Another story from your writer 'zapisthename' and this one you have to read, there is a note at the bottom that you can read if you want to. It's rated M for certain situations and as a precaution, read on.

Naruto is the property of Masashi Kishimoto and Time Travel belongs to no one, because time is a bitch that is everyone's enemy.

Naruto Uzumaki

They were all dead, they should have been at least, but the last thing Naruto was expecting was to be thrown right back into some sort of weird Genjutsu, he looked at himself in the mirror, checking out his face. He was 21 when he died, and all his baby fat was gone and his face was replaced by something that reminded people strongly of the fourth Hokage himself, but today, looking at himself in the mirror he remembered clearly what he once was, a wide eyed child with baby fat on his face and someone who dressed in the outrageous all orange get up that was a cry for attention.

"Where in the name of God am I?" Naruto thought to himself as he looked out, he expected to see burning buildings but it was just a peaceful village that was just about to take its first steps to starting a new day. A normal, peaceful day in Konoha, you didn't see that anymore, but there it was.

"No seriously, what the hell is wrong with me, where in the name of God am I?" Naruto almost cried those words out loud, but much to his surprise someone responded, someone he hadn't even thought of since he had woken up as a twelve year old version of himself again.

"Time Travel"

'Kurama, what the fuck, are you awake?'

"Nope, this is zombie Kurama, I am a sleep talker. Of course I am awake you moron, and I am in pain"

Naruto had an odd, contemplative look on his face when he heard that. He wasn't feeling any pain himself, so why was it that the fox was in pain, and what was all this crap about time travel?

'You just said time travel, what the hell is up about time travel'

"This was the old man's doing" rumbled the fox. "He sent all of you back because he knew that things were too far gone to fix in this particular time-line" the fox told him. Naruto was shocked at that, he couldn't believe it. The old man that the fox was talking about was the Sage Of Six Paths, Naruto had met with him and it was all a very surreal thing.

'Are you sure this is not just some sort of Genjutsu?'

"No Kit, I wouldn't be affected by them even if it was, I'd know if I was being controlled somehow, I wouldn't be talking to you for sure" the fox told him and Naruto had to agree with that.

'Unless the guy controlling you wanted me to think that you didn't control me, in that case you'd be talking to me right? Trying to lure me into your trap?' Naruto thought, trying to send some sort of distrust into his thoughts to tell the fox exactly how he felt.

"You're a moron Kit" the fox said to him simply. "But I wonder why the old man would go through the pain of actually sending you back, and you can't be the only one who was sent back"

'What do you mean I can't be the only one, are you talking about Sasuke?' Naruto asked Kurama.

"You know, talking to you would be easier if you were inside the mindscape, so do you mind actually joining me there?" Kurama asked him and Naruto nodded, before sitting down and closing his eyes, the tried and trusted way of getting inside his mind and talking to his furry friend.

The sight he was greeted by was dismal, it was the mindscape he remembered seeing when he had asked the fox for Chakra numerous times before he had gone on the training trip, and before he had taken control of him for real, the fox was in a cage and the cage was locked shut. There were stakes that were pinning the fox down, that would explain the pain the fox was in.

"What the hell, are you okay?" Naruto asked him. The fox seemed to nod but Naruto wasn't convinced that he really was.

"Time travel is a real bitch kit" the fox told him and Naruto had to concur with him, it was peaches for him but the fox seemed to be in real pain.

"Do you have any idea how we might have gone back, or if we are the only ones?" Naruto asked him but the fox shook his head again.

"No and probably not, there have to be more, I don't know how many, but it was probably the old man who sent us back" the fox said, and Naruto heard doubt in his voice, even the fox seemed apprehensive about this, which was never a good thing.

"No way" Naruto rubbed his head in disbelief and he was rubbing hard enough to brush his hair off it. "Is that even a good thing?" Naruto asked him and the fox didn't know what to say.

"Listen kit, I'm pretty sure this is time travel, why don't you check the date?" the fox told him, "We need to know where we are so we can plan from there. If you are interested that is"

"What do you mean by plan, plan for what?" Naruto asked him and the fox looked at his host like he was the dumbest thing on the planet.

"Plan to save everyone of course, we can do it. If I'm right, and I usually am, the only thing that has changed is our body, but I don't sense any darkness within you and I don't feel any hatred towards you, which means our chakras are still melded. Your reserves are lower than before, but your control is them same, which means you have really good chakra control this time around, and that is a good thing. I don't understand this sort of time travel at all, it's not consistent, it's almost like a god sent us" the fox mused.

"Well, I already checked the date, it is a day before my graduation, the day everything began to change" he muttered darkly, it was one day before he had even been told of what he was and why his life had been a certain way. "But isn't the sage a God anyway?" Naruto asked Kurama.

