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After our talk with the Hokage he led us into his office where food was ready for us. Hastily we ate everything that was put in front of us. After all, running for days it can work up an appetite.

"Now children, what happened to your village... is now under firm investigation by Konohagakure. We've tried to get to get in contact with your head village, but there seems to be no response" the Hokage told us. "Does your village have have a head of state or anything of the sort?"

Haruo swallowed its food "well sorta, but she isn't well... she isn't a person"

"Oh... I see" the Hokage answered "you must be talking about your Goddess Mitsuko".

My brother nodded and continued eating, but as my brother continued to gobble away, I just stared at my plate... I suddenly lost my appetite.

"Tomoko?" Hokage said "You need to eat..."

Haruo gave me a worried glance; he of course knew why I wasn't eating. "It's okay Tomoko-sweostor! Look!" he told me and put the food into his mouth and smiled "hm... yummy!" after he swallowed.

But that didn't convince me as I just pushed the plate away.

"I'm sorry Hokage-ágend (Hokage-lord)..." my brother told him sadly "she's just worried about our mother".

"Yes of course" Hokage mused "which is what I need to talk about, as we are investigating what happened... I'm afraid you can't return at this moment".

This made us both stared at him with wide eyes,"w-what do you mean?" Haruo asked with a stutter.

The Hokage sighed loudly and took his hat off, "Your village... I'm afraid has been destroyed."

This made botwidened cry out in misery, I began crying on my brother's shoulder. He seemed to struggle to find his words, "B-but how?" Haruo sputtered.

The Hokage closed his eyes for a second, as if he was trying to figure how to word his sentence "The team working there... so far have not found any survivors".

I was pratically bawling now, the thought of my mother completely crushed under the rubble of our small house.

"Now I know that this is very difficult to hear, but I am not giving up hope for you or for anyone in your village. Since your head village has not been in contact, I as the Hokage would like to ask you stay in Konohagakure where we can look after you and keep you safe".

"So... we're going to be living here?" Haruo asked. I became silence, staring back up at the elderly man front of me.

The Hokage nodded "at least until we get further information on what happened, which could take a while since there was a lot of damage."

"So..." Haruo began "where will we be staying?"

At this The Hokage gave us a small smile "since we don't know the nature of the attack, I feel it is best you stay with our very own police force".

And with that, the office door and in walked a very tall man who looked in his mid-thirties. He had stern onyx eyes with visible creases underneath, his brown short hair fell in either side of his face. He also wore a black robe with gray pants. After him a boy who looked about Haruo's age walked in behind the tall man. I assumed that they were family because like the tall man he had onyx eyes with creases; the only difference was that he was of course much younger and he had long, dusty black hair that was tied into a ponytail with his bangs either side of his head.

He was ridulously handsom, so much so I could feel my checks heat up slightly. He was so calm and collective, he almost looked like a painting, only it moved.

"Ah! Good morning Fugaku!" chimed the Hokage "and I see you brought your oldest son along".

Both Fugaku and his son bowed slightly "Hokage-Sama..." Fugkau began "are you sure this is a good idea? They could be spies of the enemy..."

Well that was rude.

"Now Fugaku, they are only children and have been through a lot. We cannot just cast them away with nowhere to go." The Hokage explained.

"But..."

"Fugaku..." The Hokage interrupted "the children are right next to you".

Immediately both men's heads turned to us. Fugaku gave us a stunned look, but he wasn't the on who I had my attention on, I once again laid my eyes it was his son. He stared at me back, as if he was analyzing me... yet out of all the men I'd met so far, I couldn't bring myself to be scared of him.

"Oh my..." Fugaku gasped "I never imagined them to be so young!"

The Hokage nodded "Tomoko here is the same age as your youngest son".

The Son then stepped in front of us "so Tomoko is your name..." stated the young boy. I nodded, he then turned to my brother "and you?"

"Haruo... her brother".

Fugaku sighed heavily, "alright, I'll personally take them in myself. I'm sure my wife will be thrilled to have a little girl in house".

The boy glanced at his father, with an unreadable expression.

I slipped out a tiny whimper, I wanted to say something to this boy. But once again, my words failed me.

Although, as quiet at my whimper was, it still caught they boy's attention. His expression completely changed, and gave us a small smile "my name's Itachi, my clan will be looking after you during your stay" he then turned back to me, his features now kind and gentle "that is, if it is okay with you Tomoko-Chan?"

I found myself not being so scared anymore... so I returned the smile and nodded.

"Listen Naruto! You've already failed two exams beforehand, How do you expect to graduate if you keep pulling pranks!" Iruka-Sensei lectured.

From hearing his voice it brought me out of my day-dream. 'Did I zone out that much? I didn't even hear them come in'.

All Naruto had to reply to that was a pout and turn his face, which caused a vein to pop out of Iruka-Sensei's head.

"Right that's it!" he yelled and turned to the rest of the class "we are going to have a review test for the transformation technique!" he announced "those who have already passed will have to line up as well!"

Immediately the class was filled with moans and groans from the other students,but they all obeyed his command. Followed by Hinata, I stepped in line and watched each person take their turn in performing the technique, first up was Sakura.

"Haruno Sakura, going! Transform!" and with that there was a puff of smoke and there stood an exact reflection of Iruka-Sensei.

Sensei gave her a nod of approval and marked down on his clip board.

There was another puff of smoke and Sakura was back to herself again "I did it!" she squealed "did you see that Sasuke-Kun?"

I rolled my eyes at her behaviour, me and her never got along. It was because she had this idiotic theory, that I secretly was in love with Sasuke, but he would never look at me when she was around... or something like that. The harsh truth was, and I'm not sure this will ever get through Sakura's thick skull, is that Sasuke didn't crush on anyone, and I mean anyone! He definitely didn't like boys and he seem to have no interest in having a girlfriend.

