AUTHOR'S NOTE: Yay! Another TimeTravel fic! Yeah, whatever, but basic info: This fic is a bit AU, so that means some things are different than the Naruto Canon, OOC, and some side pairings. Other than that, nothing else is different except that this is my plot. This is a weird pairing, but I hope you all will like it! Anyways, enjoy!

EDIT: New edit of this chapter completed in Monday, May 20, 2015.

A sudden opening appeared, showing a cloudy sky. She felt wind coming through from it and shivered in a curious anticipation. The girl's teeth chattered as the wind felt icy on some parts of her exposed skin.

Then, with very little time to express her surprise, Naruto was suddenly thrown into the small portal. The woman tried to catch her breath as cold wind was blowing inside her mouth, irritatingly causing her throat to ache.

With little time to spare, Naruto was coming closer and closer into what looked like the top of a metal building from Naruto's perspective. Naruto did not have any time to react as she finally felt the fatigue of her travel, causing her to crash into the metal building, damaging it, and leaving a big impact.

The blond Jinchuuriki gasped air greedily despite the coldness. She fought the dizziness she was feeling that moment, going as far as to punch the solid concrete floor so that the pain would distract her from falling unconscious.

She winched when she felt bruises starting to form on her body. Kurama couldn't help her now, even if he wanted to. He used up too much of his chakra.

Naruto closed her eyes tightly, feeling a headache stab her head continuously. She opened her eyes and found little light from the ceiling from the hole she made.

She laid there for a minute, spacing out until voices were shouting from outside the metal building, finally alerting Naruto. She held in her gasp when the building's doors opened. The woman quickly hid her chakra signature and stayed beside a large wooden crate.

"What just happened!?" A man's voice shouted in disbelief.

"I don't know? Ya think it was a bomb?"

"A bomb!?" The first man still had an incredulous tone. "If it was a bomb... then- then we better take it out of here or else we're in big trouble!"

Crouching down on the floor, Naruto refrained herself from coughing from the debris still present in the building. She tried keeping her breath soundless, but with all her injuries and fatigue, Naruto couldn't help herself.

Her whole body shook in the dim building. Naruto could only make out small wooden crates with little characters on them. The woman removed fallen building materials off her and stood up, slowly and soundly walking up to and of the wooden crates. She focused her sight on the small characters presented on the crates, which spelled out, "Property of Iwa."

Naruto widened her eyes and held her breath. If this was really the past, then Naruto would be right in the middle of the Second Shinobi World War—at least, that was what Shikamaru calculated. She would be in major trouble if she were caught now.

She smelled the air as the debris settled down. The woman frowned and started to sniff the room once again. The air was caked with a familiar smell. The air smelled like explosive sheets, only stronger. Closing into a particularly larger-then-most crate, Naruto smelled it and flashed a look of agony. It smelled like gunpowder.

Sakumo was covered in sweat. He couldn't stop shaking as he was carrying his saved comrade on his shoulder. The silver-headed shinobi knew that his heart was racing not of the strenuous pace he was running at, but of how nervously he felt of his mission.

He knew that in his heart, he would inevitably fail this mission. As the leader of the group, Sakumo would hold all responsibility on his shoulders. The leader blew out a shaky breath, feeling how severely he was shaking at that point. He felt his back start to ache from the heavy weight he was heaving—an unconscious comrade.

By now, Sakumo and his team of four had been running for five days with little rest. There was an unsettling feeling in the team's atmosphere. Even with the saved comrade on his back, Sakumo felt paranoid for what was to come. He couldn't help but comprehend if this was the right thing to do.

Running through the forestry, he lost sight of Iwa's borders long ago. There was only two more days left until he reached Konoha—two more days until he would reach his consequences.

