Summary: One moment, Naruto has been sitting in his office doing his paperwork as Seventh Hokage. Next moment, he wakes up in the past, a week before the Genin Exams.
One thing about Time Travel, never tell anyone that you are from the future. Naruto makes sure of it, but completely disregards almost everything else.
Sarutobi Hiruzen doesn't understand how in just a short amount of time Naruto learned senjutsu, befriended Kyuubi no Yoko, and somehow is having all bijuu's chakra inside of him.
Even worse, he is managing to be a more competent Hokage than him.
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Naruto woke up from his slumber, stretching his limbs and then he got up from his bed.
He immediately noticed that he woke up in his old apartment that was destroyed by Pain's Almighty Push a long time ago.
"Damn Yamato, always with his stupid pranks…" Naruto cursed about special Wood Style Users.
He went to the bathroom to brush his teeth, and in the mirror he noticed that he is significantly smaller and has a body of his twelve-year-old self.
"I swear, if Orochimaru is involved with this shit, I'll send him straight to the moon!" Naruto punched the sink slightly, to let out his stress as a prank-master as he is getting pranked by his own people.
Naruto decided to take a breath of fresh air, so he went to his bedroom window only to see that there's only four heads in Hokage Mountain, and Naruto knows for sure that even he can't destroy the carved faces without some serious punishment.
He stood there for a long time, comprehending his thoughts and then he eventually spoke out. "Okay, what the fuck?"
"I'm the one who should ask you for that!" the deep voice in Naruto's head grumpily pointed that out.
Closing his eyes, Naruto entered the plane of his own mind, where the legendary Kyuubi no Yoko contained inside of his body. Naruto had long forgotten about the sewer mind of this seal that had been created by his father, Minato.
Naruto saw the bars of Eight-Trigrams Seal that kept the fox away from him, but he immediately noticed that the demon fox was patiently waiting for him.
He can see how much the fox behind the bars is quite annoyed, but not in any ways furious or menacing.
Naruto eventually reached closer to the bars of prison, addressing the fox. "Kurama?"
"Me!" the most feared demon in all Elemental Nations in history, huffed.
Oh great, at least he got his tenant as a furred buddy, and not the one that wanted to feast on his flesh.
Naruto is quite happy to see his friend, but his happiness immediately is overwritten by the confusion. "Do you know what is happening right now, are in genjutsu? Which one, the Sharingan one or some kind of Tsukuyomi?"
Judging by Kurama's tired and annoying expression, it was neither of those. "No, we are not in the genjutsu world. Your abilities, skills and Six Paths chakra transferred together with you to the past, alongside with both of my chakras."
Okay… so he has all bijuu chakra with their special abilities alongside both of Toad Sage Mode and hopefully Six Paths Sage Mode.
This is… better he guessed, but it wasn't the main point of his question.
"Why are we in the past?" Naruto asked his wise fox friend.
"Hell if I know, we just teleported here by a blink of an eye." Kurama shrugged, despite his millennium-old knowledge of this world. "I'm wondering how your family is going to react to your sudden disappearance."
Oh god… these words pierced through Naruto's heart just like the wooden stake that killed Neji.
How are his childrens are going to live fatherless? How is Hinata going to take this? What about Sasuke, Sakura, Kakashi-sensei, Tsunade and…?
Naruto laid on the ground, desperate and incredibly homesick about his family and his words. The fox in front of him glared at him pathetically, but didn't comment on it.
"Maybe that one-armed bastard will figure things out?" Kurama crossed his paws in front of him, resting his head on his paws as he watched how Naruto suddenly got brightened by his idea.
"Well! He has that weird time-space ninjutsu in his Rinnegan, right? We just have to wait a little!" Naruto became really hopeful that Sasuke would come for him.
Kurama, on the other hand, isn't sure that it is going to be soon. "Naruto. Time flows differently in various dimensions and timelines."
The blonde little brat in pajamas lost hope in the meaning of life again.
