Chapter 3: First Day of School
Three years later…
"Ah! First day of school! This is going to be great!" Kwan, now six, exclaimed as he walked to school with his brother.
For the past three years, Kwan has been living with Zin and a female guardian Chuunin. Her name was Seiko and was twenty-three years old. She is living with Zin and Kwan as if she was an older sister.
"Zin, do we have any relatives?" Kwan asked.
"I don't think so. They all died in battles against exiled ninjas and missing-nins and none had any children. Most of them were part of the ANBU," Zin replied.
"Oh…so are we the last of the clan?"
"Unfortunately, yes. Until one of us has kids, which won't be anytime soon…"
"What causes a baby to be born?"
"Uh…look!" Zin pointed ahead of them quickly changing the subject "the school is right there."
Before them was the ninja school. The school building itself was only about half of a football field and only two stories high. Most of the area was different fields of training to train ever skill possible.
"And so, I begin my quest of becoming the greatest ninja ever!" Kwan exclaimed.
Zin gave a fake cough. "Uh…well, I need to get going. I already know my class since I've already been here quite awhile. Go to the small crowd over there. That's where the new students go to. Well, see you later!" and Zin walked off into the building.
Kwan looked to the crowd of around twenty-five and took a deep breath and walked over, staying in the shadows unnoticed. He stayed away from the crowd, and he also noticed that many other kids like him were nervous. The crowd was a bunch of small black-haired kids wearing dark clothes. There was no uniqueness among them besides their face. Without the face, they would all look practically the same.
After awhile, the crowd began to quiet down and a man was standing on a tiny platform. He began to speak,
"Good morning!"
Half of the crowd responded with a good morning.
"Well…only have of you guys say good morning. I guess the rest of you don't want to become a ninja. Guess I'll just kill you." The speaker pulls out a few kunai and pretends to prepare to throw them.
Immediately the rest of the crowd said good morning, except Kwan, but no one notices.
"Well then, that's better." The speaker put away his kunai. "Welcome to the Country of Darkness Ninja Academy. I am the leader of the Academy. My name is Sarekai. Remember it.
"Now, there will be no welcoming speech. We will immediately show you your sensei and you will begin learning the wonderful art of ninja. Please meet your sensei, Raiga."
The leader of the Academy stepped off and another man got on.
"Good morning!"
The crowd responded with good morning, except Kwan.
"Well, follow me into the building and I'll lead you to the classroom and began introducing the school to you." He walked off the platform and began walking to the front doors. The crowd also followed him, with Kwan walking in the shadows unnoticed.
After awhile of walking, they reached a room and went inside (room like the one in the show), each child choosing their own seat and began to whisper excitedly. Kwan entered unnoticed and sits in the back within the shadows, again unnoticed.
"Now that everyone is here. I will explain things. First, the purpose of this school. Many of you probably believe that being a ninja will make you cool. It might and might now. To be a ninja means that you will be willing to fight and die to save the village and the important people of yours. In this school, we will train you how to fight and defend yourselves and others from danger. Being a ninja means you will be a tool of the village. You will be used for missions that are at different levels, some even life-threatening.
"Now for other things. We already have many weapons here that you can use, but if you wish, you can bring your own, but if it is loss, then we have no responsibility over it. And the rules…
"There will be no fighting with other students unless we permit so. There will definitely be no killing. Also, there will be no swearing. You cannot practice when we don't allow it. Respect the staff. Do not be late to class. It shows that you are not responsible enough for a ninja. Do not disrupt the class. And…no cheating, ever!"
The students stared at him, most of them pretending to listen.
"If you break rules, then…" he tossed a kunai right next to a random kid inches from his head. "there will be consequences." He used some of his Chakra to create a string and pull the kunai back to him. The students stared at him in awe.
"Now, we will be introducing each other. Say your name, what you like, what you like to do, what your goals are, and whatever you wish to add. Any volunteers?"
No one raised their hand.
"Well, I'll start then. And then I'll go down the row. My name is Raiga. I like to teach little kids like you. My goal is to make sure all of you become excellent ninjas. Also, I like to surprise my students." He smiled. "Now you," he pointed to the first person at the end of the row.
So, he went through the whole class from right to left then the next row from right to left (if you were to stand where the sensei was). Occasionally there were laughs to the people who liked getting attention and other emotions for other people. Eventually it got to the last person, Kwan, and the other students actually noticed him there. He didn't stand to present himself like the other students and sat there still partially hidden in the shadow, as if he was part of it. The other students whispered to one another.
"My name is Shadow Kwan. I am the youngest of the noble family of this country, the Shadow Clan." The whispers increased. The strong family was well-known and very respected though there is only two left. "As of now, I love only my brother and my guardian Chuunin. I might find people in the future but I highly doubt it. I like to train to become strong to eventually become the strongest ninja. Also, I have a spirit that will protect me forever. We call him the Dark Spirit."
There were more whispers and stares.
