Thank-you to all that followed and favorited. Special thanks to the one who reviewed. Let's just say that Naruko doesn't want anybody to know who she marries. And now Kakashi will be paranoid of all the girls he meets.
Almost forgot! I don't own Naruto.
Hatake Kakashi did not want to teach snotnosed ninja wannabes. He did not want to teach a pink haired girl pretending to be a ninja to impress her crush. He did not want to teach a spoiled boy who was hell bent on avenging his clan. He did not want to teach the immature daughter of his sensei who acted like her mother.
So he decided to turn up late. Not that that that was unusual for him, but normally he was only a little over an hour late. He decided to be three and a half this time. And tomorrow as well.
Hell, if they passed, her promised himself that he would be at least three hours late to every damn meeting they had. Maybe they would request a new sensei after some time, and he'd never have to see the brats again.
Kakashi heard a voice coming from the classroom that the kids that he was being forced to teach were in, "Hah. A Jonin isn't going to fall for a plain old booby trap like that."
"Yeah! Naruko, you're so stupid," Kakashi frowned. He hadn't read any of the files that he was given on them, but it seemed like the history of Team Seven was destined to be repeated.
Kakashi entered, making sure to check the floor for any trap wires. Looking down as he was, he didn't notice the real trap until the chalk brush hit his head.
Naruko started laughing, blue eyes wide with delight. Kakashi grimaced behind his mask, berating himself for underestimating them. That girl of his sensei's seemed to be a lot like her mother. Too much like her mother.
Damn. He had a mini Kushina on his team
He frowned when the girl cut herself off. Kushina would have milked it for all it's worth. Laughing and exclaiming her brilliance.
She was just lying there, like she had just died.
Odd, but it might be another trick. He couldn't count the number of times her mother had pretended to faint then nail him with fluorescent paint when he ran up to check on her.
But he didn't need to check on her because Sakura was.
She stared at him in confusion, "I only know what the textbook said about heart beats, but even I can tell that it's faint. And…," her eyes widened in horror, "I don't think she's breathing!"
She started hyperventilating, "What do I do? What do I do! Oh kami! She's going to die! She's going to die and it will be all my fault because I'm panicking and I forget CPR! Oh kami! Oh kami!-"
This was around the time that Kakashi stopped listening, because he was at the twelve year old blondes side in an instant, performing the CPR that Sakura had forgotten in her panic.
Her eyes snapped open and she surged forward, and he was on the ground with her hand on his throat before he could even process that her eyes were even bluer than Minato's had been.
"Maa, maa, no need to be so aggressive," Kakashi said, helping her up. He stopped to consider for a moment before he hesitantly asked, "Do you need to go to the hospital?"
Poor girl seemed shell shocked, but she shook her head, shying away from him.
"Are you okay? You were just laughing, them bam! You're passed out and not breathing!" Sakura said, scanning over the girl with worried eyes.
Naruko didn't seem to be listening. She was staring at her fingers like she had never seen them before.
Sasuke was even starting to look worried.
"Dobe-" he started, but before he had even finished his thought, the girl had shot forward, and latched on to him and the other girl.
"It worked!" she hollered, "it worked, it worked, it worked!"
"What are you talking about?" demanded a thoroughly creeped out Sasuke.
"You're alive! It worked!" the blond burst into laughter suddenly, and Kakashi was forced to consider if she was sane or not.
"Baka!" Sakura hit her over the head, "of course we're alive! Stop hugging Sasuke-kun!"
The blond sat on a desk and seemed to be listening to something nobody could hear, "Hmm, you're right, I shouldn't have said that. Now they know somethings up. I am not!" Naruko suddenly burst out.
"Wh-who are you talking to?" asked a suddenly nervous Sakura, edging away from her new teammate.
"My inner demon. He lives in my stomach," Naruko said absentmindedly, until she realized what she said and started hitting her head with her hand muttering, "baka," under her breath every time she hit her head.
Kakashi snapped to attention. He immediately grabbed her wrists, and said seriously, "Naruko, this is serious. You need to tell me what he said, okay? This is really important."
Irritation and something else that he couldn't read passed through her eyes, but he paid it no thought.
"Well, right now, he's calling me an idiot that doesn't know how to keep her mouth shut, and if I keep going on like this, than they'll figure us out in no time. Now he's saying that I'm a bigger idiot than everybody he knows combined, and now he's silent because I'm explaining something to him," she said.
"Come along kiddies," Kakashi finally said, after processing that the fox wasn't telling her to kill everybody in sight, "we're taking a visit to the Hokage."
Naruko exhaled a breath, excitedly saying, "Jiji's alive too! This day keeps getting better and better!"
"Naruko… we're all alive," Sakura said awkwardly.
