Smarter Naruto, stronger, not so much of an idiot like cannon.

THANKS TO MY BETA FOR HELPING ME CHECK THE WRITING AND ALSO WRITING SOME OF THE CHAPTER WITH ME. ~DragonKyubii~ Go check him out.

I've decided Minato and Kushina is alive in this story, it's rare to find stories where they are alive, so I try to my best to create some stories where they are.

Naruto is older, he is 17 and went to the academy with Itachi and his age group.

The role as Jinchuuriki is played by his sibling, which is obviously an OC we have created for this.

Other questions might be answered I the bottom of the chapter so that you won't get any spoilers from the top A/N's, so any questions that might come to your mind about certain things might already be answered at the bottom.

Pairing: Naruto x Mikoto

"Fire Release: Great Fireball Jutsu." - Techniques

"Naruto..." - Person Talking.

"Naruto..." - Person Thinking.

"Naruto..." - Demonic Voice/Bijuu/Boss Summon/God Talking.

"Naruto..." - Demonic Voice/Bijuu/Boss Summon/God Thinking

CHAPTER 1 - Saving her life

It was a sunny day in Konohagakure no Sato as always, streets were filled with the citizen of Konoha, simple civilian families, merchants and patrolling shinobi alike. Families could be seen entering and exiting shops all around the busy market, while the shinobi were either running through the crowded streets or leaping through the area across the rooftops.

On this nice day, a family of four were sitting in the kitchen eating breakfast inside a medium-sized house on top of the Hokage Mountain, two of them were tall blonde men, each wearing a similar outfit to the other, both have azure blue eyes and spiky, yellow-blond hair with two bangs of hair framing their face, while the tallest at the thirty-six, is wearing a pair of blue pants and a matching long-sleeved shirt with two bands on both of his sleeves, and black shinobi sandals.

The shorter of the two had a very similar outfit, he is seventeen years old and wearing simple black pants, and a black long-sleeved shirt with two bands on each sleeve. Over his shirt, he was wearing the traditional Konoha Jonin flak jacket and on his forehead a black forehead protector.

There was a third man in the house, or, not a man yet, he was a boy at the age of twelve, he has short slightly spiky red hair and violet eyes, his simple outfit consists of a long-sleeved mesh shirt, black pants and matching sandals.

The last member of the female was a beautiful woman, with long scarlet red hair, at the age of thirty-five, she had a slender, but feminine build, fair skin, violet eyes and wearing a high-collared, sleeveless blouse under a long, loose-fitting dress with a wristband on her left wrist and standard shinobi sandals.

The beautiful redhead looked up from her magazine and was suddenly hit on the forehead with a piece of egg, she looked slowly toward her youngest son with an annoyed expression and a tick mark pulsing dangerously on her forehead, "Menma-kun, you are not playing with your food are you?" She said with a raised fist as the younger redhead laughed nervously, before sitting like a stiff board.

"I'm not, don't worry Kaa-chan. Hah… Haha..." He laughed nervously in an apologizing manner, though the sweat falling from his forehead was clearly visible making her look at him with a questioning gaze, while the two blondes tried very hard not to laugh but a few chuckles managed to slip out, that they quickly tried to fake as coughs.

The eldest blonde tried with a smile to calm down his wife, "Now, now Kushina-chan, cut him so slack he is only twelve and…" He trailed off as his wife turned slowly to face him, with her hair rising to form into nine-tails while her eyes glowed a dangerous white color.

"What did you say Minato?! You better not be talking back to me!" She snarled out after being talked back to by her husband, in front of her two sons nonetheless. Minato almost fell off the chair in fright as he raised his hands into the air.

"I didn't, hah, hah." He chuckled nervously as his heart was about to escape through his chest, and make a run for it before chaos decided to pay a visit to this family breakfast.

