He walked through the streets, unseen, unheard and unknown. Not a single person aware of his presence even as he walked right past their eyes or they walked right through his ghostly form. Whenever he thought about it he couldn't help but find amusement in his situation, in an attempt to evade the Great Queen he had created a potion that would make himself invisible and untouchable even to her. It had worked, in fact it had worked better than expected as the potion hadn't worn off in over a thousand years. in over a thousand years he had wandered the world not once speaking to or interacting with anyone or anything, he hated it. He had a name once but even that was lost to the mists of time along with most of his memories of the Great Queen and the terror she had sown. All that he could remember was the basics of his craft and his unending desire for a bottle of sake.
It was as he walked through the streets of where ever he was that he something had happened. It took him a few seconds of thought to realise what it was but he eventually realized it. The place where he currently was was under attack. It wasn't people as it normally was, it was in fact a giant fox and apparently a giant frog. They appeared to be fighting each other and everyone was running and screaming, desperate to get away from the two. He couldn't understand it, the Great Queen had sowed more destruction in her time and yet people stood up to her even though he had run away.
Shaking his head at the strangeness of these people he resumed his walk, sure it brought him into the middle of the giant animals and their fight but they couldn't affect him anyway. He was seperated from the world, little less than a spirit, so he just kept on walking.
The two beasts were attacking each other, bellowing loudly as they did so, destroying entire buildings and He casually walked right through them, ignoring them completely until something caught his eye.
Hovering in the air, over the giant frog and facing the giant fox was the Shinigami, one of the few gods to interact with the world. He couldn't believe his luck, maybe the Shinigami could see him and help him? it was unlikely that he would receive some help but it was better than nothing so he made his way over to the death god. As he got closer he saw the figures of a few people right in front of the Shinigami. one of those figures was a little baby, just born if the umbilical cord and blood was anything to go by.
The Shinigami waved it's scythe letting spectral blue energy envelope the entire area, He and the giant fox were caught and bound by the energy before they found themselves pulled forward, towards the new born. As He touched the new born's body everything went black.
...
Uzumaki Naruto was an interesting young boy. Many people in Konoha hated him, loathed his entire existance and prayed for his death religiously, those who actually cared for the boy however noticed many odd things about him. Naruto did not have a first word so much as he had a first demand, his demand was, "Sake, give me Sake," he was only one at the time and no matter what anyone said or did he continued to demand Sake for two weeks straight, he never got any.
Another curiosity of his was that he seemed amused by peoples reactions to him. Wether they smiled at him, yelled at him or even tried to kill him he found these reactions amusing and purposefully went out of his way to get people to notice and react to him. He once spent all day knocking on the door of every single house in Konoha asking people if they would like to talk about the Lord Jashin just to have people yell at him.
Then there was Naruto's chakra. he had chakra, he in fact had more chakra than most jounin, he just couldn't use it. No one could figure out what was wrong with it, his body was perfect for using chakra, there was no problems with his tenketsu, divine gates or chakra pathways, he just could not use it. Iruka, his Academy teacher, once claimed that it was like trying to teach an adult how to use chakra, he had it but he was just so used to going without any that it was almost impossible to use it.
The most important oddity of Naruto's was that he did not want to be a ninja. In a village where ninja's were looked up to and every child was forced to go to the Academy for ninja training this was seen as odd, unnatural and even contemptible so Naruto was shunned. He didn't mind, people shunned him for the kyuubi anyway, besides as long as they acknowledged him in someway Naruto honestly did not care. So whenever the graduation exam came up Naruto failed it until the third time came.
Flashback
The aged Hokage gently seated himself on Naruto's couch, ignoring all of the bottles lying around the apartment. There was a sad look in the Hokage's eyes as he regarded Naruto. "Naruto do you know why I am here?" he asked the boy.
Naruto regarded the Hokage for a bit before responding, "going to try and convince me to pass the graduation exam again," he stated calmly.
"You have to pass this time!" the Hokage said seriously.
Naruto rolled his eyes and pulled a sake bottle out of one of his jacket's many pockets, knowing this would just annoy the old man. "Screw that old man, i'd rather live my life not die young," he said opening the sake bottle and taking a swig from the drink.
The Hokage's killing intent filled the room and Naruto had to admit it was impressive, but it was nowhere near the Great Queen's level. "If you don't pass and become a ninja this time then you will die young," the Hokage stated.
