Well here we are back with Chapter 7 of Trust By My Side.

Quick update. I do not have internet anymore so I was answering reviews on the mobile app... Long story short. It didn't work. All of the messages I had sent did not go through so I am just going to say thank you for all of the reviews and feedback and sorry again for not PMing anyone back this time around. I know not to trust the app anymore.

If anyone thought I stopped at an odd spot at the end of Chapter 6, you are right.

I realized I had just passed 10k words for that chapter and stopped rather abruptly. I also wanted to try and think of how much of the academy I should be fast forwarding through the academy.

I also got a review about the chapter being too long. Yes it was really long. I set a goal to get through the first day of academy and didn't cut the chapter until I finished it.

Most chapters I aim for around 5k words give or take. Just depends on how well I can stop at the 5k mark.

I also saw a small oversight I made last chapter. In chapter 3, Naruto had met Jiraya and knew he was a fuin-jutsu master. I made it sound like he never knew that reading up on him in the last chapter. He had heard Jiraya say fuin-jutsu just did not really understand it at the time. Small things but a little odd in my head.

To clarify the purpose of these notes is to give people that are interested in my thought process making the story and not just the story itself. If there is something crucial to the story, it will be the first thing on these notes. If not it is fine to skip over them.

I personally find it harder to read stories that don't have notes on them. Just me personally.

Well enough of that, these intro notes are always too long so let's just get started.

Here is Chapter 7 of Trust By My Side

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I do not own Naruto

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Naruto and Tenten had no idea where they should start.

When they had gotten their first kunai it had been at a second hand store.

Now everything was brand new and looked in excellent quality.

As they were running around looking at all of the weapons, the shop owner made it out into the front and yelled at them.

"Kids, this is no place to be running around. If you are from the academy show me your permits or get the hell out." His voice boomed out at them.

They both handed him their permits and after he handed them back sighing they went back to looking.

Old man Higurashi was seeing the excitement in their eyes and was making him feel even older than he should be so he decided to try for an easy way out.

"Do you two just want a basic academy starter kit? I made up a few since it was the first day." Higurashi asked, hoping to hurry them out of the store.

"Actually we were hoping to get something a little nicer than training junk. We might as well just go with basic weights I guess." Naruto said, thinking on it a little bit.

"Gaki, even the training kunai are as sturdy as the rest of them." Higurashi snapped back.

"But are they dulled?" Tenten asked, wanting to take her own shot at the old man.

"Of course, you are still kids, don't need you losing a finger before you start now do ya?" Higurashi said back.

"Well then how are we going to learn to sharpen and take care of dulled kunai. Seems counter productive to me." Tenten threw back at him.

Higurashi just started to laugh. "Girl, you got spunk. I like that in a kid these days. I'll tell ya what, how about a friendly wager. I'll sell you a set of high quality kunai, I'll also throw in a repair kit for free. After six months, bring them back. If they are still in fine condition you win. If they look like hell, I'll charge you double what the kit was worth, how about it?" Higurashi asked with a smirk.

It was a pretty safe bet in his book. The kit was relatively cheap and most academy students had to come and replace at least a few within the first two months.

"Just getting a free kit seems like a lame bet. How about if I win, you write up a ten percent off coupon for the first real weapon I buy." Tenten countered.

Higurashi just laughed some more. "I like ya girl, you got yourself a deal." He said as he shook Tenten's hand.

Higurashi went to the back for a second and came back with a set of ten brand new kunai.

"These are built for shinobi going on long term missions. They are a bit tougher and if retrieved, can be sharpened again much longer than normal. For you, only 1,500 ryo." He said with a smirk.

If he remembered correctly, the academy gave each student 2,500 ryo at the start of the year for kunai, shuriken, weights and a wooden sword if they wanted. They got an additional 2,500 for gear every six months afterwards.

The six month gap was to make sure they weren't just spending it on random junk and actually what they needed first.