She heard the voice of her eldest son talking to her, and she flew up from her seat planting both fists on the table while her hair was swaying the air, "Whatcha say Naruto?! You dare to talk back to me too?!" She growled out as the blonde teen almost dropped the can of coffee he was holding…

"I was just asking if you wanted a cup of coffee. Hah. Hah…" He chuckled nervously as her hair fell down an a smile crept onto her face as he reached over and grabbed the can out of her son's nervous grasp with a grin.

She sat down without paying attention to the three males as she started to pour herself a cup, "Why didn't you just say so dattebane?!" She said with a grin and Naruto could only think one thing.

'Wasn't that exactly just what I did, or am I finally going mental?', a sweatdrop also fell down from his forehead as his mom lifted her head again to look at them, all males visible stiffened as they turned back to their business.

"Huh, what's wrong? If you want coffee too, you could just say so instead of staring…" She spoke out with a raised brow as she put the can onto the middle of the table as all three males chuckled nervously together.

"Hah... hahaha... No were' good." They all said lifting their cup/glass into the air with a shaking hand, making her groan in annoyance while rolling her eyes.

"Why are you all acting so weird?" She asked with a judging glance at them all as they all just looked stupidly at her with a nervous laugh just like before escaped their lips.

"Men…" She complained groaning loudly, and with a shake of her head, she turned back to gaze into her magazine with a neutral expression on her face, while all three males blew out a breath they had been holding.

'Damn those mood swings, you should almost think she was either on her period or pregnant, she can't be pregnant can she?' Minato thought, with what would appear to be a blush on his face.

"Got any missions today, huh, Nii-chan?!" Menma finished the milk in his glass and fixed his gaze onto his big brother who in the middle of reading a file, it was a mission file, however, it was only supposed to start in a week so he had some time off before it started.

"Well, I have a mission but it's not starting before a week, why do you ask?" Naruto closed his file and put it into a folder before laying it on the table. He took up his cup of coffee as Menma giggled like an idiot, kind of like his mom tends to do when she is excited.

"Then you can train me today! You promised last week that you would start teaching me some more advanced chakra manipulation after you taught me how to pulverize rocks with my chakra alone!" He shouted across the table before he was smacked with a frying pan that came out of nowhere in the back of his head.

"No shouting at the table!" His mom's voice came beside him as the frying pan disappeared in thin air like it never existed before.

"Sorry... " He groaned laying across the table with stars circulating around his head. Naruto took a sip of coffee as he sweatdropped slightly at the sight of his brother in pain on the table before he reached over and pulled the young redhead back into his chair by his shirt.

"Better sit back in your chair before Kaa-san gets the frying pan to do it." He spoke with an amused expression before the redhead was quickly awake, almost falling back over with the speed he was back up.

Minato couched into his hand and turned to the still freaked out redhead, and asked, "So, Menma, how's academy going, I hear you are graduating at the end of this week?" He finished with a proud smile and Menma proudly smiled and turned with a thumb pointed at himself.

"It's great! Other than Sasuke that brooding bastard of course, but screw him, I am definitely going to graduate!" He laughed cheekily as his parents couldn't help but chuckle along with him, he had definitely hit the habits the boy had right.

Kushina stopped laughing and suddenly frowned, "Speaking of Sasuke, have any of you heard from Mikoto lately, I remember she was devastated when Sasuke moved out from the family compound, telling her to leave him alone since she didn't want him to hunt down Itachi, for, you know..."

"Murdering his entire family?" Menma spoke without thinking, and only a few seconds later a pair of chopsticks breaking was heard and everyone slowly turned to look at Naruto, who had his eyes closed and a pair of crushed chopsticks in his right palm.

"I'm going out." He said dropping the destroyed chopsticks onto his plate which was still full, he grabbed his mission file and put it in a bag before strapping his trusted sword onto his back and swinging the backpack over the sheath as he started to walk through the door.

"But Naruto-kun, you haven't touched your food yet?" Kushina asked with concern as the blonde man took the doorknob in hand, and stopped up in the doorway sighing heavily.

