The military was no match, how could they defeat something that couldn't be killed? They were merely throwing their lives away to stall, the beast lashed out against any upcoming challengers – not that any phased it in the slightest, it ripped trees from the ground and with each swing could dramatically change the land scape.

The beast was being controlled, but that wasn't the important matter at hand, its orange fur contrasted against the night sky almost if the sky itself was ablaze in the flames of destruction, its nine tails that gave it its name swung and lashed out at the surrounding area getting ever closer to the Hidden Village of Konoha.

"Kuchiyose no jutsu!" shouted the man – the other shinobi looked on in awe, did he plan to fight such a beast by himself? Suddenly a giant toad appeared, just as huge as the kyuubi in front of it, it drew its enormous dagger and was successfully parrying the tails of the fox, but it wouldn't last long.

"Minato! I won't be able to hold him off much longer!" shouted the huge toad before feeling the scar forming over his eye.
"Okay Gamabunta! It's done!" Shouted the current Hokage successfully completing his seal – the seal that would end his life as well as force the fox into his only child changing the boy's life forever.

The shinigami appeared, and sealed the fox into the new-born infant, it was time for Minato Namikaze to leave his wife and only child behind, his soul being held tightly by the Shinigami before a plea was heard.

"Wait! Hokage-sama! Shinigami-sama!" Shouted the bloody and beaten shinobi wearing Konoha attire. "Don't worry- you served me well, I am proud of all of you." The Hokage said looking down at the man with a smile.

"Please! Shinigami! Allow my soul to be taken instead of Hokage-sama's!" cried the man.
"Minato Namikaze …Do you accept this offer?" asked the god of death.
"P-Please! Hokage-sama!" Pleaded the man "The village needs you!" he continued.
"I-I…I accept…" said the Hokage "You will be known to all for your kindness." Smiled the Hokage at the man – whose life was shortly ended by the Shinigami.

"My business is finished." Said the Shinigami before disappearing into nothingness.
It was done, the Kyuubi had been defeated, however at a large cost – the village was saved, but the Hokage himself was saved, and was in debt to the man who had saved him. 'Any surviving family of the man will be cared for as one of my own.' The hokage
thought before returning to his village.

_Konoha- hidden village in the leaves_

the people had gathered into a huge crowd before the speaking Hokage, he had told them all of the battle with the kyuubi and continued his speech.

"This boy…" he held up his only son "This boy is the prison of the kyuubi – He is the one that keeps us safe from its evil!" announced the Hokage, proud of his son in a way, the village erupted in cheer.
"There is another man that you should be thanking for our victory, the reason I am still alive, he gave his very soul to the god of death to save our village!" the crowd went quiet.
"He was also a father like me – his name family name was Iruka." A small child in the audience wept, the scar across his face didn't come anywhere close to rivalling this pain.

"Iruka Umino!" the Hokage announced "From this day forward you will live alongside my family, and from this day I will treat you as one of my own." He declared, erupting another cheer of the audience gently pushing Iruka forward to the Hokage, who held the boy in a soft hug.

"Things must be tough, huh? ..." he said softly "don't worry, things will be okay" he smiled reassuringly at the boy.

_Four Years later_

Minato was away from home that day, dealing with the average Hokage day, and his worst enemy since the kyuubi attack – the never ending amount of paperwork that sieged his office every working day, at the Namikaze house hold Kushina was left with her two boys.

"Iruka-kun, have you finished your homework for the academy?" she asked the boy- he never did like to study after all, she had to nag him a lot but couldn't help but feel bad afterwards.
"N-Not yet Okaasan…" said the boy sheepishly expecting punishment.

She sighed at the boy, but couldn't possibly be mad with him "go on now, go upstairs and finish it then I can take you out for a treat." She smiled as she watched her son run up the stairs to his room with a grin on his face.

Naruto was quiet, studying as usual, his parents found it astonishing that the child was so interested in books, not knowing the contents of most the ones he read. Naruto although his young age of just four years couldn't think of being anything but being a ninja, and spent most of his time reading combat training manuals as well as strategies and without his parents knowing…jutsu scrolls.

Although quiet around his parents there were three adults that he really showed himself too, one was his God Father Jiraiya, the woman he considered to be his 'baa-chan' Tsunade, and the person who was the closest thing to an Auntie he had Uchiha Mikoto – but he also saw her as more of a mother figure.

