Summary: When both Mikoto and Kushina have twins, the world is drastically altered. Sasuke is not the only one consumed with revenge when the Massacre comes and Naruto knows the love of a sibling. Just how will this change things on top of the fact the Sharingan isn't the only Kekkei Genkai the Uchiha have?

Chapter 5: Evening

Kakashi froze. A drop of sweat rolled down his neck and he stared at the scroll in front of him. He rolled up the scroll and put it in his pocket and used a shunshin to get out of the library and hurry to the Hokage. He'd simply gone to the library for some light reading in the S-Ranked section, having finished his perverted book, and out of sheer boredom picked up a random scroll and began to read.

As he was walking, he didn't see the crow that flew away from the library. His mind was preoccupied with some very troubling thoughts as he approached the ANBU that stood outside of the Sarutobi compound. The ANBU saw the seriousness and urgency on Kakashi's face and went to get the Hokage without exchanging any words.

Kakashi declined tea and simply sat at a table waiting for Hiruzen. He finally came wearing regular attire, a simple dark shirt with dark pants.

"I'm sorry to bother you at such a late hour, Hokage-sama, but I have some information that may either endanger Konoha or strengthen it," Kakashi said.

Hiruzen took a seat in front of the top Elite Jounin in the whole of Konoha.

"Go on," Hiruzen said.

"The Sharingan is not the only Kekkei Genkai the Uchiha are capable of unlocking. It is called 'Kyouzou'. Only twins can unlock this and in order for it to happen, the Sharingan has to be unlocked first. However, even after unlocking the Sharingan, there is a low chance of unlocking the Kyouzou. This has not been unlocked in centuries, before even Uchiha Madara's time. If it is unlocked, there is a nearly certain death rate. The twins' memories are shared and once the Sharingan is in its advanced stage, the Kyouzou allows for telepathy," Kakashi said.

"The Kyouzou doesn't have much correlation with doujutsu other than what I'd said earlier. It grants a special kind of kenjutsu. One twin transforms into a blade and the other is the wielder. The moment this happens, basic forms of this ancient kenjutsu carried down through the Uchiha blood come to mind in both twins and they are nearly unstoppable since no one has ever seen this style in centuries. Also, if the wielder is a Suiton user and the blade is a Raiton user, for example, they can combine their chakra together and create a pseudo-Kekkei Genkai.

"Lastly, the drawbacks. One, clearly, is lack of chakra control leading to death. If the two twins are not in sync, the mildest consequence is that the Kyouzou will not activate, and another rather interesting consequence is that the blade will reject the wielder and will not be able to transform back into a human state and eventually, shatter. There are said to be more consequences, that I assume are much more lethal, but I can't read it. It seems as if you have to be a full-blooded Uchiha to read the full scroll," Kakashi said.
"And this could help Konoha by having publicity and strong ninja to protect it to attract more missions. However, this could hurt Konoha if they may die in the process of activating either their Sharingan or Kyouzou," Hiruzen realized. "Among other things, seeing how if they unlock their Sharingan only they can read what is on the scroll."

Kakashi nodded. "Well then, I'll make my leave. Sorry to bother you, Hokage-sama."

The Jounin bowed respectfully before walking out of the Sarutobi compound. Hiruzen rubbed his eyes before yawning and trying to get a few more minutes of sleep, but Kakashi's words rang in his ears and all he could think about was the two Uchiha.

"Team 7: Uchiha Sasuke, Uchiha Noriko, Uzumaki Naruto, and Uzumaki Mei. Led by Jounin Hatake Kakashi," Iruka read off.

The two Uchiha shared a silent celebration at not being split up. However, they knew that both Naruto and Mei had failed the test yesterday so it baffled them that they were still there. However, it was none of their concern since the two Uchiha cared about graduating and taking the first steps to gaining power.

A few hours later, this Kakashi person had not come. Mei and Naruto were gambling on something trivial while the two Uchiha sat with their fingers laced under their chins.

"Ne, ne, Noriko-chan. How long do you think this guy is going to make us wait?" Naruto complained.

"Why would Noriko know anything? She cheated off of Sasuke-kun all the time and her head is empty behind those dull black eyes," Mei said, glaring at the girl, who glared back.

"What did you just say?" Noriko growled, standing up. She walked over to the blonde and got really close, glaring harshly. Mei matched the glare with her own glower and Naruto accidently knocked into Mei, causing the girl to fall forward and kiss Noriko.

