Messing With Time: Team 7 Style

Naruto woke up to a bloody field. There were bodies of men, woman, and children dead around him. He looked for Sasuke and found him beside him. Sakura was farther away and up, talking to a child.

“W-who are you?” He looked like a small mask-less Kakashi-sensei with the white hair. He held up a shaking Kunai and was covered in blood. The boy was terrified of them, given the wide eyes and the way he was protecting himself.

“I am Haruno Sakura, child, may I heal your wounds? We will not hurt you like they did.” She finally looked around to find black Zetsu clones? She thought they had obliterated him and his weird army. “What happened?” She approached the boy, keeping her hands up in a surrender to show she was harmless.

“T-these things came through our compound to try and a-attack the village and my clan rushed to stop them- my cousins? They were in the compound” In a surprising burst of speed, the mini Kakashi-sensei went off to the compound in the distance, Sakura closely after. She hoped Naruto and Sasuke caught up quickly and they found their other teammates. Sensei! Captain Yamato! Sai! Calm down Sakura, take care of the child first then your team. They can handle themselves just fine, you need to focus.

Sasuke was mentally cursing Kakashi-sensei for this as he woke up. Naruto was over him, about to wake the Uchiha, and looked sad that he couldn’t use his ‘amazing’ way of waking Sasuke up.

“Hello dobe” His mouth went drier (if possible) at the bloody forest and clearing around them. There were bodies of dead shinobi and children around him and Naruto. Sasuke may have done many cruel things in his twisted life, but he had never hurt a child unless absolutely needed.

“This is truly disgusting.” Naruto gagged, Sasuke fought the urge to do the same.

“Hn. Where’s Sakura?”

“Dunno, I saw her pink hair retreat as I was waking up. A child was talking shakily and then ran off. I couldn’t hear what he was talking about.” Naruto was strangely serious, then again they were somewhere unknown and surrounded by dead warriors.

“We should go find Sakura. She might need help, but don’t tell he I said that” Sasuke got up using his remaining arm and Naruto helped him. He scanned the clearing for Kakashi-sensei, Yamato, and Sai, but they were nowhere to be seen.

Sakumo POV

I was at first chilling with my baby cousins while my father, male cousins, and Uncles worked in the fields and my mother, female cousins, and Aunts went to the market to buy and sell food. I, being the oldest kid (under 13, he was 2 months until 13), was tasked to take care of the other children around me. Then the bell rang, signaling there was an attack.

My female family members had just came back, them being the first to be locked in combat and I went to the bunker with my cousins, trying not to panic. My older cousin, Ryne, came in with a his tanto in his hand.

“You good?” He seemed to be paranoid and looking over his shoulder. The battle must be really serious out there.

“Yeah.” I mentally patted myself on the back for not having a voice crack saying that.

“Good, dad said to not let anyone in for any reason.” He closed the door at my nod. It seemed to be hours before there was banging on the iron reinforced doors.

“Don’t” One of his aunts cried and the it was cut off with a thump. I squeezed my eyes and held my youngest cousin, Alleya, closer to my body, trying not to hear the battle with my cursed enhanced hearing.

The door ripped open and everything seemed to not breath. I felt the same when I encountered Madara Uchiha when he came back bloody from a mission. I was collecting berries from the trees and trying to control my chakra. Madara thought I was an enemy before registering me as a child, not a threat, and collapsing. My mom, Kaya, little sister to Kira, Senju Tobirama’s deceased mother, had panicked when I came back carrying a bloody shinobi from beyond the borders.

Madara rewarded me with some candy. I want to be like him and my cousin, Tobirama, combined. If I could be that, then I would be happy with myself.

I had pleaded my mother to let me in the village to see my two heroes, but she had said things were too unstable and I could when I was older. I was starting to hate the phrase ‘when your older’.

But now, a man with no clothes and literal black skin came in with identical one right after. I put Alleya down and took out a kunai, one of the provided weapons in the room, and faced them down, putting in all the hate of them killing my family into my barely controlled strikes. I killed a good number with my new kunai, but the cloned man got around me and forced me out to the clearing of the training grounds. Seeing my dead or suffering family made me have an unexpected boost to my fighting. I registered a trail of my family’s famous white Chakra, the Hatake bloodline limit, from my kunai, and attacked, using whatever came to my mind in a rage. Many fell to the my blade but seemed to keep coming. I felt horror creep up my throat as I saw some blood covered ones emerge from the compound and attacked me. They had…

The only thing that saved me from joining my family in the pure lands was a bright light blinding the black creeps and making them disappear. I almost had that same fate, but the light went around me for some reason. I prepared my exhausted body for another fight that will most likely be my last.

There were instead 3 unconscious bodies. One had bright pink hair, stark against the battlefield of my clan, another had blond hair that seemed to be the same color as the sun, and the last had black hair and looked like an Uchiha.

I held my kunai tighter, trying to stop my hand from shaking and showing weakness. “W-who are you?” I mentally cursed my shaking and childlike voice.

“I’m Haruno Sakura, child” A Haruno? Like from the clan of feared pink haired shinobis that are almost on par with the Maito clan in Taijutsu and excellent doctors and dentists? Also, I was not a child, what was left of the innocent and childish part of my brain complained. “May I heal your wounds? We will not hurt you like they did.” She looked around and once getting a good look at the black creepy things, looked surprised. “What happened” She focused her attention back at me, keeping her hands in my sight to show she was safe, like the Yamanaka did that one time.

“T-these things came through our compound to try and a-attack the village and my clan rushed to stop them- my cousins? They were in the compound” I took off, my mind only set on seeing if my younger cousins were safe.

