Naruto Fan Fiction ❯ Rocks of Change ❯ The Times Begin To Change ( Chapter 3 )

[ Y - Young Adult: Not suitable for readers under 16 ]

A/N: Sorry for another late update, but seeing as this is one of my longer fics per chapter and I have many others, this one will have slowed updates until I can get a few finished. Anyways, for those people who keep asking about what happened to Tsunade and Sakura, chill out. Everything will be explained if you keep reading. It won't be right away, hell it probably won't be any time soon as I'm determining whether or not if I should do the academy, skip it or do parts of it and skip some of it. Sakura, I'm not exactly sure when I'll explain what happened to her, but Tsunade will be explained in the first run in between her and Naruto. This is not as I wanted it to be, but I’ll try to get them to be longer in later chapters.

My next update will be The Youkai, Heartless, Troublesome, Naruto the Parody: Retold or an update on the Reaverstar profile (with Silver-Death-Kitsune's help of course).

This chapter is a dedication to the deceased Uchiha Itachi.

I Do Not Own Naruto.

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Naruto pulled Keisha with him as he jumped off the building as the clay bird hit right where they were and exploded on contact, collapsing the roof. Both Tenshi and Itachi's eyes widen before they raced over to the explosion, the former not caring that he just crossed the IwaKono border and was in direct violation of their treaty. The two reached the building within seconds and both looked over at Naruto and Keisha and determined that they were alright before looking for the attacker.

Itachi quickly picked up another chakra surge and noticed another small clay bird. His quickly pulled out a kunai and intercepted the bird forcing it to explode before it reached its destination. Tenshi quickly picked up his movement and saw the clay bird being destroyed and narrowed his eyes as he knew who it was that was attacking them. Itachi on the other hand didn't care as he was ready and somewhat egger to fight since the two days with Naruto had kind of been stressful.

Shaking that thought off, he looked upward as he sensed another chakra signature to see a large clay bird with a man that sort of looked like a woman with long blonde hair. He was wearing what seemed to be regular shinobi clothing and an Iwagakure hitai-ate on his forehead, but with a scratch through the emblem. Tenshi narrowed his eyes as he looked up as well before growling out loud. The said nukenin looked down at both of them before smirking as his gaze landed on Tenshi. "Ah, Tenshi. It's been a while, yeah."

Tenshi growled out loud as Shichibi's youki began to slowly enter his system. "Yes it has, Deidara-sensei."

From the ground, Naruto's eyes widen slightly hearing that as he slowly stood up and helped Keisha up to her feet. "Are you okay?"

Keisha nodded lightly as she looked at Naruto before turning her gaze to the sky and locked on Deidara. "Yes, but what is he doing here? Shouldn't this be the time where he's being recruited by Akatsuki?"

Naruto nodded lightly at her question before his eyes widen as his gaze turned to Itachi. "You are right... But I've already changed history without even meaning to."

She blinked at Naruto's statement and looked at him oddly. Looking at his eyes and following where they were looking, her gaze fell onto the Uchiha prodigy. "Him? I thought this was his time for being inducted as... Oh god!"

"Yeah. From what Sasuke got from Itachi's notes before he died in the future, Deidara would have never joined Akatsuki if it wasn't form him defeating him in this exact spot on this exact date. The only difference was it was in the day." Naruto confirmed her suspicions as he looked over at Itachi before turning back to Deidara and back to the said Uchiha. 'Shit! If Itachi is here that means... That also means the Uchiha massacre is going to happen tomorrow!'

"ITACHI! We need to leave now!" Naruto yelled out at the said Uchiha. Everyone there, besides Keisha who realized what was going on, looked at him in confusion. Itachi turned back at Naruto with an raised eyebrow wondering what was going on when he noticed Naruto's serious face, but still wasn't exactly sure what was going on. Noticing this, Naruto gritted his teeth before yelling once more. "Think about my memories you saw! What happened tomorrow?!"

Itachi looked at Naruto slightly curiously as both Deidara and Tenshi looked somewhat confused, trying to figure out what the hell was going on when realization began to slowly dawn on the Uchiha. "The massacre... Sasuke!"

"What the hell are you two blabbering about, yeah? That makes no sense." Deidara asked in complete confusion as Tenshi slowly began to understand due to Shichibi's influence. "Ah, never mind. You aren't going anywhere, yeah."

Tenshi growled out as he heard this and turned his attention back to Deidara as Itachi's Sharingan spun wildly hearing this as he was in a hurry as he remembered Naruto's memories. Growling even more at his former sensei, Tenshi glared at him. "What do you want you traitor?!"

Deidara half smirked at him as his hands slowly pulled out of his pouches as his hand mouths began chewing and forming his clay. "Nothing really, just you and the girl as you'd both make an excellent present for the group that has asked me to join them. And the boy as well seeing he's the same as both of you."

Itachi narrowed his eyes hearing this as his Sharingan spun faster than before as the tomoe slowly inched closer to the pupil as Tenshi growled out even louder than before as he was ready to pull out a tail of youki from Shichibi. Deidara smirked seeing this as his hands finished the process and he began to mold the clay into birds and spiders before sending them off in a massive wave. Tenshi growled loudly as he pulled out a tail of chakra from Shichibi and was about to go through the hand seals for Doton: Doryuheki when Itachi quickly reached into his pouch and threw a single shuriken, but with a spin of his Sharingan and some unseen hand seals, it suddenly multiplied into hundreds.

Deidara's eyes widened seeing this as he commanded his bird to get higher as the shuriken tore through his wave of clay creatures forcing them to exploded, rocking the town as a fiery cloud was seen where they collided. Tenshi's eyes widened slightly as well seeing this as he turned towards the almost stoic Uchiha. He would have been perfectly emotionless if his eyes weren't giving off the glint of anger, but he did not know what he was angered about. Itachi turned his gaze slightly to Tenshi before speaking out to him. "I know you are an Iwa shinobi, but I want this to be as fast as possible and waste as little chakra as I can as I have more important business to attend to. Therefore I'm asking you of your assistance of now."

Tenshi raised his eyebrow at Itachi's tone before turning his gaze to Keisha and Naruto, who both were ready to enter battle in case it was needed. Seeing this, he tilled his head towards them. "What about them? It seems that both want to..."

