A/N: (Spoilers) This is my first Naruto fic and I really wanted to see more NarutoxSarada stories, so i decided to write one. The start of the story begins in the middle of Naruto Gaiden right after Sarada finally meets her father. This will be a time-travel fic that revolves around Sarada.
Disclaimer: I don't own Naruto
Chapter 1
For all her life she just wanted to meet her dad, she dreamed of this day. Her mother, Sakura, didn't tell her much about him, always avoided the conversation or tried to change topics. She wanted answers to why he was never around.
But now she finally had her father standing right in front of her, and he just stared at her coldly like he wasn't even happy to finally see his own daughters face, then again he didn't even recognize her when she first came in. That made her really mad, but what really ticked her off was what her dad said when she asked where the hell he had been for all this time.
Just talk to me….where the hell have you been this entire time and what have you been doing, dad?!.. She had yelled at him earlier, desperate for an answer.
Something that doesn't concern you… She couldn't believe he would say that. The stone cold expression was still plastered on his face.
The words echoed in her head. Did he honestly not care for her? Or mom? The seventh wasn't lying about how her dad could be an ass. Why did he have to be her dad? This wasn't what she imagined, she was hoping that he would be so happy to see her and take her up in his arms. Her dreams of a happy reunion were crushed.
There was an awkward silence that filled the room as Sarada stood there with her hands balled up in fist to her sides while she cried. She didn't want to be in his presence anymore, she dashed towards the door yelling. "Fine! Forget it!"
She dashed out the door zooming past Chou-Chou and Naruto with tears stilling flowing down her cheeks, she wasn't sure where she was going, but she just wanted to be alone right now to vent out all her frustration.
All she could hear as she ran were her own footsteps and sobs before eventually running into something, making her stumble to the floor. When she wiped the tears out of her eyes and looked up, the pale figure named Uchiha shin standing before her and he wasn't alone this time.
What stood next to him was a tall, pale, and bald man draped in a black cloak with red clouds on them. The man's right eye was bloodshot and had eight stitches that held it open, and had numerous sharingans all over his body. It looked disgusting. The mini-cyclops with the sharingan that teleported Shin away earlier was resting on the taller man's shoulder gazing down at her.
"You're coming with us." Stated the man with the bloodshot eye as he stared down at her.
Sarada would be lying if she said she wasn't scared, they didn't even give her time to respond as the mini-cyclops eyes activated its mangekyou sharingan and started spiraling everything around him. She knew that they wereusing a space-time ninjutsu to take her away, and she was terrified on what they were going to do to her.
She shut her eyes and bit the bottom of her lips. Why did she have to go and run away?
"Sarada!" a voice said in the distance. Her eyes snapped open upon hearing her name, That voice… the seventh? Next thing she saw was a bright orange that took over her vision before everything went fuzzy.
"Man! How am I suppose to be Hokage if I keep doing those shitty ass chores." Naruto complained to himself as he walked down the street, the blonde had just finished another day of D-ranked filled missions. He felt like he wasn't making any progress since he became a genin, all he would do were those stupid teamwork exercises and D-ranked missions. Kakashi hadn't even taught them a single jutsu yet or any proper taijutsu style.
Naruto was on his way home, and had just finished buying groceries even though most of them were overpriced and almost spoiled. But that was a normal occurrence for him. He sighed as he spent almost all the money he made from d-ranks today.
Once he was passing by an alleyway, something red had caught the corner of his eye getting his attention as he stopped in the middle of his tracks to stare down the alley way to find someone laying down on the floor. Naruto immediately rushed over to them, dropping his bags of groceries to the floor.
"Hey! Are you alright?" The blonde asked worried as he stared down at the girl with black hair that reached shoulder length with red framed glasses. She wore a red sleeveless shirt that reminded him of Sakura's shirt, light –colored shorts, and long purple arm warmers. What surprised Naruto was the Uchiha crest that was stitched on the back of her shirt.
Could she be an Uchiha?
The girl was extremely cute, there was no denying that. Something about those red glasses and arm warmers just added to her appeal. But right now wasn't the time to ogle over a cute girl.
Sarada began to stir as she heard a voice of boy. Her eyes slowly fluttered opened to find a young blonde that almost looked identical to Boruto, but the boy had three whisker marks on each cheek and long spiky blonde hair. He looked exactly Naruto when he was their age. Then she looked down to see he was wearing the same orange jumpsuit that she remembered seeing in one of the old photos of team 7 that was in the Hokage's office whenever she visited.
Flashback
Sarada would sometimes visit Naruto in his office when her mother was busy at the hospital, and didn't have anything else to do. He always let her come in, even when he had piles of paperwork. Naruto did it because it reminded him back when he would come and hang out with the Sandaime when he was her age.
"Hey, Nanadaime-sama, is this photo back when you were a genin?" A little Sarada asked as she stared at the photo, making the Hokage turn away from his paper work to find a 10 year-old Sarada holding the picture of him, Sakura, Sasuke, and Kakashi when they were officially made team 7. Looking at the picture brought a smile to his face, it brought back memories.
