Desperate soul

"Oi oi Tatsuya kun, take a hold of yourself"

Mikoto says to Tatsuya

"Bwaghh Bwaghh"

Tatsuya coughed out saliva heavily he almost passed out.

'I didn't see anything'

Tatsuya thought to himself

'He was so fast that I couldn't even catch a glance of him moving towards me'

"Umm Tatsuya kun can we still go again"

Mikoto says while looking at him

"Bwaaghh.... I...can still fight"

Tatsuya forced the words out of his mouth

"Nice nice, that's the spirit. Now come at me boy"

Tatsuya staggers up, picked his katana and dash towards Mikoto

Mikoto allowed him to atleast make a single swing and after that he sent another punch to his guts making him pass out completely

(A/N: I'll be rushing the book now, because going deep into details will make the book unnecessarily long)

Time Skip

5 months later

Tatsuya was training with Mikoto in combat as usual, he was bare chested there already some few scars he sustained from training with the snakes in stealth mode.

He was slightly keeping up to Mikoto's speed, but partially though because Mikoto wasn't going all out.

But he had improved by a large margin during the other days

"Nice you are now able to keep up Tatsuya kun"

Tatsuya was breathing heavily

"Yeah.... I guess"

"And for that you get a credit, how about having tomorrow as a free day..."

"No free days"

Tatsuya interrupts him before he could land

"Oh? No free days?.. then that's fine by me. But remember, your entrance exam will be in three days, I wouldn't want you to be in a bad shape"

Mikoto says as he leaves the room

In the evening later that day

Tatsuya comes out of the shower (wooden bathtub, there were no actual shower during this age) he wore his night sleeping robe and sat on his futon

"You can come in now"

He signaled Yue

"Excuse me"

she says as she enters the room

"Yeah"

After some minutes of silence Tatsuya decided to brake it

"So Yue chan..."

"I'm so sorry Tatsuya sama but this lowly one needs no such pleasantries from you"

She kneels down

"Huh??...No that's alright, I can call you what ever o want right?"

"That's right"

"Then I will call you that"

"...if you insist Tatsuya sama"

She says as she stands up

"So tell me, how was your life before coming here"

Tatsuya asks Yue

"I'm so sorry but we were made to forget our lives before coming here"

She bows slightly

"Oh...is that so, then I'm sorry"

Tatsuya says and turns his head away to the night sky

"No need for the apologies, but if there is anything I remembered it will be the golden rice pollen of our farm, it was really a wonderful sight to behold"

"Ohh.. is that so, well that's nice. Say?, how would you like leave this place and see some nice rice fields again"

Tatsuya says.

Yue was shocked for some time before she replied

"...Leaving this place means I'll have to leave with my mother right?"

"Wait a minute, your mum is here"

Tatsuya asked with his eyes wide open

"Yes, she serves directly under Lord First, we don't usually see eye to eye though"

She explained

"Oh is that so.... then she will come along to"

Yue was stunned

"...Thank you so much Tatsuya sama, I look forward to that day"

She immediately breaks down in tears

"Heyyy, no need to cry"

Tatsuya tries to calm her down

Next three days

The day of the entrance exam

In the huge acedemy compound, there were 30 children ready to be enrolled into the acedemy

The atmosphere was scattered, there was no order. Children who knew themselves were talking about things and stuffs, the ones who didn't know anybody were on there own, just like Tatsuya

Tatsuya was sitting on a wooden chair under a big tree which serves as shade from the sun.

Tatsuya was peacefully having a nap there until suddenly...

"Hey, isn't that the little demon"

"Hmmm?"

Tatsuya opened a single eye

"That's right its him"

Other kids from the back chorus

"Wow I thought you were a slave i didn't expect you to even belong to the shinobi village, maybe your family branch were so poor to afford food"

The other kids from the back began to laugh their hearts out

A boy around Tatsuya age, he had short brown hairs and dark eye brow, he was fair and had a long nose

"Hey Take kun that's rude stop it"

A boy beside him tries to stop him, but he shrugs the boy off and continued

"Hmmm"

Tatsuya continued his nap

"Hey I'm talking to you..."

*shing*

Tatsuya directs a little dagger to his neck

"The next time you talk to me again I'll make sure that pretty head of yours will be rolling on this dirty floor and I'll make sure to stuff a whole lot of dirt into your mouth"

"That's enough!!!"

A loud voice thundered through out the compound