Author's Note:

While I am still in the position of not owning Naruto, I continue to write

Thank you everyone for reading this fic, I hope you all like it. Thank you to Crystal Shadow 7 for being the first person to review my story. Here's the next part

Chapter 3:

The day began in an odd manner for the twins. Normally, they relied on a small alarm clock to wake them. Today however, neither could sleep long enough to need the clock, and they got out of bed easily half an hour before it went off. They restlessly rubbed the sleep from their eyes, and began to get ready for school. Before putting on their clothes, Naruto went to the bathroom to shower, while Kitsumi went to make them breakfast. The breakfast was a simple one. Kitsumi fried the leftover materials from the lunches into two eggs. By the time she finished, Naruto had come into the room and they began to eat. Although neither felt very hungry, they both encouraged the other to eat. Soon, both omlets were finished, and Kitsumi took her shower, as Naruto cleaned up.

When Kitsumi got out of the shower, she returned to the room to find Naruto looking at her expectantly with his hands behind his back.

"Hey sis..." He said expectantly, rocking back and forth on his heels, "I got you a present!" He exclaimed quite lowdly, bringing his hands around to reveal a black pencil.

"You got me a pencil?" Kitsumi looked quisically at her brother.

"No, its not a pencil! Its make-up. The lady said that girls use it on their faces and that it would make a great gift for someone special." Naruto looked away after he finished, she could see his cheeks slightly flush, and she wondered why. Afterall, they gave eachother gifts a lot

"Brother, whats wrong? Why are you looking away. I like it very much" Kitsumi assured him that it was a good present, and gave him a hug. When they pulled away, she discovered the reason he was blushing. He had, it seemed, tried out the pencil before giving it to her, drawing wiskers on his face that made him look like a fox.

"Sorry sis... I had to make sure it would work before I gave it to you. Remember that one year when I got you the book that was in another language?" Naruto looked down. He had hoped to wash off the marks before she noticed.

"Here, let me fix them for you." and with that she wet her finger and wiped the lines off. Then she redrew them so they were more straight, and looked intentional. "I think you look just fine. Maybe we should do it more often."

"Really? You don't think they make me look silly?" Naruto asked, still slightly embarrased.

"Not at all. Here, you can draw them on me too. That way, if they look silly, I'll look silly with you." And she handed the make-up pencil to Naruto who made the marks much neater this time. After he finished, they collected their things and were about to leave. Then their alarm went off.

"I guess we have a while before we leave huh sis?" Naruto said as he plopped down on to the bed.

"Yeah, so what do you think school will be like?" Kitsumi asked as she sat down beside him.

"I don't know. I bet it'll be hard though." Naruto looked slightly down after his last remark.

"Yeah, but it doesn't matter. We'll be ninja for sure, No matter what."

The two talked about what they thought school would be like for a while longer, until the time to leave arrived. Naruto picked up his gear, and they began the walk to school.

The walk was uneventful, and they soon made it to the school building. A crowd of adults had gathered, and the twins had to weave between legs to find their way to the front, where they could see the register, Iruka-sensei, preparing to address the crowd.

"Hello ladies, gentlemen, and students. I am Umino Iruka, and I will be the instructor for the current class here at the academy. Now, if the students would please come foreward." Naruto and Kitsumi bounded up as soon as he finished. The others followed soon, after they said goodbye to their parents. After the children assembled, Iruka turned to them:

I look foreward to teaching you all." He looked over his shoulder to see the crowd dispersing. "Ok, now that your parents are gone, lets start. I want you to each to introduce yourselves and tell me any training you have had at home before coming here. Why don't you go first." He pointed at a black haired boy in a blue shirt, who was towards the back of the crowd.

" I'm Uchiha Sasuke. I do shiruken training training with my brother sometimes." The boy replied.

"Very good Sasuke. What about you?" This time, he pointed to the boy standing in front of Sasuke. This one wore a green shirt, and was gazing off into the distance.

"I'm Naru Shikamaru. I play shougi, but real training is too troublesome." He ended his statement with a yawn.

"You can train here then Shikamaru. Ok, what about you?" This time, he points to smaller girl with black hair.

"Umm... I'm Hyuuga Hinata... I... did a little training... ummm... with my dad..."And with that she ducks behind the boy next to her.

"Okay Hinata. What about you?" He points to the boy Hinata hid behind, who is currently looking back to find her.

"Huh? Oh, I'm Inuzuka Kiba, and he," pointing to the dog next to him, "is Akamaru. We haven't really done much ninja training."

"Ok Kiba and Akamaru." He turned to find the next person, and settled on Naruto. "What about you?"

"I'm Uzumaki Naruto. I haven't had any training, but someday I'll be the best ninja ever!" Everyone looked oddly at him as he said that. Iruka smiled, and moved on.

