Story: The Future, the Past and the Present

Author: life is short so am I

Rating: T

Genre: Adventure, angst, humor, hurt/comfort, family, romance and friendship

Chapter: The Seal

Warning: Fem!Naru

Pairings: Future: Kakashi x Naruto, Sasuke x Sakura

Author's Note: Okay, there are some changes to their ages that are listed below, and I know Kakashi's isn't correct, but whatever. I'm the authoress of this story, I am all powerful. So the ages are: From the past, Naruto is 11, Kakashi is 21, the Sandaime Hokage is 67 and Tsunade and Jiraiya are 49. From the future, Sasuke, Sakura and Naruto are 19 and Kakashi is 29 and Tsunade is 57.

Summary: Uzumaki Naruto is infamous for doing the impossible. Why should changing the past be any different? She may have not started learning seals until after the war, but damn, she was good at them. So what's not to say she can make a seal that changes her world? Watching the show fic.

Disclaimer: As disappointed as I am to say this, Naruto is not mine. None of the Naruto characters are mine. Anything that's even vaguely recognizable isn't mine.

As the Seventh Hokage, Uzumaki Naruto was always looking out for the good of her village. Really, the only thing that was different from when she was a 'normal' ninja, was all of her paperwork, the diplomacy and etiquette she had to learn, and she had an obsession with fūinjutsu. Fūinjutsu was a rare but powerful art, and she had started to learn it in honor of the clan she had never known, her mother, her father and Ero-sennin, but kept learning it because it was something she excelled in. She found it soon why it was so rare to find people truly versed in it, she didn't have a teacher once she had learned past the basics because not many people in Konoha knew anything past making explosive tags, basic barrier shields or summoning scrolls. But Naruto had never given up before, and she wasn't about to start. She had just started learning it on her own. That was four years ago, and she had made a lot of progress.

When she had first learnt how to make explosive seals, Shikamaru, her advisor, had actually planned out several escape routes for the inevitability of her blowing something up. As revenge, she had snuck into his house and had placed explosive seals all over it while he was on a mission. She had made sure that they could never be activated, checking three times to make sure they were defective, but she had never told him that.

Most of the time, Naruto faked at failing at new seals. The looks on peoples were hysterical when she muttered 'oops… that wasn't supposed to happen,' or 'hmmm, I wonder if I just changed this and switched that and that around, the explosion would be bigger next time?' Sure, a few of them probably knew she faked it, this was a ninja village after all, but she contented herself with Sasuke's twitching and Sakura's wide eyed looks. She was sure that Kakashi knew, but by the looks of amusement at others people's reactions she was pretty sure he wasn't going to be telling anytime soon.

Well, since he figured it out, she would go to him with her new seal. Besides, she knew exactly where he would be.

"Ano, Kakashi-sensei?" Naruto asked uncomfortably the moment she stepped into the clearing where the memorial stone stood.

"Naruto?" Kakashi's eye stared hard at her, amusement sparking up as it always did when the redhead was around, "Or Hinata-chan?"

"Hey! That was only one time that I switched bodies with her! It was an accident!" Naruto protested, waving a fist at him.

"I told you before not to experiment with seals," Kakashi reminded her.

"Yeah, but it was my first original seal," Naruto whined, pouting at him, "It may have not turned out like I expected it would, but this one will for sure, dattebayo! I've been working on it for ages!"

Naruto's original seals ended in explosions and disasters more often than not. On purpose, of course, but Naruto wasn't the one who had to clean them up. Kakashi usually wasn't either, but there was that one time after he refused to buy her ramen that she forced him, as his Hokage to clean up her mess. He wasn't taking that chance again. He had long outgrown d-ranks.

They were lucky the last explosion only ended up burning Sasuke's eyebrows off. Then again, once she had completed that seal, Sasuke's hair had been as pink as Sakura's for a month. Naruto still went around claiming that is was so worth it, even after he had burned her waist length red hair off to her chest, and she had to cut it above her shoulders to get rid of the burnt hair smell and uneven ends. She now went around wearing tiny little pig-tails at the sides of her head, the hair that escaped going up in spikes everywhere.

"How, exactly do you know that your seal will work," Kakashi asked cautiously. After all, Naruto had been positive that a seal that would 'just make the prisoner talk, Kami dammit,' had actually caused him to act like a rooster.

"I summoned Ma and Pa, and they checked it over. They said it would work, Kurama said it would work, I say it will work, so it will work!" Naruto cheered.

