A/N: It's chapter two…Yep please enjoy. Also this chapter will set up a lot for the story so you may want to pay attention…read, review and enjoy.

Disclaimer: I don't own Naruto. You know the drill.

Chapter 2: Sasuke Strikes Back

It's almost unbearable, isn't it…the pain of being alone. I know that feeling, I've been there, in that dark and lonely place, but now there are others, other people who mean a lot to me. I care more about them than I do about myself, and I won't let anyone hurt them. That's why I'll never give up, I will stop you, even if I have to kill you! They saved me from my loneliness, they were the first to accept me as who I am. They're my friends!

Naruto

To Gaara, Fighting to save Sakura during the Chunin Exam

Sasuke arrived the day after the massacre. Blinking, he found himself sitting in a room in the corner, with tears on his face. He wiped the tears off and surveyed his surroundings. The room was clean and everything was in its proper place except for a note that sat on a drawer which had a mirror on top of it. Opening the note, he immediately recognized Naruto's somewhat sloppy hand writing.

It said, "Hey Sasuke, welcome back. I'd love to give you a full update on what everyone has done but since I know you have a one track mind, I'll give you only the pertinent information. First we've blamed the Uchiha massacre on Orochimaru. Rejoice, the pedophile has another black mark on his record. Itachi's blame free of the whole matter. If you must, go and kill those three while the iron's hot. Security should be loosened. Meet up with us at Ichiraku's when you're done. We can talk more then. Second you're currently staying with Obito and Rin. Itachi's sleeping next door to you so be quiet. PS since most of what's written in this note is blatant treason, this note will burn itself 20 seconds after being opened." It was signed, Naruto Uzumaki, future Hokage and time travel extraordinaire.

Swearing, Sasuke threw the note into his trashcan. After making sure that the fire didn't burn anything Sasuke looked in the mirror and immediately tried to activate his mangekyou sharingan to see if it still worked and to his pleasant surprise it still did although he could feel the very slow creep of deterioration in his eyes. Shaking himself, he stood up, checked the door to see if anyone was coming, then quickly jumped out of the window into the Konoha streets, still wet with morning dew. The village, still in a state of uproar over the Konoha's first bloodline massacre, ignored the young eight year old as he headed towards the Hokage's office. After arriving, he quickly poisoned the tea that was in the councilor's meeting room and waited nearby. Danzo and the two councilors walked in, drank the tea, and then promptly died. Using the sharingan, Sasuke quickly copied the handwriting of Danzo and wrote a quaint note stating that after realizing the evil he, Danzo, had committed by backing the Uchiha massacre and helping Orochimaru, he killed himself and the two councilors as atonement. Sasuke wanted to take credit for his handiwork but decided against it. It wouldn't do to add to the already large mass panic that was sweeping the city.

Sasuke quietly jumped out the window and casually walked down the street. Suddenly he stopped. Sasuke realized something. Pretty much all of his revenge was complete. Madara was off hiding somewhere and everyone else he wanted revenge on was dead. He even had his brother back. He already learned everything that he had wanted to form Orochimaru. He even knew that Madara could be defeated from his experience in the previous timeline. Sasuke had something he had never had something that he had never had before. Free time. He could do what he wanted. If he wanted, he could train as much as he wanted. He could go get the old team together. Nothing could stop him! With that disturbing thought, he entered the Ichiraku ramen shop that was close by

A loud cry of "Irassahimase" rang out from the store's owner Teuchi which was promptly ignored as Sasuke sat down with a much younger version of Kakashi, Naruto, Sakura, and Hinata. Everyone was still working on their first bowl with the exception of Naruto who had just downed his third one.

"Teuchi, one miso pork ramen with extra pork!"

"Comin' right up."

Sasuke quickly ordered, "One shoyu ramen. No bamboo or onions please."

"Comin' right up."

Sasuke then waited for Naruto to start up some sort of conversation but he was pleasantly chatting with Hinata about something or another. After about a minute or two of sitting around, Sasuke got fed up with waiting.

"Naruto! Hello there!"

"Hu..WHAAAA!" Naruto fell out of chair with a thunk, surprised by Naruto's sudden appearance.

Sasuke, completely unfazed, tried to move the conversation forward, "Okay hurry up. What did you guys do while I was gone?"

"Um…" Naruto sat back on his chair and quickly refocused, "Kakashi, why don't you start?"

"Well, I got back and saved Obito and Rin's life. However it turns out that in this timeline is that Madara is actually Tobi not Obito so we still have the Akatsuki. Anyways it kind of stinks not to have the sharingan but I'll be okay. I also informed the third of the fourth's plan to kill himself to seal the fox in Naruto. The crafty old man stopped him and sealed the fox inside Naruto using a shadow clone. He's retired now. Lastly, I brought Yahiko, Konan, and Nagato here after helping put Hanzo down with the help of Jiraiya. They're Jiraiya's team and they're Jonin."

"I'll go next." Said Hinata, speaking up, "I'm considered a prodigy of the Hyuga jyuuken on par with Neji. The ties between the branch and main families are very strong because that cloud ambassador that tried to kidnap me was promptly incapacitated by yours truly. Neji and I are closer now so he has much less psychological scarring. Naruto's also working on the branch family's seal…issue. Sakura, would you like to go?"

"I found Lady Tsunade and brought her back, retrained myself to get my strength back, and Sasuke, lean forward and close your eyes."

He did. Sakura's hands lightly touched his eye lids and a flow of healing chakra flowed through her hands into his eyes. A few seconds later, Sakura removed her hands and Sasuke opened his eyes.