The two girls separated immediately with Noriko on the ground on her hands and knees, gagging. Mei held her neck and gagged as well. Just then, their Jounin sensei walked in. He looked at the four of them: an Uchiha about to burst out laughing (or into a murderous rage, it was too early to tell), two girls clearly in distress, and a blonde who looked apologetic and fearful for his life when the Uchiha boy and blonde girl glared murderously at him. The dark haired girl had regained her bearings and noticed the silver haired Jounin.

"You're Hatake Kakashi," the girl said.

Kakashi looked at her with an apathetic eye, although on the inside was thoroughly intrigued by her and the scroll he had found and told Hiruzen about. The girl turned to the dark haired boy, her twin Kakashi presumed, and seemed to exchange silent words. The boy calmed down with a smirk on his face.

"My first impressions? You're a bunch of idiots. Meet me on the roof," Kakashi said, disappearing in a puff of smoke. Mei and Naruto took the stairs for some reason while the two Uchiha jumped from windowsill to windowsill to get up to the roof. After sitting for two mintues, the Uzumaki twins finally came. They looked shocked as they looked at the Uchiha, convinced they were faster. Their grades, however, proved otherwise.

"Introductions. Tell us your likes, dislikes, hobbies, and dreams for the future," Kakashi said. "You, blonde girl, go first."

"I'm Uzumaki Mei. What I like is…well, the person I like is…as for hobbies, uh…and dreams for the future…" Mei squealed at every pause, getting louder and louder and looking at Sasuke with hearts in her grey eyes. "As for dislikes, I hate Noriko!"

Kakashi looked at the blonde boy and motioned for him to go.

"I'm Uzumaki Naruto. I like ramen and my hobby is trying out different ramen! I don't like people who act like they're better than everyone else when they know that that's a lie. My dream for the future is to become Hokage so everyone in the village will acknowledge me," Naruto adjusted the hitai-ate on his forehead, fiddling with it, a large grin on his face.

"Next," Kakashi drawled, extremely tempted to pull out his book that was a thousand times more interesting than hearing these kids' dreams for the future and whatnot.

"I'm Uchiha Noriko. There are a lot of things I hate and nothing I like. My hobby is training with my brother. Also, I have an ambition that I have no intention of leaving as just a dream. The revival of my clan…and to kill a certain man," Noriko said.

Sasuke didn't want for Kakashi's drawl to go.

"I'm Uchiha Sasuke. There are a lot of things I hate and not very many things I like. My hobby is training with my sister. As for dreams, no, it's an ambition, to revive my clan and to kill a certain person," Sasuke said.

"Sasuke-kun, you're so cool! Why can't you be like that, Naruto-nii?" Mei blushed at Sasuke. Naruto began to cry on the inside. His sister had abandoned him for the duck-haired idiot!

"Well, you all are interesting in your own interesting ways. I suppose that's a good thing. Oh yeah, tomorrow there's a mission we're doing and it's survival training at 5am. I know you all did survival training in the Academy, but this is a little different. And, don't eat breakfast. You'll just throw up if you do. Dismissed," Kakashi said, clearly in a hurry to leave.

Noriko saw his hand hovering over his back pocket and didn't want to really take the time to think about why he was doing that. She turned to Sasuke and he nodded. The two left, leaving the two Uzumaki behind.

Kakashi had already defeated Naruto and Mei; Naruto defeated by a pathetic taijutsu attack and obvious traps and Mei by a genjutsu featuring her crush bleeding out with kunai sticking out of him every which way. All there was the two Uchiha.

Mei's scream pierced the air and the Uchiha heard it loud and clear.

"Ninja tactis no. 2: Genjutsu. Mei fell for it so easily," Kakashi said, reading his book behind a tree near Sasuke.

"Hallucinatory illusions," Sasuke muttered. "No wonder she fell for it."

"However, we're different from those two," Sasuke added.

"Why don't you say that after you get a bell?" Kakashi proposed. "Sasuke-kun, Noriko-chan."

Sasuke turned, revealing only him and Kakashi to fight. Kakashi sighed. "Noriko-chan, do you want to hide in his shadow all day? I suggest you don't."

An angry growl followed that and Noriko appeared, as if a mirror image of Sasuke. Kakashi blinked twice; which one was Sasuke again? No, the girl had straight hair, right? Kakahsi sighed and put his book away as the two threw shuriken at him.

"There's no point in using regular attacks," Kakashi warned.

