Summary: Orphaned at birth then kicked out to the streets sat the tender age of four, nothing seems to be going right for young Naruto. That is, until, a winter storm comes, forcing Naruto to seek Shelter in one of the many training grounds. Just as Luck would have it, another man was also seeking refuge in the same training ground. What happens when that man finds an underweight, undersized, and over all pitiable looking five year old sleeping under a large oak tree? Will the two finally find happiness, or is it all just another façade?

Disclaimer: Sadly, I do not own Naruto. Though I do own this plot line and my few OC's.

After about an hour of random wondering, asking directions, and trying to locate the training ground that they need, Naruto finally got a retired shinobi to show him the way. Along the way, they came upon Ryuu who was pacing with an angry look on his face. After Ryuu got through 'talking' to Naruto about how rude it is to hit someone then wonder off, he too fallowed the retired shinobi.

When they finally arrived, both Naruto's and Ryuu's eye twitched.

Turns out, the training ground was only a few streets away from their hotel. In fact, from where they stood, they could even see the top of the building. Naruto resisted this time on hitting Ryuu, instead, kicking his back.

Naruto thanked the nervously smiling old man for showing them the way, seeing as how Ryuu was….busy.

Once their guide was out of sight, Naruto looked over his surroundings. The training ground looked like a small clearing in a forest. Off to one side, there was a tree stump that was made into a kicking post, and some targets, both small and large hanging from some of the trees at different heights and angles. On the other side, there was a flat surface of plain dirt. Up ahead was a very small pond, about the length of both Naruto and Ryuu and width of just one of them. Though small, it served its purpose by providing water.

A very small noise from one of the tree's caught his attention; though Naruto was not able to investigate it (he had a feeling on what, or better yet who it was) what with Ryuu standing next to him, dirt and grass stains on both him and his clothes with his arms crossed over his chest. His eye was twitching and he was glaring at the teen, a glare that spoke of death if pushed any farther.

"What. Was. That. For?!"

Naruto, ignoring his instincts that were basically yelling at him to run, simply gave him a blank look. After a few seconds, during which Ryuu got red in the face with anger, Naruto thought it was time to finally speak.

"What was what for?"

Naruto barely dodged the fist that was aimed at his face. Quickly jumping back, he blocked one of Ryuu's powerful kicks that were aimed at his chest this time with his arms. Naruto gritted his teeth. Throwing the leg back, he stepped left, feeling the sharp kunai graze his cheek.

Now Naruto was no idiot; he knew that what he said was going to make Ryuu mad. That's the reason why he said it. He also knew that the two hiding in the large tree to the right of him were his new teammates. The teen figured that if they were trying to hide from them, it must be for a somewhat good reason. Because really, who hid from them? Though he rather hated it, both Ryuu and he were treated like heroes in the village, so it was as if everyone wanted to meet them at least once. So, he provoked Ryuu into fighting him. Not that hard really either, which he found sad. Then again, there is always the slim chance that Ryuu caught his train of thought so is just going along with it.

The now emotionless teen dodged another punch, and then quickly crouched to avoid Ryuu's swinging leg. Naruto actually felt the fabric of Ryuu's pants brush his hair, causing him to mentally gulp.

'Then again, he might not have caught on and is really trying to hit me' One never knows when it comes to Ryuu…

To dodge Ryuu's leg sweep Naruto was quick jump back. Landing a few feet away from the mad dragon, the teen finally decided to fight back.

Or he would have, if he was not caught by a pair of arms. With a kunai held against his neck by a clone of Ryuu, he sighed, though on the inside curious.

"When did you have the time to make the clone? I was watching you the entire time and never saw you make the seals, neither one handed or two."

Said clone removed the deadly weapon from his neck, popping out of existence since his job was done.

The real Ryuu stood from the crouching position the he was still in from his attempt at a leg sweep.

"In the very beginning actually. Since I had an idea on what was going to happen when you not so kindly kicked me, I was able to make a clone while you were looking over our surroundings. Before I gained your attention, I sent the clone into the trees surrounding us." Ryuu pointed to the trees behind Naruto, which happened to be across from the two that were still hiding in the trees.

Naruto's mouth made an O shape, finally understanding.

