章 18: Reflection on the present

As the family was done getting their personal effects ready. They all gathered around me and one second we are in Uzu the next we are in the Senju Konoha compound.

Nawaki and Kenzorama would have to visit the village every once in a while, so on one of their trips I made them take a thunder god kunai to leave in Konoha. Nawaki actually hated my use of the flying thunder god technique. He wasn't jealous or anything. He wouldn't learn it even if he could. He just hated it stopped his adventures. The first time he told me that I slapped him in the back of the head.

Trying to find a way to keep this kid safe was going to be tough. He ran into danger like he had a death wish at any chance he got. He wasn't an unskilled ninja, his pedigree simply wouldn't allow that, but he was a reckless idiot. He was the main reason I was joining the academy, at this point my marriage was secondary. I was hoping to graduate early and rise to jounin fast enough that this idiot would get assigned to me.

Then there was the other two problem children…my in laws. Kenzorama was a Senju through and through. Brash, headstrong, and would happily give his life for the village. Mira was at least normal in that regard. If you forget the fact she followed her husband on any reckless endeavor. These two stationed themselves in Uzu and always fought off the attacks on the village singlehandedly, refusing to endanger anyone else. If it sounds dumb, it is.

I had to spend a whole day cuddled with Tsunade to not lose my mind. I was realizing that Grandma Mito wasn't joking about a future of death not being easy to change. Fate had nothing to do with it though, I now had a family of suicidal people, fate wasn't even trying at the moment. Some days I considered using my fathers jutsu to make them normal but brainwashing was wro….only a last resort.

Ironically if wasn't for them I would never figure out how to make more location saves though. Father in law wanted me to set up some thunder god Kunai so I could help evacuate if it ever came to it. Essentially deciding a scenario where him and his wife died and the village would automatically be over run without them.

This idea was not well received by Grandma Mito but happened regardless, she couldn't really tell her son "No. I need the village to be destroyed." right?

So in my laziness, since it had nothing to do with training my new jutsu, I saved a thunder god kunai to my item save list and went on my now less frequent duplication antics. Reality is I think I was more cheap than I was lazy, kunai get expensive. The result though wasn't just a new kunai as my location panel showed an eleventh save and for every duplicate a new one was added. Such an easy cheat! I short circuited for the day, cuddle time was becoming a necessity at this point.

To be honest my save and load ability was the one thing I never properly developed. Overall I did use the save and load ability constantly in one way or another for daily life. That was exactly it though, I used it but never tried to learn more than what I knew. At some point I started using it exclusively for the location or as I now call it the Thunder god panel and for my daily character saves or what I now call the restoration panel. The item duplication panel on the other hand hadn't seen use until this point.

The reason for this was the counterfeit Ryo I created when I was younger, in my arrogance and treating this world like a game I forgot about basic economics. Over the last year the Daimyo was being more aggressive and threatening towards Hiruzen, he just wouldn't let go of the counterfeit Ryo that appeared in Konoha. I could only think "It wasn't even that much. You stingy asshole."

According to my father in law though it was clearly never about the fact there was counterfeits being used, the Daimyo simply wanted to use the creator of the counterfeit Ryo for his own agenda. Naturally some other council members saw the fact they could have this unknown person literally print money for them and silently made their own investigations. Hiruzen actually one upped them and outright decreed this was a Root only mission.

Greed even made that old scammer openly show his support for Root for once, this was proving to be one royal fuck up. Hence my new apprehension of using the item save and load abilities.

While I loved and treasured my new family, they were…well.. idiots. There was a reason Grandma Mito kept a lot of her plans from them. I couldn't 100 percent guarantee they wouldn't let it slip I could duplicate items or grant pseudo immortality with my save and load ability.

On that note I did make a habit of making a save of the whole family when ever I got the chance. This was also proving to be an issue though as currently five out of my ten save slots were in use. I hadn't even tried to use it on Grandma Mito. I'm guessing she wouldn't let me use it on her, from what I could tell she wanted to pass and be with Hashirama. So that made me curious as to who I should use the remaining save slots on. I was willing to change canon but I couldn't change much around Naruto himself or many key players as I came to find out.

Grandma Mito made that abundantly clear after the Thunder god kunai fiasco.

" Boy we need to talk."

" I didn't encourage father in laws proposal Grandma and we can't reasonably turn him down either."

" I know that, so I checked what the effects of this would be.

It would have led to one of two things.

The creation of a corrupted child of prophecy or a timeline without a child of prophecy, both resulting in the destruction of the world.

Don't look like such things can't happen. They do and I've seen them happen as such. Don't worry though I've already made some preparations to prevent these two futures.

I want to be clear though, I won't be around much longer to clean up your mess.

You want to change the future you know to an ideal version but you are messing with things beyond comprehension. I've made your mistakes and was forced into submission, just enjoy your life with Tsunade and don't meddle with other things. Especially the Uchiha, Kushina, and the future fourth."

" I don't understand. If I get strong enough can't I just prevent those futures myself? Why can't I just save the people I want?"

" Haa you're just like Hashirama a head strong idiot who only thinks with his heart. No wonder our family has such an affinity with you. Do you know how my husband died?"

"No and it frankly makes no sense that he could die."

"You are right it shouldn't be possible. His body simply had endless life force. His chakra reserves were larger than most of the tailed beast combined. His wood release was so powerful he could destroy several villages. He was the perfect ninja and yet he died.Simply because fate itself demanded it.

When that man appeared and captured Tobirama even my great husband was made defenseless. He gave up his own life to save his brother that day and appointed him as the second Hokage. After the agreement was made, the enemy simply disintegrated his head and that was it. My husband was dead."

What the hell!? Was it Iwagakure with the dust release? No based on the timeline afterward it was probably Madara with with the black zetsu somehow.

" Things aren't always as simple as they seem boy, your existence alone should remind you of that. Whoever jumped back in time to make you their host failed but they did jump back in time and they could still not escape fate. Remember that.

My point is no matter your strength you are human. You can be exploited and you can definitely be killed, my husband being the proof."

" So your saying try not to stand out too much or save people that should be dead?"

" Correct more or less. As long as you can make sure the conditions behind the child of prophecy don't change too much. Minor changes are manageable, even tricks can be played as long as you allow things to play out as they should."

"Like my marriage you mean. As long as me and Tsunade leave at the appropriate time not much will change. I don't understand why I can't save our family from death by just leaving with them then."

"Being born a Senju or Uzumaki can be considered a curse. I will save all the Uzumaki I can but I can do nothing about the value to history the four remaining Senju provide."

Thinking long and hard I realized her ability had some errors. In all these scenarios she never accounted for me directly. Only if the key points occurred or not.

" You can't see my future directly can you?"