Chapter 1
I've changes some of the ages, but it'll help my story, so deal.
I don't own the Naruto people. They belong to the genius who created Naruto.
The drive through Kyoto was long. The Higashiyama mountain range was beautiful in the near distance, the fog casting it in a blue haze, tinted pink from the rising sun. Dark roofs of grand temples, old and new, went past, the bent trees around them throwing strange shapes into the blur.
Passing through Higashiyama-ku was like seeing Japan of the 15th century unfortunately mixed with the inevitable development of the beautiful island-country. But as a dirt road came and was traveled down, thick forests surrounded the road. After ten minutes metal gates were seen and spread wide to be entered.
A large oval-like parking lot was littered with cars and motor bikes. Surrounding the asphalt was a concrete walkway, then brick made a funnel shape past another set of gates, inviting.
After parking nest to the brick, Katou-san looked at her daughter's, Mai and Kei, through the review mirror. She shared their black hair and light skin, though only she and Kei shared the same indigo colored eyes. "Are you girls sure you want to stay here? Is it all that bad traveling with us?"
"It is when the longest we've ever lived in a place is two years. And we've barely had any stable relationships with anyone, friend or more," Mai replied harshly but with a certain authority, staring out the window at her new hope of a life. Her reflection stared back with clarity of blurred shapes and colors, though she made out her long hair, straight bangs, and blue eyes.
Her expression was modest, however, inside she was about to leap out the car.
Their mother sighed. "Alright. Then I'll go over the rules one last time. One, call at least three times a week, and leave messages if we don't pick up.
"Two, try to be careful, you know how I hate hospitals. And be safe in the other sense, too.
"Three, ask us for money, don't do anything stupid. And we'll give you money for good grades.
"Four, the school knows to contact your aunt if anything happens, and you know Oba-san won't bend for lying. So don't even try with us."
She turned to look at her girls in the eyes. Kei nodded, her chin length hair bobbing, while Mai just rolled her eyes.
Their mom smiled. "Glad you understand. The shipping company said that all your stuff will be here this weekend, so make do with the bags you girls have, 'kay?"
"Yep," the girls replied together.
"So? Get out. Go to your room. Love you both." The girls kissed their mother on the cheek and left the car.
Mai sighed. "I thought I'd die of the mother-worry," shuddering at the last part. Kei was waving to her mother's leaving car.
"You exaggerate. She could have not let us go here. Can you imagine another year of boredom having them go and talking to weird old people and then having to move again after they signed the deal?"
"No, you shouldn't have even said that. She might have heard you and then would have pulled us back just so she could laugh."
"Shit, you're right. Hurry, let's sign in before she does." They turned and stared at their new home and school.
Fire Academy looked like a college. With the risen sun of mid morning, it looked like it had in the brochure.
The red and brown bricks led to a building with more bricks layered to make walls, and parted making numerous windows and a few doors. White granite stone benches and round tables littered the bricked walkway which widened and rounded after the gates. Soft looking bushes separated the brick from the magazine quality landscaping. Large trees cast picnic worthy shadows and the green was seasoned with marigolds, violets, and various colored tea roses.
They walked into the building through the main doors and turned a sharp left and up to a window with a woman typing away at the keyboard. Kei knocked on the glass. The woman opened it and had a light expression on her face, eyebrows raised. She had short black hair, black eyes, and pale skin. Her height couldn't be determined while she was sitting. She wore a plain purple yukata. "Ohayo, we're Katou Kei and Mai. We just transferred, and we thought we could get our schedules and room numbers?"
"One sec, let me see…" She typed a few keys into her computer, then turned back to the twins. "I just printed your schedules, they have your room numbers on them, and on the back is a map of the school. Welcome to Fire High Academy. My name is Shizune, I'm the nurse and attendant. Come to me if you have any more questions." She handed the papers to the girls and finger waved as the turned.
"Come on, let's go unpack," they said in unison, walking while looking at their maps. After going up a flight of stairs, they then came to two halls, they glanced at their room numbers, then at the signs saying which rooms were where. They began to walk down the different hallways, but they both stopped at the same time, disbelief plain on their faces.
They charged back to the front window. "We can't have different rooms!" They cried to the woman. She looked up in surprise. They pressed their schedules against the glass, making a bang and causing it to shake.
After glancing at the papers, the woman replied, "I'm…sorry, but you must. We don't have an open room, and we're not going to move girls. It'll give you two a chance to meet others. Please understand." She turned her head and continued her keyboard workings.
The girls stepped away, defeated. They then looked at their schedules.
Five long thin rectangles stretched across the sheet. Four classes and one homeroom.
Mai's paper showed for first hour she had English with Killer Bee-209, second hour was Geometry with Sarutobi Asuma-room 105, then she went to Homeroom in the library, which was supposedly held with Hatake Kakashi-room 101. She then would go to lunch that would last a half hour. Then she had Biology with an Orochimaru-103, and her final class was gym with Might Guy-room 102.
Kei's showed Health with Umino Iruka-room107, ceramics with Yūhi Kurenai-room 210, lunch, then homeroom with Terumī Mei-room 104. After showing her sister, who 'hmph-ed,' she them saw she had wood shop with a Yamato-room 211, then gym with Might Gai-room 102.
After grasping the other's left shoulder with their right hand, expressions of defeat making them look solemn for the first time that day. "We only have one class together and it's with a weird person named Might Gai!" they cried together.
So, this just hit me awhile ago, reading some other OC AU naruto stories. And I just kept thinking and thinking…and it was genius. Just what I needed to get out of some of my writer blocks with other stories. Im a good way into the story, have some chapters done already, and will post weekly. But I still want reviews!
Yes, the naruto characters will appear soon. Time, my darling.