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The Tears of a Ninja

Chapter1: Shya Asazuki

"Yo," someone with a cold mysterious voice called to me. I swiftly turned around after just locking my door to my house to see that it was my best friend Sasuke Uchiha. I smiled warmly at him. No one really understands how him and I are friends but what the think doesn't really matter in my book.

"Hey yourself," I giggled. He gave me a smirk the closest thing to him smiling. "So you ready for class?" I asked. The Ninja Academy was where we were heading to. There we practice ninja stuff, very complex.

"Humph, since when am I ever ready for class," he smirked again. I laughed. It was moments like this that I loved being friends with him. We turned away from the house and began to walk to the academy. It was always usually a quite walk to school just about everyday. Once inside, I took my seat by Sasuke in the second row from the bottom. All the girls in our class loathed me. And that was just the way I liked it. I couldn't stand any of them. All except Hinata that is. She never really talks but she's really nice and caring.

I sat quietly while I waited for our sensei, Iruka to show up. I was tempted to go to sleep since it seemed he wouldn't be arriving anytime soon. So I put my head down and then…BAM. The academy door flew open with Iruka walking in. he was dragging something behind him as I noticed he had a piece of rope in his hand. I stared and immediately held back a laugh. He wasn't dragging anything in particular. In fact he was dragging a person but not just any person. A person with bright blond hair and wore a crazy orange jacket and pants that matched. He was dragging none other than Naruto Uzumaki.

"I'm at the end of my rope Naruto," Iruka spoke directly to the tied up Naruto. "You failed the graduation test last time and the time before that. Tomorrow you've got another chance and you're messing up again." Naruto turned his head away from Iruka.

"Humph," was all he said but that did it. Iruka was pissed.

"Fine! Because you missed it Naruto everyone will review the Transformation Jutsu. Even those who have already passed it," he stated. I heard the whole class moan with dissatisfaction including me. I couldn't believe Iruka. Had he lost his mind? This was so pointless. I sighed and got up out of my chair to the front of the class with the rest of my classmates. We were to get in a line and wait for Iruka to call on us. First he called Sakura. I really hated her and she me. I couldn't stand anything about her. Not her pink bubblegum hair or her weird green eyes or her girly little voice. And her style of clothing was worse. She had on a redish dress-looking thing with white at the sleeves and a white circle towards the bottom were it split to revel shorts.

"Transformed into me, good," that was not good. Anybody could transform into you. "Next, Sasuke Uchiha." Sasuke coolly walked out of the line to face Iruka. He transformed into him with out even moving. See it wasn't so hard. It was easy as ramen noodles. "Uh, Good." What? That's all he gets? Is an uh good? That's a load of bull. Sakura should have gotten that response damnit. I took a deep breath and sighed. Why was I getting all worked up for? It was just a stupid transformation jutsu after all. "Next, Naruto Uzumaki," he called. I heard people making comments on his turn to transform. Naruto commented back but I wasn't really paying attention to him. Everyone knew he was the worst student out of all of us. I heard him say transform and before I knew it I saw Iruka fall backwards with a nose bleed. I gasped. What the hell just happened? I looked at Naruto to see that he transformed not into Iruka like the others but into a girl surrounded by smoke. The whole class was full of laughter. It was hilarious.

"Cut the stupid tricks! This is your last warring!" Iruka yelled at him at the top of his lungs, which in turn made everyone stop laughing. Iruka continued calling names. I wasn't really listing to him when my name finally came up. "Next, Shya Asazuki. SHYA!" he yelled when I didn't hear him the first time.

"Huh, oh right. Sorry. Transform!" I transformed into a wolf. I snarled, showing them my pearly white fangs and growled at Iruka. He jumped a bit and everyone else did as well. Pleased with myself I transformed back. "So whatcha think?" I smiled innocently.

"Umm, that was uh, very good but um, could you possibly turn into a person rather then a freighting animal?" he asked. I was disappointed. I sighed and did what I was told; I transformed into him. "See was that so hard?" he asked with a smile. I presupposed he was very pleased at himself that he got me to do what he wanted. After we were all done he told us to return to our seats.

"Now that we got that under way. We will now begin the final exam. When your name is called proceed to the next testing room. The final test is on the clone jutsu," he announced. I was pretty hyped up. I was good at that particular jutsu. "First up, Naruto Uzumaki."

I watched as Naruto, sluggishly went into the next room. He seemed kind of bummed about being first. I didn't really see what the problem was. It was a simple enough jutsu. If he failed that then he really does suck like everyone says. I looked over at Sasuke who seemed to be pretty calm. I was calm but not that calm. He looked over at me from the corner of his eye. He raised an eyebrow at me.