"I'm not hungry…" He spat out slamming the door shot seconds later leaving the rest of the Namikaze family in silence, the three sat there staring into nothingness before a sound of knuckles cracking was heard and Menma gulped.

"You are in deep trouble young man…" His mother whispered before he cried out.

"HELP ME PLEASE!"

Stopping when he reached their private compound training grounds, he threw his back into the shadow of a tree and soon followed right after when he had taken the sword off his back and leaned it against the tree trunk.

Laying in the tree's shadow staring right up into the leaves of the tree, a few of them were falling down around him, and sometimes some rays of sunshine would escape through the crown of the tree to hit the ground around him.

'Itachi…' Naruto thought before he fell asleep, and entered a dream filled with the food of the gods.

FLASHBACK

'What's going on, why is there so much blood?!' A younger Naruto asked himself mentally as he raced into the Uchiha district clad in his ANBU gear while looking around the place.

Street after street, alley after alley, house after house. They were all filled with dead bodies, bloody bodies that had been cleaved down, burned or shredded by either weapons or techniques…

'I don't get it, what happened here? Where's Itachi? I got to find him!' Naruto thought with panic, looking at the image of this place his heart was racing, what if something had happened to him? The Uchiha Police Force was slaughtered, right outside their office, who was to say that something hadn't happened to the other shinobi in the district?

"Itachi?!" He called as he reached the compound in the back of the district, there were no lights on, it didn't look good so far. Racing at the compound he kicked the door open and roamed through the hallways before he managed to see a shadow caused by the moonlight inside the study.

He spun around in a stop and kicked the door open and looked into the darkness to see the clan leader laying in a pool of his own blood, and beside him a woman sitting on her butt looking upward at a blade shining in the moonlight held by a man in the shadows above her.

"Aunt Mikoto!" He called and threw several projectiles at the man in the shadows, forcing him to fall down on the ground, and out the moonlight with his back turned toward Naruto. But that ponytail and that armor, he could recognize it anywhere.

"ITACHI, What the hell do you think you are doing?! What's fucking going on?! Why are you slaughtering your own kin, your damn family?!" Naruto roared as he drew his sword placed on his back.

Itachi gave a snort, as he drew his blade above his own mother once again, Naruto's eyes widened at the scene and raced at Itachi's back with his sword brought back and gave into a spin slicing at the Uchiha's back only for him to explode into smoke at impact with the sword.

'Clone?' Naruto gasped, he brought his sword up in a defensive position as he slowly back toward the trembling and confused Mikoto still laying on the ground, he held the sword with his right hand and leaned down to grab her under her arm with his left and pulled her off the ground.

"Come on, let's get out of here, something is definitely wrong with Itachi you can't stay in the compound," Naruto told her as she wiped her tears off and nodded, though still crying slightly.

"Let's go!" He said in a harsh whisper as he slightly pushed her toward the exit and put an arm around her shoulders as he ran with her out of the compound, and out onto the bloody streets.

She put a hand over her mouth as she felt like vomiting, it was a massacre, her entire family was laying in one large mixed pool of blood all over their district, and her own son did all of it!

It made her break, she vomited on the ground coughing several times, Naruto stood just beside her with a hand on her back as he watched their surroundings with his sword brought up, even though he couldn't see Itachi, he knew he was there. He could feel him.

"You okay Mikoto-chan?" He asked concerned, she shook her head in negative and he just mentally slapped himself at his stupidity, she has just seen her entire family dead, and probably watched as her own husband had been cleaved down by her oldest son.

Speaking of sons

Where the hell was Sasuke?!

"Oh no… This isn't good, don't let this feeling I have in my gut be real…" Naruto spoke quietly catching Mikoto's attention, with a quick movement he crouched down beside her and grabbed her shoulders.

