Life Of Yoshi

Yoshi = 3, Naruto = 0

I was merely three when I had my first life changing event. It had started like any other day for the most part, as much as it could be for a three year old in a Shinobi Village following their heavily pregnant mother around. I had been excited because I had been allowed to have my chakra unlocked the day before and would be learning the basics from my Father once he finished with his paperwork. Then my mother went into labour.

My name is Yoshirou Namikaze, son of Minato Namikaze and the deceased Kushina Uzumaki, elder brother to Naruto Namikaze. This is the story of how I clawed my own path in life in an unforgiving world.

RDR

I rubbed my face as I glared up at the broken wreck that was once my Father. The soft amused smiles were gone forever replaced with a stone mockery of the man that was currently twisted into a rage. I had only been changing my brother, something the maid refused to do when Minato wasn't around, and had been startled when Minato had appeared in the room causing me to throw the talcum powder into the air. Minato hadn't been amused that it landed on his favoured son hence the smack to my face.

"Is that all you need, Hokage-sama?" I asked with bite while Naruto cried from the atmosphere in the room. Despite being two he was quite empathic when these things happened around him.

"Sensei?" A familiar voice said from the doorway making us turn to see a stunned Kakashi being flanked by a horrified Gai.

"Kakashi…" Minato said unable to meet his eyes. "Let's talk in my study." He then left with his stunned student following him. I stopped rubbing my face and attended to Naruto who sniffled as he buried his face into my chest.

"How often does that happen?" Gai said stone faced himself, which was quite odd given that he was usually always smiling or showing some other emotion. I merely looked at him which made him grimace. "I believe that you will be joining the Academy soon."

"Yes, it is what my Mother would have wanted. I just wish I didn't have to leave Naruto alone with the maid. She's an idiot." I said with a slight smile before it turned to a frown. If I could I would have brought Naruto with me to the Academy but the Sensei said I couldn't. "I will need to work hard to catch up with the Clan children."

"Your Father hasn't been teaching you?" He asked sounding flabbergasted making me sigh.

"Aside from Leaf Sticking he has never given me a lesson. I have overheard him muttering about what he will be teaching Naruto though." I didn't care too much about Naruto being favoured, he was the only thing I had left of my Mother aside from what I saw in the mirror considering I had her face minus the jaw line, and with the way he was treated and the fox in his gut he needed all the help he could get. What better help could he get than the Yellow Flash. I turned back to him to see him finish writing something on a scroll that he then passed to me.

"That's filled with exercises, both physical and chakra, that you can do and expand upon yourself alongside a dietary guide. I would suggest you look up a style of taijutsu that would suit you so you know which parts to focus on more." I nodded, stunned at his generosity, before remembering that there were some Scrolls from Uzushiogakure in my Mother's old study that she told me about. I would grow strong to teach Naruto what I could and to defend him from things he couldn't beat by himself.

RDR

Yoshi = 5, Naruto = 2

"Was 'at?" Naruto asked as I looked through the scrolls of the Uzumaki Clan, which fortunately had resealing seals on it so I didn't have to worry about Minato or the maid reading them.

"These, little brother, are scrolls from the Uzumaki Clan, the Clan of our Mother." I said with a slight smile as I pulled him onto my lap. I didn't want Naruto to forget her so I grabbed the picture of us that was taken a few days before her death.

"Pr'ty." Naruto said in awe making me laugh.

"Yes, Mama was very Pretty." I pointed to Kushina. "That's Mama…" I pointed to my younger self. "…me…" I pointed to Kushina's pregnant stomach. "…and that's you."

"Mama et me?" Naruto asked in confusion making me laugh and shake my head.

"No she didn't eat you. When babies come along they're scared of the world so they hide inside their Mother's until they get too big for her to hold inside her. This was a few days before you got too big for Mama."

"Mama usom." Naruto said proudly before yawning making me laugh.

