First Naruto fic! Takes place during/after the Chuunin Exams.

Warning: Semi-AUness. This will not follow the plotline or the storyline of Naruto. Iruka-centric… mostly.

Summary: Ever wonder how Iruka ever became a Chuunin with the 'skills' he has in the show? The secret behind it all: he possesses a bloodline limit. The power to use his mind to move things, people, etc. around within a certain limited distance. Only the Sandaime knows about his bloodline limit. Why is it such a secret? And if he does possess such a great bloodline limit, why doesn't he use it?

"…" Talking

"…" thinking

… Iruka and Shizuka talking through link. (They ARE twins after all…)

Hope you enjoy!

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(Flashback)

A small brown-haired boy sat sullenly beside a brown-haired girl inside a brightly lit room. The girl was scowling and making growling noises ever so often. After a while, the boy turned to what seemed to be his twin sister or something. "Shizuka, would you please stop that? It's really infuriating."

Shizuka smirked playfully. "I didn't know you knew such a big word, Iruka." The young boy turned his black eyes towards her.

"I can't believe you're actually smiling and playing at a time like this! We just got caught going through mom and dad's file! It's supposed to be top secret or something! I overheard mom saying it was for the Hokage!" Iruka said, his voice going higher with panic. "We're going to be in so much trouble! What do you think they're gonna do with us after? Are they gonna throw us out of the village? Maybe they'll kill us!" Iruka started to panic even more. "Shizuka! This is your fault! If I die, it's gonna be your fault!"

The said girl snorted. "Oh really now, they're really gonna kill us," she said sarcastically. "All because we looked in a file and found a poem!"

Iruka sent her a glare, embarrassed. "Well, uh, well maybe it was an important poem!" He shot back as a weak attempt to gather back his dignity.

"Uh huh, yeah, riiight," Shizuka snorted, purposely stretching the word 'right'. "A very, very important poem. What would the Yondaime want with a poem?"

"How should I know? Do I look like the Yondaime to you?" Iruka snapped, growing irritated.

"No, I should hope not!" the voice that belonged to no other than Iruka and Shizuka's mother growled. The twins jumped out of there seats in surprise. They turned slowly, well Iruka more than Shizuka, as if afraid to see their angered mother and father.

"Well?" Their father stepped out. "What do you have to say for yourselves?" his voice was shaking in anger, frustration and worry?

Iruka gulped. "Well, I really didn't see much in the file, really! It was Shizuka that read it out loud and all!" He laughed sheepishly.

"HEY!" Shizuka growled.

"And," Iruka added hastily, "we didn't understand any parts of it! I swear!" He started to babble. "I mean, it was a weird poem and everything, and all we saw was the first bit until you guys came! And, and…"

"Shut up," Shizuka said irritably. "You're beginning to babble."

"Shizuka!" her mother frowned disapprovingly. "You said you didn't understand it?"

"Well not really anyways," Shizuka said. "It was really confusing, with all that weird power thing and stuff."

Then both her parents sighed. In the light, their parents suddenly looked really tired and stressed. "Shizuka, Iruka, that file was meant for the Hokage for a reason. It holds an important legend."

"Legend?" Iruka perked up. He had always liked legends.

"Maybe we should tell you more about yourselves…" their father said slowly.

"But Kuroh, maybe it's a little early for that…" their mother muttered, unsure.

"What?" Shizuka asked curiously. "Aw come on, mom, if it's about us, we have a right to know!"

"Yeah!" Iruka piped up, interested.

"They're only eleven for heaven's sake!" their mother argued.

"Mika, they already have an idea. And they're mature enough to not tell anybody, right kids?" Kuroh said.

"Right!"

"Kuroh!" Mika scowled. "You're acting as if this is just a game! This is serious stuff! If anybody hears about it, Konoha has a chance of being eliminated in the future!"

Shizuka suddenly tensed. "Eliminated?"

"What do we have anything to do with Konoha being eliminated?" Iruka gulped.

Mika sighed. "I don't want to tell them…"

"You have to! If we start training them now, it will benefit Konoha's future!" Kuroh argued.

