TRIAL! AYA AND KOJI
The next morning Itachi woke up by his clock alarm. He was pretty excited about Anko's trial for him and Shisui, so he got up immediately and went to take a shower. When he finished, he dressed with grey long shorts and his black shirt with the Uchiha fan in the back, then he combed his long black hair and tied in the same simple ponytail. He leaved his room and went to the kitchen, where his mother was already making breakfast
"Good morning, Itachi" her mother greeted him with that sweet smile of hers
"Good morning mom" Itachi answered taking his place in the table. He watched his mother moving around while he was thinking about the trial… he wondered how it will be…
"Don't be nervous, you'll do it very good" said Mikoto bringing her son back from his thoughts
"You think so?" Itachi asked her looking at her a little surprised
"Of course you will" Mikoto smiled at him and then she leaned towards him. She took his hands into hers and looked him in the eyes "You have a great potential between you, even if you fail, I'll be proud of you…"
"What are you saying Mikoto?" Fugaku's voice interrupted. Fugaku had just entered to the kitchen with Sasuke and he had listened every word Mikoto said "It'll be a shame if he fails. I won't be able to look at the faces of the rest of the clan if he fails"
Itachi glared at his father, fortunately, Fugaku didn't notice. Mikoto scowled at her husband and got up facing him "You shouldn't say that… you should be proud of Itachi even if he's not able to pass"
"It'll be a shame, period" Fugaku stated. Mikoto didn't want to argue, so she continued with the breakfast. There was an uncomfortable silence that only was break by the sound of the dishes.
Itachi was feeling strange. He wanted to strangulate his father, but he had to control himself… at least in front of Sasuke and his mother. He ate his breakfast with hurry and immediately leaved the kitchen when he finished. Mikoto tried to go after him, but he leaved before she could
Itachi was walking fast trough the Uchiha state and some rage tears fell from his cheeks. He wiped them away quickly just in time when Shisui appeared
"Hey!" Shisui greeted and immediately noticed Itachi's mood "What's wrong?"
"Nothing, let's go" Itachi answered coldly. Shisui decided not to argue with him, he knew Itachi could get really, really pissed off
Shisui followed Itachi. They walked 15 minutes until they reached the academy, where Anko was already waiting for both of them "Ohayou!" Anko greeted. Shisui did it to, but Itachi just nodded "Well you seem… hum… excited" Anko said with drop in her head as she watched Itachi's glare
"Can we start now?" Itachi asked huskily.
"Oh yeah the trial" Anko remembered and it was Shisui's and Itachi's time to drop "Don't worry it's not too difficult"
"Really?" asked Shisui with excitement "What is it?"
"You'll spar with older academy students. It'll be for grades until you're in a sort of… tie" Anko explained "For example, if you win against a second year, you'll spar against a third one, then if you tie with a third grade student, you'll be in third grade. Do you understand?"
Both Uchihas nodded. It won't be easy, those students already had experience and they'll have no mercy; at least that's what Itachi thought. They followed Anko inside the building and she took them to the training field they were yesterday.
"Anko, are you sure this brats can beat this kids?" asked one of the academy teachers with a mocking smirk once he saw the both Uchihas. Itachi glared at the guy making him shut up
"They're both Uchihas" Anko answered with a grin "They have great talent beneath them, you'll be surprise"
"Let's see what they're capable of" said another man; it was none other than Kakashi. He had skipped work for seen this matches. He was very interested on both Uchihas, especially Itachi since the incident two days ago
"Yeah, let's start" Anko said. She called some students from other grades and Itachi supposed that they were the number ones in their respective class. Shisui was the first one called for spar against a second grade boy.
Shisui managed to beat everyone until the sixth grade student. He tied with him and Shisui was panting, while the other kid wasn't, but he seemed tired. The battle had been very long; it lasted more than thirty minutes
Now it was Itachi's turn. He beat them all, until he was against a sixth grade. The kid smirked at him and said to Anko "Ne, Anko-sensei, are you sure this brat can beat me? I mean, he seems so weak, he doesn't seem to have talent to be a shinobi tough he's an Uchiha" The kid had short brown hair and blue eyes
"Don't be so confident Kouta, this kid's very talented… maybe more than we think" Anko answered. Itachi felt his blood boil… weak? He called him weak? And he said he had no talent to be a ninja?