"I know. After this is done, let them decided what they wish to do. I will not stop him if he wishes to go to Iwa, nor should you if she wishes to go to Konoha. Now concentrate, this is far from over." Itachi responded quickly as his eyes continued to stare into the fiery cloud as it dissipated, revealing Deidara higher above with his hands pulled out of his pouches and more clay animals began to form, mainly birds and spiders but some other creature including bats and what seemed to be a snake.

Seeing this, Tenshi nodded as he began gathering more youki from Shichibi and pulled out a second tail as both prepared for battle. Soon as they did the horde of clay creatures swarmed down onto them and both Naruto and Keisha as well. Itachi quickly threw another shuriken and used Kage Bunshin Shuriken again, but this time the clay animals had slightly higher intelligence and attempted to move out of the way, but due to the speed of the shuriken, not even half made if through.

Tenshi quickly finished his hand seals for Doton: Doryuheki and spat out a large amount of mud that solidified into a mud wall, taking out a good portion of the clay animals heading towards him. But they still came as the rest swerved around it and headed towards him, only to be cut down by a youki tail and claw as Tenshi quickly countered. Itachi simply dodged and weaved around them as he picked them off with well aimed kunai and shuriken, destroyed a few in one go. He quickly turned around and threw a few heading towards Naruto and Keisha and destroyed most of them before turning back as he saw Naruto and Keisha take down the last couple of animals.

Deidara cursed lightly seeing this as he knew he would have to up the anti at this rate while trying not to kill the three jinchuuriki as he needed them alive. Growling lightly seeing that most of his problem was coming from the red eyed one, he quickly finished his molding and suddenly thousands of clay locusts flew into the sky before Deidara concentrated them on the red eyed teen as he was becoming annoying. A small smirk grew on his face believing that he would be taken care of as he prepared for his next wave to take care of Tenshi and the two kids.

As the swarm of clay locust began to swarm closer and closer to Itachi, the said Uchiha stood their passively as if he wasn't worried in the slightest while the other three eyes widen knowing what kind of damage that could create. Tenshi seeing this, began to go through the hand seals for Doton: Doryudan when Itachi scanned the swarm of locust that surrounded him, noticing their patterns before pulling out a two kunai and throwing them into swarm resulting in a massive explosion that blasted Tenchi, Naruto and Keisha into nearby walls from the force of it.

As they slowly came to, all they could see was a fiery smoke cloud where the Uchiha prodigy once stood. Naruto's eyes widen slightly seeing this and was about to jump up when he noticed the second kunai had made it throw and was aimed at Deidara. Deidara easily avoided in as it was nothing and turned his attention towards the three jinchuuriki when the smoke cloud erupted with a massive amount of ravens swarming around as he felt someone jump onto his bird.

Deidara spun around on his bird to see Itachi for a brief second before a fist met his face and he was knocked off his bird. Before he could recover the Uchiha prodigy was behind him and had locked his arms around his chest as they began to spin rapidly in the air as they rocketed to the ground. Deidara did everything he could to break his clutches, but it was no go as Itachi far outmatched him in physical strength, especially seeing that he had opened the initial gate. As the two were about to crash into the ground Itachi used him as a spring board and jumped back into the air as Deidara crashed into the ground, creating a large crater as he finished up his hand seals and breathed in deeply.

"Katon Gokakyu no Jutsu!"

A large steam of fire erupted from Itachi's mouth and enveloped the crater in a fiery blaze. As he stopped the blaze and landed on the ground, Itachi could sense Deidara was still capable for fighting and decided to end it as he went through another set of hand seals, this time nearly twice as much as Gokakyu as he breathed in deeply. "Katon: Karyu Endan!"

Breathing out, a large dragon of fire blew out of his mouth and raced towards the crater and engulfing it in a massive blaze of fire that doubled in size as a few explosions where heard, indicating he had tried to create some more. Naruto's eyes widen slightly seeing this as he marveled at how Itachi was ever beaten in the future. 'It just doesn't seem possible. I don't see how Sasuke managed to do it. There is no way he wouldn't have trained and honed his skills even if he was in Akatsuki. So how did he lose?'

As Naruto pondered this the flames began to die down and extinguished themselves showing a badly burned Deidara. Seeing that he was down for the count, he reached into his pouch and popped a solider pill into his mouth as he walked over to Naruto and checked him over. "Alright, I won't stop you if you wish to go seeing what happened in your life. But considered the feelings of others first. If you decide to come back, I'll have my clone lead you back home." With that said, Itachi created a quick Kage Bunshin of himself as he began to walk off before he turned back slightly to Naruto. "And, thank you."

Naruto nodded lightly understanding why Itachi had thanked him. The said Uchiha prodigy smirked before turning around and rushing off with blinding speed towards Konoha, intending on getting there before anything could happen and stopped it all cost.

Even if it cost him his life.

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Watching the fight from a distance, a plant like man with a back and white, split colored face wearing a black cloak with red clouds on them looked oddly at the Uchiha running off into the distance, back towards Konoha. 'Odd. What would be so important back there? I thought he already knew of the deal.'

"Zetsu, he doesn't know. His father informed me yesterday that he would be leaving on a mission that would interfere with my plan. But it seems there is another we can use and he'll be just as useful if not more useful than he would be as he has no trouble about killing his own clan for power."

Zetsu's eyes widened hearing the voice before he realized who it was and nodded lightly. 'I see. Well, it doesn't really matter who it was, we need to find another now since he has taken care of our latest possible recruit, Taishou.'

"I know. I was watching through your eyes. It is a waste that he won't join us now, but in the end it doesn't matter. Come back, there is no purpose for you to be there now."

Nodding in agreement, Zetsu slowly sank back into the ground leaving no evidence that he was ever there.

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Looking at where Itachi had left them, Naruto felt a pang of guilt as the Uchiha rushed off in an attempt to change history. He had forgotten to tell him what Kyuubi had told him. Some events were meant to happen. His guilt increased a bit more as he looked at the clone he left him behind as he was tempted to tell it and make it dispel itself so Itachi would know that he wouldn't be able to stop it. As he was about to speak, Keisha placed her hand on his shoulder and smiled sadly at him. "Go. I'll stay behind."

Naruto's eyes widen hearing this as he looked at her in shock. "But..."