The few that were following closely behind him also had unsettling looks on their faces. Closing his eyes shut tightly, Sakumo could just feel the solemn atmosphere suffocating him. To put his mind to ease, Sakumo thought fondly of his son, Kakashi. Kakashi had made him promise to come back home safely, in which he was about to fulfill. At least for Sakumo, he didn't fight on the front lines, for if he did, he wouldn't be able to see Konoha or Kakashi until the war was over. After three weeks of not seeing him, Sakumo was going to come back home.

However, something inside him crept of the thought of what would happen in the future because of his failed mission. His paranoia got the best of him when he clearly remembered that the Sandaime did say that it was crucial to succeed. Glancing back at his team members, Sakumo sighed again as he remembered his mission that the Sandaime assigned to him as team leader.

"Sakumo, there is a crucial mission that I have for you. I trust that you will not fail me because it will also inevitably fail our village." Hiruzen awaited for Sakumo's reaction—it was neutral. Hiruzen smiled, seeing that Sakumo was serious.

"Yes, Hokage-sama. It would be an honor for me to complete this mission." Sakumo said steely. The silverheaded shinobi was one of the Sandaime's most trusted Shinobis.

The old Sarutobi smiled pleasingly, "Yes, this mission is about infiltrating in Iwa's weapon, medical, and ration storehouses." He looked at Sakumo, who had an understanding face. "I see that you seem to get where I'm going."

"Even though we've already defeated Sunagakure and Amegakure, we still have one opponent—Iwagakure. Even though Iwagakure is one last opponent to defeat, they are tough and brutal. The only way to defeat them is to use the Anaconda Plan," the Sandaime added on.

Sakumo spoke up, "So you want to slowly strangle Iwa by targeting their resources?" He smirked a bit, "However, the downside is, what if the mission is not completed correctly?"

Hiruzen looked deadly serious to Sakumo, "If the mission is not completed correctly, then the tide of the war will go to Iwa. Even if we do win the war, we, as a whole village, will suffer the consequences during and after the war. One last thing to add is that if we don't strike first, Iwa will get the chance to strike. If that happens, it'll take a miracle for us to win."

"But in the bright side, if you do successfully complete this mission, Iwa will completely surrender from this war and end it. That is our main goal. Remember to complete this mission no matter what," the Sandaime concluded.

This had pressured Sakumo quite a bit. He narrowed his eyes and said, "Who'll be in my team."

Sakumo closed his eyes, his burden becoming heavier each time he though of his failure. Now, all there was left was to wait.

"Hurry! Hurry! Close the hole before any more water comes in! We can't let that touch the gunpowder!" A man in a loud voice commanded.

Naruto hid behind a crate as she felt rain seep through the hold she made previously. She knew what was going on. The noise going on from the outside of the building she was in, commanding voices, urgent cries of help, the aroma of blood and disinfection—she was inside Iwa's medical camps.

Iwa was sneaky to put their gunpowder and who-knows-what inside their medical camp. Putting their weapons inside something so vulnerable as a medical camp would only be idiotic, but by doing so, would be stupid enough to be unsuspecting. And, because the medical camp was on Iwa territory, it would only be suicidal for the one pursuing it.

The woman narrowed her eyes. The building from the inside was massive, holding as much as a hundred crates. She crouched down behind one of the bigger crates and took out a kunai when she heard the doors click open.

"What could've made that hole up there?" An unknown man questioned.

Naruto saw people's silhouettes run closer and closer to her, their shadows becoming smaller until Naruto could make out the people's faces. She squinted her eyes for their faces were disguised under darkness despite having a gaping hole providing light.

The woman completely masked her chakra, rubbing gunpowder on her clothes and exposed skin to hide her scent.

She gulped, quite worried about how she would deal with the Iwa nins because she had never faced Iwa as enemies in war back in her timeline.

Naruto breathed in and out meditatively and finally began to move from shadow to shadow, unaware to the offending ninja as she moved on their blindspots. She trudged forcibly throughout the building, painfully tolerating the deep pain on her legs and arms. She felt her bones stab her, as they were broken.

When limping closer and closer to what looked like the exit, all unnatural forces went against Naruto as she stepped on rotten floorboard.

