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Author's Note: okay i lied (sorry Santa, I've been a very bad boy), i managed to squeeze two chapters on Christmas. Merry Christmas everybody.

Chapter 12: the part where things changes part III

As each of the Kage level shinobi stood before Tazuna's home. Naruto, Itachi, and 3 path's of Pain stood on one side, and Sasuke and Orochimaru stood at another. Orochimaru however looked like he was shell shocked.

'that was the Yondaime's ultimate technique! How did this man learn it when I couldn't! not only that, but he looks just like Minato Namikaze!' Orochimaru with a shocked expression mentally though out with all of his attention was on the man that looks just like Minato Namikaze.

"Dobe, you look like crap." Sasuke of the future said, smirking while doing so. Naruto Uzumaki Namikaze did look indeed like crap. Small pieces of shrapnel stuck out over his Jounin vest and his vest was a bit burned. It wasn't helping that his body was screaming for him to stop fighting and just collapse.

'did Sasuke-kun tell this man who manage to rediscover the Hirashin no jutsu a loser?! is he insane!' thought the snake sannin with wide eyes. was Sasuke so arrogant that a person who discovered the Yondaime's ultimate technique a weakling? who the hell was he dealing with? Naruto noticed Orochimaru's shocked expression and deduced what was going on through his mind.

'it seems Sasuke-teme kept some secrets from Orochi-teme.' Naruto noted.

"hehe, Teme. Let's see you survive a fight against 8 of the Akatsuki members. It's not that easy. I know that without your precious Sharingan your nothing special." Naruto retorted and Sasuke got furious at the insult. But it didn't help that he didn't have the Sharingan. the other Uchiha in the room widened his eyes.

'Naruto-sama took Sasuke's Sharingan away? This fight just gotten a lot easier.' Itachi noted furiously and frowned at the future version of his little brother. losing your eyes as an Uchiha was a great dishonor amongst your clan.

"you shut up! You're the reason why I lost everything!" with that Sasuke charge. As he was charging, Naruto called out to the rest of his team.

"Pein, Itachi. Take care of Orochimaru. Ill handle the Teme." however, Itachi put a hand on his shoulder, Sasuke was getting closer.

"No, ill help you with Sasuke. I am sure that Pein can handle Orochimaru, and we have no time to argue, Look out!" Itachi said as he shoved Naruto to the side, dodging a blindingly fast vertical slash from Sasuke. Itachi then proceeded with a kick. Knocking Sasuke back a few paces.

"and you! We should have our revenge Itachi! Konoha has spat upon your sacrifice far too many times! Konoha should be eliminated!" Sasuke roared out and pointed at Itachi. The former Rokudaime however looked at the Uchiha killer in a slight bit of fear. Fear that Sasuke's words could have a slightest possibility of convincing Itachi, but his irrational fear was quickly subdued when Itachi spoke.

"foolish little brother…" Itachi blinked several times for a bit, he felt a bit uncomfortable calling somebody older than himself little brother there for a moment.

'little brother? Hmm… this time traveling business is very troubling. Calling somebody who's older than myself 'little brother' is a bit… strange, but who am i to deny that time traveling exists?' Itachi noted.

"after all this time, after all those years… you still have learned nothing. I willingly choose to sacrifice myself for the betterment of Konoha because I see it as the right thing to do. I wonder… did anybody already tell you that revenge get's you nowhere? I told you to hate me, but it saddened me that you have become such a… monster…" Itachi lectured rather calmly and somewhat coldly. Sasuke grew furious at that.

"I… I loved you Itachi! You are my brother! Why shouldn't I get revenge against those leeches of Konoha! They-" he was interrupted by Itachi.

"it is because it helped bring peace. i do not know what my future self has done, but I fought for peace, don't you understand that? I know by now that it is too late for you to turn back now, but the least I can do is give you a much clearer conscious when you die. Besides, I have a brother to care for and he is in that very house. You however are no longer my so called brother. You've lost that right when you spat upon my sacrifice by betraying Konoha for the last time." Itachi said then indicated the house when he pronounced he has a brother to care for. Sasuke felt like he suffered a heavy blow to the heart, but that pain quickly transferred into anger. Naruto took this time to speak to the Uchiha killer.

"Itachi, let me handle him. Please, help Pain against Orochimaru. As ordered by a Hokage." the pair had a uncomfortable silence between them.

"I am sorry, but you are no longer Hokage and I wish to see this through." Itachi defied. Naruto looked at the Uchiha slayer and relented.

"fine, but Sasuke-teme gotten a lot stronger than you, let me take him on at close range, and you back me up." Itachi nodded in understanding and Naruto shouted out.

"well since Itachi's here to stay, let's take this somewhere else then!" the former Hokage pulled out 3 tri pronged kunai and threw one at each Uchiha and one far into the distance away from the house. With a flash, the 3 figures vanished in a yellow and black flash.

The three path's of Pain were on a stand off against the snake sannin. Both didn't make a move and Orochimaru was watching the three paths take up formations. The Preta in front, the Deva directly behind the previously mentioned Path, and the Animal Path in last. Orochimaru saw the formation and analyzed.

'so… the first one is a defensive type of some kind, and the middle is probably the offensive, and the far back is most likely support.'

As Orochimaru analyzed the Path's, Nagato was analyzing the Snake Sannin.

'if Jiraiya-sensei managed to bring down 3 of my paths simultaneously, then Orochimaru should be able to do the same. I'll need all my paths for this very fight.'

As Nagato analyzed through the older Naruto's memories of Fukasaku and Naruto's conversation of how Jiraiya beaten three paths at the same time.

After the real Nagato was taken inside by his two paths and saw Team 7 staring at them, other than the real Kushina who was silently crying to herself by now. She kept muttering incoherent things to herself and the chibi Naruto was trying his best to comfort her. He didn't know what to do for her. As Nagato was placed in the corner of the living room, the two paths left the house.

"team, go upstairs." Kakashi ordered.

"but sensei-" Sakura protested, but was interrupted.

"no! go now, if this man was an enemy, then he would've attacked us when we were all in shock of seeing that blonde man who looks just the Yondaime Hokage, leave us!" Kakashi said and the genins all nodded at the logic, but Naruto asked.

"what about Shina sensei?" Nagato was confused by the name Shina, and saw that this 'Shina' was very much like the red headed girl in the room. She looked a lot like the daughter of the Former Hokage's memories he absorbed. That is till he managed to put two and two together.

'an alias… smart, but sensei? hm...' Nagato noted and thought Kushina was piecing the world together through a subtle method of her own.

"Shina-san stays. The genins go up starts." Nagato said and ordered. Kakashi gave a glare to the genins that promises punishment if they don't obey. He saw that they were staying, then Kakashi shouted.

"Don't make me get Guy to torture- I mean train you guys again!" the genins paled at that and immediately left. When the genins left Kakashi and Nagato turned to Kushina. Who was still silently crying over her beloved sensei and they stared at her for the moment.

"Kushina" Nagato started, shocking the copy ninja and the clone of Kushina. However the real Kushina didn't budge from her grieving self.

"how do you know my name? but I guess we're even since I know your Nagato." the clone of Kushina question and sending a glare that demands an answer or suffer a fate worse than death. Nagato somewhat expected that reaction and reassured her.

"I am indeed Nagato and I am sure that you have hundreds of questions, but for now I need your help, or rather your father needs your help." Nagato let this sink in for the moment and he knew he was talking to a clone. Going through the former Hokage's memories he knew about the shadow clone memory trick. He asked for one more thing.

"but first can you heal my partner?" Nagato asked a bit worriedly, indicating Konan who was unconscious and bleeding from three holes. The clone stared at the women for a while then agreed reluctantly.

"she was hit by Hidan's curse right?" Kushina asked the other red head in the room. Nagato was genuinely surprised that she knew.

"yes… how did you know?" Nagato asked.

"there is no indications that there is any metal cutting her cloak. These wounds here." Kushina pointed to the robes which were perfectly fine, but caked in blood.

"are done by a spear or pike of some kind that are ghost like. As if the pike or spear doesn't exist. That brings me to the conclusion that Hidan, the curse he uses was the weapon Konan was hit with." Kushina explained with a thoughtful expression. She's a good medic, but not a perfect one.

"I'll heal her" the clone said coldly and began weaving hand seals.

The two Uchihas and the Namikaze were flashed to a deeper part of the forest clearing. All got up from the flash and Sasuke seethed out.

"why must you always get in my way?" Naruto grew ticked off by that and shouted back.

"it's always because you keep putting innocent people into our business! But I'm done talking to you! We argued about this hundreds of times and you'll never stop, until today!" Naruto proclaimed. The Uchiha time traveler got furious at his former teammate, Itachi then choose this time to add fire to the midst.

