Team Minato's Time-Jumping Experience

Arc 1: Chapter 1 - "Sensei, are you crazy!?"

A/N: Before I begin, I would like to say that I am not Japanese, nor a huge anime fan, so I don't really know honorifics or anything like that. I only know -sensei, -san, and -sama, so those are the only ones I'll be using. I'd also like to note that I am also not a huge Naruto fan, so the characters may be a little off, but I'll do my best.

Also, I will be separating this story into arcs, for the different times they end up in. Despite that, it would probably still be confusing to skip certain parts. You are completely allowed to, obviously, but it's not recommended.

One more thing: I don't like flames, but constructive criticism is more than welcome. But if you have a problem with my work, either don't read it, or tell me what you don't like, so I can improve.

Quick translation thing for people who don't know Japanese:

Ano = Err

-sama = you'd use this to address someone of higher rank, like a lord

-sensei = teacher

-san = Mr, Mrs, Ms, Miss, etc.

Hai = yes

Disclaimer: I don't own Naruto, Naruto Shippuden or any versions of it or the characters. All rights go the owners, writers and creators. All I own is the work itself.

"Sensei?" The concerned face of Rin peered over Minato's shoulder as the blond ninja seemingly cackled over a piece of parchment with a bunch of symbols that frankly made no sense to anyone but him. "Are you okay, sensei?"

"I'm sure he's fine Rin..." the black-haired Uchiha comforted the girl, while almost peeking over their sensei's shoulder and simultaneously eyeing the man cautiously.

"You're being too dramatic, dead-last. He's probably just figuring out some upgrades for his Hiraishin," the final member of the team of four muttered sullenly, his silver hair sticking up in a gravity-defying way and his two dark eyes glaring.

Oblivious to his students questioning his sanity above him, Minato jumped up from his crouched position near the edge of the training ground they were supposed to be training in, absolutely beaming with delight. Kakashi took one glance at his face and grimaced under his mask. He knew this wouldn't end well.

"Look! I did it! Finally!" The blond ninja held up the piece of parchment in triumph.

"Minato-sensei, why is 'TIME TRAVEL' written in big words on the top?"

At Rin's words, the other two males on the team shifted in surprise. "Ano... sensei?" Obito's eyes were wide as he stared at the piece of parchment, only now noticing the neat scrawl of his sensei's writing on the top of the sheet, indeed spelling 'TIME TRAVEL'. "Is that even possible? I mean, that's great! We could see what we're all doing in the future! I bet I'm the Hokage!"

"Theoretically, this part should take us to a point in the future, while this part keeps the time-space reality from being ripped apart, while over there should make us tangible and keep us alive while traveling through a tunnel that this part over here makes in time! Over there is part of my Hiraishin, that should let us teleport to were we end up... and that part's the part that selects one of us to teleport to! And..."

As Minato continued on, the three lower-ranked ninjas stared at him in confusion. Even Kakashi was losing track of where his sensei was going.

"... and so that..."

"Should we stop him?"

"... over there's the stabilizer, which should have us..."

"A-ano..."

"... that part to the left, your left, should make us appear about..."

"Even I have no clue what he's going on about now."

"... so the overall thing, is that we're going to travel to future!"

All three students blinked owlishly at him. Minato tilted his head to the side. The three copied him blindly. Breaking out of the spell, Obito gaped at the taller man, and then yelled, "Sensei, are you crazy!?"

Half an hour later, after the three had calmed down slightly, Minato perked up and eagerly exclaimed, "So, ready yet?"

Kakashi glared at him but sighed, while Obito and Rin nodded enthusiastically as Minato prepared the seal. "Okay, so you three place your hands on the scroll, and channel a bit of chakra into it, then I'm going to activate it."

Before their sensei could activate it, Rin asked, "Wait, sensei, who is it going to take us to if we're all channeling chakra?"

"It's going to take us to whoever is nearest this training ground. Unless all of us are on a mission at once, it'll most likely just take us to another place in the village. Shouldn't be dangerous at all, don't worry."

And with a push of chakra and a bright white flash, Team Minato was gone from the present, and into the future.

When the flash of blinding light subsided, the four found themselves in a forest, green spreading in all directions. Moss hung from the tall, sturdy looking trees, and bushes were scattered everywhere. Obito spun around madly, "Sensei! Did it work? Where are we? Am I the Hokage?"

"Hai, I believe it worked. We're definitely not in the training grounds anymore, though, wonder who we teleported to..." the blond mused. "Kakashi, do you smell or hear anything?"

The silver-haired chuunin closed his eyes and sniffed the air for a long moment. Pausing, he took in the scents while opening his mouth slightly to get a better scent and titled his head to get a better angle to hear. Rin and Obito exchanged confused glances as he did this, as they had never seen him do this before. "Ano, sensei?" Rin queried quietly. "What is Kakashi doing?"

