Grace

Standard Disclaimer and Note still apply.

Mrs. Nozomu Sohma – you made me laugh so hard with that. The 'Godly Meteor Shower no Jutsu!' reminded me so much of DBZ… yes, I don't like it when characters are godly, I like it when their strong, but have weaknesses that can be exploited, even if those weaknesses are sometimes hard to see. Hehehe as for this last chapter… you slightly revealed what his purpose was, but I don't think you knew that you did that. :p

MingShun – you'd be surprised by the things I come up with randomly, most attacks aren't pre-planned and just come out when I'm writing. But the 10 fingered Rasengan was the one jutsu I planned on creating and using. :p

To everyone else that reviewed, thank you SO much!

A/N: before I get on with the last chapter. You need to know some things. First and foremost being that this is like an epilogue combined with a prologue and the first chapter of Gravity.

If you review, can you all give me input or just your personal ideas of what Yondaime Hokage's first name would be? Thank you thank you thank you thank you thank you so much!

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"So… you're leaving then." Naruto nodded. He was afraid of this, the overprotective Tsunade backed with Yue and Hana, who were currently crying their eyes out at the prospect of their older children leaving for their own time era, was a tad frightening. Everyone had gotten used to them, benefited from them. Hell, several Shinobi were now better than before because of them. Which is why they were sad to see them go; Even the stoic Tsume and Ibiki looked sad.

"It's not like we're leaving, leaving. You'll see us very soon." Naruto grinned and Sasuke smacked his head, earning a large shouted of 'teme!' from the blond. Several people chuckled. Itachi managed to get Sasuke to shake his hand, Yue almost suffocated Sasuke when hugging him, but Yutaka was kind enough to pry his wife off his youngest son.

Hana and Saburo had also gotten quite used to their daughter, and were sad to see her go. They hugged her individually and even shed some tears. The old man Hokage walked up to Naruto with a thin package in his hands and a wry smile.

"I believe this is yours, or rather, it came with you." Naruto frowned at it. Shrugged he unwrapped it to reveal the blood stained silver katana that had been lodged in his right shoulder upon their initial arrival. Naruto sighed, and slid the blade back into its sheath.

"Also; since you went on a few missions, here's all your earnings from the A-rank and S-rank mission you went on." Naruto did a double take.

"Wait, A-rank and S-rank?" His eyes widened.

"Well… there was the C-rank, the B-rank and the A-rank you went on outside of the village. The S-rank was the elimination of the two Kages." Naruto eyed the old man. He had an unusual sparkle in his eyes. What an evil old man. None-the-less Naruto took the pouches of money. He recalled already spending the C-rank and B-rank money. He handed two of the three pouches off to Sakura and Sasuke and nodded.

"Well… I guess this is it, eh?" Naruto scratched the back of his head awkwardly. Goodbyes were never really his forte. Several people started to scramble forward grasping his hands and the hands of his comrades before taking a step back. The only one who remained within the 20 yard radius was Jiraiya.

"A 'see-ya-later' gift." He held the first edition, first print and autographed book 1 of Icha Icha paradise. Kakashi's eyes bulged out of their sockets and his fingers twitched as if longing to caress the book. Naruto just laughed outright and pocketed it.

"Thanks Ero-senin." He grinned at them all. Sasuke grabbed hold of Naruto in a headlock while Sakura took his free arm. He threw a dirty look at Sasuke before starting the seals to return them home.

"Matte! Naruto!" He looked over to Saburo, who had an unusual expression on his face. Yutaka was the one to speak next.

"Why did you help us if time will reverse back to the point in which you intruded?" Naruto paused on the last seal, and seemed to ponder that. His eyes flashed red and he grinned in that feral manor once again.

"Oh yes, about that…" he paused verbally while forming the last seal. Everyone drew in harsh breaths.

"I lied."

"NANI!" they shouted, but he was already gone, along with his two friends as they were engulfed in a sphere of red chakra. They stared at the spot where they used to be, and instead what lay there on the ground, in a peaceful slumber, were 3 children.

One was wearing a small red dress with strawberry hair and a red ribbon in her hair. One was wearing white pants and a blue shirt with the Uchiha fan on the back. And one was wearing a white shirt with an orange swirl in the middle with dark pants and several bruises and cuts marring his skin.

Yue and Hana kicked into autopilot and picked their kids up, casting concerned looks at little Naruto's sleeping form. They watched as the bruises started to fade and the cuts disappeared. Yue threw a dirty look to her husband, who relented and picked up the blond haired child. Sandaime blew smoke out from his pipe wearing a broad smile on his face.

"So you plan to take him home with you, Yutaka-kun?" It was actually Yue who answered the question.

