A freak accident during the 5 point seal of Orochimaru had an unexpected result. Instead of one Naruto there are now two; one male and one female. The girl was forced to change her name to Narumi. The boy remained as Naruto but something is off about him.

In this corner, Uzumaki Naruto, the Blonde Baka of Konoha. In the other corner, Uzumaki Narumi, the Fiery Redhead. They both bring a lot of baggage to this match and neither one seems to want to give an inch.

Are you ready?

For the two in attendance and the thousands reading at home,

Let's Get Ready to Rumbllllllllllllllllllle!

[sends a cyber nickel to Jimmy Buffer]

Sibling Rivalry

Narumi stepped up closer to Naruto and got into her taijutsu stance.

"Are you sure you want to do this? You might get hurt and start crying again, big sister," Naruto said baiting the girl.

"Bring it, little brother," she snarled at the boy who had taken away her life.

Ino looked back and forth at the Uzumaki twins as she tried to process what was happening. Somehow, Naruto the orphan with no family had a sister and they did not like each other. The killing intent between the faced off pair was rising rapidly. In real terms it was already past what she had felt during training with Asuma-sensei. However, there was a malice in it that made her shudder.

"Sakura, we need to do something," she whispered to the pink haired girl beside her.

Sakura just stood looking on in shock. The blonde boy and redheaded girl were in essence the same person but the hatred between them put her off.

"I don't think we can without getting caught in the middle of it, Ino," she said in a small voice.

Naruto and Narumi both stood glaring at each other. Both were giving in to the hate they felt. Naruto had all the years of being cruelly ignored by the people of Konoha and now given an outlet for it he would let it all out. Narumi was feeling the pain of having her entire existence taken away. She had lost her name, her life, and her gender and seen it given to an imposter. Both stood motionless as the tension built between them.

A breeze blew across the field and dropped a leaf between them. That small motion put both Uzumaki into motion as they charged each other. Naruto was going for a quick knockout so he could get back to training. Narumi had the same thought in mind. However, their initial attacks both missed as the other knew which way to lean to avoid it. Each teen spun to confront the other and settled into taijutsu stances.

Naruto got into his unbalanced stance he always had while Narumi got into her new more comfortable one that Shizune had taught her. She pressed her attack on the boy and scored a series of quick hits that Naruto was never in position to block. The damage was purely cosmetic but aggravated the boy.

'How the heck is she doing that?' he snarled to himself. 'What is that stance she is using?' The boy jumped backwards to give him some distance to make his next attack.

Naruto sped through a short series of hand signs that Narumi recognized as a jutsu she could never get to work as in the past as Naruto. She disregarded it but quickly found herself in error. It was painfully clear that Naruto had a new set of tricks as a water bullet slammed into her chest and sent her flying back to the ground.

"My chakra control is a lot better now, sister dear," Naruto taunted in a harsh voice as he let the girl get to her feet. His grin lacked any of the warmth that Naruto seemed to have in his smiles.

Narumi spat out a bit of dirt and was glad that no blood was evident in the spittle. She had taken a serious shot to the stomach and chest with that jutsu. Her initial anger was slowly fading as she took deep breaths to recover from the blow when Naruto repeated the hand signs and spat a series of fist sized water bullets at her. She almost smirked. The initial shot had taken her completely by surprise so she had not reacted instinctively. These water bullets were not nearly as fast as what Tsunade had been throwing at her the past several days. The girl dodged the water bullets easily and closed in on Naruto once more.

Across the village just before the fight began, many high ranking ninja felt the rising intent and had reacted to it. The Hokage, his pair of bodyguards, the pair of Sannin and dozens of other ninja were already converging on the training field. Many civilians noticed the ninja converging on the area but without an alert being sounded many curious persons headed that way as well.

Narumi closed back into taijutsu range and connected a solid shot to Naruto's chin that sent him stumbling backwards. The boy growled under his breath as he had been in the middle of another bullet. He coughed out a slightly pink ball of water and spit. The girl smirked this time as she settled once more into her stance and fired off more attacks at the boy. She connected time after time as Naruto tried to block but he quickly realized he could not stand toe to toe with Narumi right now. He turned and headed for the trees.

