Naruto Fan Fiction ❯ Naruto: The sands of time ❯ Chapter 3 The domino effect ( Chapter 3 )
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By: SDI Hypervelocity 
Expermenting in time travel
Anime/Manga: Naruto Fan Fiction | Genre(s): Action / Hentai | Type: Continuation | Uploaded On: 01.26.2005 | Pages: 3 | Words: 4.2K | Visits: 478 | Status: Completed
Expermenting in time travel
Anime/Manga: Naruto Fan Fiction | Genre(s): Action / Hentai | Type: Continuation | Uploaded On: 01.26.2005 | Pages: 3 | Words: 4.2K | Visits: 478 | Status: Completed
Chapter 3: The domino effect
“Are you serous!” Naruto shouted excitedly, Now fully cloth in his usual attire and finally eating his Raman. He nearly spit it out when he Gaara finally told him. “Yes.” Gaara said calmly. “You can really go back and time!? And Forward!?” Naruto could hardly believe what he was hearing, he couldn’t until he saw it. “Yes.” Gaara said, still in his usual tone, even though Naruto was practically yelling.
“How?”
Gaara picked up the hourglass and set it on the table. “I all I have to do is control the sand in this hourglass.” he explained, Naruto couldn’t help but want to try it…until he noticed that he was out of Raman. He looked down at the empty cup and then up at Gaara with a large grin. Gaara knew what he was thinking, he wanted him to take him back in time, about when the cup was full.
Gaara wasn’t sure he could take Naruto back in time with him, but he was about to try.
He concentrated on the sand, watching his vision distort as he moved a small amount from the bottom of the glass to the top. When he looked up again, he saw Naruto, with a full cup of Raman, staring at him excitedly.
“Are you serous!” Naruto shouted.
He had gone back, but Naruto hadn’t. He silently looked at the glass and filtered the sand back in to it’s place. “What happened? I thought you were going to go back in time?” Naruto asked, looking at him confusedly. “I did, you didn’t.” Naruto sighed at those words, he really did want to see it.
Gaara thought about it for a moment….maybe if……
Gaara got up from the bed, silently kissing Naruto while he used his powers to go back in time. He herd a questioning moan from Naruto when his vision distorted, it seemed that it worked. Gaara pulled back and Naruto rubbed his eyes, “What was that? Everything was really blurry…?” Naruto asked, looking down and noticing he had a full cup of Raman in his hand.
He grinned wildly, forgetting about his question and tasting the Raman, to make sure he wasn’t imagining this. “Gaara, this is amazing!” Naruto set down his Raman and hugged Gaara tightly. There was so many things he wanted to do, things he wanted to see.
His expression suddenly became very serious, so much that it was actually starting to make Gaara worry. “Gaara…there is one thing I want to see….you think you can take me there.” Naruto was very reluctant to ask. “Yes, what is it?” Gaara asked. “Well…I want to go back to when the Nine-tails attacked this village.”
Gaara looked at him for a moment, he knew why Naruto would want to see it. He only nodded his answer, seeing Naruto smile at him again. “Thank you!”
But there was only one problem, Gaara had a 5 hour hourglass. He didn’t know how far back he would be going, or how many times he would have to flip the glass. He could at lest get the answer to one of his questions. “How long ago was it?”
“12 years.”
“This is a 5 hour hourglass, I would need to know how many times I need to shift the sand.” The thought of the number made him shutter, he could guess over a few thousand.
“There is no way I’ll be able to figure that out……But I know someone who could.” Naruto said.
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It took a lot of work to get Gaara across the village with out anyone seeing him. It was harder then it usually would have been since everyone was still repairing and rebuilding. That meant there was a person in about everywhere, in almost every alleyway and most roof tops. Those roofs that weren’t being repaired where in a good view point of one that was. Unless they could make themselves invisible, they had a serous challenge.
Of course they did have Jutsu though, copying Jutsu that enabled Gaara to look like Naruto.
Which was all he could do, of course he could copy anyone else. But Kakashi was watching, he knew that Gaara had gone to find Naruto, and it had apparently went well. Because he saw Naruto hiding while Gaara changed in to Naruto, then Naruto waited a while then went to catch up with him. Then they repeated it over and over again, getting closer and closer to there destination each time.
If Naruto was trusting Gaara, and neither of them were hurt yet, then Gaara wasn’t a threat to the Leaf. But he would have gotten suspicious if Gaara changed in to anyone else, which is why he didn’t. And there was a chance that if Gaara had changed in to anyone else, that person might just see him. If he only changed in to Naruto, there was no chance of that happening.
They continued that process until they reached Shikamaru’s house. They were lucky to find that his parents weren’t home, they were helping with the repairs, and Shikamaru was avoiding them. He figured that there was enough people working on it already so there was no need to help. Of course he just didn’t want to do the work.
