"Ne-san! Ne-san! Wake up! Wake up! It's our first day in the Academy!!"
Uzumaki Naruto is a loud kid, which is an understatement still. It was their first day in the Academy and his lazy sister is still asleep. The blonde pouted but suddenly grinned, an idea popping inside his head. He snickered quietly to himself. Naruto jumped on top of his redhead sister, making her gasp for breath in shock.
Naruto grinned and immediately crawled away from her. He waited and waited but she didn't wake up. Naruto puffed his cheeks out in annoyance. "Fine! I'll go alone, Ne-san!" Even that didn't wake her up. Naruto sighed and and grabbed his bag.Ne-san is such a killjoy, 'ttebayo! It's our first day in the Academy and she sleeps in!But that didn't erase his excitement.
It has been over two hours when Uzumaki Shira (a girl with a boy's name, unfortunately) woke up, only to find her brother no where in their apartment. She stared at the ceiling for a few seconds before sitting down. "I forgot... we go to the Academy today..." She sighed. Shira didn't bother hurrying, since she's late already anyways. After taking a ten minute shower, she wore a pair of black pants and a dark orange shirt.
Accompanied by the Uzumaki necklace dangling on her neck, she nibbled on a piece of toast as she walks towards the direction of the Academy. On the way, she bough some take-outs from old man Teuchi for both her and Naruto. She reached said school in ten minutes and went straight to her class. She knocked on the door with a bored look and after waiting for five seconds, the door opened.
"Hm? Oh, why are you late, Shira-kun?"
The redhead tilted her head to the side in confusion. This guy... did he actually thought she was a boy? Well, it doesn't matter. It was his fault for being wrong. She nodded her head and said, "My alarm broke"and Iruka let her in. Everyone stopped talking to one another, even if it's just the first day, and looked at their teacher and a late, really late student. They stopped in front and Iruka smiled down at her.
"I'm Umino Iruka, your teacher. Why don't you introduce yourself?" The girl shrugged and faced everyone with an indifferent look. Some sweat dropped cause she looks like she wants to be anywhere but here at the moment. "Uzumaki Shira." Almost every girl squealed. Inwardly, Shira winced and called them idiots. It was obvious they had mistaken her as a boy, with her slightly-long spiky hair and boyish face.
"Well, does anyone have any question for Shira-kun?"
Almost everyone shot up their hands in an attempt to be called. Shira looked over every one of them and saw a pineapple haired kid at the very back with a bored look on his face. She pointed at him and he asked, "Do you like watching clouds?" The boy received a nod and everyone eagerly waved their hands. Looking over everyone once more, she pointed at a kid with duck butt hair.
"Do you wanna be my friend?!" She shrugged her shoulders and pointed to another kid with long blonde hair. "Are you and that loudmouth really brothers?!" The girl had pointed at Naruto, who looked dejected. Shira inwardly scowled and decided to humor them. "We're not brothers- " Naruto, who looked at her, looked so heart-broken. "- because I'm his sister."
Everyone's jaw dropped, except for Naruto, and looked hell shocked, even Iruka. "Hey, you guys assumed I was a guy, not my fault you're all troublesome." Everyone sweat dropped while Shira walked towards Naruto, who high five-d with his twin. "You scared the heck outta me, dattebayo, Ne-san!" He whined which made her sigh. "Hai, hai. Now, shut up, Naru-naru."
Suddenly, the bell rang just as Shira lied her head on the desk. "Ne-san, it's lunch time! Wake up!" It's a wonder how Shira could sleep with her loudmouthed brother shouting beside her ear. Everyone didn't leave the classroom because they wanted to talk with Shira, but it seemed impossible since she fell asleep almost instantly. Naruto whined for about another five minutes until Shira dropped something in front of his desk.
