Hi! The time will fly by fast in the academy years. No reason to stall and drag the story at this part.

July 23, 2017- Finished.
July 25, 2017- Edited.

March 19, 2019- Edited- Grammar/Spell Check.

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"My baby brother is here!"

I pushed off the idiot and glared at him. "What are you doing here? Your class is at the other side of the building."

Minato just pouted. "But I wanted to see my little kohai before lunch ended and tell you that we should go back together! You ditched me this morning!"

"For a good reason!" I snapped at him.

I could already feel eyes coming onto us and I couldn't help but bristle at the attention. Even Kaito was agitated from keeping still for too long and I hated every second of being trapped in a tiny place full of gossiping brats and an uncaring teacher.

Where the hell was the library in this godforsaken place?!

"Oh, you absolutely hate it here." Minato said that a little too happily. "Don't worry, I'll make sure your escape here is impossible." He chirped.

I narrowed my eyes at the challenge. "I'm faster than you."

"I've been training too, you know!" The threatening tone was underline with a cheerful one. "What do you think I was doing when I was gone for the past several months?"

Kaito snarled but I knew when to back off, Minato was hailed as this generation's prodigy for good reason. There's a reason why I run than turn around and punch him, it's painful.

"Find me something to do." I demanded immediately and Minato just shined.

"Don't worry! It'll get better!"

Maybe earning Minato's ire wasn't a good idea, it's not like he hadn't seen this coming anyways. He knows I hate being around people and he knows I'll end up causing more trouble than he can keep up with.

I smiled up at him as best as I could. "I know it will."

Minato shivered and my smile turned a little more devious, Kaito was all for chaos and mayhem.

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Kaito and I were laughing as smoke filled the whole Academy, it wasn't hard to put up and illusionary 'Torito Yuu' who had a habit of play with his own chakra. It took a week of stealing smoke grenades from the more richer kids that like to show off their 'ninja kits' but the result was so worth it.

"You are in so much trouble."

I looked over to Minato not hiding my amusement. "You can't prove anything."

"No, but I can ensure you survive if you do get caught in the act." Minato's smiled became strained with a determined glint.

"You didn't give me anything to do." I growled at him. "It's your fault for expecting me to actually sit there and learn things I already know! This place is just regurgitating information at a mind numbing place when I could actually be useful in a library!"

"We have a school library you know." Minato exasperated.

"And that stingy librarian only lets out one book at a time." I hissed. "And with eight hours to burn straight, I'm burning a book and a half. Half a book I don't have!"

And with Kaito dying of boredom, being in the Academy was unbearable.

"I know." Minato seemed to have the same grievances with the librarian too. "But I keep getting complaints from your teachers of your doodlings than you actually finishing an assignment."

I scoffed. "I'll put in more effort into something that actually requires brain power."

"And I heard from the teachers that you keep using genjutsu in your taijutsu spars."

"What's the point in punching each other out? It's not fun watching the other drop after one hit, so I improvised."

"Which you have me to thank for." Minato just sighed.

I put my hands on my hips. "So it's your fault." Kaito also put up an undignified front.

Minato sighed before a look of realization struck him. "Does that mean you actually missed our training sessions? I knew you loved me!" He hugged me.

"Y-you idiot!" I blushed at his comment and sudden contact. "L-let go of me or I'll make you my next victim!" I hissed trying to escape.

"Aw, don't worry! Big brother loves you too!"

I felt my face burn hotter. "S-shut up!"

"I love you, big brother! And don't worry, I won't say a thing about you hugging me!"

"You're like a bear! Scary on the outside but all cotton in the inside! See even - agrees with me!"

"-? I love you always, don't forget me."

I suddenly felt sad at the onslaught of memories of a faceless little girl, Kaito cooed helping hold back the tears of the hazy memories calming myself down.

"Yuu-chan? You got quiet all of a sudden."

"Do you think we can train together again?" Why was I shy now? "It doesn't have to be often, just so I know I can beat you down." I said the last part quickly.

But that was enough to sing to Minato's heart. "My little Yuu-chan is so adorable! I knew you're just shy but you don't have to be shy around me!"

I just shook him off. "Whatever."

I was a big brother, and I wasn't anymore. I lost my little sister to a sickness, something I could never fight off for her.

I don't want to lose someone like that again. Never again.

Kaito coiled tightly within me leaving a pleasant buzz in an attempt to comfort. It helped in a way seeing there was a detachment between those memories and myself but it was too easy to replace the little girl with Minato.

That actually hurts and I'm the younger sibling this time around.

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"You walked off to scold your brother and now you come prancing back as if you got handed the world." Inoichi commented. "What happened?"

"My adorable, little brother asked me to train with him!" Minato said happily. "Without me badgering or making him! He was so shy and cute and his face was so red! I'm so happy that he's finally opening up!"

"You have a tsundere as a brother." Shikaku deadpanned.

"I know!" Minato just huffed. "I couldn't believe it took me so long to realize that!"

