Turn It Back Gen Version

Author’s Notes: Remember this is AU. In fact, I’m doing things with certain jutsu that probably isn’t possible in canon. But I need them to do this so they are doing it.

Chapter II : Lost Innocence


-excerpt from Namikaze Naruto’s memoirs

When I saw those spheres of water being carried into our world by those demons, I had a bad feeling. A really bad feeling. I quickly reazlized that Konoha was already lost. We could not defend from the ground, the water and the sky. We needed to eliminate an area of defense. I thought of Suna and its sand. I thougt of the logistics and I knew it was doable but the council refused to listen to reason, saying that I was worrying for nothing. That all changed with that little girl which was swiftly followed by one hundred civilians a few days later. Sometimes I wish I had jumped into the water after that little girl. Saved her from the fate that had befallen her or at least put an end to her pain. Kurenai later tried to comfort me after we found out the truth about those water worms. She said that we didn’t know and that if I had followed that little girl I just would have shared her fate. I knew that she was right back then when she held me in her arms trying to comfort me. Just as I was trying to comfort her from his death but in my nightmares I heared a little girl with big, green eyes screaming endlessly in torment. I saw that little girl the other day and even though I know it hasn’t and won’t happen . . . I still dream . . .


Naruto groaned in frustration and pushed his fingers through his hair. ‘Fucking council,’ he thought angrily. They refused to see reason. The village would fall quickly to these demons and they needed to evacuate as soon as possible. Suna was best. The worms would have a difficult time in the hot sands of Suna and there was no waterways there like there was hear for the water demons to travel through. Konoha had no natural defenses like this plus their were flying demons as well. They would be besiged within and without if they stayed in Konoha but the council . . . “Arghhhh!” Naruto screamed. “Fucking morons!”

“Council driving you up the wall, brat?” Jiraya said from the window that he had appeared in.

Naruto shook his head wearily and sighed before saying, “You’re with me, aren’t you ero-sennin? We can’t stay here?”

“I know but until something happens to prove to them that we can’t protect them in their own homes they won’t budge an inch,” Jiraiya replied.

“True,” Naruo muttered and stood up, stretching his lanky frame. “I’m going for a walk to clear my head. Do you want to join me?”

“Why not,” Jiraiya replied.

They walkded in silence down to the lake, listening to the sounds of children’s laughter. Naruto wondered morbidly when that laughter would turn to screams. Later, Naruto wondered if he hadn’t thought that then maybe it would never have had happened. That happy laughter turned to screams of terror and Naruto spun around to see a brown haired, green eyed little girl get swallowed whole by something that looked somewhat similar to the worms that he had faced in Sound. The worm after swallowing her, disappeared into the water. Naruto ran forward, intent on saving the child. Jiraiya grabbed him and didn’t let go. “ERO-SENNIN, LET ME GO! I CAN STILL SAVE HER!”

“No, Naruto, you can’t. It is already to late. If you follow after her you will face the same fate as her,” Jiraiya whispered in his ear.

“He’s right, Naruto,” Karin said, her eyes unfocused as she concentrated on the lake before them. “There are at least a hundred of those things in the lake. There is no way you’d survive.”

“AHHHHHHHHHH!” Naruto screamed impotently. Jiraiya released him and he fell to his knees and then rasped, “Fucking hell, I knew that this would happen. I told the council that were not safe within Konoha. We need to leave this village.”

“Do you think that this will force the council to see reason,” Karin asked.

Jiraiya and Naruto snorted in unision before Naruto said, “They won’t see reason until people are attacked in their own homes. They’ll just forbid people from going near the water which is quite difficult in Konoha with all the springs, ponds and waterways within this village which are all connected to some lake or tributary that these worms can easily access.”

“I hope for our sakes that this will make them see reason,” Karin said quietly as we watched the mother of the little girl scream incoherently in grief. The parents of the girls playmates ushered their children swiftly away from the lake, all the while looking fearfully back at the serene still waters.

Jirayai snorted and said, “Doubt it.”