"What's that?!" The man shouted from across the building, echoing loudly. "Didja guys hear that?"

The woman cursed. There was no way to get out of that place without getting caught, then killed in her state. Naruto had no choice, she had to choice but to use Kurama's chakra. Even though she was supposed to hide the fact that she jailed Kurama, she was driven to a corner.

"B-bijuu Mode!" She hesitated, quickly regretting her words when the Iwa nins spotted her and charged her with homicidal rage. Her golden clock was much much weaker considering that Kurama was now in a bind from the recent travel.

Naruto ran out of the building and widened her eyes. The medical camp was enormous! Swarms of people, both injured and well, stared at the woman in shock and in rage.

When the men who were in the building came out, they shouted, "Intruder! Intruder!"

Platoons among platoons charged at Naruto all because of that three syllable, but highly effective word. The woman felt her legs heal slower than normal. With all her might and willpower, she sprinted and recited blow after blow to the offending ninja.

"Tajū Kage Bunshin no Jutsu!" Naruto made one fifteen clones who acted upon quickly, charging at the offenders. Blow after blow, each Iwa-nin fell on the battle grounds. In a matter of minuets, some Iwa-nin were discarded while all the Naruto-clones disappeared.

Narrowing her eyes, the cloak of golden that coated her intimidated some of her offenders, but that didn't stop them from attacking. She shouted out, "Tailed Beast Ball Rasenshuriken!"

A big black sphere, with four pointed edges, with the appearance similar to a shuriken, was thrown in a large area where most of the Iwa-nin populated. The powerful technique hit many people as well as the building Naruto had just come out from, causing it to blow up.

The Iwa-nin who escaped the blast looked almost starstruck at the large explosion that sounded by Naruto's blast.

An incoming explosive kunai hit the ground where Naruto was at, causing a destructive blow on Naruto. Brutally falling to the ground, Naruto had bloody burn marks all over her body. Almost seconds later, the wounds started to heal slowly, making the Iwa-nin's who were witnessing this happening grow even more weary to the mysterious blond.

Many shinobi surrounded Naruto, engulfing her completely until she was incapable to attack back.

Iwa shinobi called an attack on Naruto, "Lava Release: Quicklime Congealing Technique!" The offensive technique was spread out from Naruto's hands to the soles of her feet, making her incapable to attack at any angle. The think layer of quicklime was then hardened when someone said, "Water Release: Water Trumpet!"

The water trumpet was shot out onto the quicklime, making it into a cement substance. Having Naruto immobile got the Iwa shinobi to attack her with their weapons and techniques. She stood there, immobile from the cement-like substance holding her down. If this carried, she wouldn't be able to escape even with her Bijuu Mode on.

Then, she closed her eyes meditatively. Staying still from any of the distracting and painful attacks, Naruto had an orange hue to her eyes. Although the Sage mode cannot aid her wounds, it served a part in behind a distraction to them.

In one blasted push, Naruto got out of her immobile barrier, widening the many eyes who witnessed this happening. One said, "That's impossible! Not just anyone can get out of the quicklime cement!"

Naruto smirked and got into her Frog Kata. The Iwa shinobi didn't see what was happening until it hit them—literally.

Unpredictable hits were sent by Naruto to the offending shinobi. The Iwa-nin couldn't get any hits towards Naruto due to her quick speed. And almost in an impossible rate, only a handful of shinobi were left to be defeated.

Naruto got her hand seals ready, "Sage Mode: Big Ball Rasenshuriken!" The huge ball was thrown off-key due to an enemy shinobi hitting her with a lethal technique, causing her to hit four more buildings.

There was only forty more seconds until Sage Mode completely wore off.

Breathing heavily, due to the strain she was beginning to feel, Naruto began to perform battle-hardened taiijutsu on her offenders. She had to quickly finish them off until her Sage Mode wore off.

