The Trouble With Time

Ch1: Expect The Unexpected

The vortex swirled before golden eyes and a smirk traced the man's lips. "Perfect… follow me, Jikan." The man's voice came out as a hoarse mutter. The golden eyed man eyed the young woman with pale pinkish red magenta eyes, whose name itself meant time. "Hai, sir…" the young white haired girl said and followed the taller man through the vortex. She appeared to be albino from a first glace which threw most people off, but she was in fact a creation similar in entirety as the Zetsu Madara had created.

They stepped through the vortex and the first noise they heard was the clashing of metal against metal. Jikan's appearance took on a young dark brown haired girl with equally dark brown eyes, her appearance now similar to the first Hokage. "Go, do not disappoint me." the golden eyed man said and she nodded and took off towards the sound of the clashing blades. She skidded to a stop behind a white haired teen and a man who looked similar to her.

The dark haired man had just sent a black haired male flying with a swift foot to the chest. The black haired man flipped and landed in a crouched position. The two before her turned and looked behind them at the newcomer. "Who sent you?" the white haired one asked and she blinked. "I'm on your side." She said simply and they watched her carefully before turning back to the two they were fighting before. Jikan held both hands out and thumped the air behind the two men nearest her. The air rippled and their movements froze as a wicked smirk crossed her lips. Her image rippled and the dark eyes and hair vanished.

The two dark haired males watched her with an unamused look. "Why would you dare interrupt our battle, girl?" the older of the two asked, irate with her interference. She just blinked up at him with a dull look. "You will see me again… I was just trying to see what I could see before time takes me away." Her voice came out as an eerie sing song chirp. She swirled away to vanish before their eyes, only for her to appear next to the golden eyed man once more.

"You figure it out?" he asked and she nodded. "You must take the young one. His days are numbered." She said and he nodded. Her eyes cast a glance up above her sensei's head to see the number 2 and the letters yrs above his head signifying years. She supposed she should inform him of the fact his days are numbered in years, but she thought against it, seeing that it would be of no use since he would find some way to fix his number issue anyways.

"How many days does he have?" he asked in curiosity and her head tilted and she watched his emotions flit through his eyes. "Two days… on the noon of the second day, the white haired one will kill him. I will stop the white haired one and take him for you. Are these terms agreeable?" she asked and a smirk crossed his lips at how loyal the young woman really was. "Absolutely so." He said and she nodded. "In the mean time, follow the young man. Make sure no one will try to follow. We only need him at this very moment." He said and she nodded.

"I've already prepared for this. We can make clones and he won't know which will be the real one once I use reality shift. He will jump through a portal blindly." She said and picked at her fingernail. "And if they do manage to jump through the one we did I can inflict a reality shift within the vortex and send them in another direction than we will go, he won't be able to follow us even if he did choose the right one." She said and he nodded, satisfied with her intelligence of using her own powers in the way she had explained she would.

She walked away from him and concealed her chakra as she used a paradigm shift on chakra to keep it permanently concealed, it rearranged the pattern of her chakra flow; so even if the two from before spotted her again her chakra would flow differently and they would believe they were mistaken with her identity. She could reverse the paradigm whenever she felt like it, but she would not do so until she was back in the hideout, safe and sound.

A cross look lingered on her face, she knew the older one would interfere… he still had a good five years left on him while the younger had two days, she would see them both in two days. And she knew she would have no choice but to use the reality shift.