Turn It Back Gen Version

Summary: Things had literally gone to hell in a hand-basket. The human race was virtually extinct except for the human slave farms ran by the invading demonic hordes and the surviving free humans that lived in the shinobi fortress of Suna. The allied forces of Suna and Konoha fought to protect the survivors and were joined by Team Hawk and the surviving members of Akatsuki. For years they struggled to survive the demonic invasion and their numbers were rapidly dwindling. The free humans were finally forced to take drastic measures. They decided to use a Suna sacrificial kinjutsu to turn it back.

Warnings: Gore, violence, and language. Pairings: none, but a hinted at Naruto/Tenten and a past Naruto/Kurenai

Chapter I: We Are So Fucked

-excerpt from Namikaze Naruto's memoirs

When Sasuke and his group arrived at Konoha we had already received news of what had happened to Oto and Rice. The reports of what the demons had done to the humans of that land sickened even the most hardened warriors. The only thing that we didn’t know was where the demonic army had come from. With Sasuke’s arrival we soon found out what exactly happened and who was responsible. I curse Orochimaru and Madara to the deepest hells for what those fuckers wrought in their sick quest for more and more power. Baa-chan decided that we needed more information and Sasuke was ordered to lead a team back into Oto to get the information that we needed. Jiraiya, Kakashi, Kabuto, Sasuke’s newly named, Team Hawk and I plus two people I never met that Baa-chan called Sai and Yamato were assigned this triple-S class mission. Why us? Because we were the only ones foolhardy enough to do so, I guess. Sakura asked why she wasn’t included and Grandma said that they had enough medic nins accompanying us and she need Sakura here to aide her in preparing for the war we all knew was coming

Two nights later we left for Oto.


Everyone knew there was a good chance that some of them would not be returning home and that their death would most likely be extremely painful but that didn’t matter. Konoha needed the information that could only be found in Oto and they would retrieve it and make sure it got back to Konoha. No matter what!

The team had deemed that Kabuto and Sasuke would lead the way because they knew the hidden paths into our target. None of them spoke to each other as they journeyed to their destination. The day passed and the night came swiftly and they were forced to stop. They slept in the trees and the next day quietly resumed their journey. It would take them two days to arrive at the border between Fire and Rice. That night after they had entered Rice the Anbu called Yamato created a wood house for them to sleep in. “I thought that little experiment of Orochimaru’s failed,” murmured Kabuto.

Yamato just smirked at the silver haired med-nin. Naruto ignored the biplay between the two and stared at the wood house that Yamato had created. After a few minutes an idea came to him and he said, “Yamato-san, is it possible for you to make your house look more like a tree? I think we need to blend in with our surroundings as much as possible.”

“I don’t know. I never had a reason to try,” Yamato responded thoughtfully.

Yamato looked at his creation and began to concentrate his chakra and the wood house shifted into a large tree with an opening for them to enter.The shinobi entered the tree house and the opening closed behind them. Jiraiya had pulled out some glow sticks and snapped a couple of them, illuminating the interior. “Air?” questioned Kakashi.

“The tree branches have something like breathing tubes running through them to bring in fresh air,” Yamato replied quietly. “I also made the exterior extremely thick so there would be more substance between us and whatever maybe out there."

Kakashi nodded his head and they sat down and ate a portion of the rations they carried with them before bedding down for the night. In the middle of the night, Karin woke them up. “What’s going on, Karin?” Sasuke asked irritabley.

“We’ve got company,” came the red head’s terse response.

That is when they heard them. The grunting, growling, and the scratching of claws on the outside of their temporary shelter. A deep, guttural voice said, “What the fuck are you doing, Gaaarichiikissirt?”

“This tree is strange,” another voice hissed.

“It’s a large tree, yes, but it is just a tree,” the tearing of bark was heard before the voice continued, “See, just a tree. Now let’s go. We have humans to hunt.”

They sat there tensely, gripping their weapons. Karin sighed and relaxed. “They’re gone.”

