Author's Note
I'm sorry that it's been longer than I planned. I meant to update last week, but I hurt my arm pole vaulting and I had to go to the emergency room.
Good news: It isn't broken like they thought.
Bad news: I can't use it for a month, which is why it took me longer to write the story since I could only type with one hand.
SORRY!!!!!!!!!!!!!! T.T
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As he woke up, Hiro stiffened. Something was wrong. Very wrong. Winter had faded into spring in the time that they had been living in the village, and spring had turned into summer, which was just ending now. Over that time, a schedule had quickly been established.
His day mostly went: Be woken up by Naruto, yell at his kit for waking him up and knock him off the bed, Arisu coming in to tell him to get up or else, yell at her and tell her to get lost, and as soon as she screamed insults right back at him he knew that all was good and right in the world.
But know one had come this morning. He leapt off the bed, tails lashing behind him in agitation, and charged out into the kitchen. As soon as he got in there he saw Naruto eating his breakfast nervously while Arisu fussed over him and put some stuff in a cloth bag, including food.
Hiro looked back and forth between them for a minute. "WHAT IS GOING ON HERE?!?!?!
Arisu looked up and gave him a withering glare. "It's Naruto's first day of school. I've only been telling you that for the past two weeks!" she said dryly, turning to stick a few more pencils into his backpack.
"…Oh…" Hiro said, silent for another moment before whirling around and stomping into the bathroom to take a shower, sulking.
Naruto snickered at the sight of the sulking demon before turning back to his food and devouring the rest of it in a few gulps.
"All done?" Arisu asked, walking over to take them empty plate from him and dump it in the sink. Naruto nodded, fidgeting nervously in his chair.
"Do you haf to go to work now?" Naruto asked, concentrating to say the 'r' sound right, something that both Hiro and Arisu had been working on with him.
Arisu glanced back from where she was washing dishes to look at him. "Nope, not today. I took the day off so that I could walk you to school with Hiro." She said, turning back to the dishes.
Naruto stared at her back, startled. Even though he was still too young to really understand completely how unusual his caretakers were, he had the feeling that it wouldn't be a good idea if someone saw them walking down the street without their disguise, and it REALLY wouldn't be anywhere near normal for him to show up to school with what looked like two ANBU escorting him.
When he told her that she just looked surprised for a second, then started to laugh. "Hehehe… Naruto.. hehe… we're not going looking like that!"
Naruto gave her a confused look and she picked him up and carried him into the living room, setting him down on the new couch that they had bought after the candy incedent. "Watch." She told him, making a ninja hand-sign. "Henge Jutsu!" she yelled, and a puff of smoke covered her for a second.
Naruto's mouth dropped open as the smoke cleared. All of her foxy features a disappeared and had been replaced with different ones. Her hair was now the same color as his, but a couple shades darker, while her eyes were a few shades lighter blue that his. Her fox ears had been replaced with human ones, and there wasn't a tail in sight. Even her gray rabbit fur clothes had been replaced with a purple kimono with flowers embroidered on it.
"Well, what do you think? Normal enough?" Arisu asked, craning around to try and make sure that she had gotten everything.
"H-H-Ho-…..How did you do that?!?!" Naruto shouted, eyes nearly popping out of his head.
"All foxes know how to do that. We're the ones who invented that jutsu! Our ancestors taught your ancestors that jutsu awhile back when they thought that there was some hope for peace between them. Didn't really work out though." Arisu replied, looking surprised that he didn't know this.
"Our ancestors? Don't you mean our older brothers and sisters taught them how to do that? We've been able to do that for generations, but the humans didn't really move in that long ago. Only a couple hundred years ago." Hiro said casually, walking out of the bathroom already in disguise. His hair was sandy blonde and short, while his eyes were a deep green.
"Oh yeah. I'd forgotten that it was so recent. Anyway, off to school!" Arisu said cheerfully, steering Naruto and Hiro out of the apartment.
After about a ten-minute walk they got to the school without anyone seeming to notice that there were demons walking around in broad daylight. The most interesting thing that happened was when a passing villager, a middle-aged women, actually turned to give Naruto a furious glare. Arisu stepped forward and returned the woman's glare with a death glare of her own, while Hiro stepped up to her side to back her up. The woman looked shocked beyond words and quickly scuttled away, and Arisu turned and continued to walk as though nothing had happened.