"Naruto, go. I know Sasuke is a brother to you, and I know there isn't much you can do. But I should not get in the way of the friendship you two had. Even if it means for me to stay behind and go back to Iwa, I would do it in a heartbeat to make sure you were happy." Keisha interrupted him as she placed his finger on his lip. "I know you want to stay behind and be with me, and the same is with me. But you know as well as I do, he is going to need help."

Looking at his white haired love, Naruto was left slightly speechless as Tenshi watched in mild surprise as Shichibi's youki slowly faded from him. After all the work both had did just to see each other, Keisha was willing to let it go all to waste for something he didn't quite understand, but slowly was coming to grips with. And seeing the look on the blonde's face, he was even surer that they were not from this time. His eyes alone spoke of years beyond his age. That alone was enough for him to make his decision.

"Naruto, please go. You won't get a second chance to try and prevent it from happening. I know Gobi told me that certain events have to happen and Kyuubi probably did the same to you, but there is a chance that you can prevent the Uchiha Massacre from happening to an extent, like saving a few more than what there originally was. You've already saved Itachi and he was one of the biggest threats Akatsuki had! So just please go and don't worry about me, I'll be there for you in time. So just please go." The entire time Keisha spoke, her tone was getting lower as tears slowly streaming down her cheeks. She knew if he didn't leave soon, she would soon lose her resolve and call for him back.

Seeing this, Naruto's will crumbled as he nodded lightly with a few tears building in his eyes before grasping her in a tight hug and nuzzling lightly against her. "Don't worry. I'll come back. So please just wait for me."

Keisha nodded lightly as she tried to keep from trembling under his grasp before pushing him off. "Then go! They need you!"

Naruto bit his lip before turning around as he wouldn't go if he stayed there any longer. Giving one last glance at her, he turned to the clone and motion for him to lead the way, and Itachi's Kage Bunshin did just that as the two ran off into the distance.

As Naruto left her eye sight, Keisha fell to her knees as the tears freely streaked down her face. She bit her lip tightly as she refrained from calling him back. 'I did the right thing. I did the right thing. I did the right thing. Please tell me I did the right thing?'

From within her, Gobi stayed silent as he wasn't sure how to answer her as he'd never been in a situation quite like this before. But he had to look at the situation honestly. He knew Tenshi would tell the Tsuchikage what happened exactly, then he'd get pissed and forbid Keisha from ever seeing Naruto again than probably end up arranging her in a marriage around the time she hit puberty so she wouldn't be able to wait for Naruto to return. At times, he could honestly like the man, but at times like these he didn't and felt like he was the closes thing to a father she actually had.

Besides her, Tenshi slowly walked up to her as he saw her distress but didn't know what to say. In truth he never ever really liked anyone besides her and that was because she was a fellow jinchuuriki. But seeing the brief interaction between her and the boy and what she had said to get him to go after the raven haired teen, he honestly believed there was more to their bond then what he could see. Before he could think any longer, Keisha slowly pulled herself back to her feet and spoke in a heart wrenching tone for him. "T-Tenshi... l-let's go... h-home."

Closing his eyes, Tenshi pushed aside the brotherly and slightly heavier feelings along with his duty to guard her, as he would be the one responsible from keeping the two apart. "No." Keisha snapped her head towards him as she looked at him, trying to figure out what he meant. Seeing this, Tenshi smiled lightly before brushing his hand through her hair lightly. "Go after him. I can see where your heart truly lies, and I cannot deny it, even if it is against my orders and my own.'

"B-But w-what about tou..."

"Don't worry about it. I'll figure something out. Sure, I'm probably going to get put on suspension, but you know, for once I don't care." Tenshi interrupted her with a slight, yet sad smile on his face.

Looking up at him, Keisha was still trying to figure out why and what had made him change his mind. "Why?"

Tenshi smile turned sadder as he shook his head lightly, not wanting to say anything. "I think you understand already, it will just take some time for you to absorb it. Now get out of here before he's too far gone."

"Child, he's right. We have to go if you want to catch him." Gobi spoke up as Kyuubi's presence was slowly getting farther and farther away.

Having both her tenant and her brother figure both telling her to go after him, she could no longer take it as she wheeled around and rushed off in the direction he left, leaving Tenshi behind with a sad smile on his face as he watched her till she was no longer in his vision. Sighing lightly as he knew what would happen to him when he returned home, his gaze slowly turned to his burnt and badly beaten former sensei before a plan began to develop in his mind. He knew it was a long shot, but it might just work.

Walking over to him, he gripped Deidara by the arm and began to drag him back as he headed towards Iwa with a small smile on his face. "Sensei, you've bailed me out once more. I am thankful for that. But your crimes are unforgivable."

From within him, Shichibi smirked slightly before stretching out as she began planning on what to do next as she no longer had any competition in her way.

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Naruto panted lightly as he rushed beside Itachi's Kage Bunshin as they jumped tree to tree, in a hope to catch the speeding Uchiha in hope of helping him. He still hadn't figured out what he could do, but he could do something, even if he had to jump in and take a few blows, he would find a way to help. A small part of him silently cursed at the fact that he couldn't use his jutsus any more as he knew they would come in handy at the moment. As he was thinking on what to do and hating that he had no jutsus he could use, the Itachi bunshin spoke up. "It seems that someone is following us."

Blinking in confusion, Naruto turned to the bunshin before looking back around and not seeing anything before turning back to him. "You sure? I don't see anything."

"Yes, there is someone following us, but their chakra reserves aren't enough to worry about as I could handle them with dispelling." Answered Itachi's clone as it continued to look forward, not even worried about the pursuer. Seeing and hearing this, Naruto wasn't to concerned as he nodded and continued to try and keep up with it, which was getting difficult as the clone seemed to be picking up the pace ever dozen trees. Either that or he was getting slower every dozen trees.

Shaking that thought off, he looked over his shoulder as he began to see movement in the distance. Narrowing his eyes lightly, he was about to flow some of Kyuubi's youki into him to increase his speed before his eyes widened as he heard the said follow call out to them, more specifically him.

"Naruto! Wait up! I'm coming to!"

"Keisha-chan! What are you doing here?! I thought you were staying behind!" Naruto yelled in surprise, yet at the same time a hint of relief and anger in his voice. The relief was obvious as he wouldn't have to worry about how she was doing, but the anger was that she could end up in danger for what he was trying to do.

