Naruto: Pre-Shippuden! Series 1! - Leading to the Fourth Shinobi World War!

Prologue: Konoha no Sharingan Akuma!

MinataNamikaze1: So, I have decided to try doing a Naruto story where the Yondaime Hokage has a younger Half Brother and that said Brother will be a year younger then Obito and his generation. My OC will also end up with Obito Uchiha cause let's face it, the boy needs more love. Also I'll be trying to make Naruto as smart as his Father, but with a good deal of Obito's and a bit of his Mother's personality mixed which is a deadly combination. I almost feel sorry for the people he pranks for being jackasses. Key word being 'Almost'. Anyways, onto the disclaimer: I do not own Naruto cause if I did then Sakura wouldn't be a useless fan girl in pre-shippuden and Naruto would have his Father's smarts while keeping his Mother's personality and knows about seals and how to use to them. I do, however, own Izuna Namikaze (Uchiha). Remember to Read and Review to let me know what you think. Also if you don't like any twist that I might make then stop reading and find something else to read plus don't leave a review that's a flame or I will find a way to block you. Ja ne!

...My Line...

Running through the forest of Hi no Kuni was a 20-year-old male adult, who was clinching at his blood covered right side. The speed that the young adult was traveling at had the wind ruffling his neck length, shaggy spiky windswept, dark blonde almost black hair with bangs framing an ivory toned angler face with his front bangs falling over a symbolize leaf craved into a metal plate that is sworn onto a dark blue cloth from getting into his narrow almond dark blue eyes. If it wasn't for his darker coloring then many would think that Izuna Uchiha-Namikaze or better known as Izuna Namikaze, the Namikaze Clan Head, was the Yondaime Hokage of Konohagakure no Sato, Minato Namikaze. However, given that the man had once been Izuna's older half-brother then it's not all surprising that he looks like the Yondaime. The Leaf Jonin almost tripped before he caught himself and picked up the pace even more. But, as he ran, the young Namikaze noticed that his eye sight started to get blearily and knew it was from the blood loss. You must be wondering how he got into that state, huh?

Well, the Sandaime Hokage of Konohagakure no Sato had assigned him a simple A-Rank which Izuna completed without any problems, but the problem started when he was on his back to Konohagakure. The blonde hair Jonin had been ambushed by a group of 20 Rogue Ninjas all wearing headbands of Tsuchi no Kuni's (Land of Earth) shinobi village, Iwagakure no Sato (The Hidden Stone Village) that was scratched out. He was able to take out 15 of them, but even then he didn't come out of the fight without injuries and there were still 5 of them left. Izuna knew that if he stayed and continued to fight them then he would end up dying either from his wounds or by one of them, so he quickly used a smoke bomb combined with a water and fire style ninjutsu combination to get away, but he felt the 5 that were still alive closing in and he knew he wouldn't last long.

'Damn,' he thought. 'Looks like I'll be going out the same way as the Nidaime Hokage. And I'll be going out fighting just like him, too.'

Izuna ended up tripping over a tree root because of his blearily vision and falling to the ground with a grunt. The Namikaze pushed himself up onto his knees and hand before his dark blue eyes widen as the last of the Iwa Rogues jumped down to the ground to surround him.

"My, my, I thought that you were stronger then this Konoha no Sharingan Akuma (Sharingan Devil of the Leaf)," one of them, who was most likely the leader, taunted. "I mean, you were the younger Brother and had been the apprentice of Konoha no Kiiroi Senko (Yellow Flash of the Leaf) after all."

The Namikaze's dark blue eyes shifted into a pair of crimson red with three tomoes surrounding the pupil of the eyes.

'Fire Style: Great Dragon Fire Jutsu!' the 20-year-old called out in his thoughts as he blew out a multitude of dragon heads made out of fire.