Naruto : Uchiha : Chapter 16

Konoha Ninja Academy

All the fresh admissions of the Academy students stood in the open clearing they were led into by their new instructor.

The teacher picked up on his clipboard having the names and details of all the new students in his palms. He coughed to get the attention of them all, getting quite successful when all the wide and curious eyes turned to him.

"Alright, this is the first day of our regular weekly Academy taijutsu spars we'll have from now on. Now before we begin, go and run a couple of laps around the Academy for a little warm up."

He spoke up, getting nods from them. All the students starting running with Naruto and Tsunade flanking the back of the group.

"Why do we have to *huff* run for this?" Tsunade asked, huffing in her jog after they had taken a complete round of the Academy grounds which were quite large in themselves.

"We have to warm up so we don't hurt ourselves in the spars, plus we just had lunch, so sensei must want us to warm up first." Naruto answered calmly, not at all fazed at running the laps they were ordered.

He thanked his little furry friend for that, she could be quite a handful so he was quite used to running laps behind the agile feline.

"You *huff* have an answer for everything *huff* don't you?" she asked in annoyance, her breathing a bit labored but not losing as much as a speck of speed. Naruto though didn't quite get her point at this.

"Huh?" he asked intelligently, making Tsunade try to sigh but instead she panted and shook her head. Naruto just looked on ahead with a nod when the end came and Tsunade collapsed on to her knees from exhaustion.

Naruto himself placed his palms on them and took deep breaths to calm down the blood rush.

"Alright class that was very nice for your first day, I'm glad all of you completed your laps." the teacher's proud voice rang in the clearing getting smiles from them all.

"Now come on and gather up around the ring…" he said and all of them stood up shakily, completely exhausted from running while Naruto straightened up with a deep breath. He saw Tsunade still sitting and not looking to get up anytime soon and smiled at his lone friend sprawled on the ground right now.

"Come on let's go." he said softly, extending his hand while placing the other hand on his knee with a soft smile. Tsunade looked up, brushing her flailing bangs from her face to look into the twinkling baby blue eyes as well as the outstretched hand in front of her.

But for the first time she noticed how pretty his eyes were, not at all like all the other Uchiha's plain black eyes and put her own hand in his with a grin.

He pulled her up and she dusted her kimono off when she caught him in a headlock much to his confusion. She couldn't let him think she wasn't able to get up on her own after all.

"That doesn't mean I couldn't get up on my own, get it?" she asked sternly, making him a little confused yet again but he nodded dumbly, figuring that was the best thing to do right now. She grinned and nodded, placing her hands behind her back with a cheeky smile and walked along with him to the sparring ring.

"Now children, I'll introduce all of you to the sacred tradition of shinobi hand to hand combat. These were used by our Hokages themselves to toughen them up…" he said, perking up most of the ears around the ring.

"We will go through one-on-one paired combat exercises to simulate a situation of real combat and let you have the experience needed when you further your shinobi careers.

I'll explain the rules along with the spar so can Ensui Nara and Hyosuke Hyuga please enter the ring?" he called out and the two boys stepped in the ring.

One with his hair in a high albeit lazily tied ponytail while the other had his clan's signature pupil-less white eyes to signify his clan status for him.

"Alright now both of you raise your hand like this…" he showed them a half ram seal in front of his chest and both copied the man.

"… this is called the seal of confrontation, it usually marks the beginning of a jutsu so it signifies your willingness to fight an opponent.

When you end the spar you both clasp the seals together as a mark of good will and friendship to your opponent, this is called the seal of reconciliation. So now, do the both of you get this much?" he asked the two, instead getting nods from the all of them around the ring in unison.

"So now I'll explain the rules of engagement. The fight ends either when the opponent is put in a position where he can't fight back. No weapons or jutsus except kunais can be used, and that too for only hand to hand combat.

No maiming or fatal blows to harm your opponent are allowed. The person who steps outside the ring loses automatically too and I can step in at any moment to stop the spar if I see someone is going to get hurt, do I make myself clear…" he asked sternly, getting nods from the two boys and smiled raising his hand.

"Then let's have an honorable first spar, Hajime!" he called out with Hyosuke dropping in his usual Gentle Fist stance. Though all of them were confused when Ensui turned around and started walking away until he was finally outside the ring. Thick silence reigned in the clearing at the strange actions of the Nara boy.

"Ensui what are you doing?" the teacher finally asked the boy, who merely let out a lazy yawn and shrugged.

"You said that stepping out of bounds signifies defeat sensei, so I willingly lost since one of us must lose for this troublesome spar to end. It is merely logical for me to do so, to end it as quickly as possible, more so since it is too much work…" he mumbled, lazily scratching his head making the teacher slap his hand over his face.

Everyone snickered at the teacher's expense who decided to let it go since this was only the first day. And it wasn't surprising for someone from the Nara clan to do this, they were renowned for it actually.

"Alright just please make the seal of reconciliation before you go, if that is not too much work that is…" the teacher said dryly, and sighed tiredly when they did. Though Hyosuke did have a small scowl on his face at not getting his spar as he had wanted to but said nothing in the end and both walked out.

The teacher rummaged through the list and smiled when he read the next two names out loud.

"Akio Inuzuka and Jin Uchiha, step into the ring please…' his voice rang out through the silence of the clearings. The two boys in question stepped forward, their faces completely polar opposites to that of their opponent.

Akio had simple shaggy brown hair with the classic red Inuzuka tattoos donned over his cheeks. His teeth having two feral canines like all the Inuzukas were displayed on show with his smug and prideful grin.

Jin on the other hand was an Uchiha straight through to the text book. The boy had the signature onyx black eyes with matching spiky raven hair of his clan.

The boy's eyes looked bored while his face was stoic, trying to hide the little excitement that came at the prospect of facing his first opponent in combat.

"Alright today's my day. I get to beat an Uchiha down into the ground on my very first day, talk about luck!" Akio boasted proudly, but frowned when he heard a scoff from his opponent.

"As if…" Jin muttered but Akio's sharp ears picked up on his whisper and he scowled.

"You've got something to say?" he growled out heatedly, getting yet another snort from the ever stoic Uchiha.

"I said as if a mutt like you could ever even hope to touch me, an Uchiha. We are called the elites of the village for a reason, and I'll show the reason to you right now." he stated confidently, without a hint of doubt in his voice making the Inuzuka glare at him.

His fangs were bared while he looked ready to rip his head apart if need be.

"We'll just see about that…" he spoke angrily, dropping into the first kata of the Inuzuka's widely known Fanged Taijutsu Style.

"That we will…" Jin spoke up, entering the most basic of Uchiha clan's many taijutsu stances. The Uchiha clan had seemingly created many stances over the years by embedding many of their copied stances and modifying them to be used with their Sharingan.

Only a select few still used the original and ancient stances of the old times that belonged purely to them now, most of them being considered long since forgotten so seemingly every Uchiha fought in a different way than the other to appear deceptive and unpredictable to enemy shinobi.

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