The one where Mariko was born just a bit earlier
Realising that I'd been born about 10 years before the Kyuubi attack was weird. Most of my knowledge was from after Naruto's birth, so I didn't have a lot to work with.
I was rushed through the academy. Konoha was at war. The third shinobi war to be precise. It was there that I meet Obito Uchiha. Yeah, that Obito Uchiha. Megalomaniac who wanted to put the world into Infinite Tsukuyomi Obito Uchiha.
But… he wasn't like that yet. He was a kid. A kid who was ignored and shunned by his clansmen who wanted nothing more than to be noticed. I thought that… maybe we could be friends, maybe I could stop him from going down the same path he went down before. He had a lot of friends in the Academy
I was 5 when I was entered into the Academy, born to an Inuzuka Chunin who'd left for the field shortly after I'd been born. Inuzuka Akio, she was called. Was. Past tense, she'd died a few months after I'd been born. In all honesty, no one really knew who my father was. I was a war baby, probably made in some one night stand, filled with 'OhMyGodI'mAlive.' But it'd happened, and I was here now.
Some cosmic joke, I guessed to be born now of all times. Middle of a Shinobi war that wouldn't end for a few more years. And too late to really change things either, unless of course I rushed through the Academy and hoped against hope that I'd be put into Team 7, so that I could change things. But… but I didn't know if my being in that team would help. In all honesty, it'd probably end badly. So I decided that I'd wait until a year after Obito graduated to graduate.
An easy plan right? The story would continue as usual and I'd be able to actually use my future knowledge to some effect.
Haha, Wrong!
I knew how badly Konoha needed new soldiers, but I didn't want to be immediately thrust into a war zone, so I held back. Not enough it seemed, as I graduated 2 years in, another prodigy in the making for Konoha.
It was just my luck that I'd be placed on Team 7 with Kakashi Hatake and Obito Uchiha.
The only thought that ran through my mind once the instructor told me who I'd be paired with was, 'Shit.'