Early Graduation...
A boy was walking slowly toward the Iwa academy. He seemed to be mumbling and was frowning about something.
As he was passed by the students they were pointing at him and talking among themselves. He tried to ignore them but due to his pirate gene his body grew tremendously better making all his aspects far greater than others, and so those words seemed to ring near his ears.
As he was passing by a few of his class friends who were talking with boys from another class, he tried talking to them but he heard-
"That's Akira, the boy with white hair. I knew from the start he is not a good person."
"Ha Ha Ha !! Don't make me laugh. You were his number one fan, you would always sing praises of him everywhere you went " said the other boy
As if caught lying he said "I-I don't know what you are saying. You got the wrong person"
The accused boy turned to look at the other students glaring at him, so he gave in "Hmm...Okay I might lie but ask everyone standing here if I am lying"
"Ok ok, I did praise him but who could have known he was such an obnoxious person who belittles people's hard work."
Hearing their accusation I felt like spitting blood.
So I bypassed them and went in the direction of my classroom.
While walking I kept thinking about what my grandpa told me that someone was spreading malicious rumors about me, he also said that this may their way to demotivate me and destroy my confidence.
At first, I thought I would be fine but these mocking and taunts have been going on for 2 weeks and now even my confidence has taken a blow.
I was an adult in my previous life before I died so my mind was mature but being born in a child's body has somehow affected my mind making me somewhat childish.
'Who the f*ck has spread such malicious rumours? When will these rumours stop?'
From this incident, I Learned 1 thing: No matter in which world you go the information that normal citizens receive is what the upper-level people want us to see or hear. No matter whether it is good or bad or some half a*s cooked story.
So to escape from this hell hole he decided to graduate early.
Ninja school students who want to graduate early must submit a graduation application through their teacher. If the Tsuchikage approves, they can take the exam. Succeeding allows them to become Genin. The Tsuchikage does not generally refuse any application unless it is a particularly weak student. And as Akira always had top scores, Onoki sama had no reason to refuse.
He yesterday went back to school to submit his application, and also told Yuki and Hana about his early graduation. Hearing that they also decided to take the graduation together.
Creak...
Akira pushed open the door and walked to his usual seat beside Hana and Yuki, ignoring the stares of the entire class.
As I was talking to Hana few students of the Shiba and Mori clans came near me and asked "Do you all really want to graduate?"
"Of course, there's nothing else for us to learn at the academy," Yuki said nonchalantly "In fact, you all can also graduate. You have all learned the things that will be taught in the next few years and it will be very boring to learn the same things again and again"
Hearing our words the classroom started bubbling.
Suddenly the classroom door went wide open revealing two middle-aged men one is our class teacher and the other we didn't know.
He entered our room before shouting " Remain quiet you idiots, I have some work to do," then he looked at us three before saying " Those who opted for early graduation please follow this gentleman "
Saying our goodbyes to the students we followed the man toward the back of the school where 3 people were standing along with our school principal.
'I think our graduation exam will be commencing here.'
Seeing us our school principal said "So you three have opted for early graduation. Well, Onoki sama has allowed it but bear in mind since you are graduating early the exam would be much tougher than the real graduation exam. To become a Genin, you only need to complete one task."
"You three have to defeat these three Tokubetsu Jonin," he said pointing toward the three people standing beside him.
"Alright let's get started "
As the Principal began the exam, Akira and the other two nodded and started fighting simultaneously.
The guy I had to fight was a middle-aged man with few scars across the face,he seemed to be battle hardened ninja.
When the fight started we all thought we could easily defeat them, But we could not have been more wrong.
All they used were basic jutsus but they were used very cleverly. They used simple jutsus to counter our fancy and powerful jutsus in various ingenious ways.
We were just barely able to defeat them using our superior chakra amount and jutsus.
Looking at our battered shape our school principal smiling stood in front of us before saying "Congratulations!, you all have passed the Academy Graduation exam. You three are Ninjas now."
He then closes the document and hands over a brand new stone forehead protector to us.
"This is your Forehead protector, a symbol of Will of stone and prestige of Iwa. Handle it carefully and don't lose it." He then looked at us allowing the talk to settle before continuing
"Now go to the office for a photo for your Graduation Certificate and Ninja Id. Since you three have graduated in this off-season, no new ninja teams are vacant so you all will be in the same team for now till a new team is assigned to you tomorrow. The specific details could be found in the office."
We went to the office took a picture, filled out the ninja form, and officially became an Iwa Genin.
While coming out of the office I said
"Yuki let's go to your favorite restaurant today. I am sure our family will throw a big party tonight."
And as I expected everyone in the clan was very happy to see us pass the exam and become a Ninja, well mostly I think.
We all together went to the biggest restaurant and threw a party to congratulate us. Everyone was there including grandpa except my Mom and Hana's Father. It was truly a nice evening.
I went to bed right after coming home as from tomorrow I will be starting a journey.