I got to bed around 10 and she got me up at 6. I dressed, ate breakfast, and got to the academy with over five minutes left to spare.

"Oh I see you finally made it with some time left", Sasuke said looking over at me.

"Shut up Sasuke. At least I don't get here two hours early for no apparent reason"

"It's better than being late all the time. What kind of ninja is constantly late to missions?"

"Well, I'll get better by then. I'm going to be a great ninja, I can't say the same about you"

"Oh really? Just because you're Mariah's sister? Don't think that it will make you as skilled of a ninja as she is"

"Would everyone just stop doing that!"

"Doing what?"

"Comparing me to her, I really am a different person, completely different!"

"Alright alright, don't get so worked up about it"

"Well…Iruka is starting again, I guess I should listen"

"Of course, you should stop talking to listen to Iruka give us useless facts that everyone here already knows. Do whatever you want to"

"You know, I'm sick of you", I turned to the person next to me, "So how are you?"

"I…I am fine, yesterday's lecture was so informative"

"Uh sure…so Sasuke, how is life in your emo corner?"

"It's not an emo corner, if anything, you're in the emo corner"

Iruka dropped something heavy on his desk to get our attention, "Both of you, just be quiet for once and I'll start the lesson. Today's class we will be learning about the different types of jutsu and later this week we will learn some basic ninjutsu. The three main types of jutsu are genjutsu, ninjutsu, and taijutsu. Genjutsu's are the illusion techniques that when activated extends the ninja's chakra flow through the cerebral nervous system of their opponent to control their minds chakra, thereby affecting their five senses. Ninjutsu's are the jutsu that controls the elements- wind, fire, earth, lightning, water, ice, and wood. Taijutsu is the hand to hand skills of ninja and usually need no handsigns. Those are the main types of jutsu but there are also fuuinjutsu, doujutsu, and kinjutsu. Fuuinjutsu are the techniques for sealing. Doujutsu is the blood eye-based jutsu that only certain ninja have. These techniques give the users special abilities such as reading chakra and coping jutsu. And finally there is kinjutsu or the banned or forbidden jutsu. They are forbidden usually because of the effects on the user or for the inhuman jutsu. That's it for today go on home."

"Why does he have such abrupt endings to his short lectures…"

"Who knows, it's nice though"

"Why do you not talk to anyone but me?"

"I don't know, you're sitting right next to me"

"Well I have to go meet my sister outside, she's going to teach me a new jutsu"

"Oh really? What jutsu"

"…….I'm not sure"

"Nice one, I guess I'll see you tomorrow then"

"Yup"

So I slipped past all of the students and their parents, right outside to where Mariah was standing.

"Hey Naoki, you ready?"

"Heck yes, this is probably the most excitement today"

"Well here, it'll make your life even more exciting", she said reaching into her pocket and pulling out an orange.

"Oh so we're doing the Rasengan training?"

"I was trying to be more discreet, but yes. Since you know what it is, do you think you can do it?"

"Sure, it can't be that hard"

I focused the chakra into the orange, attempting to break the stupid fruit. After two hours, Mariah finally decided to give me a demonstration. She grabbed it, waited a few seconds, then orange pulp and juice was all over the ground.

"Just swirl the chakra, if you get the juice moving , it's a lot easier"

I grabbed another orange from a small pile she had brought. My chakra control was not the best in the world, I couldn't even get this right. I finally got both of my hands over it and pushed all of my chakra into swirling it vigorously until it broke.

"There, see I…I totally…got…that"

I guess I messed with my chakra too much, I collapsed onto the ground. A few minutes later, I got up with Mariah hovering right over me.

"Are you alright? I guess I should have told you to keep it light"

"Ya that might have been a good idea. Mariah I'm in the academy, I can't mess too much with my chakra"

"I'm getting this now, this is why I never train anyone. Maybe we should hold off for today"

"No, I want to get this down right now"

"Alright, well you should know what's coming"

She tossed me a baseball, it was a lot harder on numerous levels than the stupid orange. Hours later, many hours later, I was actually getting somewhere. I could feel the air in the stupid half hollow baseball moving around. I focused quite hard on it, but all I got were a few sparks of electricity. That surprised me, and I dropped the baseball.

"Oh you have lightning chakra, that's interesting. Hey if you can manage this, I know someone who can help you with something easier and probably better for you"

"Ok! That will be cool"

"Well Naoki, it is getting rather late, how about we pick this up tomorrow"

"Alright fine, but I am going to get this, then you're going to have to get the other person to teach me something else"

When we started down the path home, I started wondering why she was doing this.

"Why did you want to teach me Rasengan…I mean…as a first real ninjutsu?"

"I don't know, you're a Namikaze like me and it is one of the most powerful and is easy to manipulate. Even if you don't want to use it in battle, you can still use the knowledge you get from these exercises to help you master other jutsu. Really I'm just trying to help you"

"Can you help me with how to nature manipulate it, or whatever"

"No, that's not something I can easily teach you, you have to get it on your own. If you want, I can bring something to help you figure out your other chakra type"

"That'd be cool. Hey, I was wondering if you could possibly teach me your body flick'r shimmering jutsu teleportation thing?"

"That's more of a kekkei genkai sort of chakra manipulation, I don't know that I could teach you easily, but hey if you want to devote time to it, I might be able to. It took me a while to get it where I could fully control it easily"

"One more thing, how are you and your boyfriend doing?"

"Why…why do you keep saying that?"

"You always hang out, and you seem to have a…fondness for each other, that's all"

"Maybe I like him, maybe we're going out, but you really should just leave that door closed"

"Alright I will, if you tease me, then what do you expect as treatment?"

"Let's go home, we're staying out later and later every night"

This chapter is quite a bit shorter than the others, but that doesn't really matter ^-^. I'm definitely going to work on getting this all the way through...at least until I run out of my rough draft of it. To be perfectly honest, she isn't fond of the Rasengan, nor does she actually use it much after just a few times. When she is older, she almost completely forgets how to even execute it. Her independence from her sister might be to blame for that, she doesn't want to be too attached to jutsus that her sister favors. Have a super awesome day you guys!