"I am somewhat glad that kaa-chan died by my hands, otherwise she would've died by a broken heart at seeing what you've become." Itachi intentionally aggravated the Uchiha time traveler mostly because it's easier to deal with an angry foe than a calm one. He was lying, as he would never loved his mother being dead, despite himself killing her. At the taunt Sasuke grew so furious that rational thought wasn't working for him.

"you don't mean that you Monster! How could you say that about our own kaa-san!" Sasuke screamed and charged at Itachi, his Chokuto drawn. However, he was intercepted by a somewhat recovered Rokudaime Hokage as Naruto tackled the Uchiha time traveler.

"keep your eyes on all your opponents Teme. Oh wait, you can't do that anymore without your precious Sharingan." Naruto taunted once more. Sasuke once more grew furious at the insult of the loss of his greatest tool.

"you shut up! Your nothing without the Kyuubi's chakra! Your nothing-" the Uchiha time traveler was silenced by a punch and a shout.

"the Kyuubi is not inside of me anymore! We are on equal terms now and it still seems that I'm still better than you!" Naruto roared. Sasuke was genuinely shocked that Naruto lost the Kyuubi, his biggest power up. Itachi was intrigued by the conversation, but focused on the battle.

"it matters not! I am the greater shinobi! I should've been Rokudaime! Not you or that pathetic excuse of a Sarutobi!" Naruto grew furious at the comment.

"You never showed any interest in becoming Hokage! Konoha would never accept a traitor like you! It was only because of Sakura that you were alive! Konohamaru was always the better man than you. I would've killed you if it wasn't for the wife I used to love!" Naruto cried out as he paused for a moment and shouted out again.

"Tell me the truth! You took control of her through the Sharingan genjutsu known at Kotoamatsukami ((distinguished heavenly gods) note that I was only at Shippuden episode 270 when I made this story, so during the 4th shinobi war, Naruto never found out about the eye Itachi gave him in this story, it was only recently that I found out about the 4th shinobi war and how it turned out. So I will keep the story as it is, but any future stories will include parts after Shippuden episode 270. I will try to include Shisui's eye in the older Naruto into the story though...)!" at the call out, Sasuke grinned and shouted back.

"so the Dobe found out about my greatest trick huh? Well good for you, but you're a little late by 16 years! HAHAHA!" Sasuke laughed and went on.

"yes I used Sakura for so many reasons. She was the perfect ***** to be my spy. Even your Anbu didn't even know she was my puppet to begin with. not only that, but she was the perfect instrument to use against you! Yes… all that love Sakura appeared to show you was all a lie! And that girl that spawn from her was an accident! HAHAHA! Your own daughter's a bastard child by the mother! HAHAHAH!" Sasuke laughed at the top of his lungs. Naruto felt devastated inside and clutched his heart, it explained so much.

Why Sakura abandoned Kushina.

Why Sakura quickly turned to Sasuke.

Why Sakura was willingly letting Sasuke turn her into an outcast.

And worst of all… it wasn't even her fault…

A great rage swept over Naruto as he began to pummel Sasuke's face with his fists. already on the first punch

"YOU! You good for nothing Bastard! You stole my daughter's mother! Your going to pay! With BLOOD!" the former Hokage roared out as he slammed many fists into the Uchiha time traveler's face. The former Hokage wasn't even thinking straight as Sasuke merely laughed and laughed.

'why? Why aren't you dying!' Naruto mentally shouted.

He got his answer as black markings appeared on his skin. The former Hokage instantly recognized the markings and shouted out.

"you have the Curse seal again! What the hell is wrong with you!" Naruto shouted, but his question was left unanswered as Sasuke grinned in triumph and pried Naruto off him. The former Hokage wasn't in Sage mode as the flash that he used to get into Wave took all of the natural energy he had. Itachi saw the markings and moved to help the former Hokage, but Sasuke saw him coming and threw Naruto into Itachi. Both the former Hokage and the unsung hero of Konoha got up rather slowly and Sasuke took the opportunity to strike.

Sasuke, in his lust of arrogance cried out.

"I never had a choice! Chidori!" on Sasuke's right arm, a bright blue light appeared in the hand. Both Itachi and Naruto heard the sounds and dodge rather easily. When they dodge, Sasuke grew furious.

"why can't I hit you!" the Uchiha screamed, Naruto grinned in victory and said.

"that was a reason why I removed your Sharingan. Without it, you can't do the Chidori properly anymore." Sasuke once more grew furious. He knew the weakness of moving at high speeds brings your vision tunnel like.

"you… give me back my jutsu!" Sasuke screeched and weaved through hand seals.

"Katon: Karyu Endan!" A dragon made of fire charged at Naruto. the dragon itself had taints of black chakra in it, the former Hokage paid no heed to that and asked his ally.

"Itachi, water please." Itachi knew where Naruto was going with this and shouted out.

"Suiton: suiryudan!" With Itachi's jutsu, Naruto was weaving his own

"Futon: Renkudan!" both the fire jutsu and the wind jutsu combined into a large fireball and slammed into the fire dragon. However, the results wasn't in their favor as the fire dragon plowed on through the wind enhanced water dragon. Forcing Itachi and Naruto to dodge. Both were thinking.

'our combined efforts should've at least dispelled Sasuke's jutsu… must be the curse seal/strange markings.'

"the Chidori was never your technique to begin with Teme! It was Kakashi sensei!" Naruto pointed out, shouting while doing so. The Uchiha time traveler didn't care at the moment and charged the pair with great speed and Chokuto in hand enhanced with lightning chakra. Naruto saw the blade coming and pulled out a pair of Hiraishin kunai knives and held both of them in a reverse grip enhanced with wind chakra. When the blade came, Naruto blocked the blow with both kunai.

'damn Curse seal! I nearly forgot. It gives enhanced strength! not only that, it enhances blood lust. that should make things easier to infuriate the Teme. '

If it wasn't for Naruto's natural version of Tsunade like strength, he would've faltered and die. Itachi saw that the former Hokage was struggling and threw several shurikens. However, Sasuke let loose a surge of the curse seal's chakra and the shurikens were deflected. At the surge, Naruto struggled some more until Sasuke shouted out.

"Chidori Nagashi (one thousand birds current)!"

The lightning current flew around the pair of tri pronged kunai and headed straight for the wielder, but if it wasn't for Naruto who shouted back.

"Futon no Yoroi (wind release armor)!"

The wind armor formed at an instant. Making wind fly around Naruto and clashed with the lightning current, but like before, the curse seal seems to boost the lightning jutsu causing naruto to fly back. his entire Jounin vest singed at the touch of lightning.

'****… I need Sage mode to even this thing up!' Naruto slowly got back up and Itachi fled to his side.

"are you alright?" The former Hokage panted a bit but slowly got back up, saying while doing so.

"yeah… it's becoming a problem…" Itachi saw that the former Hokage was lying. Inside Naruto just couldn't fight anymore. A Rasenshuriken, multiple flashes, and entering and exiting Sage mode twice is taxing. It is uncommon knowledge, but after exiting sage mode, the user suffers a bit of exhaustion. It wasn't helping that the flash to get into wave took not only Sage mode away, but nearly all his chakra.

"I won't be able to keep this up anymore Itachi…" he paused for a moment to catch his breath, Itachi took this time to ask a question.

"Sasuke… how did you know about Shisui's eye?" Itachi asked. Sasuke grinned and in his arrogance sneered out.

"I found out about the eye when I asked you-know-who…" Itachi instantly knew who Sasuke was talking about.

'Madara… it seems in the future Madara had you in his grip… what a pity Sasuke…' Itachi pitied, but Sasuke wasn't done.

"Dobe. After the 4th Shinobi war, I saw Madara staring at a peculiar eye. When I asked what's special about that eye he instantly evaded the question, but no. I demanded to know what's so special about that eye he relented because even he had a weakness." both Itachi and Naruto snapped their eyes to his and wonder what that weakness was.

'Madara had a weakness? What could it possibly be?' Naruto thought in hopes and disgust of himself. If he had discovered this weakness earlier, he could've used that and not have to be in this business, but it was too late. The damage was done.

'a 4th shinobi war... how troubling...' Itachi thought.

"what weakness was that? Teme." Naruto asked.

"why Dobe? I thought you knew? He needed me to continue the line of the Uchiha clan. Despite common beliefs the Eternal Mangekyou Sharingan actually isn't Eternal… no… that level of the Sharingan losses it's light too. It was unnoticed by so many because Madara has hundreds of Sharingan for him to use! He needed me to make more of the Sharingan for him! I used that as leverage to get the information I want and he told me the secrets of Shisui Uchiha's eyes!" Sasuke burst into a laugh at the memory of him besting the immortal Uchiha. Now the secrets were out and Naruto knew everything.

