Hey look I'm back! I'm terribly sorry for the wait and the only excuse I have is, THERE WAS A VOLANO ERUPTING BY MY HOUSE!!!!! No, seriously, there was! So I was all focused on trying to find somebody who was brave enough to drive me the 15-20 miles up there so I could get pictures. (Nobody would.) It was sad there wasn't even any lava, I'm so dissappointed.

But here I am now with the next chapter of 'Before The CopyNin' (That is this story right? God I hope so.) And it has the suprise I promised though I'm not sure anybody will like it, though mabey you will who knows. Anyway, yeah, on with the story.

Disclaimer: I Don't Own Naruto.

"Dinner's ready!" Yutsuko yelled up the stairs. After much stomping around and arguing everyone was seated at the table, almost everyone. "Where's Amida, shouldn't he have been home by now?" Yutsuko asked.

"He got in trouble with the Hokage today." Jiro was quite pleased with getting one of his siblings in trouble.

"What did he do?" Leiko asked.

Kisho knew exactly where Amida was, on his way to the Hidden Cloud. Of course he wasn't aloud to say that, even to his wife. "He skipped his oriantation, Akira and Ryozo had to track him down so he's probaly off doing whatever punishment he was given. He won't be back until late." Yeah late next year. He thought to himself.

"How come you didn't tell me earlyer." Yutsuko asked.

"I did, I said he'd be late." Kisho said.

Yutsuko looked at him suspiciously. "Well, I guess we'll just have to eat without him." She started dishing up Kakashi and Kichi's food.

After the normal arguing over who got more than who was finally over everyone had a plate of food and was ready to dig in. Before they could though Takai tapped his glass with a fork.

"Um...uh" He studdered.

"If you have sumthin' to say spit it out Taky otherwise let us eat." Jiro said while eyeing Ronin's breadstick.

"Jiro be nice to your brother. Go ahead Takai." Kisho nodded to his son.

Takai took a deep breath. This was why he didn't want to tell anyone, they were going to make a big deal about it. "Today we took surprise Genin exams and uh... I passed." He reached into his pocket and pulled out his forehead protector.

"That's great!" Leiko reached over and ruffled the boy's hair. The following minutes were filled with congratulations, pats on the back, cheek pinching, and everything else embarrising that family's do when you reach some acheivment.

The rest of dinner was spent with Rini and Raidon explaining Genin life to Takai and everyone else talking about their day. When Tora told her dad about the weird sub her class had, he chocked on his food trying to keep himself from laughing.

Yutsuko however was not nearly as amused. "They let that disgusting man teach our children?" She was on the verge of outrage.

"So you guys know him?" Tora asked.

"He's one of the greatest shinobi out there. He was a Genin student of the 3rd Hokage himself." Kisho said. "And he trained the 4th Hokage."

Yutsuko smacked his arm. "He's a pervert!"

This went on with Kisho and Yutsuko halfheartedly arguing about Jiraiya's character for most of the meal. Tora had gone back to eating after a while.

When dinner was over those who had duties to tend to left and those who didn't went on to they're evening activitys. Takai climbed up onto the roof to get away from everone and their congratulations. Tora went to her room to study the scroll her mother had gotten her at the library. Ronin was helping Jiro clean his weapons. Kakashi and Kichi had gone back to their room to put the final touches on the painting of Kichi. And Kisho and Yutsuko were enjoying the extremly rare relative quiet in the livingroom.

Everything was still peaceful a few hours later when Kisho went upstairs to put Kichi and Kakashi to bed.

Just as he walked into their room he felt it coming, he had just enough time to grab the twins and cover them with his body when a hail of kunai came flying through the window. He could hear yelling coming from the other rooms and screaming from the neighboring houses.

Ignoring the pains in his back from where the kunai had struck him he picked the twins up and went to gather the rest of his children. He was only able to find Tora and Ronin. Yutsuko had immediately come to their aid so they only had a few scratchs each. They were relativly safe in the hall for now.

Ronin was shaking slightly. "Jiro went out the window." He said.

"I can't find Takai."Yutsuko was carfully pearing into the empty bedrooms.

Kisho had taken up a positon next to the stairs. The children had been shoved into the hallway closet. "We'll have to trust he and the others will be able to take care of themselves for now." He threw a kunai with an explosive tag down the stairs. "Downstairs is crawling."

"They're coming in through the window in the the twins room." Yutsuko slammed the door shut and slapped a dozen explosive tags to it. Unfortunatly almost all their weapons were downstairs, all they had was whatever they had on them and what was found in their childrens rooms.

Inside the closet Tora and Ronin had buried Kakashi and Kichi in the cloths they'd pulled from the shelves and hangers. They each only had one kunai so it had been a mutual decision that they would take down the first person to stick their head into the closet and hope the twins would stay hidden until help arrived.

They could hear their parents fighting the intruders in the hallway, the thuds of dead bodies hitting the ground, they hoped it was their enemy and not their parents. Then suddenly the sounds of fighting ceased. They could hear more than two sets of feet walking around. One look into the other's eye and they both knew what had happened, their parents had lost.