He sighed when he herd a knock on the door, which had just woke up from a dream he was actually enjoying. He pulled himself off of his bed and trudged over to the door, he nearly jumped when he saw Naruto, and more importantly Gaara waiting on the other side. “What the hell!” He shouted, taking a steep back. “Hey wait, wait!!” Naruto said hastily. “What his he doing here!? And why are you with him?” Shikamaru asked, much calmer then before. There had to be a rational reason to why Gaara was here, and it better had been a damn good one.
“Let me explain first.” Naruto said, looking up at him with almost a pleading look. Shikamaru sighed and let them come in, looking at Gaara sternly, who had his usual expressionless look and had fully expected that reaction.
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Shikamaru looked at Naruto and then at Gaara, he had just herd what happened and he believed it despite his usual thinking. Of course Naruto had left out the last part of the story, but it was easy for him to figure out what happened. “You really can control time?” Shikamaru wasn’t exactly happy about Gaara holding that type of power, but Gaara was different from before, and he seemed like he couldn’t care less about the new ability. But he always seemed like that.
“Cool isn’t it!” Naruto said excitedly. “And you want to go back 12 years, but you only have a 5 hour hourglass.” Shikamaru wanted to make sure he was hearing this correctly. “That’s why we need your help.” Naruto told him. “So what exactly do you need me to help with?”
“When I use the hourglass to go back in time, I have to flip it over and rest it in order to go back farther.” Gaara said, his usual expressionless face wasn’t as intense as it usually was, trying to show Shikamaru that he wasn’t going to try anything. Shikamaru finally relaxed, sitting back in his chair and closing his eye, “So you want me to figure out how many times you need to rest the hourglass.”
“Yes.”
Shikamaru started to think about it, did he really want to help Gaara go back in time. There was no limit to the damage he could do then, he didn’t want to be partly responsible for it. But he really couldn’t stop him from doing it, and he knew the only reason Gaara was bothering with it was because Naruto asked him. Now he was more worried about Naruto doing the damage then Gaara, he could do more on his own by accident then Gaara could do intentionally. Things could end up much worse then they already were.
“Alright I’ll help you….if you let me go with you.”
His request was reasonable, who wouldn’t want to go and see the past? Naruto looked at Gaara, who had no objection, and he himself didn’t really care. “Ok.” Naruto said. As soon as they agreed, Shikamaru started thinking about the problem. “ 5 hours out of 24 hours in a day….times 365 days in a year…times 12 years…..” He started doing the problem in his head, not taking more then a few seconds.
5 hours divided by 24 hours = 4.8. Gaara would have to reset the glass 4 times and count off 4 hours if he wanted to go back a day in time.
4.8 resets times 365 days = 1752. Gaara would have to reset the glass 1752 times to go back a year.
1752 resets times 12 years = 21024.
“You would have to reset the glass….21,024 times to go back 12 years.” Shikamaru said, checking over his numbers but he was right. Naruto and Shikamaru looked to Gaara to see if he could do that, Gaara didn’t seem at all discouraged about it though. “How long would that take?” Naruto said, holding his head, he didn’t want to think about it.
“Sure you want to go through with that?” Shikamaru asked, leaning back in his chair so that the 2 legs in the front came off the ground. Gaara looked at Naruto questioningly “It’s up to you.” “I still wanna go…..” Naruto said with a nod.
Gaara got up, picking up the hourglass and Naruto grabbed on to his arm securely. “I have to be touching you to take you back with me.” Gaara said, looking over at Shikamaru who reached out almost hesitantly, half expecting the sand to jump out and block his path. Finally after a few second, he placed his hand on Gaara’s shoulder, watching his vision distort and blur.
“What’s happening?” He asked worriedly, “That’s supposed to happen.” Naruto told him, after a few seconds their vision cleared and the could see the hourglass floating in front of Gaara. Spinning wildly until it was nothing but a blur. What had used to be Shikamaru’s house was now a rush of falling sand surrounding them on all sides. Gaara’s body shifted and Shikamaru jumped making him lose his grip on Gaara’s shoulder.
But nothing happened, he was still with Naruto and Gaara despite the fact that an uncountable number of things could have and should have happened. It seemed once they were moving through time, they couldn’t be separated.
After a minute or so, the hourglass instantly stopped and the sand that surrounded them disappeared.
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They were standing in the area Shikamaru’s house used to be….or would be built on eventually. Now it was just a wooded forest. Screams could be herd in the distance, the smell of fire burning through wood and an unknown element hung in the air. This was it, no doubt about it. “Naruto, where did you take us too?” Shikamaru asked, looking up, the night sky was covered by a veil of black smoke. Some of the trees in this area was splattered with blood.