Tenten grabbed a pouch of shuriken and a set of weights and set them on the counter as well. She asked Naruto to get her a wooden tanto for her since his kunai would be cheaper. He said yes and not to worry about it.

She went even with her allowance and grabbed everything before looking around some more while Naruto grabbed his gear.

He grabbed a standard issue set of kunai and shuriken with the weights and two wooden tantos, one for each of them since Tenten couldn't afford one. Once he paid he went over to where Tenten was standing.

Tenten was looking at a pair of swords that she just couldn't describe.

They were identical swords, they had a were much thicker than most swords she had seen. The guard was also rather unique. One side of the guard was curved up much like a sai and the other was curved all the way down the hilt covering the hands much like a saber.

They almost looked like short machete to Naruto, but they were rather cool.

Tenten brought them up to the counter to ask about them and just got a chuckle out of Higurashi.

"My girl, you have some exotic tastes. You will never find another set of those anywhere else. I saw ones much like this when I went on a trip to the Land of Iron a few years back. All of the best blacksmiths from around the world came to that event." He said before scratching his chin.

"I believe the man that had made those were from further east if memory serves. Way out there. He said they were used as extensions of their martial arts from where he was from. They were usually built for individuals but I just copied the kind I had seen." Higurashi went on like reliving the past.

"The only reason I have yet to be able to sell them is they are more focused on disabling someone not killing. The tip is too wide to stab and it is too short to slice. It is far more balanced in terms of offence and defense than most things in here. Most shinobi just want the killing power after all." Higurashi sighed.

"They sound like they would be a great weapon if a person were ever caught in a prolonged fight." Tenten said admiring the weapons.

"That they are, I would love to sell them to ya girl, but you obviously haven't checked the tag on them." He had said with another chuckle.

Tenten flipped the tag over and almost dropped them. "5,000 ryo? Why are they that much?" Tenten asked.

"Well 5,000 each, because they are made completely different than katanas or anything else that's common in fire country. Not to mention those are the only two I have ever seen in the elemental nations as a whole before. They should really be in the back but I like to talk about them from time to time." Higurashi replied.

Tenten sighed. She really liked them and they sounded like the perfect backup weapon if she even had to get in close to someone.

Nothing she could do about it so she set them back on the shelf and grabbed all of her new gear.

She motioned to Naruto that she was heading out and he waved to the kind enough old man as he left.

'That girl, I can tell she is going to go far. First day of the academy and she is already looking at more than just a basic set of gear. He would love to see what she became later in life. Hopefully she didn't turn into a fan girl somewhere down the line.' Higurashi thought before hearing a commotion at the door.

"I told you Ino-pig. Sasuke-kun likes me more." Higurashi could hear from outside the shop. 'Damn fan-girls, on day one too.' Higurashi lamented. Before he could close the shop down they had already made it inside. He could feel his hair getting even more gray with every second.

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Naruto and Tenten had walked to a nearby park and stopped for a bit to put on their new weights.

They decided that instead of going home first, they would jog a bit to get used to feeling the weights on their limbs.

They were metal rods with a small seal on the outside of them that adjusted the weight. Since they didn't know that they just had them on the base weight that was five pounds each.

They could certainly tell the difference, but they were in pretty decent shape so it didn't slow them down too much.

They decided after a quick loop through some of the favorite spots that they should get home and practice with their new kunai.

They were a little heavier in Tenten's case and a little lighter to Naruto.

After a few hours they were starting to get hungry and decided to call it a night.

The sun was still but they still needed to maintain their kunai and cook something for dinner.

Tenten took care of dinner of course while Naruto took care of his kunai. He noticed that it was very easy since there was no real damage to them already.

Looking at his old kunai, they were chipped and bent here and there and he remembered taking much longer to try and keep them useable.

They both decided to keep their old kunai and shuriken instead of getting rid of them.