Naruto's eyes narrowed even as he took another swig from the bottle, "is that a threat old man?" he asked dangerously. "I may not be able to use chakra but it is still not a good idea to threaten me."
The Hokage sighed, releasing his killing intent as he did so, "Naruto do you know what happened to the Kyuubi?" he asked.
"Got sealed inside of me by dear old dad the day I was born," Naruto said simply as he finished off his bottle, "what's your point?"
The Hokage stared at Naruto in complete shock, "you know?" he asked unbelieving.
"I remember that day quite well," Naruto replied "and having you call me Minato's son the day after...well when I found out who Minato was it was pretty obvious."
"Why didn't you say anything?" the Hokage asked.
Naruto shrugged, "you never asked. Besides I can't use chakra, it's irrelevant if i'm a Jinchuuriki or not if you take that into account. Now are you going to tell my why i'll die or will you just keep asking me these stupid questions?"
The Hokage resisted the urge to sigh again, "enemy spies have picked up the knowledge of what you are. If you do not train and strengthen yourself then it will be easy for them to kidnap you and extract the Kyuubi, thus killing you in the process," he explained.
"So your response is to force me to take a test which the examiners will fail me at anyway no matter how well I do, I will then be made into a ninja in a normal Genin team I presume, be forced to take missions outside the village eventually where any enemy spy can kidnap me and have their wicked way with me. How is that any better than just letting me live my life?" Naruto asked, his tone telling him exactly what he thought of that idea.
"And how exactly is drinking your days away and annoying the civilians of Konoha 'living your life'?" the Hokage asked sarcastically.
"It sounds more fun than becoming a mercenary for a village that either hates me or sees me as some sort of failed weapon," Naruto pointed out.
The Hokage got to his feet, "you will be given an automatic pass for the exam. You will then be put on a team under Hatake Kakashi. he will be given six months to train you and your team as well as he can before you are given even a single D-Rank mission. Accept this chance and maybe you will gain the skills required to live, do not take this chance and the village will kill you and extract the Kyuubi into a new host before our enemies can," after saying that the Hokage disappeared in a shunshin.
Naruto let out a groan of exasperation, "fuck I guess I have to go and buy some materials then," he muttered. "Wish I could remember the higher level crap."
flashback End
Naruto sat in front of his new sensei, Sakura on his left and Sasuke on his right.
Kakashi stared at them with his one eye, his body posture telling them that he was serious. "We are going to go around telling each other our names, our likes and dislikes, our hobbies, our dreams and our strengths and weaknesses. I will go first," he told them all. By the look of sakura then their sensei could be a little intimidating. "My name is Hatake Kakashi, I am also known as the Copy-nin. I like Icha Icha and dogs, I dislike those who betray their comrades and the word youth. For hobbies I like to read Icha Icha, I spend time at the memorial stone and i train. The only dream I have is for my loved ones to be proud of me when I rejoin them in the after life. My strengths are Taijutsu, Ninjutsu and assassination. I do not have many weaknesses though my Fuinjutsu could use some work," he finished. "Haruno you're up!"
Sakura turned bright red at being spoken to so suddenly but she eventually began to speak. "I'm Haruno Sakura and I like," here she looked at Sasuke and gave a ear piercing squeal. "I dislike Ino-pig and being picked on because of my large forehead. for my hobbies I like to read and..." again she looked at Sasuke and gave another ear piercing squeal. "Dreams, I would like to..." she gave a third squeal. "As for my strengths I got really good marks in stealth and theory, I didn't do so well in Taijutsu though," she added, embarrassed.
Kakashi rubbed his temples, "of course I have to get an annoying fan-girl who is no good in a fight," he muttered loud enough for everyone to hear. Sakura turned red from embarrassment and looked like she was close to tears as well. "Uchiha you're up," he ordered.
Sasuke gave a small grunt before responding in a cold tone, "Uchiha Sasuke, I like tomatoes, hate fangirls, idiots and a certain man. My ambition is to kill said certain man and revive my clan. Strengths is everything, no weaknesses," he finished arrogantly.
"Arrogant Uchiha," Kakashi replied, "can't say im surprised, I will make sure to beat that out of you. Uzumaki you're up."
Naruto stopped drinking from his sake bottle before replying. "I'm Naruto," he grinned. "I like to drink and I dislike the old man along with my old man. Don't really have any dreams...create an endless bottle of sake? I dunno. Weaknesses are apparently everything according to my teachers and as for strengths..." here Naruto gave an almost predatory smirk, "i'm particularly good at Alchemy."