Team Hot Wheels X Naruto

By AlxkendBlader

Disclaimer: Team Hot Wheels: The Origin of Awesome! belongs to Mattel, and Naruto belongs to Masashi Kishimoto. I do NOT, under any circumstance at all, own those! Fair use, sons of guns!

Summary: The Third Hokage, knowing all too well that those unwilling to let go of their grudge for the Nine-Tailed Fox would do whatever it takes to make the newborn Naruto Uzumaki's life as a demon container miserable, sends him off to be raised by an old friend of his from a faraway land. Naruto is the adopted son of Larry, an imaginative auto mechanic living in the dull and boring town of Hilly Woodlands, and has learned how to be quite a custom car builder and auto mechanic under him. When a fellow apprentice named Rev, who stole an invention of Larry's, returns to Hilly Woodlands to wreak havoc, it's up to him and a group of four boys to stop Rev and bring back the stolen invention.

Prologue: Larry's New Son

One fateful night on October 10th, a Nine-Tailed Fox demon attacked the ninja village of Konohagakure no Sato (or Konoha for short). Its tails could crush mountains, create massive waves, and flatten entire forests. Many brave ninja warriors were lost fighting against the monstrously-sized demon, until the village's leader, the Forth Hokage Minato Namikaze, stepped forward. Knowing that the Nine-Tailed Fox cannot be killed, due to being an energy-based entity, he sold his soul to the Shinigami to seal the demon away into a newborn child. That child is Naruto Uzumaki. When Minato died, the previous Hokage, a wizened old legend named Hiruzen Sarutobi, had to retake his former position. Knowing that corrupt figures within the village's council would try to take advantage of the situation and seize as much political power as they could and use it for their own selfish purposes, Sarutobi managed to retake the Hokage position fast enough to avert this. However, his fears for Naruto's safety are also justified; Sarutobi, who is also known as "The Professor", knows all too well how demon containers are generally treated.

He also figures that his old rival, Danzo Shimura, would try and have Naruto be raised as an emotionless weapon and use him to steal the Hokage position for himself and force his own ideals upon Konoha. After a few days of thinking, he figured out the answer to his quandary; send the child away from those who would either persecute him for his burden or use him as a weapon for their own sinister purposes, to be raised by a person that he could trust. The perfect individual to raise Naruto away from Konoha, very VERY far away from the village; an automobile mechanic and custom car builder with a wild imagination named Larry, who lives in and repairs cars in Hilly Woodlands, which is a city in a continent far from the Elemental Countries. For this, he assigned one of his ANBU to go outside the village to Hilly Woodlands, who better to bring Naruto to Larry (along with a large set of scrolls, intended for the boy to learn the ninja arts with) is Kakashi Hatake (Callsign: Inu), a former student of Minato Namikaze and a formidable ANBU captain. Knowing the severity of the mission, Kakashi had put his habits asides and took it. It wasn't easy, but the silver-haired ninja managed to make his way to a port where a ship going to the western continents awaits him…

[One night at Larry's Garage…]

Larry is a man with an inventive imagination, working as an auto mechanic in the city of Hilly Woodlands. What very few people know, is that Larry is also an inventor, with a secret, high-tech automotive test facility underneath the garage, where he can create anything that he could imagine, ranging from super-charged jet engine cars to super-duper-charged rocket fuel cars, to miles of what he boasts to be "the most perfect racing surface known to man"; sleek, orange racetrack, made of a flexible, yet durable plastic-like substance that can withstand the power of turbo-charged, high-performance supercars. Of course, Larry had also developed a robotic butler named Jerry. That night, he was working on a hot rod in the laboratory, when he is informed by Jerry that someone is at the garage's front door.

He says, "Thanks, Jerry, I'm comin' up topside," as he takes an elevator that goes back up to the garage. Just as he arrived back in the garage, he answers the door to see the last kind of person he would've expected to see in a place as dull and boring as Hilly Woodlands; an ANBU operative from Konoha carrying a blonde baby boy in addition to a set of scrolls.

He remarks, "Well, I'll be a monkey's uncle. What brings ya here, all the way from the Elemental Countries, ANBU? Did somethin' happen?" Inu nods, as the mechanic lets him in, and locks the door, and closes the blinds on his windows.

"So, Kakashi *ahem* Inu, is it?" said Larry, "Lay it on me. Oh, and how's my old buddy Hiruzen Sarutobi doing these days?"

Inu explains the situation, after which the mechanic remarks, "So lemme get this straight; you're saying that this big old demon fox attacked the village, and your leader sacrificed himself to seal it away in this little baby, and old Hiruzen had to retake the Hokage position to stop any corrupt guys from seizing too much power, and that he sent you to bring that baby to me so that he'd be safe from any angry villagers or exploitative bad guys?"

