/Quick note before I begin. I'm gonna refer to the pre Naruto characters as characters from the past while the characters from after the start of pilot as present characters.
Characters that are from the past: Hiruzen, Jiraiya, Tsunade, Minato, Kushina, Fugaku, Mikoto, Ohnoki, A, Killer Bee, Yagura, Gyuuki and Isobu.
Now back to the story ^_^/
The video starts out with a Nine-Tailed Fox. This nine-tailed fox was destroying the hidden Leaf village.
All the Konoha shinobi from the past stiffened in shock.
"It can't be" Kushina muttered in horror clutching the seal on her belly.
Minato had an arm around the red head, a serious expression on his face. "How did this happen!?" Jiraiya asked looking in horror as the nine tailed fox destroyed everything in its path.
"I was broken out by Madara, or at least someone who went by that name when the seal was at its weakest" Kurama answered in a bored tone. The Konoha shinobi, current and past, all turned to the nine tailed fox and looked at him silently. "Don't get ideas. I'd rather not let myself get controlled to begin with" the fox growled at them and they all turned away.
The adults in the Shinobi ranks or those that were familiar with seals from both era got the meaning immediately. The only time a seal on a female would or could be weakened was when she was giving birth. A few heads turned in the direction of Naruto who along with rest of the kids were horror struck at the display of destruction on the screen.
The powerful, giant, and red fox swung its tails and created tsunamis, destroying the village's ninja which were fighting against it. Thousands of ninja died due to this horrid monster. Thousands of people including someone known as the Fourth Hokage. The Fourth Hokage, who was standing on top of a giant frog used a special technique which sealed the monster away, but unfortunately, killed himself in the process.
"Hey you made Hokage!" Jiraiya whooped as a way to try and lighten the mood.
Minato let out a weak chuckle at that but looked at Kushina whose lower lip was quivering. And he knew why. The sealing had killed him and the Bijuu being ripped out had probably killed Kushina. Which mean their son had grown up an orphan. It would explain why he didn't recognize them.
Naruto though had just realized that the blonde guy behind him was his idol and hero, the fourth Hokage. Now he didn't blame the guy for sealing the fox in him, something he learned the previous night. It was for the village, something all Hokage did. So he didn't really react as loud as he usually would. But he did turn to look at the man and frowned seeing the couple looking almost tearful.
"Ne aren't you happy you became Hokage?" he asked and the couple looked at him. They both looked at him for the longest yet the shortest of time, taking in his appearance, the son they would never get the chance to raise. "No! We can change this" they both thought in unison.
"Naruto" Kakashi said gently and put a hand on his head. "Remember what the video said next" he said gently ruffling his head. Naruto blinked up at the man before realization dawned on him. "Oh that" he mumbled and turned back to look at the screen.
Kakashi looked back at his sensei and his girlfriend and gave him an apologetic look. Not because the man died, but because he knew why they were actually sad.
He sealed the monster into a newly-born boy.
Kushina shut her eyes in pain. Oh how she wanted to beat the man she loved up for that. Why in hell would he condemn his own son with such a fate!? Didn't he know how painful the life of a Jinchuriki is?
But she already knew why he would do that. If he couldn't sacrifice his own son for such a task, how could he ask someone else to give up their son? Plus it was their son. Their own flesh and blood. If there was anyone who would be strong enough to take on this burden and rise above it, it would be him. She believed it from the bottom of her heart. Even if the thought of the bot had not made its way in their minds, she knew they both believed in him. They did after all fall in love with the boy the moment they saw him.
Re-construction of the village begun. His death brought pain to the village, but the Third Hokage kept the village's ninja's strong. Twelve years later, after the re-construction of the village, the village seems to be in peace. Well, almost in peace. Naruto, a blond haired 12-year-old boy was vandalizing the great stone faces of the Hokages!
Minato couldn't help but laugh at this. That was such a Kushina thing to do.
"You're laughing at your own image getting defiled?" Kiba asked in shock.
