Chapter 11

"Take it again".

"Whaaaat! No! Sexy Jutsu!"

"Naruto! I told you not to do that jutsu again! Besides this picture looks nothing like you it's supposed to identify you!"

"Well how am I supposed to know this complicated stuff?"

"I think it looks nice Nii-san," Miso said from her seat near the Hokage as she sipped tea. "It's really clever, everyone in the village will know it's you but enemy ninja won't".

"Exactly!" Naruto grinned.

Sarutobi closed his eyes in exasperation. The siblings where getting worse every day Naruto more unruly and Miso more… eccentric. Hiruzen had not failed to notice her orange sandals and the fact she hadn't take off the spandex suit. Plus the disturbing information he got from Genma. He took a sip of the tea that Miso had brought him and sighed speaking of troublesome children…

"Old man, I challenge you! I'm going to defeat you and become the fifth Hokage!" a little boy came charging in then fell flat on his face. Miso felt bad for him having fallen many times before and began digging through her bag for a band aid and a cold compress.

"I don't care if he's your grandmother!" Naruto yelled and hit the boy. Miso grabbed a second band aid and handed it to Konohamaru along with the cold press. She waved good bye to her brother and the Hokage as she head out. She had other things today. Namely visit Shino.

After a long chat with Usagi, that lasted many hours. She was finally convinced to visit Shino and innate a deeper friendship. Usagi had told her that it would help with her anxiety and brother issues if she had more people to concern herself with. Miso didn't really buy into that argument. What really got her to go was when the rabbit told her the more people she had on her side the more people she could use to help her brother become Hokage.

Miso had visited Shino before, but today was the first visit that didn't have to do with school. She brought him his homework and notes when he missed but that was it. She was a jumble of nerves as he walked towards the Aburame compound. When she finally arrived she quickly dug through her bag and got the box of cookies she had made the night before. She gingerly waked past the gate towards the compound. Miso shivered as she head bugs all around her. She was purposely not looking anywhere but her feet as she walked so she wouldn't see any insects. Finally she came to a stop in front of a two dark shinobi shoes, she took a step back and looked up to meet the sunglasses of a Aburame that she was unfamiliar with.

"C-c-could you get Shino-chan… please?" The silent figured nodded and went inside the compound leaving Miso to outside by herself for only a few moments.

"Miso?" Shino's voice caused Miso to look up and grin in relief.

"Here, I brought you cookies to celebrate becoming genin".

"So you passed? I was sure you were going to fail on purpose. Where is your fore head protector?" Shino signaled for Miso to sit down and the both sat on the patio of the compound as he opened the box containing his favorite cookies. He handed one to Miso.

"Ya, both Nii-san and I passed. I just wanna stay a civilian a little while longer," she shrugged in reply, "Do you think we will be on the same team? I know some teams are already set like the Ino-Shika-Cho and they do the teams based on strength… think there's a chance?"

"Most unlikely with my skill set I will most likely be set with a tracking team. Your chakra abilities are impressive but you are highly unlikely to be put on a team with me. I do think you will end up on your brother's team though".

"You think? I know that's what I really want but I don't want to get my hopes up…"

"It will almost be illogical to put you on separate teams. Your personalities balance each other out and your skills work well together. Besides neither of you would work well with other people aside from each other".

Miso and Shino chatted till the box was empty. Then Miso bid Shino goodbye and set out to find her brother. She had seen her brother do a lot of crazy things but seeing the man with the glasses from earlier passed out from blood lose because of her brothers multiple clones and sexy jutsu was not something she was fully prepared to see. Miso blushed and walked into the clearing, "Nii-san, Konohamaru".

Naruto dispelled his jutsu and Konohamru blushed at seeing her. "Oh, hey Miso. What are you doing here?"

"I came to find you because we were going to go shopping for ninja supplies today and prepare for tomorrow.." she trailed off.

"Oh, okay just give me a sec…"

She watched with a pleased smile at the speech Naruto was giving the little boy about being Hokage.

"Listen we're rivals now!" Konohamru said before he ran off.

"Cute kid," Miso grinned at Naruto; her brother just shrugged.