-excerpt from Namikaze Naruto’s memoirs

We were right of course. The council ignored what happened. They ordered people to stay away from the water. It wasn’t till people started dying in their homes did did some of them finally started to listen to what I had to say. Two nights after that little girl died people started dying in their own homes. The worms, those damned water worms were able to travel through the fucking pipes and into peoples homes. They went for the children first, they were easier to swallow in one go after all and they were smart. They knew that if they grabbed an adult that they could be caught as they slowly swallowed their food. So something easier was prefered. Seventy-five children and twenty-four adults, all civilians, died that night. The council was actually disbanded and military rule went into effect. What Baa-chan said went and Ero-sennin and I were her right and left hands.

The screaming woke Naruto up. He sprang to his feet and followed the screams and found a crowd beginning to surrounding an apartment door. Naruto broke the door open and followed the screams to find a young woman kneeling in front of an air duct holding a ragged, brown teddy bear. Naruto’s nose wrinkled as he smelled blood and something . . . other. He knelt by the young woman and she turned to him and whimpered, “My baby, it took my little boy. My son, it ate my son! My son, my son, give me back my baby boy! Why is this happening?”

“Fuck,” Naruto whispered as he took the young woman into his arms, moving her away from the air duct. He got her out into the hall and said, “Alright everyone, we have a situation. Those damned water worms have migrated into the air ducts. They’re probably in the pipes as well. Everyone, evacuate the building. Move to a well lit area, with no water nearyby and plenty of space to see the enemy coming.” An Anbu squad landed beside him. He looked at them grimly, “Spread the word, evacuate every building in Konoha. Get ready to guard our civilian populace.”

“Yes, sir!”

The Anbu leapt away and other shinobi soon appeared to organized the evacuation of the populace. Naruto handed the distraught young woman to one of her neighbors, sorrow in his eyes. Jiraiya walked up to him and said, “You’re going to have your way now. The council won’t have a leg to stand on after this debacle.”

Naruto raised a slim gold brow in inquiry. “This isn’t the only place hit tonight. We’ll know how many dead we have soon enough,” Jiraiya responded to his silent inqury.

“Fuck!” Naruto’s fist slammed into the wall. “I didn’t see this coming. I didn’t think it was possible for something so large to fit through the pipes and air ducts like that.”

Naruto breathed happily, leaning against the wall. “Godfather, what are we going to do? We’re not ready to make a big move, yet. Those worms . . .” Naruto’s voice trailed off.

Jiraiya put a comforting hand on Naruto’s shoulder, “I know, Naruto, I know.”

Naruto stood up straight and headed to his apartment. He grabbed his equipment and turned to leave and paused. His danger senses were going off and he smelled that scent that he had detected earliar. Blue eyes narrowed, behind him lay an air duct. He tensed his muscles and leapt up, forming a rasengan in his left hand. The worm passed underneath him, its four serrated jaws wide open, and ready to swallow him. He plunged the blue orb into the back of the creature underneath him. The rasengan bounced off the hide of the rubbery creature and it whipped around trying to grab him. The jaws of the worm snapped around a chair. Splinters of wood flew from its mouth. A weird howling noise emerged from the demon and it turned to face where Naruto had landed after he had used Kawarmi to switch with the chair. Rasengan seemed to be useless, he pulled out a kunai that had an exploding tag and when the demon slithered forward with its jaws open, he threw the kunai into its mouth before jumping out his open window. A minute later, the side of his apartment blew out. That tag had been one of his over powered exploding tags.

Naruto landed safely on the ground a few minutes later, Jiraiya soon joined him. “What happened?”

“One of those fucking worms,” Naruto gritted out.

“Well, that’s one less,” Jiraiya murmured.

Naruto began walking toward the tower and said, “The Rasengan bounced off the fucking things back.”

“Bounced?”


“It’s skin is like rubber that resist the grinding of the Rasengan.”

“That’s good to know.”

“I’m need to really begin working on my Rasenshuriken, again. Cutting maybe the way to go,” Naruto said grimly.

Jiraiya nodded his head silently and they continued their journey to the Hokage’s tower. They both knew that they were going to have a long night ahead of them.


