At the end of all things, there is a waiting room.
It's fairly typical, as these things go. Thin, scratchy carpet. Fish tank with still fish. Old gossip magazines. Incredibly uncomfortable chairs. The low buzz of a television or radio or something somewhere else, words indistinguishable. No windows, no clock, no door, and the receptionist's desk was shuttered.
This one's a bit special, though.
Kouji starts making leaves shoot away from the top of his hand, this is great fun! Giggly times are had until it is time to go home.
He'll get some flower petals and leaves stuck in his hair courtesy of Sakura.
Naruto's waiting at home, pouting.
"Where were you?" he whines after welcoming Kouji home.
“I met someone at the library and then I went to her house afterwards to ask her dad how to do chakra! Look!” And Kouji keeps a leaf stuck to his hand when it is upside down, then sends it flying off when its is right side up.
And so Kouji sits down and teaches him as best he can, Naruto has a lot of chakra so he might not have good enough control, or he might just blow up the leaf who knows what will happen!?.
Naruto sets the first leaf on fire.
Flings the second across the room.
Fails to stick the third.
“Thats okay Naruto! Doing anything at all with Chakra is really cool! Maybe try and practice setting things on fire or flinging them on purpose? That could be super useful, like making a campfire or shooting kunai. Fire practice stays outside though.”
Kouji hopes by encouraging him he can get Naruto to not be dissuaded from practicing so he does better at controlling Chakra by graduation than he does in the manga.
“I heard that if you have lots and lots of Chakra that small things like this are really hard, but you can do really big things easier, maybe you have a lot of Chakra?”.
Kouji knows Naruto does, but there is no reasonable way to explain How he knows that, so has to be all misleading about it. He doesn’t want to mislead naruto.
“I am sure youll find some jutsu that suits you well, or just practice alot to make your control of little tiny things better”.
Kouji wants to keep shooting leaves until bedtime but doesnt want to make Naruto feel bad. “Plus you are way better than me at fighting, we can cover each others weaknesses.”
Well...Kouji tried to cheer Naruto up, time to go to bed.
Kouji adds practising with Chakra and trying to teach Naruto how to control it to his usual schedule. He sometimes sees sakura in the library and enjoys chatting to her about what they've read. He buys more appliances for the apartment and gets better at cooking for two with unfamiliar pseudo-Japanese recipes.
He waits for the first day of school.
School's pretty soon, luckily.
The entrance ceremony is long and boring and it'll be a challenge keeping Naruto from disrupting it, but then class starts!
Is it useful class? Or class for 7 year olds who know nothing? Kouji might rest his head on his desk if it is boring and remember earth movies or practice sticking paper to his hand with chakra.
If it is useful and interesting he will pay attention and seem like a good student.
It's currently just going over the syllabus. They seem to assume students can already read, write, and do math to a certain level.
The eight classes are:
-Home room. Mostly learning more math, reading, and writing at first, and assorted random skills like ciphers as time goes on.
-First aid. Basic safety things first.
-Survival. They'll be starting with identification of plants and animals.
-Civics. This seems to cover history, government, geography, and social studies, all in one.
-Infiltration. They'll learn how to act, assorted skills for different professions, how to read people... At first it'll mostly be more of a mixture of 'crafts' and 'theatre' though.
-Weapons. They'll be starting with safety, but moving on fairly quickly to throwing shuriken and sparring with staves.
-Physical education. This covers taijutsu, running, rope courses, moving over unstable ground...
-Chakra. This will be mostly meditation exercises and theory at first.
Classes are split into two blocks of four each, held on alternating days. They have Saturdays off, and are in school Sunday through Friday. Block one, today, is home room, first aid, survival, and physical education. Block two, starting tomorrow, is civics, infiltration, chakra, and weapons.
The syllabus has them moving pretty quickly, for seven year olds.
This all seems very useful! Except home room for now, he was in a top tier boarding school until he ran away at 16, he has got math down, and is probably ahead of other kids in reading for now.
First aid seems very important and is a model student in first aid class, and he makes Naruto pay attention in this class in particular, this could save someones life!.
He tries to be a good student in infiltration but acting is very hard when he has to work at talking clearly and looking like he actually cares about people he doesnt care about.
Weapon safety, very important, hangs onto the teachers every word.
He is far ahead of the other children in Taijutsu besides Naruto and the clan trained kids due to his practice from a young age, but the other kids will catch up since he learns physical things more slowly.
Meditating in Chakra class is boring! He agrees with Naruto on this one, he would rather actually use his chakra to do things like sneakily stick paper to himself or shoot paper notes at Naruto with chakra when the teachers arent looking.
Kouji wonders when he will meet Iruka sensei, maybe he only teaches the older classes?.
Most students aren't good at acting, or meditating, and a lot of the other stuff. Even the clan kids are notably better, but not amazing.
The kids here are recognizable - Sakura will quickly worm her way in to their study groups, and is clearly being bullied, Ino is friends with a gaggle of girls, Chouji and Shikamaru hang out a long, Kiba doesn't have his dog yet, Shino and Hinata both sit off on their own, and Sasuke...
Is actually a shy, somewhat cheerful, somewhat gentle child. Not the cold, stand-offish jerk memorable from the anime.
And when he sees sasuke he totally remembers why sasuke was a cold standoffish jerk in the anime.
Oh shit, oh fucking christ on a christmas cracker, SASUKE. THE UCHIHA MASSACRE.
Fuck Fuck Fuck I am in time to stop it, I have to stop it now I know it hasnt happened yet. I cant just let it happen.
No. Calm down Kouji you have time to fix this, you have a while before it happens. Do not freak out.
And now he just has to stop Danzo, The Uchiha elders, and Itachi the child prodigy that makes anbu team leader at 13 from fucking everything to hell, great...just great.
“Something bad is going to happen...and until I learn genjutsu I can’t safely tell you what...And I have to figure out how to stop it and I’m only 7!” All his ideas seem dangerous or stupid or half baked and it is stressing him out.
Kouji is pretty sure the hokage wouldnt act against Danzo for something he might not even have planned yet, and would be an incredible risk of getting thrown into interrogation and torture.
”I really cant tell him, he might make things worse...adults always want to meddle.”
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