Chapter 30

YOSHI'S POV

The day spent at the academy was like the other day, peaceful and ordinary. However, today was a little bit different. I was told by Naruto that we're gonna have some Physical Education two times a week. A class where students were taught basic academy fighting style and the way to handling weapons, added the practice spar between students to practice what we had learned. And today was a practice spar between students.

I don't have any problem with it since I could basically ace this class, but one thing bugged me, the clan kids. The clan kids all we knew was superior and more knowledgeable than other clanless kids. And I, as the one without any surname, who was already knew how to fight and had my way with weapons, and not to brag but I definitely could surpass them in Taijutsu. If I did used all my knowledge in martial arts to fight one-on-one with one of them, if I ever got a chance to, I wouldn't doubt that that would get the attention of the adults. A clanless kid without a surname defeated a clan kid, that would be a massive uproar, at least to me. So to avoid that from happening, I would have to hide my abilities and keep a low profile until graduation. Well, I already planned to do that in the first place.

But oh, I hope so much it could be easy to conceal my abilities until graduation. Because me who was been practicing martial arts half of my life, it was not an easy thing to do. It was like a second nature to me. So I made a first mistake of conceal my abilities during a practice spar between me and a clan kid, unfortunately. Just my luck, it was that Uchiha brat, Uchiha Sasuke. I knew that Sasuke was good at everything on his young age, and I, as a clanless kid supposed to feel inferior to him. And of course as to not attract any attention to myself, the wise thing to do was to pretend that you know nothing about fighting and just accept your lose, but my stupid self just can't follow the plan properly.

When I was paired with Sasuke on the first round of the spar, I was shocked still that I couldn't moved even after the teacher said start. So Sasuke took this opportunity to be the first to attack, and my body suddenly dodged his attack automatically when I'm not supposed to. After that, I've realized what I did and regretted it. The Uchiha brat became a little bit irritated that I dodged him, so he ran towards me with a fist ready to punch and again I dodged it, but this time I just had to made things worse, I grabbed Sasuke's hand and flipped him over to the ground. From that point, I made a big mistake.

"Ah, sorry for that." was what I said to Sasuke indicated that I was sorry for flipped him over.

I admit I was such an idiot, but nothing could be done since I've already done it. All I could do was move on and make sure I didn't spoil up my plan to stay low anymore. Back to the spar between me and Sasuke, the teacher which was Iruka, of course saw me flipped Sasuke over so he stopped the match entirely made it my win and he lose. Iruka then told us to do the Seal of Reconciliation indicated that we were in peace and not enemy after sparring, though I don't think Sasuke wanted to make peace with me since he was staring at me like he was about to kill me.

We went to the back of the line of kids who were waiting for their turn to come. While I sat, I felt chilled around me like everyone was watching me, and it did turn out like that, just it was the girls who were sending glares on my way and probably talked shit about me because their beloved Sasuke lose to me. I didn't pay any attention to the spars until it was Naruto's turn. I looked up and saw that he was paired with Chōji, even so he lose to him. That's how sucked Naruto at Taijutsu if even Chōji could defeat him, and I won't do anything about that. I read some Naruto fanfics in my past life and most of the MCs would always helped Naruto trained or made him into a powerful ninja at a young age, but I won't do that. I would go with the flow and let Naruto get stronger naturally like in the canon.

After Naruto fight, I started to not pay attention to other fights again. I sat on my spot with my blank face, thinking about nothing until the teacher told us to gather around to end the class. Then, we went back to our class to continue study like usual.

The classes as I was expected, boring. We learned about the history of old and a little bit about chakra since sooner or later we're gonna practically learned it. There was one session of Mathematics class and since it was elementary subject, I got the hang of it even before the teacher taught me. I was mostly zoned out during the classes because I already had knowledge about all of them and just waiting for the recess time to come.

After 2 hours of enduring myself in class, it was finally recess time. All the kids were hurriedly walked out the class with their bento on hands while some just walked out calmly with their friends to go eat, well, except me. I didn't planned of eating lunch because first, I don't have a bento with me, second I was lazy to walk and third because I decided to apologize properly to Sasuke 'cause he still looked angry at me for some reason. So I walked towards him and handed out my hand and apologized though my apology was kinda rejected.

"Hey, Uchiha Sasuke isn't it? I'm Yoshi and I wanted to apologize to you for throwing you so hard. I hope you don't hurt."

The replied I've got was silence and a glare before he took his bento and walked out, leaving me alone there, wondering what did I do wrong to anger him so much. Throwing him upside down? Probably, but was he that angry? It's just one time, and I definitely won't do that again next time, at least not against him or any other clan kids. But one side of me understood why he acted that way, it was because of the Uchiha massacred that happened 2 years ago. That incident changed him 360° and no one could blame him for that. Me too, have changed since 'he' died. So, I couldn't even be mad at him for being stingy with me.

