What If The Akatsuki Raised Naruto

What if the Akatsuki took Naruto the night the Nine Tails attacked? Obito was in the room. He knew the Fourth had sealed the fox into his own son, he knew the child's name, and he knew Konoha would spend the next decade pretending none of it happened. Konoha lost one orphan in a collapsed district and never went looking. So Nagato raises him. Not in a dungeon: in a tower in Amegakure, with Konan, learning sealing from the last man alive with the Rinnegan, and learning what the great villages did to the Land of Rain from the people who were standing in it. He is loved, he is taught, and he is told what is inside him at four instead of twelve. This is the full timeline: why Kurama becomes an ally a decade early, why Naruto is the only person alive who can recruit the other eight jinchuriki, why the five villages have to move first, and why the ending he reaches is the one he always wanted and the wrong way round. The divergence: somebody wanted him first. Naruto Uzumaki, Nagato, Konan, Obito Uchiha, Itachi, Gaara, Kakashi, Iruka. 💬 In the real story the margin was about ninety seconds of Jiraiya walking round a corner. How much of Naruto's loyalty to Konoha was ever really about Konoha? #Naruto #NarutoShippuden #Akatsuki #NarutoTheory #NarutoUzumaki #Akatsuki #Nagato #Pain #Konan #ObitoUchiha #Kurama #Jinchuriki #Amegakure #NarutoWhatIf #NarutoAlternateTimeline #NarutoLore #AnimeTheory