"I'll be strong on my own..."
"I'll...I'll make my own way...my own path."
The Yondaime Hokage of the Hidden Leaf Village stood before all. In his arms he held two children. The remaining villages and shinobi that had survived the onslaught of the Kyubi no Kitsune were present in front of the Hokage Tower gazing upon their savior's prescence.
"I have before you...the heroes of this village. Inside these two children separately lie both the Kyuubi's Yin and Yang chakra."
The faces of the people contained that of horror, fear, and confusion.
"But do not fear as the soul of the Kyuubi has long since been killed and shall never return to our plains. And you have not just me...but these two infants...two of three of my very own children to thank."
The blonde man shouted, " Konoha... I may be the one who defeated the Kyuubi, the one who stopped it from rampaging and completely destroying our village into nothingness…but...it was my children who stopped the great demon...if not for their birth on such a night...our fates would have been sealed."
He paused and lifted the two twin infants into the air.
"My children will...and shall forever be recognized as the heroes who saved our village from the devastations of a powerful demon...my daughters, Namikaze Amaya, and Namikaze Akako!"
The crowd cried in roars of joy and approval, cheering for their new heroes as their young Hokage smiled brightly.
Konoha's Orange Leaf
12 years later
A young blonde haired blue eyed boy sat in his desk staring off out of the window he sat near. He loved gazing at the trees. Nature was the only thing that could make him forget about the life he led on a daily basis. He was a boy of simple pleasures. He loved his village, the hand full of friends he did have and nature. He had a black zip up hoodie with an orange leaf village symbol on the back. Underneath he had an orange shirt with a black spiral in the center and black cargo shorts, a weapon pouch strapped to his leg and standard issued black shinobi sandals.
"Namikaze Naruto." An adult male voice called out his name as the boy stood from his seat and began walking down to the examination room.
"Sure it is." Son of the hokage, Namikaze Naruto, was a young man that loved sarcasm. Some chuckled at his statement with obvious second meaning behind it while others ignored his comment or sent him annoyed glances. Although he was the son of the hokage, he had little respect coming from everyone his age except for the few fangirls that only liked him because of who his dad was. Everyone else practically ignored him for his more popular and loved sisters considering that they are 'the saviors of the village' being the ones that his father sealed both the yin and yang chakra of the kyuubi into.
They were the best in the academy with Uchiha Sasuke falling 3rd to them and they are known most commonly among their peers as the "Namikaze Princesses". Naruto on the other hand was always in their shadow amongst other things. He was an average shinobi in the eyes of most but he secretly hid it just to not have others expect to much from him to soon. If it weren't from his obvious lineage, many would mistake him for an average Nara boy at times.
A student exited the examination room and began walking up towards Naruto's direction to reach the back of the class. It was a girl with vibrant short blonde hair at boy's length with bangs that slightly fell over her newly acquired konoha hitai-ate and whisker marked cheeks, she had a red low cut long sleeve shirt and black short shorts with weapons strap and blue standard issue shinobi sandals. Her emerald eyes that held pure arrogance aimed at whoever she stared at and she seemed to be staring down Naruto. Naruto gave her a bored glance as he twirled a healthy leaf around in his fingers. She shoved him in the arm lightly, a mocking tone in her voice.
"Good luck aniki."
"Aw thanks, such a lovely young lady you've grown into." He stated. Humorous sarcasism laced in his voice giving off a goofy mock compliment. He could hear his sister growl lowly at his statement. The malice was obvious.
"..Hope you fail."
"Love you too."
"Namikaze, hurry up and enter the examination room. We do not wish to prolong testing any longer than it already has been." The blonde boy nodded. He glanced back at the blonde haired tomboy who was now taking a seat next to a red head who looked exactly like the previous girl only with long red hair that reached her back and a elegant expression as if she were sculpted from the puriest of ice. The short haired one's face held an annoyed expression as she glared back down at him while the other stared at him with cold eyes...as if looking through him.
Naruto shrugged as he entered the examination room. Once inside the silver haired Chunnin instructor closed the door shut and quickly took a seat next to his tutoring partner who had brown hair tied up into a short ponytail and a noticeable scar on his nose.
"Alright Naruto, as I'm sure you know you'll be taking the bunshin part of this exam. You have already successfully completely previous jutsu parts of the test such as the Kawarimi, Henge, and Genjutsu subcatergories along with the weapondry, Taijutsu, and written part of the exams. You are now asked to particpate in the final part which will include you making five perfectly functioning bunshin. Judging by your hardships with bunshin in previous academy based tests, I hope you have been practicing and score well. You may begin when you are ready." The Namikaze boy nodded. The boy formed two hand seals.
"Konoha Bunshin." Iruka and Mizuki raised an eyebrow at the name. Konoha Bunshin? Konoha doesn't have a bunshin technique related to their village as far as they knew. Although there were many other villages such as Mizu and Kuso who had respectively the Mizu Bunshin and Kuso Bunshin but..but a Konoha Bunshin was unheard of. Where could he have learned such a thing? Iruka shrugged it off as him learning from his father, the great Yondaime who knew tons of powerful jutsu. The two chunnin watched as the smoke cleared revealing 10 Narutos.
