Were he given a choice beforehand Iruka was pretty sure he would have declined the opportunity and insisted that he very much did not belong in the past, that he was too used to the conveniences of the future. It wasn 't until he was thrown back there in an accident involving a child playing with an unknown seal that he was forced to realize he was much more of an old soul than he had ever been willing to admit. Being stuck in the past was kind of worth it just for the not-yet-filthy onsens and the beautiful unadulterated landscapes still unsettled.

Of course, those weren 't the only advantages. There were also dozens of young minds in a fresh new academy with a curricular system that still needed cementing. As soon as the Shodaime Hokage vetted his story that he was from the future he was sent straight to Senju Tobirama, the very one who had

invented