Here it is. You know, I usually take longer to update, but I really have nothing to do. So, I did this.
"You're kidding," Sakura said, finally getting over her shock, "you actually believe her? The class prankster? She's just making this up!"
"You seriously believe that? After I showed you into my mind? What, should I have showed you some memories of things that are yet to happen?" Naruko froze, "I should have done that! Why didn't I think of that before? Ugh, every bodies right, I am an idiot."
Sakura frowned. She didn't remember Naruko being this… quite. Whenever the blond had tried to talk to her before, she was always loud and annoying. Now she just seemed sorta sad. Sad and annoying.
Maybe…? But no. Naruko lived for tricking people. She got a kick out of it. Sometimes literally. She couldn't possibly be what she said, because that meant she survived a war that Sasuke died in. She was the class dobe, and Sasuke was the rookie of the year and an amazing ninja. Not to mention really, really cute. With his tragic back story, his rich family, his deep dark eyes, and cool, uncaring attitude, he was everything a girl could possibly want. And his hair oh kami-
While Sakura was off in Sasuke land, Sasuke himself was thinking about the girl who said she was from the future. He was extremely skeptical that she was the only war survivor, but he was almost choking off of the chakra that the fox had been giving off. If he could get just a bit of that power, it would be hilariously easy to avenge his clan by killing his brother. She might even know him from the future, and he could only get stronger. He bet he had even killed his brother. He resolved to ask her later.
Kakashi stared at Naruko in confusion. While she and the Kyuubi had said enough to make him believe her, it was a little hard to wrap his mind around. She was from the future. He got engaged. He died. His sensei's daughter got engaged. His sensei's daughter was very pretty. She was the only one who didn't die. His sensei was going to kill him for not being there for her.
Sarutobi analyzed the girl before him, so different than the one he saw only yesterday. Her eyes were sad and haunted. Her smile was pained and faker than it had ever been. The one thing that he wanted to save her from when she has friends, the inevitable day when one of them passed on, and left her. He knew that she would hold onto them more tightly than most others her age, because for as long as she could remember she had only had him and the two that ran that ramen stand of hers.
Naruko scratched her head. They were all staring at her like she was from the future… oh wait… yeah, this was weird. At least they didn't know everything. Than Kakashi would be freaking out, like the time he found out that he was romantically interested in her, and avoided her for a week. It hadn't ended well for him. Naruko had a tendency of blowing everyone's plans that included her to smithereens.
If she told Sasuke why his brother had actually killed his clan, would he look at her like when she ate all the tomatoes in his house again? Or when she told Jiji that her first act as Hokage was to paint the remaining parts of the village bright orange, would he give her that look that was supposed to make her feel like she had done something incredibly stupid, but inside he was laughing and he was only putting on the show for the ANBU that were usually hiding in the room somewhere. And she knew that Sakura would absolutely freak if she either found out that she kept her hair short, or what Lee looked like. As much as she loved the girl, she was quite shallow now.
Naruko cleared her throat, gaining their attention from whatever they were thinking, "This war started long before any of us were born. Long before this village was even created. Before men even had chakra. Before the biju were created. This is not a well known story, but it is true nonetheless. The fourth shinobi started with endless wars between mankind. The Shinju tree during this time was thought of as a deity, for it bore a chakra fruit every thousand years. It was forbidden to eat the fruit, but a princess ate the fruit to use it to end the wars plaguing the lands."
"That's not too bad," Sakura said, confused, "eating a fruit isn't enough to hit us back all these years later. Is it?"
"You didn't let me finish," Naruko whined, "that fruit that she are granted her chakra."
"We got chakra from a tree," Sasuke said flatly.
"Yep! But you forget, this tree is a deity. The princesses sons were the first humans born with chakra. One had the Byakugan, the other had the Rinnegan. Enraged at the power manifested in her two sons, the princess merged with the Shinju and created the Ten-Tails. They ravaged the world in an attempt to gain it's lost chakra. In the final battle, the two boys sealed the Ten-Tails into one of the boys, making him the first Jinchuuriki."
"But," Sasuke paused trying to gather his words, "he saved them."