'the Eternal Mangekyou Sharingan isn't immortal? interesting.'

"Itachi! Give me that eye! I know you have it" Sasuke claimed and charged again this time directing his fury at Itachi.

With the 3 paths of Pain standing before Orochimaru. Each did their examination of each other and Nagato's Deva path started the fight.

"Bansho Tenin!" the snake sennin was pulled into the technique and Orochimaru saw the Deva path draw a black rod of some kind and pointed it at him. Seeing what was coming, the snake sannin(is it sannin or sennin? I'm confused.) at an instant regurgitated a snake from his mouth and from the snake's mouth a sword's handle was revealed which Orochimaru pulled out and with great strength stabbed the sword into the ground and stopped himself all in the right arm. With his left arm he cried out.

"Sen'ei Tajashu (many hidden shadow snake hands)!"

A dozen snakes or so sprouted from the snake sannin's sleeve and flew towards the Deva path. All the path saw that coming and the Deva path cut the snake down with the strange black rod. With the snakes cut down Orochimaru scowled and charged at scanned around. When his eyes landed on the house to his left, he grinned.

"Futon: Daitoppa (wind release: great breakthrough)!" all the paths saw Orochimaru weave hand seals and aimed at the house. Working off of instincts, Nagato moved his Preta path into the wind jutsu and formed a shield of some sort. Orochimaru was greatly intrigued by the path and thought out.

'so that one absorbs ninjutsu. Interesting.' although Orochimaru wasn't done and flickered behind the path and swung his blade to behind the path, but something unexpected happened. The path ducked at the blade and threw a back kick at the sannin. Further intriguing the snake sannin as he laid his eyes on the other paths.

'I attacked this one from it's blind spot. I should've beheaded this one… Those ringed eyes does look familiar though… wait… purple ringed eyes? Could it be?' Orochimaru's widened in recognition.

'the Rinnegan! How could I have missed it! I saw this child before in Amegakure! But wait… wasn't the red headed one have those eyes? Hmm… could this orange haired one stolen them? No… it can't be… otherwise the orange haired brat would've died by chakra exhaustion. Not only that, but there are 3 right here that possess the Rinnegan. No… this is a power granted by the Rinnegan seeing as it gives multiple fields of vision that explains why my attack missed and they wordlessly work together.' Orochimaru realized and flicked back to where he was standing.

"tell me, are you those brats that Jiraiya-baka trained in Amegakure?" Orochimaru asked. The 3 paths actually flinched, giving Orochimaru his answer.

"do tell me. I remember the red headed one having those pretty eyes, but it can't be… what was his name again? Oh yes Yahiko. You can't be Yahiko for those eyes would've killed you through chakra exhaustion. No… your… Nagato…" he started laughing maniacally.

"so… so you're the timid little brat that Jiraiya trained after all these years was the leader of that ridiculous organization Akatsuki? HAHAAH!" Nagato wasn't surprised that Orochimaru found out about his identity. He was after all one of the few to ever know about him in his early life.

'it seems that Sasuke of the future never told Orochimaru much, but I must be wary for Orochimaru for he is quite resourceful.' Nagato noted. He didn't have any offensive options and even though the Rinnegan gives the user every elemental affinity available, Nagato never trained in them. So he only has the power of his paths and the shared fields of visions.

As Orochimaru saw the 3 paths doing nothing he realized something.

'their playing defensive… why?' his question was left unanswered as he charged suddenly as he realized the truth.

'he's buying time for something…' with those thoughts Orochimaru charged into the 3 paths with his Kusanagi in hand and gave a horizontal swing at the Preta path. Knowing that the path absorbs ninjutsu, Kenjutsu (sword technique/way of the sword) is still an option and he used an invisible method of an attack. The Preta path and all the paths saw the swing coming and the Preta path dodge by tilting his head to the side, but it wasn't enough as the Preta path was beheaded.

'wind chakra' Nagato mentally knew through Naruto's memories. Orochimaru pressed his advantage and flipped through hand seals. Seeing as the ninjutsu defense of the group was gone Orochimaru used Ninjutsu to his advantage.

"Doton: Doryudan!" shouted out and a large earth dragon head sprouted out from the ground and charged at the 2 remaining paths. Nagato saw that he has no choice so the Deva Path called out with it's arms pointed at the dragon and snake.

"Shinra Tensei!" the dragon jutsu and Orochimaru flew back so very far away into the forest. The two paths waited for Orochimaru to emerge from it, but he never showed up…

Suddenly the animal path felt rumbling from under him and came the face of Orochimaru with the Kusanagi in his mouth and the path was instantly stabbed through the chest. The Deva path turn to the Snake sannin just as Orochimaru got up from the ground and turned to the Deva path. the snake sannin removed his legendary sword from the animal path's mouth.

"one more… one more and everyone in Wave will die." Orochimaru threatened. Nagato was unaffected by the threat and the Deva path stood still. Orochimaru once more charged the last path and that's when a paper wall intercepted him. At the sight of the wall Orochimaru leapt back and in came a blue haired women in black cloak with red clouds, but she wasn't alone. With her a silver haired jounin of Konoha joined her and 2 more orange haired figures with black cloaks behind her. A few seconds later a red headed jounin called out.

"I'm going to find his partner, deal with Orochimaru." Kakashi and Konan nodded and the 2 paths behind them joined in on the Deva path. With them dealing with the snake sannin, then Kushina and Kakashi ran off to find their targets.

A few moments ago with the real Nagato.

As Kushina healed the 3 large holes in Konan's body, she first healed the stomach wound. She handled this with difficulty mostly because there was a healing technique for each type of organ, but both wounds to the thighs were easy for the medical ninja.

"AGH!" the paper goddess then calmed her self at an instant and looked around with a hint of fear in her eyes. She was heavily panting when she eyed the 2 Konoha ninjas she instantly stood up prepared to fight. That is till a voice calmed her.

"Konan. These people are our friends, there is no need to fight them, but we have more pressing matters to attend to at the moment." Nagato paused and turned to Kushina. Konan was confused by the whole matter but trusted Nagato.

"thank you Kushina-san. You've saved me from losing another dear friend of mine. You are truly your father's child." Nagato thanked. The clone huffed and pouted at the mention of her father and Nagato turned to his 2 fallen paths.

"Gedo: Rinne Tensei no jutsu (outer path: Samsara of heavenly life technique)!" at the call, a large head sprung from the floor and Kakashi was instantly in a fighting stance, he still was a bit suspicious but a whisper of assurance from the clone eased him a little. The head of the king of hell opened it's mouth and Nagato then asked.

"Shina-san, Konan, can you help me put the 2 bodies in this please?" Nagato asked. Both women saw that the elderly red head was strapped to a machine and couldn't put the bodies inside himself. Konan and Kushina nodded and picked up one body each however, Kakashi was still somewhat suspicious and held on to the clone's shoulder.

"are you sure about this?" the clone nodded and threw the body in. when both bodies was thrown in the king of hell's mouth. The head began chewing the bodies. The clone and Kakashi thought of it strange, but Konan was unfazed as she saw this technique several times. When the king of hell stopped, the outer path opened it's mouth and out revealed the Naraka path and the Human path in perfect condition. Kakashi was shocked and was using his Sharingan eye the whole time

'this man… this Akatsuki… their something else and he called that… thing… his outer path. I'll have to keep an eye on that.' Kakashi noted.

Once the outer path was done, Nagato dispelled the path and it vanished in a cloud of smoke.

"now. Shina-san. I must tell you that your father is out there fighting his former Teammate. Him and Itachi will need help against Sasuke of the future." Nagato said. Kakashi was slightly fearful of meeting the future version of his male teammates, but was snapped from his stupor when Nagato spoke to him.

"Kakashi-san, you and Shina-san will go together and reinforce them, Konan and I will handle Orochimaru." Nagato said in a commanding voice, till Kakashi questioned that authority.

"how can we trust you?" but the clone snapped at him.

"Kakashi-baka! Both of them had plenty of chances to kill us, we can trust them, now let's go." the clone said with confidence and then suddenly dispelled. Snapping the real Kushina from her grieving state, but Kushina mellowed by a lot and said rather solemnly.

"I'm ready" with that said, the group left.

The genins of team 7 was waiting upstairs in Tazuna's home with the two unconscious civilians.

"hey Inari! Tsunami-san! Wake up! This is not a good time to taking a nap!" Naruto said furiously as he shook Inari and Tsunami. Sakura tried waking them with slapping but neither method worked.

