Neji and Christina were shaking they were laughing so hard. The other looked on in confusion.
"Yeah, yeah, yeah, laugh it up! I can't believe my beloved ramen stand is gone!" Naruko said, tears running down her cheeks.
"N-Naruko, maybe-e t-this i-is a g-good thing!" Christina forced out in between laughs. "Now you can finally get over your addiction!"
"I still have my free coupon behind the plate on my forehead too! Now I won't be able to use it for months!" She said, still in her own little, sad world.
"What used to be here?" Rin asked.
"Only the greatest stand in the world! It served the food that was sent from the gods: ramen! The best ramen at that! Now what am I gonna do!" She said, kicking a rock.
"Have you two thought about sending her to rehab?" Obito joked.
"It's been brought up once or twice among us and some of other friends." Neji said.
"Whatever, stop making jokes at my expense. Well, where are we gonna eat now?" Naruko asked.
"There's a good barbeque place not to far from here, how about there?" Rin said.
The others agreed and they set out for the restaurant. Neji, Naruko, and Christina immediately recognized it since it had been one of Choji's favorite places to go when they were younger. They walked in and sat down at a table. Naruko was at one end with Haku on her lap, Minato sitting next to her, and Neji sitting next to him, with Christina on the other end. Kakashi sat across from Naruko with Rin seated next to him and finally, Obito sitting next to Rin.
They ordered and were sitting and just chatting about this and that when they heard a very loud. "YOSH! WELL IF IT ISN'T MY YOUTHFUL ETERNAL RIVAL KAKSHI!"
Naruko burst out laughing while Neji face-faulted and Christina spit her water that she was drinking back into the glass. Neji and Christina had both had Gai as a sensei after their days at the academy were over and weren't looking forward to seeing the younger and most likely more 'youthful' version him.
"KAKASHI! I CHALLENEGE YOU TO THE MOST YOUTHFUL OF DUALS!" Gai yelled, even though he was now right next to Kakashi.
Kakashi just sighed. "Gai, we're trying to eat. Can't we just skip a fight for now?" He asked.
"WHY KAKASHI, BUT THAT'S- wait, who are they?" He asked, noticing the other four at the table.
"They're my newer teammates, Naruko and her son Haku, Neji, and Christina." He said.
"Son? But you're my age!" Gai said.
"Yeah, but I adopted him. Isn't that right my little Haku-kun?" Naruko said.
"Right." He said, he still didn't get what adopted meant, but he figured that agreeing with his kaa-san was a good choice.
"Well, it's nice to meet all of you. My name is Maito Gai. I hope that you are all having a youthful day and that the fire of youth will burn brightly within you!" Gai said.
"Yeah Gai, we know, we should all be youthful and such." Kakashi said.
"Well, I must get back to my training. I will be running 100 laps around the village on my hands, and if I can't do that, I shall do 500 laps around the village running with no breaks. If I can't do that then.." he continued as he walked out of the restaurant.
"Sorry, that's Gai, he's a bit insane." Kakashi said.
"Yeah, we know, Neji and I were on his genin team." Christina said.
The others winced. "That must have been absolute torture." Kakashi said.
"You don't even know the half of it. We had a teammate named Lee, who was exactly the same as him, extremely bushy brows and all. He even wore the extraordinarily unattractive green jumpsuit. They had this extremely disturbing genjutsu that not even the most developed Sharingan could break that had him and Lee yelling each others names as they ran at each other on the beach while the sun was setting and they both had a river of tears flowing from their eyes as they engaged in a very 'youthful' hug." Neji said. Both him and Christina got a chill up their spine.
"That sounds absolutely scarring." Rin said.
"It was. And Naruko always complained that she had a bad sensei!" Christina said.
"Hey! You thought I was a bad sensei!" Kakashi said.
"In 4 months before the Chuunin Exams you only taught us tree walking and the rest of the time you read your porn books!" Naruko said.
"Wow... I was a bad sensei.." Kakashi said. He thought he would have taught his students so much more!
"Not as bad as Gai sounds though." Obito said.
They all nodded and then ate their meals. Kakashi headed home and Rin did the same. Minato took Haku so that he could meet Kushina and he could spend some time with his new grandson. Christina, Neji, Naruko, and Obito headed towards the Uchiha district.
The guards at the front let them through and they headed towards the main house. They arrived and Mikoto was the one to open up the door.
"Hey Obito... and friends. What brings you here?" She asked.
"We need to talk to Uncle Fugaku." Obito said.
Mikoto didn't know why they would need to talk to him but let them go anyways. They walked into Fugaku's study. The man looked up and closed his scroll with a sigh.
"What is it Obito?" He asked.