"Yes, that photo was taken when your parents and I just became genins."
What the blonde wore really interest her, he wore a bright orange jumpsuit, if she remembered correctly, ninja were suppose to be discreet and not attract attention. Orange was a very easy color to spot. "How did you become a ninja wearing orange?"
He laughed, he wasn't even sure himself. Orange was not a good color for a ninja, he knew that, but he just loved it so much for some reason. Maybe, because it was the accumulation of his mother red hair and his dads blonde hair.
"I was such a good ninja it didn't matter what i wore because i would beat up anyone in my way." he joked, he didn't want to admit it, but he was a terrible ninja when he first start. He was loud and impulsive, both terrible traits for a ninja, but that didn't stop him. he showed everyone as long as you work hard and never give up you can achieve anything.
Sarada couldn't tell he was joking, she was actuallly inspired by his joke."I want to be just like you when i become a ninja, I'll be so good ill beat up everyone and become Hokage just like you." Sarada said to her idol, which surprised him to find out she wanted to become Hokage.
The Nanadaime smiled down at her as he placed a hand at the top of her head. "I'm sure you'll become a great ninja, and one day, Hokage."
Sarada blush as she felt her hero pat her head. She wanted to grow up just like him, strong and caring.
Flashback end
If the Naruto standing before her was dress like this, did that mean she was in the past?
No way…. Am I dreaming? Am I in the past?
Naruto crouched down bringing his head closer to hers, placing his hand on her forehead to check if she was sick. "Are you alright?"
His hand felt too real to be a normal dream.
Sarada couldn't help but blush at how close his face was to hers. "Y-yea, I-I'm fine." Naruto helped her to stand back up. "What happened to you?" she wasn't sure how to answer that, she wasn't even completely sure what happened.
If she was really in the past then her very existence could already be changing the future. The brunette glanced up at the Hokage monument, there were only four of the seven heads that she remembered. The Hokage monument only reinforced the idea that she was in the past.
How did this even happened? Did something go wrong with the space-time ninjutsu?
Sarada brought her focus back at Naruto as he was patiently waiting for an answer. She had to lie to him and make up a story, exposing she was from the future could be dangerous, but she was also scared that he would be able to see through her lie. There were rumors in the academy that he was able to detect lies because of the kyuubi inside that resided within him.
Think Sarada…. Think….
"I-uh I'm an orphan from a small town out of the leaf village and I recently found out I was an Uchiha and unlocked my sharingan, so I came here to become a ninja. I didn't have much money left and I haven't eaten anything in a while so I passed out" Sarada said hoping that he would buy his quick cover up story.
She's an orphan too. Maybe I should feed her then let her meet Jiji and see what he could do.
He felt some sympathy towards her, it reminded him of a few times when he had very little money left and was starved on multiple occasions when he was younger. Naruto knew the pain of being a starving orphan.
"You're an Uchiha!" Naruto yelled as Sarada just simply nodded. Sasuke is going to want to know this Naruto thought. "Well, if you want to be a ninja, I might be able to help you. I'll ask my Jiji if he can help you out."
Jiji? Who is he talking about? From what Sarada knew he didn't have any family watching him.
"C'mon follow me, we will eat at the best place in the village then I'll let you meet my Jiji." Naruto shout as he dragged Sarada against her will out of the alley without waiting for her to answer.
Naruto had first gone to his apartment to drop off his groceries, the short trip was quiet. Neither tried to start up a conversation while on the way to his apartment. Sarada was able to take a quick peak into his apartment as he shoved his food in the fridge. The place was better maintained that she thought it would be, she imagined it would have been pretty dirty with trash and dishes littering the place. The place looked a little old and rundown, but it looked like it had been cleaned recently.
Sarada noticed how there was little food in his fridge. She felt a pang of sadness for him, she remembered how in class they briefly went over how the Nanadaime grew up without a family and didn't know his heritage until much later. She couldn't even imagine the struggle to live alone at such a young age, and have to grow up learning everything yourself. The thought only made her respect the Nanadaime even more than before.
The fridge door shutting snapped her out of her thoughts as Naruto once again bragged her hand again making her blush. His hands were bigger than hers and were so warm.
"All right, let's go eat now!" The young blonde cheered, throwing his fist up into the air as they began walking out of his apartment. Sarada didn't say anything, she still felt awkward about holding hands with a young Naruto, the person that she always looked up to.
It didn't take long for them to get to Naruto's favorite ramen shop, Ichiraku. She noticed numerous glares of disgust directed towards Naruto on the way there. It really pained her to see the village treat him so badly when she was used to seeing the village love and respect him. How was he able to endure this?
"And we are here, where the food of the gods are served." Naruto yelled as he took a seat, that was another thing she noticed about the young Naruto, he was extremely loud. "You're not much of a talker are you, huh? But then again you are related to Jerk." She did kind of remind him of Sasuke since they had the same color hair and eyes. She was also quiet like him but that could just be her being hungry, where she differed was that she showed more emotion. He had seen her smile more times than he had Sasuke smile, and he only just met her.