Someone sighed and then Jiraiya said, “They couldn’t sense us. Somehow Yamato’s jutsu hid our chakra from them.”

“Ero-sennin, didn’t you mention that the First could control the Bijuu in some way? Perhaps it has something to do with his bloodline?” Naruto asked quietly.

“That is probably the correct answer, brat,” Jiraiya said.

“Dobe, you’ve changed. That’s the second good idea that’s poped into your head today that didn’t occur in battle,” Sasuke muttered.

“Hey, I’m not stupid, Sasuke. I never have been,” Naruto muttered quietly.

Sasuke just snorted. Naruto didn’t respond. Naruto thought about his training with his godfather. Jiraiya had beaten patience into him. He had pointed out that ninja that lost their temper, lost the battle and he made sure to reinforce that lesson every chance he got. Silence filled the dark room until Kakashi said, “Sasuke, was right about one thing, Naruto. Your idea on making the tree house look more like a tree most likely saved our lives and our mission. Good job.”

Narutp smiled softly in the darkness and whispered, “Thank’s, Kakashi-sensei.”

Silence settled over them once again and they soon slipped back into sleep. Tomorrow would be a long day.

-excerpt from Namikaze Naruto’s memoirs

Godfather, when he had revealed that to me I was stunned, hurt and so very angry. I screamed at him for hours. Letting my grief and rage in how I was treated in Konoha out on him. He held me through it all and then when I was exhausted explained why he left me in Konoha all alone. His explanation made sense. I also found out who my parents were. I still used my mother’s maiden name because I wasn’t quite strong enough yet to take on my father’s enemies. Of course, that changed as soon as the demon’s came. An Uzumaki did not inspire as much confidence as a Namikaze did. Especially a Namikaze who could perform his father’s most powerful jutsu’s, no matter how imperfectly.

The next morning they got up and waited for Karin to give them the all clear before they left the safety of the treehouse. Naruto put my hand on Yamato’s shoulder just as he was about to dismiss the jutsu. “Close the hole, I wish to test something, Yamato-san.”

Yamato looked at him strangely but said nothing and did what Naruto had asked. He placed his hand on the bark of the tree and infused his chakra into it and willed the door to open. The bark shifted slowly at first and then faster. Naruto smiled in triumph. He did it, he had opened the door to the treehouse. He infused the tree again and willed the door closed. Once again the door responded and it rippled closed. “What did you just do, dobe?” Sasuke asked.

Jiraiya chuckled and responded for him, “The brat infused his chakra into the tree and triggered the opening and closing aspect of Yamato’s jutsu. In fact, I think all of us would be able to do it. Shall we try?”

Everyone gave it a shot and it worked for them as well. “Yamato-san, does the tree still draw from you’re chakra?”Naruto asked him quietly.

“No, it doesn’t. Why do you ask?” Yamato asked, confusion in his voice.

“I think you should leave the house just as it is. It would make a perfect safehouse for our ninja’s if we needed to be in this area,” the blonde teen informed him.

“Good thinking, brat,” Jiraiya said with a proud smile.

Naruto smiled happily up at his godfather. “You’ve definitely changed, dobe,” Sasuke said quietly.

Naruto looked over at him and said, “Sasuke, I’ve always been like this. I just didn’t show anyone this side of me.”

“Why. . .?” Sasuke started.

“Hide? It was easier for me to hide my pain and my loneliness that way. My mask soon became a habit that was hard to break. The only time it really lifted was when I was in a serious battle. My time with Ero-Sennin, helped break that mask completely,” Naruto finished his little spiel and flashed a bright smile at his godfather.

Naruto turned to face my godfather, “This demonic invasion changes our plans, doesn’t godfather?”

Jiraiya nodded and Kakashi choked out, “Godfather?”