Naruto, being so quiet at home was usually left to his own devices, not that he minded, but he would have liked a little attention every now and then –especially when Iruka was getting praise. He was a little jealous of his older brother who was already a Genin – being fourteen, after all he would soon be gaining the title of Chuunin, and Naruto hadn't even started the academy.

"Yes! Finished!" Shouted a cheery Iruka "now Okaasan will give me my treat." He smiled running down the stairs, Naruto shot up at this, he wanted a treat too, and followed after his older brother.
"Of course we can Iruka-kun" she said happily as they walked towards the door, Naruto opened the door towards the living room, only to see them closing the door.

He let out a sigh, sometimes he wished he was as close as he was to his other 'brothers', Uchiha Itachi who he considered his older brother and Sasuke Uchiha who was the same age, they did everything together when Naruto was not at home, and like Naruto, Sasuke wanted to be just like his older brother Itachi and studied being a ninja for a lot of his time.

"Oh Ho, ho! ..." declared a man that now stood in the doorway "you in alone kid?" smiled the man looking towards Naruto, who couldn't help but let his blue eyes light up when he saw the man.
"Jiraiya!" announced the blonde as he ran over and gave him a hug.

Jiraiya ruffled the boy's spikey hair before pulling out a bag. "Thought you might like to share these with me" he grinned offering Naruto some sweets "Why you here all alone anyway?" He asked looking down at the blonde.

To be honest, Naruto didn't know why he was all alone.
"I don't think Okaasan knew I was here." He said glumly at the thought of his own mother not even knowing he was in the house. Jiraiya let out a loud laugh and decided to praise the boy on his quiet nature around his parents.
"Well that must show how good of a ninja you are! …" he grinned at the boy
"If you were here all this time and no one noticed you must be a professional already kid!" He let out a hearty laugh hoping to change the mood.

Naruto's eyes lit up again, he couldn't remember one single time that he was unhappy around Jiraiya, even when he was ill, Jiraiya came to visit and he felt good as new.
"Someday will I be just like you Jiraiya?" The boy asked enthusiastically. Jiraiya stroked his chin faking deep though and placed his hand on Naruto's head.

"Hmmmm…" He said as if he were testing something. "Naruto! You will become a fine ninja, as long as you listen to your heart! Protect those you care for and never ever give up!" he announced proudly looking down at the boy he loved like his own.

Naruto grinned his foxy grin at the man, he felt lucky to have Jiraiya around, and he felt more like family than anyone of his blood relatives.

_ Uchiha Compound_

"Nii-san! …" shouted a small voice that was also associated with footsteps while he wandered around the house
"Nii-san!" The voice of the small boy shouted again, he was nearly five years old, and had raven black hair much like his older brothers.

"I'm in here Sasuke!" Shouted a friendly voice, the boy ran over to where he heard the voice and slid open the door, happy to see his older brother, he slumped down next to him and smiled.
"What are you doing Nii-san?" he asked intrigued at his older brother who looked to be slicing wood with his kunai.

Itachi raised up the piece of wood to show his younger brother, it had been shaped into that of a shuriken.
"You'll be starting the academy soon, Sasuke-kun, so I thought I would make you some practice weapons." He said kindly, smiling at the boy. Sasuke grinned at his older brother looking at the wooden shuriken with content.

"All done!" said the older of the two placing it into a pile.
"Would you like to try them out Sasuke-kun?" Itachi smiled at his younger.
Sasuke shook his head in excitement "Can Naruto-Nii come too?" he asked not containing his excitement, and jumped up when his older brother nodded his head.

He ran back downstairs to where Itachi was sat; he was now dressed and ready to go, he grinned at his older brother waiting for him and walked over towards the door.
"I'm surprised Sasuke-kun... you haven't asked me to play a game of shogi with you today" he said chuckling.
"Jiraiya taught Naruto-Nii how to play last time I was over there" he beamed knowing he had someone to play his strategy game with.

The two set off towards Naruto's home, as Sasuke examined his wooden ninja weapon in his hand.

_Hyuuga Compound_

"Again! How do you expect to be a good leader of the head family like this!" Hiashi grunted at his young daughter, and looked over to the boy from the branch side.
"Neji, you show great promise with the Byakugan – I hope you will use it for a good cause" he said smiling at his nephew. "Thank you Hiashi-sama." He said politely and bowed ever so slightly before going back to sparring with Hinata.

