Naruto: The Altered Universe Saga.

Disclaimer: I do not own the naruto franchise or any other known media elements that may find their way into this story eventually.

Author's note: hey guys this a new fic that ultimately follows the exact storyline of the canon naruto. Only there are some massive changes to the overall plot and structure of the naruto universe. Basically this is an alternate universe so there will be a lot of changes. This changes are mostly based on the xianxia and wuxia genre of web novels. Which means I am crossing the naruto universe with the widely used plots of Chinese novels. This fic draws inspiration from various Chinese novels like against the gods, I shall seal the heavens, martial world, demigods and semi devils etc. There's going to be a lot of changes, but I hope you guys will be patient and try to enjoy the story.

Chapter one: The dead last orphan (uzumaki naruto)

The genin examination were coming closer, all variety of academy level ninja practitioners were preparing for this exams as it will determine if they have a future in the way of ninjutsu and martial arts.

In a hidden grove behind the ninja academy a young boy of twelve could be seen relentlessly pounding away at a tree stump. Now in an ordinary scenario a tree stump will cause some serious damage to any person who was stupid enough to punch it, and that was more true for the tree the young man was punching, this particular species of tree was called an iron wood tree. As its name suggest it has the basic appearance of a normal tree, but boast of a hardness that would put most other metal to shame.

But the young boy didn't care about the pain, even if the tree had split his skin to the bone. This young mans name is naruto. At first glance a person would always notice his unremarkable cloths as they showed he was a kid living in abject poverty, on the other hand when they look at his facial features, they will be met, with a skin so tanned it only needed a little step to jump from bronze to brown, spiky golden locks adorned his head, on his face whisker like tribal marks were show as the ran from left to right marring his handsome features with their scar like look. And his eyes, they were the deepest blue that could rival the blues of the sky and seas. But currently those eyes were endlessly dripping tear drops, as young naruto gritted his teeth to hold back both the physical pain of meshing his skinless and naked knuckles against the rough bark of the iron wood tree and the pain of loneliness and poverty.

Naruto has always been alone from his earliest memories, apparently he was among the thousands of children who became orphans twelve years ago when the god class demonic beast, the kyubi no kitsune, attacked and leveled more than half of the military capital of the fire empire. That was a dark day for Konoha city, as it suffered such great losses, if not for the intervention of an unknown ninja, who had the ability to instantly teleport nothing would have been left of the city. On that day the teleporting ninja along with a red haired woman subdued and defeated the beast before succumbing to their wounds and dying. Based on the personal effects found on their body, they were identified as Minato namikaze and kushina uzumaki, husband and wife and at the time the current clan heads of the Uzumaki family. A family that was stationed three days away from the city in the small village town of wave. Since then those two have been regarded as the heroes of Konoha, even if they were strangers, they fought and gave their life for the city, and for that the city honored them.

Currently young naruto was practicing and hopping he would be able to get to the final stage of the body tempering realm. On this elemental continent the strong reign supreme, and their strength are all decided into various realms, from when the first start training as youngsters, they will have to pass the body tempering realm, which consists of three stages.

The organ strengthening stage, the bone strengthening stage, and the mind strengthening stage. After that comes the genin realm which also comprises of three levels, the initial genin stage, the middle genin stage, and the advanced genin stage. Ninjas and martial artist are a whole lot stronger than people still at the body tempering stage, while the body tempering stage focuses on strengthening the body for ones foray into the ninja and martial arts world, the people at the genin realm would have already created their chakra pathways, which would allow them to be able to add low level chakra techniques to their repertoire. Not to mention people at the genin realm get a boost of power as their body evolves in such a way that let's them draw in chakra from the heavens and earth for battle, it makes them stronger than the average people. But of course there were still higher levels of martial and ninja prowess.

