If I owned Naruto manga, I would make our happy boy a redhead. An Uzumaki must be an Uzumaki!

Chapter 10.

The Academy is a huge building located directly at the base of the Hokage Mountain. As we all know, it's the place where future ninja are trained and where official ninjas receive their assignments, but we will concentrate on the first thing.

Not every person can learn at Ninja School of course. Every candidate have to meet three conditions so the admission could be granted.

1. Love the village and hope to help preserve peace and prosperity.

2. Have a mind that will not yield, able to endure hard training and work.

3. Be healthy in mind and body.

If you are okay with them - you are accepted. Probably, if you even weren't healthy in mind they still would let you in. Which ninja isn't a psycho, come on? But whatever..

Congratulation! From today on, you will start the school in which you are taught the art of killing. I'm sure you are proud of yourself!

As with any school, students are taught a core curriculum of reading, writing, mathematics, science, geography, etc blahblahblah.. These lessons are typically framed in a ninja-context and in fact, are learned at all in order to facilitate later instruction in tactics and strategy.

The kids learn the Shinobi Rules, how to strengthen their minds and bodies, and receive special lectures from veteran shinobi. They are taken through the handling of ninja weapons and tools, like shuriken and kunai, learning how to throw and wield them through target practice, as well as instructed on the basics of trap-setting. Academy students are also taught about chakra and how to use it - hand seals.

Shinobi classes can be broken into the basic levels of Taij, Nin and Genjutsu.

*Taijutsu classes serve as the Ninja Academy's equivalent of physical education. During them, students are engaged in physical activities to help train their bodies and develop their stamina. Yeah, kids just have the opportunity to beat the shit out of each other. What a great classes.

*Ninjutsu classes provide the bulk of what potential ninja learn at the Academy. Students are taught about chakra, how to manipulate it and use hand seals, and ultimately how to use techniques such as the Transformation Technique and the Clone Technique.

*Genjutsu classes are focused less on how to create illusions and more on how they work. Students are taught how to determine if they are trapped in a genjutsu, and then how to release themselves from it.

So if I get all of this right, then it means that I will learn nothing during most of the classes cause most of these things I've been taught already by Komura-sensei.

Whatever.

You know what's the best thing? I DON'T HAVE TO GO TO KUNOICHI CLASSES! Ha! In your face all no Uchiha girls!

You ask why? Hm.. you see. My clan has it owns seduce classes for women shinobis. When I reach genin level, I will have to attend them for a month and that's all. So, I'm free from flower lessons for now, yay!

Today is the first day of the Academy and that's why I've found myself walking through the doors of class 1-B.

You have to give it to Konoha, classrooms are large! They have high ceilings, based on a theory that larger classrooms lead to expansive education, expanding even to the blackboard itself. In front of the blackboard is a podium, situated far from the students' desks and put in a position where the teacher can view everyone at once, so obviously no cheating or talking during lessons. What's worse – no sleeping too. Damn it.

Almost all kids inside the class were five years old like me, but if you looked closely, you could found some older children.

While looking at all those new people I've noticed a great seat near the window at the end of the classroom. I started walking towards it and some kid tried to stumble me with his foot what kinda irritated me.

I, as the member of the great Uchiha clan, should have just ignored that child's behavior and pass him without reacting, but.. I haven't been and Uchiha for my whole life, so yeah.. I don't act like a typical Uchiha all the time. My apologize.

I stepped as hard as I could on blond hair girl's leg - 'accidentally' of course - and satisfied with her cry of pain, I gracefully moved away.

Apparently, I've made a mistake. As soon as I sat down on my chosen spot, a bunch of angry girls came to me with clenched fists.

"I'm talking to you emo girl!" yelled a blonde from before. It's looked like she was a leader, cause what would be a different reason of the crowd around my desk? 'I know that Uchihas are good with ladies, but hey! I'm not gay! Leave me alone.'

"Hey!" said the girl who now tried to grab me by my hair, "Don't ignore me you – "

I pushed her dirty hand away from my beautiful hair and locked my eyes with her trying to send her the message to back off.

The girl hasn't understood what I wanted to tell her with my gaze cause she started to scream. "You scum! You dared to touch me?!"

"Your name?" I demented from overemotional child before me.

She putted her hands on her hips, raised one eyebrow and smirked bitchy at me "I'm Yamanaka Aiko and I'm 8 years old, so show some respect idiot."

While she was still talking I looked bored away and stared through the window. It was such a nice day.

