Sorry I haven't posted anything in awhile, got snipped so I was laid up and sore. Anyways, some of you may remember this from when it was actually on this site. I finished the story out on my personal site.

Naruto Uzumaki x Ino Yamanaka

OP Naruto

AU

Minato Alive, Kushina Dead

Chapter 1: The Team

There was a happy go lucky kid, a young blond teen that had just achieved his rank of Genin. He had finally passed the Academy exiting exam after 4 years there. It wasn't that he couldn't do the jutsus to pass, but that his father, the 4th Hokage, had requested that he stay longer. Wanting the young man to learn more about the history of Konohagakure and other basic ninja arithmetic.

This boy, Naruto Namikaze, had a large smile as he held onto his Leaf headband. He was looking at it with a proud face, excited about his milestone achievement. With this he was now officially a ninja of Konohagakure just like his father is and like his mother used to be before her passing, 'Look out dad, I am coming for the mantle of Hokage sooner then you think!'

Continuing to wear that large smile on his face he exited the exam room, tying it too his forehead tightly as he did. Touching the leaf marking on his headband with his fingertips he smiled even larger then watched as the last person too take the test was walking past him. The platinum blond teen girl had a determined look on her face as she looked ahead at the exam room, "Hey Ino! Good luck!"

She ignored him, just as she always seemed to do making him sigh, she was one of those girls that was obsessed with Sasuke Uchiha. Naruto watched as she walked into the exam room muttering good luck again as he walked away, they had actually once been the best of friends. Their fathers were close friends, their mothers had been close when his was still alive. Plus when they would meet up every month at each others houses she would be nice to him then, 'Maybe she is ashamed to be my friend?'

Pushing the thought from his head he got a determined look on his face again. Breaking into a full on sprint he rushed to the Hokage Office, wanting to show his father. Wanting to show that not only had he passed, he was now a full fledged shinobi. Naruto ran through the village and into the Hokages Office building, rushing past the secretary before busting through the door, surprising his father a little, "I DID IT DAD!"

Pointing at his headband he had a smile that reminded his father of Kushina, Naruto's deceased mother. Minato looked up from his papers he was resorting after being startled too smile at his son, "Good job Naruto, now tomorrow you will meet your Jounin-sensei. I wonder who you will be getting?"

Sitting in the chair opposite of his father Naruto smirked, "I hope that I get a strong teacher like you dad, also a wind user who can help me with developing my wind elemental training."

Minato smiled at his son, truth be told he had really wanted to be the Sensei for his team but he knew that he couldn't. There just wasn't enough time to split the responsibilities of Hokage and Sensei unfortunately. To make up for that though Minato had requested the next best thing, at least in his mind. It had required him to cash in a couple of personal favors to get the man but he was satisfied with the fact that he had, "No matter who it is you need to be respectful Naruto."

Sighing at the way his father said that, leading him to belive his teacher wouldn't have a wind element. Sulking in the chair for a moment before shooting up straight, "Too celebrate me graduating can we go to Ichiraku Ramen!?"

Minato smiled and nodded his head as he finished up the last of his papers for the evening, though there would be more in the morning, damn paperwork. The Yondaime looked over at Naruto, "Lets see how much faster your Flying Thunder God Jutsu has gotten Naruto."

With a smile and a nod of his head they both smirked then just like that the two disappeared as Minato arrived at Ichiraku a mere second before Naruto did, "You've been practicing, that is good Naruto, though still not as fast as your old man."

Smiling at his father as they went into the ramen shop and sat down on their favorite stools, "I still need to get better at making the seal with my chakra though, I just can't seem to get my formula right. I know that I am missing something, probably something basic too, it can be infuriating."

Naruto looked at his kunai that hung inside of the ramen shop next to his fathers. The owners had allowed them to place them there since they ate here so often, "I just know that I am missing something... I will have to read my scrolls again."

Smiling at his sons determination he looked at the boy. He reminded him so much of Kushina when he got determined like that. Minato had hid nothing from Naruto about the day his mother died. He knew that he contained the 9 Tails, he knew his mother died saving him from the Kyuubi and he knew that the Kyuubi was being used that day. Naruto had only had one conversation with the Kyuubi though, that was too see if he could access the Kyuubis chakra like his father said he could. Through that conversation Naruto found the 9 Tailed Fox a rude and irritating creature.

