[Kokugen]

The moon was still clear over Konoha when a certain blonde haired ninja suddenly shot up from his bed frozen stiff, he sat there for a moment breathing heavily before his eyes became blurry as a tide of tears erupted from his eyes. He stared at the wall of his apartment which was decorated with a very ecchi[6]calendar and various hangings with inspirational sayings such as, ‘Do your best’ and ‘Guts’. He sat there for a few more seconds before lifting a shaky arm to his eyes and wiping them, stemming the flow.

He stood from his bed his twelve year old body not as limber as his older one but still familiar, he pulled his sleeping cap off of his head and went to the window. He leapt onto the roof of the floor below and negotiated the side wall to reach the roof. He scanned the village to try and identify just how far back he was, he couldn’t see the change in buildings from after the joint Suna and Oto attack so he assumed it was before the second chuunin exam so he wondered if he had even graduated yet. Graduation, That’s right my hitai-ate[7].

He leapt off the roof and swung of a pole to enter through his open window, happy to be able to use his monkey like manoeuvres again he went to his bedside table to find a pair of murky green goggles,

“So how far back am I?”

He looked around the room for a sign of the date and noticed his calendar on the wall once again, dashing over he saw that it was the month of his graduation exam, It hasn’t got Kakashi’s training date on here so I haven’t graduated yet! He did a little victory dance at having manipulated the technique so well, I’ll have to thank the sandaime for his excellent research… actually could I save him from dying this time? But if I’m there then… then Sasuke and Sakura… they could die.

He went to his bed and sat down closing his eyes and opening his hands on his knees in his timeline Naruto had developed a way of focusing his chakra control, he would form a Fuuton Rasengan[1]with the assistance of a Kage Bunshin[2] . He would then maintain it for 30 seconds before releasing it in a controlled way, he would repeat the same exercise on his other hand to improve his control. He produced a Kage Bunshin and put out his left hand focusing chakra, he was surprised to find his chakra capacity was a great degree smaller than before hardly able to produce any chakra to spin he gave up on it for now, The mind remembers but the body doesn’t… how typical.

He decided to not overwork his mind today with complex theories on changing the future and to instead his way through tomorrow starting with the academy. He put his sleeping cap back on and lifted his quit, I should probably clean up as well, can’t become Hokage with a messy room. He went into his bed and collapsed into his sheets dreaming of murky shadows and innocent hearts.