-excerpt from Namikaze Naruto’s memoirs

Tsunade. That woman was a fantastic Hokage. No matter what people may say her tenure as the Godaime was a good one even with the Demon Wars. Her strength guided us all through the darkest of times. The old man asked me just after the Chunin Exams if I wanted his hat now. I laughed so hard and told him I was to be the Rokudaime not the Godaime. I still had Madara and Akatsuki to deal with and I wanted to hang every now and then with my best friend. I couldn’t do that if both of us were Kage’s. He nodded his head. I could tell he wasn’t surprised by my decision. Not long after, Tsunade was once again the Godaime and with my help she eliminated the problems she would have had with the council the same way she did the day after those water worms invaded our homes.

Tsunade sat down at her desk every single air duct and large pipes in the hokage’s tower had been sealed shut. After finishing the hokage tower we had moved onto the pipes and ducts in the shelter in the hokage’s mountain and soon our civilians and shinobi would be living in there. Tsunade looked at Naruto and Jiraiya grimmly and said, “Begin making plans for the evacuation of Konoha to Suna. I don’t give a flying fuck what the council says, if they want to stay they can protect themselves.”

Jiraiya and Naruto smirked and nodded their heads. “You’re going to need to send a message to Suna containing everything that we’ve discovered about these demons.” Naruto said as he leaned on the wall beside a window looked out at the village. A look of contemplation was on his face and he then said, “We need to send messages to Snow and Wave as well. They’re our allies after all.”

Tsunade nodded her head and turned to Shizune. “Prepare the messages, I’ll sign off on them once I’m done,” she said and then turned back to Naruto and Jiraiya. “The civilians need to be alerted about the evac. How much are they going to be allowed to take?”

“Basic’s only. Most of what we’ll be hauling to Suna will be provisions and items we will need to expand Suna to fit everyone and survive a long, drawn out war with beings that won’t let us surrender and live in peace,” Jiraiya said quietly.

“Ero-sennin is right. The civilians will be allowed to bring only what they can carry. All wagons and other methods of transport will be used exclusevily for war time goods.”

Tsunade nodded and leaned back into her chair with a long drawn out sigh. “What are you two going to be working on?”

“Seals,” Jiraiya relayed.

“Huh?”

“What Ero-sennin means baa-chan is that we will be creating seal arrays that will allow us to live easily in Suna without worrying about running out of fresh produce and water. We’re about have way through creating them,” Naruto replied.

“Half way through but . . .?” Tsunade began.

“Gaara commissioned these seals from us earliar in the year, that’s why we’re half way through,” Naruto told her.

“Ah, well that’s some good news amoungs all the bad,” Tsunade whispered. “While you and Jiraiya are working on those seals, I’ll create a council to organize our evacution.”

Naruto and Jiraiya nodded and turned to leave Tsunade and Shizune alone in the office. They paused when Tsunade said,“We’ll need those seals done as soon as possible you two.” They nodded and continued leaving the office to find a place where they could work in peace.

-excerpt from Namikaze Naruto’s memoirs

Two days after we sent out our messages, Wave and Suna responded. Gaara would be expecting us and Wave would join us in our evacution to Suna. Two days after that, Kusa sent word that they would coorinate their evacution with ours and would join us at the border of Wind Country. A few days after Kusa, Snow responded saying that they would be joining us in a week. It seems that the princess had been planning to evacuate as soon as she had learned about the demons. She realized that Snow could not be protected and had organized the evacution of the country hoping that Konoha would honor their alliance. Not long after this, news came concerning the survivors of Oto. They had fled to Iwa and the demons had followed them. Iwa was now undersiege. We hoped that Iwa would keep the demonic army occupied long enough for us to evacuate Konoha and prepare Suna for the upcoming siege. Preperations were sped up, we knew we were rapidly running out of time. Of course, even though Tsunade had put her foot down, the fucking council would not let us be about our planned evacuation. One thing I learned is that civilians should never be involved in shinobi affairs. Konoha is a military outpost. Civilians can live here but they should never have any say about how the village military is run. The hokage is the supreme leader, no ifs, ands or buts about it.

Naruto and Jiraiya walked into the council chambers with irritated expressions on their faces. Their was still some morons that were still protesting the decision to evacuate the village. They headed straight for Tsunade and stood behind her, arms crossed and glared at the fools who made up part of the council. They waited silently for the rabble to quiet down till Naruto had enough. “Shut the fuck up! You called us here to talk. So talk, my godfather and I were in the middle of preparing for the upcoming evacution. We have no time for this crap.”

