So I had this amazing thing called a snow day, that gave me time to write. Don't you just love snow days? Anyways, thank you Akatsuki Sakura Uchiha and SargentAngua for reviewing.

Disclaimer: I do not, nor ever will, own Naruto.

Italics=Thoughts (You should know this by now)

Second time in less than a week that I've woken up in a hospital.

I hope this doesn't become a common occurrence.

My whole body is stiff and my abdomen is extremely tender.

I hear the door creak open and I slowly turn my head in its direction.

It's Grandma, and for a second I get my hopes up.

"Naruto rushed you back to the tower, he was in a panic. I don't blame him. You were bleeding everywhere, even with your body unconsciously healing itself, and heading into hypovolemic shock due to the blood loss. On top of that you had plenty of organs damaged too." She informs me.

I'm not back?

"W-why didn't it work?"

"I don't know, but I forbid to let you do that again, as Hokage and your future Grandmother!" She commands. "Do you have any idea how close to death you were?"

I open my mouth to respond.

"I don't want any smart-ass remarks Gaki. You almost died."

"But I didn't."

She stalks over.

"Never again."

"Why would I need to do it again?" I asks a little condescendingly

Why did it fail? It was basically the same. Why wasn't I sent to my time?

She glares.

"You've been out for two days now, you're staying here for one more. Don't even plan on doing anything. Naruto and Jiraiya are both on missions so you have no access to Rasengan."

"What missions?"

Is this the one?

"Naruto and seven others, including Sakura, are on a mission to find Sasuke, which involves finding Itachi. Jiraiya is going to Amegakure. Why do you ask?"

Yep, that's the one.

"Future business." I say vaguely.

Her air does a complete 180.

"Ume, I have a bad feeling about both of these missions, especially Jiraiya's. I need to know, do they survive?"

I want to tell her to send me to Ame.

I could save him. It will change things though.

I decide to go with the best option, the safest.

"They'll be fine." I lie convincingly.

She sighs with contentment.

I'm sorry Grandma.

"Thank you. Now,"

She pulls out a bunch of books and scrolls from nowhere.

"These are everything I could find about time and anything else close to the subject. You are going to read them."

She puts them on the table next to the bed, it creaks under the weight.

"I have to go take care of some Hokage business. A nurse should check-up on you in a while."

She leaves me.

I pick up the scroll nearest to me and start reading.

'Time is like an endless cloth, it continuously flows and molds. Time is always moving forward, that is why we have a past and future. The present is what is happening now. You are always living in the present, but what you have done, or going to do will be in the past or future. Time is a challenging concept to understand…'

I don't want to understand it, I just want to go back to my time.

I pick up a book titled Konoha's Justus Through Time.

This is just a list.

I still take my time and look at it. I'm glad I do because I find something rather interesting.

'Konoha's Yellow Flash, the Fourth Hokage, was known for his Shunshin Justu, a time-space justu. He was able to teleport to any location with the use of special seals. It is said that he felt time was slowing down for everyone else and speeding up for him. To this day, no one has been able to duplicate this justu. Most likely due to his unique chakra flow.'

Unique chakra flow? Like…clockwise or counterclockwise? He must have been clockwise since that is unique. But Naruto-sama does something exactly like this in my time. If clockwise chakra makes you move faster, then counterclockwise must do the opposite.

With this idea, and after reading many more books I come to a conclusion.

The reason I went back in time must be that Yuudai and Hajime both have counterclockwise chakra flow. Gramps must have that too. So in order for me to go forward I need two clockwise chakra users. Oh, I hope Uncle is clockwise. That also means I have to wait until he's brought back. That shouldn't be too long, a couple months.

After a while I start thinking about Jiraiya-sama again and I feel terrible about lying. I remember Mom once said that he was in love with Grandma and she still felt guilt about rejecting him.

I get up, find my clothes, and dressed. Then I write a note.

'Grandma,

Don't send anyone after me. I'm going to Amegakure. I lied. I'm going to save him though, don't worry. I'll take care of it. Don't leave the village either, it's going to need you.

Ume'

I escape out the window.

Going to go change the future. When, if, I get back to my time I hope I didn't mess too much up. I'm still here, so that's a good sign.

So next chapter is finally going to have some ItachiXSakura. Now I have to go study. Remember to Review!

~DeathOrchid