As the bowls of ramen were placed down in front of them, they both busted into large grins. They started to eat their food and Naruto drew a kunai as he ate. The fact that he couldn't get the seal to work through chakra touch was driving him insane, he pressed his finger to the counter. After a brief moment a seal appeared then he put the kunai next to it. Comparing the two while he ate Naruto thought about the differences, he had hand written the seal on the kunai with ink infused with his chakra, that is how he knew it worked and he compared it to the seal on the counter.

It only took Minato a brief look to know what the mistake was, but he wouldn't tell Naruto what it was. Th boy was now a full fledged shinobi and he wanted Naruto to figure it out on his own, he wouldn't be there on missions to help him out after all. Besides, Naruto had done good at understanding the rasengan so Minato had faith that Naruto would be able to figure this out on his own. Naruto let out a groan as he looked back at his ramen, "Gah! I will figure this out eventually."

Minato smiled as they finished eating and they both flashed home to the Namikaze Clan Estate. Naruto instantly going into the study and opening up his scroll on the Flying Thunder God Jutsu. He read the scroll a couple more times before picking it up and heading outside. He looked over the scroll one more time then put his hand on a blank kunai, placing his seal onto it and threw it at a tree, "This time it will work."

Closing his eyes he tried to teleport to the kunai but failed. Letting out a loud scream due to frustration he sat on the ground while rubbing his head. The loud yelling had made it so Minato walked outside, looking and seeing that his son was clearly frustrated he sighed, "Want to know where your messing up on your seal Naruto?"

Shaking his head no he looked over at Minato, "No thank you, I want to figure it out on my own, you can't be there to help me for the rest of my life Dad."

Giving his son a nod of understanding he sat down too watch Naruto think. The young blond boy grabbed a piece of paper and wrote out a seal onto it. Throwing the piece of paper into the air he concentrated before flashing to it catching it in air, landing gracefully back on the ground, "I know I have the seal right in my mind, it has to be with my chakra control then.."

Minato smiled as Naruto was slowly figuring it out, truthfully he was putting to much chakra into his seal. If Naruto would just let it flow off of instinct rather then trying to force it then the seal would work for him perfectly fine. Touching another blank kunai Naruto took a breath and put a seal on it, though he didn't force it as much. He threw it up in the air and then tried to use his jutsu but it failed again. Naruto felt that there was something different that time though.. there was a tug but the jutsu just didn't initialize.

The Yondaimes smile got even larger as he saw Naruto was getting it, he had put less chakra into it and he felt the jutsu want to work but not able to go. He knew that with that knowledge that Naruto would be able to get it. Pulling out another blank kunai, Naruto applied the most minimal amount that he could before throwing it into the air. Naruto initialized the jutsu, flashing to the kunai before he caught it and turned too throw it at the ground. When the kunai stabbed into the ground he flashed from where he was falling and touched down on the ground and smiled, "I DID IT!"

Clapping for his son Minato beamed proudly, proud that his son wasn't just a massive ball of chakra with no brains, "You get it now, that you don't need a lot of chakra to use the technique but its something unique to our clan since we use seals inherited from your mothers clan. Your middle name is actually for your mothers clan, Naruto Uzumaki Namikaze, but that is a discussion for another day. Now then, you should go and get some sleep so that you can be nice and rested for meeting your team tomorrow, you will be surprised to see who your Sensei is."

Minato said the last part with a chuckle making Naruto worry. Naruto didn't like the sound of this at all, his fathers jokes were always so over the top that made them not funny, they weren't even in the atmosphere of funny usually. Knowing his luck he got someone who would drive him crazy to be his Sensei. Naruto just sighed and nodded, he gave his father a hug before heading inside, "Night dad, see you tomorrow." Naruto went and laid down and quickly fell asleep as he always did.

When he woke up the next day he got dressed in his ninja apparel. He wore a white shirt that has orange stripes up the sides and down his shoulders as well as having his wrists taped in white bandages. He wore black fingerless gloves with a steel plate on it as well as wearing black ninja pants with kunai holsters on both legs and a pouch on his belt. On top of that he wore a black overcoat with a crimson red Uzumaki swirl on his back. The last piece of ninja attire being a sword that the 3rd Hokage had given him, having sentimental value to the boy, since he was like a grandfather to him, "Alright, I am all ready to go now."

