CHAPTER 2

"I want you all to read about milk production in goats, write the clear summary down and submit it in our next class," the sensei of class 5G said over the din of his students chattering and gathering their books from their desks, despite the mild noise he was clear and they all paused to hear the rest of what he wanted to say, it wasn't anything they didn't know but they still listened and jotted it down anyway. Basic science was a core subject that all junior civilian students had to know before they could graduate to senior civilian school. The man was one of the best teacher the school could provide and he taught them very well, if his clean records were anything to go by.

The school was organized in a way that a class had two types of teachers each: one to take up science subjects and one to take up art subjects. The school was very wide and a lot of people applied for teaching posts there so no class was ever deficient. In total, in the junior section, there were 6 classes with 7 lettered subdivisions under them. The senior had 9 classes with three lettered sub-divisions in the first 6 classes while the last 3 were collage classes.

The man was a middle aged man with jet black hair and mild shadows under his eyes, the shadows weren't because of being tired, they were just part of him, the man though was very pale since he spent most of his time inside. He wore dark blue slacks and a buttoned up back suit shirt that was folded at the sleeves to his elbows. He had on wire rimmed glasses perched safely at his nose and a pen hooked on his.

The 9 year old students were marching out of the class in their friend groups and he caught sight of a particular group the Yondaime's son was in. They were 5 in total, three girls and two boys. He smiled when the blonde looked over at him as he was animatedly talking about something; his friends were raptly paying attention, and waved at his teacher. The man motioned for him to come over and Naruto apologised to his friends and bid them goodbye as he walked purposefully to the teacher.

"See you guys tomorrow!"

"Yeah, see ya dude!" one of the girls waved and pranced out of the room with the others.

Naruto turned back to his teacher, "is there something wrong, Ao-sensei?"

The man named Ao turned back to his desk and picked up his side bag, a present from the former class that had graduated, and grabbed Naruto's shoulder, leading him out of the class and closing the door, "there isn't a problem, well, not that much of a problem," he patted the boys head to calm him down, "I just came to remind you that tomorrow, during art class, we're having a bring your parents to school day to show case what you've all done in your classes art class,"

Naruto's shoulders sagged when he finally got what the man was trying to say, "Oh…"

Ao nodded and continued, "I want to say that, since your parents are high officials then you won't be blamed if they can't come," he seriously felt sorry for the smart child; he had met all his students parents, from the present till when he had just started teaching 10 years ago, for their annual students reports and no one came for Naruto's. It wasn't the first time a student of his had very important parents but those parents actually showed up once in a while. He had had the intuition to personally hand Naruto's grade reports to the Hokage at his office and what he saw greatly disappointed him. The man, though outwardly nodding at whatever he said, wasn't happy with what he was hearing and at the end of it all Minato would press him to discourage his son from attending that school and choose the Ninja Academy.

Naruto had too much potential as a civilian to be thrust into something he didn't want to be. Last week Naruto had separated two fighters in the hall way, both fighters were in grades above his own and after doing so he went into a short lecture on what arguing could do to a person, adding in the example of the Aburame clan and the Kamizuru clan of Iwa.

Naruto was a natural at dissolving arguments. Sadly his parents didn't see that.

"I'll-I'll try and see if they can come," the blonde boy murmured,

"don't feel bad; if they won't come then I'm sure one of your older friends can stand in their place…again," Naruto perked up and scrubbed the tears out of his eyes after hearing this. Both were now outside and Naruto looked at the suns position: two hours after midday, he said goodbye to his thoughtful teacher and walked back to the Kage's mansion, his camo green back pack securely on his back. The bag was a gift from a river country trader on his birthday, the man had said it was in style and who was Naruto to turn down such a thoughtful gift? He stopped over at a tea shop beside the mansion and ordered two boxes of assorted cupcakes to go. After doing this he walked past the gate and entered the house.

"I'm back!" his mother, who was reading a pregnancy magazine in the living room smiled and waved at him, he wanly smiled back and headed to his room,

"How was school?" she settled better in her chair, her bulging belly clearly visible.

