To The Future...

SasuNaru? ... You better believe it.

I wish baachan would just hurry the hell up... Naruto thought. He couldn't help but sigh every couple of seconds as he waited in Tsunade's office. He was in the middle of one of her lectures and he'd been mocking and disagreeing with every thing she had to say, but had suddenly been called out during their little spat by one of the ANBU and was now waiting impatiently for her return.

Boredom was quickly setting in and Naruto seriously needed to occupy the spare time he had. As much as he shouldn't, he began exploring Tsunade's office. He opened several of the doors in the room to reveal walk-in cupboards with nothing interesting to view. He browsed the several shelves placed around the room and quickly looked through the cupboards on the walls. There was nothing interesting, or anything he would consider interesting.

The cupboard itself was filled with alcohol bottles and glasses. As for the scroll, which was hidden at the very back, was covered in a layer of dust. It certainly came across as a strange find considering where it was hidden; it had probably never even been looked at.

He carefully dusted off the scroll and held it across both his hands, simply amazed by it. He wondered what could be written within its creases. As he was about to open it, he was suddenly alerted to the clacking of heels in the hallway outside. He almost dropped the scroll as he fidgeted to hide it on his person as quickly as possible. He shoved the scroll inside his coat and shut the doors to the cupboard only moments before Tsunade entered the room.

She walked straight past Naruto, not at all fazed by his new location in the room. She continued to ignore him even after minutes of being back in the room. Naruto finally decided it was about time to say something, "Uhh..." he paused, not really sure how he should word himself, she didn't look too pleased and he wasn't in the mood to be lectured even further. "Can I go now?" He spoke softly.

"Huh?" She looked up from the piles of work on her desk, "You're still here?" She wondered. "I thought you would've left the moment I was called out." She smirked, knowing she had just wasted some of Naruto's precious time; it was certainly payback for all the times Naruto had caused her trouble.

"Are you kiddin' me?" He realized just then that he probably should have left... "Ahh forget it, I'm going." He quickly turned tail and tried to leave the room as quickly as possible.

"Wait," Tsunade added just seconds before Naruto opened the door to leave, "Sasuke wants to see you tomorrow." She said rather reluctantly.

Naruto quickly turned back to face her, surprise dominating his face, "he's back?" he added, nearly speechless.

"Yes, he is. I've had a word with him and I don't believe he's back here with malevolent motives either." She continued with her work, thinking nothing of Sasuke's unexpected return.

Naruto smiled, "what did he say exactly? Why does he want to see me? I would've though I'd be the very last person he'd want to see." He said, which kind of made him feel a little more down about himself.

She shrugged, "I'm not exactly on his favourites list either, he simply said; I want to see Naruto- tomorrow morning. Tell him or I'll tell him myself. I'm guessing he would try and escape if you didn't show in the morning; therefore I'll abide by his wishes and allow you to see him. I'll also allow you a few minutes of privacy if he does want to be alone with you. ANBU are currently guarding him in and outside his house, so just let them know if that is the case." She finished.

Naruto was happy with that result, "sounds good to me! Thanks baachan!" He exited the room rather quickly, believing that was the end of their conversation when in fact Tsunade still had much to tell him about Sasuke.

She rolled her eyes at his cocky attitude and reluctantly continued with her work.

- Naruto POV -

I was overwhelmed to hear of Sasuke's return to the village he had always belonged in. The simple fact that he had given up on destroying Konoha meant he had changed in some way, or something had changed his mind, it could even be that someone had changed his mind.

None of that matters though; he was finally back home... I can't wait for the day we can go on missions together, showing off our new skills and strengths, protecting and fighting for each other.

Tsunade had neglected to tell me that he was being kept under house arrest. But to be fair- she was probably going to tell me before I ran off, ah well... I'm just really excited to see what's so special about this scroll!