After my unsuccessful attempt of apologizing,

I went back to my seat and sat there thinking about my plan for the future. Even though I already had one, which was to lay low of all times until I graduate, but I still found some flaws in it. There's now way I could lay low for four years especially on the second and third year because I need to complete the mission of becoming the top student. If they ever find any suspicious thing in my report, they would definitely mention it and ask me the reason, though the probability was low for now on my calculation.

After thinking through, I decided to do as best as a nine year old kid could do and try to stay at the middle ranks where I'm not too bad or too good on my first and fourth year since I would be a top student on the second and third year to complete the mission. If they felt suspicious about it, then I guess I need to come up with a reason when the times come.

Back to my current situation now, I was alone in the class. I don't know where Naruto went but I bet he was with Shikamaru and Chōji or maybe he was out pranking someone. Thinking about Naruto, I've had mixed feelings about him. So far, Naruto has been nothing but a good companion to me, but I never thought of him as my friend. I only regarded him as my acquaintance or specifically my scape goat. Yes, it's true. Having Naruto by my side would advantage me greatly since he had powerful people backing him up whether in the current time or in the future later. I admit I did made a plan where in one time I would be using him to achieve my goal, using the friend term to an advantage. I still remember the talked I had with the Hokage and that particular question he asked me and the answer I gave.

~flashback~

"Say, Yoshi. What do you think about this village?"

"I don't know what I think about this village since I didn't get attach to the village yet. But I do have someone I probably want to protect."

~end flashback~

"Someone I probably want to protect. Thinking about it again, it sounds silly to me."

"What sounds silly?"

I was startled as suddenly Naruto came asking question beside me. Well, I deserved that since I didn't paid any attention to my surroundings. That's what happened if you too immersed in your own thoughts.

"Ah, nothing Naruto. Just thinking about something silly, that's all." I said while looked around to see students started walked into the class and back to their seat.

'Recess must have ended. I must've not heard the bell.' I thought while scratching my head.

After everyone was back at their seats, just in time Iruka or in my case Iruka-sensei came in and started to give a briefing about what we're gonna learned. Surprisingly, it was geography and hell I was bad at that. I've read some fanfics where they included geography in Naruto's education subject since the show never be specific of what their learned at the academy, but I never thought It was actually real. And you told me to go through it again. Well, if that so I need to pay more attention to this subject if I don't want to fail and spoil up my plan again. That was it, my first obstacle.

Anyway, set the geography problem aside, so far I'm doing well at the academy and tried not to do anything reckless that might fail my plan. And there goes my day at the academy for today.

END OF POV

(Somewhere in the forest)

"Did you found him?" a man in black robe, judged by his raspy voice, asked to a figure in front of him.

"Yes, I did found him. But he was being protected." the figure who apparently also a man answered the question.

There was another two figure in the group whose just hearing their conversation until one of them spoke up.

"For what he's being protected? Did you know the face of the protecter?" asked a woman in robe judging by her smooth voice.

"I don't know why he is being protected, but I did know whose the protecters is, though only one of them was half unmasked. The other 4 faces was completely covered. The man has a white hair defying gravity, he wore a mask covering his mouth and nose and also a metal plate like thing on his forehead that covered his left eye. That's all I've got."

"Understood. It's gonna be troublesome for us to do our job if they were around. We need to fall back for a while and plan our next move properly. Xeno and Ray, you two stay outside the village for now and report to me if there's anything new about him, alright? We're gonna be at our hideout." The first man who seemed to be their leader told the two man named Xeno and Ray and in replied they nodded their head.

"Alright, dispersed." as that said, they dispersed into two separate directions.

UNKNOWN UNIVERSE

In a black room that looked like a void was a man in robe sitting on a chair while his legs was on the table. He was staring into nothingness like he was thinking hard about something. As he was thinking, he remembered his conversation with his superior.

~flashback~

"Are you crazy?!! What did you think when you let him off to another world?!! Did you ever think of what will happen if you did that? Huh?!! Tell me!!"

"Woah, calm down, buddy. I did for the best and of course I did think of the consequences, but everything will be fine. I chose the right person this time and he is a sane person, well, somewhat a sane person. So, don't worry about it."

"How can I not worry! You always do things without telling me first, and may I remind you that he is not from that world. So that means he's not supposed to be there! What will happens if the universe suddenly collapse?!!"

"Woah, hold on. You've gone too far. The universe will not collapse and that world will be fine. We're all gonna be fine. Just trust me and wait a little. Sooner or later you will see hope in him."

At his words the man finally calming down and started to steady his breath.

"Listen. I trusted you but not this time. I've sent the elite to go retrieve him back. If they do successful in bringing him back, we're gonna talk about your punishment. But if they didn't, they I will overlook this ever happened and see if what you really said is true." the other man said and walked away without spare him a glance.

~end of flashback~

"Sigh, I hope I did the right thing. No matter what, 'that thing' need to be stop."