"And when did you realize?" Inoichi humoured his fellow blonde.

"Almost a year ago!" Minato grieved. "I should've noticed when he was three!"

"Because you knew what a tsundere was when you were that young." Shikaku drawled. "I heard from Ren that the kid has the most distracting chakra in the classroom."

"And that he's been drawing weird doodles and writing in a strange code that even the instructors have been trying to figure out since school started. It's only been a week." Inoichi added.

Minato sighed. "If he had that much energy and dedication as he did brain power for his school work, I'd be even happier."

Chouza just looked amused at the whole conversation. "Bring him over to the restaurant more often, it's nice to have him around."

"'Nice'? That is not a word you associate with the kid." Shikaku snorted.

In fact nice is something far opposite of the spectrum of words one would use to describe the kid. Torito Yuu was like a ball of curiosity with the right amount of energy to go with it. Shikaku would often find the five year old running across trees and rooftops exploring the village, he's rarely seen the kid ever walk amoungst the crowds on the ground and that's only when he's being dragged or going in and out of a building.

It was weird seeing a tiny kid perch himself onto a spot and just stay their to play with his extremely, volatile chakra. Despite being only seven years old, he can tell that Torito's chakra makes the surrounding ninja nervous. It was like he was a ticking bomb with the way he and his chakra acts so blatantly.

But even then nothing is given away, it just left the surrounding ninja confused and wary.

Shikaku knows that the emotions displayed on Torito's face were genuine. He was the type of person that had no reason to lie and saw it as wasted effort to lie himself, but when an emotion that is completely different flares from his chakra leaves him wonder if the kid had another shadow that he wasn't aware of.

And that brought to another weird thing about him.

The kid had the sharpest eyes he's ever seen. Every time he's forced to come to the park and play Ninja, he's able to find everyone without fail. At first Shikaku thought Minato just told him how to sense chakra, but it was genuinely him differentiating colours of all things from pure eye sight alone.

It was strangely refreshing to see a ball of negative energy be used in a positive way though. He got out of class and got to nap, it makes up for him stealing his smoke bombs.

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"So you're Torito Yuu?"

I glared up and another platinum blonde was in my vision. "Why do I keep seeing you platinum blondes everywhere I go? And why do you people keep getting smaller?" I snapped at him but he just grinned.

"Oh, I like him already." The mini-mini, platinum blonde said making me growl.

"And you sound like the other platinum blondes too. Go away."

"Hey Ren, let's adopt him! He's adorable!"

Ren just yawned. "Whatever."

I narrowed my eyes at the mini-mini, lazy stalker. "What do you want?" He didn't seemed to have his elders more annoying tendencies.

"Let's be friends!"

"No." I swiftly packed up and disappeared before the platinum blonde got to protest.

But the persistence didn't stop that day.

"C'mon, Yuu-chan! Let's have lunch together!"

"Yuu-chan, sit with us!"

"Yuu-chan!"

I snarled at him. "Stay away from me, you persistent blonde! I don't even know your name and you're worst than the lazy stalker and the cheery blonde that I call brother!"

"My name's Akio! Let's be friends!"

"No!" I spat out. "You're creepier than the damn white masks that follow me around!" The poor chuunin that was our teacher choked on his coffee after hearing that.

"Ren! Tsume! Yuu-chan is being mean to me!" The newly named Akio whined.

"Not my problem." Tsume continued to pet the dog on the desk. "Let the birdy come down from the ceiling before making him mad, will ya? The echo is grating on the ears." And her dog chuffed in agreement.

"Why don't you leave him alone?" Ren sighed shifting his head to its side. "It's not like he wants friends."

Akio just pouted. "But look at him! He's small and adorable and he's afraid to even get close to people. We have to protect him!"

"Afraid?! And who the hell are you calling cute and small? Aren't you the one that I punched out on our first week?" I snapped at him.

"You do remember me!" I bristled and Kaito was now encouraging me to drop the book I was holding on the persistent blonde's head. "Let's train togeth-!" I dropped the textbook as hard as I could before making my way to the corner of the ceiling that was nearer to the windows.

"Leave me alone!" Kaito was laughing at the success of the attack despite my bristling.

"That was mean!"

"Learn to dodge!"

"Children! Please." Our teacher looked like he's going to have an aneurysm. "Stop agitating Torito-kun, Yamanaka-kun, and don't throw books from the ceiling, Torito-kun, and please come down."

"Not until that persistent blonde is chained, tied, and gagged up here hanging where I know he won't bother me." I hissed.

Akio started to shed crocodile tears. "Yuu-chan is so mean! But don't worry! I heard from Minato-san that you're just prickly from being lonely!"

Kaito cheered as a kunai made the persistent blonde yelp. "D-don't be stupid! The cheery blonde is always insisting things that he doesn't even understand and you're an idiot for listening to him!" I tried to stomp down the blush that was forming.

