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“With this, they will HAVE to acknowledge me!”

Naruto Namikaze smirked as he ran past tree by tree, getting as far away from the Hokage's residence as he can. On his back was the Scroll of Sealing which he stole right under from his father's nose.

Serves him right, Naruto thought to himself.

The boy loved his family dearly, but with them focusing the majority of their attention to his sisters, Mine and Fuyu, it had gotten on his nerves. A lot. They were considered geniuses, yes, but if at least his father and mother could just teach him a thing or two, or heck, teach him how to fight, then he would not have failed the exams three times in a row. He was now in the process of doing a special test in order to get his forehead protector.

A sad smile spread across the lips of the only son of the Namikaze. He didn't understand why he still loved them; even after they had not been there for him for the most of his life. His older sister, Fuyu was a total bitch to him and thought of him as an annoyance. His second oldest sister Mine couldn't be bothered with him.

His dad is always busy and is barely ever home. But every time he was, he always appraises his sisters and always says why he wasn't up to their standard. His mom, she, well, it felt like he didn't even matter to her. She doesn't take notice of him and it feels like he wasn't even there in her radar most of the time.

He was their son. Their youngest sibling. Yet, he felt like a complete stranger in his own home.

Minato, Kushina, Mine and Fuyu had no idea just how much Naruto wanted to hear those words.

While everyone was busy he had come out in the middle of the woods to do the test Mizuki had given him or else he wouldn't be made a genin of Konoha.

He just wanted to hear his parents and sisters say they were proud of him. Was that so much to ask?

Stopping at a wide clearing Naruto sat down and unslung the scroll from his back before unrolling it. He started to read.

“...Shadow Clone Jutsu?” The young boy read with interest. Naruto tapped the corner of his mouth in thought. That technique sounded interesting; he'll come back to that if he doesn't see anything else in the Scroll of Sealing that is interesting.

Reading on Naruto came across something that caught his interest. A seal of some sort. Narrowing his eyes Naruto racked his brain to try and remember anything about this particular seal. It was before a snap of his fingers that he remembered. It was a container seal. Easily activated by channelling chakra into it.

Doing that and a poof of smoke later, a scroll was lying on top of the Scroll of Sealing. Unrolling the scroll Naruto's eyes went wide when he realised what type of scroll it was.

“A Summoning Jutsu?” He murmured looking at the technique with keen interest. The entry for the technique didn't say what it does. Naruto KNEW it was a summoning technique of course; he just didn't know what the summoning would bring.

He knew what to do of course. He had heard Fuyu explain to Mine that a summoning needed to be signed in blood before it can be used. Wincing in pain, Naruto bit his bottom lip until he drew blood. He dipped his forefinger on his bloodied lip and pressed the finger on the scroll.

He was about to preform the necessary hand seals until a kunai stabbed into the ground beside him. Startled, Naruto looked over his shoulder in the direction the kunai came from only to be kicked in the face and away from the scrolls by a familiar blonde.

“There you are, you idiot!” Fuyu Namikaze shouted angrily and snarlingly as she looked down at the whimpering form of her little brother, who was holding his now bloody nose. “You ruined a perfectly good day by stealing the Hokage's Scroll of Sealing!” She yelled at him just as she kicked her brother in the stomach, causing him to gasp and cough in pain as he curled up. She glared down at him with furious eyes. “Next time you do something as stupid like this, I will beat the living hell out of you!” She snarled, before giving him another kick, this time on the leg.

“Idiot.” Fuyu turned around to pick up the Scroll of Sealing and put it on her back. “I'll be sure to tell dad about this!” She said before turning around to leave her whimpering brother there in the clearing.

Just as she was about to walk back home, the blonde haired chunin jumped out of the way, just in time, as a large windmill shuriken flew past her head and hit the ground just millimetres from hitting Naruto's leg. Fuyu immediately pulled out a kunai from her kunai pouch and took a defensive stance.

“Well, well, well, if it isn't one of the genius daughters of the Lord Hokage.” The arrogant voice belonging to the academy assistant Mizuki made Fuyu snap her head up in the direction the voice came from. She saw her attacker, the white haired bastard standing tall on a tree branch with a vicious smirk and another windmill shuriken on his back.