The following morning Naruto was on cloud nine. Miso was officially in Hell. Today was the day they found out their new genin teams and jounin sensei. Naruto left ahead of her knowing Miso was going to be slower today than usual. It was a silent agreement when they made eye contact this morning. Miso sat at their kitchen table staring at the head band laying there. She was dressed in her usual clothing and she had her lucky bunny hairpin laying right by the head band. Sighing realizing she was going to have to leave soon she tied the forehead protector around her forehead. Then pinned her bangs to the side like usual. The leaf insignia was barely noticeable as her hair covered most of the head band. Her side bangs obscuring it, her hairpin distracting attention away from it.

She quickly cleaned up Naruto's breakfast pausing when she saw her brother hadn't thrown out the milk. She hoped that he didn't drink any of it. She quickly threw it away in her already full trash can. Naruto hadn't taken the trash out either. Miso was nervous about asking him to do his chores as she was still worried about rejection. She decided she would do his chores later to avoid the possible conflict.

She then began her slow trek to school in her large white hoodie cover her full green spandex suite and finally her weighted orange shinobi sandals. She waved to a few passer byers and stopped to chat to Konohamaru. It was odd that the boy was blushing the whole time, when she moved her hand to feel his forehead to check for a fever. The boy's whole face turned red. Miso left some medicine for him and a bottle water worried that he was getting sick. Finally when she entered the room where her doom was her mouth dropped. Nartuo and Sasuke where kissing!

"Nii-san!"

Naruto and Sasuke where both attempting to clean their mouths. Miso had to step in and diffuse the impending beating that Naruto was going to get. She then sat down by Shikamaru as that was the only spot left. A shocked look on her face.

"Hey, Imouto you okay?"

"Nii-san… I didn't know… I didn't know… that you felt that way about guys… I'm such a horrible sister I should have realized that you… played for the other team. I've been so busy screening females for any future relationship you could have and I totally forgot about the guy population. Now look… you picked the worst guy! I should have seen your odd obsession for beating him as a sign and your attachment to Umino- Sensei. Why couldn't you pick someone like Shino or Choji?"

The whole class was looking at Miso oddly, Sasuke had an angry tick mark on his forehead.

"No! Gross! I like girls Miso! GIRLS! It was an accident!"

"Uchiha-san… he forced you?" Miso now had a look of horror on her face, "How dare he violate you Nii-san."

"I didn't violate anyone he kissed me and it never happened. You got it!" That started another argument between the two boys.

"Hey you okay?" Shikamaru asked Miso. It was a pain to ask her but he did it anyways. Girls where always so troublesome.

"Ya, it was fun messing with them a little bit…. Don't you think?" she giggled a bit, Shikamaru actually cracked a smile. Not a smirk or an eye role but a smile. She figured that was the about as close as one can get to making a Nara laugh.

"So who are you hoping to be on teams with?"

"Nii-san."

"Should have seen that when coming I guess…"

"Of course, you wouldn't be so bad either. I already know I won't end up on Shino-chan's team". She grinned at Shikamaru he smirked back.

"The other day in class….This whole time you've been faking on not being able to do clones. What else have you been faking about?"

Miso just gave him a grin in reply and didn't say anything further on the matter. He just shrugged and started arguing with Ino. He was curious but he didn't really want to work for the answers so he let the subject drop.

"Okay, I'll be splitting you into groups of three and one group of four. Team 1—" Miso quickly tuned Iruka out as she was more interested in the little conversations happening around her.

"Naruto Uzumaki," Iruka's voice called out breaking Miso from her thoughts, "Sakura Haruno, Sasuke Uchiha…." Miso let her head it the table and groaned. Today sucked. It defiantly sucked, "and Miso Uzumaki". She gave a large grin of happiness, reaching over and high-fiving her brother.

"The Uzumaki siblings are going to be the best team ever! Believe it!"

"Naruto sit back down!" Iruka yelled.

Miso's sucky day in Hell was turned around in an instant. She tuned everybody else out and was now humming the chakra rhythms her feet swinging from her chair. She was on a team with her brother, all was good. Of course she was still nervous about his rejection but that could be solved later.

"Wow, you really wanted to be on his team," Shikamaru observed.