"Right!" Naruko beamed, making to follow Kakashi out the class. She promptly tripped over her feet.
"Hurry up!" Kakashi snapped, his patience fraying.
Kakashi lost count of how many times Naruko tripped over her own feet on the way to the Hokage tower.
He did see the heated glares the villagers shot at her when they caught sight of them. Sakura was shifting nervously, Sasuke seemed to be ignoring them, but any half-way decently trained ninja could see that he was tense. The sad thing was Naruko seemed to be right at home. She didn't even glance at any of them, and she seemed to be vibrating with excitement.
He could swear that she was muttering, "alive, alive, alive," over and over again under her breath, but he didn't turn around to check.
When they got to the Hokage's office, Kakashi was certain that Naruko was vibrating in excitement.
She didn't even knock on the door to see if anybody was in there, she just burst in shouting, "Jiji! You're alive!"
The Sandaime frowned, "Naruko, of course I'm alive. For all I know, I've never been dead."
"That's right," Naruko said, nodding sagely, "you don't die until the Chunin exams."
Sarutobi blinked owlishly at her.
Kakashi decided to ignore whatever odd things she said from now on, "She's been talking to the demon."
"Naruko, is this true?" the Hokage said, brushing off what she said earlier to turn his stern gaze to the blond.
"Yep," she said nodding.
Both of the ninja stared at her for the open admittance.
With a long suffering sigh, the Hokage grabbed a bottle of sake, muttering, "I'm not drunk enough for this."
"Oh," Naruko said, with the air of somebody who had been searching for years but never got the answer to the question posed until now, "that's where Tsunade-baa-chan got it from!"
The Hokage spewed out the sake that he had just taken a sip out of.
All Kakashi could say was, "did you just call Tsunade your grandmother?"
"Well, no matter how much she wants to deny it, Tsunade is old. Old enough to be my granny. And it really pissed her off, so I called her granny all the time!" Naruko.
"Naruko," the Hokage said, "how do you know Tsunade?"
"After you die, which you won't be doing now that I know and can prevent it, Jiraya and I went to go fetch her. Than she became the Godaime and we all lived happily ever after until it all went to hell," Naruko beamed, but there was an underlying sadness in her eyes.
"Wait, wait, wait, hold up," Sakura said, "what the heck is going on?"
"Thank kami," Naruko said, "I've been waiting for somebody to ask me that since I got back. You see, Kurama just gave me this really neat seal that sends a person back into the time and body of, well, whenever they want to go. It's really quite painful, and you have quite a good chance of dying, but really, now I get to change stuff. I even have proof!" with that Naruko shot forward like a bullet, and somehow grabbed onto each of them.
And now Kakashi was wondering how the hell that girl had gotten them into a sewer.
"Where are we?" Sasuke finally spoke up. Sakura squeaked.
"Were in my mindscape. Welcome and all that. Now, forward march! Oh, and if you hear any growling or threats of a torturous death, that's just Kurama. He's the demon that lives in my stomach," a decidedly not twelve year old Naruko said.
"Wha…?" Kakashi said, his brain on overload.
The twelve year old girl was replaced by a twenty year old woman. A really pretty twenty year old woman. Though Minato would torture him to death for even thinking this, the woman before him was quite beautiful. In fact, if Kakashi had even read the file he was given on her, he would have noticed that Naruko actually looked quite a lot like sexy no jutsu. But, you know, with clothes.
"Let me put it into simple words," Not-Twelve-Naruko said, glancing at him with something akin to amusement while they walked, "Hello, I'm a twenty year old Naruko. After everyone dies, Kurama convinced me to go back in time, to my twelve year old body. The seal that I used causes quite a bit of pain. It also has a forty percent chance of survival, but I didn't know that until the seal was activated."
Naruko stopped to push open a random door.
"I'm too old for this," the Hokage sighed.
Naruko scoffed, "Like hell you are old man! You are going to live to see your second grandson be born! I'll make sure of it, believe it!"
"What's that?" Sasuke said, pointing to a cage in the distance.
"That's Kurama's cage," Naruko said, "be careful, he doesn't like… well he doesn't like anything, but if you get too close he might try to kill you. Just so you know."
"This is the weirdest day of my life," Sakura said, "they said nothing about this at the academy."
"They don't say a lot of stuff at the academy," Kakashi said, amused despite himself. After all, Sakura probably made the biggest understatement of the century.
"Hey," Sakura said, as she just realized something, "if you're from the future, do you know who I get married to?"
She was glancing at Sasuke, but Naruko said, "You get married to a guy named Rock Lee. Nice boy, if eccentric. He's pretty much a carbon copy of Gai-sensei."
Kakashi stiffened, eyeing Sakura as if she was going to burst into a speech about Youth. He shuddered at the very thought.
