Chapter 1: The Adventure Begins!

"Sensei?"

"Yes, Obito?"

"What's that scroll?"

Said scroll was a plain-looking one, purposefully brown-ish in colour to pass unnoticed. All in all, it looked like a boring mission report no one would look at twice.

"This," Minato grinned widely in triumph, "is a time-travelling scroll, my very own creation!"

Kakashi failed to remain unimpressed, but he was still doubtful.

"Why do you tell us about it?" he asked with a raised eyebrow.

"Why not?" Minato shrugged, "You are my cute little students, you deserve to know what awaits you in the future!" The jonin smiled and his teeth sparkled.

Rin still looked a little uncertain. "And what happens when you activate the scroll?" Everyone stared with a 'you don't know?' expression at her.

"I mean," she rephrased hastily "what will happen to us if we… time-travel?"

Minato shrugged and showed his team the intricate seals on the scroll.

"This section," he pointed some strange-looking scribbles, "should allow us to have a tangible form, while this," he pointed another weird part, "should keep us alive during the time-hop".

"Should?"

Kakashi, Rin and Obito looked worriedly at their sensei. Was he insane or something?

Minato looked affronted, "Hey, Jiraya-sensei helped me last week! We're two seal masters, I'm pretty sure this seal won't blow up!"

"Jiraya-sama was drunk last week." Kakashi deadpanned.

Minato coughed and waved his hand dismissively, "Details, 'Kashi-kun".

Disbelieving stares were shot at him.

"However," the blonde raised his voice, "let's try this!"

He did some hand seals and slammed his palm on the scroll.

"Time-hopping no jutsu!"

Wolf just killed his target when a bright light almost blinded him.

The seventeen-years-old immediately took cover somewhere in the bloody room (It wasn't his fault there were twenty or so guards, honest!) and suppressed his chakra.

His eyes almost popped out of their sockets when his old genin team, coughing and alive, appeared in front of him.

"Minato-sensei!" the Obito-look-alike shouted, "What the hell?!"

That was what Wolf was asking himself, as well.

The blonde motioned him to stay silent and keep his guard up, looking around the not-so-much lit room.

"T-There's blood everywhere…" Rin (wasn't she dead?) stuttered. Wolf's younger-looking self seemed to pale a little (it was hard to tell) and assumed a fighting stance, taking out his tanto.

Minato's azure eyes looked intently at Wolf's hiding place.

"Show yourself." ordered the blonde.

Wolf paused. Should he? Maybe, so he could beat Team Minato's impostors for their outrageous stunt.

The ANBU stepped out from the shadows with his blood-stained ANBU armor and mask.

The Rin-look-alike turned a strange shade of white (and a little green?), the Minato impersonator looked vaguely sick, not-Obito's jaw hanged open and the last masked impersonator swayed a little.

"You have lots of guts," Wolf stated tonelessly "to impersonate them".

"YOU'RE FUTURE KAKASHI?!" Obito (not him!) screamed.

The three other impersonators looked close to face-palm multiple times.

Well, Wolf wasn't exactly used to random people to recognize him, but hey, who else had spiky silver hair? He was just too sneaky to be seen (it honestly wasn't his fault one of the guards was a sensor nukenin. Really).

'Future Kakashi' gathered chakra to his right hand.

"I am." he answered and shifted slightly his position.

"And you are impostors."

His chakra sparkled a little with electricity and the team tensed.

"HOW DARE YOU?!"

His hand was completely covered in lightning chakra and, with a high-pitched sound, he charged the group.

Minato hastily sidestepped the furious (future) Kakashi and grabbed his cute, little, shocked students. Quite obviously, he ran for their lives.

"Kakashi!" he called for his student, currently hanging on the back of his jonin jacket, "Grab my scroll and activate it!"

The little chuunin searched hurriedly the scroll in Minato's weapon pouch.

"The hand seals are Ox, Boar, Dog, Dragon, Rat and Tiger!" the blonde almost shouted, avoiding being skewered with pointy ninja tools.

Somehow, Rin (who was under Minato's arm) held open the scroll while Kakashi performed the hand signs.

"Time-hopping no jutsu!"

The team appeared on a red bridge. It was a sunny day.