The blonde grin and said, "Oh man! Thanks, Ne-san! You're the best!" He started slurping on his ramen while Shira, who couldn't fall back asleep, decided to eat her own. The light blonde girl from earlier approached her. "I'm Yamanaka Ino! Shira-kun, do you wanna eat with us?" Violet eyes connected with her's and Ino felt herself blush. "Troublesome. Just eat here."
Almost every girl took up his offer and surrounded Shira, who noticed that they left Naruto out. His crest fallen face made her guilty as she pushed through the girls and sat back down beside Naruto. "Eat with me, you eat with my brother." The group of girls looked at each other and nodded.
After lunch, it was taijutsu class.
They were ordered to run around the school yard after stretching for a few minutes. Sasuke, Naruto and Kiba were in front of the group, with Shikamaru, Choji and Shira at the back. The Nara raised an eyebrow and looked at Naruto and back to Shira. "Don't you have the same energy as your brother?" He raised an eyebrow and Shira sighed. "It's a pain to run alongside him."
The Nara smirked in amusement, finding this girl not-so-troublesome like the rest of the girls in his class. "Hm~" The trio were the last to finish the laps and were let to rest in the yard. The three of them found themselves lying down on their backs and watching the clouds, the ... um big-boned of the three sitting down to eat some chips. "So... you don't look like your brother... aren't you twins?"
After all, they are in the same class and they looked about the same age as the rest of them. He heard her hum in agreement. "We're fraternal twins, so we're not exactly similar in appearance." She explained while loudly yawning, she was bored out of her mind and Shikamaru could understand. School is troublesome. "I think the only thing we have in similar with is our love for ramen."
The boy raised an eyebrow but shrugged his shoulders, gazing at the clouds with a buddy, why? It was the best day. He found his buddy whenever he wanted to go cloud watching even if that buddy was a girl.
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It has been a few months since they started going to the Academy and Shira noticed the familiar behavior their classmates were showing. Word must have got out that they were in the same class as the 'Demon', so to say. She didn't care, not in the slightest bit, why? Well, let's just say it was a bit too much of a drag for our little redhead heroine, especially when she has her hands full with fangirls... wait, what?
"Shira-kun! Shira-kun!" Said girl groaned but looked up from her book to be polite, it was one of the important things Hokage-sama told her about. Ino, she thinks, a new girl is accompanied her, Sakura, she assumes, were approaching her at an alarming speed. But the red haired boyish girl didn't move, instead, let them hug her as she resumes reading her book. Apparently, announcing that she was a girl was not a enough.
Her female classmates were always crowding around her and that boy with duck butt hairstyle. She didn't know why though, they were still too young to be thinking about their love life. But what do you expect from her female classmates? "Shira-kun! Come eat lunch with me!" Ino whined while clinging on her arm. On the other side, Sakura, too, was inviting her to lunch.
"Sasuke."
"WHERE?!"
Pointing at said boy, Ino and Sakura immediately darted towards the Uchiha and finally leaving her alone in peace and quiet. Though, it wasn't enough because Uchiha suddenly approached her with a bright grin on his face. She slightly narrowed her eyes at him, wondering why there was pink on his cheeks.Is he sick? Or did the girls put make-up on him? Shrugging her shoulders, she resumed reading her book.
"Hey! Wanna play with us?"
Shira shook her head but noticed the crest fallen look on the Uchiha's face. Feeling guilty, she sighed and put her book away and stood up. "What are we playing?" Sure it was troublesome, she was wasting her time playing with them rather than learning stuff she could use in the future.Sasuke only grinned and snatched her wrist away and drag her to the rest of his group. Another sigh escaped her lips and even if it's against her will, she was dragged away.
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It was weekend and Naru-naru was invited to play, which she politely declined because she has a whole apartment to clean. Yes, she's lazy but her brother's tendency to leave everything be is annoying her. Dirty socks, clothes, used ramen cups, spoiled food... the mess in his room is endless. Scrunching up her nose, she shuddered in disgust and wondered how her brother managed to sleep everyday in this dump he calls his room.