"He created the shinobi life, that is for sure, and was responsible for introducing that culture in this world, you could even say he breathed new life into this world, but I don't know if he was more than that. What I do know is that he was my creator and that he has sent us back, it has to be him, we are not in a Genjutsu. So now we need to formulate a plan of action" the fox seemed like he wanted to take action right away, Naruto just stared at him, he had seen cynical fox and angry fox, but he hadn't seen this version of him ever.

"What the hell are you looking at, form a Rasengan" the fox told him and Naruto promptly began forming one, it was almost effortless for him, even though he had to be careful previously. He had learned to form one with a single hand, but it had taken him ages even with Kage Bunshin spamming, so it was surprising that he was even able to pull it off, but it came easier to him. He then decided to transform it into a Rasenshuriken and that came easier to him too, but he did not want to take the risk of actually throwing it so he let it dissipate harmlessly in his hands.

"Good control" the fox remarked.

"So the good thing is that I have all these awesome techniques and that I can perform them, so I am a badass. The bad thing is- "Naruto trailed off, he did not want to say it out loud but the first few years of his life weren't kind to him, he had not a single friend and he had to work hard to gain the adulation and respect of the villagers. He wasn't sure if he could do it again, he kept contemplating it, all those lonely evenings at the park all by himself because he had no other friends to play games with. It had changed once he had become a shinobi and formed bonds, but with the time travel it meant that all of it was gone, he was all alone again.

"Listen kit, I know you're thinking that you have to earn everybody's respect and adulation, but you already have mine, and that has to be the hardest thing you have ever done, and compared to that, this is a piece of cake" the fox told him, Naruto who was looking down up until this point slowly looked up at the fox, who had a fist formed out. "Kit, you are not alone this time, I'm on this ride with you, so bump it"

Naruto smiled, his partner, Kurama of the leaf was with him, sure it was lonely but the fox was fun to be around. He chuckled as he clenched his fingers and formed a fist, before bumping it with the fox.

"I'm going to open the cage, I know the seal" Naruto said to the fox.

"No" the fox firmly refused. "You don't want to announce that you are from the future to the whole world do you? It's not time yet to release the seal, I would like it if you were to ease up on the restraints and make this place smell better" the fox continued. "But at the moment, I stay in. You can release the seal when you want, you still have my chakra so you can call upon that. There are no challenges that will require more than that up until that point" the fox reasoned.

Naruto nodded slowly, this was going to be fun.

Sasuke Uchiha

Sasuke Uchiha was a smart person, smarter than some others. It was always his Sharingan that got everyone's attention, because by the time he had become anyone, there were only two known wielders of that eye. His brother and him, there were others but no one in the world seemed to know that they even existed.

It was with this smart brain, and a knife to hurt himself that he realized that this was indeed the real world, and he was indeed back in time, back into his twelve year old self. He looked around at the empty room and shook his head at it. He had been stupid back then, obsessed with getting revenge, but now he knew more, he knew what the truth was, and it seemed to fill him with peace. But the greatest thing, the thing that filled him with joy was that he was getting a second chance with the only two people in the world he cared about.

His brother Itachi, and his best friend and rival Naruto Uzumaki.

'I'm going to do right by both of them this time' Sasuke thought to himself. 'I'm going to establish peace this time, and do it the right way. Purge the village of it's evil and restore my clan, and I'll do it Itachi watching, I can't let him kill himself this time'

He knew that establishing peace was a tall order, but it was something his best friend had dreamed about, he hadn't agreed with Naruto at the time, but once he learned the real truth about everything, about who he was and what he did, he knew what Naruto was talking about, none of the things that happened would have ever happened, he could have had a normal life if there would be peace. He wasn't sure if it was even possible, but by Kami was he going to try and make sure of it.

Sasuke calmly stared at his eyes, he was looking in the mirror and a younger version of himself seemed to be staring back, with those fancy Mangekyo Sharingan staring back at him. He knew that the Mangekyo was a mental state, which was probably why he had it, but the eye he had used was his brothers, which was probably back with his brother. He performed the smallest possible Amaterasu he could (before promptly putting it out) and the pain that he felt confirmed that it was not time to use those eyes yet, he'd need some extra ones and someone to transplant them in him.

And he had a perfect candidate for that.

Danzo Shimura had been the one who had ruined his life, responsible for everything that made him the way he was, so he was the lucky person whose eye was going to be plucked, he seemed to have an arm full of them after all, it wouldn't be a problem.

Sasuke smiled and the person in the mirror smiled back, and Sasuke had to say that it looked sinister, which was a good thing. What Sasuke was going to do to Danzo was not even close to decent human treatment at all, maybe it was for a reason more than revenge this time, but the avenger in him was never going to go away.

