Well the old man could be in mentor territory easy enough... the thing is if you take Naruto out of Leaf to early he isn't going to be Naruto. So that
means he'll have to be 7-8 to get it to make sense. This would involve Itachi yoinking Narto from the village at the same point as he slaughter his kin.
That would also mean he would be at a stage where he could start performing cranial rectal deinsertions on the others. By which point Gaara would be kinda
nuts and paranoid... and probably Naruto's roommate. Which would probably lead to Naruto to complaining at breakfast about how his roomate stays awake all
night and just creepily stares at him... with occasional threatening comments.
Unless your bringing in Naruto later on than the others and making him have to stabalize the warped children already in the program. Unless something rather
worse than canon happens to Naruto he shouldn't even have access to the demon chakra at all then. Which could be a major plot point... Naruto not having
any powers like he is suppose to have (the seal is constructed to prevent this. a 'Do-Not-Open-Until-Puberty seal if you will). Meaning he'll be
competing with those with the powers without them for a long time. If they don't remember to tell Naruto about his inner demon (they things he already
knows about it and everything he hears is just enough off to make him not notice the others have sealed demons), I can see him competing with the others and
trying to match the demon's powers with his own. The others think he has the 3 tails, he has power, but not the massive barely contained amounts the 9
tails should have. He keeps thinking any talk about contacting your inner demon is code for the chakra development he just started in the academy.
The biggest problem I see is not making it bad after a chapter or three... super powered little kids tend to be a step over into the often execution worthy,
badness that is the babies smarter than all/most adults genre. As a quirky, somewhat cracky misunderstanding fest I could enjoy such a story.. as a pit of
angst and or Uber babies I feel I'd want to beat the cast and crew to death with each other.
means he'll have to be 7-8 to get it to make sense. This would involve Itachi yoinking Narto from the village at the same point as he slaughter his kin.
That would also mean he would be at a stage where he could start performing cranial rectal deinsertions on the others. By which point Gaara would be kinda
nuts and paranoid... and probably Naruto's roommate. Which would probably lead to Naruto to complaining at breakfast about how his roomate stays awake all
night and just creepily stares at him... with occasional threatening comments.
Unless your bringing in Naruto later on than the others and making him have to stabalize the warped children already in the program. Unless something rather
worse than canon happens to Naruto he shouldn't even have access to the demon chakra at all then. Which could be a major plot point... Naruto not having
any powers like he is suppose to have (the seal is constructed to prevent this. a 'Do-Not-Open-Until-Puberty seal if you will). Meaning he'll be
competing with those with the powers without them for a long time. If they don't remember to tell Naruto about his inner demon (they things he already
knows about it and everything he hears is just enough off to make him not notice the others have sealed demons), I can see him competing with the others and
trying to match the demon's powers with his own. The others think he has the 3 tails, he has power, but not the massive barely contained amounts the 9
tails should have. He keeps thinking any talk about contacting your inner demon is code for the chakra development he just started in the academy.
The biggest problem I see is not making it bad after a chapter or three... super powered little kids tend to be a step over into the often execution worthy,
badness that is the babies smarter than all/most adults genre. As a quirky, somewhat cracky misunderstanding fest I could enjoy such a story.. as a pit of
angst and or Uber babies I feel I'd want to beat the cast and crew to death with each other.