Chapter One
No One's POV
"The Shikyo is a secretive clan that refused to ever become ninjas for a hidden village. They instead took to a secluded island for the clan was so stuck up they didn't want another clan touching their precious one.
Then there were the rules:
No emotions
No feelings
Assassinate everyone, leave no one alive
Uphold the family's honor no matter what.
The clan was so deep in their ways they created their own language
As with most clans there was a main and a branch family. My grandfather, Trinian, was lucky enough to marry a main branch member, seeing as he was in the branch family. Trinian as some of the branch family had a different view of having no feeling for anything and my grandfather's family upheld those ideals and installed it in their son. Trinian and his wife had twins, which was the norm for the Shikyo clan and when their marriage hit the rocky shore, Trinian decided to divorce her, since she was so emotionless and uncaring to the children she had bore into this world. His wife, needless to say, did not hold to his ideals of feeling and emotion and the divorce was finalized, leaving Trinian nothing, since he was a branch member, except for his daughter, while his ex-wife took the son, since she wanted a fighter and the clan knew that women couldn't fight, it was unheard of. When the rest of the main branch found out that some of the branch members were breaking the rules they set to destroy the individuals. By that time Trinian had taken his daughter across the sea and hid her in a hotel in the nearby fishing town. Trinian went back to gather the rest of his belongings when the massacre was happening. In anger Trinian went to the main branch and found the treasure of the Shikyo, and stole it, hoping to give it to someone who deserves it. He snuck aboard the ship and made it back to his daughter, hiding her from the rest of the clan, for once they found out that the precious swords were missing and the ring left in its place, the clan would risk its reputation to find and slaughter the family.
Although Trinian was a fighter, basically the same level as a Jounin ninja, he decided to throw his career away to protect his daughter. He dabbled in various jobs before finding his niche in smithing. He then picked up and left the village that taught him the skills and the two successfully changed their names, Trinian renamed his daughter Nagori, meaning memory, to remember the horrors of the Shikyo clan. The last name was easy for Trinian, he named it after himself. Trinian in Shikyoan meant Victorious. Nagori called Trinian her hero, for showing her that she could have friends, and relationships, and feel. So when Trinian needed to rename himself he called himself Kesshi.
As Nagori grew older Trinian made it a point to teach her how to fight, and as she grew older boys started to finally notice her, and one stole her heart and married her.
As per usual of the clan she was from Nagori had twins, a boy and a girl. She named them Meiyo and Nenriki. Their family lived happily with Trinian coming over and giving Nagori's husband free weaponry, always saying "Keep yourself safe and protect my daughter, if you fail to do that I will kill you."
Nagori and her husband left to sell the weapons her father had made outside of Konoha Leaving the four-year-old twins who had just started the academy to the mercy of the their Grandfather." Trinian had finished, smirking as he said the last bit ruffling the hair of the young boy and girl lying in the twin beds beside him.
"Tell us another story Ojii-san" The boy, Nenriki, asked looking up expectantly
"Yes please Ojii-san?" Meiyo asked, poking her lip out and making it tremble.
"I don't know, you two really need to go to sleep" Trinian said looking happily at his grandchildren, who in turn looked at each other and smirked before looking at their grandfather again
"Please Trinian-sama" the two said, and in unison poked out their bottom lip and made it tremble and gave their grandfather big puppy eyes. The grandfather sighed before going back and sitting in the chair in between the two beds. The two children pumped their fists in the air in victory before calming down when their grandfather sat down
"Well since the two of you asked so nicely" Trinian said, "Let me tell you about something that your mother doesn't want me to tell you"
"What? What?" the two children asked excitedly, once again in unison
"Well, the two of you need to make sure that you dodge and evade any attack when you are near anyone who is from Konoha."
"Well duh, every ninja knows that, besides Ocaa-san and you have been teaching us how to dodge and evade for forever" Nenriki said humphing as he crossed his arms over his chest "I thought you were going to tell us something new"
"Nenriki, he said to dodge when near anyone from Konoha, not to just dodge" Meiyo said, before looking up at her grandfather "Why?"