I had heard many ANBU and other shinobi discussing the terms of his house arrest as I passed through the village back home.
Apparently, only a select few people were allowed to see him, including myself and Sakura. The Uchiha mansion, where he is currently living once again, is completely surrounded by ANBU; he has to be followed wherever he goes inside his own house and if he has to see somebody outside the confines of his own mansion, then he has to be escorted by Tsunade herself.

Still, it all makes me wonder what on earth Sasuke would want to talk about, to me especially. I certainly do hope he doesn't want to speak to me alone. So far every meeting we've had we've always had other people around with us and we've only ever argued.

This could get really awkward, for either us.

- Normal P.O.V -

Naruto took the long way home and passed the Uchiha household to confirm what everyone had been saying. There were ANBU guards from corner to corner of the grounds and occupying just about every inch of space that was available. There were so many on the outside that the inside must be packed from wall to wall.

As he passed by the Uchiha grounds and went on to his own apartment, he decided to make a quick stop on the roof to watch the sun slowly set and transform the bright orange sky into dusky blue, glittering with stars.

He checked on the scroll, making sure it was still hidden and concealed on his person. Temptation quickly took hold of all his patience as he ran his fingers up and down the soft paper. He wanted to watch the sunset a little longer, but it was fairly obvious that he was excited from head to toe.

It was obvious that he couldn't wait any longer, he was twitching erratically and becoming increasingly desperate to look over the scroll. He quickly jumped down from his roof and onto his balcony, knowing he always left that particular door open. Within moments, he had his apartment completely locked down, every curtain was closed and every crack filled, nothing could see in or out.

He decided to wait until near bed time to look at the scroll, that way if the scroll failed to please him- he could just go to sleep instead. By the time he was ready to look at the scroll, he had eaten five cups of ramen, taken a quick shower, slightly cleaned his apartment and was dressed in his pyjamas, near enough ready for bed.

He sat in his bed, with only his bedside lamp turned on... this is it! He thought... he really had no idea why he was so hyped about such a thing, but it sure was an interesting object to have hidden in an alcohol cabinet. He slowly removed the red ribbon that kept the scroll closed and delicately opened it, he watched as the title was slowly revealed.

To The Future:
A way of travelling forward through time.

His face dropped and his mouth hung open in shock... was this real?

He scrolled down the page and realized that there wasn't a description of any kind. His toes twitched with excitement and his eyes trailed over the numerous steps that would take the user closer towards getting to the future. There wasn't any kind of description about what the jutsu did exactly or how it worked, but the title was pretty self explanatory, any idiot could tell.

The only problem he could really pick out about this jutsu was the fact that there were so many different hand signs that were needed in order to initiate the leap that it would most likely require to people to recreate the hand signs. Of course, it didn't stop Naruto from trying to learn it.

"This is incredible! I just hope it actually works..." He realized this may just be a fake, but he was constantly reminded of where he found it and the condition it was in, it wasn't much to go on, but it seemed genuine- but who would go to all trouble of making a fake scroll filled with various different hand signs detailing how to perform them and when? ... Yeah, this was probably real.

Naruto placed the scroll in his lap and begun imitating the sign from start to finish. "Okay..." He said, "So I do this," he positioned his fingers in the same way the scroll portrayed, "then this, this, this, and this..." he continued talking to himself, whilst imitating the signs at a very slow pace.

Hours flew by and eventually he got the hang of the sign pattern and was able to imitate the signs at a much faster pace. However, as dawn began to peak in the sky- Naruto realized that this wasn't going to work. He believed that it didn't work before because he was leaving too much a time gap between the signs, but even now when he was able to do the signs straight after each other, it clearly wasn't working.

He was starting to feel disappointed; maybe it wouldn't work after all. Eventually, he ended up passing out just before the sun rose into the sky, the scroll had been torn slightly as he ended up sprawling out across his bed.

Sadly, as the hours went by, it was almost mid day and Naruto was expected elsewhere.

A certain someone was growing ever impatient, did he not specifically say morning to Tsunade and repetitively? There was a reason, at this time of the day; he would have more time to see Naruto compared to any other visitors.