"Ok Naruto, what about you?" He pointed at a girl with long pink hair, who was preoccupied looking towards the Uchiha.

"I'm Haruno Sakura. I haven't had any training either." She quickly finished and returned to looking at Sasuke.

"Ok Sakura, what about you?" This time, a boy with a white high collared trenchcoat.

"Aburame Shino. I trained with bugs." The class looked suspiciously at him. Everyone knew that Iruka-sensei was talking about ninja training.

"Thats good Shino. Alright, your next." He pointed to a girl with long blonde hair, who was giggling with Sakura as they both stared.

"I'm Yamanaka Ino. No training here." And she too quickly returned to their quarry.

"Alright Ino, and you?" He pointed to Kitsumi this time.

"I am Uzumaki Kitsumi. I haven't had any training, except..." Kitsumi trailed off.

"What is it Kitsumi?" Iruka asked patiently.

"Nevermind, its not training." Kitsumi answered quickly.

"Ok then. What about you?" He pointed to a short, almost round, kid with red hair.

"I'm Akimichi Chouji. I haven't really done any training either."

"Ok Chouji. Alright, now that introductions are finished, you can all follow me into the classroom. Pick your seats carefully, as you'll have them for the rest of the year." After that, he turned and walked into the nearby building. He led the students into an empty room with long tables against the wall arranged into four rows with an isle down the middle. There were sixteen seats: four on each table. Naruto and Kitsumi, the first ones in the classroom after Iruka, took the two middle seats in the second row from the front on the left hand side. Sasuke, next into the class, took a seat in the front next to the wall on the right. Next, Kiba walked into the room and sat in the aisle on the row behind the twins. Then Hinata took a seat next to Kiba, behind Kitsumi. Sakura and Ino entered together, and took seats in the row behind Sasuke. Shikamaru headed for the back of the class immediately upon entering, and took a seat on the left hand side by a window. Chouji joined him, and pulled out a bag of chips to eat while waiting. Shino entered the class last, and took a seat in the back by the aisle on the right side. Once they had all taken seats, Iruka called them all to attention:

"Ok everybody. I know you all are anxious to start learning, but today we are going to do evaluation. On that note, everyone follow me back outside." And Iruka led them to a ground with a few scarecrows and a couple circles with white lines.

"Ok, here's how we'll start. I want everyone to come here and take one of these." he held out a box full of kunai, "Then when I say go, you will throw it at one of the scarecrows. Okay everyone get one" All of the children came up and picked out a kunai, then returned to stand on the line.

"REady? Go!" Eight kunai flashed through the air toward the target. Of those eight four hit the scarecrow, and one hit in the head.

"Very good Sasuke, you hit it in the head. Now, Naruto, Shikamaru, why were there only eight kunai that went foreward?"

"Well, I let go too soon, so mine went straight up." As he finishes, a kunai flies down from the sky and impales the scarecrow through the top of his head.

"Wow!"

"How did he do that?"

"It was definitely an accident." The class whispered while Iruka thought about what to do.

"Well Naruto, that was good, but you should learn the correct way to throw it next time. Now, Shikamaru, why are you still holding that kunai?" Iruka decided to let it go for now, and return to the lesson.

"Its too much work to throw it over there." Shikamaru shrugged and looked down to the kunai.

"Well, why don't you throw it now, or I can think of some troublesome things for you to do instead." Iruka scolded gently.

"Alright..." And Shikamaru tossed the kunai, which hit the scarecrow.

"Ok class, that was very good. Ok, now everyone practice throwing kunai at the targets, while I call some of you for the second part of the examination. Sasuke, Naruto come here first." Iruka walked over to a small white circle in the ground. "The second part of the evaluation, is a hand to hand battle. The first one to knock the other out of the ring wins."

Naruto and Sasuke took their places on opposite ends of the ring. Iruka moved outside of the ring and gave them the signal to begin. Sasuke dropped into a fighting stance, and Naruto took a slight crouch. They moved around eachother for a bit, not really sure what to do. Suddenly, Naruto ran foreward and tried to push Sasuke out of the ring. Sasuke retaliated by moving to the side, and pushing him back. Sasuke was obviously in a better position, pushing Naruto from the side, however Naruto did not give any ground and soon the other youth gave up. They moved apart again, and this time Sasuke charges. He knocks Naruto's feet out and successfully pushes him out of the ring.

"That was very good Sasuke. You did good too Naruto. Now both of you go back to throwing kunai until I'm done" Iruka moved over to get the next pair. "Sakura and Ino."

Kitsumi watched the fights, anxiously awaiting her turn. She had been one of the ones who missed the target, and decided she would make it up by beating whoever she fought in hand to hand. She threw another kunai; it hit the target. Why couldn't I have done that earlier, she thought to herself.

