Name's Minato

A/N: This comes from an idea that just so happened to pop into my head last night, so far it's kind of experimental, so please let me know what you think of it! (I'm begging, I know)

At the same time as I am writing this fic and its further chapters (if there seems to be an interest), I am working on my other story 'Assassination?', and updates will probably come slowly…

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Name's Minato. Namikaze Minato.

Okay, okay… It's not. But I can wish, right? Though I really am named Minato. My parents seem to have a fetish for the old Hokages. I mean, just look at it, I am named after the great Yondaime Hokage Namikaze Minato, my twin brother's named after our villages last (and best known) seventh Hokage Uzumaki Naruto, and then there's our older sister – Tsunade, named after the only female leader in the history of Konoha.

I told you they had a fetish, didn't I?

Now where was I... Oh yeah, my siblings. Okay, here's the deal; Naruto and I are twins though we are nothing alike, except when it comes to looks. We're identical, god dammit, both with blonde hair that's kinda' spiky and all over the place and blue eyes. Right, and besides that we are nothing alike.

I promise.

Though we are both huge ramen-junkies (I still can't manage to beat Naruto in our ramen-eating contests, I don't get how he does it, I just seem to be unable to get anything more down after my twenty-third bowl, and Naruto's record is at twenty-seven!). And we're kind of hyper. Or at least, that's what people keep saying.

And ever since we were really small, like, since we could talk, we've both dreamed of becoming Hokage's. Especially after hearing uncle Gai's stories. Man, what a let-down it was when we found out that there are no Hokage's anymore! You probably heard us scream. Or, you probably heard Naruto scream. I've never been as loud as him. Seriously. Anyway, we were both scarred for life when we gained the knowledge that Konoha is, since the death of the Shichidaime Hokage 93 years ago, 'integrated' with the rest of Fire country, because of the stable peace that came across our world during the reign of Shichidaime Hokage Uzumaki Naruto and Godaime Kazekage (I think he's still ruling… no one's succeeded him but… ah, well, well, if it is so, he must be almost as old as uncle Gai… now that's creepy) Sabaku no Gaara.

Uhm, where was I? Hm… Right, integration, peace… blah, blah, blah. Right, because of the peace, Konohagakure, the great Hidden Village of the Leaf was… forced to become a part of the rest of the Land of Fire. And ninjas sort of… ceased to exist. There are some left in the world, I think. Like the Kazekage… if he is still alive, and uncle Gai, though I'm not sure I believe him. He's totally nuts. The guy's been around since the days of the goddamned Sandaime, (we know that for sure, since our great grandfather was his student, or something like that) and he still gets up insanely early and does completely nuts things like five-hundred push-ups, on every finger, and then running ten thousand laps around the village. – Like I said; nuts. I can't imagine how he's been able to live for so long. He says it has something to do with his 'hip' and 'cool' eternal rival, and that he won't let him live longer than the 'youthful'- in this case ancient, Maito Gai. We know for a fact that the 'eternal rival' he refers to is the Rokudaime Hatake Kakashi. But that guy's turned into stone, there's no way he can be still alive. It'll probably take another hundred years for 'uncle' to actually get that into his head.

Perhaps I should explain more about the Rokudaime as well… he was one of the greatest Hokage's in our history (okay, who am I kidding, we've only had seven, all of them were great), he ruled for a period of five years, before some kind of weird jutsu-poison thingy turned him into stone when he fell asleep (I don't really know so much about this stuff, only as much as we get to learn in history class at school… and what Gai tells us, but he's pretty incoherent). The jutsu-poison thingy, anyway, was part of an attack by this organisation called 'Akatsuki'. Y'know what the funniest thing is? Today, Akatsuki is a major computer corporation.

The turned-to stone Hokage right now resides in the Konoha Museum.

Anyway, where was I before all of this Hokage stuff… damn, I can't really keep my mind straight… mm… raaaameeeeen… Just kidding- heh, heh… Family, that's it.

Okay, perhaps I've not been completely honest with you. Naruto and I kind of are alike. It's funny though, our parents have consciously kept us separated (we attend different schools for example…) to keep us from becoming too dependant on each other. And we still ended up the same.

It was a really funny occurrence when I was at the mall with Obito (he's my best friend, if you don't count Naruto, and he's in my class at school) and Sasuke (this boy who, coincidentally, is cousin with Obito and goes to Naruto's school and is his best friend…) thought that I was Naruto (he should've figured out that I wasn't simply by the lack of orange). That was before he actually knew Naruto had a brother, he had just recently started to hang out with my orange-clad copy. He spotted us, and came up to me – asking how the hell I knew Obito and why I hadn't told him. I didn't understand anything, I had no idea who Sasuke was (Naruto had talked about him, but I knew nothing about how he looked) and he tried to convince me that I was really Naruto. It was Obito who eventually figured it out, kind of funny really, since Sasuke is considered to be something of a prodigy. Hm, perhaps this whole thing was only funny if you were there yourself…

Actually, when I think about it, it really isn't so funny. Sasuke's parents were murdered two days previously and he was in the process of being adopted by Obito's family. It can't have been easy, having to adapt to an entirely new family, okay not entirely new, but still – at the age of fifteen.

He was probably all torn up inside and there I was, looking like the only friend he had left - He had always been the most popular kid at Naruto's school, hell, even ninety-nine percent of the girls at my school know who he is, but when his parents died and he hit a low – his friends scattered like leaves in the wind. And he still had all those hordes of fan-girls after him.

Damn, now I just feel mean.

Back to the 'family' subject.

