YAY i finally finished this chapter!
I didn't want to drag out Yana's time at the academy since she wasn't suppose to be staying for very long so i managed to get it into one chapter!
I applogise for the slow update(appologise profusely for those waiting on my crossover fics!)
Hope you enjoy!
Yana was going to start the Academy today at the tender age of four.
To be honest she needed it, Kakashi was running out of things to occupy her with so he didn't really have any choice but to send her even though four was a very young age to join the Academy, six was usually the age most kids started. The only problem was that she hadn't been around kids similar to her own age that much, so now she was getting nervous.
"Hey it'll be fine," said Kakashi. "You've waited two years to go so enjoy it!" Yana smiled weakly and nodded.
"You should be really far ahead any way shouldn't you? What with watching me help train Renji, Shiro and Hikaru for two years," laughed Kakashi.
"Yeah, I'm gonna miss not seeing them every day," she sighed.
"Yeah me too," said Kakashi. "But it's back to proper missions for me now! Hope I haven't lost my touch," he said worriedly. Yana laughed.
"Onii-chan! You can't lose your touch. Impossible!"
"And why is that?"
"Because Onii-chan is the best!" she gave him thumbs up. He ruffled her hair then he looked at her puzzled.
"Hey Yana?"
"Yes."
"Why have you cut your hair?" She pulled at her hair then grinned.
"Oh! Anko says a new beginning means changes so I cut my hair." She grinned. "Not that it really matters it'll have grown back in a few days."
"Yeah, you have weird hair." She laughed and jumped on to his shoulder.
It was true, they'd discovered it by accident when Kakashi cut her hair very badly once, he'd cut it really short by accident. He felt terribly guilt so he refused to cut it again even though she didn't seem to mind, then her hair had ended up growing back to length it had originally been within a few days, they still couldn't find out why it did that.
"Come on Onii-chan! Off to the academy!"
"Now. You lot are all new here so I don't expect you to be able to do much," said the teacher. He was called Kenpachi Yuma. "So for now I want to know what you can do." He looked around at the class. "So any volunteers?"
Yana looked around at the rest of the class, not one of them moved to volunteer. She sighed wondering if all the kids here were as scared as the ones in her class. She raised her hand.
"Yes."
"Erm… you say you want to know what we can do… can you give an example of what you mean?" Yuma raised an eyebrow.
"Well aren't you a cheeky devil? What's your name?" he asked thoughtfully.
"Yana." He checked his register.
"There's no Yana here on the register." She sighed and rubbed her temples.
"It probably says Yanala. But I only get called that when I'm in trouble."
"Really? And how often do you get in trouble?"
"Not that often actually." He frowned and looked back at the register again.
"Hmm… Yana, Yana… I recognise that name. And why don't you have a second name registered?" She sighed again and wanted to bang her head on the desk.
"Do you know Satashi-kun?"
"Yeah."
"Then you've probably heard about me from him. I'm the… orphan." Yuma's eyes widened.
"Oh… so you're her! That Yana!" He paused. "Ah, then I understand why you don't have a last name. Sorry for bringing it up." She smiled.
"It's ok. Um… so how do you want us to show what we know?"
"Well… give a demonstration," he suggested. "Do you want to go first since you're asking all the questions?" She shrugged.
"Sure. Attack me." The rest of the class laughed and Yuma-sensei smiled.
"Yana-chan that might be a bit extreme. You are only four years old after all." She grinned coldly.
"You heard about me from Satashi-kun right? Then you should know I'll be ok." She smiled again. "Attack me please." He sighed before throwing a kunai at her head. She smiled before dodging it and disappearing. Yuma looked around before freezing as Yana was holding the kunai he'd thrown at her to his throat. She grinned.
"Thank you Sensei." She handed the kunai back to him and sat back down in her seat.
"Erm… ok… err… now class lets err… start with teaching you how to throw a kunai properly." He scratched the back of his head and looked at Yana as the rest of the class moved to go to the outdoor training yard. "Um… Yana-chan?"
"Yes?"
"Well... to be honest I'm not sure what to do with you really," he admitted. "You're obviously more advanced than the others in your class but if I moved you up to another class they might resent you for it. What do you want to do?"
"Can I just do more advanced stuff while the others do… well what they're suppose to do." Yuma-sensei thought this through.
"Ok… I think I can get someone to train you while I teach the rest of the class the basics, first we'll need to test you to see how far ahead you are exactly. But you realise they're still going to resent you."
