DISCLAIMER: I do not own Naruto. If I did, Anko would have so much more screen time.

Chapter 1: Fitting in

"Aw~ C'mon Sensei!" The Sannin pleaded to his teacher, current Hokage.

"No means no Jiraiya. These children are much too old to be attending the academy, why, they could practically be participating in the Chuunin exams!" Sarutobi growled through his pipe.

"But it'll be good for them to interact with kids their own age! And their only twelve! Can't they at least introduce themselves?" Jiraiya whined, sinking to his knees, head resting on the Hokage's desk.

Sarutobi sighed, "They can enter the chuunin exams that'll be taking place in two months, they may not leave the village unless on a mission after the exams unless with you, or another Jounin like Orochimaru or Minato."

Jiraiya's ears perked up at the mention on his student's name, "That reminds me," He started to stroke some invisible beard of his, "When will Minato be taking charge of the 'ol 'Kage office? It must be soon, right?"

"Not likely for another few years Jiraiya! I have no plans by dying anytime soon and I am in fit shape!"

"But you said Minato-chan was going to-"

"I said he was next in line besides you and your teammates!" he shouted, veins popping all over his head. Jiraiya could almost see the smoke coming out of his ears.

"But I don't wanna be Hokage," The younger of the two crossed his arms with a pout.

"Well then, I guess I'll just stay as Hokage then," He chuckled satisfied.

"Fiiiine, so when are the next exams scheduled for?" he sighed.

"Two months," He repeated, "I'll send out the signal when it's time."

"Alright, guess I'll be going then." he said as he walked out the office.

~Meanwhile~

Konan and Nagato were playing around with Chibi as Yahiko was snooping through their new house, their new home. So far, Yahiko had found food that was kept in cans, containers, plastic, Styrofoam cups, and many more places. Like the fridge, it was jammed pack with food that could feed them for weeks! And not to even start with the cupboards!

"So Nagato, you think we'll fit in here? In Konoha?" Konan asked nervously. They hadn't gone out into any crowds since they arrived to the village. They've only gone out to several training grounds and a few walks with Chibi into the woods.

"I don't know..." he answered truthfully. "The only friends I've ever had were you and Yahiko, and I think I could live without the rest of the world if I were with you." he said with a smile.

Hearing this made Konan feel a bit better, true she never had any friends besides these two either, and Nagato was right, screw the world, all they need is each other.

Yahiko ran into the living room with a bored look on his face, "You guys, I don't want to be cooped up in this house any longer, let's go for a walk, or train or something." He moped as he dragged his feet.

"Well, Chibi could use a walk-"

"Great! Let's take the dog for a walk!" he yelled, instantly perking up.

They stepped outside in the suns warm rays and they shielded their eyes, "Damn, this sunlight is HARSH! How do these guys manage?!"

"I guess they're just accustomed to it, like we are with rain." Konan mused.

"Yeah well, whatever! Let's walk Chibi!" said dog barked in reply as the three ran off to explore the village.

~MinorTimeSkip~

Konan was window shopping, looking at all the differently colored paper at the art shop. She could do some serious origami juts u's with these...

*WHAM*

Konan fell back into the ground and whacked her head harshly. Her eyesight was blurry momentarily, and when it cleared up she say a girl about her age in a similar position as herself. She had a brownish T-shirt on, dark purplish hair that was kept in a spiky ponytail, pupiless eyes, a necklace that looked like it had a fang on it with a few beads, and a ninja headband around her forehead, partially hidden by spiky bangs.

"Ah! I'm so sorry! I wasn't watching where I was going!" Konan quickly stood up, attempting to help the girl up until she whapped away her hand.

"Whatever kid, I should've been watching my own path. Jeez, to be taken down by some chick..." she muttered.

"Uh..." she struggled with words, "I-I'm Konan! Nice to meet you." She bowed her head then placed her hand out.

"Yo, I'm Anko, Anko Mitarashi." She waved her hand once with her two fingers pointed upward. Konan wasn't sure what to say next and neither did Anko, there was an awkward silence hanging for some time until Anko spoke up. "Sorry, my entrances are usually a bit more flashy, but you caught me a bit off guard today. I was just about to go meet my sensei for a mission."

"A mission?" Konan was curious; she never went on a mission before in her life.

"Yeah! Me and Orochimaru sensei are going to go see the islands! Just me and him!"

'Orochimaru? That sounds familiar...', "I'm happy for you! So what's your objective?"

Anko was taken by surprise once again. "Uh..." she crossed her arms and thought about it. "Hmmm... Ya know, I'm not too sure. He just said we were going to the islands for a special mission. Now that I think about it, I don't even know where we're going. He just said 'The Islands'." Anko pondered.

"Oh, well it's probably a surprise. Hopefully you'll have a good time!" Konan giggled.

Anko laughed along, "Yeah! Your right! And my Sensei knows best, he's probably going to teach me some new awesomely cool jutsu!"

The bluenette giggled, "Hopefully."

"AAAAHHHH!"

"What?!"

"I'm late! Gotta go! See ya later! Bye Konan! Talk to you soon!" she yelled as she sprinted off into the crowd. Konan waved to the vanishing figure that grew smaller by the second.

"That was kinda fun," Konan smiled as she turned to continue window shopping.

~~!~~~

"Where'd Konan go?!" Yahiko yelled at Nagato, "She was here just a moment ago! What if something happened to her?! Oh god, what if she was kidnapped?! Why?! Or worse! Nagato! Why aren't you looking for her?!" He grabbed the redhead by the collar of his shirt and yelled in his face with a worried look in his own eyes. Nagato smiled and calmed down his friend by placing his hands on his wrists.

