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(Day after the Uchiha Massacre)

Sitting atop the First Hokage's head Naruto looked out at the village. It was beautiful even during a tragedy such as tonight. Of course, it could have been worse. If Itachi hadn't been practically blinded by the grief of preparing to kill his clan and his worries about Sasuke then his plan might not have worked. The nuke-nin was a once in a generation prodigy. One of the very best to ever come out of Konoha.

If Itachi had so much as looked over his shoulder in their brief conversation the gig would have been up and Naruto was sure the Uchiha would have cut him down.

"Naruto, there is someone coming." Kurama's voice rumbled in his head pulling his attention from his thoughts.

"It's quite the sight isn't it. This village."

Looking over his shoulder Naruto struggled to keep from glaring at the man walking towards him. Frail, old, walking with a cane. He had black, shaggy hair, and his right eye was bandaged, concealing what Naruto knew was a Sharingan underneath. From his new bodies cousin, Shisui. The black robe around his body hid a broken arm but Naruto knew what would be there soon. Sasuke had told him about his battle with the Elder. How he had harvested the eyes of multiple dead Uchiha and implanted them in an artificial arm made of the Shodaime's cells.

"Danzo Shimura." Standing to his feet Naruto swallowed everything he felt and bowed. "Hounrable elder."

Staring at the rocks on the ground he was sure he was going to throw up. Bowing his head to a piece of trash like Danzo.

"Kagami," Danzo's voice was rough as he spoke slowly. "Your clan is looking for you. Mikoto-san is worried."

"They aren't my clan anymore," Naruto said and it was the truth. He wasn't an Uchiha. Kagami was gone and only Naruto was left.

Turning back to the village Naruto didn't show it outward but inside he was smiling like a loon. He knew why Danzo was talking to him. The Uchiha while less in numbers was by no means close to extinction. And with the old man knowing about Itachi's mission the Anbu response was quicker and Danzo didn't have time to harvest the eyes he needed and was now looking for an Uchiha to join Root to make up for that loss.

Or Naruto hoped that was what was happening. He hadn't known much about Danzo in his time. Only what Sasuke had told him but he knew enough to at least guess what the old man was thinking.

Maybe he was wrong but he had to try. He was sure Sasuke had detailed plans on what he was going to do about the future.

"And now I have another one." Sasuke's mom had ruined his first plan by banning any Uchiha except Sasuke from entering the Ninja Academy. His second plan was surefire either but it would get him training and out of the village on missions. Missions he would have to complete no matter his feelings about them.

"Why do you say that?"

"Mikoto-san won't let anyone but her son enter the academy."

Danzo hummed but didn't speak. Thinking about his words before opening his mouth. "I believe you were quite the outcast in your clan because of your view of the shinobi world. While your cousin was hailed as a genius you were called a fool. Your pacifist nature keeping the innate talent you, as an Uchiha had suppressed. Why do you wish to become a ninja now when you have shunned the life of a Shinobi for so long?"

"Itachi killed, Shisui. And stole his eye. I will be the one to kill him."

"I see." An almost unnoticeable smirk appeared on Danzo's face. Revenge was always a strong motivator. Danzo moved his good arm holding his hand out in the air between him and the young Uchiha. "If you wish to be a Shinobi, become one for me. Itachi is a traitor to the leaf and only someone with the Sharingan will be able to stand against him. I will train you to be that Uchiha."

Reaching up Naruto took that hand offered to him. "Plan B, starts now, Sasuke."

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(Present Time)

Deep underground in man-made caves underneath the Village Hidden in the Leaves the sound of steel scraping together echoed through the dark grey chambers. Those walking the halls ignored the sounds of battle around them. To them, there had never been anything different. The constant fighting had made the Root's strong.

"He's too much."

Looking down at his sparring partner for the day blood dripping from multiple cuts on each of his four limbs and dribbling from his mouth in a steady slow stream Naruto sighed as the masked boy tried to get back to his feet. Danzo taught them to lose their emotions but to not have any self-preservation was just ridiculous.