Running up to them as the clone had stopped when Naruto did, Keisha panted lightly before jumping and hugging Naruto tightly. "I'm sorry! I just couldn't leave you behind. And Tenshi... he told me to come after you." At the end her voice began to weaken as she was still a little sad on leaving him without saying goodbye.

Looking at her, Naruto nodded lightly as he hugged her back before prying himself off. "Okay, just please don't do anything to get yourself captured. We still have to catch up to Itachi and help him."

Nodding in agreement both turned to the Itachi clone. Seeing that both of them were ready to go, the clone jumped back up onto the tree and began to jump branch to branch as both Naruto and Keisha slowly followed him closely, yet with slightly smiles on their faces as they looked over at the other before turning serious as they rushed forward in hopes they could do something.

Inside of Naruto, Kyuubi began pawing the ground as he knew things were about to get messy.

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Itachi gritted his teeth as he neared Konoha as he reached into his pouch and pulled out another solider pill. It had taken him longer than he suspected as the afternoon air was slowly turning to dusk, but he had made it. Now he just had to get to the mansion and hoped nothing had happened. As he reached the gate, he ignored the cries of the guards, who seemed to be Kotetsu and Izumo, again, as he rushed towards the Uchiha district.

Ignoring all the cries he was getting for running into people and fellow shinobi, he finally had reached his destination and the blood drained from his face. Bodies were littered across the street, bleeding, burnt and twitching madly. And he could even see ashes of a few as black flames surrounded what used to be corpse. His body began to tremble lightly as he walked through the lines of corpses as he knew every single person that laid slain on the ground. But it didn't seem that he was the last one to walk through them as he noticed smaller foot prints heading towards the head house.

"Sasuke! Kaa-san!"

Without second thought, he rushed towards his home in a panic, hoping he would be okay. Breaking down the door, Itachi rushed in and examined the surroundings with his Sharingan as he spread his senses out as he attempted to find where Sasuke and his mother were. Hearing sobbing in the back, he slowly headed towards it as he continued to search his surroundings. Moving into the back yard without seeing a trace of an intruder, he noticed the sobbing was coming from the dinning room.

Walking to it carefully, he pulled open the door and grabbed the stray kunai thrown at him with horrible precision. His eyes quickly locked onto Sasuke as tears streamed down his eyes as he held onto Mikoto for dear life. Seeing this, his heart stopped as he noticed her lifeless eyes as Sasuke looked up at him with fear in his eyes. That look alone nearly tore him in two, but he remained in control of himself as his tomoe began swirling even madder than before as they closed in onto the pupil. "Otouto... what happened?"

Looking up at his older brother, Sasuke began trembling as he held his mother tighter than before in hope that she would come back and comfort him. His heart clenching at the scene, Itachi knelt down beside his younger brother and enveloped him in a tight embrace as a lone tear escaped his eyes. "It's going to be okay otouto. I'm here. Now let's get out of here."

Sasuke nodded lightly as tears continued streaming from his face as Itachi slowly picked him up and carried him out of the door and quickly made haste to the entrance of the house. As he exited and turned to get him out of there, a familiar voice spoke up from behind him. "Ah, it seems my son has finally made it."

Itachi wheeled around as he looked over what seemed to be three men, one was his father, Uchiha Fuguku, another was his best friend, Uchiha Shusui and finally the last man he didn't recognize, but had one visible Sharingan eye. But it wasn't a normal Sharingan. Itachi's eyes widened seeing it and seeing that his father had it as well and took a step back as he recognized the eye instantly. "Mangekyou..."

The said man grinned viciously seeing Itachi’s shock. "Ah, so you know of it. That's good. Save us the trouble to explain why you are about to die."

Hearing this, Itachi instantly put Sasuke down and stepped in front of him. "Sasuke, run. I can't hold all three of them off for long. You need to get to the Hokage and tell him what has happened."

Looking across his brother, Sasuke noticed his father, but something seemed off at him and noting his brother's balling fist and a frightening aura beginning to surround him, he nodded quickly and rushed off to do just as he told him. Seeing this, Fuguku attempted to move to intercept him, but Itachi had none of that as a kunai scrapped his face as he barely managed to dodge. Looking towards where Itachi last was, he noticed that his son was on him with the wakizashi aimed for his heart. If it wasn't for the quick shushin from Shusui and kick that followed, Fuguku's life would have ended right there.

Itachi skidded against the ground and dug his wakizashi into the ground to halt himself before looking up at his father and Shusui as the other joined them. Ignoring the other two, his focus was solely on his father as he knew there was only one person that he could kill to gain those eyes. His body trembled in rage as his Sharingan continued spinning wildly. "Why?! Why did you kill kaa-san?! And then murdered our entire clan!"

Instead of seeing any remorse in his eyes, Fuguku smirked at him. "Is that what you are so angry about? And here I thought it would be for threatening your life. Ah, you're more pathetic than I thought. Those who care for others always die for meaningless causes. That is why I've decided to join Akatsuki with Shusui. This way, we can look out for our own goals along with our groups without having to worry about others, just the mission. Like a true shinobi should."

Shusui and the other nodded in agreement as Itachi's rage began to build once more and couldn't contain it as he let out a primal scream as he flew towards them with unreal speeds. Both Fuguku and the unknown Uchiha jumped to safety as Shusui shushined away, only to appear besides Itachi and back handing him. Skidding against the ground, he flew through a few hand seals as Fuguku copied them easily and both shouted out at the same time.

"Doton: Doryudan!"

The dragons erupted from the ground as one headed towards Shusui as the other headed to intercept it. The two collided into each other and struggled for a brief moment before Itachi's dragon over powered Fuguku's and continued onto its path, only to see Shusui had shushined once more. Appearing behind Itachi, he sliced his back as Itachi barely managed to jump out of the way from a fatal attack.

Skidding across the ground, Itachi jumped up into the air as he avoided a large fire dragon from his father and began going through a few hand seals as he breathed in deeply before exhaling out what seemed to be a massive fire dragon that out matched his father's by two fold and flew towards him in an attempt to knock him out of the battle.

"Amaterasu!!"