The next realm is the jonin realm, this realm has six stages. The initial jonin stage, the steady jonin stage, the initial middle stage, the middle jonin stage, the initial peak stage, and the peak jonin stage. Fighters at this stage were a hundred times stronger than the genin realm fighters. At this point in time, they will create a chakra core within their body, which will allow them to store either yin chakra, for females and yang chakra for males. At this point they will only be able to use particular skills suitable to their particular chakra type. But with the coming of the specialized chakra, their bodies become stronger and faster, now that they have a chakra core within their body, they can use high level techniques and don't have to consciously draw chakra energy for the heavens and earth, this time they can only do it once in a will to fill their chakra core through meditation before battle. People at this stage possessed the ability to change the scene of an environment due to the pure destructive force in their body, they are also only able to use specific elements, fire, earth, and wind for males, also know as the yang jonins. Then water, lightening, and wind for the females. Wind is the only element that both side can properly use, for those of them who are lucky to have an affinity for it. No one knows why air was the exception to the yin and yang rule, but maybe due to that, the number of wind natured ninjas are extremely scarce as people who are compatible with the wind nature chakra are very rare.

The next realm is the kage realm. This is the level of the various truly powerful leaders around the continent, to get to this level no small amount of sweat and blood had to be shed, at this stage the ninjas are at the top of all others because a kage realm practitioner has the power to completely bring down and raise mountains with just a flick of their fingers. Kages were at the pinnacle of what an extraordinary and talented ninja can reach. At this level the chakra core within their body will become a chakra sea, giving kages the abilities to make their own chakra, and this chakra was a able to take little aspects of the opposing yin or yang chakra allowing them to use techniques that was previously restricted to them due to being either male or female. But after this is the final realm.

The sage realm is the most profound and most unattainable level. People at this level were sometimes referred to as Gods, they were rare, and the people with that level on the elemental continent could be counted with one hand. At this stage the ninjas and martial practioners attain a level of being one with nature, due to that their body automatically absorbs both yin and yang energy, making them so powerful they only need to sneeze to wipe out an empire.

But to to young naruto attaining the sage realm was currently a pipe dream, without cultivation and training resources, he doubted if he would ever be able to leave the body tempering realm, but naruto boasted of one thing most people did not have, his unyielding determination to be the best and achieve his dream, to be a hero just like Minato Namikaze and his wife, to be respected and loved by the people around him, to achieve the pinnacle of true power. All this were lofty dreams, even for a twelve year old boy, some people might even call him crazy and delusional for having such ambitions, but Naruto was a stubborn kid, he refused to let the opinions of people who were afraid to try and were comfortable with their own mediocrity to heart.

He rested his back against the tree, which looked completely worn, as the constant years of abuse from naruto had slowly chipped away at its bark. Dried flakes of blood and dead skin could be seen clinging to tree, such a sight was really bone chilling and awe inspiring, but right now Naruto did not care how impressive and dedicated his training looked like. The truth of the matter was that there were others more talented and stronger than him, and of this other guys some of them could punch through the iron wood tree, without a single hint of a bruise on them. But this guys had access to stuff he did not, on an equal playing field Naruto was sure he was a thousand times more talented than all the so called geniuses of his academy class.

Naruto bit back a hiss as he applied then paste of a common root herb on his injuries. While this herb was abundant around and was well known for it rapid healing qualities, it was sub-par at best, and would take at least two weeks of constant care to heal his injured knuckles completely.

Naruto did not spend much time in the grove as he made his way back to the academy, half way there however he changed his route, instead choosing to head towards the onsen and public bath area. While school was good and fine, naruto felt that he had soak in natural hot springs of Konoha to sooth his aching muscles and achieve a good degree of relaxation. Besides whatever it is they were going to teach today he was sure Kiba will tell him about it later.

In the whole of Konoha city, Naruto's only friend was the clan heir of the Inuzuka clan, one Kiba Inuzuka. A rather rambunctious and eccentric fellow whose character could sometimes be called arrogant. The Inuzuka clan are a specialized clan of ninja cultivators who had the bloodline of the eternal wolf God. This has enabled them to have contracts with fearsome demonic wolf dogs that were called ninken. Once every child reached the accepted age of maturity, they are allowed to summon and make a contract with their own ninken, through the use of a clan treasure left behind for their clan by the wolf God. Recently Kiba had succeeded in summon a class seven white wolf dog. According to Kiba, his ninken belonged to a species of ninken called soul eaters. They are the only type of ninken with the ability to grow beyond their class. As for class of demonic beast, on the elemental continent all beast are divided into classes, with the exception of domestic beast and everyday rodents. On the continent, the landscape is riddled with demonic and holy beast of all classes. Their power levels are measured by the amount of strength they have. For example a class one beast is the weakest, while a class thirteen is the strongest. Holy beast are rarer than demonic beast, and it is almost impossible to tame a demonic beast that has lived as much as one month in the wild. As for how Naruto knew this, he naturally learned most of this from Kiba. Even though Kiba was a handful only Naruto had the capacity to keep up with him. Which of course is wrong, since it's the other way around, only Kiba can keep up with Naruto. Naruto was a natural born prankster and the adventures he and Kiba have had, along with their somewhat reluctant second best friend Shikamaru Nara had become legendary in Konoha city. It was due to the friendship he had with these two clan heirs, that Naruto could successfully reach the second stage of the body tempering realm. But there was only so much that they could do considering they had to cut short their own cultivation materials to help Naruto. And it was something they could not do all the time, they had the expectations of their clans riding on their shoulders which limited them in how much they could help their best friend. But Naruto was eternally great full to the two of them, so he made a promise to always stand by their sides no matter what happens.

