The picture was of Mito and Eiji on their first day of the academy with their arms around each others shoulders. They had joined little under a month ago and so far they loved every minute of it. Their teacher was a new, young teacher called Iruka Umino, a chunin with a pretty good record that Mito and Eiji seemed to like though mentioned he had a habit of going spending a lot of time on lectures.
From what the twins had told him when they told him about their day, many of the other clans had their children entering the Academy. Itachi and Hana's little brothers Sasuke and Kiba had all entered along with the heirs of the Yamanaka, Akimichi, Nara, Hyuuga, and Aburame. Eiji spend most of his days with his friend Kiba Inuzuka while Mito was with her best friend Ino Yamanaka. The rest were all civilian children.
"It does not seem that long ago that Itachi, Anko, Hana, Yugao, Hayate and I had entered the academy." he thought before making his way back upstairs to begin packing.
Despite planning to move out today, he had not told his family just like Itachi had not told his. Mainly because they both knew that if they told them early on, they would attempt to do their best to sway them from leaving the nest.
Though Naruto knew deep down what his biggest problem would be.
Mina and Kushina.
While Minato might respect his decision and give him his space which is what he wanted and desired, he knew that Kushina would be against it and try to keep him at home. They very thought of one of her children leave the nest at thirteen would no doubt hit her hard and try what she could to stop him and keep him in her grasp.
Mina meanwhile was always with him when he was home. She stuck by his side whether it was sitting next to him at meal times, reading and drawing with him or sneaking into his bed at night when she had a bad dream or just wanted to be nice and warm with her big brother.
He was not looking forward to that but it's what he wanted. He loved his family but he wanted his own space with his friends, who were like a second family to him.
As he shook his head, he pushed his door open and slowly began to decide what to do first.
He pulled ut a few scrolls from his desk draw and laid them out on the bed, each one open fully so he could pack what he needed into certain scrolls.
For half an hour Naruto worked in his room as he neatly folded his clothes on top of one scroll and sealed them away and put it to the side.
The next was for all his books and jutsu scrolls that he had copied from his parent's library. He had only added a few over the last three years since Hiruzen was happy to give him a few ninjutsu techniques since he was known as the Professor for his mastery of ninjutsu.
As he began putting them away he stopped on one book in particular. It was a book he found right at the back of his parents library and since neither obviously read it often since it had dust covering it, Naruto took it and never really gave it back.
Mainly due to what was inside it as he found a forgotten family member he never even knew he had
Flashback
"So it's some kind of old bingo book?" Naruto said as he looked the book over while Hiruzen was sat next to him pouring some tea in to two small cups. He handed one to Naruto who thanked him and took a small sip.
"It looks like it. I have not seen one of these for a long time," Hiruzen said as he looked at the book. "This I believe was one of the first bingo books to have ever been distributed. Here I thought they were all gone."
Naruto had to admit he was a little curious about this bingo book. If it really was the first one of the first kinds of bingo books to have been made, then it must have been around back when Hiruzen was in his youth and his parents were children.
Opening it up he began looking through the book and he was quickly enwrapped with the shinobi that were inside it.
"The Nidaime Mizukage and a member of the Hozuki clan, S ranked Shinobi."
"The Nidaime Tsuchikage Mu of the Dust Style, S ranked shinobi."
Beside both names he saw the words deceased by their names.
"Ahh yes those two in particular were known for their rivalry. They ended up battling one another in a grand battle and ended up killing one another. Onoki became the Tsuchikage just after Mu's death."
Naruto nodded and turned the page and almost laughed when he saw Onoki, the Sandaime Tsuchikage and what he looked like when he was younger. He must have been in his late thirties Naruto guessed when the picture was taken and his nose was even bigger then it was now.
Hiruzen saw the picture as well and let out a low chuckle thinking the same thing. Beside his name Naruto saw the S ranked symbol but that it also mentioned that Onoki bordered on being SS Class.
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