"Yes, she was awesome." I placed the picture back and laid him on my bed. "Now I think it is someone's nap time. Don't worry, I'm not going anywhere." He pouted as he rubbed his eyes before making himself comfortable and falling asleep. I allowed my smile to drop as I grabbed a letter that was hidden in the scrolls.

To my Dear Little Apple (My eye twitched at the hated nickname)

If you are reading this then I have died during the birth of Naruto, my little Fishcake. With any luck Minato is still alive to be a Father to you both, as flaky as he is he should be doing a good job. If he isn't I'll be sure to express my anger when he dies.

Either way I need you to be strong not just for your brother, as I have no doubt you currently are given how protective you were of me while I was pregnant, but I need you to be strong for yourself. I have no doubt that you will make me proud and that you will do your absolute best on everything you put your mind to.

At the bottom of this letter is a seal with two scrolls. The Yellow one, I'm assuming that Naruto takes after Minato like you take after me so don't let him take offence if he doesn't, is for Naruto and includes a letter like this as well as my personal items that I wish him to have. Please give him it when he is mature enough, I leave it up to you to decide.

The Red Scroll is my personal items that I want you to have. It includes the instructions of my kenjutsu style, the bokken I learnt with back in Uzushio and my personal sword, Benihime.

Yours truly, a loving and lucky mother

P.S. Be careful of the three prohibitions of Shinobi

Money, be careful of who you lend money to and put some in a savings account.

Women, be careful and find the one you can spend your life with. We women can be cruel creatures if we choose so.

Alcohol, only drink when you reach twenty and even then in moderation.

I laughed as tears ran down my face despite the smile on my face. It was good to have a reminder of the woman she was even if she had too much faith in Minato. I unsealed the scrolls at the bottom and then placed them in separate seals on the loose floorboard, pausing only to unseal the bokken. Just because it would take a while before I was ready to learn to use it didn't mean I couldn't get used to carrying it about. It helped that I felt the hum of her chakra in it as well.

RDR

Yoshi = 7, Naruto = 4

"…ninety-six, ninety-seven…" Naruto called out as I did push ups with him on my back. He had been in a sour mood since he learned that the Academy was slowly streamlined after the aftermath of the war and the Kyubi attack so he wasn't allowed to join the Academy until he was seven, my current age. "…ninety-eight, ninety-nine, one hundred."

"So this is where you got off to." A female voice said making Naruto jump off my back.

"Auntie!" Naruto shouted as he leapt into the arms of Mikoto Uchiha, my godmother and Kushina's best friend.

"Hello Naruto, I thought you would both be at the party." Mikoto said making me roll my eyes while Naruto scrunched up his.

"No offence to you Mikoto but I can't stand most of your Clan. I also don't want to listen to another argument about who's the better big brother between me and Itachi." I said getting up making her wince. Itachi had been fast tracked into being a Genin and was often on missions leading him to spend little time with Sasuke while I spent a few hours each day with Naruto before he was trained by Minato.

"They aren't that bad." Mikoto said making me deadpan at her. "Of all the things you had to get from Kushina…"

"With the exception of Fugaku, who only did it the first time we met, they all try and rub it in my face that I'm not considered a prodigy like Itachi." I said shaking my head. I could have aced the academy but instead I decided I would stick with it until I had done all four years and ensured I had a score of ninety percent on any test. "With the distrust of the Village they are becoming obsessed with their reputation which in turn is ruining it even more."

"Your Father doesn't help much either." She said with a sigh making me grimace. Since he didn't know who the Uchiha was that resulted in Kushina's death Minato didn't trust any of them anymore and it was something even the civilians had picked up on. "You're very observant for a seven year old."

"I spend a lot of time studying and one study is very nitpicky about details." I said without talking about the fact that I was learning Fuinjutsu from the Uzumaki Scrolls. I refused to rely on store bought seals that had a 1 in 10 chance of failing at the worst possible time. I was teaching Naruto how to read and write at a higher level just in case he wanted to learn it too.

