Year one of the Academy proves to just be like training at home only with lots of chibi's. I don't get along with most my peers. At all. Lee is my twin and I love him and he is super and amazing. I am shamelessly biased. Besides he listens to me so I have him cracking the books pretty often. Kou is a year older than I am and frankly our weird friendship is super comfortable at this point which is great because then Lee doesn't mind going off with the boys all the time.
We are the good kind of twins. Super close, able to do lots of other things without the other.
Neiji and I just ignore each other. For some reason the fact I am not the slightest impressed by the 'branch family genius' seems to make Kou far too entertained. The way they decide who is branch and who is main is complicated. Hizashi and Hiashi have a weird dynamic too, for twins they aren't that close or at least so it seems. Jealousy I guess. That's one nice thing with Lee and I being so different. We could have struggled. I am completely able to imagine a world where Lee held my having any chakra at all against me, especially with the control I do even though my amount is like a full bladder. Not that impressive or fun to deal with.
Of course I could be jealous that he can get the taijutsu down like he does. Oh he works for it. I am not denying it, he works insanely hard for it, but so do I with trying to figure out my chakra. My control is better as I learn my limits this year. Which is mostly restricted to my learning what my reserves can handle.
I've heard a whisper of prodigy twice.
That creeps me out to no end. Bad things happen to prodigies here. They become little killing machines even earlier, they get used. I'm a girl too where the only prodigies I can think of right now..Neiji, Itachi, Kakashi..male. Minato maybe? Male. Yeah. Female prodigy has 'pay my family in cows and buy me to breed babies' all over it.
It's part of why I love that my one time joke of "Not a girl right now" has never ceased freaking people out. I said it once, with a clear reason even stated. I don't even fight my parents on the purple on purple on purple cuteness factor anymore. I've yielded. I have stockholm syndrome to a color here folks!
Yet, people never forgot I said it and I think they're all expecting me to suddenly claim I am Lee Ryo or some other name and decide I'm a guy. It's kinda hilarious and I think Tobirama would get a kick out of it. For the most part though I figured out swiftly why skipping class was a thing. Not that I did it, because if I go Lee goes and Lee cannot do subtle.
So I suffered through school. Again. Really inane school where we learn about past missions and history that is so badly butchered and edited and repeated over and over. You'd seriously come out of the academy thinking that Konoha bloomed like a beautiful flower in a garden overnight.
Anyone who has ever grown anything can tell you there is a lot of fertilizer involved.
Lee and I have recently celebrated beginning the second year at the academy. In Lee clan tradition. We ran laps around the academy before it opened. Well, more like he made the challenge and that something in my heritage that makes it where I can't seem to turn down a challenge had me accepting and..yeah. I lost. I always lose to Lee but even trying to keep up with him makes me a better ninja so it's completely fine. As we are finishing our last lap before we will need to head in early to claim our place before all the other students come in, it happens.
Lee slams on the brakes and I almost slam into him in turn.
"Lee! What the.." Lee has his hand over my mouth and I am hauled into the bushes effortlessly. Looking over he has his really intensely focused expression on. You know the one that in the anime made him look constipated? Oh it's even funnier in person. Finally I yank his hand down and peek to follow his gaze.
There's a pretty little girl with pink hair nervously waiting by the entrance.
One guess who and I let my head fall backwards onto Lee's shoulder with a sigh. Of course.
Well this is going to get interesting now isn't it?