(A/N: I write the first part of this story since it is stuck in my mind and when that happens I can't think of my other stories until I write out what is stuck. That is why I have so many unfinished ones since I need to get them out of my head to think clearly. Hopefully people will like the idea for this story.)

Worthless…

That one word alone has so much impact on the fragile mind of a child if thrown around too much, and in the case of Naruto formerly Naruto Namikaze Uzumaki, it was a word that had been used by two influential people of his former village to describe him. As he floated half dead down the river he had been thrown into, he silently cried as he remembered what had happened to put him in this position in the first place…

Naruto's life had started off well enough with a family that loved him and a promising future ahead of him. He had a father by the name of Minato Namikaze, who was one of the world's most infamous shinobi who single handedly stopped war. His mother was Kushina Uzumaki who was just as infamous as her husband but without the reputation of such butchery under her belt. He had a twin brother by the name of Menma who looked exactly like him but with the key difference that Naruto had what appeared to be whisker marks on his face.

For the first four years of their lives they were the perfect family, but all that came to an end when Kushina became pregnant with her third child, who would have been a daughter, but due to complications with the birth she died along with the child. Naruto as well as brother had wept hard when they lost their mother, but even more so when their younger sister died before she even took a single breath of life. Naruto had overheard his father complaining about a woman named Tsunade not being there to save her life when needed because of her bad habits of drinking and gambling, so Naruto grew to hate a woman he never met in his life and blamed her for his mother's death.

It was after her death that the Kyūbi appeared out of the blue and attacked the village. The village was hit hard, but in the end the beast was split into two separate entities and resealed into Naruto and his brother. They were trained to use that power over the course of the next three years, but as they trained Naruto noticed that his father seemed to resent him for some reason that his young mind couldn't understand. He trained Menma over him most of the time, and his brother's mood towards him became more cold and distant.

One day Minato called Naruto and Menma into their family training room to talk, and when they arrived he ordered them to fight each other with everything they had. The fight was more or less one sided since Menma was trained better than Naruto himself was and was far more ruthless in his attacks. Naruto was too caring and didn't want to hurt his brother at all and stayed mostly on the defensive. In the end though, Naruto was beaten. And as he made to get up a seal activated that brought him back to his knees. He felt his chakra as well as the Kyuubi's drain from his body, and felt like he was going to die since the more that was drained from him the darker his vision became. He saw his brother grow stronger since his stolen power was being transferred to him. Yet before he fully passed out from the process, Minato grabbed him by the head and called him worthless, for in Minato's eyes he was too weak to carry on the name of Namikaze. Naruto passed out with tears in his eyes.

When he came to, he noticed he was in a small cell chained to the wall. After a bit of time a man came in who introduced himself as Danzo. He told Naruto that his father had disowned him since he was too weak and had given him to him to become a member of his ROOT forces so that he would have at least some use in the future. Naruto grew angry as he heard this and spit blood into Danzo's face. He became angry when Naruto did that and ordered his men to begin the process of breaking his will down. For weeks, Naruto was beaten senseless in an effort to destroy his self-worth, to make him submit to his new master but no matter how much pain he was in he would not break. Different tactics were used, but nothing worked in the end. Over time his body began to weaken and bloody but even so his will never broke since he was like his mother in that regard, strong willed. Once more Naruto was grabbed by the head and called worthless by Danzo before he ordered one of his men to throw Naruto's half dead body into the river to drown and let the elements take care of him since in his mind he wasn't even good enough for a proper funeral.

The ROOT Nin did as ordered and threw Naruto into the river to die, and as Naruto floated down the river, his will had finally shattered…

But the universe had another purpose for him…

Naruto was sucked into a vortex of some sort that appeared randomly and disappeared just as quickly as it had appeared in the first place. The vortex threw him through time and space into an underground lab of sorts. There he was found by a man who he would come to know as Dr. Gero. The man had used various unstable power sources to try and power his lab and future creations since while he could have used a more stable form of power it wouldn't give him enough for his future plans. He had finally made a stable form of it, and to his surprise a child was thrown through it unconscious at his feet. At first Gero saw him and was going to simply snap his neck and be done with it, but something in the back of his mind told him to stop. He thought that maybe this was a perfect chance at a test subject for his Android plan in the future.

So for weeks he enhanced Naruto with cybernetic implants as well as a prototype program that he spent years developing. It was what he called the Adaptive Protocol, which was made for helping turn the tides of battle in his favor. What it allowed the user to do was to analyses whatever attack was and adapt accordingly so that they could counter it and strengthen themselves so as to eliminate any weakness. Once he was fitted with all the parts. He was placed into a pod where he was put through various tests against virtual fighters throughout the ages. Naruto was a quick learner, and even though he initially lost against them he grew from every defeat and quickly overpowered them one by one.

It was months, nearly a year later, that he was then pit against the virtual program of one Son Goku, who was the man that Gero built not only him but many other Androids to fight. And it was there that Naruto faced his ultimate challenge. No matter what he threw at him, nothing worked and he was unable to kill him. Even when he was paired with Androids 13, 14, and 15 their combined might was unable to beat him. The Adaptive Protocol was only good when there was a body left intact to learn from, and Goku would always destroy him in a way that he couldn't continue on with the fight.

Dr. Gero grew furious as the tests failed to produce the results he wanted, and because of this he moved on to build stronger and better Androids, while leaving the four of them in the subbasement. While he did the tests still went on for Naruto, who continued to fight because he remembered being called worthless by his father and it infuriated him to the point he swore that he would become stronger than him and his backstabbing brother so that the world would know he wasn't worthless like he claimed.

For three years Naruto continued on in his training, and finally one day he finally beat it. But in the end he knew it wasn't good enough and he continued on with it so that he could do it consecutively. It took three months more, and as his testing was complete, the monitor beside him changed to show that it was done, but Dr. Gero had all but forgotten them here at this point and went to fight the Saiyians that he was so obsessed about. It was not too long before a short bald man by the name of Krillin and a young purple haired man named Trunks came into the sub-basement and fired their energy into the core that powered the lab. As it exploded, the same vortex that brought him here took not only him, but the other Androids that he had trained with in the past back into his world. As their pods crashed into the ground, Naruto opened his eyes for the first time in years and using strength alone he punched the pod's cover right off.

He slowly got out of the pod and looked at his hands as he clenched his hands into fists. He felt the KI energy flow through his body, and as he stood there he roared out in rage, for while he had been called worthless to his face, he would prove all who had thought that wrong…

(A/N: Sorry for the short chapter, but most of my stories have/will have them to generate a bit of excitement for them. I do this to remember my ideas for the future as well as to get them out of my head so I can continue on with my others. Also just FYI I am going to go with the personalities of the Androids from the Team Four Star Abridged video Super Android 13 since I love their abridged series and I want this story to have a bit of humor to it. Also the Uchiha clan is still alive and the Hyuga incident happened but Minato beat A when he demanded a Hyuga for what happened. So until next time!)