As Naruto walked down the streets and alleyways of Konoha city, he was subjected to the occasional looks of pity from the residents, in their mind they believed this young man was only wasting his time in trying to be a ninja or martial cultivator, since he did not have the capacity to sponsor his training. They all knew he was orphaned during the attack twelve years ago. Among the hundreds of children that day Naruto was well known, and not just because of his legendary pranking phases, but because they all knew the kid had a good heart and was a hard worker, however all they could do was look at him with looks filled with pity, the worst kind of look Naruto hated.

In his opinion it was better for a person to hate him than pity him, it made him feel weak and incapable. It was why he started pranking people, but it seemed the more he acted the more pity he got.

Due to that Naruto saw most if not almost all of the people who lived I. Konoha city as hypocrites. They will all look at him like some wounded animal, but non of them will ever raise a hand to help him any way, only choosing to whisper behind his back of how unfortunate his life is.

At this point in time, under the harsh glare of the noon sun, Naruto reached the restrict where the onsen and hot springs were located, his body shuddered in anticipation at the relaxation he was bound to experience in just a few short minutes. However his musings were cut short by a commotion in front of him. A middle aged man was heading straight for him, running at his top speed, while quite a distance behind him was a huge crowd of women with a variety of crude weapons like clubs and extremely huge sticks.

Naruto chuckled quietly to himself, as he deduced the man was a pervert who was caught peeping. 'sucks to be you old man' naruto thought to himself as the man approached him. The man took a sharp turn into an alley right beside naruto and jumped into a trash can beside a wall. But just before he jumped he turned to Naruto with a frightened look on his face and mouthed "help" silently while he proceeded to hide from the approaching lynch mob of women.

As he weighed the pros and cons of helping the old pervert, the women caught up to him.

" hey young man have you seen a white haired old man running around here a few minutes ago" a classy looking brunet who looked out of sorts with the giant metal pole in his hands asked him.

Naruto involuntarily took a big gulp of air at the sight of the pole before automatically answering.

" well yes I did see a man, however I saw him summon a demonic beast and fly away."

The women looked extremely suspicious of his answer, but considering he was just a little innocent looking boy, and his rather sincere answer had them believing he was telling the truth. As for the ninja experts among the women they did not notice any fluctuations of chakra, so they could safely say he was not someone else in disguise. Choosing not to linger any longer they all turned and headed back to the bath house, apparently Naruto's answer and rather innocent expression had killed the raging fire of righteous females fury in their hearts so they lost interest in chasing and tracking down that stupid pervert and destroying all chance of him procreating or ever having an erection again.

Seeing that the coast was clear Naruto walked over to the trash can and gave it a swift kick, disregarding the startled yell coming from it, he yelled out.

" You can come out now, old man. Your would be murderers have already left."

The lid of the trash can lifted up a little, as the perverted old man took a look around. Seeing that the coast really was clear and there was not a single speck of female body in the immediate vicinity, he quickly jumped out and clung to naruto's leg.

" Thank you, thank you so much young man. You must be my guardian angel, oh thank for saving me from an early grave."

Naruto was rattled by freakish display of gratitude from the old man, considering he was slobbering saliva all over Naruto's trousers as he kissed them in thanks.

" Oi old man, get off me, do you think I did this for free. You must give me a reward."

The old man stopped kissing Naruto 'legs and stood up.