Black fire engulfed his dragon from the side as the other joined the battle and while the black flames extinguished Itachi's Katon: Karyu Endan. Itachi's eyes widen seeing this when Shusui appeared behind him using shushin once more. Bring up his wakizashi in defense and blocked the kunai slash from his former best friend before gripping his wrist, keeping him from shushining away. Seeing this, Shusui knocked his wakizashi out of his hand and the two began trading blows in mid air as they fell to the ground.

Seeing they were about to hit, Itachi brought up his and into Shusui's stomach making him double over. Grabbing his other wrist, Itachi flipped him over and slammed him into the ground before pulling out a kunai and running into Shusui. He brought his kunai down towards his heart only for Shusui to suddenly grab his wrist as he was centimeters from piercing his skin. The two struggled as Shusui gripped the wrist with his other hand as Itachi used his other hand to push the kunai down further, slowly piercing into him.

Before any more damage could be done, his father appeared and landed a kick to his jaw, sending him flying straight at the other. Before he could move to defend himself, another kick landed to his chest sending him airborne as both his father and the other went through hand seals before blowing out two large streams of fire towards him. Gritting his teeth, he flew through the same hand seals to try and counter it, but they came too quickly as he only blew out a large enough flame to keep him from becoming bar-be-que on contact.

He bit his lip as he refrained from yelling in pain as the fire consumed him. The flames raced and burned his body as he shushined himself out of the flames. Appearing on his house, he panted heavily from the burns and exhaustion from fighting Deidara, running over here and fighting the three of them. He gritted his teeth as he slowly stood up and was about to go through another series of hand seals when he jumped back as a kunai cut his chest deeply as Shusui appeared in front of him.

Looking up and around him, Itachi cursed silently as he was surrounded by the three as he slowly stood up and glared all three of them with as much hatred as he could muster. He knew he wasn't getting out of this, but he'd be damned if he was going to die without a fight. 'Dammit. I don't want to, but I'm going to have to use this.'

Sliding into position he held his hands out like he was wielding a sword much to the confusion to the three there as he closed his eyes. Suddenly they snapped back open as an ethereal light appeared and began to form within his hands slowly taking the shape of a katana. The unnamed Uchiha's eyes widened seeing this and jumped back, alerting Fuguku and Shusui to do the same. Once they were out of swinging range as the ethereal sword continued to take shape, both looked over to the other in confusion. "Beware, that is the Totsuka no Tsurugi. It is said to be the perfect counter for Orochimaru's Kusanagi no Tsurugi. But do not be fooled, one scratch from that sword and it's all over as it will seal you away in a genjutsu like dream for the rest of eternity. I'm not sure how he has it, but this fight has to end now."

Both nodded as the pulled out a kunai in defense as Itachi rushed them and was on them in an instant. Fuguku barely parried the ethereal blade getting kicked in the gut as Itachi parried the kunai slash from Shusui. Releasing one hand from the ethereal sword, he gripped Shusui's throat and began squeezed tightly. Shusui gripped Itachi's wrist in a feeble attempt to break his grasp as he fell onto one knee as he tried to keep Totsuka from touching him. As the air began to leave him, Fuguku jumped and knocked him off as the other threw a few shuriken at the stumbling Uchiha, who could not counter them as they entered his back.

Gritting his teeth, Itachi reached back and pulled them out before sliding back into a ready stance as he waited for them to make their next move. He knew it wasn't an intelligent thing to do, but he had no choice as every time he got close to finishing one off, the others came in and bailed them out. From what he'd seen so far, he knew he could beat his father and Shusui on his own, but this other was causing the problem. He was barely getting involved, only to make sure that the others didn't die. He wondered about this as his father clearly said shinobi that helped each other are weak, but then again his father wasn't stupid and knew he couldn't beat him on his own.

Seeing that he wasn't going to make the first move, Shusui shushined as Fuguku rushed towards the lone Uchiha. Itachi brought his ethereal sword back and blocked the kunai strike form Shusui and sweep kicked him before bringing his elbow up and slamming it into his father's jewels. Fuguku stumbled back in pain as Shusui jumped back onto his feet and intercepted the swing that would have ended the clan head's life. Growling lightly, Itachi shoved his elbow into Shusui and gripped his throat once more and pushed him to the ground as he thrusted Totsuka towards his heart.

Blood splattered as his own wakizashi pierced his chest. Slowly looking back, he noticed the unknown Uchiha letting go of the hilt before gripping it again and viciously ripping it out. Coughing up blood, the Totsuka no Tsurugi slowly dimmed from his hands until it was no longer visible. His grip on Shusui's neck lightened as he fell to all fours and began coughing up even more blood. Seeing that he was finally down, Shusui brought his foot into his chest. Itachi skidded against the ground for a few feet as he fell onto his side before rolling on his back as he tried to sit up, only for a foot to be placed on his throat.

Opening his eyes, he saw his father holding him down with his throat as Shusui took Itachi's wakizashi from the other before walking to him. He gritted his teeth lightly as he tried to grab his father's foot, but all his strength seemed to leave him as Shusui walked over to him and held his own blade at his heart. Itachi glared at Shusui as his former best friend smirked back at him. "You know, I'm quite glad that we became friends. Because your death is going to give me the ultimate Sharingan as I have already taken my otouto's eyes."

Itachi's eyes widened hearing this as Fuguku smirked viciously at him. "Oh yes, you didn't read that part did you. All you know is the Mangekyou turns the user blind. Well, there is a way to regain that light. All you have to do is use a close blood relative to gain it. Most preferably sibling/younger sibling, but father son will do. So once he kills you and gains the Mangekyou, I will take your eyes and use them to see for all eternity. Now Shusui, do it!"

Shusui nodded as he lifted the blade slightly and was inches from plunging it in when ten miniature fireballs collided with him and father, sending them stumbling. Looking over to see who it was, his eyes widened as he noticed Naruto with Keisha behind him and Naruto's hand in the Tora seal. Hearing his father saying he had join Akatsuki and remembering what Naruto told them of their goals when he was in his mind, he used the last of his strength to yell. "Naruto! Get out of here! There is nothing you can..."

He couldn't finish as he began coughing out more blood as it clogged his wind pipe. As both Shusui and Fuguku put out the flames, they both smirked along with the other as they noticed Naruto. Naruto seeing this turned back to Keisha. "Keisha run. You need to get out of here so they don't capture both of us."