Finally, before the time finished, Naruto finished them off. She could hear screaming inside the medical camp. The smell of blood hadn't lifted one bit, even smelling much more than before from obvious reasons. No one was coming before her to attack due to what they had just witnessed.

Many looked wearily at the woman, afraid that she would attack them. Naruto stared at the many injured and dead on the floor. One brave woman who was a medic nin stooped in front of her injured comrade in a protective stance.

Naruto looked away. She had already done her part. She wasn't going to continue on.

One seriously injured, but witnessing shinobi on Iwa's side looked upon the destruction that the mysterious, but impossibly powerful young lady, made. Struggling out of his hiding spot, he trudged to Iwa's mainland, aiming to be a messenger for the Tsuchikage.

Naruto breathed heavily as a pain in her left arm resounded. Trudging to a nearby rock, she quickly sat on it and took out a needle and ninja wire. Putting the ninja wire through the head of the needle, Naruto took the item and began to stitch the most lethal wound on her stomach. Blood was pouring out from it until Naruto completely closed it.

After she was done, she sat there, breathing heavily from the pain she was feeling. After her Sage Mode ended, the injuries she had started to gain feeling, leading up to where she was now when all her injuries were in full bloom.

She spit out mucous from her dehydrated mouth. Naruto then shot a mental link to Kurama, "Hey, are you still tired?"

"What did you expect?" The nine tailed fox growled out.

"Sorry, sorry. Are you okay though?"

"Peachy."

"Okay," Naruto said sarcastically. "If you're so peachy, can you tell me what timeline I'm in?"

"No, I don't."

"Re-really?" The woman said incredulously.

"Yeah, yeah. Even if I was the one who provided the extra chakra needed for this almost impossible plan, I don't know what time we are in specifically." He paused. "Now, judging by the fight that just went on back there, this could either be during a war or otherwise."

"Can you infer which war?" Naruto questioned.

"This could either be the First, Second, or Third Great Shinobi War. I can't say for certain which one, though. Another thing to keep mind is to keep your status as a konoichi closed—the downside is for how long. Since you just about showed off all off your moves back there, it'll be a matter of time until everyone finds out—goodness you're a fool. If this happens, at least keep it a secret that you're from the future. Only change what is necessary to be changed, got it?"

Naruto mentally nodded her head and sighed, "Sorry, but if I hadn't used my moves, I could've died, and this whole thing me and Shikamaru, Kaka-sensei, Sakura, Chouji, Ino, Hinata..." She trailed off, reciting one name after the other, feeling as if her heart was filled with lead.

"Look, Naruto, you'll be fine." Kurama placed his paw under his chin, "You know where Konoha is from here, right? If you don't hurry up now, with those injuries and all, you're going to fall in unconscious soon. I can heal you right now."

Naruto gave him a reassuring smiled, giving him her thanks. "Naw, it's fine, Kurama. I'll get there just in time. I hope I'll be welcomed." Kurama pitched in most of his chakra so that Naruto could travel back in time—he even went as far as to heal her during battle. That's why she was the only one who could do it.

"I highly doubt that," the Bijuu inside Naruto stomach replied before falling back to sleep.

With that, Naruto trudged to where Konoha was at.

The messenger Iwa-nin exploded into the Tsuchikage's office, "Tsuchikage-sama!" He breathed out harshly.

An alarmed expression rang throughout Ōnoki's face, "What happened?"

"The warehouses—they're all destroyed!"

Ōnoki's face was disorientated, "What happened and who did this!?" He barked out with devastation written all over his face. He slapped his desk with the palms of his hands.

The messenger shinobi breathed out heavily, "It was impossible, but one person did all the damage—a blond woman with whisker marks on her face. She had orange attire and was brutally strong. "

Ōnoki nodded his head, now, taking out a scroll, and writing down the information. The messenger continued, "Only one person, especially since she is just a woman, took down a whole platoon, Sir. But the most unbelievable thing about her was her abilities."