"Ok Naruto, this is your classroom." Arisu said, pointing to room 101. Hiro slid the door open and they walked into the room, leading Naruto by the hands. The classroom was full of parents and their kids, each of the parents wanting to meet the teacher, a man with a scar across the bridge of his nose and brown hair tied up in a ponytail.
"Hi, I'm Arisu, and this is Hiro. We're Naruto Uzumaki's elder siblings." Arisu said formally, gliding over to meet him while Hiro followed a few feet behind.
"Um… Hi. I'm the teacher for this class, Iruka." Iruka said, looking surprised but still holding out his hand.
Arisu shook his hand lightly, Hiro leaning forward to do the same, studying Iruka closely.
"And this," Arisu said, leaning down and picking up Naruto", is our little brother Naruto."
Hiro raised an eyebrow at the expression on Iruka's face when she presented Naruto to him, but otherwise didn't comment. They stepped to the side to let Iruka greet one of the other parents and Arisu set Naruto down.
"Ok Naruto, we have to go now. Be good and try to make friends with the others here." Arisu said, leaning down to hug him good-bye.
"Don't let anyone push you around either. We'll be here to pick you up at the end of the day." Hiro added, reaching down hesitantly to ruffle Naruto's hair.
Both of them were gone before he could blink. Looking around, Naruto looked for someone to talk to.
"Hey." A voice said behind him. He turned around, startled, to see a boy with brown hair and red fang marks on his face standing behind him. A chubby boy stood behind him, munching on a bag of chips, while another boy looked around lazily. "Hi, I'm Kiba." The first boy said. "And these are Choji and Shikamaru. Who are you?"
Naruto grinned. "I'm Naruto Uzumaki!" he yelled.
"Well, nice to meet ya. Do you want to come and play with us?" Kiba asked, surprised at his enthusiasm.
"Yeah!" Naruto cheered, dragging his new friends off to play.
About an hour later Iruka made everyone sit down, and then called them forward one at a time to introduce themselves.
"Ok, first up, Sasuke Uchiha." Iruka said, and a small dark haired boy stepped up next to him. "Tell us some stuff about you; your likes, dislikes, dreams, and stuff like that." Iruka said, motioning for him to start talking.
"My name is Sasuke Uchiha. (1) I like playing and swimming in the river, and I dislike people saying that I should be more like my brother. My dream is to be stronger than him someday." Sasuke said, turning around to go and sit back down.
"Alright, Sakura, you come up now." Iruka said, motioning for a pink-haired girl sitting with her head lowered near the front. She got up slowly and trudged to the front of the room bangs hiding her face and head lowered.
"My name is Sakura. (2) I like flowers, dislike my forehead, and don't really have a dream right now I guess." She mumbled before scooting back into her seat as fast as she could.
Iruka went through everyone else before grudgingly (3) calling Naruto up.
"Hi! I'm Naruto Uzumaki! I like ramen, my brother Hiro and my sister Arisu, and (4) foxes. I don't like mean people or vegetables. My dream is to be the future Hokage and be respected by everyone!" Naruto yelled to the class, grinning.
Iruka gave a muted sigh, getting the feeling that this was going to be a very long year. As soon as Naruto went back to his seat Iruka began to teach them the basics of writing until it was time to go at about noon (5).
As soon as the bell rang, Naruto ran outside, yelling goodbye to the friends that he had made during class and their 15 minute snack break in the middle, Kiba, Choji, Shikamaru, Sasuke, Sakura, Ino, Hinata, and Shino. He burst out the door, waving at Hiro and Arisu, who stood waiting anxiously for him.
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Don't forget, this is before Itachi killed his family and Sasuke became obsessed with training. Right now he's a lot like a normal kid.
Ino hasn't given Sakura the ribbon yet, so Sakura doesn't have a lot of self esteem right now. That doesn't happen till she gets older.
Iruka didn't like Naruto at the start. He blamed Naruto for his parents dieing until he got to know Naruto and realize that he and the demon fox are different.
Since Arisu and Hiro are fox demons, Naruto now likes foxes. (so says the authoress!)
Since their still really young, they only have a half-day of school until they get older.