Her eyes widened hearing this as she couldn't believe what was going on. "Naruto! No! I am staying here! I'm not losing you again!"

Naruto turned quickly to her with a desperate look on his face, wanting her out of there. "You will go! I will not allow them to harm you!"

Without any warning he pushed Keisha into the alley and turned around before looking at the three standing Uchiha as they closed in on him. Fuguku seeing this smirked as he turned back to Shusui. "Go ahead and finish off my worthless son. We got this."

Shusui nodded as he walked back as Keisha looked frightened, not knowing what to do as Naruto walked towards them calmly, though inside he was scared beyond belief knowing that everything he had was useless. The best he could do was use Oiroke on them and hoped they were perverts and flew back from nose bleeds. He knew Kyuubi was out of the question as the Mangekyou had the not only the ability to repress his chakra, but to tame Kyuubi. 'Damn I'm screwed. I think we need to go back a few years Kyuubi.'

"Yeah... Well, nice knowing you kit." Kyuubi answered as he knew the situation was hopeless since their only hope was down for the count already.

Refraining from cussing out Kyuubi for his response, Naruto kept his eyes firm on Fuguku and Madara, knowing he didn't have a shot in hell. His gaze turned to Keisha, who he pushed into the shadows of alley. He gritted his teeth lightly as she still hadn't left and was wishing she had stayed as now they could both end up being captured. Turning his attention back to the Uchiha, he continued walked towards them, even though he knew it was the stupidest thing he could do, but at least it would get one of them out of here.

From his position on the ground, Itachi's eyes widened in horror as Naruto walked towards both his father and the other. But he could tell he was afraid, but he was still doing it. Why was the only question that came to him? Could it be that he believed he could do something? Was it that he was trying to protect the girl from being captured? Was he trying to prove something? Suddenly the information of his clone came to him as it must have dispelled. His eyes widened even further as he understood why Naruto was doing this. He wasn't trying to prove a point; he was trying to repay him for not telling him everything he needed to know.

Completely ignoring the rest of the information that came from the Kage Bunshin, he gritted his teeth as he looked over at Naruto as his Sharingan span wildly. He couldn't let him do this, even if he had done the same for Sasuke. He'd refused to let someone sacrifice themselves in order to protect him. And he be damned if it would be a nine year old child. His Sharingan spun even madder as it slowly closed in to the pupil as his thoughts began to shift to his mother. She had always been there for him, but more importantly Sasuke as his younger brother was severely over looked by their father. Then he suddenly remembered her lifeless eyes and the face on Sasuke as he threw the kunai at him.

Than he remembered all the memories Naruto had showed him. The pain, agony, sorrow and anger that each of those doors represented flowed into him as he slowly began to stand up once more, forgetting his wounds and the advancing Shusui, who was slightly stunned that Itachi was back on his feet once more. His Sharingan span madder than before as his gaze turned to his father before back to Naruto as his tomoe suddenly merged with his pupil as his eyes, turning into a three bladed shuriken as his pupil became red like his Sharingan.

Itachi noticed everyone around him become slower than ever before as each and every detail of their movement was being analyzed as a surge of power rushed through him like he never felt before, but only enough for one last technique. He didn't know why, but after seeing those black flames, that was all he could think about as his vision focused on Shusui. His right eye began to bulge as its veins began to show as blood slowly leaked from the corner of his eyes as he uttered the same word the other did when he used it.

"AMATERASU!"

Both Fuguku and Madara whirled around to see a blast of massive black flames engulf and incinerate Shusui on contact and continued onward towards them with unbelievable speeds. Both cursed before they to used Amaterasu to counter Itachi's. As the black flames collided the instantly canceled each other out as the flames attempted to extinguish themselves. As the fire died down, both of their gazes landed on the smirking Itachi as his Mangekyou spun slowly as he looked over at both of them before it turned back to onyx and he fell to his knees once more and started coughing up more blood than before.

Fuguku and Madara narrowed their eyes at this and were about to head over and finish him off so nothing else like that could happen when they began to pick up other chakra signatures heading towards them. Fuguku cursed lightly as he rushed to grab Itachi and take his eyes while Madara headed for Naruto, only to see a single person jump in front of them. The one in front of Fuguku was wearing what seemed to be samurai armor, but was no samurai as he instantly knew who this was. And the one in front of Madara was wearing a red vest over white clothing and had long white hair flowing down to his shins.

Naruto and Itachi's eyes widened as they both recognized the men that had intervened and had just saved their lives.

The Sandaime Hokage and Jiraiya of the Sannin.

Both cursed lightly knowing that taking them down was next to impossible with the entire shinobi population on its way and knew they had only one option. They both disappeared in spirals of black flames as other shinobi quickly arrived on the scene. Soon as they disappeared, Sarutobi instantly took charge. "I want half of you to spread out and search, but do not engage! Once you find them come back and find me or Jiraiya! The rest of you stay here and help out! Any medics among us need to search out and find any survivors and get Itachi to the hospital right now!"

Not wasting any time, all the shinobi quickly shouted yes and most of the jounin and Anbu rushed off to chase the two responsible for this as a few jounin, the chunin and a few gennin stuck around to help get the bodies to the morgue and clean up the mess. Soon as this happened, Sarutobi had quickly appeared besides Naruto as the top medics quickly rushed to Itachi and shushined him to the hospital. "Naruto, why are both of you back so soon? What happened?"

Naruto winced slightly at his harsh tone, but knew it was because of what was going on and the fact that he probably wasn't expected to be back soon. As he was about to answer, Keisha had ran out of the alley way and glomped him tightly. "Naruto I was so worried! You could have been captured than Kyuubi would have been extracted!" Both Jiraiya and Sarutobi's eyes widened hearing this and were trying to figure out how she knew when her face suddenly turned red with anger and decked Naruto. "AND YOU BASTARD! YOU WERE GOING TO SACRIFICE YOURSELF TO KEEP THEM FROM CAPTURING ME AND ATTEMPTED TO SAVE ITACHI IN THE PROCESS WHEN HE CLEARLY WANTED YOU TO GET THE HELL OUT OF HERE!"

Both winced at the punch as Naruto stumbled back as he covered his cheek by reflex before turning to her and looking down at the ground. "I'm sorry Keisha-chan, but I could let them capture you. I'd rather die then see you die while they extract Gobi from you."