"Seems I hit a tender spot" Kouta said feeling Itachi's chakra growing in anger
Itachi immediately started his attack. He pulled out some shuriken and threw them, but Kouta dodged them with a mocking smirk "Is that the best you can do?" he asked but… Itachi wasn't there. Kouta looked around but he didn't see Itachi anywhere, suddenly, he appeared behind Kouta and grabbed his arms. Kouta looked at Itachi turning his head around
"A ninja must see underneath the underneath" said another voice in front of him. Kouta looked at the front and saw a second Itachi who punched him in the face. The bunshin that was holding him from behind disappeared and Kouta fell to the ground. Itachi glared at him and Kouta did the same from the ground. Kouta got up and grabbed some kunai and threw them, but Itachi dodged them easily with a kawarimi. Kouta continued attacking with weapons but this time using bunshin in them, and that made things more difficult for Itachi, because there were no more things for doing kawarimi. He could transform into someone, but it would be too obvious
Itachi made a bunshin while he hid behind a nearby tree thinking of a solution. Suddenly, he remembered the fire jutsu he saw his father doing once. He remembered the seals and he thanked his great memory for it, but now the problem was if he had enough chakra for it. The bunshin had take a part of his chakra and he didn't know how much chakra he needed for the Katon he only deduced from it that he needed to compress chakra in his chest and release. Itachi decided to use it he appeared in front of Kouta once more
"Finally, were you that scared?" Kouta teased trying to piss him off, but Itachi didn't care, instead he made the seals and made his chakra to compress in his chest
The teachers were amazed by Itachi's skills. The kage bunshin was a high level jutsu and a kid who had just entered the academy doing it was something that only happened once every generation. Anko and Kakashi were the most pleased ones, but their expressions changed into fear when they saw the seals that Itachi was doing. At first they thought Itachi couldn't possibly do that, he couldn't have enough chakra, but…
"Katon: Gokakyuu no Jutsu" Itachi said and a great fireball was released from his mouth towards Kouta, who couldn't possibly dodge it, but Kakashi and Anko interfered and with a Suiton jutsu stopped Itachi, but he managed to hurt Kouta and leaved him unconscious
"Itachi! That was a dangerous jutsu!" Anko scolded once Kouta was taken to the hospital "Who taught that to you?"
"I-I…" Itachi didn't know what to say. He was scared… he almost killed Kouta… "I-I saw my dad doing it once and… I-I just remembered it and thought it would help to win b-but I-I didn't mean to hurt him…"
Anko sighed… she didn't expect such talent form a six year old, Itachi didn't even had a scratch, instead Shisui had many little wounds. The only one who were so talented at that age was Kakashi, but Itachi was making him competition "Shisui, Itachi" Anko called both Uchihas "You'll be transferred to sixth grade, from tomorrow on you're sixth grades so give this to your parents were we report today's events" both Uchihas nodded
They leaved after that. Both walked in silence until Shisui broke the silence "How did you do it?" he asked Itachi in a whisper loud enough for Itachi to hear
"I just felt like doing it, it wasn't big deal" Itachi answered confused by his friend attitude towards him
"Yeah right" Shisui said with a hint of jealousy and anger in his voice, which scared Itachi a bit. Shisui had never acted like that with him.
Itachi was about to ask him if everything was alright, but they had already reached the Uchiha state and Shisui disappeared before Itachi could do anything. Itachi stood there confused and moments later he walked away to his house.
He opened the door of his house just to find his mother and Sasuke waiting for him. His mother smiled brightly when he saw him "How did it went?" she asked looking at him with eager
Itachi looked at her poker faced and Mikoto thought the worse, but then Itachi smiled "I'm in sixth grade, here's the report" he said handing her the report. She read it quickly and looked seriously at Itachi
"Itachi, you should be careful with your jutsu" Mikoto said and Itachi's smile started to fade and Mikoto noticed it so she added "But I'm very proud of you, you showed today that you're not just the next Uchiha leader, but a very talented shinobi of Konoha"
Itachi's smile returned wider this time and hugged his mother while Sasuke did the same without really understanding what was going on, but he just imitated his brother's actions. Itachi smiled at his brother's antics and patted his head
"What's all this about?" interrupted Fugaku who had just arrived from work and looked at the scene displayed in front of him
"Itachi passed the trial and he's now a sixth grade!" Mikoto informed with pride hugging her sons tighter with a smile
"As expected from my child" Fugaku said and then entered the house without saying anymore words. Itachi didn't know if he had to be happy for that or not, but he leaved to his room where he thought about the recent events, mostly about Shisui's attitude…
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ONE YEAR LATER
It had been one year since the trials. Itachi had changed a lot, now most of the people usually were afraid of him and didn't talk to him. He trained every day five hours without resting. He even now had lines under his eyes that made him look much older than he was.
Itachi was sitting in his usual spot in the classroom next to Shisui. They had just graduated from the academy and the teacher was just about to announce the new genin teams. Itachi looked at his left where a girl had just sat next to him. She had long brown hair and green eyes; also she didn't seem a twelve year old like the rest of the classroom. It was the first time he ever saw her. She felt his glare and looked at him, and then smiled
"Hi!" she greeted at him. Itachi didn't respond "You must be Uchiha Itachi, you're very popular, and everybody says you're very talented and you're the number one rookie this year" she said with an amazing speed "Oh yeah, how rude I am, my name's Sakuya Ayaki, but my friends call me Aya, so you can call me Aya, nice to meet you!"
Itachi was amazed of how friendly she was been with him. "Nice to meet you too" he answered politely "How old are you? You don't seem to have twelve years old like the rest"
"Oh I'm eight years old!" Aya answered "When I entered the academy I was transferred to fifth grade because of my intelligence. If I'm not mistaken you and your cousin are like seven years old, no?"
