Soul Placement

Two years. It had been two years since their home, families and livelihood had been ripped away from them by the Sound. Over these years, they had scavenged from all over for food, medicine and for scrolls. Ninja scrolls to be precise with new techniques in them. They wanted to get the Sound back for what they did to them, but their motives were not entirely selfish. There were stories, rumours of the Sound Empire growing in strength, taking over the last three great shinobi nations now that Konoha and Suna were gone.

This was why they sat round the campfire now, discussing their options.

"The Sound were strong enough to take out the Akatsuki so I say the best is a sneak attack from the inside." Tenten put forward.

Some would say that Tenten had had more to grieve for after Konoha fell, considering she lost her two year son along with her husband Neji and their long time friend Lee, who was also godfather to little Senji Hizashi and he died to protect him. In vain it turned out. But Tenten also knew the pain of never even seeing your child and all you can do is imagine what they could have been like.

"Yeah but only after Sasuke took out Deidara, Itachi, Kisame and Tobi, Sakura and Chiyo took out Sasori and Shikamaru took out Hidan." Temari pointed out.

Before Konoha had been attacked by the Sound it had first targeted Suna. Even with the large number of Konoha ninjas that Tsunade and Naruto had sent, it hadn't been enough. Gaara, the Kazekage, had been murdered in front of the entire village. Kankuro and Temari had been left for dead. Later they got up and travelled the long journey to Konoha. They both survived only for Kankuro to die in the second attack on Konoha. It was during this time that Temari met her long time boyfriend, Shino Aburame. He died in the final attack on Konoha and now it was the thought of avenging his and her brothers' deaths that kept her going.

"Yes still it was by sheer numbers that Oto overpowered and it's this way at which they can get you. So I like Tenten's idea which means that you can take out as many as possible with minimum risk to yourselves."

No longer the Hokage, Tsunade's words still carried a lot of weight. The girls had found her surrounded by Sound ninjas, with her neck broken. This did not kill her, even though the Sound ninjas assumed it did, but it did leave her paralysed from the neck down. Sakura had managed to work miracles though and Tsunade had regained the use of her upper body, if not her legs, which left her able to study the scrolls the girls brought back. Having lost her boyfriend and her 'brother' again had hardened Tsunade's eyes so no emotion was seen but the girls still managed to catch a hint of triumph in her eyes as they won small victories against the Sound.

"I think that a few well placed bombs would only help our mission. But I also think we should wait for Matsuri and Hinata." The last part of the Ino-Shika-Cho, Ino had teamwork bred into her and did not like to think up a plan before seeing what the whole group could contribute to ideas. Ino-Shika-Cho caused a lot of damage to the Sound ninja which meant that the Sound tried to finish them as soon as possible. But they failed, as Team 10 went the same way as the rest of the Konoha 12 and lasted until the final battle before Konoha fell. Glancing round at her fellow survivors a thought came to her. "Hey guys don't you think it's weird that the main survivors of the Sound are all female?" The others smiled slightly as if this fact had just occurred to them.

"Well I think that's fate's cruel joke that the so called 'weaker shinobi' were the ones who survived the great Sound invasion." The only female of Team 7 laughed bitterly. After Sasuke had left, Team 7 had grown to include Sai and Yamato but it was still only Sakura that outlived them all.

Sakura had a very large grudge against the Sound especially as they found out that Sasuke's curse mark let Orochimaru have influence over his mind even when not in use, but also for the fact that they took her husband and her unborn child from her in the same day. Sakura was relentless in trying to stop Orochimaru and making him pay for his crimes and thought she finally understood Sasuke's revenge drive.

Any thoughts of Sakura's bitter comment were left unsaid as Hinata and Matsuri arrived, each carrying a very large scroll.

"Success." Matsuri crowed as she set the scroll down carefully next to Tsunade.

During the war Matsuri had been one of the unlucky ones. After watching her fiancé being murdered in front of her. She was taken to Sound as a slave. She managed to fool them into thinking she was a boy which meant she escaped life as a sex slave to one of the ninjas but life still wasn't pleasant. Regular beatings and little food and care led to her getting sick with pneumonia. Oto had no use for sick slaves so she was left outside to die. This was where her luck changed and she was picked up by Hinata and Temari and drawn into the band of survivors after she was recognised.

