Disclaimer :- I don't own Naruto, but wish that I did.

I didn't know what I was expecting when I woke up after accidentally ODing on Amphetamines belonging to my stupid addict of a sister, which I had mistaken for my painkillers, due to the recent surgery I had gotten for a heart problem.

" Whelp! How the hell do you mistake drugs for your painkillers, you idiot? " a tiny voice screamed in my head.

" Oi! inner me! , how the hell was I supposed to know that that stupid brat would hide her drugs in my nearly empty pill bottle, to hide from mom. And I really was in a lot of pain, and I never really had a tolerance for even alcohol, never mind drugs. " I shouted back mentally.

As I looked around me at my surroundings, which was still a shock, as I fully expected to never again wake up, as I am a medical student doing Residency in Bombay, and I knew that along with my heart condition, a drug overdose was lethal to me, no questions asked.

But I was still not able to comprehend why I was feeling as if my body had been feeling downsized. But I just chalked it up to feeling disoriented from the drug overdose and was sure that it would pass as I recovered. And I was about to go back to sleep as I felt like a herd of rhinos were trampling through it, but it was still better than being dead.

Well, I guess that I was somehow, I was thinking as I congratulated myself, when I saw the most beautiful woman I had ever seen walking into my room, with a grumpy expression on her face.

" Well brat, I see you finally woke up. You slept for long enough " she said.

" Who are you and where the hell am I? " I asked bluntly, while stuttering slightly, as I couldn't understand why I was currently speaking in Japanese, which I had not spoken for quite some time since I had learnt it as an optional in college and so my grasp on the language was quite rusty. And was wondering why the busty blonde lady who looked familiar somehow, was speaking to me in Japanese, while in a hospital in India. I was wondering where my mom was?

" Where else would you be. You are in Konoha, of course. You were injured in a spar in the academy and have been in a coma for nearly two months ", the blonde lady said.

" Konoha, academy! " I muttered out aloud in incomprehension, as I wondered if I was in a drug induced hallucination, as I finally recognised the blonde lady as Tsunade Senju, the Godaime Hokage herself and of course the bustiest lady this side of the world.

" I didn't end up in a self insert fic did I? " I asked myself mentally, as this sounded like a self insert fic that he had been wanting to write about Percy Jackson, after reading a lot of such fics lately while he had been recovering from his illness.

" Did I somehow end up in the Naruto universe. If so, then whoever did it is an asshole. I hate this. I never watched Naruto beyond the Sasuke retrieval arc. And unless you are extraordinarily powerful, you are bound to end up dead quite easily in this universe. I wonder whose idea of a joke this was."

"And I don't even have any advantage like future knowledge or photographic memory, to help me in this cutthroat shinobi business. And I don't even have any recollection of any jutsu. All I know that is useful to my current situation is that I know very well where to hit a person on his body, to kill him or to incapacitate him, and that was due to my medical training. And I don't even know where in the Naruto timeline I even ended up in. And I didn't even receive any memories from whichever body I ended up in, so I can't even pretend to be someone else. Maybe it is best if i pretend to have memory loss ", I wondered as my brain was working overtime to process all the new circumstances that I had found myself in, all the while I tried to put on a confused expression on my face, so as to not let Tsunade know that I recognised what she was talking about.

" I just hope that I didn't end up as Naruto, as I absolutely hate his character. As it is opposite to my character in many ways. Unlike that mentally retarded and eternally cheerful brat, I am an introvert and I like studying, unlike Naruto, whom I doubt even knows how to read. And unlike that idiot, I don't try to make nice with enemies. If someone like Sasuke tried to kill me, then I would have killed him, not try to reason with him, like that idiot did. I just hoped that I was not a main character, s that I could become a medic nin and be safe ".

" It is as we feared, Tsunade sama. He doesn't seem to have any recollection of anything", a slightly plain looking brown haired woman who had entered the office along with Tsunade, said.