"Calm down Yahiko, Konan said she was going to walk on her own for a bit."

"AND YOU LET HER GO BY HERSELF?!" He hollered.

Nagato quickly shook his head with a sweat drop running down his forehead, "No! Of course not! Chibi went along with her and he won't let anything happen to Konan." He assured his panicky friend.

"Hey, if you're going to start a fight, then I'm going to have to ask you to not." Said a young male voice next to them. Yahiko turned his head to see a boy roughly their age with spiky platinum hair with a headband on, a few spikes crawling underneath as if trying to escape, and a navy blue mask on. He was pointing a kunai towards the two in a threatening manner, making the two wary.

"We're not starting any kind of fight here, we just lost our friend in the crowd," Yahiko explained, dropping his red headed friend.

"Your friend got lost huh?" he replied as he put his kunai knife away, "You're not from around here, are you?" he stated as he crossed his arms.

Nagato shook his head at the new comer, "Not quiet, we're from the land of rain. We lost our parents during the war, but Jiraiya-sensei took us in to continue our training." He explained.

The boy blinked surprised, "Jiraiya took you two in?"

"Three." Yahiko corrected, "Four if you count our canine companion."

"Huh, to think..." he muttered.

"So...it there anyway you could help us find our friend?" Yahiko panicked, suddenly remember his missing companion.

"Huh? Oh, of course! Can you describe your friend to me?"

"An origami flower in blue hair, grey eyes, clothing like ours, and about this guy's height," Yahiko explained in a rush, pointing to Nagato.

"Huh, okay got it." He visualized a young boy with short blue hair with an origami flower in his hair, probably a way to flirt with women (he was Jiraiya's pupil), kimono type clothing like these two, and cold grey eyes. "Anything else?"

"Our friend's name is Konan, and our dog is with-"

"What type of dog?"

"Um..."Yahiko turned to Nagato for help, he was no expert on animals.

"Siberian Husky. He responds to Chibi and is 4 years old." Nagato smiled politely and proudly. The boy nodded and looked in different directions at the crowd. His chin was tilted somewhat and it looked as though he was sniffing the air.

"There's a husky over in that direction," He pointed towards a largely gathered area, possibly surrounding something.

"Ack! Those guys are eyeing Konan like their next lunch!" Yahiko cried as he dragged Nagato by the wrist and dashed off. Their new companion followed behind out of mere curiosity. Yahiko pushed his way through yelling, "Out of my way! I'm her friend!" When he finally pushed his way through, he saw that they were all simply watching Konan infuse her chakra into origami cranes and watching them fly around, along with paper butterflies and airplanes. The crowd was awed by the sight.

"Konan!" Yahiko cried. "Why'd you run off without saying anything? We were looking all over the place for you!"

Konan was startled, but then she began to giggle, confusing the orange haired ninja, "I'm fine, Yahiko. I was browsing through the art store when I found all this great paper that's incredible for making origami!" She laughed.

"Wow! This is amazing, Konan!" Nagato blinked in disbelief. Yeah, he's seen Konan bring her origami pieces to life before but never this many! All these different colors, shapes, sizes. All of them going in different directions, even some of the younger children were having a laugh and chasing them around.

"Thank you! I used up a lot of my money buying all this, but I just couldn't resist." she sighed.

"It's alright, you can borrow some of my allowance if you need to," he replied. Konan shook her head, "Nah, keep it."

Before Nagato had a chance to reply, their masked friend came up and took the two off guard. "So this is Konan, huh, not quiet what I expected."

"Hm? Who are you?" the bluenette asked, slightly stepping behind Nagato, Chibi sitting next to his original owner.

"I'm Kakashi Hatake, son of the White Fang," he responded with pride. "I helped your two companions find you. Apparently you were missing, the orange headed one seemed quiet scared." he said as he looked over to said ninja, who was chasing an orange butterfly origami with the younger children. "Buuut he seems perfectly fine now."

Konan smiled all to knowingly that Yahiko has rare times where he lets loose and let's himself be a kid. She sighed and looked back at Kakashi with a smile, "Well, thank you for helping them. I'll make sure not to get lost again."

Kakashi blushed under his mask, he never seen anyone quiet so beautiful before. And this was definitely better than seeing some flirty guy, which he was expecting. Kakashi smiled under his mask and waved, "I must be going now, I have some duties to attend to." and with that, he ran off.

Nagato and Konan waved after their newly found friend(?) and then Konan continued to fold origami while practicing to fold the paper with only her chakra.

The three orphans continued on like this for some time, it wasn't until it got dark that they finally decided to go home. Since the orange headed shinobi was extremely tired from his long exhausting day of chasing butterflies and paper cranes, Chibi had to practically carry him home.

When they walked inside, they saw Jiraiya sprawled out on the couch with a differently shaped bottle in his hand. Nagato walked up to him and poked him in the face, "Sensei?" he whispered.

But the drunken, unconscious sensei was out cold. Even when Yahiko yelled in his face, he didn't budge. Konan suggested to just let him be for the night and they could go onto their rooms.

Since Jiraiya didn't live in the most exclusive house hold, there were only two bedroom, they decided that the two boys can share their sensei's room while Konan and Chibi could share the guest room.

After the three got ready for bed, they all went to say good night to each other then went off to their rooms. Nagato and Yahiko had a habit of talking to each other before they slept, discussing the day. But for some reason, this night was different. As soon as their heads hit the pillow, they fell right into the warm embrace of sleep.

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