Fun Fact: Many High-class Ramen restaurants in Japan, Narutomaki, the fishcake with pink swirling in the middle, is not included because it has the image of 'cheap food'.

Chapter 1: The Starting Point

Kakashi was unconscious with his face hidden by the ground. Sakura was beside him, looking as helpless as he was as they watched the mad goddess about to fire those killing ash bones.

Obito knew he had to think of something, fast.

No matter what it took, he had to save them. Yet, he knew he was capable of saving only one of them.

Naruto or Sasuke.

Heh. There was no question, really.

Obito looked at her, his lips tugged at each corner.

"This is a real fucking Space-time Jutsu," he roared as his eyes focused on her form. "Forgive me, Naruto."

The gravity was too heavy for Naruto to look at him and in a blink of an eye, everything around her shifted.

Naruto landed on the ground, hard.

The moment she touched the ground―out of nowhere―she was in an incredible amount of pain.

She scrunched up her face. The pain was like something was attacking her inside-out, but not the pain from the killing bones Kaguya had inflicted to her Kage Bunshin. Ignoring it, she stubbornly trying to stand up and succeeded after a few attempts.

'Did Obito send me to his dimension?' she mused, the pain half-forgotten.

Her blood went cold as soon as she saw it.

Her eyes intently looking at the scenery before her.

The Hokage Mountain was directly in her line of sight. Her eyes glided to the first rock face statue, the Shodaime. Next, she saw the Nidaime. The Sandaime. And finally to the last; the Yondaime.

There was one wrong thing about the mountain; Tsunade-obāsan's face wasn't there.

Naruto did a double-take and immediately blanched.

"H-how?" she whispered to herself as her eyes couldn't help but fixed upon at those rock faces. "Did Obito really send me to the...?"

She didn't see him. She didn't sense her teammates anywhere. Sasuke, Sakura-chan, Kakashi-sensei, even Kaguya.

The unknown pain completely forgotten, she muttered, "Well, shit."

The pain had disappeared, making it possible for Naruto to roam around.

Walking through the secluded grounds that she was sure was still inside Konoha, but a place she wasn't that familiar with, Naruto thought 'why, Obito?' over and over again.

Past adventures' knowledge helped her when her eyes spotted the traditional house near the edge of the cliff near the Naka River.

It was a traditional Uchiha house. The only one around the area; meant that the Uchiha are still alive.

Obito really did an amazing job; he sent her to the past, with her body and mind intact, and the seal on her stomach was still there.

One thing he didn't do wondrously was; to just send himself to the past. Sending her to the past made her think that he's a selfish bastard. He did apologize before he sent her but really, Obito was still a selfish bastard to do this to her. Just because he got both of his original eyes back and discovered that he could do a 'real fucking space-time jutsu'―as he put it―he didn't really need to do this.

Naruto sighed and walked away from the house, although there was no one in there. She proceeded to walk blindly. Once there was a sound of the waterfall, she looked ahead, sighing to the calming sight of it. She sat on the rock near the edge of the cliff, perfectly making it for her to enjoy the incredible sight if only her mind could enjoy it. The state of her mind was in chaos, trying to find a solution to go back to her home.

"Kurama, what do I do now?" she whimpered as she crossed her legs to meditate.

As soon as she said that, she was pulled into Kurama's seal.

"We can consider going back to the past as a small possibility."

Kurama's gruff voice made her almost teared up. She had realized that she wasn't alone as she thought she was. But the statement from Kurama was enough for her to glare up at him.

"What?" she yelled at him, her fist in front of her chest to emphasize her surprise.

"Your counterpart has completely disappeared from this world," Kurama stated. He continued on, "About a minute ago."

Her eyes widened and said, "We've only landed here an hour ago... How?"

"Idiot," he scolded, his claw directed at her. "We've traveled to the past; our past. One world can't handle the same being to exist at the same exact time, and so the moment we have landed, the world is attacking the both of you; you and your younger counterpart." He paused. "You have the Rikudō's chakra and stronger chakra reserves. Not to mention; your will is much stronger. Your counterpart didn't have any choice but to vanish from this world."

Naruto took a step backward. She breathed in and out and then she asked, "So basically... I've killed myself?" Kurama couldn't help but nod at that. She ducked her head for a second to process what Kurama had said. Finally, she uttered, "This doesn't make any sense!" She tilted her head up and pointed her finger at him. "Why didn't you tell me sooner? I would have done what I can to―"

"To what?" Kurama narrowed his eyes at her. "Our 'future' is gone. The only option you would think of, if you know that, is to kill yourself in order to save your own counterpart." Smoothly, he said, "The pain you felt when this world attacked you would make you do something incredibly reckless if you know it at that time. Between you and your younger counterpart is an easy choice," Naruto gulped at that, "I won't let you die anytime soon."