“This is….when nine-tails attacked the village….” Naruto sounded almost as if he was in a daze, as if he couldn’t believe he was here. He could feel what was sealed inside of him start to stir, feeling it’s own Chakra in strong amounts nearby. This was definitely it. Naruto’s daze seemed to wear off as he sprang to life and dashed toward center of the smoke and screams.
Gaara noticed he was moving and went after him, ’Oh man…I hope he doesn’t do anything stupid…’ Shikamaru thought as he followed the two, struggling to catch up with Naruto who seemed to be moving faster then he had ever seen him go. They rushed through the blur of trees until a wall of fire cut off there path, The screams were louder now mixed with roars and growls, They could feel it’s Chakara like a hot wind, it was immensely powerful.
It almost left Naruto and Shikamaru trembling, nothing could protect them from it, if chose to attack them. “We should run, that think will destroy us in a second!” Shikamaru said in a forceful whisper, it was silently decided between the three of them to get away from this place….until they herd a particular set of screams, coming from a pair of children near by. They could only be no more then 2 or 3 years old.
Naruto could see them, two kids, brother and sister, clinching on to a tree base. Trying to avoid the fire and the Hell bent demon on the other side. “We have to save them!” Naruto said, right before running towards them. “Naruto wait! You can’t change the past it could--” Naruto either didn’t hear him or wasn’t listening, Shikamaru and Gaara went after Naruto again, fully aware of the danger they were in.
Naruto grabbed the small boy in one hand and the girl in the other, then looked back to see if Gaara and Shikamaru where following and went in the opposite direction. The fire behind them explained suddenly, incinerating more trees. “Oh shit! It knows we’re here!” Shikamaru said frantically, his usually calm demeanor was shattered for the moment but he quickly got it back.
His mind started racing, trying to think of something to through it off before it came for them directly…… “Gaara, Put up a wall to slow the fire, Naruto, we’ll need some copies. Just put them anywhere in the way, it should distract the demon long enough for us to escape.” Shikamaru knew the Nine-Tails would stop to kill every shadow clone Naruto could mange. By then they could leave these kids someplace safe.
Gaara did as Shikamaru said, creating a large wall of sand that stretched the fire’s length, stopping the flames in there place. Naruto used Kage Bunshin no Jutsu, creating an uncountable number of clones that lay in front of the sand wall. As expected, by the time the demon was done, they were safely out of range and in the outskirts of the Leaf village, it was much smaller in the past, mainly because of the demon.
“Let’s go, I hope we don’t regret what you did Naruto.” Shikamaru said. Naruto looked at him questioningly. “What do you mean? I just saved two people.” “Two people that were suppose to die, you don’t know how this could effect the future. Those two may grow up to destroy the leaf for all we know.” Shikamaru said, grabbing on to Gaara’s shoulder while Naruto took hold.
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They returned to the present, finding themselves at the center of the village, which was a huge problem considering they were with Gaara. Naruto looked around frantically before grabbing Gaara and pushing him in to the first concealed place and empty he could see. It just happened to be somebody’s house, which wasn’t there before.
“That was a close---” Naruto’s voice trailed off when he noticed that when he pushed Gaara, he also pushed Shikamaru, who tripped over something as soon as he entered the open door. That something turned out to be a someone, Rock Lee, who was just leaving when he found himself pined under Shikamaru. “Ow…” Rock Lee rubbed his head, opening his eyes to see who was on top of him and his gaze immediately fell on Gaara.
“What the….Gaa-” His voice was cut off when Shikamaru’s weight shifted as he pulled himself up, knocking the air out of Lee’s lungs and letting him finally get a look at who was on top of him. “What’s going on!” Lee’s voice was confused and at a near shout. “Calm down, I’ll explain it too you.” Shikamaru said, reaching out and helping Lee up, but the started to shake made him stumble back down.
“An earthquake?” Naruto said confusedly, they never had earthquakes here. “Oh man, they’re at it again…” Lee said with a deep sigh, grabbing on to the door and pulling himself up. “What do you mean?” Shikamaru asked. “Are you serous?! Where you paying attention for the last 10 years? Those twins are blasting again, one of these days they’ll blow us all up.” Lee said.
The three just looked at him with a confused look, shifting a little to keep they’re footing on the shaking ground. Lee started to explain, though he didn’t know why they didn’t know. “Remari and Kemari, brother and sister remember? They took the souls of all who died in the nine-tails battle and they’re convinced they could find even more power under the village. So they keep digging.”
