3 Twin geniuses (1/2)
After six months, not much changed. Well aside from the fact that Minato apparently learnt to talk. Like, seriously what the fuck, you're only half a fucking year old, you're not supposed to be able to do that. Anyway, he still didn't speak fluently, but it's impressive enough already. At the time Minato said his first word, I waited about a week before I said mine. Ok, that's a lie, I was able to speak even before Minato, and I can already speak somewhat fluently, I just don't do it. I choose the time where the other children, and if possible, Midori-san, was asleep to practice my speech. Luckily, I didn't have to impersonate baby speech too much, as pronunciation already got absolutely destroyed by my underdeveloped vocal tract, but I still have to be careful about formulating my sentences, as to not get found out.
Soon after speech came walking. Due to excessive care from Midori-san, and visits from the hokage, both Minato and I learnt to walk after just nine months. To put that in to perspective, that is about the earliest a normal child takes their first steps in my previous world. But it wasn't just the first steps, but full out walking, even bordering being able to run, though Minato always fell over when he tried. It was pretty amusing, when you think about the future fourth hokage burying their face in the dirt every few steps.
Once again, I copied my brother, and started walking shortly after him, I even began to run before Minato, just to give him some competition. Of course, I also began running to set a foundation for my future training. It was also this that lead me to discover, that humans developed not only faster, but also differently than what I am used to… I blame chakra…
Whenever the hokage visited, he would always praise us, calling us the genius twins. Nothing really interesting happened while in the orphanage. None of the other kids, was someone I recognized from the anime or mange, but I was at least able to convince Minato to start training when we were like two years old. At that age, we weren't really supposed to know anything about shinobi life, but I was able to sneak out together with Minato to watch the hokage train his team of future sannin.
Of course, as hokage, Hiruzen noticed us as soon as we entered the training, even though we tried to conceal ourselves. That part was Minato's idea. I would expect nothing short of getting noticed instantly, when trying to spy on the hokage. Also, Minato didn't know about the ANBU stationed around the area, and I'll be honest, I had no clue where they were either. I knew they were there, but they didn't take action, so I guess they got orders from Hiruzen to stay hidden.
”Hallo sandaime-sama” – Minato
”Please, call me ojisan, I was quite close to your parents you know. Anyway, what are you doing here, not that it is not nice to see you Minato-kun, and you too Yoshio-kun, but this place is for authorized shinobi only. You have to be at least genin before you're allowed to be here” – Hiruzen (AN: single i in ojisan means uncle, while two i's mean grandpa)
”Sorry ojisan, we were just trying to see your awesome shinobi skills, and when we saw you fighting those guys, who are they anyway” – Me
Even though I already knew who they were, we were no supposed to know, as such, I played the role of an ignorant child. Although we were already told about shinobi, the team cells and overall structure, was something you learned in the academy.
”That was my genin team. When you start in the academy you will learn all about how shinobi operate here in Konoha” -Hiruzen
”Ne, ne, when can we start at the academy?” – Minato