What happens if during the mission to wave Naruto had not stabbed himself and they went back to Konoha to remove the poison...
due to his freezing up the council declares that he is not fit to be a ninja they take away his headband and say he is no longer a ninja so he runs and runs until Suna, builds a new life there. And what happens when Sai is Naruto's replacement since the beginning of the story?
FIRST STORY PLEASE DON'T HATE.
I do not own Naruto sadly Masashi Kishimoto does ;-C
ANYHOW... If I did it would be Narutema or Narufuu or maybe even Narukarin.
PIC ON COVER IS NARUTO.
(This is the sequel to my story, Six Years Too Long. You'll need to read that first to understand this one!)
Six years after Minato Namikaze rose from the dead, Naruto's graduated the academy with a field of flowers in his mind and the best friends he could've ever asked for. Everything seems like it's going well... until it's not. Conspiracies within the village are keeping Minato on his toes, and Naruto's goal of world peace only seems to get further and further away from him as the Akatsuki stir and start to raise their heads. There are unknown enemies lurking around every corner, and it's up to Naruto and Kurama to stop them-- and who knows, maybe they'll have a little help when they do.
(In the distance, the remnants of Uzu call, getting louder and louder each day. Naruto doesn't know what it means for him or for the rest of Team 7, but as the pull gets stronger and stronger, he has a feeling he's going to find out.)
Or: Six years after the events of six years too long.
(Cross posted on ao3)