Naruto : Uchiha : Chapter 17

Only a select few still used the original and ancient stances of the old times that belonged purely to them now, most of them being considered long since forgotten so seemingly every Uchiha fought in a different way than the other to appear deceptive and unpredictable to enemy shinobi.

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"Alright that's enough, break it off you two. Now make the seal of confrontation…" the teacher ordered and nodded when the two boys did so, albeit a bit reluctantly in Jin's case.

He pulled his hand up over his head and brought it down to signal the start of the match.

"Hajime" his voice rang through the clearing and Akio was off in a flash. He charged forward with a battle cry, rushing his opponent by running towards him. Jin merely stood fast in his own stance, letting the boy make the first move and have his fun while he was at it.

Akio cocked his fist back behind his head and brought it forward. Jin merely slapped it away with the back of his hand to let it whiz past his ear and blocked his left fist with his own right palm.

The raven haired kid went to put a huge uppercut under his chin and seemingly end the match but the Inuzuka jumped back a couple of steps to break off their little bout.

Jin yet again dropped into his defensive stance and put his palm in front of his face. His hand made a motion to his opponent to urge him to attack. Akio saw his taunt coupled with his arrogant smirk and the Inuzuka clan's legendary temper kicked in. All he saw was red.

He charged forward, jumping up and aiming a kick for the Uchiha's neck. Jin brought his right arm up and blocked it with his forearm, aiming for his opponent's torso with his free left hand. The blow being quite weak from the lack of precision the completely angered boy was putting behind it.

Akio, still unbalanced from his angered and blind charge, could do nothing more than watch the incoming strike to his stomach and brace for impact while he landed on his feet with a little stumble.

Jin mustered up all his strength into the strike, twisting his wrist and embedding his fist into the boy's solar plexus who stumbled back a couple of feet and fell to his knees, clutching his aching stomach with an agonized cough.

Jin ran in and jumped up, twisting his body in mid-air to make his right heel make contact with the feral boy's cheek who rolled sideways and out of the ring's boundary line.

CLAP CLAP CLAP….

The whole audience around the ring clapped for the two, especially the teacher who was pretty loud and felt proud to have such a great spar on seemingly his first day.

"Excellent you two, I couldn't be prouder to see such an excellent spar on our first day. Jin you were especially excellent, not that I could expect anything less from a member of the Uchiha clan." the teacher said, pride evident in his voice.

The raven soaked it all in with a slight puff of his chest and walked back with an arrogant smirk.

"Sugoi Jin-kun that was so awesome…." many girls squealed in delight with stars in their eyes. He walked back into the crowd, walking past Naruto with a slight bump to his shoulder.

"Beat that dead last…" he taunted in a voice only meant for Naruto, which he promptly ignored and shrugged off his bump as if it was nothing.

"Ugh-" Naruto turned back on hearing the sound of a small thump and saw Jin lying sprawled face first on the ground.

He merely tilted his head to the side in confusion as to why he would do that when he saw the boy get up, with his dirt covered front, glaring heatedly at Tsunade who was whistling innocently while playing with her toe drawing circles in the ground in all the innocence of the world.

"You might want to get up Uchiha or you might ruin the proud Uchiha clan's name…" she said in an all too innocent voice making the boy growl and clench his fists tightly. Everyone around them snickered, other than Naruto that is, who was still trying to figure out what was going on between the two.

"I won't forget this Senju…" Jin said angrily and got up, dusting himself off while Tsunade stuck her tongue out playfully to further annoy the already annoyed Uchiha. She felt a tug on her sleeve and looked to the side to see a quite confused Naruto looking at her questionably.

"What happened? Why is he so angry at you Tsunade?" Naruto asked in a lost voice making the girl smile cheekily.

She patted his cheek playfully and shook her head while the raven haired boy walked off to the side and a ways away from them to maintain his distance.

"Nothing for you to worry about." she chirped happily, hiding the fact about sticking her foot out when that annoying Uchiha had bumped into her new friend to get back at him.

Tsunade took nothing from annoying Uchiha's without a payback people.

"So why was he being such a pest to you? You two know each other or something?" she asked curiously while the teacher was taking the Inuzuka boy to the infirmary to get him some check ups and rest for a little while.

Naruto nodded his affirmative at knowing the boy.

"Jin and I have met in the past in our clan grounds. He hangs out with other kids from our clan…" he explained getting a scowl from Tsunade.

She didn't want to tell him that he was the teme that was on the top of her bullies to beat list and merely nodded, motioning for him to go on.

"Well they don't like me hanging out with them, so I always keep my distance from him." he explained and got a nod from the girl who could see his point. She wouldn't want anything to do with that annoying brat as well.

"But he especially doesn't like me since I wear the Uchiha clan symbol on my clothes so early while he cannot, and is always trying to show me up in front of others…"

He spoke as an afterthought getting a confused look from Tsunade. She looked on closely on his collars to see his clan's symbol and even the one on the back of his neck and then glanced at the brooding boy who had none whatsoever on his plain dark blue clothes.

"What's wearing a clan symbol got to do with you two?" she asked in a completely lost voice, making Naruto confused too. Then he remembered not many people outside of their clan knew of their traditions and nodded to himself further confusing the girl.

"Right you wouldn't know, but not anyone can wear our clan symbol just like that, it is a matter of pride for our clan to wear it on our clothes and represent our clan in front of others.

Only those who have passed our Rite of Passage can wear it on themselves after getting the approval of any one clan elder." he explained calmly getting a nod from the girl, who had her finger over her chin while she absorbed the new information in. Then her eyes went to the clan symbols donned on his clothes…

"So you have passed this Rite of Passage and he hasn't?" she asked curiously and got a simple nod from the boy making her grin and catch him in a headlock.

"Cool." she chirped happily, ruffling his hair while he tried to shake the excited girl off. Then another thought ran through her mind making her let go off the boy who sighed in relief and straightened out his shirt slowly.

"What is this Rite of Passage thing anyways?" she asked him curiously, making him smile at the ever curious girl.

"It is a small ritual of sorts that all Uchiha have done since ancient times.

The Uchiha clan doesn't deem their members worthy to wear the clan symbol until they master the Fireball Jutsu completely and show it to an elder of the clan who then gives them his approval to wear our symbol on our clothes.

I completed it a month ago and showed it to Kagami Ojii-san who gave me his approval. Jin hasn't yet, so he doesn't like it very much that I can wear it while he cannot…." he trailed off seeing the glittering eyes of Tsunade looking at him proudly and stood there confused when she caught his shoulders in her hands tightly.

"You can shoot awesome cool fireballs from your mouth?" she asked in barely contained excitement making the boy quite confused at her sudden perking up, but he nodded dumbly. She was quite impulsive, he told himself and nodded inwardly in a sage like manner.

"You should so do it in your spar, I bet everyone will be amazed and the look on that baka's face…"

Tsunade giggled mischievously making the boy quite confused yet a little worried seeing her strange laugh and rubbing of her palms together with a spaced out look on her face.

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