"Sensei…" Obito said between pants. Even if he didn't run, that scare left him out of breath.

"…why did you do it?"

Minato made a strange noise that vaguely resembled a whimper.

Rin and Obito stood up, but Kakashi and their sensei didn't. Thus, obviously, the Uchiha tried to shake their shoulders.

"Minato-sensei! Bakakashi! Get up!" Obito yelled right in their hears. He received tired groans in return.

"Maybe…" the blonde said, grimacing, "…maybe I put too much chakra… but hey, it worked…" he smiled proudly, trying harder to stand up.

Kakashi grunted, but he couldn't find the strength to get up.

'Chakra exhaustion is a bitch'.

Minato obviously understood why his student didn't move, if his slightly amused expression was anything to go by. Cursed adult-sized chakra reserves.

"Sorry 'Kashi-kun." he apologized sincerely; he didn't mean to exhaust his little student, poor little thing. "But it was an emergency, as you have seen". Kakashi's eye twitched.

He allowed Minato to carry him on his back. Not that he could do anything else, really.

The glare Kakashi sent Obito just dared the latter to laugh.

"OK squad" the blonde spoke up, "we'll have to explore this Konoha without attracting attention, discover which time we're in and get some information. Got it?"

Three 'yes'es were heard.

"SAKURA-CHAAAAAAAAN!"

The four shinobi, startled, hid somewhere in the bushes around the red bridge.

A girl (twelve-years-old?) with long pink hair and emerald eyes was walking, followed by an… enthusiastic blonde boy.

'They wear red and ORANGE?!' Kakashi thought, disbelieving. Both wore the Konoha hitai-ate, but how were they ninjas? No sense of stealth whatsoever and… they were LOUD!

"NARUTO!" the girl (Sakura, it seemed. How fitting) screeched "STOP BEING ANNOYING!" (look who's talking…)

"B-But Sakura-CHAAAAAN!" Naruto whined with a pout.

'If this is the future Konoha, we're all doomed' Kakashi thought in despair, 'But, seriously, why is Naruto so similar to Minato-sensei?'

The boy wore BRIGHT ORANGE, was loud, obnoxious, annoying… but he had a certain resemblance to Minato that couldn't be ignored. He had the same unruly blonde hair and blue eyes: maybe a shade or two darker, but still.

'At least it's better than a future me trying to kill us…'

"SASUKE-KUUUUN!"

'…I take back what I thought. Fangirls are worse'.

The time-hoppers had to watch and eavesdrop to discover when they were. Unfortunately, they didn't get any important information from the genins' (because the three had Konoha hitai-ate on them, even if they didn't seem to deserve it) bickering, too familiar to Kakashi and Obito's.

"Dobe, shut up." Sasuke, who was proudly displaying the infamous Uchiha Glare, sneered.

"TEME!" Naruto growled "YOU NEED TO SHUT UP! TAKE THIS!"

Sasuke grunted haughtily and sidestepped the blonde, starting a fight between them.

A very one-sided fight.

"NARUTO!" Sakura screeched again, "STOP!"

With that, she punched her teammate on his head hard. As hard as a genin with abysmal taijutsu skills could punch.

Team Minato sweat-dropped. Those genins were really, really stupid. At least, this could mean the war ended (or only that the new generation was stupid. It was a fifty-fifty chance).

"Rin, Obito" Minato whispered "go ahead and ask them if the war ended, who's Hokage and anything that could help us understand when we are".

"Should we henge?" Rin asked.

Minato shrugged "No matter how stupid, they could see the henge's smoke. It's better to not do it" he replied "I'm sending you because Kakashi and I are low on chakra (and who would forget our hair's colour?), don't mess up".

The two hopeful-chuunins nodded and walked to the future team.

"HELLO GUYS!"

Team 7 turned around, breaking their impromptu staring contest.

There were a brown-haired girl with purple marks on her cheeks and a boy with orange goggles. They both had Konoha hitai-ate and the boy was waving at them, jogging towards the bridge.

"HELLO, DATTEBAYO!" Naruto shouted back.

"Hn. Who are you?" Sasuke asked, a little wary and annoyed. He didn't see these kids anywhere in the village.