"Can you come back to the party anyway? Itachi could do with someone to talk to other than Shisui and I'm sure Naruto wouldn't mind competing with Sasuke." I groaned as she said the magic words. Apparently she and Kushina had been very competitive with almost everything, they had different taste in men, and it had passed onto Naruto and Sasuke. I just knew I was going to have a headache tomorrow.

RDR

Yoshi = 9, Naruto = 6

"So what did you want to give me?" Naruto asked after I had picked him up from the house and taken him to the top of the Hokage monument.

"As you know, tomorrow I graduate from the Academy and the week after you will join it. I have already left all of my notes in your desk to help you with the theory side of things." I said with a slight smirk at his look of distaste. While I always had a lot of energy I wasn't brimming with it like he was which made it difficult for him to stay in one spot for more than an hour, and I got the feeling it wouldn't even be that once he realised how dry the Academy could be.

"Come on Yoshi, you didn't bring me here just to tease me about my inability to stay still." I allowed my smirk to become a smile as he nodded.

"True…as you know I will be finally be bearing Mama's sword. That leaves me with the notion of what to do with her bokken. I want you to have it." I held up my hand to keep any protests since he wasn't inclined for Kenjutsu, preferring Minato's kunai. "While you won't use it to learn Kenjutsu I want you to have it so you can use it to discipline idiots in your class, trust me when I say there will be many of them."

"But…" He protested before I grabbed his hand and wrote a storage seal on his wrist and sealed the bokken into it.

"I made this seal with a blood seal. Only you can unseal it, I can't and neither can Minato. Anyone can reseal it though just in case you over work yourself again." I said with a smile as I unsealed Benihime and strapped it onto my back before unsheathing it to show Naruto. "This is the blade that Mama used to defend us even before we were born. I will use it to defend us now that she is gone from this world but forever in our hearts." In response Naruto unsealed the bokken before blinking at it.

"It feels like you and a warm hug." He said in confusion making me smile at him.

"Those that imbue their chakra into an object that is treated a certain way like that bokken is. It was Mama's before it was mine so you feel us both. In fact I have an idea of how to get you to imprint your self on it as well without learning Kenjutsu." I said as I pulled out two square bits of paper that the Academy Sensei said would tell me my elemental affinity, he allowed me two because they were no longer teaching elemental theory at the academy. I had planned on doing it a little later but this would work out. I handed him a square. "Channel chakra into that."

"Okay~" He said giving me an odd look before it split in half. I smiled and channelled chakra into mine only for it to burst into flames.

"Your element is wind, the most balanced of the five, while mine is fire, the most offensive of the five. I will ask Sensei for tips so you can get started. Once you can make a clean cut on a leaf then I want you to apply a coating of wind to the blade of the bokken so you can use it like a real sword. You can also then use it on your kunai to throw it better as it cuts through the air."

"What about Fire then?" He asked curious about my element.

"While Wind cuts Fire burns or heats things up. A sword imbued with wind will be able to cut through almost anything while fire will heat up whatever it comes into contact with making it easier to cut through. It isn't quite as good as lightning or wind with a weapon but it is better than water or earth, water tends to lessen the impact of things while earth merely strengthens the blade." At his look I shrugged. "It was covered in the Kenjutsu Scroll Mama left us. If you get good enough with your element then you could add it to your non-element Jutsu."

"You mean like Dad's Rasengan?" He asked in awe making me nod before giving him a serious look.

"While you could the Rasengan is dangerous enough on its own. Learn how to imbue it into other Jutsu first and only try when I say you can. Minato and Kakashi both have failed to add an element to the Rasengan but I have no doubt you will succeed."

"Don't you want to learn the Rasengan?" He asked making me shake my head.

"No, I have something else in mind that will be mine even if others can learn to do it." Uzushio had a lot on the Bijuu and I planned to use that.