Sasuke was sat on one of the many porches of his mansion, overlooking the still beautifully tended to gardens. His eyes trailed from one ninja to the next, it was like a prison- no, it was a prison... He didn't like how many of them were watching him instead of just gazing aimlessly into the grounds. He had no privacy what so ever, not even a moment to himself.

He didn't exactly invite Naruto around without a reason- oh, there was a definite reason. But with all these peeping toms, it was gonna be hard bringing up such a personal and tricky topic. Sasuke suddenly became frustrated and turned his hateful eyes on the ANBU stood a few meters next to the door. "You." He called out, but it was clear that he was already staring right back at him. "Where the heck is Naruto?"

"Um..." It turned out the ANBU closely guarding Sasuke today was a newbie, but extremely talented and very reliable- however, he was a bit of a coward. "N-n-ot sure..." He gulped, pretty loudly; it was weird how he didn't choke on such a monstrous amount of saliva passing down his throat.

"Find him, I'm getting impatient. " He hoped the newbie understood where he was leading, any longer and he would be just about ready to break out and find him himself. The abrupt silence which came afterwards was enough to make even the biggest animals on the planet tremble.

The cowardly ninja gulped once more and quietly exited the room, sooner replaced which a much quieter and far braver ninja, who didn't like to be tormented. The message was quickly passed on and within moments the message had reached Tsunade's ears, although she had no idea where or what Naruto was doing- still the fact that Sasuke was threatening to break out was something she wasn't willing to risk.

She decided to pay Naruto a visit herself, that way she would be able to give him a right beating if this was just a simple case of oversleeping- he was risking the security and safety of the entire village by being a lazy bum.

Within moments, she had reached Naruto's front door. The ANBU, who had already arrived a couple of minutes ago, had broken down the door and were now holding a very sleepy Naruto up.

"Naruto!" She practically screamed, it was way too early for that kind of noise, especially when the noise came from someone like Tsunade. "You were supposed to be going round to Sasuke's this morning." Her eyes lowered in even more frustration and anger, she should've known Naruto would do something like this.

Her eyes caught a glimpse of the scroll lay dormant on his bed. She walked over to take a closer look and upon reading the title realized what exactly Naruto had been up to all night. "Where did you get this?" She asked, waving the scroll about in Naruto's face.

"Ummm..." He thought for a moment, what would seem believable? "I found it?" He grinned cheekily, although it didn't come across very well to Tsunade.

"You do realize that this scroll is completely fictitious?" She couldn't help but bring up a smile at that point, if this dummy had spent an entire night trying to learn a technique that was make believe then she really needed to rethink what she already thought about Naruto.

Naruto rubbed his head slightly and attempted to wake up a little more so that he could get his point across properly, "but who would go to so much detail to write all those instructions and hand signs if it was fake?" He replied, rather pleased with his retort.

"Even if there is a slight chance that this is real, there's still no way to pull it off- this technique would require such a huge amount of chakra that no single human on this planet has."

"Ohhh..." Naruto realized, "that's probably why it never worked," Although it did give him other ideas on how to make it work...

"Now," Tsunade turned away and put the scroll inside her jacket, "quit dawdling and get over to Sasuke's asapbefore he goes on a rampage."

Tsunade and her goons quickly disappeared from his apartment, leaving a line of mess in their trail. His already damaged apartment from the break in was gonna be a pain to fix, but would have to be left until he returned from Sasuke's. Since he was in a rush, he was dressed and out of his apartment within minutes and was speedily making his way round to Sasuke's, although almost an hour late.

Half way through the journey, he found himself slowing down- even stopping entirely when he was just around the corner from the Uchiha plot. He was shaking and a little and his palms were sweaty, he was actually nervous about seeing Sasuke.

He always considered Sasuke his best friend, it was unknown if Sasuke felt the same back, but the last time Naruto and Sasuke met wasn't exactly on good terms.