"We know," the two smirked. Suddenly, two fireballs were rushing at him. Noriko threw a kunai about ten feet from Kakashi to cut a rope and fire more kunai and shuriken at him as the fireball was racing towards him.

As soon as Kakashi landed, avoiding the fireballs, Noriko and Sasuke were on either side of him, attacking with ferocity. When a kick was aimed at his head, he'd block with one arm and only find the girl reaching for the bells, but upside down since he'd caught her with the other arm. She managed to grip one of the bells, but not hard enough to take it. This didn't go unnoticed to Kakashi, especially when Sasuke had also tried to grip it, but failed.

Kakashi tried to move back, but he felt searing pain somewhere pain should not be. He managed to get the Uchiha off of him, his lower region screaming in pain. It was like a scene from Icha Icha Paradise, but so, so much more realistic.

"You fight dirty," Kakashi glared at Noriko. She smirked.

"I had practice," Noriko glanced at Sasuke, who looked away, miffed. Kakashi resisted the urge to laugh at that.

"Anyway, I'll admit you two are different from the other two," Kakashi said.

Then, again, fire raced towards him. However, before Kakashi could jump away, he found himself face to face with the fire, a place where Sasuke had just been standing. He glanced over and saw that Sasuke was standing where he'd stood. He looked back at the fire and because he was so close he had no choice but to counter.

"Water Release: Water Wall," Kakashi said, weaving hand signs and letting out enough water to put out the flames.

Because he had to release all the water, he couldn't stop the jutsu immediately. If he did that, he'd choke and possibly risk drowning from the inside out by not being able to breathe since his lungs had filled with water. Even a small amount of water was uncomfortable so stopping momentarily could be disastrous. Plus, no one would believe the great Hatake Kakashi had died performing a jutsu, and one that he'd drowned from.

Then, Kakashi disappeared. The two Uchiha freaked out, not knowing where he was and then, Noriko and Sasuke were pulled under the ground, eliciting a scream from both of them. Sasuke and Noriko glared at the scarecrow Jounin, who disappeared in a shunshin. Sasuke turned back to Noriko, who looked bitter. Just then, Mei streaked across the clearing.

She turned her head a few times, as if not believing her eyes.

"Mei," Sasuke addressed.

"It's a severed head!" Mei screamed and fainted again.

When Mei awoke, she saw Sasuke's face. She threw herself at him, glad he wasn't dead.

"There's still a little bit of time left till noon," Sasuke said. "I'm going."

"Sasuke-kun, you're still going after the bell?"

"Noriko and I were able to grip them. We can get it next time," Sasuke explained.

"Noriko? She's not even here," Mei said, crossing her arms at the mention of her rival. "But, you're amazing Sasuke-kun to get that close to Kakashi-sensei."

"I wouldn't have been able to get it without Noriko. We needed teamwork to get the bell…" Sasuke said, his eyes widening. "No way…"

"It's obvious now. We're such idiots!" Noriko's voice said, as if she was right in front of Mei. Mei flinched and looked around, not understanding what was going on. She glanced at Sasuke's shadow and saw that his hair was different in the shadow and how the hair was about up to the chin and swayed a bit in the wind.

"Sasuke…your shadow," Mei said, "I don't understand."

Sasuke smirked but didn't explain.

"Anyway, since we have a such little time left, why not just try again next time and give up?" Mei asked.

Sasuke sent her a sharp glance.

"Only we can kill that man," Noriko's voice said.

"You mean Kakashi-sensei?" Mei asked, confused.

"We were crying at the time…Sasuke and I are avengers. We must be stronger than him," Noriko appeared suddenly, her short hair flowing in the breeze.

"What're you talking about?" Mei asked again, getting impatient.

"We don't have time to stumble here," Noriko said, looking sharply at Mei with eyes full of hatred. Mei flinched. What's with her and Sasuke-kun?

The bell rang out. Noriko and Sasuke turned and walked away.

Those Uchiha worked well together, really well. He knew that Mei and Naruto were twins since forever, so it begged the question that if Noriko and Sasuke could work together, why couldn't Naruto and Mei work together? Kakashi decided he'd learn eventually.

So, the ones tied to the leg were the Uzumaki twins. They looked pissed, especially when Kakashi taunted them, saying how their stomachs were growling.

Kakashi began to rant and criticize them for not understanding the point.

"What point?" Mei asked.

"Teamwork," Noriko muttered.