Narumi sneered and followed.

At the tree line, Naruto turned and fired another water bullet to slow his 'sister' down before running up the trunk of the nearest large tree. He quickly disappeared into the boughs of the canopy overhead.

Naruto ran along a large branch as he looked for a place to turn and ambush the redhead.

Narumi started to run up the bole of the tree when her chakra control slipped. She growled as she was blown off the trunk. She back flipped safely to the ground. She focused enough to run up on her second attempt. She looked side to side trying to spot Naruto.

A whistling sound made her jump to one side as another water bullet impacted where she had been standing. It was followed by a much larger air bullet Narumi recalled having been on the same scroll as the water bullet.

Naruto was surprised at the size of the air bullet but grinned evilly and fired off several more in the girl's direction. He was not sure why the air bullet was so much bigger with the same chakra being put into it but he would take any advantage he could get right now.

Narumi ran and dodged among the tree branches and allowed the tree trunks to absorb the impacts of Naruto's assault. She used her speed to try to close in on the boy as he was firing jutsu and standing still to do so. She rounded one last tree to finally see Naruto standing on a branch several steps distant and she charged. She thought her flank attack was successful only for her to pass through the standard bunshin. She flailed her arms trying to grab something but found herself falling to the ground where the training areas began to give way to an open area before the village building

Neither teen noticed the small crowd of ninja and civilians forming about one hundred yards away while a select few moved closer to Ino and Sakura.

The girl managed to roll with the ground impact and came back to her feet in a ready stance while scanning for her 'brother'.

He appeared on the ground beside her in a burst of chakra enhanced speed. She expected another jutsu attack at point blank range as she swung at Naruto's head with a backhand.

Instead, he ducked under the swipe and lunged at the girl once she was facing him. He tackled her leading with his shoulder into her chest before pushing off with his legs to drive her into the ground on her back.

The tackle left Naruto on top of Narumi while she gasped from the impact. He swung a leg over her to pin one hand under his foot. He trapped the other arm under his other shin and began to punch Narumi in the face with his whole weight driving down into the blows.

Ino was about to jump into the fight to help Narumi when Sakura grabbed her arm.

"Don't Ino. It's a private fight," the pink haired girl said as tears ran down her face.

"But he'll kill her!" Ino exclaimed.

"No, he won't," came a deep voice from beside them.

The girls looked to see a man with long white hair, green clothing and a red vest with geta sandals on his feet standing there. Both recognized him from pictures as Jiraiya of the Sannin. The Hokage and Tsunade of the Sannin stood behind Jiraiya as well. Tsunade was glaring at the Hokage who wanted to break up the fight.

"If they were serious about hurting each other, they would have drawn blades already," Jiraiya commented. "Right now, they are merely venting frustrations on each other."

Ino stopped and looked again but no more motion to help.

Naruto punched Narumi in the face over and over, first left then right until the girl's face began to bruise and swell. Blood came from her mouth as her head was knocked side to side.

"For years I had to suck it up! Watching you smile and laugh off all the insults. Knowing we were in pain but you would never do anything about it! Yelling that you would become Hokage and then they would respect you! They are never going to respect someone who they will not even let themselves see!" Naruto raged as he punched his opposite.

He stopped his blows to Narumi's face and wrapped his hands around her neck to squeeze but the girl took the moment of respite to act. Her knee came up hard into Naruto's crotch. The boy stopped as the pain made him flinch when a second harder and more accurate knee shot impacted on target this time. Naruto slid sideways as his hands grabbed his crotch.

Narumi pushed her 'brother' off of her and began to pummel him in the same manner he had done to her. Blood from her broken nose dripped down on the boy was she pounded his face. The girl began yelling just as Naruto had done down at her.

"You took my Life! It wasn't great but it was mine! Now I have to answer to the wrong name, to learn everything all over again and get watched like I am a liar and imposter or just a piece of meat for a pervert to leer at! You stole everything from me!"