Jiraiya sighed and said, “Naruto’s last name isn’t Uzumaki, it’s Namikaze. Yes, Sasuke as in Namikaze Minato, the Yondaime Hokage. We hid Naruto’s heritage from everyone in order to protect Naruto from his father’s enemies. We had planned on making sure that Naruto was strong enough to defend himself from his father’s enemies before revealing the truth about his heritage,” Jiraiya sighed again before continuing, “But as Naruto pointed out, things have changed. To reassure Konoha’s populace we will have to reveal Naruto’s heritage. The fact that the Yondaime left a son and that son has learned all of his father’s jutsu’s . . . Yes, Kakashi, even that one.”

“The Hirashin is still imperfect. I’m not close to mastering it yet,” Naruto pointed out.

“I know but you still can use it . . . somewhat,” Jiraiya murmured.

The group of nins stared hard at Naruto and Kakashi muttered, “Why didn’t I see it before? He’s almost a carbon copy of sensei.”

“He has his mother’s personality, though. Except in battle which is when his Namikaze blood flows the strongest,” Jiraiya said.

Naruto smiled softly before saying, “I think that we should eat and then continue on. We do have a mission to accomplish after all.”

Everyone nodded and pulled out their rations. “Ero-sennin, I wonder why the demons didn’t come to Konoha and Fire Country? We are close to Rice after all.”

“Oto-nins. They didn’t come this way and the demons were following them,” Jiraiya said.

“He’s right, dobe. The demons followed those of Hidden Oto. Most of the shinobi wouldn’t even think of going into Fire Counrty or going near Konoha. They knew that if they incountered any Konoha nins that they would have most likely been killed, no questions asked. They most likely headed somewhere that they felt that they would be more welcome,” Sasuke said.

Naruto nodded his head, ‘That made sense. Oto and Konoha were in the middle of a cold war after all.’ They finished eating and soon they were once again moving swiftly and silently through the trees. It took four days to make their way to Hidden Oto. They had to dodged demon patrols and with the help of Karin they did so easily. At night they slept in Yamato’s treehouses. Once they were inside the underground bunker they silently made their way through the twisting corridors. Naruto wrinkled his nose at the scent of rotting bodies and dried blood. The corridors were filled with half eaten corpse’s as well as dismembered bodies and entrails. Sasuke paused at a doorway and looked over at Kabuto. The silver-haired med-nin nodded and opened the door. It was filled with scrolls. Jirayai looked at Kabuto with a question in his eyes. Kabuto nodded and Naruto realized that this was Orochimaru’s jutsu library. Naruto quickly joined his godfather in sealing the various scrolls into storage scrolls. These jutsu’s could be useful in their upcoming battle with the demon army, especially the scrolls on different kinds of seal creation.

After they finished they moved onto the video room. There they grabbed and sealed away the tape that had had the information they were looking for on it. They now had what they came for and so they left as fast as possible. They relied on Karin, Sasuke, and Kabuto to guide them around the demon patrols. They were near the entrance out of the hidden village when Karin’s eyes went wide and she went pale. “Fuck, we’re surrounded. We’re going to have to fight our way out.”

‘Fuck is right. This does not look good for us,’ Naruto thought.

They looked at each other grimly and then charged for the entrance. They only had one choice. They would have to fight their way out and then make a run for Konoha. They soon saw the entrance as well as the demons waiting for them. Sai pulled out a scroll and pushed chakra into it. A dragon made of ink burst from the paper and attacked the demons ahead of us. Following immeadiately behind the dragon were the roots of a tree. The dragon and roots ripped apart some of the demons blocking our path. Naruto formed a Rasengan and charged into the fray, Jiraiya right behind him with his own Rasengan. Both Kakashi and Sasuki were using Chidori and the rest of the team were using whatever weapons they had at their disposal. It was obvious that they were doing a lot of damage but at the same time they were slowly being overwhelmed by the shear numbers of their enemies. Things were not looking good for them.

That was until Juugo went into a beserker’s rage and started tearing through the demons bare handed. Naruto screamed out, “Juugo, the entrance. Go forward to the entrance!”

