Naruto Fan Fiction ❯ Mirror Image ❯ Chapter 10 ( Chapter 10 )

 

Ch. 10

 

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“Please come on in!”, Iruka repeats.

 

“W-wait one minute!”, Natsuki shouts in disbelief, “How could you already have a third member for us?”

 

“This is a very special-case, as they were the odd-one out of the latest batch of Genin graduates…”, he explains.

 

“Great! We get the left-over's of the graduates…”, the blonde-ninja groans, rolling her sapphire-blue eyes.

 

“How could you be so judgmental when you never met me?”, the voice of a young man questions from behind her.

 

She turns to look at the one who spoke and finds a male about the same age as her with short shaggy mid-night black hair that was chin-length at the longest-parts and a pair of simply stunning dark-blue eyes, wearing a maroon long-sleeved shirt over a pair of extremely faded-blue jeans, causing a blush to instantly form on her face.

 

“I'm Sara Uchiha”, the dark-haired girl introduces, offering her hand to him.

 

“Pleased to meet you, but I thought Sasuke Uchiha was the only one to survive the massacre five years ago”, he replies, shaking her hand.

 

“Actually, I didn't even know I was an Uchiha until a few days ago. You see we had been kidnapped from our families' 13-years ago, so I wasn't there during the massacre”, she explains.

 

“I see…”, he mutters.

 

`Wow! I've never seen Sara so open talking to a stranger, especially about the nightmare that has haunted her for years…', Natsuki thinks.

 

“And who might you be, Miss?”, he asks, turning towards the blushing blonde with his hand extended.

 

“M-my name is N-Natsuki U-Uzumaki…”, she stutters, as her blush darkens and she takes hold of his hand to shake it, “I-I-I'm sorry for w-w-what I've said…”

 

“That is alright. My name is Kouichi Miyamoto, it is a pleasure to meet you Natsuki”, he greets.

 

“Nice to meet you too, Kouichi-kun”, Natsuki says, biting her lower-lip in nervousness.

 

“Care to hear why I'm not on a team, besides the fact that I was the odd one out…”

 

“Sure!”, Sara agrees, while Natsuki nods.

 

“Well, you see. I secretly joined the academy to become a ninja, because my parents wouldn't have allowed me to”

 

“Why would they do that?”, Natsuki asks.

 

“Well, I had an older-brother who was a ninja; an Anbu to be precise, he was my parents' pride and joy, that was until he left on a mission several-years ago and he was killed in a confrontation with the enemy…”, he states, “After that happened, they wanted nothing else to do with ninjas and forbade me from becoming a ninja, but I have to become a ninja worthy of making his memory proud”

 

“That is such a noble-cause, I do believe that we can get along…”, the blonde-ninja responds.

 

“I'm so glad you're all getting along, now comes the issue of the Squad's name?”, Iruka informs.

 

“I have the perfect name!”, Natsuki says.

 

“What name, then?”

 

“Team Hisoka!”, she answers with a smile.

 

“I agree!”, Sara replies.

 

“Hmm, Hisoka means `secret'…”, Kouichi ponders, “I like it! With the squad consisting of two siblings no one knew existed and a clandestine ninja, the name fits perfectly!”, he agrees, “Team Hisoka is a great idea, Natsuki!”

 

“T-t-thank you…”, she stammers, beginning to blush at his praise.

 

“Okay, Team Hisoka it is”, Iruka mutters, as he writes the name down onto the official paper-work, “You three are now officially Genin”, he adds, as he hands them their headbands.

 

“Thank you Iruka-sensei!”, Natsuki cheers, hugging the older man in a similar fashion Naruto did nearly a year ago.

 

“Unfortunately, we don't have any Jounin to tutor you three at the time”, he states.

 

“I think we can mange until then, Iruka-sensei”, she responses.

 

“Natsuki, we should be heading home soon. I want to get home before the sun-sets”, Sara says.

 

“Alright Sara, we'll go”, she replies, detaching from the teacher.

 

“Mind with I walk you two home?”, Kouichi asks.

 

“Be our guest”, the girls accept.

 

“After you Ladies”, he politely bows, extending his hand in front of himself to allow them to pass.

 

“Thank you”, Natsuki nods, smiling as she walks past him.

 

 

 

 

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“So tell me Sara, why did you have to be home by sun-set?”, Kouichi asks.

 

“I have to make dinner and Sasuke-onii-chan needs another scare in the kitchen”, the dark-haired girl replies.

 

“Oh, like this morning with the milk!”, Natsuki laughs, “I wish I had been there to see that”

 

“I wish I had seen that too”, he says.

 

“Kouichi-san!”, Sara gasps, beginning to blush in embarrassment.