"And if this information falls into the wrong hands, and we train them, Konoha will be eliminated for sure!" Mika hissed back.

"Not much people know about the legend!" Kuroh shot back. "The secret will be kept as long as nobody says anything to anybody."

"I swear if Konoha falls in the future because of this, I will kill you slowly myself," Mika said slowly.

"Fine, fine," Kuroh said. "But Iruka and Shizuka are mature enough to not tell a soul right?"

"Right!" Came the simultaneous reply.

Mika sighed, and her brow furrowed. "I'm not so sure about this…"

"Come on Mika," Kuroh urged. "They do deserve to know."

"Why the hell are you so insistent of telling them this!" Mika snapped. "There's a bigger chance that this will leak out!"

"Well what if we somehow die on a mission? Oh sure, the Yondaime can tell them, but he can't train them! He can't train somebody to do something that even he can't do!" Kuroh hissed. "They will have to learn of this sooner or later."

Mika opened her mouth to speak, but closed it again. She glared at Kuroh. Iruka gulped as he looked from his mother to his father. "Kuroh… I have a nagging feeling that this is going to get out of hand."

"The worst will be to send one of them somewhere else, and have the other stay here. That way, nobody will connect them to the legend."

"That's too late!" Mika scowled. "More than half of Konoha knows about these two because of their…" she stopped and glared at her offspring, "mischievousness."

Shizuka smiled sheepishly under her mother's glare. "Eh, hehe?"

"It's not funny!" Mika growled.

"Mika," Kuroh sighed. "Maybe this won't turn out as bad as you think? You're always pessimistic aren't you? Try being optimistic this time!"

Mika scowled. "Alright…" She let out a big sigh. "Shizuka, Iruka, you have a bloodline limit."

Shizuka's eyes grew wide. "Really? Oh wow!"

Iruka's eyes opened wide too. "What's so bad about that?"

"I haven't finished yet!" Mika snapped. "It's the ability to use your mind to move things, people and etc."

Shizuka's mind blanked of all else but mischievousness. Now she could do anything and get away with it…

Iruka smiled. Now they got his attention! Mind Control, eh?

"Many of our ancestors have died because of it though," Kuroh added. "The bloodline comes from my side of the family, so your mother doesn't have it." He sighed. "Iruka, Shizuka, this bloodline requires a lot of chakra. Our ancestors have died of chakra depletion."

"Died?" Iruka gulped. Okay, so maybe this bloodline wasn't so cool anymore.

"They've also died when their minds shuts down from all the stress on it, and the enemy takes advantage and kills them," Mika added.

"Stress on the mind?" Shizuka asked.

Mika nodded. "You use your mind to control the things around you. Of course it puts a lot of pressure on the mind. You could easily fall into a coma, but we have a better resistance against mind pressure than normal humans."

"That's why our bloodline isn't famous. We hardly ever use it unless it's a big emergency. Plus… everybody thinks we're dead," Kuroh whispered.

"WHAT!"

"The poem you read," Mika explained, "it's actually a prophecy, a legend that was written decades ago."

"As you know, it tells about a greedy man and power. It also tells about the birth of two people of the Hazaki clan. These two are the chosen ones, they are the ones that can control the bloodline and use it better than anyone else in history," Kuroh said. "You two are the chosen."

Silence ensued. Nobody spoke; the only sound was that of Shizuka's jaw dropping to the ground. The clock ticked continuously in the background, over and over again.

Finally Shizuka broke the silence with a loud laugh. She laughed until all her family members thought she was insane. She suddenly stopped and looked at her father. "You're joking right? Cuz that's a very, very funny joke."

"Does it look like I'm joking?" Kuroh suddenly hissed, irritated. Shizuka blinked and shrugged.

"I could never tell."

Iruka finally closed his gaping mouth. "B-but that's i-impossible! I mean, HOW are WE the chosen? We aren't special at all! We're just twins that are troublemakers!"

"That's why you're the chosen!"