At this, neither of the older men wanted to take a chance and quickly grabbed both of them and shushined them to the Hokage's office before someone accidentally overheard their conversation. Both Keisha and Naruto looked around as they found themselves in the office, trying to figure out what was going on when Sarutobi suddenly spoke up. "Alright, what exactly is going on here? And how long have you known about Kyuubi Naruto?"

Naruto paled at this and cursed under his breath as he knew this wasn't going to end well for them. He instinctively knew that even if they did believe his story, he knew he couldn't tell them all of it as it could have disastrous consequences. Looking over to Keisha, he nodded lightly at her before sighing out loud. "Damn, I was hoping it wouldn't come down to this. Old man, you might want to use that privacy jutsu of yours so no one else hears this."

Sarutobi raised his eyebrow hearing this, already not liking where it was going, but did as Naruto asked as if he didn't want anyone to know about what he was going to say, than he wasn't going to let anyone hear it. Once it was up, his gaze fell back at Naruto and occasionally glanced at the girl who he had guessed to be another jinchuuriki from what Naruto said. "Alright, now will you tell us?"

Instead Keisha nodded and spoke up. "Yes, the first thing you should know it that neither of us are from this time frame as we are from the future.”

Both Jiraiya and Sarutobi raised their eyebrows at this, as both were quite tempted to call in a medic nin and have the girl locked up when Naruto interrupted them, noticing the look. "Believe it our not, but we are from the future. All the proof you need is to ask Itachi when he recovers as he's been in my mind and seen my memories. If any other proof is needed you can call a Yamanaka hear and have them search our memories if you like. I'd quite sure they would find out we are telling the truth."

Jiraiya raised his eyebrow further at this while Sarutobi contemplated on what he said before they both nodded at the same time as the Jiraiya spoke for them. "Alright, say if you are telling the truth. Why did you come back? Is the future that grim that you'd have to come back and attempt to change it?"

Naruto flinched at his comment as Keisha closed her eyes and looked away as she did not want to talk about it. Both of the elder men looked surprised by there reactions before Sarutobi sat forward and crossed his fingers as he looked at both of them. "Naruto. Miss..."

"Keisha, Kazekiri Keisha." As she said this since both of them instantly recognized her clan name as the same as the Yondaime Tsuchikage's. Noticing this, Keisha quickly countered them. "Tou-san can do nothing other than attempt to make a treaty with you to get me back. You need not worry about him starting a war for kidnapping me."

"And if you accept such a treaty you will lose me and every single Hiraishin kunai her in Konoha as it is both my and my tou-san's signature technique." Naruto added on, making sure that they wouldn't accept any sort of deal around those lines.

Sarutobi's eyes widened in fear before turning to depression as Jiraiya quickly spoke up for him. "You know who your father is and can use it?!"

Naruto nodded his head at the first question before shaking his head at the second. "Yes, I know my tou-san is Namikaze Minato and my kaa-san is Uzumaki Kushina. And I could use Hiraishin. It is designed that it cannot be used till adolescence is reached due to the pressure it puts upon the body is immense and no matter how hard you train when you are younger, a child's body is not meant to take that kind of pressure. It's kind of like putting a soda can under Gamabunta's foot if you want it in simple terms. Till I'm at least fourteen, I will not be able to use it again."

Jiraiya's eyes widened hearing this as he knew about that as well and he instinctively knew that both were telling the truth from being from the future as there was only two scrolls depicting on how to use Hiraishin. One was with him at all times and the other was heavily guarded in Minato's home by a massive amount of seals that only one of his blood could cross through. He turned to Sarutobi for a brief second before looking over the two of them. "Alright, I officially believe you now. So why exactly did you come back?"

Keisha sighed lightly and turned away as Naruto sighed as well before answering him. "Well Ero-sennin, it's kind of complicated. Now I can't tell you everything as it can possibly change the time line and far worse things can end up happening. All I can say was tonight was an event that had to happen. The only difference is that I changed who the murder or the clan was. It was originally Itachi with the help of Uchiha Madara that slain their family and traumatized Sasuke."

Both of their eyes widened hearing this as Naruto interrupted them before they could speak. "I didn't tell you Ojij because you would not have believed me before. But in truth, it was you that saved Itachi's future as you sent him with me. If not he would have killed every single one of them after he snapped. You could have sent someone else, but you sent him. That move alone has insured that one Uchiha will stay loyal to the leaf."

Sarutobi couldn't believe what he was hearing. Sure, he had saved lives plenty of times, but he had actually prevented someone from killing his entire clan only to have others do it in his sted. It was mind boggling to him, yet it kind of made sense when he thought about it. Nodding lightly at him, Sarutobi looked over both of them. "That is slightly good news to hear, even at this grim time, but you still haven't answered the question."

Naruto winced once more as he closed his eyes, not wanting to say anything about it. Keisha bit her lip as Naruto regained himself and spoke up to him. "Well, this event I can tell you as it is one event I want to avoid the most. Eight years from now, Konoha splits into two sides on a dispute about me. The higher ranking shinobi left after the Rokudaime Hokage, who I will not name, had practically made law after law to force me to wither away. This dispute started the next Great Shinobi War. During the war I met Keisha after both Sasuke and I almost single handily liberated a town from Kiri/Kono/Kiri forces. After that, our friendship grew during the course of the war."

"The war took a turn for the worse for us when their forces began to take control of the war even with the deterrent of me and Hiraishin. So to gain control of the war, Gaara, Keisha, Tenshi and myself struck Kiri with every tail of chakra we could pull out and took it out of the war. After that we took control of the war and were on the way to coasting to the end when we heard that they were planning on a sneak attack to regain control of the war. So in response both Keisha and I were sent to wipe Konoha out. Gaara, Sasuke and Tenshi were lost at the sneak attack, but we did level Konoha and win the war."

Sarutobi's eyes were as wide as dinner plates as he heard this as Jiraiya had lost all color on his face as he slowly began to believe it was Naruto that was meant to change the face of the world, not his deceased student Nagato. Naruto sighed lightly at them both before looking down in shame. "I know neither of you liked the idea, but it had to be done. Even Homura and Koharu agreed to it as rebuilding would be easier. As the rebuilding started, both Keisha and I were in the forest... "

He turned to Keisha as he wasn't sure to continued on and tell them about that part. Seeing this, she smiled softly before nodding and turning towards them. "We were in the forest as we had just admitted that we loved each other when two former members of Akatsuki ambushed us."

