Chapter 3:
A few weeks later
"Hey Naruto come on we're going to be late!" yelled Kai
"I'm coming, I'm coming!" said Naruto as he pulled on his orange jump suit. Today was the first day of school at the ninja academy for Kai and Naruto was keeping them back as usual.
"Okay I'm ready" said Naruto
"Good now lets go. We'll have to run or we'll be late now." Said Kai
"Pfft… I'm always late" said Naruto "Iruka sensei likes me he doesn't mind."
"Well lets hurry anyway he doesn't know me yet so I need to make a good impression" said Kai
"Whatever. Hey I'll race you there!" said Naruto as he suddenly took off
"Hey no fair!" yelled Kai in a good natured tone as he sped off after Naruto. When they got there they were 5 minutes early since they both sprinted the entire way after all they both had unbelievably high stamina so they had to burn the energy somehow.
"It's a tie… Oh well" said Naruto who was actually a little out of breath since this was the first race he actually had to put some effort into in a long time. Kai was also out of breath and was still impressed by Naruto's chakra reserves even though Kai's weren't that far behind it was still unusual because he always had higher stamina than anyone in his age group and even some above his age group in the Uchiha clan.
"I'll beat you tomorrow" they both said in unison
Just then a pink haired girl walked in and threw herself on Kai's back and started to cry.
"Oh Sauske-kun I was so worried!" said the pink haired girl. Suddenly Kai was buried in a pile of crying girls.
"Uhhh… Naruto a little help here would be appreciated." said Kai who was barely able to breathe.
"Ummm… guys Sauske isn't here yet he did get out of the hospital today but he still hasn't shown up yet." Said Naruto between laughing fits
"Oh…" said all of the Sauske fan-girls in unison. After Kai got up and most of the fan-girls had returned to their seats the pink haired girl apologized for getting him into trouble.
"It's all right" said Kai
"But you do look a lot like Sauske" she pointed out
'Aww crap has my cover been blown already?' thought Kai
"Well anyway my name is Sakura Haruno. What is yours?" she asked
"My name is Kai" said Kai as he sighed in relief that she didn't figure it out 'Wait is she the sister of that cute pink haired girl that I saw in Sauske's room? Cool maybe if Sakura goes here so will her sister.' thought Kai. Just then Sauske came through the door and once again the fan-girls attacked and Sauske was buried under a pile of crying girls. Kai and Naruto began to laugh.
"Hahahaha! Wow it is funny from this point of view" laughed Kai as he helped dig out Sauske
"Hi I'm Kai. I'm the new guy. You must be Sauske" said Kai as he pulled out the poor Uchiha from the pile of fan-girls
"So do they do that everyday?" asked Kai
"No thank god" replied Sauske. As Kai examined Sauske for the first time he got a good look at him and he looked a lot like Kai except Kai's hair was a few shades darker than Sauske's even though it had the same style. Their clothes were also different Sauske now wore a blue t-shirt with the Uchiha crest on the back, white shorts, and some weird arm things. While Kai wore a black t-shirt with a white leaf village symbol in the middle about 5 inches tall and some blue shorts.
"Okay everyone take your seats" said Iruka
As everyone sat down Kai positioned himself a row above Sauske and to the left of Naruto and next to the window so he could secretly watch Sauske but also sit near his new friend.
"So was that her?" asked Kai
"Yup that's Sakura the girl I like" replied Naruto
"Maybe at the end of the academy program you'll end up on a team with her." said Kai
"I hope so. Right now the ideal team for me I think would be me, you, and Sakura." Said Naruto
"Hey no talking guys" said Iruka "Okay today we have a new student Kai Kamize today we will be testing you to see what level skill you are at right now and we will give you a starting grade based on your skill.
"Ok" said Kai
"Now first we will gauge your ninjutsu level. Okay lets head outside." said Iruka. Once they got there the rest of the class watched. "Okay" said Iruka "You will be going against Sauske and we will see how long you can keep up this basic fire jutsu. Now you and Sauske will take your positions and will keep the stream of fire going at the target in front of you for as long as you can."
"Whatever" said Kai and Sauske in unison. The class laughed quietly at how similar they were.
"Okay on your mark get set go!" shouted Iruka. Quickly Kai and Sauske flashed through the hand signs and shot a medium sized jet of flame from their mouths. They kept this going for a few minutes and Sauske was starting to run low on chakra.
