Uzumaki Nari

Konoha Hospital

'N-Nari…?'

She turned her head at the familiar voice and saw him standing there in an orange jacket and trousers. His bright blonde hair and blue eyes were the same as hers. The only difference between the two was that he had tears in his eyes. He looked uncomfortable standing there but he was overjoyed, she could see it in his eyes as he looked at her.

Tears blurred her vision and although still unconfident on her feet, she jumped off the bed and raced to him. Her legs gave out and she collapsed against her brother, knocking him to the floor. Hugging him, she cried in relief at seeing him. He wrapped his arms strongly around her, his tears pooling out of his eyes. They held tightly to each other afraid as if they would lose each other only after having just found the other.

'Naru-nii!' she cried. 'I missed you so much!'

'I've missed you too, Nari-nee.'

They parted and smiled at each other. She wiped her brother's tears away with her thumb and smiled. He wiped her tears away and grinned. She pushed her legs beneath her to try and stand but they wouldn't budge. She blew her left parted fringe out of her face and groaned. Naruto got the idea and stood. He helped her to her feet and then kept his grip around her so she could remain standing. The pair grinned at the Hokage who sat on the bed smiling.

'She's going to have to stay in the hospital for a complete analysis,' he pointed out.

'Iie!' she cried out rebelliously. She clung to her brother to hint at her rebellion. 'Hate hospitals, get me out!'

'Nari,' the Hokage said sternly. 'It's important.' The scolding tone caused her to pout and look at the floor ashamed. 'You have just woken from a coma. You still have yet to get used to using your body. And…' he continued causing her to groan, 'you've currently got some physical differences that you may need to grow accustomed to.' His eyes travelled to her head and couldn't seem to stray away.

Naruto being the same height had to look up to see what he was looking at.

'Aaaahhhhhhh!' he screamed and dropped her.

She fell to the floor and glared up at her brother. 'Naru-nii, what was that for?'

'E-ears…' he said pointing. 'Ears!'

She cocked her head to a side. 'Ears…?' she said confused. 'Silly, Naru-nii, you have ears too.' She indicated with her hands to the side of her head where the ears are located.

'Not like that!' he said still pointing.

'Uzumaki-san,' a female spoke and knelt down beside her. She wore the white nurse uniform causing Nari to scrunch her nose. She held a mirror and held it up for her to look.

Nari peered into her reflection and saw her long bright hair trailing around her face. Her eyes were the exact colour of her brother's. Her eyes trailed to her ears. She turned her head and could not find them. So she looked up in the mirror and her mouth gaped open. There on the top of her head was a pair of ears. Not human ears. No these looked like they belonged to a wolf. And they were the exact same colour as her hair.

She screamed and backed away to the wall. 'What's happened to me?' she demanded in a scream. She covered her wolf ears underneath her hands and felt them twitched against her hand. She looked at the Hokage. 'What's happened to me?' She felt a twitch behind her and looked. A tail as blonde as her hair moved back and forth as if annoyed. Nari shrieked in fear at her change and cried.

'I'm not sure. I've never seen anything like this before,' he replied. He looked delighted to see something different from the usual, but concerned because this 'unusual thing' has affected Nari's physical appearance. 'We're going to have to test -'

'Definitely not!' she snapped angrily. 'I am not becoming some experiment just to satisfy the urge to see what the hell has happened to me. I think I can find that out by myself!'

'I'm not letting my sister become an experiment either,' Naruto said defiantly.

The Hokage sighed as he realised that he would not be allowed to have some tests done to find out the reason in Nari's condition. He looked thoughtfully at the pair of them for what seemed like eternity when only a space of a few minutes had passed. He couldn't seem to come up with the conclusion himself. Just thinking about it is making it harder to come up with results. Testing would not be enough to find out what has happened. Perhaps consulting with other worlds may help? But then again, maybe not. Maybe fate decreed that she turn out like this. But nothing about this evolution is normal. Something intervened and took things into its own hands.

'All right,' he finally accepted. The twins at first were shocked but then massive grins split across their faces in relief. 'But you will tell me if you find out anything, won't you, Nari?' the girl nodded her head and then jumped him hugging him tightly around the neck.

'Arigatou, old man!' she exclaimed in delight. 'Since I'm better on my feet, can I go home?'

He looked to the nurses who nodded. 'I don't think there's anything keeping you here now,' he said smiling.

'Yatta!' she jumped back and bounced on her feet. She ran to her brother and hugged him. 'I can go home onii-chan!'

Somewhere in Konoha, Gathering of Genin

'Oh so that's what happened,' Kakashi said in response to the story just told him. He scratched the back of his head and laughed nervously. It appears he knew but didn't seem to want to tell them. 'I'm sure Naruto will make up for it when he can.'

'He's such a baka,' Sakura complained crossing her arms. 'Running of like that… It's almost as if he really had something more important to do.'