“Why didn’t anyone stop them?” Shikamaru asked. “No way, you guys really have forgotten everything. No one can catch them, I saw them once, when some once gets close, they become…ghost like, nothing can touch them.” Lee said, which made it finally sink in, those were the twins that Naruto had saved. Lee looked around frantically as the shaking got worse, the ground started to crack in to fine lines “The blast never lasted this long…. I think they really did it this time!” Lee ran past Naruto, stumbling outside. In some places the ground had been tore open leaving gaping holes. In other parts sections of the ground shot up and down like pistons. And the ground under them was slowly about to break apart, the leaf was doomed and had 20 seconds left at the most.
“See what happens when you mess with the past! Go back and stop this!” Shikamaru shouted, he found it apparently clear that he wasn’t going to make it over to them in time to go with them. “Come on then!” Naruto called out, the ground under one side of the house shattered and was slowly pulling the whole structure in. “Go with out me! I’ll be fine once you stop this, you don’t have much time left.”
Naruto nodded and Gaara started using the hourglass.
Shikamaru looked around, feeling the house started to shift backwards, throwing him in to a near by wall. He landed next to Rock Lee, who had fallen there a few seconds ago. They both looked at each other, “I can’t believe I’m going to die like this!” Lee said disappointedly “If Gai-sensei could see me now.”
“Don’t worry about it.” Shikamaru said with a small smirk, now the wall had become the floor. “What are you talking about?” Lee asked, holding on though he knew it was in vein. “Hn….nothing.”
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There was a small problem now, they couldn’t go all the way back because “I’m running out of Chakra.” Gaara announced, going back farther in time was taking it down much faster then he had expected. “How much do you have left?” Naruto asked. “If I go all the way back, I won’t have enough left to take us all the way back. If I stop here, I will.” Gaara was obviously looking to Naruto for the choice. “Alright stop here.” Naruto sighed, it was only getting worse.
They ended up about 10 years in the past, only 2 years after the nine-tails was sealed. This was around the time Rock Lee said it started, maybe they could stop it now. They once again found themselves in village, this time they were in the outskirts, luckily the village hadn’t developed too near the old battle sight. If the kids had absorbed the souls from the battle, they would most likely get them from the battle field.
Gaara and Naruto ran towards it, moving from the village in to the surrounding forest. “Hey Gaara, you think we can still do something?” Naruto asked, a small amount of worry to his voice, Gaara gave him a look that just barely said I don’t know. Which only pushed Naruto to move more anxiously, he couldn’t stand the thought that he was responsible for the destruction of the Leaf.
They came on to the battle ground quickly, they could recognize it because some of it was still burnt. The ground was cleared out and hardened. Two children where here, digging through the rubble, they were the same ones that Naruto had saved before. The boy picked up one particular rock, a black stone with the same seal Naruto had on his stomach. It was stone used to concentrate Chakra, the one who sealed the nine-tails used this stone to help him do it.
He held it up and waved it around in the sun light, as soon as he waved it past another stone on the ground. Both stones began to shine. The one on the ground stopped shining and became invisible among the endless pile of similar rocks. The concentration stone in the boy’s hand still contained a strong amount of Chakra from the nine-tails, which had passed through the stone when being sealed, and from the one whole sealed the nine-tails, who had poured every last ounce of his Chakra in to it.
The stone began to pull Chakra from the air, which probably why Rock Lee said it had come from souls. It started to filter in to the boy. Naruto dived outward, snatching the stone from him and landing on the ground, finding himself surprisingly disoriented after touching it. It stopped pulling Chakra from the air and became as if it was a regular stone.
‘This is what was caused all of that?’ Naruto thought to himself, looking over the stone. Gaara stood over him, helping him up, “I guess this I what gave them their power…” Naruto said, almost only low enough for himself to hear. He looked up at Gaara and smiled. “Let’s go, All of this is making me hungry!”
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“Are you alright Gaara” Naruto asked as Gaara intentionally fell to his knees, panting heavily. This wasn’t something a normal person with normal Chakra could do, this took large amounts to pull someone through time. “Just tired.” He said, getting to his feet again, tired was an understatement.
He still managed to push himself though, very grateful when Naruto led him to Shikamaru’s house before they attempted to go to Naruto’s house unnoticed. Rock Lee opened the door, extremely surprised to see Gaara on the other end. He didn’t know whether he was more surprised to see Gaara, or Naruto with him.
“Who is it?” Shikamaru called out from someplace in the house. “It’s Naruto ….and Gaara.”
When he said that, Shikamaru jumped up from whatever he was doing and rushed to the door.
“Hmm…..You went back in time again didn’t you?” He asked, looking at a tired Gaara and Naruto who was holding a black stone. They had to come back sometime after they told Shikamaru, and it seemed everything was back to the way it was.
Shikamaru let the two in, reassuring Lee that it was alright. Letting Naruto explain to Lee what he had explained to him. Then explaining what happened the last 2 times they went back in time.