The whole room was silent before Tsume spoke up. "Torito's a tsundere? I'm not surprised."

"That's adorabl- ahh!"

Kaito cheered again when Akio danced away from the kunai. "Shut up, you persistent blonde! This is your fault!" And I threw another for good measure.

"Mou! You're so mean!"

I watched in great pleasure as my giant, conjured, man-eating lizards chased him out of the classroom. Kaito was very happy to suggest dragons if he found himself outside.

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I sulked as Kaito purred at the peace offering the persistent blonde was giving me. I was back at the Akimichi's restaurant with the small circle of brats that managed to wrangle me here.

"C'mon, birdy." Tsume presented me with a skewer of pork. "Take advantage of this idiot and eat his wallet out."

"Hey!"

I took the skewer and bit a piece off. "What do you guys want?"

"Don't be like that, Yuu-chan! We just want to be friends!" The persistent blonde claimed. "You're always alone and you don't seemed to be interested in the classes either."

I gave him a wary look. "That doesn't explain why you insist on being a nuisance."

"I want to be friends! Really! Especially after you blew off that Uchiha off the other day!"

"Who?" I did that to a lot of people.

"Exactly!"

"Uchiha Fugaku, the heir to the Uchiha clan." Tsume expanded but I still gave her a look to keep expanding. "The black-haired asshole who expected you to apologize after he bumped into you."

"Oh, the peacock."

Tsume grinned wolfishly. "You and I are definitely going to get along fine. Inuzuka Tsume." She held out her hand and I took it.

"Torito Yuu." I greeted back politely.

"And this is Kuromaru! My partner in crime!" And I nodded in greeting and was surprised to see him nodded back and huff at me. "We'll definitely get along, little birdy."

"That's not fair! How come Tsume gets the nice treatment and I'm still barely being looked at?! Ren, back me up!"

Ren just sighed. "Stop being troublesome and eat."

Dinner was okay I guess. Kaito certainly enjoyed it but I could do without the company. Akio specifically. The persistent blonde was overbearing and his need to touch and make contact was disconcerting and uncomfortable.

I like Tsume nice enough, despite her many violent performances of thrashing her offenders that try to put her down and short temperament to anything that might sound condescending She's really cool actually and I think she would be more than willing to help me explode the school again.

Ren on the other hand still made me wary. His elder counter-part may have made nice but that didn't mean I forgot his stalkerish tendencies, but so far the lazy, desk hugger was more than willing to waste daylight than do something productive.

Overall this little group wasn't bad, but I'm not rolling over and seeking out their company because of this. I'm especially going to give Akio a hard time, unless he's willing to treat again.

Either way Kaito's happy with both options and I'm more than willing to be appeased either way.

"You may not hold grudges but you're a vindictive, little shit."

"Who the fuck ate -'s food?"

"Goddammit -!"

Kaito hummed at the memories and I couldn't help but look forward to that kind of relationship with these guys.

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"I think that went well." Tsume trotted down the street with Kuromaru nodding in agreement.

"How? All he did was glare at us and I think I need to be afraid for my life!" Akio complained loudly.

Tsume just scoffed. "You're the one that wanted to irritate the little birdy, and he's wasn't really glaring, he was evaluating us. Just keep feeding him and he'll come around."

"And why do you call him a bird? If anything he's like a cat with how he hisses and growls." Akio continued to complain.

Tsume just rolled her eyes. "He smells and acts like one, birds are practically cats with wings and he acts like the little assholes with no shame and all the motivation."

"And you know this how?" Ren spoke up curious.

"There's always these crows and sparrows that pick at our dogs and food in the kennels." Tsume complained. "Those little fuckers know it too that we can't actively throw kunai or shuriken at them within the residential areas so they laugh at us after they fly away! At least with cats we can catch and scare into submission!" Kuromaru growled in displeasure.

"Huh, that's surprisingly accurate." Akio looked up in thought. "That doesn't explain why he's so mean!"

"He's a fucking tsundere." Tsume barked at him.

"But what does that mean?" Akio stressed. "I just acted like I knew back at the classroom, I'm really at a loss!"

Tsume scoffed. "Why should I tell you then? If anything, it'll be more fun for me."

"Ren!"

"Don't drag me into something that I can easily avoid."

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"What's wrong with him?"

"Akio was riling Yuu-chan up again when Minato and I were going to ask to have lunch with us. Minato's super happy that Yuu-chan admitted that he sees him as a brother."

Fugaku just sneered. "I can't believe a person like him is deemed a prodigy, loses his composure over some boy that isn't even related to him by blood."

"Careful." Inoichi warned too cheerfully. "A brother-complex doesn't need blood bonds to unleash a beast."

The Uchiha just stuck up his nose, it's already bad enough that a no-name orphan boy took the title of prodigy of their generation, now an even smaller child was being acknowledged by the higher ups.

He's not going to say anything though, it's already proven that he wasn't really a match for the nimble, blonde prodigy. He'll keep his intact pride with grace.

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