"S-Sorry Tou-san… N-Neji-kun would you mind s-showing me how you blocked my attack like that?" She said quietly, her cousin nodded kindly "Hai, Hinata-sama" and proceeded to show her the move he used.

After practice Hiashi left the dojo, leaving the two cousins there for a little while, he had important business to attend to, and left Hinata under the watch of Neji.
"N-Neji-kun … Thank you for practising with me … you are very strong and your B-byakugan is amazing…" she almost whispered too him, he smiled at her compliments – she was not like most of the head family.

"Thank you Hinata-sama, the practice benefits me too." He smiled, but Hinata shook her head.
"Y-You don't have to call me that when Tou –san isn't here" she smiled weakly not feeling she was above the boy in anyway or deserving of the title.

"You'll be entering the academy soon Hinata, are you looking forward to it?" Asked Neji, not used to calling her Hinata without adding –Sama.
She nodded her head. "It will be fun to get to know people the same age as me … and …" she said quietly "I would like to get stronger so Tou-san isn't disappointed with me." She continued her happy tone dampened a bit by her last statement. Neji nodded and didn't know how to answer her.

_ Nara Household_

the young boy was slumped against the window sill it was big enough for him to sit on, in fact he sat there regularly, watching the clouds stroll along in the sky, he was a lazy child- especially for his age, and he often referred to things as troublesome.

"I wish I could be like the clouds, so carefree – they wander aimlessly, not having to do troublesome tasks like we do in everyday life." Shikamaru said, despite his age he was a natural born genius even without studying which he found to be boring, however he played shogi regularly as it actually made him think hard from time to time.

"Shikamaru, I bought you some practice weapons today, would you like to go play with them?" Yoshino asked her son with a content smile on her face, she wondered how he could just sit there all day and stare at the sky, truly a strange child.

He took the toy weapons from her and decided to visit Choji, who had also recently received training weapons in order to practice before the academy – practicing however meant 'playing ninja' where the children would basically play hide and seek except once found they would be struck with toy weapons to show they were caught.

He sighed as he walked towards his friend's house. "How troublesome…"

_Namikaze Household_

Minato arrived home and opened the door, and got a pleasant surprise – or what he thought was pleasant. "Jiraiya-sensei!" He announced happy to see his teacher.
"Minato." Jiraiya responded rather coldly "Why did I come here to find Naruto alone?" he asked angrily – Naruto had thankfully already left with the Uchiha two, not having to hear Jiraiya speak this way.

Minato's eyes widened. "Alone! Where is Kushina and Iruka!" He said shocked at the news he had just heard. "Naruto told me that Kushina has taken him out for a treat, they have been three hours so far." Minato was about to reply but Jiraiya hadn't finished.

"Naruto told me 'He didn't think his Okaasan even knew he was here.'" Jiraiya's stare was not his usual carefree gaze he was deadly serious, Minato knew how much he cared for Naruto.
The Hokage clenched his fist. "Where is he now? …" he said softly.
"With his 'brothers' as he called them when they arrived." Jiraiya sighed, it wasn't him to act this way especially to students of his but he felt it had to be done.

"'Brothers'? …" Minato was confused on what that could have meant.
"The two Uchiha boys, they're very close – he might even be closer to them than he is with Iruka.
Actually now that I think about it, there is no doubt he is." Jiraiya said surprised that the Hokage didn't know such a thing.

"He's not a quiet kid despite what you might think Minato. I don't know if you or Kushina realised, but he's only really quiet around his blood relatives and Iruka, in-fact I think he might be one of the nosiest kids I've ever met. He just hasn't been given the chance to show it." Jiraiya looked down – he knew that it wasn't Minato's fault alone.

"How could I have been so stupid?" Minato asked thinking out loud "When he gets home I'll talk to him." He said determination in his voice; he wasn't going to be a bad father to a boy that already had such a burden on his shoulders.

"No." Jiraiya said bluntly "If you do that he'll presume he's done something wrong due to the sudden change. You'll have to ease it in. The mother not leaving him home all alone might be a good start." He said just as the door opened.

"Whose mother left them all alone?" Kushina asked confused as she walked through the door with a smiling Iruka. Minato placed his hand on Iruka's shoulders "Iruka go upstairs, there is something I need to talk about with your mother and Jiraiya-sensei." He smiled giving the impression nothing was wrong and Iruka followed his command running upstairs happily.

Minato walked over to front door closing it softly. Although he wasn't doing a very good job of hiding his anger. "Kushina." He said in an unpleasant tone but was interrupted by a masculine hand on his shoulder.

