Chapter 1: 9 Rookie Students
It was a sunny day over the leaf village of Konoha and the academy students were training harder than ever. Why? The Graduation exam was coming up.
There were nine students in the class I will focus on. There was Keith, Logan, Jack, Jill, Charles, Courtney, Kim, Donn, and Margo. This particular day was "Show and Tell." The students would show off what they thought was their best jutsu. Keith was up first.
Keith was the chubbiest of all of the students and the tallest so no one messed with him too much because if you called him chubby you would be lucky to only have a broken nose. He walked to the front of the room and stood if front of the class with the class' sensei, Akuri, off to the left. Keith did a couple of hand signs.
"Acid Spitting Jutsu!" he shouted and spit acid out of his mouth onto the ground, thankfully, leaving a good-sized 7 centimeters wide hole in the ground.
"Thank you, Keith!" Akuri said. "But you do know we do not have insurance for this room yet." He sent Keith back to his seat and looked at his clipboard. "Jack! Your turn!"
Jack's thin form shook slightly as he walked down. He stood in front of the class as Keith had done and put his hands into a neutral pose.
"Done," Jack said silently.
"What did you do?" Akuri asked.
"I got you sensei," Jack said smirking.
"Wha..?" Akuri started to ask, but then he felt pressure on his right leg. He looked down and saw a human shadow grabbing his right ankle.
"The Shadow Pick Jutsu!" Jack shouted happily.
"Good job, Jack!" Akuri exclaimed gleefully. "That is exactly what you need to do! Catch your opponent by surprise! Now return to your seat and… Jill! Come on down!"
Jill came down and stood in front of the class. She pulled a small notebook out of her pocket and drew a picture on one of the pages. Then she set the notebook down with it open to that page. She performed a series of hand signs and put her palm on the picture she had drawn.
"Living Drawing Jutsu!" she shouted. A very realistic cheetah came out of the notebook. Jill petted the cheetah and then put her hands into the neutral pose which returned the cheetah to the notebook.
"Very impressive, Jill! Now… Logan! You are up next!" Logan's short stature came out from behind his desk and walked down to the front of the class. He too put his hands in the neutral pose.
"Shrinking Jutsu!" he shouted. All of a sudden, he started shrinking. He shrank until no one could see him anymore. About ten seconds later he reappeared, growing rapidly.
"Very interesting, Logan! Next up… Donn!" Donn walked to the front of the class. He did a couple of hand signs then made his hand into a gun.
"Gun Finger Jutsu!" he shouted aiming his fingers at the hole created by Keith. BANG! A bullet of chakra shot from his fingers into the hole making a smaller hole within the hole.
"Wow! Quite good, Donn! Now it is… Courtney's turn!" Courtney came down to the front of the class.
"Um… I can… I can not really use ninjutsu," she stammered.
"What about genjutsu?" Akuri asked.
"Well… a little bit…" She put her hands into the neutral pose, closed her eyes, and focused. Immediately, everyone else thought they were on a tropical island. Akuri looked around quite impressed and then released the genjutsu.
"Amazing! That is the best genjutsu I have seen in years from a student! And to effect us all at the same time… incredible!" he exclaimed. "But back to business as it is now… Charles' turn!" Charles walked down to the front of the room.
"Fire Style!" he shouted touching his index finger and thumb together and putting them around his mouth. He shout fire out of his mouth into the bowl shaped hole in the floor and created a sphere of fire for a few seconds before it died out.
"Wohohoho! We have an artist of fire in the house! Moving along we have… Margo!"
"Can I go last? Pleeeeease!?!?" Margo pleaded.
"Oh, I suppose. That means that… Kim is next then!" Kim walked down to the front of the class. She did a few hand signs.
"Ghost Jutsu!" she shouted and disappeared. A moment later she reappeared.
"Hmmm… quite interesting! Yes, quite interesting! Ok, Margo! You are the only one left."
"I really do not wanna go, sensei. I mean-" KNOCK! KNOCK!
"Come in," Akuri said.