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lilyflower: okay, got it. Thanks for telling me!(: yeah, I guess they were. Hahah, but chapter 4 was just a filler. Chapter 5 I guess was quite high school-ish. But anyway, hope you keep on reading. I'll try to improve! And I guess I wont make it so sappy in the first few chapters since they appear to hate each other:p
Guest: yay, yeah.. I hope it'll get better though.:) thanks for review-ing!
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Chapter 7
the trip back to Konoha took 3 days. Most of the kids were still sad, but at the same time happy because after 3 months, they finally got back home where they'd meet their parents and friends. But minato was not happy to go home. Sure, he still had friends, but where was he going to stay? Was he going to be alone? In an orphanage? He hated being alone. It made him over think things.
When they got back in konoha, all of them went straight to the Hokage's office to report in. When everyone was leaving, hiruzen sarutobi asked to see minato for a while, so minato complied. Hiruzen looked at minato with sadness in his eyes.
"my dear boy, often, shinobi venture into life knowing that their lives is at stake, and as you know, your parents sacrificed their life for this village, and I am so very sorry for this, but minato, your grandma died due to old age. She had a stroke about a month after you went to uzu, and then died about a week ago due to a heart attack in her sleep."
"y-yes hokage-sama. May I ask a question?" asked minato
"my dear boy, you just did, but yes, you may ask another one" said the third hokage smiling.
"thank you, hokage-sama, I was wondering…w-where will I l-live from now on?" asked minato looking at the ground.
"well, minato, since you're still young, you will be living in konoha's orphanage"
"o-orphanage? I guess I expected that…" said minato sadly
"you can live on your own, since you're a guy after, you graduate as a genin, that is it you want to...minato, you haven't visited your parent's grave in a long time now, have you?"
"yeah, 3 months."
"well, let me accompany you. Your grandmother's grave is just next to theirs."
"i-its okay, hokage-sama, I'm sure you have other things to do." Said minato..he wanted some private time to himself when he visited their grave. He didnt want the hokage to see him cry. Somehow, the hokage sensed it and smiled.
"okay minato, you can go there alone later, but now, jiraiya will accompany you to the orphanage to get things settled down. Jiraiya!" said the 35 year old hokage.
"thank you sir" said minato bowing
Just then, a man about 23 jumped in through the window.
"jiraiya my boy, snooping around now aren't we?" asked the hokage smirking.
"ah, sarutobi-sensei" said jiraiya smiling sheepishly while rubbing the back of his head.
The hokage sighed. "you will accompany minato to the orphanage, since you already heard everything"
"okay sensei. C'mon kid" said jiraiya just about to jump out the window.
"ah, jiraiya, there's a door right over there" said the hokage pointing towards the brown door.
Jiraiya let out a dramatic sigh and walked out motioning for minato to join him so with one final bow to the hokage, minato followed jiraiya out.
"so, hm, kid"
"yes jiraiya-san"
"ah, don't use formalities with me kid, I don't like them."
"sorry, jiraiya…erm.. what should I call you then?"
"hmm, just call me sensei, kid" said jiraiya showing the 'nice guy' pose, as gai would call it.
"o-okay jiraiya sensei" said minato…
'I wonder why he asked me to call him sensei, its not like he is teaching me or anything' thought minato. They continued walking, but jiraiya being jiraiya couldn't keep quiet for long, so he asked minato if he wanted to train, just to see where he stood, and minato politely accepted. So they headed to training ground 33.
"now, kid.i'll go easy on you, but you better put all your effort in beating me kay! If you manage to get a scratch on me, which I doubt you will, I'll treat you to whatever you like." Said jiraiya smiling.
They faced each other and jiraiya said he could start. Minato disappeared in a swirl of leaves hiding behind the bush.
"Hmm, shunshin no jutsu…kid's got talent" said jiraiya to himself.
After about 10 minutes with no movement jiraiya was starting to wonder if minato had ran away, so he just used a quick jutsu, and minato was still there. Minato was hiding behind the 3rd bush on his left. He decided to appear behind minato, if minato wasn't making the first move, he would.
Jiraiya appeared behind minato, and minato looked back toward him with a shocked expression, jiraiya shouted "hah!" and punched minato, not knowing it was a clone, and about 3 seconds after that, the clone "poofed" and behind jiraiya, there were 5 shurikens coming toward him, one aimed at each side of his face. One in the middle and one at each side of his hand. Jiraya shunshined away toward the open field.