As you might've figured from all of my previous blabbering, we (Naruto, Tsunade and I) are the great grandchildren of the 'Second Green Beast of Konoha', Rock Lee. We've never met the man, he died before we were born, but apparently he was like a copy of uncle Gai… I'm so glad our parents are nothing like that!

No matter what, my fellow prankster slash brother and I are both pretty sure we're adopted. Okay, we know we're adopted. Not only does everyone else in our family act totally different from us, but they also have black hair, all of them, and no one have blue eyes. And if you still need more proof, then I can tell you that we have actually seen the adoption documents.

We didn't search for them, really. It was just that we thought it'd be very funny if dad's 'secret' drawer in his desk that was always kept locked would sort of spray him in pink paint when he tried to open it… Unfortunately (for everyone else that is), we have yet to fail when it comes to lock-picking. It's an ability that really comes in handy while playing pranks, I must say. It was in that drawer we found the papers. Apparently we were abandoned on the doorstep to an orphanage; our real parents were never found. Not that it matters much. Our parents are great. Just a little bit annoying at times. It's kind of sad that they couldn't have more children of their own after Tsunade.

She's such a bitch, okay; perhaps I don't really mean that, I do love her, really. But I think her temper has somewhat been affected by her name. From what I've learned through History class (and internet… hey, I have an Akatsuki computer that I share with Naruto, it's really cool! Not that we use it much, we're more outdoor-types of people) it seems that her temper is terrifyingly similar to her namesake's.

Hm… I think I am done with the introduction, now… I hope so at least. Perhaps I should have forced Naruto to do this instead. But he did promise to treat me to ramen later…

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Our story begins when Nara Ino walked into the classroom. Well, it doesn't have to start there, but it felt like a good place to begin. Naruto think that I should just skip to the exciting part (which is what comes later), but now I am the one telling the story, he wanted it that way, so, Ha! Or something…

Oh, the story…

Nara Ino came into the classroom, her spiky, brown hair was actually a bit short to put in a pony-tail so strands kept falling out and into her face all the time, not that she seemed to mind. She sat down in her regular place at the back of the classroom and promptly fell asleep.

I really wish I was as smart as her. I mean, she always gets to sleep in class, never pays attention, is way too lazy to study and still scores maximum at every single test or essay!

Our homeroom teacher, Anita-sensei, entered the classroom and I settled for a long, tedious wait until Obito would show up. He is always late. Luckily for him he attends Konoha Academy and not Konoha Communal High (very innovative name, don't you think?), there, he would have been thrown out for being so late all the time.

So now you also know the name of our school – Konoha Academy, that's right. It's the best; really, it is the same school that taught ninjas so long ago. Naruto was so pissed when I was enrolled here and he got to go to KC-High.

This particular day we were going on a little field-trip. To Konoha Museum (you just have to wonder what idiot came up with all these names! Everything is Konoha, Konoha, Konoha).

Like none of us had been there before.

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Despite having been there quite an insane amount of time, I still find the place amazing (so does Naruto). I guess our parents Hokage and shinobi obsession has been rubbing off. Both Naruto and I are almost on first-name basis with all of the staff there. Even the night guard, a grumpy old man who claims to be the last heir of one of Konoha's noble families. His name is Hyuuga Hakke. He doesn't have any byuakugan though. It's weird, how such a large family can almost disappear from everything but the history-books (which almost no one actually read…) and be forgotten so soon.

The building that once served as the Hokage's home and main headquarters of all shinobi activity in Konoha was now full of old ninja stuff, all from strange scrolls to mission reports and weapons. And of course, best of all; the Rokudaime Hokage himself.

Besides the fact that he's all grey and stone'y, you could think that he was only sleeping. Which he had been, when he turned. Or at least, that's what everyone thinks. Okay, that's undeniably what it looks like as well. He must've had fallen asleep against a tree or something, since his position was all propped up and half-sitting. He had full jounin-ninja gear on – nothing indicating that he was the Hokage himself. Most of his facial features almost invisible, since he had always been wearing a cloth-mask to cover his lower face and a Konoha hitae-ate tilted over the famous sharingan eye. In his left hand he clutched a book, the characters on the cover impossible to decipher. I've always been betting that it's a book that reveals insane, super-cool Hokage secrets. Naruto thought so too, but since I was already betting on that, he put his money on that it was book about slugs (where he got that idea from, I have no idea. Everyone knows that the Rokudaime's summons were dogs, slugs belonged to the Godaime). Ino, who walked around with her normal, lazy slouch heard me tell Obito about mine and Naruto's bet and decided to join in. Her bet was that it was a so called 'Romance' novel – a.k.a. porn.

As we stood there, I thought I heard a soft, hissing, noise. I listened more closely and realised that it came from the 'statue'. I leaned in closer. Yep, that was where the sound came from, all right.

"I think there's a mouse or something trapped down his throat and starting to choke," I said. I really believed it. Hey, what was I to think? It did kind of sound like a small rodent with asthma or something.

"What!?" Obito exclaimed and leaned in closer.

"You're right! We have to save it!" this really annoying girl called Yama screeched. Where the hell had she come from anyway? Suddenly she was just standing between me and Obito. Ino pushed her aside, muttering something sounding a lot like 'troublesome', okay it was 'troublesome' she said. It can't have been anything else. It's her favourite word. Ino leaned in closer to the turned-to-stone Hokage. And frowned.

"He's breathing," she stated calmly and everyone stared in amazement as the stone chest slowly rose as the wheezing was heard again.

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A/N: Thanks for readin' :D

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