Chapter 3

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Sakura P.O.V

"Suiton: Mizurappa! (1)" I yelled as a large ket of water came out of my mouth through my hand. I finally did it! Sure it took me two and a half weeks but I successfully did seven B ranked jutsu in less than twenty minutes! And, as an unexpected bonus, I destroyed twenty-five trees!

I panted a bit, as I felt my muscles cramp up.

I'm now six and I have mastered all E, D, and C ranked Water, Earth, and Lightning type jutsus. I now completely mastered B ranked Water and Earth styles. The lightning style isn't my natural chakra type so it's much more difficult. It takes nearly a week to master a jutsu when it normally takes a day or two.

My weights now weigh 96.25 pounds. Then add an extra forty or so pounds and then I'm carrying 136.25 pounds, which is triple the number of pounds a six-year-old should carry. I have chakra reserves as large as an advanced chunin would have it.

Three months ago my ojiisan died. He was the only family I had left. I continued to have a transformed clone run the shop in his honour. I also kept on adding the same amount of weight he always put, once again, in his honour.

I couldn't save him because he lived a long, full life. He had a ghost of a smile on his face apparently. I can't deny that he died happily.

Tomorrow is the first day of the academy for me. I smiled up at the sky. I know there's an Entrance Exam, and I'm going to ace it.

-- At Entrance Exams --

"Eh?! What does 'Diagram this sentence mean'"

"Shh, Naruto!" I scolded, "We both know that you know the answer! I taught you!"

"Oh yeah! Sorry!"

Ino snorted as several others muttered angrily.

I came to the last question and rolled my eyes, it was simple.

Line B is the greatest possible distance a shinobi can throw his shuriken from a tree of 7 meters. For enemies who appear within the circumference of the shuriken's range, explain his attack options. Show working.

Neatly writing the last answer I sighed. Obviously, the Nara's were far behind. I used chakra to speed up my writing because I wanted to visit my mother and fathers grave today.

I silently gave the paper to Iruka-sensei.

"Show-off..." someone whispered, I rolled my eyes.

"Head out that door, Mizuki-sensei will be there to give you your second exam," Iruka-sensei mumbled as he put down a flower circle. I smiled, glad to know that I got a perfect.

With that same smile on my face, I smugly walked out of the room. I bet that arrogant Uchiha can't beat me! I thought about the encounter I had with the boy an hour ago.

"Hey watch it!" I yelled at a boy angrily as he shoved me to the ground. The boy didn't throw back a single glance a kept on walking forward."Not even a sorry?" I muttered angrily. I dusted myself off and glare at the Uchiha crest on his back and smirked to myself. "I happened to realize that Ugly... starts with U!"

The boy paused and glared at me, "Hn."

"It makes me laugh to see you try to fit your whole vocabulary into one sentence!"

Once again he glared at me, this time he truly said words. "Why'd you dye your hair that ugly colour?"

"It's natural! And I can always change it in a day, but you, unfortunately? Your IQ couldn't get any lower!"

"Wel-"

"Oh... My... Gosh! I just realized! It talks! Finally, after what seven years! You're pretty slow, Ducky!" I joked with a smile on my face. My partner, on the other hand, wasn't having that much fun.

"Ducky...?"

"Your hair looks like ducks *ss."

His eyes widened. "Tch! Well... I- uh... you're ugly!" He stammered.

"I could eat alphabet soup and throw up a smarter and much better insult than that!" I giggled.

"Can you please stop?!" the boy groaned in frustration.

"Only if you say sorry for shoving me to the ground and making my hand bleed," I had a ghost of a smile on my lips. Once again his eyes widened, but soon he glared at me again.

"No! I don't need to say sorry, it's never an Uchiha's fault! You're so annoying!" His cheeks were a tinted pink as he glared at me once more before running away.

Stupid Uchiha's and their eternal egos!

"Hi, Mizuki-sensei!"

"Uh... Hello Sakura!" he greeted as he looked down at his clipboard

I smiled innocently at the white-haired sensei. He returned a more relaxed smile.

"So... what do we have to do for the second exam?" I asked him. He raised an eyebrow.

"You're done with the first already?" he was obviously bewildered.

"Well... Duh!" I looked at him with a smile in my eyes. His eyes went wide and I grinned.

A soft breeze passed around us. Nothing but silence lied before us as he carefully observed me. Not breaking eye contact my grin widened.

Suddenly he clapped his hands, "Alright, Sakura... see those targets right there?" He crouched down and pointed to five targets. Each one getting farther away from us. The closest one was five meters and the last being around twenty-five.

I nodded. "For this test, you need to throw three kunai at each target," He explained in a carefree manner.

Once again I nodded confidently. If I hadn't learned the technique to properly throw a kunai... I would completely fail.