"I'm Suzumi…"

"My name's Uchiha Obito!" the boy shouted proudly, disregarding the little fact he was supposed to use another identity in case he met his older self.

"UCHIHA?" Sasuke definitely not-squeaked. He looked at Obito like he was some sort of ghost (which he was).

Obito, ignoring his teammate(s) face-palm(s), turned around and showed Sasuke the Uchiha crest on his back and pointed the red and white fan.

"I'm Obito Uchiha, the most awesome ninja that ever existed! I'll even surpass Bakaka… mmph!"

Rin smiled awkwardly "Ehehehe… sometimes Obito-kun gets excited and sprouts nonsense… ehehe…" her hand was on the boy's mouth, leaving nothing but incomprehensible noises to leave his lips.

"Don't compromise our 'cover'" she hissed in his hear "they'll tell everything to their sensei and we'll get a one-way ticket to T&I!" Obito shivered. The three genin didn't hear anything.

"It's impossible." Sasuke stated, disbelieving "I am the last Uchiha since that night!"

'The last?' Minato thought alarmed 'What happened to them?!' Obviously, everyone else had similar thoughts.

It looked like Obito wanted Suna to hear him and he did so with an eardrum-shattering yell of "LAST?! WHAT THE HELL?!"

"Yeah, Teme! Why are you the last?!"

"You're the last, Sasuke-kun?!"

"What happened to the clan?"

Sasuke's expression turned undecipherable for several moments, then it kept switching between terrified, blank and murderous. His hands twitched a little, so Rin, Obito and Sakura had the sense to step back and shut up.

Naruto didn't.

"Teme, I don't speak Uchihese – dattebayo. What happened?"

"I NEED TO AVENGE MY CLAN!"

Sasuke lost all his cool façade and lunged at Naruto, who started screaming enough to break glass (but Obito's goggles were awesome and didn't shatter).

He didn't get very far because of a tall figure that stepped in, restraining both his arms tightly.

"LET ME GO! HE NEEDS TO DIE!" Sasuke kept screaming bloody murder. Literally.

"Sasuke, calm down." a tall, imposing and one-eyed Kakashi Hatake ordered from behind the so-called 'last Uchiha', who kept screaming and thrashing around.

"I order you to calm down." Kakashi pulled off his authority and 'you-better-respect-me' aura and made sure Sasuke felt his right eye on him.

The Uchiha glared at his sensei and was about to retort when he felt his muscles shut down and lost consciousness.

'What the hell did I miss?' Kakashi thought, releasing his grip on Sasuke. He asked himself why there were Obito and Rin's impersonators with his genin, too.

And why there were Minato-sensei and himself as well. This was confusing.

Somewhere in the corners of his mind, a memory tugged at him. He did meet some impostors many, many years ago… how did they disappear? Time-something… oh well. Might as well play their game.

"Obito. Rin." both genin froze and reluctantly turned around (their gazes seemed to focus on Minato's location. Uhm.) "What are you doing here?" Older Kakashi asked.

By his dark tone, however, the duo quickly understood that was a demand.

Obito stuttered helplessly.

"KAKA-SENSEI!" Naruto decided to yell, clearly not understanding what Kakashi was doing. The little blonde was as dense and unaware as a doorknob, really. "WHAT HAPPENED TO SASUKE-TEME?! WHO ARE THEY?! AND YOU'RE EARLY!"

And oh, Kakashi was early. Way too early for his standards. Only half an hour late!

But who didn't hear all the ruckus they were doing? Honestly, sometimes Kakashi felt the urge to remember all the jutsus he copied to find one to shut his genins up. It would be useful for them to realize how valuable their squeaky voices were.

"Kakashi," it took all of Obito's will to not add 'baka' at the beginning "is always early. Every. Damn. Time!"

Naruto and Sakura were about to answer – loudly, oh so loudly – but their sensei cut them off.

"Enough." Kakashi commanded coldly. Everyone shut their mouths up.

His students didn't see this side of him ever. Not even on the Wave mission he used that tone –demanding immediate obedience, with an edge of anger and steel. He looked every bit the jonin commander he was supposed to be. Sasuke would probably think the same if he was conscious.

