chapter 6: The Average School Day
Lophin woke up to the still foreign sound of silence. Nowadays most people distanced themselves from him, vexed with the decision of keeping their faith in him or not. This had pleased Lophin for a while, however, he was now getting extremely lonely.
Things at school were going a lot better so far. He had been able to jump all the way to the fifth and final year of the Ninja Academy in just three days, thanks to his newfound chakra. Although now that he was among his peers, his loneliness was only increased; for they wanted nothing to do with such a strange kid who was completely out of the social loop. He was driven into a deep depression, growing angry with his classmates for not even liking him. Today was a test day on Lophin's hardest subject, genjutsu. "This is going to be horrible!" Lophin thought as he wandered his way to school.
At school:
Lophin your turn, his instructor commanded. Lophin stood up and walked slowly to the front of his class. He hated how he seemed to be the only one not getting the lesson. He began forming hand signs and focusing his chakra. Our protagonist tried his hardest to use a genjutsu on his teacher, but instead blasted chakra at him. Araiko Yama, the name of his teacher, got up and beat Lophin over the head for hurting him. He then proceeded to give Lophin a zero and told him to study tonight or he'd fail tomorrow's test as well.
"Shit! Not again!!" Lophin screamed in his mind.
"Dude, I can't believe you still haven't learned this yet its so simple!" a classmate, Talon, said mockingly to Lophin. "We all mastered this the first day! You have got to be the worst ninja in the history of the world! I mean this is our twelfth test!!" Right now Lophin wanted nothing more than to silence the annoying chatter permanently, but decided against it as people would only ostracize him even more.
"Whatever, I'm still passing...," Lophin replied. "This whole thing doesn't matter anyway, I'll never need such stupid skills."
"That's what cowards and idiots say," a girl from a few seats down mocked.
Three hours later:
"Finally over!" Lophin exclaimed as they left the day's genjutsu lessons. Talon walked up to Lophin and hit him on the shoulder.
"Hey brat," he said, "Since you like to act so cool and aloof how about we spar a bit?"
"Don't cry when you lose," Lophin replied. Little did he know that Talon had the aid of the sharingan with him, making Talon a tough opponent. Lophin entered a sparring stance and Talon did the same. Lophin, who still couldn't trigger his other side, rushed at Talon with a powerful fist.
"Sharingan!" Talon shouted and evaded the attack, countering with a punch of his own. Lophin ducked under this and did a leg sweep, which Talon jumped over and afterwards easily hit Lophin over the head. Lophin started to roll backwards into a handspring, throwing a kunai as he went. Talon caught the weapon in one hand, let its force turn him around and gain speed, and hurled it back at Lophin. Lophin was hit in the chest. Ashamed Lophin collected himself, pulled out the kunai, and left for his apartment.