'kid can do kage bunshin? Hm…I wonder how I did not sense his clone' thought jiraiya.
Minato came out, throwing 3 shurikens, 2 kunais toward jiraiya, which jiraiya easily dodged. Minato looked at jiraiya wondering what to do. Should he charge straight on? Should he set a trap? Minato smirked. He still had some paint bombs left in his pocket. Jiraiya probably wouldn't be dumb enough to actually get hit head on by one, so minato went to one of the sandy patches around the area and picked up a few small stones while jiraiya just looked at him oddly.
Minato picked up about 20 pebbles and mixed 3 paint bombs with them and threw it at jiraiya. Jiraiya started laughing. The kid had planned to hit him with…rocks...no...pebbles? Jiraiya hit most of the pebbles away, but them minato muttered "kai" and then the 3 paint bombs, 2 which jiraiya avoided exploded and the paint dropped into a patch of grass and one exploded onto jiraiya, but only managed to get his shoulder. Jiraiya was laughing and he decided that he would test minato's taijutsu.
He ran in front of minato and tried to punch his face, which minato managed to dodge. then, minato kicked jiraiya's feet, to make him fall, but jiraiya leapt to the back of minato, in which minato turned around immediately, before jiraiya could punch him, aimed to kick jiraiya on the chest which jiraiya caught easily and swung minato towards the grass softly, but a thud was heard, then minato turned to jiraiya, somersaulted to jiraiya's left, attempted to kick him in the ribs, but missed and thats when minato decided to give up on the taijutsu, so Minato went back into one of the bushes to form his next plan, but jiraiya appeared behind him almost instantly and minato couldn't do anything, so jiraiya caught him, carried him and tied him to a tree.
"not bad minato, you didn't scratch me, but managed to get…paint on me, what are those things that exploded? I only saw you picking up pebbles. And why couldn't I sense your other clones" Said jiraiya.
minato smiled sheepishly but began explaining.
"well, I made these when I was in uzu, see my host, aoba loved to play pranks and well, we both sort of came up with this, sensei. Oh, that's because I put a small genjutsu on you, but I guess you didn't take the fight seriously" said minato looking toward the ground, embarrassed. Minato was shocked when jiraiya started laughing.
"man, why didn't I think of this when I was your age? Kid, you're really something and of course I wouldn't take it super seriously, I mean I did, but not dead serious. But I guess I underestimated you." Said jiraiya taking out a kunai and letting minato free.
"no, i'm just average, but thanks anyway, sensei"
"you're nine right? May I ask how…you learned kage bunshin and shunshin no jutsu? If I am not mistaken, you learn normal bunshin no jutsu and kawamiri no jutsu next year right?"
"w-well, I read lots of scrolls and practiced a lot…"
"amazing, making a kage bunshin is actually pretty hard, and its not generally known, how did you manage to find a scroll on it? And relax, nothing wrong with learning new jutsus, but get a teacher or someone to supervise next time"
"well, I actually saw some people doing it and I was..inspired, so I remembered all the seals and practiced. "
"hm, okay kid, what do you want for lunch?"
"w-what? I didn't get a scratch on you, why are you treating me to lunch?"
"well, for one, I'm hungry and two, you have skills and you impress me I guess, so kid..where?"
"I don't know" said minato. Although he knew where exactly he wanted to go.
"okay then, since your hair colour reminds me of…ramen, lets go to ichiraku's!" said jiraiya.
Minato stood dumfounded. That man, compared ramen noodles to his hair and he knew exactly where he wanted to go. Minato agreed instantly and both of them walked to ichiraku's. when they got there, minato ordered 3 bowls of pork ramen, and one chicken teriyaki ramen. Jiraiya ordered 5 bowls of beef ramen and 1 bowl of spicy ramen. And they ate happily, jiraiya asking questions and minato answering them. After they ate, jiraiya paid the bill and escorted minato to the orphanage.
"hello, sir. How may I help you?" asked the person at the desk
"well, the hokage told you guys about a new kid being into this orphanage, right?" said jiraiya
"oh, erm yes. " said the desk manager and searched some scrolls and finally said.
"is it namikaze minato?" asked the man
"ah, yes…" said jiraiya pointing his hands toward where minato was.
Minato tiptoed, he couldn't really see past the desk, it was about a head taller than him.
"hello" said minato, bowing his head slightly.
"hm, hello. Yes, so his things has been brought here from his grandma's house. Oh and my name is sho." Said the man, now known as sho. "and fill up these forms, its just a basic from, allergies, medications and all." Said sho, passing the forms to jiraiya.
