"Well... Welcome to my little home, make yourself at home"
Kakashi looked around the house. It was quaint, clearly made to accommodate a family. Though the kitchen was surprisingly equipped with modern appliances like a proper stove and a working sink plus a refrigerator, everything else omitted a homely feel.
'Just like last time' Kakashi thought, remembering the firsts he experienced in the past
"Ahh, Dad! Is this the Konoha Shinobi that you requested for?" A voice said as a woman popped out from a room
"Tsunami! Yeah, this is the shinobi that I asked for. Though... they're gonna need two futons" Tazuna said which cause Tsunami to look carefully at the shinobi with her father. The silver haired one carried two things that she thought were blue and yellow bags at first glance but closer it was...
"Ahh! Alright, I'll get the futons!" Tsunami said as she ran up upstairs, Kakashi's eyes following her before looking back to Tazuna
"Ahh, that was my daughter Tsunami! I also have a grandson but he's helping some other people, I bet. Anyways! About the bridge..." Tazuna started while Kakashi tuned him out.
'Part one, complete. Now for the second...'
"Brat, you're finally here"
Naruto opened his eyes and saw a dazzling yellow, which confused Naruto very much. 'Yellow?'
Naruto rose up and looked around his surroundings which, at the very least, when he did start noticing his surrounding, was very surprised.
"It's... It's you guys!"
All around him were... the tailed beast. He was confused why they were all here, inside the place where Kurama and Him talk almost everytime, but then he remembered that he was the meeting point of all bijuu
"Hello Naruto-kun!" Chomei said cheerfully
"Why the hell are you always in the center of everything, brat?" Son Goku asked sarcastically
Naruto grinned at all of the bijuu that were there. It had probably been so long ago that he had met them, though it had been in a battlefield for the safety of the world. It was so long ago that he had made friends with all of them.
"Son Goku, do not act sarcastically, it is only right that it is Naruto that was chosen"
Surprised with the new voice he turned around and was, at the least, very surprised.
At the center, besides him, was a very old man, sitting in the air. He wore an old white robe with the same markings as Naruto if he would go into Kurama Mode. He had nine tomoes at the collar, and hold a black staff with rings at the top. Naruto immediately knew who this person is, or was
"Rekudo Sennin?"
The man nodded and wore a smile, though Naruto noticed it was a tired one.
"Yes, Ashura...no, Naruto. It has been a long time"
"Yeah, old man! It has been..." Naruto said furrowing his brows from the memories of the time he saw the sennin. If he appeared, it means...
"Guessing from your expression, Naruto... Yes. It has come again. The world as we know it, will need to be protected." The sennin said grimly "As Kurama had probably said, it has been my power to put you back in time, for a very important reason"
The sennin paused as he looked around him "I have given everyone their memories as I have rewind time to this point, but it has been for a consequence" The sennin said as he closed his eyes
"I am now permanently fading."
As he said that, shouts of disbeliefs overcame the bijuu, as Naruto looked at the sennin in shock. It was one thing to stick around for a thousand of years, it was another thing to permanently die
"Father! Why?!" Shukaku said in surprise and distraught. All around the bijuu looked at the sennin expectantly, looking for the answer. Even Kurama, who was normally only had two looks on his face ( Which was calm and angry ) had a distraught look.
"It is nothing but of a selfish reason. The world is fated to fall, as all things should be, but..." He paused, as he now opened his eyes, feeling with determination "I will not let them destroy everyone in such an early demise"
Naruto looked at the sennin with confusion "But how did you put us back? Chakra?"
The sennin shooked his head, then suddenly bringimg his staff down. As the staff hit the floor, Naruto suddenly felt a power that felt so familiar for him, that it activated his Sage Mode.
"Nature energy?" Naruto asked in surprise as he now saw the energy in the air, swirling.
"Yes... The world's power is truly powerful. Yet, as chakra mingled with Nature energy, its power became tricefold. I have manipulated it in such a way that I can change the very folds of the earth." The sennin started, as Nature enegy swirled in his hands. Naruto looked in awe as he saw the yellow energy swirl until it looked like a Nature Energy Rasengan
"But, manipulating the world will always have its price" The sennin said as he let go the Nature energy. "As you know, chakra needs two energies to be molded and formed. Physical energy, which can be trained over time, and spiritual energy. Spiritual energy is formed by mental and will energy. As one would not expect, spiritual energy is stronger than physical energy."
"I used my spiritual energy and combined it with Nature energy, thus giving it the power to form and change the will of time"
Then, the sennin's face turned grim "But there is a reason why it is called spiritual energy. For exchange of power, I lost my soul"
"One would think that after everything we've been through, Kakashi-sensei, nothing would be able to surprise me. But I've been proven wrong" Sakura said as she looked over her team mates with worry, but relaxed state. Kakashi chuckled as he flipped a page from the Icha Icha he was reading
"That's what we get for having Naruto and Sasuke on the same team" He said in a lazy tone, as his eye shifts to look at the two unconscious bodies of Naruto and Sasuke. After being their sensei for so long, Kakashi deemed that any situation with Naruto or Sasuke would be always S-class or higher, which made preparations always easier.
"Still, I have a bad feeling, like somethings coming" Sakura said with worry. It had been for a week now but Sakura maintained in a state of worry and alertness. She felt that something was coming. Something new
Kakashi closed his book and stood up, which surprised Sakura "Where are you going Kaka-sensei?" As she saw the silver haired shinobi go to the door "Just...somewhere. I'll be back later." Kakashi said in a nonchalant manner as he raised his hand and waved before dissapearing in a swirl of leaves
Sakura sighed and sat down in a meditative position. She would need to prepare.