'I better not beat Sauske by too much or it might be suspicious so I'll pretend to run out a little after Sauske' thought Kai even though he knew he could go on for several more minutes since having high chakra reserves was one of his best ninja qualities. A few seconds later Sauske dropped to one knee and his jet died out. About ten seconds after that Kai let his jet diminish as well and pretended to be very tired.
"Well done" said Iruka "that was some A+ work right there"
"The only reason you beat me was because I've been in the hospital for a few weeks" whispered an angry Sauske
"Whatever" whispered a slightly amused Kai
"Now onto the taijutsu part of the evaluation" said Iruka who seemed very interested to see what Kai could do with taijutsu. "You will be going against Sauske for taijutsu too"
'Crap' thought Kai 'my taijutsu is very good but it is very distinctly Uchiha! If Sauske notices he may blow my cover! I will have to beat him in only a few moves. Crap! Looks like I will have to show almost my full power in taijutsu'
"All right take your positions" said Iruka. As they took their positions Kai tried to size up Sauske's taijutsu prowess he seemed to walk confidently but he hesitated when he lifted his left shoulder. Kai quickly flashed his sharingan on and then off but saw enough to find that Sauske had recently been sliced in the shoulder by a shuriken.
'Okay if I am going to take out Sauske I will have to stay to his left side so he hesitates when he blocks' thought Kai.
"Okay… Begin!" shouted Iruka. At that moment Kai used his superior speed to jump to Sauske's left and deliver a round house kick to his left side. Sauske blocked the kick it hurt but not as much as it would've if he didn't block it. Kai was very surprised but he saw that the rest of Sauske's left side was open so Kai quickly pulled back his foot and did a frontal sweep knocking Sauske off of his feet but before Sauske hit the ground by instinct Kai grabbed the front of Sauske's shirt and delivered a powerful front punch to Sauske's chest to make sure that he wouldn't get back up to drag out the fight too long. This was the reason that Kai was one of the best combat specialists of the Uchiha not because of his high stamina or speed but because he had something his father called the killer instinct. The killer instinct was an instinct that most people don't have that tells them to finish off their opponent quickly and viciously and Kai was one of the people that had it. As Sauske hit the ground everyone except Naruto who had
sparred with Kai a few times already sparred with Kai gasped in shock the best taijutsu user in the class had been taken out in three moves.
"Uhhh…"said Iruka "Good job Kai where did you learn to fight like that?"
"My parents taught me they were recently killed by Itachi" said Kai but technically this was true his parents were killed but Iruka was told that Kai's parents were killed at the gate with the other shinobi who tried to stop Itachi.
That made everyone shut up. In the silence Kai offered his hand to Sauske who was still on the ground but looked shocked to see that someone shared his pain. Sauske usually would've gotten up on his own but to show that he didn't harbor anymore ill feelings to Kai he accepted his help up. The two stood still grasping each others hands looked into each other's eyes and without saying a word made a partnership to kill Itachi together. This put a smile on each of their faces as they imagined Itachi beaten and bleeding on the ground.
'Who cares if I can't tell him I'm an Uchiha I can still plan Itachi's death with Sauske' thought Kai
"Okay Kai" said Iruka "now all we need to do is check your genjutsu"
"lemme guess" said Kai "It's Sauske" as he smiled at his new partner who smiled back
"Actually no. Sauske is our second best genjutsu user in the class. The best is Sakura Haruno." said Iruka. After he said this Sakura stepped out and said hi.
"Okay now I want you to try and capture each other in a genjutsu and whoever makes the strongest genjutsu wins. All right? Now go!" said Iruka. They both began their genjutsu Kai actually had a hard time fighting off her genjutsu so he had to use a good chunk of his chakra to
get her in his favorite genjutsu that he invented. Sakura looked around in the genjutsu and suddenly she was chained to a wall and had Kai standing there looking very menacing
"If you were really my enemy this would be the part where I torture you…" said Kai. Sakura began to whimper but then Kai said "Hey weren't you paying attention? I said if you were my enemy which you aren't. Well it looks like I win I'll release the jutsu now and you can tell him I beat you" said Kai but not in a bragging tone just in the stating a fact emotionless tone. Sakura sighed in relief and nodded as the jutsu started to fade. Suddenly she was back in the training field still standing there but only about two seconds had gone by.
"He won" said Sakura though not bitterly almost with admiration.
"Well I am very impressed Kai. I would've loved to meet your parents" said Iruka before he could catch himself. He looked kind of embarrassed but Kai really didn't pay attention to it.
"Okay well that's all for today. Class dismissed" said Iruka. As Kai and Naruto left together Kai and Sauske exchanged glances and smirked.