"Kitsumi, Hinata come here please." Iruka called her over. Kitsumi knew she would win, even if Naruto lost. And besides, Hinata was so small the match would be easy. She walked over happily and took her place in the ring. Hinata followed after, and Iruka then explained the rules.

He gave them the signal to begin, and Kitsumi immediately ran to Hinata and tried to knock her feet out as Sasuke had done. Hinata tried to move out of the way, but Kitsumi caught one of her feat and she fell to the ground. Kitsumi tried to push her out, but Hinata got up too quickly, and prepared for combat. Kitsumi charged again, but this time Hinata was ready. She simply used her open hand to divert Kitsumi's charge straight out of the ring. The fight was over, and Kitsumi had lost here too.

"Good job Hinata. You too Kitsumi, you did very well for never having fought before." Iruka then sent them back to practice and called the other pairs. Kitsumi went over to where Naruto was, and they practiced throwing kunai together, each helping the other with their mistakes, and by the end of the session, they could both hit the target easily.

"Ok guys, back to the classroom for lunch." Iruka called out and began to lead the group back. When they had all returned to the class, each student took out their lunch and began to eat. Most of the class had riceballs, and some sort of meat. Everyone ate in silence, wondering what they would do for the rest of the day. As they finished eating, they turned back toward Iruka.

"Now that you are done, we can begin the instruction for today. Now, today's lesson will teach you the proper way to throw the kunai from earlier. While many of you were succesfull in hitting the target, if you use the correct form, you will be able to throw much faster and harder..." Iruka's lesson continued for a long while. The class payed rapt attention for the first hour, but after that, they slowly dropped off. In the end, only Shino, Sasuke, and the twins had any kind of focus. Sasuke took avid notes, Shino simply payed attention, and the twins took turns taking notes.

"...And that is the proper way to throw a shiruken. Thats all for today, class dismissed." The students got up and ran out to meet their parents. The twins headed home together, and began to talk about the lesson.

"So, sis, what do you think of school?" Naruto asked on the way home.

"Its fun, although that talk was really boring"

"Yeah, but now we should be able to practice more often, cause he already told us how to do it."

"Yeah. So, what do you think of everyone? I mean, Sasuke-san looked nice, and he was really good at everything."

"Yeah, what about the pink haired one, isn't she pretty?"

"Really, you think sakura-san looked pretty?"

"Yeah..."

"Heehee, I'll tell her"

"No! Don't, or I'll tell Sasuke what you think about him."

"Go ahead, its not like its important"

"Please don't tell..."

"Okay, it will be our secret. So what about the others?"

"Well, Kiba looked fun, but Shino's kind of weird. He plays with bugs too much. I saw him pick them up and let them crawl all over him."

"So? They're just bugs..."

"Yeah, I guess you're right. what about you?"

"Hinata is really strong at hand combat, she beat me so easily. And Ino is like Sakura's twin, except not a boy."

"Yeah. Chouji ate like all class, where do you think he hides all that food?

"I think he's secretly really skinny, and hides it in his jacket."

"Then why does he still look the same after he's done eating?"

"Um... Cause he fills his jacket with air!"

"Oh! Thats brilliant!"

"Yup. Well, we're home now, I'll start the food." And with that she danced off into the kitchen to cook. Naruto heads over and sits on the end of the bed and looks idly out the window. He sat silently for a while, a rare occurence by itself, then took out the notes from class. He began to recopy everything, so that they would each have all the notes. Just as he finished, Kitsumi called him into the kitchen. They ate in silence, both thinking about all that had happened during the day. After the meal, Kitsumi got up and turned into the bedroom.

"Hey sis?" Naruto called softly after her.

"What, I cooked, so its your turn for dishes. Besides, I have notes to copy." She called back.

"I already copied your notes for you. Hey, after I'm done, you want to get the shiruken we got from class and practice some more? I mean, all the other kids are probably doing it..." He amended the statement quickly to avoid looking studious.

"Sure, but you're still doing dishes." She grinned as she turned, knowing the true reason for the question.

"Aww man..." Naruto grins as well, thankful that at least one person knows him well enough to discern his true purpose.

After Naruto finished the dishes, he went into the bedroom to find his sister fast asleep. Deciding not to wake her, he silently slips the shiruken out of his bag, and goes behind the appartment to train. He pulls back his arm to throw it, when he feels hands on his elbow.

"No, your feet are wrong. If you throw it like that, you'll miss to the left." His sister's soft voice startled him. He fixed his feet, and threw the kunai at a large circle on the wall. It hit and embedded itself in the center.

"Good job brother. But I'm tired, can we practice tomorrow, and go to bed now?" Kitsumi finished the sentence with a yawn. Naruto realized that he was also worn out by the long hours of practice and lecture. He nods his approval, and the two return to the house.

"Good night brother..."

"Good night sis..." And they drifted off into a peaceful sleep.