6 Ninja Academy(2)

Today was going to be an important day in the life of Amatsu Hyuga. Today he along with Hinata, would be joining the ninja academy.

The Academy was a huge building in the village located directly at the base of the Hokage Mountain. It was where prospective ninja were trained and where official ninja received their assignments. It was founded by the Second Hokage out of military necessity.

Amatsu and Hinata were already ready for school. They were escorted by Ko Hyuga who was the personal caretaker-cum-bodyguard of Hinata and Ren Hyuga, Amatsu's.

They were both branch family members and jonin. Hiashi was not taking any risk for the security of the two. Even if they were going to the school, which was one of the most protected area inside the village. He also was going with them.

Both of them reached the school and found it already crowded with aspiring ninja and their parents or caretakers. For the introduction ceremony, parents were needed to be present with their child. It was to show their willingness to allow their child to be a shinobi in the future.

Also to give their child some support.

Shinobi of Konoha needed to spend at least six months in the academy before you could be a shinobi of hidden leaf. This was so that they were properly screened and tested before being allowed to be a full fledged shinobi.

There are some strict conditions that are needed to be met before you can think of becoming a shinobi.

In Konoha, the importance of working together with your team members was one of them. Another one was being able to properly execute the three basic ninjutsu, i.e. Clone jutsu, Substitution jutsu and Transformation jutsu.

Hinata looked absolutely thrilled to be finally be able to join the academy. She was eagerly looking around. But Amatsu was not showing any curiousness.

He already had gone this phase, along with high school and college life. So he was familiar with this scene.

Amatsu was looking around casually and waiting for the introduction ceremony to start. While looking around he found some children without anyone for support. Their eyes were on the children with parents. They showed a look of longing and jealousy.

Amatsu sighed when he saw them.

'Orphans.' He didn't know what to feel about them. After all if the situation was somewhat different, maybe he would have been like them.

Although he was someone with the memories of his past life, that didn't mean he would be okay with having no parents when he grow up. Rather its the opposite.

He knew the love of a mother. What great length she would go to protect her child. Even if it means sacrificing her own life.

He knew the love of a father. The hardship a father can bear just to see his child's smile. Even if it means fighting against the whole world.

Amatsu although didn't have much time to spend with his new parents, he knew they loved him very much. He still remembered his very first memory of his new life. When his parents were happy and full of joy at his arrival. He would always remember them.

After their deaths, Hiashi took him saving him from being an orphan.

Looking at their figures, Amatsu was once again given a reality check. Life in shinobi world could be lost at any moment. Not only he needed to get stronger quickly to at least have some form of security, but also to enjoy his life.

Amatsu watched them for a while and found their numbers reaching almost half of the children with parents. He frowned at that.

'It seems the casualties of war and the Kyubi attack are far more than I have thought before.'

Although Konoha won the last war, it was not without any cost. Many lives were lost to win the war. Many lost their parents, family members or loved ones.

This was followed by the Kyubi incident. Even more lives were lost, including his own parents. He would have been like those orphans if Hiashi hadn't taken him. And he would have been branded with the 'Caged Bird' seal.

Amatsu shuddered.

'I am really grateful for what Hiashi ojisan has done for me.'

Amatsu sighed. His thoughts were interrupted when he heard some commotion.

Looking around to find the cause, he saw a lonely, sad looking five years old blond haired kid. He was alienated by almost everyone. He looked like an orphan but even the other orphans seemed to not want to be anywhere near the kid.

he didn't know why the kid was so alienated.

as he watched the boy, he began to hear whispers among the crowd.

"Is that him, the demon...."

"Shhhh! Don't talk. You know it's prohibited."

"Why is he here?"

"Is he joining the school as well?"

"What is hokage-sama thinking allowing that.. that.. thing to school?"

"Are our children going to be safe around him?"

The more he heard them talk, the more confused Amatsu become.

'What demon? What monster? He is clearly a normal boy.'

Deciding to use byakugan to see, he activated them silently.

The moment he activated them, he was met with a astonishing sight. The boy had two source of chakra inside him. If one was a pond then the other was an ocean. That was what he felt.

And his chakra was different from others. Using byakugan, you could see chakra of others in different colors. The most common one is blue which almost everyone with chakra had. Some individuals had different colors. His own chakra was a deep shed of purple, almost black. Hinata's chakra had some purple in it.

Till now he had not found anyone with chakra color like his own. Hinata's was the closest he had found till now. But this boy's chakra was light shade of purple. Only a shade lighter than his own.

Also his ocean like second chakra source was deep crimson in color. That color of chakra, he saw for the first time. He wasn't able to look at the source for even a second before a terrifying dread filled him. He immediately deactivated his byakugan.

He began panting and sweating profusely. His back was drenched in sweat in few seconds. For the first time in his two lives he felt killing intent and a terrifying one at that. He felt as if he was being killed countless times in that second.

He was sure that if he hadn't backed out and deactivated his byakugan, he would have been blacked out for some days at the least. If he had even stubbornly resisted for some few seconds, he might have been brain dead.

The illusion of his deaths were so real that he wouldn't have been surprised if he really found himself dead.

He swore himself to never use byakugan to spy on something without the power and capability to withstand the unknown. He wasn't a stupid fellow who loved to face the unknown without fear and he wasn't in a hurry to test his luck so soon.

'This world is vastly different from my previous world. If I still continue to use my perception of the past world to view this world, then it is better to live a normal life.'

Although it might seem that he had adjusted to his new life, it was not the case. After all he was a normal man with very little history of witnessing any form of violence. He was not a soldier who had fought several wars and had killed people.

'I really need to strengthen my mind to adjust to my new life as a future shinobi.'

'And prepare myself for the sight of human blood and gore. Especially for the moment I have to take the life of a person for the first time.'

Amatsu lost himself in his own thoughts. His condition was unnoticed by others as at this time the 3rd hokage, Hiruzen Sarutobi had entered the school to welcome the new batch of prospective shinobis.