Preparing a ridiculously large plastic bag, she put on a mask to prevent any stinky smell enter her nostrils. She also wore a plastic glove to grab the mess but of course, sending her brother's dirty clothes straight to the laundry. It took her two whole hours to clean his room. JUST his room and she has to clean the rest of their apartment. One wouldn't be surprised if her brother said that a wild pack of wolves entered his room or a huge gust of wind made a mess.
It's just thatmessyanddirtyandstinky.
Letting out a sigh of relief, she finally arrived to the last room she'll be cleaning today and decided that once this is all over, she'll go and find Shikamaru and invite him to watch the clouds with her... or just join him if he's already doing so. There were a lot of unused cloth inside the closet (which she only found out that theydidhave a closet) and put them in the laundry along with Naruto's clothes. A bump on the last cloth caught her attention and wondered what it was.
Removing the last piece of cloth, what she found underneath wasn't something she would have thought finding in their apartment. It was a scroll with intricate designs and wondered how it got there, since she was sure she and Naruto didn't possess any kind of scrolls. Putting it inside her pocket, she decided to confront the Lord Third about the mysterious scroll in their little, shabby apartment... after cleaning the closet of course.
Shira was a girl, not a boy mind you, who's quite protective of her brother but doesn't show it much with her expression. She was too lazy to do so but once those bullies went too far, she guesses it's not so troublesome protecting Naruto from them after all. She has been far too independent despite being young and Naruto depended on her like a life line. She couldn't imagine what would happen if the both of them gets separated though.
Something she admires about her brother is his unwavering determination. Sure, he was a coward at times but he can be brave when the time tells him to, especially when he had defended Hyuga Hinata from her bullies a few weeks ago. Shira was proud to call him a man, though he's still a boy but that doesn't matter. He had stood up for another other than himself and her. She has never seen him so brave, not that he's not brave on other occasions.
Plus, despite knowing their heritage (Yeah, it wasn't that hard connecting who their parents were. Since if you look closely enough, the Yondaime's head on the Hokage monument look a lot like Naruto, and only someone blind wouldn't guess right, no offence though) and knowing what's inside of her brother, it doesn't change the fact that he's her twin brother, fraternal twin brother.
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Kakashi was a man who can't be startled so easily, since he had been used to Gai's eccentric ways and especially that... that Dynamic Entry of his. A shudder went down his spine after remembering the most recent 'entry' of his when Kakashi was just taking a stroll, reading his favorite Icha Icha. Of course, there's nothing else that can surprise this former ANBU, a former student of the deceased Yondaime. But suddenly, this girl... this girl who looked a lot like someone he knows, surprised him.
How, you ask?
Her head suddenly popped up from the window, surprising not only himself but the Sandaime also. They hadn't sensed her chakra approaching, not even a sound came from her. At first, he thought he was seeing things but when she spoke... oh god, kill him now. His heart almost bounced off his chest. "Yo, Hokage-sama..." The gravity-defying silver, not white but silver, haired man clutched his chest, right above where his heart should be.
His other hand was clutching the newest volume of Icha Icha, and thankfully, he didn't draw out a weapon. The Sandaime had looked like he was used to this kind of things, he noted. Because if his lack of reaction other than flinching a bit wasn't enough... well, let's skip that out. Kakashi's only visible eye stared at her in curiosity as he noticed a scroll in her hand as she entered through the window. Why didn't she enter through the door again?
"Is there something you need, Shira-chan?"
"I found this scroll inside our apartment. There were complicated seals drawn in it and I concluded it's some kind of Space-Time thing-y related." Okay, wait. Did Kakashi hear her right? Did she just askSpace-Time thing-y relatedto the Hokage? And did she just day that they wereseals? Kakashi inserted a pinky to one of his ears and cleaned it off a bit. Once he removed his finger, the Hokage asked, "What... did you say?"