Here, Ryuu smirked. "Well, it appears that I still have some things to teach you after all." His smirk grew, making Naruto frown lightly. "And here I thought that you would have been able to tell it was there straight away. What's the matter Fox?" He stressed the word fox, his smirk now a full blown grin. "Losing your edge already?"

Naruto snorted, one of his rare moments of showing emotion in public when he knew for a fact that others were around. It always seemed that he showed more facial expression and emotions when inside this village. There was just something about it that made him feel as if he could drop his hard and cold appearance, if only for a little bit.

What's more, he really didn't care. In fact, he enjoyed the feeling.

"Please, Ryuu. If it wasn't for the fact that I was in the middle of going to investigate those two little birdies," he nodded his head towards the tree they were still sitting in, "then trust me, I would have not only noticed, but I would have gotten rid of it as well."

"Ah, ah, ah." He shook his finger, as if scolding a baby. "That's no excuse. You should have been able to at the least sense the clone. Come on now, I've trained you better then that."

By now the two of them were walking over to the tree that their temporally teammates were in. The two continued talking, Ryuu saying what they could do to up his training and Naruto either agreeing or disagreeing with the ideas.

Ryuu was the first to actual see them. He simply smiled and kept on talking.

"Oh come on, it'll be fun!"

Naruto crossed his arms over his chest, glaring at the man. Leaning against the tree, not even spearing the two in it a glace, he responded.

"No and that's my final answer. Swimming in a mile long lake that's infested with alligators and Kami knows what else with no use of charka does not sound like fun. So, no!"

Ryuu attempted to pout, causing a twitch to appear by his eye.

"Fine, so the lakes out. How about I knock you out, blindfold you, then I ditch you in the middle of a snow storm and see how long it takes you to find your way back. Naked of course."

"Ryuu…" Naruto growled out, his twitch increasing as well as his glare.

Ryuu simply waved it off, use to the teen and his glare. Though, Ryuu noticed with amusement, how the two above them stiffened, as if waiting for another fight to break out.

Since he was already glancing at the two, he took in their appearance. He had to do a double take, noticing how they were twins.

He resisted an urge to raise an eyebrow. 'Shibuki never said anything about twins. Well, then again, he didn't even tell us their names…'

There was a boy and a girl, both of which seemed to be around Nauto's age, maybe a year younger. The girl was wearing a blood red short sleeve shirt, a black strip running down her left sleeve. The pants that she was wearing, much like her shirt, was a blood red and also had a black line running down the pant leg, but instead of on her left leg, it was on her right. Her plain black hair was shoulder length and straight, nothing really special about it, which in his mind, how it should be. On her right thigh, blending in her the black strip was her kunai and shuriken pouch. Attached to her hip was what looked to be a metal bottle, and if he had to guess, water was inside of it. On her back was a plain looking kanata.

Much like his twin, the boy had the same exact outfit with only two changes. The sides that the black strips are on switch and his own kunai and shuriken pouch was on his left leg, blending in with the black strip. Attached to his hip on the opposite side as his sister was an identical looking metal bottle. The kanata on his back made it so that he could grip its handle with his left hand unlike his sister's who's made it so she could grab it with her right.

Naruto too noticed their stiffness, though he felt it more then saw it.

Ryuu, wanting to see how long this would go, continued.

"Fine, fine. You can have a cloak. How about that?"

Naruto, actually having fun on the inside, was about to shoot back a response but was beaten to it.

"Are you two insane?!" The female's voice rang out. Both Naruto and Ryuu casually looked up to meet their new teammate's horrified look. Ryuu was grinning madly, making him look more insane, while Naruto raised an eyebrow. He, just like Ryuu had done only moments before, was looking them over. He was silently surprised that they were twins, but to him that just meant that they should have excellent teamwork and coordination when in battle. He liked them already. That and they were wearing his favorite two colors.

Ryuu was the first to answer, Naruto right behind.

"But of course we are."

"And enjoying every minute of it as well."

The two in the tree and the two on the ground stare at each other, the twins wondering if they were really their village's heroes. Finally, Naruto speaks, breaking the slight awkward silence between the four.

"So…you two coming down or what?" He tilts his head slightly, a questioning look in his eyes.

The two in the tree share a look then look back at Naruto and Ryuu sheepishly.

"Uh, yeah." The boy spoke this time.

Naruto and Ryuu took a couple steps back, giving them enough room so they could get down.