It wasn't hard for Fuyu to connect the dots. “You... You're the one who made Naruto take the scroll, aren't you?” She stated with narrowed eyes; a deep scowl pulling at her lips.

Naruto slowly crawled away from the two while keeping an eye between his sister and Mizuki.

“That's right.” Mizuki replied as he slowly took the windmill shuriken from his back. “That boy is so childish. Tell him there is a secret way to become a genin, and he leapt for it like an idiot, no questions asked. And all because he wanted to make his family proud.” He gave Fuyu a cruel smirk as he chuckled sinisterly. “No matter once I kill you there is nothing to stop me from getting out of this place.”

Fuyu scoffed dismissively. “What makes you think you can ge-” She didn't get the chance to finish that sentence, because without warning, wires suddenly appeared around her and tightly wrapped around her body. Fuyu cried out in shock as she fell to the ground, her arms clamped tightly against her body.

“Did you really think I'm stupid enough to not booby trap this place?” Mizuki rhetorically asked with a crazed laugh as he jumped down from the tree branch. “This is the place I would said I'd meet with him. Of course, just in case anyone found him I put down some traps as a precaution.” The clearly insane man brought his hand back and was about to launch his weapon. “Say goodbye.”

But before he could, both Fuyu and Mizuki looked at Naruto when they heard him exclaim the words. “Summoning Jutsu!” Before he was concealed in a poof of smoke.

X.X.X.X

A pair of faintly glowing blue eyes opened up and looked around at its new surroundings after the strange pull had finished. Or at least tried they tried too. His field of view was completely hampered by smoke. Well this is just dandy. He didn't know what had happened because the last thing he remembered was being inside of a building with his family, and the next thing he knew, he was taken away with his vision hampered by smoke.

But now that left him a question: was he summoned? And if he was, then, whom was the person to have summoned him here?

“What the!?” A man yelled in shock.

Wait a minute, that voice...

“What the hell did you do, you brat?!” The same man from before demanded.

The faintly glowing blue eyes narrowed with angered recognition. He recognised that voice! It's Mizuki! But that's impossible! He's dead! He IMPALED the man!

The figure heard a young boy growl defiantly. “Why on earth would I tell you!?” That same boy yelled; and the figure's faintly glowing eyes changed from angered to one of astonished recognition in seconds.

He knew that voice. He heard it every day. But that can't be right! The mere thought of it is impossible! But... If he was, indeed, summoned... Then that voice, that familiar sounding voice, belonging to that boy may be true.

“Fine then! If you won't tell me what you've brought forth, then you'll never get the chance to use it against me brat!” Mizuki exclaimed dementedly. The sound of something big being thrown was heard.

The figure nodded to himself. He was summoned. Smirking expectantly he got himself into a stance to catch the object thrown at him. Mizuki will be in one hell of a surprise once the smoke clears. This will be the last thing he'll ever do.

X.X.X.X

Fuyu and Mizuki stared as the windmill shuriken spun into the smoke cloud. Parting it slightly as it entered. Mizuki couldn't be sure but he had thought he had seen a glimpse of something metal, and orange before the smoke enveloped the gap the shuriken had caused. Then everyone heard the sound of metal hitting metal.

The smoke cloud began to finally disperse, revealing what was within. A 7ft tall metal monstrosity that appears to resemble a sort of fox. It has burnt orange fur, light red linen pants and metal nails on his hands and feet that appeared to look like claws. He has sharp dagger like teeth and a pair of faintly glowing blue eyes.

Mizuki was shocked when saw his windmill shuriken was clamped up tight in the jaw of the fox like robotic monstrosity. And he nearly flipped his shit when he saw the thing was looking directly at him.

Fuyu Namikaze on the other hand couldn't keep her expression of pure, absolute shock from showing on her pretty face. This thing; this summoned creature; it was something she only heard stories of; a robot. And like the traitorous teacher Mizuki, Fuyu was shocked that the creature had caught the windmill shuriken with its teeth.

