Naruto: Rewind Opening Song - Progress

I was there, at that time, at that place.

If that me who was fighting there,

If everything was for the sake of choosing this moment right now...

I wonder if the reason I want to forgive

That past where we deserted without facing ourselves

is because I want to be forgiven myself.

The time when we were able to just be free is far away.

We can't live in this time with just an innocent smile, but...

We move ahead.

Even so, We continue to move ahead

Because we still have a heart left inside of us

that wants to believe in something.

Naruto: Rewind ~ Epilogue

The ceiling continue to shake as Sakura covered herself, as well as Nagisa. Several seconds later, the shaking stopped as she looked up. There was a hole in the wall of the room, and the Scroll of Tiime was still active. Sakura then stood up to hear the sound of walking. Coming through the hole in the wall, she saw Naruto carry Garudo Inugami's body.

"Naruto!" she said walking towards him. Nodding at her, Naruto walked past her and laid down Garudo right beside Nagisa. "How is she doing?" he asked her. "She'll be alright," Sakura replied, "She's just unconscious from exhausting all of her chakra." She then looked at Garudo, who had a serious injury. She covered her mouth in surprise, knowing that her healing abilities alone would not be able to save him. "It had to be done, Sakura..." Naruto replied.

Coughing up blood, Garudo opened his left eye looking at Naruto and Sakura, still wincing from his fatal injury. "Why?" he asked, "Why won't you have my happiness back?" "Garudo," Naruto said, looking at him with a sorrowful face, "I never took away your happiness... Because, you already had it..." He turned to look the unconscious Nagisa; Garudo did the same. "Nagisa..." Garudo breathed. "If you were to go back in time now, she would have never been the shinobi that she is today." "You know," Sakura began, walking up, "I always kicked myself hard when I saw Naruto walk into his home, knowing that there is no one there waiting for him. Now, knowing well that I'm carrying his child, I want to be there for him from here on out. Just like, whatever time you have left, you need to be there for Nagisa."

"She's right, Garudo!" a voice said. Naruto & Sakura looked around and saw no one. However, a transparent person stood right beside Garudo. Sakura looked carefully and saw that the person was a brown-haired woman, who looked just like her. "Naruto," she said pointing, "That woman, looking at Garudo... She looks just like me!" "Then," Naruto began, "She's..." "*cough*...It can't be!" Garudo said spitting up blood, "Autumn..."

The transparent woman was indeed Autumn Tenoh, Sakura Haruno's replica and Garudo's late wife. She kneeled down to talk to her husband. "Garudo," she began, "I have been watching the whole time. Now, that you have an injury, you won't be able to recover from, we need to be there for our daughter, Nagisa, both in body and spirit..." "It wouldn't be in spirit if...!" Garudo barely spoke, but Autumn just laughed. "Just shut up, you big idiot..." Naruto and Sakura looked at each other and smiled.

"Naruto...Sakura..." Autumn then said, "Thank you so much for protecting my Nagisa. But... I'm afraid that everything that has happened, up to this point, was my fault..." "Your fault?" Sakura asked. "What? What..*cough*...are you talking about, Autumn?" Garudo asked. "Although Garudo was partially right about the bonding agent that keeps our bodies together would deteriorate due to emotional stress... The truth is...my body deteriorating even before the S-Rank mission began..." "What?!" Garudo shouted coughing up more blood. "It was right after Nagisa was born that my body was beginning to become too frail. I was coughing up blood, my body wasn't able to move the way it wanted it to... I kept that all from you within the several months of Nagisa's birth. On the day of the mission, I told everybody the truth about you and me..."

"You told everybody that you two were our replicas?" Sakura asked, "But why?" "Because the mission, I volunteered to go on..." Autumn replied, "my body continued to deteriorate. And, in my moments of self-grief, I told them." "Ah man!" Naruto breathed. "In the months that Nagisa were born, I came back here to the hideout where we were created and I found skeletons of other replicas; their bones...very frail... How ironic, Orochimaru did make a success after all. But, in the end, replicas can never live a full life..." "What did you figure out?" Sakura asked again, "There had must of been something..."

"After you told everyone about yourself..." Naruto asked, "...what happened to you then?" "Knowing full well that I was dying," Autumn said, "I ask them to do one thing...to kill me." Naruto and Sakura were in stunned silence afterwards. "I had come to figure out, that a replicas DNA would break apart the moment they continue to age; Garudo and I wouldn't have lived past the age of forty. In the last moments of my life, they promised to keep it a secret from Garudo. Because, I knew that my daughter, Nagisa, a full homegrown human being, would carry on the legacy of the Inugami..."

After hearing her explanation, tears started to fall from the left eye of Garudo Inugami. "You mean," he began, "if everything you said was true, then...*sob*...I killed our friends for nothing?!" "Hatred begets hatred, Garudo," Naruto replied. "I was so caught up in my hatred, that I never let them have the chance to tell me the whole truth. I so sorry for that..." Garudo's tears kept falling as Sakura now began to feel sorry for him. "Because of what I did, I'll never know if they will forgive me or not!" "You don't have to worry," Autumn said placing her ghost hand on her husband, "Once you cross over, you can ask them yourself..."

