Naruto had always been different, but no one really knew just how different. Back when Naruto was a mere infant Orochimaru had experimented on him though Orochimaru never got to see the result of his experiments. The Hokage however had, and he knew life for Naruto would be hard enough. So he sealed Naruto's unique abilities off. But when Orochimaru sealed off Kyubi's chakra the seal collapsed and left the new Naruto. Not only that but because of the extreme pain of having Kyubi's chakra cut off so abruptly Naruto lost all his memory's from the time he learned of the fox until now.
Sakura was scared, no she was frightened out of her mind nothing in her training had prepared her for this; Naruto was missing he had been thrown off somewhere, and Sasuke was unconscious with some strange hicky on his neck.
Naruto on the other hand was fairing much better he was sleeping happily in a cave on a nice soft bed of leaves. However when he awoke from his sleep he would be in for quit a surprise.
Naruto woke up approximately half a day after his fight with the strange grass nin who identified him self as Orochimaru. Naruto bolted straight up and quickly took in his surroundings. 'What the hell happened why am I here? Where did Mizuki and Iruka go?' Naruto was completely confused, he then became more so when a wolf cub came bounding over to him, before jumping up on him and licking his face.
The wolf cub had stopped licking Naruto's face in order to talk to him. "Hey, you what's your name?"
Naruto was now even more stunned; this wolf had talked to him! Naruto could only come up with two conclusions 1) he was still dreaming or 2) He had finally gone insane. But with nothing else to do, and he was pretty sure this was a dream; he decided to talk to the wolf cub that had been staring at him for the last 5 minutes.
"Uh, I'm Naruto, who are you?"
The cub suddenly looked sad, Naruto being the caring guy he is asked the cub if he said something wrong.
"No it's nothing you said. It's just that I haven't gotten to be apart of the naming ceremony, cause my mother and siblings died, so I'm an outcast." Naruto immediately decided on the proper course of action after all he was an outcast himself.
"Oh well then why don't I give you a name? Everyone deserves a name."
The little cubs' eyes seemed to shine with new found happiness. "Really, you would do that for me?"
Naruto couldn't see why not, because seriously this was only a dream conjured up by himself. "Of course why shouldn't I? Ok so um how about Isamu?" (Means courageous or warrior)
The newly named Isamu was ecstatic, and who wouldn't be with such an honorable name. Although Naruto still firmly believed this was only a mere dream."Ok, well Isamu I need to go now this dream has lasted long enough."
"Oi, Naruto-sama this isn't a dream it's real." Naruto looked like he didn't believe him so Isamu decided to prove it; by biting Naruto hard on the leg. Hard.
"Ahhhh, what the fck Isamu! Why did you do that!?"
"Well you didn't believe me so I had to show you. Now serious, we're in the forest of death and if you don't shape up you'll die."
After hearing Isamu's statement Naruto dropped his mask of stupidity, and came up with a brilliant idea. So he proposed it to Isamu who was more than happy to agree. "Ok then but if you're going to be like a nin dog I need to train you and work with some new techniques. Lucky for us I've always wanted a nin dog so I studied the Inuzaku (sp?) clan's techniques and came up with a few of my own."
Back with Sakura and Sasuke
Sakura had managed to drag Sasuke into a shelter. (Ok this is the same as the manga/anime so I'm not gonna write it just remember Naruto is still missing ok so now Sasuke and Sakura are at the building in the middle still no Naruto. Ok back to the story)
Deciding to open the scrolls Sasuke immediately realized that they were summoning scrolls and ordered Sakura to throw it; which she did like the good puppy dog she is.
When the smoke had cleared there stood Kakashi. "Maa, you guys sure took your sweet time, so, where is Naruto." Sakura looked down and Sasuke looked at the wall. Kakashi being the smart guy he is realized what had happened and no way in hell would he let the demon brat be the reason Sasuke failed the exam so he did the only thing he could; he summoned a shadow clone and henged it into Naruto.
"That should work for a while, at least long enough for me to come up with a more formidable plan."
Sakura looked shocked that her sensei didn't seem to care at all that his student was missing and presumably dead. Sasuke though he didn't show it was pissed, how dare Kakashi act so indifferent about Naruto's death? But Sasuke said nothing; completely ignoring his inner self's raging.
"Sensei what if he has to fight?" Sakura asked; for she cared little to nothing about their blond hair teammate.
"Simple we'll have him quit the preliminaries."
Sakura appeared satisfied with her sensei plan I mean seriously they would be better off without that idiot and even better yet she would get Sasuke all to herself.