Chapter 2 - The academy starts.

A/N. Im sorry it took so long to update. I had some family troubles after the passing of my grandfather. A lot of family drama as well, seeing as my aunt wanted the entire inheritance. I just sat back and observed.

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Time flew in the Haruno household. Before we knew it, both Sakura and I turned eight years old and was getting ready for the academy.

Over the years I kept training. I finally had the opportunity to train water walking, which I did during one of our family outings. This caused my parents to see me as a talented girl. They asked me after that, where I learned about water walking, where I simply answered that I once accidentally fell and instinctively charged chakra to my feet where it stuck to the wall for a second. Afterwards I trained this and figured out that if I can do this on the wall, what about water. They bought it easily. During this time I also had the chance to train my taijutsu with my mom seeing as that was her speciality when she was a shinobi. Dad specialized in bukijutsu, so I trained a bit with him as well. Thanks to this, I learned a bit of hand to hand and weaponry at an early age.

I trained on the side as well. I worked on my calligraphy so that I can learn fuuinjutsu later. I always thought that it was an awesome art that was not done justice in the show. On top of that, I tried to recreate the techniques I could remember from my past life. I only managed to recreate the shadow clones and substitution jutsu, I was also close to recreating the Rasengan seeing as that was an awesome jutsu I could do so much with later. Though for a girl my age, that was still quite impressive. I also started myself on the beginning of nature transformation for all basic chakra natures.

However Sakura on the other hand never really cared about training. She still cared more about playing with her friends and having fun like in the show. She still had that brain of hers, but I knew better. That brain was going to waste away once we entered the academy, especially because of Sasuke.

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-3rd person pov-

The sun shone from the edges of the roof tops. The birds were singing and people started to wake up for their daily work around the village.

In a room in the Haruno household, the suns rays came through the window and shone down on a bed. In the bed was an eight year old girl with long pink hair and blue eyes. She was Milim Haruno, the second born twin of Kizashi and Mebuki Haruno. She was also a girl that had lived two lives.

As the sun shone on her face, she started to stir. As she opened her eyes you could see the blue eyes that resembled the colour of the ocean.

She slowly sat up in her bed and sat there for a moment before stretching her arms and yawning.

Before she could do anything else, the door opened showing her mother.

-end of pov-

"Morning Milim. Its time to wake up, you are going to the academy today after all." She said smiling warmly at me.

"Morning mom. *yawn* Yeah I know, I`ll be down in a minute." I told her. She smiled and went outside, most likely to prepare breakfast.

I stood up and went to the bathroom to do my morning rituals and take a shower before entering my room and getting dressed. I wore a pair of black shorts with a white shirt.

After dressing up I went downstairs where I was greeted by my parents, however Sakura was never a morning person so I always entered at least five minutes before her.

"Morning mom, morning dad." I said as I took a seat next to my father.

"Morning sweetheart. How was your sleep?" Dad asked me.

"It was good. What about yours?" I replied.

"*chuckle* It was good. Now make sure to eat up. This is a special day after all." He said.

"Yeah, Im really excited to start my training for real." I told him.

It was at this moment that my mother entered the dining room with my breakfast.

"Yes, I still remember when we entered. We were energetic and couldnt stand still for nearly the entire day." She said while she chuckled at her memories.

I thanked my mom for the food and started eating. It was while I was eating and talking with my parents that Sakura chose to enter.

"Morning...." She said sleepily.

"Morning sis." I replied.

"Morning honey." "Morning sweetheart." My parents said.

She sat down and started to eat. As I said earlier, she wasnt a morning person, so she nearly slept while eating. Our parents merely laughed at this display while I shook my head. I could remember how excited she seemed just the night before, but seeing her like this was just too funny.

We quickly finished our food and started to get ready to head to the academy. At this point, Sakura had properly woken up and had gotten dressed in a green dress for her size with a motif of sakura petals on the lower right side. On her head she had a red scarf tied in a knot.

We all started to head out after putting on our sandals.

