Amazing Time Travel Fics
From Fix-Its to Crack and Whump and everything in between, this collection hosts bookmarks of some of my absolute favorite fanfics that involve time travel :]
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a free bird leaps on the back of the wind by itsthechocopuff
Fandom: Naruto, Naruto (Anime & Manga)
02 Sep 2025
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Bookmarked by PixelatedDragon
15 Jul 2025
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for the caged bird sings of freedom work summary:
"Hyuuga Hinata dies four years after the Fourth Shinobi War, to protect her Hokage.
She wakes up ten years in the past, the day before Graduation, the day before the spar that would seal her fate as the family disappointment and Hanabi's as the next Clan Head.
She makes changes.
(Neji deserved better.) "
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Hyuuga Hinata dies four years after the Fourth Shinobi War, to protect her Hokage.
She wakes up ten years in the past, the day before Graduation, the day before the spar that would seal her fate as the family disappointment and Hanabi's as the next Clan Head.
She makes changes.
(Neji deserved better.)
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"It's possible my students are demons sent to torture me for my sins," Kakashi sighs, drink in hand.
Gai pats him on the back. "You'll be fine, my friend."
"They're punctual, Gai. Punctual."
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- Part 7 of Naruto Works
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Book I
Haruno Sakura made a promise. Looking in the eyes of her Shisou and the reanimated Hokage, she took on the most important mission of her life.
Go back in time and try to prevent the 4th Shinobi War.
Now, Sakura is back to her 5-year-old body, with all the knowledge and haunting memories of the future. She vows to keep her precious people safe and stop certain events from happening, without altering the timeline too much. The trials her emotions and logic put her through have her questioning her very existence, but for the sake of peace, she has to push forward. No matter what.
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- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 504,405
- Chapters:
- 50/50
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- 43
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Bookmarked by PixelatedDragon
06 Jul 2025
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"Sakura couldn’t discern anything in particular when they entered her neighborhood, but it was only then when she opened her eyes. Everything was too familiar — a part of herself. Something that she had lost before the war and found again two years ago. It was almost impossible to keep her eyes from watering at the realization, and when she sensed the love and anticipation oozing from her house, packed to the brim with friends and loved ones, she didn’t even try to hide her tears.
...I’m just really grateful, you know?”...“When I came back, I was drowning. Then I met Shisui, and he jumped in that wild ocean with me, to help me swim along, but a lot of the time, it just felt like we were drowning together and could barely keep each other above water, these past two years. But I am truly so grateful that he chose to brave the tide with me, and that I was and am still here, even if I am here without him."
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"“Thank you,” she breathed ...“I didn’t think you’d come. Or be willing to talk to me ever again, for that matter.”
Itachi nodded and leaned his back on the counter. “I didn't want to, at first. But you came to the hospital and stayed with me for hours, even when I refused to even look at you. If anything, I know that there is one thing that neither you nor Shisui ever lied about.” A small smile cracked on his lips when he saw her inquiring look. “You care. You love. Even when I was your enemy in your past life, genuinely or not, you chose to take a chance on me, chose to love me and my family despite never having known them or had any ties outside of Sasuke to them before. You spared me from a fate I can't even think about without shaking. My sister exists because of you. And I know for a fact that Shisui's love is just as boundless, if his self-imposed exile for the sake of saving my life and the world we live in is any indication.”
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"...you would have placed yourself under one of your own genjutsu to artificially compel yourself, because you wouldn't have been able to bear being in control of your own body and mind whilst committing such an act."
Shisui... didn't deny it. He didn't say anything, in words or chakra. And yet his silence screamed into Sakura's gaping heart. Itachi reached for his older brother, then, and cupped his face with both his hands, like Shisui was the water he was named for and Itachi a desert-bound captive.
"This... calling of martyrdom that grips your entire life with an unyielding fist, this obsession with sacrificing yourself before anyone else can do so in your stead... I have always hated it so strongly and understood it so unfailingly. It's your greatest scar from the War, isn't it? More so even than your eyes or the death of the friend who gave you them. You had to maim and kill and lost a part of your soul to the violence that ravaged your young life, at eight years old, and it's been a leash around your neck ever since. One that you think you deserve because of the lives you have taken, so much so that you've fallen into the suicidal habit of tightening the collar and yanking the chain of your own volition," he ran his thumbs across Shisui's cheeks, as though he was brushing away invisible tears. Shisui wasn't breathing.
"But regardless of the damage that is already done, the crux of the matter is that the notion that feeds your spirit this poison simply isn't true, and never was. Even in the years to come, it never will be. And if you ever doubt that and need proof to the contrary, proof you are deserving of not throwing your life away because you can and do bring goodness to the lives of others," Itachi's fingers left Shisui's face, and he grabbed and held Shisui's trembling wrists fiercely, causing him to squeeze the seal paper until it rustled like dancing leaves, "here it is, made real by your own hands." "
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"This is what your life should have been. This is who you are in your heart of hearts, Uchiha Shisui. Protector, healer, maker, someone who wants to help by way of good deeds and has been barred from doing so by the world he wants to make better.