"Noriko-chan is correct," Kakashi said, interrupted from his rant. He continued lecturing them and explained the cenotaph that Naruto was so eager to have his name engraved on. Then, Kakashi gave them another chance and disappeared.

"Here," Noriko handed Mei her bento. Mei scowled at it.

"I don't need it," Mei said.

Her stomach voiced its opposition, much to Mei's embarrassment. Noriko glared and shoved the rice into her mouth. Mei chewed and once she'd swallowed, Kakashi appeared, scaring all of them. Both Uzumaki screamed bloody murder while the Uchiha pulled out kunai.

"You pass," Kakashi eye-smiled.

Noriko and Sasuke smirked at one another and the Uzumaki had to pause for a few seconds before cheering.

"Tomorrow we're going to be doing missions so be in the mission receiving rooms at 7am. Do you want to get dinner on me?" Kakashi asked. "Because you're the first team I've passed so I think this might deserve some celebration."

I can't do this. Noriko glanced at Sasuke.

Neither can I. How the hell do they eat so much? Sasuke had a similarly blanched face and nodded.

Do you think they'll eat ours? Noriko glanced at the two Uzumaki slurping at their ramen like there was no tomorrow.

Who knows. Worth a shot. Sasuke shrugged.

"Hey, Mei, Naruto, do you want ours?" Noriko asked, a bit pale.

"Yeah!" the two bowls vanished from one end of the counter to the other where the ramen was quickly vacuumed in. Kakashi just managed to finish his bowl and was reading his book, waiting for the two Uzumaki to finish their bowls.

"So you two really like ramen," a voice said behind them. Kakashi looked up and was mildly surprised.

"Jiraiya-sama. What brings you here?" Kakashi put his book away. This didn't go unnoticed by the hungry, but ramen-hateful Uchiha. Was this guy important or something?

"I heard you finally passed a team. Is this them?" Jiraiya looked at the oblivious blondes and the suspicious Uchiha. "You have an interesting lot."

"I suppose," Kakashi said. "The four of you, introduce yourselves."

The blondes didn't notice Kakashi's order and the Uchiha seemed to put up yet another wall of silence.

"Noriko-chan, Sasuke-kun, I know you heard me," Kakashi said. "This is the Legendary Sannin, Jiraiya. He was a pupil of the Sandaime Hokage who eventually taught the Yondaime Hokage, who taught me. You could assume he's important," Kakashi said, a sarcastic edge to his voice.

The Uchiha surrendered with a sigh.

"Uchiha Noriko."

"Uchiha Sasuke."

Jiraiya's eyes widened for a moment.

"That's Uzumaki Naruto and Mei," Noriko said. "Sasuke and I are going home, Kakashi-sensei. Good night, Jiraiya-sama."

With that, the two Uchiha vanished, having left just enough money to pay for their meal.

"They're distant," Jiraiya muttered. "Are they still exhibiting signs of mental scarring the way they did four years ago?"

Kakashi shook his head. "Not to my knowledge, but they're starting missions tomorrow. When we finally do C-Rank missions I suppose I'll find out for myself. However, their ambitions to kill him have not faded one bit."

Jiraiya sighed. He took a seat next to Kakashi and watched the mini Minato and mini Kushina slurp their noodles with as much passion as their parents did. He remembered on a side note that neither Mikoto nor Fugaku were fond of ramen. However, on one occasion he'd seen Itachi, the boy was rather partial to ramen. He supposed that in addition to killing his clan, he was a rather strange Uchiha, unlike his two younger siblings who were role model Uchiha.

"I see. We'll keep in touch, Kakashi. I have some interesting news to tell you but I won't tell you now," Jiraiya said, disappearing in a shunshin. Kakashi frowned under his mask, getting worried. What was going on? Was it about Itachi? Or something about the Kyuubi? Or maybe Kyouzou? Kakashi closed his visible eye for a moment to calm down. They'd be doing D-Rank missions for a bit so he had time to prepare.

Right?

A few months had passed. In the middle of December, snow was beginning to fall making the village quite beautiful. Many couples were going out in traditional kimono to have a day out together and some were going to Yugakure, formerly a hidden village but now a hot springs resort.

It was a rather peaceful time for Hiruzen, moving paperwork about as he assigned missions with a few other Chuunin. He handed Iruka a scroll to do away with and moved on to another mission to read up on it and looked at another sheet of paper at Genin teams active today that would probably take the D-Rank missions.