“Dum dum diddly dum. Da da dum dum. Diddly dum dum da dum diddly dum. Dum dum diddly dum.” The robot sang as it reached up to take the giant shuriken from its mouth. It then examined the giant shuriken with mild interest. The child-like voice coming from the robot's mouth sounded really familiar to the Namikaze siblings. They didn't know why as they had never seen it before in their lives. But its voice did strike a cord in them.

“What the fuck are you?” Mizuki aggressively hissed out with bared teeth. The robot ceased its singing as it took its gaze away from the giant shuriken to Mizuki himself. The white haired man widened his eyes in alarm at the death glare it was sending him.

From that look alone, Mizuki knew, despite never seeing the robot before, he knew it had it out for him. Maybe throwing his windmill shuriken into the smoke cloud was not the smartest of ideas. Being the sniffling coward that he is Mizuki decided to cut his loses and get out of there. He turned to leave the area, but before he could take the first step the white haired man screamed out in agonising pain when he was suddenly bisected at the waist; curtsy of the windmill shuriken thrown by the robotic fox. The windmill shuriken cut through the sides of several trees before it finally had embedded itself in a tree trunk.

“Huh, who'd have thought killing Mizuki again would be oddly satisfying.” The robot said gleefully. The Namikaze siblings stared at the machine with wide eyes and gaping mouths, as it spoke in Naruto's voice. Although metal sounding, it was still very recognisable as Naruto's.

“What are you?” Fuyu questioned in a horrified whisper. She was helpless. Wrapped up tightly in ninja wire on the ground. If that thing turned against her brother and herself they'd be finished.

Unfortunately for Fuyu the robot heard her thanks to its accurate hearing. The robot immediately looked in the direction the voice came from, and saw the youngest Namikaze in the process which confirmed his previous suspicions, and found Fuyu Namikaze tied up on the floor with the Scroll of Sealing on her back.

“I am Naruto.” The robot dramatically brought his clawed hand to his chest as he introduced himself. “Or to be accurate I am an alternate version of you. A version of you, that you have summoned here.” The animatronic Naruto corrected himself once he finally noticed the surprised looks he was getting from the other Naruto and his sister.

“How can you be an alternate version of my brother?! He looks nothing like you!” Fuyu exclaimed with confused disbelief.

Animatronic Naruto gave Fuyu a flat look. “I'm now a fox based robot. Of course I wouldn't look like him.” He said to her slowly as like he were talking to a child, before he looked at his other self, ignoring the bloodied nose as he assumed he had gotten that from Mizuki.

“You have a sister?” He asked. Namikaze Naruto slowly nodded as he made his way to his bound sibling. He got on his knees in front of Fuyu, picked the kunai she had dropped and used it to cut the ninja wire that is wrapped tightly around her while making sure to not hurt her.

“Huh. I never had a sister. Wish I had one though.” Naruto leaned over his counterpart's shoulder and stared. He narrowed his eyes when he saw the youngest of Namikaze sibling trying to cut the wire at his sisters stomach. “Why don't you cut the wire around her legs? Wouldn't that cause less strain on her when you're going to cut it?” He asked as he curiously looked between the kunai and its wielder.

“Just hurry up will you!” Fuyu snapped at her brother impatiently as she wanted to get as far away from the thing looming over her brother.

Her breath caught in her throat when the animatronic dangerously glared at her.

“In your shoes I wouldn't be yelling at my own brother who happens to be armed with a weapon.” Naruto flatly told her. “He might get startled and accidentally cut me.”

Namikaze Naruto, despite his sister yelling at him to hurry up, followed the advice of his robot counterpart and went to cut the wire around her legs. The tightness of the ninja wire loosened up once the cut was made and allowed Fuyu to move her limbs around again without hurting herself. She uncoiled the wire as fast as she could and crawled away from her brother's robot counterpart before standing up while making sure to not take her eyes off of the machine in front of her.

Namikaze Naruto looked up at his alternate counterpart with curious eyes. He felt at ease around the robot strangely enough. “So, if you're an alternate version of me, how come you look, well, like that?” He asked as he gestured to his counterpart's appearance with confusion.

Naruto threw a thumb over his shoulder in the direction of Mizuki's bisected corpse. “You can thank my version of Mizuki for that.” He said as he crossed his arms.

