Twins of the Kyuubi
Disclaimer: I do not own Naruto, and if you think I did, go try to eat a Rasengan-shaped bowl of raman!
A/N: Okay, this story is getting more, and more popular, which is saying everyone is enjoying it so far. Let's keep this story floating.
Chapter 3: Our First Years…
After speaking to many people in the higher part of the village, including the Hokage and the fact everyone loved Masaru, it was easy to get the applications for the academy. Once all the forms were filled out, and the school year started, Masaru and Naruto were waiting in their new classroom. The two had on new clothes for this occasion, Naruto was wearing a blue shirt with sleeves that only reached up to his elbows, dark-gray shorts that had an orange belt around it (Naruto admitted he liked orange), and black ninjasandles. He also had fishnet wrapped around his exposed arms and legs. Masaru had on a white shirt with a yellow portion meant oor the sleeves that only made it before the elbow. He had on yellow pants with a dark belt, white sandles, and the most unusual piece, a open yellow cloak.
"I still don't get why you have that cloak," Naruto asked staring at Marasu as students began to fill into the room.
"I have no idea….for some reason I wanted the cloak," Marasu said examining the piece of clothing being commented, "Though, it does look a bit unusual compared to what everyone else is wearing."
"Meh, could serve as a way to cover yourself from rain," Naruto said and his eye began to wander around the room. He could recognize a few people in the room. He saw Shikimaru sleeping on one of the nearby desks next to Sheeno, who was quietly sitting in his chair ignoring the Nara's snores. In front of them, Kiba arrived with his faithful companion on the desk receiving a scratch from his master behind his ear. Eventually, Choji charged into the room, not on purpose but overly excitdd, eating his second breakfast as he called it and took a seat near the middle of the class. Afterward, most of the females in the room squealed as the next person came in. Around half the class that was in already flinched at the noise, and Marasu clamped his hands over his ears.
"Oh come on," Marasu muttered as Sasuke Uchiha, the one everyone squealed about entered the room, "it was nice and quiet until that!"
"I know…people over react to someone if they are important," Naruto said as he covered his ears.
"You're one to talk Yondaime fanboy," Marasu teased as the squeals died down and Naruto looked irritated at that.
"Hey, I'm not screaming whenever he enters the room."
"That's sort of impossible to do as he's dead," Marasu said as somewhere in the afterlife, two powerful beings were chuckling at that comment. Naruto just sighed, and then the two, plus a few other people, cringed at the upcoming noises.
"Not again," Marasu complained gritting his teeth and stairing at the door to see what or who destroyed some functioning portions of his ear. Soon enough, a blonde girl with a slightly tight fitting dress and a wide-foreheaded pink haired girl attempted to fit in the same doorway.
"Move it Ino pig!" the pink haired girl said entering the room.
"Move it billboard brow," the blonde girl said pushing Sakura to the side, "I'm going to sit next to Sasuke!"
That gave Marasu an idea. Marasu tugged on Naruto's sleeve.
"Wha?" Naruto asked turning to the yellow-haired boy.
"I got an idea for a small prank, make a shadow clone like I taught you," Marasu ordered and Naruto quickly produced a crouching clone as Marasu did the same. The two boys quickly used a transformation jutsu, something Marasu figured out how to do from some scrolls, and sneaked over quickly to the two seats next to Sasuke. As the clones took the place of the two boys, the boys sat down on the seats before the girls noticed and dispelled their disguises. Seeing that, Sasuke turned to the two.
"What was that?" Sasuke said as the two girls inched closer, not noticing the boys moving from their seats.
"Transformation and shadow clones," marasu said as the girls, not knowing someone was in their seats, accidently sat on the two boys, Sakura on Marasu, and Ino on Naruto. The idea of their seats being taken did not register until the girls noticed something was wrong and laughter behind them. Turning around, their faces flashed red with blushes as they now noticed that they were sitting on the two. The entire class erupted into laughter at this, and the two girls quickly stood up, had their hands over their faces and ran off to two different seats, on the other side of the room.
Sasuke even had to admit that was very humiliating and chuckled softly to himself while everyone quieted down.