"It's a funny prank" he shrugged with a grin.
"That grin" HInata thought with a frown. Why did it seem so familiar? And that hair and those eyes, they looked almost like. Her head snapped towards Naruto with an audible click that freaked Kurenai out.
"Hinata" Kurenai said gently and put a hand on her shoulder. She shook her head gently when the lavender haired girl turned to her. "Not now" she said and Hinata nodded.
A similar scene seemed to occur between Asuma and Shikamaru who preferred not to get into this bothersome situation at all.
Was Naruto doing a prank? There was paint through and throughout all of the stone faces' noses, eyes, and mouths! Naruto was stopped when his sensei, Iruka, caught him. Iruka was furious with Naruto. He tied him up and through him into the academy, as school was currently in session.
"That's a bit harsh" Kushina mumbled with a frown.
In front of all the other students, Iruka was desperately trying to tell Naruto to focus on his ninja training instead of doing pranks. Naruto ignored him, and Iruka boiled up! He told all of the class to review the transformation jutsu! All the other students in the class complained and blamed Naruto for his stuborness.
The students who were there that day threw dirty looks at the blonde who preferred to play with his headband, grinning like an idiot.
Iruka told the students to transform into him and that he would give them marks for it. One by one, each student in the academy transformed into an Iruka. A few students transformed into him a little off, but the majority did perfect! Next was Naruto's turn . . . Naruto molds his energy around his whole body, and with a sudden 'BOOM!', steam arises all over the now-transformed Naruto. Naruto had turned into a naked, sexy woman.
Jiraiya blinked a few times before he flew back with a massive nosebleed. Tsunade just sighed. Guess the arms of hers would get some good training.
Kushina stiffened and groaned out loud, Minato chuckling nervously beside her. Kakashi and Asuma both blinked at the screen in shock and slightly awe. Hiruzen was rubbing his face with a sigh. Fugaku had hid his face in Mikoto's hair, who thought he was looking away from the screen.
Ohnoki merely snorted at the jutsu while A slammed his fist down on his brother who was appreciating the jutsu with raps. Utakata, Han and Roshi were blank faced while Yagura had blushed at the scene.
Among the tailed beasts Shukaku had wolf whistled at the sight and was now getting pummeled by Matatabi and Choumei while Gaara stared blankly at his 'mother'. The other males in the group didn't give any response. The closest to one was from Kurama who clicked his tongue in distaste.
Naruto laughed as much as he could laugh. He explained to Iruka that it was his new transformation jutsu he made up. The 'Sexy jutsu'.
"The best jutsu ever" Jiraiya said shakily before squealing like a girl when Tsunade punched to the other side of the room.
Shukaku shared the Sage's sentiment. Matatabi and Choumei shared the Medic's sentiments.
Iruka was super-angry! He chucked Naruto to the stone Hokage faces and told him to clean all the paint up! As Iruka watches Naruto clean up all the paint in disgust, he tells him to hurry up and he can go home. Naruto complains ... 'There's not anyone waiting at home for me anyway!' he says.
Again Kushina and Minato were reminded of what their son was and that brought their mood down to a level they never thought they'd feel.
Sasuke for the first time sympathized with someone. He knew what it was like returning to a home that was empty, no one waiting to welcome you back. He put a hand on Naruto's shoulder and gave it a firm comforting squeeze. Something that shocked Naruto into silence. The boy never showed this much emotion.
Mikoto had noticed this. While she was happy her son was comforting someone else, there was this chilling feeling in her gut. It felt like for some reason Sasuke knew exactly what Naruto was feeling. But that couldn't be right.
The sentence left Iruka's face un-fixed. He asked Naruto if he wanted to go eat Ramen with him at the ramen shop, when he was done. Naruto was incredibly happy! He loved ramen! He finished up the mess in no time!
A small smile made its way on Kushina's face. Her son might look like Minato, but he was all her and she couldn't be anymore happy about it.
