Chapter 17

A/N {I apologize for the late chapter...The second chapter will be posted in maybe 4-9 hours? Anyways, I hope you enjoy the chapter!}

'Okay, I should obeser-' Without even giving me time to think Araya launched himself at me with full force. He pulled his arm back in an exaggerated manner and struck me in the face. My head twisted to the left and I felt horrible stinging pain. 'IT HURTS!' That was all I thought before I lost my senses and fell to the ground…

Just as Iruka was about to announce the result of our spar, I picked myself up. I felt something more than just pain, it felt as if it was consuming my pain...What is it? No, I know what this feeling is… My chest felt an unbearable primal heat. My heartbeat is a painfully twisted melody. A melody of rage.

I looked at Araya with my eyes filled with hatred as I dashed towards him allowing my emotions and instinct to take control. Araya's eyes went wide with surprise and fear as he desperately tried to block my attack.

I jumped forward and drop-kicked the small child's arms without mercy. He tried to regain his balance however I wasn't going to give him that chance. I quickly pivoted my leg behind his and pushed him forward, tripping him to the ground.

Before Araya could understand what happened. I stomped my foot on his head knocking the unfortunate child out. I took heavy breaths to both catch my breath and to calm myself down. Once I had calmed myself I looked at my classmates and their faces were filled with mixed emotions.

Some had fear and surprise others had admiration and excitement. I tried looking for my sister to see her face no to see her reaction. Was she afraid like the others? Is she excited? Happy? Proud? No, it should be fine, I shouldn't worry about what others feel about me. There are no problems at all. I shouldn't care about what others say, right? Sticks and stones may break your bones but words can never hurt me...Yeah, I won't be hurt…'

I was about to look at Sakura to see her reaction to my spar, however, my attention was snatched by Iruka's voice "Aika Haruno wins! Now everyone lines up. We need to go to the classroom quickly and I'll be carrying Araya to the infirmary alright?"

"Yes!" Everyone shouted as they rushed to make a line while Iruka picked up my unconscious opponent. Once we returned to the classroom in a strict tone, Iruka said.

"Alright, class I'm going to carry Araya to the infirmary. Please behave while I'm gone"

The entire class nodded and with a smile, Iruka left the class. Unfortunately the second he did leave, the entire class exploded in conversation. "Hey did you see how Sasuke beat Naruto?" "I think I'm the best at fighting" "You mean the best at losing right?"

I sighed 'This is why you never trust children' I thought as I began to reflect on my spar. 'Okay, I think I did pretty well fighting against that civilian kid...But if I were to fight a clan kid could I even beat them? Heck, I don't think I can even beat Sasuke right now! But how should I train? No, what should I train first? Chakra control? My body? Study?

No, I know what I should train first...I need to train all of them! I can study with Sakura sometime in the morning? Maybe in the afternoon? Then train physically after training my body if I'm not too tired I can do the leaf chakra control exercise? I'm not sure but I'll make a schedule for myself soon '

Soon I just zoned out in my thoughts completely ignoring the loud conversations around me. Eventually, Iruka returned, yelled, and scolded the class for misbehaving mostly with Naruto because he decided to start dancing on the desk. Yes, he did that, the reason for that is likely because he wants more people to like him… Yikes, that sounds sadder the more I think about it! I need to help him make more friends, don't I?

At the end of the academy day, Sakura and I held hands as we walked home. I tried to avoid looking at her hoping that she wouldn't see me in a negative light after seeing me stomp on my sparring partner…

"Hey Aika"

"Y-Yes Nee-san?" I asked, trying to stop my fear from leaking out of my voice.

"Did I do well in my spar?" She asked nervously. 'Eh?! Shouldn't it be me who's supposed to be nervous?' I thought as I quickly answered my insecure sister's question.

"I-I think you did amazingly well! Even if you lost your spar that just means you have more room for improvement" Sakura's face became quite sad when she heard me say that she lost her, however, the second I said she could improve her face immediately lit up.