"It was ok," he contemplated asking if she could come to school with him the next day for the art exhibit but discarded it, choosing to wait until his father and mother were together. He walked past his older sibling's room and stopped at his younger sister's room, the door had red and yellow sparkles over a hand written sign of her name. He knocked on the door and little Hina answered not too long after, she grinned, "Are you ready?"

She nodded, "are you?"

"I just need to drop my bag," he opened his door, directly opposite his own, and threw his bag onto his bed, the cupcakes were still in his hand, "now I'm ready," he gave the girl the boxes of cupcakes and they walked down the stairs to the front door.

"Where are you two going?" his mother asked from behind her magazine,

"Big bro said he'd take me to Akiko-chan's birthday party,"

'That was today?' the red haired mother mused, she ran through a list of excuses to give on why she couldn't go but it was her blonde son that saved her.

"You don't have to go," he ushered the excited girl outside, Hina wore a knee length short sleeved blood red dress with black and white striped tights and sleeves. The dress had black heart designs speckled over it with the hearts having cross bones behind and skeletal faces on them. She had on a black baseball cap that she had purposefully turned backwards and deep red boots that had black soles. She was delicately balancing the box of cupcakes one on hand and holding her brothers hand with the other.

Naruto a deep blue shirt with grey chain like designs crisscrossing his chest and black pants, he also favoured wearing boots but his were a deep red with white soles. In one hand he held his own blue baseball cap and in the other he held his little sisters free hand.

Hina looked up at him, "let's go!"

"We'll be back before dinner," he said to his mother and walked out of the door with his sister, fixed his cap on his head (correctly) and closed the door. The siblings walked away from their house and made idle discussion as they made their way into the residential section of Konoha, noticing the ANBU team that followed after them in the shadows. They stopped at a fairly large house. Naruto chuckled when he saw the curtains upstairs closing hastily and didn't bother knocking. The door swung open to reveal a white haired 6 year old girl in a short plain green dress and black sandals, the girl nervously glanced up at Naruto and quietly motioned for them to come in.

They stepped in and made their way to the living room, "happy birthday Akiko-chan!" Hina squealed and shoved the box to the girl. Akiko grinned at her and dropped the box on the table, hugging her fellow 6 year old immediately after doing so,

"Thank you; I thought you wouldn't come,"

Naruto relaxed in is chair across from the two and reclined, his legs over one of the chairs arms and his other half over the other arm. "We're early, Akiko-san,"

The white haired girl laughed nervously and scratched the back of her head, "I know, I know. Daddy and mommy are upstairs," on cue both of the girls walked briskly into the living room and blinked at the visitors. Naruto greeted the cordially and Hina waved jovially.

"Oh, hello Naruto-sama and Hina-sama. I believe you two are here for Akiko-chans birthday?" the duo nodded, "the other children will be here any minute now," also on cue they heard a polite knock on the door and the children's party was now underway.

Akiko Hibachi was an only child, Hina had befriended during the last Kyuubi festival. There was something about her that drew Hina in and both were now very good friends. Presently, the two, as well as all the other girls in the party, were off giggling in a corner of the house while the younger boys played amongst themselves. Naruto was in a group of older children that were forced by their parents to escort their younger siblings to the party. He was silently listening to a boy rant on how unfair it was to come instead of going to train. The boy and the other older children were in a world of their own, pretending to be the adults in the party and laughing boisterously at seemingly random things.

The party had everything one would expect in a fairly wealthy family with an only child, that child being 6 years old. There were party games like pin the tail on the donkey, twister, an eating contest between the birthday girl and a random person, among other things.

There was even an all-out dance contest. Little Hina had been shoved out into the dance circle along with Akiko and another female child, unfortunately (depends on how you look at it) the other child was an Akimichi (I bet you can predict who won). The generic child just so happened to be the most experienced in dancing; apparently his parents were dance instructors, he tore up the floor with dances no one was even sure were in existence. Akiko could only do the electric slide and that left Hina to do an awkward funky chicken. It was a moment Naruto was glad he took along a disposable camera and pockets filled with film; he took so many pictures it could cover a fence. There was cake, there were pies and, of course, after the two real adults stepped out for a minute, there was a mini-food fight.