Jiraiya's smirk hearing that before a perverted smile crept up onto his face as he envisioned an elder Naruto and Keisha, which happened to be extremely accurate, making out and doing things they obviously weren't doing. But when he heard the part about Akatsuki, his eyes narrowed as he waited for Naruto to continue. Sarutobi on the other hand smiled sadly at this part before shaking his head as Naruto continued. "We were ambushed by the figure head of Akatsuki, Pein and his lover, a blue haired woman known as Konan. And from the notes Itachi left Sasuke after his death, I learned Pein's true name, Nagato."

Jiraiya's eyes widened hearing that his former students were alive before they narrowed at the part where Naruto said they were apart of Akatsuki. But then another question hit him, one he had been wondering since he found out about the existence of Akatsuki. "Nagato is the figure head? Then who is the true leader?"

Naruto sighed as he looked up at the ceiling before answering. "The true leader was the one that just helped Sasuke's tou-san help murder the clan. His name is Uchiha Madara. The same one who faced the Shodaime Hokage all those years ago. His Sharingan gave him the ability of virtual immortality, allowing him to live for so long. But in the end it wasn't enough as I killed him in the future. Now as I was saying, Pein and Konan ambushed us forcing us to go demonic on them. I had Pein on the ropes after a few moments and he was about to flee, but before doing so... He... he..."

Both raised their eyebrows as Naruto closed his eyes and couldn't speak any longer as it was too difficult for him to do. Keisha bit her lip deeper than before as she turned to Naruto as he struggled to tell them what happened. Closing her eyes, she spoke up softly. "He killed me."

Their necks nearly snapped in two as their eyes landed on her as a tear streaked down her cheek as she looked away. Naruto could only nod as his hand balled up into a fist. "Yes... and after he did... I went berserk and released the full power of Kyuubi upon them." Once again their necks nearly snapped at they turned to Naruto with shock written on their face. "Once I killed them, Kyuubi told me a ritual of how to travel back in time. I believed him and did as he said and used Keisha's blood as well as she wasn't quite dead. Once I completed the ritual, I ended up back here in this body while Keisha returned to hers."

As Naruto finished, both looked confused as they tried to absorb everything as they now both believed them without any doubt. Once they did, Sarutobi was the first to speak up. "I see. That explains why you wanted to go to the Iwa border and explains why she is here as well. Though I'm having a hard time believing this, but if Itachi can back your story, I will believe you completely. Now if this is true, is there anything you can tell us that wouldn't have an invert impact on the time line."

"Um... Let me find out." As Naruto said this, he zoned out as he searched for Kyuubi's link. 'Hey fox! Is there any information I can tell them without messing with the time line?'

In response, he got a loud roar from a pissed Kyuubi, probably because he would him up. "NINGEN! I was trying to sleep! Next time you do that I'm going to flood you full of my youki and create a mass of clones to gang rape you!" Sweat dropping both physically and mentally, Naruto backed away from the unstable fox as it slowly got up and answered his question. "As for what to tell them, do not tell them anything important like names or years. Also do not mention their deaths to them as they will become wary about every step they make, possibly changing the future once more."

Nodding at that, Naruto regained focus as he looked over at the two of them. "Well from what Kyuubi said, I cannot tell you anything of importance as that will possibly change the time line and cause more damage then good. From what I can tell you is that in the following nine years is that get invaded by a new shinobi nation and one of the big five at the same time, a new Hokage gets announced, I go on a two and a half year trip to train myself against Akatsuki with Ero-sennin, one Kazekage dies while the other comes near death, Akatsuki starts capturing the jinchuuriki and bijuu and the next sannin appear during the time span. Other than that, I can't say anything as the impact will be too catastrophic and the time line could change severely and new threats arise."

Both Jiraiya and Sarutobi nodded in understanding before Sarutobi. "That is enough for now anyways. Now I would suppose that Keisha-chan here would like to join the academy as well."

Both Naruto and Keisha raised their eyebrows at this when Sarutobi smirked at them. "Well, you both said too much off an drastic impact on the time line will change it. So both of you need to be in the academy, even though you both know what to do to regain your skills back. Even though Keisha was in the academy in Iwa at her time, it shouldn't have any direct impact other than for possible teams in the future. And with your knowledge, you can help everyone else grow as well."

As he finished, Naruto sighed the old man had a point, even if he didn't want to admit it. Shaking his head, he turned to Keisha as it was her decision. Seeing that both were looking at her, she nodded lightly. "I would like that, especially if I can be put in Naruto's class."

Sarutobi nodded as he pulled out his pipe and lit. "That can be arranged, and seeing from what you told us, you would probably like to live together.” As he said this, both blushed brightly before nodding at the smirking Sarutobi as he began to formulate a plan. "As I suspected. As of now, I have nothing but I'll be able to get you a new apartment by the end of the week. For now, I guess both of you can stay at my place. I know Konohamaru would love having company over and my daughter-in-law would be thrilled to have him off her back for a while."

Keisha nodded lightly accepting the offer as Naruto paled, remembering how bad Konohamaru was before he knocked some sense into him. Sarutobi nodded as his smirk grew and created a Kage Bunshin. "Alright then, just follow him and he'll explain everything to my daughter-in-law when you get there."

They both nodded as they followed the clone out of the room as the privacy jutsu failed. When it fell, Jiraiya turned to Sarutobi with a questioning glare. "What are you talking about not believing them? I could tell after a little while you were hanging off every word."

Sarutobi huffed indignantly as he took a puff of his pipe before turning to Jiraiya. "Well, I had to say something like that in order to keep them from believing I'm a guidable old fool. Besides, you were pulled into it faster than I was."

"That's because he knew what Hiraishin does to the user, so I believed him as there was no way for him knowing that knowledge unless Minato got pulled into the seal and we know that didn't happen." Jiraiya answered as he looked out of the window and watched Sarutobi's clone lead them to his place. "Anyways, I need to get out of here and see what I can find out from what he told me."

Nodding in agreement, Sarutobi let him go as he knew it was for the best.