The two jumped from the tree, landing in a crouched position. As they stood, Ryuu took over talking.

"So I'm hoping that Shibuki has told you of the mission?"

The two twins nodded, still giving Naruto and Ryuu weary looks. Naruto mentally nodded to himself, pleased.

'So even though Ryuu and I have become one of the village's 'heroes' they are still not trusting us right away. Good'

"So, you know then that we'll be 'teammates' for a little more then a month right?"

Again they nodded.

Ryuu crossed his arms, nodding happily.

"Good. Then I only have one more question for you two."

The twins looked at him expectantly, curiosity shown in their matching green eyes.

Here Ryuu looked a bit sheepish. He scratched his cheek, looking from one to the other.

"What are your names?"

The twin's faces turned blank. The only sign of annoyance that they no doubt felt was the slight frown on the girls face and the light twitch on the boys.

"Shibuki-Sama didn't tell you…?" The male asked.

Naruto coughed, looking away while Ryuu continued to look sheepish.

"Well, in his defense, he never really got a chance. You see…when the two of us accepted the mission, we got interrupted by another shinobi. So in the end, Shibuki just told us where to find you two…" Ryuu didn't really lie to them; he just stretched the truth a little bit. Yeah. Right.

Truth was that when Naruto found out where the mission was to take place, it was as if his brain shut down for a few minutes. Then, he was acting as if one on auto-pilot would. Both Ryuu and Shibuki were worried, so they held off talking any more about it. Shibuki sent the two to the hotel, telling Ryuu where he could find their teammates for the mission. When they were walking towards the hotel, Naruto slowly came out of his auto-pilot. See? Only stretching the truth…

The twins gave them questioning looks, not sure on wither to trust their word or not, but nodded none the less.

The male started to answer. "Well, as you can see we're brother and sister."

"So we work rather well together. Since we use almost all of the same jutsu's and have the same taijutsu style, when we graduated a month ago, we were put on the same team." The female took over.

Here they both looked a bit sheepish and a bit embarrassed.

"The problem, though, is that we never got a third teammate." The girl started.

"You see, our class had an odd number, making it so that one team would have only two genins and a jounin." The boy continued.

"They chose the two of us because they thought that since we already work so well together and are in such synch, that if they did add another member to our team, we would most likely not work as well, what with having someone else to worry about while on a mission." Back to the girl.

"So yeah." They both spoke.

Though out their explanation towards the end, both Naruto and Ryuu looked between the two when they spoke, wondering how they were able to talk like they did.

"So I understand the need to have Naruto here on your team, but if what you two just said is true, and I'm not saying I don't believe you two, but if you two already have a jounin, then where is he or she?" Ryuu asked in a confused tone. Naruto was wondering the same thing, though didn't show it besides a raised eyebrow when Ryuu asked.

The male shrugged, as if it were not that important "Well, Fusao-Sensei and a few of the other jounin's left about two weeks ago for a long term mission. Before he left, he told us that they should be gone for about three months."

The girl sighed dramatically, continuing where her brother left off. "So before we got this mission, we're been basically been going from team to team to join them on their own mission. Not much fun really."

Her brother nodded, showing that he agreed. "Especially when all of the other guys hate me and love my sister and all of the girls hate my sister but love me. Simply. Annoying."

"Ouch. I can see why you guys are doing this mission then. Not only do you two get away from the other teams, but you also get a chance at becoming chunin." Spoke Ryuu.

Naruto, though he couldn't help but feel a small amount of pity for the twins, wanted to laugh at their situation. But, he resisted the urge, instead getting them back on track.

"Excuse me, but may we please get back to introductions? It would be nice to know the names of my future teammates."

The twins blushed lightly, the boy laughing nervously.

"Sorry. Well, my name's Akimitsu Takahashi." The boys bowed lightly.

"And my name is Akimi Takahashi." The girl copied her brother, giving Naruto and Ryuu a light bow.

Ryuu smiled kindly while Naruto just nodded.

"Well, as you two may or may not know, my name is Ryuu. Mr. Silent over there is Naruto. Though, not to be rude, I have to please ask you two to not say our real names outside of your village. So please address me as simply Sensei until we come up with something else. Same with Naruto, though while here just call us by our names." He scratched his cheek, looking apologetic at the two.

"No problem, but may I ask why?" Akimi asked, tilting her head slightly.