"How can I improve?" Asked my curious sister.

"It's simple Sakura what we need to do is train"

"H-How do we train?" 'She doesn't even know how we should train? No wonder she was so useless in the original'

"We should first train our bodies since we mostly use them to fight" I replied, attempting to sound wise but failing miserably.

"Thanks, Aik-" before she could finish thanking me I interrupted her "But just because we are training our body doesn't mean we shouldn't train other things," I said in a stern tone.

"Wait, what else could we train?" My foolish sister asked.

"Well other things we could train or improve would be the flexibility of our bodies, our knowledge, and baking"

"I understand training flexibility and improving our knowledge but why baking?" I giggled mischievously.

"Well Sakura learning how to bake can really help you with a few things," I said mysteriously.

"What are those few things?" My naive sister asked.

"Well, should I tell you? Should I? Could I? Would I?" I replied in a teasing tone. Sakura puffed out her cheeks pouting and looking at me with a frustrated expression.

"Jeez Aika can't you tell me already!" My annoyed sister yelled.

"Fine, fine one of the ways baking can help you is…" Sakura was anxiously fidgeting and looked at me with expectant eyes.

"By capturing the heart of someone you love" Once I said that Sakura's face became as red as a tomato and she seemed lost in her wild imagination. I snapped my fingers in front of her face to bring her back to reality.

"Ah!" My lovely sister exclaimed in surprise. She glared at me for ruthlessly snapping her back to reality, away from her blissful imagination. Suddenly her face changed into a vengeful expression as she looked at me as if she had just gotten a wicked idea.

"Since you also want to learn baking, which boy are you trying to get? Don't tell me it's Naruto?" My vengeful sister asked. I thought about her question and instantly became disgusted by the thought of being with a boy. 'Yeah no I don't think I could ever be with a boy, it's just far too revolting for me' I thought as I answered my putrid sister's question.

"Nope, I don't have any thoughts or feelings about being with a boy" I replied with a deadpan expression.

"What!? That has to be a lie!" My horrible sister exclaimed with a betrayed look on her face.

"Yup that's right I don't care about any boy in the class, not even your precious Sasuke-kun," I said attempting to further agitate my stupid sister. Then we began to argue for an unknown amount of time. Eventually, we calmed down and I found the opportunity to ask a question that has been weighing on me for a while now.

"Hey, Nee-san?" I asked in a small voice.

"Yes?"

"W-What did you think of my spar?" My voice was shaking, my head hung low and I thought 'No matter her response It should be fine because, in the end, everything will be okay right?'

"Well, I think you were… really cool!" 'Huh? I was expecting something more...negative? But she... Thinks I was cool? Well of course I'm cool! I'm the coolest after all.' I thought with a smile.

"Thanks, Nee-san," I said in a grateful yet joyful tone.

Soon we reached our home, ate dinner, and slept. I woke up, changed my clothes, purposely spilled cold water on Sakura's adorable face to wake her up, ate breakfast, put on our sandals, and ran to the academy. We took our seats and chanted the shinobi rules.

Everything was the same however something different yet incredibly exciting happened.

"Alright, class today we are going to learn something special! Do you know what we are going to learn?" Iruka asked with a grin. Against my expectations, nobody raised their hands. Iruka sighed and said with an overexcited tone.

"Today we are going to learn how to use ninjutsu!"

A/N {Okay so we did go to the beach however, my family decided to stay at our uncle's house for 6 hours before going to the beach, and then after that, they spoke with some of their friends they coincidentally met on the beach which took around a good 3 hours. By the time we got home, it was 10 PM! Sigh that was just stupid but who cares? Anyways at the beach, I saw a lot of people and it was quite exciting! Lifeguards with muscles and children were having fun the children almost activated my motherly instinct but I'm not a mother and I will never be one! Also, children cost way too much money and are far too troublesome. Thanks for listening to my TED talk have a wonderful day!