Curse Kaguya and her foolish sons, Zetsu and Madara and Obito and Nagato and everyone who ever had a hand in taking this away from you. And curse me if I don't do everything in my power, old and new, to return the chance at such a life to you, at the end of all things.
You will come home and get to heal and make again, make many things far greater than what you have shown me today, and I will make my own discoveries beside you, and we will spread them both across the nations, and walk that path towards world peace together. I don't promise that. I swear it."
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" "Oh," ... "So, I'm your muse?"
"No," Shisui said, and he sounded, and felt, and was unfalteringly sincere, from the depths of his soul to the light in his eyes, "You're my hero." "
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When she is somersaulted back in time to Uzushio before it was Uzushio, with Kurama's yin chakra folded into the seal on her forehead, heart bursting with loss and the weight of her burden, she tells them her name is Tsubaki.
Uzumaki Mito looks at her like she is an enemy.
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- Part 1 of before you 'verse
- Language:
- English
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- 149,005
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Bookmarked by PixelatedDragon
23 Jun 2025
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"It hits her at once. The weight of it. The pressure, the softness, the way it suffocates. It's different than it was with Ino. With Ino, she had always known. Even when they were girls, even when they fought over Sasuke. Going back to Ino was like going back home.
Mito was an island at sea. Lost, out in the middle distance. Almost a mirage, but sturdy enough to be real. Impossible. Impossible. And then your feet touched sand and your lips met hers and suddenly, she was real.
She doesn't sob when it comes to her. She is on Shimura land, standing just behind Mito. Touka is on her other side, and they flank the impossible girl, the woman, the whirlwind as she looks into the face of Shimura Isshin and tells him why he should put his people in her hands.
Her heart crawls into her throat and she nearly spits it out on Mito's shoulder, but she can't. She holds it in, swallows around her arteries, and forces it to settle down in her chest.
She keeps it there when they travel to the Nara, to the Akimichi, and the Yamanaka. Holds it down under her palm and folded beneath the thick fabric of her kimono, hidden again still under her haori when they meet with the clanless shinobi that the Uzushio riders bring back with them from their journeys far to the borders of Fire Country.
Sakura holds it in the palm of her hand. Makes a fist around it. That was what her shishou had taught her. To put everything she cared about, valued, loved, needed into her fist, and then to fight for it.
But Sakura is selfish. And she does not want to fight. She just wants.
Ino had believed in love. Ino had been jealous. Selfish as Sakura and sometimes, twice or three times as mean. But Ino was dead and she hadn't been born yet. And Sakura would never meet her again in this lifetime.
And if Ino could forgive her Tenten, could she forgive Sakura Mito as well?
She doesn't know. She doesn't know and she'll never find out. Maybe one day, in the Pure Land if they both get there, Ino will forgive her. If she's waiting in limbo, watching over her right now, maybe Sakura is already being forgiven."...
""You'll find me again."
Sasuke reaches up with hesitant hands, and when he touches Naruto, his forearms are warm and solid beneath his grasp. Sasuke squeezes. There's such a small of give, enough that tells Sasuke if he holds on too tight, Naruto will burst in front of him.
"I've seen it," Naruto whispers. "He showed me. We’ll be kids again. I'll have long hair, and yours will still look like a duck's ass."
It drags a laugh out of him, and Naruto is laughing, too. It's infectious, pouring out of one mouth and into the other, circling around them and Sasuke slowly begins to fade from this world and back into the next.
"You'll find me in Uzushio," Naruto says. "Your first mission outside of the village as a genin. You and Sakura-chan, you’ll go to Whirlpool instead of Wave. We won't know why, we won't remember. But I'll be waiting for you. And you'll find me."
"Shut up, Naruto," Sasuke mutters.
But he smiles, and Naruto's thumb strokes his cheekbone. They breathe the same air, and Sasuke can feel the way Naruto knows fūton, the way the wind around them in this odd place buffets against them. Cool breezes, stillness before a gale, before a storm. It dances in Naruto's hair, lifts Sasuke's to join his.
Naruto has two arms here, and he uses them to hold Sasuke, not even enough space for a little wind between them. He's warm, though Sasuke can't hold onto him too tight.
'Your light belongs with mine.' And 'our lights were born together'. That was part of the vows said under Amaterasu's light, for weddings, for births, for lifelong dedications to the temple. His mother had said them to his father, smilingly, lovingly...
Light always came back to light. No matter how much darkness separated them, fires would cross nations to find each other...
Sasuke is holding the sun in his hands, and even though he will let go, he has a promise of the future. In that world, his flame will join with Naruto's, and together, they will leap towards the goddess. He'll be able to say the words out loud. Maybe one of his aunts will officiate...
His mother would do it. Or, if things went differently, if they worked out, it could be Itachi. And wasn't that a world worth looking forward to? Maybe not now, but eventually. When his work was over, he could die in this time and when he rose again, there would be a new life to look forward to. A Naruto to cross the world to find again.
Sasuke leans in, and he doesn't say the words perfectly because they're meant for marriage. But this is a vow. The wind picks up around them as he says it, and Sasuke wants to swim forever in the blue of Naruto's eyes.
"My light is yours."
They kiss, easy and slow as falling asleep. And on the other side, Sasuke wakes up."