Both Iruka and Naruto eat together at the ramen shop. Iruka asks him why he did that to the village's stone Hokage faces, and he even knows who they are. Naruto is surprised that Iruka asked him such an obvious question. The Hokages are the ones who are the strongest and wisest in the village. They make really good decisions, and become the leader of the leaf village. Naruto also knows that the Fourth Hokage, the one who died twelve years ago, was the one who saved the leaf village from the nine-tailed monster fox. Naruto knew it all to well. Iruka asked him why he did that then, if he knew the Hokages were so great. It was because Naruto wanted to be better than all of them. He wanted recognition, whether it be in a bad way or a good way.
"Recognition in the bad way is never the answer Naruto" Jiraiya said wisely, a serious look on his face. But the effect was ruined by his swollen face, bleeding nose and black eye.
Naruto looked at the man blankly and just nodded.
Naruto wanted to be the next Hokage. Iruka chuckled a little. Naruto ignored his chuckle, and asks his sensei if he could wear Iruka's leaf forehead protector just to see how it feels. The leaf forehead protector is a sign that the ninja is a true ninja, and a sign of graduation from the ninja academy. Iruka refuses to let him wear it, and tells him that if he passes the final graduation exam tomorrow, he'll be able to get his own. Naruto in anxious and nervous about the next day. In the academy the next day, the teachers reveal that the final graduation exam will be over the cloning jutsu, which was Naruto's worst jutsu. Naruto was unbelievebly tense. He stinked at creating a fake clone of himself. Naruto's name was called, and he had to go in a small room with two judges, Iruka and a long white haired man named Mizuki. Naruto is ready to create his replication in front of Iruka and Mizuki. He molds his energy throughout his body, and creates a replication! . . . But it's only one, which was lying flat on the ground with it's foot off. It looked for like a rag doll instead of another Naruto.
"Wait! NO one told any of the teachers that the Uzumaki clan could never perform a normal Bunshin!?" Kushina shouted in outrage.
Getting blanks looks from everyone from the present she sighed and rubbed her face. "Our chakra reserves are way too large to make a good basic Bunshin. We need something that could house a fraction of it properly. Like a Kage Bunshin" she explained.
"Naruto has a clan?" Sakura blurted out and cringed from the glare she got from Kushina.
"They don't even know about my clan! After everything we did for the village!" she said the last part glaring at the Hokage who looked equally as shocked as Kushina.
"I don't know how things are in the future but I will see to it that this time around the village of Uzushiogakure and its inhabitants would be remembered and how they have helped us for so many years" Hiruzen said as Kushina sat back down growling angrily. He turned to Sakura next and smiled slightly. "And to answer your question Sakura, yes Naruto is from the Uzumaki clan. He is a relative of the first hokage Hashirama Senju's wife, Mito Uzumaki and distant cousin of the Hashirama sensei himself" he explained.
The children from the present couldn't believe what they just heard. None of them had ever heard of the first's wife and the school books hardy said much about it. They all looked at Naruto who was fidgeting at the awkward looks. 'Stop that "ttebayo!" he shouted and they all looked away.
Iruka immediately fails Naruto, but Mizuki tells Iruka that he did create a replication, and that's what he's supposed to do. Naruto smiles for a while until Iruka closes his eyes and explains to Mizuki that all the other students created three or more replications, while Naruto created one, which was pathetic. Was Naruto the only one who failed the exam, and will have to take it next year? That's what it seems like. Naruto exited the building, as he saw other fathers and mothers congradulate their sons. Naruto sat on a swing by himself, sad. But Mizuki appeared out of nowhere and walked up to Naruto. He told him that Iruka wasn't trying to make him fail, and instead, trying to make Naruto a stronger and better ninja. Naruto complains, and is still sad. Mizuki smiles at him, and decides to tell him something . . . He decides to tell me a little secret!
Minato did not like that at all. And judging from the reaction Naruto had, he knew for sure it was bad.