The decision was based off the idea that if they ever needed them, they would have them. Naruto had read a book about trap making before and would rather use older kunai for those instead of new ones.

It didn't help they were both hoarders to an extent. Not having anything as an orphan really motivated some to keep things.

Most shinobi had a set of kunai and shuriken that they trained with and a set for missions.

There were always times when someone would be called away from the training grounds for a mission and left behind a few here and there.

They had taken to running to a different training ground every day and collecting what was left behind and adding it to their stash.

It was after a few months of cleaning out the training fields when they learned that genin teams were sent to gather the loose kunai and shuriken from time to time. Mostly blacksmiths looking for some extra scrap hiring them.

The civilian council had tried to arrest the kids for theft of shinobi belongings, a severe offence, but the shinobi side voted it down.

They had a healthy supply in their closet and had maintained each and every one of them.

Tenten especially saw it as a way to learn how to better take care of them and that was all the motivation Naruto needed.

They had been talking about it again looking at their new gear and thought they might try to sell some of their scrap if they could get a good price.

After dinner, they put all of that aside and decided to meditate like Iruka-sensei had told them to and try to feel their chakra.

Inu had gotten them to learn a bit of meditation a few months back to try to get them to be more aware of their surroundings.

He just had them meditate in the middle of a training ground and would sneak up on them. If they heard him, they would try to point at him with their eyes still closed.

It was a basic intro to meditation but it gave them a concept to work with.

They had set a quiet alarm for an hour so they would get pulled out of their meditation smoothly after an hour and they would talk about how it went then go again.

Tenten was the first to feel her chakra. She was rather smart and had tried to focus as much as she could when the doctor was unlocking it for her.

She had felt it flowing through her at the time and remembered the feeling to an extent.

Naruto however was having more trouble. It wasn't that he couldn't feel his chakra, he just couldn't understand where his chakra stopped and he began.

Most people could feel thin strips of chakra running in a similar way to blood.

Naruto was feeling something akin to a waterfall through his entire body. It confused him so he just decided to focus more and more.

He was focusing as hard as he could on his chakra for a few moments when he thought he heard a whisper. It was like a soft voice, lost in the wind.

When he finally identified it as a voice, he started to feel light headed and the next thing he knew he felt like he was falling.

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Naruto got to his feet a few moments later and he recognized he was in his mindscape outside the Kyuubi's door.

He quietly walked in and saw it was the same as before. Without the water of course.

As he entered, he saw the Kyuubi eyeing him as he sat down in the chair that he had made last time her was here.

"Why is it that you come here once every few years, boy. I had tried to get your attention for the last few months and you never replied to my call. Why is it that now you can finally hear me." The Kyuubi snorted at him.

"Well, I was trying to feel my chakra and I heard someone, next thing I knew I was here." Naruto said calmly.

"Maybe it was with your chakra flowing far more freely now, the chakra from me made it so I could contact you. Interesting. This seal is far more interesting than the last one I was stuck in." The Kyuubi said, with a rather curious tone to his voice.

"Last one?" Naruto asked.

"Ah yes, the last one I was stuck in was designed to just hold me in one place and that was it. A strong seal, just rather annoying." The Kyuubi replied.

"Why was it annoying?" Naruto asked, rather interested that he was talking to the Kyuubi almost casually.

"Ha, I suppose this is rather casual huh. Regardless, the last seal just chained me to the floor and nothing more. This one, I can move a bit and can see outside from time to time." The Kyuubi said as if it wasn't important.

"How can you see outside?" Naruto asked.

"Times when you are going through intense emotions or are in life or death situations mostly. While you were focusing on your chakra I was able to get a general feel for the world, at least a little bit." The Kyuubi explained.

"What is up with my chakra anyway. I was told it should feel like blood flowing through my system, not a freaking waterfall." Naruto once again asked.

