I got my first review!
You said that you liked my kids so I decided to write this one for you, my dearest darling!
Just a little idea and some more about the library, Leo, Kyoko, and my twins.
"Yuka, don't you think we should use pens or markers?"
Yuka rolled her eyes at her twin as she opened the glass vial of ink she had recently bought for the copies she and Yuki secretly made of the scrolls in the Yondaime's library, the two of them taking the copies back home to study. "It doesn't have a very authentic feel if we use pens. And markers? What are we, five?" She whispered, the both of them forced to be quiet due to the ANBU that were probably outside the door.
"No, we're ten and we'll be in huge trouble if Dad ever hears that we brought something we could spill into the library."
Yuka huffed at her twin, growing tired of her worrying. What was the worst that could happen? "Really, how would he ever know that? Are you going to tell him?" Yuki shook her head and tucked some of her long blue hair behind her ear as she leaned over the current scroll they were trying to copy.
"No but you could spill it-"
"What are you two doing?!" A boy with wildly spiking and shocking red hair shouted, jumping out from behind one of the shelves and making the two frightened girls jump. They watched as -almost in slow motion- the jar of ink leaped from Yuka's hand and began the agonizing decent downwards, flipping and twisting almost magically out of their reaching grasps.
They both heard the thud of the vial hitting the parchment as if it were the sound of the final nail being hammered into their coffins.
"Like that." Yuki finished, groaning in agony at the violent and vivid slash of black ink on the nearly priceless scroll, one of the countless rare scrolls dealing with seals and jutsus that the Hokages of the past had collected.
During his rule the Yondaime had taken the most important scrolls and had transferred them into the vault like library hidden beneath the Hokage Mountain that he had made so that he could keep them safe.
The library had been lost after his death, only to be found when some wandering genin had come across the entrance after an earthquake.
"No..." Yuka whispered, turning to her younger brother and trying to kill him with her eyes. "What have you done?" She hissed, raising her hands to try and catch the boy and decapitate him. He jumped back from her reach, holding his hands up defensively.
"Hey! You're the ones who brought it in here! You guys aren't supposed to be in here anyways."
"Shut up! Do you want us to get caught?" Yuka hissed, though Leo only rolled his eyes at her.
"Relax, the ANBU aren't out there right now." Yuka blinked and relaxed, letting out a deep breath.
"Oh. Okay..."
"WHAT THE HECK WERE YOU THINKING? DO YOU SEE WHAT YOU'VE DONE?! HOW ARE YOU GOING TO FIX THIS?!" She was screaming so loudly that Leo had to cover his ears, wincing at how high pitched her voice was.
"Can't you do anything?"
She shrieked and would have tried to kill him had it not been for Yuki wrapping her arms around the girl's waist to hold her back. "Hey! We can figure something out! Now, we need to figure out how to get the ink off without getting the writing off."
"What about that chakra thing you made up to get stains out of the carpet when you accidentally spilled tomato juice all over Mom's white rug?"
Yuka pinched the bridge of her nose and squeezed her eyes shut to try and straighten her thoughts out. "No, that won't work. You have to spread out a sheet of chakra under the stain and lift up and it will pick up the stains off of the individual fibers. If you do that with this it would probably lift up the past ink stains, which means that all of the writing we're trying to save would be lifted up."
Seeing no way to come out of this without having to face their father, Yuka lay down next to the ruined scroll and stared up at the steel ceiling and the dim lights bleakly. "Were dead."
Leo perked up. "I got an idea!" He said excitably to Yuki, both of them turning when the girl on the ground groaned in defeat.
"Not just dead but now our IQ is going to drop from whatever drivel you've thought up."
Leo stuck out his tongue and briefly thought about leaving the girls in this little fix of theirs, but he quickly dismissed it. He might not have liked one of them all that much at the moment, but they were siblings and siblings always helped each other out when faced with certain doom.
"I'll be back in a few minutes!" He said before bounding off. Yuki looked down at Yuka and smiled reassuringly.
"It won't be that bad. Maybe the idea will actually pan out." Yuka merely closed her eyes and laced her fingers together over her stomach, trying to come to peace with her coming death.
"Hush now, Yuki. Now go grab some paper and something to write with -we have plenty of ink. I have a will for you to write out for me."
"Yuka..."
"I hereby bequeath all of my belongings-"
"What belongings? Everything we have is technically Mom's and Dad's, or weren't you paying attention all those times they took our toys?" Yuka cracked her eyes open, blue tinted white staring into their matching twin's.
"I have that stuffed panda I won at the festival."