"We can't keep him, that's not how he is supposed to grow up. But maybe we can give him a friend a bit earlier than expected…" she looked down at the heavy form of her own son and smiled. All in all, everyone was taking the fact that Naruto had lied about the interference of time rather well. Was this his plan? To make a difference from the source of the problem?

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He watched the blond be picked up by Lady Uchiha and found himself smiling slightly.

'I can't do it. I can't bring myself to hate him… them anymore…' He let out a chuckle

"Hey, wait up!" that silky and somewhat husky voice called out to the backs of his retreating parents.

'Looks like I'll be denying that offer after all…'

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"BAKA!" Smack.

"Dooobbbeee!" Smack, smack.

Naruto chuckled and rubbed his bumps and bruises that he had been given by his siblings. Instead, he just smiled softly at them, looking up into the clear blue sky through the canopy of trees. It was no surprise they had landed in a forest near where they had originally left.

He actually didn't answer them, just walked a little ways until he reached a small hill in a clear patch of forest. Lying down, he looked up at the sky. Sakura and Sasuke were very angry with him, and they made sure he knew it.

"Have you ever felt the earth?" Naruto asked, causing Sakura and Sasuke to blink at the random question.

"To have the power to change things… when you come across your first patient, a dying one, you have the power to change everything, but will you use that power to make things better? Or will you stumble and fall backwards unable to move because your petrified of all the things that could go wrong?" Naruto reached upwards with his hand and drew a lazy pattern in the sky above him.

"Are things really complicated, or could they be simplified? Heh, even I have to have a moment to be philosophical sometimes. Say you had a chance. A chance to change everything, prevent people from dying in the first place. Would you take that chance? Not because you could, but because it would be the right thing to do?" They were silent. Naruto just continued on speaking as if he were confessing to Kami himself.

"A chance for a happy ending? The probability of me becoming Hokage is actually rather slim, simply because I cannot take back the lives Kyuubi took. Because of this my dreams are almost impossible to accomplish…"

"Don't say that! Naruto stop being an idiot for Christ sakes." Sakura snapped at him. Naruto grinned.

"I took us back because I cared. I wanted to change things because it hurts." Sakura settled down on his left, Sasuke on his right.

"Hurts, Dobe?" Asked the dark haired one of their group.

"When your clan died, you felt helpless. When your father died, you felt helpless… What if your father never died, Sakura? What if your Clan never died, Sasuke? Everyone says Time cannot be changed. We don't know that unless we try, right? I've never been one to gamble with material possessions, it's either all or nothing. If we don't try, we'll never know. And then we'll be plagued with 'What ifs?' for the rest of our lives."

"What if I killed you right now?" Sasuke growled at him. He was slightly frightened of this side of Naruto, he had never seen it before. Sakura had, once, but only for a second.

"What if I never existed? There are some things I rather not find out; but if I can change everything and make it better, than I will try because I hate seeing my precious people pain over what they couldn't help."

"Naruto… you went back to change everything so that our families wouldn't die?"

"Not just your families, but everyone else's as well. If we hadn't been there, they wouldn't know that stone and cloud would attack at dawn, but because we were there, so many families were spared."

"Naruto, do me a favor." Naruto looked over at Sasuke with a questionable gaze.

"Snap out of this funk. You're not like this at all, and frankly it's freaky." Naruto blinked at him, and smiled softly.

"Lets head back to Konoha and see what changed and what didn't." Naruto sat up and yawned.

"What do you mean?" Sakura asked. Naruto merely grinned.

"Well, I'm not entirely sure. But I suspect that people who are supposed to be dead will just randomly appear and come back to life, their graves completely disappearing, but their memories will not. Everyone will remember that they died, and they too will remember they died, but… well maybe not. Maybe everyone will think they were in a coma or something. I don't honestly know. I do know that the memories that people have of us before we went back in time, will stay the same and will not alter." Sakura grumbled under her breath and threw Naruto a threatening glare.

"This is really confusing, I don't understand at all." Naruto shrugged at her.

"Ma, I need Ramen!" he suddenly bolted and ran down the hill, only to stumble on a rock and roll down the rest of the way.

"What the hell was that all about?" She asked, standing as well.

"No clue. He's completely strange. One too many bops to the head, ya know?" Sasuke even demonstrated much to Sakura's amusement.

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"There's a town not far from here." Sasuke spoke up. "Actually it's just around the bend." He mentioned, much to the tired delight of Naruto and Sakura, the former complaining loudly about having to walk.

"Yush! So who are we going as?"

"Why not as a family, since that seems to be the topic of the day." Sakura suggested.

