Title: "Kal-El of Konoha"

Author: Joshua

Disclaimer: Naruto, unfortunately, is the creation of Masashi Kishimoto, who is starting to (minimally) make up for the Sasuke-centric plots of Shippuden by introducing 'Sage Mode' and long-range version of 'Fuuton: Rasenshuriken!" but still has a ways to go to get true redemption from all the fans, IMHO. "Kal-El" aka Superman by his Kryptonian name, is owned by DC Comics, and he's been rebooted so many times that only the company really owns the trademark anymore. This particular reboot has Kal-El being blond and blue-eyed rather than dark-haired and black/brown-eyed. Also, instead of Smallville, Kansas, USA, his ship lands in Konohagakure, Hi no Kuni. And instead of the Kents, he's adopted by the 4th Hokage's In-Laws; the Uzumaki's.

Summary: The 4th never had a son, so he used an orphan from a crashed spaceship to seal the Kyuubi into. 3rd Hokage hid the spaceship and only ever told Jiraiya about the secret. Follows the story of young Naruto Uzumaki, the last son of Krypton as he becomes a shinobi and discovers his heritage as Kal-El of Krypton.

Story:

Luck can be good or bad. At the same time, one can have good luck but still have bad stuff happen to them, and vice versa. One such boy, grew up to have all the luck in the world in just about everything, but bad things followed him like starving wolves outside a caravan.

Bad things happen to everyone, is the saying. Then again, having your whole planet and entire race blown up, sent to a distant world where upon arrival you are used as a living sacrifice to hold the most powerful tailed demon beast on said world inside your stomach and then being raised in a hidden ninja village that hates and ostracizes you for having said demon sealed inside of you would probably take the cake on 'Worst Things That Could Possibly Happen To One Person' and still have leftovers for 'Unluckiest Bastard In The Universe'.

Still, Naruto Kal-El Uzumaki doesn't believe in luck, or fate, or 'bad things just happen'. He believes in making his own fate and protecting those he cares about, and that's it. He never goes back on his word and always tells the truth and will one day become Hokage, and perhaps something more as well.

Naruto's story begins in a star system far, far away a long time ago. On the planet Krypton, a scientist named Jor-El made a startling discovery. His planet, the planet of Krypton, was going to blow up. The core had become unstable, and the radiation from their red giant sun wasn't helping matters any. He did everything he could to find absolute proof one way or the other, that he was wrong or that the planet really was going to blow up and that they had enough time to evacuate everyone to safety.

He was, unfortunately, unable to prove either, as his data was not understood for what it truly meant, so nobody acted in time to save any number of the population. And it wouldn't matter anyway, since according to his calculations there wouldn't be enough time to save everyone. In fact, he only had enough time to save one person. His only son, Kal-El. He was blond like his mother, a surprise since the men of the House of El usually were dark haired, but he had his own blue eyes.

The day he was going to test the prototype escape pod, able to enter and exit hyperspace with a brand new computer and power source, was the last day Krypton had. There was no time, no other ship, no other way, so Jor-El and his wife Lara sent their only son to a distant planet to save his life and give him a chance to make a difference in the universe.

Unfortunately, it was a prototype ship, and it exited the hyperspace window at a slightly different angle than it had originally been programmed with, so it did not land where it was supposed to have on the planet known as Earth by the inhabitants, nor did it land when it was supposed to either.

Instead of October of 1989 and the continent of North America in Kansas, it landed in October of 1990 in South East Asia in the hidden Elemental Country of Fire, Hi no Kuni, near the Hidden Ninja Village of Konoha. Accompanied by a meteor shower of course.

The meteors killed many civilians and even a few unfortunate, unguarded shinobi in the first five minutes. Thankfully after that, everyone was evacuated to the shelters and the meteor storm only lasted a total of fifteen minutes. In the aftermath, the meteors were all gathered into one spot and then sealed away by the Hokage, Minato Namikaze.

At the same time, Minato himself, alongside his wife Kushina discovered something that was most definitely not a meteor. It was young Kal'El's escape pod, and upon the Hokage approaching it scanned him briefly before opening up to its precious cargo. Minato and Kushina immediately took the child and claimed him as theirs before Minato's predecessor, the Third Hokage Hiruzen Sarutobi. Sarutobi and Minato hid away the spaceship, alongside the scrolls containing all of the meteors that had fallen, and Minato and Kushina named the child Naruto.