Naruto conjured a shadow clone without a seal and grunted at the extreme chakra cost. The clone kicked Narumi in the head before pulling the girl off of Naruto and throwing her to one side. The effort to get up cost him even more even with the clone helping him up. When the clone dispelled her barely felt any recovery from the returning chakra. He wiped blood out of his eyebrow before it could run into his eye. He coughed and spat blood as he stood panting while he eyed the red head a few steps away. Narumi fought to catch her breath panting heavily as well since her broken nose prevented breathing through it.

"It's my life too!" Naruto yelled at Narumi. "All the suffering, all the hatred; I endured it just as much as you did! I cannot even buy groceries without some civilian fool treating me like scum! You at least get a chance! I saw you with Ino and Sakura-chan! You were laughing together as you came walking up!"

Tears began to roll down Naruto's face.

"I can't even get her to acknowledge me as a person! After just meeting you, you get something that would have given me happiness for weeks!" Naruto yelled as he drew a kunai and charged once more into battle.

Sakura's breath caught in her throat at the accusation. She could not even deny it. She wanted to make up things to Narumi but she had never considered doing the same with Naruto. The thought had never even crossed her mind.

Narumi saw the knife and reacted. She had no real experience in knife fighting so she knew that Naruto would not either. She backed off only for Naruto to throw a second kunai underhand at her. Narumi dodged the thrown blade but couldn't dodge the one in Naruto's hand. It sliced a large gash through her loose gray shirt as she barely twisted aside. The downward strike would have eviscerated the girl if she had not dodged. The girl's belly and part of her sports bra could be seen through the hole while a thin line of blood leaked from a cut near her belly. The girl growled at having her body exposed and realized that the fight had become serious and very deadly.

Her hands formed the seal for a shadow clone. The chakra puffed and formed into a badly misshapen thing that was barely recognizable as human. The clone was a hodge-podge mix of both Naruto and Narumi characteristics. It vanished in a new puff of chakra smoke as Naruto ruthlessly sliced into it with his blade. Narumi didn't react in time to completely avoid her brother and took a bad gash across her arm as she dodged to one side at the last moment.

Sarutobi gestured commands to his bodyguards. The fight was escalating quickly. If it came to a lethal attack they would now step in to prevent a crippling or killing blow. The aged leader was upset the pair had decided to fight but Tsunade suggested this would get the whole issue out of their systems. He would still prevent it from going too far if it had not gotten to that point already.

Narumi rolled and came to her feet as her arm bled badly. Naruto was trying to kill her outright now. Her shock quickly changed to anger. Her violet eyes seemed to flash as Naruto charged her once more, blood dripping from his kunai. Her body tingled and fatigue fled as fresh chakra flooded into her system along with her anger.

Naruto attempted to tackle the girl but she yelled in rage and a wave of chakra pushed him away. Naruto was thrown back completely out of the training ground past all the ninja there and toward town. He landed in a heap close to one hundred yards away from the point he had started at. Only the fact that he focused most of his remaining chakra into his body kept him conscious with minimal damage. His studies in the past week on his old textbooks were paying off.

Narumi ran after him and only Sarutobi noticed that the girl's pupils had become slits as the girl ran past him. Neither Uzumaki had really noticed the presence of the other people due to their focus on one another.. The people had backed off from the fight once the blond had been hurled in their direction.

Naruto lay face down on the ground and attempted to roll several times before moving to rest on his back. He blinked trying to clear his head of dizziness but Narumi was on him before he could get his bearings. Her eyes had resumed a normal appearance but her strength and energy seemed renewed.

A hard kick to Naruto's side and stomach caused him to reflexively curl up into a ball on the ground. Narumi growled under her breath and drew her foot back when a shout rang out from the civilians.

"Kick him again!" the anonymous voice cried out. Several other civilians joined in and shouted out various things the girl could do to hurt Naruto.

"Kill him!" came another anonymous shout.

The shouts stopped Narumi completely. The shout had broken the spell-like concentration the private battle had cast over the girl. It made her aware of the other people who had gathered and watched the fight. She looked down at the half conscious boy who she used to be her other half, her twin and now opposite. His face was battered and swollen; a cut on his forehead leaked blood down his face; a broken nose; a split and bloody lip. His breathing was ragged and forced as he tried to catch his breath from the kick.