"Your blood, your mother's blood, and my blood will knock anyone unconscious if they touch it, and if ingested or inserted into the body will kill." Meiyo and Nenriki looked up in fear and shock at their grandfather
"Than what do we do if we get injured?"
"Your saliva acts like a temporary bandage" The two looked up confused at their grandfather's last statement "I recommend the two of you learning basic medic jutsu in the near future, if you need help I will, especially with the dodging"
"Ojii-san, we wanted a story, not a lesson" Meiyo said as a pout formed on her face
"Fine" Trinian said sighing but was interrupted by a knock on the door. Trinian left to answer the door, leaving the twins to their own devices, something he would probably pay for it later.
He opened the door slowly to see a person dressed in the usual ANBU uniform. He looked on in a look of shock and confusion, "…yes?" Trinian said drawling out the word for extra emphasis
"The Hokage wishes to see you" The fox-masked ANBU said before disappearing in a poof of smoke. Trinian sighed before going back to the twins and sighed at the mess that they had done. He ushered the two their respective beds and tucked them in.
"The Hokage wishes to see me so I will put that story on hold" He said and turned the knob on the lamp and the only light in the room went out. He walked out the door and turned to make sure the two were still in their beds before shutting the door and walking out of the house, locking in the door in the process. Trinian walked to the large building in the middle of the city thinking, hoping, and praying that the house would not be burnt down, or destroyed when he finally did go back to the house.
Trinian walked up the spiral staircase, and knocked lightly on the Hokage's door.
"Enter," the third Hokage said before Trinian opened the door and quietly entered, shutting the door behind him. The third looked up and saw the man before saying "Good evening Trinian Kesshi, I am sorry to pull you out of your home at this late hour"
"It's not a problem Hokage-sama" Trinian said respectively "I just hope I arrive to my house with it still intact" Trinian confessed smiling and chuckling a bit "Meiyo and Nenriki are quite a handful"
"I am sure they are, and they are partly the reason I called you here" The Hokage said. Trinian tilted his head to the side, confusion showing into his silver eyes as peppered back and grey hair fell into his eyes.
"What?" Trinian said carefully, chewing the words before saying them.
"It is about your daughter and her husband, Kodowari Iikagen" The Hokage started
"What about them?" Trinian asked cautiously
"The mission failed, another team found them near the edge of the Fire Nation and returned with their bodies" The Hokage said slowly and gently, this was the thing he hated the most about his job. Trinian's eyes went wide and tears began to fall
"How-?" he was able to get out before a sob choked back the rest of the words
"We are still trying to figure that out, there was minimal blood on the shinobi that was protecting your daughter, just a scratch on some of them, but your daughter was found about 100 yards away and looked as if she were tortured for hours before they killed her"
'Shikyo clan' the thought bashed around in Trinian's head
"If you wouldn't mind, the twins will need a guardian…" the Hokage said gently to the broken man
"It's fine, they can stay with me" Trinian said, standing straight once more, wiping all the evidence of his broken heart from his face before asking "May I see my daughter's body?"
"Of course"
Kodowari Nagori looked as broken as her father felt. She had obvious signs of beatings, judging from the deep bruising and wouldn't doubt several broken bones along his precious daughter's body. He looked at her hands and smiled. The slice had told him what he needed to know, she went down fighting, most likely using the jutsu he had showed her, the one he created, he was proud of her. He pushed a stray black hair and pushed it off of her face, her mouth was permanently in a smirk, answering the second question he had to the dead body
"You didn't tell them, even after the beatings and the torture you didn't tell them where I was, or where your children were, you were smirking at their methods and they got angry enough to kill you" A tear escaped his eyes at the pride he had for his young daughter "I am so proud of you" He looked over her dead body to the body of her husband. His messy purple hair still defied gravity even in his death and he saw the scowl still present on his face, he went down fighting. A thought glimpsed through his mind of his daughter holding on to the purple haired man
"I love him Otou-san" she said, her silver eyes twinkling in the sunlight. The purple haired man looked nervous; he could see it in his sea green eyes.
