"Today's the big day." You sighed nervously. You ran your fingers through your (your hair color) hair before tying your newly acquired headband, which gave you the right to call yourself a genin of the Village Hidden in the Leaves. You stared in the mirror for a moment, taking pride in the relief of the leaf symbol gracing your forehead. You worked hard to earn this. You studied and trained every night just to make sure you would pass the exam on the first try. You have never been the extremely studious type, but when you set a goal, you gave yourself no option but to reach it, and if anything got in your way, it was not a pretty sight.
A soft smile traced across your lips as you nodded to your reflection. "You're gonna do great." You say to yourself before grabbing your wallet and exiting your room. As you reached the bottom of the stairs, you were greeted by your mother whom to your surprise, presented you with a freshly made bento, wrapped in a navy blue scarf. "Mom?" you inquired "I thought you had a mission with dad this morning." Your mother chuckled as she placed the box into your hands. "Lord Hokage is allowing me to start a little late." She replied "Just because your father and I are jounin, doesn't mean that we have to miss out on your big day….Well, I certainly am not going to." You smiled widely, trying not to tear up. Your parents were high-demand jounin who spent most of their time on missions. Needless to say, you spent a lot of time alone. "Thanks mom." You said. You then headed to the door and casually waved your hand. "I'm leaving now!" You chirped before running to the academy.
You ran down the dirt path, past the Japanese-style buildings until you saw your destination draw near. A chuckle escaped your lips as the building grew larger and larger until—
"Rawf!" a small white puppy had launched itself toward you, placing many slobbery licks all over your face. "Wah!" you yelled, falling backward from shock. The puppy continued his barrage of affection as you hit the ground until a familiar voice interrupted him. "Hehe, knock it off, Akamaru, that's enough!" the male voice chuckled. Akamaru wagged his tail and barked happily at the smiling figure that approached you. "Sorry about that, _." He chimed, allowing the puppy to jump on top of his head before extending his hand out to you "He kinda channels me when I'm excited. Especially if it's over a girl I've been looking forward to seeing all morning." He hoisted you up effortlessly, allowing you to dust off your black shorts "Kiba…" you replied, smiling softly.
"You can cut the dorky pup-pickup lines; I'm already your girlfriend, aren't I?"
Bearing his fangs in a wide grin, Kiba chuckled and entwined his fingers in yours; the fluff that matched his jacket sleeve tickled your wrist. "Yeah, but I still love the same stupid look you make every time I throw one at ya." You grimaced and gave the boy a soft flick on the forehead and continued walking toward the academy with him.
Kiba Inuzuka, the animal of the Hidden Leaf Village was a long time classmate of yours, and as of late, your boyfriend. You and Kiba had been friends since your first day at the academy, and had revealed his true feelings for you three months before you two became genin. The two of you always had great chemistry, so it only made sense for you to start dating; the fact that his puppy companion, Akamaru was crazy about you, also gave him the extra push to ask you out. You were hesitant at first, but couldn't possibly turn him down.
The two of you arrived at the academy hand-in-hand, meeting up with a few other familiar faces from your graduating class once you entered the classroom. "Good morning, Kiba." A quiet female voice almost whispered " and good morning, _."
"Hey, Hinata." Kiba replied
"Good morning,Hinata, ready for today?" You chimed.
"Oh, I guess so…. I'm just happy we all graduated."
"Oh yeah, our entire class graduated didn't it?"
"Yeah." Kiba scoffed "Everyone except for that loser, Naru—" Kiba realized he had spoken too soon when he saw a spikey-haired blonde with an orange jumpsuit pointing smugly at his headband. He was Naruto Uzumaki, the class clown and resident "loser" of the Hidden Leaf Village. He had a reputation of being a complete troublemaker on top of the fact that he failed the graduation exam three times. No one particularly cared for him, yourself included. You weren't exactly sure why. Sure, he was obnoxious, but you didn't go around disliking every person who has ever been obnoxious. Your parents just taught you to steer clear of him and that was that. Apparently, that's what the others were taught as well.
Naruto was talking to someone else you also didn't care for, a spiky raven-haired boy named Shikamaru Nara. Shikamaru was also your classmate and has always been a friend of Kiba's, so there really wasn't any escaping spending time with him. He wasn't a bad guy, just a little mean-spirited, which is what you couldn't stand about him. He made it blatantly clear that he was a complete sexist, and spent most of class time sleeping, which made you wonder how he ever passed the exit exams. To you, it was unfair, especially after you and many others worked so hard to pass. The bottom line: you hated that he had everything handed to him while he did nothing. The raven-haired teen finished his conversation with Naruto after you two other classmates, Ino Yamanaka and Sakura Haruno burst in, yelling and fighting with each other as rolled his eyes and headed up the rows of seats in yours and Kiba's direction.
"Hey, Shikamaru, what's that idiot doing here?" he inquired, motioning to the blonde, who was smiling widely and the pink-haired Sakura. Shikamaru shrugged and rolled his eyes "Man, I dunno." He replied "Iruka-sensei must've lost his mind. What a drag… I was hoping we would have a quiet classroom for once. It's easier to sleep that way." You chuckled softly "The volume of the class has never stopped you before." You said "Besides, if you want to sleep, you should just stay home.". Shikamaru rolled his eyes and rubbed the crook of his neck "I don't need a lecture. I get enough of that from my mom." He replied coldly. You bit your tongue, annoyed with his comment. "You're mom's a smart woman, then." You retort. Shikamaru moves past you to his usual seat in the back of the classroom "If that's your idea of smart," he says lazily plopping himself into his chair "I don't wanna know what your idea of stupid is." "Hmph!" you pout, as Kiba guides you to a seat nearby. He laughed a bit, finding your little spats with Shikamaru beyond amusing.
Another few minutes passed. Strange what could happen within a few minutes. Naruto had somehow managed to kiss Sasuke Uchiha, the boy almost every girl in school liked, which then caused almost all the girls to nearly rip the blonde boy apart. Finally, Iruka, your teacher finally stepped in to tell you all what was going to happen now that you were genin.
A few more minutes were spent explaining how you all were to be trained, including the fact that you were all going to be assigned to squads and each squad would have a jounin training them. You smiled and glanced at Kiba "I hope we're in the same squad." You whispered to him. Kiba grinned and nodded in agreement, while Iruka continued on. "I will now announce the squads." He called, looking down at his paper.