" You are right, Shizune. It does seem like the psyche destruction jutsu, malfunctioned and instead made him a blank slate by wiping out his memories. This is going to be difficult for him, especially with the way he is treated by the villagers. We can't predict how he would now react to all that negative attention focussed on him. Previously he used to goof off and play pranks to relieve some of his loneliness, but now we are essentially dealing with a new person" , Tsunade whispered to Shizune, so as to not let her patient hear the worry in her voice, at her helplessness to improve his situation, as while she could do a lot to help him, she was not permitted to do so.

" Hey Lady, who are you, and where am I, and for that matter, who the hell am I? " I asked, in order to try to establish my amnesia routine.

And hearing my question seems to have confirmed Tsunade's doubts, as she smiled at me with a pity filled expression as she said.

" Well, it seems that a classmate of yours used a jutsu which she had spied on and it caused your current state ", Tsunade explained.

" What the hell is a jutsu? And how can it cause memory loss in me? " I asked, even though I had a slight inkling that a Yamanaka was involved, as to the best of my knowledge only they had any kind of mind altering jutsu.

" A jutsu is any kind of technique using Chakra ", Tsunade answered, and then she had to give me a brief summary of Chakra, different type of Shinobi arts, different elemental nations, the presence of shinobi, the different shinobi ranks and also about the shinobi academy, and my current placement in the first year of the academy", Which was definitely useful for me at present.

" You didn't tell me what my name was? " I questioned, while secretly glad that I was not Naruto, as I had seen my reflection in a mirror placed yo my side, and I looked to be about eight years of age, with beautiful auburn hair which reached my shoulders and bright purple eyes.

" Well brat, your name is Naruto. And before you ask, you don't have any surname, as you are an orphan, and we have no idea who your parents are", Tsunade answered, sending Naruto into another confusion, as he couldn't remember any other Naruto and he sure as hell knew that Naruto had Uzumaki as a surname.

" Oh god! please don't have sent me into an alternate universe. Please! Please! Please! " I mentally begged, as I imagined what kind of Lovecraftian universe I had been sent to. And all the while I tried to maintain a stoic expression on my face.

But maybe I was not so successful as the brown haired lady immediately drew me into a soft hug as she mistook the anguish on my face for emotional pain at not even remembering my own name.

" There, there, Naruto kun. There is nothing to worry about. We will get you up to speed in a couple of weeks. And anyway, you still have a month of summer holidays to get back to speed, as the spar was on the last day of the academy year. And even if you are behind many of them, you still have another five years before you have to graduate, so you can make up, that is if you still want to be a shinobi ", she said as she rubbed circles on my back soothingly.

" I think that it is best if I continue as my past self was doing. So, yes I will go to the academy", I immediately answered, as I knew that I really didn't have any other option as soon as I heard that my name was Naruto and it was not possible for him to be a side character.

Tsunade immediately set about checking him over with a soft green glow emanating from her palms, which I could somehow sense, which I made a point to check up later, as being a sensor would be a great boon for me.

" What is that green glow? I can somehow sense it giving off a gentle colling sensation in my mind? " I asked.

" Now that is unexpected. There was no mention in your file about you having any talent as a sensor. But we will look into it later. What you are sensing is healing chakra basically. And you are apparently a sensor, who is someone who can sense chakra. It is a very usual ability, but will take a lot of work for you to master. Now you are completely fine, but will have to work out daily, as your muscles have atrophied a little due to being bedridden for nearly two months. Shizune will take you to your apartment and get a few groceries for you. And I want you to come to the hospital atleast once per week and meet either me or Shizune, as we will have to monitor your health. Now scram! " Tsunade said.

And saying that, Shizune offered to take Naruto back to his apartment, and after Naruto left the room, with a promise to check in at the hospital once per week.

Naruto's apartment :-

As I took stock of Naruto's apartment, or my apartment I guess, only one thought came to my mind.

" This place is a shithole! ".

There were empty ramen cups and dirty clothes strewn all over the floor. And the apartment itself was just one small bedroom and a small worktable, a couch, a fridge and a small stove along with a small cupboard for groceries.

I decided to first clean the apartment before making any future plans, as I had always been something of a neat freak.