"Listen, you need to run, as fast as you can, don't stop up, no matter what! Get outside the compound and to the northern gate, there is without a doubt an ANBU patrol there, when you get there, scream for help! Tell them to get you to the Hokage and tell him what's going on, you can't let the ANBU leave you at the gate alone, no one knows whether or not Itachi is going to follow you out of the compound, so to get safe get to my dad, you'll be safe there! Do you hear me? Tell me you understand what I'm saying." Naruto whispered out fastly as he made sure to keep eye contact with her.

She nodded a few times and he nodded back as he pushed her slightly, "Now go, I am going to check something out." She nodded the last time and ran with all the speed her weak body could muster and he leaped across the district himself.

Naruto landed in an alley and ran toward the main street, he stopped up just before entering so he slid into the moonlight of the main street and watched a young boy with a cut on his shoulder and blood red eyes gazing up at a larger man looking almost identically to the younger boy.

'Sasuke awakened the Sharingan?' Naruto thought in shock as he stuck his blade toward Itachi.

Sasuke looked behind his older brother to see someone standing there with their blade drawn toward Itachi, looking at the blonde hair it could only be one person, that goofy blonde guy Itachi hung out with.

"Run Sasuke!" Naruto yelled to him, Sasuke's eyes widened and were about to run when Itachi appeared in front of him and whispered a few words to him before Naruto could see Sasuke's pupils changing to his regular eyes the second before his body fell limp on the ground.

"WHAT THE HELL ARE YOU DOING?! THAT'S YOUR DAMN BROTHER MAN!" Naruto roared in confusion as he swung his sword to his right holding it at his side, Itachi turned around making Naruto stare at the man's feet, rule number one while fighting a Sharingan user, don't look them into their eyes.

"I am merely testing the limits of my abilities. You should fit that test well." Itachi spoke in a cold and chilling tone making Naruto's eyes almost fall out, what the hell was he talking about?!

The second later Itachi flew with blinding speed at Naruto drawing his own sword to meet the blonde's so the two stood in a lock, "Why the hell would your murder your clan?! And don't give me that crap you tried to sell before, I want the real reason, COME ONE ASSHOLE!" Naruto said pushing back Itachi before crouching down while spinning trying to slice at Itachi's feet.

Itachi backflipped away from the edge and when he landed on the ground he watched as a blonde streak flew toward him with his blade coming toward him, ducking under the blade he kicked up into the blonde's stomach since he already had a counter thanks to his Sharingan.

But the crow summoner's eyes widened when the body turned into lightning that electrolyzed his entire body making him grunt in pain, 'A bunshin made out of lightning, I haven't seen him use that one before…' He mentally told himself before a blonde streak appeared under him kicking him in the chin sending him flying backward and onto his back sliding up against a wall.

'Damn, I still haven't recovered from using my Mangekyou and fighting the police force, he might actually win this battle, I can't let this happen!' Itachi spat out some blood before he rolled out of the way of a blade swing and pumped more chakra into his Sharingan as he flashed through seals.

"Fire Release: Great Fireball Jutsu!" He called out breathing out a massive sphere of fire that raced through the bloody street toward Naruto, who leaped sideways to dodge the huge fireball while going through hand seals himself. Landing on the ground he leaped forward this time ending his series as he pulled his fist back.

"Lightning Release: Iron Fist!" Naruto yelled as he threw the punch at the exhausted Itachi who just managed to leap slightly backward, before drawing out a kunai in a reverse grip and pointed it at the blonde's back.

'I am sorry, but there is no other way, I hope you can forgive me sometime in the afterlife…' Itachi frowned as he thrust the kunai downward, but the knife didn't get far before he spat out a load of blood when he felt something painful break several ribs in his chest and he looked down.

Naruto elbow covered in lightning was thrust into his ribs and with a snarl, the blonde declared his move, "Lightning Release… Lightning Blast!" The blonde's elbow exploded into a jet of lightning sending the dark-haired teen flying through the wall of a building and onto the floor inside coughing up blood on it

The blonde leaped right in after and landed between Itachi legs and grabbed him by the ANBU vest and pulled him up as his eyes glowed slightly red, "Enough is enough bastard snap out of it, you lost." Naruto snarled while Itachi didn't even look his direction.