The babling council members glared at the blonde teen angrily. Tsunade spoke up, “He’s right, we have no time for this crap. Say what you’re going to say so we can get back to what we were doing.”

“That’s what we want to talk about. This foolish idea of evacuating Konoha. This is our village. We should not be leaving our village. Do you know what that would do to our reputations . . .”

“Fuck, our reputations. This isn’t about what would look good. This is about survival at all costs. We can not defend Konoha properly. There are to many access points into the village for the demons. They can attack us from the air with the demons that can fly. They can attack us from underground with their ground worms. They can enter our water supply and attack us in our own homes. This is just what we know about right now. They may have demons that could walk through the very walls that surround the village. We are going to Suna because it is in a desert and we believe that it is most likely those Earth worms will have trouble with the heated sands of Suna. They have no lakes and streams so those water worms will not be able to enter Suna like they did Konoha. So the only two access points we would have to defend are the walls of Suna and from the air.”

Gaara and I have already come up with a plan to defend us from the air using his control of Sand. We also have plans to reinforce the new walls of Suna with Yamato’s wood jutsu’s and seal arrays. Jiraiya and I are almost finished creating a set of seal arrays that will provide us with fresh water within Suna. Enough to create a variety of greenhouses that will grow us produce and textiles,” Naruto finished with a growl.

“The brat’s right. Defending Konoha is a lost cause,” Tsunade stated forcefully. “We are evacuating Konoha. There is nothing you can do to stop this. All of the shinobi population is in agreement as well as a majority of the civilian populace. The ease in which those water worms entered their homes has hit home how indefenceable Konoha is. This is end of this meeting and this council.”

The council members began protesting loudly. “ENOUGH! This is a military outpost. The hokage is the general and what she says, goes. This is not a democracy, this is a b>DICTARORSHIP! Now shut the fuck up!” Naruto yelled angrily.

He glared at the men and woman who made up the civilian council, ice blue eyes shooting sparks. The council members quailed under his glare. He smirked nastily at them before turning to Tsunade, “Hokage-sama, Jiraiya and I need to return to creating those seals. So please excuse us.”

“Go, finish those arrays as fast as you can,” Tsunade stated.

Naruto nodded and turned and left with Jiraiya behind him. They swiftly headed to their workspace and returned to work. Jiraiya sat down and watched as Naruto picked up where he had left off. Jiraiya had quickly realized that he was only here for moral support as Naruto had followed in his father’s footsteps and became a sealmaster that surpassed what his teacher had taught him. He was only there for Naruto to bounce ideas off of. He watched as his godson wrote down notes furiously as ideas for various seals flowed through his mind. Naruto was working on a seal array that would create a rainforest. The rainforest would contain everything they’d need for medical herbs as well as a constant source of water. He shook his head, his godson had an amazing imagination and if he had chakra coils that matched his chakra reserves he would have been a prodigy in genjutsu.

Jiraiya watched as seal arrays were created and destoyed as Naruto thought about what he needed and what he wanted his final arrays to accomplish. He hoped that Naruto would be able to finish the seal arrays soon. He had a feeling that they needed to leave Konoha soon.

-excerpt from Namikaze Naruto’s memoirs

Back then I knew that my godfather was worried about how much time we had left before we too would be undersiege from the Demonic Army. I didn’t say anything, I knew if I though about it that I would be distracted by my worries and fears. I didn’t have time for that. Tenten was the one assigned to bring us food and water. She also updated us on how well the evacuation was going. I think that this could have been the beginning of a relationship. A relationship that could have kept me sane and stable during the worst of the Demon Wars, when friends and allies fell around me like flies. But I guess it was not meant to be . . .

Tenten walked into the room carrying bento’s for the two sealmasters who were working desperately on something that would be vital to their survival in Suna. The Toad Sanin looked up as he entered and smiled in thanks as Tenten set the bento’s on the table. Naruto looked up from the papers in front of him and smiled at her. “Thanks,” he said as he reached for one of the bento’s.

Tenten adjusted the hem of her shirt and smiled at the blonde happily. “You’re welcome, Naruto.”

Jiraiya looked at the young weapons mistress and asked, “How is the evactuation coming?”