 

“Kouichi-kun, why are you so intent on seeing Sasuke-kun freak out?”

 

“I used to be in his class in the academy until my brother died and my parents took me out, I still remember how happy and carefree he was before the `incident' happened, then he went…”

 

“Cold and emotionless…?”, Sara says.

 

“Exactly… It was like he lost his will to be sociable”

 

“I guess we just want to see anything out of him, just to know that he's still human, right?”

 

“You got that right…”, Natsuki sighs.

 

“Well, we're here!”, Kouichi states, as they stood outside the gates to the Uchiha compound.

 

“So we are!”

 

“Thank you for walking me to the gates”, Sara bows, “Do you two know which house it is?”, she asks.

 

“The largest one in the compound, right?”, Natsuki and Kouichi reply.

 

“Correct, see you two tomorrow…”, she says, “Oh, and another thing, Sasuke-onii-chan is supposed to teach me the family's jutsu too…”

 

“That should be fun”

 

“Well, good-night and see you two tomorrow then…”, Sara adds, closing the gate behind herself.

 

“Good-night, Sara”

 

“So, Natsuki…?”, Kouichi questions.

 

“Yes Kouichi-kun?”

 

“Tell me about your family?”

 

“I don't know much about my family except that I have an older-twin brother who is in the same squad as Sasuke-kun”, she explains.

 

“Naruto Uzumaki, right?”

 

“Yeah… But how could you tell?”

 

“Well there is only one other male in the squad, beside Kakashi-sensei…”

 

“Oh… I see…”

 

“Also you have the same hair and eye color as him too”

 

“Oh… Okay…”, she mutters, as her blue-eyes stare at the ground in front of herself as she continued to walk home.

 

“But there is something different that you have from your brother that I've noticed though”, he says, taking her hand into his causing her to stop walking and look up at him.

 

“Huh…?”, she gasps, as she begins to blush.

 

“You are the most gorgeous young woman I have ever met”, he states.

 

“Wait a minute! You just met me today, you don't even know me!”, she stammers, trying to back away from him.

 

“But I want to get to know you…”, he says, stepping towards her.

 

“We can by hanging out, but it has to be with Sara and our brother's squad too… Is it a deal?”

 

“I vow on my brother's soul”

 

“Good…”, she retorts, “Now walk me home…”

“As you wish my beautiful angel”, he bows, before following after her.

 

 

 

 

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Uzumaki Household…

 

 

 

 

“Hello? I'm home!”, Natsuki calls out, as she walks in the front-door.

 

“That you Natsuki?”, she heard her brother's voice ask.

 

“Yeah, it's me!”, she answers, as she slips off her sandals.

 

“What took you so long? Academy-classes don't take this long”

 

“The classes were done an hour ago”, she replies, rounding the corner into the kitchen, “Ramen again?”

 

“What? I love ramen!”, he defends, “So what were you doing for that hour?”

 

“Well, Sara and I had to stay after class…”

 

“Why… If I may ask…?”

 

“Well, Sara and I decided to send our clones into class while we sat on the roof; you know just in case we already knew the lessons, which turns out we did. We dispelled our clones after telling Iruka-sensei where we were and waited for him to come, he told us to stand in the hall till after class and he tested us some more, we received our head-bands and then we met the third-member to our team…”

 

“Wait…wait…wait…! Are you telling me that you and Sara have already graduated from the academy after only one day?”, Naruto interrupts.

 

“Yep, that's right! I'm a bona-fide genin now!”, she grins, shifting the half-heartedly tied forehead-protector on her head enough so that the metal caught and reflected the light, “See?”

 

“So what is your team-mate's name?'

 

“Kouichi Miyamoto, his older brother was an Anbu”, she replies, sitting down in a chair next to the table.

 

“I see… Would he be the son of the owners of Miyamoto-Foods?”

 

“I think so… But I didn't find out…”

 

“Then again, now that I think about it… There is only one Kouichi in the whole village that is around your age…”

 

“Okay...”, she sighs, then quickly points out, “Um… the ramen is boiling over”

 

“Oh crap!”, he shouts, scrambling towards the stove.

 

`I think I'm going to really enjoy family-life living with my brother…', she mentally laughs, as Naruto attempts to remove the pot from the stove without a pot-holder, only to immediately drop it onto the stove from the heat and blow on his scorched fingers trying to cool them down, `I wonder how Sara is handling life with the ice-cube we call her brother…?', she thinks.

 

 

 

 

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Meanwhile…

 

 

 

 

“AAAAHHHHHH!!!!!!”, Sasuke's scream comes from inside the house.

 

“You are so easy to scare, Sasuke-onii-chan…”, Sara giggles.

 

 

 

 

 

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