"Okay," Kakashi sighed, resigned, knowing that he would never get away if he didn't hear the redhead out, "What does your seal that will totally work this time do?"

Naruto beamed at him, "I knew you would hear me out! Sasuke keeps on twitching whenever I mention fūinjutsu and Sakura punches me when I try to go anywhere near her. Thanks, Kakashi-sensei! You're the best, dattebayo!"

"What is the seal, Naruto," Kakashi sighed, really wishing that his old student would blurt it out like everything else she said. He was honestly expecting her to say she found a way to make her precious explosions bigger or how to make Sasuke turn completely orange.

"It's like a time travel seal!" Naruto grin shrunk a little when Kakashi did nothing but stare at her blankly.

"Well, it's not really a time travel seal, it pretty much traps people from the future and the past in a pocket dimension and shows somebody's most important memories in third person. Afterwards, it sends each group back to when they came from. I thought that we could use it," Naruto continued, getting a little unnerved when Kakashi didn't even blink.

As Kakashi stared at her blankly, Naruto prepared herself for an intense stare off. Then unexpectedly, Kakashi hit the ground with a thump, completely out to the world. Naruto waited five minutes, poked him with a stick, threatened to burn all of his porn, then finally decided that he needed to see Tsunade.

She sensed Tsunade's chakra signature in the hospital, but not in her office. Sakura was there though, either doing the paperwork that Tsunade refused to do, or eating her lunch.

Bursting into the head medic-nins office with Kakashi over her shoulder, Naruto's first words were, "Sakura-chan, it wasn't my fault, I swear!"

After being punched out of the office three times, once for disturbing her lunch and twice for being annoying, Sakura came to the conclusion that nothing was wrong with Kakashi and he had just fainted due to shock. They laid him down on the floor, making sure that he was comfortable, before Sakura rounded on Naruto.

"What did you do, Naruto?" Sakura growled.

"I just told him about my new seal!" Naruto defended herself, "I didn't know that he wouldn't be able to take it!"

"I thought you said it wasn't your fault, baka!" Sakura yelled, shaking her fist at the smaller woman, "Then you say that you used one of your stupid seals on him?!"

"I didn't use it on him! I just told him about it!" Naruto insisted.

Sakura shot her a sceptical look, "And what was so great about this seal that it made him faint from shock?"

"I made a time travel seal that will show my memories to people from the past," Naruto said really fast, already cringing away from Sakura.

Sakura took a moment to decipher Naruto's fast words, then turned very pale then a fascinating purple colour. Naruto absentmindedly wondered if that was what a person looked like before they went pop! A vein on Sakura's forehead throbbed, "Naruto, stop lying! We all know you're crap with seals. Just give it up before you really hurt someone!"

Naruto froze for a second, then her eyes became flinty, "You should know me better by now, Sakura. The more you tell me to quit at something, the more determined I am to go ahead and do it," she said coldly, disappointed in her friends lack of faith in her.

Sakura deflated, anger draining out of her, "I know, Naruto, and somehow, you've managed to become the best fūinjutsu master Konoha has, but time travel is impossible. Don't lie to me about it."

Kakashi cleared his throat, surprising both of the woman who were too busy arguing to notice his waking. He was standing up, and Naruto suddenly remembered that Kakashi shared her hatred of the hospital, mainly because of their enhanced sense of smell and the never ending boredom, "She's not lying, Sakura. Naruto, show me this seal," his voice was steady, refusing to show his embarrassment at fainting.

"Hai, Hokage-sama," Naruto muttered sarcastically, before straightening and saying in a commanding voice, "Sakura-chan, get Shikamaru."

Sakura gave her a slight smirk before she Body Flickered out of the room, saying in a slightly teasing tone, "Hai, Hokage-sama."

"Sasuke-teme, get your ass over here," Naruto demanded after a moment of silence.

Silently, an ANBU shadow detached itself from the wall.

"Get over here and take that stupid lion mask off," Naruto said.

Sasuke slid over and took off his porcelain mask, scowling at his old teammate, "You know that I'm not supposed to take this off while I'm on duty, dobe."

"I'm Hokage and you're my subordinate," Naruto said a little smugly, "I get to tell you what to do, screw the rules, teme."

"That's not quite how it works, Naruto," Kakashi said, rubbing his temples.

"Shut it, subordinate," Naruto joked.

