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Imagine Kurama's surprise upon finding himself in the past seven years after being caught up in Obito’s genjutsu. A year before the Uchiha Massacre. Eleven years before the war with the crazy grandmother. That also means that Naruto, the past version of Naruto, is 6 years old and of course, heavily discriminated against by the village.
And of course, it's no one's fault but this brat!
Kurama is grateful that the brat seemed to have retained her hard-earned prowess, although in much-needed moderation and in check, lest the body break for trying to catch up on her monstrous level.
Naruto stirred awake from his spot and Kurama hopes that this brat is his brat or else he would have fucking lost and tries his best to take control (not that he could right now) and bang her head at the nearest wall.
The brat seemed to wobble from where she stood, and as her survival instinct kicked in, she had her palm on the nearest wall for support.
Kurama held his breath and patiently waited because right now, the brat's mind is nothing but full of ramen the moment he felt himself shift and had his eyes opened after some blinding astronomical phenomenon before finding himself back in the past
“W-what— w-where?” The brat began as she held her head and tried to shake the feeling of being tossed and swirled and some blundering and deafening phenomenon that made her blanked out before regaining her senses.
For a moment, the jinchuriki scanned her surroundings, and it didn't take long before she registered where she was. Before a loud scream of disbelief at the sight, she had both of her palms clamping her mouth. Eyes so wide, then came the horror
“Ku- I mean, Kyubi-san? sama?” She slowly inquired. If Kurama's in time for leisure, he would have drawled this out and made fun of her but no, time's running.
“If you've forgotten who I am, brat, I'm gonna eat you right here, right now.” Kurama threatened without malice. Relieved that this is his brat.
Naruto wobbled once more and finally allowed herself to sink to her knees. She couldn't believe this. Never in her life had she thought of pulling something like this, but hey, this means they could regroup, plan, and correct things.
“Wh- what year are we, Kurama?” She asked, breathless. She just hopes it's somewhere quite far, but not really far, because that would mean she'd be totally alone with Kurama. Not seeing her friends, the people she loves, because that would mean she wouldn't be able to really save them.
“A year before the Uchiha massacre. And what I've gathered and sensed, would be less than an hour before Uchiha Shisui dies.” Kurama reported.
And with that, Naruto’s first mission started. She quickly moves and hunts Uchiha Shisui.
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Shisui knew this would happen— him being hunted down by the damn root to possess his eyes because that meant two less eyes for the Uchiha and one less threat for the Uchiha.
But he didn't expect it to be sooner. But here he is, trying to stall to regroup and think of a strategy to get away.
Alas, after desperately avoiding any critical hit on him, his luck has run out as he found himself almost being surrounded by the root. Lamenting his chances, chakra is still there, yet he knows any moment now he'd be tackled down.
Readying himself for the worst, he tightened his grip on his katana, sharingan blazing, and wishing it would be enough. Before any of them could strike the first jutsu, the anbu root finds themselves wrapped with a sealing chain, powerful enough to render them useless. In a moment, they were there, and the next, they were thrown on opposite sides, so that a loud bang was heard from where their bodies hit.
Shisui stilled himself because any moment now, those powerful chains that he somehow had a bad feeling should no longer exist if he was right with his assumption, then he's done for.
Before he could react, he found himself being hauled up from the ground, sealing chains already wrapped around his body. If he wasn't terrified for being rendered useless, minus the being ganged up on a few minutes ago, he would be very impressed considering his Sharingan failed to see the chains wrapping him and the caster of said jutsu at all when he's one of the most skilled Uchiha around.
He tried to make out the surroundings and the path he was being dragged to and found that they're following the route to the Valley of the End.
When the caster located a vicinity where they're more hidden, Shisui was surprised to see a breathtaking woman no less than 17 years old with white hair where the ends looked like it's glowing with a fiery reddish gold that even made her looked otherworldly and almost shit himself when he finds that those chains came from her judging from the glowing golden red chakra bubble enveloping said her.
He was woken up from the shock when he realized the woman was wearing a very concerned look and soon grabbed his face with both hands to check both of his eyes as if making sure the eyeballs were there and it was not an empty socket.
When the woman was satisfied she went on and cupped his arms, his side, his legs, his back, and his arms to see if there's critical damage and only finding some minor bruises and slashes that didn't bleed that much was when she allowed herself to calm and finally looked at him properly.
Upon seeing himself in a state of shock, she went back to panic, her eyes wide again— he just confirmed that her eyes were indeed somewhat kind of the most beautiful pale blue eyes that could pass as grey when it's hit with the sunlight.
“— o alright, Shisui-san? Shisui-san?” It was only when he felt himself being shaken that he snapped out of his untimely gaze and determined to get back on track: thank her for saving him, ask her who she is, and if she's an angel here to ferry him to the afterlife because the level of her beauty just seemed unbelievable.
He snapped himself out again and reassessed the situation he's in. When he finally finds the strength to speak after reformulating his words over and over again, he isn't given a chance when he detects two chakras fast approaching their location.
He turned his head in the direction when he detected a familiar chakra signature, but somewhat quite stronger and in a chaotic disposition. The woman in front of her she stiffens and mimicked him– mouth hanging as if in shock, and he noticed her getting teary as the time went on.