We followed a bloody path to the cellar and found the room filled with child bodies and only one creepy black thing. The woman, Sakura, hurled off to the side as I approached Alleya brokenly. She was stabbed in the heart and her face scared and cold. Shaking, but surprisingly warm arms circled my body and pulled me softly away. Sakura whispered comforting nothings in my ear as we exited the compound to find the others awake and up.

I fell asleep soon after they told me to.

Third Person POV

Sakura slid finger’s through the child’s hair, mentally cursing herself for forgetting to ask the child’s name.

“So. What do we do now? Sakura, did you see Kakashi-sensei? Captain Yamato? Sai?” He scrunched up his nose at the name. Sasuke snickered at his expression.

“Baka don’t do that, he’s my boyfriend. Also, no. Do you think we are… alone here?”

“No. Kakashi-sensei and the others are probably looking for us right now.” For once, it was Sasuke trying to keep the mood up. “I’ll see if there are any survivors, Naruto, try and get some materials. Sakura, stay here.” She nodded and continued comforting the child.

Timeskip

Sakumo woke up to a small fire and all three of the new people huddled around it. He felt more rested than ever, as he usually took care of his cousins.

Cousins, family, pack… All dead. He vomited off to the side and took in the surroundings to keep his mind off of the memories. They were in the middle of the woods somewhere. There was arguing from the three. Sakura threatened the two men with her might fist and the two cowered.

“Oh hey, your up.” The blond tried to save his life by distracting Sakura.

“Yeah” He needed water. The black haired male came forward with some in a cup like thing, a water pouch. Sakumo took in small sips at a time to hydrate himself. “I never got your names”

“Oh, Uzumaki Naruto” He looked more like a Nakamazi (spell?), but whatever.

“Uchiha Sasuke” He was right about the pale one.

“I’m Hatake Sakumo. Were there any survivors?” There was an exchange of surprised looks between the team/

“No.” He was the last of his clan… It was Sunday, nobody took any missions on that nor had any overlap on this day, so no one was left from the massacre.

“Hey, we’re going to take care of you. We just might need some information about here. We aren’t up to date.”

“You came out of a bright light that killed the black creepy things, I’m sure your from somewhere else” He didn’t think that was a bloodline, well he hoped not.

“Oh yeah, about that, we have no idea how that happened. First we were training with sensei and that happened. We need to find Sensei.” The hyper blond, Naruto, scratched the back of his head.

“We will, but now let’s find where we are and what time period.” Sakumo was not surprised, his family had done weirder things or had them happen to them. “Is Konohagakure a village?”

“Yeah! It has been for a few years now. My clan’s compound was on the edge of the borders. I can probably get you there but I haven’t been in myself. Can we see Tobirama Senju and Uchiha Madara?”

“Uh, sure” Sakura was now his new favorite person and hero. Naruto and Sasuke were working up to it though. “Can you lead us to Konoha?”

“Uh, Sakura…”

“What Naruto.”

“Are you sure it’s safe to be near him.”

“This is before he went crazy Baka”

“Oh yeah”

“We have to be careful though” Sasuke glared at the blond.

“When are we leaving?”

“In a few days”

Timeskip

The future Team 7 happily taught the future White Fang what they knew. Who knew Sakumo was such a competent Healer? The white Chakra in his veins was definitely fun to learn about and they filed the info to tell Kakashi-sensei when they see him later.

Sakumo naturally got lost and admitted his defeat. He didn’t know where the village was from them.

“Hold!” A voice called out. They froze from atop the trees with baited breaths. “State why you are here!”

“Uh, where is here again? We got lost trying to find Konoha.” Naruto asked/squeaked.

“You are in Training Ground 44”

“The Forest of Death” Sasuke muttered. “Thank you. Could you please point us to the village?”

“If you tell us why you are here and what you know about the missing signatures of the Hatake Clan compound at the border.” Sakura turned to face the team and froze. That was Senju Tobirama when he was alive and his young team. The future 3rd Hokage was so small and young compared to when he died.

“Um, well we just came from there. My team and I” Sasuke pointed to his boyfriend and sister in everything but blood. “had arrived to a bloody battlefield and he was the only one left fighting. We helped him take care of the others and search for survivors, but there were none. We took care of him and he helped us out in finding the nearest village. Konoha, right?” Sakumo nodded. “But we got majorly lost, mainly due to this dobe.”

“What should we do Sensei? Trust them?” An unknown female on the group asked.

“For now. Let’s continue the mission. You better not try anything.” Hurt his last family member and role model? Sakumo almost snorted at the idea, but didn’t.

“What is your name?” Kagami asked the blond.

“Uzumaki Naruto, dattabayo!”

“Uchiha Kagami. Nice to meet you.” He didn’t look like an Uzumaki, but genetics are weird.

“I guess we should continue introducing ourselves. I’m Senju Tobirama.”

“Sarutobi Hiruzen.”

“Mitokado Homura”

“Utatane Koharu”

“Uchiha Sasuke”

“Haruno Sakura”

“Hatake Sakumo” Tobirama did a double take. He had noticed the vague feeling of white chakra but dismissed it with bigger matters to deal with. Tobirama took a deep breath and looked to their destination.

“We should continue to the Hatake Clan compound. Did you see who did it? Were they missing nin? From one of the new villages?” He asked Sakumo, who shook his head.

“No. They were men made of literal black stuff. They had light green eyes and no hair.”

“Black Zetsu” Naruto mumbled, confused. Zetsu wasn’t this far back in time, was he?

“Who?” Hizuren asked. “Do you know them?”

“From where we came from, they destroyed out town. We managed to get out before that with 3 others, but we were separated.” Sasuke made up a kinda true story. Tobirama narrowed his eyes and was about to comment but someone interrupted him, giving Team 7 sometime to regain their composure.