Chapter 3:
Naruto and I awoke in the morning feeling far better then we had the night before. Naruto looked at my face for a full five seconds after he had really woken up. This may not sound like it, but trust me. Five full seconds is a long time for one guy to look at another's face.
"Well what?!" I asked growing impatient.
"Are you really my brother?"
"NANI?" How had he heard me say that? "What makes you think that?"
"When Sauske slammed the Chidori in my chest you called me your brother! Why?" I sighed. I was pressed up against a wall. There was no way out, but I didn't know what to say. I frowned and tried to figure out how to say what I needed to.
"You weren't always alone. For the first four years of your life. I protected you and watched over you. Because you weren't an only child. Your father had another son. Me. The day you were born. He told me to watch over you, to let you be seen as the hero you should've been. I was captured when I was ten and taken away. You were only four at the time."
"But that would've been ten years ago. You can't be twenty you don't look a year older then me."
"Orochimaru put a lot of weird spells on me. One set my body back about five years before ending. I now age normally but I appear your age."
"And I've never been treated like a hero by anyone. Why did the fourth Hokage make me the container?"
"I begged him to use me instead. But he said he couldn't. It had to be a newborn. I don't know why."
"You know what's crazy," Naruto told me. "Is that I actually believe you. Brother." I hugged him just as two brothers should hug each other. Just at that moment a girl walked in. She wore a purple outfit and a lot of bandages, and she had very long pale blonde hair. Not like Naruto's but much lighter.
"Oh, hey Naruto!" said the girl.
"Hey Ino."
"Whose your friend. He's kinda cute." What was this girl, some over-obsessed fan-girl for cute guys? "He's not near Sauske-kun's level but still not bad!" That would be a yes.
"That's Xilic! My brother."
"Nani? Naruto you don't have brothers or sisters."
"He used to and does now." I said, finally speaking up. "Mind telling me who the heck you are?"
"My name's Ino," Oh no, here comes a rant. "I like cute boys, especially Sauske-kun."
"Yeah well that's interesting bye!" I said grabbed Naruto's arm and jumping out of the window. "Man she's dense." I spoke to my brother. "Sauske-kun! Sauske-kun! Sauske-kun! Sauske-kun! If she talked anymore about the guy, he'd be all there was." Naruto looked at me surprised. "I mean after all, your even stronger then he is, why should that... teme get all the credit." Naruto let out a chuckle at my words. I stopped jumping and looked at him. "What?" I asked annoyed.
"It's not really that funny but I used to call him teme all the time too." We both laughed at that. Naruto lead me to his excuse of an apartment. I took one look inside and several details caught my eye. The walls had paint that was peeling off. Graffiti and smashed glass from windows lay everywhere. I saw several cups labeled instant ramen all over the floor. What was ramen? I'd never had any. I saw rocks and bricks from villagers everywhere. It honestly broke my heart. This was my fault. I was supposed to have been there for him. To make sure this kind of stuff wouldn't happen to him. I grabbed his wrist.
"No."
"What? Something wrong?" Naruto asked.
"You won't stay here. You're getting a real house and now."
"But the village won't let me," Naruto said. "They all throw me out if I try to stay anywhere else. There's a reason nobody else stays in the two floors of the place." I lead him out and woke the manager. He looked at me with an upset glare. Then threw a worse look at Naruto.
"What'd ya want?"
"Naruto Uzamaki is moving out." With that we left. I took him uptown to the nicer buildings, sure maybe it'd be expencive but I've more then enough money and if I didn't I could always take a couple of a-rank missions. I went over to a rather nice apartment with four spots left.
"One room. Two single beds, name Uzamaki."
"We don't except demons or their kin." said the bored man behind the desk. I made a chidori.
"It's him or this." I put my money down on the counter and walked in using chakra strings to grab the key from the man.