After a few minutes, Naruto left with Gaara, who really needed some rest.
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Since Gaara had no more Chakra, they had to rely on other methods to get him across the village. They had to ask the only other person who knew Gaara was in the village, Kakashi.
Which also meant they had to explain to him everything that happened, and also to Iruka who was with him. Not a usually together, either it was a coincidence or something they changed made them closer.
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“Are you serous!” Naruto shouted excitedly, Now fully cloth in his usual attire and finally eating his Raman. He nearly spit it out when he Gaara finally told him. “Yes.” Gaara said calmly. “You can really go back and time!? And Forward!?” Naruto could hardly believe what he was hearing, he couldn’t until he saw it. “Yes.” Gaara said, still in his usual tone, even though Naruto was practically yelling.
“How?”
Gaara picked up the hourglass and set it on the table. “I all I have to do is control the sand in this hourglass.” he explained, Naruto couldn’t help but want to try it…until he noticed that he was out of Raman. He looked down at the empty cup and then up at Gaara with a large grin. Gaara knew what he was thinking, he wanted him to take him back in time, about when the cup was full.
Gaara wasn’t sure he could take Naruto back in time with him, but he was about to try.
He concentrated on the sand, watching his vision distort as he moved a small amount from the bottom of the glass to the top. When he looked up again, he saw Naruto, with a full cup of Raman, staring at him excitedly.
“Are you serous!” Naruto shouted.
He had gone back, but Naruto hadn’t. He silently looked at the glass and filtered the sand back in to it’s place. “What happened? I thought you were going to go back in time?” Naruto asked, looking at him confusedly. “I did, you didn’t.” Naruto sighed at those words, he really did want to see it.
Gaara thought about it for a moment….maybe if……
Gaara got up from the bed, silently kissing Naruto while he used his powers to go back in time. He herd a questioning moan from Naruto when his vision distorted, it seemed that it worked. Gaara pulled back and Naruto rubbed his eyes, “What was that? Everything was really blurry…?” Naruto asked, looking down and noticing he had a full cup of Raman in his hand.
He grinned wildly, forgetting about his question and tasting the Raman, to make sure he wasn’t imagining this. “Gaara, this is amazing!” Naruto set down his Raman and hugged Gaara tightly. There was so many things he wanted to do, things he wanted to see.
His expression suddenly became very serious, so much that it was actually starting to make Gaara worry. “Gaara…there is one thing I want to see….you think you can take me there.” Naruto was very reluctant to ask. “Yes, what is it?” Gaara asked. “Well…I want to go back to when the Nine-tails attacked this village.”
Gaara looked at him for a moment, he knew why Naruto would want to see it. He only nodded his answer, seeing Naruto smile at him again. “Thank you!”
But there was only one problem, Gaara had a 5 hour hourglass. He didn’t know how far back he would be going, or how many times he would have to flip the glass. He could at lest get the answer to one of his questions. “How long ago was it?”
“12 years.”
“This is a 5 hour hourglass, I would need to know how many times I need to shift the sand.” The thought of the number made him shutter, he could guess over a few thousand.
“There is no way I’ll be able to figure that out……But I know someone who could.” Naruto said.
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It took a lot of work to get Gaara across the village with out anyone seeing him. It was harder then it usually would have been since everyone was still repairing and rebuilding. That meant there was a person in about everywhere, in almost every alleyway and most roof tops. Those roofs that weren’t being repaired where in a good view point of one that was. Unless they could make themselves invisible, they had a serous challenge.
Of course they did have Jutsu though, copying Jutsu that enabled Gaara to look like Naruto.
Which was all he could do, of course he could copy anyone else. But Kakashi was watching, he knew that Gaara had gone to find Naruto, and it had apparently went well. Because he saw Naruto hiding while Gaara changed in to Naruto, then Naruto waited a while then went to catch up with him. Then they repeated it over and over again, getting closer and closer to there destination each time.
If Naruto was trusting Gaara, and neither of them were hurt yet, then Gaara wasn’t a threat to the Leaf. But he would have gotten suspicious if Gaara changed in to anyone else, which is why he didn’t. And there was a chance that if Gaara had changed in to anyone else, that person might just see him. If he only changed in to Naruto, there was no chance of that happening.
They continued that process until they reached Shikamaru’s house. They were lucky to find that his parents weren’t home, they were helping with the repairs, and Shikamaru was avoiding them. He figured that there was enough people working on it already so there was no need to help. Of course he just didn’t want to do the work.
He sighed when he herd a knock on the door, which had just woke up from a dream he was actually enjoying. He pulled himself off of his bed and trudged over to the door, he nearly jumped when he saw Naruto, and more importantly Gaara waiting on the other side. “What the hell!” He shouted, taking a steep back. “Hey wait, wait!!” Naruto said hastily. “What his he doing here!? And why are you with him?” Shikamaru asked, much calmer then before. There had to be a rational reason to why Gaara was here, and it better had been a damn good one.
