Chapter 14: Сhapter 14
The first academic year at the Shinobi Academy ended quite expectedly and calmly. I passed all the necessary tests without any problems, not too well, but quite on a level with the rest of my classmates. And even though I had to make mistakes consciously in some moments, but mostly I really showed most of my knowledge. Still, in the same history lessons, I almost always hovered in my own thoughts, or even meditated. I don't want to talk about calligraphy lessons at all. After all, if I could understand the written text quite calmly, then I could write with the help of hieroglyphs… this is still a test for my patience.
Well, it's not the point, the main thing is that I graduated from the first year of the academy as a full-fledged student, no longer causing unnecessary questions to my address from the students. And Iruka was more than sincerely pleased with my academic success… It wasn't such a serious academic success that they conflicted with my image of a bully and a rowdy, but I couldn't be called a two-biter either. I coped quite well with the school curriculum, albeit at a very average level…
But, I had the opportunity to fully enjoy a few weeks of vacation. And then before Naruto was always left for extra classes, which is why I haven't had any holidays as such yet… Which is not so scary, to be honest. Personally, I somehow didn't even feel my first vacation in this world. Of course, the free time that suddenly appeared made me very happy. But rather in terms of the possibility of spending longer time training the same chakra control…
And yes, I didn't know how to rest at all. Even in my previous life, I faced a similar problem… But workaholism is not treated. I was corny uncomfortable if I didn't do anything useful for the whole day. There was a clear feeling that I was guilty somewhere and generally doing something wrong. And even in this life, this feeling does not haunt me so often… Still, the last few years of my previous life, I was already somewhat out of work. But all the same, now that I had already entered the working rut, I simply could not do nothing.
Therefore, most of the holidays were not remembered in any special way for me. I was still training and doing my daily chores… In parallel, going crazy with loneliness. Still, outside of the academy, I didn't have a single acquaintance at all with whom I could just exchange a few words. At the academy itself, I had at least some contact with people… And in general, even though I was still a loner, but sometimes even someone started a conversation with me. The school routine imposed its own typo, and I no longer behaved as defiantly as the last Naruto, so as to push other children away too clearly.
Well, it's not the point, the main thing is that these two weeks of vacation did not become something special for me. But, upon returning to the academy, I was pleasantly pleased with the change in my schedule. Or rather, the fact that I have new subjects in my schedule, with very promising names - chakra theory and combat training classes. And if the first subject in the end turned out to be not so interesting, yet I have already learned a lot about the chakra during this time… Then the combat training classes almost immediately became my favorite.
After all, it was at these classes that we began to be taught the basic skills for each shinobi - throwing kunai and shuriken, the basics of melee combat, rules of conduct during battle and other, no less important, things that directly related to our future profession. At the same time, the benefits of these classes became noticeable almost immediately… After all, I myself did not understand much about the same throwing of all kinds of steel, but having a living example to follow and any explanations on this score…
Within a couple of days after the start of the new school year, my own training became much more diverse and difficult. It is more difficult, first of all, from a mental point of view. After all, now I had to not just mindlessly exhaust my own body with all sorts of exercises. No, now I had to develop completely new skills for me, which required much more mental strength and effort in general. Moreover, I started training in throwing kunai or practicing the kata shown to me only after my main training… And fatigue, you know, tends to accumulate.
But I didn't complain and I wasn't going to slow down my studies. They were too obviously useful, especially considering the fact that in time for the first lesson in the same kunai throwing, I was almost at the very end among the entire list of students. Only a few clanless guys threw iron worse than me. Clan children, as a rule, greatly surpassed me in such skills... thereby motivating me greatly. Still, losing to ordinary kids is still a blow to pride, which I was not going to take so easily.
That's why, after a couple of weeks, my grades in the subject improved tremendously, and I got a lot of calluses and cuts on my hands ... at the same time losing almost a third of the set of metal iron given to me by Hiruzen. Sometimes the same kunai bounce too much from the targets I have set, which makes it almost impossible to find them in the dense grass and bushes. In addition, throwing iron has the property of breaking, which is especially important for the same shurikens…
It's not a very pleasant situation, especially since I couldn't buy new kunai and shurikens for myself. My financial condition was still very deplorable… And I simply didn't want to ask for money from the same Hiruzen. Our Hokage is too dirty, and I'm not used to living in debt somehow. Although, I'm more likely already out of habit from such a life… That's just that I had no other ways to get hold of money. I couldn't get a part-time job, I said goodbye to this idea a long time ago…
Still, my reputation in the village somewhat complicates my life, and no one in their right mind would hire a seven-year-old kid to work. Moreover, there are enough workers in the village anyway, Konoha is too desirable a place for ordinary people to live, and therefore there is a constant influx of workers in the village… I couldn't even become a janitor with all my desire. And studying at the academy somehow does not fit too well with any serious part-time job…
So yes, I should treat Hiruzen's gift with all care. In which case I will have nowhere to get new consumables for training. And I'm definitely not going to limit myself to the hours of training that the academy provides me with… But at this rate, I'm guaranteed to be without kunai and shurikens in a couple of months. It's not just that those are considered expendable among Shinobi.
We need to come up with something about this… I can't think of anything yet, but I'll figure it out somehow. As a last resort, it will be possible to try to borrow throwing iron from the academy's arsenal. I think Iruko-sensei will go to meet me if I can properly convey my problem to him ... after all, he is my homeroom teacher and, in theory, should get into the situation. And my academic performance is still important to him, which means that the chances of getting at least some iron at his disposal are not so small.
Although, it was really too early to think about it yet. Moreover, throwing all kinds of iron is by no means the main one of my problems. Unlike the same melee training, I could somehow train these skills on my own… Practicing the same kata without supervision from the outside is still insanity and masochism. Such trainings require a lot of strength, but the benefits of them are not very noticeable.
But in a year we will have to start a full-fledged sparring… The teacher told us about this at the first lesson in combat training. And somehow I don't want to be behind in class again. Moreover, the next time the rank of laggard will be supplemented by receiving good such cradles from their own classmates. Such a prospect, to be honest. So, something needs to be done with this, too. Moreover, in the very near future, because while I'm fooling around here, most of my classmates train in the clan or under the supervision of their own parents…
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