"It is possible that by the time you return home, barely a day will pass from your disappearance." Kurama is trying to calm him at dawn. "The minute you entered back to the past, you created a timeline that's separated by our own. If things go right as we wanted, we might return back to our timeline."
"Kuramaaaa, you've been reading too many boring science books since I was twenty!" Naruto got a slight headache on his brain, as he consumed the confusing information that involved time and space continuously.
Kurama huffed, and stuck his tongue right at him.
"Can't a demon fox have a hobby, huh?" Kurama said. "At least I'm self-studying, while your ass is forever stuck to the chair of your office, writing meaningless copies of mundane bullshit."
Naruto silently agreed to him, since he is really tired of doing the paperwork that is often involved with things like 'Inuzuka dogs barking at night'.
But now, he is a child with the power of his future self, and his fluffy buddy to not feel too lonely in this timeline.
"So we should be fine either way, right?" Naruto said. "We can use this timeline for fun, y'know. It will be too boring to do the things the same as in our timeline."
Kurama just nodded.
Great, but Naruto has to make certain limitations on his abilities. "I obviously can't use Rasengan or any of its variations, but I still have the Magnet Release, Boil Release and Lava Release so I should be fine even without you."
The fox is silently scratching the bars of his prison, making it clear that he doesn't like being caged.
"Fine huh? How about ripping this goddamn seal that prevents me from 'eating' you!" Kurama snorted, remembering that his past self would probably say something like this.
"Alright, you stupid fox! You owe me rent by the way." Naruto huffed, he felt a little bit of nostalgia from bloodthirsty Kurama.
But eventually Naruto flew in the air, reaching out to grasp the sealing tag, peeling up the bottom edge and then there was a hand that was stopping him from ripping the seal.
Namikaze Minato, the Fourth Hokage, just stares at his own son with a perplexed expression .
Naruto knows that there's a chakra signature of his father sealed inside of him, but he doesn't really know what to say to his father from the past. But after a long stretched minute of silence, Naruto eventually decided to humor his father.
"Hi daddy! Can we adopt this fox, please?" Naruto innocently pointed at the fox behind the bar, shining brightly with his smile pleading to his father.
"PFFFFFFT!" Kurama held his paw in his mouth to keep his laughter away, and then rolled his eyes from Naruto's attempt to be funny.
Minato just stood gobsmacked by his son's joke, but he ain't fool.
"I've heard about your time-travel discussion…" Minato scratched his chin thoughtfully, ignoring Naruto's wish to adopt the fucking Kyuubi no Yoko.
"Uhhh…" Naruto felt nervous from being exposed. "Well you see, me and Kurama… the Kyuubi, somehow managed to get to the past, creating a timeline where I'm talking to you right now."
Minato continued to stare at him. "...Can you tell me more about yourself?"
Naruto told him an abridged version of his story, where he fought against Akatsuki, ended the war and became a Hokage.
Minato intently listened to Naruto's story, and he felt really proud of his son's accomplishments until he noticed that his chakra started to run out.
"You might not be my son," Minato let out a long-suffering sigh, and then placed a reassuring hand at Naruto's shoulder. "But you should know that I'm proud of you."
The glimmer of Minato's chakra started to fade away, just before the last bits of Minato chakra could disappear, the father deliver one last hug to his own
"Damn… I wish I could spend more time with my dad…" Naruto wiped his eyes from the sudden flow of the tears.
It took at least ten minutes for Naruto to calm himself down, and then Naruto just put his hand on his stomach, opening the Eight-Trigrams Seal wide open.
"Okay, one problem down." Naruto let out a long-suffering sigh of relief, the key of this seal has passed with him along the past.
"I wanna meet Ero-Sennin." Naruto said.
He stood in one of the abandoned Training Grounds not that far away from Konoha. He knows that a child like him can't leave the village without supervision, but Naruto certainly does have supervision.
"How long can you hold the Tailed Beast Mode?" Naruto suddenly asked, because Kurama is going to supervise him on his trip.