"Oh, so sorry, that obviously makes all the difference."
Yuka was about to retort when they heard hurried footsteps and raised voices. "Ow! Hey! Leo, stop pulling me around!"
They turned to find their wild haired brother dragging a gangly girl with spiked pigtails behind him. They both blinked at the older girl, trying to figure out why she was there. "Uh... Hi, Kyoko. Nice to see you here?" Kyoko blew a few loose strands of hair out of her face.
"Yeah. Hey. So... Why did your brother drag me away from my training?"
"We don't know." They said in unison, said brother rolling his vivid blue eyes at them like everything should have been obvious. "She's really smart, so she can help!"
"Actually, my father is the smart one. I'm just above average." Kyoko protested, though it went unheard by the other three children.
"Leo, we're really smart." Yuka sighed, fed up with it all.
"Yeah, but you're also the one who spilled ink on the scroll and-"
"Wait! One of the the Yondaime's scrolls? The priceless ones that you two are grounded from on threat of death? Those scrolls?" The two girls nodded and Kyoko turned and threw her hands up in the air. "Nope. Not gonna happen. I wasn't here, I had nothing to do with this, and I will not partake in the activities of criminals."
"We're not-"
"People who destroy property of the village after being forbidden by their parents to even be near said property are criminals."
"But-"
"No!"
"But we're in a lot of trouble and we really need some help. Please Kyoko." Yuki pleaded, watching as the girl paused and slumped, defeated by the puppy eyes she could feel the younger girl was giving her.
"Why me?" She muttered, rubbing her hands roughly over her face as she tried to think everything through.
"The ink on the pages is probably made of different ingredients than the ink you just bought since they were made by different people at different places and were made in different times."
Yuka nodded. "I can roughly figure it out with that but it's not exact. I might mess up and take some of the old ink."
Kyoko pressed her temples, just imagining the teams of ANBU coming in to take them away for doing all of this to priceless and irreplaceable artifacts. "To dry it faster they'd sprinkle sand over the ink back then." Yuki blinked and then hurried to the scroll, muttering to herself as she dropped to her hands and knees.
"If I can find the sand I can lift up with chakra... only once... freaking sand... coarse or fine?" She hissed, creating a terrifyingly thin plate of chakra between what sand it could find and the new ink. Holding their breath, everyone watched as she lifted up and funneled the ink back into the bottle, a collective cry of joy coming from the group when they saw the scroll looking as if it had never been ruined.
Laughing at how giddy the rush of relief left them the twins hugged each other, relieved to be getting off completely free and clear.
"What's going on here?"
Well, perhaps not completely.
Slowly the four children turned, hearts sinking in terror at the sight of Naruto marching down the rows of shelves, his Hokage robes billowing out behind him terrifyingly.
Seeing the look in his eyes and being thankful that she wasn't related to him Kyoko decided it was time to bow out gracefully. "Well, it was nice knowing the three of you. I'll never forget you." She said as she hurried out, passing by Naruto with a smile and a wave, hoping that she could get off without a punishment. After all, it wasn't like she had had anything to do with the actual problem.
"Daddy! Ah... Hello. How was your day?" Yuka asked, happy that they had finally gotten that ink off just before he had showed up. Naruto knelt down in front of his girls and smiled warmly.
"Fine. There wasn't too much paper work and a few good deals went through, so I thought that I'd come here and grab a scroll so we could look at it together at home since the two of you have been so good about not breaking the rules recently. But to my surprise I discovered that three of my children were here, two of which have been expressly forbidden from stepping foot in here for the next two months." His face changed, the smile gone and his eyes becoming flat, sending a slight shaft fear into each of his children's hearts.
"Now, why is that?"
"Daddy-" Yuka began, but she froze when he turned his flat eyes towards her.
"Yes?"
"Umm... We're sorry?"
"Oh no," He said as he stood up, putting his hands on both of the girls' backs to push them ahead of him, jerking his head to show that Leo should walk in front of them as they left. "You're not. But trust me, when we get home you will be."
This one was me, no Kathy involved except for Kyoko. (Originally I had Rin being dragged in there, but Kathy showed me that Kyoko is obviously a better choice so I rolled with it. I might hate her for keeping me up until ungodly hours, but she's always right.)
And even though Leo and Yuka don't get along they're still siblings so they'd help each other out (this is a real rule between siblings and it is one you do not break. It's almost like a commandment. (I have two younger brothers))
But the twins and Leo do a lot of stuff together, though two of them are usually arguing. Like regular siblings.
I love you like I love Snickers. And trust me, that's a lot.