"Of course, good luck with your team Nara-san," she replied as she got up with everyone else when lunch started. Naruto was in front of her in an instant.

"Hey….Listen Miso I was wondering if you could do me a favor and let me eat lunch with Sakura… alone…. Please!" Naruto clasped his hands together in a praying motion. Miso froze in place and then slowly handed her brother his lunch and watched him run off after the pink haired genin.

"That was cold," Shikamaru said as he watched Miso's demeanor darken slightly. Seeing her with a sad smile and looking so put out Shikamaru did the one thing he wasn't expecting, "What a drag. Come on, you can come each lunch with my team".

She followed him soundless as he gathered up Ino and Choji. Ino keeping silent about the new addition at having seen what happened only a moment ago. Choji not really caring but hoping that she had those delicious dumplings she made. Ino eventually ended up taking lead and bringing them up to the roof.

"Listen up the only way this team is going to work is if you let me lead. Got it?"

"Ya, whatever," Shikamaru snapped back.

"Why don't you lead us to some barbeque Ino," Choji taunted as he ate Miso's dumplings having traded lunches with her.

"Shut up!" Ino shot back, she then gave Miso a considering look, "Hey you okay?" Miso just shrugged in response and silently ate Choji's bento. "Listen I don't know what the big deal is that your brother ditched you but you shouldn't let it bug you so much. You're more than Naruto's sister, so start acting like it".

"Ino," warned Shikamaru knowing it was a touchy subject. They both glared off when something got Ino's eye.

"Hey, what's Naruto doing?"

"You don't think?"

"How dare he attack my Sasuke!" Ino grumbled.

"Nii-san?" Miso questioned to herself as she listened to the noise of fighting as the window had closed in the building obscuring her view.

"Wow! He didn't even break a sweet".

"That's my boy Sasuke!"

"Wait Miso!" Choji said in alarm as Miso stood up and used the railing as a boost to flip off their roof and unto another one, all three sweet dropped when they heard her call out "Youth". After landing her flip she then quickly jumped across the landing into a rolling somersault then a practiced crouch. She then went inside the window.

"Well that was impressive," Ino muttered. Her teammates nodding in agreement. The girl had been totally silent in her movements and had a flawless execution.

"Nii-s—you're not Nii-san," Miso stated as she looked at the tied up boy on the floor. He just glared at her. "Well looks like you've got things handled," as she sing songed with an innocent grin as left the room through the window again. Leaving the boy tied up, she could feel the glare burning into her back. She was pretty sure it was tattooed into her skin. She climbed her way back to her companions with much less flare then she did when she left them.

"So how was Naruto?" Choji inquired as she sat back down and continued eating lunch.

"Hmm? Oh, it was Sasuke. Naruto ambushed him, tied him up, and transformed into him for some reason."

"What?" Choji asked incredulous.

"Did you untie him?" Ino all but shouted.

"Nope". Miso said as she stood back up to go back to the classroom as lunch was over, "looked like he had things handled".

Both Choji and Shikamaru laughed… Well Shikamaru smirked more then laughed but Choji actually laughed. Ino abruptly headed towards where Sasuke was tied up to rescue him. Only by the time she got their he was gone.

The rest of the day went by rather smoothly. A few teachers gave final speeches to the class about how far the class has come. One chunin came in and gave a forty minute lecture on new responsibilities and being a good shinobi. When it was about two in the afternoon Senseis started showing up. Miso waved goodbye to Shino and his group who were the first to leave. She did the same for Shikamaru's group as they were the second to last group to leave. The last being them.

"Augh! Where is he?! All the other jounin instructors came and even Iruka- Sensei left!" Naruto whined.

"We know that Naruto," Sakura said annoyed.

Miso just contently read one on of the fuinnjutsu scrolls she brought with her. Not really bothered by the fact their Sensei was three hours late. Naruto had only recently began complaining as he finally got bored of the comic books she had in her back pack. Miso had to admit she got sick pleasure when after a half hour of their Sensei not showing up, she was able to pull things out to entertain herself and her brother. Her back pack had tons of items to pass the time by. When Sakura asked if she could borrow something Miso 'kindly' replied, "I really only have my own study stuff that I don't feel comfortable sharing… and a few of Nii-sans comics..."

