A/N: Okay chapter four is up, feel pretty good about it. And my first fight scene, so I'm kinda worried about that, but it's small so..

Disclaimer: Go to chapter, one, two and three to find out if I do or do not own Naruto.

"Speech"

'Thought'

Jutsu

It had been three years since Teihaku's disappearance, and not a day went by when the didn't miss them with all their heart. Many nights Kushina didn't sleep, she just sobbed over her eldest son's loss, Minato cried as well, although not nearly as much as his wife. He wasn't allowed to show weakness, citizens of Konoha die everyday, Konoha was a family, so he had to be strong for Konoha's sake, however when he was alone, his human weakness showed, he mourned, not just for Teihaku, but for Obito and Rin, he never got a chance to tell them how much he loved each of hem, how he knew they would grow up to be fine adults.

It was at night when Konoha as a whole mourned Teihaku's loss, just like when they mourned Nawaki of the Senju clan's loss. They had lost a prince to Konoha, all of Konoha's citizens admitted how much they too loved Teihaku, he was always smiling and laughing, he didn't act snobbish because of his family and was willing to help anyone who asked for it. When his younger twin siblings came along they saw how mature he could be, he would be seen looking after them, he didn't get jealous of the attention they received. He was the perfect young boy. Unfortunately, Konoha couldn't mourn Teihaku publicly, a decree was placed on speaking about Teihaku in public, especially in front off Naruto and Mito, their parents had decided to never tell them about Teihaku's existence, they removed any pictures of him, to spare the twins any grief, what could they say, 'your big brother just vanished into thin air'.

There were no clues to Teihaku's whereabouts or what had happened. One day he was there, the next he wasn't. This caused a panic in Konoha, how the Hokage's son could just slip away into thin air. They had no evidence to accuse anyone and the shinobi were begging for the order to search the entire continent to find him, however Minato denied this, no matter how much he wanted to see his son, he wouldn't step onto foreign or sacred territory, Suna's similar actions when the Sandaime Kazekage disappeared was one of the starting causes of the Third Great Shinobi World War, he did however send small parties out in secret to find even the smallest clue to Teihaku's whereabouts.

None the less, his grief for his eldest son didn't take away any of his love for his two younger children, he didn't begin to see them as Teihaku, they were their own people, it wasn't their fault that Teihaku disappeared. However he and Kushina decided to stick to their promise and keep Naruto and Mito from entering the Academy until aged seven, however they had begun training them so they wouldn't be so far behind their classmates.

-Break-

A hand blocked the incoming kick, the person kicking tried to stomp with their free foot but was thrown back, the person landed on one knee, panting. They lifted their head up to reveal a small boy, armed with two deep, bright blue eyes, his hair was spiky and blonde, with small bangs over his forehead and framing his face. Three whisker like marks adorned each of his cheeks. He was dressed in a plain black shirt, with orange shorts extending just past the knee, with a black stripe extending up both the sides. His ankles were wrapped in bandages and wore blue sandals.

"Come on Naru-Nii!" A voice shouted from across the small garden field. "Is that all you got!"

The voice came from a mirror image of the boy, albeit more feminine, she had her long blonde hair tied into two ponytails at the side of the head, cascading down her front. She shared the same eyes as her brother, although hers seemed even more bright and cheerful. She wore a simple pink shirt with orange swirls flowing through it. She wore a loose light blue skirt, with a pair of black shorts underneath them. Her legs were also wrapped in bandages and wore blue sandals.

The boy yelled a he charged the girl again, he swung his left fist in, yet the girl blocked with her own left forearm, forcing it to the side. The boy had to bring his arms to a cross to protect his face from and incoming fist. The capitilised on the boy's body position by attempting to punch him in the stomach with her left fist. The boy lifted his right knee to block it. With the boy's weight being supported by one leg, with no chance of blocking the next hit, the girl ducked down and swiped his leg with hers, flipping him into the air, before crashing to the ground, landing on his head. The boy groaned in pain and attempted to move, but that head injury was messing with his movement not allowing him to move. Shadow crept over his vision as he opened his eyes. He saw the girl standing over him, smirking.