Before the first tear could drop, he finds her being tackled by two kids and said two kids asked the woman right away as they held her tight. He's shocked to see one of them turned out to be indeed Itachi’s kid brother and spirals into more confusion because there's just no way the kid would know her considering how he trailed and stuck to Itachi like a leech.
“Are you fucking kidding me you, idiot?!” Itachi's kid asked angrily right away.
Note to mind that's the first time he's ever heard of Sasuke talking like this.
“Teleport us somewhere safe, you said.” The girl with pink hair gritted out, arms still tight around the woman's neck.
“W-well you see, I- I kind of went overboard. I panicked.” The woman said as she laughed awkwardly, one arm around them and the other searching the back of her head.
“Overboard? You mean in the fucking past? Was your best option?” The girl ask as she untangled herself and gave her an unimpressed look.
Itachi's kid brother followed suit. The action made him finally notice Shisui’s sorry ass but instead of regarding him, he went back on his ordeal with the said woman.
Shisui on his part was in a very confused state and went to another level of confusion when they started talking about Shisui's almost death but now stopped as the woman said, the Uchiha Massacre from possibly not happening, Orochimaru’s abduction of Sasuke, Pein’s attack, Edo Tensei, Madara and Obito, Kaguya, and finally changing the events of the past to have a better future as what the woman said.
Shisui thinks he's finally lost his mind from the attack and is convinced that he might have been dying already with what he's hearing.
“What should we do with Shisui-san?” The pink-haired girl inquired as she gave Shisui a side glance.
Or it might have been his hallucinations. Because really, what the hell are they talking about? The next information they outed just cemented his condition that he's finally hallucinating due to bleeding to death— an injury he didn't notice because he is already dying even before the woman arrived to save his ass.
“My rinnegan and summon are still with me. Sakura's too. I believe since you're in your 16 years old form, Kurama’s with you, Naruto?”
Because there's no way Itachi's six year old brother is in possession of a rinnegan, let alone a sharingan, or a mangekyo, or an eternal for the knowledge alone in how to possess the last at six!
This must be a dream.
“Shisui-san.”
This must be a hallucination.
“Oi, Shisui-san.”
Yes, that's it. I'm dying and my mind is playing with me.
“Shisui-san.”
He felt himself being shaken strongly and strongly with every call he didn't answer. Hi’s spiral into madness was only stopped when little Sasuke went near him and gave him the cutest slap a six years old could give if only it didn't feel like a bolder hit his face.
“W-what?” He uttered confusingly as he palmed.
“We'd like to include you in our plan of saving the world and making it a better world for children.” The woman said with a bright smile. Looking at her smiling, Shisui takes back what he said when he called her an angel because as he looks at her now with the sunset lighting, she appears to be smiling like a demon dressed in an angel's body because there's no way an angel would smile menacingly like that.
Shisui didn't have a choice but to listen to them and only answer when being asked although those answers were purely coaxed by the woman's deathly smile, or Sasuke's glare, or the pink haired girl's pointed look.
He didn't know how long they'd held him hostage but all knew was that the moon had completely taken over the sun and the night appeared to be peaceful that he thinks it did ironically to dread his feeling after this night.
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“You mean to tell me, you are from the future—”
Both three gave him a nod.
“—At least 11 years from now on? Where the Shinobi world is at war—”
Another determined nod from them.
“— with this rabbit demon goddess from the moon and everyone's dead, but the three of you? Where you are one foot from being the said goddess’ meal—”
Another nod was given to him.
“— and that you're Uchiha Sasuke with a rinnegan, Uzumaki Naruto container of the Kyuubi, and you're Haruno Sakura, the healing legend that could rival Tsunade-sama. That all three of you are from the future at least 11 years from now?” He finished. Still more convinced that he's somewhere in the land of death because there's just no way time travel shit is happening.
But upon looking at them, with their haunted eyes as he reiterated the most important info, he's inclined to believe them especially when Sasuke showed him his Rinnegan, Sakura with the diamond mark on her forehead, and Naruto with the form they called Tailed Beast form and hurriedly deactivated.
He's never been unsure.
“Hold on. If you're really from the future, and you're who you are, why are you ‘Naruto’ a woman when the Naruto here is a boy and you are grown while these two are kids?” He asked, determined to have this all cleared out because right now, all he wanted was nothing but a good sleep for the whole month if he's really alive.
The ‘Naruto’ sigh and closes her eyes as if in deep concentration. In a moment she's covered with those golden red chakra bubbles and in no time witnessed the most jaw dropping transformation as he watched the woman turned into the kid Naruto he scarcely knew.
“Well, it's kind of hard to explain but it has something to do with Kyuubi’s jinchuuriki.” He? She? calmly said and once again, Shisui felt his brains being fried.
“Naruto will tell you later, but now, we need to rest. Let's talk and plan formally later. Let's get Shisui, in a safe place first and tend to his wounds.” Sakura said with finality before helping him to his feet. The two other kids followed suit and together they assisted Shisui.
And that's how Shisui finds himself in the abandoned Uzumaki estate.