"Hai! I'll be the daddy, Sakura can be the mommy, and Sasuke can be the kid." Naruto was grinning from ear to ear. Sasuke cracked his knuckles and Naruto paled considerably.

"Heheh, I was joking!" he threw his hands in front of him and waved to fend off his angry friends.

"Naruto, you know the Akuma-henge, you have to be the kid." Sakura explained while she threw on a Henge. Sasuke followed her lead. Naruto sighed. He looked at Sakrua who was now a brown haired older version of herself, and Sasuke a blond haired older version of himself.

"Fine, fine… Akuma Hange!" unlike the normal henge that created a genjutsu around a person, akuma henge actually physically altered the body. His body took about 5 minutes to shrink to that of an 7 year old. His clothing of course, was now too big for him. But the second part of Akuma henge solved this problem as his clothing puffed into smaller sized versions. Even his voice changed.

"Mooom, can I get an ice-cream?" He asked Sakura while taking her hand. Sasuke was trying his hardest to not laugh, and Sakura was blushing, reminding herself that it was 'good practice for the future'

"Ask your father." Sakura replied, desperately trying to not laugh.

"dad?" Naruto pouted. Sasuke was shaking with the effort to refrain from giggling.

"Ah.. sure.."

"Yatta!" He grabbed Sasuke's hand and swung in-between them, like any normal child would. Naruto wore a big grin on his face. Being a kid again wasn't so bad actually.

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Naruto sat on a public bench licking his ice-cream cone while 'mommy and daddy' went to go clothing shopping and supplies shopping. They were, at the very least, 3 weeks walking distance away from Konoha. They would need it the supplies.

He was happily licking away when he smelt a familiar scent. It tickled his nose as he tried to place where it was from. Was it….. Ramen? No. something else. Dango maybe? Nope. Ah well, it wasn't his concern. Instead he occupied himself with finishing his ice-cream. Once he was finished, he pulled out a piece of paper and a pencil. From there he started to write.

When he was finished, he put the paper in an envelope, and from there wrote 3 words as two who the note was addressed to. Looking around to make sure he wasn't watched, he calmly went 'exploring.' The truth being he was taking an indirect root to the local park. It was empty.

Sighing, he began the one handed seals again.

To Sakura, Sasuke.

Gomen. But like I said, if you have the power to change things for the better, would you hesitate? Or go for it? You know where to go, so go there. I'll come back later, tell Obaa-chan about our adventures!

It's just that… this time… I want to selfish for once…

Naruto.

"U….. ZU… MA… KI!" Naruto froze in his second to last seal. That voice. That putrid and vile voice. Naruto turned around slowly and gasped horrified. No, he hadn't been back a full day yet! How could he find them?

The man chuckled, red hair stirring in a sudden breeze as lifeless black eyes grinned sickly at him.

"I found youuuuuuuu!" Naruto was frozen; he realized it was Kanashibari no jutsu and he gulped. Akira came at him again, he felt a strong sense of déjà vu happening. He felt the kunai press against his neck this time…

Kyuubi was the one to take control of his hands and perform the last seal, breaking the kanashibari as well. The familiar sense of being frozen in time as red chakra swallowed both of them whole, they stared at each other. Akira was trying to move, but he couldn't move, neither could Naruto for the matter as everything started to wind backwards…

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"Survival test? But we've already done one of those." a strawberry blond haired and hazel eyed girl spoke up

"Ah. Still…you have to get these 2 be-" The man speaking was interrupted as a globe of red chakra with enough force to whip trees out of the ground arrived some feet away. Thinking fast, the man grabbed his 3 students and vaulted backwards.

"Nani?"

Two figures immerged from the red sphere. And as if released from some spell, the larger red haired man slashed what looked to be a young child's throat. The Jounin gasped, horrified.

"Hey!" The Red Haired man looked at the other person, and seemed to realize something upon looking at his face

"Oh? Well this is interesting." He giggled, licking the blood off his kunai before he disintegrated into sand. The Jounin instructor couldn't get to him in time to engage in battle, which was probably a good thing.

"Rin, Obito, Kakashi, go home, NOW." The blond haired Jounin picked up the bleeding child and disappeared in a yellow flash.

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In Infinite Grace we find ourselves soaring above the others to an unknown destination. But in the end, we must all bow to the Gravity in which the flow of life takes us.

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hahahahahahah I am soooo cruel. So, so cruel. Anyways, yes…This chapter is also chapter 1 of Gravity so… there it is. I bet you all want to read the next story now? Well, I still need your opinions on what Yondaime's name should be!

I'd also like to thank you all for your reviews and kind remarks. Thanks to you, I can keep writing. So again, thank you, and I look forward to your reviews on Gravity.