Looking around the empty house Mōdoku notes how empty it is. Her parents having allowed her to look after herself when they were on missions, as she was now attending the shinobi academy.
Konoha being in a period of war is it is, makes all shinobi busier, allowing less time for her parents to look after her. Mōdoku looks into a mirror to get ready, pausing to look at her reflection. The tiredness reclining, as she observes the way her pitch hair frames her pale skin and angular purple eyes.
She spends some time fixing her hair before she gets her food for the day ready, Noku having already taught her some simple cooking skills, so that when she is alone, she can look after herself.
Mōdoku picks up one of the vials of poison spinning it in her fingers through chakra before opening it and downing it. Having noticed the lack of reaction she mumbles "When mother is back home, I'll have to get the next type of mixture".
She gets ready to head to the academy early so she can get some training in. she picks up her bag and jumps up the neighbours' roof. Running across the rooves being a habit she picked up when she saw the shinobi travelling by them.
Arriving at the academy Mōdoku sees a few people, mostly adults walking about. Ignoring them she heads to the targets and marks a few spots on some next to each other that she plans to hit.
She picks up three senbon in each hand before releasing all at once and then turns into a spin grabbing six more and releasing each hand one after the other. She then jumps up to look at the spots she hit, noticing that they hit directly where she had aimed.
The bell sounds bringing Mōdokus attention towards the passing of time. A frown covers her lips, having not realised that 3 hours had passed already. She stops her practice of Shurikenjutsu and packs her things to head off to her class.
Walking in to her class she looks around deciding on where she would sit. Her eyes flicker about and a few students who looked to see who entered and met her eyes and quickly looked away. Having noticed that no one that she liked had turned up she decided to sit by herself.
Although it had been six months since she was transferred to this class, as most of the children were twice her age, she didn't connect well with them.
While waiting for the students and teachers to arrive she mulls over how slow her process to graduate is taking. Last year when she was five, she feels that she should have been able to graduate. Seeing as she heard that Kakashi Hatake had at five.
She wonders if he was allowed to graduate so early, just because he was part of a clan. Sighing she dismissed the thought as she only held 5 months till she could graduate any way.
Having already learnt what they were learning in todays lesson she instead started to continue her practise in supressing her chakra. As when she was practicing her sensor skills, she noticed how some shinobi were able to effectively mask their position.
Slowly she brought her conscious to her chakra centre and slowly brought it towards her centre slowly opening her eyes and observing the room. She notices both of the people she liked in the room had both found a seat with other students.
Having realised that she would be bored during this session, she went about suppressing her chakra with more intensity, to a level that needed almost her entire attention. Mōdoku slowly regulates her breathing before bring a senbon out of her pack and goes through her throwing techniques while not letting up on hiding her presence.
She notices that the teacher was leaving and notices that the time passed faster than she expected. The next class being a chakra control exercise almost bringing a smile to her lips however the absence of a teacher caused the students to start being rowdy, annoying her.
Ignoring them to the best of her ability she grabs who metal balls from her bag that she prepared for this class. She puts them both on the table before holding her hand over them, leading chakra to her hands she connects the balls to both of her hands.
Flipping her hands over she slowly starts making the balls spin using chakra, each at a different speed than each other. Having got past the hardest part of the exercise, Mōdoku scours the room seeing what other students were doing.
Noticing them still messing around she wonders why they spend so long wasting time, as although they might be having fun now, they will still have to practise their control of chakra in the future.
Ms Suzuki entering the doorway causes the students ruckus to die down. Mōdoku sees the teacher look over at her and give her a slight nod, Mōdoku seeing this, smiles back.
Looking around the room and seeing the other students Ms Suzuki sighs, "Alright. Class this being the final stretch before graduation, it is imperative that you take these chakra control exercises seriously, seeing as they will hugely benefit your ability to graduate and your transition to Genin".
The teacher's words cause a few of the students to sigh.
Mōdoku sees Ms Suzuki pause at hearing the students before continuing, "Seeing as everyone already knows the exercise already, I'll have everyone just start practising".
The class slowly starts getting ready for the exercises, each going through the motions of guiding chakra to their hands and having it cling to an object.
Mōdoku seeing as her practise was easy decided that she would also sense the chakra around her as she has in previous classes. The time flows slowly with some students giving up and deciding to chat with their friends around them.
Having finished her classes at the school Mōdoku heads back home, on her way she senses Nokus chakra and rushes over to see her. Jumping up at her catches her mother slightly of guard and surprises the people around her.
Her mother having realised who it was calmed down and hugged her, "Hey sweetie how have you been?".
Hearing her mothers words Mōdoku goes and tells her all that she had missed out on while on a mission.