"Okay…" Raiga-sensei spoke, "Well, that was very interesting. Now we all know each and everyone of us better. Now, I assume all of you know at least how to use some weapons and some fighting skills that you have learned from someone," he was careful to avoid the words family or parent for the sake of Kwan. "I can already see some of you already brought your own weapons."
Some of the students took them out to showoff to other peers.
"Now we will go outside into an open field." He walked to the door and opened it. "Follow me."
The class followed him outside into an open field with Kwan again in the shadows. There was already another class outside and the students were fighting each other in one-on-one battles. Raiga led them to one of the field opposite of the other class. On their part of the field was a table with two boxes and a hole in both of them from the top. Raiga stood next to the box and the students huddle around him.
"I want you to stick your hand in one of these boxes and draw out a piece of paper and look at it. There will be a number on it. Wait until everyone has finished."
Everyone rushed to get their pieces of paper. Kwan stayed where he was standing, slightly away from the crowd.
"Kwan? Aren't you going to get your slip?" Raiga asked.
Kwan held out his hand and a slip of paper was in his hand.
"Oh…well then, everyone! Please stand behind this line."
Raiga took a kunai and dragged it across the ground making a long straight line. The class immediately went behind it, including Kwan within the shadows.
"Now I will explain this to you. There are twenty-six slips of paper with the number one through thirteen. I will call out the numbers in order and you will step up across the line. Then you will fight each other. This will show me your current skills as a ninja. Use weapons if you wish, but fight with all you have. I will intercept before any serious injury is done."
The students all gasped.
"Number one. Please step up," and the fighting began. The fighting skills of everyone were not fantastic, excluding a few and one very excellent girl. They were after all only six. You can expect very little from them. Now, the last fight comes.
"Number thirteen, please step up." A boy stepped up with a smirk on his face. The boy was expected to be the top male of the class. Kwan stepped up with no expression on his face with his arms crossed (very much like Gaara). They faced each other.
"Ooo! A Shadow. One of the last Shadows. Heh…you look like scraps to me. I'll end this quick so that you won't be badly hurt," the boy spoke.
Kwan stood there, expressionless and quiet.
The boy looks agitated and dug into his pouch and drew out a shuriken.
"Later!" he cried and threw his shuriken at Kwan.
Before the shuriken could hit Kwan, a darkness appeared before the shuriken and stopped it as if it was a wall. The darkness disappeared as did the shuriken.
"What the? My shuriken! You'll pay for that!" They boy charged Kwan and punched him in the face forcing Kwan to stagger back with a confused look on his face.
"What?" he thought mentally.
"Do not worry. I was just showing what pain is like and to make him overconfident," a voice inside his head spoke.
"Well you could have told me before," Kwan spoke back mentally.
Kwan straightened and stood expressionless with his arms crossed.
"Looks like you aren't all the protected," the boy taunted and rushed in again.
Before the punch hit Kwan, darkness appeared once again and stopped the hand from hitting Kwan. The boy was surprised. Then the boy was lifted into the air from his feet by darkness from the ground. The boy hung upside down.
"Let me go! Let me go!" the boy cried.
"Remember the name Shadow. The clan that is the master of all that is dark. And remember me, Kwan, the one who will be come the strongest ninja," Kwan spoke with his arms still crossed.
The darkness let the boy go as the boy crashed into the ground. The darkness withdrew back to the ground. Then everyone gasped. Kwan had no shadow on him. The darkness then crawled to Kwan and formed Kwan's shadow. Kwan walked back to the crowd and crowd stepped away from him. He stood within the shadows once again, alone.
-SandVillage-
"Yashamaru!" a boy with red hair cried out. He was sobbing on a body of a blonde woman.
"Please die," the blonde hair woman spoke. She then ripped open her vest and there was a big explosion.
The boy was shield by a wall of sand. He continued to cry. Then, he stopped. His eyes were no longer filled with sadness, but they were instead filled with pure evil. And on his forehead was a bloody imprint that said "love."
The boy walked away as if nothing happened…
-Konoha-
A blond-haired boy was sitting the classroom sleeping on the desk. Everyone else in the class began to laugh.
A tall man with brown hair ran over and hit the boy on the forehead. He immediately woke up screaming in pain.
"Ow! Why did you do that?" the boy screamed.
"You do not sleep in my class!"
The boy stuck out his tongue and jumped out the window. Little did he know that he was on the second floor and hasn't learned how to land properly. The boy landed flat on the face. The class erupted in laughter.
The boy merely smiled that he could get some attention before falling unconscious.
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Well, this was much longer than the others. To clarify some stuff that you might not understand, the defense that Kwan has is very similar to Gaara's except he uses darkness (black shadowy stuff). And that Kwan's darkness can appear anywhere unlike Gaara's where it has to come from the ground first.
Please review! Tell me any suggestions or anything I can improve on. Or if you have anything you are unsure about, please do tell so I know how to explain it. Thanx!