“What did he do to have cause that?” Namikaze Naruto asked, his curiosity getting the better of him.

Naruto looked at his human counterpart, and debated on telling him or not on what had happened to him to become what he is now. After a moment of contemplation he decided to tell his counterpart a small portion of the cause for his transformation into a robot.

“Where I came from I was murdered. I'll give you three guesses on who was the cause of that.” He said while giving a not to subtle glare at the bisected corpse of Mizuki lying on the floor a little ways away from the trio. “And before you ask; no. I won't tell you how my Mizuki killed me, because, some things are best left forgotten.” He added as he looked at Namikaze Naruto with his tone brooking no argument.

He knew Namikaze Naruto, from his voice alone, is a very curious individual and was most likely going to ask how he had been killed. So he decided to nip that in the bud as soon as possible. Fortunately, Namikaze Naruto picked up the tone in his counterpart's voice. So out of respect he curbed his curiosity and held his tongue.

“You...were murdered? By your, Mizuki?” Fuyu slowly asked as she looked at her younger brother with pained eyes. While she is mean to her younger brother and thought of him as annoying, she does love him. The mere idea of him getting killed pained her to think of. It was around this time it had truly began to sink in that the two of them would have died minutes ago if it weren't for her bother summoning another version of himself.

“Yes.” Naruto replied with a steadfast nod. “As I said before, I won't go and tell you how he had killed me. But I will say it was...painful. And slow.” He sighed and crossed his arms as he closed his eyes in pained reminisce. “Luckily, minutes after my death, someone who I consider my adoptive uncle brought me back like this.” As he spoke Naruto opened his eyes and then gestured to his metal, leather and foam made physique.

Blinking Naruto looked over his shoulder and peered into the tree line as he tiled his head to the side with one narrowed eye. His sound processor had picked up movement coming from the tree line. Suddenly several kunai and shuriken shot out of the trees; their destination: the fox based robot.

Turning around to face the oncoming threat completely Naruto brought up his robotic arms and easily deflected the metal with his claws. Showing the Namikaze siblings they were not just for show.

Several masked ninja and kunoichi emerged from the trees and landed around the robot. They held their weaponry up against the robot threateningly, who merely looked at the masked individuals and their weapons with amusement.

Katana's, Shinken's and Uchigatana's; Naruto resisted the urge to snort at the mere idea of them threatening him with those types of weapons. They won't be able to cause any permanent damage to him using those primitive weaponry. His friend who made this body for him made sure of that. Now their chakra techniques on the other hand are a different story. But they don't need to know that.

“Naruto! Fuyu!” Said siblings looked like a deer caught in headlights when they heard the voice of their parents calling for them. And then a red haired woman suddenly appeared out of nowhere, knocking a few of the masked individuals out of her way, and brought the two siblings into a bone crushing hug.

As Naruto and Fuyu Namikaze flailed around in their mother's grip, with Namikaze Naruto trying to ease the pressure on his still bleeding nose, the animatronic Naruto crossed his arms uncaringly and stared as a familiar blonde haired man walked up to him with suspicion in his eyes.

This is Minato Namikaze, the Fourth Hokage, and seeing this man in person along with his counterpart, Naruto could see the resemblance between the two. He should have been surprised that this man is in fact, his counterparts dad, and therefore technically his dad too. But he wasn't. He found out long ago.

As Minato approached the masked ninjas stopped in front of the robot and stared it directly in the eyes. “Who are you? And what are your intentions towards Konohagakure?” He demanded with authority in his voice.

Naruto didn't say anything; he just stood there staring the Fourth Hokage down. Neither of them budged an inch. It was around this time that Kushina, Namikaze Naruto's mother, had finally noticed there was a 7ft tall robot fox having a staring contest with her husband. She immediately released her children and stared at the robot with a look of surprise, astonishment and wonder.

“Minato, what is that thing?” She asked looking between her husband and the robot with uncertainty.

“That is what I'm trying to find out, Kushina.” Minato replied while never taking his eyes off of the robot.

Fuyu thinking on how to get out of the tense situation, shouted out the first thing that came to mind. “Naruto summoned him!” Her yelling of that had gotten both parents to look at their youngest child with surprise.