"So what did you do?"

"Activate your mangekyou sharingan."

Activating his sharingan, Sasuke was surprised to see that his eyes were working without the faint creep of deterioration plaguing his sight.

Before Sasuke could say anything, Sakura continued, "I worked for a couple years to fix the corruption of the mangekyou sharingan without you having to implant another's eyes."

Naruto finished, "I did a few things to change things. First some background info my mom and dad are both alive so I'm loved by the village because I'm a living sacrifice. After I turned about six, I left the village but I left a shadow clone here and rescued Gaara. We travel the world training, meeting people, creating a spy network, and generally have a good time. I mastered my dad's hiraishin jutsu so I can instantly transport between one place and any place I have a tag. I also made these cool medallions with hiraishin seals so I can teleport to anyone of you if you put some chakra into it. Here we go."

Naruto gave him a necklace with an Uchiha fan on it.

"Now more on my standing in the academy, I faked our lack of skill so we can surprise everyone around the time of the chunin exam. Hehehehe."

"Naruto, take it easy." Said Kakashi, slowly backing away

Naruto ignored him.

Kakashi sighed, "Naruto, remember that time with those hamsters..."

The effect was instantaneous. Naruto fell on the ground, twitched, and moaned, "So many hamsters…boom! Aaaaggghhh!"

After rolling for a few minutes, he eventually got up and started eating again with a haunted look in his eyes.

Sasuke, ignoring him, spoke up with a contented sigh, "Well you guys did a lot. Danzo and the councilors are dead now. Nothing like making people look like they committed suicide to start the day off."

"Ahh…nothing like the smell of vengeance in the morning." Naruto quipped between slurps.

"Shut it."

Kakashi cut in, "Okay people, as soon as you're done with your ramen we're going to training ground 12."

Training ground 12 was a training ground for Jonin who were developing new jutsu. It was a mystery to the whole village how that training ground stayed intact with so many high powered jutsus being tested there. Nobody was crazy enough to insure pretty much anything ninja related. After eating, the whole group leisurely walked over to the training ground, trading small talk and poking fun at each other. Thinking back on it, Sasuke noted that he had totally missed this while he was a missing-nin. In the Sound, everyone was too scared to talk to him and while he was with the Taka, well Suigetsu and Karin kept the banter going but he always had ignored them. Plus mocking Naruto was way easier since he always had adverse reactions.

After arriving at the training ground, Sasuke was very surprised to see about a thousand shadow clones training. As they arrived at the field the clones started dispelling in groups of ten or twenty.

"Staggered dispelling means less mental stress for me." Naruto explained somewhat disinterestedly.

"What exactly are you training them to do?" Sasuke asked somewhat warily.

"I have about five hundred working on my second elemental composition. I'm working on water right now. 250 are working on running through basic taijutsu stance and another 250 are playing ninja tool contact dodgeball. Basically an all out slugfest without ninjutsu, substitution is allowed. I have another 500 hundred reading all sorts of books. And of course I have one sitting in on my academy classes." Sasuke's jaw would have dropped but years of conditioning to not show his facial expression paid off.

Quickly gathering his thoughts, Sasuke asked another question that had bothered him for a while, "So, who else knows about the time travel?"

"Besides the five of us, Hiruzen, Minato, Jiraiya, Tsuande, Shizune, Teuchi, Ayame, and Itachi." Answered Kakashi succinctly.

"Wow…Well I can understand tha- Wait why Shizune, Teuchi, and Ayame again?"

"I'm dating Shizune. Also Teuchi and Ayame need to know so we have headquarters. "

"Ohhhh…our HQ's a ramen shop?"

"Yep!" Naruto grinned happily.

"We're having this meeting why?"

"To discuss future plans and so I can show off."

"Why am I not surprised…"

"No idea." Responded Naruto, "But first showing off. Shadow Clone Jutsu!"

Hundreds of clones showed up and in tandem all started singing the Bohemian Rhapsody. Some were gathered in orchestra being conducted by a Naruto with some very fancy clothes on. Many were also playing guitars, basses, pianos, and drums. The most impressive part had to have been a choir of five hundred split into a four part harmony.

"Now that we have background music, let's get started. So Sasuke what do you want to do…besides swear revenge on something."

"Too late. Already swore revenge on Orochimaru and Madara."

"Nuts…doesn't anything else besides swearing vengeance make you happy?"

"I'm not sure but why mess with success?"

"Anyways back to the previous question" Naruto said with a sigh," so what do you want to do?"

"Journey around, get the old team together, train, and relax. Actually, I was wondering if you could leave a shadow clone for me at the academy so I could leave for a while. Don't worry. I'll come back. I have the necklace. Remember." He shook the necklace. "Look, I know you don't trust me but I'll be back. I promise."

The group looked at him skeptically and would have protested except that Naruto cut them all off, "Okay, go for it. Couple things before you go though. One if you have any leftover chakra that you done use, store it in the pendant. Also you can send a chakra pulse to me if you want to call me over. I can warp over to you at about any time." Sasuke stared blankly at him, "Well what are you waiting for? Go."

Sasuke smirked and headed off to pack his bags.

A/N: I'm not exactly happy with this chapter because it seems like I'm trying to get a chunk of exposition out of the way so that the story can happen. In any case I'm using this next arc, the Sasuke Recruitment Arc to create a view into some events in the ninja world that were glossed over, like the Kirigakure coup failure. I will hopefully write sooner than my last update. See you soon!