Kakashi replies, "That's about the gist of it, Larry-san. Now, the scrolls with me are for Naruto to learn the ninja arts with. Minato-sensei wants for Naruto to be a ninja for Konoha, and a true hero, but Hokage-sama knows all too well how demon containers like Naruto here were generally treated, so he's hoping that you could raise him away from such abuse."

Larry thought for a moment, before replying with a smile, "A'right, I'll raise the kid like the son I never truly had. Besides, because of my profession and all that, I couldn't find the time to get myself a girlfriend anyways. I'll do it for Hiruzen's sake."

Prologue End

Chapter 1.1: Naruto the Automotive Ninja Part 1

Naruto Uzumaki is a young man at the tender age of twelve years, living with his adoptive father, Larry, in Hilly Woodlands, a town with a reputation of being the most boring place on Earth. In addition to being home schooled by Larry and being taught to build, maintain, and repair automobiles, he also learned the ninja arts from the scrolls that came with him that night when he was adopted by the mechanic. He also helps to take care of Larry's pet dog, Rollie, who has large wheels in place of hind legs. Sometimes, Naruto would help Larry out in his secret test facility. At one point, he had a rather brotherly friendship with a fellow apprentice named Rev. Everything changed, when Larry created his greatest invention yet; the Cloud Engine, a special, top-secret motor that runs on "liquid imagination".

This engine can not only produce trails of orange track, but the purplish exhaust smoke can cause inanimate objects to come to life, transform landscapes, and even mutate animals. The engine was placed into a sleek and futuristic black car, which Rev helped Larry to put together as the Cloud Engine's testbed. For reasons unknown to both Larry and Naruto, Rev stole the vehicle and went off to Kami-knows-where, "imaginating" whatever he pleased, as well as leaving miles and miles of orange track where ever he went. Thankfully, Naruto had placed a tracking device on the vehicle prior, in the events of it being stolen, which had happened. This allows him to track the Cloud Engine's movements, and by extension, Rev's. Larry and Naruto then began development on the Hydrator Ray, a device that works similarly to the Cloud Engine, also running on liquid imagination, but its purpose is different; the Hydrator Ray is designed to fire a beam of imaginative energies to transform ordinary cars into extreme pieces of super-powered automotive awesomeness, as well as to repair (or "re-hydrate") them instantly.

There is one problem; it would take a team of seriously skilled drivers to stop Rev, as well as bringing back the Cloud Engine. Plus, Naruto can't exactly take on Rev alone. However, he does know of a group of boys that would come by to the garage and work on their custom-made go-karts, and even race each other with them.

There's Gage, a cocky and daring young lad with a love of rock music and going as fast as possible, and his high-powered, super-fast, two-engined go-kart reflects this.

Next is Rhett, who knows a thing or two about cars, and is easy-going and likes to do yoga. He is also a good friend of Gage, and always prefers to take the simple approach to things, along with being a fan of hot rods. Rhett's kart is based on a hot rod, and features a metallic skull ornament on the front, along with a rod meant to resemble a gearshift stick that has a skull knob on it.

The third is Louisiana-born Wyatt, a rather muscular young boy with a distinctive yellow trucker cap, a Southern kind of a drawl to his voice, a rather large ego with a desire to show off in his own way (which he calls "Wyatt-Style"), a rivalry with Gage about being the better driver, a love for his grandmother "Gammy-Gram", and a knack for stunts. For that, his kart features special hydraulics that can be used to make the vehicle jump, allowing the driver to pull off stunts.

Last but not least, there's Brandon, a friend of Wyatt with a passion for high-tech gadgets. He equipped his go-kart with a few add-ons of his own, especially the Aqua Wheels, which produces a flotation cushion underneath the kart and turning the rear wheels into propulsion units, moving it through water.

All in all, both Larry and Naruto had seen how skilled these four boys are as drivers, and they may have the potential to stop Rev.

One day, we see Rhett and Gage, working on the go-karts while Naruto watched.

Just as they finished, Gage remarks as he stopped a stopwatch, "Fast, but not fast enough," as Rhett replies, "Is anything ever fast enough for you, Gage? You know, buddy, sometimes you gotta slow down to enjoy life, man."

The speed-lover responds confidently, "Slow? Huh, never heard of it. Man, are Larry and Naruto going to love what we did to our go-karts." It is then that Naruto walked into view, and asks, "You sure about that, guys? You'll have to get dad's approval first."