"You nervous?" he asked. I just stared at him for a second till his question finally hit me.

"Not really."

"Then way the staring?" he smirked as if this pleased him.

"I was just thinking is all and noticed that your completely calm I mean really calm," I giggled again. I sounded like a little kid it was funny.

"Now you find something funny?"

"Nah not really," I smiled at him. He rolled his eyes at me and turned back around, waiting for his name to be called. Iruka came back and called someone else back. After the first two were done it went by pretty fast. Almost all my friends had gone and I was still waiting. Then Sasuke was called. I wished him good luck and he just smirked at me and disappeared behind the door of the testing area. That just left a total of five people who haven't went including me. I was on edge. Why hadn't I been called yet? Did they forget about me or were they playing with me? Whatever the case it was irritating the hell out of me. Finally the door opened up again and Iruka appeared for what felt like the thousandth time today.

"Next Shya… Before he could say my last name I was up and by the door in no time …. Asazuki," he said fatly. I entered the testing room full of energy. I was practically bouncing on the balls of my feet. "Alright, you may began as soon as your ready," Iruka smiled at me. I took in a deep breath and exhaled.

"Clone Jutsu!" Poof, poof, poof, poof, poof! I made five awesome clones of myself. "So do we pass?" my clones and I asked together. There was staring and a couple of whispers that I couldn't understand that Mizuki was saying to Iruka.

"Congratulations you pass," Iruka assured me with a warming smile.

"Yaya!" me and my clones high fived each other before they all disappeared. I went to go grab my headband from Iruka and turned to leave.

"Um, Shya, it's the other door."

"Oh, oops my bad, hehehe," I grinned and went the other way. Once outside, I could see everyone that passed were talking and being led away with their families. I was looking everywhere for Sasuke till I found him by himself adjusting his headband on his forehead. I walked up beside him with out a single word and was figuring out where I should wear mine. I thought maybe around the leg but it might slip off during mid kick action. So I quickly ruled that out. Then I though maybe around the waist but Ino had hers there so I let that one go.

"I know I'll wear it on my arm."

"Hey that's my look," a lazy dull voice told me. I turned to see that it was my buddy Shikamaru.

"Oh hey Nara. Sorry I didn't know," I confessed. So then where should I wear it? Mmm. "I got it," I said as I punched the air with my fist. I took my headband and pulled it under my long sliver hair. Were it went over my bangs like people wear sunglasses on their heads, not exactly in the center of my head. After I tied it in place I asked my friends what they thought.

"It looks great," I heard my doggie friends' playful voice. He smiled his wild smile that I loved so much. I smiled at him as he took my side.

"Really? Thanks Kiba."

"No prob. It looks hell of a lot better than Sakura's does," he grinned showing his killer white teeth that resembled a dogs. It was hard not to like Kiba. He was so openly friendly, well most the time. Kiba waved bye as his big sister came to get him to celebrate and Nara's dad came to get him. I waved bye as he left. Sasuke said he had things to do and that he would see me later. I said ok and told him bye as well. I was about to leave for home when I saw him.

He was sitting on a swing completely all by himself. It was always that way with him. I didn't understand why that was. It was like everybody in the entire village hated him for being alive. I thought about going over to him to ask if he was ok but just then these two girls stopped me dead in my tracks. They were staring at him. But it wasn't a sympathetic look in their eyes. It was one of disgust.

"There, you see him?" the first girl asked. She had ugly brown hair that was pulled up in a ponytail and wasn't really much to look at either.

"It's that boy. I heard he was the only one who failed," the second girl said. She was a little bit prettier then her friend but not by much. She had short light brown hair.

"Uh, well it severs him right," the first ugly stated

"Just imagine what would happen if he became a ninja. I mean he's the boy who…"

"Shh. We're not allowed to talk about that," she cut her friend off.

What were they talking about? I looked at them then back at the swing. They were talking about him like he did something wrong, like he shouldn't be one of us. I mean ok, he's not actually the best ninja around but that didn't give them the right to talk about him like that. I tried again to go and talk to him to make him feel better but just like last time I stopped. Mizuki Sensei was there with him. I guess whatever he said to him must have encouraged him. Because the next thing I knew, they were gone. I've never really been interested in talking to him or becoming friends with him. Though I never gave him much notice. But I knew all to well what he was going through. Maybe it was time I became friends with him. With Naruto.