'Enter' a gruff and aged voice on the other side of the door had spoken. Yasuhi on the other hand had hidden himself behind me and followed that way as we had entered the room to see the hokage with a stern expression on his face while placing his pipe upon his lips.
"Gai; who are the two with you?" the hokage asked looking at me and behind me at the same time catching a glimpse or two of Yasuhi in the process.
"The girl is Fuyuka Kurosaki while the boy I have yet to learn his name, Hokage-sama." Gai-sensei explained and bowed slightly. The hokage's gaze had briefly settled upon Gai-sensei's form before returning his attention to me. He had studied me for a brief moment before his eyes landed on my head band with Amegakure's symbol blazoned on it.
"So Kurosaki-san, how can I help you this evening?"
"I wish to ask you about gaining residency here in Konoha for me and Yasuhi." I said pulling him out from behind me and into a bow with me. "Lord Hokage." I had finished my statement making the room go silent. The silence had dragged on for quite some time making me quite uncomfortable. Don't get me wrong I do love the occasional silence every now and then; but this silence I absolutely hate, the kind of silence where you'd be able to hear a pin drop. What felt like an eternity but, in actuality only a few minutes had passed when Yasuhi and I had stood up straight and he made his way back behind me. Now having stood in the awkward silence the hokage had pulled his pipe from his mouth and placed it on his desk while blowing the smoke up in the air.
"Gain residency? Don't you have parents who want you both home?" He spoke.
"Yes if possible, and to the second part of the question yes and no." I answered feeling Yasuhi's grip tighten on my clothes.
"What do you mean 'yes' and 'no'?" he asked confused Gai-sensei also had a confused expression, but it was more so the hokage whom was confused. I had explained what I had meant gaining the occasional nods and 'oh' from Hokage-sama. He pondered my explanation a bit but was frowning most obviously not too entirely pleased with my reason for leaving; just as Gai-sensei had figured.
"Yasuhi can you please wait outside while I talk to your sister in private" Yasuhi nodded and headed out the door glaring at the ninja near the door and looking at me a few times before heading out. I just nodded at him telling him it'll be alright, but I wasn't sure that everything was actually going to be. "And Gai please go get Ibiki for me." The hokage added as soon as the door had closed and Yasuhi was no longer in hearing range. While in the meantime while we were waiting for said person to arrive I had removed my Amegakure hitai-ate and placed it in an empty weapon pouch. Before we had arrived at the gates of Konoha I had discarded all my weapons except for my small fans, I also had made Yasuhi do the same as well to avoid problems once we got there. Yasuhi had protested that we shouldn't and that we should keep them because as he put it "what if they decided to fight us and we would be ill prepared." Which was a valid point but I wanted to prove to the shinobi here that we mean no harm.
I once again had felt uncomfortable and slightly nervous with the silence so I decided to ask "Hokage-sama, if I may ask… who is this Ibiki person?" He looked at me about to speak when a poof of smoke had appeared in the corner of the room and a voice had spoken from within it.
"Me." The figure that was seen in the smoke walked out and had started to speak with the hokage. That's when it hit me who he was, there was speak of a man that the people in Amegakure where whispering in gossip. That a man was named Ibiki Morino, who was coming over to help with something that the interrogator had troubles with and even though we are not on good terms with Konoha he came anyway.
"Ahh Ibiki, glad you could come on such short notice."
"Not at all Lord Hokage, may I ask why I was summoned? Ibiki asked ignoring my presence in the room as if I was an ant who didn't matter. Yes in the grand scheme of that man's world I probably didn't matter, just another face to be seen and be in front of for the time being. The hokage had explained what he was need for in that brief time, to which he nodded and made his way off to the side.
"So Fuyuka, what we are going to do is ask you some questions and we want you to answer honestly, and he is here to judge whether you can be trusted." I nodded and looked at both of them. I honestly have nothing to hide except for Ame-san but I'm sure they'' figure out I'm hiding something from them and want to know what exactly I am hiding.
"Who are you and how old are you?" he started while he was writing something down
"Fuyuka Kurosaki and I'm thirteen, sir."
"Where are you from?"
"Amegakure."
"Why did you choose Konoha?"
"I chose Konoha because I heard nothing but wonderful things about this place; that and I was wanting to start a new. To get away from the constant rain and the watch of a so-called-god named Pein." I explained and noticed that the last word had raised their wariness of me, maybe I shouldn't have mentioned him but now's a bit too late to retract my statement.
"How do you know pein?" the Hokage followed up.
"Who doesn't if you're from Amegakure, everyone calls him a god and will worship the very ground he walks on if they could but no one has ever seen the man and to be honest I don't think I ever want to see him."
"What rank are you, since you came here sporting a Hitai-ate from Amegakure?"
"Chuunin, sir."
"Why is the boy with you?"
"He was a homeless boy that I had found in the forests of Yuki. I made him a fire and gave him food and the next day he was insisting that he came with me."
The hokage had sighed and looked at Ibiki who gave him a nodded. Who knows what was said with that silent exchange, now with the hokage's gaze back on me he spoke once more
"Last question Fuyuka and I'll give you my answer to your request. What's the boy's name, age and do you know what happened to his parents?"
"Yasuhi Isagawa and he's seven years old. And as far as I know his parents were killed by shinobi, as he clearly stated his dislike in them when I was giving him food. And yes he knows I'm a ninja and has taken his anger out on me once, but he is a good boy and means no harm if given the chance to be shown that what he experienced isn't the whole shinobi populace."
I bowed slightly before taking my leave to let him talk to Ibiki and make his decision on our future her in Konoha. Once out the door I was hugged by Yasuhi who complained he was bored that we should go out and do something, I shook my head. I explained why we couldn't just yet and even though he was disappointed he understood to a degree. We talked some when another shinobi had made an appearance. The man was heavy set with red hair that stopped about mid back he had purple marks that stopped a bit before it reached his eyes. He was also wearing a hitai-ate with Konoha's symbol on it and given his age he was either a jounin or somewhere in that range. He knocked on the door and went in. He did however glance in my direction and smile at us. During the time that the mini conference was going on Yasuhi had fallen asleep.
-time skip-
An hour had passed when I was told to wait outside for the Hokage's answer when the man that had came in last had called me back in there. Making sure not to wake Yasuhi just yet I used a clone to take my spot while I finished talking with the hokage. When I was in there the two men other than the hokage were next to the door standing there waiting for the hokage to say what he needed to say, I was sort of a nervous wreck on the inside but I hopefully wasn't showing it on the outside. As the hokage placed his pipe of to the side and donned a serious expression much like Ibiki and started to explain the situation.
"Fuyuka, upon talking it out we see no reason not to let you live here, but there will be some stipulations that will have to be followed, since we feel that you are hiding something from us. Do you understand?"
"Yes, sir I do." I nodded.
"Good then, I'll start by introducing you to the person who is willing to allow you in their house while we put you and Yasuhi under observation. This is Choza Akimichi." He pointed to the man that I had seen entering the building while I was waiting. "Choza will be one of the few people who will be observing you and your brothers' behavior to deem if you are trust worthy enough to be a full-fledged citizen of this village, since we are in the summer months you will be going to the academy in the fall, and placed with people around your age so we can see how you would interact with them, anything after this meeting Choza will tell you."