"You have a lot of it. What did you expect a little trickle. You have me in your gut, of course you would have a lot more chakra than your average kid." The Kyuubi said in a rather, annoyed, tone.

"Sorry, I guess I just didn't think about that one. Do you like this seal more than your last one?" Naruto suddenly asked.

The Kyuubi honestly didn't know. His previous container had him chained to the ground but her life had been rather interesting.

"I suppose. It is rather nice being able to move around." The Kyuubi said with a wave of his tails.

Naruto thought about it for a minute. The Kyuubi didn't ask to be thrown into a cage. He had also saved his life before.

While thinking on this, he was watching the floor.

He realized it used to be covered in water until he fixed it. Naruto had the idea to try and manipulate his mindscape again and give the Kyuubi more room.

The Kyuubi was listening to his thoughts and almost said something but decided against it.

After a moment of concentration, the room the Kyuubi was in got a bit bigger. Nothing drastic, but enough for the Kyuubi to fully stand up and turn in a full circle.

Naruto focused a bit more and the ground started to grow grass.

After Naruto was done, he asked if he like the seal better.

The Kyuubi just chuckled. "Boy, you are funny. Not once did you think of appeasing me out of fear. It was all just genuine kindness. Can't say I have ever seen a jailer do that before."

"Well, your stuck in here so since I can make it nicer, I might as well right?" Naruto said.

"Sure, boy, you have something that seems to be rather rare in this day and age. Respect. I can accept that. Come by from time to time, I rather enjoy these chats. Far funnier than Kushina ever was." The Kyuubi said with a chuckle.

Naruto was confused, the Kyuubi liked talking to him. Also why did it sound like he was being dismissed at that time. Also, who was Kushina?

It was a few seconds later that Naruto found himself being shaken violently by Tenten.

"What's going on, what happened?" Naruto asked franticly, trying to get Tenten off of him.

"You meditated too hard idiot." Tenten yelled at him.

"Huh? How do you meditate too hard?" Naruto asked, even more confused that before.

"The alarm went off a few minutes ago and I had been trying to wake you up since. Why the hell were you that deep in meditation?" Tenten asked, still yelling at him.

Naruto just told her that the fox wanted to talk to him.

Tenten nodded and asked how that went.

"Well, the Kyuubi seems fair enough. He doesn't seem like death incarnate like everyone seems to think. I got the feeling that he accepted that he was stuck in me and just decided to deal with it." Naruto said with a shrug.

He really couldn't figure the Kyuubi out at all. Everyone seemed to think he was a mindless killing machine. Naruto however felt like it was far more intelligent than that and was just annoyed at being trapped.

Naruto also remembered that name, Kushina. He decided that if he was going to be stuck with the fox for life, he might as well get to know as much about him as he could. He would have to start with his previous jailer.

The hokage might know so he planned a visit after school tomorrow.

Until then, he decided he would think on his starting grades and try and think of a better way to train every day to round himself out a bit more.

He discussed it with Tenten and she agreed. They had both planned on being in the top 5% of every subject for their entire time in the academy. They refused to neglect any of their studies and would be the best.

After the night started to wind down a bit more, they decided to get some sleep so they could train a little before class started.

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Naruto had calmed down a bit after the first day of the academy so their routine was back in order.

Tenten had woken up first and gotten the first shower done before Naruto got all of the way out of bed.

She headed to the kitchen and made a quick eggs, bacon and toast breakfast before she finished getting dressed. Fixing her hair and getting her kunai holster and pouches on.

It made the morning go a little faster if she hurried out of the bathroom and they decided last night that every minute would do them good.

Tenten had eaten already so while Naruto had been eating she had put up the futon and got started on packing them quick lunches.

They had gotten that morning routine down to around thirty minutes and thought it was pretty good for now.

Once breakfast was done and they got all of their supplies gathered they saw they still had almost an hour and a half before they needed to be at the academy.

They decided to do some light sparring for a bit before they would take the long way to the academy to get a bit better morning run in.