She looked in shock through her own blackened and puffy eyes to the shouting civilians, and the silent shinobi and kunoichi who were gathered. A trickle of blood ran out of her own broken nose and down her face as she looked at the villagers as if for the first time. Her rage turned away from the boy at her feet and focused on the people nearby.

"STOP IT!" she shouted to the gathered people. "He doesn't deserve that!" She paused and let the anger fade out of reflex learned over a decade of avoiding confrontations with the villagers. Her voice fell to a whisper. "All of his life … our life … has been spent to keep all of you safe."

A few higher ranked ninja who had been present a baker's dozen of years prior nodded in agreement but some villagers would not pay attention. Before Narumi could say anything else, Sarutobi, Tsunade and Jiraiya were there along with several ANBU.

"Quite a busy morning you have had, Narumi-chan," Tsunade commented wryly.

The redhead looked up at her teacher guardian and flinched as her injuries made themselves known with the ebbing of her adrenaline high from the battle. The guards collected the combatants and headed for the hospital.

One ANBU in a dragon mask had noted a flash of the Kyuubi's chakra just before the end of the battle but none of his senses could detect any trace of it now. He shook his head and followed along.

In the hospital, Narumi was grumbling as Tsunade worked on setting her broken nose. With a small pop the cartilage was returned to its proper place and the medic set to healing the damage with chakra. In the next room, Shizune worked on Naruto.

"That was not too bright, Narumi. We were hoping to keep you under wraps for a while longer. A good number of older ninja and villagers are going to make a connection the Hokage was hoping to avoid," the blonde woman growled. 'You look and act too much like your mother. Between that and your name people are going to notice,' she thought.

"He started it!" the redhead said in a nasal voice.

"I bet if we asked him, he would say you did," Tsunade said wryly.

Narumi tried to pout but the wounds on her face ruined the effect.

Tsunade stepped back after sealing the cuts with chakra but she had left the bruises and black eyes alone. She could see the injuries were already lighter since the medic had begun working on the girl.

"How do you feel? Did I miss anything?" Tsunade asked in a professional manner.

"A little sore. My stomach hurts a little bit. Kind of like I had some bad milk but different," Narumi grumbled.

Tsunade barely kept a straight face. The medic knew exactly what was coming for the girl but said nothing. It was low and petty but life was not fair. After the incident today, she was feeling low and petty where her student and charge was concerned.

"You'll live I am sure. Now, the Hokage wants to see the pair of you once Shizune is done with the boy."

Shizune noted the injuries on Naruto and quickly went to work. The broken nose was the biggest concern and she quickly set it. She scanned the injury for deeper damage with a jutsu before applying the healing chakra. The medic noted the bruising and the forehead cut on the boy and moved to seal the cut with chakra. Naruto reached up and blocked her at that point.

"Leave the cut. Just bandage it please," he said in a neutral voice.

"Are you certain? It might scar if you let it heal naturally," Shizune said in her best doctor voice.

"Yes, if it scars, it scars," Naruto replied in the same neutral tone.

Shizune accepted what the boy said. The medic continued and healed the loosened teeth and cuts inside his mouth the boy had suffered but did nothing more. She knew better than to force treatment on an unwilling patient. The forehead cut was cosmetic damage at best. If it had been a dangerous or life threatening injury, she would have healed it over his objections. The medic ran a quick scan over the rest of Naruto's body and found only heavy bruising and low chakra. Thankfully, all of the earlier blood had come from his broken nose and cuts in his mouth not from internal injuries.

"Your chakra is low but not dangerously so. As a doctor, I suggest that you rest for the remainder of the day," she prescribed.

Naruto nodded to acknowledge the medic but just sat there as his thoughts whirled.

'I lost to her dammit. How could I lose to her like that? I had ninjutsu and she only had taijutsu. Her one attempt at a clone came out pathetic. I would have had her if she had not blown me off with pure chakra there at the end,' he thought.

"Well, no other damage so it's off to see the Hokage for both you and Narumi, Naruto," Shizune said with a smile at the blond teen.

"Yay," Naruto said half heartedly.