"You want me to tell you why I called you out, or you want to wait until Sakura drags Shikamaru over here?" Naruto asked. The Hokage's personal ANBU weren't supposed to listen in on any of the Hokage's conversations. Usually they followed them around to make sure their leaders wouldn't get themselves killed. At least, that's what they were supposed to do. Naruto knew sometimes they eavesdropped, and this was a sort of test to see if Sasuke was abiding the rules. Sasuke was an impatient bastard, and Naruto had no doubt that he would choose to know now if he didn't already know.

"I want to know now," Sasuke said.

Naruto smirked at him, and Sasuke had the feeling that he had missed something important, "I made a new seal," Naruto savored Sasuke's flinch.

She quickly told him exactly what she had told Kakashi, but adding, "The changes that the people from the past make are permanent. If we were to use this seal, the place we're going back to won't be what it is now. It might be better, or they might go and screw it up. We will get the memories we had from the new timeline, but we will still keep the memories from the old one."

Kakashi sat there, quietly absorbing the specifics of the seal without asking any questions, but Sasuke was glaring at her skeptically, and Naruto cursed her inclination towards pranks. It didn't mean that she was going to stop, but apparently it was going to take some convincing to get the teme to believe that she didn't absolutely suck at fūinjutsu.

"I'm not joking," Naruto told him, staring him down seriously, "I wanted to bring team 7 and Tsunade and that way we would have the fifth Hokage to the seventh with us."

After staring at her for a moment, Sasuke said resolutely, "You're not joking."

"I had Kurama's help in making it. The fox may be grumpy but he wants to annoy everybody to death. He really wants to rip you a new one for all the trouble you've caused him," Naruto warned Sasuke.

"And how is the Kyūbi going to do that? He's locked up in you," Kakashi said sharply, "How did you get him to help anyways?"

"Ah, about that…" Naruto said, rubbing the back of her head sheepishly, "I may have promised to let him roam around with us while the seal is activated if he helped me with making it."

Kakashi and Sasuke shared an alarmed look.

"You did what?" Kakashi asked, a little panicked.

"It's okay! He promised not to hurt anybody!" Naruto was quick to reassure them.

"Dobe," Sasuke hissed at her, "It probably tricked you. It's a fox, they're known to trick people."

Naruto frowned at him reproachfully, "He gave me his word as a biju. I didn't sense any deceit from him either. Besides, if he even tries to harm anybody, I'll pop him."

"You'll pop him," Sasuke said flatly.

"Yeah, I wasn't planning on giving him a permanent body, duh," Naruto rolled her eyes, "I'll just make a Shadow Clone and with the help of a few seals, he'll possess it. We've done it twice before."

When Kakashi turned and glared at him, Sasuke was quick to defend himself, "It wasn't on my watch!"

"It was on Cat's watch," Naruto chimed in, "I made a Shadow Clone left it with him so I could give him the slip."

"You do that often," Kakashi accused.

"More often than you want to know. A girls gotta have her privacy," Naruto smirked at him.

Sensing two people behind the door, and hearing angry stomps, none of the nins were surprised when the door slammed open, cracking the wall.

"Alright," Sakura burst into the office, not even pausing at the sight of Sasuke, dragging a reluctant Shikamaru behind her, "I found the lazy ass. You want to know what he was doing? Ogling at Temari-san's butt," she slammed the door closed angrily, leaving cracks in the door frame. This being Tsunade's office, Naruto set up a d-rank mission for Genins to come and fix the room at the end of the day. There were usually several people shaped holes in the walls by the time the day was over, so she wasn't too worried about having the mess cleaned up.

Sakura let his wrist go glaring at him all the while, and Shikamaru immediately slouched over to lean on a wall, rotating his wrist to make sure that it wasn't broken.

Sakura's green eyed glare sharpened, and he muttered, "Troublesome. What was I dragged over here for, and why are we holding a meeting in the head medic-nins office instead of the Hokage's office?"

"'Cause Kakashi fainted," Naruto took great pleasure in telling him this.

"I did no such thing," Kakashi said stiffly.

"Yes you did," Sakura told him.

Sasuke's mouth tugged up in a smirk and Shikamaru sniggered.

Kakashi's Killer Intent surged, potent and suffocating. He was eye-smiling at them, which made him seem all that much creepier, "I did no such thing," he repeated.