"The mother that left her child all alone was you." Jiraiya stated, not making Minato say something so painful to his wife. Her eyes widened and her eyebrows frowned in anger she was about to argue with the man.

"He means Naruto!" Minato shouted at her, causing her to gasp – she didn't even realise he was in.
"O-Oh my god … Where is he!" she asked concern rushing over her, she'd never been so worried in her life, she must have be gone over three hours and left a four year old child all alone. Tears streamed down her face at the thought – he could be gone.

"He's not here." Said Jiraiya bluntly "If I didn't come a few minutes after you left, none of us would know where he was – this time it was his friends who came to collect him, but what if it wasn't and I wasn't here?" He asked angrily "I guess he was right when he thought that his 'Okaasan' didn't even know he was home." Jiraiya could take no more; he took his leave before he lost his temper further.

Tears barrelled down her face. 'What kind of mother forgets about their own child!' Minato came over and pulled her into a hug, "This can't happen again." He said softly in her ears, he felt her nod agreeing with his words.

_Training grounds_

"Itachi-Nii?" Naruto inquired to the elder boy, he was having trouble with senbon throwing, they were much lighter than the other weapons and he was not accustomed to them.
"How come I can't get these senbon to hit the middle like the other weapons?" He was genuinely curious, even Sasuke came over to hear the secrets behind the needles.

The eldest of the three just chuckled, then smiled at the two, he was proud of them – even if only one of them was blood related, he shared a brotherly bond with both of them. He tapped the both of them on their fore heads with two of his fingers on each head.

"Don't throw them as hard as you do the weapons, they're not nearly as heavy" He smiled, feeling like a sensei for the two of them.
"O-oh "the two said in unison before spinning on their heels and trying the advice their brother had given them. The two senbon hit in the centre of the bull's-eye marked on the wood.
"It works!" announced Sasuke turning to his younger brother.
"Alright!" declared Naruto seeing their perfect hits, the two gave each other a high five in approval

The two turned to see a boy they hadn't seen before wandering lazily across the training grounds staring up at the sky, Naruto being the noisy person he his shouted over to the boy.
"Hey! I haven't seen you around before!" He shouted, running up to the boy with Sasuke hot on his tail. The boy looked down from the clouds, he looked a little startled.

"My name is Namikaze Naruto" beamed the young blonde "This is my two older brothers Sasuke Uchiha and Itachi Uchiha!" he announced introducing the two, who gave a simple nod to greet the boy.

Shikamaru was a smart kid, and decided not to pry at how they were 'brothers' he looked towards the blonde again.
"What's your name?" he asked kindly with a grin spread across his face.
"Shikamaru Nara" he said not knowing that a smile of his own had crept across his face, for some reason the blonde just made him feel like smiling, the atmosphere with the three was so happy, maybe that's what made them brothers.

"Oh! You have wooden weapons too!" Naruto smiled "would you like to practice with us? Itachi-Nii is helping us, he's the best sensei ever!" Shikamaru considered turning the blonde down to meet with Choji but Sasuke backed up the blonde. "We just started today and we can already hit the target in the middle every time!" He said proud of his brother's teaching as well as his new found skill.

Shikamaru was shocked. 'They started today and they can hit the target every single time? That can't have been the truth.' A smirk crossed his face.
"Okay! Let's make a deal if you two can do as you said then I'll be happy to practice with you all … but if you can't then you have to be my friends!" Shikamaru announced, he didn't know how to make friends – it kind of just happened with Choji, but he liked the idea of being friends with the 'brothers' in front of him.

Naruto turned to Sasuke, both looking at each other they turned back to Shikamaru and laughed. Shikamaru suddenly looked disappointed. 'I guess I said something wrong?' he thought to himself.
"We'll be your friends anyway baka!" the two said, if anyone didn't know Naruto and Sasuke they would say they were twins.

"O-oh" said Shikamaru before smiling happily "Well I still wanna see you hit it every time!" he declared to the boys. The two looked at each other and chuckled. They took up stance facing each other on a straight line. Even Itachi and the newest arrival Jiraiya – who was perched on the tree where Itachi could see him in plain view, the two got along and Jiraiya didn't want think they were being spied on looked on in curiosity as what the boys would do.