Naruto ran out of his room and ate breakfast with his father quickly before they both looked at the time. After a brief moment of panic by both of them they flashed away to their respective places, Minato to work and Naruto to the Academy to get assigned to his future team.

Iruka, the man who had taught them through their years at the Academy, stood in the front of the class waiting. Naruto sat in the back of the class bored out of his mind, Iruka had told them they had to wait for all the graduating students and the Uchiha had yet to show up, 'Pretentious ass, just because of his last name he thinks he can do whatever he wants.'

The door finally slid open after another 30 minutes and Iruka looked too see Sasuke standing there with his usual 'I am too good to be here' look on his face. Iruka told him to sit down and then looked at everyone and announced that they would begin announcing teams. Naruto started to pay attention as Iruka finally started to announce the teams and looked over at Sasuke, 'Kami, please don't put me on his team, I might just kill him... nah, I definitely would.'

Iruka got through going over all the rules of being a shinobi and looked at the graduating students and announced Teams 1-6 and then there were only 9 new Genin left too be assigned to their team, "Team 7 consists of Sasuke Uchiha, Sakura Haruno and..."

Naruto started to silently say a prayer to not say his name. Not only would that team of Sasuke but with the other most annoying person he had ever met in Sakura Haruno. He knew he would try to kill them both, or himself, just something to make it end. Sakura and her annoying fan girl crap would drive him up a wall. Then there is Sasuke and he always just irritated him beyond belief for some reason. Naruto listened closely as he waited for Iruka too say the last name, "...Choji Akimichi!"

Smiling as he silently thanked Kami, swearing that he would repay her for this someday as Iruka continued, "Team 8 consists of Shino Aburame, Hinata Hyuga and Shikamaru Nara!"

There was a cheer from Shikamaru, cheering happily that he didn't have a loud team. Naruto smiled and couldn't help but chuckle at that, Shikamaru was one of his few friends. He didn't really understand why he didn't have many friends, but his dad had said that someday people would beg to be his friend, though Naruto always chalked that up as usual parenting lines. Iruka then looked around at the remaining 3 Genin, "Team 10 consists of Kiba Inuzuka, Ino Yamanaka and Naruto Namikaze!"

Ino let out a loud groan as Iruka said Narutos name, making him sink into his seat a bit, he really had no idea why his oldest friend hated him so much now. He really didn't think that he had ever done anything to her personally, not on purpose at least. Iruka spoke up louder, regaining everybodies attention, as he told everyone where too meet their senseis and he finished with the first 6 Teams, "Team 7 your on the roof, Team 8 your at the sparring pit and Team 10 you stay here."

Dismissing all the student, Iruka and everyone else slowly left the room except for Kiba, Ino and Naruto. As they sat there quietly waiting for their sensei the blond boy was looking out the window, 'So I got one friend on my team and then someone who can't stand me in public for some reason.. could have been worse I suppose...'

They waited longer and longer, Naruto feeling like they had waited far to long to be honest, before finally a man entered into the classroom. Looking over to see who it was that his father had assigned to train their team he groaned and slammed his head against the table. Everyone in the room looked at him as he complained loudly, "Oh Kami.. please anyone but you... I wanted a real Sensei..."

The other two Genin looked at the white haired man at the front of the room as he smiled, "Naruto? So my godson is on my team huh? No wonder your dad asked me to come back and be a Sensei for one more team. Guess he wanted someone who could help you progress and become awesome like me."

Making a groaning sound as he sat there with his head against the desk still, hoping for it to be a nightmare, that he fell asleep waiting for his sensei. Finally he looked up again and saw Jiraiya still standing there with his usual confident smile, "Damn, I was really hoping that I had fallen asleep while waiting for a real teacher to show up."

Frowning at the boy his eyes shifted from Naruto over to the other members of his team with a smile on his face. His eyes went back over to his godson, "Naruto! Come up here so we can get started already!Okay, lets start with the get to know me part. I am Jiraiya, the Legendary Toad Sage! My interests are doing my research..."