“You summoned this thing?” The Fourth Hokage asked his son.

“Yes. He did.” Fuyu answered for her brother when she saw he was too nervous to talk. “If it wasn't for Naruto summoning the robot, Mizuki would have killed us and got away with the Scroll of Sealing.”

“Mizuki?” Minato looked at his eldest with some degree of surprise. “He was the reason why the Scroll of Sealing went missing?”

Fuyu nodded her head frantically. “He tricked Naruto into thinking there was a secret test; and, he made Naruto steal the scroll in the guise of the secret test.” She informed them causing Minato to look at his youngest with an unreadable expression, and then to the bisected corpse a little ways away from them, and then to the windmill shuriken that was used to kill Mizuki that is currently embedded in a tree trunk several trees away from the corpse but is still within eyesight.

Finally the Fourth Hokage brought his gaze back to the animatronic. “You were the one that saved my son and daughter from Mizuki?” He calmly asked the robot who silently nodded in the affirmative as his response. “And I take it, you are the one responsible for that?” He continued as he brought his gaze back to the corpse before looking back at the robot again.

Naruto silently nodded again in the affirmative and Minato exhaled heavily. As if a burden had been lifted from his shoulders.

He motioned everyone to stand down and as they sheathed their weapons, Minato inclined his head to the robot in thanks. “You have my thanks.” He looked at his subordinates and gestured to the corpse. “Take the head and burn the body.”

Both Fuyu and Namikaze Naruto exhaled in relief. With how the situation looked they thought this would end up in a fight. But it never thankfully. The moment was ruined however by a newcomer suddenly appearing out of nowhere from behind the animatronic.

“Naruto!” The newcomer exclaimed, startling everyone in the area at his sudden appearance.

As Naruto turned around to face the owner of the familiar metallic voice, he was suddenly brought into a hug.

“Whoa! Uncle Marion! I'm okay! I'm alright!” The Namikaze family, along with the other ninja were dumbfounded upon hearing Naruto's voice coming from the mouth of the robot that is currently being embraced with a hug.

The newcomer is thin and tall. It has an appearance of a puppet; it has a white face with blank hollow eyes, rosy red cheeks, and purple stripes that stretch from the bottom of its eyes to the top of its widely open smiling mouth. It has red lipstick painted on it, giving the puppet an exaggerated pucker. It has three white buttons on its long, thin torso and has rounded hands with three spindly fingers, and white stripes on its wrists and ankles.

Uncle Marion pulled back and gave Naruto a quick look over. “Are you okay?! Are you hurt?! Do you know what happened?!” He asked rapidly, fretting worryingly over his adopted nephew as he looked searchingly for any damage on his body.

“Yes, I'm okay! No, I'm not hurt! Yes, I know what happened; I was summoned by an alternate version of myself!” His answers were quick and straight to the point.

Unfortunately, because of his adoptive uncle fretting over him, he was in a hurry to answer his questions so he could calm him down. As a result he had momentarily forgotten he was among others did not think his answers through.

Seconds after those words came out of his mouth Naruto remembered where he was and who was with him. He quickly looked at Minato and Kushina, as they were the only ones apart from their children who are not wearing masks, who was staring at both himself and the puppet in astonishment.

His Namikaze counterpart and his sister was staring at the puppet with equal shock too. Both of them had the same thought going through their heads: This was the uncle who brought him back to life?

The puppet had finally noticed they were not alone. His blank hallow eyes gained two small white pupils as he floated in front of his adopted nephew to protect him. And then he froze when his eyes landed on Namikaze Naruto.

“Naruto... Why is their someone who looks like you when you were human?” Marion asked confusedly, pointing a slender finger at the other youngest person in the crowd.

Naruto let out static, the robot equivalent of a sigh, as he face-palmed. “Remember when I said I was summoned by an alternate version of me?” He asked as he looked out from between his fingers.

“Yeah. Ohhhhh....” Marion said as he lowered his arm in realization.

“Yeah, meet my summoner.” Naruto said with another static sounding sigh and looked at Minato and Kushina and as he crossed his arms against his chest he stared them both in the eyes. “I believe it's time that I introduce myself; my name is Naruto Uzumaki.”