The boys ran towards each other at speed, Sasuke clutching Naruto by the right wrist, Naruto clutching Sasuke's left, they span until Naruto was released up into the air, still clutching Sasuke who came with him, Naruto released him as they crossed paths in mid-air pulling weapons from each other's holsters, flipping and landing.

Thud, Thud, Thud. Shikamaru's Jaw could have hit the ground – but it would have been accompanied by that of Itachi's and Jiraiya's. Every weapon thrown hit the centre of the target.
Shikamaru pointed at the two, eyebrows twitching.

"What the hell was that!" He exclaimed "I've never seen anyone our age do anything like that! I've never even seen Genin do that!" he was truly surprised and now actually looking forward to training with them.

Jiraiya and Itachi smirked with pride at the two. Jiraiya dropped to sit next to Itachi against the tree.
"Quite the students you got there." He said to the eldest boy, "Did you teach them that." Itachi chuckled "It surprised me as much as it did you." The two shared a laugh.

"Jiraiya! Did you see me!" Shouted a beaming Naruto as he ran to hug him – almost pinning him against the tree. "I sure did! Itachi sure is doing a good job looking after his little brothers!" complimented Jiraiya, Itachi smiled at that – knowing that Jiraiya had always considered the three to act like brothers.

Sasuke tugged at Jiraiya's over jacket "Jiraiya-San! Where can I get cool red markings like the ones you have?" He stared up at the man intrigued by them, Jiraiya chuckled at this. 'Finally! Someone has recognised their greatness!' this was truly a day of happiness for Jiraiya even despite the incident earlier.

He reached into his bag and pulled out red ink, and gently slid his finger down Sasuke's face and showed him in the reflection a kunai. "Wow! Now I look like a strong ninja, just like you Jiraiya-san!" Sasuke announced. "Hey no fair!" shouted Naruto before getting the markings on his face just the same. Shikamaru was curious; he wanted the markings of strength too. He was holding his finger close to his lips as if he was wondering what to do.

"Well! Don't you want the markings of great strength Shikamaru! You wouldn't want to disappoint the proud Nara clan would you?" Bellowed the cheery man as Shikamaru ran over to get the markings himself, now happy that he was one of them.

Itachi smiled at the site of the Jiraiya wanna-bees running around, Jiraiya smiled and announced his leave before he took off. Itachi decided to teach them how to create clones, but his surprise the three already knew how to create clones more advanced than the standard buushin.

"Oh I read about this way to clone and it was supposed to be better than buushin." Said Shikamaru, not filled with enthusiasm more of stating a point. Sasuke nodded "There are many different element buushin, but there is also Shadow clones." He stated.

Naruto instructed the two to make the same hand sign as him and as close to being in perfect time with each other as they could they shouted "Kage Buushin No jutsu!" each creating a perfect clone, Itachi's eyes widened in shock – that was a Jounin level technique.

He scratched his head. "I don't know how or where you learnt to do that but I'm impressed, that's far above the level you should be able to achieve, in fact the normal Buushin is usually the final exam of the academy."

Naruto looked a bit worried. "Is it bad that we know how to do it Itachi-Nii?" he said concerned with along with the two beside him. Itachi chuckled, "No, it's actually very impressive Naruto-kun. Maybe I could teach you a different jutsu."

"It would be easier if I knew your 'Chakra Affinity' and I'll also have to test your levels of chakra and how well you can mould it." The three now sat in front of their 'sensei' Itachi, as he continued to explain.
"Chakra Affinity is something … Hmmmm, I guess… Ah, Chakra Affinity is what element your chakra is, for example one of mine is 'Fire' and I guess Sasuke yours will also be fire but it could be something else, however you will be able to use fire techniques regardless being an Uchiha."

He handed the three of them leaves and something suddenly came back to Naruto.
"Tou-san made me do something like this before, I had to push chakra into the leaf and he said my Aff-Affin…Affinity, was Wind." Itachi nodded at the blonde, knowing if the Hokage had already tested it then the result would be the same.

"You two mould chakra into the leaf, then I can tell you you're elements." He smiled at them patiently waiting for them to proceed with the test. The two moulded chakra into the leaves. Sasuke was the first to get his result. "Lightning." Itachi turned to Shikamaru, "Earth." The boys looked at each other all excited by their 'new' elements.

"What is yours Nii-san?" Sasuke asked the elder brother. "Mine is fire." He replied to the young boy.
"Does that mean we can't use other elements?" Naruto said sounding a little disappointed.
Itachi shook his head. "Although mine is fire I can also use wind and a little bit of earth, so this is actually perfect, I'll be able to teach you all a new jutsu."

