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Village Hidden in the Jungle

"This is ridiculous! And an outrage! You are sons of the Nidaime of this village. You have a reputation to uphold and also the reputation of your father to protect as well." The brothers stood outside of their father's office and took the yelling that his assistant was giving them. She stopped to take a breath to look over her charges. As the Nidaime's assistant she has the worrying task and responsibility of keeping the twins in line, which has not been an easy mission since they were born. Sighing she looked at the oldest of the twins, Aryus, he inherited the fiery and untamable looks of his father, Daisuke. He was the most honorable of the two his brother, Ashi was the trouble maker. Looking at the other son, he possessed the looks of his mother. Blond straight hair with dark brown eyes that show gentleness and also a playful side that was mostly seen.

At the thought of their mother, the Nidaime assistant, Hina, got back to the task at hand. Looking at the door she sighed and opened it and prepared herself for the temper of her master. He will not be happy at the boy's new destruction.

"Ah, Hina! My boys! What brings you to my office? Not that I don't mind the break. These peace treaties and conferences really weigh on the mind after awhile." Daisuke looked at the somber face of his assistant and the guilty expression that Ashi was wearing and immediately knew that this was not a social visit. Taking off his glasses and rubbing his nose he wearily asked Hina what happened.

Taking a deep breath, Hina started to explain. "I was walking to report to you about the chunin exams and I heard a crash and saw Aryus dragging Ashi out of a restaurant with food all over them. Apparently the two got into an argument with some Ninjas that were visiting from the Land of Tea both tried to prove the other wrong and effectively destroying the place. I paid the owner and apologized on your behalf and then brought the boys here." She turned around and moved to the right side of the desk and looked at the boys who had their heads down.

Silence hung in the room while the Nidaime was thinking and finally he spoke. "Aryus." He stepped forward. "What was this argument over?" Silence was the answer that met the Nidaime. After a minute Aryus looked into his fathers eyes. "We were eating and getting ready to pay for our meal when these ninjas started to terrorize the waitress. It was Akemi, you remember her? She dated Ashi for awhile. So Ashi walked over and told them to stop and leave the village. But the two that were with the offending ninja started to make threats and unnecessary comments. And then one of the ninjas threw a kunai at Ashi and we started fighting. Ashi did it to uphold the honor of Akemi and I did to and the owner was thankful. We are sorry for the destruction but it made the point across that nobody will disgrace the Village Hidden in the Jungle and the people inside it." He then stepped back and joined his brother. They stood stone still and stared at their father and the determined look that was on his face.

Finally he spoke. "My sons, if this were a one time occurrence I would have thanked you for your loyalty and would have overlooked this problem, but this has happened before. You both have started fights with visiting Shinobi and have caused other problems in the past. I thought this to be a phase you would grow out of it but you both are twenty and you both need to realize that you are getting older and need to have a more mature outlook on life and the people in it." Sighing he looked at Hina and nodded. "So understand that I am doing this to help you both to grow and mature." The twins looked at each other with confused looks on their faces. "What do you mean, Father?" Ashi asked, speaking for the first time. Looking at his sons, Daisuke smiled a sad smile. "You are going to live with your mother."

The twins stood speechless, the last time that their father brought up their mother was ten years ago when they went into the Academy. All they knew about her was that she was important and that she left them with their father when they were born. And now they are going to live with her!

Ashi spoke up for the second time. "Why are we going to live with her? We don't even know her and she left us when we were little! She doesn't care about us!"

"Silence your tongue! You know not what you speak of! You will go to her, because I cannot handle your behavior and maybe she can help you. Ashi you will learn the consequences of your actions and this is one of the consequences, and Aryus you will got to keep an eye on him. You will go and that is final. You will leave this afternoon. I will see you off at three. Dismissed."

With that order the twins walked out of their father's office and headed to their apartment to pack.

Apartment

"Don't you have an opinion on this? How can you be silent and not protest when we are forced to leave our family and friends?" Ashi asked his silent brother, as he stormed into his room. Aryus stopped his packing and looked at his furious brother. Ashi looked down and saw his brother's feline friend. Reaching over he petted the panther's head. "Hello Tatia. You ready for our journey?" He earned a low growl and a bearing of teeth.

"I have an opinion but the Nidaime gave us an order and we are to follow it. And we might even like this change. Moving to a new village and meeting new people and maybe not get into that much trouble." He sat on his bed and looked at his hands. "Maybe this is the best thing." Ayrus stood and continued his packing, ignoring his now-silent brother.

Ashi laid down on the bed and watched his brother pack his backpack with the efficiency of a Jungle Shinobi. "I wonder what she will be like. Hopefully she is awesome! I've never heard father talk about her except that one time. I think he misses her." Hearing scuffling paws seconds before his feline companion jumped on the bed. "Oi! Nina! Watch out!" He also earned a growl for the tiger. Man, he wasn't doing well today. Sheesh!

Ayrus placed his kunai and shuriken into his weapon pouch. "He does get sad when we ask about her. But I wonder way he never sees or talks to her. We are going to see her; it wouldn't be hard to send a letter or go see her. So something happened between them."

Ashi nodded in agreement with his twin. "Maybe we can ask her when we see her. She might be more willing to tell us about what happened." Looking at the clock on the wall and seeing that it was almost time to go, he hopped up off the bed and went and got his pack. "Come on Aryus! We need to leave!" He yelled from the front door. Aryus stopped in his doorway and looked one last time at his life, his room. Heaving a sigh he walked over to Ashi and left their apartment and soon the village.

The Road - A Couple Days Later

Ayrus looked up from the map his father gave him. Smiling at the memory, he and his father understand Ashi's lack of direction and his hate for asking directions or help when they are traveling. So now Aryus takes care of the traveling.

Thinking back to the meeting with their father earlier that week, Aryus has never seen his father rundown before. Maybe our actions are causing their father more grief than we realize, Aryus thought. This might be to help him, more than this move is helping us. But nonetheless if this is what his father wanted then this is what will happen. He was kind of excited about this journey and move. He has never been outside of the village, than just for mission and now his is out on his own. Well except his brother and the two cats. Looking over at his brother behind him he saw that he was falling behind and looking into the forest around them.

"What?" He asked. Ashi looked at him and gave him a tight smile. Walking over to his twin, Ashi bent down to pet Tatia's head. "We are being followed. We must be close to the village." Standing up he looks at the road ahead.

"Come let's get to the village." Aryus said turning around he walked down the road with Tatia.

Village Entrance

"Here we are." Ashi said to his brother. Looking around he found a building outside the village walls. As the twins approached the building they saw two ninjas sitting inside and one looked like he was sleeping while the other was reading a scroll. The reading ninja looked up at the approaching four and hit the sleeping one.

"Evening. I am Ashi and this is Aryus. We are Shinobi from the Village Hidden in the Jungle. Allies of this Village" Ashi introduced himself and his brother. Bowing at the Shinobi they looked at the two village ninja and waited for them to say anything.

The one with the bandage on his nose looked through leafs of papers. After a couple of minutes he looked up and smiled. "Welcome to Konoha."