Was he talking about her dad?
That's right... the younger version of my dad is also here, she wondered how she would handle seeing him after her last encounter.
"Sorry, I haven't said much, I'm just starved." She lied, she just didn't know what to say and wasn't very hungry. Her mind was more preoccupied with what's she's supposed to do stuck in the past. She doubted there was any way back home.
"It's okay, your about to have the best food ever and I'll pay for you too, so don't worry about not having enough money." Naruto said with a wide smile that she always remembered. It brought back memories. His smile still had the same effect on her, It somehow always made her feel totally at ease.
"Hey Naruto-kun, How have you been? Oh, Did you bring a new friend with you, today?" the brown hair waitress said as her eyes wondered to Sarada.
"Hi, Ayame-chan! I've been good. " Naruto said happily, he wasn't sure if he could classify her as a friend but maybe after this they would be. "Yea, she's my new friend. Her name is ….er…"
Shit! I forgot to ask what her name was!
Ayame quickly gave Naruto a disappointed look. "Naruto don't tell me you don't even know her name." Naruto let out a nervous chuckle as he rubbed the back of his neck. "Sorry, it must have slipped my mind."
Ayame sighed before facing Sarada, "Sorry about Naruto, I'm sure he would have asked for your name eventually. So what is your name dear?"
"My name is Sarada." The young brunette answered.
"Well Sarada, what can I get for you?" Ayame asked as she brought up her notepad to take her order. Sarada took a quick glance at the menu, most of it was still the same as she remembered. She used to eat her when she was younger with Boruto and his family. "I'll have a small bowl of miso."
"And the usual for you, Naruto?" Ayame asked as she got a nod from the blonde. "Coming right up."
"Hey, Naruto, who is your Jiji anyway" Sarada asked as she was curious to know who was the man that he called Jiji.
"Only the greatest ninja in this village, the Sandaime Hokage." Naruto declared with pride.
Sarada was surprised and couldn't believe Naruto could just blatantly call the Sandaime, a ninja hailed as a 'God of Shinobi', an old man. Then it hit her, after they were finish eating he was going to bring her right to him. What the hell was she going to say? She doubted the Hokage would buy her little story, he would see right through it.
I'm so screwed…
The option of simply telling the truth was still there, but she didn't know what his response might be. He might just kill her to preserve the future and not take any risks. She didn't want to die, she was still in her youth. But there was a chance they would kill her if she lied to him.
Why did her life have to be so screwed up?
The sound of a bowl being placed in front of her snapped back into reality as the smell of ramen filled the air.
"Enjoy the food." Ayame said cheerfully with a smile as the two thanked her for the meal before she went into the back.
Naruto didn't hesitant to start eating, by the time Sarada had a few bites Naruto was almost done with one bowl. Ayame had even dropped off another bowl for him like it was a normal thing. Shortly, Naruto had begun destroying the second bowl of ramen, while she wasn't even half yet. She could tell he loved ramen, no, scratch that, he worshiped ramen.
And I thought Boruto was a messy eater….
At least now she knew where Boruto and Himawari got there ramen addiction from. When she was almost done with her bowl, she looked over to she Naruto had a stack of 4 bowls already done, and currently finishing his fifth one.
Where does it all go…... she wondered, was it even humanly possible to eat that much and not look like an inflated balloon. Naruto had put his last empty bowl on his stack of finish bowls.
"Ah, that hit the spot!" Naruto said happily as he patted his full stomach.
He looked so happy, it astonished her how he could be so happy with the way he grew up. There had to be some mental scars in there, somewhere deep down the loud, energetic blonde had to be in pain.
"You must really love ramen." Sarada said as she finally finished her bowl.
"You kidding! Of course I love ramen. Ramen is the food of the gods!" Naruto shouted at her, showing off his trademark smile, and once again, like every other time, she smiled with him.
Naruto then took out his little toad wallet that was really cute in her opinion. He had pulled out some ryo and placed out on the counter as he waved good bye to Ayame.
"Thanks for the food, Naruto-san." Sarada said as she got off the her seat to stand next to him.
"Just Naruto, no need for honorifics." Said the blonde as he was not one to care
"oh, okay Naruto." It felt weird causally saying his name, she usually referred to him as Naruto-sama, Nanadaime-sama, or just Nanadaime.
"Alright, Sarada-chan, let's go see the Hokage now." Naruto said directing her to follow him.
He called me Sarada-chan…. She couldn't contain her blush as he said that. Stop acting like a fangirl Sarada…
The last thing she wanted to do was become a fangirl, she had seen enough fangirls follow Boruto around during the academy.
"O-Okay." She nervously replied as she trailed behind him to meet the man that would decide her fate.
A/N: If you want to leave any suggestions or ideas either message me or review. This is a NarutoxSarada story, and will take place before the Wave Arc. I have only seen one other NarutoxSarada time travel fic by Akatsuki King, and it kind of inspired me. If anyone knows any other NarutoxSarada time-travel fics then pm me the story.