Lifting his foot Naruto kicked down smashing his enemy's head into the floor knocking him unconscious.

Turning to leave the training area Naruto dropped to a knee as the man who would help him change the future walked in. "Danzo-Sama."

"Kagami," Danzo nodded and Naruto rose.

He hated taking orders from the war-hawk but if it helped save not only Konoha but the Shinobi world then he would swallow his personal feelings.

"You're training has advanced quickly." Danzo praised and reached into his robe pulling a black file from within. Handing it over he walked past the only Uchiha he had in Root. "You leave today."

"Hai, Danzo-Sama." Naruto nodded and opened the packet. Inside there was a dossier on a rich merchant in the Land of Hot Water who was sending missions to Kumo instead of Konoha. He was supposed to use his Sharingan and place a Genjutsu on the man persuading him to give his missions to Konoha. And if it didn't take, kill him.

"Sorry, Bee, A." Naruto didn't want to take money from their village but it had to be done to keep his cover.

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(Konoha Academy)

"Sasuke-Kun, sit next to me!"

"Shut up Forehead! Sasuke-Kun wants to sit next to me!"

Walking past the two bickering girls Sasuke ignored them completely and took a seat between the windows and one Naruko Uzumaki. Glancing at the girl he nodded to her when he saw she was glaring at him.

He hadn't heard from Naruto yet, so he assumed the dobe hadn't made come back to the village and seen his 'younger self'. If he had Sasuke was positive, no matter how weak they were there would have been a fight. There was always going to be a fight. Once Naruto realizes his Jutsu hadn't sent them back in time but instead sent them to another dimension where time moved slower so it was like they were in the past. Only there would be differences. And the friends Naruto wanted to save so badly didn't exist here. Doppelgangers of them did.

A major or minor difference depending on how you looked at it was Naruto was Naruko in this dimension.

"And she's a lot less annoying than the original."

Naruko, unlike Naruto, didn't shout her dream to be Hokage to the sky every minute. She answered when asked but other than that she kept her head down and trained. She didn't call him a bastard either. And much to his dismay, she was prettier than the rest of the girls in the class. He didn't think it in a sexual way because he was twenty years old and she was eight, it was just an observation. In a few years that might change but that was something he didn't want to think about. It was just too weird.

"Okay, class," Iruka called from the front of the room clapping his hands together. "Today is survival training. Your partner will be the person next to you and I have already gotten permission from your parents so I don't want anyone saying they can't participate."

The scarred Chunin eyes locked onto the Nara in the back row.

"Now, follow me."

"Looks like we're partners, Sasuke," Naruko said and stood up from her chair sweat dropping as half a dozen angry pairs of eyes focused on her.

"Why does she get to be with Sasuke-Kun?" Sakura demanded stomping up to and pointing at Iruka-Sensei. "Switch her with me, Sensei."

"No me!" Ino pushed Sakura away from Iruka and glared at him herself. "Sasuke-Kun obviously wants to be partnered with me."

Rubbing the back of his head Iruka sighed as more of his female students started fighting. "Enough!"

The room silenced as the Big Head Jutsu took effect. Letting his head shrink back to normal size he pointed to the door. "Naruko and Sasuke already left. Now, no more arguing or you all get a failing grade."

Outside in the hallway, Sasuke leaned against the wall as Naruko snickered at her fellow Kunoichi. A grin broke his stoic facade as Naruko began making faces at the other girls when they came out of the room behind Iruka.

"This is why I'm back."

He would save Sakura and Kakashi and get his revenge on Danzo and Madara. But for now, he was going to live a life that he actually liked. He was going to be happy before the war began again.

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(Land Of Hot water)

"Lord Gaizo."

