pull from the chakra. Naruto gave a reassuring smile to Menma, "Your father and I... need to go somewhere. We will be back. Take care of Suma and Yuma!"
"Father! Dad!" Menma shrieked. Suma and Yuma were in tears. The baby still didn't understand much but he knew it was a bad thing because his fathers just vanished in front of them. Yuma wailed.
Menma frowned. He was scared. His parents had just gone. But, he had an important thing to do. Menma took Suma's hand, "Let's go to Hokage!"
Suma nodded and they head to Hokage Tower.
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Sasuke held Naruto tightly the whole time they felt pulled by this indigo-colored chakra. His Rinnegan eyes bleeding even after the feeling of the Jutsu has gone. The pain has not gone away so he whimpered silently but Naruto noticed.
"Sasuke!" His voice was thick with worries. Naruto put his right palm on Sasuke's left eye and started to ease up the pain. When he was done, there were no more blood and Sasuke felt no discomfort.
"Are you okay?" Naruto asked softly.
Sasuke replied, "I'm fine." He looked around, "The more important is where are we?"
Naruto followed his suit. They still stood next to each other. Blue eyes found the playground where he picked up Suma but it was void. The sun almost set. The sky has turned darker. Naruto remembered that the sky was still bright when he went out of Hokage's office. Other than that, it looked like they were still in Konoha. His voice was doubtful when he said, "The pull I felt... I thought we were traveling through the time once again. It felt similar to the feeling when we use Nidaime's time-traveling jutsu. But... I think we are still in Konoha. Nothing has changed, except the sky and our children."
"I felt that too. There is no mistake we are in someplace different from our timeline," Sasuke threw his glance everywhere around them, "It's a high possibility that this Konoha it's not in our time. We should check—" he halted his words when his eyes locked on to the Hokage Mountain. "Naruto."
"Hm?" Naruto turned to Sasuke and saw his face look up to something. The blond followed the direction and widened his eyes as he found what sight Sasuke gazed at. It was Hokage Mountain where the statue of Hokage's faces was carved. There were 5 faces carved on the mountain. Not 6 like in their origins where Kakashi's face was the last one. Naruto recognized all of them but the fifth one was not Tsunade.
"It's Itachi's face beside my dad's..." Naruto was stunned in awe. "Godaime Hokage is Itachi! Not Grandma Tsunade!"
"I'm the nephew of Godaime Hokage, Itachi Uchiha.""5 years ago, he retired as Hokage and was replaced by my uncle, Itachi Uchiha."
Sasuke and Naruto remembered who told them that. They knew the existence of another future was created because their arrival in the Founder's Era changed history. And now, somehow they arrived in the said future. Sasuke stated their conclusion. "We are in another future."
"Is it Menma's future?" Naruto asked, "The one we've met at Shodaime and Madara's era?"
"Perhaps," Sasuke replied, "But, we don't know which year. We've met Menma when he was 12. He said my brother become Hokage 5 years before that. It means between those five years, another me in this timeline still missing."
"What should we do?" Naruto asked. "How we can go back to our time?"
"In this timeline, there was a sacred scroll written by Nidaime about our story. Only reincarnation of Indra and Asura can open it. We can use it to go back to our time."
"Great!" Naruto was visible relief. "Should we find another me or another you first so we can get the scroll? I can't feel another bijuus like in our time. But, I can feel the chakra of Men—"
"Bye, Menma," they heard someone inside the playground. A man with a Jonin outfit and curly short hair waved at another man with the same outfit which his back facing Sasuke and Naruto.
"Bye, Hisui," the man said. There was a blond kid in his hand with a blond young woman standing beside him. When they turned around to let the blond kid run at the playground, his face looked familiar. A teenager version of their little Menma at back home. With a difference, a Rinnegan on his right eye.
"Menma!" Naruto gasped. The said teenager looked up and their eyes met.
Menma, has grown. Still short for Naruto because the blond grew as well from the last time they've met. Naruto was as tall as Adult Naruto now. 180 cm. Two centimeters shorter than Sasuke beside him. While Menma has the same height as the teenager Sasuke back then.
"Dad...?" Menma looked quite unsure. Yet, the blond kid saw Naruto too and beamed. He ran excitedly before glomping Naruto.
"Dad!"
Blue eyes blinked and looked down at the boy in his hands. He hugged him back instinctively. The kid has a face like Sasuke's but straight blond hair and black eyes with whisker cheeks. Naruto knew this face. The baby version of this kid. He just saw left the baby one who had the same face. He stuttered, "Yu-Yuma?"
"Yes, Dad?" Yuma tilted his head a bit with a big smile. His name also identical. Like his firstborn, Naruto didn't have any doubt that this kid is the youngest son of another Sasuke and another him. Like the baby Yuma in his timeline.