“Let me explain first.” Naruto said, looking up at him with almost a pleading look. Shikamaru sighed and let them come in, looking at Gaara sternly, who had his usual expressionless look and had fully expected that reaction.
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Shikamaru looked at Naruto and then at Gaara, he had just herd what happened and he believed it despite his usual thinking. Of course Naruto had left out the last part of the story, but it was easy for him to figure out what happened. “You really can control time?” Shikamaru wasn’t exactly happy about Gaara holding that type of power, but Gaara was different from before, and he seemed like he couldn’t care less about the new ability. But he always seemed like that.
“Cool isn’t it!” Naruto said excitedly. “And you want to go back 12 years, but you only have a 5 hour hourglass.” Shikamaru wanted to make sure he was hearing this correctly. “That’s why we need your help.” Naruto told him. “So what exactly do you need me to help with?”
“When I use the hourglass to go back in time, I have to flip it over and rest it in order to go back farther.” Gaara said, his usual expressionless face wasn’t as intense as it usually was, trying to show Shikamaru that he wasn’t going to try anything. Shikamaru finally relaxed, sitting back in his chair and closing his eye, “So you want me to figure out how many times you need to rest the hourglass.”
“Yes.”
Shikamaru started to think about it, did he really want to help Gaara go back in time. There was no limit to the damage he could do then, he didn’t want to be partly responsible for it. But he really couldn’t stop him from doing it, and he knew the only reason Gaara was bothering with it was because Naruto asked him. Now he was more worried about Naruto doing the damage then Gaara, he could do more on his own by accident then Gaara could do intentionally. Things could end up much worse then they already were.
“Alright I’ll help you….if you let me go with you.”
His request was reasonable, who wouldn’t want to go and see the past? Naruto looked at Gaara, who had no objection, and he himself didn’t really care. “Ok.” Naruto said. As soon as they agreed, Shikamaru started thinking about the problem. “ 5 hours out of 24 hours in a day….times 365 days in a year…times 12 years…..” He started doing the problem in his head, not taking more then a few seconds.
5 hours divided by 24 hours = 4.8. Gaara would have to reset the glass 4 times and count off 4 hours if he wanted to go back a day in time.
4.8 resets times 365 days = 1752. Gaara would have to reset the glass 1752 times to go back a year.
1752 resets times 12 years = 21024.
“You would have to reset the glass….21,024 times to go back 12 years.” Shikamaru said, checking over his numbers but he was right. Naruto and Shikamaru looked to Gaara to see if he could do that, Gaara didn’t seem at all discouraged about it though. “How long would that take?” Naruto said, holding his head, he didn’t want to think about it.
“Sure you want to go through with that?” Shikamaru asked, leaning back in his chair so that the 2 legs in the front came off the ground. Gaara looked at Naruto questioningly “It’s up to you.” “I still wanna go…..” Naruto said with a nod.
Gaara got up, picking up the hourglass and Naruto grabbed on to his arm securely. “I have to be touching you to take you back with me.” Gaara said, looking over at Shikamaru who reached out almost hesitantly, half expecting the sand to jump out and block his path. Finally after a few second, he placed his hand on Gaara’s shoulder, watching his vision distort and blur.
“What’s happening?” He asked worriedly, “That’s supposed to happen.” Naruto told him, after a few seconds their vision cleared and the could see the hourglass floating in front of Gaara. Spinning wildly until it was nothing but a blur. What had used to be Shikamaru’s house was now a rush of falling sand surrounding them on all sides. Gaara’s body shifted and Shikamaru jumped making him lose his grip on Gaara’s shoulder.
But nothing happened, he was still with Naruto and Gaara despite the fact that an uncountable number of things could have and should have happened. It seemed once they were moving through time, they couldn’t be separated.
After a minute or so, the hourglass instantly stopped and the sand that surrounded them disappeared.
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They were standing in the area Shikamaru’s house used to be….or would be built on eventually. Now it was just a wooded forest. Screams could be herd in the distance, the smell of fire burning through wood and an unknown element hung in the air. This was it, no doubt about it. “Naruto, where did you take us too?” Shikamaru asked, looking up, the night sky was covered by a veil of black smoke. Some of the trees in this area was splattered with blood.
“This is….when nine-tails attacked the village….” Naruto sounded almost as if he was in a daze, as if he couldn’t believe he was here. He could feel what was sealed inside of him start to stir, feeling it’s own Chakra in strong amounts nearby. This was definitely it. Naruto’s daze seemed to wear off as he sprang to life and dashed toward center of the smoke and screams.