I picked up one kunai and twirled it around my small, chubby fingers. I threw it at the target confidently.

Clump.

In the centre was the kunai, I picked up two more and threw them. Once again, they made it to the centre of the target

I repeated the process perfectly the last four times and smirked.

"You're an attention-seeker, you know?" Inner surprised me. "You're trying so hard to get all of the attention on you. Don't you know that that's dangerous?" Her blunt statement didn't surprise me.

If it means that my friends will be safe. I'm willing to take on any ninja.

"Sakura, that not what I-"

"Sakura, congratulations. You finished the second exam. Uh... please go to the courtyard while you wait for the rest of the students," Mizuki smiled pleasantly. I shrugged as he showed me to the small area.

I suppressed a grunt, there were at least fifty kids in the first exam. This courtyard could possibly only hold twenty. Are they stupid?

Wait... we have to wait for everyone?

"The last three questions would be difficult for most everyone. Also, that Shikamaru kid doesn't look like he would want to throw a kunai. He's the Nara heir so he must be the second to finish the first exam. All of the Nara's and Uchiha's will be finished in at most twenty minutes. Naruto, though he may seem stupid, will wake up from his nap and turn in his test. Ino and Hinata will also do the same. That would leave the others who will definitely finish seven minutes later."

So?

"We have thirty minutes to say hi to mom, dad, and ojiisan," Inner grunted. I sighed as I realized she could have just said that.

-- Forty minutes later --

"Alright," Iruka clapped, "everyone! We will be testing how well you do in battle. When I say scatter, you must hide. How well you do against Mizuki-sensei and me will become your score on your third exam. You may use any technique!" The children's eyes darted around the forest as they tried to find a hiding spot.

"Everyone ready? Your not? Scatter!" Kids stumbled to where they wanted to hide.

"Hey! This is my space!" I heard a kid whisper loudly. "Ami, out!"

"Whatever! Sasuke-kun!" the purple haired girl ran next to a well hidden Uchiha.

Fangirls...I didn't hide. No instead I made myself invisible and hid my chakra. Iruka-sensei and Mizuki-sensei might sense me but because they won't expect an advanced academy student they will completely ignore me.

Suddenly, I heard two screams. Then three more after a few seconds. I saw Iruka and Mizuki cross out names and write a few notes.

Naruto... Ino... Hinata... I taught them how to hide their chakra. They should be fine. About thirty minutes later, I saw Naruto run out of a bush and stand next to Hinata, who had just gotten out. Ino joined them nearly ten seconds later.

After that only one student came out. That was Sasuke.

"I bet you he's the last one."

"Kya! Sasuke is so amazing and strong!"

"You did so well, Sasuke!"

"Where's that pink-haired girl?"

I silently laughed as everyone suddenly froze. Sasuke glared at the ground as everyone else tried to figure out where I was.

Iruka walked back to the courtyard. "Sakura, you can come out now!"

And so I quickly released the E ranked jutsu. I came out of a bush so that I wouldn't be mixed up with all of the other kids.

"Did I win?" I asked while giggling.

"Yeah... but we have to grade this exam based on everything, not your stealth skills," Mizuki said. All of a sudden he aimed a low sweep at me.

I quickly jumped and glared at the chunin. He then took out a kunai and threw it at me while I was in mid-air. To dodge it, I twisted my body gracefully as to both land on my feet and to not waste my energy.

Soon I was on the defensive side of the battle. It wasn't a good place to be, I wasn't initiating any of the movements and had no way of beating him on this side of me.

"Cha!" I punched the ground with a chakra infused fist. Everyone fell to the ground and as the ground shook and Although it wasn't that efficient, it was a good way to show-off my chakra control. My goal was to get Mizuki-sensei to use all of his strength and defeat him. An Academy student defeating a chunin would earn a few raised eyebrows, would it not?

Mizuki-sensei stumbled backwards his eyes wide with surprise. I took note of his lowered guard and attacked him. My fist was about to touch his cheek when suddenly he disappeared.

The other children were nowhere in sight and the crater I made had vanished. Genjutsu. I quickly brought my hands together into a tiger seal and yelled out, "Kai!"

Before I opened my eyes I did a backflip knowing that Mizuki-sensei would try to attack me. "Suikusari no Jutsu!(2)" I yelled out. Chains suddenly came out if my hands and wrapped around Mizuki-sensei's ankles and wrists.

The other students suddenly started cheering. Mizuki-sensei could barely take a single step.

"Good job, Sakura! You can release Mizuki-sensei now!" Iruka remarked clapping slowly. As soon as he said that I immediately released the jutsu.

Mizuki and Iruka-sensei quickly wrote something down on the clipboard and rushed us back into the classroom.

Suiton: Mizurappa(1) - Water Style: Water Trumpet

Suikusari no Jutsu(2) - Water Chains Technique