Training 2 ...

IWAGAKURE,

The sun had already set long due, but on the mountainous road, a figure of a running 8-year-old kid of nice build, with fair skin, white hair, and blue eyes, wearing a blue shirt with black shorts pants.

That figure was Akira Shiba. He was soaked in sweat from running down the hill while constantly wiping it with his shirt. He seems to be short of breath but did not stop running as if frightened of something.

He kept running until he came near a 3-storied house. He stopped under the opened window on the third floor and after carefully looking around started to run, as soon as his right foot touched the wall, the left one follow, and so Akira keep running on the wall, defying gravity until he reached the open the window of his room and without hesitation jump inside.

Once inside he thought he would clean himself and go to sleep before his mother could notice he was absent for the night. but what greeted him was the sight of his mother sitting on the chair near his bed.

"Go take a bath, we will talk tomorrow," said my mom before I could plead not guilty. She then walked toward the exit of the room.

"So tomorrow is your last day at Taijutsu training and you will be starting with your ninjutsu training," asked my mother before exiting.

"Yes," I replied not understanding what she was getting.

"Well, Good luck, So," said mom while looking pitifully toward me as if I was a pig to be slaughtered the day after tomorrow.

Not understanding what my mother meant, I went to the bathroom, once inside he undressed and went to the shower.

While the water was falling on his body, Akira started thinking about the last 1 year since his training started, 'it's been a year since I received my boons and I had begun training according to the pink muscle creation method which reciprocated with by marine body making me stronger, taller than your average 6 years old child. I have a strong body that can go toe to toe with a genin without the usage of any chakra.

I also came to know that I can create light without any hand seals, though they have no use in fighting, but by enough concentration, I was able to form a ball of light which if thrown toward the opponent will work similarly to a flashbang making them blind and disoriented for a few second.

But the one thing that disturbed me most was that I was not able to learn any form of Haki, not even a little bit. I don't know the why I was not able to learn Haki, But I have a few guesses; The first one is since Haki originates from an individual's spirit which refers to Yin chakra, while our Shiba clan specializes in Yang chakra release, not Yin release, So I might be deficient in Yin and the other one being I did not practice enough to make the dormant Haki active.

Then thinking about his training result brought a smile to his face 'Right now my chakra reserve is late stage chunin level and my control in chakra was also quite good as I can walk on walls for about 10 minutes without rest, but I cannot walk on water.

Tomorrow will be the last class of Kaito Sensei, then we will have a new sensei who will teach us about ninjutsu. I am damn excited, I can't wait to learn light release. while all the children were thinking about learning jutsus, they did not know they will be taught by the lord of hell himself.

( AN:- Who do you think he is? Comment)

The next day in the training hall all the students were laughing and chatting, thinking about who their next sensei might be. I along with Yuki, Hana and Yamato and a few kids were taking.

Suddenly one of the students asked." Akira how is your body so strong,"

Though only one of the students asked the question everyone wanted to listen to answer, even my stiff and cold cousin Hana turned her ears toward me as if not to miss what I am about to say next. Because even though we were members of the same clan and had the same training system I always excelled in every task, training, test.

To not answer the question I put a proposition that cannot be fulfilled by anyone" I will only answer if you can make Hana laugh"

"Akira if you don't want to answer, you could just say so, no need to give us impossible tasks; I think it will be easier to defeat Kaito sensei " responded Yuki with a sarcastic expression.

Except for Hana who had a scowling expression we all burst out laughing but had to stop as Kaito Sensei has just entered the Traning compound.

"So today will be the last day you all will just be taught taijutsu, so even though you all know the basics you have no experience in fighting, so today all of you will be taking part in a 1vs1 match. Let me see how much knowledge you can apply in a real battle.

"The first showdown… "Kenta Shiba" vs " Rei Sato"!" After Yamashiro Yen announced the 1st battle, the two entered the ring. They began to scuffle and there was no clear winner. In the end, one of them slightly beat the other, this was the case with most fights.

Quite a several fights go by in the same manner, Kaito Sensei sighed thinking ' Though they are taught all the basics they are still children who are not at all experienced in fighting, well what was I expecting "

"The next game, Hana Shiba against Yuki Shiba!"

They both went to the stage. Yuki standing opposite Hana taunted " Well, here comes the princess, should I just surrender the fight, just order me it would be my honor.

Hana without saying anything took out the tanto and stood in a defensive position giving Yuki her usual pale look as if unfazed by Yuki's taunting, but Yuki knew full well she had successfully entered her mind and Hana will not be able to give her usual 100%.

Below the stage, one of the boys with a face full of confusion asked me " Are they not good friends? , so why is Yuki saying mean words to Hana"

"Have never seen how Yuki fights?" I asked puzzledly "Her trash-talking makes her opponent fight with less efficiency. Look there Hana was always a cool minded girl but now she has lost her composure, see she is gritting her teeth and her grip over the tanto is much more than needed, I don't know who will win but Hana will have a tough time-fighting, Yuri. If she doesn't take care of her composure.

Seeing Hana losing her composure Yuri took out two handfuls of shuriken and suddenly threw them toward Hana.

Hana skillfully deflected the shurikens and rushed toward Yuri. Seeing her attack failing Yuri took out a Kunai and rushed toward the center of the ground to meet Hana.

The tanto and the Kunai struck with each other giving out light.

They exchanged blows, slashing and parrying until Hana seemed to tire and her tanto sagged. Yuri rushed to take advantage, raising her Kunai toward Hana's neck, but it had been a ruse and Hana came up in a lightning thrust straight to the heart, just stopping before entering her body.

"I lost," said Yuri before slumping into the ground. Hana having no stamina and breathing heavily also kneeled on the ground.

After a few matches, my turn came,

"The next match " Akira Shiba " vs " Jun Shiba"

We went to the platform and our match started as Jun rushed forward, quickly closing the distance as he swung his fist forward towards my face, I sidestepped and easily avoided the attack and without giving him a chance, I hit him in the back of the head making him unconscious.

"Winner Akira Shiba" ' well that was anti-climatic, who is that idiot'

After a few fights, Yamato fought, well he also won. Soon the assessment ended.

"I will be giving the winner's sheet to your ninjutsu teacher, well he might give you some prizes. And that's all for now, I will not give any advice but Just gonna say live your life to your fullest and protect who you love"

Soon everyone started leaving, Akira also directly went home before sleeping soundly while dreaming about practicing ninjutsu.....