Gaara noticed he was moving and went after him, ’Oh man…I hope he doesn’t do anything stupid…’ Shikamaru thought as he followed the two, struggling to catch up with Naruto who seemed to be moving faster then he had ever seen him go. They rushed through the blur of trees until a wall of fire cut off there path, The screams were louder now mixed with roars and growls, They could feel it’s Chakara like a hot wind, it was immensely powerful.
It almost left Naruto and Shikamaru trembling, nothing could protect them from it, if chose to attack them. “We should run, that think will destroy us in a second!” Shikamaru said in a forceful whisper, it was silently decided between the three of them to get away from this place….until they herd a particular set of screams, coming from a pair of children near by. They could only be no more then 2 or 3 years old.
Naruto could see them, two kids, brother and sister, clinching on to a tree base. Trying to avoid the fire and the Hell bent demon on the other side. “We have to save them!” Naruto said, right before running towards them. “Naruto wait! You can’t change the past it could--” Naruto either didn’t hear him or wasn’t listening, Shikamaru and Gaara went after Naruto again, fully aware of the danger they were in.
Naruto grabbed the small boy in one hand and the girl in the other, then looked back to see if Gaara and Shikamaru where following and went in the opposite direction. The fire behind them explained suddenly, incinerating more trees. “Oh shit! It knows we’re here!” Shikamaru said frantically, his usually calm demeanor was shattered for the moment but he quickly got it back.
His mind started racing, trying to think of something to through it off before it came for them directly…… “Gaara, Put up a wall to slow the fire, Naruto, we’ll need some copies. Just put them anywhere in the way, it should distract the demon long enough for us to escape.” Shikamaru knew the Nine-Tails would stop to kill every shadow clone Naruto could mange. By then they could leave these kids someplace safe.
Gaara did as Shikamaru said, creating a large wall of sand that stretched the fire’s length, stopping the flames in there place. Naruto used Kage Bunshin no Jutsu, creating an uncountable number of clones that lay in front of the sand wall. As expected, by the time the demon was done, they were safely out of range and in the outskirts of the Leaf village, it was much smaller in the past, mainly because of the demon.
“Let’s go, I hope we don’t regret what you did Naruto.” Shikamaru said. Naruto looked at him questioningly. “What do you mean? I just saved two people.” “Two people that were suppose to die, you don’t know how this could effect the future. Those two may grow up to destroy the leaf for all we know.” Shikamaru said, grabbing on to Gaara’s shoulder while Naruto took hold.
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They returned to the present, finding themselves at the center of the village, which was a huge problem considering they were with Gaara. Naruto looked around frantically before grabbing Gaara and pushing him in to the first concealed place and empty he could see. It just happened to be somebody’s house, which wasn’t there before.
“That was a close---” Naruto’s voice trailed off when he noticed that when he pushed Gaara, he also pushed Shikamaru, who tripped over something as soon as he entered the open door. That something turned out to be a someone, Rock Lee, who was just leaving when he found himself pined under Shikamaru. “Ow…” Rock Lee rubbed his head, opening his eyes to see who was on top of him and his gaze immediately fell on Gaara.
“What the….Gaa-” His voice was cut off when Shikamaru’s weight shifted as he pulled himself up, knocking the air out of Lee’s lungs and letting him finally get a look at who was on top of him. “What’s going on!” Lee’s voice was confused and at a near shout. “Calm down, I’ll explain it too you.” Shikamaru said, reaching out and helping Lee up, but the started to shake made him stumble back down.
“An earthquake?” Naruto said confusedly, they never had earthquakes here. “Oh man, they’re at it again…” Lee said with a deep sigh, grabbing on to the door and pulling himself up. “What do you mean?” Shikamaru asked. “Are you serous?! Where you paying attention for the last 10 years? Those twins are blasting again, one of these days they’ll blow us all up.” Lee said.
The three just looked at him with a confused look, shifting a little to keep they’re footing on the shaking ground. Lee started to explain, though he didn’t know why they didn’t know. “Remari and Kemari, brother and sister remember? They took the souls of all who died in the nine-tails battle and they’re convinced they could find even more power under the village. So they keep digging.”
“Why didn’t anyone stop them?” Shikamaru asked. “No way, you guys really have forgotten everything. No one can catch them, I saw them once, when some once gets close, they become…ghost like, nothing can touch them.” Lee said, which made it finally sink in, those were the twins that Naruto had saved. Lee looked around frantically as the shaking got worse, the ground started to crack in to fine lines “The blast never lasted this long…. I think they really did it this time!” Lee ran past Naruto, stumbling outside. In some places the ground had been tore open leaving gaping holes. In other parts sections of the ground shot up and down like pistons. And the ground under them was slowly about to break apart, the leaf was doomed and had 20 seconds left at the most.
