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The Story Of Cloud Namikaze

Cloud Namikaze was the brother of Minto Namikaze. Although, not as popular and mostly kept to himself he walked his childhood through his brother's shadow. That drastically changed when Minato met Kushina, because she too had a brother by the name of Rikyu Uchiha. Kushina's father was a Uchiha while her mother was an Uzumaki. Though Uchihas' weren't really thought highly of so Kushina took the spotlight leaving Rikyu in the dark. Cloud and Rikyu were friends the first day they met and three years later (both the age of 14) they taught eachother how to be equally matched. Cloud taught Rikyu how to be lightning fast and improve his combat. After Rikyu's training was done he taught Cloud how to break the sharingan and better his defense. In the meantime Madara Uchiha was planning to reign hell on the Konoha Village but was studying Cloud and Rikyu and knew they were getting stronger each day. Madara also knew that he couldn't take them on at once, especially not against Minato. So what he did was kill Cloud's father and framed him for it. Cloud was sent to Exile and fled to the village of restoration. Almost simultaneously, Itachi Uchiha was killing off the clan so Rikyu knew he was no match and took refuge to the Village hidden in the Rain. With Cloud and Rikyu out of the picture Madara was left only to defeat Minato. When failed, Madara vanished without a trace but to be later known as Tobi. With cloud in the village of restoration drowned in self-pity, a familiar ninja with long white hair stumbled upon him. The white-haired ninja was know as the Legendary Sannin, Jariya. Cloud and Jariya became close friends and after a while, Jayira took Cloud to the village of toads and taught him to become a Toad Sage. When finished his training, Cloud and Jariya hardly spoke.Cloud also took interest in destroying the Akatsuki and studied them for years until he learned that they were searching for Jinchuriki's. Shortly after Cloud finished his toad sage training he found out that Minato had a son named Naruto Uzumaki, the user of the nine-tailed fox. So Cloud came up with the plan to join the Akatsuki and find Naruto before the rest could. Naruto was tracking Sasuke in the woods with team-7 while Cloud came out from behind the trees. "Naruto Uzumaki, are your present"? Naruto comes out of the group and asks who he is. "I am Cloud....Namikaze". The group became stunned. "Naruto Uzumaki, I am your uncle and came to warn you that the Akatsuki are coming after you and will be here shortly if we don't get you all to safety". Split seconds after, a familiar ninja came out from the trees...."Rikyu"? Cloud said. "I thought Itachi killed all of the Uchiha Clan"? "I fled to the Village hidden in the Rain before he got to me" -twigs snap- "We can talk later but right now we have to get to safe ground". When the group finally reaches a sanctuary, Cloud told them the reason why he wasn't there the night the Fox was destroying the village. Cloud then took Naruto outside and tried to catch up on the years he missed. The next day team-7 is gone without Naruto and left nothing but a note. "Cloud, Rikyu, we've figured Naruto is safer with you than us. We'll try to steer the Akatsuki off track to save you some time". -Kakashi....and the rest of team-7.
Later in the day, Naruto finds Cloud sitting at the top of a hill. "Uncle Cloud, you alright"? "Fine Naruto thanks for asking, just that we need to get started on your training" said Cloud. "Training"? "Don't get me wrong Naruto, you are a very strong ninja but we need to get you faster." -Rikyu comes out from thin air and smokes his kiseru. "Rikyu will be helping me train you as well". said Cloud. "Hmm"? mumbled Rikyu. Cloud trains Naruto to become incredibly fast and teaches him to better his attack. Rikyu steps in to teach Naruto how to strengthen his defense. "That'll be enough for today, you should get some rest Naruto" Cloud and Rikyu talk about the night they had to leave Konoha and come to the same comclusion that they're both after Uchiha Madara. Both of them trained for 16 years to get revenge, unknowingly that there was a heir of Minato. So, the two agree to put all their knowledge into Naruto and tell him the next day about what happened. Naruto feels nothing but anger towards Madara and for once steers away from his mission to get Sasuke. Cloud trains Naruto to make his toad sage mode last longer than 5 minutes. Since they're teaching Naruto to defeat Madara, Rikyu teaches Naruto how to break the Sharingan.