Chapter 3: Combat
Rasa spent the next few months training at home, going to the academy, and improving his strength day by day.
He already mastered perfectly all kinds of level C ninjutsu of water, earth, and wind elements.
He also tried some B-level ninjutsu of wind and earth, but they exhausted him quickly, while B-level water element ninjutsu he could not try since he had no scrolls.
Rasa also made rapid progress with the manipulation and control of gold dust.
He also tried to progress with his Kekkei Genkai the magnet element in iron, but he did not obtain any result, contrary to the gold dust that he managed to control with facility, Rasa realized that to achieve some progress in the control of iron he was missing something that he unknown.
Rasa determined that without a scroll to help him master it or an instructor to tell him what to do, it would be impossible since he did not know the fundamentals of iron control using his chakra.
In fact, controlling gold dust was so natural to him that he didn't even need the fundamentals to manipulate it.
After spending some time at the academy, Rasa was recognized and admired by his classmates, since his grades were at the top of all exams.
But he knew that the most important thing was still to demonstrate his skills in real combat.
And that opportunity was going to be given to him today at the academy.
Upon entering the teacher looked at the classroom and set his eyes on some of the outstanding children in these months, knowing that all these would be the future of the village:
"Alright, Students, today we will have a combat test, in which you can challenge any student of your age or older" the teacher started saying.
"Professor, will it be just taijutsu or will we be able to use ninjutsu as well?" asked excitedly one of the older boys in the classroom who must have been about 9 years old.
"Well, this time you will be able to use whatever medium you think is useful to win, remember that your results will be important for your future development and all the results will be seen by Kazekage himself" replied the teacher calmly.
When the teacher finished speaking, the classroom was filled with murmurs and kids full of energy and confidence in their abilities.
Many of the children who had a good backing in the village looked at Rasa with anger, that's because he was the one who stood out the most among them, to the point that he took the attention away from everyone else.
One boy after another began to promise to defeat him in combat today, to which he obviously did not react since he already has the high level of a Genin, so a bunch of little kids with airs of grandeur did not worry him.
Rasa laughed internally at the situation he was in: 'A bunch of kids with no experience in life, if they were Itachi or Kakashi at their age maybe they would worry me, but with the mediocre level they have that will never happen'.
Bored Rasa started talking and joking with Karura who was getting embarrassed by every little thing he said in joke.
It was too obvious the affection the girl had for him.
'God, how is it that a girl who isn't even 6 years old is already thinking about boys. Although I guess logic doesn't make any sense in this world, Itachi at 4 years old had already participated in a war and killed people, and Kakashi at only 5 years old had already become a Genin' thought Rasa as he nodded his head.
He still couldn't get used to some things in this world, since from his modern point of view many things were simply ridiculous and unthinkable.
After a few moments, all the students made their way to the academy's training field.
When they arrived at the training field for combat, the first 8-year-old boy, did not wait for the teacher's instructions and went straight to the platform and pointed his finger at Rasa:
"Today I want to see how good you are in combat, no matter how good you are at studying and exams if you can't apply it in combat, today I Chaico challenge you Rasa," said with an air of superiority the bear boy Chaico.
When Chaico announced his challenge so soon all the other children began to murmur about who would be the winner if they would face each other or if Rasa would accept the challenge.
And since Rasa was two years younger, he could refuse to fight him.
Obviously, everyone was interested because Rasa was the first place in everything since he joined the academy, but he was still two years younger than Chaico, and not only that, apparently this boy was the previous center of attention until Rasa arrived, so he was considered the strongest among all the little ones in his classroom.
"Chaico, I never gave permission for you to start," the professor told him.
"Well, whatever, don't worry professor, I accept, it's going to be quick, after all, I don't want to waste time with a child," said Rasa without showing any interest in the confrontation.
But the truth was that he was interested in this match, as he could make his level clear to the higher-ups in the sand village and then gain attention together with benefits.
"You- you- you- you talk too big, today I will teach you to respect me, I am two years older than you and you call me a child, Fuck, I thought to restrain myself because of your age but now you made me angry, I am going to make you suffer child," said an enraged and embarrassed Chaico.
Rasa just looked at him with indifference to the point that it seemed that his look was very despising towards Chaico.
All this surprised everyone in the class, including the teacher who looked at Rasa with interest and doubt.
"Very well, if you both agree gather for combat," said the professor.
By the time he finished speaking, Rasa was already on the combat field in front of Chaico.
When the teacher indicated that they could begin, Chaico was the one who made the first move and pulled out kunais throwing them at Rasa, while making hand signals.
Rasa on his own only pulled out a Kunai and defended himself without any problem deflecting all the thrown kunais.
A few seconds later Chaico finished his ninjutsu and said "Fūton Kamikaze" creating some small wind tornadoes that approached Rasa.
This was only D-rank ninjutsu, so Rasa didn't worry a bit and quickly performed hand signals and summoned a wall of earth.
Chaico did not give up and quickly used another Jutsu "Fūton: Shinkūgyoku" from his mouth came out some wind bullets aimed at Rasa.
The earthen wall protecting him broke and the wind bullets reached Rasa, but the instant they hit him, the hit Rasa turned into a log.
And leaving no time for Chaico to get happy or think of his next move, Rasa reappeared beside him and hit him with his hand behind the head and he fainted.
'When did he do the seals?' that was the last thing Chaico could think of before he collapsed in a faint.
At first, the students were in shock at what had happened, but the teacher quickly crowned Rasa victorious and that's when they all seemed to react and applaud him.
Rasa created a great commotion among the group of children, some congratulated him, others did not quite believe it and the teacher who was pleasantly surprised by Rasa's great fighting ability just smiled and took Chaico checking that he was okay.
The professor had clearly seen when Rasa did the hand seals behind the wall to then move behind Chaico and knock him out.
'Smart from so young looks like we have a diamond in the rough' thought the teacher.
After this bout, the other children who had vowed to beat him and were not convinced with the outcome, took on Rasa one after the other.
This day was the day when the 7 children, considered the future geniuses of the village, ended up fainting in combat, without even touching Rasa, who was only 6 years old.
All this spread quickly in the village a few days later and obviously also reached the ears of the Third Kazekage, who was watching the papers with the results of the fights, the main one was of Rasa and his skill to obtain the victory without much effort, which made him smile slightly, he already had great expectations for the child.
So it was that in the village the name of the little genius of the village of the arena, Rasa, began to be heard.