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"Naruto" – Talking
'Naruto' – Thoughts
Naruto – Flashback
Naruto – Jutsu
Cracking Gaps: Sins of a Family
School Days Daze
It was a big day when the year at the Academy begun, children too excited to stay still, parents wishing them good luck in their first day and staff looking forward to their next selection of kids to drill lectures into their heads. For two students, it was even more special because they can finally learn how to be ninjas and that meant for them, they can go on ninja missions together save enough money to live on their own entirely.
Naruto was glad that he managed to convince the Hokage to issue D-rank missions for academy students while still in the academy. That will really teach them teamwork and those chores that civilians are too lazy to do themselves weren't what most kids think of ninja work. They always dream of jumping through trees, learning to use Ninjutsu and become heroes. At least that disappointment is sure never to strike again.
"Is it great Hinata-chan!?" Naruto yelled with clear excitement in his voice that shined off his eyes. "We are finally allowed to become ninjas! Think of what we can do once we graduate!" Hinata giggled at the sight of her close friend bouncing on and off walls as they walked from Naruto's house.
"I am sure it is Naruto-kun. I am just glad that you finally managed to get those D-rank chores where they actually help." Hinata also was excited but she was also trying her best to keep her emotions in check; it is what ninjas do.
"Don't I know it? Now we academy students can increase our allowance and our teamwork with other students whatever or we are on the same team once we graduate."
"Sounds like you want to finish the academy before we actually start our first day Naruto-kun." Hinata giggled and the blonde froze before making a sheepish look on his face.
"Your right about that Hinata-chan. Let's just keep going." Naruto admitted and he continued walking with Hinata until they reached the Shinobi Academy building. He could just burst thinking on how cool and exciting the academy will be.
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Maybe Naruto shouldn't have spoken so soon. Sure, they learned a lot in the academy but it all what Civilians will love to learn instead of ninjas. Seriously, how can learning about what tea the First Hokage loved or what hair color the Second Hokage had will help them in battle? Naruto sure doesn't know and neither did Hinata.
You should know because right now, the duo were sitting in their seats, yawning away at their teacher write on the board. Don't get wrong, they had good grades but all that history and math was just too boring. The days just drag on and until half of the year had passed and that is when trouble started; when the royal twins of Konoha will join the academy.
Everyone could remember it like it was yesterday, because it was;
Flashback Begins!
It was just another day at the Academy. A boring lecture, Taijutsu tryouts, and more D-rank missions on teamwork which only helped the student's allowance. They were just wasting sunshine, stuck in that stuffy room while the teacher was writing chalk on the blackboard.
Then the door opened to reveal two snoopy looking kids. A girl who had her hair in a ponytail and wore very fancy clothes complete with a skirt and tank top that did little to hide what is underneath which was all skin and bones. The boy wore very similar and like the girl, he was like a scarecrow; lean but stuffed with straw.
The teacher looked from his lectures and addressed the two. "I am sorry but today is not for newcomers." He said politely which could have been said for his answer.
"Shut up commoner! Don't you know who were are. We can go everywhere we want. I just don't know why Tou-san and Kaa-chan wanted us to be in a stinking room filled with losers. They look so weak." The boy said so rudely that even the more stoic students started growling.
The teacher was about to back slap them for their impoliteness until Naruto spoke up, "Sensei, that is Keiji and Mito Namikaze. I am sure you heard of them?" Gasps were heard around the room,
"The Hokage's children!?" The teacher was shocked and connected the dots; Naruto wasn't kidding since they looked like their parents with some of the traits on either of them. "Sorry for my rudeness! You may take whatever seat is left!" The teacher made a complete 180 and went back to his lecturing.
Keiji and Mito just went to find the best seats, whatever or not they were already taken. The former found one empty seat alright, right next to Hinata. Keiji then did something he will later regret,
"Hello beautiful. I see that there is a diamond in the rough or should I say, a princess among losers. Will you like to go for a date after class, you will love my company?" Keiji was, for the better word, a playboy in the making. Luckily, Hinata was better than any of those naïve and shallow fan girls.
"I am sorry but I already promised to do some training with Naruto-kun after class. Try one of the other girls." Hinata tried to politely refuse but Keiji just won't take 'no' for an answer.
"No way! I am Keiji Namikaze! The next Hokage and no woman can ever refuse to be one of my wives!" There was no shame, not even an ounce of it, in that voice. Keiji then grabbed Hinata right hard on the wrist. "It is either you go on a date with me or that your little loser of a friend gets what is coming for him once I tell Tou-san on him!" The other students, boys not girls, were starting to get irritated but their thoughts were interrupted when Keiji howled in pain. The spoiled boy's own wrist was grabbed so hard that Keiji released his hold on Hinata, there was even the faint sound of bones cracking.
"When a girl says no, that is all there is too it." Naruto revealed to be the one that grabbed Keiji, "Besides, grabbing an unwilling girl by the wrist is a form of sexual harassment and the punishment for it can get a little messy and ugly." Naruto spoke in complete confidence.
"Enough!" Their starting contest was halted when the teacher brought their attention. Keiji took this as his chance to get out of trouble,
"Sensei, this boy tried to hurt me for no good reason! He should be expelled! I demand it!" Keiji ranted and lied which might have worked but two things weren't in that spoiled boy's favor; one, his last sentence was that of a liar and blamer and two, the teacher was watching the whole thing from the very beginning.
