Chapter 3 - Academy Days
8 am, October 17th, Age 10
Kumogakure Shinobi Academy, Kumogakure, Land of Lightning
Arashi was excited for the academy. He really hoped the Kumo academy wasn't like it's counterpart in Konoha. Seriously, who put FLOWER ARRANGING as a MANDATORY class in a shinobi academy. Arashi was slightly distracted however, the twins now knew why their mother abandoned them. They didn't condone it, but they understood her intentions.
Flashback no Jutsu (Begin)
"Wait. Kushina abandoned you?" Arashi nodded and grew confused at his father's thoughtful expression. "She was an orphan. I think she knew the blond fruitcake would react like he did. It sounds like she tried to prevent Minato from noticing you weren't his." The twins stared at him in shock. They hadn't thought about it that way. Durai just smiled sadly. "Think on it. I'll see you two tommarrow.
Flashback no Jutsu (End)
The twins entered the academy and went through the process of introducing themselves. They relaxed until a blond haired girl recognized them as jinchuuriki. (It'll be the same as their gennin introduction. I'll post it on my profile at some point.)
"Wait. You're jinchuuriki! " The twins paled but to their amazement their new classmates looked awed instead of fearful or hating them.
"How'd you know?" Arashi asked the blond curiously.
"Nibi told me." The twins never expected to have the two tailed jinchuuriki as their classmate. The chunnin instructor ushered the twins into seats next to their fellow jinchuuriki.
"You two said you were Uzumaki correct?" At their nod he continued. "As luck would have it, we're covering the 2nd Shinobi War currently. A war that greatly affected your clan." The twins knew he was referring to the fall of Uzushiogakure. They knew very little about it as it seemed the Uzumaki were unknown in Konoha except for Mito and Kushina Uzumaki. They once asked why Kyuubi hadn't stopped the invasion but he was out of contact whilst destroying a far off country for Amaterasu-dono." It is important to know that the entire country was destroyed, not conquered. There have been many countrys attacked and conquered, but very few were destroyed outright. That takes a special kind of fear. Iwa and Kiri attacked the Isle of Whirlpool and laid siege to Uzushio. The siege lasted three weeks and cost the combined assault seventy-five percent of their attack force. It is speculated that some escaped the fall but did not go to Konoha despite the efforts of Kushina Uzumaki. It speculated that Konoha was the culprit behind the attack." One of the girls interrupted.
"Sensei. Why would they do that? You said they were allies."
"Whirlpool had an extensive network of defenses on the island. Chiefly among these were the whirlpools surrounding the island. The defense network failed just before the invasion. It had to be deactivated and there hasn't been an Uzumaki traitor ever, let alone one that betrayed the clan. Konoha supposedly had the handseal sequence to deactivate the defense network. To make it worse they never reinforced Uzu. They kept their forces back in place to 'ward of a kumo invasion'. It is for that reason that the Uzumaki won't go to Konoha." The lunch bell rang and the instructor released his students. (Inspired by Marquis Black's Legacy of Uzushiogakure)
Timeskip - 3 months
After months of pressure from Konoha, Takigakure was ready to hand over their jinchuuriki. Shibuki warned his cousin about the plan and she fled the village. Needless to say, Konoha was pissed. The girl was actively being hunted by Konoha and Suna. She needed a village to protect her, so she went to the one who treated jinchuuriki the best, Kumo. To her suprise she was welcomed warmly, apparently expected. She was placed in the academy with her fellow jinchuuriki.
"Class. Welcome our new student Fuu. She's recently fled Taki after they tried to give her to Konoha. I'm sure you know why." The class cursed Taki and Konoha openly making their opinion quite clear. The class was oddly supportive of jinchuuriki. Many knew Yugito personally and her condition. It also helped that the twins especially Arashi had an odd ability to rally people around them. This caused their friends to become ferociously loyal to them.
Timeskip - Age 11
Durai had decided to give the twins kitsune headbands as a gag gift along with their normal gifts. The pair wore them to school. The next day they continued to wear them and noticed that Yugito and Fuu had gotten identical headbands. The day after that the entire class had a kitsune headband tied to their left arm. It continued to grow slowly with other classes getting them along with the academy instructors. A, who had taken to walks through the village, was spotted wearing a kitsune headband. Suddenly everyone had them. Students, gennin, chunnin, jonnin, hell even ANBU had them. Openly worn with pride, it became a symbol for Kumo. Konoha believed it was poking fun at them and voiced their displeasure by trying to kill a Kumo gennin who had worn his kitsune headband with his Kumo one during the chunnin exam in Suna. It only increased tensions and strained the already bad relationship between Kumo and Konoha.
Timeskip - Team Assignment (Post-graduation)
They'd done it. They were finally gennin, after a grueling combat excersize and skill assessment they had passed. Despite his bad experiences with Konoha's education the Kumo version was fantastic. Kumo had believed in having skilled shinobi not alot of shinobi. The twins had snagged the top spots in the acedemy followed by their fellow demon containers (Arashi, Yuri, Yugito and Fuu. In that order for graduation scores). They had been informed beforehand that the would be teamed up together with Bee as a instructor. It made sense as he'd been teaching the four how to use their tenant's chakra for about a year now.
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