Laughs were shared, memories made, company enjoyed.

Thirty minutes to dinner time and it was time for Naruto and Hina to go back home. He bade the birthday another happy birthday and left with his sister.

"That was awesome, big bro!" Hina squealed and swung up to Naruto's back, hollering for the boy to run, and who was Naruto to not comply. The child's happy yells could be heard from their point to the reclusive Aburame clan compound. Hina grabbed the blonde boy's uncontrollable hair and used it as a sort of horse rein and steering wheel, swerving around and dodging other people.

Naruto was busy making horse noises and galloping down the path to their house, grinning with the villagers. He burst through the Kage mansion doors and skidded to a stop a few feet from behind a couch chair, Hina flipped over him and landed in a lump on the chair. Naruto didn't give her time to get her bearings; he dived onto her and gave her a playful elbow drop, the girl squirmed from under him and climbed another chair beside the couch, Naruto acted as though he was dizzy, so Hina jumped with all her might (cue majestic white swan flying behind Hina) and flopped onto her brother. She picked up a couch pillow and hit the boy, Naruto pushed her off and took a pillow himself.

The war was epic…until…

"Ugh, can't you two behave?" Tenzo Namikaze snorted from the dining room, he was brushing an apple on his shirt, after doing so he propped his legs on the table and proceeded to start chomping down on it. His twin, Mito Namikaze, walked out of the kitchen with an orange, purposefully sucking on it, and sat down by her twin. She winked from above her orange at her younger siblings and went back to destroying the fruit.

"It's called fun, Mr Two-by-Four-Your-" Hina was cut off by a swift slap to the back of her head, courtesy of Naruto,

"Language," he shoved her away calmly when she attempted to jump on him, "is dinner ready?"

"Just about," Tenzo said, brushing another apple and chomping down on it, "kaa-san said three more minutes,"

"What are we having," Hina huffed, after another unsuccessful ambush,

Mito burped, ignoring her irritated brother, and also propped her feet on the table, "Ramen…" she said the food wistfully and hugged herself, giggling almost maniacally, "ramen," on cue, all her other siblings, even Naruto sighed longingly as the warm scent wafted into the room,

"ramen," all said the name with their eyes watery and their lips glistening, Hina swallowed thickly and Naruto, trying to regain composure, cleared his throat and made to say something but it only came out as a throaty gurgle, "ramen," any outsider that saw how all four children of Minato Namikaze, the Yondaime Hokage and Uzumaki Kushina, his wife, saying the name of the noodle in sync and with the same expression, it would be considered the strangest thing since Uchiha Fugaku fainted after hearing Mikoto Uchiha, his wife, was pregnant for Sasuke. All the couples friends openly said that this was what would happen if two ramen lovers (*cough-worshippers-cough*) procreated together.

"Dinners ready!" the children cleared their throats, also in sync, and righted their positions, Naruto and Hina walked to the table and took a seat. The door to the kitchen slammed open dramatically and Kushina swished out, wearing her home clothes but this time in immaculate white, holding a large pot of ramen over her head. Naruto allowed himself a brief break from drooling to look over at his fathers appointed chair at the head of the table, not in the least surprised the man was already there, he didn't bother asking how he got there so fast and so quietly. He went back to raptly watching their mother neatly serve the food around and raising her hands for them to begin eating.

It was a terrible amount of self-control that the Hokage's children didn't break their bowls in the name of eating their favourite dish. Add in the fact that in one of their mothers hands was a thick wooden spoon and the other held her chop sticks. Minato stifled a moan, uncomfortably in sync with the rest of his family, "this ramen…" he swallowed down another serving, "is beautiful, Kushi-chan,"

The woman blushed bashfully and lightly kicked Naruto's leg, one non-verbal passed (can you guess what it is?) if the fact that Minato sat up straighter then the message was very good. She couldn't speak; she had some food in her mouth, but she did wink at him.

