I feel like I was thrown in to story mid way threw. you clearly changed the background to the story with out any introduction to the established cannon at all.

I love the "what if...?" Part, because it all points to the original story.

This is pretty good all in all, if a bit short of a favourite. One arc that might have been worth adding is an arc where Minato, Konoha, and Suna utterly annihilate Oto...

Great story. I would've liked to see Naruto revealing his secret to his friends but oh well.

You suck! You could do so much better if you stopped doing one shots

Well, I enjoyed the story but the ending did seem rather weak... But if that was the planned ending from all along *shrug*... At least it was a solid ending.

Not that I have room to talk, I've got stuff to work on that I haven't remotely come close to finishing :P

very nice! love it!

awww I just love happy ending! XD or partial happy ending, since madara is still out there.. oh well. great story!

1) Mikoto and Kushina were best friends.
2) Jiraya wouldn't dare spy on Tsunade.

good story i enjoyed it ne

Well damn, I'm really surprised I didn't ever see this story sooner, especially back in 2009 when I was on here more. Honestly, I read this in under a day, I just couldn't stop reading. It was really good, thanks for writing it.

I don't feel bad for Kushina at all. She was a coward. She didn't have to raise Naruto by herself. She could have told Minato that he had a child instead of making up stupid excuses.

This story is interesting but there are several issues that I am confused about. If Kushina was alive during Naruto's childhood and she was a powerful kunoichi then why did she not help her son more. If she was a capable ninja then there is no way that Naruto should have failed the Genin Test 3 times. You state that she has trained with Naruto but he doesn't seem to have any results to show for it. Sure, chakara control exercises are important but she hasn't done much else. The fight between Naruto and Neji was almost the exact same as that of canon. So basically the fact that he has a living mother seems to be irrelevant. She has done nothing to further strengthen her son. Like in canon he fell asleep to the genjutsu. Which makes me think that she was either a really weak ninja or she is just not a very good ninja mother. I hope that she takes a more active role in furthering Naruto's abilities because thus far she is kind of disappointing. I also hope that Naruto's fights begin to deviate from canon because thus far they almost the exact same.

I wonder why Kushina doesn't call Minato by name. Its a bit annoying that she always calls him Hockage-sama.

Ah, retraction. Perhaps you should give a stronger hint as to just HOW AU this is in the summary or an author's note of the first chapter. XD. Sorry about the misunderstanding, and nice foreshadowing about it beings the Yondaime rather than the Sandaime with the women flirting and bringing gifts.