"Heh….no one makes that much noise and gets away with it," Naruto snickered as Marasu, and even Sasuke nodded.
"Yeah, but I still can't hear correctly," Marasu said grabbing a pencil and putting the eraser in his left ear, "Nope, that's not working."
"Well, thanks for getting them off my backs for now," Sasuke said as he turned to looking out the window at the sunny sky, "what are your names?"
"I'm Naruto Uzumaki," the blonde replied and Marasu followed up.
"And I'm Marasu," the yellow haired boy answered thinking for a moment, "though, no one knows what my parents last names were, so I also took Uzumaki like Naruto."
"I see," Sasuke said turning back to the group, "I'm Sasuke Uchiha."
'Oddly enough, he's not being a pain.' Naruto thought as he looked around the room.
'For some reason, when he said 'Uchiha,' I felt like punching him to unconsciousness,' Marasu thought as he shook the idea out of his head, 'meh, I must be getting crazy.'
A few more people came into the room. They included Hinata, who sat near Naruto behind him. Afterwards, their sensei finally arrived as the last 2 students sat down in the chairs remaining.
"Welcome to the Ninja Academy, where students train hard and adopt the will of fire," the man said standing in the front of the class and looking around, "you may call me Iruka."
"Yes Iruka," the class said as role call was quickly gone through. After it was done and noting all the students were here, basic exercises were done, and a special presentation by the sensei's were given with a sparring match. Sadly, Iruka was defeated on the second round before the last match.
"Well, I knew hosting a bet would work," Masaru happily cheered as he carried away 500 ryu from everyone who betted and lost. Naruto and Masaru left the class and headed off to Icharaku Raman to eat at their gains. With everything that went on at the class, the two knew that only interesting things awaited them.
A year later, the class was working on weapon throwing. The class lined up and threw 4 kunai at four targets in quick successions. Many students went up to show their skills. Many got on the bull's eye, and close with other throws, others missed all four targets completely, as the next person will demonstrate.
"All right, here I go!" Naruto yelled throwing the kunais at the target, only to witness tthat three kunai missed the target completely and flew into a tree, and one hit the edge of the target, "and there they go."
"Wow…weapon throwing isn't your thing," Marasu said as some of the class, the ones who didn't fail worse then Naruto, laughed and Naruto began to chuckle a bit.
"Well, something to work on," Naruto said as the next person who was still laughing missed all four targets and stopped.
"And karma bites someone in the rear again," marasu commented as the boy went back to his spot.
"All right, Sasuke Uchiha," Iruka said before Marasu quickly gathered his ear plugs, and covered his ears as it was all shown to be in vein, not realizing he sat amongst the fangirls. Naruto began rolling on the floor in agony, and Sasuke muttered to himself.
"This would be easier to prepare for iif this wasn't done in random," Marasu said as the Uchiha took aim. A gasp of air was held from the crowd, and Sasuke threw the weapons, to have 2 hit the bull's eye, and two to land right next to the border for the bull'seye. A cheer echoed again from the crowd and Iruka looked at the target.
"Good," Iruka said examining the targets, "so far the highest score in the class."
"I knew you can do it," Ino shouted from the ground as Marasu ducked forward over the leaning girl. Sakura also joined in and Marasu was unknowingly being used as a knee and hand rest.
"Yeah, no one is better than you," Sakura shouted and Naruto turned to where Marasu used to be bnd began laughing.
"I….can't….breathe!" Marasu gasped as he rolled over, and knocked the two girls onto the ground and gasped a large lung-full of air.
"Thank you all the gods for the gift of air!" Marasu said hugging the air and taking deep breaths, he then turned to the dazed girls, "and best is always subject to change you know, one person can be the best at one thing, and the next thing you know, someone else does it better."
Ino eventually recovered, "well, he's done the best so far."
"Key word, so far," Marasu said as two more people went up before he was called on, "and let's see how badly I fail or how awesome I do." Marasu calmly walked up to the throwing site, as two pairs of critically judging eyes were waiting to give him all sorts of hell for screwing up. He grabbed the kunai, prepared to throw, and then suddenly froze.