The Tsuchikage's face went blank when the messenger said that one woman took down a whole platoon of his army, "Continue," Ōnoki said as calmly as possible.

"She has two cloaks of some kind that radiated from her body, seemingly enhancing her skills. One was call Bijuu Mode while the other one was unknown to me."

"You said Bijuu Mode, right?" The Sandaime Tsuchikage said incredulously.

"Yes," the messenger said grimly after realizing what he just said. With widened eyes, the messenger said,"The woman even based attacks on the Bijuu, if that was even possible." The messenger was breathing a little more heavily, "She made another cloak that was red. Her eyes suddenly became orange, with rounded rectangles as pupils. If I heard right, she based these next attacks on something call Sage Mode? I think that is correct."

Ōnoki widened his eyes even further. The messenger saw this, and cursed, now knowing that it was something bad. The Tsuchikage breathed out, "Senjutsu."

The messenger decided not to question what the meaning of what Ōnoki just said. Ōnoki slowly stated, "Not even one of our warehouses are spared?" The shinobi answered negatively. The Tsuchikage narrowed his eyes, "So forty-two of my shinobi were wiped out by one woman? Are you sure she didn't have any sort of help?"

The messenger frowned, holding the wound on his left shoulder, "There was one incident before the woman attacked. It was The White Fang and his backups."

"The White Fang?" Ōnoki said with a frown.

The messenger shinobi nodded, "Yes, but, his ploy was unsuccessful after he chose to save a comrade than to finish his mission—the same ambition that the woman archived." He coughed up, tasting a little blood.

Ōnoki gave in to suspicion, "Do you think that she was their backup?"

"Maybe, but to send one woman into the battlefield, wouldn't that put too much faith in the woman? And anyways, wouldn't we have already known of the blond woman due to her power?"

"Yes, but that old monkey Sarutobi has something up his sleeve all the time—his trump card."

Ōnoki clenched his jaw and fisted his hands tightly, causing his nails to penetrate his skin with blood. "Leave me right now. Be sure to pay a visit to one of th med-tents."

The messenger shinobi bowed down to his leader, leaving from the door.

"Hokage-sama there is something important that you should know." Shiori, Hiruzen's secretary said as she came from his door. "A woman- oh Sakumo-san, please enter."

Sakumo breathed out lowly as he Stepped into the Hokage's office. The Sandaime looked anxiously to Sakumo. Sakumo kept on an stoic expression, "Hokage-sama, the mission... was not successful."

"WHAT!?" Hiruzen dropped to pipe from his mouth. He slammed the palms of his hands on the table loudly, almost cracking the table in half.

Shinobi bowed her head and whispered, "I will leave the two of you." She walked out the room.

Sakumo flinched a little bit, continuing on his mission report, "One of my comrades was captured by the Iwa-nin, so, I had to save him. This went with a stake though—to abort the mission and save a comrade or vice-versa." Sakumo clenched his jaw,"I chose to abort the mission."

"Do you know what this means, Sakumo?! It means that the tide of the war might go to Iwa by a 95% chance rate! As I said, it will take a huge miracle to save us. It is sure that they will strike back, maybe even with the same plan at mind! If they do that, then our supplies and food will be shortened greatly! Not only our people fighting in the war will be affected, but everyone who is a part of our village will face the consequences of your actions. Did I not tell you to complete this mission no matter what?" The Sandaime stated harshly.

Sakumo gulped heavily, "Yes, you did, Hokage-sama."

"Where are the rest?" Hiruzen questioned.

"I sent then home because I though it was necessary."

The Hokage glared at him. The old Sarutobi shook his head and was about to say something when the secretary, again, knocked in the door. Hiruzen sighed stressfully and asked, "What is it?"

"An urgent letter sent from Iwa's fastest hawk."

"From who?"

"The Tsuchikage."