Now that Sasuke was back home, having given up on his previous quest to murder his brother and destroy Konoha; of course Naruto had every right to be worried!

There was only about a million things Sasuke could say to Naruto in the next half hour. Even if this chat turned into a death match between them, he could easily handle Sasuke, although that might only tempt the Tsunade to kill him even more than she already does.

Hell, what did he have to worry about? ANBU were completely surrounding the mansion and Sasuke couldn't do squat. He took a deep breath and decided to walk the rest of the way in order to clear his mind and prepare a couple of insults just in case.

When he finally reached the main doors to the Uchiha compound, his worry resurfaced and a little more strongly that last time, he was finally beginning to feel sick and his head was continuously spinning, how on earth was he this worried?

An ANBU ninja escorted him to Sasuke's room, where said person was currently spending most of his time staring out to his beautiful zen-style garden.

It wasn't until he was stood exactly outside the room that led into Sasuke's room that he felt like turning back, but obviously it was far too late now and even if he did- Sasuke would easily break out just to come and see him- sadly Tsunade would not be lenient with him if he went through with that.

Naruto waited until the door was open wide enough for him to enter. On the other side, Sasuke had yet to notice his presence, believing he was probably just another ANBU ninja. The cowardly ninja was once again stood on his rightful side, however unfortunate it may also be.

"Na-Nar-uto right?" He shook uncontrollably, Naruto peeked an eyebrow, wondering how on earth a ninja as such could be in the ANBU... he must have some amazingly shocking skills.

The ANBU motioned for him to come closer so that they could speak a little more privately. Once they were a little further away from Sasuke's prying ears, the ANBU ninja took sharp breaths in order to calm himself down in order to speak a little more clearly. "Umm, you should probably keep your distance from Sasuke." He was still a little shaky, but at least he was a little calmer.

Naruto remained quiet whilst trying to figure what he meant by that.

"It's not that he's stressed or even angry, it's just you."

That only made Naruto slightly more confused, or in actually, a lot more confused. "Me? What the hell have I done?" He raised his voice a little.

"Nothing!" He shied away a little, "It's just that, well..." he paused to try and think of a better way to word the rest of his sentence. "He was moaning a fair bit in his sleep last night, I thought he was just having a nightmare or something but then your name kind of came up a few times and it led me to believe otherwise."

Naruto didn't particularly understand, he was still a complete stranger to sex and even the references aforementioned, and believably, he was still a virgin. However, in order to get this somewhat awkward and weird conversation over, he nodded and smiled, "don't worry, I'll be juuust fine," he patted the ninja's shoulder almost sarcastically.

Naruto eventually walked over to Sasuke, whilst the ANBU ninja returned to his post in front of the door. He did feel some comfort knowing a person as nice as Naruto was in the room. However, he couldn't exactly shake the ear aching moans he had heard last night whilst on duty...

He joined him outside on the deck overlooking the garden. He sat at a good distance from him just to make sure he could make a quick escape if Sasuke did try and do something.

Neither said a word to each other for at least ten or so minutes. Instead, they sat quietly and admired the beauty of the outside world. Naruto couldn't help but notice how much he had grown, much more than he had himself- even his sense of fashion had changed since the death of Orochimaru, thankfully.

"Naruto..." Sasuke finally spoke up; he had been in some sort of meditative state for a while now in order to keep himself calm before speaking with Naruto. "Why are you so late?" He asked.

"Well..." Naruto begun, "I've been up all night practicing a new jutsu, I think I passed out sometime this morning and slept through my alarm."

"Seriously? I sincerely hope it was worth it." He replied, Sasuke looked over at Naruto, said person on the other hand was a little too nervous to look directly back at him.

Sasuke rolled his eyes; he could just feel Naruto's desperation to tell him about the technique. "What is it then?" He added.

