Chapter 12: 12 Troubled Sayuri
Ninja Academy.
At the playground,
"Jiraiya and Nara Sayuri, please come forward!"
The proctor didn't take much time after the fight of Naoki, soon announcing the start of the second match.
The proctor's words fell, from the kids gathered around two figures walked out.
"Hahahaha, watch closely everyone as the legend of the future ninja prodigy, Jiraiya, starts from here"
A loud laughter rang, Jiraiya dressed in a light blue kimono with red lines patterned on it arrived at the circle, laughing with his mouth wide open, hands on his waist.
"This idiot...
Said the proctor as he sighed and shook his head, Jiraiya's carefree attitude was the last thing a ninja should have, wondering when he will grow up.
The kids around were also speechless at his words, others would be nervous or worried at this moment but Jiraiya was in the mood of bragging.
Thup!
"Oh...not bad"
Though Jiraiya didn't care about what others around were thinking, as he suddenly stopped laughing and narrowed his eyes, a figure slowly approaching the circle, eyeing the figure up and down commenting with a grin and bright eyes.
A girl with attractive facial features and looked around 8, with black hair tied behind in a single ponytail, slowly approached the circle.
She had donned a cream colour coat with black shirt underneath, black trousers and blue shinobi sandals.
The girls black eyes were completely different from the girls around her age, a lazy, troubled and annoyed look in them.
*Great! Why does this trouble maker had to be my opponent? Why not a normal civilian who I can beat easily and stay at academy for another four years*
Thought Sayuri inwardly, a dejected look on her face, her lazy eyes staring at the clouds on the blue sky.
Unlike the idiots around who were so eager to get in the eyes of Third Hokage and graduate early, Sayuri didn't have such a desire.
Her father was a jonin and so she knew about the life of a ninja, although ninja school was annoying, but definitely not as annoying as the life of a genin.
She had already learned all the theoretical courses, here in school she could sleep peacefully for another four years, then graduate like an average person and transfer to strategic department under Nara Clan, lazing around there, the ideal life.
But this two year plan of Third Hokage became an obstacle in her planned life, her parents had strictly warned her not to lose deliberately and give her all, so in this combat exam she had no choice but to give her all.
She was hoping to fight an average person, defeat the person easily without revealing any extraordinary quality worthy of attention, but now it was not possible.
Jiraiya who had gotten such good grades, she was smart enough to know that he isn't an easy opponent, meaning she had to fight him seriously.
*I just hope now my strength is too ordinary in the eyes of Hokage*
Prayed Sayuri in her heart, at the same time finally arriving before Jiraiya.
"The rules are the same as last fight, at my count to 1, start!"
Said the Proctor, as both Jiraiya and Sayuri immediately tensed, both reaching into the ninja bags at the waist.
"3...2...1...Go!"
"Woosh!!"
The hands in the ninja bag were pulled out at high speed, Jiraiya whizzing a number of shurikens toward Sayuri, who counter attacking, threw two kunai's one after another.
Though the first one had a paper attached to it with a string, on the paper black markings scribbled.
*Katsu*
The first kunai came in between the throw shurikens, Sayuri with a serious face making a hand sign.
Boom!!!
The paper bomb burst immediately, a very small scale explosion blowing the shurikens away, black smoke at the explosion point.
"Zuuu!!!"
But from the black smoke the second kunai suddenly emerged at high speed, aiming straight towards Jiraiya who immediately ducked, looking towards the kunai that passed over his head from the corner of his eyes.
"Glin!!"
Though at this moment, a sharp light that lasted not for even a whole second, reflected in the eyes of Jiraiya, his pupils widening.
"String...
*Pong!!!*
Muttered Jiraiya with a shocked face, jumping back from where he was, closing towards the black smoke.
"Thud!!!"
Just as Jiraiya left his place, the kunai in the air seemed to be controlled by something changing it's direction, thrusting into the ground where Jiraiya was.
"That was close!"
Muttered Jiraiya who was at the edge of the gradually dispersing black smoke, a relieved look on his face, he was nearly done in there, if not for the light reflecting from the sun on the string, he wouldn't have noticed it.
Jiraiya's eyes were still on the place where he was earlier, a kunai dug there, but quietly in the black smoke, a black line on the ground approaching Jiraiya.
"Huh?"
Everyone who was watching the fight suddenly saw Jiraiya stiffening, the black smoke fully dispersing, Sayuri maintaining a hand sign stood at some distance from Jiraiya whose back was facing her.
"Done!"
Muttered Sayuri with a tired look, a black line extending from her feet connected with the shadow of Jiraiya.
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