"Oh, I forgot you don't know," the blond whispered to the two curious genins. "The Hatake Clan was once closely connected to the Inuzuka Clan, you know of them, right?"

At the two's nods, he continued quietly. "Well, like them, the Hatake Clan have heightened senses, smelling, and hearing mostly, but sight too. So Kakashi is scenting the area and listening for some hints as to where we are."

"Stop talking," the silver-haired chuunin demanded. "I think I hear something."

Minato, Rin, and Obito fell silent as Kakashi stilled and strained his ears. At something only he could hear, his eyes flew open and he took off in one direction. "What's happening Kakashi?" Minato questioned when he quickly caught up.

"I don't know, but I hear fighting, and considering one of us should be near, I have a bad feeling about this."

At his words, they sped up, and quickly, the three who didn't have increased senses heard the fighting. Well, it was more like a lot of swearing and some screaming. But they still couldn't see the combat yet.

"Damn it! This was a bad idea!"

"This is all your fault!"

"How was I supposed to know?! It's just one guy! There were eleven o-" A gurgle replaced the man's voice.

A scream was heard as the group of four broke through the trees into the small, bloodied clearing. Immediately, Kakashi and Obito's faces grew queasy and Rin turned around to throw up. Even Minato, if asked, would admit that the scene in front of him was one of the bloodiest and goriest he'd ever seen.

They felt a single gaze on them, and killing intent leaked into the air. In the middle of the clearing, splattered in blood, there was an Konoha ANBU. The three younger ones felt their stomach churn again as they looked at his animal mask and hair. The mask was one of a wolf, and was splattered with blood, still dripping down his face and onto the grass near his feet. The ANBU's hair, however, was soaked in red, so much that they couldn't even tell what his original hair colour was.

The bloodied ANBU was glaring at them, with even more killing intent leaking into the air. As the two genin cowered and the one chuunin flattered, Minato stepped in front of them and stood his ground.

After studying them for a moment longer, and his rage only increasing the longer he stared at them, the ANBU growled out angrily, "Why are you impersonating Namikaze Minato, Uchiha Obito, Hatake Kakashi, and Nohara Rin?"

Despite the killing intent, Obito protested, although with half his usual loudness, "But I am Obito."

Minato sent a look towards Obito, quieting him, then asked his own question, "Why do you think we're impersonating them?"

"Because unless you were living on a rock for the last three years, you would have heard that the Yondaime Hokage died a long time ago. For Konoha ninja, I highly doubt that," the ANBU scathed darkly. "So I ask again. What are you doing impersonating three dead Konoha ninja and one alive one?"

Wolf had been on his way back from his latest ANBU solo mission when the eleven thugs attacked. He supposed they thought they would win through numbers, and he quickly dispatched them, messily. He was not looking forward to cleaning that up.

When four ninja burst through the tree cover, the slight surprise at the sight of them turned into shock which quickly transformed into anger. Leaking killing intent, he questioned them, asking why they were impersonating Konoha ninjas.

"So I ask again. What are you doing impersonating three dead Konoha ninja and one alive one?"

He threw an extra hard glare at the one who was impersonating Minato, but flattered slightly when he saw real confusion and shock in the man's eyes. "Wha-What are you talking about?" the Minato impersonator asked, as the three behind him all seemed to go limp.

Indulging them, he explained further slightly, keeping his guard up. "Namikaze Minato, the Yellow Flash, Yondaime Hokage, died three years ago. Uchiha Obito died four years ago. Nohara Rin died four years ago as well." To his shame, he flattered slightly, barely noticeable, when he said Rin died, but mentally shook himself out of it and continued. "So do I need to ask a third time?"

"N-No," the Minato impersonator stuttered, seemingly still in shock. "Look, ANBU-san, there's been a misunderstanding. We really are who you think we are impersonating."

Minato didn't know how to react. When he finally completed his time traveling seal, all he could think about was knowing the future. Knowing where he was in life, where Kushina was, where his students were. He never imagined that someone would die. And not just anyone either, but Obito, Rin, and himself. What about Kakashi...

"We really are who you think we are impersonating. Please believe us, ANBU-san." His three students were still gaping in disbelief at the ANBU operative, still processing the information, while he, on the other hand, pushed his sadness and disbelief to the side and continued to try to make the ANBU believe them. He noted that slowly, the killing intent was going away. "If you could take us to someone who knows us, I'm sure they can check our identities and confirm them."

Looking hopefully at the ANBU, Minato startled when Kakashi spoke up, "Where am I then?"

Obito glanced at Kakashi, confused, "Huh?"

"You really are stupid, dead-last. If you three are dead, then the seal teleported us somewhere near me. Where am I?"

"Oh..."

"That is a good question," Rin said, hesitant to speak up. "Where are you? I would think you would have heard us by now. We aren't exactly being quiet... Minato-sensei, how far away does the seal teleport us?"