"Aiko-chan.. J-Just ignore her." I could hear her friends saying to her, "She is not worth it"

Hotheaded girl haven't listened, though. For a moment she was staring at me, but next she raised her hand and tried to punch me in the face.

At first, I've panicked. It's shameful of me, I know. I've never before fought with my peers, so I knew nothing about their skills and that scares me. But when I was waiting for the hit, I came to realize how slow her movements were and how not trained her body was.

'She has wrong position, her punch won't make any harm with body alignment like that.' I thought while changing my own position a little to dodge her attack.

Next, I pushed her a little in a right place near her right hip, making her fell on the ground,

'So unstable.' I noted to myself.

The classroom went silence. Everyone were looking at us. I stood up from my sit, hair covered my eyes as I walked slowly to her still laying body.

'Hell, why not? You go girl!' I cheered myself, 'Say something cool, come on! I know you can do this!'

I crouched near her and smirked when I saw her speechless face. "Do you know that people like you with fair skin, blond hair and blue eyes, are most susceptible as they tend to burn easily?"

"Don't shit with me brat.." she finally managed to say some words.

I tilted my head back a little, so my one eye was visible right now. My smirk turned into an evil tooth smile as I chuckled softly.

"Yamanaka." I said in threatening way "Don't play with the fire" I kicked her in the stomach and she fell down the stairs, "or you will get burns."

'Damn.. It sounded better in my head.' I though disappointed. 'I hope that she gets what I meant, or else I made an idiot out of myself.'

"Ekhem." the sound coming from the doors to the classroom interrupted my thoughts. Everyone turned their heads to see a young man in Konoha shinobi's clothes. He had a spiky brown hair — two locks of which were wrapped in bandages framing either side of his face. He had stern facial features and wore his forehead protector on his forehead just like everyone should.

"What's going on in here?" asked the man in indifferent manner.

Aiko girl jumped from her place on the ground as fast as she could and yelled while pointing her finger at me "She just attacked me without a reason sensei!"

I stood up with two eyebrows raised highly in wonderment. 'What a little bitch' I thought while putting my hands in the air giving up.

"Yeah, I punched her because she is too bratty for her own good." I hissed at her promising revenge.

"You can't fight while your sensei isn't around." He informed us and sighed exhausted while just leaving the class of confused kids behind.

"What's up with him." asked one of the boys after a moment of silence. "Wasn't he our sensei?"

"Yeah, I thought that too." some girl answered him.

As the conversation in the classroom has started, another adult showed up, this time coming inside the room. He punched the desk hard enough to make a loud sound. When he finally has caught our attention, he spoke.

"My name is Tayoko Kenta and I'm going to be a teacher of some of you through your years in academy." He smiled happily and started to write his name on the board while saying "You can call me Kenta-sensei or if you want to be more formal, Tayoko-sensei. I'm fine with both."

I looked at kanji that he wrote and next at him.

'健太 means something like strong and healthy, thick and large. His name for sure suits him' I decided.

'Kento-sensei.. let's face it, is a fat man. His chin length dark green hair, which is parted in the middle, looks really stupid. I think, I won't be ever able to ever take him seriously, especially with his over happy face.'

"Now, please take your sits. We will have a little test." That information surprised me as much as the rest of kids.

"I just want to see on which level are you, so stop your whining, okay?" when everyone silenced, he continued "After writing part we will move to physical part. If some of you, won't be able to answer any questions and run many laps around the playing field – don't worry, we will work on everything in the future." I heard some sighs of relief.

"And what if someone does great in both parts?" asked Yamanaka smirking confidently.

Sensei smiled "A child like that will be moved to a higher class."

'Oh? That's interesting.' I couldn't help but think, 'I can leave this shitty class.'

"Okay! So let's start!" announced the man while taking out some papers.

'Bring it on, baby.'

Question 1.

Which of the following techniques specializes in Illusions and Transformations? Put an X near the right answer.

A) Ninjutsu

B) Juinjutsu

C) Genjutsu

D) Taijutsu

E) Kinjutsu

Question 3.

What chakra is? Write at least 5 sentences.

Question 8.

Who are the founders of Konoha? Write their full names.

Question 12.

Calculate with what speed will a kunai fly from the height of 6 meters with a weight of 8 kg.

Question 13.

Sarutobi Hiruzen is a

A) First Hokage

B) Second Hokage

C) Third Hokage

D) Fourth Hokage

Put an X near the right answer.

Question 16.

Who are 'The Kages' and how many of them exists? Write the names of the villages in which they live.

