Dust, and ashes covered the once all standing village of the leaves. 7 people stood. Out of how many, how many people lost since they first met.

Naruto Uzumaki, Child of the Prophecy and Hero of the Hidden Leaf. Age 27, Commander of the Shinobi alliance and Hokage of Konoha.

Shikamaru Nara, Jonin Commander. Age 27, Captain of the tactical and intelligence division of the Shinobi alliance and Konoha.

Hinata Uzumaki Hyuga, Head of the Hyuga clan. Age 27 and Captain of the recall and tracking division of the Shinobi alliance and Konoha.

Rock Lee, Head of the ground forces. Age 28 and Captain of the frontal assault division of the Shinobi alliance and Konoha.

Gaara of the Sand, Prince of the Sand Waterfall Gourd. Age 27 and Fifth Kazekage.

Temari Nara, Queen of the sands. Age 30, and Head of Suna's frontal assault squad and Captain of the air forces.

Kankurō of the Sand, Puppet master. Age 29, and head of the Captain of the Surprise Attack Division of the Allied Shinobi Forces.

The massacre was brutal, each fight causing fewer and fewer people to return home to their families.

All the people that have lost their lives; Jiraiya, Itachi, Neji, Bee, Sakura, Sasuke, Ino, Choji, Kiba, Shino, Kakashi, Asuma, and Guy.

The fight for peace was in vain.

Obito had fought for the right side in the end, but even he was no match for Madera, who received and controlled everyone who died.

TenTen who was killed by a revived Guy, Sakura who was slaughtered by a revived Tsunade. Hanabi was murdered by a revived Neji.

As far as they knew no one else was still alive, while some are MIA after seeing what happened to Kiba, and Shino after they have declared MIA for 2 years all everyone could do, was wish that they were dead.

" It's taken us years to get this far" Garra said, his voice raspy yet still had the authority that commanded armies.

" All the deaths, this is what they gave their lives for" Hinata nodded. Her voice still soft, still holding the motherly tone that was only used once. But now there was an edge to it, a silver edge facing determination and strength which only made Naruto fall in love with her a bit more.

" The chances of this working...." Shikamaru started and his shoulders shook.

" It has to," Temari said, her voice holding not even the slightest quiver or shake.

" After a year of death, pain, and absolute hell. It better work" Kankurō said gruffly.

" We do not get to decide that" Lee put in.

" Either way we are putting a lot of faith into this" Naruto said and put away the ink that he was using.

" Well with your ungodly luck, we have a good chance" Shikamaru huffed and Naruto chuckled.

" Oh wow I understand" He replied with a false pout.

" So let's go through this one more time" Temari interrupted giving Shikamaru a look.

" This is a space-time seal, depending on the amount of chakra used the farther back in time we go. The output of this is going to be deadly. It will alert everyone to our location, so there will be no second chances. I made a few calculations with Shika, if we put most of our chakra back together we should be able to go back to the day we graduated" Naruto said, slugging an arm around Shikamaru.

" Are there any variables we should know about?" Gaara asked.

" We might be off by a month at most, so the first thing we should do is look at the calendar and what do you mean we Nar I did the calculations while you just looked over my shoulder," Shikamaru said and Naruto choked.

" What about training?" Lee asked.

" About that, we should come back with our muscles and chakra. But we will need to work on control as our lives depend on it. Since all of our reserves are ten times bigger now, it will take some time to get used to it" Naruto winces and gets pitting looks in return. Everyone knew that his control sucked even now.

" There is also the fact that since kata's are muscle memory we should be able to get back to our full extent in a few months" Shikamaru adds.

" Are we telling anyone?" Hinata asks and Naruto and Gaara share a look.

" We are telling Sarutobi, there is no way that we can hide this from a Kage plus he would do well in our corner, and if we run into him we are definitely telling Itachi," Naruto said.

" In Suna, we are telling Chiyo so she can fix my seal and Baki so he can cover for us. Unfortunately, we will not be telling father, we have no way of knowing that he isn't already being influenced by the Sound." Gaara said.

" I never liked him anyway," Temari quipped and Kankurō choked.

" Alright skillfully dodging that roast, how similar are we going to make the two timelines?" Kankurō said.

" Oh no we are shattering the timelines. You could go join the puppet corpse right now and I would be proud" Naruto said.

" Shouldn't we have some guidelines on how things are going to turn out?" Hinata asked.

" I mean it's better than Naruto's idea to become a missing-nin" Shikamaru pointed out and Hinata sent a withering look to her husband.

" What" She growled.