"I win, Naru-nii" She said with a cocky tone of voice.

"Yeah... but I'm still three up" Naruto replied, as his sister helped him to his feet. They both began walking to the edge of their house, where their parents were currently sitting, watching them train.

"That was much better, Mito" Minato grinned "Naruto, although your form was good, you let your anger get the better of you sometimes, you need to keep your composure in a fight, it may end up saving your life, now both of you go get ready for dinner" He finished with a smile.

"Yes, Dad" Chimed out both of their mouths as Mito began dragging her brother in, when they had both entered the house, Kushina began speaking to Minato.

"They are both exceptional Minato" She smiled.

"Yes, they are." Minato replied "Naruto has incredibly high stamina, I've never seen so much, I was surprised when he didn't get back up. Also his strength, speed and intelligence are high as well, and he has massive chakra capabilities, however, his chakra control is extremely low, the amount of chakra he used to even begin the tree climbing exercise was extraordinary. Mito on the other has near complete chakra control and a high chakra capacity, though not nearly as much as Naruto, her strength, speed and intelligence or impressive as well, I think she already made that plan to beat Naruto before he charged at her, she outsmarted him this time and her stamina's not bad either. At this minute I would say she is the stronger one. Simply because of her higher chakra control."

"Minato, Naruto's chakra control is quite worrying" Kushina spoke.

"Yes, that may be the thing we need to focus on most" Minato responded.

-Break-

Hiruzen sat in the council room, he was accompanied Koharu, Homura and Danzō, recently Kagami had not been attending meetings. These meetings were to usually to discuss matter that would eventually be discussed with the Hokage, if something needed to be pass or denied, they knew where to stand on it.

"The boy's chakra control is worrying" Koharu stated "The amount he needs to use even the simplest of jutsu could cause him to tap into the Kyuubi's power or allow the Kyuubi to influence him."

"That may be, but control will something he will pick up, even faster when he begins at the academy" Hiruzen responded.

"Then you know the only option then Hiruzen." Homura stated, with seriousness written across his face. "Young Naruto must begin the academy immediately, we can't afford to wait to years for him to begin learn chakra control at a faster rate, you do realise that the Chunin exams are coming up in five months, and Naruto must accompany the Hokage to Kumo, as a demonstration of his power."(1)

"But that's not for me to decide." Hiruzen stated "Minato, as Hokage AND as Naruto's father has the highest authority over when Naruto enters the academy. I take no part it it."

"Then perhaps an alternative solution." Danzō began. "My ROOT recruitment time is coming soon, if young Naruto, were to enter my ROOT division, why in five months, his chakra control could be comparable to any decent medic-nin."

"You forget your place, Danzō" Koharu shot a dark look at him. "The Jinchuuriki is a sign of the Hokage's power, not yours."

"But perhaps Danzō has provided the answer." Homura stated. "We tell Minato that either Naruto enter the academy after the Chunin exams or we allow Danzō to take him into ROOT until the Chunin exams commence. Minato will no doubt pick the former option, those five months he has will be able to allow him to prepare Naruto for the academy and to teach him etiquette, while dealing with his superiors, which he will no doubt have to do while at Kumo for the Chunin exams, and the Raikage is easily swayed by his emotions, especially rage."

Koharu nodded in agreement, she didn't like the idea of threatening the Hokage, but if it allowed results she would accept it.

"But..." Hiruzen stammered, this was going to happen whether he agreed or not, as the majority of the council agreed with it.

"Speaking of the Raikage," Koharu began. "Should Konoha really enter the exams held at Kumo. After what they did to the Hyuuga two years ago."