For a minute, Naruto thought Juugo was lost in his rage until slowly but surely he began moving through the demons towards the entrance out of Oto leaving dead demons in his wake. The team followed close behind him and soon they escaped out of the underground death trap that was Oto. Yamato swiftly sealed the door behind them with his Mokuton jutsu. For a minute it looked like Juugo would turn on them as well but then Sasuke yelled, “Juugo, enough!”

Juugo paused and Naruto placed a calming hand on his shoulder and channelled his chakra into him. The soothing strokes of Naruto’s chakra calmed Juugo down and once he was calm, they ran. They only stopped for Naruto to create Shadow clones that henged into the team and then split up. Kakashi’s eye went wide in the way Naruto used the henge jutsu. This variant of the henge jutsu was unique to Naruto. The henged clones smelled, looked and their chakra felt like the person it was henged into. Then those of the group that could summon, summoned toads and snakes to aide their escape. They were to cover their tracks and aide the henged clones. Before they could move out, Karin screamed, “Suigetsu, beneath you!”

She was too late in her warning as a giant worm burst out of the ground underneath the former mist nin with its jaws wide open. The jaws closed around him and he burst into water and flowed out of the demons mouth. The sound of a thousand birds chirping filled the air and Sasuke charged forward and cut apart the demon with his chidori. “Naruto!” Karin yelled.

Naruto leapt into the air just as another demonic worm burst out of the ground. Its jaws snapping closed underneath Naruto’s feet. “Chidori!” Kakashi yelled as he charged forward. This worm shared the same fate as his companion.

“Karin, are there anymore?” Naruto yelled urgently.

“No, the other’s seem to be chasing your clones and the summons,” she replied.

Naruto created a clone and then dispelled it. The longer the clones and summons could last the better. With that done they were on the move again. They knew the information they had was to important so they did not stop and rest once night fell. It was too dangerous for them to in Rice. Two days later they arrived in Konoha, weary and exhausted. They all collapsed to the ground in exhaustion their chakra reserves running on fumes. The last thought that Naruto had before blackness overtook him, ‘We got lucky and all of us survived our mission. Next time we will not be so lucky.’


-excerpt from Namikaze Naruto's memoirs

We woke up a few days later with a worried Sakura and Tsuade hovering over us. Well Sakura divided her time in hovering over Sasuke and I while Tsunade hovered equally over everyone. I quickly noted that Sakura still had her crush on the teme but at least she showed that she cared about me as well. I wasn’t jealous or anything. I had gotten over Sakura during my training trip with my godfather. On that trip with my godfather, I had no intrest in finding that special someone whoever she maybe. I thought that I’d have more time to find her after I returned but I guess you know what they say about best laid plans. During those years no female caught my eye. That special someone may have been already dead. In fact, I know she was, she died on our evacuation to Suna. The only female I had any intimate relationship was Kurenai and that was just comfort sex. I am not going to lose my virginity to Kurenai this time around afterall, he is still alive. Perhaps this time I can explore those feelings I felt for her.

Naruto groaned as he opened his eyes, the light hurt. “Good-morning, sleepyhead,” Tsunade murmured. “I’m glad to see that your awake. Now normally, I’d have you recover before you made your mission report but time is of the essence.”

“Of course, baa-chan,” Naruto whispered hoarsely.

“Here’s some water, brat,” Tsunade murmured affectionately.

After Naruto had drank his fill he told her what had happened during the mission. Tsunade frowned and then nodded tiredly. “As soon as everybody is recovered enough, we’ll watch that video and find out what exactly happened that day. We’ll decide what to do from there.”

Naruto smiled and simply nodded his head. They sat there in silence for a moment before Naruto said, “It doesn’t look good, does it, baa-chan?”