But there was work to be done, Danzo hadn't shown himself for a long time and Sasuke had no idea about what needed to be done, the more important thing at this time was Naruto, the only person he could actually affect in such a short space of time. If he remembered correctly Naruto had failed his exams, he didn't know much about it but he did know that Naruto did not deserve to fail the exams. He also did know that Naruto was perhaps one of the loneliest people, it was what had given Sasuke a relation to him, he could relate to Naruto's loneliness but in his case it was worse as he was not treated like how Sasuke was by the villagers, he was shunned and ignored, much unlike him.

'We are going to fix that' Sasuke said. He was going to get some rice cakes and go to Naruto's house and offer them to him. He was sure that Naruto would accept them from him. He was going to be a friend to him this time, and in time, he'd fix everything.

Sakura Haruno

"There is no explanation to this" Sakura thought looking at herself, all her womanly features were gone. She remembered that people used to stare at her when she walked past them, probably admiring her breasts and her curvy figure. She was amazing that way after all, but now it was all gone and she was a kid again.

It had been a shock waking up as her younger self, but she had been smart enough to figure it out.

'Noooooooooooooooo' she wailed internally, it was a damn shame what had happened to her, that perfect body that she had built up was gone, and that was going to be hard to get back, but it didn't take her long to realize that she was not in a genjutsu, or if she was, it was a damn good one because her perfect chakra control meant that she could easily disrupt the normal ones. This was actually time travel, she had gone back in time.

Apart from the loss of her figure and looking like a little girl again, everything about this situation was amazing. They were at a stage in the war where everything had gone to shit, they were losing and the love of her life, Naruto Uzumaki was very close to giving up, which was unheard of even for him. That bastard Madara had broken everyone's spirit and it was all going downhill, but then she woke up and here she was. The last thing she had remembered was a silhouette of someone who had hurled a large white ball at Madara and the Shinju and then nothingness, before waking up as her twelve year old self.

The explanation to how she had even managed to travel back in time was absolutely puzzling to her, there was none at all. She couldn't explain it and she was sure that no one else could either, but she was going to try to find out, however the first thing she was going to do was be there for Naruto, something she had always regretted not doing when she was younger.

She had learned later on all the struggles he had gone through as a child and she had cried for him, but Naruto always brushed him off. It was what attracted Sakura to him, once she realized what her feelings for Sasuke were, she had fallen in love with Naruto, with everything, his personality, even the way he made love. They had never actually made it official, but they had had sex a lot of times, towards the end of it it almost became some sort of escape. Everyone was doing it, and it wasn't exactly exclusive either.

'Why are we even thinking about this?' she thought to herself, it would have been her inner self saying this but that was a mental block that Sakura had gotten rid off a long time ago. now all that remained was her, she was more focused and thought her actions out clearly, she was bolder and she was more useful to everyone.

Another thing she definitely wanted to fix was her relationship with Ino, this time around she knew what Sasuke really was and she was not going to be chasing him, so she'd tell Ino that straight up, leaving her free to come to the conclusion that Sasuke was just a crush on her own, while she'd win her own friendship back with the blonde. The girl had been responsible for a lot right from Sakura's childhood and the time they spent being enemies had hurt her a lot, but this time around nothing like that was going to happen, it was stupid considering they had fought over Sasuke.

Her thoughts turned darker when she thought of her traitorous team mate, he had been responsible for everything as far as she was concerned, he didn't deserve the attention anyone had given him and then had back stabbed his own best friend (more like chest stabbed) when he had had the chance to gain more power. She knew that there was no way to change what Sasuke was, so she was not even going to try that, but she was going to make sure that he didn't leave Konoha. She remembered the day he left, and the circumstances in which he left the village, and it was not going to happen this time, even if it meant breaking his bones. She could feel her chakra control and knew that she could do the strength training, which meant that she was going to use that and kick his ass sideways and literally beat the living shit out of him if he even tried to defect. She began hitting her right fist against her open left palm, she was going to bring a world of hurt on him and she meant it.

"This time I am not going to be useless" she said staring at her younger self in the mirror, this was a second chance, and she had no idea why she even got it, but she had it and she was not going to let it go to waste. She was going to change everything and she was going to establish peace, even if she had to beat the crap out of people till her fists were sore, she was going to do it.

'Believe it' she said laughing to herself, her lover loved saying that a lot.

She then realized that it was a day before the graduation exam, and the first thing she was going to do was go over to Naruto's house and help him study for the exams, she never knew how he had managed to pass that time, he had never told her (nor had she even asked him about it) so she thought it wasn't important. This time Naruto was not going to fail though, and when he'd ask her out on a date, she'd say yes. And when the time came and they had matured, she'd let him take her as well. There was a faint blush on her cheeks as he thought that, but she decided to put that aside for now.