Rin and Obito were almost cowering, remembering all too well they couldn't hold on the hope he wouldn't kill them – for him, they were nothing but impostors, not teammates. This time, though, Minato-sensei couldn't help them as much as he wanted to. That scared them shitless.

"Minato-sensei. Chibi-me." the tall man commanded again "Get out of those bushes, now".

The blonde knew better than go against an Hatake when he had that tone. He learnt his lesson from Sakumo – and really, it looked like Kakashi was more similar to him than he would ever admit. They left the bushes and the time-hopping jonin stepped near Obito and Rin.

Minato gave his little student enough chakra to stay upright, but the moment he tried to move his chakra exhaustion would be noticed by the genins, too.

"Naruto. Sakura." the duo, unusually silent, straightened and looked at their sensei "Take Sasuke and don't let him fall". The blonde boy realized he never thought of it but, instead of smiling and yelling "Hai, Kaka-sensei – dattebayo!" while plotting the Uchiha's not-permanent demise, he just complied.

He would never admit his thoughts were 'Oh my God, Oh my God, Kaka-sensei is SCARY! I don't think it's really him – SCARY – He's not late! Better listen to him now – Oh God I don't want to die so young!'

"We're going straight to Hokage-sama. Follow me."

With that, the two teams departed for the Hokage's office.

Somehow, no one noticed them during their walk there (for Chibi Kakashi it was a piggy-back ride on Minato's shoulders, but that's beside the point). The two jonins entered inside the Hokage's office, leaving behind the genins and chuunin.

An awkward silence fell upon the five kids and unconscious Sasuke.

"Ne, Sakura-chan…"

"Uhm?" the girl blinked at his teammate. Trust Naruto to break the silence first...

"…I never saw Kaka-sensei that scary -ttebayo." he whispered, shuddering a little. It was so unlike him that Sakura didn't even think about beating the 'dattebayo' out of him.

"You mean he isn't always like that?" Obito looked at the two brightly-clothed genins like they were aliens. Between being around stick-up-his-ass Kakashi and running for their lives from angry future Kakashi, he couldn't imagine his teammate behaving any different. Because, face it, Kakashi being fluffy? That was impossible.

The little blonde nodded his head with far too much energy. "Yeah –dattebayo! Kaka-sensei always has that strange orange book, somehow reading it while walking and, and… I mean, he was never like… like that!" he waved his arms like a madman, not finding the right words.

"Naruto's right," Sakura agreed "but he is a jonin – a very good one, at that". Here Chibi Kakashi would have smirked (definitely not whooped!) if he could waste energy.

The blonde shuddered again. "But he never ever used that tone with us!"

"That doesn't mean he can't…" Sasuke deadpanned from the sidelines. Naruto jumped from his seat while Sakura squealed and hugged her crush (that woke sometime during their conversation) to death.

Kakashi raised an eyebrow at the… display of affection between Sakura and the Uchiha boy (very, very one-sided), who was trying hard to pry the fangirl off him. The silver-haired chuunin felt a little pity for him (Kami knew how he could have survived if Rin was like that…) before squashing it down.

"What do you know about your sensei's life? Other than the orange book he reads, that is." Rin curiously asked. It was still their task to get some information, what better way than let the three genins babble?

The three kids looked at each other. That was a good question.

"…He's famous." Naruto finally decided to say, crossing his arms. He looked deep in thought and his teammates really wished to have a camera to remember this once-in-a-lifetime event. The three time-hopping shinobi raised their eyebrows.

Sakura fiddled a little, unsure about whether or not tell those people what she had in mind.

"A-ano… during the bell test… Kakashi-sensei said his friends' names were on the Memorial Stone, didn't he?"

Chibi Kakashi almost choked, remembering exactly what the bell test's purpose was. What was his future self thinking?! After what happened to him… when did he start valuing teamwork? His teammates were only deadweights during fights and training!

"Friends?!" Obito gaped at Sakura. 'Kakashi' and 'friends' were never in the same sentence unless there was 'hasn't' between them! And for Bakakashi, the king of secrecy (Obito never thought that. Nope) to admit his students his supposed friends were Killed In Action…

Rin frowned, more focused on the fact they were on the Memorial Stone. Who died from their time to this?