"Ugh, can't you two not flirt in front of us?" the ever smooth Tenzo said from beside Mito, "I swear, you two are like a couple of school kids,"

"I think it's cute," Hina squeaked and tucked in for another long swallow of ramen, stifling a giggle when Mito winked at her,

Naruto rolled his eyes and took another serving of ramen from the seemingly bottom-less pot of food, Kushina too rolled her eyes at her children, "how was the birthday party, Hina-chan?"

The youngest soon to-be fourth born began jumping in her seat, "it was epic, kaa-chan! I was in this dance contest and I was winning!" Naruto snorted a laugh, choking on his ramen broth, when the choking subsided he looked at Hina pointedly, the girl just grinned, shaking her head frantically,

"You were winning?" Mito said, already knowing what Naruto had choked about. The youngest blonde shook his head and swiftly brought out a picture from his pants pocket, passing it to Mito before Hina could snatch t away. Mito laughed loudly and leaned the picture to Tenzo, who also couldn't resist a loud laugh. The picture was passed to their parents and the two also laughed loudly. It was inevitable that the picture got to Hina, her family laughing shamelessly. It was one of the various he had of her, flapping her arms shyly and eying the real dancer, who was at the background spinning on his back, and Akiko also shyly waving her arms in a fractured version of the legendary dance, The Electric Slide. The crowd was clapping to the beat, even the older kids.

The poor girl turned a deep flustered red, idly using her chop sticks to mix her noodles, "it wasn't that bad,"

"Oh yeah?" Naruto said beside her, he waggled his eyebrows and made to take another picture out but his shoulder was punched by an increasingly bashful Hina, "ok, ok," he leaned into Mito, who was recovering from her hearty laugh, "I'll show you later," he winced again when Hina punched him. the mood settled down and Naruto swallowed nervously, "Tou-sama, kaa-sama," he took their muffled sighs as a good ahead to speak, "my school is holding a bring your teacher to school day tomorrow, they're going to show off my grades art," both his parents nodded in understanding, "I was wondering-I was wondering if either of you could come"

"I'm sorry Naruto but I'm busy tomorrow," Minato winced when his son didn't even seem disappointed, only opting to nod and look over at his mother,

"Mikoto-chan, Tsunade-chan and I were planning to go shopping for baby clothes tomorrow, I'm sorry Sochi-kun,"

Visibly, Naruto was a perfect picture of emotionless, but it was very noticeable how his eyes fell, "oh…I understand,"

Kushina was scrambling for what to say, "but-but we promise to go next time!"

Naruto looked away from her, "like you promised last year? And the year before that?" bringing an adult to the art exhibit wasn't compulsory in any way, it was just a good feeling that a child's parents saw what their ward had been up to in their art classes. Naruto, despite being rejected for flimsy excuses every year he asked, was always disappointed by their replies.

His parents didn't have the heart to answer and the air thickened. Finally, Naruto couldn't take it anymore and he stood up and carried his plate to the kitchen. He again escaped and slept at the Nara librarian's house. Back at the table, the twins and Hina were silently glaring at their parents; they too took their plates away and went to bed.

Authors note

Pretty sad.

On a side note, I grew up with most of my female friends being tom boys and my sisters too being tom boys, so I don't exactly know how to depict a girly girl. If you don't like it then sucks for you. Also note I'm into yuri (not yaoi! Never yaoi!) but I can't write it. Nope. And I definitely can't write a harem or an incest fic.

So Naruto isn't going to be paired with Hina. They share a very good relationship but they wouldn't be a couple. Final.

If anyone has any idea for the next chapter or any future chapter then you're free to review or send me a PM. Heck, any question, send it over!

What do you think? I want to know if what I wrote was a total waste of time or a passable story. I don't want to sound selfish but I feed on your reviews! Figuratively of course.

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B.j.