We exited our home and headed down the streets while our neighbors that we knew well wished us good luck on our first day. After all, ninja were a nearly worshipped profession as many saw it as a chance to elevate their social status.

Walking down the streets toward the academy, we could see all the shops starting to open their doors for the day. We also met many kids our age also headed for their first day. It was quite the sight to see all those children and their families in one place.

We soon arrived in front of the academy, where a stage was set up for the hokage to perform his propoganda speech. I wouldnt say that I was indifferent to the village and the so called Will of fire, but I still had my morals. It didnt help either that I knew most of the villgaes dark secrets.

As I stood there thinking this while beside my family, I looked around to see if I spotted some familiar faces. I soon noticed all of Konoha ten. Considering team nine was a year older.

Hiruzen Sarutobi, the third hokage soon arrived and walked onto the stage and started his speech.

"I am delighted to see so many young faces here, ready to learn and train in hopes of defending our wonderful home. And as I do each year the academy recieves new students, When the tree leaves dance, One shall find flames. The fire's shadow will illuminate the village, And once again, tree leaves shall bud anew." Hiruzen said.

People started to clap at his words.

"Now, I know that many of the younger ones here might not know the meaning of these words. The meaning behind them is what we call `the will of fire´, this is the will that my sensei, Hashirama Senju, also known as the first hokage left behind when he created the hidden leaf. He wanted children to live carefree, not sending them to war. He wanted peace, and he made a village where many clans came together to establish this peace and live in harmony with eachother. But this also means that we, as shinobi must take up the role as protectors, so that the next generation will be this closer to achieve a lasting peace, not just within our own walls, but also among the other nations." Hiruzen said.

At this point, many from the older generations had tears in their eyes and clapped at his speech. I must admit that his speech moved me a bit. As I remember from the series, Asuma, Hiruzens son once said that we should `protect the king´, in which he meant the unborn children who would eventually grow to inherit the leaf from us. This was also the philosophy that Shikamaru Nara lived after after his death and later passed to Asumas daughter, Mirai.

After the speech from the hokage, we soon got sorted into classes and was told to follow a chunin instructor. We entered a classroom that could pass as a small university auditorium from my past life. This was how the classrooms looked like here, but I wont complain.

We got seated. I sat beside Sakura and our resident shy girl, Hinata Hyuga. I decided a long time ago that I would help her have a bit more confidence in herself and maybe help her create her own style of Juuken, Maybe even get her to recreate the twin lion fist that she is shown to use after the two year time skip.

The teacher soon followed us inside. He had his hair tied up in a pineapple hairstyle and had a distinct scar across his nose. It could only be the most legendary ninja in all of konoha history. The inventor of the most deadly jutsu. It was Iruka, the inventor of the big head jutsu.

"Everyone, please quiet down. I know its our first day here, but let us get the introduction and roll-call over with." He spoke out. He almost sounded nervous. Must be his first time teaching then.

The kids started to calm down a bit and Iruka started to speak again.

"Thank you. Now, my name is Iruka Umino, and I will be your homeroom teacher while here at the academy. Over the next few years, I will help you train in the fundamental ninja arts, such as ninjutsu, bukijutsu, genjutsu and taijutsu. But you should also train outside the time you have here if you want to achieve big things in the future. This also applies to the clan heirs and heiresses we have with us this year. Train hard in your family techiniques and grow strong."

Everyone cheered in excitement. But I raised my hand as to still act as the little girl I was.

"Yes?" Iruka asked as he saw my hand.

"I was wondering if we still could ask for your input if we have a little trouble in individual training?" I asked him.

This seemed to shock him a bit, but he soon came back to his senses.

"Yes, you can ask for my input after school hours are over. Now any other questions before we begin?" He said.

No one said anything, and he nodded to himself.

"Well then, I will begin roll-call to see if everyone is here. Hanako...."

I shut him out while thinking of a training plan that could work while I still attended the academy. I had a great plan to this.