In the trees outside the merchants home, Naruto watched through binoculars as the merchant, a fat balding man who didn't look like he could be younger than a hundred limped inside stubbing a cigarette out as he went. The man was cocky to call himself a lord. But from what the file said about him he was twice as rich as Gato and Gato might as well have been the Lord of the Land of Waves. An evil, selfish bastard of a Lord but its ruler none the less.

Sealing his binoculars away in the storage seals drawn on his upper arm Naruto channeled chakra into his eyes causing black eyes to be drowned in red. Forming a one-handed Ram seal he vanished from the branch in a small tornado of leaves.

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Inside his office Gaizo, businessman extraordinaire, and one of the top twenty richest men in the Elemental Nations leaned back in his chair. It was more of a throne really, reaching more than a foot above his head and large enough to fit two of him side by side. But who was going to judge him on his choice of a chair? He had enough money to buy a real throne if he wanted. Maybe the Hot Water Daimyo seat if the urge ever tickled him to become the leader of a country.

"Gaizo-Sama?" A quiet feminine voice cal"Weled from outside the door accompanied by two knocks.

"Heh, come in, Mya," Gaizo called back with a smirk.

The door opened and a dark-haired purple-eyed woman entered staring at her feet as she walked in and closed the door behind her.

"Are you ready to work, Mya?"

Mya looked up and Gaizo eyes went glassy as they met red eyes. Two black tomoes slowly circling Mya's pupil hypnotizing him.

"That was easy." Kakashi's Sharingan had been near blind when the Jonin gave it to him but Kagami's worked just fine. Better than fine. He could feel the power inside his eyes lying dormant until it could be unleashed.

Walking to the open window Naruto opened it and jumped onto the ledge still Transformed as Mya who was sleeping at her desk. he wasn't worried about being spotted. Gaizo, for all the missions he sent to Kumo, hated Shinobi. They were useful to him but he had a strong dislike for ninja. "As he should have."

Without knowing how to utilize his chakra and never meeting Shinobi in person he would be under Naruto's Genjutsu forever. nd Kumo would lose out on quite a chunk of money.

Leaping from the window down onto the second level of Gaizo's home Naruto frowned destroying the beauty, Mya held.

"I hate this life." Screwing over his friends and working for Danzo he couldn't stand it.

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(Konoha)

"Danzo-san. I was surprised to see one of your tools waiting for me in my base. And then he goes and tells me to return to Konoha to speak to you. Kukuku, things are starting to get interesting."

"Orochimaru." Danzo greeted the Sannin.

The two shinobi were a mile underneath Konoha in one of Danzo's secret labs that he had spread throughout Konoha. Under Danzo's request, the Snake Sannin had come alone. What he wanted was going to be between them and no one else. If Orochimaru ever told anyone his words wouldn't mean a thing since they would be coming from a traitor.

It would raise Hiruzen's suspicion of him but he could deal with his old friend.

"The work you sent me was quite fascinating, Danzo-san. To think that the Kyuubi No Kitsune was so powerful it's mere presence imbued a child with its chakra." Orochimaru chuckled walking past the Konoha elder to one of the many test tubes in the lab. "With the healing factor he has, it would be easy to give your Uchiha tool modifications. To make him more effective."

"That is why I called you." Danzo aged gravely voice said as he tapped the kunai in his sleeve. After three shinobi world wars, he wasn't one to be nervous but Orochimaru was no regular opponent. He was a genius, same as Itachi, and the Fourth Hokage. A once in a generation Shinobi. If it came to a fight Danzo was sure Shisui's eye would be needed if he wanted a victory.

Orochimaru chuckled biting his thumb and sliding the bleeding appendage across his forearm. In a plume of smoke, a sealing scroll appeared in the legendary ninja's arm. Crouching down he unrolled it and once again used his bleeding thumb to activate the sealing Jutsu.

"Kagami-san has best eyes in the Ninja world. What he needs now is a strong body. Kukuku." Orochimaru stepped back as he unsealed his own research. "I think we should begin with, the Kinoe test. A Jinchuuriki's, even if he isn't a full one will have a healing ability."