"Don't worry we've checked them." Hinata reassured the Godaime as she set down her scroll next to her. Hinata had fought alongside her teammates and her husband, the Sixth Hokage as they forced the Sound back during the first few battles. However, as her friends did, she watched them all die in front of her. As Naruto fell, she lost hope.

"Well what do the scrolls say?" Tenten asked impatiently as Tsunade scanned them.

"It has to be important because the Sound kept them really heavily guarded and Orochimaru apparently said they were his ticket to getting the Sharingan." Matsuri commented as she watched Tsunade read them. Sakura jerked round to face her.

"He hasn't used it already has he?" She asked, a rare note of fear entering into her voice.

"No." Tsunade answered her with a self satisfied smile. "The warnings read that the only ones who can use this jutsu is one with a good and unselfish heart." Ino snorted.

"Which rules out Orochimaru out completely." She said.

"He must have wanted to alter it in some way." Hinata said thoughtfully. The group turned to Tsunade as she let out a shocked gasp and her eyes widened.

"This is..." Tsunade started before she swallowed and tried again. "This is a time travel jutsu." She immediately had their full attention.

"What do you mean?" Temari asked slowly.

"Look!" Tsunade laid the scroll out flat on the rock beside the camp fire. It unrolled and the girls clambered around it.

"Soul Placement Jutsu." Ino read out loud and everyone scanned the scroll.

"Do you know what this means?" Tenten asked excitedly.

"It means we can go back in time and beat old Snakeface at his own game." Ino crowed and for 30 seconds the girls all celebrated.

"Okay now serious." Hinata reminded them and they immediately stopped celebrating, even Tsunade. "We need to memorise these scrolls as quickly as possible and the burn them so Orochimaru can never get his hands on them."

"Right!" They answered before they set to work.

Two weeks and several run ins with Sound ninja later, and the group watched the bonfire of scrolls burn. As soon as it burned out they were planning.

"Right so it's five years per person right?" Matsuri asked and Tsunade nodded.

"And it can only handle 3 people with 7 people during the jutsu so we'll send Temari back first, to two years after the Kyuubi attack, Ino, Sakura and Hinata 7 years after the attack and then Tenten, Matsuri and I will go back 12 years after. If you want to know if someone remembers, salute. Everyone okay with that?" The question was mainly directed at Hinata and Tenten. Hinata because it was going back after the Cloud try to kidnap her and Neji's father is killed and it was very late after that Tenten was going back.

"Yes I do want to mess up the timeline too much but I want enough time so Naruto-kun doesn't feel alone." Hinata answered quietly. Tenten nodded in agreement.

"Yeah, what if I get higher marks and not actually on a team with Neji and Lee at all?"

"But that could be a problem with us three as well." Ino called out, worried.

"Don't worry you'll still be on the Ino-Shika-Cho team and it shouldn't be too hard for Sakura and Hinata to fake their scores considering they got high mental scores and low physical scores. But Hinata you might have to fake your talent in front of your father okay?" Tsunade checked and they 

all nodded. "Okay you lot be the best actresses you can be and maybe this mission will be a success." Everyone smiled slightly at her before focusing on the pattern they had drawn on the ground.

"Okay when I keel over, it means my Soul is gone and Ino, Sakura and Hinata you have to start the personal chants and then when they drop, you three start. Got it?" Temari called out as she sat down in one of the connecting circles. Everyone nodded. Temari took in a deep breath. "Right let's go." She said a lot more confidently than she felt. The chanting started.

You like? You dislike? Please let me know. I love it when people tell me their favourite bits or worst bits so that is especially welcome along with constructive criticism (but with a little bit of positive reinforcement as well) and ideas you have. I always consider even though I have a rough idea of what's going to happen in this story, sort of. Also questions welcome!

Also pairings are Sasusaku, NejiTen, ShikaIno, NaruHina, TsuJir, TemShi, GaaMat

With the time travel jutsu the amount of power on person puts in takes you back about 5 years, give or take for chakra amount. So 4 people would be able to send someone back 20 years, understand? And the amount of people being sent back depend on how many people are doing the jutsu.

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