Tsunade looked in disdain at one Yakushi Kabuto, the man...well boy, for now, that would be one of the biggest players of the Fourth Shinobi war, and right-hand man of Orochimaru. Even though he proved himself to be reformed after working at an orphanage and handling little kids, his past misdeeds made her consider taking him out to prevent needless deaths pretty easily. 'Yeah and taking out the chance for the past Hokages reanimated?' She countered in here head. Even if Orochimaru was at their side, if the memory return affected him as well, she wouldn't take that chance. Too much variables were unknown to her, and killing a seemingly innocent genin would end up at her landing at prison, even if she explained that he was a spy or that she was one of the Three Sannin
"Tsunade-sama?" Kabuto asked in worry and wary at the medic after he saw her glaring at him.
Tsunade snapped back in reality and looked at the boy "Yes?" She said reigning her irritation and disdain in her tone.
"...There was a letter a man left at the front counter today. He said that it was of the highest importance" Kabuto said innocently after he noticed a flinch when he called her. It seemed that she was irritated and it proved to be good if he didn't let himself be on the crosshairs. He didn't want to die so early without leaving a mark in the world
Tsunade narrowed her eyes at the innocent tone and deduced that the man that Kabuto was talking about would be Orochimaru. She took the letter and made a gesture to shoo the boy away, which he did. She opened the letter and read every word
Tsunade-hime,
If you are reading this letter, it meant that I have been right that you would be back at Konoha after your...return. I would also assume that you have met with Nanadaime-kun and the rest. I assure you that my past endeavors and interests are not of importance nor are they in my to-do list anymore.
To the main point of this letter. I will be sending a boy, which is of great interest to me, Nanadaime-kun and you. You will know who after you have tested him. He will be of help to your cause.
010802
-Hebi
Tsunade looked at the numbers below and recognized what the snake was trying to convey. She nodded and proceeded to burn the letter at her hands.
"...Yes, that is how it should be done...well, based on your father's way of doing it in the past" Sasuke said as he watched the boy in front of him standing proudly with a normal sized Rasengan and a clone besides him.
Sasuke furrowed his brows as he remembered the instances that happened that led to this situation. After agreeing to be the Sensei of Boruto, he never thought that he would be pestered so much to take him into a short training trip by Naruto saying that it would be tradition since his sensei took him into the same situation as well. After a few (A lot) of pestering, He finally agreed, with the only consequence that he wouldn't be able to 'dimension jump', as the boy coined himself, for a couple of weeks.
"Densetsu no sensei!"
Sasuke sighed. This must be one nickname that Naruto gave to irritate him
"What?" Sasuke said, reigning in his irritation. Then he noticed the fear in his face
"There's a portal opening here!" Boruto shouted as he pointed to a black swirl suddenly opening in the clearing. Then suddenly a seven feet, pale man suddenly came out, Sasuke shivered as he saw he was carrying a war flag
"What the- Get behind me!" Sasuke shouted to Boruto, who, true to his heritage, formed a shadow clone.
"No! I can do this!" Boruto said as he and his clone started forming a Rasengan. Then Sasuke saw another one pop out from the portal, then another. 'No, it's too early!'
"Damn it! There is no time, I need to report to Naruto and send us back." Sasuke muttered as he sent chakra to his Rinnengan, opening a portal right besides Boruto. Sasuke pushed Boruto to the portal, as he himself jumped inside.
Sasuke opened his eyes, and was greeted with a ceiling of gray. 'What?' he thought in confusion as he rose and looked around
"The spiritual reincarnation of Indra Ōtsutsuki, very interesting. I would have never thought that you weren't just a simple ape"
Sasuke turned around in pure fury "You!" as he recognized the voice. He saw a long-haired, in a ponytail, pale man with brown horns who wore white robe pants and pants. He had a Byakugan too. Sasuke recognized the man to be Momoshiki Ōtsutsuki
"Yes, me, you have eyes don't you?" The man said dryly as he looked at Sasuke with interest. "It is rather distasteful for me to be here so I'd get straight to the point"
"I am here... to help you and your other pair, the spiritual reincarnation of Ashura Ōtsusuki."
Sasuke gritted his teeth, stopping himself to just to try and kill the man, and chose to just glare at the pale man "And why is that? What's your end goal?"
The man laughed "You apes always go to the the worst conclusions! I can see it!" The Ōtsutsuki said between laughs before he paused "But you are correct that I have a goal. A goal that goes beyond you and your foolish race"
"But I won't tell you! You'll know soon enough." The man laughs snobbishly while Sasuke continued to glare at the man, knowing after he looked around that it was safe to do so. The man finished laughing and looked at Sasuke again, byakugan eyes again filled with interest
"For your information though, the son of Kaguya was the one who contacted me from the spiritual plane, and after seeing the future, and my vessel so emotionally... broken, I have concluded that it will benefit me and I agreed"
Sasuke looked at the man menacingly, but inside he was surprised. Boruto, broken? That was like comparing him to the sun or Naruto to the moon. That wasn't supposed to happen. That was supposed to be him and him only. But he shook his head of that thought, his hands relaxing, after remembering that he was in the past. He could redo everything to not let that happen. He looked at Momoshiki "So, how are you gonna help us?" Sasuke asked
"You will know when you wake up, now shoo. We will see each other again, but hopefully not." He said before snapping .Sasuke found himself become dizzy before passing out.