When in reality she had a card game, spare paper, a coloring book and few other items that could have relieved the pinkette's boredom. Naruto didn't chastise her about her behavior because he had no idea what was in her bag. Besides she had the right to dislike someone. Sakura was a immature jerk and Sasuke was plainly an ass. Most of the time Miso hid her dislike but with these two she had no such qualms. After all they were rude to her brother. Sakura knew Naruto liked her yet was cruel to him, plus she had her head in the clouds. Sasuke was just plain mean.

Sakura attempted to read Naruto's comics but was quickly gave up. Sasuke didn't even bother to ask and continued to sit in the same brooding pose for three hours. Three long hours where he just brooded. Miso had to give him some credit for being so dedicated to being an imbecilic ass.

Miso looked up when she felt a familiar chakra presence. She had felt this signature a few times before but was never able to place a name to the man. She giggled when the white haired shinobi opened the door and fell into Naruto's prank. Yet her amusement was quickly replaced as she realized that Gai wasn't going to be her Sensei. She knew it was unlikely as he already had a team but she still hoped that he would be her teacher. That he would come running in with Lee, his sunset genjutsu working as he would whisk her and her brother away. Instead she got this disappointment of a ninja who wasn't as cool or as youthful as Gai.

"My first impression of you all… is that I hate you…" the white haired man said. At least where on the same page, Miso thought idly as she followed her team to the roof. Why they had to change locations was a mystery to her. No one else was in the classroom and it wasn't like any information that was being shared was top secret. Still she followed them.

"So why don't we introduce ourselves…"

"Sensei what do you mean?" Sakura asked, Miso raised her eyebrows what do you think he means. Introduce yourself, talk about ourselves how clear can that be.

"Likes, dislikes, hobbies, dreams for the future… Things like that."

"Why don't you go first and show us".

"I am Kakashi Hatake… Things I like, things I hate… I didn't really feel like telling you about them. Dreams for the future? Never really thought about. As for my hobbies, I have lots of hobbies. You on the right go first".

"Belive it I'm Naruto Uzumaki. I like instant ramen in a cup and I really like the ramen Iruka sensei got me … Oh, and I like my sister… but I really hate the three minutes you have to wait after you put your water in the ramen cup. My hobbies are eating different kinds of ramen and comparing them. And my future dream is to become the greatest Hokage. That way the whole village will stop disrespecting me and Miso. And start treating us like we're somebody, somebody important".

"Alright next".

"I'm Miso Uzumak," her gentle grin on her face as she raised her hand in a half wave. She didn't feel like talking and she was too happy with her brother's words about liking her and being a part of his dream. He didn't hate her, all was good in Miso's world.

Everybody waited for her to say more but after fifteen seconds Kakashi finally broke the silence, "Do you want to say more?"

"Ya, where supposed to be introducing ourselves," Sakura butt in.

"Well the people who I want to know me, already know about me and the people who don't know me already don't really matter," She cocked her head to the side with an innocent smile on her face.

"…Well… than… Your turn…" Kakashi eye never left Miso. He had to admit that if felt painful to see her. At least with Naruto he could see him for who he was. He didn't see the ghosts of his past. Naruto looked like his father but he had darker blonde hair, whiskers on his face, and Kushina's personality that it offset Minato's features. Kushina's verbal tick and personality was defiantly there but he was far more easy going then she was and a little more reckless then her. There was just enough difference between Naruto and his parents that it wasn't painful to be around him. At least not as much as Kakashi thought it would be. Kakashi could separate Naruto from his parents. He could choose not see the two people who he cared for. Naruto of course did remind him of Obito as they had similar actions but Naruto wasn't as kind as Obito was, he wasn't late like Obitio, he wasn't Obito. Kakashi could see Naruto as Naruto

Miso… He couldn't stop seeing the people he cared for. Which was odd considering she was the least like them but the most like them. She look like Kushina almost an exact replica. Except for her father's coloring and the fact that she had bigger eyes, darker lashes, cuter features. She was like chibi Kushina. Yet, the way she smiled, the way she addressed people, the way she moved, it was all Minato. He couldn't separate the two, he couldn't stop seeing them in her, like she could with Naruto. She had just a little too much of her parents that it hurt, it physically hurt to look at her. He wanted to run, to get out of there, but he was stuck looking at his past.