"A-Are you sure about that?" Kurama flinched, he didn't expect Naruto to be that reckless.
"Yeah! Come on, you just said that this is going to be a different timeline. So why bother keeping things the same if it is never going to be the same?" Naruto argued with him.
Kurama let out a tired sigh, followed by a grin with all his fangs about pranking the Sannin. "Pha, you are going to give your old man a heart attack, you know?"
"Well, I missed him a lot since he passed away, but I can't keep myself from not pranking him," Naruto told him honestly, and then pouted. "He is always 'take advantage of Kyuubi chakra' that 'control your chakra' that, let me just show him how good I'm at being jinchuuriki.'"
Kurama let out a dark chuckle, an entertainment for the fox like him. "Just split my chakra and then you should be fine."
Naruto clapped his hands. "Alright! I'm going to let the Yang-part of you to the world outside, and keep the Yin-part inside of me."
And then, a magnificent creature of the legend of shinobi had erupted from the stomach of a little blonde boy.
Kyuubi no Yoko, the demon that levelled half of Konohagakure stood silently on the ground, provoking all the alarms that were in the village.
Naruto climbed on the great orange furry head of a Kyuubi, sitting between his glorious ears. "Make sure to use the Six Paths Senjutsu or you're gonna destroy everything in your path."
Kurama made sure that he is using an old man's senjutsu, absorbing the chakra of his siblings in order to start… flying.
"Hmmm, where should I go?" Kurama chuckled, flying to the direction of hotspring country.
In Konohagakure, the sheer nightmare has begun.
Everyone felt the ominous chakra of
"It can't be!... Kyuubi!" Sarutobi Hiruzen, the Third Hokage, gasped. "Naruto! No!"
He jumped outside of his office, only to see an enormous fox have reappeared just outside of his village. This meant that Naruto is officially dead, but this wasn't what the citizens initially thought .
"KYUUBI!"
"RUN FOR YOUR LIVES!"
"DEMON FOX RETURNED BACK!"
Citizens of Konohagakure started to panic just at the sight of the legendary demon fox's return. Everyone saw the beast, a bright orange kitsune with glowing red eyes that is described as a natural disaster.
In the meantime, Mizuki decided that he doesn't want to live in the same world with Kyuubi no Yoko, so he just… left the world.
Kyuubi, on the other hand, ignored the loud yelping of the village and just jumped away from the village… No he is flying!
"IT CAN FLY?!"
It was everyone's question, as everyone saw how the fox ascended high to heaven, where his presence is disguised behind clouds and nobody doesn't know why the beast just left them.
"W-Where's the beast going?" Hiruzen asked himself.
Meanwhile, it took only an hour for an almighty beast to reach its destination.
In the Land of Hot Springs, is a place where the majority of hot springs are located throughout the country. And this is a place where Jiraiya is having his 'research' trip.
He decided to take a short break from the research after gathering enough 'interesting' material from beautiful girls, and then he turned his head upwards to look at the clouds.
… A flying Kyuubi no Yoko.
"AHHHHHH!" the screams of citizens of this country echoed through Jiraiya's ears.
Jiraiya couldn't even move a foot from his place, his heart was beating very rapidly, almost jumping from his chest as he watched how the demon fox started to shift its attention towards him.
Kyuubi no Yoko softly landed in the land right in front of Toad Sage, without destroying on its path even a single house. The beast lowered its head, to show that on top of the head is a boy, bright in orange and really happy to the old Sannin.
"Godfather, Godfather!" Naruto yelled at top of his lungs, jumping on its head from not being able to contain his excitement.
He is truly happy to see his master after so many years, but he has a sly idea on his mind. "Where is my child support?"
Oh, shit.
Too bad for Jiraiya, Naruto remembers all the times his master stole all his money before and during their 2.5 years long training trip, and he is still mad at him since it's his hard earned money!
But, Jiraiya didn't officially adopt the boy and has no responsibility to do so… but pulling Kyuubi no Yoko as his debt collector is insane!