Both Uzumaki had the same memories up until the Forest of Death and both could safely say they had never truly seen Sarutobi Hiruzen angry before. They had seen him as the 'Old Man' and fulfilling his duties as the Hokage. But they had never before faced 'The Sandaime Hokage' from across the desk and borne the brunt of his anger directed at them.

The Hokage glared at both battered teens standing at attention.

"I have given you a lot of leeway over the years. Up until now, Uzumaki Naruto was seen as a troublemaker and a prankster in Konoha and I gave him little grief over his actions because I understood the reasons behind them. That was when you were a civilian. However, things are now different. Now, you are ninja under my command."

"Naruto, Narumi, you are both guilty of brawling in public. That will not be tolerated in my ninja. As punishment, you will both be fined a D-rank mission pay or perform a D-rank mission without pay and be confined to quarters for two days. If you violate the confinement without cause, you will be more severely punished. Do you understand?"

"Yes Hokage-sama," both genin said in unison.

Sarutobi sighed. "At ease," he commanded.

"I am disappointed in both of you. Each of you should realize that your positions are delicate and such behavior will work against you." Both teens looked suitable chastised at his statement.

"I understand you both are having difficulties with the way things are now. I would prefer that the two of you get along as siblings would with one another but I will accept a minimum of you tolerating one another in public as siblings. Can you do this from this point onwards?" the Hokage asked directly.

Naruto glared at Narumi with a mixture of envy and dislike but it lacked the outright hatred she had felt earlier in the day.

"I won't make any trouble for her as long as she doesn't make any for me. She is just an annoying big sister," he said at a time.

"Narumi? You have the harder part in this. Can you accept Naruto?" Sarutobi asked.

"He is my little brother, Naruto," Narumi grumped at saying the term but she knew she had to accept it.

"Since your legal status is as twin siblings, it does make for an interesting future for both of you," Sarutobi said changing the subject slightly.

Both teens looked at him puzzled.

"As there are now two of you, if in a decade or so you each have a family; I can push for installment of the Uzumaki as a clan within Konoha. The rules for it specify a clan as being two of more families of close blood relations spanning more than a single generation. If you make that, then people will be forced to recognize your families as a clan. That is something for each of you to consider. Now, go get whatever you need for food or supplies, Naruto. The sentence for confinement begins an hour after you leave my office. Dismissed."

Naruto simply turned and left after being dismissed while Narumi lingered for a moment before following. Once the door closed behind the teens, Sarutobi looked at his two students who dropped the genjutsu they were hiding behind.

"Well?" the aged leader asked.

"You do know this will not be the last of it if they are anything like their mother," Jiraiya said with a chuckle. "How many times did she get fined for brawling in public? Eleven or twelve?"

"Fourteen," Hiruzen said with a sigh. "You were out of town with your team a few times."

The teens both made their way out of the Tower in silence but once down in the streets Naruto turned and looked directly at Narumi.

"Why don't we just avoid each other from now on?" he suggested. "We never had family and we don't need it now. We are better off going separate ways. I can acknowledge us as being siblings as Hokage-sama said but that is as far as I will go. We are strangers to one another."

"No we aren't. I know you're lying and hiding how you feel. I admit I was jealous of ending up like this but I know what you are going through," Narumi replied in a quiet voice.

"You know nothing," Naruto hissed. "Always hiding from reality. That is what 'Naruto' did. Well, not anymore."

"Why are you so different? So angry?" Narumi asked in wonder at seeing the blond boy like this.

Naruto glared at his sister.

"I know I am the clone, Narumi. I've known since the beginning. But I'm not the same as I ... we ... grr ... as Naruto used to be before all this happened. I can't be. I won't be. I refuse to be that grinning idiot anymore. All those wasted years of grinning when people ignored me. Of doing worthless pranks instead of speaking up when I was slighted. None of that ever worked to my ... our benefit. It just gave people another reason not to like Uzumaki Naruto. It gave them a legitimate reason they could point to their kids for them to ignore us. To hate us. For them to look the other way when bullies would beat us into the dirt, leave us there and pretend to see nothing had happened. You know just as much as I do how it hurt. Why would anyone in their right mind want to be a leader of people like that?"