Glancing down at his hidden arm Danzo kept his face blank as Orochimaru began setting up his work. An Uchiha with the power of Hashirama. The ultimate vision and perfect body.

"Kagami. You will be my most useful tool."

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(Four years later)

"Team 7, good work on your latest mission." The Sandaime praised three of the newest Ninja under his command. Sakura Haruno, the top scoring kunoichi in the academy, Sasuke Uchiha, rookie of the year and Naruko Uzumaki. Dead last of her class. Though HIruzen suspected that it was only because of her burden that she scored so low. Iruka may have warmed to her but he was the only one. Mizuki's stunt with the Forbidden Scroll proved that.

"Now, Team Kakashi, your next duty is...hmm...babysitting an elders grandson, shopping in the neighboring village, and help with the potato digging."

"No, no, no! I think I've held my tongue long enough." Naruko shoved past Sakura so she was standing in front of her two teammates and Sensei. "I want to do an amazing mission. Find us better one, old man!"

"Naruko-baka, don't demand things from the Hokage." Sakura clenched her fist. If they weren't in front of the village leader she would clobber that dumb blonde.

Crossing her arms over her ample chest Naruko ignored her pink haired teammate. If it was up to Sakura they'd spend all day in the village so she could try and impress Sasuke. She wasn't going to let that happen. Being a ninja was supposed to give her adventure and awesome battles that would help her gain the respect of the villagers.

"Hn. Naruko is right. I'm done doing these crappy missions as well."

"Very well, if you want one so much. I will give you a C-Rank." The Sandaime linked his fingers underneath his chin. "It's a protection for a certain individual."

Naruko's whole face brightened and Sasuke glanced away. He didn't know what it was about the female dobe but lately, since they graduated the academy he felt weird around her. "Probably because she wears such revealing clothing."

His blonde teammate wore burnt orange pants like his worlds naruto and black shinobi sandals which was fine. The problem he had was up top where she wore nothing except a fishnet shirt and an orange jacket that she left unzipped showing off her budding assets. She probably didn't even realize what she was doing, or that nearly every guy in class stared at her instead of Sakura and Ino who weren't as 'well' developed.

Before his thoughts could take him somewhere he didn't want to go the door to the mission room slid open and just like in his world a drunk stumbled in.

"What is this? My guards are a bunch of super brats." Tazuna stared at his bodyguards he had paid good money for. "Especially...hic...the shortest one with the super stupid looking face. Are you really a ninja?"

"Now, now. My students are quite capable of handling any bandits that come our way." Kakashi reassured the client. "And if they aren't, I'm a Jonin."

"They better be." Tazuna took another drink from his bottle and wiped his mouth with his forearm. "I am the super expert bridge builder, Tazuna. I expect you to provide me with super protection until I get back to my country and complete the bridge."

"Then you're in luck. Team 7's the best squad in Konoha."

"Naruko stop bragging." Sakura hissed. "Cha, you're damn right we are!"

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Watching Team 7 exit the Hokages office Naruto tried his best to murder Sasuke by glaring at the Uchiha's back. Sasuke didn't know it yet but he was going to get the ass kicking of a lifetime. "If he wasn't a key piece in saving the world. I'd kill him."

They may have been friends once but they weren't anymore. Tricking him into coming to a different dimension all so the bastard could live a happy life was the last straw. It was probably the Ne in him but he knew. Deep down in the same place that knew he would 'rescue' Sasuke, that if his old friend jeopardized his plan to save the future of this world, he would kill him.

It wasn't thought in anger, or in sadness. It was a calm feeling he got when imagining driving his sword through Sasuke's heart.

"Naruto-Kun, you can come down now." Hirzuens wizened voice called out softly and Naruto dropped from his spot on the ceiling to the floor landing on one knee.

"Hokage-Sama."