Yana looked away out of the window at the rest of the class practicing.
"What ever I do I will be resented. It's just my lot in life, I developed earlier than anyone else, by the age of two I could speak perfectly and could give most ninjas a run for their money. I have and will always be different." She smiled. "But it does make life more interesting."
"So how was your first day at the academy?" asked Kakashi as Yana walked in the door. She looked up surprised.
"Onii-chan! I thought you wouldn't be back till late." He grinned.
"I managed to wrap it up early so I could be here to meet you." She whacked him over the head repeatedly.
"Baka! I hope you didn't botch the job because you were in a hurry! It was your first day back doing proper missions you better not have messed it up!"
"Sheesh! Calm down! It went fine! No problems at all!" he grabbed her and threw her up in the air. "Besides because I got home early I managed to talk to all the gang and we decided that since today is your first day at the academy and my first day doing proper missions again that we're going to celebrate!" She stared at him blankly for a minute before grinning.
"Really? You mean it? The whole gang?" He nodded. "Yay!"
"Go get changed or something."
"Hai! Hai!"
"Hey Kakashi are you in?" yelled Asuma through the door. "Hey! We're all waiting out here! Are you gonna let us in?" Anko huffed and leaned against the wall.
"Are you sure you got this right Asuma?" she asked. Suddenly the door opened and Yana was standing in the doorway.
"Hey guys!" she ran at them knocking them all over. "I'm so happy to see you guys again!"
"Wow Yana you look great!" gasped Kurenai. Yana laughed and gave a twirl. Kakashi appeared behind her.
"Come on then guys. Lets go!"
"So Yana, how was your first day?" asked Asuma when they were all sat down.
"Hmm… it was ok. We had a bit of an issue at first over me not having a last name but that was cleared up. Then I had to show sensei what I could already do and he decided that I should have separate lessons from the rest of my class."
"Why? Were you really bad?" asked Anko.
"No! I was really good!" she exclaimed. "He said I was too advanced to stay with the class so I need separate lessons with more advanced stuff."
"But that means…"
"Yup. My whole class in gonna resent me." Kakashi frowned.
"But that isn't good. You need to be with others your age."
"Well I won't be any way. Sensei said I'll probably end up graduating early any way so I wouldn't be in a team with any of them any way. He didn't want to move me to a higher class because then that class would resent me because I'm younger."
"What class exactly would he have had to move you up to?" asked Kurenai curiously.
"Erm… well they're all ten years old, does that help?"
"He wanted to move you up that far?" cried Asuma. "Six years up!"
"Why? Is that bad? He said that was the most he would be allowed to move me up. He did want to move me higher," she asked worried.
"No! No," said Kakashi. Is she going to be like me and go through all the hardships that come with it? Yana looked around expectantly.
"Where's Iruka? I thought you said the whole gang?" she said with a huff. Anko winced.
"Erm… Iruka… he…" Yana sighed and looked sad.
"He's still distraught isn't he?" she asked. They all grimaced and exchanged glances. None of them had seen him properly since his parents' deaths last year; he'd taken it quite badly. Kakashi huffed.
"He needs to get over it. He isn't the only one who lost someone," he muttered. Yana glared at him.
"Not everyone copes in the same way," she said reprovingly. They stared at her.
"Sheesh Yana! Sometimes I forget you're only four years old. You act like an adult," said Kurenai. Yana smiled sadly.
"Well it's true, not everyone copes the same. It was kinda ok for me coz I didn't have that many memories of my family but Iruka's got loads. Its bound to hurt more." Kakashi tched.
"I've lost my family, my best friend, my team mates and my sensei. Besides we're shinobi, he'll experience a lot more loss." Yana looked sad.
"Yeah, but the loss always hurts more the first time round." Kakashi got up and left abruptly, Yana sighed and stared at her tea. They all looked at her.
"What was that all about?" asked Anko astonished. "Did you two just have a fight?"
"I admit it was subtle but yes," replied Yana. "He's been asked to join the ANBU."
"What? Are you serious?" She nodded.
"Apparently they wanted him two years ago but Mina-kun thought he was too young and then he ended up looking after me which gave him the excuse to refuse for two years." She sighed. "But now he can do missions again they were adamant he join."
Kurenai shifted nervously.
"And what has he said?" Yana looked up blankly.
"No idea. He only found out today." She grinned. "I had Hokage tell me." They all face planted.