A little known fact about Kakashi was that out of all of the ninja in Konoha, except for perhaps Naruto, he had the deadliest Killer Intent.

Sasuke paled, Sakura nervously started biting the inside of her cheek and Shikamaru froze in place. Naruto walked up to him and patted him on the shoulder, "Sure you didn't Kakashi-sensei, sure you didn't."

The door slammed open once again, "What is going on? What are you doing in my office?" Tsunade barked out.

"Baa-chan! Is it your break?" Naruto bounded up to her.

"What did you do this time," Tsunade sighed, scanning over the people in her office, "And why are you here?"

"Yes," Shikamaru interjected, "What did you do this time?"

"For the reason we're here is because after I told him about my new seal," both Shikamaru and Tsunade took a wary step backwards, "Kakashi-sensei fainted."

"I did not," Kakashi said stiffly, glaring at Naruto.

"Looks like Kakashi-sensei is in denial about this too," Sakura snickered.

"I am not in denial about anything!" Kakashi snapped, and Naruto could sense confused embarrassment rolling off him waves.

"What is Kakashi-sensei in denial about?" Naruto asked at the same time.

"Nothing!" Kakashi yelled, aggravated.

They all eyed him skeptically, "It sure doesn't sound like nothing," Sasuke said, raising an eyebrow.

"I'll get it out of you later," Naruto told Sakura.

Sakura smirked mischievously at her teammate, "Please, we both know you wont. This is something you have to figure out yourself."

"I hate it when you say things like that," Naruto's shoulders slumped, "I went around wondering why Konohamaru was avoiding me because you think 'love is something that you have to find out for yourself. You could have at least told me that he had a crush on me!'"

Tsunade laughed openly. Kakashi was thankful for his mask, as he felt a blush rising on his face.

"What exactly is Kakashi-sensei in denial about?" Sasuke muttered to Shikamaru.

Shikamaru shrugged, "Troublesome. He's in love with her."

Sasuke tensed, mind racing, trying to figure out who Shikamaru meant. For some reason, it made his heart ache when he thought his silver haired sensei in love with his pink haired teammate, "Who?"

"You have the emotional knowledge of a rock," Shikamaru informed him, "You're in denial about Sakura and Kakashi is in denial about Naruto."

Sasuke openly gaped at him, "W-what? No! Sakura? Me? No!"

Tsunade snapped her fingers, and everybody fell silent, Sasuke and Kakashi with blushes of mortification lingering. Naruto eyed them curiously, but still paid attention to Tsunade, "As amusing as that was, tell me what is going on. Now."

Naruto quickly explained the seal to Tsunade, Shikamaru and even Sakura, who didn't know that much about it.

"How long have you been working on this?" Shikamaru asked after digesting her words. Tsunade was still standing, mouth hanging open and Sakura had yet to blink.

"Ever since I learned about seals," Naruto answered happily.

"Ever since you learned about seals when you went on your training trip with Jiraiya, or ever since you learned about seals four years ago?" Kakashi wondered.

"Eh," Naruto shrugged, "I wondered why nobody had thought up a time travel seal, when I was with Jiraiya and I thought that I would make one after I learnt enough about it, but I didn't start working on it until a few years ago. I know now why nobody has used it before," Naruto shuddered, "To go back even a month would probably kill somebody with as much chakra as Sakura. Even I can't go back any more than ten years, and that's including Kyūbi's chakra. It would completely deplete the both of us if we went any further than that. Also, I can't bring that many people. At most, I think I can bring around fifteen, but I would have to lower the amount of years accordingly to that."

"That-that's a lot of chakra needed," Sakura whispered in horror.

"Yes," Naruto smiled grimly, "But I believe this to be worth it."

"How many people are you going to bring?" Tsunade spoke up, getting over her shock, "Because I better be going. I will not be left behind."

"I'm going to bring you," Naruto reassured, "The only person here that I am not bringing is Shikamaru."

"Then why was I dragged over here?" Shikamaru complained.

"I need you to help me figure out who from the past to bring and how far back to go. I also need help factoring in how the amount of people will affect the time. The people that I wanted to bring from the past are Jiji, Tsunade and Ero-sennin. Thoughts?"

As Naruto and Shikamaru worked out the specifics, Tsunade walked over to Kakashi from where she was standing beside Sakura, purpose in her stride.

Kakashi recodnized that stride. Jiraiya often was in the hospital after Tsunade strode up to him like that. Kakashi didn't want to be trapped in the hospital where Tsunade was the head of after having her stride up to him like that.

