This had been beta'd by Ankaa Sage, God bless you!

The Rokudaime Hokage Uzumaki Naruto, and her Anbu captain, Hawk, also known as Uchiha Sasuke were walking through the Uchiha main house as she paid her respects to the two most loyal shinobi, Uchiha Shisui and Itachi. After the war was over Naruto had their remains sent to different burial grounds near the main compound, away from those who had betrayed their village. "Hey, Sasuke?" She asked as they left the old home of the last Uchiha. He gave no reply as she tried again, "Hawk." she sighed out. "Yes, Lady Hokage." Even though she couldn't see his face, Naruto could tell the teme was smirking behind his mask.

'Bastard' She thought to herself and the gleam in his eyes told her he knew exactly what she was thinking. "Have you ever considered moving back here? I know what happened here was traumatizing, however, I don't think Itachi or the rest of the family would want to see their home so empty and cold." There was a frown of concern on the blondes face as she asked him.

Sasuke did not respond right away, "I have," he admitted softly, "I'm the last of my clan, so being in such a large place as the district on my own seems meaningless and will merely serve as a constant reminder of the dead." 'And my crimes.' went unsaid.

Nodding she noticed they were nearing the district gates, "I remember a time back when we both were just genin," she began softly, "Kakashi-sensei asked what our dreams were? You said to revive your clan and to kill your brother." She raised her hand when he turned to protest. "I know that you regret it, however, if you think this place will be lonely, why not revive your once noble clan?"

Sasuke sighed as they passed the gate and made their way down into the heart of the village. "I honestly don't know what to do. I betrayed Konoha and hurt so many people. To you, I have redeemed myself but to myself and majority of the five nations, I have not. Even if the people do forgive me, how can I start a new clan when I don't believe I deserve it?" he ends though his face did not give away with how ashamed and self-loathing he was feeling.

She was silent for a moment before she grabbed him by the wrist and dragged him back into the district going straight to Itachi's room. She shoved him on the bed and crossed her arms at him before turning around and removing two panels from the wall and took out a scroll and a picture frame. First, she thrust the frame towards the Uchiha and said, "I don't give a rat's ass about what you think on this matter. WHY? Because Itachi gave his life so you could live yours. Not just for you to go through the motions of life. By the rikudou sannin you're twenty! Act like it and take part in the CRA or choose your own females who you wish to have a family with. This is getting old."

Sasuke stared at the picture his best friend was showing him. It was Itachi with Sasuke when they were seven and thirteen respectively. Neither boys knew the picture was taken as Itachi was poking him on the forehead with Shisui leaning against the door frame. A cold stabbing sensation ran through him as he remembered that day and so many others. He unintentionally touched his forehead and was surprised to feel he had no mask. Glaring, he spoke up, "I'm not the only person in Konoha that has a duty to revive their clans. You have the responsibility to revive both the Uzumaki clan and the Namikaze family. And we both know that Tsunade will have every intention of making you her heir, thereby adding the Senju clan to your revival list. Then there is Kakashi, he must revive the Hatake clan as well. I don't see you throwing the CRA onto yourself or Kakashi for that matter. "

Naruto held back a flinch at the unyielding eyes of her best friend, she softly whispered, "This isn't how I planned to tell you, but it seems I have no choice." Pausing she closed her eyes and took in a slow shaky breath, "The two of us do have our clan's to revive however the Hatake clan is not known for sharing, much like your own clan. Then there's no way in hell I'm sharing, foxes do not share-"

"Naruto you're blabbing."

"Kakashi and I have been dating on and off since before the war, and recently we started going out properly but we just never told people." She blurted.

He blinked once. Twice. He shook his head and looked up at the female before him, "You and Kakashi have been dating for years with no one picking up on it including Iruka or Tsunade?" The words sounded foreign but so did the images in his head. "You didn't even tell me! Your best friend!" Though his voice was raised, there was no malice in it. He tried to see Naruto and his sensei, and surprisingly enough he could see it, but that didn't mean he had to like it.