Rolling his eyes as he looked at his godfather Naruto muttered loudly under his breath, "All you do is peep on women you old pervert."

Clearing his throat and throwing another glare in the direction of his godson, "Anyways... my dislikes are being caught and when my godson is acting like a little pain in the ass. My dream is too one day bring peace to this world."

Returning the glare back at his godfather, who was now conveniently ignoring him, Jiraiya motion for Kiba to do his introduction, "I am Kiba Inuzuka of the Inuzuka Clan, I like dogs, like Akumaru here, and I dislike cats. I would have to say that my dream is too make the Inuzuka Clan one of the most prestigious clans in not only the village but the whole shinobi world!"

Nodding his head Jiraiya noted that the boy seemed ambitious, something that wasn't a bad thing. He then looked at and pointed at Ino to have her start her introduction, "I am Ino Yamanaka of the Yamanaka Clan, I like Sasuke-kun and flowers. I HATE Naruto and people who destroy flowers for no reason, my dream is to be Sasukes wife."

Shrinking in his seat a bit again as she put emphasis on the word hate Naruto looked down. Now she didn't just ignore him, but she openly hated him with a passion it seemed. The worst part was he still had no idea what he had done but started his introduction as Jiraiya pointed at him, "I am Naruto Namikaze of the Namikaze Clan, I like ramen and training and I dislike Sasuke and people who don't give others a chance, my dream is too succeed my father as the Hokage."

Jiraiya smiled and nodded at the three of them, "Okay, now we get to the fun part, tomorrow at 8 AM at the Team 10 Training Ground we will be taking the test to see if I accept you as my team, until then you're dismissed."

The newly formed Team 10 walked out of the Academy as a team only to find that Sasuke was standing there waiting for them, "I heard you bad mouthing me dobe, I have gotten tired of you."

Looking around he saw that the overzealous Uchiha was clearly speaking to him. Naruto sighed as he rubbed his neck, "I suppose you want to fight then right? Then we will need a Sensei here to referee the fight.."

All of a sudden there was a silver haired man standing there with his headband over his left eye and a mask that covered his face up to the top of his nose, "I am Kakashi Hatake, Jounin-sensei of Team 7 and will proctor the fight, first rule is always introductions."

Sasuke stood there and smiled as he acted all tough and unbeatable as the girls looked at him with admiration in their eyes, some of them even drooling, "I am Sasuke Uchiha!"

Naruto stood there with a bored look on his face and let a small yawn escape him as Kiba, Shikamaru and Choji all cheered him on, "Hello Uncle... I am Naruto Namikaze... let's get this over with..."

Putting his hand up Kakashi looked at both of the new genin then signaled for them to begin. Sasuke charged at Naruto and threw a completely obvious punch at him. Naruto simply pushed the punch away putting his seal on Sasukes hand and then smacked him on the back putting another seal on his back. The blond boy couldn't help but smirk as he knew that it was already over with the placement of those seals.

Sasuke turned to try and throw another punch at Naruto but Naruto flashed away using his Flying Thunder God. Leaping into the air, he delivered a hard roundhouse kick into Sasukes cheek. This hit sent Sasuke into the dirt as Naruto stood there looking at him. Sasuke quickly got back on his feet charging at him again, though it was quickly dealt with as Naruto repeated the same sequence of moves.

The more they fought the more Sasuke was getting infuriated by Naruto who was frankly just toying with Sasuke, something that the Uchiha was able to tell. That was when Sasuke quickly went for a kunai and tried to stab Naruto who used his jutsu to teleport away again. Naruto drew his blade and put it to Sasukes neck, he was bored of this and frankly just wanted to be done dealing with the Uchiha, "Surrender."

Everyone was in shock that Naruto had beat Sasuke and then Kakashi announced that Naruto was the winner. Naruto sheathed his blade from the Sandaime and smiled at the other Genin. Sasuke glared at him and then he realized that all of Sasukes fan girls were glaring at him as well before he let out a long and annoyed sigh, 'He challenged me but they get mad at me.'

Naruto said nothing as he disappeared and went home, he wasn't in the mood to deal with the angry Sasuke fan girls, he would have to deal with it later that night anyways he was sure.