"Sasuke dies as a lonely bastard, Kakashi's engaged, Kiba and Hinata get married, Shikamaru is married to the daughter of the Kazekage, I'm engaged, and whole bunch of other people are married," Naruko said evasively.
Engaged. Kakashi thought dumbly. He got engaged.
"Who?" he demanded, staring at the twenty year old blonde, "who do I get married to."
"I'll tell you…" she said pensively, "after you two have your first kiss."
"What? That would take forever! Does she even live in Konoha?" Kakashi asked, annoyed at the girl before him.
"I die?" Sasuke said.
"Didn't you hear me? I said that everybody dies," Naruko frowned.
"Aren't you over exaggerating? You're only twenty, so I'm sure that we can't all be dead," Sakura pointed.
"Yes, I'm sure. War tends to kill people after all. Oh look, we're here," Naruko said, her attitude doing a one-eighty.
Kakashi turned to look at the Hokage, alarm coating his features. He tried to convey it through his one visible eye. On the off chance that this wasn't an elaborate prank and what the girl was saying was true, they would go to war. A war that killed all of them. That, Kakashi decided would be bad. Very bad.
"Brat," a deep voice grumbled, hidden by the shadows of the cage, "I told you that I would eat them if you brought them here."
Sakura shrieked, backpedaling and tripping over her own feet to get away from whatever she thought was in the cage. Sasuke's eyes widened, and he took a few steps back.
"Oh psh, Kurama, we both know that you wouldn't. We need them," Naruko said sternly.
A giant fox emerged from the shadows, and stuck a fist out of the bars. Kakashi backed away, along with the Hokage and Sakura shrieked again. Sasuke fell on his butt.
Naruko beamed and put her miniscule fist up to his.
"Hm, now what do we have here? The pink one, the avenger, an old grandfather figure and -" the biju started.
Naruko made a weird, strangled sound that cut the demon off.
"Oh? You don't want me to tell?" the beast chuckled.
"What's that I hear? You won't tell anybody for fear of me shaving off all your fur? Well than, thats alright. After all, we wouldn't want pictures of that getting out to all of your brothers and sisters, now would we," Naruko said, smile radiating evil.
"... Brat," it grumbled.
"Hold up," Sarutobi said, after he got his voice back "just what are we doing here?"
"It's proof of course," Naruko said, and there was a heavily implied 'duh' in her tone.
"W-what is that?" Sakura stuttered pointing at the biju in the cage.
"I am the great Kyuubi no Kitsune! The most powerful of all the biju! I am not a 'what', or a 'that'!" the Kyuubi growled at her.
"You said that this is your mindscape, right? What's it doing here?" Sasuke demanded.
"I am not an it!" Kyuubi roared.
Naruko rolled her eyes while the others shuddered with fear, "Tell me, do either of you know what a Jinchuuriki is?"
"A Jinchuuriki is a person with a tailed beast sealed inside of them. It literally means 'power of human sacrifice'. That's all that was in the textbook on them…" Sakura trailed off, her eyes widening dramatically.
"Don't tell me…" Sasuke stared at her in shock.
"That I'm the Jinchuuriki of the Kyuubi no Kitsune, which you were told was dead? Okay, I wont. Doesn't stop it from being true though," Naruko said.
"You-you're the Kyuubi?" Sakura stuttered.
"No," Naruko said rolling her eyes, "I am the container of Kurama as you can see, Kurama over there, he's the Kyuubi no Kitsune. I'm the person that he's sealed inside. As was my mother before me and the Mito Uzumaki before her. Besides, Kurama isn't all that bad. Just grumpy for being manipulated, controlled and contained."
The Kyuubi gnashed his teeth, a low rumbling noise sounding from his throat.
"Can-can we get out of here now?" Sakura said, trembling.
"Go," the Kyuubi growled, "their too annoying. The silly one with the silver hair keeps glaring at me. Bah, like that would do anything. They weren't always like this, were they?"
Naruko snorted, and said, "No, I have to get you to confirm that I'm actually from the future."
The biju glanced at her in annoyance, but said, "Yes, yes. I told her about the seal that sends her back. She is whatever she has said."
"Why should we trust you," Kakashi sneered at it.
"What would I possibly have to gain from lying to you?" it snarled at him.
"Time to go," Naruko said softly, gathering them all in her arms again.
With a feeling of dizyness, they were in the office again, exactly how they had been before the went to Naruko's mindscape.
Kakashi blinked away the feeling of vertigo.
The blond was smiling and rocking back on her heels. Her two teammates had quickly backed away from her, as if she might attack them.
The Hokage sighed.
"You're really from the future," it wasn't a question, but Naruko nodded anyways.
"Well than," he says, "I suppose you'll have to tell us about your war."