"Oh, you are so big," Naruto smiled brightly. Yuma laughed, "Dad, I'm 4, I'm a big boy!"
Sasuke saw it with concealed surprise. His eyes moved from Naruto to Yuma to teenager Menma who seemed to try to understand what was going on. Sasuke got his conclusion first about the year of this timeline. Since there was Yuma, it was safe to assume that his other self in Menma's future was in Konoha after Menma was back to this future.
Or...
"Do you remember us, Menma?" Sasuke asked the teenager. He wanted to make sure this truly Menma who they've met at Founder's Era. And they were not in another different future due to Menma's arrival in the past changed history then created another future.
Menma looked at Sasuke with his ANBU uniform, Naruto with Yuma. It was not hard to see they were not his parents because his parents were older and no need to ask him if he remembered them. Sasuke tilted his face slightly and showed his Rinnegan eye to Menma. One rinnegan at the left eye. He remembered one Sasuke who told him he had Rinnegan once.
"Rinnegan..." He said seriously. "We've met in the year Konoha has just founded by Hashirama and Madara Uchiha, haven't we?"
"Oh! You are truly that Menma!" Naruto said excitedly. He hugged Menma while still holding Yuma in another hand.
"Ye-yeah, Dad." He hugged back and smiled a bit. He was genuinely thrilled but was still confused. "I thought we will never meet again, how did you guys come here?"
Menma's first thought was through the jutsu created by Nidaime like he did. But, that jutsu only able to use one time for each person. Sasuke and Naruto used it to go back to their timeline so how did they could be here? Someone from this era would end up in Nidaime's era should they use it like Menma did 5 years ago.
"We—"
"Excuse me," the blond girl standing beside Menma approached them. Her hair was straight and long, tied in a loose ponytail rested on her right shoulder. She wore a long sleeves black shirt and a faded yellow tube. Her face was kind and gentle despite her looking younger than Menma, "I don't think it's appropriate to talk about this in public. Maybe it will be better to discuss this inside my father's office."
"Your father? Who are you, by the way?" Naruto blinked. "Menma's girlfriend?"
"No, Dad," Menma elaborated. "She is my cousin. Uncle Itachi's daughter. Koumi Uchiha."
Naruto was shocked, "ITACHI'S DAUGHTER?!"
Sasuke was speechless. Now that he took a look closer, the girl was indeed had the same face like his mother, Mikoto. Her blond hair was distracting him because he never saw a blond Uchiha other than his youngest son, Yuma. She had misty blue eyes which were different from Naruto's sapphire ones. He remembered that Menma mentioned about, "You told me that my brother had a son."
"Ryuichi-nii is her older brother."
The way she smiled was similar to Itachi. Not only that, but the way she speaks and the vibe... It reminded Sasuke of his late brother.
"Shall we go, Uncle Naruto, Uncle Sasuke?" She asked them with a smile.
—000—
"Come in," said Itachi and Menma opened the door. He stepped in first followed by Sasuke, Naruto holding Yuma then the last one to enter was Koumi.
"Sasuke? Naruto?" He smiled faintly.
Itachi looked at his visitors in a silent and calculated gaze. He didn't expect to see Sasuke's family members come together with his daughter. He noticed his brother and brother-in-law were younger than the last time he saw them. They looked like in their 20s. If this condition was due to they used Henge no Jutsu to change back to their younger self, what was that for? If that happened, why would they come here with Menma and his daughter, Koumi? No, it didn't make sense. There must be something why they came here. Looking closely at his younger brother, he saw a glimpse of Rinnegan eyes covered by Sasuke's hair.
Sasuke's breathe was halted as he locked eyes with the older version of his brother. Itachi in his time has died at 21. However, Godaime Hokage at the desk looked like he was in his early 40s or late 30s. He saw the moment Itachi's eyes widened briefly when he caught sight of his Rinnegan.
"It seems, we have guests from other future," he said calmly. "Am I right?"
"Wow! You know that just by looking at us?" Naruto smiled in awe, "As expected of Itachi Uchiha!"
Itachi smiled kindly at the blond, "Thank you, Naruto. You two have the same height as Sasuke and Naruto in here. Yet, I failed to see the reason why would my brother and his husband would use Henge to change themselves to their younger version. Since you two and Menma come here along with my daughter, I can tell it's not a family visit. She rarely come here for that reason. Sasuke and Naruto in this future prefer to meet me at my house should they need my advice or help." His eyes glanced at Sasuke, "In addition, my brother doesn't have Rinnegan. However, the sacred scroll tells me the other Sasuke had one."