"I'm going to pick up some ramen for him from Ichiraku and then go over to his house, the day is still young after all" she said out loud before getting dressed and leaving her house through the window.

It didn't take long for old man Teuchi (Naruto fondly called him that) to prepare the ramen even though he seemed to have just opened shop. In a matter of minutes the ramen was ready and Sakura was on her way to the place where Naruto lived. She did not seem happy at the ghetto that Naruto's locality was, she hadn't realized for a long time that he seemed to live in a place that was filled with prostitutes and all sorts of practitioners of unlawful activities, she was almost surprised that something hadn't happened to Naruto all this time.

As she entered his building and climbed the stairs to his floor, there was someone very familiar.

It was Sasuke Uchiha.

Her entire body tensed up when she saw him, he seemed to be carrying a bento box that was open. It had rice cakes in them and Sasuke was chewing, he had obviously eaten one and was staring at Sakura with a dumbfounded expression on his face.

"What the hell are you doing here?" the both said simultaneously to each other.

Naruto Uzumaki

"Man I'm hungry" Naruto said out loud. He had learned to cook and had gotten pretty good at it back in his time (which Naruto realized was an amazing thing that he loved saying because it made him feel like a self righteous old man), I don't know why but I want to eat rice cakes and ramen at the same time" he said out loud, before erupting into a childish fit.

'I WANNA EAT KURAMA. I AM SO HUNGRY' he said whining like a child, he heard the fox groan when he said that.

"Kit, shut the hell up and go and eat some Ramen. Imbecile" the fox spat before going back to sleep. Naruto gulped as he realized that yes, it would be fun to see the old man Teuchi again before he had to face the academy again.

He picked up 'Gama-chan' from the table and pulled some notes out, he did have some money he had saved and he figured that since he didn't remember what he was saving for, he might as well use some of it on ramen.

"Ramen Ramen Ramen" Naruto began singing as he started stepping out of the house. "Everybody sing the ramen song" he said humming as he opened the door, he shut it, facing the door still as he began locking the door. "We all love Ramen, all the time" he continued singing before he realized that he could smell Ramen in the air.

"My love for Ramen is so great" Naruto said smiling as he turned around, "I can smell it in the-what the"

He stared at what had to be the weirdest thing he had seen, and he had seen a monstrosity with ten tails and had another with nine sealed inside him. It was Sasuke holding a bento box and trying to do something that Naruto thought was a smile, and there was the woman he had so often slept with in the future and was his closest confidant, except she was a little girl, and she was carrying the box that Naruto was sure had ramen in it.

They both just looked at him and Naruto looked right back at them. "Um. Hello?" he said doubtfully.

Shikamaru Nara

The alarm clock rang, and Shikamaru knew it was six o clock and it was time to wake up. Shikamaru had the worst of luck with the women in his life, first it was his mother who insisted for some ungodly reason that he wake up at this time, then it was his wife and the mother of his child Temari who insisted he do the same.

At least with Temari it was okay because he got to wake up to her, probably with his head buried in her lovely smelling hair, and most times in some other lovely body part that was particularly squishy and only women possessed. But that had been a long time ago, Temari had died and his days of waking up to an alarm clock were over, he barely slept, maybe it was his love for her that drove him, but he had shaken off his laziness. However the last thing he remembered was closing his eyes and preparing for sleep.

He didn't feel right at all, the alarm clock was far away from him and he didn't want to get up and go all the way there.

He then suddenly shot up, he realized that there was no Temari and the alarm clock was far away from him, like at home. A place he hadn't lived in for a long ass time.

He then stared at the mirror and the sight of a twelve year old Shikamaru Nara greeted him.

"NO" Shikamaru shouted, something that was uncharacteristic for him. "NO, I AM TOO OLD FOR THIS SHIT. I AM NOT DEALING WITH THIS CRAP" he continued before promptly closing his eyes and falling back in bed.

Notes

The idea came to me as I was reading some time travel story. I thought about it a lot and I realized that it's always one or two, or maybe four guys that travel back in time. What would happen if twelve people went back in time, how fucking weird and hilarious would that be? And so I wrote the story, and yes, it's going to be wildly different and almost on the verge of crack. I have been writing some dark stuff lately and this is my escape from that, so please read and review and tell me what you think.

The future of this story depends on how you guys receive it, so send me ideas. The pairings aren't set in stone, but it's probably going to be Naruto and Sakura for this one, however the story doesn't even focus on that. It's going to be awesome guys, so please review this because I want to continue it.

-Zap