Chapter 4

Four years later, Nekotsume Clan,

Seceral things had happened in four years; thanks to Fugaku Uchiha Naruto Uzumaki and his twin sister, Kushina Uzumaki, were revealed to be the jinchuriki of the Kyuubi, earning them the ire of the village. The elder council of the village tried to force the Nekotsume Clan to give up Matatabi with the excuse that Yoruichi didn't help during the Kyuubi attack. This was easily shrugged off by Yoruichi by stating she was worried Matatabi would go crazy too. She made the announcement that if they were really pressed, the Nekotsume Clan would leave the Hidden Leaf, something Hiruzen definitely didn't want.

Three years later, Fugaku, in an effort to claim more power for himself and his Clan, worked with the elders in an attempt to control Hiruzen with his sharingan. Yoruichi killed Fugaku in response, causing tension between the Nekotsume and Uchiha Clans. Luckily, someone eliminated the Uchiha Clan Elders instigating things and Mikoto Uchiha replaced Fugaku as the Clan Head.

Due to certain annoying elders powerful shinobi clans were unable to help Naruto and Kushina directly. They still cared about the stability of the village after all, but they still did give Hiruzen Sarutobi a little extra money for the two kids' monthly allowance.

The Hyuga Affair did not happen because when Karma created this word, he made the Hidden Cloud Village a little stronger. He had to make it up to them for stealing Matatabi. He removed the cursed seal of the Hyuga. It was an annoying plot, he thought. This actually made the Hyuga Clan much closer nit than it would have been otherwise. Showing the trust the main family put in the branch family.

Hanabi was also born to the Hyugas, putting Nikko in mortal peril during birth, but Karma caused a miracle to save her. Not that others knew he did it.

Karma grew to actually adore Alaine, and dote on her like the other elder brothers he'd seen. Maybe it was due to the new body - though it was made to be identical to his original in terms of appearance, but he certainly felt a lot more than before. Alaine, likewise adored her brother, and they spent a lot of time together. Then again, most females doted on him, perhaps due to his charm as a God, he thought. Not that he minded, he had seen plenty of harems and felt that if anyone deserved one it was him. Though he was unable to tell different types of love apart due to lack of experience, he just assumed love was love.

Karma had run into Naruto and Kushina a few times in the past two weeks, becoming their friend. Though, that happened originally because Karma saw a dirty kid hanging around and chased him around for awhile, acting as if he were prey. Funnily, Naruto already had his dream of becoming Hokage when he was three, wanting the villagers to acknowledge him. Luckily he wasn't as lonely as the original world Karma watched, since he had a sister. Though, they were still bullied by the villagers, at least they had each other.

Karma and Ailane also met other children of large shinobi clans. Including Shino Aburame, who Alaine didn't like because she disliked bugs. Kiba Inuzuka didn't like Karma because Kiba was hyper active, someone lazy like Karma was the exact opposite.

Sasuke looked down on him because he had never seen him train. He didn't think Karma would ever qualify as a ninja. And if he did, he would prove the Uchiha Clan is superior. Even if his father turned traitor, he still had the pride of the Uchiha. With his mothers lead the Uchiha were steadily improving.

Karma's best friend was Shikamaru Nara, since they just lazed around. Choji too, since he offered food. And since Choji learned Karma loved milk, he would take some with him whenever he knew he would meet Karma. Ino mostly talked to Alaine. About Karma.

As for Hinata and Neji, Neji spent most of his time training, and so did Hinata. She had to as Clan Heiress. Well, due to her kind disposition it was less likely she would remain heiress, but she had already begun to get over it a little. Ailane though her shyness was cute and always chased her around like prey. Though some would think it's bullying, after the first time, Hinata told Alaine one day she would defeat her, and then fainted before finishing her challenge. It was also due to this Hiashi still had hope for Hinata.

It was the fourth birthday of Karma and Ailane Nekotsume, and their allies as well as Mikoto and her children. Ailane had already displayed a love of music, so Karma created a guitar for her, one that would grow with her and could be weaponized using sounds it produced. As others would be suspicious about where he got the amazing guitar for Ailane, he had already made it so nobody found it strange or questioned it.

Everyone was enjoying themselves, waiting for the time to come when the twins would be allowed to open their gifts. Eventually, Yoruichi announced it was time for them to do so, "So, who wants to go first?" She asked the attendees.

"We'll go first! We got the best gifts, believe it!" Naruto yelled, running forward with Kushina running behind him.

"So what've you got?" Yoruichi asked. To this Kushina and Naruto blushed, since they had been unable to find anything to wrap their gifts or hide them in any form. They reached out and opened their hands to reveal two bracelets each. Kushina held two red bracelets and Naruto two orange bracelets.

"Um. Their friendship bracelets. Since they're our first friends. But they were the most expensive ones, that's why we couldn't buy anything else, next year, we'll get something even better, you know!" Kushina announced.

"Thank you, Naruto, Kushina." Karma's said as he approached, holding his Ailanes hand.

"Thank you, Naruto, Kushina!" exclaimed Ailane happily at the same time.

"Jeez, I only did it because I felt bad to only get Ailane a present! Stupid!" Kushina yelled before running off. Naruto ran after her.

"Eh?" Asked Karma. Having never loved or liked anyone he didn't understand Kushina's actions at all. Seeing and experiencing it were different, and with his little knowledge in love how could he tell if someone is a tsundere? She frequently got mad at him and ran away. Still, he never felt he had done anything wrong. He didn't call anyone with honorifics usually because it was troublesome.

"Ka-chan, lucky!" Yoruichi whispered before calling out. "Who's next?!"

The Hyugas stepped forward, "firstly, since you are allowing us the Hyuga Clan heir to potentially learn your secret technique, we will make an exception this time and we give you, Gentle Fist Art: Eight Tigrams Sixty Four Palms, along with a chart demonstrating all the chakra points, for Karma to learn." Started Hiashi. It was something the elders decided upon, not him. He knew this came off as arrogant since Karma wouldn't be able to learn it since he didn't have the Byakugan. Even if he could learn it, he would probably alter it, making it no longer a Hyuga Clan secret technique. Frankly, he felt embarrassed to be the one to announce and give this "gift."

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Author's Note: For those asking, "why make Sasuke want to pick fights?" He has to, since if he was just able to live happily I'd have to make up some other event to kill off his family, and a new villain for him to chase since he's indras reincarnation and he's also a wielder of the Sharingan. He at least needs something to drive him if it won't be killing Itachi. Also this lets me keep the original as an outline for the story. Well, kind of.

Also, Sakura wouldn't be known yet. If I remember correctly, which I probably do bc I just started rewatching Naruto, Ino befriended Sakura before the Academy but not too long before. I assume they were best friends for 1 year before Sakura said they would be rivals for Sasuke. The Academy would then start at 8 years old and go on for four years before graduation.