Naruto finally turned to look at Sasuke, excitement clearly written all over his face, "Well, It's a time travel technique- it's supposed to transport the user to the future." He explained, "I learned all of the hand signs last night but I couldn't get it to work. Then, Tsunade shows up at my house and tells me that this jutsu could never be done because it would require an amount of chakra that no single human on this planet has." He explained, after which he sighed and looked up to the sky outside Sasuke's home… "I'd love to see the future." Thinking about the failure of his efforts and the amount of time he spent trying to perfect the hand signs was only making him feel more and more depressed.

"So would I." Sasuke suddenly spoke up, actually agreeing with Naruto for a change.

Naruto unexpectedly perked up, "I didn't know you cared about seeing such a thing?"

"Of course. Any chance of knowing what will become of my clan and of us I would gladly take."

Of us? Naruto thought, wondering what he could of meant- but believing it was probably something to do with their friendship, he assumed just that. "Do you expect us to still be friends in the future?"

I expect us to be a lot more than just friends. "I hope so," a wicked smile appeared across his face. "Do you seriously want this jutsu to work?"

"Yes! If I could just go a few years in time and see what the future's like for me, for my friends and for all of Konoha, I would happily give anything in return."

It was obvious to everyone, except Naruto- that Sasuke was cooking up a dastardly scheme; he certainly loved the sound of that bargain Naruto just obliviously made. "Listen, I don't know if this jutsu is real or not, but I feel the same way. Together, we have enough chakra to send the entire world back in time."

Naruto could feel excitement welling up even more inside him; he had never seen Sasuke take so much interest in something like this, and hearing his approval of giving this jutsu a try only made him want to try it even more. "But…" Naruto suddenly remembered the original reason why he came round, "wasn't there something you wanted to talk to me about?"

"I did…" Sasuke also remembered, but decided that this seemed much more promising, especially since Naruto made that bargain. "But since you are the only person who can come in here and request to be alone with me, we can save it for another day."

Naruto didn't argue with his reasoning and simply turned his entire body to face him, preparing to show him the hand signs. Sasuke immediately did the same, facial expression unchanged. "Okay, so there are ten hand signs and they all represent something different but relevant to the time travel." He quickly performed each one slowly and delicately, making sure Sasuke was able to pick up on the technique right off the bat.

"The first four are day, year, time and destination. The other six are all chakra building hand signs, which I'm guessing help formulate the chakra and build it up enough to create the technique."

"Ahhh…" Naruto realized, it still surprised him how intelligent Sasuke could be, even now. Maybe Naruto was just too dense to understand…

"We must need a significant amount of chakra if six of the hand signs are to build the chakra up." Sasuke added, sounding a little worried.

"Wait, so how would I form the answers to the first four signs?"

Sasuke rolled his eyes, "you idiot! You don't answer them in signs; you think the answer whilst doing the sign. That way, the chakra picks up on your answer and flows it down to your hands for you."

"Ohhh…" Naruto smiled pleasingly, "Should we try it?" He added excitedly.

Sasuke nodded, "We should meditate for a few minutes whilst I stream my chakra into you. We should be able to build up enough chakra just to make sure."

Naruto took a deep breath and closed his eyes as he begun focusing on drawing in energy from all around him, hoping to build up his chakra a little quicker than usual. Sasuke placed his hand on Naruto's arm and begun flowing his own chakra into his body at a speedy rate.

He kept tight hold of Naruto, ensuring that he too would be sent to the future when they eventually performed the jutsu. It was obvious that Naruto had practiced this jutsu continuously; he knew the signs so well and performed them so speedily that Sasuke could barely even read them this time.

When Naruto had finished performing all ten signs, he opened his eyes rather abruptly, feeling a sudden jump in the atmosphere. It was if he had, for only a moment, left the world and then suddenly returned- in the exact place as well.

It didn't feel like anything had happened, which was a bit of a let down. Naruto gently shook Sasuke, making said person open his eyes to the world again. He too didn't notice any kind of difference at first- until he turned to face his beautiful garden.

All of the ANBU, each and every one that had been stationed in numerous places inside and out, were now gone.