"their out cold. It was that feeling that made them like this." Sakura said timidly from the people they meet outside the house. Fortunately there was a window that reveals the fight between Pain and Orochimaru. Sasuke knew of this and stared through it in hope of gathering Intel. Both Naruto and Sakura tried waking the civilians up with other methods, but couldn't. both the pink haired and blonde ninja's sighed out in frustrations. That is till Sasuke asked a question.

"hey Dobe, are you really the son of the Yondaime?" Sasuke asked with narrowed eyes. Naruto was confused by the question and realized his mistake.

'Kuso! Why did I have to open my big mouth! What do I do? Oh yes. Lie!' Naruto mentally panicked and answered.

"no, no, no, I am not the son of the Yondaime. It's just that the blonde man outside looked a lot like my tou-san and my tou-san looked a lot like the Yondaime. Besides. The Yondaime never had a child." Naruto lied. Sasuke and Sakura stared at the Uzumaki with critical eyes.

"fine, but we'll get our answers from that man outside then. Besides there were some men that wanted to know who the Yondaime's daughter was, as you said, the Yondaime didn't have a child." Sasuke said and turned back to the window. Both were like that for awhile till Sakura had a question of her own.

"hey… Sasuke-kun? Who's Itachi and why did you want to kill him so badly?" Sakura asked, Sasuke froze at his stupidity and sighed out.

"do you remember the day of our introduction?" Sasuke asked, Sakura got a little peeved off by it but answered.

"yeah." Sakura answered and Naruto nodded.

"well… Itachi was that guy I wanted dead. He's responsible for my clan's slaughter and I want his head. Worst of all.. He's my damned brother." Sasuke snarled out and Sakura was in a bit of fear and pity. however what broke the tension in the room was Naruto laughing.

"Hahaha! How stupid." Naruto laughed. Sasuke was furious and Sakura shouted out.

"Naruto-baka! How could you! He's entire clan was wipe out by that mad man!" Sakura scolded and Sasuke was beginning to see red.

"Sasuke is so stupid, do you really believe that you can take on a S-ranked criminal? If I recall, Itachi Uchiha is a Kage level ninja and a lowly genin like yourself would be a fly compared to him. Don't you remember Shina-sensei's comparison on the day of the bell test?" Naruto gave a dramatic pause as Sasuke and Sakura tried to remember it.

"Shina-sensei told us that the old man Hokage could kill sensei as if she was a fly compared to him. It wouldn't be funny, now think about you and Itachi. It would be the same exact thing." Naruto said coldly as Sasuke grew furious.

"what do you know? My clan was slaughtered by a mad man and-" he was interrupted by a shouting Naruto.

"I know nothing, but Shina sensei does! Getting that strong takes time and effort! Old man Hokage wouldn't be who he is without those years he spent training! Itachi is stronger than you because he has a few years ahead of you. While you were an academy student, he was already a Anbu captain! He only became strong because of those few years he spent training." Naruto explained as Sasuke and Sakura stared at the blonde.

'how did Naruto-baka get so smart?' Sakura mentally questioned.

'thank you nee-chan! You're the best and smartest person I know!' Naruto mentally proclaimed.

Kushina was running through the wood looking for her father. She was leaping on branches that is till she sneezed.

"achoo!" Kushina cutely sneezed.

"are you alright Shina?" Kakashi and questioned.

"yeah…" Kushina answered and the 2 went off.

"then tell me how to kill Itachi?" Sasuke screamed and glared at Naruto.

"easy, it's called teamwork. Teamwork was what Konoha was built off of and that's how it became the strongest village." Naruto proclaimed and went on.

"you don't have to do everything alone. We're a team and we're supposed to fight together. On the side note I thought I was the Dobe of the team." Naruto scolded and his two teammates looked away in a bit of shame and slight anger.

"then let's go" Sasuke said and he was walking out of the room.

"Sasuke-kun! We're not supposed to be out there, those people are really strong, we should let our sensei handle this." Sakura said and Sasuke froze a bit.

"fine." Sasuke said and sat back down, his fist clenched in a bit of anger. Naruto blinked a few times and said.

"who are you and what did you do to Sasuke?" Naruto shouted and pointed at Sasuke. Both of his teammates were blinking a few times and stared at their blonde teammates with a stupid look.

"what do you mean Naruto-baka? That is Sasuke-kun!" Sakura shouted in Sasuke's defense.

"no! Sasuke would never listen to you Sakura!" Naruto pointed out and Sakura actually thought about it.

"your right! Sasuke-kun never listened to me before! What changed imposter!" Sakura screamed and turned to Sasuke who didn't know what to make out of this situation.

"I am me Dobe, Sakura." Sasuke claimed as his eyebrows twitched in anger.

"oh yeah, then prove it!" Naruto shouted and pointed some more.

"ugh, Dobe, your such a loser." Sasuke said in a Uchiha like manner.

"okay, he's Sasuke" Naruto lowered his finger and waved it off, but poor Sakura was dumbfounded.

"what? Naruto? What you mean he's Sasuke-kun? Wait I'm confused?" Sakura said.

"come on Sakura it's not that hard, it was how he said it." Naruto pointed out and the 3 genin's of team 7 sat back down to let things settle outside. When they were bored, Sasuke looked around the room again and saw his whiskered sensei's backpack.

"hey guys, maybe we can find something useful in Shina's backpack." Sasuke called out and his two teammates huddled around the backpack, but Naruto wasn't so eager.

"um. No, I think we shouldn't snoop around Shina sensei's backpack guys." Naruto said trying to get the backpack away.

"why not? Shina-sensei might have something important in here that might help us?" Sakura pointed out and Sasuke agreed. Naruto knew that Kushina had some important things and didn't want people to find out about it.

"no, would you like Shina-sensei to snoop around your things while you guys are away?" Naruto retorted and that stopped them for a few seconds.

"well… no… but" Sakura started and Naruto pressed forward.

"well then don't look through her stuff." Naruto said and pulled the backpack away from them, in his haste a small book fell out of the backpack. All three read the title.

'the diary of K.U.N'

Kushina, Kakashi, and was on their way on finding the man that looks too much like the Yondaime Hokage.

"Kakashi, I know what you saw and it's true. That man is my tou-san, the Naruto of the future. That other man who looked a lot like Itachi was the Sasuke of the future. Good luck." Kushina said with a hard look in her eyes. Kakashi wasn't eager to fight the future Sasuke and wanted to know something.

"is there a chance-" he started.

"no." Kushina said and she leapt further into the woods.

Sasuke of the future ran forward with much haste and recklessly charged Itachi who struggled to stand. Sasuke currently had the curse seal level one active and had his Chokuto charged with cackling lightning. As he was about to cleave his clan's killer in half with a vertical slash, Sasuke screamed out.

"prepare to die Itachi! You stand in my way of my revenge, so you pay with your life!" with that saying, Sasuke swung his blade, Itachi took the blade all the way through his body, that is till his body disintegrated into crows.

'crow bunshin. Damn you Dobe, if I had my Sharingan I would've seen that!' Sasuke mentally seethed at the lose of his mighty Sharingan and looked at the panting Hokage who was on his knees and his back to a tree. Naruto wasn't in good condition seeing as he had his jounin vest singed by the 'chidori Nagashi' strike. Sasuke once more charged at Naruto of the future and was about to swing again once more lightning chakra coursing through his blade.

"it's over!" Sasuke screamed.

'I guess this is it… good bye… Kushina.' Naruto closed his eyes waiting for his end.

"Not unless I got something to do about it!" a shout snapped Naruto's eyes wide as a new figure came in with another shout.

"Super Dynamic Entry!" a figure with red hair and whiskers gave an almighty jump kick to Sasuke's face. The Uchiha flew back and crashed into several trees before coming to a stop. Naruto looked at the figure who gave the kick a smile.

"I'm surprised Kushina-chan, you usually shout out the flames of youth after that kic-" he was interrupted by a echoing slap on the right cheek.

SLAP

"I am in a very bad mood Tou-teme. Your just lucky that we are in a middle of a fight or so Kami save you, you'd suffer the beating of a lifetime" Kushina screamed and gave another chakra enhanced slap on the left cheek this time. Both slaps left behind a black bruise. Naruto could feel that a tooth or two came out or loosen. Kakashi winced at the sound it made.

SLAP

"we are going to talk later, but right now I am going to pound that Uchiha teme to the ground for what he did to Tsunade sensei!" Kushina claimed.

As Kushina talked to her father Kakashi was soaking in the image that looked too much like his sensei.

'sensei? Those are his blue eyes, his spiky blonde hair, and those two yellow bangs on the side of his face. How can this be Naruto? This looked just like Minato sensei!' Kakashi mentally thought out as he stared into the face that is Naruto Uzumaki Namikaze, the former Rokudaime Hokage. His left hand twitched and moved to his lone Sharingan eye, he pulled up the headband and with the Sharingan he stared at the pair.