Question 20.

What's "The Will of Fire" ?

I looked through the questions trying to find any catch. 'Are they really just checking our knowledge, or something more...'

Firstly, they look if you can read and write. It's obvious that if you can't then your paper will be blank. Secondly, they want to see if you are able to understand the questions - in two words - reading comprehension. They gave also some math to see if you can add and subtract or even use some mathematical formulas. I have to say that none five years old kid should be able to do this math problems.. but maybe I'm wrong.

'What is "The Will of Fire"? huh..' this question is the hardest of all. '..That's the catch I was looking for.'

By answering this question, you show how intelligent you really are. What do you understand about shinobi life and what you still need to learn. For example:

Answer A) The Will of Fire is a will of fight in every person in Konoha.

Simple but enough to satisfies the teacher, right? Every kid is taught this formula at home by their parents – it's a tradition. It's obvious that most of the children in the classroom will write the answer like that, unless..

Unless they've already tried to find their own meaning for 'The Will of Fire'. The kid like that will probably write something like:

Answer B) The Will of Fire is a feeling that every villager has since the day of their birth. It's the thing that make us want to protect our village no matter what.

This answer is the answer of a fresh made Genin, I suppose. They still don't know what exactly they want to protect, but they are on the right road to find out. When they come to know what their "King" is, then they will truly become shinobis of Konohagakure.

In my opinion, the "King" is simply anything or anyone that shinobi wants to protect, so my answer is:

The Will of Fire is a will inside my heart, that makes me protect the future of people around me even at the cost of my life.

"Okay students, listen up. I'm giving you one hour. Through one hour you will run laps around this playing field without stopping. You, as future ninjas, have to know your limits. If you know that your stamina isn't good enough to run all the time – just walk, but don't stop. I will count every lap you take. Okay, ready to go?"

All kids prepared themselves to the gear.

"On 'go' you can start running. Three! Two! GO!" I moved as fast as I could and started to speed.

"What about "one!" sensei?!" yelled some kids behind me.

Kento-sensei just laughed at them while sitting on the bench with a pan and a paper, "Oh sorry, I forgot."

After a hour, most of my classmates laid on the ground trying to catch their breath. The run was just too much for them.

There were some people like me and Yamanaka girl, who could still stand normally. Well, I'm not surprised that most of them were clan kids of course. We are cheaters. We all were trained for some time now and hundred laps was nothing for our bodies.

"I'm so proud of you guys!" Our teacher almost cried out, "you've done well. You can go home now, but if some of you are interested in your outcome, please stay here a little longer."

Most of kids from the grass went home when they heard the permission to leave, leaving behind about ten people with Kento-sensei.

"Firstly, I'm impressed that you did this good. I will check the tests tonight, so tomorrow you will know who is moving up in years and who is not. Let's hope that more of you will stay with me, you know? I liked you already" He winked playfully.

"Sensei, can you hurry?" asked a kid from Nara clan "I want to go already."

"Yes, yes. Naturally. Let's see, shall we?" he hummed, "138 laps – Yamanaka Aiko."

'I knew – Wait! What?!' I looked at her shocked. 'I'm sure that I always ran before her!'

"136 laps – Uchiha Eri."

'What a bullshit.'

"115 laps – Makao Haru."

'How it's even possible?'

"103 laps – Nara Oroto."

'Fuck this! I trained so hard and what?'

"From 89 laps to 69 – rest of you. – "

'I lost with some stupid blonde! How?!'

" - Like I said, you all have done great! Now shoo~ Go home."

He didn't has to repeat that twice, because I ran away from the playing field like it was on fire.

I passed person by person, still full of anger. It irritated me that some mare child could won with me. 'I've been training for so long and the training still shows no results. Why should I train at all? I can just fuck this and live the life of a mare civilian.'

"Stupid Yamanaka!" I said under my nose.

"Hey! Eri!" yelled someone after me, "Stop running!" but I couldn't.

I wanted to punch something so hard. If I had stopped there, in the middle of the street, I would have hurt someone. So I continued to ran until I found myself in one of the Uchiha training grounds. Without thinking, I jumped in the air and hit the tree before me. Yeah.. it fucking hurt.

"What the hell are you doing, idiot?!" said a voice behind me.

I turned my angry face towards newcomer and saw my friend whose presence cool me down a little for a second. 'Kise?'

"Kise?" I said aloud. "What are you doing here?"

He walked closer to me, " I ran after you since the academy moron! I called after you again and again and you – " he clenched his fist on my shirt and pulled me up to himself " – why the hell haven't you stopped!?"

