I managed to get ready on time despite the fresh wound on my thigh, I must have had injured myself in my sleep. I wiped my eyes to attempt to conceal the bags under my eyes in the hope that no one would saw it. I wore a vest similar to Neji but it was sleeveless, a black short and a pair of black sandals was ready beside me. I also wore my old robe on top of the vest; the robe was the only thing tying me to my mother. I doubt that anyone could make a connection to the symbol on my back. I thought that I was overdressed, but that was an occasion that I had never experienced before, I was homeschooled you see. I was tying the black cloth on my forehead when I heard a timid knock on my doors."Hikari-Nisan, are you ready?" Hinata called for me. I slid open my door.
"Yes, Hinatsama. Where is Neji? Shouldn"t he be joining us?" I asked while closing my door after I got out of it.
"N-Neji is already a genin; the strongest one at that. So he is with his team. Please d-don"t call me Hinatsama," she said while following me to the gate.
"Oh, sorry Hinata. So, what is a genin?" I asked. I was following her when I noticed that a person was shadowing us.
"Genin is one of the ranks a.s.signs to a ninja. Genin means you are a fresh graduate of a ninja academy, in other words, an apprentice ninja. Chuunin is the team leader for a small mission involving only genins and they are the average ninja. Jounin is the elite ninja which will be a.s.signed a genin team of their own to teach them to be a full-fledged ninja. Hokage stands at the top. T-That is Naruto"s dream," she explained, surprisingly. It"s the first time I heard her spoke so many words. Her eyes grew soft when she mentioned Naruto"s name.
"You must have liked this Naruto person," I teased and her face was more crimson than last night.
"I-I... please don"t tell anyone," she stuttered while her face went red as a tomato. I chuckled at her behaviour.
"Don"t worry Hinata. I won"t, I just couldn"t resist teasing you a bit. So, do you noticed the man that was following us?" I said, changing the subject.
"Y-yes, Tou-sama had a branch member following me to school every day since after my first day," she explained. I nodded as I took in her words.
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"Hey, you! Thank you for your hard work, you don"t need to follow her for now. I will be watching over her if I am around. You can go back and tell Hiashi-sama," I yelled without looking back. I noticed that the man bowed and disappeared.
"T-thank you, Hikari-Nisan but I am working to stand on my own feet," Hinata said as she hung her head. I patted her head and grinned when she looked at me.
"And I will be watching you," I said. She nodded and smiled timidly. We were interrupted by the noise of people quarrelling with each other. I saw a man wearing the formal ninja attire with the same headband that Kakashi-san wore on his forehead carrying a yellow-haired boy all tied up.
"Iruksensei, let me go! Dattebayo!" The boy shouted.
"Not a chance! Oh hey, Hinata! And this must be the new student. Hikari, is that right?" The man said and the boy still struggling with his binding. I bowed at the man.
"Iruksensei, this is my brother," Hinata said while gesturing at me.
"Hyuuga Hikari. Please take care of me," I said.
"Nice to meet you finally, I"m Umino Iruka. Come let"s go inside. We"re late," Iruka said. We walked together inside towards what would be my cla.s.sroom while the boy struggled with his binding. Hinata went in first.
"Hikari, you wait here for a moment until I call for you," Iruka asked and I said okay. He went in without closing the doors and he put the boy on the floor.
"Tomorrow is the ninja academy"s graduation exam and you"ve failed it the last two times. This isn"t the time to be causing trouble! Idiot!" Iruka yelled at him.
"Whatever..." I heard the boy muttered. I was immediately surprised that today was supposed to be my first day and already tomorrow is my final test. A sweat dropped on my forehead. I am so going to fail this.
"I know that we are way pa.s.sing the time for this but we got a new student joining us. Please come inside," Iruka announced. I was still in my reverie and I steeled my self to enter the cla.s.sroom.
I walked into my cla.s.s. There were a lot of murmurs coming from them. I could even hear the wordless squeals from some girls and grunts from the boys. I bowed to them.
"My name is Hyuuga Hikari. It"s a pleasure to get to know all of you," I said while grinning.
"Handsome much!"
"Kyaaaaa..."
"What is your birthday?"
"What is your taste in women?"
I could only laugh at their questions.
"ENOUGH!! Hikari please take a seat," Iruka said and the cla.s.s went quiet once again. I looked around the cla.s.s and saw an empty seat next to the dark-haired boy who was brooding and looking outside the window. I sighed and picked up the tied up boy over my shoulder.
"Hey, what are you doing, idiot?!" the boy complained and struggled but I ignored him and sat him on the empty seat. I felt the black-haired boy stared at me and I returned his gaze. He merely grunted and resumed his brooding. Well, two can play at that game. I then turned to the yellow-haired boy.
"I am going to untie you if you would behave. So what"s it going to be?" I asked him. The boy just gritted his teeth and said yes.
"What is your name?" I asked while untying the knot.
"Why do you care?" he seethed.