“No brat, it doesn’t,” was all that she said. “Battles against demons tend to take a lot of lives. The fact that Oto was so easily and quickly destroyed scares me. It scares me a lot.” Tsundade sighed and looked at the blond teen in the bed and smiled softly. He looked even more like his father then before. “You and Jiraiya are right, the public is going to need to know the truth about your heritage. They’re going to need the reassurance that they have a hero to protect them to keep them from panicking.”

Naruto smiled tiredly and just closed his eyes. ‘Hero, am I? I know that’s what my father wanted the village to see me as but that didn’t happen. I so wanted to prove that I was a hero with my own actions and not my father’s name.’ Naruto sighed sadly, things never seemed to go as planned for him.

Tsunade watched the various expressions that crossed his face and smiled sadly at the brat in the bed before her. Life had been hard for him and now it looked like it was going to ger harder. With the revelation on just who his father was the people would start expecting miracles from him and Naruto would try and give them what they wanted. The door opened behind her and Sakura stuck her head into the room. “Has he woken up yet?”

“I’m awake, Sakura,” Naruto replied quietly.

Sakura stepped into the room, smiling happily at the blonde in the bed. “Naruto, you’re the first one awake,” she said cheerfully.

Naruto smiled at her and said, “You know me, my ability to recover from everything is just amazing.”

For the next few minutes they conversed quietly befoe Tsunade stood up and said, “You still need to rest, brat. We’ll leave you to get some more sleep.”

“See you later, Naruto,” chirped Sakura before following Tsunade out the door.

Naruto closed his eyes and fell back asleep.


-excerpt from Namikaze Naruto's memoirs

The video footage from what was left of Hidden Oto on D-day or as I’d like to put it when Orochimaru and Madara fucked it all up for the human race in their mad fucking quest for power was gruesome. I mean, what the demons did to the inhabitants of Oto will always be something that haunts my nightmares. Of course in my nightmares it is not the Oto ninja I see dying horrifically, it is my friends. My precious people dying before my eyes one by one. Of course these nightmares are supplemented by my memories of how exactly a great many of my precious people died. Asuma, Anko, Yuaago, Tenten . . . Tenten you ked too soon, Baki, Udon, Genma, Raido, Kotetsu, Izumo, Iruka, Ibiki, Tsume, Shibi, Inoichi, Choza, Shikaku, Aoba, Kurenai, Hiashi, Gai, Lee, Sakura, Kabuto, Juugo, Karin, Yamato, Sai, Suigetsu, Moegi, Konohamaru, Ebisu, Neiji, Hinata, Hanabi, Temari, Kankuro, Shino, Sasuke, Tsunade, Jiraiya, Kakashi, Pein, Konan, Deidara, Itachi, Kisame, Kirabi, Yugito, and finally my best friend, Gaara. Their deaths haunt me even though I changed everything and they live still, I am still haunted by their loss.

The team was finally recovered and they had gathered with the other Anbu and Jounin to watch the video that they had recovered from Oto. Tsunade silenced the gossiping ninja. “Quiet everyone, it’s time too see what we’re up against,” she said before she started the video.

The video started with a view of the ritual room that Orochimaru had obviously set up. He and an unknown man that to Naruto’s eyes looked suspiciously like Itachi and Sasuke. They were performing a long, complicated and gruesome ritual. Naruto’s fists clenched as each child was murdered. Knowing that it was too late for him to save those children from their fate hurt. Naruto closed his eyes as another child was eviscerated after being brutally tortured. The ritual finally came to the end four hours later. At the end, the two men had tortured and murdered one hundred innocent children. Naruto’s lips twisted in disgust as both men laughed maniacally as a doorway began to form in the center of the room. Their laughter soon ended when two long, serrated black tentacles whipped through the inky black portal and punched through their chests with a sickening squelch. They numbly looked down at the pointed tip of the tentacle that came through their chest and hovered in front of their face. A look of confusion crossed Orochimaru’s face, not understanding what had just happened to them. “Whaa…,” Orochimaru started to croak out before he was silenced forever.