"Kagami-Kun." Hiruzen puffed on his pipe staring at the young Uchiha in front of him. The only spy he had in Danzo's black op Anbu division. Root was supposed to have been disbanded after the Uchiha massacre but the Third knew Danzo hadn't followed his order. The only reason he hadn't taken his old friend into custody was that he knew Konoha needed Root. And the village would continue to utilize the black op group until a time where Hiruzen felt comfortable arresting Danzo for what he had done.

Starting with the Uchiha massacre and working with his former student Orochimaru. Danzo didn't know it but the moment he had recruited Kagami Uchiha, he had signed his death warrant.

Kagami, like his cousin and Itachi, was loyal to the village.

"I received your message, Naruto-Kun. What was so urgent I had to send Danzo and the elders out of the village?"

"Here we go."

Straightening up Naruto removed his mask. He hated every second of his five years in Root but he couldn't deny it had its advantages. Casting his old life away and taking a new name was one of them. It had been weird being called Kagami instead of Naruto. And choosing an unassuming name like 'fishcake' was a good choice for a black ops member. And to everyone else that was the reason he chose that name. Only he would know the real reason.

The training was good too. With Kurama healing him he could take more punishment and that meant more training than the other recruits. His fully developed Sharingan was proof of that. Of course, if he hadn't mastered his Sharingan in four years, hell on year after awakening it Danzo would have killed him and harvested his eyes. The man had no need for weak tools. Or so he always said when one of the recruits washed out.

"The Chunin exams coming up. Orochimaru is going to attack the village to assassinate you during the third exam."

"I see." Hiruzen hummed setting his pipe down. "And what is Root's involvement in this plan?"

"We have been tasked with individuals to keep out of enemy hands such as clan members and have been ordered to eliminate Kakashi Hatake in the chaos and retrieve his Sharingan. As well as assassinate other key people that stand in the way of Danzo becoming Hokage."

"So Danzo wishes to become Hokage."

How long had his friend resented him for being chosen by the Nidaime, Tobirama-sensei?

Naruto stayed silent as the Sandaime sat at his desk staring forward yet at nothing. It was a gamble lying to the Hokage but Danzo had outlived his usefulness. The old bastard was a good trainer and Naruto doubted he would have been able to do half the things he had done if he didn't join Root but that wouldn't save Danzo. This had been the plan from the beginning and if he wanted to keep this world from meeting the same fate as his world did, Danzo had to removed from the board.

Creating a false story about Danzo allying with Orochimaru was the best way to make that happen. Danzo in his paranoia had given him the perfect shield in the form of the curse seal that stopped any of his Ne operatives from speaking about him or Root. No one but Danzo himself would be able to deny his accusations and everyone would be expecting Danzo to deny his involvement.

"I hate to say this, Kaga-"

"Naruto." Naruto corrected the Hokage absently and didn't miss the small flinch from the old man as he did it.

"Yes, Naruto. I hate to say it but we were very fortunate that someone sealed part of the Kyuubi's Chakra inside of you." Hiruzen didn't know much about the Seal Danzo put on his operatives but not even Jiraiya could break them. The Kyyubi's overwhelming power could, however, overpower the seal and burn it away. According to Naruto, it was extremely painful and then writing a fake seal on one's tongue that made him loyal to himself and keeping it a secret from Danzo. "He's going to be one of the best ninjas in the village one day."

"Hokage-sama, is it time?"

Hiruzen nodded. "On your next mission outside the village you and Sai will be captured by Konoha forces and I will have a Yamanaka 'seal' persuade you to betray Root."

Another Naruto time travel fic from yours truly. I know there are hundreds of them and I'm in the middle of one myself but I like writing them because there are some many different ways the Naruto storyline could play out and I like exploring them.

Like Naruto getting kidnapped by Orochimaru, being experimented on giving him different Kekkai Genkai. And then he betrays Orochimaru. That might be my next story, lol.

And time travel is awesome.

Let me know what you think in the reviews. And leave your choice for pairing. Won't happen until the Shippuden part so the story will remain T-rated until then.

Hope you guys enjoy it!