"Next, Uchiha Sasuke!"

Without a word, Sasuke accomplished the technique flawlessly as he appeared as a photo perfect Iruka-Sensei.

"All right!" Iruka said proudly and jotted down some notes. Sasuke changed back and started walking back to his seat.

"Next Uzumaki Naruto!"

I threw a cheeky smile towards Hinata to see her face as red as crimson. "So when are you gonna get the guts to have a real conversation with him?"

Hinata looked at me as if she'd been told her death "I-I-I er well... I-I d-don't know, I'm to... I can't!"

I raised an eyebrow at her "Hinata, this is Naruto we're talking about..." But as soon as Hinata started her answer, Naruto yelled transform and through the swirling smoke, was nude female version of Naruto winking at Iruka-Sensei, who of course turned deadly pale and fell backwards with blood spurting out his nose.

"HAHAHAHA" Naruto cried with laughter after he changed back to normal "How was that? I call it my sexy no justu!"

I could feel a wet drop on the side of my head, as Iruka-Sensei started shouting at Naruto. "And you're the one who has a crush on him" I told Hinata with a giggle.

"Mori Tomoko!"

"wha..." I then noticed that I was next, I guess the three in front of me already went. As I stepped forward I heard a boy yell good luck which made me frown... this justu isn't that hard.

"Transform!" and like everyone else I changed into Iruka-Sensei.

"Very nice Tomoko!" Iruka told me with a smile.

I changed back into myself "thanks Sensei!" and went to walk back to my seat.

"that was great Tomoko-San!" one boy chimed as the rest agreed.

"Er... thanks but it really wasn't that much of a big deal" I told them coolly "besides, I think Naruto's was waybetter!"

From hearing his name Naruto made a loud "huh" and pointed at himself as if to say 'who me?'.

"Yes you..." I told him with a chuckle "that was the aim though right? To make fun of this boring excercise? I mean no one else thought to do what you did."

Naruto gave me a blank look but quickly recovered "of course it was! Haha" he replied scratching the back of his head.

I could sense the other boys jealous gaze upon him, honestly they could be as bad as the girls sometimes.

I returned to my seat, patiently waiting for Hinata, who had just finished her justu. "So, ready for tomorrow?" I asked her as she took a seat.

Hinata pushed her index fingers togehpther, a habit she had developed over the years, "I don't think I'll ever feel ready for this".

I stared at her, concerned, "is your dad giving you hard time again?"

Hinata rested her head in her palm as she leaned on the desk, "he's always giving me a hard time".

For some reason, her shyness wasn't so bad when it was just me and her. Maybe it was because we were really comfortable around each other. I met Hinata not long after I started at the academy, I remember finding her sitting alone in the corner. Around this time I was still friends with Sasuke, but for some reason he was absent that day, and since every girl in my class hated me, I took the plunge and went to talk to her. Turned out she wasn't interested in Sasuke at all... It was a certain Orange dressed ninja.

I sighed slightly "Hinata, at least give yourself a little credit. I'm sure you'll do fine".

She gave me a shy smile "thanks Tomoko-chan, so what about you? How are you feeling about tomorrow?"

I shrugged "I guess I'm feeling confident about it, I know it's not a written exams which is a plus. Having your brother as a ninja is a plus".

Hinata shook her head, "you do realise that the test changes every year".

"Of course" I answered "but I know for a fact it's not a written exam... I think... Maybe..."

Hinata started to giggle at my sudden change of heart, great... Now my confidences was shot.

It wad the day of the final Genin exam, and now thanks to Hinata, I was a nervous wreck. So when it was announced that we would be tested on our replication justu, it was a mega relief. Well... For most of us anyway.

Because as I on my way into the examination room, I saw Naruto huffing and groaning about something. It was no secret that Naruto was the most sharpest tool in the shed, but you could never deny his effort in trying.

Since he still hasn't acknowledged my presence, I decided to make myself known.

"You're not nervous are you?" I asked him.

"Huh? Oh Tomoko... of course not!" he boasted "this will be no sweat for the future Hokage!"

I raised an eyebrow at him "Hokage eh?"

Naruto nodded "that's right! So everyone can appreciate my existence!"

I threw him a puzzled look "you don't think no one does?"

"Well... no, have you seen how the adults treat me?"

Now that I thought about it, none of us really knew the reason Naruto was treated so badly. I'll never understand why because he is an okay guy, he was just a little misunderstood.

"Er... Tomoko, can I ask you something?" Naruto asked as if he was unsure about something.

"Yeah shoot..."

"Well er... why are you talking to me? Not that I don't like it or anything, it's just you're like the only girl that's nice to me."

I was a little stunned at his question... "I guess it's just in my nature" I replied, "if the person has no problem with me, then I have no problem with them."

"Wow!" breathed Naruto, "I wish most girls had the same attitude as you, the rest are just obsessed with Uchiha..." suddenly he stopped his sentence "wait... you don't like..."

"Sasuke?"

Naruto's face looked so panic-stricken I couldn't help but laugh. "Please... I have a lot more things to worry about than romance. Sasuke maybe hansom, but I focus more on the personality than anything else, and let's face it... he isn't exactly personality plus!"

Naruto laughed and scratched the back of his head "Yeah I guess you're right!"

"Mori Tomoko!" Iruka-Sensei called "we're ready for you now".

"Well gotta go! See you on the other side yeah?" I told Naruto.

He gave me a thumbs up "Believe it Tomoko-chan! Good luck!"

I gave him one last wave before opening the door and closing it behind me.