Hello my fellow fanfiction users! Sorry for not updating the next chapter for this sooner ^-^' It didn't really slip my mind, I was just mostly trying to figure out how I want this to play out. And thank you all who have reviewed/alerted/favorited this story! You rock! XD I love you all sooooo much! Hmmm...anything else I need to post on here?...Hmm...nope! That should be all...

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I sat there, eye twitching, as Gai-sensei stood infront of us in all of his...'youthful' glory, with a huge ass grin on his face as he looked us over.

We were currently sitting in some kind of...balcony...window...chair...tower, thingy majigy, about to introduce ourselves. With me sitting inbetween Tenten and Lee, and as far away from Mr. I'm-So-Cool-You-Can't-Touch-Me as humanly possible.

"Alright my lovely youthful students! Let us all introduce ourselves, I am Gai-sensei, now tell me a few youthful things about you, names and dreams and such." Gai-sensei grinned, pointing at Lee first.

"Hi Gai-sensei! My name is Rock Lee! And I hope to prove that hard work can beat natural born talent! And show the world that I can be the best ninja there is! Without Genjutsu and Ninjutsu!"

"What a wondeful idea indeed!" Gai-sensei shouted, with over dramatic tears streaming down his face as he looked at the green clad boy.

I had to say I agreed with him. Back in the academy I was mostly stuck to my brother like glue and only really hung out wiuth him, Cheren and Yumi. But it doesn't mean I didn't notice all of the teasing little Lee got, for basically sucking at Ninjutsu and Genjutsu, and not to mention his eyebrows. I think his dream was really something worth going for.

I wasn't really much of a super exceller in anything really. I was pretty good in Taijutsu, not to bad in Genjutsu, and average in ninjutsu. My specialty though, is Kenjutsu. Though, with Tenten here, being a sword specialist didn't really do much...

But, back to the topic onhand, I somewhat looked up to Lee...in some...weirdish way. I mean, not so far as to go and wear those...spandex suits of doom, but I had a fairly large chunk of respect for the boy. I thought it was cool how he didn't let anything stop him from being a ninja.

Well, coming back to reality I sighed before saying "I'm Natsu Shinrin, my dream...is to basically become the best ninja I can be." I shrugged and Gai-sensei nodded.

"Next?"

"I'm Tenten! My dream is to be a great ninja like one of the legandary sanin Tsunade!"

Gai then turned to Neji who was still radiating 'coolness' sitting off to the side.

"And you?"

"Neji Hyuuga."

Well, someone's quite the chatter box now aren't they?

"Right! Now that we've all learned a bit about ourselves! Let us all head over to the trainign grounds!" Gai-sensei shouted with a pump of his fist and then sped off into the horizon with Lee in tow.

Me, Tenten, and Neji sat in our seats for several seconds in silence before I decided to break it.

"...So...should we follow them?"

"...I have no clue..." Tenten said with a sweat drop.

"Hn."

"Shut up Hyuuga."

"Short tempered today now are we?" Neji raised and eyebrow and I snorted.

"Only because I have to be here with you."

"No one said you had to be here, i'm sure if you asked to go back to the academy, they'll take you in with open arms."

"You'd just love that wouldn't you?"

I glared at the pupil-less boy and he did the same. Anyone could feel the sparks (angry sparks might I add) flying between us, as a dark aura started oozing off of us and giving off a dangerous outlook.

Poor Tenten looked uneasily between the two, not quite sure whether she should step in, or try an avoid being dragged into their...glare off. She sighed, and with a sweat drop, decided on the latter, standing up, and jogging off, in hopes off somehow catchong up to Gai-sensei and Lee.

Which was highly unlikely.

With a heavy sigh, I plopped down in the seat next to a glowing Raika. I gave my brother a annoyed glance with a raised eye brow.

"What are you so happy about?" I asked starting to stuff my face with the take-out we had gotten for dinner.

"I'm the best in our group!" he boasted, puffing his chest out and looking quite smug with himself "My sensei told me that I had future potential for an ANBU!"

