My first day at the academy was, as to be expected to say. The Kazekages speech was still fresh in my mind at the end of the day thought.
"The children of the classes will be dependent on districts" he said. When he explained how the classes would be divided up I, along with the grim looking boy sighed, 'at least I won't have to deal with the others yet.' Then I looked back again the girl from before had a slight frown on her face. Then we were ushered to the classes and we picked seats.
This is where I meet Ayako. A bright a bubbly child who was seated next to me. She talked so fast you could barely keep up and she never seemed to stop talking. This lead to the rest of seemingly being in fast forward. I made sure to get out of the academy as fast as I could so the others could not follow me home also so I would not have to hear Ayako talk any more. When I got home I quickly greeted my parents and ran up to my room. When there I shut my windows and pulled up the books I got from the teacher and started to study.
During the second day at the academy we went through the first of many test's these include running a mile, strength exercises and multiple tests. This all happened all in that order. Considering the fact that all of us were six and we had never worked this hard in our lives we were pretty tired. When all was done though we allowed to go home.
As the days in the academy progressed I came to some interesting discoveries. For one all the kids that entered the academy all automatically became ninja if they past the first year. This was discovered when during the first day of the New Year when I came to class and all I saw was a Chunin sitting at a sandstone desk. "Hello, academy student Kohaku Ken reporting for duty." I said firmly. Then the chunin moved his head, indicating to the seat in front of him.
As I sat down he asked me a question that would determine my future. "Why do you want to be a ninja?" This was not a question that shocked me to the core I had prepared multiple answers. As I was about to speak he continued on. "Not anything for others, but for yourself." At this I was stumped in all my plans I never guessed he would probe deeper into my reasoning for being a ninja. After thinking on it a bit I finally discovered it. "To become stronger for myself and others." I said.
He presumed the question further. Making me even more frustrated as time flew by. "Why?" He said to all answers I gave. At the thirteenth time he said it I finally snapped. "I want to be stronger to survive!" "I don't want to be just another ninja doing chores for others. I want to be one of the best ninja in this crazy world!" When I finished my tirade I discovered that I was standing up and I quickly sat back down in my chair, still fuming.
When I finally looked at the chunin again he had a look of serious contemplation on his face. "In all my years of screening your answer is the most truthful I have heard." He said quietly. I have heard so many answers in my time as a screener, from straight up lies to terrible truths." He continued "That is why you pass with flying colors."
My mind still reeling from his earlier comment about my truthfulness, I had no response prepared for a comment like that. "Not many people know this about Suna, but to judge potential usefulness to the village every academy student must go through this test to determine how far they advance through the ranks of being a ninja.
'This was not something I might have planned but it does seem like things are looking up.' I thought happily, the second thought occurred to me when I placed my thoughts on Konoha 'no wonder no one thought Naruto could be Hokage he will have to loud of a personality to pass the test.' I thought with a grin. "Either way congrats and report to the academy two hours earlier for extra training." He smiled when he looked at my jaw dropping.
A/N After a lot of consideration on witch ninja style to go into I have decided to have a poll and consider it with my original option. If the power does not fit I will deposit it onto one of the other characters. This is not because I would not like it. It is because it might be harder to write. By the way my character is not the only one who passes the test this lets me introduce the other Suna characters cannon and OC. Also Kohaku Ken in japenes means amber strong or strong amber.
Okame 1 (takes place after a failed finale idea)
It was all over and the final battle was about to commence. I was ready I had lost many friends along the way and i was ready for revenge. After waiting the others arrived. As I looked around I noticed they all had similar looking clothing.
They all had steel toed boots and different colored trench coats with different kanji on them for some reason. The silence was broken when the man in the blue trench coat spoke "Now that I see the competition you all better surrender now." He finished with a smirk.
At those words everyone started to respond in accord lines of their own. As this was happening i stood shocked. 'This is what the final battle has reduced to? A bunch of elite ninja seeing who has the better original jutsu?' The noise was broken when the woman with the kanji on her trench coat for sword spoke "This is pointless for all of you, I have mastered all seven swords of the mist, mastered all water ninjutsu and signed the clam summoning contract. I am also the most attractive woman in Kiri" With that haughty declaration and I was noticeably shocked.
'To have such a high chakra level and be a master at all of them. Then again she sounds like an air head' I had decided she was the strongest opponent. This notion was dissuaded when the others started to talk. Over the period of an hour i heard them talk about their summons, Jutsu, skill, accomplishments, and goals. I could even hear about someone having sage mode with two different contracts.
It even got more ridiculous from there, such as someone claiming a rasengan that took the form of a dragon. After bragging for an hour they were finally ready to fight within the time they were arguing. I was able to stealthily create enact my plan. I had my clones go underground and place exploding tags. As they finally took notice I detonated the explosive tags. Effectively ending the battle before it even started. My back up plan also took effect when the people who were smart enough to hide during the talking were also blown up by my clone who looked like he was the one detonating the tags. 'All's well it ends terribly' at that I was transported away.
Up in the waiting room all handlers except one face faulted. "How is it that they lost!" was the collective shout. There in the corner of the room was Tristan smoking a Cuban cigar with a grin on his face the size of Mount Rushmore. There was also me sitting next to him all my questions about my death answered with a drink in my hand and a grin equally as big.
Writing this okame came to me when I noticed the stereotypes that occurred in fan fiction. These include the steeled toed boots and single kanji on the back of coats. To all of those who though that I made it an unfair fight to put it simply my SI is the weakest character and always will be. So yea he used tactics he won't be a genius but he will be smart.
I want to thank you all for reading this and putting up with the rewrite. Also the characters participating in the game compared to the cannon characters the contestants will be stronger, but only because of the cannon knowledge and training methods.