"Well young man, name your price. Anything you want if its within my power I will grant it."

" well since you said so, you better not go back on your word."

" I won't, now tell me what you want, those beauties won't admire themselves."

For a moment Naruto wondered if the man in front of him was either crazy or a masochist. What kind of person will see a river of fire breathing snake and then jump headfirst into it. It made him skeptical about the request he was about to make. The man in front of him was well known, even Naruto knew who he was and to have such a person indebted to him was a dream come true, which means as the saying goes he had to milk this opportunity for what is worth. After all its not everyday you save a sage realm ninja like Jiraiya of the sannin from being lynched.

" OK then old man, what I want is for you to train me until I get to the jonin realm, and take care of all my training expenses and whatnot. And also I have to reach the genin realm in four months, before the genin examination."

Jiraiya was dumbfounded, this kid was an extortionist, he was even a hundred times skilled than tsunade who could make you give up your life savings with just one word. But he was way different than tsunade. The big chested bimbo and extortionist ways can be escaped if you can trap her with her own words, but this kid covered all his bases perfectly.

For a ninja like Jiraiya who had already achieved the peak level of what any martial artist can obtain on the elemental nations, the only thing he had apart from his illustrious reputation was his word. Many people would kill for an opportunity to be the one he owed a favor to, because just one word from his mouth and he could change a person's life forever. That was how respected and feared he was, so it came as a surprise to him that for the first time in so many years, he had been beating in a game of wits, in fact he did not even know that there was a game going on. What's worse is that his opponent was just a nine year old kid. This was embarrassing, but he had to keep his word and protect his reputation. He had not had a student since Nagato and his siblings, so maybe it was time for a change, he had been really bored lately.

" Well kid count yourself lucky, cause now you are the student apprentice of the dangerously handsome, tyrannically powerful, magically loving, and hunkishly brave….."

" I know who you are old man what's with the long intro?"

Jiraiya had his right eye twitching madly, as he fought the urge to bend this kid over his knees and give him a spanking he will never forget. ' how dare he interrupt my glorious introduction, how rude and uncivilized'. If Naruto could hear Jiraiya thinking he would have called the old man a miserable hypocrite, considering it was Jiraiya who has been acting uncivilized throughout the duration of their meeting each other.

" Fine kid, who are you, what's your name, where are you from, and how old are you."

Jiraiya did not put much thought in why he just suddenly agreed to take this boy on as an apprentice, even if the kid covered all his escape routes, jiraiya was sure, he would have been able to find a way to get out of the deal or at least release the pressure and take advantage of the kid. But it was like one of those dejavu moments. It was strange but Jiraiya was not a sage for nothing, with his connection to nature he also had connection to the universe and he had learnt to listen whenever the universe was talking. And right now it was screaming pretty loud, besides beneath all those dirt and grime on the face of the kid, was a boy that would be considered cute and handsome. And where there is a cute and handsome boy, there will be ladies of the finest quality 'hehehe'

" well I am nobody at the moment, my name is uzumaki naruto, I don't know where am from, because I have been in Konoha all my life, and I am twelve years old."

Jiraiya was silent for a while then he asked.

" your twelve years old?"

Naruto replied with a nod.

" any relation to the uzumaki clan?"

" am not sure."

To Jiraiya naruto looked really pitiful, a twelve year old that looked like a nine year old, must be someone who is severely emancipated, and he had a family name that belongs to one of the most elite clan in the history of the elemental continent. And jiraiya knew for a fact that there has never been an uzumaki with blond hair. Except of course the husband of the former clan head, which of course was the Hero of Konoha and died together with his pregnant wife during the attack of the god class nine tailed demon fox twelve years ago. Unbidden a scene from a few years ago came to him, when he discovered his adopted son was going to be a father.

FLASHBACK

" Hey jiraiya sensei."

" hmm Minato, what's the matter? Is your wife making life difficult for you, do you want me to arrange a concubine for you. You know its not against the law to have more than one wife ehh." The lecherous grin on Jiraiya face, had the then twenty year old Minato shivering in freight and revulsion. His wife was right behind him, and he knew how much of a rage monster Kushina could be, especially when it comes to jiraiya and his perverted tendencies. So he had to speak fast a diffuse this situation before it escalated and Jiraiya ends up getting beaten to within an inch of his life.