The day after the meteor shower, the Kyuubi no Kitsune was unleashed upon Konoha.

It took most of the day for the ninja to lead the demon beast away from the center of the village, and they were mostly spared due to the fact that the Kyuubi was disoriented, like it was in some kind of trance. That did not take away from it's anger, killing intent, or the destruction it caused by just releasing it's chakra. By that night, Minato had come to a horrible decision.

He could not ask of the village that which he was not willing to give of himself, and he was the Hokage, he was supposed to put the needs of the village above everything else.

In other circumstances, Kushina would have been severely weakened, if not outright dead from giving birth to her only son. In these circumstances, Kushina played the prank that saved her husband's life and her adopted child's soul. At the exact same moment that Minato summoned the Shinigami to seal the Kyuubi, Kushina, Hiruzen and his wife all performed the same summoning at the exact same time, each in a different location, but all willing the Kyuubi sealed away.

The Shinigami, amused at this seemingly desperate sacrifice, had several options open to Him. The first was that He could take all four souls and seal the Kyuubi as bid. The second would be that He could instead take a portion of each summoner's soul and replace it by an equal portion of the Kyuubi's, separating and sealing the demon fox's power into five different hosts. The last option, was that He could ignore them and let the humans deal with the Kyuubi without Him.

He was sorely tempted to go with that last option, until He noticed who it was that they wanted Him to seal the Kyuubi into. He decided to consult with His Sisters, the Fates, and upon hearing Their answer, made His own decision. Without taking any bit of the four summoners souls, he consumed the Kyuubi and then allowed the blond human to seal the demon beast's soul and chakra into the seal of the young Kryptonian child that would one day save the world and bring peace to the Elemental Nations.

He did require some payment, however, and he took it in the form of the other two summoners, the Sarutobi's. One year to the day after the Kyuubi attack, they were both taken by the Shinigami. It was a quiet, peaceful death and their last year had been spent in celebration of their lives. The other two, however, were not left without their own form of payments. The woman, flowing red hair and chaotic personality, had her chakra sealed away, never again to perform another ninjutsu, no matter what. She could never be a ninja after that.

The man that had first summoned him, the Hokage, however was given a very fitting payment marker. He was marked by Death Itself, and after several nights of nightmarish dream conversations, Minato Namikaze became the Avatar of Death, the Shinigami made flesh.

It wasn't as bad as it sounded. All it really meant was that Minato could now see and talk to spirits, see when someone was about to die and if they're meant to or not, and maintain the balance between the living and the dead and occasionally be possessed by the Shinigami when He needed a vacation.

For little Naruto, however, he grew up in much the same way as he was meant to, both as Naruto Uzumaki, and Kal'El of Krypton. He grew up knowing the love of his parents and they taught him to love and respect all life and to be a good man and a good ninja. Unfortunately, at the same time, (in order to protect him and Kushina from the Hokage's enemies he was given his mother's maiden name), he was hated and despised by the village because of the few that refused to see a little boy, but the Kyuubi no Kitsune that had attacked their home and was "responsible" for the death of their Hokage, even if the Sarutobi's had died a year after.

As the years passed, some things changed, others stayed the same. The peace treaty with Kumo was a cover for a kidnapping attempt on Hinata Hyuuga, but Minato refused to turn over Hiashi or Hizashi, threatening to 'come out of retirement' by choosing his successor and going to the front lines of the war until he was standing in the Raikage's office with a Rasenshuriken! (He'd had time to perfect and develop several variations of his personal jutsu the Rasengan)

The Uchiha Clan planned a coupe to take over control of Konoha, and the Elders of the Council likewise planned to have them slaughtered by one of their own. Minato was approached by this one and instead of compromising, he told his wife, who did one better. One week after Itachi confessed to the Hokage what his family was planning, all the men were sleeping on the couch, the children were sleeping over at 'friends' houses and Madara Uchiha lost his arm when Minato confronted him the night the Uchiha Massacre was to have happened.

Fugaku Uchiha, father of Itachi and Sasuke, was brought up on charges of sedition and treason, and then let off with a warning. The next morning, every single one of the conspirators was found to have committed 'unaided' seppuku. It was never investigated whether it was true suicide or a cover-up for murder.

The Uchiha Clan lost it's standing as the top-ranked clan in Konoha, but it still existed.

The one thing that really stayed the same was that Sasuke Uchiha was the Rookie of the Year for his graduating class, while Naruto Uzumaki was the Dead Last.