The setting is post-war based on my own predictions on how the series is going to end. I hope to write a story about how the lives of the next generation of ninja change after Madara's attack and explore the relations between ninjas and other factions. The story takes place around 20 years after the manga, and many of the characters are children of the original cast.
"Talking"
"Thoughts"
A class of young, talented students enter the academy to learn the secret arts of ninjutsu...each having their separate goals. For some, it was for power, others it was for girls, but for the rest, it was because they couldn't find a job elsewhere"
At the age of 8, Sam'Qu was finally given permission to attend the academy of ninja arts. As Sam'Qu stared at the top of the school, the thoughts of becoming a full-fledged ninja made his heart race. All the privileges that he never could have would become reality. But best of all, the girl of his dreams would fall for him and he would never let her go.
As Sam'Qu was spacing out towards the sky, someone from behind shoved him to the ground.
"If you're not gonna go inside, at least don't block the entrance," said the mysterious figure.
Sam'Qu, picking himself up from the ground, glared indignantly at the stranger. "What's your problem?"
"Your face." replied the child.
"Tell me your name and I'll remember it," said Sam'Qu. "I'll make you regret it in the future that you've crossed paths with me."
"The name is Kain Uchiha," replied the kid snarkily. "I don't care about what you do in your hopeless future. Just don't let me see that face again, or else I'll kick it everytime I see it."
"Wait!" cried Sam'Qu. "Could you possibly be the son of Sasuke Uchiha?!"
"Hmph," said Kain. "At least you aren't as clueless as you look."
Sam'Qu stood up and brushed himself off as he watches Kain strode into the classroom. A tear formed in the corner of his eye as he realized he had already lost his first confrontation in the ninja world.
On the other side of town, one young lady was breathing hard, running while dropping her apples as she was headed off to the academy of ninja arts. Just as the final morning bell rang, she rushed through the door and almost knocking down her sensei.
"Sorry, umm…what's your name?" asked the young lady.
"it would be Iruka-sensei," replied Iruka. "Why don't you introduce yourself to everyone since you're late and find a seat."
"Sorry Iruka-sensei. Hi everyone, my name is Kimmi, please take care of me," said Kimmi. With the apology made, Kimmi glanced around the class and found a seat between two boys.
Even though it was the first day of class, Kimmi wasn't able to pay attention to Iruka-sensei's lectures. Fighting the urge to doze off, she looked at both boys sitting beside her. Deciding that there was nothing else to do, she introduced herself.
"Hey, my name is Kimmi," she whispered softly. "What's your name?"
"I already know your name, you don't need to repeat it," repeat the guy to her left. "The name is Kain Uchiha if you must know."
'Wow, that guy just turned me off,' thought Kimmi. 'Such a meany'
"What's your name?" Kimmi asked the boy to her right.
" Hey, my name is An, but you can call me Ahn~.Er.. Kimmi, if you don't mind, could you sit somewhere else? You're going to mess up the operation." said Ahn~, pointing at a vertically challenged boy sitting 2 seats away.
'Huh, a cheater?' thought Kimmi. 'I can't let him succeed.'
"Oh sorry, Iruka-sensei said we can't switch seats without permission." Kimmi replied cheekily.
"You think you're so smart...Just watch me." Ahn~ snapped back, brimming with confidence that surprised Kimmi.
"I hope all of you have been paying attention," Iruka-sensei suddenly cried out. "As I've said before, there is a test on everything I have said about crocodiles so far. This academy doesn't need slackers."
Everyone suddenly pulled themselves together at the announcement. No one had really wanted to sit through a lecture that was about crocodiles, so no one really gave a damn.
Iruka, on the other hand, saw this as an opportunity to filter out the "hard-working" from the "hopeless ones". While handing out the test, there was no guilt in his eyes as several students were on the verge of tears to the thought of failing the test. Others were apathetic while some even gave Iruka-sensei a little smirk.
The recess bell rang, signaling the time for the students to hand in their paper. Everyone then went outside to either play on the ninja monkey-bars or to talk about the test results.
Kimmi, knowing she didn't do as well as she hoped, walked around to see if there were others who also performed poorly.
Turning aside, she bumped into a boy, who was slightly taller than her with chubby cheeks. "Hey, you're Juutan right? The one at the dango store last week. Do you remember me?"
Juutan, with a dull look in his eyes, stared at Kimmi with a confused look. "Nope, there's too many people at the dango store for me to remember. But how did you do on that test?"