"I would like to marry her with your permission sir" he said bowing in respect. Trinian remembered how he almost grabbed the buster sword that was hanging on the wall to kill the man when he saw the face his daughter was giving him which clearly said 'Kill him and I swear I will kill you'
Trinian smiled at the memory. Nagori was known for her wrath, but she was also known for her kindness, the boy however, was known for his mischief and his cunning, but he did care for his daughter tremendously and proved it to him daily. He had never seen his daughter so happy. He kissed his daughter's forehead, wishing her farewell and nodding in respect to his son-in-law before leaving to his household when a thought came into his head that made his blood run cold
'How am I going to tell Meiyo and Nenriki?'
He was happy to see his house was left standing when he came home and he took a deep breath before he unlocked the door and went inside to observe the damage. He turned on the light and saw items strewn across the floor, pebbles and glass and a couple flowers were scattered along the floor, and a deep gash in the couch told Trinian that the twins were sparring, as did the kunai stuck in the wall. He pulled out the kunai and put it on the table that was surprisingly still standing and walked down the hall, pictures were crooked on the wall and a couple were hanging from a corner but he ignored it when he checked on the two children. He opened the door and noticed, happily, that they were asleep, Nenriki strewn on his bed, his arm hanging off limply with a kunai still in his hand, asleep on top of the covers. Meiyo had fallen asleep with her feet on her pillow and her body halfway off the bed; she too held a kunai in her hand. He shook his head at the antics of the younger ones and he picked up the boy and tucked him into bed, taking the kunai out of his hand and placing in on his dresser. He did the same with the girl and took in a damage report of their room. Clothes were thrown everywhere, but that was a normal occurrence in the room, his watchful eye gathered in a broken door that he would have to fix in the morning, some weird goop covered one of the walls, and a definite blast had occurred in the corner, where he would have to replace the drywall. He again shook his head at the two, as if scolding them in their sleep.
'This was where the fight started' Trinian decided as he began fixing up the house, leaving their room for tomorrow. He started with the hall since the brunt of the damage had been done in the main rooms in the house. After fixing the frames he began cleaning the mess in the living room before heading in the kitchen and finding kunai sticking through the backside of a frying pan and his skillet stuck in the wall. Trinian sighed as he pulled it out and washed the dishes, throwing away the frying pan and adding it to the list of things to get from the store. After the house was cleaned to his satisfaction he went to bed. If he wasn't grieving he probably would have woken the twins up and had them clean the house, but he had no idea how to explain their parent's death to them. He went to sleep as the sun had just begun to rise in the horizon.
Meanwhile the twins had begun to stir and wake up, and got ready for school before heading out of their room to grab something to eat before going to class. They were both excited because they were going to practice throwing kunai today.
Meiyo and Nenriki walked into class, the two sat next to each other and waited patiently for the class to start. The two were currently the first one in class and Meiyo smirked as she said to her brother
"Warn me when he comes in" before doing the hand seals: Rat, tiger, snake, dragon, rabbit, ram. Meiyo closed her eyes as she kept holding the ram seal. When students started filling the classroom, Meiyo, still trying to concentrate, put her head on the table in front of her, eyes still shut tight holding the necessary chakra to do what she wanted. Hatake Kakashi entered the classroom, the sensei coming behind him, his silver hair defying gravity as a mask covered half of his face, which you couldn't see anyway, since his face was buried in a book. Nenriki lifted the cloth covering his arm and using his fingernail, wrote the characters for 'He's here' on his arm, Meiyo twitched her right arm as if the writing had appeared on the exact arm her brother had wrote on. She lifted her head from the desk and opened her eyes as she followed the silver haired boy as he made his way to his desk. Girls began to squee, yet Meiyo ignored them as she focused on the boy as he went to his usual spot on the lower left hand side of the classroom, Meiyo counted the seconds as the boy lowered himself to his seat and once about an inch away from the seat she let the seal go, the genjutsu was released and Kakashi was found to be sitting on a piece of plywood, causing the springs holding it at an angle to unleash the trap the twins had set up as the table in front of him turned into a container of green goop, that the spring had kept from projecting itself. Kakashi didn't have time to realize the trap and dodge as the bucket's contents made his way towards him, causing him to be completely drenched in the thick goop, as well as some of the students behind and beside the silver haired student. Meiyo and Nenriki instantly began to laugh, falling off their chairs in the process. The rest of the class was in shock, including their sensei. Soon the shock began to fade as the rest of the students began to laugh. The sensei looked at his classroom and the chaos it was in. He sighed, knowing that the chaos that was ensuing would be worse if he did not fix it now.