Naruto nodded slowly, "Yeah, well, I couldn't exactly go up to granny Tsunade or Iruka-sensei and say 'hey guys guess what! Me and Kakashi sensei have been seeing each other on and off for a few years now and right now we are dating! Sorry I didn't tell you earlier!' That's the shit that'll either get you killed or a long-winded lecture as you get beaten to a pulp. No, thanks!" Crossing her arms she realized the scroll was still in her hands before tossing it to him. "Oh and about this. I knew the circumstances of the massacre just after seeing you at the peados layout since Itachi came and visited me to tell me some things. Itachi left things for the both of us if we ever needed motivation for anything and there just so happens to be one to motivate you into reviving your clan. Enjoy the read cause I've got-" she was cut off when a loud crash was heard outside and not even two seconds after another crash occurred in the room both ninja were in. Naruto saw a quick flash of light before she collapsed.

Naruto jerked up and instantly groaned from the pain in the back of her head, as if someone was hitting it with the blunt end of a kunai, and the brightness of the room, nearly as bright as her nine tails mode, she mused, however, once she remembered there was an attack she got up in a sitting position and instantly noticed a few things. One, there was no attack going on. Two, she was not in the Uchiha district anymore. Three, there was significant orange on the floor as well as a mess, pertaining to ramen cups, clothes, scrolls, pens, ink, and plants. Four, she was in, what appeared to be, her old apartment. Five, looking out the window was the Hokage Mountain and there was no sign of Lady Tsunade's nor her own head on it.

Looking in the mirror she had, she saw, what appeared to be, her 12-year-old self before her graduation since she was wearing her old goggles. Naruto may be bad at genjutsu but she figured that was what it had to be so she raised her hands up with the correct hand sign and shouted, "KAI!" Opening her eyes she saw nothing had changed. Finding that odd she decided to pay her favorite fox a visit and ask him what was going on. She had an idea but didn't seem to like it very much. "Kurama, what's going on?"

Ever since the war, Naruto did everything she could to make her mind-scape livelier. Instead of the usual sewer, it was now a field similar to the area she trained for her wind, with a waterfall, trees and lush green field with stone buildings here and there to give it a feel of life. It is as it would seem. "We are in the past." Kurama dryly spoke.

"How!?" she demanded.

Raising a brow, the beast continued. "I may be an ancient being of chakra, brat, but even I do not know everything."

"The almighty Nine-Tailed Fox Demon admitting not knowing something? I'm shocked." she mocked out. Closing his eyes Kurama decided it was best to feign sleep, even if his host knew he was faking. Chuckling to herself, she left her mind-scape to allow him some 'sleep'. Looking around at her own room made her feel nostalgic. She grimaced when she saw herself in the mirror again. Now, Naruto always has and will always love the color orange, however her past self, loved the color too much. She'll have to go shopping for some black and blue clothes to mellow out the orange side of her mirror was her ramen calendar and according to that, it was the day of the academy exams. She wonders whether or not she should show them what she is capable of or not. After giving it some thought, she decides she wouldn't go overboard, simply show them she's not a total idiot. Nodding to herself she made her way to the academy via shunshin just out of sight and slowly made her way inside. As she walked, she noted the changes that had been made to the academy after Pains attack.

There were many cracks in these walls, small, but she noticed. The walls were a different shade of cream as well. The fire symbol looked old and worn out sadly unlike the new polished one that had taken its place. She stopped right outside her old classroom, hesitating. On her way here, she hadn't really thought out what it was she planned on doing. Should she keep my identity and knowledge a secret? Should I change what happened? What if I do change the future and the whole Kaguya, Madara and Obito fiasco doesn't happen? If they don't happen, Sasuke and she won't be able to end the reincarnation of Indra and Ashura like they had before.

Oh sannin what was she supposed to do if she saw Kakashi? For Kami-sama sakes they had been lovers for years now! Well, what's done is done. After all, she had promised Nagato she would end the cycle of hatred. Naruto did it once, she could do it again. Closing her eyes, she took a deep breath and opened them up again just in time for Iruka-sensei to open the door all the way with a tick mark on his forehead before he yelled at her for coming late. Truthfully Naruto wasn't listening, she was too busy noticing the differences between this Iruka and her Iruka. This one's hair was slightly darker, had a few fewer scars and wrinkles around the eyes. She zoned back in when she realized he had dragged her into the room and so she decided now was a good time to interrupt him and make out some lie. "Sorry, Iruka sensei. I had a run-in with a member of the ANBU black ops who was distracted from what he was supposed to tell me because some lady from T&I kept interrupting him saying the old man needed him for some reason. He never did get round to telling me what was wrong though.