Kakashi had done his research on his students. From his research her found a lot of information about how his students lived, what they liked, disliked, strengths, weakness, etc. The more he found out about Miso the harder it was to be her teacher. She was always helping people like Obitio did. She was always smiling like Minato. She was always kind like Rin. She was always getting in trouble like Kushina. It was painful to see such a mesh of the people who he cared for in her. He felt like he was seeing their deaths over and over and over again when he looked at her. He couldn't' separate the girl from his past. Even though logically his mind told him that Sakura, Naruto and Sasuke had greater links then she did. Yet his soul was just fixated on how much like them she was. Not how different she was.

"My name is Sakura Haruno…what I like—I mean the person I like is… My hobbies is… My dream for the future…" Sakura squealed causing Miso to lean her head away from the girl to ensure her ears didn't rupture.

"What do you hate?"

"Naruto!" she yelled as she glared at the blonde boy.

Miso was still reading her scroll promptly rolled it up and wacked Sakura with you, "That's not very nice, Haruno-san". Sakura glared at the girl, Miso just grinned innocently at her.

"Last one".

"My name is Sasuke Uchiha. I hate a lot of things and I don't particularly like anything. What I have is not a dream because I will make it an reality. I'm going to restore my clan and destroy a certain someone."

Silence filled the area. It wasn't like the peaceful awkward that Miso created when she didn't elaborate about herself. This was a heavy silence. Miso could guess what everyone was thinking based of their chakra fluxation. Nii-san was worried, Sakura was oddly happy and Kakashi didn't really care.

"Good your each unique and you have your own ideas," the white haired man said as he successfully broke the tension. "Will have our first mission tomorrow".

"What kind of mission are we going to have," Naruto grinned widely.

"It's a task that the five of us will do together…. A survival exercise."

Miso cut off Sakura before she could complain, "This isn't like the academy. Were genin now so a survival test will most likely put our lives on the line or test us in some way. Just because someone becomes a genin and gets away from the academy. Doesn't mean that we know everything. You'd have to be rather full yourself to think that we won't be training. Right Haruno-san?" her tone of voice and the fake kind smile on her face made it sound like she was just asking Sakura an innocent question, making an observation, getting the girl's opinion. Yet everyone but Naruto felt her underlying annoyance with the girl.

Kakahsi began to laugh creepily, "Out of the 28 graduates only ten will be made genin. The others will be weeded out and sent back to the academy. In other words this is a make it or break it test. The chance that you'll fail is at least 66%. Didn't I tell you that you wouldn't like it".

"What! What about the graduation test?" Naruto exclaimed

"That was to see who could be potential genins. I get to decide whether you pass or fail. Be at the designated training spot at 5 a.m. and bring your ninja gear. Thats it your dismissed. Oh, tomorrow you better skip breakfast or you'll puke." Kakashi disappeared after he finished speaking in a cloud of leaves.

"Well… he's a bit dramatic, right Nii-san?" Miso said idly.

"Ugh! I can't believe this!" Naruto wasn't even paying attention to his sister as he was now complaining loudly. He didn't even say goodbye to his companions. He just grabbed his sister's hand and dragged her home. Complaining loudly and attempting to hide his worry. Although he wasn't fooling Miso.

Miso heated up some left overs and listened patiently to her brother. He went from being irritable, to worried, to panicked, to confident, to irritable again as he talked. She just patted him on his back and placed food in front of him. Choosing not to say anything knowing it wouldn't have any effect on her Nii-san. Before they went to bed the quickly packed their ninja packs with the supplies they would need. Well Naruto packed a plan blue ninja bag. Miso stuck to her black bunny printed bag. Miso also went the extra mile and prepared food for tomorrow knowing that they would need to eat. Even if Kakashi advised against it.

As they crawled into bed, Miso turned to her brother who was setting the alarm. "Nii-san… don't worry. No matter what you will pass. I'll make sure of it," she got out bed and gave him a quick hug.

"We'll pass together," her brother said with renewed confidence. Miso just nodded and fell into a deep sleep knowing that worry would do nothing.