Jiraiya ran away, with all his force in order to escape these terrifying words of his not-actually-godson, not watching his back or not being able to wave a single hand seal out of fear.
One tiny step for Kurama is hundreds feets for Jiraiya, so there's no way Sage is going to escape from Kyuubi's might.
Kurama took a deep breath, before roaring right at the very frightened Toad Sage. "GIVE THE CHILD HIS CHILD SUPPORT!"
Naruto returned back to Konohagakure with 100,000 ryo in his frog wallet, with his completely morally destroyed godfather along the way.
All signs of Kyuubi's sudden appearance disappeared in the air, but all the news in Konohagakure is all about the incident that occurs with the flying Kyuubi.
"Kiddo… you should understand that I can't spend too much time on you." Jiraiya barely mutters, but he actually needs to take responsibility for Naruto's actions.
Naruto rolled his eyes, and pouted. "If you can't spend all your time with me that's fine. But you spend all of our time together trying to fix that damn seal!"
The moment when Jiraiya pulled his bank account and gave Naruto his money, the beast immediately disappeared in a puff of smoke to Jiraiya's surprise.
He guessed that the beast is deeply loyal to Naruto, so he gave up on trying to fix the seal.
Actually that wasn't true, Jiraiya just never actually managed to seal the beast away. Eight-Trigrams kept breaking no matter how much he tried, and he was scared to show a broken seal to Gamamaru to not freak him out.
The reason why it kept breaking is because Naruto kept opening the seal the moment the Sage turned away just to mess with him.
Jiraiya suddenly remembered that Naruto actually doesn't know about his parents, so he made up a new excuse. "Why did you call me your godfather? I'm not related to you, you know?"
"Kurama told me that you are Fourth Hokage's teacher, who is my father, and I just thought that you owe me monetary compensation y'know?" Naruto told him with the sly grin of a smug fox.
Jiraiya knows that he is fucked up, and he is ready to take all the responsibility that has placed on the boy.
"Yes, I'm sure I owe you a lot of money for your mental compensation. I couldn't even fix your seal, since it keeps breaking out." Jiraiya told him truthfully, before dropping his voice. "U-uh… has the fox ever told you to harm anyone?"
"No, we watch TV together, play UNO, and pull funny pranks. Even demons can make friends y'know?" Naruto smiled brightly to all his ears, awaiting Sannin's reaction to this.
Even demons can make friends… actually this is very true. It is very well known that Eight-Tails jinchuuriki made a bond of friendship with their bijuu, intel known since the Third Great Shinobi War.
A child like him being able to pull Tailed Beast Mode in their first try should be talented as hell. Jiraiya didn't even think it was suspicious, or thought anything related to the time travel, but rather thought that Minato's talent had passed to his own son.
But before Naruto could take another step to his village, ANBU appeared right in front of them.
"Uzumaki Naruto, Master Jiraiya. Lord Hokage summoned you into their office." Yamato behind the ANBU mask told them and disappeared in body-flicker.
Just right after these words an ANBU, Naruto found himself sitting on the council, where Shimura Danzo, Utatane Koharu, Mitokado Homura sat alongside the Hokage and his student Jiraiya.
The boy in orange thought that there's going to be a Council Meeting right now, so he just sat in silence.
"Naruto, what happened?" Hiruzen asked him without beating around the bush.
Naruto knows that he can't tell the Gramps that he just accidentally time-travelled back to the past, and has to brainstorm his excuse of setting Kyuubi free from its prison.
But he had one excuse that could possibly be believable, but Naruto knows that his tenant is not going to like it.
"Don't you dare!..." Kurama rumbled threateningly in his head.
"I don't have a choice." Naruto thought back at him.
He took a deep breath to his lungs, trying to take a believable lie and then just said. "Gramps you see… I managed to tame Kyuubi."
Silence fell down to the room.
Hiruzen's eyes are about to pop up from their eye sockets, and the council just didn't believe his words.
Jiraiya pointed a shaking, scared finger to the boy. "He summoned Kyuubi outside of his body in order to retrieve me back to the village."