"Kodowari Meiyo and Nenriki" The laughter stopped instantly as the class turned to the two mentioned, who in unison got off the floor and peeked over the table, identical deep purple hair falling into their silver green eyes.
"Hai" they said still not daring to get off the floor. Kakashi was visually steaming in anger at the two. Their eyes glanced at him, before looking back at their sensei.
"I want you here at the end of class today with your parents"
"Our parents are on a mission sensei" Meiyo said as the two got off of the floor and slid into their respective chairs, as one.
"Then your guardian will need to meet with me" The sensei said, though he would never admit it the two had shocked him today. He had finished a brief introduction of genjutsu yesterday, and the two had created a trap so ingenious that it used genjutsu that he didn't even detect was impressive. He shook his head at the two before letting the students that had been plastered with the green goop go to the bathroom to wash up. He knew that the two were going to be a formidable force in the future.
He did a quick stall as he waited for the students to come back from the bathroom, giving a short summary of what was going to happen today
"As you know, we are going to go to some physical practice today, starting at the target range I will show you the proper way of holding and throwing a kunai, and to finish the day off we will break up into groups of two and spar." He mentally sighed a breath of relief as the students came back and he led the students to the target range. Meiyo and Nenriki stood next to each other, about four feet from each other, Kakashi on Meiyo's right, and another purple haired girl on Nenriki's left. The class watched as their sensei showed them how to hold the kunai, which frustrated Meiyo and Nenriki since they had been shown a different way. The class watched as their sensei threw the kunai at the target, hitting the middle perfectly. "Now it is your turn."
Nenriki held the kunai like their sensei had shown them, though it felt unnatural in his hands; he threw the weapon and glared at it as it hit the farthest rung from the middle. He grabbed another kunai to try again.
Meiyo was not having the same luck as her twin. She couldn't get used to the feel of the kunai and accidentally sliced her thumb up as the kunai from her hands. She drew in a sharp breath from the pain as she quickly put the finger in her mouth, sucking the blood until she could not taste it anymore. Withdrawing the formally bleeding finger she picked up the kunai, wiping the blood on it on her clothes. She attempted again, to hold the kunai like her sensei had done and ended up stabbing her finger
"Ow" she said, causing the boy on her right to focus on her as she once again attempted to hold the kunai correctly
"You can't become a genin if you can't throw a kunai" Kakashi teased with a cruel voice. Meiyo glared at him
"I can throw a kunai" She said defensively
"Sure, which is why this is the, how many times have you dropped your kunai?" Kakashi mocked, causing Meiyo's eyes to flash silver in her anger. She took picked up the kunai for the third time from the floor as she held it like her grandfather had taught her, holding the kunai in between her index and middle finger as her ring and pinky kept the kunai in her small hand and her thumb balanced the said weapon. She threw it without looking at it landed perfectly in the middle, not looking as she threw it. She smirked at the boy
"Ha" she said with pride, which instantly got deflated as her sensei yelled
"That is not how I taught you to hold the kunai Meiyo" Meiyo's prideful look on her face changed to a defeated one in the span of a second as Kakashi's went from shocked to elated. She forcibly turned away from Kakashi as she grabbed another kunai and finally held the kunai as her sensei had shown and threw it as it successfully landed an inch away from the target in the hay. Kakashi let out a laugh and the girl was tempted to grab another kunai and stab the boy with it. Her sensei stopped the thought from becoming a reality as he yelled to his class
