The Third Shinobi World War has been over for years, but that doesn't mean a shinobi stops training or an academy stops teaching students how to become shinobi.
In the Hidden Leaf Village, when a person reaches the age of eight years old, they are given a choice; they can either stay civilians and enter the civilian school or join the Academy and learn how to become shinobi.
If they choose to join the Academy, they will not only take regular classes, such as maths and reading and history, but also chakra control, tactics, kunai and shuriken throwing, stamina, and hand-to-hand combat.
If you're a girl who's joining the Academy, then you'll also have to go through kunoichi classes. These classes are to teach girls special skills and defenses that are unique to women.
When the child reaches the age of twelve, they graduate and become genin, the lowest level of shinobi.
Right now in the village, there is a class of genin hopefuls that have to take their exam tomorrow. There are kids from civilian backgrounds and kids from shinobi backgrounds, all willing to become shinobi themselves.
But this class is not like the ones that came before it. For starters, this class has all of Konoha's major clan heirs in it and some promising students from the civilian side too.
There's Aburame Shino, heir to the Aburame Clan. Members of this clan are known as 'hosts' or 'nests' for several breeds of insects that they use to fight with. Members of the Aburame clan are also known to be intelligent and objective when it comes to decisions needing to be made on the battlefield.
There's Akimichi Chouji, heir to the Akimichi clan. Members of this clan are known to always be eating and to have a bigger physique than most people. That is because their clan techniques require them to manipulate their body weight and size by converting their calories into chakra. Most members of the Akimichi Clan also uses a bo in their fighting styles.
There's Haruno Sakura, a girl from a civilian family. She doesn't have a lot of physical strength but is extremely smart and knows the shinobi code inside and out.
There's Hyuuga Hinata, heir to the Hyuuga Clan. Members of the Hyuuga clan are born with the Byakugan, a doujutsu that allows them to see through solid objects gives them an almost 360-degree vision and the chakra system inside a shinobi. They have a fighting style called the Juuken which utilizes their Byakugan.
There's Inuzuka Kiba, heir to the Inuzuka Clan. Members of the Inuzuka clan are known for their fighting techniques involving their chosen ninken and their fang marking on their cheeks.
There's Nara Shikamaru, heir to the Nara Clan. Members of the Nara Clan are known for their intelligence in battle strategy and their laziness. They also fight using their ability to manipulate shadows.
There's Uzumaki Naruto, orphan of Konoha. He is loud, easy to anger, and really impulsive. He doesn't have many friends and many people of Konoha seem to dislike him. However, the people who do seem to like him and he likes back, he has unwavering loyalty for.
There's Uchiha Sasuke, heir to the Uchiha Clan. Members of this clan were known to have a natural affinity for fire and the doujutsu of the Sharingan. However, all members except Sasuke and his older brother, are now dead.
There's Yamanaka Ino, heir to the Yamanaka Clan. Members of this clan specialize in mind related techniques, which makes them specialists at intelligence gathering, espionage, and interrogation. The Yamanaka Clan holds a special relationship with the Akimichi and Nara clans, their members frequently being teamed up into a three-man cell known as the 'Ino-Shika-Cho Trio'.
However, there is a student that isn't from a civilian family or a ninja clan. Her parents are both shinobi, although her father died when she was three. Her mother's parents were originally from Kirigakure, so her mother knows a lot of water jutsu. She has a lot of chakra for a kunoichi and is the fittest among those in her class.
Her name is Zanya Sasame and this is her story.