One of the pairs of feet stopped in front of the closet door. Tora and Ronin readied their kunai. The door swung open and the two young shinobi-to-be lept from the closet and slashed with all their might at the man in front of them. Ronin lodged his kunai into the man's right eye and Tora was able to drag hers across his throat. He dropped to the ground dead and the silver haired children dropped down on top of him.

The fallen mans commrades didn't take his death lightly. They disposed of the young children with their swords.

Tora and Ronin fell to the ground in front of the closet. The last thing Tora saw before she closed her eyes for good was her parents bodies, they were holding each other's hands.

Under the clothing, Kichi wrapped her arms around Kakashi and buried her face into the back of his neck, trying to muffle her sobbing.

The movement and the slight noise went unnoticed by their enemy. "There's no one left in the house sir." One said.

"Good let's move on." Another said.

The enemy started filing out when on tripped over Ronin's body and landed on the pile of cloths. Kichi yelped. "What's this?" The man started tossing clothing aside until he reached the twins. "Hey guys, lookit what I found." He reached down to grab Kakashi but Kichi jumped up and bit his hand. The man yelled in pain and grabbed both of the twins and by the necks and shook them.

"Stop." A man ordered. "Let's take them with us. They're young, we can train them to our side."

"We'd never help you!" Kichi yelled as both her and Kakashi kicked at anything they could reach.

Kakashi flipped himself upside down in the mans grasp and planted his foot right into his face. The man dropped the twins in favor of trying to wipe the blood that was pouring out his nose, away. "Run Kichi, I'll hold them off." Kakashi yelled as he kicked another man's legs out from under him.

Kichi took off running down the hall as Kakashi moved on to trip another man. The man who was obviously the leader kicked kakashi in the gut sending him through the door of Takai and Ronin's room. He then turned and threw a kunai at Kichi, who had just made it to her parents bodies next to the stairway, the kunai embedded itself into the back of her neck.

Kakashi had crawled out of the bedroom just in time to see his twin fall into his parent's laps.

"Now boy, will you join us or die like the rest of these dogs?" The leader asked him.

Kakashi stood slowly and clenched his fist. He couldn't comprehend why this was happening, why his family was dying, why these men had come into his home. His right arm started to tingle as he looked at the bodies of his family, the only people he'd ever know. His arm was really tingling now and he could have sworn he could hear a faint crackling coming from it. He turned to look at Ronin and Tora, they'd died trying to protect him and Kichi. His arm was starting to burn.

In one fast motion he whipped around and charged at the one who led these men to kill his family. He pulled his arm back to punch him when the entire hall started to glow blue and crackle with chakra. He swung. His punch connected with the man's head, it not only took his head clean off his shoulders but also ripped apart the two men standing directly behind him.

Kakashi turned around expecting to be cut down by the remaining two men. He didn't, however, expect to come face to face with a blonde haired man who was most definitely a leaf shinobi. Kakashi jumped back a bit in surprise. The man was kneeling in front of him. He had on the normal Jounin uniform and a white short-sleeved long coat with a flame design at the bottem.

"Give me your hand little one." The man said reaching out to Kakashi.

It only took a moment for Kakashi to get over the shock of this man suddenly appearing when he realized he knew him, this man bought one of his paintings, the one of the sakura tree in bloom and the Anbu with the fox mask sitting below it. He'd seen that when he was walking with his dad last spring and decided to paint it.

All this went through Kakashi's head in a matter of seconds. He reached out and took the man's hand. "My name is Arashi." The man said.

"I'm Kakashi." His voice was barely above a whisper.

The man, Arashi, picked the silver haired boy up and balanced him on his left hip. Kakashi buried his face into Arashi's shoulder so he didn't have to look at his dead family.

Arashi made his way out of the battle-scarred house and into a tree. The second his feet touched the branch they were surrounded by Anbu. "Hokage-sama, are you all right? What was the sudden surge of chakra?" One of the masked elite asked.

"I'm fine and it's been taken care of, now report." Arashi shifted the boy a little higher on his hip.

A different Anbu stepped forward to speak. "The cloud has attacked us from all sides, most have been driven away but we've suffered many casulties. All Jounin are currently trying to keep the walls secure, Chuunin are patroling residental neighborhoods, and Anbu are securing all high risk areas."

Arashi was about to say something when a handful of Cloud Nin literally ran into them. Keeping Kakashi securly at his left hip, Arashi pulled a short sword from his belt, and disposed of two while the Anbu took care of the rest.

"Go! Get them out of my village!" He ordered the Anbu and lept to a roof across the street. His normal guard of two Anbu trailing after him as he made his way across Konoha.

Normally not much could be seen of Konoha at night but with a good portion of it on fire it was all seen in an orange glow. The image of the once beautiful green village, now dark and burning would be forever remembered by the young boy clinging to the Hokage's side.

A/N

Don't hurt me I had to do it, we all knew deep down they had to die sometime.

It's not the end, there's still one or two more chapters, mabey three.

Next thing that goes up wil be the next chapter of 'And Then They Were Rivals' and then I'll finish this story and then I'll move back to 'Deafening Silence' (Which by the way I have another fanart of in my DevArt Gallerey. Link's in my Profile.)

In case your wondering, yes Kakashi will paint the burning village when he finds the time and just like all his other paintings it will be beautiful.

Huggles for poor poor Kakashi-chan?