"Nailed it!" Naruto grinned. He was impressed. He knew Itachi was great shinobi, he talked to him only twice. One was when Itachi was still alive and the last one was when Itachi was brought back by Edo-Tensei. Nevertheless, it was enough. Itachi was truly remarkable.
"Father," Koumi grabbed Itachi's attention. "Should I take Yuma to play outside? I imagine it would bore him with this conversation."
"That would be great, Koumi," Itachi agreed. "Thank you."
She nodded and with a gentle smile took Yuma from Naruto. The boy pouted, "Koumi-nee? Dad? I want to play with you."
"Sure," Naruto smiled, ruffled Yuma's head, "Dad will meet you later, okay? Just wait for me with Koumi-nee?"
"Okay," he still pouted but grinned widely after Naruto kissed his forehead. He went out with Koumi and left the room.
"So, I'm assuming that you two are the one Menma's met the Founder's era because he escorted you here," Itachi's eyes meet Sasuke and Naruto's, "I want to know why are you two here? How it is possible to cross the time to another future? Do you have another scroll to do the jutsu Nidaime created?"
Sasuke and Naruto exchanged a glance. Sasuke took a step closer to Itachi's desk, "No, there is no scroll about time traveling in my time. I don't know how it is possible but before we arrive at this future..." Sasuke looked at Naruto, "...my Rinnegan showed me a vision."
Naruto asked seriously, "Is that why your Rinnegan bleeding?"
Sasuke nodded, he gingerly touched his left eye, "I was at Hokage's office when my Rinnegan felt like it's burning. When I closed my eyes, I saw..." he paused for seconds and closed both eyes with a deep frown. He could see and feel how devastated he was by the sight. It was something he never wanted to see.
"Sasuke?" Naruto bewildered at his husband looked agitated.
"I saw... Naruto is dying."
Naruto and Menma gasped in horror.
"Does Rinnegan have the ability to foresee the future?" Itachi inquired.
"Rinnegan's ability depended on the user. Mine and Madara's have different abilities. But, mine has never shown me anything unrelated to the battle I face," Sasuke halted with a thoughtful gaze on Naruto. "Not just a vision, I can feel how devastating I am when I saw it. Worst of all, I feel like it doubled then it should be..."
Menma was curious, "Doubled?"
"Yes. It's hard to explain but it feels like it happened twice at the same time," Sasuke continued.
Itachi was silent as he thought about all the information, "Despite the vision, we still don't know how you two get in here. What's your plan, Sasuke?"
"I want to take a look at the sacred scroll so I can copy Nidaime's jutsu then we will go back to our time," explained Sasuke.
Naruto frowned, "We left our children. We were on our way home when this happens. I hope Menma can take care of his siblings."
"Another me?" Menma asked. "How old is he? Does he have siblings? Not just Yuma?" He guessed Yuma has been born in Naruto's future because the blond recognized Yuma at one sight and the comment big.
Naruto grinned, "5 years old. It has been that long since we came back from Shodaime's time." He added cautiously, "Yuma was born last year so he is still a baby. And our Menma... Has a twin sister."
"Twins..." Realization sunk in and Menma blanched. "You were having twins when we were in Granpa Tobirama's era." He felt guilty, "And I made you delay your plan to go back home with my arrival."
"Hey, hey," Naruto circled his hand around Menma's shoulder, "It's fine. Your other self and his twin's sister were born healthy. Like you, he is a talented genius. Everything is fine and he is a good older brother like you."
Menma stunned before nodded and smiled, "I see. Glad to hear that."
"Where is another me and Naruto in this era? Are they on a mission? We will need the harmonization chakra of Indra and Asura for Nidaime's Jutsu." Sasuke is back to the topic.
"They are on a vacation," said Itachi.
Naruto didn't expect that. He tilted his head. "Vacation?"
"They need time to each other since they were separated for a long time. Sometimes, they would take days off to be with each other every two or three months. Without anyone, even me and Yuma. It was to heal Dad's depressions after being left by him," Menma elaborated.
"Oh," Naruto nodded in sympathy. He understood that. Sasuke left him for 3-5 years but Naruto in this era has been alone for over a decade.
"They should be back in 2 or 3 days. I can try to contact them so they can back as soon as possible," said Itachi.
Sasuke nodded, "It's unclear how Naruto and I arrived at this future. They might know something."
Itachi agreed. He write a letter then summoned his crow to take the letter to his brother and smiled again at the brother from another future, "So, while we are waiting for their response, how about you two have dinner at my place?"
"Great idea!" Naruto beamed. Yet, Sasuke felt Naruto was stiffened when Itachi addressed his nephew, "Menma, would you mind inviting Minato-sama to have dinner together with us?"
"My Dad...?" His eyes sparkled in hope.
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