The Future In Our Hands

Chapter 1: Eternal Seal

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EDITED: October 18, 2020

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The Future in Our Hands

Chapter 1: Eternal Seal

"So you're saying that... "

"The Sage of the Six Paths gave you a second chance to redo everything from scratch?" Tsunade finished for her former student, as the pink-haired girl looked like her brain had been ground into dust.

Naruto nodded after he finished explaining everything to them. He told them everything that happened: from his and Sasuke's battle with Ōtsutsuki Isshiki to him being sealed inside a bowl-like coffin and watching as the Shinobi world was destroyed, all the way to his meeting with the Sage of the Six Paths again, along with the time travel agreement.

"You're the only people I could drag with me into the past. Aside from you guys, all of the remaining teams of the Konoha-12 are dead, same with the other Kage and our other allies. The future timeline that we were previously living in was obliterated as soon as I activated the jutsu," the blonde Hokage added seriously, and the survivors remained silent as understanding dawned on them, before Ino started crying.

"Then, Choji and the others?" Ino choked as tears rolled down her cheeks. She wrapped her arms around her already sobbing son and Sai encircled his arms around his little family, feeling thankful for how lucky they were to still be together.

He had no family growing up aside from his brother, Shin. Considering everything that had been ripped away from him from the start, it was a miracle to still have his family with him now.

Sarada silently cried as the image of Chouchou's dead body flooded her thoughts. As much as she hated to admit it, it had been her fault. She wasn't strong enough, and her best friend had no choice but to jump in and take the attack in her place. It awakened her Mangekyō Sharingan, but she didn't want them. Not if it cost Chouchou's life.

Sakura and Sasuke hugged their daughter silently, grief evident in their eyes as they looked at her pained expression. They understood how hard it was for Sarada to lose her friends and her home; they had experienced the same, too. For Sasuke, when his entire family was massacred by his own brother. For Sakura, when Pain attacked and destroyed Konoha, and when the devastating Fourth Shinobi War happened.