“See what happens when you mess with the past! Go back and stop this!” Shikamaru shouted, he found it apparently clear that he wasn’t going to make it over to them in time to go with them. “Come on then!” Naruto called out, the ground under one side of the house shattered and was slowly pulling the whole structure in. “Go with out me! I’ll be fine once you stop this, you don’t have much time left.”
Naruto nodded and Gaara started using the hourglass.
Shikamaru looked around, feeling the house started to shift backwards, throwing him in to a near by wall. He landed next to Rock Lee, who had fallen there a few seconds ago. They both looked at each other, “I can’t believe I’m going to die like this!” Lee said disappointedly “If Gai-sensei could see me now.”
“Don’t worry about it.” Shikamaru said with a small smirk, now the wall had become the floor. “What are you talking about?” Lee asked, holding on though he knew it was in vein. “Hn….nothing.”
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There was a small problem now, they couldn’t go all the way back because “I’m running out of Chakra.” Gaara announced, going back farther in time was taking it down much faster then he had expected. “How much do you have left?” Naruto asked. “If I go all the way back, I won’t have enough left to take us all the way back. If I stop here, I will.” Gaara was obviously looking to Naruto for the choice. “Alright stop here.” Naruto sighed, it was only getting worse.
They ended up about 10 years in the past, only 2 years after the nine-tails was sealed. This was around the time Rock Lee said it started, maybe they could stop it now. They once again found themselves in village, this time they were in the outskirts, luckily the village hadn’t developed too near the old battle sight. If the kids had absorbed the souls from the battle, they would most likely get them from the battle field.
Gaara and Naruto ran towards it, moving from the village in to the surrounding forest. “Hey Gaara, you think we can still do something?” Naruto asked, a small amount of worry to his voice, Gaara gave him a look that just barely said I don’t know. Which only pushed Naruto to move more anxiously, he couldn’t stand the thought that he was responsible for the destruction of the Leaf.
They came on to the battle ground quickly, they could recognize it because some of it was still burnt. The ground was cleared out and hardened. Two children where here, digging through the rubble, they were the same ones that Naruto had saved before. The boy picked up one particular rock, a black stone with the same seal Naruto had on his stomach. It was stone used to concentrate Chakra, the one who sealed the nine-tails used this stone to help him do it.
He held it up and waved it around in the sun light, as soon as he waved it past another stone on the ground. Both stones began to shine. The one on the ground stopped shining and became invisible among the endless pile of similar rocks. The concentration stone in the boy’s hand still contained a strong amount of Chakra from the nine-tails, which had passed through the stone when being sealed, and from the one whole sealed the nine-tails, who had poured every last ounce of his Chakra in to it.
The stone began to pull Chakra from the air, which probably why Rock Lee said it had come from souls. It started to filter in to the boy. Naruto dived outward, snatching the stone from him and landing on the ground, finding himself surprisingly disoriented after touching it. It stopped pulling Chakra from the air and became as if it was a regular stone.
‘This is what was caused all of that?’ Naruto thought to himself, looking over the stone. Gaara stood over him, helping him up, “I guess this I what gave them their power…” Naruto said, almost only low enough for himself to hear. He looked up at Gaara and smiled. “Let’s go, All of this is making me hungry!”
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“Are you alright Gaara” Naruto asked as Gaara intentionally fell to his knees, panting heavily. This wasn’t something a normal person with normal Chakra could do, this took large amounts to pull someone through time. “Just tired.” He said, getting to his feet again, tired was an understatement.
He still managed to push himself though, very grateful when Naruto led him to Shikamaru’s house before they attempted to go to Naruto’s house unnoticed. Rock Lee opened the door, extremely surprised to see Gaara on the other end. He didn’t know whether he was more surprised to see Gaara, or Naruto with him.
“Who is it?” Shikamaru called out from someplace in the house. “It’s Naruto ….and Gaara.”
When he said that, Shikamaru jumped up from whatever he was doing and rushed to the door.
“Hmm…..You went back in time again didn’t you?” He asked, looking at a tired Gaara and Naruto who was holding a black stone. They had to come back sometime after they told Shikamaru, and it seemed everything was back to the way it was.
Shikamaru let the two in, reassuring Lee that it was alright. Letting Naruto explain to Lee what he had explained to him. Then explaining what happened the last 2 times they went back in time.
After a few minutes, Naruto left with Gaara, who really needed some rest.
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Since Gaara had no more Chakra, they had to rely on other methods to get him across the village. They had to ask the only other person who knew Gaara was in the village, Kakashi.
Which also meant they had to explain to him everything that happened, and also to Iruka who was with him. Not a usually together, either it was a coincidence or something they changed made them closer.
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