And the next hour was spent cleaning the apartment thoroughly, including the washroom which didn't even have a working hot water connection. And then I set about washing my dirty clothes, which thankfully for me didn't consist of that godawful orange jumpsuit, as it seems like Naruto had still not bought that eyesore yet.

And then I cleared out the fridge and stocked it with a few groceries that Shizune had bought for him.

Seeing that my apartment was in pristine condition as much as possible, I finally took a seat at the small work table and started sorting through the six textbooks present on it.

He first started going through the history book in order to make sense of the universe he had found himself in.

Everything seemed the same as far as he knew, which was not saying much. But still the main events seemed the same, like Hashirama Senju fighting Madara Uchiha, Tobirama Senju dying at the hands of the Kinkaku and Ginkaku force, Sarutobi Hiruzen becoming Third Hokage and leading Konoha to victory in two Shinobi wars, the formation if the Sannin, and Minato Namikaze becoming the Yellow Flash and winning the Third shinobi war for Konoha and becoming the Fourth Hokage. Even Orochimaru's betrayal was the same. And the Uchiha massacre had not yet happened, though I had no idea when it actually happened.

But what shocked me was finding out that while the Kyuubi was somehow defeated by the combined efforts of the Fourth Hokage, the Third Hokage, Jiraiya and Tsunade, with help from a Kushina Uzumaki, who was apparently the wife of the Fourth Hokage. Minato had somehow survived and was still the Hokage, and he apparently had two daughters and a son with his wife. But that still did not tell him about why currently had red hair and purple eyes and was living as an orphan without even a surname.

But I forced it down, as though I couldn't ever forgive anyone for sacrificing another child to save your own child especially when you are a village leader, but I guessed that the Hokage thought that a boy would bear the hate of the village better than a girl. And I had already gotten a small dose of that hate while walking home with Shizune. And since apparently his wife who was an Uzumaki, survived, I guessed that they didn't name an orphan with an apparent clan name in their honour.

I had to control myself as I felt a tide of anger rising in me, which shocked me, as I am a pretty laid back guy. I could only assume that I was no longer completely Varun, but a combination of Varun and Naruto, as I could feel a lot of excess energy waiting to be burned in my body, making me feel jittery, which was unlike me. So but taking an average of our ages, I can say that I am around fourteen years in mental and emotional maturity, meaning that I would have to go through puberty again and deal with all those damn hormones and mood swings, again.

But with immense difficulty, I managed to calm myself down, as all that didn't matter now, as I didn't know anything about Naruto's background from the show. My current goal was reaching jounin level in five years. That is, by the time I turn thirteen.

If Itachi and Kakashi could do it, I didn't see any reason why I couldn't do it. But to do that, I would have to regularly skip the academy, except when it was time to do Taijutsu and Bukijutsu training, as everything else I could do on my own. I had a goal to atleast perfect the leaf sticking exercise by the time the academy started the next term in a month's time, as chakra control was something Naruto sucked at from the little bit of the show that I had seen and I knew three chakra control exercises, including one from the first year academy book I had glanced through. It was better if I started working on my chakra control from the beginning itself, so that I could make the most of my undoubtedly massive chakra reserves due to being the Kyuubi Jinchuriki. My goal was to atleast decently master the leaf sticking exercise by the time the academy started up again in a month's time.

Deciding to start my training the next day, I immediately went to sleep after having a light dinner consisting of some bread omelette. And I kept the alarm for early in the morning.

In the hospital after Naruto left :-

As Tsunade took a seat in her office, a red haired woman and a blonde haired man burst into her office.

" How is my baby boy, Tsunade? " the red haired woman asked in near hysterics, as the blonde haired man gave her a one armed hug and tried to calm her down, though the anguish was clear in his face too.

" He is fine for now, but he is suffering from amnesia which is most probably permanent. But it is nothing to worry about, as he is young in age and there is nothing important that he has forgotten, as even before this incident he was an orphan", Tsunade said snidely.