"Yes. All Jinchuuriki technically do save people from their biju. But they're still treated like they are the demon. For example, Sabaku no Gaara, the Kazekage's son. He holds the One-Tail, but because of that, everybody stays away from him. And do you know what that caused? Him to go completely psychotic. His father, who in my opinion wins the grand prize for worst dad ever, tried to get people to assassinate him. His father," she snarled.
Sakura shuffled behind Sasuke, her eyes wide with fear.
The Hokage cleared his throat, giving Naruko a pointed look.
"Right," she said sheepishly, "sorry. Anyways, the boy who had the Ten-Tails sealed into him did many other things in life, which resulted in him being called the Sage of Six Paths."
"Oh! We learnt about him in the academy!" Sakura said excitedly.
"We did? Oh, I must have been skipping that day. Or I was asleep. Either way, I don't remember that," Naruko said, rubbing the back of her neck sheepishly.
"Naruko, honestly, how many times have I told you? You need to-" the Hokage started.
"-Listen more in class. It may save your life someday, young lady," Naruko pulled a face, "I never listened in class, but look how I ended up! The only one who survived the war…" she trailed off, "wow I just realized how depressing my life is."
"You didn't realize it before?" Sasuke asked skeptically.
"I was kind of preoccupied," Naruko huffed.
"Why do I have the feeling that this is going to take a lot longer than it should," Kakashi muttered to the Hokage, low enough that nobody short of Inuzuka hearing could hear him.
"Hey! They're the ones that keep interrupting me!" Or, as it turns out, Jinchuuriki's enhanced hearing.
Naruko shook her fist at him, and he had to fight his mouth from going up in a smile at how adorable the blond looked. She reminded him of Obito after Kakashi had defeated him in a spar and he would say 'One day I'll beat you, you masked bastard!', or Kushina when Minato had made a remark about ramen. Though she did end up threatening to force him to sleep on his couch for a year.
He didn't know that was Naruko's favourite threat, if just to feel the flux his emotions went through every time she said it. Ah, the advantages of being a Jinchuuriki of the Nine-Tails.
"But," Naruko said, glaring at Kakashi, a little disappointed that it didn't inspire fear for his manhood like it would later, "he knew that should he die, the Ten-Tails would be released into the world once again, he separated the biju's chakra from it's body and used some weird ability called something that I can never remember and created the tailed beasts."
Naruko paused to let that sink in.
"You're telling us that the man that saved the world from a biju," the Hokage said slowly, "created nine of them out of one? Idiot, how would that help?"
"WHAT! HOW DARE HE! THE MAN THAT HE IS INSULTING IS TEN TIMES THE MAN HE IS HE IS!-"
Naruko winced as the Kyuubi ranted in her head about the idiocies of humans these days. Well, not so much as ranted, but more like screamed. Man, that fox had some colourful language. What did fanny even mean?
"Naruko!" Sakura screamed in her ear.
Swearing, the blond covered her ears, futilely trying to stop the ringing.
"Kami damn it woman! Do you have to yell so loud? I have sensitive hearing you know!" Naruko whimpered.
All of the boys were grimacing, Kakashi resisting the urge to cover his own ears.
"I was calling you for the past two minutes!" Sakura defended herself.
Heaving a sigh, Naruko turned to the Hokage and summarized what the demon had been saying for the past couple of minutes "Kurama says that his Tou-san isn't an idiot, you are! But, you know, with death threats, swear words and really interesting torture methods. Huh," Naruko stared pensively at nothing, "can you actually do that without somebody dying?"
A sickly sweet grin stretched across her face, and she started to cackle.
"N-Naruko?" Sakura stuttered, "a-are you sane?"
Naruko paused her cackling, and furrowed her brow in thought.
"It's the dobe," Sasuke scoffed, "of course she's not sane."
"You're going to have to get a Yamanaka's professional opinion on this. I'm not even sure I was completely sane at the age that I'm supposed to be now, let alone at twenty," Naruko finally said, breaking the heavy silence.
The Hokage and Kakashi exchanged worried looks.
"But we're not here to talk about my sanity," Naruko said, "we're here to talk about the war. And I still haven't finished my story about how it all started!"
"Right," the Hokage cleared his throat, "carry on."