"I don't think I did that well," replied Kimmi. "I got stuck between a snob and a cheater who distracted me from the lesson."
"Aww," said Juutan humbly. "That's too bad. But I didn't do that good either. I just hope I pass."
Upon hearing Juutan's words, Kimmi felt a lot better. Not long after, the sound of a bell came through and the classes resumed.
"Alright class, I am both surprised and disappointed," announced Iruka-sensei. "It seems that there were people who paid close attention to my class while some were just lazy. To encourage you all to do better next time, I will be announcing the top three scores and the bottom three. Please come and get your test when your name is called."
"Sam'Qu-kun, work harder next time. I'm sure there's some role you can fill in society."
"Nara-kun, you passed with 50%, but answer all the questions next time instead of only half."
"Kimmi-kun, nice try, but I expected more from you."
"And for our top three in the class, we have Kain-kun, Ahn~ kun and Juutan-kun. The rest of you did ok, but try harder next time. Also, take note that I've realized that some of these test answers look very similar. Would you look at that, Ahn~ Kun and Kain-Kun had the exact same answers. Now we will continue the lesson on female crocodiles during the winter."
Kimmi looked at her test and blamed herself for not paying closer attention. But it really irked her that the two people beside her had the highest scores in the test. To top that Juutan, who had previously claimed he did terrible, scored in the top three.
Today was a loss for Kimmi. Realizing this, she promised herself to not only work harder, but also play the biggest prank ever on the ones that made her feel like a fool that day.
That same afternoon, a student named Al Lan was studying at the library. Although it was only the first day of class, he did not wish to fall behind. Already concerned about not reaching the top three in his class, Al Lan buried himself with books that contained information from crocodiles eating their young to pregnant crocodiles. Little did he know, his studying would bear no fruits as Iruka plans for the next test, beavers.
On her way home, Kimmi noticed two boys of similar height walking on the same path as she was.
"Kain-san, wait for me!" Kimmi yelled while running to catch up with Kain and his companion.
Once she caught her breath, Kimmi looked up and studied the child's face. To her surprise, he looked identical to Kain, the only difference was his tendency to smile over to smirk.
"Hey, my name is Jayce Uchiha, but you can call me Jay for short. I see you've met my brother. We're actually in the same class, but Kain can't hear as well from the back so I volunteered to give him my spot in the front."
"Brother? But that would mean that you guys are..."
"Twins, no shi-, I mean, yeah, babe." Kain corrected himself. He did not expect to use that many explicits on the first day of school and let his guard down. "He's a piece of trash though, so don't mind him. Everyone in our family says he's an embarrassment and we can't wait till he gets himself killed on his first mission."
"Only you say that Oni-chan," said Jay with a warm smile that radiated kindness. "Even Tou-san says I'm physically more talented than you so I really doubt I'll die first."
Kimmi was stunned by the polarizing personalities of the two twins. While one was a smooth-talking ladies' man, the other was docile, but by no means feeble.
"You know, there are a lot of things humans can actually learn from beavers," whispered Kain to Kimmi. "Their technology with building dams is really quite astounding. Oh, by the way, did you know that beavers hold each other's hands in their sleep so they don't drift apart?"
"Awh that's so sweet 3 Maybe we do have a few things to learn from beavers.." replied Kimmi, with a slight blush on her cheeks.
"Oh right, you mentioned something about star gazing the other day. Are you interested in horoscopes? I'm an Aries, you?" Kain asked, faking curiosity.
Kimmi took a sideways peek at Kain's face. "Oh, me too!" spurted Kimmi. She panicked as she tried to keep the conversation going. "What about your brother?"
"...We're twins..." replied Jay, without a hint of sarcasm.
"Ugh, don't remind me," muttered Kain under his breath.
"Right...I'm such a dunce.. Uhhh h-have you ever been star gazing? I'd like to try sometime." Kimmi's mind at this point was blank, not realizing that she had basically just asked Kain out. After an awkward pause where Kain didn't answer, Kimmi looked up from her shoes at Kain.
Kain refocused his eyes on the path as he realized that he was spacing out, paying no attention to either Kimmi or his brother. "I'm sorry what?"
"N-n-nevermind nevermind."
Ahn~ woke up with a fright. Turning around to look at the clock, he realized he it was already ten minutes into class and he was still undressed. He wished that there was some device that would allow him to have long distance talks so he would be able to feign illness for the day.