"It is time to break up into groups to spar" Meiyo and Nenriki smiled at her sensei's words and got in a stance to fight each other before their sensei broke them apart and forcing Meiyo to spar with Kakashi, and Nenriki to spar with the girl who was on his left, a girl named Mitarashi Anko. Meiyo and Nenriki visibly frowned at the situation before facing their new sparring partner and when the sensei said "Begin" Kakashi grabbed a bunch of kunai and threw them at the girl; Meiyo remembered her grandfather's words and began evasive measures, doing back flips as she dodged the weapons. Her foot landed on a rock as Kakashi grabbed more kunai and threw them at her again. Meiyo was about to doge when the sudden movement of her getting ready to do more back flips and spins when the rock moved as the kunai got in a dangerous amount away from the purple-haired girl. Meiyo had no time to dodge the onslaught of the kunai as she lost her balance because of the rock as all eight of the kunai hid the girl in various parts of her body, she screamed in pain, alerting their sensei, and Kakashi looked as shocked as her brother, their sensei and the girl. The sensei made his way to the injured girl, but the twin of the injured girl ran to her first, before their sensei touched the blood that was spreading on the girl's fallen body. "She needs to go the hospital" Their sensei said, as Nenriki blocked him
"I'll take her" He said, picking up her bloody body easily.
"I still expect you two and your Ojii-san in my office when Meiyo is fixed up" their sensei said and Nenriki ran off making his way to the hospital as the girl cried in pain. Nenriki made it a point to glare at the silver haired boy that hurt his twin as he ran past him. Once out of sight of their sensei, Nenriki changed directions, running towards his grandfather's shop instead of the hospital. Once Trinian saw the bloody body of his granddaughter he closed up shop and led the two into the back room and pushed the items on the table onto the floor, as he pushed up his sleeves. Nenriki placed his sister's body on the table. Trinian quickly did the necessary hand seals to cause his hands to glow a light green and he placed the light over the bloody parts of Meiyo's body, healing the wounds of the now whimpering girls. Nenriki pulled out a kunai that was still in his sister's shoulder and she screamed in pain at the action. The older man healed the girl, causing her whimpering to stop as he finished the healing that needed to be done.
"Now would you explain what happened?"
"We played a prank on a boy in class" Nenriki said
"Hatake Kakashi" Meiyo said, clutching her shoulder that recently had a kunai sticking out of it, which now had a scar.
"Anyway sensei broke the two of us up after target practice and Meiyo had to fight Hatake and-"
"I was fine until I landed on a rock temporarily as he grabbed more kunai and the rock moved and I lost my balance and the kunai hit me as I was falling." Meiyo said finishing her brother's sentence as she wiped her tears off her face.
"Sensei wants to see you when Meiyo was fixed up" Nenriki said to his grandfather, who rose an eyebrow at the twins "It's about the prank-"
"Which was awesome!" Meiyo said excitably as she jumped off the table and grabbed her grandfather's hands "You should have seen in Trinian-sama, I used genjutsu and released it as Hatake was sitting down-"
"Which unleashed the mechanism I made that made our green goop fly into his face-"
"And completely drenched him in it!" Meiyo finished as she jumped up and down, still holding her grandfather's hands. Trinian smiled down at the two children, Meiyo let go of his hands and grabbed her brothers and jumped around in a circle in joy over their prank. Trinian ushered the two out of the building as the weight in his gut reminded him of the tale of sorrow he had to tell the two. He was saddened by the fact that this might be the last time he would see and hear the happiness that followed the two around. He followed the twins down the road to the academy to talk to their instructor. Once inside their classroom Trinian looked with pride he did not show at the mechanism that Nenriki had created, completely ignoring the instructor as he ranted about the chaos that ensued that morning. Once the instructor had finished Trinian beamed at the teacher, shocking him
"So the genjutsu was a success, and I'm guessing you didn't sense it?" The sensei looked in terror at the older man in complete shock "I am right, am I not?" The sensei stared dumbstruck at the older man in front of him.