Naruto answered this time, meeting her curious gaze.

"Two reasons really. One," He held up one finger, "Ryuu here happens to be a wanted man. Though not that many, we still have the few odd bunch of shinobi that come after us for his head. Apparently over the years he's gathered quite the bounty." Here he held up another finger. "And two, like Ryuu, I too have gathered a bounty, though not as much as Ryuu. So, we like to try to keep our real names out of the bingo book since if certain people knew them, we'll have a hell of a lot more bounty nin's after us. And maybe some hunter nin's as well."

Akimitsu crossed his arms over his chest, thinking over their answer. After a few seconds he spoke.

"But, that doesn't make any sense. Why would having your names in the bingo book be such a big deal? I mean, don't they already have photos of you two? So why would knowing your real names make a difference?"

Naruto once again answered, not even giving Ryuu a chance to talk.

"Because they don't have any pictures of us. At least, not some that actually looks like us. When ever we get a new mission, we always change our appearance so we never really look the same. Really, the only thing that stays constant about our looks is our outfits and weapons so that people know that we are who we say we are. So, people only know us as our other names, the Deadly Fox and Vicious Dragon. "

Here, Ryuu took over.

"As for why our names are so important, as you might or might not know my birth place was Suna. After I left, the Kazekage sent out many hunter nin squads to either kill me or bring me back. After a while, I came across Naruto here. That's when I felt that enough was enough. So, I came up with a plan to make them think that I killed myself.

"I'll admit, it took a while, but I was finally able to pull it off. I lead a sole hunter nin, I having killed his other three teammates, to a large cliff side. It had to be at least over a hundred foot drop to an angry ocean below. Now, while we were running, I was able to lose the hunter nin for about thirty seconds, but that was all of the time that I needed. In the thirty seconds, I quickly made an earth clone that took my place. Now you have to realize that this hunter nin and I had been running almost none stop for about three days, so we were both tired. That one reason may have been why I was able to make a clone without him noticing.

"Watching from the distance, I was able to see the hunter nin corner my clone on the edge of the cliff. The two talked, the hunter nin pulling out his weapon; a standard kanata. My clone pulled out nothing.

"Finally, after what seemed like forever to me, my clone started to back up to the point where it was literally standing on the edge of the cliff. Then, my clone fell back, a smile on its face."

Both Akimi and Akimitsu's eyes were wide, giving Ryuu their full attention as if they were hearing an epic tale. Naruto smiled lightly, resisting the great urge to chuckle at the sight.

"Then what happened?" asked Akimi, her eyes sparkling in respect.

Ryuu puffed out his chest, trying and failing to look impressive, at least to Naruto.

"Why he bought it of course! After rushing to the cliff's edge to watch my clone fall and hit the water, he waited around for a few minutes, and then walked slowly away. Pretty dramatic if you ask me."

Naruto rolled his eyes, not able to resist the urge this time.

"Anyways, may we please move on? We do have a mission to get ready for after all." Naruto spoke in a bored tone. All of the eyes snapped to him, Ryuu looking slightly upset at having the attention stolen away from him, and the twins looking at him as if he were their jounin replacement.

Coughing lightly to hide his embarrassment at the sudden attention, he continued.

"Now, the chunin exams start in two weeks time, so we should leave as soon as possible. Since it's a three day walk, we should have enough time to look over the village and get use to the surroundings. You two can also meet some of the other chunin wannabes."

The twins nodded, as well did Ryuu who was used to his bossy nature. Naruto continued.

"So that means that you two should go and gather everything thing that you wish to bring. Pack enough things to last for about a month's time. When you two have everything, come to Shibuki-Sama's office. From there, we'll head out."

Once again, he got three head nods. Though, Akimi looked at Ryuu curiously.

Ryuu, guessing the unasked question, spoke.

"You might as well listen to him. Even though I'm the adult, Naruto seems to have a better mind when it comes to planning out these types of things. Over the years, I've learned to just listen to what he suggests. It usually gets us out of tight spots or saves us time in some way or another."

Her mouth made an O shape. Smiling at Ryuu and Naruto, who was watching the two with a raised eyebrow, ran to catch up with her brother.

Sighing, Ryuu and Naruto began to head to their hotel to gather their things.

"This should be fun." The teen mumbled lowly to himself.

Ryuu, hearing him, smiled.

'That it should.'