Author's note: Since it's Naruto's birthday today(on my side of the world), I have decided that I'm going to celebrate it by starting a new fic. It is an adoption of both Give Me Peace(Don't Leave Me Alone) - KazamaKuramastrong and Escape Artist – Fiorea. These are two amazing stories but unfortunately they are both incomplete, so I hope this does them justice.

DISCLAIMER: I don't own Naruto.

Prologue – Hell on Earth

The shinobi alliance had been doing well, the reanimated shinobi had been sealed and the white Zetsu had been defeated. However, the Fourth Shinobi World War had gone to hell the moment Madara Uchiha had been reanimated, even after Obito had converted to their side.

For two years the war had raged with the alliance slowly being defeated as soon as all the Kage had been killed. Next it was Head Quarters, leaving the alliance as sitting ducks without any plan of action.

Naruto watched all his comrades die in front of him, until only he and Sasuke stood in Madara's way. The best friends had given it their all, but when Sasuke had taken the fatal blow meant for Naruto, it had given the blonde the strength to deliver the final blow to Madara.

They had put a stop to Madara's plan; they had finally won, but Naruto didn't care as he cradled Sasuke to his chest, listening to his best friend's final heartbeat. What kind of victory was this? What was the point of winning if everyone was dead? Naruto screamed, cursing Kami for the cruel fate that he had been delivered, until his screams of anger turned into tears of anguish.

Too caught up in his emotions, Naruto didn't notice all the tailed-beasts surround him until Kurama offered him a deal to which he merely nodded too numb to feel anything. Kurama growled, "You fool! This might not even work!"

"I don't care." Naruto said softly. "All my precious people are dead. This isn't a victory."

Kurama simply nodded as Son Goku told Naruto of the ancient seal that could change everything. The blonde used his own blood to draw the seal on his heart, his eyes never leaving Sasuke's face. He gently laid the Uchiha on the ground and stood up. "I'll fix everything, Sasuke. I'll give everyone a better life."

Naruto nodded when he was ready, wiping away his tears as all the tailed-beasts combined their chakra into the seal. For a moment a bright light surrounded them before everything disappeared in a haze of chakra and time was rewound.

The earth directly underneath him exploded and Minato was already teleporting away, the soles of his feet connecting firmly to a nearby tree as a member of his team took out the last of the three missing-nin. After returning from a month long mission, the last thing the ANBU team wanted to do was deal with these missing-nin, but seeing as one of them was from the bingo book and it was for the safety of the village, it couldn't be helped.

Jumping down from the tree, Minato nodded at his subordinates and signaled for them to continue on the journey back to the Leaf, until a bright light and a high spike of chakra appeared out of nowhere. The team rushed to the site where the chakra was coming from and found a blonde-haired man.

The man's clothes were torn and burnt in some places, his entire body full of battle wounds that had yet to stop bleeding and he was clutching a badly damaged Leaf Shinobi headband.

Analysing the situation, Minato came to a quick decision and picked up the blonde, signalling to his team to return to the Leaf Village, moving at double the speed they were before. Dropping the blonde off at the hospital, Minato only had one thought as he and his team made his way to the Hokage Tower, "I feel bad for the amount of paperwork this will give the Third."

Author's note: I hope you guys enjoyed this prologue, tell me what you think. Follows, favs and reviews are very welcomed and appreciated.