I do not own Naruto in any format, this is fan fiction
Our story takes us not far from the end of the third shinobi world war, Minato Namikaze had just been named the fourth Hokage, the fourth leader of his village, the village hidden in the leaves. He was named due to his skill, and almost unbelievable charisma. His wife Kushina had just informed him of a great surprise, and welcomed news, she just told him that she was a month pregnant. This made her husband very happy and jumping from where he was sitting to where she was standing and gave her a big hug.
The pregnancy was by far the easier than she was told it would be by the other women that knew her. She almost had nightmares after Tsume told her about her pregnancy troubles when she had Hana. But the thing that made no sense was the biju inside her stopped making himself felt, by causing trouble for her, in fact ever since her pregnancy started her chakra control had gone through a massive improvement. She could pull off water jutsu now like her chains almost as easy as breathing.
She of course did not realize it, but the reason was because the fox was no longer jnside her, but it was within her growing child. The old fox managed what none of the other bijj had ever even imagined doing,he used his chakra to transform Minato's semen into his own. Minato would think the child was his own, but in reality it was Kurama's. Every night he would sing lullabies to the growing child. He had finally gotten one of his deepest and most wanted wish,to have a child of his own.
The other thing he wanted was make the Uzumaki suffer for all those years they kept him prisoner. He had been treated as a thing, as a tool, ASA dsmn chairs battery for their own use, and he was never treated with anything that looks like to be kindness. Typical human behavior he had learned to expect. He slowly but surely began to work in his growing son. He would be strong, capable of great intelligence, a stamina that could run longer and faster than a race horse, and eyes that had real power that would make most of the Uchiha green with envy. Yes, his son was not going to be the same as the pathetic humans that abused him, and in time he would inherit all of his power, but for now he had much work to be done.
The time during her pregnancy was probably the most peaceful her life had ever been, ever since she found that she was to be the vessel to trap the Kyuubi, she feared that others would treat her badly, and eventually that fear turned to hate. She hated that she had to be always afraid of being maltreated, and for something she did not even want, but her father left her with no choice, it was accept or die. She never visited the biju to talk, or attempt to be friends with it, instead she only visited one a month to see the condition of the seal,but due to her pregnancy she had not gone to check on the seal, she would be in for a real surprise if she had.
Nine months later during the birth of their child, Kushina was moved to a safe location, there was a risk during the birth that the Kyuubi would try to escape, but if they new better they would realize that the biju in question was not even in Kushina anymore, the birth was painful, more so than expected because they could not administer any pain killers. The baby finally was born after nine hours of excruciating pain. The child was pretty bug for a new born, but the thing that made the medic and even the nurse look scared was the way his head looked.
He had jet black hair, whiskers on his face and instead of normal human ears, had fuzzy fox like ears instead. When the medic hit his rear to make him cry, he swore he heard him growl, just like he would any baby normal fox baby. To them the child was a freak, to his mother as she held him he was the most beautiful baby ever. Minato could not understand how in the world his child was born looking like that. Kushina explained that it maybe due to the fact that she bad the kyuubi inside her while she was pregnant. Minato relaxed a little after hearing that.
As most children grow they often proved to be a challenge at best, and the potential cause of a heart attack at worst. Little Naruto was by far the most unique child to ever be born in the village. Having learned to walk when he was only a few months old, and saying his first word before he was one year old. Granted the word was very typical one, the word was mom. When he was two the child simply went off into the village, Minato was thinking someone kidnapped him to get something they wanted from him, being the hokage made things like that a very good possibility.
His mother decided to ask Tsume to help her track down her son. It turns out he simply walked a couple of blocks and was talking or at least growling with kudomaru,Kushina could not figure out what be was doing. Tsume told her that hr appears to be having a really nice chat, she could not remember the last time her old partner looked so happy talking with someone.
'Yea, and mom does not even realize the rats are eating her apples.' Kudomaru asked him why he did not kill the rats, 'Cause I have no claws... How can. I kill the rats without any claws? Biting them could work, but they are so many..' Kuromaru advised the child to train, to be stronger and faster, if he did that those pesky rats would run away and his mother's apples would be safe.
So that is exactly what he did, he began to push heavy cans around, the began. To carry one after the other. In a matter of months he could carry his mother's groceries in a backpack. He took care of the rats and Kushina was surprised when at least 10 fat rats came running out from under her house, with her son chasing after them.
In his third birthday he was given a set of chakra weights by his mother, and a book on the history of the village for kids from his father. It was s nice colorful book that had the history of the village, but it looked like the thing you would find in a comic book. Minato wanted to inspire the interest in reading early. Being the youngest reader in the village he worked and finished the book in one month, and passed a test by his father the next month.