He looked up as another team entered the room. It was Team 7. Kakashi have a slight nod to Kurenai, who also stood with her team. Naruto handed the cat, Tora, to its owner, muttering how it was obvious that the cat had left its owner.

After hearing Kiba's, Mei's, and Naruto's strong oppositions towards the possibility of another D-Rank mission, Hiruzen relented and have them a C-Rank to do jointly, getting somewhat of a premonition for this C-Rank. He pinned it up to the fact he'd be sending out his jinchuuriki and Uchiha.

While giving the explanation of the mission entailed, it elicited excited faces on all six Genin faces, with the exception of the Aburame boy who looked like being at the Mission Reception rooms was the last place he wanted to be. He muttered something about bugs being more interesting.

A drunkard walked in, spilling drips of sake on the floor as he staggered forward, gesturing his arm at the Genin he proceeded to complain about.

"But that short-haired girl is a looker," the man smirked and eyed the Uchiha girl, who blanched as Sasuke sent him murderous glances. Hiruzen covered a laugh even though he had to agree; Noriko was Mikoto's child if not more beautiful.

Outside the village gates, Tazuna as the bridge builder was called, finished his sake and as he was looking around of where to chuck the empty bottle, he couldn't help but notice the way the two dark-haired teens were sticking close to one another.

"What, are you two a couple?" Tazuna remarked, gesturing to the two Uchiha.

"Noriko-chan would never date an arrogant bastard like that," Kiba remarked. "One day, Noriko-chan is going to go out with me."

"As if," the two Uchiha said in sync, the boy looking like he wanted to test just how quickly it would take for the boy to bleed out.

Tazuna laughed heartily at the boy with his dog. Kiba glared at the bridge builder but didn't say anything.

Something in the air around the Uchiha changed as the group walked past a puddle, even though it hadn't rained in days. Kakashi mentally praised his students and wondered if the Uzumaki twins would catch on.

The Hyuuga girl caught on a second before Kakashi was ripped in half. Kurenai sighed inwardly; Kakashi always had had a rather dark sense of humor and fully exploited this moment to most likely test his Genin, but also to see the hilarious looks on their faces. Nonetheless, she began to weave signs as Kiba, Shino, and Hinata got ready. She noticed that the two blondes on Kakashi's team had frozen, leaving the Uchiha to defend each other, the blondes, and Tazuna. Mei eventually snapped out of it and stepped in front of Tazuna.

Adrenaline and a bit of fear flowed through the two Uchiha's veins. Suddenly, so many more assassins came out of the area and surrounded the group. Kakashi came back but that did little to snap Naruto out of his stupor. Noriko turned around to slap his face to get him to focus and help since Kakashi could only do so much, but all he saw was the sudden change in her eyes and the sudden paleness of her face. She staggered forward before turning around and going at her enemy with much more ferocity. Naruto saw that Sasuke was fighting the same way.

What just happened?

In the end, the Uchiha had the most blood splattered on them. They'd managed to defeat, no, kill, some of the attackers.

Noriko and Sasuke looked at one another and seemed to be more withdrawn and stood close, making another wall around them. Hinata looked a little nervous, seeing her friend so withdrawn and pale.

"Kakashi, your students were the only ones who killed their opponents. Say something to them," Kurenai hissed. "They're just Genin."

Suddenly, the two Uchiha vomited in the grass, barely turning around in time. Everyone narrowed his or her eyes in consideration of the two Uchiha. Noriko and Sasuke dropped to their knees, muttering unintelligible words. They seemed to be lost in their own mind and Kakashi knew that it wasn't a good thing for them to be taking a sudden trip down memory lane, especially considering their past.

Naruto and Mei scowled and walked up to Sasuke and Noriko, respectively. They took their shoulders in their hands and shook them hard, screaming their names. A few minutes passed to yield no results. After a few more minutes, they came to again. Noriko ran a hand through her short hair and wiped off the blood from her face. Sasuke stood and offered a hand, which she took.

"H-hey, you two okay? What happened?" Naruto asked.

"Just…a reminder," Sasuke said.

"What kind of bullshit is that?" Kiba growled.

"Tazuna-san, the sheer amount of assassins raises suspicion. We'd like for you to explain exactly what is going on," Noriko said. Tazuna looked away for a moment before spilling the fact that a mogul had a bounty on his head and plenty of ninja to fight for it.

"Well, Team 7 and Team 8, what would you like to do?" Kakashi looked at the Genin, specifically his Genin.

There was a pause.

"We'll continue," Shino said.