Time Travel Lovers **BEING REWRITTEN/EDITED WITH MAJOR CHANGES**

Chapter 2: WE'RE FIVE!

Naruto groaned and opened his eyes. At first all he felt was the annoying fuzzy feeling that he sometime got after drinking too much the night before. Hinata would be mad at him if she knew. Who was he kidding she already knew. He couldn't hide anything from her, especially when he was drunk. He rolled to his side but paused when he didn't see his wife next too him. Then his eyes started to focus.

The wall he was staring at was not the soft sky blue color of their bedroom. It was a plain dirty white with a chip in the paint. What the...

Then it all came flashing back to him in a blinding headache, the destruction of Konoha, the plan, the seal, the jutsu! He sat up quickly and looked around. He was in his old room again! It was a nasty mess with garbage all over. But it was his old room! They had done it! Naruto leaped out of bed but promptly fell down when he apparently misjudged the distance. The fuck. He knew he had grown some since he was fifteen but not so much that he should be out of control of his body. He slowly picked himself up but his eyes focused on his hands. They were so small! 

Naruto started to feel a sense of dread pooling in his gut. Something was wrong. Very wrong. He picked himself up and noticed just how much bigger the room seemed. He made his way tot he door that housed his bathroom. When he had to reach up to grab the door knob he knew what would face him in the mirror but he didn't want to believe it! He slowly stepped up onto the stool and raised his head to look into his reflection.

Naruto stared back a himself. He was still Naruto. It was just that the Naruto looking back at him was five. Not fifteen.

"Fuck."

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Now Hinata's morning was going only slightly better than Naruto's. She woke up to someone calling her name. She only had a few seconds of confusion before she sat up in excitement. When she jumped out of her bed she only stumbled but didn't fall. Like Naruto she asked herself the question, I didn't grow that much from when I was fifteen did I?

When Hinata gazed around her room she noted the size difference. She held up a hand. Tiny. She looked at her foot. Tiny. She turned slowly to face the mirror above her dresser. The little girl looking back at Hinata? Definitely tiny. She walked slowly towards the mirror. She gazed back at her reflection. The reflection was not hers. Well it was. But it wasn't the right reflection. 

The reflection gazing back at Hinata with a slight edge of worry and panic belonged to her five ear old self! They had done it. They had successfully travel back in time! But they had gone too far. Ten years too far. Now instead of one war, they would be changing everything! She spun around and rooted through her dresser. She dressed herself quickly and then snuck out of her room. She could still feel the tiny amount of Kuruma's chakra but she couldn't communicate through it so she had to go find Naruto. She knew where he live at this age. She had to find him and confirm that he had made it too!

Hinata snuck past guards and other Hyuga family members. She was only a hundred feet from one of the side gates when someone called out her name. Hinata slowly turned around to see Neji! She wanted to fling herself at her cousin and hug him but that would only raise more questions she didn't have time for.

"Hinata-sama, where are you going?" Neji's tone was cold and inquisitive, his resentment already have taken root in his heart at this young age.

"Umm. I'm going out for a walk." She bit her lip and gazed back at her cousin. Hoping that he wouldn't care enough and would let her just leave.

Neji stood there slightly dumbfounded. His cousin rarely spoke to him. Least of all without her trademark stutter and shyness. "Okay. Have a good day Hinata-sama."

"You too, Neji-nii-san." With a slight bow Hinata raced from the compound as fast as her tiny legs could carry her. At this rate it would take her five minutes to get across the village to Naruto's apartment. She raced along, dodging the few people out on the streets this early in the morning. She got a few odd looks but she was sure she was going to fast for anyone to recognize her unless it was a family member. She raced along, having to slow down and add an extra two minutes to her travel time because she ran out of breath half-way there. Her little body wasn't used to all this running. That was something they had tried to avoid when planning on coming back. They had aimed for fifteen because then their bodies would be in prime condition to fight. But five year-old her had barely started training to fight. She had little to no stamina.

She started to slow down and too calm her breathing down. Her sides ached and she was covered in a sheen of sweat. Gross. She came to a stop right outside Naruto's door and finally calmed her breathing all the way down. She knocked on the door hoping Naruto was awake. She couldn't sense him. Then again all her skills were gone. She had the memory but her body wasn't trained to execute what she remembered. The door swung open and Naruto paused for a second before dragging her in and wrapping her in a giant hug and kissing her on the cheek.

"Hinata! You made it!"

She just started to laugh. "You too it seems." Naruto started to chuckle and gave her another kiss on the cheek. She smiled widely. Then she got a serious look on her face. Naruto noticed and gave her another peck before leading her over to his couch.

"So, my dear. It seems that we overshot."

Hinata snorted. "You think. One or two years wouldn't have been that bad but ten years! How'd we manage that?"

Naruto shrugged. "I don't know. You have to remember the fact that it was an untested jutsu that we made in less than a week. We may have aimed for fifteen but the jutsu could have only been able to send us to a random age. I'm just happy we both made it."

Hinata sighed and leaned against Naruto. It was weird being in her small five year-old body. But Naruto made her feel better even in this circumstance. Being five threw their tentative plans in the dirt. "What are we going to do now? We're five! We haven't even started at the academy yet!"

Naruto sighed. He didn't know either. "I don't know dear." Then he winced slightly. "I just realized something."

Hinata looked at her husband. "What?"

"Hina dear. We are five."

"Yes, Naruto I realize that."

"No Hina. We're five. Do you know how weird it'll be if we show any sign of our real relationship? Your father will kill me and the villagers will think I've bewitched you."

Hinata sat up and looked at her husband. Her husband. Who was now five years old. Just like her. She closed her eyes. Took a deep breath. And said, "Fuck."