"...Why?" Homura has only one question, and he is desperate to know the answer.
Jiraiya let out a tired sigh that was followed by a pain in his heart that wanted to jump a second he saw a Kyuubi free. "It seems that both Naruto and Kyuubi developed a bond of friendship, although I have no idea how he managed to do that to it."
Hiruzen let out a sigh of relief, watching how the boy ended up being unharmed through the process of bijuufication.
Koharu, on the other hand, is not pleased about the boy's recklessness about Kyuubi. "You threatened the village's safety by summoning Kyuubi! What is your excuse for doing such a thing?!"
Naruto knew that he couldn't excuse himself from these accusations, or didn't actually want to excuse since it was just a prank.
A cruel one, but prank nonetheless.
Danzo seems to have the same opinion as Koharu, but in a much more cruel way. "We need to make another jinchuuriki, our current jinchuuriki showed to be a failure in containing the Kyuubi no Yoko."
Okay, Naruto is really done with this guy.
He kept in his seat barely, suppressing all of Kurama's rage gathering inside of him that was about to unleash right at the elder.
Even Jiraiya and Hiruzen shooted him a cold glare, since there no fucking way they are going to find a new vessel for Kyuubi.
Naruto can feel the sharp look of the council-member, behind the bandages the hidden eye that is so tempting to use for Danzo. He knows that anything involving Danzo is going to be terrible, hell, even the council members Koharu and Homura give him a huge headache in his duty as Hokage.
It was easier to pull Five Kage Council than sit with these two biggest stubborn geezers in Konoha's history, and try to argue with them.
Naruto eventually entered his 'Hokage' Mode.
"There's no possibility that we could find an alive Uzumaki special type of chakra that can contain the Kyuubi. It puts high risk in Konoha to just kill off jinchuuriki, since bijuu will deliver its outrage at the village again, because Kurama loves me."
Suddenly, everyone in this room just silenced by his words, starting to stare at him with awe and bewilderment.
"Shut your trap, you dumb Hokage!" Kurama roared inside of Naruto's head, providing him a headache to keep him shut from dumb conclusions.
"Love you too, buddy." Naruto replied to the fox's outrage.
He continued to press on the council about his suggestion to the village's benefit. "Also, it is terrible for leaking a status of jinchuuriki in its own village, since it may cause problems with the prospect of a ninja career for jinchuuriki."
Naruto can feel how Danzo's hands started sweating, the dumbass wanted to recruit him in ROOT as a child in the worst possible way and failed.
He then decided to suggest his idea about the Kurama incident to the Hokage. "For the other nations the identity for jinchuuriki is unknown, and the incident itself is also unknown. So the incident of Kurama of Nine-Tails suddenly appearing in the village needs to be hidden behind the walls of our village."
Silence fell down to the room.
Academy's student competence in solving the fucked up problems in the village is certainly a Kage-level.
Homura and Koharu have no words to say.
Hiruzen, on the other hand, opened the locker in front of his seat where he kept something for the Academy students.
He pulled out a navy blue colored leaf headband that is supposed to be given to the students after their graduation, but Naruto already skipped the graduation exams.
Naruto picked up the ninja headband, grinning brightly that almost blinded council members. "Thanks Gramps! Be ready, I'm gonna take your hat any day y'know!"
He left the room in a hurry, chuckling at how easily he just convinced the elders to keep Kurama with him.
Nobody actually can rival the sheer power of Kyuubi and there literally is not a single Uzumaki in their village to keep the beast in check, except Naruto.
Jiraiya took his speech far too seriously, and pointed it out to Hiruzen. "Sensei, he is really going to be Hokage."
Hiruzen sighed, he really started to think about retirement and thinking how Jiraiya should've taken his hat and duty.
They have a lot of ideas about what happened to Naruto, or how he managed to befriend the beast, but none of them are involved with the Time-Travel.
Naruto sat on his bed, watching TV with a small manifestation of Yang chakra of Kyuubi.