"Marasu?" Iruka said turning to the stunned boy, "are you feeling okay?"
"Come on Marasu," Naruto cheered as he accidently fell forward cheering and rolled down the small hill.
"Yeah, I'm fine," Marasu said as he shook his head and focused. He quickly threw all four blades in under a nano-second, and all four projectiles contacted on the bull's eye for all four targets. Marasu just stood there and blinked at what he just done. The entire group silenced down as they stared at the confused boy and Iruka looked at the target.
"Amazing, no one has ever hit all four targets on the first test since we had Yondaime at the academy," Iruka said and Marasu stared at the targets.
"Wow, great going," Naruto clapped and soon the rest of the class followed. Marasu bowed down and walked back to his spot, and sat next to Naruto.
"That was weird," marasu whispered to Naruto as more people went up to throw at the targets, "I was about to use what I studied to throw these things, then I got a sudden head-ache and suddenly knew how to throw those kunais perfectly at high speeds."
"That's weird," Naruto whispered back and Marasu nodded, "I wonder what else that will happen on."
Marasu thought for a moment, and then felt a chill down his spine. He couldn't place what was causing the problem and then shuttered, "Naruto?"
"What?" Naruto asked as Marasu dare not look around.
"Count how many girls are now looking at my direction."
Realizing what Marasu meant, Naruto turned to the crowd around him, and began counting anyone who was usually looking at Sasuke with a certain face. Excluding two boys that Naruto made a mental note to avoid, there were 7. Also looking around the placement, Naruto gulped at the positions.
"Ummm…I count 7," Naruto said turning back to his step brother, "and two are directly behind you."
"Wait, who is, Awgh…oh boy….," Marasu muttered as he gave a guess who Naruto was mentioning.
"Congradulations, you have created a fanclub," Naruto whispered before marasu bonked him across the head, "look at the bright side….we'll get exercise and training running and hiding for our lives every morning and afternoon."
"Ha-ha, really funny," Marasu muttered as the day went by, and as predicted. The two had to stealthily walk home avoiding any trackers, "Well, I better get use to this."
"Do what I do," Naruto whispered as they were able to go along the shadows of a building heading for their apartment, "just barely pass your classes and enjoy last place with me."
"Nope," Marasu said jumping over a fallen trash can, "I'd rather be in the hands of the amassing fanclub I'm getting then screw up classes."
"Your funeral," Naruto joked and the two arrived home.
Another year past, and the two only had to get past another year to graduate from the academy. Naruto, with some help from Marasu, was able to go higher in the ranks of his class. Though, seeing what they went through every school day, he rather hold back a little. Though, now the two were also well-known pranksters. Their list of deeds included, but are not limited to, eraser bombardments on Iruka, unbolting Choji's chair, filling up the class room full of shadow clones and taking every seat, transformed a log into the agenda book, lead Akamaru away from Kiba with a shadow clone holding food, Marasu using a special transparency jutsu on the classroom door, water fountain spray trap (Sakura just giggled when it was Marasu's doing….Naruto, on the otherhand, found himself left battered in the middle of the hallway), and now, sneaking into the girl's locker room to mess around with the water settings.
"So, you are going to hide in the temperature control area, and wait for some of the girls to enter the showers. Once enough enter, turn the water to a very low temperature, and laugh," marasu explained as they hid behind a wall, "any questions?"
"Yeah," Naruto said looking around for anyone listening in, "why are the controls for water temperature for the boy's and girl's locker roomare only in the girl's locker room?"
"Blame the person who made this place," Marasu said scanning the nearby area "makes the idea that muhch more fun since we'll get a lot more people running into the halls in poor amounts of clothing."
"Okay, that just means I have to cover my ears longer than usual with the extra screams," Naruto said as the two laughed, "Okay, let's go."
Naruto transformed into a small rat, and scurried along the ground into the locker room area, while Marasu provided the distraction by using Naruto's patented Sexy jutsu and turned into a female, with the same towel he decided to wear, but now having to lift it more noticing he was showing too much.