Naruko rolled her eyes, "So the Sage of Six Paths used this other technique thingy to make the moon and seal the Ten-Tails' chakra-less body in it."
"A jutsu created the moon," Sakura exclaimed, bewildered.
"Yea, it's really powerful. And not fun when it's used on you," she added with a grimace.
"You," Kakashi shook his head, "you know, I'm just going to expect everything from you from now on. That way you'll hopefully stop surprising me."
"I wasn't dubbed Konoha's most unpredictable ninja for nothing!" Naruko said with a cheeky, if a bit melancholic, grin.
"You're barely a ninja! Look at the clothes you wear! It's neon orange! Why even orange? It's such an ugly colour," Sakura snapped.
Naruko's slowly turned to face her, and Sakura had to resist the urge not to wet her pants. In the place of normal, cheerful bright blue eyes, were slitted, demonic red eyes.
"What did you say about orange?" she said, a threatening lit to her tone.
Sakura squeaked.
"Naruko," the Hokage sighed, "stop scaring the poor girl."
Naruko narrowed her eyes, "And just when I was thinking of telling you the sacred secret of eliminating paperwork. I will get my revenge later," she added to Sakura, her eyes fading back to their normal blue.
Both the Sandaime and Sakura paled.
"N-no! Naruko, I've been like your grandfather figure! Your Jiji! Save me from the torture of paperwork!" the Sandaime wailed.
Naruko turned her head.
"Hey," Kakashi said, snapping his fingers in front of Naruko's face, "war story time. I, for one, have some better things to do than listen to midgets-"
"Oh no. You did not just call me short," Naruko growled, walking up and poking Kakashi on his arm.
"Maa, maa cute little genin, so aggressive," Kakashi secretly smiling behind his mask.
"Keep this up, and I swear I'll use you for my seals practice. They tend to either blow up or set things on fire if I don't get them right," Naruko sweetly informed him.
"You'd have to find me first," Kakashi said, eye smiling at her.
"Should be easy," Naruko mused, "the tracker seal that I put on you after you did CPR does let me know where you are."
Kakashi should be mad. He should be shocked that a fresh genin, even if she was really twenty, she still had the drawbacks of being used to a different body. Instead, he was reminded of the time Minato did the same to his genin team, eyes wide with paranoia, telling them, 'You're ninja now. Anything can happen, and now I'll be able to track Obito if he ever tries to out prank a Uzumaki. The consequences of that is never good.'
"Great," Naruko's grin was downright shark-like, "I'm testing this new implosion seal. Saves me from cleaning up after myself. I've been meaning to test it out on something living."
"You are too much like your mother for this village's well being," Kakashi informed her, shuffling away from her slightly.
Naruko's smile softened, "Thank you," she told him sincerely.
"How long is this going to take?" an irritated Sasuke asked.
"We've barely even scratched the surface," Naruko said cheerfully.
"Well than keep going! Sasuke-kun doesn't want to be here!" Sakura said.
"Okay, okay. Where was I? Right, Sage guy made the moon and sealed the Ten-Tails into it, which led to the creation of the Black Zetsu, who severs the will of the princess. He comes up later. Anyways, Sage guy goes around and grants others chakra, spreads his religion and ideals or whatever, and that ends up as ninjutsu."
"So the guy makes the moon, and creates ninjutsu," Sakura said, sounding awed.
"Stop interrupting me! Jeez, you keep telling me to hurry up, but you keep interrupting me!" Naruko scowled.
Sakura flushed.
"So he wants to have peace throughout the world, but knows that he will die before that could happen, so he in trusts that dream to his two sons, whom I actually know the names of. The eldest Indra, the ancestor to the Uchiha clan his reincarnation is actually you, Sasuke," Naruko nodded to him.
Sasuke blinked in surprise, "Who else was he reincarnated into?"
"Madara Uchiha," she said, her eyes darkening.
Sasuke decided that he would ask about him too, when Naruko was in a better mood.
"The younger brother Asura, was the ancestor to the Senju clan. I inherited his chakra, and before me it was Hashirama Senju."
"We were brothers in another life?" Sasuke said, surprised again. He thought that this girl was making him feel more emotions in one hour than he did in a month.
"And we will be in this one as well. But, you know, I'll be a sister," Naruko smiled at him.
