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Authors Note: Do any of you know how I should make Natsumi's and the kyuubi's first encounter like? Should I have the kyuubi act the same as its canon counterpart Kurama or should it be completely different. With that said please enjoy the story and subscribe.
Today was my first day at the academy and I had no clue of what to expect. Would it be like my old school in Texas, starting with the simple stuff like adding and multiplication and slowly increasing the difficulty as years pass by? Or would it be fast paced like the schools in China were everything was sink or swim and if you fell behind you were kicked out. I knew that it would be almost ridiculously easy for me, with the exceptions being in taijutsu and geography, but what I was really worried about was Natsumi. In the anime Naruto was well known for being an idiot who had no talent for the academics and could only solve most of his problems through violence. I was hoping that his poor grades were a result of him not trying hard enough and skipping class and not the result of some learning disability. I had to remind myself that Natsumi was not Naruto and if she did have problems understanding the work I would be there to help her through it.
I walked with Natsumi to the academy, which just so happens to be only a 5-minute walk away from our apartment complex. Once we got there we could see a crowd of people waiting outside and a banner saying; "welcome new students". The villagers mostly ignored us while throwing an occasional glance at Natsumi. From what I could see these past few months with Natsumi was that most of the villagers were just wary of her and the rest would ignore her completely. While I knew that Natsumi felt hurt from being ignored by the villagers I couldn't really blame them. They were just scared of the possibility that the kyuubi could escape as it was hard for them to believe that a small seal on a little girls stomach could hold back the power of the kyuubi. We waited there for about 10 minutes before the Hokage showed up and walked up onto the small stage created by a doton jutsu.
The Hokage made a boring speech, welcoming the new students and saying something about the "Will of Fire" and finally ended his speech by introducing are new sensei. Our sensei was a 20 year old looking woman who was kind of pretty with long black hair and stunning blue eyes wearing a chunin vest letting us know that she a chunin. She told all of the new academy students to follow her and we were given a small tour to show us where we practiced weapon training, the sparing field outside, and finally our classroom. Once we were in the classroom we were told to form a line and introduce ourselves to the class. When it was Natsumi turn she yelled, "My name is Natsumi Uzumaki and I'm going to be the Hokage" some people laughed and got scolded by the teacher. A couple turns passed until I was up next, "My name is Kagami Satoshi and I want to become a medical ninja." I said surprising the others and took a seat next to Natsumi. The last introduction finally came and it was Satsuki Uchiha. "My name is Satsuki Uchiha, that's all you need to know," she said in monotone voice. Her introduction was met with awed stares of her fanboy's and some even asked her to marry them.
The teachers cleared her throat and said, "Now that everyone has been introduced I want you to copy and memorize your schedule on the board" The schedule was history (7-8), geography (9-10), math (10-11) lunch/time to socialize (11-12), science (12-1) chakra theory (1-2), weapons practice (2-3) taijutsu (3-4). "Now class, I expect the best behavior from all of you and if I hear or see you do something that brings shame upon this academy you will be kicked out immediately and your chakra sealed permanently." This shocked me, I get that she wanted to enforce obedience in us by using a scare tactic, but this seemed a little too extreme, as most of the class was 8 years old. The rest of the day went by slowly with the teacher going over the syllabus and before she dismissed us she said, "I expect for you all to train after the academy everyday, because if you don't I can guarantee that you will not graduate, class dismissed." With that Natsumi and I left towards the training ground with renewed determination and set our resistance seals to a higher level.
4-Year Time Skip
It has been 4 years since we have joined the academy and we have seen a great improvement in our skills. Natsumi and I have established our place as the top dogs in our taijutsu class. Beating even the clan heirs who have better forms than us with our superior speed and strength. The only one that could keep up with us was Satsuki, but even then she always lost to us. I tried reaching out to her, asking if she wanted to train with me and Natsumi and she just walked away ignoring me. I gave up after a third failed attempt, knowing that I couldn't help someone that didn't want to be help. There was a month before we were scheduled to take the final exam and Natsumi still couldn't do the clone jutsu. No matter how many chakra control exercises she learned she was incapable of producing a passible clone. I decided to take NatsumI with me to go see the Hokage and ask for an alternative clone jutsu for her to learn.
We waited in the waiting room as the secretary told us that the Hokage was currently in a meeting. After 15 minutes we were allowed to go in and entered his office. "Hello Natsumi-chan and Kagami-kun what brings you by to see me today" the Hokage asked. "Natsumi is incapable of doing the clone jutsu as she is unable to use jutsu that require very little chakra. We were hoping that you would be able to give Natsumi an alternative clone jutsu that requires more chakra." The Hokage made a face of surprise before he opened his desk and handed her a scroll. "This contains the shadow clone jutsu, it requires the person have at least jounin level chakra and you have as much chakra as me, it gives the memories of the clone to the user so please don't make more than 20 at a time or you can suffer information overload and end up in a coma." He said with a serious expression. He then turned to me "I am sorry Kagami-kun but at your current level you could only make one before you start suffering from chakra exhaustion." I just wave it off and say, "It's no problem and I made a clone jutsu with my crystal release anyway." The Hokage looked surprise for a moment and complemented me on creating a jutsu and dismissed us.
Natsumi and I went to my apartment for supper and I cooked us up some spaghetti and meatballs. In these past few years the orphanage matron was able to teach us both how to cook, but I was always the one who ended up cooking as my food-tasted way better. We ate there in a comfortable silence before Natsumi asked, "do you think we'll be on the same team." I stopped eating and said, "I don't know, but I heard somewhere that they usually put the top shinobi and kunouchi together along with the dope." This made her worried, as Satsuki was the top kunouchi in class due to her getting A's in all of her subjects. I try to console her, "Don't worry, we'll probably go on a lot of missions together and I heard that once you make chunin you would be able to make your own group to do missions with" This calmed her somewhat but I could tell that she was still pretty upset.
It was the day of the final exam and Mizuki and Iruka were walking around to make sure no one was cheating. Mizuki and Iruka took over our class two years ago when our old sensei received a promotion to jonin. The rest of the exam went by smoothly with no one getting caught cheating and Natsumi surprised the examiners when she executed a perfect shadow clone. They were very surprised as they saw her miserably failed attempts at it a month ago and they fully expected her to fail it now. Once we received our headbands we decided to celebrate with some Ichiraku Ramen. The next week we came back to the academy for one last time in order to learn our team placements. Iruka stood in front of the class and started to read off the teams. "Teams 6 is still active, team 7 will consist of Kagami Satoshi, Satsuki Uchiha, and Natsumi Uzumaki under jonin sensei Kakashi Hatake." I stopped listening once he called my team and immediately started praying that my team wouldn't end up a trouble magnet like the canon team 7 and hoped to live into my 20's.