'Oops,' Marasu thought and chuckled at his slight mistake. He sauntered into the girl's locker room and scoped around. Thanking the kami that people did not seem to notice who goes with them to the bathroom everyday, no one accused him for intruding. He scanned around and notice only a few girls were around and notice the cue by a small brown mouse waving a paw.
'Good, he found it," Marasu thought as the mouse scurried back into a hole, and slight scraping noises were heard through the wall as Marasu noticed the panel where the controls were. Marasu was here to give a signal, which Naruto known as cold and kept observing the room. Marasu was decent enough to just stay in the first room of the locker area, where all were mostly clothed and just wandered into the showers to undress completely. Taking a seat on the bench, Marasu waited and gave a sigh…
…this was a very, very, bad idea to avoid the next problem. The locker room filled up with a few more people, and someone had to respond to the sigh.
"Hey, are you new here?" someone asked as Marasu looked up and gave himself a mental slap across the head for even breathing. Apparently the one of the bigger fans of both well known (and loathed) fanclubs was now speaking to him- err, her.
"Uhh…yeah," Marasu spoke in a soft voice trying not to sound nervous,but failed, "I'm sort of…err, I…uhh, we did not use locker rooms where I came from, we used to go home and change."
"Oh," Ino said and nodded, "well, we can't leave the school grounds until the end of the day, so you have to come to the main shower area."
"Uhh….no thanks," Marasu responded and began panicking, which showed in his transformed voice, "I'm okay."
"Well, have to shower," another girl said from afar, "it's the rules to shower afterwards, and you don't want to stay smelly after working hard outside."
"Uhh, Umm," Marasu said realizing his plan was backfiring for the worst, "I…uhh, forgot something outside."
"Ah quit worrying," another person said from behind and it ended up being Sakura….soon, most people that usually chased him were in the room, "we're all girls and friends here."
'What luck I have,' Marasu thought as she was helped onto her feet by a few girls, against her protest, "'I bet Jiraiya would enjoy a moment like this….wait, who was I just thinking about? I never heard that name before.' Marasu was now dazed and confused on what he was thinking about as he did not notice she was being dragged into the shower area. As soon as he realized where he was, he began to look around and quickly shut his eyes. Well, not from suddenly being stung by water that he wasn't expecting, but he was already in the shower area, and the only person with a towel on!
'What's taking Marasu so long,' Naruto thought as he was counting specs of dust that was in the panel area, "227, 228, 229, 230, and 231."
"I think you accidently surprised her with the water," Masaru heard one of the girls said as she stepped back from the water jet, "look, she did not even notice where she is, and he still has her towel on."
"Be a bit more considerate Ino," Sakura yelled from a random part of the shower and was heard coming over, "Okay, you can open your eyes now; the water is not blasting you in the face."
"No, I'm okay like this, they still hurt," Marasu said amazed his transformation did not dispel after that. He soon felt fingers on his eyes and began to worry.
"Let me see, maybe they is something that got in it instead of water," Sakura said as eventually, amazed and now frightened on her strength, marasu's eyes were pried open. He just mentally decided 4 things at this point. One, he was never going to pull a prank off like this again. Two, a lot of the fangirl's did not look bad the way they are, especially the one in front of him. Three, he's going to wonder who is Jyraya, and for some reason punching him in the gut extremely hard for the last line of thought. Four, he was never going to use a sexy jutsu again.
"Nope, you're eyes are a bit red from the water, but nothing else is wrong," Sakura said letting go and turning away back to her spot as Marasu closed her eyes and quickly, and stealthily, made his way to the exit.
"Ugh, this water is starting to get cold," someone said amongst the crowd before Marasu flinched hoping Naruto did not hear that. Cold water would suddenly shock him and break the transformation. Those thoughts were made while….
"Swueak Squeaker, squeak squeak," Naruto said happily leaping onto the dial, and twisting it to a colder setting. The translation of that was, 'Oh boy, it's now time for some fun!'
While the thought of cold water causing enough of a shock to break transformations…the water suddenly got ice cold, doing the exact thing he did not want to happen. Suddenly, loud screams were heard through the room and throughout the boy's locker area across the hall, and marasu's transformation suddenly dropped, leaving the poor boy in the middle of a room with undressed females, no escape, and only a wet towel to defend himself.
