Favored by fate

Chapter 1

Taking care of children has been easier since there were many who aided Minato and Kushina. The Yondaime had told his wife about the prophecy and agreed that they had to give their baby girl, their little Nuriko, extra attention and training. They loved both children just the same in the eyes of the people... but it was not hidden within the family who really was more cared for.

At the age of four, little Naruto had already figured out that his sister was more lavished and more loved than he. And as much as Naruto wanted to complain about it, he did no such thing.

Growing up with Nuriko had been a challenge for him. By three, he asked to be moved to the attic which Naruto had turned into a bedroom with a library within it. It was more of a library than a bedroom. He rarely came down and his parents rarely called on him when he had moved up and shut himself from them.

The only ones who cared for him with Uchiha Itachi, his younger brother, Sasuke, Aburame Shino, Nara Shikamaru, Hatake Kakashi, Uzuki Yugao, Morino Ibiki, Mitarashi Anko, Maito Gai, and Umino Iruka

Sasuke didn't like Nuriko because she was friends with Yamanaka Ino and Haruno Sakura and all three girls were fangirls. He hated them with a passion.

Shikamaru liked Naruto because they played Shogi together and would beat Shikamaru five out of ten matches.

Shino was their tracker and with his bugs, nothing got fifteen feet near them without Shino knowing. Even if Naruto was a sensor with a range of fifty feet radius, it didn't keep Shino from doing his share for the group.

Sasuke was their kinjutsu and ninjutsu specialist. He had an affinity to lightning and fire that he used from time to time when he was sparring with Naruto who could bend anything and everything around him.

Naruto, was the leader of their group. It did not need to be said but many of the others knew of this fact. The younger twin was far more talents and intelligent than the older twin yet the children did not understand why it was the girl who was more praised than Naruto.

They all remembered the sparring contest where the twins were facing each other. Naruto had simply used taijutsu and slammed Nuriko to a tree, cracking the tree with sheer force. Yet the Yondaime and his wife fussed over the girl more, telling Naruto softly to be more gentle with his sister. The cold and expressionless look Naruto threw his so-called parents made the children shiver in fright.

Since then, they stayed away from Naruto's group and made sure to never side with his sister as well.

Not long after the contest, Namikaze Nuriko had teamed up with Yamanaka Ino, Haruno Sakura, and shockingly, Inuzuka Kiba. The rest of the class knew why the Inuzuka hated Naruto. It was simple, Naruto was also everything Kiba was not. Kiba was just like Nuriko so it did not surprise them long and brushed it off as nothing of importance.

Two classes had then clashed one day in the playground and Hyuuga Neji ended up crucified to a nearby tree when he decided to challenge Naruto to a spar. The teachers who watched were scared for the Hyuuga when they saw the Namikaze boy's eyes turn freezing cold as he stood up. The match was one sided and didn't even last five minutes. The Hyuuga was taken to the hospital instantly as Naruto somehow used a Hyuuga paralyzing technique on Neji before crucifying him.

The next week when Neji got out, he was seen with Naruto's group and has stuck to them like glue. Neji was another challenger that Naruto and Shikamaru welcomed when it came to shoji, Sasuke when it came to trainings, and Shino when it came to History and theoretical thinking and deducing.

On the twins' seventh birthday, the couple had taken Nuriko out to celebrate, completely forgetting Naruto who watched them from his window as they left the mansion gates. He narrowed his eyes and went to his father's study, making sure to keep his chakra to a zero to leave no traces of him being there.