Hiruzen palmed his face with his hands stressfully. "What bad timing," he cursed. Opening the letter he started to read:

Hokage of Konohagakure no Sato; Hiruzen Sarutobi,

From the beginning of this war, I always knew that we would be the only two villages left to fight each other off. Knowing this, I have prepared my trump cards throughout the tide of this war. However, what you sent as your offender shocked me to the very core.

You sent one woman who completely annihilated a full 42-person platoon of my shinobi.

This was uncalled for. It's never been heard before. Were you trying to make fun of me by saying that one woman can defeat my army, calling my army weak?

Don't think that I'm surrendering soon just because your 'trump card' destroyed what left of supplies and rations we had left.

Because of this, I have no choice but to back away from this war. Until then, Hiruzen.

Tsuchikage of Iwagakure no Sato;

-Ōnoki

When Hiruzen read the letter the first time, he couldn't believe what it was saying. He read it throughly another time and then read it a third time, but out loud this time so that Sakumo could hear. Iwa had just sent him their white flag.

Sakumo, almost shakily, stammered, "You sent for backups, Hokage-sama?"

Hiruzen shook his head frantically, "That's the thing that trips me. I didn't send for backups, Sakumo." He frowned, then called for his secretary.

His secretary came up from the door, "Yes, Hokage-sama?"

"I need you to find more information about this woman in this letter." He gave her the letter to read.

The secretary smiled, "I already have the information on the woman, Sir. Coincidentally, I was about to discuss these matters with you only until before Sakumo-san arrived."

The Hokage sighed and picked up his pipe in relief, "This is why I picked you to be my secretary, Shiori."

"It's my pleasure to learn about the latest news, Hokage-sama." Shiori said. She continued, "Throughout the past two days of the woman's discovery, it was said that she was amazingly powerful. From reliable sources, I found out that there was also rumor that she could use Bijuu power and use Senjutsu easily. It was unheard of, especially since there aren't many who knows and masters Senjutsu except Jiraiya-sama, but he's not a woman, and no one at all who knows how to use Bijuu power." Shiori nodded in approval, "A spectrum, to describe her."

The Hokage and Sakumo frowned, deep in thought. "Continue on, Shiori," Hiruzen said.

"Well, in terms of appearance, she has long blond hair, reaching all the way from her back, and the most relevant of all, she has whisker marks on the sides of her cheeks. Everything else about this woman is a mystery."

Hiruzen smiled kindly to her, "Thank you, Shiori, you may go back to your desk."

"My pleasure," she walked briskly to her desk.

Hiruzen lit his pipe again, seemingly to have calmed down a lot. Sakumo felt unburdened and thankful to that woman. The Sandaime put on a serious face and said, "That was our miracle. You're lucky, Sakumo. If this woman never have appeared, you would have been shamed." The aging leader looked sternly at the younger man, "Don't ever go against my command ever again, or else you will be wiped away from your title as shinobi. Let this be a lesson to you."

Sakumo nodded his head, Hiruzen continued, "You'll be restrained from shinobi duties for a whole month. But let me tell you this: if not for this war, it would've been longer, and maybe, you would've been striped from your title as shinobi, Sakumo." Hiruzen sighed through his pipe, fluttering the air with smoke. "You will also not get paid for this mission. By then, do something productive to make up for this mission. Dismissed," he informed in a cold tone.

Sakumo saluted to his Hokage and shunshied to his home, feeling as though the Sandaime's words impale him with ice, cold spears.

He groaned and leaned against the Hokage Tower's exterior walls while rubbing his face in stess. He cursed to himself and swore that if he ever met that woman, he would kiss her for all she was worth.

"Kami, I messed up real bad." He thought out loud. Sighing one more time, Sakumo turned his heel and finally go home, where he could finally meet that end of his promise with Kakashi.

AUTHOR'S NOTE: Okay, so I tried researching online, but it didn't say anywhere in Naruto about Sakumo's mission. So this one is made up, okay? Don't take it to heart. I hope you all enjoyed this start and I hope you guys will continue to read more. Thank you all for reading!