First Day...

Chapter 51

Title: First Day...

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The next day Itachi wakes up and gets ready to meet with other chore boys and go to the training grounds. 

He puts on his marine uniform, which consists of a sleeveless white top with the marine insignia in the back and blue pants.

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But at this time on the training grounds, a place where the marines take turns by ranks to be trained by Zephyr. The training ground has different weights that one can lift, from 10kg to 2ton. There were also track fields and wooden targets for sharpshooters.

But in this training ground a tan-skinned, purple-haired man was already waiting for the new students while sitting on one of the giant weights.

 He is also using one hand to read a paper. The man is also wearing reading glasses and one of his arms looks like a mechanical construction. The cybernetic arm was wearing a glove and resembled his other muscular arm, except mechanical.

The paper he is reading is about one of the recruits that was suggested by one of his old friends who was too lazy to train him himself. Garp knows that Zephyr is better as a teacher than him, he has been training marine recruits for decades now. 

Though his arm last year was cut off and it left Zephyr with an emotional shock of seeing his students dying. 

'Itachi Uchiha…' As he reads Itachi's file he can't help but be impressed with his physical abilities and personality evaluation. 'This kid is talented, hmm… I wonder if I can train another admiral by now.'

Zephyr contemplates that, he knows that someone like Itachi who seems to have been born with high physical strength. If he trains religiously then he will become strong. He himself was nothing special, but at the age of thirty-eight, he did reach the admiral rank. That was all just due to his training and hard work, unlike the other admirals which have Devil Fruits or are born unnaturally strong. 

Garp for example even as a kid would tame tigers and use them as his traveling method. Something that could rip apart an adult, was easily handled by him as a kid.

'Hmmm…' Zephyr can't help but as he contemplates how to train Itachi. The kid has potential and even caught Garp's eye, he definitely will be someone strong in the future.

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Half an hour later and the chore boys arrive to train at six in the morning. The lower the rank, the earlier one has to wake up and train. The training is obligatory and lasts for one hour. At least until they get the rank of Seaman First Class. They must train like this if they want to be marines at the headquarters.

Zephyr jumps off the training weight that he is sitting on and lands in front of the chore boys. "Attention!"

"""Good morning teacher Zephyr.""" Everyone greets him simultaneously, even Itachi does so. As soon as he saw the others do it, he just saluted and moved his lips making it seem like he is doing it too.

"Twenty laps around the training ground in twenty minutes or no breakfast for you." Says Zephyr casually. Immediately the chore boys start running at full speed. Some run faster, some slower and some have already given up on breakfast so they just jogged casually.

Itachi sees that the others have started running. He crouches down and immediately breaks into a sprint, immediately easily surpassing them all. He goes at top speed and finishes his laps under five minutes. This is just his running speed as he didn't use <Soru> to supplement his speed. In the end, he wasn't even breathing heavily.

When Zephyr sees this he just smirks slightly. "Itachi Uchiha, come with me."

He remembers the names of every one of his trainees, no matter how weak or strong they are. Itachi just looks at Zephyr when he hears his name being called. 

He casually walks towards his teacher. His walk shows that he is not nervous at all. 

As he comes close, he looks at Itachi and points his palm at him. "Punch my palm with all that you got. If I find it satisfactory, I will promote you."

Itachi seems slightly surprised when he hears this. He didn't expect a promotion option to come up so soon. 

On the other hand, Zephyr has other thoughts in his mind. 'Keeping him here as a chore boy would be a waste of time for him.'

In the end, Itachi just nods and he has his usual calm look on his face as he clocks his fist backward. He has never been good at Fishman Karate, even the lowest of levels were extremely hard to him. But he still knows how to throw a decent punch and maximize power output through it.

He takes a deep breath and holds it in for a couple of seconds,  making his body make blood flow faster to carry oxygen. 

*fwooh*

He then exhales and that is when he punches forward.

Pow!

Hitting Zephyr's palm, obviously the old admiral wasn't at all affected by it. But he did have a slightly thoughtful look in his eyes. 

'At twelve years old and his Doriki is already at 800…' Contemplates Zephyr, at 800 Doriki one can easily enter Cypher Pol and even be a good agent at it too. Itachi already has the qualifications to learn the six powers. 'If this kid keeps up his training, he has an 80% chance of becoming an admiral level combatant.'

"Kid, now you are a Seaman First Class. You will have to keep training though. Also, you can come and ask me any questions that you have. You will get your room in the headquarters too. In six months I will personally take you to go pirate hunting." Explains Zephyr as a smirk appears on his face. "Welcome to the marines brat… later someone will come and pick you up and show you around."

Itachi nods at this and just goes towards the weights and picks the couple hundred kilograms weights. He then starts training with them.

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He trained for four hours straight with no rest, once his arms got tired, he trained his legs. If that got tired he would train his abdominal muscles and back muscles… Zephyr would also give him some instructions on how to exercise every now and then. Itachi would also ask him questions and would follow what Zephyr said without complaining.

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Eight hours into his training and except eating breakfast or lunch, Itachi again comes and trains. Everyone else in the marines fished their training already, Zephyr didn't think that the kid would last that long. But Itachi's will power is truly something that is way more precious than his physical talent.

'His Haki will be monstrous once he learns about it.' Think Zephyr as he can see that Itachi isn't as simple as he seems. His hard work is like that of someone with a mission. 'I wonder what his motivation is?'

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Ten hours in his training, it's now four in the afternoon and Itachi finally falls on the ground. The dirt feels like a pillow as he falls asleep, immediately as he does so, one of his clones comes and picks him up. The clone then looks at Zephyr and asks. "Where do I take him? Do we change living quarters too?"

Zephyr nods at the clone and says. "Follow me."

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AUTHOR NOTE:

Itachi trains hard, also Zephyr judges him to have the potential to become an admiral in the future. We will see if that holds true or not. Just because someone says that it doesn't mean that it's the truth.

P.S: Itachi advanced through ranks because Zephyr saw that having someone like Itachi cleaning around like a chore boy would be a waste of time for a talented kid like him.

P.P.S: The chapters are updating at a seemingly random times. But college has started now picking up so my schedule has changed.👍 (Update rates will still be the same so don't worry about it.)

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