Naruto walked up to Garudo and said, "I envy you. You had courage to do things I couldn't do back then. I guess if I had half the courage you possessed then, maybe I would have stopped Sasuke from going to Orochimaru." Garudo stopped crying as he listened to Naruto. "What are you talking about?" he asked. "Sasuke Uchiha let his hatred consume him. In the end, it nearly cost him his life..." Garudo couldn't understand what his original was saying, until he figured it out. "You're not from this world, are you? You and Sakura, both..." Naruto and Sakura both nodded in agreement, in silence.

The Scroll of Time finally glowed brightly as a small wind occurred. "What's going on?" Naruto said. "The Scroll of Time is finally complete..." Autumn replied, "Use this opportunity and head back to your world!" "But, we can't just leave you three here!" Sakura pleaded. "Naruto! Sakura!" Garudo barely spoke, "Once you enter the gate, wish clearly on where you want to go. The moment you enter, the gate will close behind you and this world will begin to disappear..."

"Disappear?!" Naruto shouted, "But why?" "He's right, Naruto..." Autumn answered, "There is a reason why the Scroll of Time is forbidden to use; the very moment it disappears, that world will disappear with it..." "Do you mean...?" "Not in the cease to exist sense, but the History of the Ninja World will start over again; the wars, the killing, the senseless fighting, everything... It's only because we need to erase any signs that the Scroll of Time ever existed here. Hopefully, if and when we are born again, this tragedy will be avoided..."

Sakura couldn't believe what she was hearing; tears swelled up in her eyes as she turned to look at Nagisa, who was still sleeping. "It means..." she said fighting back the tears, "She may not be born the next time..." "There's nothing we can do," Naruto said, "She was born in this world..." No longer holding back the tears, Sakura kneeled down and kissed Nagisa on the forehead. "I was beginning to love her like she was my own..." she said. "Yeah, me too." Naruto caressed her cheek and said, "I hope one day we get to meet again, little trooper."

Autumn smiled as she said, "Hurry and go back to your world. Please, let us have a few moments with Nagisa..."

Naruto and Sakura turned to face the gate. They looked back one more time to see Autumn waving goodbye and Garudo giving a thumbs-up. They both entered the Scroll of Time gate, which it disappeared after the two entered. "You know what, Garudo?" Autumn said, looking at her daughter, "Nagisa has truly grown up..." Turning his head one last time, the life in Garudo's eye faded as he said, "Yeah, she has..."

Waking up several minutes later, Naruto found himself back at the Training Grounds. "What the...?" he breathed. Then he found Sakura sleeping next to him. "Hey, Sakura!" Sakura opened her eyes seconds after, looking around. "What? Where are we?" she asked. "It looks like we're back in our own world..."

"There you two are!" a voice said. Naruto looked behind him and saw Shikamaru walking up towards them. "It's been a drag just looking for you guys," he replied. "Why do I feel so sleepy?" Sakura asked rubbing her eyes. "That's because Ino saw you two passed out on here earlier. Kakashi wanted me to tell you, Naruto, that he has an assignment for you. You wants you in the office tomorrow. See ya, guys!" As Shikamaru walked away, Naruto and Sakura looked at each other.

"That wasn't a dream..." Naruto said, "Was it, Sakura?" "I'm not sure, myself," Sakura walking forward. She stopped immediately and quickly paced a hand on her stomach. "Naruto...I just felt something!" He walked up to her and, softly, on his hand on her stomach. "Can it be...?' he thought.

Two hours later, Naruto was standing outside the Konoha Hospital, waiting for Sakura to finish her checkup. She came out the entrance and walked up to him. "Well?" he asked. "Even Shizune confirmed it," Sakura replied, "I'm pregnant. I mean, I still am..." Smiling softly, she left the hospital with Naruto following behind her.

"Have you told your parents yet?" he asked. "No," she answered, "I'd figure I wait until tomorrow. Today, however it was, has been hectic." Naruto then smiled big. "You know," he began, "It's kinda of weird! Me, being a father and all... I just wish my parents were to see me become one." "Even though it may or may not be a dream," Sakura began, "If you think about, Garudo was you, considering he was your replica. Maybe, him doing what he did, was his way of saying, 'Maybe I screwed up, and I want things to return back to the way they were...'"

Naruto stopped in his tracks, making Sakura stop too. "I almost did the exact same thing that he and Sasuke did," he said, "I hated all of the people, who hated me, in the first years of my life just because I had Kurama within me. Honestly, there were several times where I almost pulled the trigger..." "What stopped you?" Sakura asked. "All of the people who believed in me...including you..." "Naruto..."

Both looked each other in the eyes. They leaned in for a kiss, until a mysterious, but light, wind caught their attention. They looked forward to see a person with long, pink hair. "Naruto, look!" Sakura said pointing. "No, it can't be!" Naruto said staring. The person started to run as from the village. Naruto and Sakura followed afterwards.

