Chapter 3: Brother and Sister
A/N: Now I can finally get on with the chapter. Hope everyone loves a little sibiling love.
She found Naruto at Ichiraku. That was probably the only place she could find him in this whole village. As she got closer, she saw that he was on his fifth bowl of ramen. That was small, compaired to what he usually ate.
'That boy lives off on that stuff. Just like dad'
"Naruto!" She called out.
Naruto whipped his head around. He smiled brightly when he saw his older sister.
"Nee-chan!"
He got off his stool and tackled her in a big hug. Mikomi laughed as she returned his hug. He was probably the only person she cared about the most. Ever since he was born, she was always by his side. She wanted to raise to be a great ninja like their father.
She sat next him and ordered herself a bowl.
"So, Naruto. How was your day?" She asked.
Naruto had a sour look on his face.
"That Sauke-teme was acting all high and mighty again! Just because he's better than me doesn't mean that he can chew me out. I am as good as he is! Even better maybe".
Mikomi ruffled his hair as she gave him a simpithetic look.
" Don't let him get to you,Naruto. He just likes making other people feel bad".
Naruto pouted.
"I know, but still.."
"Just don't worry about it. Just remember that you have some talents that he doesn't, ok?"
He continued to pout but he nodded.
" finish up your ramen. It's getting late and tomorrow is a busy day"
His face lit up when he was given another bowl. Mikomi sweatdropped as she watched him chug down his favorite soup.
After a few more bowls, they started to head home. The walk was quiet for the most part. This was the time of the day where everyone was heading home so they could get ready for tomorrow. A ninja always had to be ready for their next mission.
As they were walking, they spoted Kakashi, or rather his favorite book.
"Kakashi-Sensei"
Kakasji peered through his book to see his student and old teammate.
"Yo,Naruto,Mikomi"
A slight blush dusted over Mikomi's face. It was a well known fact that she has had a crush on him since they were kids. He didn't know about it,but it was better that way. She didn't want to risk getting her heart broken and ruining their close friendship.
Kakashi noticed the blush on her face.
"Is something the matter, Mikomi-chan?"
She quickly went beat red.
"Y-yeah. Everythings fine. Just a little warm is all"
He simply shrugged it off .
"So, I heard you have a mission tomorrow"
Naruto looked at his sister like she grew a second head. This was the first he heard this.
"You have a mission tomorrow?!"
Mikomi flinched. She was going to tell him when they got home, but looks like the cat was out of the bag.
"Yeah, I have a mission. But it's nothing serious"
Kakashi patted her shoulder.
"Either way, you be ?"
She flushed at the contact but managed to nod like an idiot. Kakashi's eye curled up to show he was smiling.
"That's good to then"
She waved as he walked away.
'Kya! Kakashi looks so cute when he's smiling!' (A/N: we can't even see his face)
She stoped being all girly when she was the sad look on Naruto's face. He always hated it when she went on missions. It always meant that he would be alone for the day or spend it worrying about her.
She ruffled his hair again.
"Don't worry,Naruto. I'll have this missions done sooner than you know it"
Naruto managed to smile a tny bit.
"But while I'm gone, I expect you to behave with your teammates"
He suddenly grew angry at that.
"Why don't you try telling that to Sasuku-teme!"
"Hey, I'm just saying that you act up too"
"I do not!"
"You do too"
"Do not"
"Do too"
"Do not"
"Do too"
The two simply bickered all the way home.
Even thoug Naruto had his own place, he tended to stay at his sister's house A.K.A their parents home. It wasn't really considered a house for the most part. It was an old boarding house that her dad used to live in before he became Hokage. He lived in it after he became the leader of the leaf village. He would always say that he din't want to live in the Hokage mansion because it was too fancy. Her mom on the other hand said it was because he would just get lost if he lived in a big house.
Naruto jumped on one of the couches that filled the living room.
"Hey ,Nee-chan. Wanna watch a movie before we go to bed?"
She simply shruged.
"Sure, why not? Yuri isn't here, so we can pig out on junk food as well".
Whenever Yuri went on a mission, that was their chance to stay up late watching movies and eating junk food out the wazoo. Yuri didn't like it, but it was a tradition that they did since day one.
They ended up watching some Comedy that was on T.V. at the moment. Naruto had a big bowl of popcorn in front of him while Mikomi was eating out of a carton of cookie dough ice cream. Naruto laughed so hard at one point that he spit out his popcorn. Mikomi would have scolded him, but she was laughing as hard as he was. They stayed up watching the whole film until it was over.
"Why don't you get ready for bed while I clean up here?" she said to him as she picked up the popcorn that he spilled. Naruto stiffled a yawn and slugishly went up the stairs.
Mikomi threw out the popcorn and empty ice cream carton before she went up to her room to change.
Her room wasn't girly or anything fancy. She simply had various scrolls hanging from her wall and had a bookshelf filled with books on different villages and jutsu's.
Going into her closet, she pulled out a white tank top that had the Konoha emblem on it and a pair of flannel bottoms. She consider these as her pajamas, even though they were a bit skimpy. After changing into them, she went into Naruto's room to say goodnight to him.
He was already in his bed when she came in. His room consisted a lot of posters of the village and different types of ramen. He even had some empty ramen containers scattered all over the place.
She kissed him lightlt on his forehead.
"I'll see you in the morning, ok?"
Naruto nodded as his eyes became heavy. He yawned and turned to his side.
"Good-night, nee-chan. Promise you'll come back safely from your mission"
He would always say that before she left for a mission. It was like some sort of charm almost.
Mikomi turned off his light's walked out of his room.
"Nee-chan"
She popped her head back in.
"I love you"
She smiled softly at him.
"I love you too, Naruto"
She went back into her room and started packing for her mission tomorrow. She packed the usual standard weapons along with a few soldeir pills and medicines form Yuri. The last thing she packed was her sword. Minato and Kushina gave it to her when she became a Jonin. It was a long samurai blade that had a fox carved into the hilt. It was a little ironic considering she had a fox spirit sleeping inside her. Still, she loved her sword very much and killed anyone who tried to touch it. She packed it carefully with her stuff and climbed into bed. She pulled put a picture from under her pillow. It was a picture of her and her parnets at the Chunin exams. She was on her dad's shoulders, holding her new Chunin vest up in the air. She smiled fondly at the picture.
"Good-night,mom. Good-night, dad"
She put the picture under her pillow and turned off the lights. She fell asleep the moment her head hit the pillow. Being a ninja was hard work. Still,it had it's up's and downs. But the village was really lacking man-power lately. People were getting themselves killed or they quit. That just meant more work for her and Naruto to do.
'I need to find some helping hands after this mission is done'
That was the last thing she thought of before she went off to Slumber land.
A/N: I hope this chapter was better than the last. Next chapter is where we see how our friends in FF7 are doing.
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