Academy Admission (2)

[A.N: Sorry for the late upload. There is a flood going on in my city and we were out of electricity service and also was slightly ill due to bad weather and couldn't release any chapter.]

"Hey Nikko. Wake up. Today is your academy admission. Don't blame me if you miss this chance this year as you will have to wait for 1 year to gain another chance." Nikko's mom shouted as she was trying to wake him up.

Nikko was also very excited about today as he was waiting for this specific moment for 6 years to be part of the elite ninja society. So he woke up quickly after his mom left the room and fully prepared in 10 minutes and went to the academy with both his mom and dad who were there to show their support for him.

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As soon as Nikko reached the ninja academy, he saw many children with their parents and family members there. Nikko was quite unsure about which generation of ninja he belonged to. After looking for many children, he suddenly finds the iconic Ino-Shika-Cho alliance kids of 15th generation, Shikaku, Inoichi and Choza with the 1st son of 3rd Hokage Ajima whom he knows from their previous interaction during Nikko's 4th birthday party.

Nikko became very much interested now as he knew that Sasuke and Itachi's father and last Uchiha clan head Fugaku and Naruto's Father 4th Hokage Minato is also in the same batch in academy admission as Shikaku and now those powerful and intelligent people will be his classmate of academy.

For the first test, the academy held a writing test about ninja history and a basic questionnaire about the shinobi world and the time limit was 30 minutes to complete the 15 questions. Most of the questions were related to Hashirama Senju, Tobirama Senju, Konoha and Basic Ninjutsu technique and clans of Hidden Leaf Village.

As an avid fan of Naruto manga, anime and game in previous life, he aced all the questions and finished the exam in just 5 minutes. Nikko was like, 'You are asking this daddy how human reproduction works. Come on man?' the whole time of this exam and give his answer sheet to the invigilator. The invigilator was an chunin level ninja and knew the difficulties of this exam as most of the children barely pass the written exam every year and was surprised by the Nikko's attitude and thought of him as a spoiled clan child as he saw label of Shoji clan in his t-shirt's arm.

After that was the second test, which is the physical endurance test. This is a 15 km short marathon conducted in many terrain designed for this test only by the academy instructors. Though many thoughts this is just straight torturing the 6 years old children. This test not only tests their physical endurance, but also their mental endurance and willpower and adaptability in different conditions as ninja need all of those qualities.

Though Nikko isn't on par with the genius like Minato, Fugaku or Ajima as he was held back by his system, he was not a pushover also for his age as his normal strength is twice as civilian now after he worked like a dog for the last 3 months. At the start of the race he was having trouble as this was the first time he is participating in this type of extreme workout, but his higher adaptability helps him find out the correct strategy to complete the test.

Nikko was sure he can't surpass Minato, Fugaku or Ajima now without using full strength as they are way ahead of him generally, so he decided to finish after their position by conserving his strength to make himself look better on the surface to get the good remarks on strength from exam instructors as all candidates are under their constant surveillance and need overall good result to be in the elite class to get the best education.

After the test most of the children were heavily panting as they were out of breath but Nikko and a few others were in quite good condition. Most of the big clans children were among the upper bracket of this 2nd stage but the one who catches the eyes most is Namikaze Minato who is a orphan and from civilian background by becoming the 1st place holder of this test followed by Uchiha Fugaku, Sarutobi Ajima and in 4th our own Shoji Nikko.