5 - Meeting Ino-Shika-Cho...

Konoha...

Twin's apartment...

While Naruto is thinking about where they are going to play, he is quite satisfied with his breakfast. On the other hand, beside him sits his brother, who is thinking about their lunch and dinner. After all, he knows it will be almost impossible to buy food for them. Kirito wants to play as well, just like his brother, and he also wants to learn shinobi techniques, but first, he needs to stay alive; then comes other things.

Anyway, after eating breakfast, the twins went outside of the house with happy faces. One with a genuinely happy face, while the other one is hiding his worry behind a smile. Although he knows that worrying will bring him nothing, he can't stop himself from worrying because, at his current age, he needs food to stay strong and grow a healthy body.

"Kirito, let's go to that park near the academy," Naruto said as he runs while shouting.

"You know we will have to play alone again, right?" Kirito replied, following right behind Naruto.

"Don't worry. I met this weird kid who acts lazy all the time, and there is also this fat kid who always eats, but both of them are nice," Naruto said as Kirito caught up to him.

"When did you meet them?" Kirito asked, surprised, because when he returned to their apartment, Naruto didn't mention anything to him.

"I met them yesterday after you went looking for food," Naruto replied, acting as though he was remembering something.

"Why didn't you tell me about them? Also, I don't think they will play with us today. You know what happens all the time," Kirito first asked with a curious face, then ended his statement with a sad look.

"Don't worry about it. I think they are different, and the reason I didn't tell you about them is that the fat boy I mentioned earlier gave me a packet of chips before he left, but I ate it immediately as I was hungry.

But when I remembered about you, it was too late because I had finished eating by then. Please don't get angry at me, ok?" Naruto apologized, feeling really sorry for what he did yesterday. After all, his brother went to look for food for him, and he found some for the both of them, but he didn't share any with him.

"Don't worry about it. What's done is done; we can't change it or do anything about it. Anyway, let's meet that new friend of yours," Kirito said with a sigh, though he felt bad for his brother not sharing any food with him while he was worried about both of them.

He also knew he couldn't do anything about what happened, but he also felt relieved that his brother found something to eat and didn't at least starve like him yesterday. Kirito was also thinking in his mind, 'I hope they are the two people I am thinking they are.'

"Really, you are not angry?" Naruto asked, looking at his brother, feeling unsure because if it were him, he would really get mad at his brother.

"Yes. Now let's go; I want to meet those friends of yours," Kirito said with a small smile.

"Ok, then let's go because they promised to meet me at the park in the morning," Naruto said, dragging Kirito with him as he feels satisfied with everything that happened till now.

"Well, let's go," Kirito also runs with Naruto at the same speed.After some time, they finally reached the park and found it empty.

"Wow, the park is empty. Did they also think of not playing with me?" Naruto said with a satisfied tone as he looked at the park.

"No, you idiot. Look at the sky. The sun is still not that high, so we might have come too early," Kirito said, pointing in the direction of the sun.

"You are an idiot," Naruto said with a small bit of anger when he shouted. Then he also noticed that they really came too early in the morning and said with a smile, "You are right about that as well. Anyway, let's play tag among ourselves until anyone comes."

With that, they started playing, and after another half-hour later, finally, kids started coming to the park to play. Though a lot of kids came to play, none of them played with the twins and avoided them as well. After another 30 minutes of resting, finally, two boys and a blonde-haired girl entered the park.

"Hey, Shikamaru, Choji, come this way," Naruto said excitedly when he saw the two boys.

'So it was them who I thought. Then that must be Ino with them,' Kirito thought as he also stood up and walked behind Naruto, who was running towards Shikamaru and Choji.

"Naruto, I see you came early," Shikamaru said with a smile.

"No, I am not early, but you came late," Naruto said, pointing towards the other children in the park. "Look, the park is full, and you say we are early."

"My bad, actually we got late because our parents asked us to bring Ino along with us," Shikamaru explained, pointing at Ino.

"She is a girl?" Naruto asked surprisingly, shouting.

"Yes, I am a girl. Do you have a problem?" Ino asked angrily.

"Don't get angry at my brother; he didn't mean to offend you. It's just that he had never met a girl before, so he is a little shy," Kirito, who was behind Naruto, said in a calm tone to help Naruto.

Finally, everyone saw Kirito standing beside his brother with a smile.

As soon as Choji saw Kirito, he stopped eating his chips, surprised, as he asked, "There are two Narutos here?"

"Owo, Naruto, you can do clone jutsu," Ino said, obviously knowing about it, as she is a member of a powerful clan in the village.

"No, he is not a clone. Look, he has red hair at the bottom of the head, and then it transforms into yellow gold," Shikamaru pointed at Kirito's hair, which had a red root in his hair, then it started to turn yellow a little further, and at the tip of the hair, it became golden.

That almost gave him three different hair colours, but the yellow part is big enough to cover the other two colours, making others unable to notice that he has more different colours. After everyone noticed that difference, Shikamaru's father added, "He is Naruto's twin brother, not a clone."

'I haven't even noticed it till now that I have a different hair colour. The red must be because of my Uzumaki bloodline, but is it normal to have this kind of mixed hair colour?' Kirito thought as he shook his head, realizing that he didn't have time to notice that because of his never-ending problems. So how will he care about something as simple as hair?

"You are right. He is my younger brother, Kirito Uzumaki," Naruto said with a smile as he introduced his brother.

"Hello, nice to meet you. I hope we can be friends. I am going to introduce myself again. My name is Kirito Uzumaki," Kirito said as he extended his hand.

"My name is Shikamaru Nara. Nice to meet you," Shikamaru said with a smile as he shook Kirito's hand.

"My name is Choji Akimichi. Nice to meet you," Choji said with a smile as he shook Kirito's hand, then he took out some chocolates and gave them to Kirito. "You can have them as a sign of our friendship."

"Thank you," Kirito said politely as he received them and then turned around and gave half to Naruto, who received them happily.

"My name is Ino Yamanaka. I am not going to shake your hand," Ino said rudely while looking at Kirito's hand. Though she didn't want to say it, her friend Sakura and some other kids told her not to go near the twins and spread more bad things about them. So she just did that subconsciously.

"It's fine; I am sorry if I offended you. Please forgive me," Kirito said with a small bow and moved back.

Though Ino wanted to say something, she stopped when she saw Kirito's sincere apology and felt bad for an unknown reason.

"So what are we going to play today?" Kirito asked as he stood beside his brother.

"Of course, we are going to play Ninja," Naruto said with a smile

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