If there was someone who disliked Naruto that was Fugaku Uchiha, Fugaku hated the brat for several reasons, first he learned things faster than Itachi ever did at the same age, second Mikoto simply loved to babysit for Kushina, she loved spending time with the brat, almost more than she enjoyed spending time with him. A few years later Mikoto had her second child, Sasuke. Sasuke when he became two was often seen playing with Naruto who was now four years old.
Itachi was barely in his teens but had already graduated from the academy and even told his father that he wanted to join the ANBU division later in his future. This made Fugaku proud, his son would bring much honor to his clan by being an elite ninja at such a young age. This was what he had hoped to show the village that their was no one as skilled as an Uchiha, and thus he deserved to be hokage, and not Minato Namikaze.
At age six Naruto was entered into the academy. Years of constant training and learning had prepared him for many difficult situations, from killing an enemy ninja, to protecting his own mother. A kumo ninja tired to kidnap her so they could claim the biju that was supposed to be in her, Naruto saw that and with so much anger of what he was doing to his mother he picked up several knifes that he saw on the cutting board in the kitchen, and threw them at the back of the kumo ninja, piercing and cutting the man's spine below the neck.
"Why would you try and harm my mother?" The Kumo ninja could not move anything below his shoulders. "You father did worse to my village, I want my village to be stronger so that we never again suffer by the actions of a bunch of tree loving ninja again." The kumo ninja could not believe what he was seeing, his eyes showed the signs of an awakened sharigan. Both eyes had a single tomoe on each eye.
"You will not have to worry about your village anymore, and trust me, if any others try to do this, I will send them your way.. Straight to hell." Kushina did not even have a chance to stop her son, he simply pulled a knife out of the kumo ninja and slit his throat. Naruto showed no sign of remorse or hesitation.
Her son was a going to start in the academy the very next day and thus she felt it necessary to talk to him, "Son, do you have any idea of what you have done?" Naruto smiled as his eyes returned to normal. "I killed an enemy, he would have killed you if I did not. So I see no problem in ending his life. But mother we should tell father about it. The body of this man could prove to very useful."
Minato agreed with his son, the body of the kumo ninja could prove to be very useful, to see that nothing like that would ever happen again. All villages had signed a nonaggression treaty, if he presented this body to the other villages, he would be able to force kumo to suffer the consequences of breaking that treaty, which include monetary compensation in the amount of 10 years the annual revenue of a village, or 20 S class ninjutsu scrolls. The village would have to give up their most priced ninjutsu or be crippled financially.
During his academy days Naruto looked like he was meditating in class, Iruka often asked him questions about the class material, and Naruto always answered correctly. Iruka often wondered how was he paying attention when he clearly was meditating. In their lunch break he asked him the very question and Naruto smiled, "These ears are not just for show, I can listen very well." That made Iruka realize that he was meditating and listening to his classes.
First year he beat Sasuke in every subject and every practical exam. The second year he did the same, which only served to make the young man think that he was getting a better grades, because he was the son of the hokage. Naruto worked hard and trained hard to bring his family honor. Kudomaru often was seen teaching the boy control of his senses, the nindog was always very happy to see how much progress the child made, he had good senses, specially for someone who was supposed to be only human.
During his third year Itachi was assigned to be his family's ANBU guard. Itachi hated how many of his clan had grown overconfident because they believed their eyes made them invincible. He knew that the sharingan was nothing more than a tool, and that without proper training it was useless. Deep down he always enjoyed seeing how much effort Naruto put into his studying and training. If I only Sasuke was half as committed, then maybe he would be worth teaching too.
From all the success Naruto was having, and how much attention he was received from Itachi, Sasuke started to consider Naruto his rival, and from Naruto's perpecptive he was not going to back down if challenged. The two boys began to really push each others abilities to the limit, and Sasuke was still the very much the most admired and desired boy by the girls in his class. Sakura and Into both consider themselves rivals in trying to get Sasuke to fall in love with one of them.
Naruto made one promise, and that is the only thing the two boys actually agreed on. They would not marry a pair of greedy, self absorbed girl like them, Naruto went as far to say he would sooner quit being a ninja and go live at a monastery. Sasuke said he could also defect to another village, that is what hr planned to do if his parents ever tried forcing to marry either one of them. Naruto had to admit it was not such a bad idea.
Mikoto knew exactly how life was when someone forced you to marry someone, simply because her father decided. She tried to pretend that she was happily married with Fugaku, and for that she should have been given an award for her acting skills. She even had to have two kids with him, the boys were not at fault, and so to them she was a loving mother. But thanks to something she slipped into his favorite sake, Fukagu was made incapable of ever having an erection again. She simply hated the egotistical, heartless bastard that she was forced to marry that much.
Kushina often joked that the way she behaved with her son, Naruto. If she had been born earlier that she would probably would be Naturo's girlfriend. Mikoto shocked her friend that indeed she would love to have been able to marry someone as kind, caring and considerate like Naruto, but no, she was forced to marry a compete and utter asshole instead. That made Kushina realized that her marriage was in fact a very happy one.