"Neither of us are that old Naruto anymore so we should not try and pretend to be. The Uzumaki Naruto everyone knew died in that forest last month. In his place was left you and me," the boy said before turning and walking away.

Narumi slowly walked back to the Senju estate where she knew she was likely going to catch an earful from Tsunade. The things Naruto had said echoed and replayed in her mind. She was not Naruto anymore in spite of having been him barely a month before.

Tsunade said nothing to Narumi when the Sannin arrived home later. There was only a disappointed look during a silent dinner.

After dinner, Narumi went to the bath and scrubbed herself clean before slipping into the hot water tub. Her bruising had mostly faded and the black eyes were considerably lighter. She considered what her brother had to say once more. She could see his points clearly but did not agree with them. Her brother was rejecting the methods Naruto had used for most of his life to gain acceptance. He was also casting away Naruto's goals in life.

But, she could not reach out for what her brother was casing aside. Not as Naruto at any rate. She would not been seen as Naruto no matter what she tried. The people could point at the blond boy in the village and call her a liar. She had always wanted recognition through her own efforts. But she would not force herself on the village with a confrontation based on something she was forced to admit she could no longer be. They would have to accept her as she was. Before that could happen, she had to accept herself as she was.

Narumi stood up from her bath and walked to a mirror in the bath she usually avoided and stared. She saw the facts reflected back at her; a redheaded girl with a cute face and average sized breasts for her age. Her view turned down to the narrow waist and slightly larger hips of a female in the midst of puberty. Her gaze drifted a bit further down and confirmed that no matter what she could not be seen as a boy.

She focused a bit of chakra and slowly the seal on her stomach came into view. It was her curse and she hated it with all of her being. But she could not be rid of it. She had carried it for thirteen years as Naruto and now she would continue to carry it forever as Narumi. Her gaze rose back to look at her purple eyed gaze reflected back at her. She could see the sadness in her eyes as she forced herself to see with eyes unblinded by what she wished things to be and look at how things were in reality. She shed a single tear for what she had been and hardened her gaze at the morror to face what was.

"I am Uzumaki Narumi. I am the prison and jinchuuriki of the Kyuubi no Yoko. I am a ninja of Konohagakure no Sato and one day I will be Hokage," she said in a whisper to her reflection. "Believe it all you doubters. And choke on it if you don't."

Then the girl turned and dressed for bed.

Late that night a scream echoed out from the Senju estate. Tsunade chuckled and decided to do nothing until morning about it. As petty revenge as she activated a privacy seal on her room to keep out the noise. Shizune was off at the hospital for the evening and Narumi would just have to deal with her new womanhood on her own for a few hours.

Next Chapter: The Chunin Exams and Other Events

End Notes: A long time between updates. Work is nearly non-existent in construction right now which sucks but the company is still hanging on. Fortunately as the accountant I am going to be the last employee if it does come down to that. Thoughts go to things more important than hobbies when facing trouble. As I said before this does not pay the bills so it gets last priority.

From Wikipedia:
The relationship between yin and yang is often described in terms of sunlight playing over a mountain and in the valley. Yin (literally the 'shady place' or 'north slope') is the dark area occluded by the mountain's bulk, while yang (literally the 'sunny place' or 'south slope') is the brightly lit portion. As the sun moves across the sky, yin and yang gradually trade places with each other, revealing what was obscured and obscuring what was revealed.

Yin is characterized as slow, soft, yielding, diffuse, cold, wet, and passive; and is associated with water, earth, the moon, femininity and nighttime.

Yang, by contrast, is fast, hard, solid, focused, hot, dry, and aggressive; and is associated with fire, sky, the sun, masculinity and daytime.

At the moment of the split, Narumi holds primarily Yin characteristics while Naruto hold primarily Yang characteristics. As time goes, both are showing signs of being complete within themselves. While both are not as pure Yin or Yang as people wish them to be neither is the line between black and while as distinct as many wish. Between black and white lie infinite shades of gray.

Author's Final Word: For those looking for the next chapter of 'Captured', rejoice. It is in final edits and should be out within a week.

Posted: 5/13/2011