Kurama, the tiny fox with only one-tail worth of chakra, sat beside him intently watching the sport channel with him.
"Damn, I miss the guy on the wheelchair that used to beat everyone in boxing." Kurama said, eating popcorn.
Naruto mused at this. "You mean Bushy Brow-Sensei? He is currently not in a wheelchair."
"Probably him." Kurama shrugged.
Naruto then realized that it's about time to go, so he put his orange jacket on him and continued discussing. "I have a sudden feeling that Danzo wants to extract you from me."
"Like that'll stop you, huh Hokage?" Kurama clenched his paw in his rage. "You should realize that the moment you let me free, I'll slaughter the entire organisation and you can't stop me."
Weeeell… Sasuke from their timeline should've known that telling Naruto the story about Danzo having a Hashirama-cells enchanted arm with ten implanted Sharingan is not a good idea, especially when Kurama was awake at the time.
"Trust me, I can deal with that bastard myself." Naruto crossed his hands, he was Hokage after all. "After the Bell Test, I need to talk to Nagato to stop Akatsuki from ever forming, and then I should find Obito…"
Kurama continued to stare intently at TV, and this time it's news about the possibilities of creating the nuclear weapons inside of their village.
"Are you listening to me?" Naruto grew a tick-mark on his head.
Kurama waved his paw off. "Yes yes, go to academy, little twerp."
Naruto huffed, pouting and leaving the fox alone.
He made a body-flicker right at the entrance of the Academy, and nobody even managed to see him doing it.
Just before Naruto managed to enter the classroom, he can already hear how Ino already started gossipping.
When Naruto entered the classroom, he noticed that Ino kept asking everyone the same question as Sakura, even questioning him.
"Have you seen K-Kyuubi no Yoko?" Ino asked, shaking her hands from fear at mentioning the beast's name.
Naruto, of course, never saw Kyuubi in his life.
And he truthfully told it to his classmate. "No I didn't."
Both of them just stared right into his eyes, disbelievingly at him that he managed to skip such an event.
"H-How couldn't you see it?! It was so scary to look at the beast, it was everywhere on the news!" Sakura's body trembled from dread.
Naruto just shrugged, barely holding himself from laughing.
He can even see how seriously both Sakura and Ino treat this topic, not even mentioning their fangirling over Sasuke right now.
Naruto simply took a seat on the empty desk, far away from Sasuke's seat in order to keep his purity away from his damn asshole of a friend.
He noticed that a certain Hyuuga girl is currently watching him. He wanted to talk to his future wife, but he then got distracted by the approaching Shikamaru.
"Naruto? This is the room for graduates only, you skipped the graduation exams." Shikamaru said.
"I'm a genin now! Believe it!" Naruto pointed at his forehead, where the leaf headband is proudly tied to his head.
When Shikamaru looked at his headband, he knew that something fishy was going on around his classmate. A Dead-Last student like Naruto shouldn't even graduate from the Academy, he couldn't even make a normal clone to pass the exams.
But it's soooo troublesome for him to deal with, so he let him pass.
Sasuke sat in the classroom, silent as grass and brooding over the possibilities of sudden reappearance of the demon fox. "Why did the fox attack the village, why then and why not now?"
Everyone's thoughts were interrupted as soon as their Academy teacher entered the classroom.
Iruka looked disturbed, he recently found out that his fellow teacher Mizuki killed himself right after the Kyuubi incident, but he doesn't have the courage to say that to his own students.
Iruka then noticed the presence of a certain sunshine boy, and his dark thoughts disappeared.
"Oh, Naruto is safe." He let out a sigh of relief, happy to see that his favorite student is good.
He heard the news that Naruto returned back to the village with Jiraiya of Sannin, Toad Sage and currently the holder of key for Eight-Trigrams Seal.
This meant that the beast was subdued and Naruto is safe for now… or at least what he thought.
Notes: I got the idea of flying Kyuubi from Naruto's and Sasuke's battle at Final Valley, so this is why he can fly in this fic.