It is then that Larry himself came in, and says, "No argument there, son," before turning to Gage and Rhett, "If you boys are fixin' to drive these things, then we gotta do a go-kart safety check," before asking if they tightened the lug nuts, checked the oil and everything, as he then asks, "Did you prime the Perilous Piston Pro-Tire Power-Pump?"

Both Gage and Rhett started to respond, when the former asks, "Larry, did you just make that up?" The mechanic laughs, "Yup! Heh heh heh heh heh heh! Sorry, boys. Sometimes, my imagination gets me into trouble," before turning to a conveniently placed hole in the Forth Wall, "And don't you forget it!" Naruto chuckles as he crosses his arms, "Breaking the Forth Wall as always, eh dad?"

Confused, Gage asks Rhett, "What the heck is the Forth Wall," as the latter replies with a shrug, "I have no idea." The blonde boy then remarks, "These go-karts are looking real cool, and with your skills behind the wheel, they could look even cooler," as he notices Wyatt jumping into view and making poses for a bunch of cameras controlled by Brandon.

The stunt-loving boy then asks, "So, any of you want to buy a moi calendar?" as Gage sarcastically remarks, "I'll buy 'em all if you promise not to make anymore," as the two then get into another one of their infamous arguments.

Having had enough, Naruto unleashes some Killing Intent as he growled, "Stop arguing, you two, or else I'll tear your necks out!"

At this, Gage and Wyatt stopped as they looked at Naruto fearfully and gulped, as the blonde then went back to his usual mood.

Larry then remarks, "Mmm-hmm, all you two do is argue! Imagine what you can do if you worked together. Like me and Rollie. Sure, we have our differences. For one, he's a dog, and two, he's got wheels for feet. But in the end, we put 'em aside."

[Timeskip]

The four boys' little go-kart race throughout the city ended in the neighborhood, when Gage made fun of Wyatt's Gammy-Gran, causing the latter to make himself and the other three crash. There, Gage and Wyatt argued, and as things tend to lead to other things, Rhett and Brandon started arguing, too.

That is, until Rhett hears something coming, and shuts everyone up, and says, "Something awesome this way comes…"

To their shock and amazement, a mysterious-looking black car came roaring over them, leaving behind a trail of orange track as it then went barreling into the city, while transforming everything it passes by with its exhaust smoke.

Wanting to see more, the four boys started to run towards the city, when Larry stops in front of them in his tow truck, and quickly lowers the window as he asks, "Did you see him? Did you see Rev?!" Rhett asks, "Rev? Who's Rev?" as Brandon asks in earnest, "How does he do this?!"

It is then that Larry replies, "Get in! There's no time to waste," before he quickly dragged the four into the truck, and sped on back to the garage.

Afterwards, he and the others get inside, as the mechanic locks the door and closes the blinds on his windows. In the living room, we see the five, as Gage, Rhett, Brandon, and Wyatt began asking questions;

"Larry, what's going on? Who's Rev?"

"And how does he make that orange track?"

"And when's he gonna make more?"

"And why do you have so many locks?"

Larry explains, "Oh, I'll tell ya. Rev…Rev was one of my protégés, along with Naruto. He used to work with me and my son in the garage, just like you boys. You know that sweet car he's drivin' around? Well, it's MY sweet car, and it's got a VERY special engine."

At this, Brandon skeptically asks, "An engine that poops out orange track?"

Larry replies as he turns on a TV to a news report, "It poops out more than that. Look!"

The news report details that a giant pigeon is attacking the school, and the Mini-Putt, Hilly Woodlands' local mini-golf course, is experiencing a volcanic eruption. Added to that, the animatronic Abe Lincoln prop has come to life and is making a log cabin out of old people, Gammy-Gram included to Wyatt's anger.

There and then, Larry takes them to the entrance of his secret test facility, as he warns them to keep quiet about it or else he has someone he knows erase their brains completely. Using a large, purple key, Larry opens the multi-tiered door to the secret test facility, as he smiles, "Behold, the automotive playground of your dreams!"

To Be Continued…

Next time on Team Hot Wheels X Naruto…

Four boys who love to race with their go-karts get sucked up into a situation when a former apprentice of Larry shows up in Hilly Woodlands and began wreaking havoc by leaving behind trails of orange track and generally making a mess. Using the Hydrator Ray, Larry enhances the boys' go-karts into super-powered cars, and with it, the formation of a new team of heroic drivers…Team Hot Wheels! Joining them on their mission is Naruto, who shall act as their coordinator, and with his own custom-made supercar! Will they be able to stop Rev and retrieve the stolen Cloud Engine? Find out, readers, in Chapter 1.2 of Team Hot Wheels X Naruto!

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