Running outside the village, Naruto and Sakura lost the person as they came across grassy field.

"Do you see anybody?" Naruto asked. "No," Sakura said continuing to look, "I don't see anybody. Maybe we were just hallucinating..." She then looked down and saw flowers that looked familiar. "No way...Naruto!" "Sakura?" he asked walking up to her, "What's the matter?" "Doesn't this place look familiar?" Naruto looked around and saw that this was the same place that Nagisa showed them before. "It is the same place..." he replied.

"Well, it sure too you long enough to get up here!" a voice said. A bunch of flower petals flew around the meadow as Nagisa, wearing the same clothes from the beginning, appeared out of thin air in front of them. "Nagisa!" shouted Naruto. "You're here!" Sakura replied. "Of course, I am!" Nagisa replied, "Boy, you two have got a lot of nerve! Saying goodbye to me before I had a chance to say anything!" "Nagisa!" Sakura began, "It's not like we rushed it..." Nagisa just laughed. "I'm kidding! Of course, you had to leave. Even when I was unconscious, I could you two, my daddy, and my momma... I just came by to tell you that my world is about to start over again; I wanted to see you one last time..."

"We're sorry, Nagisa!" Naruto said looking down, "We did not want this to happen..." "I'm not!" Nagisa said, "Even if my world is going to disappear and restart again, the three of us are always connected. That's the reason why I came back here again; I'm going to be born in this world soon!" "That's great!" Sakura said smiling, "I hope we get to see you soon!" "Well...you won't have to look far..."

A sudden silence came upon the three.

"It's almost time for me to go," Nagisa said, "Sakura, I know that you're with child. And, I know that you're going to be a great mother..." "How?" Sakura asked, "How would know that, Nagisa?" "Because, when I'm born, I'll be looking into your eyes..." Sakura eyes lit up as she put hand over her mouth; tears started falling from her eyes. "You mean...?" Nagisa had her eyes closed as she smiled and nodded. Sakura cried happily, no longer able to hold anything back anymore.

"I love you, Nagisa," she barely said, "I love you so much!" "I love you too...Momma..." Nagisa said. Naruto put his arm around Sakura's shoulders as he smiled. "Naruto," Nagisa said, getting his attention, "Please, take care of me okay? Believe it, Daddy?" "Believe it, Nagisa!" he said, giving her a thumbs-up. Doing the same thing, Nagisa Inugami disappeared from sight as the wind picked up and the flower petals flew around.

"Goodbye..."

Continuing to smile, Naruto looked at Sakura. "Hey, Sakura?" he said, with his arm now on her waist. She looked up at him. "Let's get married." Smiling, Sakura closed her eyes and placed her head on Naruto's chest.

"Sure..."

Naruto: Rewind - Ending Theme: Song 4 U

(1st verse)

"See you tomorrow"

Without a second thought

I said with a smile

"See you tomorrow"

I realize how you were there

to say it for me

If we ever get to the point

Where we distrust ourselves

In that moment, look;

The moon and the sun

Can't shine anymore

Within our outstretched hands

Beyond the light

The future we've been wishing for

Is waiting...

I can hear you,

I can feel you

The way you cried as you were there

Just by that, you've reached me

It's reaching me,

It's resonating within me

As the person I am, I will embrace it all

Even you sorrow

(2nd Verse)

Even now I don't have much confidence

And there are times when I can't move forward

"If I make a mistake"

"If I repeat that mistake"

What will I do?

If we're not faced with a choice

There's nothing to be anxious about

But then, it will also mean nothing will ever

Change...

When was it?

What had happened?

That time you decided you couldn't take it anymore

and everything was finished

What was it?

Who was it?

That made you decide that somehow you must once again

try to move forward

To you, yeah

I believe, I'm able to believe

For you, yeah

I feel like I could soar through the sky

If it was for you, my one and only...

(Post Ending Scene)

10 Years Later...

A ten-year old Nagisa just came out of the academy wearing a Leaf Headband. "I did it!" she shouted, "I graduated from the Academy!"

"Hey, Nagisa!" a voice shouted. Looking forward, Nagisa saw an older Naruto and Sakura smiling at her; Naruto was wearing the Hokage Cloak. "Momma! Daddy!" she shouted running towards her parents. "Congrats, Nagisa!" Sakura said. "How should we celebrate today?" Naruto asked her. "Daddy?" Nagisa asked, "Can we go to the meadow?" "Do you think we have time today?" Naruto asked, looking at Sakura. "I think we have all the time in the world!" Sakura replied back.

At the meadow, the Uzumaki Family were sitting down in the grass; Nagisa was laying down taking a rest, with her eyes closed. "That wind sure feels good," Sakura said. "Yeah," Naruto said, "It does."

Opening her eyes, Nagisa said, "Momma...Daddy...If only I could rewind this moment forever... No, I only wish this could last forever..." Naruto and Sakura just smiled at their daughter.

Now It Can...

THE END

A/N: That's the end of the story! Thank you so much for following this story! Please review and hopefully, I get to do more fanfictions in the future! Happy Valentine's Day!

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