"I know of the location of one of Orochimarus underground bases here in Konoha. I could clean it out with clones and start to collect weapons and scrolls that is left behind by people. The Uchiha massacre is soon too. I could have a few clones sneak in and seal their jutsu scrolls into a seiling scroll and store them there. If I remember correctly, the space is large enough to use as a training ground, so this will be useful in the future." I thought to myself while waiting for Iruka to mention the interesting names. It soon came.

"Sakura Haruno?" He asked.

"Here sensei." Sakura answered while raising her hand.

"Good. Now, Milim Haruno?" He asked while looking around the classroom.

"Here Iruka-sensei." I said while raising my hand.

"So, I guess youre sisters?" He asked us.

"Yes sensei" We answered him.

"Well thats nice. Next is...."

He continued until he had counted everyone in the room.

"Thats everyone. Good that you all are here. So as for today we only have one class. Its a simple fitness test to see where you all are in your training and see what you could do better." He said.

"For this we will head outside, so everyone follow me to the field." He said as he started to walk out followed by the entire class.

As we got outside he told us to stand in a line and wait for instructions. He set up a couple of dummies with targets painted on its vital areas such as the head and heart and turned back to us.

"Now first up we have target practise. This is to see your accuracy in throwing weapons and to see how good you can handle kunai and shuriken. First we have..." He said.

This continued until he said.

"Next, Sasuke Uchiha."

A boy with black hair and black eyes wearing a pair of white shorts and a dark blue high-collared shirt with the motif of a red and white fan on his back walked up to the line beside Iruka. He was handed ten kunai and five shuriken and was told to throw them towards the target.

He stood in a ready position and threw two kunai at the time hitting 6/10.

"Good. Next is shuriken." Iruka said.

He took out the five shuriken and tossed them at the same time hitting 4/5.

"Impressive. Next is Naruto Uzumaki." Iruka said with a miniscule amount of disgust on his face.

A boy with a pair of dark green shorts and white t-shirt with a whirlpool on it walked forward. He was handed the same amount of kunai and shuriken and threw them the same way sasuke did.

"Kunai, 3/10 and shuriken 0/5. You need a lot of work to get better." Iruka said.

Naruto looked a bit dissappointed before he quickly turned around with a grin to play off his sadness at not getting a good score. He walked to the back of the group and sat on the ground while watching the rest.

"Shikamaru Nara, 5/10 and 3/5. Hinata Hyuga 6/10 and 2/5. Ino Yamanaka 4/10 and 1/5. Kiba Inuzuka 4/10 and 0/5. Choji Akimichi 5/10 and 4/5. Sakura Haruno 4/10 and 0/5. Shino Aburame 3/10 and 5/5. And finally we have Milim Haruno." He said, indicating for me to step forward.

"Before I begin sensei. Is this purely bukijutsu, or can I utilize wind nature chakra to amplify its penetrating abilities like I have trained in as my style of bukijutsu?" I asked him.

He seemed taken aback and answered. "I would like to start off with normal bukijutsu, but if you want to demonstrate your abilities, I will allow you to use your usual style afterwards."

"Thank you sensei." I said as I grabbed the weapons he handed to me and going into position to throw. In the background I could hear the usual bantering about who would be the best and so on.

I grabbed five kunai in each hand and jumped in the air. While in the air, I spun around and threw my kunai. I immediatly took out the shuriken while still in the air and threw them right after, causing them to ricochet off eachother and hitting the dummy.

I landed on the ground and breathed out before looking to Iruka.

"T-thats impressive Milim. 9/10 and 5/5." This got a lot of mixed reactions from the class. Some started to shout about it being cool, others such as the proud Uchiha leaned more towards me somehow cheating.

"Do you want to demonstrate the chakra-flow technique to the class to?" He asked me.

"Sure sensei. Its the style that I trained myself in after all." I replied with a bright smile.

"Well then. Class!" He called out getting their attention.

"While this isnt something we teach here at the academy, there is a technique called the chakra-flow technique that lets you put more power into your throws. Milim here is someone who has trained her bukijutsu style to rely on this technique so it has been decided that she will give a little demonstration to show how powerful her throws become in comparison. Please begin Milim." He said getting a lot of curios looks.