Iruka right now laying in his bed, with thoughts storming through his mind. He remembers what the current Hokage told him, and he remembers his parents dying when trying to defeat the nine-tails fox. Knocks seem to hit Iruka's door, which makes him quickly switch to the present. It was Mizuki. He tells Iruka that Naruto has just stole a sacred scroll from the Hokage, the scroll of sealing, a scroll which contains various forbidden jutsus.
"That fucking bastard" Minato growled, a dangerous air surrounding him. He knew that teacher was shady from the beginning.
"I wonder though Naruto. How did you manage to steal the scroll? It was at my office I assume" Hiruzen said. Naruto looked at the Kage and merely grinned in reply. He did not like the look of that. He had seen enough of Kushina to know it was not going to be good for him.
Mizuki spreads the word all around Konoha, the village. The village men are angry at Naruto, and claim that he's gone to far this time, they all spread out to find Naruto on the Third Hokage's command. Iruka is the one who manages to find Naruto, tired with scratches all around his body. Iruka assumes he was trying to learn a technique. Naruto, not all that sad, tells Iruka to take a look at the new jutsu he mastered so he can graduate.
"You mastered a jutsu from the scroll. So fast?" Jiraiya raised an eyebrow.
"Three hours" Naruto boasted pumping his chest.
The adults were all impressed at that. It was unheard of for someone to master a technique in merely three hours. Especially if it was from a forbidden scroll.
Iruka, wondering where Naruto got this idea, asks him. Naruto tells Iruka that Mizuki was the one who told him that if he showed Iruka one of the techniques from the scroll of sealing, Iruka would let Naruto graduate. Iruka is shocked and wondering why Mizuki would say such a thing. With a bit of thought put into it, Iruka hit Naruto to the side, making him barely miss the kunai's thrown towards Naruto from nowhere. It was Mizuki. Instead of hitting Naruto, when Iruka blocked it, Iruka was attacked instead. Iruka wonders why this is all happening. Naruto is very confused. Mizuki threatens to kill Naruto and take the scroll of sealing to himself. He also says he'll kill Iruka since he found out his plan. Mizuki had told Naruto to get the scroll of sealing, so he could kill Naruto, and take the scroll of sealing for himself, making people think Naruto ran away with it or just disappeared with it.
"When we get back" Kushina muttered as her hair began to float upwards. "I will find him and I will kill him with my bare hands" she said in anger, eyes burning like pieces of woods in a fireplace.
Mizuki also yells to Naruto and Iruka from a tree, about a law passed down after the nine-tails battle. The law about no one telling Naruto, that the Nine-tails fox, is sealed inside of Naruto. Naruto tries not to believe it, but he knows it's true. Why else would people not respect and acknowledge Naruto in his dream? Why was he treated like dirt?
"You didn't know" Yagura stated. Naruto shook his head and looked away from them all, afraid of how they would react. He stiffened when a pair of arms surrounded him, thinking they were going to strangle him. But he blinked in shock when a curtain of red fell over his face.
"I'm sorry you had to go through all that" the shaking voice of Kushina snapped Naruto out of his musing.
The boy looked at the woman with a small frown. "Eh it's okay lady. It's not your fault" he said with a grin. Kushina looked at her son and after a while grinned back just as big.
Sasuke though noticed something about the woman. She was oddly like the dobe. The same speaking manner, hyper activeness from her blow ups. They even had the same face shape. And with the same last name, it could only mean one thing. The Uchiha looked at the boy and the woman. He would not tell him. He felt like it was something the boy needed to figure out on his own.
Mizuki also tells a lie, that Iruka is also mad at Naruto for killing his parents. Iruka starts to remember what the Hokage said to him this morning. He remembers the Hokage telling him, that he passed this law down because he wanted the villages people to see Naruto as a hero, for having the fox sealed in him, instead of being a villan.
"Jinchuriki are never treated as such. They would always be seen as human carnation of us" Son Gokuu grumbled from his spot.