'by Kami, even to the Sharingan Naruto looked just like a clone to the real deal.' Kakashi thought. With the Sharingan he moved his gaze to Kushina.

'she doesn't look too much like Kushina-sama though, only the hair and her face barely looks like her. Although her mother's body is so much like her, and her temper…' Kakashi noted and hid his Sharingan under his head band again. Suddenly all 3 felt a figure approach them.

"have no fear, it is simply me" Itachi weakly said and stood next to the former Hokage.

Suddenly a scream brought all 4 of their attentions to it.

"you damn *****! I had it with you! Those damned assassins I hired to kill you never done the job right! I guess the saying goes, if you want something done, do it yourself." Sasuke seethed and shouted out.

"Kirigakure no jutsu (hidden mist technique)!"

'that damned kick was chakra enhanced if it wasn't for this seal then I would've to say good bye to my head.' Sasuke noted about Kushina's dynamic entry. His face winced at the pain he felt.

'i knew it was him. it was too obvious that the Teme set up all those Assassins after me.' Kushina thought as she got an answer to an unanswered question.

At the call, a large thick mist engulf the playing field. It originated from the river just next to the group. Kushina already took initiative and began to heal her father as quickly as possible.

"Kage bunshin no jutsu" Kushina called out and 5 clones came into existence.

"healing emergency code 2 now!" Kushina called out and at once 4 of the clone surrounded the real Kushina and Naruto and the 2 remaining Kushinas began healing Naruto who protested.

"no Kushina, stop. You got bigger things to worry about-" that was as far as he went as another slap stopped him.

SLAP

"I Hate You!" Kushina admitted and Naruto snapped his head to his daughter with wide eyes. He felt a huge part of himself die and his worst fears come to pass. not only that, but the former Hokage felt Tsunade-like killer intent, Naruto put his head down and his lips began to whimper despite the two black bruises on each cheek. they hurt like hell, but it doesn't hurt as much as his daughter's hate. That is till his daughter went on.

"but you're the only thing that kept me going. I hate you for a lot of reason right now but damn it! I still love you!" Kushina proclaimed and slammed both her arms onto her father's chest as Naruto's heart swelled with happiness and his eyes held back tears. He was deathly afraid that he would have to bear his daughter's hatred for the sake of the world.

Kushina was confused by her own confession.

'I hate him. Yet, I still love him. Why?'

"I still need time to think of what to make of you tou-teme-baka!." Kushina coldly said and her one clone and Kushina began their work. Luckily Naruto was suffering chakra exhaustion, some minor burns, and 2 black bruises as the two Kushinas looked over him.

"I can accept that." Naruto said weakly.

"shut up! Now… several singes few pieces of shrapnel, 2 black bruises that i caused, and chakra exhaustion. He'll be fine." Kushina analyzed with a critical eye as the clone of her and Kushina began to heal the burns. She couldn't do a chakra transfer yet as parse of her medical ninjutsu training. For that is a high level of healing. She easily pulled out several pieces of shrapnel out of Naruto's vest and looked over any mistakes she could have made.

As Kushina and her clone was healing Naruto, the 4 Kushina clones, Itachi and Kakashi was watching over the 3, if you count the clone.

"never thought I'd be working with a hero." Kakashi noted and Itachi glanced over to him, but that was his mistake as Sasuke took advantage of that lost focus.

"Die!" Sasuke scream and thrusted his sword into Itachi, his blade met contact, but it wasn't his target. Instead of blood appearing in Sasuke's vision, a clone of Kushina substituted with him.

"focus Itachi! Kakashi! We are in a dangerous situation and I really don't like saving your asses right about now." a clone of Kushina scolded and boosted that fury with killer intent. with a 13 year old scolding them, Kakashi and Itachi felt disappointed with themselves.

"my apologizes Kushina-sama, it won't happen again." Itachi monotonically said and Kushina's right eye twitched.

'we'll talk about that later' Kushina noted. Suddenly in the mist a whisper can be heard.

"Kunai Kage bunshin no jutsu (kunai shadow clone technique)."

At the call a few dozen kunai was flying at the group. Kakashi barely heard the whisper and countered with a defensive type.

"Doton: Doryuheki (earth release: earth style wall)!"

A large wall intercepted the kunai but the results wasn't in Kakashi's favor, instead, the kunai became brighten and carved a path through the wall.

All 6 figures saw this.

'lightning enhanced kunai!' with that knowledge in mind the 3 clones blocked what they could with wind enhanced kunai and Kakashi and Itachi dodged the throws, but it came with a cost.

Kakashi and Itachi separated from the group and themselves. With the clones, 2 clones were killed. The last clone then shouted out.

"Futon: Daitoppa!" at the call, the mist cleared, but suddenly the mist came rolling back in as confusion engulfed over the clone.

"what's going on?" the clone called out, Naruto was conscious the whole time and explained.

"it's the curse seal that is enhancing his techniques. We're trapped in here like rats." Naruto explained and everyone heard a laugh. Itachi and Kakashi soon after regrouped with Kushina and Naruto, they didn't dodge very far and luckily Sasuke didn't capitalize on their momentary separation.

"I remember the first time we came here Dobe. I was shaking in my sandals the first time I fought Zabuza. He was the predator and I was the prey. It's ironic that this time, I get to be the predator and the 4 of you my prey." Sasuke laughed and suddenly a chirping sound can be heard and in the next moment Sasuke suddenly appeared right above the laying former Hokage.

"Chidori!" Sasuke screamed and plunged the assassination technique into the ground, his intent on killing Naruto.

'what! I taught Sasuke my prized technique and he's using it on Konoha shinobi!' Kakashi noted as he heard the familiar chirping of a thousand birds. He immediately felt guilty and wondered why he taught Sasuke his prized technique. his own technique was being used to kill his own allies.

"Odama Rasengan (big ball spiraling sphere)!" Kushina and her clone countered in defense. the real Kushina was using her left arm and the clone her right.

'she knows the Rasengan too! By Kami what else am I missing?' Kakashi questioned.

The two techniques clashed and the Chidori was slowly cutting through the Rasengan. a bright red glow can be seen from where the Chidori was cutting through the Rasengan.

'what the heck!? The Rasengan is losing!' the two Kushina's panicked, the third Kushina barely saw the two techniques through the dense mist, but knew enough and grabbed Naruto and vanished in a cloud of smoke. As the clone was leaving, she got a good look on Sasuke and noted.

'those marks, they match the description of a cursed seal. He's been cursed…' the clone noted. Sasuke with wide eyes grew into a fit of rage that is prey is gone and suddenly a black chakra surge erupted from him. Canceling the two clashing techniques and shoving away Kushina and her clone, the clone dispelled from the burst.

"regroup!" Kushina called out to Itachi and Kakashi as she got back up with a pained gasp, and both made their way to her voice.

"what do we do? I can't clear this mist, it's too thick and it only comes back if I try to push it away." Kushina explained as the three prodigies of the hidden leaf village furiously tried to come up with a plan in a triangle formation.

"HAHAHA! The three prodigies of Konoha are having a hard time. How amusing." Sasuke's voice called out to them.

"larynx, spine, lungs, liver, jugular vein, collarbone, kidney, and heart. Which do I pick? What do I chose? Eenie Meenie Miney Mo I pick you and now you die." Sasuke said and suddenly in between all three shinobi of Konoha appeared Sasuke with his Chokuto with lightning chakra and was about to cleave through Kushina's spine.

Time slowed down as Sasuke's sword was about to make a clean cut through the whiskered jounin. Till suddenly Itachi exploded in water, not before whispering.

"suiton: Bunshin Daibakuha (water release: clone great explosion)."

At the explosion, Kushina, Kakashi, and Sasuke was shoved away with water and Sasuke's concentration with the mist cleared. When everyone got back up. Sasuke had to seethed.

"when?" Sasuke asked in a furious voice. Itachi came out of the woods and explained.

"that clone wasn't me in the first place. It was simply a clone." Itachi mentioned and Sasuke grew furious.

'my Sharingan would've made this fight over with no effort. i wouldn't even need this mist to protect myself from the Sharingan. Sasuke seethed at the missing of his precious Sharingan and saw that his mist cleared. He learned portions of the silent killing technique and made his own version. Utilizing Ninjutsu and Kenjutsu inside the mist, but that is useless now seeing as the mist is gone.

"now that we can see, I got a few questions I want to ask. How did you find Tsunade obaa-chan!" Kushina questioned the Uchiha as Kakashi and Itachi regrouped with her once more. Sasuke thought about it for a moment and Kushina shouted some more.

"I saw the cloths when you got here! They were clothing's of Tsunade, her apprentice, and her pig! Answer me!" Kushina asked in rage and hard eyes. At the memory, Sasuke laughed.