"Okay sensei." I said as i made my wind chakra flow through the kunai, making them have a blue aura that made a buzzing sound.

I stood still this time and threw the kunai one after the other and threw the shuriken right after, still getting the same score, but this time the weapons went straight through the target and stuck itself into a tree behind it.

The kids were in awe at the power I just used. But later calmed down as Iruka spoke again.

"That was impressive Milim, but where did you learn of nature transformations?" He asked, but before I could answer, someone in the class asked out loud.

"Whats nature transformation sensei?" She asked.

"Well nature transformation is when you make your chakra take on the properties of an element. Can anyone tell me what the elements are?" He asked.

"Sir if I may?" I spoke.

"Sure go ahead, and while your at it you could answer my question." He answered.

"Sure. There are five basic chakra elements. All are stronger than the other but also weak against another. Fire, strong against wind but weak against water. Wind, strong against lightning but weak against fire. Lightning, strong against earth but weak against wind. Earth, strong against water but weak against lightning. And lastly is water, strong against fire but weak against earth. There are also sub-elements such as lava, ice and even wood, but these are called elemental kekkei genkai, or bloodline limit that is inherited through the family." I lectured while everyone just looked at me with astonishment in their eyes.

"W-well, very good explanation Milim, but how did you learn of all this?" Iruka asked again.

"Well, I once saw a jonin training and watched him perform a few jutsu, thats also where I learned shadow clone jutsu and the substitution jutsu. When he noticed me performing the shadow clone jutsu from watching him, he gave me a scolding about why it was a forbidden jutsu and the dangers, but I also managed to pry some info about chakra from him." I explained which just made Iruka gobsmacked.

"Alright then. Thank you for the explanation Milim. Now everyone, we will have a break before moving on to taijutsu evaluation, so be back in an hour." He informed us.

"Yes sensei." The whole class answered. Iruka nodded and used the bodyflicker jutsu to leave which made me happy as I had my senses open, causing me to have an understanding of how it worked.

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Iruka flickered towards the hokage building in a hurry. Arriving outside the tower, he started to walk in a fast pace up the stairs towards the office of the hokage.

He made it there, where he saw two anbu standing outside alongside the secretary that sat at her desk. He walked to her and hurriedly asked.

"Is hokage sama busy at the moment? Its important." He said, a bit out of breath.

Seeing his appearence, she was a bit surprised, but quickly checking the hokages schedule.

"He is currently free. Ill tell him you are here." She said which only made Iruka nod as he walked towards the door.

He knocked at the door and waited for the hokage to respond.

"Enter." Came a voice from the other side of the door.

Iruka opened the door and entered the office.

The office was a room in an oval shape with plants in what could be called the four corners of the room. On the right side of the office was the door and a couch with a small coffee table in front of it standing on a carpet. On the left side was a bunch of papers and scrolls containing many different things. On the wall to the left of the door hung four pictures. These were the photos of the hokage, Hashirama, Tobirama, Hiruzen and Minato. At the far end of the office was a desk that was covered in documents pertaining to the village. And finally behind the desk was multiple windows, allowing the hokage to have a perfect view of the village.

Behind the desk sat an old man, presumably in his sixties smoking on his pipe while looking at Iruka entering.

"Ah, Iruka-kun. What can I help you with?" Hiruzen asked Iruka who bowed to the powerful man in front of him.

"Hokage sama. I quickly came in the middle of a break for the new students to inform you of an amazing event." Iruka said as he rose again.

"Hmm, and what may this be?" He asked with a raised eyebrow.

"We may have the biggest prodigy since lord fourth on our hands." He said with glee.

Hiruzen looked at him with surprise and asked.

"Are you certain? And who is this child?"

"I am certain sir. She can learn techniques just by looking at it once, almost as if she had the sharingan, while she doesnt have it. She has the knowledge you normally wouldnt have unless youre a chunin and is nearly flawless in her movements while performing bukijutsu. Her taijutsu is still to be tested, but for a civillian born girl this is amazing."

"I see. And her name?" He asked, now intrigued.

"Milim Haruno sir."