" Anyways, Sage guy he teaches them, and Indra was acknowledged as a prodigy, but it was Asura who never gave up and eventually found his own power through his friends that inspired him to separate the Ten-Tails chakra into nine bodies. He made the tailed beasts and gave each a name."
"He gave demons names," Sasuke deadpanned.
"Foolish human. He gave me the greatest name that has ever existed!" Kurama roared.
"Kurama says that he has the greatest name ever. He also called you foolish. Just so you know," Naruko laughed.
"So the demon doesn't just tell you to kill everything all the time?" Kakashi asked.
"No. Kurama is awesome, if a bit cynical. He's been controlled, but that is a story for another time. The ANBU that are on lunch break should be coming up in ten minutes."
"The ANBU aren't supposed to leave," Sarutobi frowned.
"But it's good that they did. I'd rather not have the fact that I'm from the future be well known. I also activated the privacy seals, and destroyed all the listening devices that were in the room. You're welcome!" Naruko grinned at him innocently.
"I see that the title of the most unpredictable ninja was well earned," the Hokage finally managed to say.
"Thank you. So some time after their creation, the young tailed beasts were told that they were all still linked to one another despite being their own person. Sage guy also told them that they would eventually become one again, yet not as they originally were, and that one shall appear at that time to show them what true power is. On his deathbed, he chose Asura to be his successor, but Indra, overcome by bitterness and envy as well as being encouraged and manipulated by Black Zetsu, fought against his brother, beginning a war between them that would continue through their descendants."
Sasuke frowned, "That's stupid. I wont fight against you for who gets to try to enforce world peace. Seems like too much work."
"Good. One thing to cross off the list for things that you fight me about. You seriously would fight anybody over the tiniest thing in the future, I swear," she groaned, "if you don't have anyone to seek vengeance on, you just sit around sulking until I take pity on you and eat all your tomatoes."
"Don't eat my tomatoes," Sasuke warned her.
Naruko cracked a smile, "Thinking that Indra or one of his reincarnations would eventually attempt to take Asura's power for themselves, Sage guy left behind a some rock thing explaining his history in an attempt to make them reconsider. Only those who've got the Rinnegan can fully decipher the contents of the tablet, while a reader with other dōjutsu such as the Sharingan can still partially interpret the information."
"Only the Sharingan? What about the Byakugan?" Sakura frowned.
"Because the Byakugan was Sage guy's brothers dōjutsu. Only the Rinnegan and the Sharingan can see it," she informed Sakura.
"Oh. I guess that makes sense," Sakura said.
"However, unknown to him, Black Zetsu had altered the contents of his tablet so he could manipulate Indra's descendants, the Uchiha clan, through the ages into resurrecting the princess and the Ten-Tails."
"So the Sage of Six paths and his brother fathered three clans," Sasuke said, "the Hyuuga, the Uchiha and the Senju."
"Through distant relations, the Uzumaki clan too," Naruko smiled.
"I think," the Hokage said tiredly, "that this is enough for today. We will meet tomorrow morning."
"What about our genin test?" Naruko frowned.
The Hokage tiredly rubbed his face, "I think I can make an exception for you three. I don't think I have to tell you that everything discussed here is an S ranked secrete," he said, glancing at them.
"Nope! I'm off, if you hear screaming it's because of my 'I'm back and won't be taking any of your shit anymore' prank! See you tomorrow!" And with that, she jumped out the window.
"I'm too old for this," the Hokage said.
"I'm too young for this," Kakashi countered.
"Sasuke-kun, would you like to go for lunch with me?" Sakura asked.
"Hn," Sasuke said.
"Do I have to have this team?" Kakashi whined.
"You think anybody else will want them? Because if you can find somebody that the council will approve of, I'm all ears."
"I think I finally know why Minato-sensei ran screaming when he saw us out of team practice time," Kakashi groaned.
"Trust me, this is only the beginning," the Hokage said, taking sadistic pleasure from the choking noises coming from Kakashi.
Sorry for the weak end. And if this chapter is filled with stuff that you already know. But still, you gotta review. Please. Come on, you know you can find something! A mistake I made, a suggestion for next chapters, when Kakashi finds out who he gets engaged to, anything!