Sakura squeaked at Obito's shout, but answered all the same "H-Hai… he didn't tell us who they were, though…" Kakashi-sensei was pretty much a loner, right, but why did the boy yell? It couldn't be that unlikely!

"…Anything else?" Rin knew this couldn't be the end.

Naruto snapped his fingers in realization. "OH, RIGHT! Kaka-sensei has the Sharingan!"

Completely oblivious to the shock of the time-hoppers, the blonde continued blabbing, "On his left eye he has a freakish scar – and, under it, there's that scary red eye!" he made some gestures to empathize his words "It's, like, the coolest thing I've ever seen! I don't understand why he covers it… why aren't you saying anything, -ttebayo?"

Sasuke's jaw almost dropped. Uchiha Obito… only Uchihas have the Sharingan… little Kakashi-look-alike with both dark eyes… it all clicked in place. If there aren't any plausible reasons, the most farfetched is the truth.

"Naruto, shut up immediately." the boy looked more than ready to retort, but Sasuke cut him off "You… you're from the past – aren't you?"

The trio tensed up and looked wide-eyed at him, confirming his suspicions.

Sakura was the next to understand his reasoning and her jaw actually dropped on the floor. She flushed bright red and she was going to scream when the Hokage's door opened.

"Oi." the very same person they were talking about poked his head to look at them. "You all, Hokage-sama wants you to enter."

Team Minato couldn't help but stare at the slanted hitai-ate of Older Kakashi. The Sharingan was right under there… one of their questions was answered with that.

Obito was certainly dead.

"Naruto, Sakura." the silver-haired jonin called casually. The two kids tensed. "…Don't reveal secrets like that, OK?" Eye-smile. It took spending a lot of time with the man to know it was the fakest smile he could pull off. Actually, Older Kakashi was disappointed in his students – if someone suspicious and unknown asked information about a comrade, you don't just tell. That's the stupidest thing you can do. He expected this to happen with Naruto, but Sakura? She should have known better.

The duo bowed their heads and murmured an apology.

"Sasuke," the eye-smile was more genuine "you guessed right – Obito, Rin, Minato-sensei and Chibi Me travelled forward in time".

The trio of time-hoppers was too stunned by the last bombshell to say anything else. It was Minato who chuckled uncomfortably.

"Yeah… I explained to Hokage-sama what happened until now and showed him the time-travelling scroll..." he awkwardly summed his impromptu meeting. He didn't want to tell them the barely restrained fury Older Kakashi was going to lash out – that would just scare them to death.

"T-The Sharingan…" everyone looked at Obito. "…h-how… why…?"

Team Minato discreetly winced at his unusually subdued tone. Minato heard what was said as well, and he was asking himself the same thing. Why did Kakashi have a Sharingan?

"Isn't it your eye?" Naruto asked at length. Dense as he was, he didn't understand why it shouldn't be – it was in his head, wasn't it? He looked back and forth the two versions of his Sensei, but what was the problem?

"No, it isn't. It's Obito's" Older Kakashi sighed and, before the kids could scream in horror, he continued "On my first mission as a jonin, Obito died," the one in the room made a strangled noise, "and he gave me his Sharingan as his final act".

The genins and the chuunin still looked horrified.

Naruto, Sakura and Obito's face turned a vague shade of green while Rin, Sasuke and Chibi Kakashi paled. Having another's eyeball in your skull was… strange… and gross. How could the jonin still joke, laugh, smile… when every second he lived reminded him of his dead teammate?

The Sandaime cleared his throat to regain the shinobis' attention. "Now, we decided to let you rest in this 'time', since we confirmed you are from the past. If, and only if Kakashi –the older one– decides you can access to certain information, you four will know." Obito and Rin almost complained, but fortunately remained silent.

"You can rest for a week maximum – that should be enough time for your chakra levels to return normal. However, I suggest you to Henge into someone else: your presence would cause quite an uproar here." The Sandaime looked like he was suppressing both a smile and a grimace.

"Kakashi – no, the older one… can you open the Hatake Compound for them?"

Both Hatakes and Minato tensed at the order-in-disguise. The Hatake Compound? The one that plagued Kakashi's nightmares and he pretended it didn't exist? That?! Instead of the reaction the older blonde expected (denial, shouts, angry retorts), Older Kakashi nodded.

