Author's Note: Change In Personality is coming to a close, so this story is going to begin! Hope you enjoy Chapter 1! I took this story from Shiganshina Tales!

Bijuu talk/think

"Talking"

'Thinking'

Updated: 11/9/2024

It's another normal day in Konoha. The sun rose from the horizon, and people started their work like every day. It's been 12 years since the Kyuubi attacked Konoha out of nowhere, leaving the village with a large scar. The night the Kyuubi destroyed half of the village, it was ultimately defeated by Konoha's beloved Yondaime Hokage, Minato Namikaze.

According to the residents of Konoha, the Hokage made the Kyuubi an infant named Uzumaki Naruto. What they didn't know was that this Uzumaki Naruto is actually the legacy of the Yondaime, who has been protecting the village since his birth.

Nevertheless, no one accepted that he was protecting them, but he has been trying to get stronger every day he lives. He essentially became the scapegoat of Konoha. Even though he was hurt by everyone, he loved the village; he didn't want revenge but their acceptance that he is someone.

A couple of days ago, he was tricked by his academic sensei, Mizuki, and learned that the Yondaime sealed the Kyuubi inside him. He wanted to hate the man for doing that to him, but he told himself that he would gain nothing from hating a dead man.

Though that didn't stop him from cursing that man's name in front of the Sandaime. The aged man was horrified, thinking if Naruto started to hate his own father. If that were to happen, it would be his fault completely for not telling him who he actually is.

Well, the past is past. Today is a special day since Naruto Uzumaki will start his shinobi career as a genin.

Naruto woke up normally in his bed, but the shine in his eyes was a bit dull. His eyes roamed over his body as if he was examining himself. He held out his hand and tried to do something; the blue and green chakra started to swirl in his hand. The blue and green chakra swirled in his palm until it became a swirling sphere.

Naruto gazed at the ball of chakra for a few minutes before dispelling it, then staring at his empty palm. He suddenly jumped out of bed and stood in front of the mirror he had. He looked at himself in the mirror, and for some reason, he felt shorter. Ignoring his size, he ran his hand through his spiky blonde hair and then trailed it next to his blue eyes, which he remembered to be ocean blue but had become a piercing deep blue.

Then his fingers trailed on his cheeks, which had three whisker-like marks on each side. Naruto stayed still in front of the mirror before closing his eyes and focusing on something. When he opened his eyes again, the scenario in front of him changed to a very dusty and dark room.

With a single seal, a flame burst into his right palm, and with some single hand seals done by his left hand, he cleared the dust with a gust of wind released from his mouth. Upon clearing the dust, he saw a picture containing the smiling face of Konoha's yellow flash and a red-headed woman with a baby bump.

"Kushina… Looks like my wish to see my son as a hero didn't come true…" his whisper sounded unusually deeper, "But look, I'm reborn into our son's body… I don't know what happened... but I know someone who can answer me…"

He again closed his eyes to meditate, and within seconds, he found himself in a sewer with a cage in front of him. He saw his reflection in the water and noticed that he wasn't Naruto anymore; he was the man who supposedly died 12 years ago.

"Yondaime…" said a giant fox, who snickered, "You are entertaining me…"

"Kyubi, what do you know?" he narrowed his eyes at the nine-tailed demon fox.

"Hahaha… I know everything, but why should I tell you?" asked the fox. "Your confusion is entertaining me…"

"I see… Then I shall shut the seal completely like Kushina's," the Yondaime's eyes changed colors and received some marks over his eyes.

"Senjutsu…" muttered the fox, realizing that his plan to escape would fail if Minato did what he was saying. "Very well… I shall tell you…"

====Flashback: 12 years ago, the day of Naruto's birth and Kyuubi's attack====

"Snake - Boar - Ram - Rabbit - Rat - Bird - Horse - Snake…" Minato clapped his hands. "Sealing jutsu - Reaper Death Seal…" He felt a sudden numbness in his body as his soul left his body in the grip of the Reaper.

The Reaper stood still, gripping Minato's soul for the payment to summon him, as his summoner wanted to grab Kyuubi's soul. The Reaper did what Minato wanted and pulled Kyuubi's yin chakra into Minato, making him his Jinchuuriki.

In another hand, baby Naruto was in front of him crying while Kushina was trying to calm him down. Upon seeing this, Minato's heart broke completely for leaving his son as a Jinchuuriki, knowing what he would have to face without parents, but he knew his predecessor, sensei, and student would take care of him.

Even while seeing his son's face, he didn't want to die. He wanted to be selfish and stay beside his family to see him grow. At Minato's back, his soul was trying to leave the Reaper's grasp, going into Minato's body. His soul passed through his body and towards Naruto's soul.

When the Reaper saw Minato's soul was entering Naruto's body, he couldn't pull back. Despite the summoning contract, Minato's strong will and wish for life with his son made his soul go to him.

The Shinigami was irritated and tried to pull Minato's soul, but Minato's soul broke the contract. The Reaper couldn't go back to its realm without its caster's soul, so it cut Minato's soul in half and consumed the remains before disappearing.