"Which is ridiculous. Like do we look like we can be humans to you!?" Shukaku cackled, rolling on the vast empty floor behind them all. He was truly the crazy of the lot.
He present day ninjas, the young ones at least looked down at their feet. Temari and Kankuro always saw Gaara as the one tailed incarnate, a monster. The konoha ones had also believed Naruto to be one after seeing the fox come out of him and then confirming it from Mizuki's talks. Everyone except Shikamaru who thought that Naruto was too troublesome to be a giant fox in human form, Hinata who had her eyes on the boy for a very long time and Sasuke who couldn't see the boy being anything but a dobe.
The Hokage had also told Iruka, that the parents' rude way to Naruto is slowly passing down to the children, and making Naruto a lonely child. Mizuki now throws his giant shuriken at Naruto, but Iruka seems to get in the way and saves Naruto.
"That had to hurt" A winced at the injury. This was reason why he needed to complete his technique.
Kushina smiled slightly at the chuunin on screen. Whatever ill will she had against him gone fr good.
Naruto, very confused now, just runs away from the situation. Mizuki runs after Naruto, and Iruka attempts to chase after them both in his hurt state. It seems Naruto is running away from both. Naruto meets up with Iruka, who tells Naruto to hand over the scroll. Naruto, without saying a word, attacks Iruka, sending him flying and hurt. Iruka pants for a little while. Iruka wonders how Naruto knew ... how Naruto knew he was actually Mizuki. 'Iruka' transformed back into Mizuki and asked Naruto how he knew. Naruto smiles, and he transforms . . . He was Iruka.
"Oh that was clever" Tsunade nodded in appreciation. Always compliment where I is due was something her grand uncle said a lot.
Which meant Naruto was hidden some place close. Naruto is actually behind the nearby tree along with the scroll, listening to Iruka and Mizuki's conversation. Mizuki asks Iruka why he's trying to protect the one who "murdered" Iruka's own parents. Iruka tells Mizuki that Naruto isn't the monster. Naruto cries behind the tree at the words Iruka says.
"At least some have the brains to know that" Matatabi purred.
"You seem awfully happy that a jinchuriki is treated nicely. I would have thought you would enjoy it. Or is it because he's not yours that you just don't look at him different" Kurama said, ears perking up slightly.
"He might not be my Jinchuriki but it's always sad to see one getting tortured for things he had no control over. Unlike you Kurama some of us actually care" she said and a few of the bijuu nodded. Kurama merely shrugged and looked back at the screen.
The ones who had heard the conversation frowned in thought. Maybe the tailed weren't mere masses of dark and destructive chakra. Maybe there was more to them than what meets the eye.
Mizuki, who has had enough, throws his shuriken at the weakened Iruka ... Naruto jumps in and kicks it out of the way. Mizuki is surprised while Naruto tells him that if he harms Iruka, Naruto will kill him. Mizuki, mad, challenges Naruto. Naruto quickly uses his newly learned jutsu. Naruto had created over 1000 copies of himself, which were all real, unlike a normal replication.
The sheer number of clones made everyone go speechless. Some even looked like their eyes were about to pop out.
Iruka, now grinning, is also very surprised at what Naruto accomplished in such a little time. Naruto quickly defeats Mizuki, who is so hurt, he cannot say a word.
"Nicely done ttebane!" Kushina cheered with a huge grin on her face.
Naruto looked at the woman with a frown before his eyes widened.
Iruka is so happy, he tells him he has a surprise for him. Naruto closes his eyes and seconds later, he is seen with a Konoha village forehead protector. Iruka congratulates him on his late graduation. Naruto, not knowing what to say, jumps at Iruka and hugs him.
"Congrats!" Minato and Kushina said in unison, grinning at the orange jumpsuit wearing whickered blonde. Naruto looked at the two for a moment in silence. Finally he broke the silence. "Ne are you two my parents?" he asked.