"it was seriously entertaining… I stumbled upon her." Sasuke informed.

'i doubt that' Kushina thought and then she heard a shout.

"Kage Bunshin no jutsu." 3 clones of Sasuke suddenly appeared and charged. The real one just waited.

"it looks like it'll be a battle of the clones huh? Well you can't beat me!" Kushina claimed and was about to shout out until Itachi informed.

"Kushina-sama, it's a genjutsu." Itachi informed and all three prodigies shouted out at the same time.

"Kai!" at the call, the 3 clones vanished and what they saw widened all of their eyes.

Konan and the former Amekage stood off against Orochimaru who leapt back away from the pair. Yet that was his undoing as the Naraka path called out.

"Gedo: Rinne Tensei no jutsu (Outer path: Samsara of Heavenly life technique)." at the call, the head of the king of hell emerged from the ground.

'what is that?' Orochimaru intrigued and watched what was happening. As he was watching, the Deva path called out to the two fallen bodies of his path.

"Bansho Tenin." the two dead paths flew to the Deva path which lifted the two bodies into the King of hell's mouth. From there the Outer path began chewing and eventually spat out the two bodies. Surprising the snake sannin.

'interesting… it seems this one can heal the others. Ill have to go for that one first.' Orochimaru reasoned and began his intricate planning, but first he recognized the blue haired women.

"so Konan, how are you and the other orphans?" Orochimaru asked.

"we are fine, now if only you'd get out of our way we can let you live." Konan answered and Orochimaru took a step back from the 7 figures approaching him.

'It is unfortunate that I never prepared for that technique. It would've came in handy in this situation… but I do have something in mind kukukuku' Orochimaru snickered.

"Edo Tensei (summoning: impure world reincarnation)!" at the call, two coffins rose from the ground.

the first read 'Sandaime'

the second read 'Yondaime'

At the Sandaime's office. The Sandaime was currently working on paperwork and glancing over to the picture of the Yondaime. As he was gazing upon the picture that is Minato Namikaze.

'what the hell is wrong with your family? Minato-kun? first both your son and granddaughter are time travelers from the future, and it only makes things worse because now I'm believing that everything is possible! ever since i found out time travel is possible, what can't be done!?' the Sandaime mentally panicked.

the Sandaime continued to look at the pictures of the other Hokages and eventually went back to his paperwork. the elderly Hokage picked up his brush and just before he began writing, his brush snapped.

'that is an incredibly bad sign that something is either going to happen or has happened.' the Sandaime noted and suddenly two clouds of smoke appeared into his office.

'this is a bad omen...' the old man noted. and turned to the two newly arrived figures. as the smoke cleared, it revealed two men. one was in a green spandex suit with a green jounin vest, huge eyebrows and bowl haircut. the other man had white hair and red markings under his eye. this one's attire was that of the toad sage.

"Gai-kun, Jiraiya-kun. what is so urgent that requires you to be here in such a informal manner?" the Sandaime questioned and instantly he got his answer in a loud voice.

"YOSH! i apologize Hokage-sama, but i must immediately report something of incredible importance that it requires your still powerful flames of Youth despite your old age, Hokage-sama!" Gai shouted out. Hiruzen got a huge twitch in his eyes.

'it seems i was right, something bad happened... and why did i promote Gai to jounin I'll never know...' at that feelings he said.

"Anbu, please leave." at the order, 3 people left the room in smoke clouds. the Sandaime turned to his two ninjas, sealing the room as he did.

"well Gai-kun, do tell. first Gai then Jiraiya-kun." the Sandaime urged Gai on. suddenly Gai turned so serious that even Jiraiya was instantly worried. in fact, Gai was so serious that if Kakashi took just one glance upon his rival's face, then Kakashi would start spew things about the flames of youth to prevent the imbalances of the lack of flames of Youth to be forgotten in the continuum of space and time and the shinobi universe!

"Hokage-sama. during my scouting mission i have observed something of extreme unyouthfulness!" Gai instantly turned furious and held back his tears, but couldn't hold them for long.

"Hokage-sama! Somebody became so unyouthful as to steal our Yondaime-sama's ultimate technique" Gai began to cry in anger. he then began to elaborate.

'somebody stolen the Hiraishin no jutsu? it can't be possible...' both Jiraiya and Hiruzen thought.

"my team was on it's usual youthful scouting mission when a unyouthful bright black and yellow flash appeared before our sight. i recognized the technique from it's youthful flashing effects. this unyouthful person must be found!" the green beast of Konoha shouted in anger. the Sandaime was surprised, but kept it to himself.

"thank you Gai, ill begin to work on this interesting development immediately." the Sandaime said monotonically, he wanted to be rid of Gai as soon as possible.

'Kushina... why didn't you tell me your father rediscovered your grandfather's legendary technique? but i guess the shame belongs to me. i should've realized that if the Yondaime's granddaughter was learning his technique, then so should the middle generation.' the Sandaime berated himself, but Jiraiya was having some thoughts of his own.

'Naruto of the future rediscovered his father's technique? interesting, but why didn't he tell me? well.. he is a ninja and we are supposed to keep our techniques a secret, it was generous of him to tell me a few of his techniques.' Jiraiya thought out. the Sannin was snapped from his musing when he was asked a question.

"Jiraiya-kun, what is your report?" the Sandaime asked.

"this is rather important sensei." Jiraiya said, his eyes pointed to the green beast inside the room.

"ah... yes. Gai-kun, you may leave." Gai nodded and left in a shunshin immediately. as soon as the Green beast of Konoha left, Jiraiya turned serious.

"sensei... I'll make this quick. the Yondaime Raikage was nearly killed in an Assassination attempt. he is right now in a coma and there was enough Kumo Anbu in the area to know exactly who it was." the toad sage said with a serious face.

"who?" Hiruzen urged.

"Orochimaru..." Jiraiya answered. at the name, Hiruzen paled, but that wasn't the end of the news.

"and he wasn't alone. he had an ally that dressed the same way as him. i bet we both know who it was." Jiraiya said. Hiruzen put a palm to his face and asked.

"don't hold this, just tell me." Hiruzen asked in frustration.

'the bad news just keep coming.' Hiruzen complained.

"the Kumo Anbu claims that it was an Uchiha who helped Orochimaru get inside Kumo. the Kumo Anbu said that the accomplice of our former teammate had raven black hair, black eyes, and worn the same clothing as Oro-teme." Jiraiya said.

'so... there is a third time traveler after all. Kushina, why are you holding so much information from me?' Hiruzen complained again and his student went on.

"i believe it's the future version of our Sasuke Uchiha. the future Naruto told me about him. the spoiled brat of Konoha just became Konoha's worst enemy." Jiraiya coldly said.

"it's ironic. isn't it sensei? the village's pride and joy became their worst enemy in the future and that the people are responsible." Jiraiya said next.

"i agree. we can't do anything right now. we must prepare for the worse and you will continue to get information on Kumo. i need to know if they are having a Godaime. right now. we'll keep this a secret from the civilians. they have a fit if this gets revealed, although i wouldn't be surprised if Danzo found out..." Hiruzen agreed, but as soon as he finished. a 3rd character entered the room.

"Hiruzen, we must talk." this figure said.

back with Naruto and the Kushina clone, they heard everything by placing chakra into their ears, enhancing their hearing abilities. as they heard the chidori screaming in the sky, the call for an Odama Rasengan, and the call for regroup. Naruto knew he was talking to a clone and accepted that. the clone and Naruto hid behind several bushes and a tree. as they stayed there, the former Hokage was still temporarily incapacitated by chakra exhaustion and could barely stand.

"Kushina-chan, i am deeply sorry for what i put you through. there are things that you must know before we continue with this." Naruto said, bringing the attention of the clone to him.

"fine tou-teme-baka." the clone glared at her father.

"i managed to convince Nagato to aid us in our quest for peace-" he was interrupted.

"i already know. i don't need you to inform me of these things. right now i got some things to tell you." the clone said and Naruto wondered what it could be.

"I hate you!" the clone shouted with all the hatred the clone can muster. Naruto looked away grimly and with a frown.

'i knew it, but she claims she loved me still...' Naruto thought in hopes and slowly tried to get back up, but collapsed.

"serves you right. you can barely stand and you didn't even come at the first throw." the clone said. Naruto winced at the memory.

"i was busy, and i at first thought you were training." Naruto pointed out.

flashback 7 years ago.

a 6 year old Kushina, who possessed shoulder length hair in a red PJ, and Naruto, who was wearing his Kage robes and a jounin vest, was at the Namikaze compound and an Assassin was laying on the ground, blood was splattered everywhere, some of it was on Kushina's face. this was the time Kushina found out about Kyuubi and the childish promise Naruto made.