'I'm screwed,' Marasu thought hoping the girls were going to run out of the room and ignore him. Sadly, something he wasn't expecting happened. First of all, he was standing in the way of the exit, so, for those who did run, tumbled into him and fell down, knocking the former Hokage onto the ground and pinned. Second of all, some were brilliant enough to run for the handles and turn off the waters. Marasu now knew his funeral would be soon.
Naruto was snickering happily to himself inside the panel. He heard the boys all scream and charge out of the bathroom they were in. He also heard the girl's scream in shock as well, but their stampeed turned into a fall, and the water stopped on their end. Naruto became confused at what was going on before he heard a gasp of surprise.
"Oh no, someone snuck into the girl's locker room," someone said from Naruto's position before he froze.
'Oh boy, Marasu's dead,' Naruto thought as he tried to crawl out of the panel and realize he got stuck, 'what the….ugh, the thing was suddenly smaller….or I got bigger.'
Back in the shower area, Marasu was now being held down, not pinned down (well, a few pinned him down and others covered his eyes) and first looked angry…then a surprising turn of events occurred. Soon, what Marasu thought were battle cries were actually the squeals they made when either Sasuke or he entered the class. Realizing the meaning of the noise, he now wished he was being mauled to death.
'Must….crawl….out!' Naruto thought as he squeezed his way down the pre-made tunnel that was found leading to the panel.
"OOO, it's Marasu," said person heard from one oo the girls as he now felt crowded all of a sudden. Something was going on.
"Hey, it is," another voice was heard before giggling was heard and suddenly more people were holding him down, and lightening up on their grip. It would be easy at this point to escape, but now more people crowded him and he couldn't move at all, he wasn't being constricted, but he couldn't move.
""Squeakwa Squeak," Naruto said going down the tunnel. Translation: "Half-way there."
'Please don't do anything that will give me nightmares,' Marasu thought as somewhere in the world, he felt someone complain why girls couldn't just let him be with his research. 'Okay, why does all that sound familiar with that random old man that popped into my mind? Oh no! I maybe having visions of my future as a perverted sage!'
"Hey bro," the reaper of souls said appearing next to his brother, "since he's young, but now has another life, does that count as happening in his future or past?"
"Past," Shinigami said before the reaper nodded and returned to making fun at what was going on.
"Wait, why is he sneaking into the girl's bathroom?" another voice said before Marasu began hoping for a quick mauling to leave him unconscious enough to forget all about this.
"Maybe, he does like us and wanted to see us personally!" a fourth voice, recognizing it as Sakura, was heard before a cold sweat drop ran down the back of his head in confusion and fear.
'Only a couple of centimeters more….' Naruto thought wiggling his way down the mouse tunnel, now seeing the light, and smelling the steam from the shower area. Naruto then heard a bunch of squeals, and then the sounds of wrestling, 'poor Marasu, they are now beating him senseless.'
Marasu managed to knock himself out by forcing himself asleep to try not to think about anything. He did this right when an argument arose and the girls of the fanclub leaped and attacked each other, all piling on the poor boy as he was apparently the prize, and arena.
"Squeak!" Naruto charged out of the hole and rushed over to the shower area, he tried to see if it was too late to save his step brother, and noticed the pile fighting….each other? He also then recognized it was the fangirls of Marasu's and realized, that Marasu was now even in a worse position, and now Naruto had something to blackmail his brother if he ever tried pranking him. One of the girls's turned her head, and looked at the brown mouse.
"Eww," a mouse." Eventually, a lot of the heads turned to the mouse, and all got up off Marasu, who, even through his will, was shaken awake and now laid stunned on the floor.
"Let's kill it," another one said before Naruto charged back into the mouse hole, and gained an idea. As the small mob approached the mouse hole, a swarm of rats charged out of the hole, and realizing the swarm looked infinite, the girls all screamed, and ran out of the room. Naruto decided to use shadow clones to form a rat army and try to scare them through sheer numbers. He had Calvary trumpet music playing in his head as he did that. The swarm all gathered to Marasu, who was standing up. A signal was made by one of the rats, and Marasu quickly transformed into one and joined the swarm.