'He could have at least told us why,' Ino commented sulking.

'Minna!' a boy shouted out. Turning they saw it was none other than Naruto. Whereas earlier he had seemed so shell-shocked he was now grinning widely.

'Hey, Naruto,' Kakashi called out. 'You're just in time. We're going to start.'

The blonde boy stopped short from them. He looked apologetic. 'Gomen, but I can't do it.'

'What's so important all of a sudden, Naruto?' Sakura scolded angrily.

'You afraid I'll kick your ass, Naruto?' Kiba commented cockily.

Naruto glowered at him but otherwise did not rise to his bait, for the first time. 'I just can't do it.'

'Nande?' Sakura challenged with hands on her hips.

'Naru!' a female called out from nowhere. Then suddenly she jumped Naruto from behind and wrapped her arms around his neck. Her bright blonde framed face peered over his shoulder as he held her up on his back. 'You moved too quickly,' she whined.

The girl had long bright blonde hair, the exact colour of Naruto's. Her blue eyes were the exact colour as the boy. In fact, she would look exactly like him if she drew some lines on her cheeks, cut and spiked her hair. Her face would be a little more feminine than Naruto's but she would like the exact replica of the annoying genin. She had a ribbon going through her hair appearing like a headband.

Everyone's face dropped in surprise and shock. Eyes wide, mouths wide open and disbelief clearly printed on their faces. The girl closed her eyes and leaned against Naruto completely happy. Since they didn't know any better, they believed she was madly in love with Naruto. Hyuga Hinata swallowed nervously and kept looking away and back at the blonde pair wondering what their relationship was. A few times the Hyuga girl thought they really were going out.

'Naruto, could this be…?' Kakashi said stepping up and pointing at the girl.

'You have a girlfriend?' most of the genin shouted.

Naruto and the girl's face looked at them wide eyed and then absolute revulsion overtook their features. The pair of them looked like a little green at the thought. The girl looked like she wanted to be sick. Recovering the girl glared at them. She was quite angry at them in fact. She dropped from Naruto's back, stepped out from behind him and placed her hands on her hips. The genin saw that she wasn't too confident on her feet but she packed a hell of a lot of anger.

'Who the hell do you think you all are?' she snapped angrily.

'Excuse me?' Sakura said stepping up to glare down at the one inch shorter girl.

Even despite the differences in their height, the smaller girl still managed to make herself look taller and meaner than Sakura.

'Who do you think you are shouting at Naru-nii?'

'Huh?' Sakura said stumped. The 'nii' got her. She had not expected her to say that Naruto was her brother. 'Nii?'

'Hai, Naru-nii, as in onii-chan. You do know what that means don't you?'

Sakura glared at the female replica of Naruto. Instead of taking her anger out on the strange female, she turned to Naruto and punched him on his head. 'Naruto, what do you think you're doing? Preying on girls and saying they're your sister? Huh?'

The girl's fists clenched, anger burned through her and she punched the pink haired girl in the face, sending her on her ass. 'Don't ever hurt my nii-chan again, do you hear me?!' she snapped threateningly.

Sakura stared at the girl; hand on her bright red cheek, shock clearly written on her features. No one had stuck up for Naruto before. No one had hit someone else for the boy. Yet why was this girl so different? Why was she willing to go to lengths to defend him? Could they really be brother and sister? How could they not be? They looked exactly alike, a replica of each other just different gender.

The girl turned to Naruto and worry transformed her face. 'Naru-nii, daijoubou?'

'Hai,' he said with tears in his eyes from the pain. 'Arigatou, Nari-nee.'

She smiled happily; glad to be able to help her brother.

Sakura got up from the floor and lowered her hand. Her cheek was still bright red, the pain still throbbed, but she managed to ignore it. Only because she didn't want to upset the girl again, not after how strong her punch was. She's got potential to become even stronger, Sakura could just feel it in the way she held back. Ino came over and examined the mark before glaring at the girl.

'How about an introduction?' Kakashi suggested, breaking the silence that flowed around everyone.

Naruto beamed. 'Nee-chan?' he asked looking at his sister.

'Hai,' she said quite happily. She turned to everyone, mindful of the glaring blonde but ignored her, and bowed in polite respect. 'Konnichiwa minna-san, my name's Uzumaki Nari. I'm twelve years old and my nii-chan is Naruto. I was born a month premature.'

'Wait a minute.' Kiba blurted. 'You two are twins?' he pointed at both of them with two fingers.

'Hai,' Nari replied confused with why he hadn't figured it out. 'Couldn't you tell?'

'Iie, I just thought it was a coincidence,' he said laughing nervously. 'So where have you been all this time?'

Sadness darkened Naruto and her eyes. She looked at her brother as if asking if it was okay to tell them. He nodded at her although he seemed reluctant. She looked at the floor, playing with the hem of her orange top as she answered.

'I've been in a seven year coma…'