"Brat," she greeted coolly.

Kakashi swallowed nervously, checking to see if anybody was listening. Naruto and Shikamaru were arguing about something, but Sakura and Sasuke were talking. No, that wasn't quite right. They were flirting. Huh. Sasuke and Sakura? That wasn't something he expected to happen. Maybe Naruto's unpredictable was rubbing off on them. None of them were paying enough attention to react fast enough if Tsunade decided to kill him.

She reached out, and calmly placed her hand on Kakashi's shoulder. His knees nearly buckled under the power of her hand, but he managed to stay standing. Her amber eyes narrowed, and she said quietly so nobody else in the room could hear her, "You treat her right, or I'll… well, we don't want you fainting again, so I'll keep my extensive threats to myself. All you need to know is I can make you die in the most painful ways possible and get away with it. Now, if you excuse me brat, I need to go threaten a bratier brat."

She walked away, leaving her threat hanging heavy in the air. Kakashi stared after her in confusion, wondering what in Kami she was talking about. She walked up to Sasuke and Sakura, quickly shooing away Sakura who walked over to help Naruto and Shikamaru. Tsunade placed her hand on Sasuke shoulder, much like she did to Kakashi. She presumably told Sasuke something along the lines of what she told Kakashi.

Faces pale and eyes confused, the two male members of team 7 locked eyes.

What the hell?

I don't know, who are we supposed to treat right? What was she talking about?

You've known her longer! And you're the sensei!

She's a girl. Doesn't matter how long you know them. No man is ever going to figure them out.

True, true.

"If you two are finished having a staring contest, we know what we are going to do," Shikamaru's lazy drawl interrupted their unspoken conversation.

"Well, then," Kakashi said, avoiding looking at Tsunade, "What are we going to do?"

"We will be going back eight years," Naruto said, biting her bottom lip. Kakashi's eyes were automatically drawn there, and he gave himself a mental slap. Lately, he had started noticing things about his old student that teachers shouldn't be noticing. Dreaming things teachers should not be dreaming. He didn't know what was going on. He didn't think he wanted to.

Naruto sighed, "From now, I will be bringing team seven and Baa-chan. From the past I will be bringing Hokage-jiji, Kakashi-sensei, Ero-sannin, Baa-chan and myself."

"You?" Sasuke raised an eyebrow.

"Me?" Kakashi asks at the same time.

Tsunade quirks a brow in question.

"I didn't want to bring little me, but Shikamaru and Sakura insisted. The brought up very good points," Naruto sighed.

"Naruto was a major factor in our war, and she is now our Hokage. Kakashi was the teacher of three of the major influences of the war, and a major influence himself," Sakura logically explains, "He was also our sixth Hokage."

Naruto shakes her head, "I'd only be eleven. Do you really want to trust me with this information?"

"I trust you," Sakura says, staring right into Naruto's eyes.

Naruto gave her a small half smile, "When I was young, I was a lout brat but I knew to keep the important things quiet. If we really beat this into me, I wont tell a soul. Not many people to tell it to at that age anyways, and I want to make sure that Kakashi is still our sensei so we can discuss the important things while we're on a mission. I wanted to bring Sasuke and Sakura as well, but I couldn't bring them if I wanted to bring Hokage-jiji, Baa-chan and Ero-sannin. Too many people."

"Can I go now?" Shikamaru asks from where he was leaning on a wall, "Or do you need me for anything else?"

Naruto looks pensive for a moment, but then dismissed him.

"Right then," Naruto claps her hands together, "I can't make food out of nothing, so there is no food in the seal. I've prepared a stasis and storage seal for food," Naruto quickly passed each person a seal, "We all need to purchase food, and a lot of it too. Enough for ten people for an undefined amount of time. Sasuke, you get the fruits and veggies. Sakura you go and get the wheat products. Tsunade, you get dairy and Kakashi, get the meat. I'll have to get enough ramen for two Naruto's and junk food. If you see anything that you like, you better grab a lot of it, or else you won't be getting it for a while. And don't worry about expenses, we won't be coming back anyways. Meet up at my apartment in four hours, and make sure to pack clothes."

As all the others ran off, Tsunade lingered behind, "Your parents would be proud, brat. Jiraiya too. This is one hell of a seal that you have. Don't mess it up."

And just like that, she was gone, leaving a beaming Naruto behind.