“Wave has finally arrived with its populace and they’re pitching in and aiding in our evacuation. They have brought much needed building supplies which is why it took them so long to arrive here. The weight of the steel girders and stones slowed them down. A man by the name of Tazuna has taken over the organization of the building supplies.”

“Listen to him, he maybe a drunk but he knows what he’s doing when it comes to building,” Naruto replied softly.

“You know him, Naruto?” Tenten asked curiously.

“Yes, he was our first C-class mission that rapidly went to A-class with the appearnce of Zabuza, Demon of the Mist,” Naruto replied between bites of food.

Tenten and Jiraiya nodded in understanding and Tenten continued to update the two of them about the progress of the evacuation. The two sealmasters soon finished off the bento’s and thanked her for the food and the update. She left with the dirty bento boxes and as she closed the door she saw a golden blonde head bend back over the table, returning to work. As she closed the door softly behind her, she smiled sadly to herself as she walked away. It had taken a lot of manuevering to beat out Hinata for the right to take Naruto his lunch.

-excerpt from Namikaze Naruto’s memoirs

Two days after Wave arrived, I finished the seal arrays that I was working on and began working on a new set for the walls of Suna. I knew we needed to reinforce them as much as possible. So I worked on ideas to keep things from phasing through the walls and things like that. I used my imagination to think of as many ways as possible to block the demons ability to get in through our walls. I remembered what had happened on our journey to Oto and I decided to incorporate Mokuton into the arrays as another way of protecting us against the demon armies. Tenten came everyday to bring us food and news. On the day that I finished the seal arrays that I had originally been working on I did a report for Tsunade. This was done so she could set up an experimental greenhouse for me to test my final seal arrays on. When I handed the report to Tenten, her fingers brushed mine and there was this tingling feeling. I remembered looking up at herin startlement and I realized that she had felt it too. I think that was the beginning of our relationship before . . .

Naruto stretched and looked up at his godfather and said, “I’m done.”

“Really? What do they do?” Jiraiya asked softly.

Naruto smiled proudly and said, “The seal arrays will allow us to create any kind of enviroment in a enclosed space. They’d work best with a greenhouse, of course. The arrays will allow us to create a large space within a small area. So we can have fields of food or an emence rainforest in what is actually a small area. We’ll be able to create our own weather patterns within the structure’s we will build that will be able to contain what we need so we will theoretically have an unending supply of water and food without leaving the safety of Suna’s walls.”

Jiraiya smiled proudly at his godson and said, “Write a report for Tsunade and have her get a small greenhouse prepared so we can test your seal arrays.”

Naruto nodded and began writing out his report. Twenty minutes later he finished just as Tenten arrived with their lunch. Naruto looked up at the silent weapons mistress and smiled happily at her. “Hey, Tenten, just in time. I finished the arrays and just need to test them out. After we’re finished, I need you to take this report to Baa-chan so she can get the test site ready. Meanwhile, I’m going to work on more seal arrays but these ones will be meant to reinforce Suna’s walls,” Naruto stated and handed his report to her.

She nodded and took the report from Naruto’s hand. Their fingers brushed and a strange, tingly feeling where their skins touched made Naruto’s eyes widen slightly. Naruto looked over at Tenten and realized that she had felt it too. Naruto brushed the feeling swiftly from his mind and turned his attention to his lunch. He did not have time for a romantic relationship at this time. He swiftly finished his lunch and soon Tenten left with the empty bento boxes and Naruto’s report. Naruto returned to working on his next batch of seal arrays.

Tenten dropped off the bento’s at kiosk that had been set up to feed the shinoibi’s and civilians who were working on the evacuation of Konoha. She then took Naruto’s report to Tsunade and delivered it to her hands. She read through what Naruto had wrote and told her to organize the creation of a small greenhouse and she nodded silently in response before leaving to do as she asked. She sighed softly to himself, Naruto obviously felt the attraction between the two of them but he was not willing to do anything about it. She didn’t blame him. Now was not the time for a romance of any kind right now but she could dream, couldn’t she?

Author’s Notes: Can you guess where these worms are from? Brownie points if you do. Here’s a hint: It involved an ocean liner and end only three people were left alive. For all of you who voted gravoids from Tremors for the last chapter, kudos, you’re correct.