His upset face made me curious "What's the big deal, huh?" I asked, "It's not like I told you to chase after me."

"I'm your best friend! I saw your irritation and it made me worried, is it so strange?!"

"Don't you dare to yell at me!" I freed from his grip, "And don't you dare to say that you were worried! When did you last spend some time with me? Tell me!"

Kise just stared unfazed at me, no guilt was visible in his eyes.

"I was hospitalized like hundreds of times and you've never come to see me! What a friend are you, wow!" tears showed up in my eyes, "I've trained all this time so I can protect you and the others, but especially you and what?! I lost today with some Yamanaka bitch! I'm useless! You're useless!" my nerves finally lost as I punched him right in the middle of the face. He hasn't dodged though he was able to do that easily.

The blood dripped form his nose, "You finished?"

I've never have the chance to answer him, because he hit me in the stomach with his fist. "I'm you best friend Eri! And I will always be one! Don't say stupid things like that!" he tried to kick me after that, but I dodged under his leg and grabbed him by it. Next I outweighed his right side and we both fell to the ground.

I sat on his chest, "So were where you?!" I yelled while punching his face. I haven't even notices how hard I have started to cry.

"I've visited you but you were always sleeping when I came! You train all the time and when you aren't you just sleep or disappear somewhere" he blocked my last punch and threw me away from himself while standing up. He kicked my side three times before I grabbed him by his hand and pulled him down again.

"I have to be strong that's why I train all days!"

He jerked me by my hair "You are already!"

"So why that bitch was better than me?!" I cried loudly and bit him in the arm.

"Agh! What are you! A dog!" he let go of me.

I pouted "I prefer cats."

He looked at me and after he had enough of glaring, he smiled softly shaking his head, "You okay?"

I kicked him one last time "Yeah.."

"Bitch." Kise said under his blooded nose and I laughed.

"You are happy because I'm hurt you little sadist?" He crossed his arms around his torso and turned his face to left while puffing out his cheeks.

This picture made me smile widely "Thanks, buddy."

The boy looked at me seriously, "You are strong Eri. That girl who beat you.. who is she?"

"Yamanaka Aiko." I said angry, still mad about her won.

"Aiko?!" Kise asked surprised.

I just nodded.

"How the hell that weak girl could beat you?" his voice full of disbelieve.

"I don't know!" I yelled defensively "I can't even remind myself when exactly had she ran this two more laps than me."

The boy blinked quickly ten times and then burst out laughing, "Laps?" he laughed harder "Oh my, I thought that you two had a sparring or something, but nope. This big fuss is about some stupid laps? Her won isn't a big deal."

"It is!"

"It's not!"

I turned in other direction, "But I've lost."

Kise put his hand on my shoulder trying to comfort me, "Not last time, probably. Just learn that you won't always be on top, Eri. No matter how much you would love that. We might be Uchihas, but we aren't perfect."

"From when are you so smart, huh idiot?"

"Well.. I'm older, so it's just obvious that – " my punch in the head stopped him from finishing.

"Shut up you cocksucker!"

"Hey!"

"Class, attention please!" said sensei the next day at academy. "Here is the list of people who will be skipping this year. I'm going to read it, so sit down and stay silence."

He watched with keen eyes as everyone sat down and when he was satisfied enough with us, he started to read names and results. After hearing names of half of my class, it finally was my turn. My façade staid indifferent but inside I was a bundle of nerves.

"Uchiha Eri!" I raised from my chair "You got 100% on writing part. Congratulations, you will be a student of Serjuri-sensei from now on. Go to class 4-A. Next – "

As fast and graceful as I could, I took my things and left the classroom. When I found myself running alone towards the designated place, big toothy smile appeared on my face.

'Hell yeah! It's so great! I'm skipping 3 years! New class, new class!~ I'm coming!'

I knocked on the door of class 4-A and opened them to see the weird man from yesterday. He looked at me and waved to came in. While I was walking towards him, the man started speaking towards his proteges, "Listen up shrimps, this is your new friend. Now, be quite. She will introduce herself." he ended when I stopped before him.

I turned myself to my new classmates and couldn't resist the happiness that went through me. There, in the middle of the room, sat Kise with his stupid smirk.

"I'm Uchiha Eri. Nice to meet you."

I took all things about the academy form naruto wiki so they are true to the manga.

I don't like this chapter much.. What do you think about it?

Oh, also I'm really sorry for any errors!