'Does he not know what type of damage this information can do to the village now that the two know it?' He thought
"But it does not matter" Trinian said, sighing as turned around and looked at the two now very excited and proud twins. He sighed, he would love anything not to do this to the two, but he had no choice. Trinian knelt down in front of his grandchildren and looked them both in the eye "I have some important news for you" The twins looked into the eyes of their grandfather with a curious expectancy "As you know I was called to see the Hokage last night" The two nodded "And, there is no way to say this but-" Trinian took a deep breath, the sensei behind him was also curious at what was going on "Your parents died on their mission" Trinian said softly, not looking into their eyes. Meiyo gasped in shock at the news, holding her small hands to her mouth, her eyes filling with tears. Her brother stood as still as a statue, tears welling up in his eyes as the dam began to break and began trailing down his cheeks. Their sensei stepped back in shock and left the room, letting the three be, now knowing why Kesshi had done what he done. Trinian grabbed the two and brought them into a hug as he too began to cry. The loss of his daughter had ripped a hole in his heart, but he knew it was worse for the two he now held in his hands, for he knew they would walk around Konoha and see parent and child together, and their hearts would begin to break again.
Later, after the shock had worn off for the twins he brought them to see their parents as the waterworks began again for the two, after the twins had said goodbye he took them out to eat, in an effort to cheer them up, his efforts were not working, so he decided as a last resort to show them something.
"Okay, you two know remember the swords in the story?" Trinian said, waiting for the twins in front of him to nod. He smiled "Well as the story goes the swords can only be used by very special twins, one for each twin, if someone attempted to use both their soul would be sucked up by the blades and divided in between the blades.
"Why?" Meiyo said, her usual curiosity peeking through her sorrow. Trinian smiled as his plan to cheer them up had begun to work
"Because the blades, the treasure of the Shikyo is known as the blood swords, or the soul blades. When stuck with the blades can steal the soul away from anyone-including those in the Shikyo clan" Trinian kneeled in front of the two once more "And I am going to give them to you" The saddened silver green eyes that looked at him brightened up with the statement that had just been said "I am not going to give them to you just yet" The light in their eyes began to dim "But I will show you how to use a katana so when the time comes you may use the blades of your ancestors" The light grew brighter in their eyes and the two grinned as they received their first katana and Trinian began to teach the two youngsters how to use them.
Two Years Later
Meiyo and Nenriki walked side by side, the hitai-ate used as a belt shining in the light of the sunshine as the two made their way to see their team. Meiyo had taken a liking of wearing navy, while Nenriki liked wearing his usual black. Even though the two were identical they had completely different personalities. After the shock of knowing that Kakashi beat the two of them by graduating the academy before them Meiyo and Nenriki hit the books, quizzing each other so not to be left at the academy again. Meiyo had succeeded in leading the class in terms of Ninjutsu and Genjutsu, while her twin led the class in Taijutsu and Senjutsu. They were both formidable opponents when it came to schoolwork. The two had graduated at the age of six from the academy, just turning the age of six before the graduation ceremony. Trinian was very proud of his grandchildren and it showed in his work, as he began to create special weapons for the two to start using. Meiyo was determined to beat Kakashi, mainly because he annoyed her to no end, always acting aloof and calm. She screamed when he beat her to Chuunin. Meiyo worked hard to become good enough to go into the Chuunin exams the next year, dragging her brother along with her. Their new sensei, Keikoku, seeing the determination in her Genin's eyes pushed them further, causing their other teammate, Moreno Ibiki, to go along for the ride. Ibiki didn't the twins at first, probably because he was four years older than the two, but they eventually grew on him and soon they became friends.