Not wanting to waste any more precious time, he rushed out his door and ran towards the academy. Ahn~ wished to have learned the shunshin faster so running would no longer become a chore.
As Ahn~ ran past the ramen store, he spotted his classmate Macku slurping down a chicken noodle soup. "Hey Macku-san, don't you have school today?"
"Yep," replied Macku. "I'm trying to finish it as fast as I can, but it seems I'm not the fastest eater."
"Well, I guess I'll just wait for you and then we'll just go to school together."
By the time Ahn~ and Macku arrived at the Ninja Academy, it was already recess. It was probably the best moment to sneak back into class unnoticed by Iruka-sensei.
Iruka-sensei at the front of the room knew the two irresponsible students had just walked in but chose to ignore them. "Alright class, take out your pens and put your dividers up, we're gonna have a pop quiz on beavers."
'Oh snap" thought Macku, a thought shared with the rest of the class. Ahn~, however was unfazed by this announcement. Kimmi was confused by Ahn~'s confidence, especially since he does nothing in class except for sleep.
Noticing Kimmi staring at him, Ahn~ laughed at her puzzled expression, "If you don't keep your eyes on me, you're going to lose me."
As the test commenced, Ahn~, scouted the room for potential targets. His usual targets, Kain and Juutan, were blocked by Kimmi's deliberate attempts to stop him from achieving his goal.
"Hah, she thinks this will stop me. That's cute."
Little did Kimmi know, Ahn~ came from a notable family in Konoha. Born as a member of the Hyuga clan, Ahn~ was blessed with the Byakugan, the famed "All-Seeing Eye", a heavily coveted dōjutsu that gave its owner 360 degree vision. Not only were Kimmi's attempts to block his vision futile, Ahn~ could copy directly off Iruka-sensai's answer key if he wanted to.
Having memorized Iruka-sensei's rotational pattern when checking for cheaters, Ahn~ smoothly completed his task and handed in his test 20 minutes earlier than the end of class. However, it was Juutan who managed to beat him by 10 minutes, surprising even Iruka-sensei, who has taught geniuses of the past, like Sasuke Uchiha and Neji Hyuga..
Meanwhile, at the desk right next to Ahn~, Kimmi was confident she would ace this test. The endless hours of studying she put in last night would surely result in the defeat of Juutan and Kain. She was also determined to put an end to Ahn~'s cheating, albeit, her attempts only seem to elicit subtle giggles instead.
Twilight is a quiet hour for the Hokage's office. Deep in thought, the sixth hokage was discussing with his secret council about the looming threat that spreading like wildfire in the ninja world.
"We have to act now!" exclaimed Sakura Haruno, "The samurai have already taken over the Iwagakure and are advancing towards Takigakure and Kusagakure."
"I agree," said Sai, in his trademark stoic tone, "Noe of the North does not seem to have any intent on stopping his conquest and we can't afford to risk our children's futures."
"I glad you brought up youth," Shikamaru snapped back, "If we were to go to war right now, we're going to have to send our children who are still in ninja academy to the battlefield! I don't think you remember the how bad the casualties we suffered from the Fourth Shinobi Great War were."
Everyone in the room lowered their heads as they remembered the ones they lost in their war against Madara and Obito, especially Neji, whose valiant sacrifice still gave Hinata many sleepless nights over the years.
After a coup d'etat in the Land of Iron, Noe Muramasa, the rebellion leader, was named Shogun and began his conquest to conquer the ninja lands. His notorious ruthlessness and background has lead others to know him as simply Noe of the North, the Steel Shogun.
"So, what's it gonna be?" asked Sasuke Uchiha, "You're the boss, right?"
The sixth hokage put his hands on his face. He imagined all the possible scenarios of declaring war against Noe and what impact it would have on the next generation. However, in the midst of his troubles, he couldn't help by laugh as he remembered his naivety as a child, when he would do nothing but dream to sit on the chair he sits now.
"Well if I was still 16, I would have never backed out of a fight," said the Hokage whose childish behaviour belied his wisdom, "but I have no intention of sending my 8 year old son to a bar, let alone a battlefield. My friends, let us sit and watch vigilantly at how the Steel Shogun acts."
With that said, the council of Konoha's heroes was dismissed. However, they all knew their time of peace was coming to an end.
A/N: Put down a review to see how I did. This will be a lot longer lasting unlike my other stories :p