3 The Ninja Academy!

------x-x-----Lukas's POV------x-x-----

Yesterday was a busy day, and entirely too traumatic for a 7-year-old, after meeting with Fugaku, Takaki and I went to the Konoha administration department, to claim my parent's bodies and decide on their final rites, which by the way I recommend no 7 year old to go through, but it is what it is, anyway after deciding on the standard procedures I was given access to two bank accounts passbooks where all the money Fujii's parents earned during their relatively short life went. Then I needed to just go to the bank and I was several hundred thousand Ryo richer than in the morning.

At first, I suspected Takaki was after the money but he didn't say a peep when the money was pooled together and transferred to a new account under my name. Then I withdrew a couple thousand Ryo to buy the necessary supplies to get ready for the academy today. Which in the end amounted to just new clothes, the academy students were not allowed to handle any sharpened weapons, and the training shuriken and kunai were given to us by the academy.

'I would look like an idiot holding kunai and shuriken, now that I think about it, would I really have to wear that stupid as Hitai-ate when I graduate?'

Although it looked cool on the show, and as shown on a few occasions it could serve as a small amount of protection from normal attacks, but why would ninjas affect their balance by wearing an additional clunky piece of metal that just covers the forehead, and some of the shinobi didn't even do that... Anyway, I realized my thoughts once again went into a tangent, 'Maybe the gamer's mind is nerfed too...' Fujii grumbled as he waited for the quest message to pop up.

"Fujii, are you ready, Itachi is here..." I hear Takaki's voice boom from outside but still, no notification came, bemoaning my stupid ass luck I walked out of my house and saw Itachi dressed in a black Uchiha T-shirt and off-white shorts, and I looked at my white t-shirt and the contrast was clear.

'Well maybe it won't be a bad idea to create a boundary between us, let Itachi be the genius, I don't plan to graduate anytime soon...'

"Itachi-san" I awkwardly greeted, even though Itachi was a year younger than me, in clan Hirearchy he was a step above me, Itachi nodded, his stoic mask firmly in place as we slowly made way towards the Ninja academy. All the fanfictions that depicted Konoha as a happy place where every child is full of laughter hadn't seen the destruction that Kyuubi left behind in his wake.

Several buildings along the way were broken and I saw various genin teams working on clearing the village. I turn towards Itachi and watched as he calmly took in everything he was seeing, he was stoic and calmly kept walking forward but then it wasn't exactly fair to him, Fugaku forced him to see an actual battlefield before he was even ready to enter the academy.

'Today is the first day of the academy, so along with theory and some basics there shouldn't be any more physical exercises for today, although I do need to learn the Uchiha Interceptor Fist soon, maybe I should ask Takaki for some scrolls on the basic info.'

The Academy gates were huge when compared to our small stature, as I was about to enter the academy another thought struck me, 'Wasn't Itachi just 13 years old when he was ordered to purge the clan? How the hell did they draw a 13yo as a grown-ass man in both the manga and the anime.'

I turned and looked at the chibi walking beside me before I shook my head to remove the picture from my head, there was no way Itachi grew that much in just 7 years, but then maybe it had something to do with the chakra bullshitery, the answer to every question.

The next few hours were spent in the academy as teachers droned about different theoretical subjects every other hour, followed by various tests. I was sure I saw something akin to a reasoning and pattern recognition question mixed in there and then it hit me, 'This whole thing was just a scam to get an inkling to the kids who could retain information or maybe weeding out the worst of the candidates from the bunch.'

"And that would be the end of today's class, tomorrow I expect only those who are serious about being a shinobi to come to class, in addition, we would officially be assigning you, classes, tomorrow, along with an accelerated program targeted to those who have an I.Q over 140..." I watched the tired chunin give the small speech, I stared at the name [Hagaki Misirano] and didn't recall any character named as such.

'well Mr cannon fodder, I'll see you Tuesday.' I thought as I walked out of the classroom, half the kids beside me started running as soon as they saw their parents standing there to pick them up while the rest of them obediently walked back towards their orphanage. I watched as Takaki walked up to me and give Itachi a curt nod.

"Uncle, could you teach me the katas to the Uchiha Interceptor Fist, I need to be ready before they start physical conditioning at the academy," I asked Takaki and knew my answer would be a positive response, maybe he even wanted to ask me about it himself I deduced looking at his pleased expression.

"Of Course, Fujii, come I'll so you the katas when we reach home, and after practicing maybe you would like to spar with Itachi in a few days so that both of you improve," Takaki said and I think I have finally figured out what this bastard wanted from me, being a kid just shy of his 8th year with an awakened Sharingan must be a prestige, and he wants to use me to gain a few steps in the council.

'Fine, we'll help each other for a bit before I start copying jutsus with my Sharingan...'

"Follow my fist closely..." Takaki instructed breaking my delusions of grandeur...

'Okay, so maybe world domination can wait, let's learn this first...'