"Whoa dude," I said making a calm down motion "We just became genin, let's take the future dreams plans one step at a time please."

"Yeah, yeah, yeah. Anyway how did your first session go?" he asked curiously also digging into his food.

I promptly scowled and glared at my food and Raika winced.

"That bad?"

"Eh, Hyuuga's the same stick-shoved-up-his-ass guy, Tenten, is...bearable...Lee, he's okay, but his 'youth' crap get's annoying after awhile." And by awhile I mean after the first few hundred times, and his attempts at converting us into green spandex wearing beasts.

No thank you.

"That doesn't sound to bad." Raika reasoned.

"Yeah well, try saying that after your teacher tells yo to run 500 laps around the village." I grunted finishing my meal with a sigh.

"No thank you." Raika snorted and I rolled my eyes but felt my lips twitch upwards into a smile.

We did our daily stuff and then got ready to head to bed, I looked up at my twin with a warm smile, feeling a warm and gentle feeling envelope me as I watched him hop around trying to get his pants on. And the feeling spread as he fell flat on his face and laid there for several minutes before we burst into a fit of laughter.

That was something being with my twin did to me. No matter how pissed I was, how sad, how bitter, how..whatever I was, Raika always made me better. It was in a way...weird. Yet, it felt so natural. Who knew me like the back of his hand and it was vice versa for me.

When we were little, we were inseperable. Sleeping together, bathing together, playing together, eating together, practicaly everything. My parents of course, thought it was absoltley adorable how we were always holding hands and of the such. We finsihed each others sentences- and still do by the way- and looked out for each other.

After a few years of this our parents noticed, how...distant we became. But, for us, all we really needed was each other, and we were fine. But, we realized how right and wrong we were when we found out our paretns died in a mission. We were both equally distraught, but we had each other, and that was enough for us.

The Hokage was nice enough to supply us with a home, and of the such to keep us alive and well, so we raised each other, and grew up. Of course, we became way more open and willing than our silent and cold backgrounds. Thus, how we are now.

But, we're still extremly close, though that's probaly because of us being twins and normally joined at the hip. So to some it all up, we were two orphan twins, living in a house by ourselves, trusting us and only oursleves alone, and relying on each other.

Don't get me worng, we were basically friendly to everyone, except a few *cough* Neji *cough* and we trusted our friends. We just trusted ourselves more, so to say, if someone spread shit about one of us, we wouldn't believe it, unless one of us said it was true.

In a way, it was sorta funny. We were so close, but our personalites were so different. Raika was the bright sun, that everyone loved, being friendly and funny, getting out more than I would, the one to make all the friends, basically, he's the more social one of us. Me, on the other hand, was the dark moon, quiet, and usually sticking to the background, not involving myself with to much stuff.

Though, I may be...a bit of a hot-head every now and then, being quiet was more of a thing of the past, because hanging around with Raika, you just can't help but be happy, that's just how he is.

Raika seemed to notice my thoughts trailing off as climbed into bed and he intertwined our fingers together, putting our joint hands inbetween us.

"What are you thinking about?" he asked raising an eyebrow and I shrugged.

"Life."

"Uhuh." he snorted and I rolled my eyes before snuggling into my pillow.

"Shut up and go to sleep."

"Whatever~" he said in a sing-song voice before snuggling into his own pillow.

As I drifted off to sleep, feeling warmed by my other half's pressence I gave a relaxed sigh. This is how I wanted things to be, easy and simple, and to have my brother by my side no matter what.

If only life were that easy.

And done! Yes, this chapter is also short, i'm goning to go out on a wing and say this; most of this story's chapters won't be that long, but i'll try to extend them as the chapters go on. This chapter wasn't much, but I was mostly intending to give you all a bit of Natsu's background, and showing how close she is to her brother, there will most likely be more little...fluff scenes between the two, but that'll only be to strengthen their bond. Anyways, I hope you enjoyed this chapter, thank you all for reviewing the previous one, and I hope you'll do the same for this chapter!

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