You quickly wolf down the chicken meat bun as you ran, making sure to clean out your mouth with warm tea in your water bottle.
The years have been kind to you as you had worked out the most... efficient route between home and school, all the little back alleys and hidden pathways that are surprising and lead one to interesting places IF they were willing to explore.
The route you took would save you a good ten or so minutes easily... all you had to do was go down certain back alleys, go up walls, run along said walls between houses, gardens, go over that abandoned apartment building and finally down in between the orphanage and the rice warehouse.
As you shimmied out between the buildings, the sun blinded you temporarily, before you cleared with blinks and shakes of your head.
The Hokage tower loomed over you, built as it was over the academy.
Based on how high the sun was, the fact that the other students were still entering the academy, you were on time. Which was to say, you were early and in theory could scope out the territory you had to go into, study the civilians to infiltrate, and so on...
You settled for refilling your empty water bottle with water from one of the taps just outside before heading to your classroom.
The noise level wasn't too loud, however, the classroom held a certain tension. This was... as they said, the day. The big one, where a quick written exam followed by a test of the basic three, would see academy students graduated to genin. Failing at this stage would be... embarrassing for any student as it took actual work to fail.
Certainly, you weren't tensed about the exam. You knew you could pass it. What you were excited about was the sight of the headbands on the table by the podium at the front of the classroom.
This day would mark the day you became an adult.
Where you could do things you couldn't before, like buy actual kunai, or gain access to the training grounds forbidden to civilians and academy students. And not that you wanted to, you could even do things like buy lottery tickets and sake. True, they weren't against the shinobi code of conducts, but the proper virtues of a shinobi said you shouldn't, and thus... you wouldn't.
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The Academy
[Sakura Quest] [Naruto / Streetfighter]
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Notes : A quick update...