"I will, Hokage-sama. However, no one stepped inside the Compound for years. I don't think it's in livable condition." It seemed the old man had a solution for this too.

"Then you have a D-rank mission for today."

Awkward silence.

"…D-rank?"

"Yes, Naruto. I'm assigning you a mission – clean up the Hatake Compound for our 'guests'." The Hokage smiled at his brilliant plan to keep Team Minato's presence a secret.

With much reluctance on both parties, they arrived in front of the Hatake Compound.

"You used to live HERE, Sensei?! It's HUGE – dattebayo!"

Older Kakashi nodded without much enthusiasm. "Aa. This is the Hatake Compound. Everyone, watch your steps – there are still active traps inside".

Sakura's eyes widened in fright. "Traps?! But we're near the village! Why should there be any?!"

The tall man waved a hand dismissively. "Maa… Jonins are paranoid, Sakura. It's pretty much a part of the job's description." Minato raised an eyebrow, knowing there was much more than that. Sakumo wasn't very popular when Kakashi left the Compound…

Seeing Sakura and Naruto's skeptical frown, Older Kakashi sighed, "Just follow me, OK?"

They did so in silence. The garden/training ground was clearly abandoned, the grass tall and the two training stumps destroyed; inside, it wasn't much better. The wooden floor creaked at every step and the walls needed immediate care. In the living room there were a few shelves, armchairs and a couch; on its left, there was a room that vaguely resembled a kitchen.

No one dared to breathe more than necessary, in fear of getting skewered with pointy ninja tools or worse.

Older Kakashi signaled the two Teams to stop and he walked through a very well hidden door, much to the genins' surprise. After a second, the walls brightened a little with chakra and he closed the door behind him.

"I switched off the traps." the kids (minus Chibi Kakashi) sighed in relief at that statement.

"Why didn't you take care of this place, Kakashi-sensei?" Sakura asked meekly.

"I was too busy at the time to do it…" he scratched his head, then eye-smiled. "But now that it's our mission to clean this place, I guess it's time to begin!"

His three students were suddenly buried under brooms, buckets, cleaning products and dusters.

"Naruto, create some Kage Bunshins to help with the yard – Sakura, start cleaning the floor," Older Kakashi cheerfully shoved the products in his genins' hands "Sasuke, don't leave a speck of dust on the furniture and make sure Naruto doesn't ruin the garden…"

"HEY!"

"To all of you, this is the living room, there," he pointed to his left, "is the kitchen, the bathroom's that way – upstairs there are two bedrooms and the study." Kakashi suddenly glared, changing abruptly from cheerful to dead serious.

"Whoever dares to open its door without my permission will experience his (or hers) worst nightmare – and won't necessarily live through it. Understood?"

Sakura, Naruto, Obito and Rin immediately squeaked an affirmative, while Sasuke shivered and nodded.

Older Kakashi eye-smiled again and everyone was left to question his sanity.

"Chibi me will come with me for a trip." the man grabbed his (chakra exhausted) younger self to empathize his point. "Minato-sensei is in charge, so you better follow his orders." he waved his hand cheerfully. "Ja ne!"

A poof of smoke later, the two Hatakes disappeared.

A/N: Aaaaaaand this is another story! :D

Call me stupid, but I had this Chapter in my computer for a while and I wanted to publish it.

I planned this story to be 5-6 Chapters long, dumping Team Minato in different times inside Naruto's timeline (Shippuden included! ;D). I want you to vote and/or suggest other 3 or 4 times in which I can send them. Thus, begin the poll:

-Pain's invasion, near Kakashi's corpse

-During the Gokage Summit, Sasuke's fight

-Beginning of the Fourth Shinobi War, when Gaara speaks

-Chuunin Exams, invasion

-Chuunin Exams, after Sandaime's death

-After Chuunin Exams, when Itachi and Kisame are onto Naruto

-After Chuunin Exams, when Itachi knocks Kakashi into coma

-Whatever you suggest! :D

What do you think? If it sucks, tell me how to improve and I'll gladly change – if you do so 'gently', even better! :3

EDIT: removed some parenteses and capital letters due to WDW's suggestion :D And corrected some little things in the dialogues!

Beware of the Kitsune's rage!

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