Oh well, she thought. At least that lightened the mood a bit. Although… he probably will accept, he wants to get away from memories of Mina-kun because it hurts so much.
Yana could honestly say that her years at the Academy were not the best of her short life so far.
Despite the fact that it was obvious that she was too advanced and needed to be in the older classes her class mates still ridiculed her, both the ones from her age group that she had just left and the ones older that she had just joined. Of course, living with a jounin as an older brother who constantly wore a mask and hid his emotions from everyone but her meant that she'd become some what of an expert herself, which is sad when a four year girl thinks that the best way to deal with such treatment is to act as if she's emotionless. Maybe it was more sad that she could actually do it convincingly and because of her emotionless act those in her class that didn't spite her were too scared to try make friends with her… well except one any way.
Yana knew her older classmates either thought she was arrogant or just weird because of how she acted, she didn't mind as it kept the meaner ones away and their teachers would have picked up on it easily if they'd tried to bully her. However since it made her quite scary no one attempted to get to know her either, one boy named Tanaka Shouei decided to try. She hadn't really noticed him in class other than the fact that he was very tall for his age, he towered above the rest of the class easily, and he had whitish hair and violet coloured eyes so at least she wasn't alone in the weird eye colour department.
Yana was totally surprised when he just came up to her one day and started talking, since then he hadn't left her alone in class which she was grateful for because when it came to partnering up at least she wasn't left to find someone now, although it did look odd paring up the shortest and tallest in the class, he was at least a foot taller than her. She came to see him as a friend and stopped being so emotionless in class, she remembered vividly the first time Kakashi and Shouei met, if only because Shouei nearly had a panic attack at finding out just who her 'Onii-chan' was.
"So are we going to work together on that project today?" asked Shouei. It was the start of Yana's second year at the academy and if she passed with the rest of her class it would also be her last year.
"Yeah," she said nodding. "Onii-chan says we can do it at our house and he'll help us, he's picking me up today." The violet-eyed boy raised an eyebrow.
"Eh? You mean I finally get to meet you're famous Onii-chan?" he asked jokingly.
Despite Yana always talking about her 'Onii-chan' Shouei didn't know of anyone at the Academy who had ever seen him, so he was honestly curious as to what he was like. She nodded her head vigorously before being distracted by something in the corner of her eye, she beamed and ran laughing to the tall boy in the shadows of the Academy. Shouei watched curiously as the other boy stepped into the light and picked her up throwing her into the air, his heart just about stopped when he realised it was Hatake Kakashi, the famous copy-nin. It was then he realised that the copy-nin was the one who had picked up Yana, this was her Onii-chan.
"So this is your friend huh?" said Kakashi coming closer to peer at him. "Shouei wasn't it?" Yana nodded smiling.
"Yep, Shouei-kun is my partner," she said cheerfully.
It didn't take much for the boy to realise that this was the happiest he'd ever seen Yana, ok so she'd only just stopped being emotionless in class but it had been a big improvement! Now he got the feeling that no matter what was happening her happiest place was with Hatake-san. Which begged the question, Hatake-san was an only child so how come she called him Onii-chan and lived with him?
He pondered this in silence as he watched the two interact on the way to their house, maybe they were related in some way and that was why she was living with him. Hatake-san's parents were both dead and he remembered Yana mentioning that hers were too, that was why she didn't have a last name, but surely that wouldn't stop her from having a last name, would it?
Shouei had been a bit wary around Yana for a while after that, because to honest knowing that you were spending time with the younger sister of one of the most terrifying men in the village tends to make you think twice before you say anything in case said terrifying man takes it the wrong way and decides that you won't be missed. After a few weeks of not seeing Kakashi again Shouei went back to treating her like normal although he did occasionally twitch if he managed to get a hit on her in sparring as if he expected Kakashi to swoop out of no where and kill him for it.
The rest of her class still treated her pretty much as they always had, although to be fair they didn't know who her brother was though that might have scared them even more. So it was a bit of a relief when it finally came to the graduation test. She really wanted to pass with Shouei so they could have the chance of being on the same team, another reason was because she didn't want to have to go through trying to put up with a new set of classmates if she failed.
There was no way she would let herself fail.
Sorry if her time at the academy seemed a bit rushed i didn't really know what to write
and it was kinda suppose to be rushed because she really didn't spend a lot of time there.
Please review and let me know what you think!