"Kushina..." said Minato.

"Yes, Minato... The 8-trigram seal is ready..." said Kushina.

"Kushina... I hope you can raise our son like a hero because he is one," Minato's voice was very low due to the loss of his soul; he didn't know that half of his soul was consumed into Naruto.

"Oh, Minato…" Kushina's voice was also like her husband's; she was suffering from severe injuries because of losing her bijuu.

====Flashback Ends: Current Time At Naruto's Mindscape====

"So, you're saying my will to live to see my son grow made my soul enter Naruto's soul because I didn't finish my jutsu..." concluded Minato.

"Yes…" said the Kyuubi in an unimpressed voice, "Though your soul couldn't surface because you didn't have your full soul, in time you started to consume my chakra to resurface by consuming your son's soul into yours by making a personality."

"So I'm reborn into my son's body, but I'm not Naruto; but then I'm not even Minato, so I'm both for once, then also none of them... I'm a completely new person," said Minato.

"Hahahaha... Both Mito and Kushina never entertained, but you and your brat will surely entertain me for a new time..." laughed the fox.

Minato sighed and closed his eyes, while Naruto's memories of anger, hate, and loneliness flooded his soul.

"I'll not let my son suffer anymore... I promise you, Naruto..." said Minato.

"Yondaime..." said the fox in a calmer voice.

"I'm not in the mood to hear you, Kyubi... Not now..." Minato was about to exit from his mind.

"Let's have a deal," said the Kyuubi. "You will kill the Uchiha for me, and I'll stop consuming your little brain... Even if you're now the Yondaime, you still have the brat's body and soul, which I can consume with my chakra easily..." He was amused to see Minato's death glare; since Madara and Hashirama, he was the most fearless shinobi.

"Don't mess with me, Kyuubi... I'm not the same person from 12 years ago," Minato said, then turned forward and left the Kyuubi alone. As Minato woke up in his previous home, he started to roam around the house.

"This is the place where I should grow up... I didn't even know my parents' names... Why does Sandaime-sama keep it a secret?" questioned Naruto. "Maybe he could only tell me... At least I didn't appear from nowhere... and Jiraiya-sensei didn't come for me once... I don't have any memories of him also... Can't blame Kakashi either... I think he was succumbed to depression," Naruto sighed. "At least I didn't give up on this village... Thank you, Naruto, for not turning evil..." Naruto stopped in front of his old library. "I have to train... My chakra capacity is bigger than anything, even though my body isn't ready... 2 years, and I'll be at my peak... believe me..." Naruto declared loudly, pumping his fist in the air.

"Looks like Naruto's boisterous soul is the same, not that I'm complaining," said Minato.

"Oh, I forgot; I have team circulation today... I should go to the academy, but before..." Naruto grabbed a lot of his old hiraishin, "Though I am not revealing my soul, Sandaime-sama, you shall be wary of me because I'm going to double your headache." Naruto smirked.

As time passed, Naruto went back to his apartment to change into his normal attire. Oh, he wouldn't discard his orange attire; he is still the child of the yellow flash and the red death. He just needed some modifications, so he left his jacket unzipped and rolled his sleeves upward slightly; underneath the jacket, his blue T-shirt looked good. Naruto looked at his own reflection and smirked.

====At The Academy====

Iruka was giving a speech about genin, though his mind was on an empty seat that belonged to his favorite student.

'Naruto, where are you today? I thought you would be the first to show off becoming a shinobi,' thought Iruka. In the middle of his thoughts, he forgot to call the team names until he heard a voice that woke him from his dream.

"Iruka-sensei, you're spacing out..." said a pink-haired civilian girl with an unusually large forehead, Sakura Haruno; she was also the girl Naruto had a crush on.

"Oh yeah, sorry, Sakura. So, Team 1 is—" Iruka started to announce the teams but was interrupted by something. As Iruka spoke, something harshly landed in front of him from the window, and he took out a kunai. Though his progression stopped when he saw a mop of orange in front of him and sighed.

"Naruto... I think there's a door," said Iruka.

"Ahh, sorry Iruka-sensei, but I was in a hurry, so I barged in through the window," Naruto said sheepishly to his sensei. Well, Iruka would punish the blonde one last time, so he proceeded to grab the blonde's ear and shout. The moment Iruka grabbed Naruto's ear, Naruto burst, and the front side of Iruka was dyed bright orange.

"Hehe, you fell for my new technique," Naruto said as he entered through the door with a smirk. Iruka blinked twice, realizing what happened to him. He went to yell but stopped and stared at the blonde, thinking if his ears were ringing or Naruto's voice had become deeper.

"NARUTO-BAKA, WHAT ARE YOU DOING HERE AND WHAT DID YOU DO TO SENSEI!" yelled Sakura.

"Come on, Sakura-chan, can't you see this?" Naruto pointed to his hitai-ate on his forehead.