The tip of the tentacle spread open like a flower bud spreading its petals open to catch the rays of the sun, revealing a set of saw-like teeth. The ‘mouth’ opened wide to be just about bigger then the size of a man’s head. The gapping maw reared back then shot forward, toward the head’s of its victims. Orochimaru and the other man’s heads were ripped off and the teeth began chewing what it had bit off. Blood and brain matter dripped from the jaws of the demon and onto the floor. The two men’s necks were gushing blood into the air like a sprinkler on a lawn. Once the demon finished eating, more tentacles emerged from the portal and began dismembering the rest of the two men’s bodies, blood spattering itself all over the room.

“Fucking hell,” one of the shiniobi in the room murmured.

Naruto frowned again as he remembered the expression on the other man’s face. Pleasure, satisfaction, a strange mad ectasy. Blue eyes narrowed as he quickly came to the realization that, that man had expected his death. That he wanted it to happen. Naruto tuned his attention back to the video when the sound of chewing stopped. He watched as thhe demon responsible for the death of Orochimaru and his partner moved through the doorway that led to Hell. The massive creature that oozed through was a gelatinous mass with six serrated tentacles and it had no distinguishing features on its ‘face.’ In fact, Naruto realized, it had no face.

As soon as it was free of the doorway, it began to manipulate the energies that surrounded the portal. Under its manipulation, the doorway grew larger and larger and soon the portal filled the room. More forms soon started to emerge from the now larger doorway. Demons of every shape and size began to march through the portal and into the room. A large red demon with heavily corded muscles and razor-sharp claws ripped the door leading to the rest of Sound off its hinges. The demons then entered Oto and began to feast upon human flesh.

The ninja in the room watched carefully, ignoring the sickening images as best they could. This was the enemy. They had to know how they operated and fought. In the video, Oto ninja fought desperately for their lives. Demons like the original were oozing through the corridors after the escaping ninja. They swiftly impaled their prey and ripped them apart. One shinobi told the others to flee, that he’d buy them time. “Earth Release: Earthen Wall!”

The wall rose before the approaching demons and the shinobi turned to leave, thinking that the wall would stop the approaching horde. He was wrong. The tentacles pierced through the wall like a hot knife through butter. The shinobi fell to his knees feebley grasping the tentacle that emerged from his chest. “Wha. . a. . .?”

“Crunch, crunch crunch.”

“Well, this is not good. That was one of the stronger defensive jutsu’s out there and the demon just ignored it like it was nothing,” Jiraiya said quietly.

They continued to watch the video in silence. They watched as new demons came through the portal transporting demons that were immeadiately recognized by Naruto. “Those worm things.”

One of the chunin looked at Naruto and asked, “What can they do?”

The video paused to let him speak then Karin stood up and said, “Allow me Naruto?” Naruto nodded and Karin continued, “As you can see these demons are shaped like giant worms. They may seem cumbersome on the video but when in the ground their speed is incredible. When I first sensed them they were twenty feet away but they covered the distance between us in seconds. I was barely able to warn Naruto and Suigestu in time to dodge. In fact, Suigestu wasn’t able to get away from the one who attacked him. If he couldn’t turn his body to water, he’d be dead right now. In the skirmish, Sasuke-sama and Kakashi-san used Chidori which easily killed the creatures. The rest of the demonic worms followed the clones that Naruto had created. In fact, it may have been a good thing that they caught Suigestu. The rest of them had initially been heading toward us but then split up when Suigestu turned to water.”

Naruto sighed softly and said, “They thought that we were clones so they pursued the actual clones in order to find their real target.”

The video restarted and more demons emerged from the portal. These demons had a hand extended and in between them used their demonic energies to carry a sphere of water. Shadows moved within the water and Naruto muttered, “Shit, water demons.”

The video continued and when it was over, hours later, they sat there in silence, digesting what they had seen. “Baa-chan, this does not look good for us,” Naruto murmured.

“I know.”

Author’s Notes: Can you guess where the giant worms are from? Brownie points if you do.