"Yes, we are" Shisui answered. He had been listening to the whole conversation and he found Aya amusing so he decided to talk to her "By the way, I'm Uchiha Shisui"
"Nice to meet you!" Aya said "Wow, this is so cool. I've never talked to anyone nor have any friends during academy"
"Really? But you're very nice!" Shisui commented making Aya blush. Itachi didn't say anything, but he liked the girl, she seemed to be nice
"Your attention please!" the teacher called the class "I'm going to announce the new genin teams" Itachi remained stoic, Shisui seemed to be calm and Aya was dying of eager to know her new team mates
"Team 3" the teacher said "Sakuya Ayaki" Aya raised her head "Uchiha Shisui" Shisui smiled with triumph "And Uchiha Itachi" Itachi remained stoic but he noticed with pain that Shisui's smile faded a bit… "Your Jounin teachers will be here after lunch" the teacher continued once he finished with the announcement of the teams "So wait for them here once you finish your lunch"
"Hey, let's lunch together now that we're a team!" Aya proposed. Shisui nodded and Itachi just stood up and followed them from behind. Aya got near Shisui and whispered in his ear making him blush madly, but she didn't notice "Hey, is he always that cold?"
"Yeah" Shisui answered trying to hide his blush "He's a little anti social, almost all the time he's training because one day he'll be the Uchiha clan leader" when he said the last words Shisui rolled his eyes
"Oh" Aya said and the she turned around and grabbed Itachi by the arm and pulled him
"Hey, what do you think you're doing?" Itachi asked with annoyance
"You're slow" Aya answered simply. She continued pulling him until they arrive to the outsides of the academy and the three of them sat in a nearby bench to lunch
Itachi murmured something between "Crazy girl" and "Spoiled brat"
"Excuse me? Did you say something?" Aya asked looking at Itachi with a very intimidating glare
"N-no, nothing" Itachi answered. It was the first time ever that someone intimidated him that way and because of it, Shisui started to laugh uncontrollably recieving a death glare from Itachi
They finished their lunches and returned to the classroom were there were already many Jounin teachers waiting for them. Once all the class was gathered the Jounin teachers started to call their students
"Team 3, Sakuya Ayaki, Uchiha Shisui and Uchiha Itachi" called one of the Jounin. He had black short hair and blue eyes. He was also tall, thin and very good looking. Team 3 went next to him and he smiled at them "Seems I have all the so called geniuses of this year. Follow me"
They followed him and he took them to where Itachi and Shisui made their trials one year ago. He indicated them to sat down in the ground and he sat in front of them "I'd like to you're your names, your age, your hobbies, your dreams for the future and your likes and dislikes to know each other better now that we're a team, but I'll start with me. Well, I'm Ishikawa Koji; I'm 24 years old, I don't really have hobbies or dreams for the future and I don't feel like telling you my likes and dislikes" The three of them sweat dropped… the only thing he told them was his name and his age "So, let's start with the lady here"
"I'm Sakuya Ayaki, but you can call me Aya" Aya started her presentation with the same excitement as before "I'm 8 years old, my hobbies are to read and draw, my dream for the future is to be the best medic ninja ever, even better that Tsunade-sama. I like to read and draw. I don't like preppy people" Koji nodded and smiled at her. The he looked at Shisui
"I'm Uchiha Shisui; I'm 7 years old" Shisui said with a little smile "My hobby is training. My dream for the future is to be the best of all the clan" Shisui looked at Itachi but returned his gaze to Koji almost immediately "I like be with my family and Itachi, and I hate hypocrite people" Koji nodded and looked at Itachi
"Uchiha Itachi, 7 years old" Itachi started "I don't have hobbies but I usually train a lot. My dreams for the future… I don't have any. I like to be with my brother, my mother and Shisui. I hate people who are arrogant" Koji nodded once again
"Well now that we know each other a little more, tomorrow we'll start with the missions" Koji said and smiled at them. The three of them returned the smile; tough Itachi's smile was tiny. The three of them leaved the place and returned home. Koji remained there
"What's up Kakashi?" Koji asked. Kakashi was standing behind him now; he was hiding first behind a tree
"Nothing, just checking the Uchihas" Kakashi answered "Specially Itachi, he amuses me a lot"
"Yeah me too, he's very powerful" Koji agreed "I won't be surprise if he awakes soon his Sharingan"
"Then he will be a very interesting opponent" Kakashi said grinning under his mask
"I'm worry about Shisui and Itachi" Koji commented "Its obvious Shisui sees Itachi as a menace; he wants to surpass him no matter what and I'm afraid that will turn into a great rivalry. Aya's fine she seems to get along fast"
"When I met Itachi, my Sharingan reacted" Kakashi said and Koji looked at him surprised "And I wonder if that's a good or bad omen…"
Hi! Sorry for the late update. I also want to apologize once again about grammar errors and because the trials suck (sorry lack imagination for that kind of scenes), but I hope you liked the rest of the chapter.
inuyashaHELP: Thanks for reading this story and for your comments! I've already read Life of the Uchiha and I really liked it. Hahaha I did make her a girl, hope you like her and also hope you like Koji
sona: Thanks for reading my story! Mmm… maybe Kakashi wont' be his friend, he'll be more like a mentor but I'll think about it hehe
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