The four remembered the events that transpired two years ago. The head ninja of Kumo had been ordered by the Raikage to retrieve the Byakugan, by kidnapping the Hyuuga princess, Hinata, he had been caught by her father, Hiashi and promptly killed, however Kumo stated they gave no such order and demanded Hiashi's blood as retribution. Hizashi Hyuuga, Hiashi's twin brother, and a member of the branch family, had volunteered himself to take Hiashi's place, to protect his brother, an incredibly noble act, however he left his son, Neji alone in the world, who has begun to scorn the main branch.

"We must hold our head's high." Hiruzen spoke. "For Hizashi's sake. He sacrificed his life so there wouldn't be any needless blood shed between Konoha and Kumo. We should respect that."

The elders nodded in agreement. The man had given his life for the good of the village, even though he didn't have to.

"And what of Orochimaru, his defection three years ago wasn't easy, that stupid agreement between Minato and him will definitely come back to haunt us." Danzō spoke.

Hiruzen remembered when he found out about Orochimaru's continued experiments, it was heartbreaking, the man had defected three years ago, when Hiruzen stumbled upon one of Orochimaru's laboratories in Konoha, the room was sickening, Human bodies hung on the walls like some kind of twisted décor. And in the middle of the room was Orochimaru, his prized student in the middle of one of his experiments, Hiruzen decided that he should deal with Orochimaru, not Minato, he was his student and he failed him. He then failed himself as he couldn't bring himself to kill his most beloved, prized student and Orochimaru escaped. That shamed him so. Orochimaru left with a number of forbidden jutsu in his knowledge.

"I wouldn't worry about Orochimaru" Hiruzen said. "He may have left with those jutsu, but he is strong, I seriously doubt someone could steal them from him, the only way someone will learn those jutsu is if Orochimaru teaches them, which he won't do without gaining something valuable in return, you remember that Orochimaru was never the type to share power. And I also believe that Orochimaru was slightly scared of Minato, although he never showed it, he won't dare to make an attack on the village until Minato is dead, until then he can use his Hiraishin to warp anywhere."

"Very well then." Homura responded. "We shall inform Minato of our decision."

-Break-

Minato was furious. The elders had decided that Naruto must enter the academy after the Chunin exams. It was either that or Naruto joins ROOT. He already understood that Naruto must accompany him to the Chunin exams, but he didn't expect him to participate for at least two years. It also felt unnatural to separate twins. As Naruto would be entering the academy in five months, however due to the promise he made Kushina, Mito would not, she would enter at aged seven.

But that was only one of his worries, his other, though harmless, was the fact Itachi and Naruto had been spending time together, which had been getting more frequent and for longer periods of time. Itachi was Teihaku's best friend, what if he told Naruto of his existence. He brushed the thought off, Itachi was probably just looking after Naruto for Teihaku. 'But Itachi never spends nearly as much time with Mito as he does with Naruto' Minato thought as the thought creeped back on him. The boy was fiercely loyal to Konoha, he obeyed every rule Konoha made. He wouldn't betray Minato.

-Break-

Naruto sat alone on the swing set, saddened, he watched the other kids playing ninja, his sister had dragged him here to play with her friends, he wanted to play with them. But they had told him that there were too many players. So he had to wait until the next game.

What Naruto didn't know was that they were doing what their parents had told them to do. 'Be nice to Naruto, but also stay away from him'. Their parents also told them to become best friends with Mito, she seemed like the safer one to be with, plus she had brighter eyes, ones that let everyone approach her without worry, unlike her brother, who always seemed to be contemplating something.

Unknown to them, Naruto had been thinking about how the children's parents looked at him and Mito. When with Mito they would beam at both of them and call them adorable. But when Naruto was alone, their smile seemed almost...forced. When he darted his eyes to them when they walked past, he could swear what he saw in their eyes was fear, and sometimes disgust. Had he done something wrong, was he not living up to their expectations. He was thinking about this so hard that he didn't even realise that the children had finished their game of ninja. He looked and saw that they were gathering around picking new teams. Finally it was his time to play, he got up and started walking up to the group.

"That was so fun!" A random child exclaimed. "Let's start a new game right away!"

"Alright, let's get Naru-nii over here." Mito happily yelled as she looked over to her brother, who was already walking over to them.