Outside the locker room, two staff members were talking to one of the girls.
"What are you talking about a rat infestation," one of the staff members said as they opened the door, "we always make a thorough search of the school, and it's safe to say that-"?
On cue, the large swarm of rats exploded out of the doorway, and people and rodents came scattering everywhere. Marasu and Naruto rushed all the way to the boy's locker room and got rid of the transformation. The two panted and began laughing.
"From one prank to another," Naruto said as all the rats hid under things before dispelling. No one knew that all they saw were clones, and already, the exterminator was being called to deal with the problem.
"We surely made a mess around here," Marasu said rubbing some bruzes the girls left on the accidental tackle.
"Haha, my favorite part was watching you under a bunch of naked girls," Naruto chuckled and was bonked across his head by Marasu.
"Never….mention….that….again!" Marasu threatened as Naruto grinned while rubbing his head.
"Don't worry, I'm just saving it for when I need to use it," Naruto then stood up, "Well, let's hit the showers."
"All right," Marasu, who was now exhausted and now breathing normally, said as he looked around and went into the shower? Happy to be somewhere he belongs in, he was going to enjoy washing off earlier's events….
"AAAAHH!" the two were heard screaming as ice cold water sprayed them.
Somehow avoiding getting in trouble and dealing with the rest of the day, the two boys lay down on the bed and looked out the nearby window. A new target board was set on the wall, and sometimes, one of the boys sat up, grabbed a kunai, and threw it at the target.
"Wow, to think the crazy things we end up doing and have fun with," Naruto said as they heard the report about the exterminators not finding any vermin on the school grounds, just a wasp nest they took down.
"Yeah, just another normal day," Marasu said sitting up and throwing a kunai at the target, knocking away the last one on the bull's eye, "though, something weird happened earlier."
"Wha, the fact you wer-"
"No, not that," Marasu cut off Naruto knowing what he was going to say, "But a thought went into my mind when that happened. A picture of an old man I knew the name of appeared and I sware, I know who he was and his name."
"Old man?" Naruto said turning to Marasu, "did they hit you across the head harder then I thought?"
"No, oh maybe it was just my mind playing tricks on me," Marasu said lying down, "It's getting late, we have to go to sleep now."
"Sure," Naruto said throwing a kunai accidently at the light switch, breaking it and turning off the lights, "Uhh…"
"Wow, that was a fail Naruto," Marasu said yawning, "we'll get that fixed tomorrow, night."
"Night," Naruto said shutting his eyes. He was now anxious and excited to the day they graduated the academy, and peacefully drifted asleep…with the occasional nightmares Marasu began to have. Thinking it was due to today, Naruto fell back asleep when marasu went back.
Though, Marasu was having much, much more scarier dreams. All he kept seeing were random events of someone's life. Nearly being struck down by a man with a weird looking Sharingan. One of the demonic fox throwing a large ball of chakrah. And lastly, one of a reaper appearing behind him and attempting to steal his soul. Time and time again Marasu could sleep, just to be scared awake again. Something was up with these dreams, and maybe one day, Marasu could find that old man and he may bave the answers. He had a feeling that old sage was real.
A/N: Okay, I maybe might of gotten a bit weird there, but what better way to remember our favorite toad sage then with something he would like to do in his research! It was either that, or a book with Naruto on it, but that's something for later. I hope you enjoyed the chapter, I tried to think of anything I could since the first draft was only 5 pages long. Remember to Read and Review, and to thank my favorite master, Dragon-Wolf Tamer, for editing.
"To be honest, you have to bare with me, first of all this is like the third time I've read this and I'm only using a reading program that I'm still learning about so if something is wrong please don't hate me."- Dragon-Wolf Tamer *Thinking that last sentence of authors note just sounds completely weird*
"Hey, hey….no weird thoughts. Oh, and you forgot a quotation mark in front of that…and I'm still learning this program….got most of it covered doh (and suffering on doing other functions)" -Dragon-Wolf Omega.