"Well, I have to call you something and I doubt you would like me calling you names that you didn"t like. Besides, you looked like a fun person to get along with," I grinned.
"Uzumaki Naruto, Dattebayyo!" Naruto said.
"See? That"s not so hard. Now move over a bit," I said and Naruto accidentally nudged the black-haired boy. They both engaged in an intense glaring contest. I sighed at their behaviour. Iruka, on the other hand, had finished writing something on the blackboard.
"Now, let"s do a Henge no Jutsu quick lesson and a quick test soon after," he announced. All of the students groaned in disbelief.
"Hikari never has been to a ninja academy before so we have to show him the ropes," Iruka continued. I laughed nervously and rubbed the back of my head while I said sorry. There were the wordless squeals and grunts again and I noticed the black-haired boy snorted at me.
"Thinking I am beneath you, is it?" I thought to my self.
I glared at him and when he returned to his usual brooding, I focused on Iruka"s lesson which was surprisingly enough was easy.
"Time for the test, everyone line up. Transform PERFECTLY into me," Iruka ordered. Everyone in the cla.s.s managed to successfully nail this jutsu which is a sign that this is an easy jutsu. I gulped; if I flopped this, I might lose face to the black-haired boy, Uchiha Sasuke who made it in one go.
"Ok, good. Next, Uzumaki Naruto," Iruka said after Sasuke managed to do the Jutsu in one go.
"This is your entire fault," I heard a boy said as Naruto walked forward.
"Like I give a d.a.m.n," he replied. Naruto stood at the spot, touched his goggles, made a hand sign and said Henge. He then transformed into what looks like an older naked voluptuous version of him with some cloud covering that doesn"t leave much to the imagination. Iruka looked like he was going to pop his eyes out and afterwards, blood shot out of his nose. Everyone barked out a good laugh, it was funny as h.e.l.l except for Sasuke of course. Naruto, on the other hand, was laughing proudly.
"I call this one s.e.xy no Jutsu," he proudly said.
"You moron!" Iruka yelled with some cloth plugging his nose, "don"t invent stupid skills."
Naruto just stands there accepting the aftermath. I liked this boy; he was brave and will accept the consequences of his actions if he gets caught that is. The day"s cla.s.s went on without much distraction from Naruto, I got a brief explanation of the hierarchy and systems inside the village which they pretty much happy to give it to me. Afterwards, I finally understood the inner workings and the extent of Kage"s power towards the country and there goes my first day at Konoha Ninja Academy. Hinata and I have almost reached the Hyuuga compound when I decided to move forward with Hiashi-sama"s suggestion last night.
"Hinata, will you tell Hiashi-sama that I am going to the Hokage"s Office and that I will be home late?" I asked her and she said yes. I immediately ran at my full speed towards the Hokage"s Office. I knocked on the doors and enter it.
"Hikari-kun, to what do I owe the pleasure of your visit?" Sandaime asked. He was smoking his pipe. I bowed at him.
"Sorry to interrupt your work, Sandaime-sama. I was wondering if you could grant me access to your archive for me to find out more about my mother and brothers," I said.
"I had gone through it ahead of you since I had finished today"s paperwork. There are no further records here, I am afraid. Even about your dojutsu--the Rinne-Sharingan," he answered. My face visibly fell.
"How are you adjusting to school and how was your first day at the Ninja Academy?" he continued, trying to change the subject and it worked. I grinned at him.
"I was homeschooled by my Mother and her attendant thus being in a cla.s.sroom is a major difference from what I had experienced. It was a lot of fun, Naruto invented this obnoxious jutsu to prank Iruksensei. That was the funniest thing I saw in this village. But already, tomorrow is the final test to become a genin. I am afraid that if I failed this, I might tarnish the Hyuuga"s reputation," I said while rubbing the back of my head. Sandaime was silent now as he considered for a bit.
"Well, I am free this evening. I could give you a crash lesson and we could explore your Rinne-Sharingan capabilities while we"re at it. How about that?" the Hokage offered.
"You? The Hokage of Konoha willing to take some time off his busy schedule to teach me? I would be honoured. But wouldn"t I be a ha.s.sle?" I was taken aback.
"None at all. Let"s go to my private training ground," he said as he stood up. I followed his stride as I was taking in my new situation
The Sandaime Hokage, the strongest ninja in Konoha is going to teach me ninjutsu.
I was untying the cloth on my forehead when Sandaime took off his robe and hat. He was wearing a black jumpsuit underneath it.
"For the remainder of the session, you will address me as Sarutobi-Sensei. We"ll start with the traditional ninja sparring to gauge your levels. I take it that you are familiar with chakra and I was told by Hiashi that your taijutsu was exceptional for your age. He even pegged you as a natural prodigy by today"s standard but we understand that you aren"t by any means following such standards," Sandaime began and brought his right hand to form a seal, "this is the Seal of Confrontation which means "I"ve come to face you in battle.""