"Aww, but Mito, there's equal numbers now, if Naruto joined it wouldn't be fair teams." A different boy spoke now.

"That's not fair!" Mito shouted, defending her brother. "You promised that Naruto could play this time, so why can't he!"

Naruto had picked up on the conversation at this point, they still didn't want him to play with them. He listened to Mito defend him with all her might, but the others just refused everything she said. Finally, he realised that nothing they could say would change their minds.

"It's okay Mito" Naruto sighed sadly. "Just go have fun, I'll just head home." He finished as he stuffed his hands in his pockets and walked away.(2)

Mito was about to respond when everyone else crowded around her, begging her to be on their team, she tried calling out to her brother, to tell him to come back, but she couldn't yell over the noise of this crowd, she could swear she saw a tear leave her brother's face as he walked away.

-Break-

Naruto was walking through the streets, not really caring as the citizens walked past smiling and saying 'Hello there, Naruto-kun', being left out hurt pretty badly, he just wanted to go home and sleep the hurt off.

He barely heard someone repeatedly call out to him, it was the same person's voice, so it seemed they really needed to talk to him.

"Naruto-kun...Naruto-kun...Naruto-kun...Naruto-kun. Naruto-kun" A hand grabbed his shoulder. He looked up and saw a boy, fairly taller than he was, with black hair tied back into a ponytail and plain black eyes with large creases going from his eyes down his face to his nose. Next to him was a boy who looked exactly like him, but instead of a pony tail at the back of the hair it was spiked upwards, the smaller boy also didn't have the creases under his eyes, they were both carrying bags of groceries. It was Itachi and Sasuke Uchiha.

"Itachi-san, what do you want?" Naruto spoke downheartedly.

"Are you okay, Naruto-kun, I saw you walk past and you seemed pretty miserable." Itachi spoke with a concerned smile.

"I don't wanna talk about it." Naruto spoke as he looked back to the ground.

Itachi let go of his shoulder and looked at him curiously. "Sasuke-kun, why don't you take these bags back to mom, while I talk to Naruto-kun."

Sasuke looked at the blonde boy angrily. If he was honest, he didn't like sharing his big brother, and this boy spent a lot of time with his brother. However, he realised that he could show his brother how strong he was by carrying all these heavy bags home by himself. He nodded and grabbed all the bags before he began charging home. Hoping to not look like a weakling.

After watching Sasuke charge home, he turned his attention to Naruto. "Let's go for a walk, eh Naruto-kun" Itachi smiled and grabbed the boy and headed off in a different direction.

-Break-

Itachi had listened to the boy's story, after getting him to crack and tell him why he was upset. If he was honest he couldn't understand how Naruto felt, he was never the one to be left out of anything, people always begged him to do things with them. It must really hurt the boy, seeing his twin sister get all the attention from the same group that denied him.

"I see, well you shouldn't let thing like that bother you, Naruto-kun." Itachi spoke. "Eventually you'll find friends that respect you and trust you with their lives. They'll come eventually, just wait." He finished with a smile.

Naruto smiled back. Everytime he had a problem Itachi always seemed to help him, was this what it felt like to have a big brother, was this how Mito felt around him. "Thanks Itachi-san." He replied. "You always help me even though you don't have too. I wish I had a big brother like you, you're smart, cool and strong, you're taking part in the Chunin exams soon right?"

Itachi nodded. "I am. And if you had a big brother, I'm sure he would be happy to have a little brother like you, I'm sure that he would want to be strong so you could keep admiring him and push yourself to beat him." Itachi spoke as he thought about Teihaku, not a word about his whereabouts yet, and the resemblance between him and Naruto were beginning to show.

They had both been talking so long that they just realised that they were outside Naruto's home. He waved Itachi goodbye and ran inside. He was just in time for dinner, at the table Mito profusely apologized to her brother and their parents questioned what she was apologizing for. Naruto just said it was okay and he didn't mind. He wasn't really paying attention. After a bath and a thorough tuck in by his mom, Naruto drifted off into quite a peaceful sleep, waiting to see what his dreams had in store for him.