"You see, my friends have something really important to tell you." Obito said.
"If you don't change the way the Uchiha act, then one day, you will all be in trouble. You need to get rid of the arrogant ways of the Uchiha and have them interact with normal civilians more. Otherwise, one day, your whole clan will be exterminated." Christina said.
"Obito, whatever trick you and your friends are playing, it's not funny." Fugaku said.
"It's not a trick uncle! It's the truth, Christina's clan can get visions from the future and she saw our clan be killed off, because we are too arrogant!" Obito said.
"How would being arrogant make us get killed?" He said.
Naruko started this time. "Sir, you see, you guys thought you could attack the village and take control over. The village figured out the plan and countered and you were all defeated. Well, except for two of you. Your sons both survived." Naruko said.
"Both?" Fugaku said, if he thought this was ridiculous before, now they were saying he had another son.
"Yes, both, in the future when this happens, you have two sons." Naruko said.
"Now you're saying you saw this in a vision?" He asked.
"Yes." They said.
"Well, if she was the one who saw the vision, then how would you know the story so well." Fugaku said.
They froze at that. "Seems I've figured out your little prank." He said.
"Wait, I guess we have to tell you this now, since we don't want the Uchiha clan to be slaughtered. But, we're from the future." Naruko said.
Fugaku rolled his eyes. "Stop making up ridiculous things like that! I've figured you out, it's over!" He said.
"Do you know the mind reading jutsu?" Neji asked.
"Yes, why?" Fugaku said.
"Well, if your so sure that this is a prank, why don't you check our memories, Naruko's will be the best since she actually knew what was going on when we were sent back, but you can check anything you see with Christina and I's memories." Neji said.
Fugaku did just that, and a few hours later, he had seen everything the three teens had. He was surprised to say the least at how the future had turned out. He had decided he would make the Uchiha's form bonds outside of the village and stop the arrogance that was so prominent in the clan. He had told the trio that they were welcome at anytime and they had left to go back home.
They arrived home and Haku was by his mother's side at all times. He had been missing her over the past few hours and was glad to be with her again.
Kushina had been very surprised when she had found out that she was know a grandmother and was glad to see her daughter was already acting like a good mother.
They ate together and went off to bed, Haku now occupied one of the other rooms in the enormous house. The rest settled down a few hours after Haku and settles down into sleep.
Naruko was having a nightmare. It was of Sasuke, dieing in front of her... again. Then she saw Christina get killed in front of her as Neji had seen, and she knew that he also suffered nightmares from that. She then had the image of Kakashi being killed. The lit slowly went on and she continued imagining the scenes when Jiraiya, Sarutobi, Haku, Gaara, and many others died before her.
She woke up screaming and she was sweating like crazy. Christina woke up-of course-and helped calm her friend down. Naruko was fine after a few minutes.
"What was your nightmare about?" Christina asked.
"I kept seeing everyone die.." Naruko said.
"Oh Naruko-chan." She said as she hugged her friend.
"Let's talk about something other than my nightmare." Naruko said.
"I've been wondering about this for awhile... just how bad did Neji get after I... ya know, passed?" Christina asked.
Naruko sighed. "Well, he of course was heart broken. When he came back, I tired to comfort him, but he just told everyone to leave him alone and went into his room. Of course, I would never leave him alone to deal with something like your death, so I went to see him. He was crying. Crying! I've never seen that man cry other than then. Anyways, he was depressed for a long time, even when I was about to die, I could still see he was a bit depressed, after all, how many times did he tell you he loved you? And his nickname for you was even sunshine! I knew that when I was dying, that he would probably commit suicide since neither me nor you were around anymore." Naruko said.
Christina sighed. "When you told me that I had died, I knew he would have been pretty bad. I juts wish that it hadn't been like that. Especially since I died in front of him."
"He has nightmares about that by the way. He's already woken up once here thinking that you were dead and everything that we've done here was just a dream. It was the first night of our mission, when it was Kakashi and I's shift. I helped since I heard his chakra spike and I knew he must have had one of those dreams again." Naruko said.
"Thanks for telling me Naruko-chan. I don't know what I can do, but I don't want him to experience things like that again. This time, I won't die, I can't bring myself to put him through that kind of agony again. If I ever get in that kind of position, I'll make sure we both get out alive." She said.
"Well, should we go to sleep again?" Naruko said.
"Naw, it's already 5 anyways, might as well get an early start." Christina said as she got up. She gathered up some stuff and went into their personal bathroom to take a shower.
Naruko sighed and gathered up some stuff to take her own shower in the bathroom down the hall. 'I hope I made the right decision by telling her that. Though when Neji finds out, he'll probably kill me.' She thought. She went down the hall and got in the shower.