"Were here." The ninja spoke leading the young Uzumaki into the village by the hand, nervously she stared up at the large village she would be living at now, and it scared her.
"Don't worry I'm by your side." Another young girl, who looked quite alike smiled reassuringly and nudged their shoulders together, she smiled and the other followed gladly to not be doing this by herself.
"Come on Kushina, Ashina." The older ninja spoke.
Both girls looked at the new village both with different degrees of interest, truth be told Ashina was just as scared as her best friend but for her friend's sake she wasn't going to let it show. After all, she wasn't the one who had been brought to become the next jinchikii. Both girls looked nearly identical, both with the same crimson red hair nearly the same size, but the biggest difference was in their eyes. Kushina's were a beautiful lavender, but Ashina's were a beautiful rich orange gold. Linking her arm with Kushina's she smiled again and felt her friend relax.
Several weeks later when both girls had become comfortable in the village and the ceremony for the nine tails was performed both of them began classes at the ninja academy.
"We have new students. Introduce yourselves please." The teacher asked nicely. When a few people in the class began to laugh and point at their hair.
"What's with that color, it's ridiculous!" the rest of the class joined in.
"I'm Kushina Uzumaki, and I'm going to be the first female Hokage this village has seen! Ya known!" Kushina shouted out spurred on by her nerves and anger. More laughter and accusations, by this point Ashina who had been standing beside her with arms crossed behind her head dropped them to her sides.
"My goal is also to become the Hokage this village can be proud of." A student said standing up, he had bright blue eyes and nearly yellow blonde hair. At his response, Kushina's back went up before she could do anything else Ashina spoke up.
"I'm Ashina Uzumaki, we are very distant cousins and if any of you bother Kushina you'll have both of us to deal with that's a premise." she replied glaring at the class who seemed to wince. "As for my goal's I just want to be a good ninja and protect those important to me." She continued still keeping a harsh eye contact with the rest of the group.
When the class finally released for a break immediately both Ashina and Kushina were surrounded in the back. The guys began to pick on Kushina insulting her slightly baby face and bright red hair and tugged on it. When they tried to start on her she glared and something in her gaze told them to back off but then they doubled their efforts on Kushina when one grabbed her hair and calling her a tomato that no one likes and could never be a Hokage, Ashina's patience snapped and she launched herself at him. Following her cousin's lead, Kushina began on the others.
"I don't like my hair either, and I don't like tomatoes!" she yelled as she punched the most annoying boy. Ashina released her hold on the one she had punched several times and grabbed Kushina before she killed the boys.
"I told you not to test us," Ashina growled at the boys who were laying on the ground black and blue. The blonde haired kid who she learned was named Minato laughed slightly and Kushina snapped at him.
"What's so funny!" surprised he looked away, but Ashina watched as his blue eyes slid back over to us and a smile graced his lips.
After a few more attempts on their part to humiliate us and us lashing back we were given different names. Because Kushina had more of a fire temper they went from calling her the red tomato to the Red Hot Habanero, she wasn't thrilled with the change. As for Ashina, since she tended to not only beat the offenders up with Kushina but slyly do some sort of prank on them afterward, got named with the Red Fox which she didn't mind at all. She adored the creatures and her family had a summoning contract with the animals.