*-Break-*

Naruto was currently walking through a woods, he saw a light coming closer, it revealed a clearing at the edge of the woods. A massive meadow with the wind flowing gently across it. He noticed that there was someone else here as well. A boy was sat on the ground looking up to the sky. He had never seen this boy before. He sat in just black shorts and a black shirt, what struck out about him was his spiky red hair, it was slightly longer than his dad's. He walked up towards the boy. The boy must have noticed that Naruto was approaching and looked over his shoulder. The boy appeared to be a few years older than him, probably Itachi's age, he had the same bright blue eyes as him, he looked remarkably like his dad, but with his mom's red hair. The boy smiled at him before gesturing with his hand to come closer.

"So, you finally showed up. I was getting bored, Naruto" The boy spoke calmly, with a smile.

The fact that the boy knew his name worried him. "Who are you and how do you know my name?" was all Naruto could really say.

"Naruto, I'm hurt that you don't recognise me, I've known you since you were born" The boy spoke with a frown adorned on his face. "Sit." He spoke again.

Naruto sat next to the boy and both looked out to the horizon for a while, before something clicked in Naruto's mind. "Hey! You didn't tell me who you were!" Naruto shouted at the boy.

The boy laughed and rubbed the back of his head. "Oh, sorry about that. My name's Teihaku."

"Okay Teihaku." Naruto spoke, suspicious of the boy. "So tell me how you know me? And why I've never seen you before?"

"I told you I've known you since you were born, and to answer your second question, I've been away for awhile, but I've been kept up to date about what your doing." Teihaku said with a grin, "Like when you learned how to walk and escaped from your dad's office and walked through Konoha. Butt naked."

Naruto recalled the memory of when that happened and laughed. The look on his dad's face as he chased him round Konoha, and his dad apologizing to everyone. But nearly everyone girl just thought it was adorable.

"Yeah that was good!" Naruto laughed.

"How about that little adventure with Jiraiya-jii-chan, you remember that?" Teihaku asked.

Oh yes, Naruto remembered that day. Though he didn't know why his parents were so worked up about. He had a fun day with Jiraiya as much as he could remember.

Teihaku laughed, at the face Naruto was pulling. Naruto heard Teihaku laughing and started laughing himself. He didn't know why, but he felt relaxed, secure when he was round this Teihaku guy, like he felt when he was with Itachi. He felt a bond with Teihaku but wasn't sure why. They both continued laughing and talking, until Teihaku stopped and sighed.

When Naruto looked at Teihaku's hand he saw that it was turning into dust, as well as his feet and it was spreading. "Wh-What's going on?" Naruto asked shocked.

Teihaku just looked at him and smiled. "It's just time I guess, don't worry it's fine." He finished the disintegration had spread across most of his body.

"Wait, you can't go!" Naruto shouted at Teihaku. He began crying. Teihaku continued to smile at him and closed his eyes, a tear came out his eye.

"Be strong, Naruto, and grow, grow strong and eventually you and I might meet." Teihaku spoke as he vanished, the dust blowing away in the wind.

"Oh, and remember to say hi to Mito for me, okay."

Naruto shouted at Teihaku to come back. He noticed that as soon as Teihaku disappeared, all the grass and woods had died, the place became a baron wasteland, he looked up at the sky and saw the sun and the moon colliding, turning the sky black. The ground began to crack and where the sun was, a blood red eye with a slitted pupil replaced it. The sound of a deep, dark chuckling resounded through his ears, it was frightening, he closed his eyes and screamed, he screamed for it all to go away, he screamed for his parents and his sister to come save him, he screamed for Teihaku to come back. (3)

*-Break-*

Naruto shot up in his bed. He was sweating badly, and his heart was beating like crazy. 'It was all just a dream' Naruto thought as he sighed in relief. However he couldn't help but think back to it. That Teihaku was too complex to be a dreamed up character. He knew so much about him, but he only talked about Naruto's life up to the age of two. He never went beyond that, and Teihaku's resemblance to his parents was uncanny. 'And that eye' Naruto shook that fear out of his body, that eye was filled with blood lust and malice, that it would destroy everything if given the chance. Something clicked in his mind, 'Teihaku only spoke about my life until the age of two, and there's no pictures of me or Mito or a family photo during that time' he thought, as he wondered what was going on, yet his thoughts kept going back to that massive red eye, it was scaring him. He needed comfort and explanations. He decided he would do what Mito always did when she had a nightmare. Crawl into mom and dad's bed.

