I don't own Naruto

A regular deck has 54 cards in it, one of each card except the two jokers. Of course, the two are slightly different. Konoha would be a lot like a deck on cards in this way. No two people are alike in all of the Hidden Leaf, except two. However these two are not the same card, one is different, a wild card if you will. This is the story of the Wild Joker.

Minato Namikaze was one of the greatest shinobi Konoha had ever produced. He was the Fourth Hokage and earned the title the Yellow Flash. This was no more evident when he sealed the Kyuubi no Yoko into his daughter. Despite this he saw himself as a family man, at least he'd like to think so. No matter how much evil paperwork piled up, he always had time for his daughter, Narumi. Whether it was training or just spending time together, Minato would drop whatever he was doing for her. His wife, Kushina Uzumaki, was no better and sometimes worse. Yes, they would forget everything for their daughter, even their son.

Narumi and Naruto were spitting images of their parents. Narumi's hair was long and red while Naruto's was spike and blonde. The two were twins and physically very similar. But while Narumi wore bright and colorful clothes every day, Naruto's clothes were all white, without a hint of dirt.

Naruto Uzumaki-Namikaze was a lonely child. While his sister was greeted with joy and praise by the villagers, he was rarely ever noticed. Not that it mattered to him anymore. He had gotten used to the neglect, from villagers and family alike. Of course it wasn't always that way. Naruto and Narumi would often play together as children, however that all changed a year ago, on their sixth birthday.

Flashback

"Narumi come here," Kushina called, "your father and I have been thinking, and we've decided to start you training starting tomorrow." Narumi, of course, was jumping for joy when she heard this.

"Really I can't wait, I wanna learn the rasengan and sealing and all the cool Justus!" Narumi exclaimed. Minato smiled at his daughter's antics, but Naruto frowned.

"But dad, what about me," Naruto asked. Minato sighed, knowing this would happen.

"Naruto, right now we need to focus on your sister so she can control the Kyuubi's chakra. We'll start training you soon alright," he said. Naruto looked a little crestfallen but was optimistic none the less.

Flashback End

After that they slowly began to push Naruto out of their lives. At first it was little things, ignoring his suggestions or not taking him to family outings, but eventually they began ignoring him completely. The only time he was ever noticed by his family was when he was in trouble. This would normally cause children to become attention seeking trouble makers, but Naruto instead became introverted, cold, and emotionless.

Today, of course, was like any other day for Naruto. He woke up, got dressed and went downstairs to cook himself breakfast, which he became exceptionally good at after Kushina stopped cooking for him. After which he ate and left the house, no real goal in sight. As he looked around the village, he thought about his life. He had three years until he entered the academy, which meant seven years until he could become a ninja and move out of Minato's house.

He was snapped back to reality when bumped man. He got up and inspected the man as he helped him up. He had no noticeable symbols that linked him to Konoha, but he had an aura about him that just screamed shinobi. The man wore anbu black pant and a large dark grey undercoat, no shirt.

"Sorry about that, wasn't paying attention," Naruto said, "Are you new here, I don't think I've ever seen you before." The man put his hand on his hips, leaned back, and burst into laughter and replied.

"Yes, you could say that. My name is Asobi Kado and I am just a simple wanderer, and who might you be child?" he asked. Naruto replied quickly,

"It's Naruto, no last name."

"Well you look distracted," Asobi commented, "wanna talk about it?"

Narumi had just finished training with her parents and it had already gotten dark. She decided after a hard day of work she deserved a few bowls of ramen. She began to make her way to the kitchen, but accidentally knocked over a beautiful looking vase.

"WHAT WAS THAT?!" Kushina yelled from her room. Narumi began to panic. Her mother was not someone you make angry. She quickly thought of a solution.

"Uhh, it was Naruto!" Narumi yelled. Kushina took a second to recognize the name. "Naruto," she thought, "NARUTO!"

"NARUTOOOO!" Kushina yelled as she upstairs to his room. Narumi could only see a blur fly past her as she snickered.

"Sorry Onii-san," she said, "better you than me." Kushina finally reached Naruto's room, but stopped as she reached for the door handle. When was the last time she had seen her son's room. She slowly opened door and immediately felt guilt. The entire room was empty, save a desk and a bed. Everything except the bed had a thin layer of dust covering it.

"But… Naruto never leaves his room," Kushina pondered, "What does he do?" Then a strange thought hit her. She had not seen him leave this morning, where was her son. Dread began to fill her mind. She began to franticly search the house. Minato grabbed her shoulder.

"Kushina, what's wrong?" he asked worriedly. Kushina shook his hand off and continued searching, then suddenly stopped and tuned to Minato.

"Minato, please tell me you know where Naruto is," she said shaking. Minato stared for a second.

"Naruto? Kushina what are"

"OUR SON MINATO, WHERE IS OUR SON" Kushina said. Her shout shook the house. Minato thought for a minute and shouted,

"ANBU!" three anbu ninja appeared in a swirl of leaves. All three had animal-shaped masks, one of a falcon, a bear, and a weasel.

"Sir," spoke Weasel, "Is there a problem?" Minato nodded and spoke,

"My son wasn't seen leaving the house but he is gone, find him!" Without question the anbu left in swirl of leaves.

"Wow," Asobi commend, "Interesting life huh?" Naruto simply nodded. Asobi looked at the child next to him. He could tell the emotionless mask was made through years on training. Asobi had listened to the boy's troubles and made a decision.

"Naruto, "He called out, "Tell me, do you want true power?" Naruto looked up at him. "I can train you to be the greatest ninja in the Elemental Nations." Before Naruto had the chance to answer, three anbu appeared near them. Bear looked at Asobi and narrowed his eyes, of course he couldn't see it because of the mask. Bear pointed and Asobi and demanded,

"State your name and business with the honorable son!" Asobi looked at Naruto and grunted happily.

"No last name huh," he looked down at Naruto, "well this is a good time as ever to show the true power I spoke of." The anbu tensed up as he reached into his pocket, but relaxed a bit when they realized it was just a deck of cards.

"I would be on your guard," Asobi growled, "I don't wanna accidentally kill ya!"

The anbu ran in to battle but from Naruto's perspective it was over in an instant.

All he could see was the bodies of the anbu pierced with cards. He immediately ran towards them to make sure they were okay.

"Don't worry, they'll live," Asobi hardily laughed, "I didn't hit anything important." Naruto looked at Asobi with his usual blank stare and spoke,

"Please teach me, Asobi-sensei."

"Glad to hear it," Asobi laughed, "We're leaving tonight."