Summary: What happens when you take one space-time teleportation jutsu, a dimensional-shifting space-time jutsu, and the natural energies of Sage Mode and stir them all together? One timeline misplaced Naruto Uzumaki. But the past is not always what it seems when your destination is decided by chance, and scheming with foreknowledge can be just as difficult when events unfold otherwise.
Rating: 12/12A
Category: General Fiction > Naruto, General Fiction > Pre-Series
Characters: Akamaru, Akatsuki, All, Anko Mitarashi, Asuma Sarutobi, Chiyo, Chouji Akimichi, Choujuurou, Danzou Shimura, Gaara, Ino Yamanaka, Itachi Uchiha, Jiraiya, Kakashi Hatake, Kiba Inuzuka, Kyuubi (Kurama), Maito Gai, Naruto Uzumaki, Orochimaru, Rock Lee, Sai, Sakura Haruno, Sarutobi Hiruzen (Sandaime Hokage), Sasuke Uchiha, Shikamaru Nara
Genres: Action/Adventure, Angst, Drama, General, Humor
Warnings: AU
Challenge: None
Series: None
Chapter: 4 Completed: No
Words: 13852 Read: 7466
Published: 18/03/14 Updated: 19/03/14
Story notes: This is a revised version of the original Misplaced Timing currently being updated at a snails' pace at FFN, meant to replace outdated terms, grammatical errors, and overhaul scenes that were poorly conducted at the time I first wrote and posted the early chapters - which were all written in roughly two weeks and submitted with no forethought way back when.
Now, 25-chapters down the road, I can go back and fix all the things that I did wrong. The opening might be a bit weak but I believe it improves greatly going forward. 1. Chapter 1: Convincing the Hokage by Zeoniu [Reviews - 2]
(3087 words)2. Chapter 2: The first changes begin. by Zeoniu [Reviews - 0] (3371 words)
3. Chapter 3: Drawing out a fox. by Zeoniu [Reviews - 0] (2248 words)
4. Chapter 4: Weariness and revelations. by Zeoniu [Reviews - 1]
(5146 words)