I brought my hand to form the same seal. I fully recognized that Sandaime is the most formidable ninja in the village so, I bowed.
"Sarutobi-sensei, I will fight you to the best of my ability," I rose and my Rinne-Sharingan shot open while veins showing around my Byakugan.
"I am honoured," he said as he chuckled. I rushed at him at my full speed and attacked him with my Juken. Despite his age, he managed to fend off my attacks. But I was noticing something else; I could see his movements a few microseconds ahead of it being executed. He was surprised.
"I see, try to copy what I will do now, Hikari-kun," he instructed. Sandaime made a series of hand seals while kneading chakra; Ram, Horse, Snake, Dragon, Rat, Ox, Tiger. I made the same hand seals as his with a fraction of a second delay. I felt my chakra was moving all over my body as if it was moulding into something.
"Katon; Karyu Endan!" We said in unison. Three flow of dragon looking flames went out of our breath and collided with the opposing flame respectively which negated its destructive force. We made a few ninshu and cancelling out each other until the last one. Sandaime weaved the next series; Tiger, Hare, Boar, Dog.
"Doton; Doryuheki!" we collectively said and suddenly the ground beneath us rose upwards. Sandaime released his hands and I followed suit.
"That explained the Sharingan part of its name," Sandaime said.
"What do you mean, Sarutobi-sensei?" I inquired.
"Your dojutsu is the ultimate dojutsu in which the Sharingan was derived from. Sharingan is the Dojutsu of the Uchiha Clan as much as the Byakugan to the Hyuuga. I believe that you can use all of the Uchiha Dojutsu techniques and one of them was ninjutsu copying. Apart from that, combined with that pure Byakugan of yours, one could conquer an entire nation with it. You would be a very strong ninja, Hikari. You already could surpa.s.s my old students," he explained.
"That might be pushing it, sensei. Uchiha Sasuke was one right? How come I didn"t see the eye on him?" I asked changing the subject.
"The Sharingan can only be awakened if the Uchiha undergoes a severe emotional trauma. The boy still hasn"t awakened it yet and if he did, it is distinctive that you will know it"s a Sharingan," he explained. I was silent as I knew it so well how severe of a trauma it could be.
"But there are others besides him?" I pressed to distract myself. Sandaime sighed and looked at the sky.
"Uchiha Sasuke is the only living Uchiha in Konoha. His brother killed the rest of his clan and fled the village to become a missing-nin," he slowly explained.
"How could a person even do that--killing his blood?" I muttered.
"I don"t know of his motives but if I had to guess. He might be on the quest to possess some power that could rival yours. The Mangekyou Sharingan, an ultimate form of the Sharingan. It can give access to another level of jutsu to the user," my sensei continued.
"Was it worth it to seek power at the cost of one"s pain?" I said in disdain.
"I don"t know and I hope that the same won"t happen to any other people in the village including you," Sandaime said.
"I won"t even approve of such maniacal ideas," I seethed. My sensei smiled.
"Let"s continue with our lessons. You have now possessed a great set of jutsus but you are still trying to figure out your Dojutsu. I dare say you can already be called Jounin with this skill set. But you still have to build your stamina among other things. So, I am going to run you ragged," Sandaime said.
"Yes, Sensei!" I grinned. That evening was the longest evening I ever had in my life. I came how right after dinner with all sorts of cuts and bruises all over my body. I show up at the spot where they usually had their supper. I groaned which let Hanabi saw me and screamed ghostlily. Hiashi and Hinata stood up and took their stance. I pushed my feet forward into the light.
"uh... I"m hungry..." I groaned. My body was sore all over. Hanabi went ahead and grabbed my hand to pull me to sit on the porch.
"Oni-chan, where did you go all day?" she whined.
"Training... Sarutobi-sensei..." I managed. I heard Hiashi chuckled.
"So you managed to be trained by the professor himself?" He said. I was about to ask what did he mean by that but my stomach croaked.
"Hinata, bring some food here for Hikari and more tea," Hiashi asked and she bowed.
"Yes, Tou-sama. Hanabi-chan, come and help me," she said. Hanabi and her went inside hurriedly.
"So, what did you learn?" Hiashi inquired. I was still panting.
"More than I need for examination tomorrow... which he and Kakashi forgot to mention... I got stamina training after ninjutsu training," I managed.
"Ninjutsu training?" he asked, surprised.
"Apparently, I can also be an Uchiha with the eye and Sarutobi-sensei had me copy his Jutsus," I clipped. Hiashi just stared at me while the girls came out with trays of foods but I immediately reached for the water first and drank through the first two containers. Hinata was patching me up as I ate and Hiashi was watching me along with Hanabi. When Hinata suddenly pressed too hard, I choked. I was thankful that Hanabi acted fast and saved me.
"Thanks, Hanabi-chan," I said.
"Eat slowly, geez! Oni-chan, the food isn"t running away," Hanabi scolded me. They laughed again at my expense as I grinned and rubbed the back of my head.