"YOU FAILED THE EXAMS; THAT MEANS YOU STOLE IT FROM SOMEONE!" yelled the heir to the Yamanaka clan, Ino Yamanaka.

"There's a cockroach on your back," Naruto lied calmly. Ino screamed and jumped onto another table but found nothing and glared at her fellow blonde.

"YOU LIED, BAKA!" yelled Ino.

"Since you were lying about me passing, then I lied to you. Say, Iruka-sensei, didn't I pass in front of your eyes, or do I have to do this here?" asked Naruto. The orange Iruka forgot to yell and nodded at Naruto.

"Naruto is right, Ino. Hokage-sama and I were present during the exams, and he passed with top scores at every exam except the written one, or he would be rookie of the year," said Iruka.

"THERE'S NO WAY THAT NARUTO-BAKA CAN GET THE TOP SCORE... HE IS THE DEADLAST... HE MUSTED, SENSEI!" screeched Sakura. Naruto's eyes roamed the room until he met the Uchiha, who was glaring at him for some reason, though he didn't mind that.

'He must be Mikoto's child... I mean with long hair, he is just like her and the arrogance of Fugaku,' thought Naruto, who then spoke, "Come on, Sakura-chan, do you believe that someone like an experienced Hokage couldn't catch me if I was cheating?"

For the first time, Sakura didn't screech back at Naruto's logic, though she would never admit aloud that Naruto beat her with logic.

'What on earth, Naruto started to use logic and has become this calm? And how did his voice change in a week? What happened to him?' thought Iruka. No one really cared about Naruto, so no one had noticed some changes, though there was a pineapple-headed lazy Nara who did. Naruto noticed the Nara eyeing him suspiciously, though he didn't give him any attention.

"Ok everyone, quiet down and let me finish," Iruka said before continuing, forgetting the orange on him. The class didn't remind Iruka about being covered in orange and enjoyed it. The teams were the same as in canon, so there's no need to repeat it.

====Meanwhile: In The Hokage's Office====

The Hokage watched the full show from his crystal ball and wondered with worry about the boy, 'You were fine last night, but what happened to you from this morning, Naruto-kun?' The aged Hokage was spying on the blonde from when he was putting his orange jacket on.

What surprised him was that Naruto turned and gazed at the corner from where he was watching him. Hiruzen saw that Naruto narrowed his eyes for once and turned back towards the mirror, but he could see Naruto's eyes were still locked on the corner. Then he shifted his gaze from suspicion, and his suspicion became true when he saw Naruto's eyes shifted with the direction change.

"What changed in you in a single night, my boy? I hope it's not something bad," said the Hokage.

====Back In The Academy====

Two hours had passed since Iruka announced the teams. Team 8 and Team 10's sensei came and picked their teams, but Team 7's sensei didn't come.

'Who could be our sensei that comes this late?' thought Naruto. 'If he was alive, I would be sure our sensei would be Obito.' Naruto remembered his old student sadly.

"Naruto-baka, why are you acting cool like Sasuke-kun?" asked Sakura, "Stop it… I can't stand it anymore."

Naruto suddenly came out of his thoughts at Sakura's voice, and despite being the most patient person in the world, he was slightly annoyed by the pink-haired kunoichi.

'At our time, devoted fangirls used to train hard to get our attention,' thought Naruto, eyeing the girl, then the Uchiha, before speaking, "I think you're wrong about me acting cool." Sakura almost had a victorious smirk on her face when Naruto admitted that, but he wasn't finished. "Why should I act cooler when I know I'm cooler than you think?" Naruto plastered his big goofy smile on his face.

Sakura's face went red with anger, and she proceeded to punch Naruto. Naruto intentionally took the punch but didn't budge from his place.

"Ow!" Sakura cried in pain from the reaction force she got on her hand, then cried in anger, "WHAT DID YOU DO TO ME?"

"You hurt yourself, Sakura-chan; my body is tougher than yours, which is why the reaction force hurt your hand so much. Your body is fragile, Sakura-chan; you should train, or you'll fall behind," said Naruto. Sakura was angrier than before but chose not to hit Naruto again.

Sasuke sharpened his gaze towards Naruto and thought, 'What happened to you, dobe? Why are you acting superior since this morning? Did you gain some power that I don't have? Matters not; I'll take it from you; you're a sore loser who doesn't deserve it,' thought Sasuke. At that moment, the door opened, and someone entered the room.

"Are you team 7?" said the person. Naruto's eyes slightly widened at the silver-haired, masked jounin in front of him.

"Yes, we are Team 7; are you our sensei?" said Naruto.

"Of course I am, though my first impression is that all of you are boring. Meet me at the rooftop in 5 minutes," said the jounin before he vanished.

'Look how tables have changed, Kakashi; once I trained you, now you're going to train me,' thought Minato. 'My son will give you a hell of a time.' He internally laughed and followed the path towards the rooftop.

End of Chapter 1

Author's Note: Hoped you enjoyed! See you in Chapter 2! Bye!