She didn't have a reply to that and kept her head down, mortified. She didn't know how to go back and she had moped for about a minute only to hear this outrageous thing about her past counterpart dying.

"Currently, I've received all of my yang chakra Madara had stolen in the past," he informed Naruto when she raised her head. "Without our relationship, the Eight-Trigrams Seal would be broken for receiving so much chakra it can't contain," Kurama smirked as he gestured to her back. "We have company."

"Naruto."

Her eyes landed on the person that she honestly didn't expect to meet ever again.

"K-kā-chan?" Naruto flickered her eyes to the man beside Kushina. "And... Tō-chan, too?"

"Oh, Naruto." Kushina walked toward her. "It's okay, you know?" She looked up at her husband and grimly smiled at each other before she looked at Naruto. "We know everything."

"H-how?" She was frozen. It was like she had forgotten on how to move when Kushina embraced her. She couldn't help but let the tears falling down when her father joined in. "How did you guys―?"

"Kurama-san told us," Minato explained. "We are chakra constructs. When he offered to share his chakra with us, we're of course skeptical, but in the end, we let him share his chakra and your own chakra to let us know... basically everything that had happened in the future." He let go off of his daughter and smiled down, "You've gotten bigger than the last time I saw you."

"And more precious than ever," Kushina grinned as she reluctantly let go off of her daughter. "I know I've said this before, but your face took after me too much, 'dattebane."

Naruto shakily laughed at that as she dried her tears furiously. She was just so happy she can feel her mother's warm embrace again. The first time she had met her mother, Naruto only had able to hug her mother twice. But one was initiated by her mother when she was on the verge of vanishing, so it wasn't as incredible as this time was.

Looking back at it, she had never hugged her father. The first time she had met her father, she had punched him so hard it would be weird for either of them if she initiated a hug. The second time when she met her father on the battlefield, she didn't have any chance to hug him. Now, she did and she wouldn't ever forget this moment.

Kurama snarkily commented from behind them. "Can you all go somewhere else? I can't handle all this 'mushy-mushy' feeling."

Red hair flailing, Kushina looked over her shoulder and saluted, "Roger that!"

In an instant, Naruto was in the place where she had met her mother. Unlike the place where she met her father the first time, the yellow color around the place was more vibrant. Probably due to her mother's potent chakra.

"Minato will last longer this time," Kushina exclaimed as she gestured to her husband. "We can talk his ears off together, dattebane!"

"Kā-chan, you've said 'dattebane' twice this time." Naruto playfully frowned as she teased, "But you said you dislike the verbal tick, right?" Her mother glared at her for pointing that out and Naruto chuckled.

"Like mother, like daughter," Minato commented with a soft smile. Despite the time they had was longer, Minato didn't want to waste so he wanly uttered to his family, "Now, we have to discuss your situation."

Naruto nodded, her eyes turned wary the moment she saw his face.

"First. We're very sorry to say this," Minato started as he grasped Kushina's hand, "but you have to change your appearance."

She pressed her lips together, thinking about it. "Yeah, that does make sense." Naruto nodded slowly.

"Obito," Minato's eyes dimmed as he said his former student's name, "thankfully didn't send you to an alternate world. This world is really 'your past'." He reassuringly smiled at his daughter. "This is evident by the fact that the yang half of Kurama-san's chakra managed to combine with the yin half―completely―without any trouble."

Kushina nodded to her husband and said, "I will teach you a seal that will trigger your recessive genes to surface; your Uzumaki heritage, and make it dominant." She sighed as she rubbed the back of her head. "I hope it would suffice."

"No matter the timeline, we're your parents. We don't want to change all of your features just for the sake of the people in this timeline," Minato said, his eyes sharp. "But we have to; because Danzō, Orochimaru, Nagato, Black Zetsu, and," he took a deep breath, "Obito are still out there. We don't want them to know you're from the future."

Naruto, although still overwhelmed with all of this, grinned as her father placed his hand atop of her head and said to them, "Thank you, both of you."

"Shall we start now?" Minato jumped up and stood. "I want to teach you other things as well." He showed his special three-pronged kunai.

Kushina glanced at him and placed her hands on her hips. "And I'm not going to just teach you an easy reversal DNA seal."

Minato chuckled nervously at that. "... easy?" he muttered with amazement. Kushina had the tendency to forget that not everyone knows Fūinjutsu, a complex one like DNA changing and all that.

Seeing their eagerness, Naruto did her signature Kage Bunshin hand seal.

"How many?" she asked with a smirk.

Author's Note: Obito's Kamui couldn't be detected, so his space-time jutsu also fooled the Barrier Division of any intruder lol. Obito used up his rikudō's leftover chakra to enhance the jutsu and absorb Sasuke's chakra―knowing that his fellow Uchiha could do some kind of space-time travel.

This story is not beta-ed. I'm not a native speaker either.

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-Tonegawa Rie