They still arrived about twenty minutes early and decided to just relax with their friends that were waiting for them.

The day at the academy started off rather boring. They got a lecture on how shinobi acted and how that lead to the leaf being one of the strongest villages.

They were told about how a shinobi should treat their comrades as family if they were to ever trust each other with their lives.

Naruto and Tenten both already considered each other as close as family would be. They didn't really have any other family so it was as close as they could get.

As he was explaining this, Iruka was watching everyone.

He saw a lot of the girls glance at Sasuke while he was saying this. They did not realize this but it was secretly a test to see if any had bonds already. Many of the girls utterly failed but he didn't need to say anything about it. It was for future knowledge only.

He could tell that the only ones to really grasp it were Naruto, Tenten, Ino, Shikamaru and Choji. Those five were all sitting together and they all glanced at each other at some point in the lecture.

This told Iruka that all five of them already trusted each other and the feeling was mutual all across the board.

He would set them together on any group projects he could find and hopefully, at the end of their education, two of them could handle separation.

Genin cells were only three members after all.

He would have to force a few people to work together as well from what he saw.

Shino had appeared to not glance at anyone and Sasuke had been glaring at him since he brought on the subject of teamwork.

Hinata also seemed far to shy and timid when he talked about it. Then there were almost every other female in the class.

Iruka sighed inwardly, 'I might have several very promising students, however, I have far to many fan-girls in this class.'

He continued with the lectures, going from the basis of teamwork on to proper attitude and stride for a shinobi of the leaf.

They were meant to put the civilians at ease when they saw them on the streets and not put fear into them. He didn't want some stupid kid to try and push around a civilian with his shinobi training again.

Iruka grimaced at the thought. That kid thought he was better than other teens and ended up killing another teen in a fight. Shinobi are trained to kill and civilians just do not fight with the same vigor.

They had finally made it through the first few hours in the classroom and it was time for lunch.

Iruka would look in on the students as they ate on the grounds. He would get a better idea what they thought of other students by their interactions during lunch.

If they were thought to be unfit for service, they would be cut from the program. On average, about seventy percent would be cut by the end of the six years. They just could not graduate kids that would be an immediate hazard to themselves and their peers.

Iruka had been walking through the kids as they ate and had been disgusted by most of them.

Sasuke had at least ten girls practically throwing themselves at him and he had been ignoring them.

The girls were not really taking their education seriously and the Uchiha had been completely disregarding fellow students.

He just sighed and went to the next conversation.

Hinata had been sitting with Shino. Iruka quirked an eyebrow at that as they both seemed to be the most shy people in the class.

As he listened in on them he figured out why they were talking.

During their spar, Hinata had used her Byakugan and saw the bugs inside of Shino. He was explaining that was how his clan operated and she seemed to be interested in the bugs.

They were both a little awkward talking to each other but he chalked it up to both being naturally lonely. He decided to keep tabs on them and possibly get them to spar together more often than the other kids.

Iruka's real surprise was when he finally got to Naruto and his friends.

Naruto was leaning against a wall just out of vision range of Hinata and Shino, listening to their conversation. Ino was practically hanging off of him wanting to know what they were talking about. Tenten was also rather close to Naruto in that regard. Shikamaru was just lying down, listening to what Naruto was saying and Choji was keeping notes on Ino's request.

"Guys, keep it down I can't hear them with you all making so much noise." Naruto said glaring at Ino.

Ino got a little quieter but didn't back off of him.

"Ok, Hinata is asking Shino about one of his bugs. He said it was a queen kikaichu beetle and was one of the most important ones. Hinata sounds like she giggled a bit at that. She wants to hold the beetle, I repeat, she wants to hold the beetle." Naruto said like he was talking over a radio.

"Did you get that Choji, she wants to hold the beetle" Ino said back to him.

"Got it, she wants to hold the beetle, got it down." Choji replied with a nod.