"t-t-tou-s-san." a crying Kushina said as tears welled up in her eyes. Naruto immediately came to comfort her.

"it's okay, Kushina-chan, your safe. your safe. your alright, the bad man is gone now, you don't have to worry anymore." Naruto cooed. Kushina simmered down a bit and spoke up as Naruto wiped the blood off her daughter's face.

'she's too young to see this. damn you Sakunko Haruno (Sakura's mother, don't know her real name), you just couldn't leave your granddaughter alone?' Naruto though in anger.

"w-what did that man mean daddy? that y-you are a demon?" Kushina asked worriedly and Naruto's eyes had this panicking look.

"w-what did that man tell you?" Naruto demanded softly.

"h-he said that y-your a d-d-demon and that i-i am a d-demon s-spawn." Kushina cried and Naruto had a panicked looked.

"here... we'll talk about this tomorrow alright?" Naruto assured and brought Kushina through to their home. Hinata was dealing with the Assassin and telling the Anbu what happened. as father and daughter walked through their home, when they approached Kushina's bed. Kushina was laid on her bed with a frightful expression and asked.

"tou-san... can i sleep with you and kaa-chan?" Kushina asked timidly. Naruto smiled softly, a few moments later all three slept in their beds. with Kushina in the middle. In the next day. Kushina was asked a few questions from her father.

"Kushina-chan, what did that man tell you yesterday?" Naruto asked slowly in their home with Hinata watching carefully. Kushina took a deep breath and spoke with a bit of confidence.

"that man came in with a... um... Kunai and told me some things, h-he told me that... you we're a demon, and i am a demon spawn." Kushina said with her voice cracking in a few parts. the Rokudaime's daughter cried a bit at the last part.

"t-tou-san." Kushina's resolve weakened.

"am i a-a d-demon?" Kushina asked worriedly, Naruto instantly reacted at the accusation of herself. Naruto lifted his daughter bridal style and said softly to her.

"Kushina" he said in a serious voice. without the -chan suffix, Kushina snapped all her attention to her beloved father.

"you are no demon. you are Kushina Uzumaki Namikaze. the greatest daughter a man could ever ask for. now does that sound like a demon to you?" Naruto asked. Kushina of course shook her head.

"good. now i believe this is the best time to tell you a new story." Naruto said. Hinata was watching the scene very carefully.

"Naruto-kun? are you sure?" Hinata asked in her husband's ear, low enough for Kushina to unable to listen.

"yes, i am sure. i have faith in Kushina-chan will make the right belief" Naruto whispered back, he then turned to the red haired girl.

"Kushina-chan, here is a story between your grandfather and me. okay?" Naruto said. Kushina of course paid full attention. the red haired girl loved her father's story with gusto and paid every ounce of attention she possessed to each word.

"24 years ago. when the village was sleeping peacefully. i was being born from your beautiful grandmother. do you remember her name Kushina-chan?" Naruto started and asked. the red headed girl of course nodded and answered.

"her name was Kushina Uzumaki Namikaze, the women i was named after." Kushina answered. Naruto nodded and went on.

"she was giving birth to me, as she was, there was something known as a jinchuuriki. a Jinchuuriki is a person that carries a powerful demon known as a bijuu. these bijuu are chakra beasts that has a huge amount of a life force called chakra. do you know what chakra is?"Naruto asked.

"Chakra is the mixture between our spiritual energy and physical energy. all ninjas can use this chakra for stuff like ninjutsu and all that awesome ninja stuff." Kushina answered. the answer made Naruto smile.

'she's so smart. i didn't know about chakra until i was 13. i know that she'll make the right belief.' Naruto thought in both jealously and faith.

"right as usual, now, your grandmother was an extremely beautiful women who gave you her beautiful red hair. yet she had something fantastic within her." Naruto said, getting a compliment from his tenant and he was interrupted.

"a bijuu!"Kushina interrupted bluntly. both her parents was shocked that she knew the next part. Naruto was gobsmacked at the intuition of his daughter and went on.

"ah, y-yes. a bijuu, that made your grandmother-" he was interrupted once more.

"a jinchuuriki!" Kushina once more interrupted.

"will you stop that?" Naruto asked playfully. making the red head blush in embarrassment.

"sorry." Kushina apologized.

"it's fine, now... your grandmother was indeed a jinchuuriki, the jinchuuriki of the strongest of all the bijuu. the Kyuubi." Naruto informed. Making Kushina's eyes widened.

"yet something terrible happened on the day that i was born. you see, when a girl jinchuuriki is about to have a baby, the seal that keeps the bijuu locked away weakens to a point that the bijuu can escape." a gasp can be heard from the red head who was trying her best to piece things together.

"yes, the Kyuubi from your grandmother managed to escape with the help of a very powerful man. your grandfather, the Yondaime Hokage so desperately wanted to help your grandmother, but this powerful man held me prisoner, luckily your grandfather was a very powerful man himself and managed to save your grandmother and father." another gasp from the red head stopped him.

"wait, isn't something so large like the Kyuubi supposed to hurt obaa-chan if it escapes."

'how the?- how is she so smart?' Naruto wondered as he forgotten that little detail.

"well yes, but an Uzumaki like her has an incredibly powerful life force. they can survive lots of painful things. as your grandfather save us, he had to battle the Kyuubi which was controlled by this powerful man. as he battled the powerful man and the Kyuubi, he had no choice as he had to save Konoha and myself. to do so, he sealed it away into a newborn baby." a third gasp from the red head, signalling that she got the message.

"that baby was you?" Kushina asked timidly. a nod was her answer.

"as the Sandaime jinchuuriki no Kyuubi no Yoko. do you believe i am a monster? a demon?" Naruto asked worriedly and slightly fearful of her answer. as Kushina thought things out, she began to cry.

"Kushina-chan? what's wrong?" Naruto asked worriedly, fearing the worse that his own flesh and blood fears her father.

'no... she can't be scare of me, it can't be true!' Naruto thought.

"i heard so many stories that the Kyuubi jinchuuriki was beaten as a child, i didn't know it was you!" Kushina cried into her father's chest.

"it's alright, things are so much better for us now. now what do you think of me?" Kushina stopped her crying to answer her father.

"you baka!" Kushina shouted, making Naruto blink a few time.

"baka! you are no demon! a demon could never love somebody so much!" Kushina shouted into her father's chest once more. at the confession, Naruto smiled and hugged his daughter. he then spun her around a few time making Kushina giggle in happiness. their watcher took a deep breath of relief and joined the family.

"thank you." he whispered to no one in particular as he drew one of his tri-pronged kunai.

"now here. this is the kunai your grandfather used for his ultimate technique. all you gotta do is throw it one time and ill come for you." Naruto informed and Kushina took the kunai in her hand.

"don't cut yourself now. whenever a mean, mean person comes by. throw this and ill be there for you." Naruto said.

"you promise?" Kushina asked.

"i promise" Naruto promised.

"on the first throw?" Kushina asked once more.

"sure" Naruto promised and Kushina smiled. Naruto got a brilliant idea then suddenly he got a grin on his face.

"now let's go tease Tsunade baa-chan for a quick check up okay?" Naruto asked.

"okay, but Baa-chan's really old. i mean, she could be real senile some times, especially when she's drunk." Kushina pointed out with a thoughtful expression on her face. that comment only made her father laugh and Hinata looked wide eyed at their child.

"Kushina-chan! Tsunade-sama deserves respect!" Hinata scolded. that only made the two Namikazes roar out in laughter.

"it's alright Hinata-chan, Kushina means well. it's just how we display our affections. besides. Kushina-chan is much more respectful than even me. the Hokage!" Naruto claimed which made Kushina bubbly in his comforting arms.

"your a just a Teme and i am under an alias named "Shina Uzukaze"" Kushina coldly stated as the fight went on between the 3 prodigies of Konoha and Sasuke Uchiha of the future.

"i am so sorry, but you have to admit that it was a childish promise! i held up that promise for as long as we did until today. can you really blame me for that?" Naruto apologized, begged, and filed the information of the alias away.

"fine, but why couldn't you take on Madara Uchiha?" the clone asked. Naruto was confused by the sudden question, but took a breath and answered.

"Madara had both the Rinnegan and the Sharingan, but after the 4th shinobi war, he began experimenting upon himself. one of my teams found out one of Madara's secret bases and in it was a report. that report told us that Madara-" Naruto was interrupted when the clone suddenly expired. the former Hokage instantly was filled with fear.

'no. not her... oh Kami-sama please not her...' Naruto nearly panicked. only his shinobi training kept him under wraps and slowly gotten himself back up.