"I will see to the punishment for my students, Namikaze-sama. In the meantime, you and your sister should be setting a better example for your fellow classmates if you want them to look up to you." The teacher awed everyone as he successfully shout down the royal twins or at least the boys who already hate Keiji but the girls tried to get on the boy's side by trying to protest and continue to blame Naruto; they got a week's detention and bathroom duty of the restrooms used by the Akimichi Clan and trust me, after what they eat every day, they have a lot to 'relive'.
Flashback Ends!
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Ever since they first showed up and alienated everyone else, the royal twins had made the Academy days torture; for both boys and girls. Keiji will always disgust the boys including Naruto on how he acted like a self-centered playboy who will always flirt with one girl and then find another to flirt with all over again. The girls hated on how Mito will always stink up the room with her heavy and strong perfume as well as being vain to a fault.
As much as they wished, the academy staff also couldn't stand the presence of the twins as their job got harder and less tolerable due the vanity and rudeness of the royal twins. They just did what the students did, endure it like Naruto somehow spread into the hearts of those who listen to words.
And they did, all the way to the end of the year. When the Genin exams are going to weed out the ones who deserve to become ninjas and those who need another year. That is, for the civilian students that is; the clan heirs or members who are attending the Academy actually stay for three years so they can continue their education. More like Clan Heads trying to keep them from dying.
Naruto was given the chance of graduating but since he refused to leave Hinata's side, not with the twins who may find a good enough excuse to make her future look bleak and present terrible. So, the Hokage finally got Naruto to take the Genin Exams with the promise once Naruto becomes a Genin, he can visit Hinata in the academy daily; also, once Naruto became a Jonin, the blonde can take Hinata as his Genin student.
It was like Kami or god herself had placed her favor into Naruto's odds because Naruto passed the Genin Exams with flying colors. Still, he had a lot to explain and a long time to gain his hearing back after Hinata learned of this.
Flashback Begins
"WHAT!" It was like the village shook when that cry of disbelief screeched throughout the streets but crazier things have happened then this so no one ever bothered checking it out. That was fortunate, for Naruto, because it came from his new house and more specifically his living room.
"I keep telling Hinata-chan," Naruto spoke rather annoyed by his answer, "I have graduated from the Academy and about to become an actual ninja."
"But what about the others? Your classmates! Your friends! What about me?" Hinata yelled without her usual shuttering to show just how upset and confused she was.
"I will be training so I can become a Jonin, but I will never be stopped from visiting you and vice versa." Naruto said and Hinata calmed, "It is the only way to afford to keep this all to myself and if you want, you can move in too."
"M-move i-i-in?" Hinata began stuttering once she was embarrassed all over again. "O-okay…" After some attempts to hold back on her 'wild' imagination, Hinata finally was able to speak better.
Naruto didn't speak a word, he just hugged Hinata who openly cried and hugged Naruto back. Still, that was to be the moment that one was going to forget. Hinata decided it was now or never, she went up to Naruto's eye level and kissed him on the lips. She didn't care anymore about what might happen afterwards, she had summarized all her growing feels into one action and that was all there is to it.
Naruto, on the other hand, was shocked that Hinata was kissing him. Still, he didn't want to reject it so he soon accepted the kiss and made it even deeper. They all enjoyed the kiss but soon, they needed to breathe so they broke up the kiss with a trail of saliva between their mouths. "I am sorry if you are upset but I promise I will visit you whenever I get the chance."
"As long as still get to see you then I don't care how long it takes to be together again." Hinata answered truthfully. They then stayed in their embrace for the rest of the day.
Flashback Ends!
And Naruto did visit them, the Hyuga Sisters always enjoyed his company even more when they came for some tea and ramen as well as listening to his stories about his days as a Genin. Some of them were hilarious when something went wrong and his team would have tried to get out of dangerous or better yet embarrassing situations. He would even help Hinata with her homework since he learned them on the fly during his Genin Team, most times it was Taijutsu tryouts and Ninjutsu theory since that is all the Academy ever taught them.
And pretty soon, it had been two more years and Naruto actually managed to surprise everyone by becoming a Jonin, ready to become a team leader, in record time for the graduation of the Clan Heirs. It was when the Jonin teachers to receive their teams and Naruto was excited to hear about his Genin students that included Hinata but all that vanished when two things happened. Number one were the Genin Students he was assigned to; the team arrangements went like this,
"Jonin Naruto Uzumaki will lead Cell Number 8 with Hinata Hyuga," Here comes the hurricane, "Mito and Keiji Namikaze."
Number two was when Naruto was coming home late the night before he was assigned his Genin Team. He noticed someone was hiding in a bush, lying in the shadows. Once he got a better look, it was a young girl of three years old that resembled the wife of the Fourth Namikaze. Yet she was scared of Naruto so he asked who she was. The girl answered, "Yurina Uzumaki, the daughter my former family had forgotten." Naruto couldn't be any angrier at the Namikaze Clan than ever.
End of Chapter 3
*Hello Everyone! Here is the next chapter in Cracking Gaps: Sins of a Family! I have heard that you were confused on how it took five months to make the last one. I apologize for that, I do have a lot more stories to think about and I just forgot about this story for a while. I will try to make chapters as good as the first one and I will also work on my other stories too, I am their author after all. Have a nice day!*