"What do you make of it Shikamaru?" Tenten asked the lazy genius.

"Well Shino is an Aburame so I think they keep the bugs inside of him. That must be why Hinata approached him. They sparred yesterday and her eyes can see through walls so she probably saw them. They are rather quiet so I assume they are both rather shy. Shino more because people keep their distance from his clan because of the bugs and Hinata because she is just timid." Shikamaru said without even bothering to open his eyes.

"Slow down Shika, I didn't get all of that down." Choji complained.

"Guys, Shino said he shares a mind with his bugs." Naruto called back to Choji.

"Got it, but don't you think that's enough, we still need to eat after all." Choji said.

"Yeah, I think we got enough info. So talk about it again after school?" Naruto asked everyone.

Everyone nodded so they dug into their lunches.

Iruka wasn't exactly sure what they were talking about. They were spying on Shino and Hinata, that was a give in. Naruto seemed to be the only one to hear them so his hearing must be pretty advanced.

They decided to talk about it later and not here so I don't think it is too terribly important. I'll just keep an eye on them Iruka decided before heading back to eat his own lunch.

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Everyone had finished their lunches and were making their way back into the class.

A few kids gave Iruka an odd glance when they noticed that they all had a leaf on their desk.

After everyone was seated for a while someone finally asked what the leaf was about.

"I am glad you asked. Yesterday, you all had your chakra unlocked and thus your chakra capacity was increased by that. Hopefully you all meditated on that last night because today we are going to start on how to control chakra." Iruka said with a grin.

"Each of you will take a leaf and place it to your forehead like so." Iruka started before lifting up his headband and placing the leaf to his forehead.

"Then, you will focus your chakra to the point where the leaf touches your forehead and use it to make the leaf stick like this." He said as he dropped his hand showing the leaf sticking by itself.

A few of the civilian kids gasped because they had never seen anything like this but most just tried it themselves. All failed.

Naruto had stopped to think about it for a minute before trying himself. As soon as he let go of the leaf he tried to focus chakra to it but instead of sticking, he blew a hole in it.

Iruka sighed, too much chakra. "Naruto, you are using far too much chakra, try to use just a little bit." Iruka said before handing him another leaf.

Naruto nodded and tried to tone it back as far as he could. This time it just blew away a few rows down from where he was at.

"Less chakra." Iruka said once again before dropping a dozen leaves on his desk and walking away.

Naruto decided to keep his hand in front of his head so they wouldn't fly away at least but was still having problems.

It was an hour later when most of the clan kids had gotten it and a few civilians were starting to get it.

Naruto was still stuck shooting them off his head.

He knew he was using too much chakra but he just couldn't push any less out.

Iruka finally made his way back to him after an hour to try and help him a bit more.

"Naruto, the spot on your forehead is known as the third eye. It is the easiest place to place chakra. Try doing the exercise on your wrist. Chakra is a bit more difficult to channel there and might get you to stop blowing them away until you practice more." Iruka said with a nod.

Naruto thanked him and tried it that way.

It took him a few minutes to lead his chakra to his wrist but after a bit he was ready.

He channeled some chakra, slowly as he could, to his wrist and he could feel it pooling up under the leaf. He let go and it just dropped.

Naruto blinked. It didn't stick, but it also didn't get blown away.

He tried again and got the same result.

He tried it for another twenty minutes and he saw there were only a few more people that couldn't do it.

Iruka came by one more time and drew a small spiral on his wrist.

"Focus on nothing but the spiral and see if it works now. If it does then it was just your concentration and that is an easy fix." Iruka said before going to try the same with the other kids.

Naruto stared at the spiral for a full minute before he placed another leaf on it. When he let go, it stuck for just a second before falling.

Naruto almost yelled out until he realized he was in class.

He tried again and again, each time it stuck just a little longer.

It was after another ten minutes that he could stick it for almost thirty seconds before it dropped.