'Kurama could make things so much easier. i miss him.' Naruto grimly remembers and through sheer determination, he got back up.

the 3 prodigies of Konoha quickly dispelled the feeble genjutsu that Sasuke tried to make, but it was just as he planned for when each of the three dispelled, none were expecting a snake summon to swallow Kushina whole from the ground.

"AHA!" Kushina cried out in fear as they watched as the snake burrowed itself back into the ground.

"Shina!" Kakashi screamed out and quickly revealed his Sharingan. he knew he had to do something quick or else the future might end up poorly. he didn't know what to do. neither Sharingan user knew what to do as suddenly the same snake suddenly revealed itself and spat out Kushina, who was gasping for air and covered with snake fluids on head to toes. the arrogant Sasuke took advantage of that and grabbed Kushina by the back of the neck. he then drew his Chokuto and pointed the tool to the red head's neck. the snake didn't dispel itself.

"now look at this, a Hostage, hey Kakashi, kill Itachi or Kushina dies." Sasuke demanded. Kakashi cursed himself at this impossible task as he knew he couldn't take on Itachi. he himself was only A-ranked material, while Itachi himself was S-ranked. it would be suicide for him to take on Itachi,.

"don't do it!" Kushina screamed out to them.

"i can take whatever you throw at me!" Kushina shouted out.

"oh can you?" Sasuke asked and tested that theory out by stabbing the Rokudaime's daughter through the right waist. Kushina felt a spasm of pain and immediately fell to her knees. on instinct, she clutched the wound.

"Shina!" Kakashi whispered furiously.

'this is out of our league, we have to get out of here!' Kakashi thought. Itachi remained stoic and glared at Sasuke.

"is that all you got?" Kushina taunted with a grunt.

"with pleasure." Sasuke said and this time thrusted his sword through the red head's back. the sword came clean through her chest, blood instantly covered the grounds... and it was all hers.

Author's Note: who did Orochimaru summon? where is Tsunade and her companions? when will this fight be over? when will i tell the story of Kushina's life? when did Sasuke take control of Sakura? when will i tell Sasuke's story? what the hell's in Kushina's diary?!

Answer: in a bunch of chapters later.

the fights aren't over yet for at least one more chapter, then we'll find out more about Kushina and what Sasuke has done...

here are the stats for the 3 time travelers. i think this is the best time to do so.

Naruto Uzumaki Namikaze.

birth date: October 10th

gender: male

age: 33

blood type: B

Kekkei Genkai: none

Occupation: Former Hokage, former Jinchuuriki.

Rank: S (unofficial in new world)

Ninja Rank: Kage (unofficial)

family: Minato Namikaze (father), Kushina Uzumaki (mother), Sakura Uchiha (former wife), Hinata Uzumaki Namikaze (wife), Tsunade Senju (adoptive mother) Sai (adoptive brother).

main jutsu types: futon ninjutsu, fuinjutsu, taijutsu, the eight gates(that's a secret), and ninjutsu.

known jutsu: eight trigrams sealing style, Hiraishin no jutsu, Rasengan and all variates, Sage mode, Kage bunshin no jutsu, Shuriken and Kunai Kage bunshin no jutsu, Kuchiyose no jutsu and variates, several fuinjutsu (also a secret), Kyuubi cloak (unavailable), Shunshin no jutsu, dynamic entry, Konoha Senpuu (leaf whirlwind), Konoha tsumuji senpuu (leaf coiling whirlwind), Konoha Daisenpuu (leaf great whirlwind), Konoha Shofu (leaf rising wind), Konoha repuu (leaf gale), Goken (strong fist).

Stats- Ninjutsu-5, Taijutsu- 5, Genjutsu-1(canceling prowess only, but with the Kyuubi removed, who knows?!), Intelligence-4.5(days as Hokage greatly helped), strength-5,speed-5, stamina-5, hand seals-3.5.

Total:34

Kushina Uzumaki Namikaze.

Birth date: let's say... December 25 (merry Christmas!)

gender: female

age: 13

blood type: O

Kekkei Genkai: chakra chains (inherited from grandmother)

Occupation: jounin of Konoha

Rank: supposedly A

Ninja Rank: Jounin

known Family (may expand): Naruto Uzumaki (father) Sakura Uchiha (mother) Minato Namikaze (grandfather), Kushina Uzumaki (grandmother), Hinata Uzumaki Namikaze (adoptive mother) Tsunade Senju (adoptive grandmother) Sai (adoptive uncle).

Main jutsu types: Futon Ninjutsu, Katon Ninjutsu, Taijutsu, ninjutsu, the eight gates (only 3), medical ninjutsu(limited), and genjutsu.

Known jutsu: Futon: Daitoppa (wind release: great breakthrough(seriously, i typed this technique about... 10? 15 times? do i have to repeat it every single time?)), Futon: Renkudan (wind release: drilling air bullets), Katon: Ryuka no jutsu (fire release: dragon fire technique), Katon: Karyu Endan (fire release: dragon flame bullet) Sozo Saisei (creation rebirth), Shosen Jutsu(mystical palm technique), Kage Bunshin no jutsu, Kage and Shuriken Kage Bunshin no jutsu. Rasengan, Odama Rasengan, legendary heel drop, chakra enhanced strength, Shunshin no jutsu, chakra scalpels, dynamic entry, super dynamic entry (dynamic entry with chakra enhanced strength), Konoha Senpuu (leaf whirlwind), Konoha tsumuji senpuu (leaf coiling whirlwind), Konoha Daisenpuu (leaf great whirlwind), Konoha Shofu (leaf rising wind), Konoha repuu (leaf gale), Goken (strong fist).

Stats: Ninjutsu-4, Taijutsu4, Genjutsu-3, Intelligence-4, strength-2(5 with chakra enhanced strength), speed-3.5, stamina-5, hand seals-3.

Total: 28.5 (31.5 with chakra enhanced strength)

Notes: inner Kushina knows something that the real Kushina does not...

Sasuke Uchiha

birth date: July 23

gender: male

age: 33

blood type: AB

Kekkei Genkai: Sharingan (removed by Naruto)

Occupation: former missing-nin.

Rank: S (unofficial)

Ninja Rank: none (kicked out of all Shinobi forces), former Genin.

Family: Fugaku Uchiha (father), Mikoto Uchiha (mother), Itachi Uchiha (brother), and Sakura Uchiha (wife)

Main jutsu types: Katon Ninjutsu (affinity), Raiton Ninjutsu (affinity), Suiton ninjutsu (through Sharingan Memorization), Taijutsu, Kenjutsu, Kinjutsu, the eight gates (also a secret), medical ninjutsu(also limited and through Sharingan Memorization), genjutsu, Doton Ninjutsu (through Sharingan memorization), Futon Ninjutsu (limited and through Sharingan memorization) (mini Author's note. almost sounds like Sasuke's overpowered... damn Sharingan)

Known jutsu: Amaterasu(unavailable due to removed Sharingan eyes), Jagei Jubaku( Binding Snake Glare Spell), Chidori, Chidori Nagashi, Chidori Senbon, Chidori Eiso (one Thousand Birds Sharp Spear) Curse seal of Heaven (level 2), Magen: Kasegui no jutsu (Demonic Illusion:Shackling Stakes Technique), Kaija Hoin (Evil releasing Method), Katon: Ryuka no jutsu (fire release dragon fire technique), Katon: Goryuka no jutsu(fire release: great dragon fire technique), Shunshin no jutsu, Katon: Hosenka no jutsu (fire release: phoenix sage fire technique), Genjutsu Sharingan (unavailable), Sen'ei Tajashu, Kirin, Shishi Rendan (lion combo), Soshuiken no jutsu (manipulation shuriken technique), Sofushosan no tachi (manipulation windmill triple blades), Hayabusa Otoshi (peregrine falcon drop), shuriken Kage bunshin no jutsu, Kage Buyo (shadow of the dancing leaf), Kokuen no Tate (shield of the black flames), Goken (strong fist), Kuchiyose no jutsu (unknown summons), Kuchiyose Raiko Kenka (summoning :lightning flash blade creation, Susanoo (unavailable), Tsukuyomi (unavailable), Kusanagi no Tsurugi: Chidorigatana (sword of Kusanagi: chidori Katana), several other Raiton, Suiton, and Doton ninjutsu.

Stats: Ninjutsu-5, Taijutsu-4, Genjutsu-5, Intelligence-5, strength-4, speed-5, stamina-4, hand seals-5.

total: 37.

side notes: possesses great training in Kenjutsu.

in this story, during the 4th Shinobi war, Sasuke found out about Shisui's, gotten one eye, and used it to possess Sakura Haruno without anybody noticing, but when did he take control of his wife? how did he find it? what will any of this contribute to the end story?