Chapter 1: Minato Saves Kushina.
AN: This version of the story is going to be set a few years farther back in time that way I can better set up the world Naruto will enter into. His sister will of course still exist in the story. I'm only moving the start back nothing else has happened.
(Konohagakure: Forest).
It was the sound of their bodies hitting the ground that told her something had happened. Somebody had seen her red lines of hair. Something that she hated with every fiber of her being. She had always hated her hair because of the way the children would always make fun of her for it. She was the tomato girl. She was always the one being laughed at. Never, not even once was she laughing alongside them. But whoever she would have guessed to be her savior that night she would have never once thought of him. Him, the boy with hair as yellow as the sun. The boy who aced all his tests and was the love of every girl in the ninja academy. But as he took her in his strong arms and jumped into the treetops with the light of the moon at his back she couldn't help but feel a need. A deep, unknowable need to be close to him. To be with him for as long as the sage would allow. This night was the night she, Kushina Uzumaki had fallen in love with Minato. She, the princess of the Uzumaki clan. The next in line to the throne of Uzuma. The seat of true power in the village of Uzushiogakure. The kage was a wise old man by the name of Hisao Uzumaki. He was their voice to the wider world. He was their sword and shield in times of war. But with their union with the village of Konohagakure war was unlikely to happen now. Alone Uzushiogakure was a fearsome foe. Together with Konohagakure, they were nearly unstoppable. What nobody knew nor could know was that forces great and small were moving things into place for a battle that would uproot the world in ways never before seen.
( Konohagakure: Minato's House).
Minato was busy running from one room to the next. This was it, his chance to rise up the ranks and finally wear the green colored vest. Kushina meanwhile only eyed the boy with a most unpleased face.
"Oh come on Kush-chan I really need this...please I'll buy you ramen". Minato said knowing her weakness for the stuff.
"Fine damn it...I'll do the stupid thing with you". Kushina said crossing her arms looking every bit upset as she planned to. Minato, however, didn't seem to notice nor care. He was going to enter the Chunin Exams and win that green vest or die trying. With his bag now filled with everything he would need Minato kissed her upon the cheek and was out the door in a flash. "I have a new nickname for him: Yellow Flash...I like it...I'll tell him later". Kushina said before she to left the house. However, she, unlike the idiot, made sure to lock the door. The last time she forgot she had found three girls stealing his underwear. A fact she never failed to make fun of. She never would have guessed he was into cute little bears.
(Konohagakure: Ninja Academy)
Upon entering the academy she alongside Minato were told to sit inside one of four classrooms. Looking around the classroom she saw three Stone ninja all girls funny enough to her right and three Cloud ninja this time all boys to her left.
"Oh, will you look at that we have us a tree hugger". A Cloud ninja said walking up looking like he was some big shot ninja.
"Piss off...loser". Kushina said already done with the exams.
"The fuck you say to me...do you not know who I am"! The boy said eyes filled with rage.
"No, and really don't care now piss the fuck off"! Kushina said about to get up and send him into the wall. She, however, never got the chance as the proctor soon entered the classroom and ordered everybody back to their seats. The boy upon taking his seat two desks to her left and one up sent her a hate-filled glare her way, not that she at all cared. The sooner she was done with the exams the better. She was only doing this for the ramen. Yes, that and nothing else, nothing at all. The last thought she had before the test began was of ramen. She was so going to dry him out of money for putting her through this. It was his fault after all...right?