Body Share AU
au where minato’s seal was faulty to begin with so he kinda sealed kurama with naruto rather than sealing kurama in naruto
the first few years of naruto’s life isn’t much different cause kurama is recovering from getting himself split in half and doesn’t think to do much beside sleep to recover and generally rage at being trapped again
eventually naruto has more autonomy and sense of identity and still goes through dealing with hate from the village
i think around the time naruto starts at the academy would be a good time to have kurama get involved because that’s when naruto starts accessing his chakra which is mixed with kurama’s so it would give me an excuse to say this is when he accidentally lands in their shared mindscape
also i think this is around the time naruto’s anbu guards stop watching him super closely so it gives naruto a little more leeway in his behavior change without being too noticed