บท 17: First Combat Sparring (1)

'Hey Nikko, wake up. Don't slag this much for god sake. Today is your first test and you're still sleeping. Don't say later that I didn't wake you up.' Nikko's mom was trying to wake him up as he always tends to be late for the academy.

'Mom, just 1 minutes more. It's not like that I will miss my work.' Nikko murmurs while trying to extend his sleep.

Hearing this, Nikko's mom pulls his leg and throws him out of the bed as she knows her child is not a person to listen quietly.

Eheerk..Thud…

'Ouch…Mom you don't have to do this every time you know.' Nikko grumpily said to his mom while standing up.

His mom just laughs mockingly at his face and leaves him in his room while reminding him to be ready ASAP and come to the breakfast table.

Nikko went to the bathroom and freshened up. Then the he suddenly remember today is the first combat class of the academy and he wants to personally attend today's class he knows being a prodigal talent will put him into good position and will also make the village to keep himself safe from inner politics as Hidden leaf now need many good seedlings to grow them into powerful shinobi as after the demise of 2nd Hokage Senju Tobirama in 1st Ninja war, they have only Sarutobi Senju and Hatake Sakumo who are Kage Level Shinobi.

After completing his breakfast with mom and dad, Nikko created 4 shadow clones and sent them to his chocolate factory for making chocolate for today and chakra control and cultivation practices. Then he went to the academy in person after 3 long months.

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As soon as Nikko reached the academy, he saw Akimichi Choza complaining of not having any chocolate store inside the academy as he likes chocolate very much. Inoichi was trying to ignore him as this is the regular complaining time for Choza while Shikaku sighs and just continues looking at the clouds from the window.

Nikko avoids them as he wants to sleep more before class starts and grabs his sit which was in the last row.

5 minutes later the chunin instructor comes to the class and announces, 'As you all know today will be your first combat competition. So reach the academy training ground in five minute.'

Hearing the announcement, most children scream happily as this combat competition is the first place where they will fight like a ninja for the very first time. And talented children like Minato and children from big clan Fugaku and Ajima were excited as this will be their first big stage to put their abilities to show in front of many people.

After all the children went to the training ground, chunin instructors put a paper on the board where the children's name and their opponents were written. There were total 12 matches for 24 children.

Minato vs Fugaku

Ajima vs Civilian Brat…

Shikaku vs Kurama Clan Brat..

Choza vs not so important character..

…vs…

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Inoichi vs Nikko..

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Nikko was quite surprised to find that his sparring partner will be Inoichi. In the main timeline, he was a very capable jonin and as the head of his Inoichi clan who were expert in Mind Substitution Jutsu and a very annoying opponents to face and Inoichi is very talented in this aspect even before he joins the academy as he was learning from his dad.

Though Nikko was among the best of his batch and far stronger than Inoichi, he knows that this will be tough fight for him as whenever he loses control of his mind, his fire elemental spirit will take over his consciousness and body and will mess everything in sight.

So Nikko was just hoping to not mess up this time and clench his fist in determination to not lose consciousness and fucked up.