" Tsunade please, you know that we had no choice. We were in no position to defend Hiruko in our extremely weakened state. I am still no where near my best and Kushina is currently an elite jounin at best from the damage to our chakra coils. Sarutobi sama had to retire from the shinobi career entirely. We had to sacrifice Naruto's childhood for his sister, there was no other way. But don't think that I love my son any less for it ", Minato said an angry tone as his eyes turned into chips of ice.

" And before you claim that you could have raised him, everyone would have realises that he was our son if he was raised by you, as it is known that you are godmother to Hiruko. So please, just tell us how he is? " Minato pleaded with Tsunade.

" He will be fine eventually. I have an ANBU keeping an eye on his apartment. But I have found that he seems to have a sensor ability, which was no where reported in his academy files ", Tsunade said.

" It is to be expected. Both myself and Minato are highly capable sensors ", Kushina said calmly, as she had calmed down considerably after finding out that her son would be alright.

" And by the way how is that Yamanaka girl being punished? " Tsunade asked.

" I couldn't punish her as Naruto is technically a civilian and that girl is the Yamanaka clan heir. And so I can't be seen against that girl. She would be reprimanded at most by her father ", Minato said.

And immediately had to teleport out of the way as two golden chains speared into wall against which he had been standing.

" That bitch nearly killed my baby boy due to jealously because she lost the spar against him, and you let her go scott free. I wonder if you even care about your son, for all your heartfelt words ", Kushina ranted as she was restrained by Tsunade who had hugged her tightly after she had herself smashed her desk in anger.

" Please Kushina, I did the best that I could do. I can't alienate the Yamanaka clan head for Naruto, especially when it is not known that he is our son. And even then, she is the same age as our son and did it out of some misplaced priorities.I cant exactly send her to jail or kill her now, can I. Did Naruto ask about his attacker ", Minato asked as he pleaded with his wife and Tsunade to understand his actions.

" What would have happened if she had attacked Hiruko like that? " Tsunade asked, ignoring Minato's pleading for understanding from her and Kushina.

" She would have been kicked out of the shinobi program and had her chakra sealed at the least ", Minato answered before thinking and paled at the looks directed at him by both his wife and Tsunade.

" Dont you see the double standards in that, Minato? "Kushina asked him. She had hated having to give up her son, but she had been unconscious at the time it happened, and after she woke up Minato and Jiraiya had convinced her that it was in her daughter's beat interest to agree with their scheme. And she hated herself for agreeing with them, every day. Minato thought that the pain of basically losing their son would decrease when they had more children, but Kushina just felt like Minato was trying to replace their son somehow. If she had been as strong as she was before the Kyuubi attack, then she would have somehow gotten her son back, but her chakra coils had all been ruptured during the attack, and currently she was an Elite Jounin at best, while Minato was a Low to Mid S Ranked shinobi at best, as he couldn't continuously use his Hiraishin like before .

" I know what I am saying sounds like hypocrisy, but as a Hokage, the village comes first! " Minato said firmly, putting an end to this discussion. Although he knew that if his wife and Tsunade knew the real reason behind him favoring his daughter and using his son as a scapegoat, then they would kill him, no questions asked.

" And anyway I sensed a change in his persona after he woke up. His behavior used to be like Kushina before, but he seemed a lot more calm and collected after he woke up ", Tsunade said, when she saw that there was no use in arguing with Minato further.

" And no, he didn't ask anything about his attacker, but I guess that he will when he remembers that titbit and I don't know what to tell him when he asks if she was punished", Tsunade further said.

" Thanks Tsunade. I will see you later ", Kushina said as she departed, unable to stand her husband's presence any longer.

" Becoming Hokage, had softened him in her opinion. If before becoming Hokage, anyone had harmed her child like that, then Minato would have slaughtered them and here he was offering platitudes on behalf of the little bitch who had almost killed her son", Kushina thought in disgust as she left for their home.

And Minato followed her back out, resigned to sleeping on the couch for the foreseeable future.

And Tsunade simply removed a Sake bottle from her desk drawer, determined to forget her failure as a godmother, by getting thoroughly drunk. She just prayed to Kami, that she would get the chance to look after her godson. But what she didn't know was that some god had heard her heartfelt prayer and her wish would soon be granted.