"So..do I pass Iruka-sensei..Mizuki-sensei?" The Naruto in the direct middle spoke up as he stared back at the scar faced man with a bored expression plastered on his face. The Chunnin was taken aback but soon a smile tugged at his lips.
"Yes you have Naruto. You passed with flying colors!"
The blonde boy smiled with dull blue eyes staring back at the man.
"But I must ask if I can...where did you learn such a jutsu? Konoha Bunshin...did your father teach you?" The Chunnin instructor stated with mild interest while the other silver haired instructor stared off with slightly hidden scowl. Naruto grimaced when Iruka mentioned his father. He shook his head and pointed a finger at a random clone at his side.
"Naw, its all me. I created this jutsu under a tree one day."
"How does it even work...wouldn't the leaves just float away. How can you gather them together to form a bunshin?"
Iruka was quite interested in how a boy, only twelve years old no less, had created a new type of Bunshin! Naruto gave a small smile.
"Oh... as you know, Bunshin are simply chakra-formed into human shape with a basic henge covering them for details. The basic Bunshin is simply chakra in a human shape. What makes it easier than other bunshin is that it's only chakra, there's no substance to it. With other bunshins, you have to actively use your chakra to hold the material together to form the Bunshin. With Konoha Bunshin Once it's created, the chakra forms its own bonds and stays together since the leaf was once alive and technically has its own chakra coils that the chakra can flow through. However, if one strikes a bunshin, the chakra is disrupted and it falls apart."
"Just like any other...but a Konoha bunshin has more durability." Naruto punched a clone in the face but it still maintained. The instructors gasped. Naruto smirked and the clones expelled and in their wake came the falling of many leaves that soon burned to dust from the chakra.
Iruka smiled at the boy in front of him. It seems like he was going to become a great ninja just like his father who was the village's stongest shinobi. As a matter of fact, both he and his younger siblings were promising shinobi, although his sisters were practically prodigies and it made him proud to be their teacher and to send them off into the world of ninja.
The scarfaced chunnin stood from his seat behind the desk with a hitai-ate in hand with the konoha leaf symbol embrailed into the metal. He placed it into the younger boy's hand and smiled.
"Congradulations Naruto, you are now an official genin of Konohagakure no Sato."
Said blonde boy smiled as he tied the headband onto his arm. Iruka escorted Naruto out of the examination room and began calling the next set of names.
"Nara Shikamaru." said boy began walking down the isle muttering to himself about 'troublesome' tests while rubbing his stiffening neck after napping on the hard academy desks.
"Good luck Shika."
"Thanks Naruto." Naruto began walking back up to his seat. He gave a glance to his two sisters who were giving him stares of their own. He sat down in his seat which was a row below the two.
"I see you managed to pass." He leaned back in his seat to glance the source of the voice.
"And dad says you have astigmatism, you have some good eyes imouto." Naruto stated as he pointed to the hitai-ate on his arm with the leaf symbol on display. The short haired blonde scowled at her older brother.
"You're only older by 3 minutes so don't get cocky yo-"
"Stop it Amaya..." The short haired hot head stared over to her sister in shock. The long hair girl who was an almost spitting image of their mother held a cold stare down at the book she read. She gently turned the page staring at the next pages' text. She had a low cut black long sleeve shirt with fishnet underneath. Her headband was around her neck and she wore black capri pants with a weapons pouch strapped to her thigh and standard issued blue shinobi sandals.
"He's not worth it..."
"But..Akako..." The girl known as Amaya started.
"-Aww that kinda hurts..I think I'll go run and tell dad you guys have been being mean to me. Your own oniichan even sniff sniffboo hoo" Naruto mock sobbed holding an arm over his face in a melodramatic manner as the two red haired girls shot him a glare...a heavier one coming from the longer haired Akako.
"..weakling...i won't acknowledge you as my kin nonetheless oniichan. Even as the oldest, you weren't even worthy enough by our father to be consider heir to our clan." Akako uttered silently only for the three of them to hear. Naruto leered at this for a moment but soon shrugged.
"Hey guys, Akako and Amaya just told me that they are in love with someone in this class and its not that Uchiha douche over there!" Everyone stared at the Namikaze siblings then at the dark haired Uchiha Sasuke who stopped his brooding to send a glare towards the blonde boy along with a group of his fan girls. The boys in the class shot up from their seats and began to crowd around the two Namikaze girls while Naruto made his way out of the crowd.
"Hmmm..looks like I'm goin' to be having some brother-in-laws soon." Naruto said aloud as he could hear the shouts of curses from the two girls. Naruto took an empty seat in the far back next to the window and began staring outside at the trees and leaves as if the current situation in the room wasn't going on. It was the only thing that distracted him the daily life he led and...
He looked down at the crowd of hormone driven pre-teen boys around the two girls that are his siblings. The trees and the freely flowing leaves distracted him from the obvious resentment of his sisters and the neglegance of his own parents. Constantly ignored by everyone because of the prescence of his sisters who are known as the 'Heroes of Konoha'. Being the only son of the Yondaime Hokage wasn't all what it was cracked up to be. Especially when you were treated like an outsider by your own blood.
He sighed as he turned back to the outside world outside the window of the classroom. The falling leaves...
He wished he could be like a leaf.
Flowing in the wind...
Going where ever it took him…
Erasing his past, making it irrelevant….