He decided to try sticking it to his forehead again and this time it stuck for a few seconds before it fell.

Naruto had an idea and he poked himself in the forehead with his fingernail leaving a small mark.

He could feel it and focused on that one spot. This time he could keep it stuck for twice and long and Iruka said it was fine for now.

Iruka saw that everyone at least understood it enough to practice it on their own time so he went on an hour long lecture about chakra and what it was used for.

It was a very basic lecture, mostly how it was used to fuel jutsu and strengthen the body.

Iruka looked at the clock and saw that there was only an hour left before it would be time to send the kids home.

He decided to just pull everyone outside for some target practice and exercise.

Once everyone was set he pulled Tenten aside and asked her just how good she was with kunai.

She told him that she could have aced the test easy but then she would have been abandoning her comrades.

Iruka nodded, thinking as much. He decided that while most people were at the ranges she would work on her own physical conditioning while he thought of a bit different routine for her.

She nodded before asking him if he could help her increase he weights.

Iruka quirked his head before telling her that she shouldn't even have the weights on yet.

Tenten just explained that her and Naruto already did plenty of working out before the academy and five pounds on their arms and legs just weren't enough.

Iruka sighed and called Naruto over so he could bump up their weights.

When they put them back on, they both jumped up and down a few times and shook their limbs to get a feel for them.

Naruto thanked Iruka and headed back to the range.

Iruka watched him for a moment and saw that his accuracy was not getting lower like he thought it might with the extra weight on his arms.

He looked back to Tenten and saw her going through some of the basic academy forms, slowly getting faster and faster as she got used to the weights.

'Both of them do not seem too affected by the extra five pounds. Not to mention they were both already looking like they were perfectly used to the new weight.' Iruka thought.

He decided to not press it and let them work as hard as they could.

It was a full minute later that he realized that Tenten was going through the academy form. They hadn't learned it yet in class.

"Tenten, who taught you the academy form already?" Iruka asked.

"Ah, Itachi did sensei." She replied.

Dozens of things sounded wrong with that.

From what Iruka remembered, Itachi was the heir of the Uchiha clan and was a police captain that would be moving up to anbu before too long.

Why was he teaching an orphan tai-jutsu. Not to mention that Uchiha had their own style, Itachi would never have used it.

He dropped it again. If his students got help from outside the academy, he wasn't going to complain.

As he watched her, he realized her form was almost at the point where she could move up to intermediate style soon.

'Naruto and Tenten both seem to be completely full of surprises. I better not let my guard down around them any time soon.' Iruka thought before calling the class to him.

"All right class, I am happy to say that it seems everyone has their equipment. Everyone should now put on their weights and get used to the feeling of them over the weekend. For your first two years, you will have Saturday and Sunday off to rest. Monday, Wednesday, and Friday will be physical training until the end of last hour of the day where we will be inside. Tuesday and Thursday will be the opposite. I will see you all on Monday and make sure to have your weights on. Class dismissed." Iruka said.

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Well I got this chapter out pretty quick. I wanted to set kind of the pace of the academy out in this chapter and I think I got the main idea out.

To explain that last paragraph a bit more. Monday, Wednesday, and Friday will be morning to afternoon physical exercise. Then lunch. A bit of target practice and spars. Then they would go back inside for a short lesson.

Tuesday and Thursday will be morning to afternoon lectures. Lunch. Then a bit more of a lecture and the last hour being outside. This last hour will mostly be focused on either target practice or chakra control.

This will only be for the first two years. After that, the day to day will change and I will explain that when the time comes.

I am actually shocked this chapter only spanned one day. I thought I got further than that.

I will be skipping a bit more after the weekend in the story so don't think I am going to go day by day like this for the rest of the story.

Anyway, hope you liked it. Let me know if you see anything stupid I did and I will be sure to fix it.

Thanks again for reading and I hope you liked it.