"That was quite the believable lie if you minus the fact you shouldn't know some of those details brat. Still, a lot more believable than your Hatakes excuses," mumbled Kurama out of nowhere.

"It's awake again!" Naruto mocked once more of the ancient being.

"Don't be so loud. Anyway, you had better come up with something to do before you get called out for you test, brat." Kurama uttered as Naruto felt his slight annoyance through their link.

"I won't have to pretend to be an idiot to fail this exam. The results have already been decided throughout the year, the only part that really counts right now is the physical side, and I have every intention of passing that. Actually, can I even do everything I could before? Like my sage mode and stuff like that?"

"From what I feel of our chakra paths, everything seems to be the same as when you were twenty. However, you will have to train your physical body in order to do everything at the same lengths as before. Your physical strength and appearance are that of a twelve-year-old and that will hold us back. We shall do training, demon style" he smirked into her mind.

She shivered at the mere thought and was about to protest when she was knocked back into reality by the sounds of Iruka yelling. Blinking, she saw he looked even more annoyed than before. Smirking, she decided to start making her changes. She walked up to Iruka and whispered lowly so only him, and perhaps Mizuki could hear her. "Sorry sensei. My tenant was having a little chat with me. Usually, they don't take long in the real world since it's just us in my mind-scape, but that isn't foolproof just yet."

She changed her expression with an innocent smile as she saw both Mizuki and Iruka falter and look between themselves. "Naruto, once this is over I will need you to explain that in further detail. And to Lord Hokage as well. Okay?" Iruka asked and she nodded, making her way up to the back of the room, not looking at any of her old friends just yet.

Looking at Iruka-sensei was one thing, the man was already an adult, however looking at the rookie nine would be a lot harder since all she would be able to see, was most likely the older more matured versions of themselves. "I see you have already made a change. After all, in your original timeline, it was Mizuki that told you about me, yet here you tell them we have conversations with each other, and apparently quite often as well."

"Well, it was mostly meant to be a scare for Mizuki-sensei, petty but I don't care. As for Iruka-sensei, I do love pranking people and the look on his face was pure gold"

"You are a very good prankster, however, that is not why I spoke again to you."

"Oh? And what, pray tell, is the reason you've summoned upon me, oh great nine tails?"

"You cannot avoid your classmates forever. Sooner or later, preferably sooner, you will have to look at them and deal with it. Better to do it now, so there will be less pain of you missing their future selves."

"I know that Kurama, it's just not that easy, that's all." They lapsed into a silence, Naruto laying down against Kurama as she thought of the changes she would make and what she planned on keeping the same. "I plan to make a lot of changes." she uttered calmly as they flashed quickly across her mindscape.

"That's a long list. What do you plan on keeping the same?"

"I want to still be with Kakashi," she muttered softly thinking of her beloved.

"That will not be easy. When you do see him, try not to traumatize him too much."

"I'm sure future Kakashi never truly thought out his plan when we started dating. I'm told mum and dad had tempers and were both very overprotective."

"Your mother would have been okay with it since she knew Kakashi very well, Minato, however, would have given his pupil the third degree, as you call it, and done everything to sabotage the image you had created of the young wolf and had sent him on any and every possible mission out of the village and away from you as he could."

"I can actually see that. The almighty yondaime Hokage, Konoha's yellow flash, youngest Hokage minus myself, slayer of thousands during the third shinobi war, creator of the Rasengan, reduced to a pile of powerlessness by the fact his only child was dating someone, more specifically, his student."

"I would suggest you return to reality, brat, it would seem the test papers have been handed out."

Doing as he said, she looked down at the paper and started to answer the questions one by one and laughed internally at one of the questions:

What is the use of a kunai? A- To paralyze B- to kill C- to cook food.

Who in the five nations would choose C? Even she didn't the first time around and everyone called her an idiot, the dead last. Unless, of course, you plan on eating the person, in which case C would be a valid reason. But you can also paralyze a person with kunai as well by poisoning them like with senbon.

