"DAMN IT, YOU BRATS! GET BACK HERE!" A man was chasing two little kids with a broom. One kid had a head full of blonde hair while the other kid had them in the color of crimson red.
Both of them legged it as fast as they could with their clearly shorter legs. All the while grinning mischievously from one ear to the other.
"Better keep it up, Naruto!", shouted the red-haired kid back while running in the front.
"Wait, brother! If we go that way we are..." Just when the blondie said that a shinobi appeared out of thin air and glared at them.
Both of them could only stop in their tracks and grin sheepishly at the person in front of them.
"Ah! Finally caught up to you. Now you will get the beating of your lifetime. Oh!" The man chasing them noticed the shinobi and became polite. He even slightly bowed.
"I will take over from here. You can go back.", said the ninja.
"Ah, yes. Of course." The man legged it before he got into trouble. Those two probably did something so they would get their punishment in some way or another.
"Is it the old man again?", asked the red-haired kid once more.
"I think the third was especially infuriated today...Naruto, why are you playing such pranks? And Yuki. Helping your brother doing them makes it even worse. Shouldn't you show good behavior as the older brother?", answered the Shinobi. He clearly knew these two and their troublemaking.
"We are twins. There is no older or younger.", shrugged the red-haired kid that was named Yuki.
Shaking his head in defeat the shinobi grabbed them both and went off to deliver them to the Hokage.
"Do you think gramps is really mad this time?", asked Naruto.
"Very likely. Coloring his mantle into a yellow color was probably a little bit too far this time. But whatever." Yuki grinned again "It was fun."
"Hehe" Naruto also grinned in response.
"What were you two thinking again!", asked a very grumpy old man with a triangular hat.
The headwear was almost completely red with only one corner being white. That corner was pointing forward and a single word was embroidered in red thread in that space. The word itself meant fire and symbolized the allegiance to the fire nation that this village belonged to.
This was exactly the Kage of the Fire Nation or Hokage for short. The de facto leader of Konohagakure.
"We were just having fun, gramps.", answered Naruto to him.
An angry vein appeared on Hiruzen´s forehead that could be clearly seen. He was losing his patience with them. They really are getting out of hand lately.
"You call that having fun? You are destroying the property of other people. Do you understand that? And I am going to punish you for doing that. Especially for what you did to my mantle. How did you even manage to get a hold of it?"
"Nobody got hurt, right? So what is wring with pranks?", answered Yuki with a laid-back attitude. He had his hands behind his head and was looking through the windows to appreciate the view this office had over the village. All the while he didn't really bother answering the questions.
Hiruzen focused his gaze at the red-head for a while and sighed after remembering something. He could see the rebellious image of his mother in him.
"Just how can you treat people with such disrespect?", he asked solemnly.
At those words, Yuki immediately frowned and looked at his brother´s expression. He saw him getting somewhat of a saddened and worried look by the third's words.
He knew why he had that expression and it pissed Yuki off. He even started to gnash his teeth.
It had to be said this was actually the first time he felt so angry.
The fact that they were confronted with their deads in this manner. As if they were in the wrong. Maybe they were but that was beside the point. They were kids.
"Oh really!? Then why are people mistreating us like we are some kind of monster!? Can you tell me that? Why are they whispering behind our backs? And why are the other children beating us up all the time?" Yuki was now shouting pretty clearly. Both Hiruzen and Naruto became somewhat surprised.
"Brother..." Naruto tried to calm him down.
"No, Naruto. It is about time we talked about this. I am fed up with it. Gramps, do you even know about how they treat us at the orphanage? If you would, you would not have the guts to tell us how we have to behave towards them."
"What are you talking about?", asked Hiruzen in a more serious tone now. He wasn't expecting such a speech from a 4-year-old.
"Hmpf, why don't you figure it out yourself? You are the Hokage, right? Just give us our punishment later. We are going back now."
Not even waiting for a response he grabbed Naruto's hand and started to drag him. "Let´s go, Naruto" With that he walked out with him.
Hiruzen only stared at the little backs of them and contemplated about Yuki's words.
"Anbu."
With that word, a shinobi equipped with a protective grey west and a mask concealing the majority of the face appeared in the office.
"What happened?"
The called Anbu nodded to the third and started explaining.
"By the looks, it seems that the S-Classified information about the after twins was leaked to the public. They are being malnourished and mistreated at the orphanage as well as ostracized by the public."
"What!? Why did no one inform me sooner of that!?" He shouted in agitation. Hearing about something so important only now was a clear failure of the Anbu.
"We were only to monitor them. Was that not the mission?"
"Your mission is to protect them and of course inform me immediately when something happens that concerns them! Especially something like that! Alright, it looks like I need to straighten up my instructions."
Then Hiruzen took a smoke from his pipe to calm his mind and heart. He started to contemplate.
No wonder these two started to behave mischievously. Someone of the people at that time of gathering when he revealed what the twins were actually leaked such important information that he classified as S-Rank.
Someone really was undermining his authority. And ignored the death sentence that would follow for leaking that info.
He would not let that slide. It was time he acted. Good thing the kids told him this early on.
"Inform the other major clans. I am about to put something into place..."
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Outside the two twins were already back at the orphanage. Naruto looked at Yuki and saw him still being angry.
Swinging around on the swing chair he thought about something.
"Why did you shout at gramps like that?", he asked now.
Yuki looked at him and pouted a little. "It's about time that geezer is realizing how the people treat us here. If he doesn't help us after me telling him. Then I will never forgive him."
"But he is the only one being nice to us. Should we really treat him like that?"
Yuki chuckle now. "And pranking him is better?", he asked afterward. "Let's try being direct for once."
"Yeah." Naruto his mood became gloomier again. "But why are people like that only towards us?"
"I don't know...But at least we got us, right." Yuki put up a great grin toward his brother.
Naruto glanced at him and started to smile again. "Yeah. And when we become shinobi we will show everyone what we can do!"
"That's the spirit!" Then Yuki sighed and looked at the orphanage. "Time to go back..."
"I don't want to..." Naruto frowned.
"I know...me neither.", dittoed Yuki.
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