Not taking his eyes off the ANBU in front of him, he answered, "Far enough, but not too far. I was thinking we didn't want to startle whoever we landed next to by landing right next to them when we came."

"I know where he is." Everyone zeroed in on the ANBU. "But I won't tell you until I confirm your identities."

"Okay," Minato conceded while his students muttered their consent reluctantly. "So where's the nearest person who can confirm our identities?"

When the ANBU operative reply after a few seconds of scrutinizing silence, everyone was surprised at his answer. "Me."

"Oh. You kno-knew us?" he corrected. "Well enough to identify us?"

The ANBU tilted his head down slightly, and the blood that had started to dry on his mask started dripping again. "I'd like to think so, yes."

"Alright, then. I'll go first," the older of the team of four said, glancing back at the three still behind him. They still looked shaken from the carnage around them, but otherwise they seemed to be taking the news that two of them and their sensei were dead well. That, or they were still in shock.

"I'll check your chakra first, then questions."

Wolf sighed mentally as he looked at the blond man in front of him. Even though he looked emotionless, like a proper ANBU, he wasn't. Not at all. In fact, he felt like curling up in a corner of his apartment and crying, after killing these people in front of him for bringing up terrible memories, and good ones. But he couldn't. And this hopeful feeling was growing in his chest as well. The more he observed them, the more he recognized them. Rin's gentle smile that he had never seen on anyone else, Obito's barely noticeable twitch, Minato's emotions bared in his eyes... and Kakashi's glare.

Pushing his chakra out of his body, stretching his senses, he sensed their chakra. Under his bloodied mask, his eye widened drastically. The chakra of the four in front of him was exactly the same as Team Minato's. As effective as a henge was, a henge couldn't replicate someone's chakra exactly.

Burying his hopefulness deep inside him, he shifted on the slippery grass slightly. "Alright. Now the questions."

After the four in front of him each sighed in relief, Minato stepped forward, and it started.

Wolf started off simple, "What's your name."

"Namikaze Minato."

("What's the point of that question?" Obito muttered, impatient.

Kakashi muttered back, "He's ANBU, he can probably tell when you're lying, idiot.")

Wolf went through a series of basic questions, then they got more complicated.

"Last questions. What did Kushina call you, from back in the academy?"

"... Do I have to?"

"Yes."

Minato sighed, "A unreliable girly-boy."

The three younger ninjas behind Minato chocked on air. Rin caught her breath first, and started helping the other two. Once Obito stopped coughing, he managed to say, "Really?"

"Sadly, yes," Minato gave a smile in remembrance.

Under his animal mask, Wolf smiled very slightly, just a twitch of his lips, for the first time in months. While the four conversed, he glanced up at his hair in annoyance, and gratitude. It was going to be very troublesome to wash out the blood in his hair, now that it was drying. But if there wasn't blood, his hair is an obvious sign to who he was. Shifting in attention back to the four in front of him, he smiled even more. He was pretty sure they were who they said they were by now. "Well, one last question. How did Kushina fall in love with you?"

Rin gasped quietly, she had been trying find this out subtly from the moment she met Kushina. Even Kakashi and Obito looked semi-interested. Minato laughed softly, relaxing even more. He knew that if Wolf had wanted to kill them, he would have done it, or at least tried or given some sign, by now. "Well, Kushina had been kidnapped by Cloud ninja, and I noticed that she had been pulling out strands of her red hair to leave a trail. No one else wanted to go to find her, since she was new to the village, so I went and rescued her," Minato explained, smiling contently.

"Well," Wolf finished. "I believe you, Minato."

Minato sighed in relief. "You are very through, ANBU-san."

"Call me Wolf," the masked man said. He was getting tired of 'ANBU-san'.

"Well, thank you, Wolf-san." Said man mentally winced, but ignored the -san.

"One more thing. Kakashi," Wolf called, getting the silver-haired chuunin's attention. "Summon Pakkun."

Kakashi shifted uncertainly, "I'm not sure if he can be summoned here."

"Try."

Kakashi nodded his consent and summoned the ninja dog quickly. When the plume of smoke faded, a slightly older looking pug stood there. Spotting the younger Kakashi immediately, Pakkun barked, "Woah, boss. You shrunk. What happened?" Glancing around, still not spotting Wolf, he sniffed. "And seriously? This is a mess. Not as bad as last time though..."

Team Minato exchanged confused glances. The pug was suggesting Kakashi did this, and acting like it was a regular occurrence.

"Hey, Pakkun," Wolf spoke up.

The dog spun around, startled, and gaped at the masked man. "But... you... what?"

"Yeah, I know. There's two of me now."

A/N: Soooo...?

Reviews are welcome, and like I said in the starting A/N, no flames please, but constructive criticism is welcome as well.

I'll try to get an update up next week, but I'm not sure, since I'm starting school again (from winter break) in a few days.

I hope you all like it, and the way I did it!

Word Count (not including A/Ns): 2,617