He saw the redhead girl frown. "Troublesome." Now, that sounded familiar to his ears. "I found this scroll and read it on the way here. I recognized some seals and others were foreign. But from the seals Ididrecognize, it's somewhat related to Space-Time... thing-y." Well, her vocabulary was huge but not huge enough. Kakashi could only look between her and the Sandaime.Could it be..? His thoughts were cut off when the Hokage coughed a bit.
"Also, I found some odd kunai in a box back home." From her pocket, she fished out a familiar irregular kunai and Kakashi did a spit take out of surprise. It was the fourth time the girl surprised him. "The seal on this seemed familiar after reading the scroll. What is it?" The silver haired man could only listen to her.
The Hokage chuckled, all of a sudden, which was creepy, Shira noted. "Child, don't you realize what jutsu you've obtained?" She frowned and shook her head but felt a hand pat her on the head. She only realized that it was that creepy-looking man holding a perverted book. She recognized him (Of course, after looking through the Bingo Books she had stolen from some bookstore that only Elite Ninja could have).
It was Hatake Kakashi, the Copycat Ninja who had copied over a thousand jutsu. The Bingo Books she has didn't write down what his original affinity was since he would use multiple types. She bowed her head in acknowledgement, which was returned by the taller man. Her attention averted back to the Hokage, who looked amused by their odd greetings to one another.
"So... what jutsu is this?"
The old man could only shook his head with a chuckle, the man behind her joining the Hokage, confusing her further. "What's funny? You two are being such a pain."
And once she received her answer, she couldn't help but grin like she had won a coupon for an all-you-can-eat-ramen.
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The Uchiha Massacre.
It seemed like it was the only thing everyone was talking about and Shira could only sigh in irritation. At least, her brother wasn't talking about it but was declaring how he would beat Kiba next time when they play 'Ninja'. It has been a few weeks and Shira can't be bothered about the sudden news. It wasn't like she was close to any Uchiha anyway, an acquaintance, yes, but a close one? Not a chance. Uchiha's were too proud and arrogant but she had met Uchiha Itachi, the one responsible for the massacre, wasn't as arrogant and boastful as the rest of his clan.
The redhead wanted to voice out that something was wrong with this so-called massacre. A thirteen- or was it fourteen?- year old boy massacring an entire clan, a powerful clan, alone? Everything didn't seem to fit in her mind. Sure, Uchiha Itachi was a prodigy from what she's heard and could, possibly she thinks, beat Hatake Kakashi, but to have the strength to wipe out a really powerful clan, with the Sharingan as their dojutsu, something wasn't right and she wanted to ask the Sandaime about it...
... after class anyways.
When she and Naruto reached their classroom, she wasn't surprised to see Sasuke, whose face's devoid of any emotion, being surrounded by his overly protective fangirls (Like Shira has any say in this). She inwardly rolled her eyes at their successfully failing attempt to seduce the Uchiha but she had caught his gaze. His eyes were sending out pleas, a call of help. She shrugged her shoulders and approached the flock of girls and tapped the nearest girl's shoulder.
"Hey, can I have the seat next to Uchiha?"
Almost instantly, every girl stopped and faced Shira with flushed faces. They parted and she sat down beside the Uchiha, who looked relieved but didn't show it on his face. Shira, this time, was the one being flocked by the girls, who she had ignored long ago while reading a new book she had bought. Noticing her disinterest, the girls pouted and went back to their own seats, with Naruto already claiming the seat beside his sister.
For weeks, Sasuke would drag Shira to lunch, both of them isolated. Sometimes, her brother would follow but for the most part, he would join his friends. The Uchiha didn't know why he was doing this but what he knows, is that Shira's presence always calms him down. She was quietand gentle at times but could be rough like Naruto when needed. She didn't fuss over him like all the other girls did but she was the one being fussed over, despite being a girl herself.
Sasuke admits that she's the only one he really considers a friend. And any deity be damned, she's going to be his friend even after that dreaded day.
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The time to graduate the Academy was nearing...
... and Shira keeps falling asleep half-way through the day.
Now, Shikamaru wonders why she isn't a Nara.