Sasuke looked disappointed. "What about me Nii-san? Mine is lightning." He said curious as if he would be learning a technique.
"Well that wouldn't be fair; I guess I'll just teach you all a fire jutsu." He said cheerily not wanting his little brother to think he'd get left out.

"There is plenty of scrolls that can teach you jutsu; I guess that is where you learnt the shadow clone, so you can learn your own natured jutsu's from there. I'll be teaching you Katon: Gokakyu no Jutsu (fire style: Fire ball jutsu.)"

Several hours later the boys were exhausted, running around like miniature dragons, they were fast learners alright, they even surprised Itachi, after the first hour they'd manage to produce minute fire balls, but later they had developed it into a strong attack, it wasn't until their chakra started running low two hours later did they finally call it a day.

Itachi was proud of his 'students' and it was hard to take in how much they'd progressed usually that technique would take people around a week to learn, especially if they didn't have fire element affinity. Then again not many four year old children can use the Kage Buushin either.

_Namikaze Household_

He opened the door quietly, expecting no one and he'd be able to go up to his room and study more jutsu that Itachi told him about, he was in a good mood from the day, he loved training and he even made a new friend, his markings given to him by Jiraiya were starting to fade and there was dirt on his face, hands and clothing.

He saw his two parents waiting quietly looking towards the door. 'They must be mad, maybe they didn't know I went out? … Now I'm going to be in trouble and be left alone again.' He thought his happy mood suddenly evaporated.

He walked into the centre of the room, the pair of eyes on him, he wanted to just go upstairs- it'd save them shouting. Then all of sudden he was engulfed by a soft embrace, and could feel tears dripping on to his neck as Kushina held him tightly with her head over his shoulder.

"I'm sorry Naruto! I'm so sorry!" she cried out, she clutched him even tighter as he fell into his mother's hug. "It'll never happen again." She pulled away from him to look him in the eyes.
"If there is anything that is upsetting you or you don't like please don't hesitate to tell us." She said genuinely concerned for the boy.

Minato came into the middle of the room and ruffled his hair,
"It's a good job Jiraiya-sensei came to check on you, I just missed you going out…you'd tell us if anything was wrong… wouldn't you Naruto-kun?" he smiled at him and placed his Hokage hat on the boy. "I heard you were out training all day! …" Minato had tears coming to his eyes and pulled the boy close. "That's my boy ..." he sniffed fighting back tears "That hat looks good on you" he chuckled weakly.

"Tou-san, Okaasan …" he wept hugging his father tightly, this was one of the best moments of his life, and he felt so warm and safe. Kushina knelt down beside him "You look like a little Jiraiya" she giggled at him, which made him blush.

"Sasuke and Shikamaru had them too!" he announced happily "Ohh Shikamaru Nara? Did you make a new friend today?" she asked happy with her son, he nodded and went on to tell them about his day.

"We practiced the Kage buushin no jutsu and Katon: Gokakyu no Jutsu and even Jiraiya was surprised with our weapon throwing!" he declared, They were in shock, he'd been able to do the shadow clone as well as learn a C rank Katon jutsu in one day?

"Wow! You keep that up and you'll be wearing that hat after all!" Chuckled Minato,
"It sounds like you've been working hard" Naruto nodded his head and yawned – ready to goto sleep, seeing this Minato picked him up and took him to his bed, they turned the lights off and shut the door but not before they both said goodnight.

Naruto closed his eyes, happier than when he came in he was about to fall asleep but then he came to a place he had never been
before, it was dark and he could hear water at his feet, all he could see was a large golden gate and a set of red eyes.

Authors notes: Had a lot of fun with this one, this is the start of my new story!
My other story will continue, but this will become my main project, dealing with Naruto after the war is difficult in my opinion, especially for fight scenes – he's pretty limited to scenarios without giving new techniques – which in combination with the Kyuubi mode, that already makes him pretty much untouchable, would make him seriously over powered and battles that lasted long would either make no sense, or would be completely one sided.

In this Story Naruto will be more of a genius than a drop out, but that also applies to Shikamaru, Hinata and Sasuke, oh and Itachi – things will be explained later why the five will be a huge impact on the storyline, but it thought it should be noted, as it's a lot different from the Cannon.

Hope you enjoyed the story! Any reviews will be greatly appreciated as well as adding it to favourites or alerts :).