"Just finish the test already, woman." Huffing she continued and finished first, shocking all her classmates. She found it was quite easy to look at team eight and ten, however, she had yet to look towards her two teammates just yet. Iruka took her paper and asked her to quietly sit in the back as the rest finished their papers which 'he' shockingly did. Not many people knew this Narutos' true gender, the people that did know were: Sandaime, Jiraiya, Itachi, the late Shisui, Yugao, Kiba, and Sasuke. Sandaime, because he was there the night of the nine tails attack, the night of her birth. Jiraiya because he was her godfather. Itachi because he was a genius. Shisui, because Narutos' father had requested him to marry his daughter if both parties were willing. Yugao, because she was her guard quite often as a child. Sasuke, because Naruto and he fight often enough that it would be very odd should he not have noticed by now. And Kiba could smell she was a female and called her up on it.

She waited for the test to finish, and as she did so she decided to absorb and feel the nature energy around her. Even natures energy was different. But that was due to black Zetsu and Kaguya being gone in her timeline, whereas here, nature is tainted by their auras and chakra residues. She waited even longer to be called out for her physical and chakra exams, being near the end of the register with the name Uzumaki compared to Shino who was first due to being an Aburame, but at the same time, Ino would be last since she is a Yamanaka. Naruto wouldn't have to be after Sasuke if sandaime didn't hide her legacy. The Namikaze name was and always will be rightfully hers and no matter what the reasons, he had no right to not allow her knowledge of her lineage. "Nor did he have the right to keep the fact you were inside of me a secret, at least then I would know why people hated me and could have done so much to change their opinions of me," she muttered bitterly. Even though Minato had enemies in high places, she had every right to know her parents, to know she was wanted, to know if her parents had been alive she would have been loved by everyone including her parents.

"Oh stop wallowing Uzumaki. What's done is done. You can't change that. What you can change, is all the things on that mental list you made earlier. I would suggest writing that down somewhere so you don't forget since I won't be reminding you."

She left the fox where he was as she and the rest of the class left the room to enter the academy training grounds for the taijutsu test. Throwing kunai, shuriken, and a simple taijutsu spar with the teacher to see if you could land a hit in and how quick. Naruto was not the best at this, as her muscle memory was shot from being a 20-year-old back to a 13-year-old, however considering those facts she did quite well, third in the class in throwing and second in the spar. Since that was over, they returned inside and waited patiently as the two teachers called student by student to do the ninjutsu test. When she sensed Sasuke return to the room, she stopped meditating then her name was called, meaning it was now her turn to take the exam. Entering the exam room next door, she saw Iruka and Mizuki sitting side by side behind a with the leaf headbands on it. Slowly walking to the back she made the hand sign for her shadow clones and five clones came before them, making both Iruka and Mizuki's eyes pop out as they both spluttered out incoherent words before Mizuki spoke, "W-well done Naruto. You have successfully made five clones. You now pass the test and are now a genin of Konohagakure." he passed her the headband and she smiled back at him, both of the smiles were fake as neither could stand each other, Mizuki because she was the host of the nine tails and Naruto because of what he did in her original timeline.

She then turned and smiled truthfully at Iruka, "See Iruka-sensei! I made it to genin! I've even got my own headband! Can we go to Ichirakus for ramen when you're done here?" Naruto knew he would disagree, she had seen them send a member of the ANBU to summon the Hokage, and she hadn't really thought out her first actions and now regretted it. How was she supposed to look him in the eye and act like a cheerful blonde jinchuriki in front of him? She couldn't, that's why! The man died protecting Konoha from his own student back when she was a teenager for Kami sake!

"Should have thought of that before. Of course, they were going to tell that old fool you knew about me, it was a secret kept from you your entire life. He will be curious about how you found out, and why you did not tell him about it. I should hope you will have an answer for him."

"How does this sound, during one of my birthdays when I was avoiding the villagers on dads head, I fell asleep and you woke up and told me everything and the reason you woke up was that Shisui activated his Sharingan near me and it angered you because of your hatred of Madara. After that you tolerated me because I didn't see you as a big fuzzy ball of evil- Kurama growled at that- and actually gave you a chance to be yourself. A very adorable fuzzy ball of evil and sarcasm who is just grumpy all day because humans are always picking on him, who also misses his daddy. Isn't that right, Kura-chan?"

"If hurting you wasn't an extension of hurting myself, you know I would claw you right now." He said, squinting his eyes and baring his fangs to his host. He knew she was only fooling around to make humor, but he had a reputation to uphold! Even if what she was saying, was, in fact, the truth.

"You know you love me." She said in a sing-song voice. She was bought out of her playful banter with her tenant when she sensed the sandaime enter the room and closed the door behind him.