After about 15 minutes, they passed back the form to sho and minato said goodbye to jiraiya. Jiraiya promised to visit him sometime soon and minato smiled and just followed sho.
"so, my name is sho, I am the head of this orphanage. My wife and I run this orphanage and there are very few..shinobi kids in training here. I think you might be the tenth one here. But 6 of them have left, so its only you and a girl named…mikiren that's the same age as you. The others barely are here.. they are about 3-4 years older than you. You will be sleeping I dorms with 14 other kids around your age. We have about 150 kids here. Mainly girls tho." Said sho.
"oh, I see, thank you sir" said minato.
"good, anyway, you're pretty free here I guess, there will be one day you work, but simple work. Just help out with laundry, washing dishes or something, while the other days, you are free. Breakfast usually is at 8:00 a.m. But since you have shinobi school which starts earlier, you'd probably have to wake up on your own, and there would be bread prepared the night before for your breakfast. Lunch, if you choose to come back would be served at 1:00p.m precisely and dinner, would be served at 6:30p.m. You will have to be back here by 7:30p.m. and lights out at 11:00 p.m."
"okay, sir"
"hm, this is your dorm, your things are already inside. Your bed is bed 14, on the left side of the room, next to the window."
"arigato, sho-san" said minato, In which sho just nodded and smiled slightly, turning and leaving.
Minato walked into the room looking around. There were about 5 other people in the room now. Most of them was doing their own thing, so while minato was walking, he looked around and made eye contact with a black hair, black eyes guy, next to bed 6.
"hey… new kid!" said the boy he made eye contact with
"ah, my name is minato."
"hn, interesting."
'he uses "hn" and he has black hair and black eyes…could he be an uchiha?"
"anyway, I'll go…unpack I guess."
"yeah, so anyway. There's a trunk In front of everyone's bed. That's where you put your clothes and belongings and there is a small bedside table. Where you put whatever you want." Said the boy
"okay, thanks. By the way, whats your name?" asked minato
"i-I haven't told you yet?" said the boy and started laughing
"nope."
"my real name is Uchiha kirou, but I just go by miko kirou."
'why is an uchiha in here?' thought minato
"so yeah, anyway. You go unpack and I'll show you around"
"okay" said minato.
So after minato unpacked some of his things, put his precious orange metal box into his bedside drawer, he went to kirou's bed and they left. Kirou was quite nice to him, giving him a tour. They talked about quite a few things and kirou seemed quite interested in ninjas. Kirou was a year older than it was dinner time, they went down to the hall to eat and that's when minato decided to pop the question on why an uchiha is here. Minato didn't feel like beating around the bush and just as minato expected, kirou's reaction was just uncomfortable silence, but after about 5 minutes, kirou told him why.
"see, my mum was an uchiha, but she married an uchiha, but she was in love with a non uchiha. She was a mediocre shinobi, just a genin, and her parents didn't agree to liking or dating a non-uchiha, but she defied them and did anyway, so about a year into the marriage, she in a way cheated on her husband. She had me with that…man, my father miko… and I stayed in a small hut sort of thing. My mum would come and visit me maybe every 2-3 days with my dad…but then about 7 years later, she died in some small mission she was doing…I think she drowned or something, but by then, my dad found another women and well, he just dumped me here I guess. So I came here 2 years ago." Said kirou.
"oh, I'm sorry to hear that" said minato
"nah, its okay, I've learnt to adapt"
"why don't you enroll into the ninja academy?" asked minato
"I was suppose to… but I guess I didn't want too, or couldn't. I mean you have to pay for the ninja academy and since the other uchihas don't know about me, I cant exactly enroll there"
"I bet of you asked the hokage and told him, he would let."
"maybe. But I don't think I want. Imagine… dying in such a way? You could be assassinated"
"I guess, but we're still helping others!" said minato
"hn, yeah…but I think I would rather be maybe an architect or a doctor, something similar, maybe then I could use my sharingan…if I unlocked it"
"but to do that, you really would need some physical training. How about I help you train when I'm training. Just basic things. Maybe just taijutsu, which is sparring. No chakra needed or maybe throwing kunais."
"that sounds great. Thanks minato" said kirou
"no problem, kirou"
And from then on, bonds were formed.
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A/N: awww, only one person reviewed? Anyway, I'll post this. But I am serious this time. For the next chapter, at least 5 more reviews. Next chapter would be how things are in school and a few more things.:)
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