" Jiraiya we have decided to name our son after the character in your first book. His name will be Naruto uzumaki Namikaze.

Jiraiya was speechless and overwhelmed with emotions, the name Naruto actually belonged to his father, and the naming of his first literary protagonist with that name was not done on a whim. This name was special to him, and the fact that Minato had chosen that name, made him happy and extremely emotional. In that aspect it did not take long for him to jump on Minato and begin to bawl like a baby all the while he kept on saying how Minato was the best thing that happened to him, and how illustrious his marriage will be, and that they should hurry up and make more babies so that they can name them after the other characters from his icha icha series. The only answer to that was a punch from Kushina, with Minato shaking his head in amusement, it was just another happy day in the life of Jiraiya.

FLASHBACK END

" oi, old man, are you there."

Naruto had taken to waving his hands in front of jiraiya, trying to get his attention. Naruto had no idea what sort of meltdown and guilt jiraiya was currently going through.

Jiraiya had his mind running a mile a minute, his heart beat was so loud that he was sure anyone close by could hear it. Jiraiya had given up on some of the most important principles of life since the death of Minato. He had lost his ability to have faith and believe in something bigger than himself, not even his devotion to Konoha city could restore his broken heart. But for the first time in twelve years, jiraiya dared to hope, he dare to believe there was such a thing as destiny and fate. Standing in front of him was his missing Godson/grandson, such a meeting could not be called a coincidence. Some higher power was trying to fuck with both their lives 'shit'.

Naruto had lived alone all this years, and was in such a pitiful state, but what shocked him the most was how would the uzumaki clan not have heard about a member living in Konoha. Even the idiots here should be able to make the connection when ever Naruto introduced himself with the uzumaki name. The spiky locks of yellow gold blond hair was more than enough to seal the deal, because that was exactly how Minato looked. For God sake there was a giant statue of Minato in the center of the city, and he his head was sculpted on the giant cliff wall where the former leaders of Konoha were immortalized.

" Am OK kid, you should prepare yourself, being my student is not going to be easy. Are you prepared?"

Naruto could hardly control his excitement, he did not know what he had done to come across such a good fortune as meeting and becoming the student of one of the ultimate existence in the whole elemental continent.

With tears in his eyes Naruto could only nod his head and rushed forward to hug Jiraiya. For Naruto this was a way to showcase his happiness and thank jiraiya. But for Jiraiya this scene was heartbreaking, after twelve years he was finally allowed the chance to hold his grandson, to feel the legacy that Minato and kushina left behind. His own tears were fallen now, and it took a lot of strength to not completely break down on the streets. He quickly cleaned his eyes as Naruto let go of him and took a step back.

" Say old man, what are we going to do first, will you show me some yang ninjutsu, or a powerful martial art, Oooo tell me!, tell me!, tell me!"

"Kid calm down first, but you are right. Am about to teach you an ancient art that will make you look good and intimidating."

"ohhh, what is it, please tell me."

At this point Jiraiya paused, trying to inject a bit of suspense into the atmosphere, and from the way Naruto was shuffling around it was working.

" Naruto we are going…shopping."

Poor Naruto, it seemed like Jiraiya and his sudden prank had forced the young man to have his brain rebooted after getting an answer that did not meet his expectations. All he could answer with was

" eh, what did you say?"

Suffice to say, that now this two long lost family had found themselves, the elemental nations seems to have become a smaller place, because quite honestly who could handle the team up of a prankster king from hell and a uber powerful super pervert. The answer is no one. And as for the higher power which seemed to have enjoyed having Naruto grow up without familial love, right now it was safe to say there was a shudder going through their spines.

AUTHOR'S NOTE:

OK guys you know the drill read and review, as for some other things in this story well it's a harem. And currently it already has Hinata, Shizuoka, and Karin as a part of it. There's only room for one more so send me your suggestions. Yes also Hinata, Neji, Ten-Ten, Lee and a few others would be at least two years older than naruto. I know in the anime naruto is a few months older than Hinata but this is crucial to my story. Also there is no central villain yet. In this fic everyone is a selfish bastard who only care about themselves. But some of the anime villains will still retain their characters and roles. So not too many things have changed. Bye guys.