Location: Benimaru's home
Time: 3 years from flashback/a year from beginning of prologue
It's been three good years since that fateful day, Benimaru's almost death coupled with his awakening made him start training seriously now. He did seriously straining taijutsu katas and training exercises every single day for those three years hoping to improve his physical strength and endurance which did a lot for his physical appearance and muscular strength as at the age of eight years old, already has a developed six pack along with a fully lean muscular build. In that three years, he sometimes snuck into training ground to copy jutsus and katas from high level ninja which led to him learning the three basic jutsus which he would eventually learn at the academy which he was starting today
Benimaru, along with many other children arrived at the academy building to start their first out of four years at the academy. Some parents personally dropped their kids off at the academy while other more busy parents couldn't which led to their kids having to go alone. Benimaru who was unfortunately an orphan had to go alone, watching the interactions of other parents with their kids with a sad smile on his face
Benimaru—I wonder what life would've been like even I had parent he thought sadly but quickly cheered up no point ruminating about what could've been he thought to himself
Once all the kids had arrived, they proceeded to enter the building and take their seats, benimaru sat at the right end of the middle row, beside the window. Once seated, their instructor came in
Iruka: Hello kidshe said with a smile my name is Iruka Umino and for the next four years, I will be your main academy teacher taking you the theory subjects plus practical like shuriken throwing and sparing he said warmly looking around at the faces of his new students before stopping at one face and glaring at him with pure unadulterated hatred which no one noticed even the kid in question
Most of the kids groan when he mentioned the theory aspect but immediately perked up when he mentioned practical
Iruka: First, we will be doing a written test to see where you all rank in terms of academics before classes really begin he said as he started giving out test papers this test is for 30 minutes so take your time and ensure you answer each question properly he warned
After the test was over Iruka posted the results and was surprised
Iruka: im impressed he said as he began listing out the scores
First: Ryota Benimaru-100/100
Benimaru: It is too be expected he said calmly not seeing anything to be happy about in passing a simple test
Second: Shikamaru Nara- 100/100
The boy in question was still sleeping, having slept off immediately he was done with the test
Third: Sasuke Uchiha- 98/100
Sasuke raised an eyebrow at not only not being first but having there be two other people ahead of him. He looked at Benimaru who simply looked backed at him as they locked gazes
Sasuke:'He must be pretty smart to get higher than me, i wonder if he's any strong'
Benimaru:'He's strong i can tell, i can feel my celss getting excited at the mere thought of fighting him'
He kept listing out the scores till he got to the last name
Last: Uzumaki Naruto- 23/100
A blond haired kid, the same kid Iruka had been glaring at had gotten the lowest in the entire class and Iruka almost looked happy that he had failed. And almost immediately insults began hurling at Naruto for how bad he did
Random kid 1: How could u possibly have gotten such a bad scorehe mocked?
Random kid 2: Yeah he laughs you could've just written your name and left and still gotten the same score he laughed at Naruto who got angry
Naruto: Yeah well all these theory nonsense is useless anyway he shouted at them when I become Hokage ill disband all of them he said which caused them to laugh even harder'
Random kid 3: You? As Hokage, a loser like you could never be Hokage he laughed at him
Naruto: Just wait and see he shouted ill become Hokage Dattebayo he shouted again, determination clear in his voice
They got close to trading blows until Iruka stopped them
Iruka: Overall he began this is a very good showing and although some of you may not have done very well, all you have to do is study and next time im sure you will pass he tried to encourage them regardless, it's now time for combat assessments or sparring he led them to the training ground the rules are simple he said you fight your opponent till one of you is either knocked out, is sent out of the circle or is incapacitated he informed them understand he asked to which they all nodded so….. Who wants to go first he asked as expectedly no one raised their hands until...
Sasuke/Benimaru: I'll go the said in unison as they both looked at each other, smirked and thought
This'll be fun