-Break-

Naruto walked down the corridor quietly, he didn't want to wake anyone up yet. He came closer to his parents room and saw that their door was slightly open, and their light was still on. He crept up quietly in case, he was interrupting something. He heard what would be the most shocking thing he would ever learn.

-Break-

Minato and Kushina were currently sitting in bed, neither could sleep. It always happened around this time.

"I can't believe it's almost three years since he disappeared" Kushina sighed.

"I know, I miss him constantly, I know he would have become a great leaf Shinobi, he would have become a great role model." Minato sighed in return.

Both sat in silence for a while until Minato decided that it was time he got this off his chest.

"I feel like a failed as a father" Minato spoke, he just looked at his sheets as he did. "I couldn't protect my first born son from whatever danger he was in. Then I failed him again, by not being able to find him. And now I feel like I'm failing him by not telling Naruto and Mito how much their big brother loved them."

"It wasn't your fault, Minato" Kushina spoke. "You had no idea what would happen, he just vanished, we'll find him one day, just wait, we'll have him back one day, then we can finally have a new, complete family portrait." Kushina spoke, more as if she was trying to reassure herself.

Minato smiled at her briefly before looking back down. "Where are you, Teihaku?"

-Break-

"Where are you, Teihaku?"

Naruto's eyes widened with shock at that last sentence. He crept away from the door, and hustled back to his room, what he had heard shocked him to his soul. He ran into his room and closed the door, he jumped onto his bed and crawled under his sheets.

'Teihaku is real!' Naruto thought continuously, as his parent's conversation replayed in his mind. 'And not only that. He's my BIG BROTHER!'. Naruto was extremely hurt, everyone kept lying to him, first the villagers with their fake smile, the those children lying about letting him play with them, and now his parents lying about his big brother's existence. He had a big brother. He and Mito had a big brother, was all that went through his head, He and Mito have a big brother, and he's disappeared. Should he tell Mito about Teihaku. Obviously his parents went through a lot to keep Teihaku a secret, it appeared so it wouldn't hurt their feelings, for that he was thankful, because it did hurt, more than anything, but the fact that his big brother was kept secret from him hurt as well. 'Mito wouldn't be able to handle this, she would cause a huge scene from it, and we can't have that. For now I'll pretend that I don't know' Naruto thought conclusively.

However, he also knew that he needed to meet Teihaku for real. For that he would need a higher rank in the ninja system, to allow him to leave the village and search. The first thing he needed to was persuade his parents to allow him, start start the academy right away. E needed strength to find his brother.

With a new found determination, Naruto smiled.

'Just wait for me. Teihaku Aniki'(4)

A/N: So that's that done, chapter five is already on the way and should be up soon XD. Hope you enjoyed it. And review please I'd like to reach my goal of 100 reviews please.

(1): This was revealed in the manga and I thought it was a pretty cool idea, and my evidence that that the Kage had to bring a Jinchuuriki was the Chunin exam arc, where the Kazekage and Hokage showed up, but Naruto and Gaara were already participating, so is that not a sign of power.

(2): Although that sounds really petty, I was one of those who were left out of everything and it really hurt deeply.

(3): Did the dream meaning sound believable to you guys?

(4): Aniki = Big brother

Okay, chapter five is the Chunin Exams in Kumo, with some special guest stars *cough*Chuck Norris*cough*, jokes.

Remember to review and vote in the poll. XD

Toodles.

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