Disclaimer •• I don't own Naruto and no matter how much I wish that I do, I never will.
Warning •• Rated T for mild swearing, blood and violence, and a lot of mental trauma.
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Chapter 1: Always Go In With A Bang
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Going back in time was believed to be impossible, and even if it was possible, anyone who'd risk doing it would be a complete idiot. There are many reasons that one shouldn't take it upon themselves to shred their existence from the present and impose themselves on the past. The most obvious reason is quite frankly the most consequential: the tiniest change can lead to a multitude of divergences.
Here's an example: A four-year-old girl places her purple and pink plushie on the old wooden bench in the park near her grandparents house.
Now, in the original timeline (the one left untouched by time travelers), the plushie stayed in the place it was left in until the girl returned to the bench and retrieved it. She would then return to her grandparents' home, with her plushie in her arms, completely safe.
But what if she returned to the bench only to find the plushie missing (due to someone not of that time that happened to pass by and, by some chance, knock it into a nearby bush or simply picked it up out of pure boredom)?
That's where the divergence begins. Instead of returning to her grandparents' home, she begins to search for her lost plushie. Having wandered too far into a place she's unfamiliar with, she never returns home. Two days later, her body is found in a large ditch in the forest, all because she'd been searching for a toy that should have been in the place she left it.
It's far-fetched, yes, but it's realistic in it's own way. The smallest of changes can have a catastrophic effect. Saving a life that wasn't meant to be saved could cause the death of another. Falling in love with someone that would have otherwise married a different person in the original timeline could prevent the birth of an important figure, while at the same time it could give birth to an entirely different soul, and who knows? That very soul may someday grow to be some sort of harbinger of death. One could never know for sure.
Time travel. . . the concept is just too dangerous. There are too many risks and too many unknowns and Naruto believed it just wasn't worth the risk. But desperate times call for desperate measures, and Naruto's timeline was far past desperate.
• 将来 •
She was falling. Falling, falling, falling, falling. Her lungs ached for air, air that swept past her so quickly it felt as if it was purposely avoiding her lungs all together. Droplets of water trailed after her body, gathering at the tips of her golden locks before fleeing into the air. Those same droplets seemed as if they were suspended, as if they were floating-- but they weren't. She was simply falling to fast for them to keep up.
How did this happen? What led her here? Or rather, who? The memories leading up to that moment seemed to flit at the edges of her mind before slipping completely from her grasp.
She knew the answers would return to her soon. She didn't know how she knew.
It wasn't without cause. No. She'd failed, hadn't she? Failed. . . to defeat? Protect? . . .Prevent? . . .All those seemed like the right answer, actually. It seemed as if she wasn't strong enough. Like she wasn't there at the right time. Only in the wrong moments was she ever present for anything.
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