The twins' pranks lessened controllably when the news hit them of their parent's deaths, but the two were often encouraged to continue pranking each other by their grandfather, so their creativity and ingenuity would continue to flourish. Keikoku-sensei had finally agreed that the three were ready for the exam, which excited the three Genin in front of her. She smiled as they decided to fight, Meiyo doing quick hand seals and attempting to best Ibiki in Genjutsu, which she found never worked on him, since he had grown to like the genjutsu more than anything else. Meiyo pouted before doing more hand seals before letting a fireball fly from her palm towards her brother, who was speeding towards her. She expertly dodged the attack and landed dodging an attack to the head by Ibiki, before spinning around, unsheathing her katana and blocking the attack by her twin, she kicked backwards, kinking the older boy in the stomach and pushed her brother away before jumping away towards safety. The three were getting used to each other's fighting style.
After training was over Meiyo and Nenriki ran through the village at top speed after they parted from Ibiki. The two were on their way home when the wind blew Meiyo's bangs into her eyes, causing her temporary blindness and she crashed into someone,
"I'm so sorry" Meiyo said, knocking the bangs out of her face as she got up, and was about to offer her hand when she realized who it was. She glared at the boy and turned her back on him, confusing his teammates at the action, and the boy who was on the ground, Hatake Kakashi.
"Meeeeeiyoooo" her twin yelled whining and the blond haired sensei smiled as her brother jumped back towards his sister, jumping gracefully in front of his sister, confusion on his face until he saw the silver-haired boy and his face began to glow with realization. He was about to lead his sister away from the scene when the smiling sensei asked
"Why were you running so fast, Meiyo-chan, right?" Meiyo looked over her shoulder curiosity showing in her face as she began to fully turn her body to face the sensei. A light smile lit her face up as she looked up at him before pride went into the girl making her stand up straighter and looked up with a confident smile going over her face as she said
"My team is going into the Chuunin exam" Her twin had the same expression of pride and it stayed there until a chuckle was heard on the ground. Meiyo and Nenriki looked at the boy on the ground
"There is no way the two of you would ever pass" Kakashi said cruelly to the twins, who in turn glared.
"Ojii-san had a special present for us" Nenriki whispered the reminder in his sister's ear, lighting up her face once more. She stuck her tongue out at the boy still on the ground before saying
"Watch me, and I will prove you wrong" She said as the two twins took to speeding down the road, and the two teammates on Kakashi's team looked at the twins running down the street
"Minato-sensei, will we have to fight the two of them?" The girl on the team asked
"Yes Rin, the two of you are going to the Chuunin exams as well" Minato said to his students. "So I recommend the two of you get ready by packing what you will need for tomorrow"
Meiyo and Nenriki made their way to their grandfather's shop and once he saw them he motioned for the two to help him close shop. Meiyo closed the shutters, as her brother pulled the metal lining on the inside the door. Meiyo finished by flipping the 'Open' sign to read 'Closed'
The two were ushered into the back room and Trinian pulled out a decorated box and took out two bracelets, one feminine and one masculine. He handed the two twins in front of him each one.
"Don't lose those" he said as the two put them on "Nenriki that one used to belong to me and Meiyo that once belonged to your mother"
"What do they do?" Meiyo asked, noting the intricate design on the thin bracelet as she enjoyed the cold feeling of the metal against her skin
"I am sure the two of you know how to create a bunshin" the twins nodded "Well with these bracelets you can create a perfect bunshin, perfect meaning it can take damage, and act as if they are real, it is one of the tricks that the Shikyo clan used, it takes a bit of chakra from you when it is put on, as I am sure you vaguely noticed, with that chakra, and a thought, the design will glow slightly and you will have perfect copied versions of you running around, a trick I am sure will become quite useful to you tomorrow" Meiyo and Nenriki both hugged their grandfather and he relished the feeling that he would never had gotten if he had stayed on the Shikyo's island. He kissed the two's foreheads as he shooed them away to try out their new toy. Trinian was sure the Chuunin exams were going to be extremely interesting tomorrow.
