Back to the beginning

Hello everyone this is my first story I hope that it is to your liking and I apologize beforehand for any spelling/grammar mistakes that I make.

Disclaimer: I do not own Naruto or any character in this story

Now on with the story

He had failed.

Failed to protect his loved ones. Failed to beat the one who had caused so much pain and destruction.

Failed to beat Madara.

The final battle had gone well at first; Naruto had killed Sasuke in the beginning; Sakura as well since she had betrayed everyone. It seemed that her fan girl side and apparent 'love' for Sasuke had clouded her mind. Naruto had held his own against Madara without using the Kyuubi's chakra.

Their attacks had been so powerful they leveled mountains, shattered trees and created huge craters. But when Naruto's friends appeared to help was when it had gone downhill. Madara had used Naruto's moment of distraction to his advantage; he had gotten behind everyone and silently killed them all. By the time a warning had left Naruto's mouth they were gone. When he saw that every one of his friends, loved ones, and surrogate family were gone he snapped. After all the years of abuse, neglect, and loneliness Naruto had finally snapped; unleashing every ounce of the fox's chakra he had.

And with one massive Rasenshuriken he had destroyed every inch of Madara and the result was one huge crater out classing any he had seen (an: imagine the crater that was Konoha after pain's invasion times three).

And now, standing in the shattered remains of Konoha was Naruto Uzumaki-Namikaze; the bodies of his friends laying at his feet. Shikamaru, Choji, Ino, Kiba, Hinata, Shino, Neji, Tenten, Lee, Kakashi, Kurenai, Guy, Shizune, Tsunade, even little Tonton, all of them, gone.

The young man stared at them with tear filled eyes before all the fatigue and mental exhaustion took their toll on him and he passed out.

'Naruto's Mindscape'

Now standing in front of the cage the housed the Kyuubi, Naruto just stared blankly ahead. The giant fox just stared at her (yes the Kyuubi is a girl in this) jailer sadly, before softly speaking, "Hey kit how you holding up?"

Naruto just stared at the fox blankly before falling to his knees and bursting in to tears. "T-They're all g-gone. Every one of them." He sobbed.

The fox just sighed sadly and said, "yeah I saw and…for what its worth...I know how you feel." She said in an equally sad voice.

Naruto's head snapped up and his eyes quickly from teary and sad to angry while a crease appeared on his brow. "How do you know what it feels like to lose those precious to you!? All you are is a being made of chakra! So tell me how is it you know how I'm feeling as you've never cared before!" he shouted.

Kyuubi just kept staring at him the same sad look on her face before replying, "yes I do know how it feels, I lost my best friend on the night of my attack. And before you ask who, it was your mother."

If Naruto's jaw could have reached the ground it would be 10 feet under as he just stared at Kyuubi in disbelieving shock. "Huh?" was all that he could say. Kyuubi let out a snort of amusement at that. "Don't be so surprised kit your mother and I were good friends though I'll admit that we were at odds at times but good friends none the less."

Naruto just kept staring at Kyuubi. He couldn't believe it. First he loses all his friends, and now here the great Kyuubi no Yoko told him that it (he doesn't know Kyuubi is a girl yet) knew his mother. He thought the fox had called him here to boast that he couldn't kill Madara without its help and that he was powerless since he couldn't save his friends in the end. The make him feel down by rubbing his failures in his face shtick. But the fox had instead, asked how he was feeling and told him that it knew his mother. Yeah who wouldn't be shocked after that?

Pulling himself together he asked, "why are you telling me this now? And why aren't you acting like you usually do? Usually you'd be rubbing my failures in my face by now."

"The reason I'm telling you this now and why I'm not acting as I usually am is because… well I was in a Genjutsu. It only wore off when you killed that bastard Uchiha." She said with a bit of anger at the end.

"Okay," Naruto blinked. "You got any more secrets I should probably know?"

Kyuubi smiled a bit at this if it was possible, "well, for one, I was sealed in your mother before you, I'm part of another being called the Jubi (ten tails), I love pranks, my name is Akane, I have a human form, oh and while we're on that topic I'm female." she finished with a smirk at seeing Naruto's face at the end.

Naruto who had become more and more shock with each revelation jaw dropped to the floor at the last comment.

"But we're off of the reason why I called you here." Akane said getting to business. "I can help you save your friends from this fate." Naruto's eyes narrowed at the vixen when he heard this, "Oh? And how exactly can you do that?"

"I can send you back; to correct the timeline." She explained,

"I'm sensing that there's a catch somewhere."

The fox nodded, "The catch is that you would have to remove a quarter of the seal to let enough of my chakra out so I can work this jutsu and that you could possibly develop more fox-like traits ." she explained.

Meanwhile Naruto was thinking it all over he could save his friends and correct the mistakes he made in the past, but he would have to remove part of the seal that held the Kyuubi in place. He had to ask about the fox traits though. "Could you explain what you mean by fox-like traits?"

"Well your senses of smell, hearing, and sight could be enhanced." Akane explained. Naruto added those into his thoughts and found that the pros far outweighed the cons and responded with his decision. "Alright let's do this." He said approaching the cage.

"Alright, but this will hurt...a lot."

"I don't care if I can save my friends then it's worth it." He said tearing off a corner of the seal. The next thing he knew was that he was in unbearable pain, Kyuubi's chakra had began to surround him the instant he had torn the seal. Barley a minute after he had done so the pain became too much and his world went black.

Hope you all liked the first chap. I'll get the next out as soon as I can. So please review and point out where I need to improve.