"Because we're troublemakers?" Shizuka raised an eyebrow. "But look at Mizuki! He does it with us allll the time!"

"NO! You being twins!" Mika hissed, rolling her eyes. "Haven't you ever noticed that your dad doesn't have any siblings? His dad didn't either, and your grandfather's mother didn't either!"

"Your point?" Iruka asked, confused. "I don't see how that makes US the chosen."

Mika cursed the heavens for having such dense children. "There's a curse in the bloodline. Every generation will only have one child, and then the mother becomes unable to have anymore. But you are special because you two are twins. You saw the legend; it said the TWO from the Hazaki…"

"AHA!" Shizuka suddenly cried out. "The Hazaki clan! We're not from the Hazaki clan! We're from the Umino clan!"

Kuroh sighed as he sat down. He motioned for the others to do so as well. "I might as well start from the beginning. Sit down, all of you." They did so. "My ancestors are actually from the Country of Water. Once the legend was made, it spread around. Many became scared of us, afraid that we might turn against them once the prophecy was fulfilled. So, they gathered as many shinobis as possible and fought against us, massacring ever single Hazaki member as possible, not that there were many, as the curse was still in act during that time. One of them managed to escape, a very young boy who no one had ever paid attention to, so no one noticed that one of the numbers were missing. He escaped to Konoha with the prophecy in his hands, and changed his last name to Umino, so nobody would recognize him. The First Hokage was the one in charge at the time, and he allowed him in. The boy gave the prophecy to the Hokage, and the secret was kept. The boy became an excellent shinobi, and kept his identity a secret, and only told his wife and his daughter. The daughter did the same thing. She kept it a secret, and never used the bloodline, even though she was taught to, just in case the next generation would be the chosen two. Every generation repeated the same thing, and here we are, telling you the story."

Nobody spoke for a moment before Iruka sighed. "So we really are the chosen? But, dad, I remember something about one being the protector of the other because the other is the one with the real power over the bloodline."

Kuroh nodded. "That's right. Now we need to test which one is which. The protector will have superior ninja abilities, obviously to protect the other. The other would be able to activate the bloodline much easier, have better control over it, be able to use it without wasting too much chakra, and have less pressure on the mind."

(Flashback ends)

Iruka sighed as he rolled around in his bed. He could remember his parents telling him and Shizuka about their bloodline limit as if it was yesterday. His father had made the right decision to tell them at the time. 2 years later, the Kyuubi attacked, and his parents died. During the two years, his dad trained them both intensely to see which one was which. The answer was obvious after the second day of training. Iruka activated the bloodline limit and was able to open the refrigerator and take out the milk carton, which was two rooms over, in less than 2 days.

Shizuka had scowled and said something about wanting to be the one with the better bloodline control. But, she was the better ninja than Iruka, she could memorize every ninjutsu and genjutsu quicker than Iruka, and her taijutsu was superior too.

The two of them kept the secret like their parents told them to. They lived a pretty normal life for two years. Their dad would train them to use their bloodline limit, and their mother would train them in the ninja arts. Then, the Kyuubi came…

It was horrible to both the twins. After that, the Sandaime came to their house and given them a talk…

(Flashback)

Iruka sat sadly in front of the Cenotaph, with Shizuka standing beside him in a protective manner. Ever since their dad had told them about their true selves, Shizuka had become more protective, saying that she was 'doing her job.' Which was true enough.

"Iruka, Shizuka," the Sandaime said. "I would like a word with the two of you."

Iruka stood up. "Yes, Hokage-sama?"

"Privately," Sandaime added. Shizuka nodded and led them to the house. Once inside, they sat around the kitchen table and looked at Sandaime expectantly.

"What is it?" Shizuka snapped. "I'm not in a particularly good mood right now!"

"Shizuka!" Iruka hissed. "Show some respect at least!" Shizuka frowned and turned her head around stubbornly.

Sandaime sighed. "It's alright, I wasn't expecting you to be in a good mood after what's happened." He paused. "I want Shizuka to leave Konoha."

(End of Flashback)

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