'Sorry, Naruto-kun, I never wanted to use this on you.' Itachi frowned deeply before kicking Naruto in the side of the knee making him fall down on the other while Itachi grabbed a hold of his ANBU vest.

"Forgive me." He whispered as his eyes snapped open revealing, a shuriken like a pinwheel with bent edges in each eye.

"Tsukuyomi!" He called harshly, and Naruto's world went black before his body limply fell to the side inside the house. Itachi grabbed his chest and slowly got off the ground, he definitely had several broken ribs after that last attack.

He grabbed his sword outside before looking back into the house the last time where the blonde was still laying trembling on the floor. 'I am so sorry…' A tear slid down his cheek before he leaped out of the compound in the moonlight.

Inside Naruto's head, his mind was going crazy, everything was covered in blood as he entered his family compound, "What, how did I get here? All this blood could it be? Itachi you didn't…' Naruto's eyes turned red and slit as he punched down the wall to the kitchen and saw his mother, standing, at the handwash washing dishes?

"Welcome home Sochi-kun, how was training- GARH!" Naruto's eyes widened a silver swipe flashed across her neck, and the second later it exploded while she desperately tried to hold it in with her palms, her eyes full of shock and fear as a damn of blood-drenched her clothes and body before she fell onto the ground lifeless.

Naruto dropped his sword as he raced over to his mother's body and picked it up, "No, no, no, no, NO! This can't be happening, this must be a genjutsu." He put his ram seals and screamed Release over and over again. But nothing happened, his hands and clothes only got more and more drenched with his mother's blood as he lifeless eyes stared at him.

"I'm home!" A cheerful voice called from the door in the hallway as Naruto's eyes widened, he carefully but quickly laid his mother's body down and closed her eyes as he raced toward the hallway.

"MENMA WATCH… Out…" He said with an up giving voice as he fell onto his knees and hands, on the front door by the skin at his collarbone Menma was hanging with kunai knives, blood running from both corners of his mouth.

"Please help…" A tired voice asked from the door and Naruto looked up at his brother's almost lifeless eyes staring right at him before they closed again, he was alive, picking himself up from the floor with a speed that almost made him fall again he raced over and freed Menma from the wall and stared at his closed eyes.

"Hey, hey, hey, you are going to be okay, you hear me? You are okay…" Naruto whispered as he put pressure on his brother's wounds but the next second the redhead's eyes flash open revealing two red orbs with a slit in each eye.

"YOU FAILED." A demonic voice said as Menma's nails turned into claws that with a movement going as fast as lightning slid open Naruto's ANBU vest and some of his chest making the blood run out from each gap in the vest of the blonde.

Naruto backed up against the wall and watched as his brother grew in size, grew orange fur, and before he knew it the Nine-Tails was out destroying the village once again.

"Tou-san, I have to get Tou-san!" Naruto yelled to himself and got up, but just before he could exit the door his father crashed through the roof and onto the floor, without getting up again.

Naruto looked up at the fox that stared directly at his father's body, "I WILL NOT BE FOOLED BY YOU NINGEN ONE MORE TIME!" The fox roared and raised a clawed paw and slammed it toward the ground.

Naruto ran over and covered his father's body with his own while slamming his eyes shut. Just the second before his world went black and he woke up in the grass outside his house, "Just a dream?" He spoke out loud and ran inside.

The hallway was bloody and a sweet voice called from the kitchen.

"Welcome home Sochi-kun."

FLASHBACK END

He had woken up in the hospital a week later, it had all been some kind of wicked Sharingan genjutsu, but how come he couldn't dispell it back then? This was some of the questions the blonde that was now waking up was asking himself almost every day.

Done, let me know what you think, it is always funny to see what you guys have to say/add in terms of personal opinion or ideas, I very much enjoy to read it, even if it's just small message, I would really enjoy and appreciate if you reviewed! Once again thanks to my BETA for helping me with this idea.