Hikari Uchiha Senju
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A step forward
A step forward
It was just 6 a.m. but a fuss was made in the Accademy corridors and you could sense anxiousness in the air- the day of the gennin exam has arrived! There was so many candidates of all age, there were even younger children than Hitomi. "Wow, they certainly must be so talented to come here at such a young age! Ahaha and they are so tiny! ...ok I shouldn't be this vile. " she thought. And than her mind made a different turn "Oh, no! What if I fail?! Those older kids are so big, they could crush me like a nutshell! Aaaagh, I am to them what these little kids are to me-funny! NOOOOOOOOO! Ok, but I'll love to fight one of the big kids, I could show them what I'm made of!" Than she was interrupted by Ayame squeezing her belly and making funny kawaii noises.
"Gwah!" Was the only thing Hitomi could 'say' at that moment.
"Awww, why are you dozing off Chibi-hii? ARE YOU AFRAID?...because I am." Said Ayame.
" 'Chibi-hii' ? Hehe I feel so silly when you call me like that. WELL I AM TOO!!!"
"Let's cry it off!"
"Yes!!!" So they started pretending to cry and bursted to laughter. And of course, everyone was looking them strangely....which made Ayame blush, but on the other hand Hitomi had felt really nice. "Yes, look at me, your defeater! I am going to ace this test!!! ...or am I? But anyway, keep looking!" she thought.
Just then, couple of senseis came and told everyone to group up within their class and that the test is ready to begin. "Oh, so we are not going to fight with everyone...to bad." Hitomi thought. The students listened the order so everything went down nice, but than the calling out started. Firts person from their class to get tested was Akatui Daisuke, a boy who was believed to be the most talented male student.
" Whish me luck!" He said on his way in the classroom with a clear look of fear on his face (which only made his green eyes even bigger).
Hitomi and Ayame were speculating when would be their turn if they were calling people out by alphabetical order so they didn't even say anything to the boy, only Ayame smiled.
After a while, the senpai came out and had told "Uchiha, you're next!" but Ayame was so caught up in the talking about her last trip with her parents to the mountains that she didn't hear him calling her out and neither did Hitomi...untill the senpai came really close and yelled which made both of them petrif. Than in less then 10 minutes Ayame finished her testing and, as usual, everyone aksed how she went.
" It was ok, I guess." she said "But I can't tell you anything because they told me not to." And than again, was the awful sound of unpleasure.
" Well, they hadn't forbidden you to write, had they?" Said Hitomi with a smile and soon was supported by everyone else.
Than the senpai said: "Whoever reveals any detail of the test before everyone has taken it shall be immediately disqualified. Now, where were we...." than he read the name of some boy and everyone went back to the normal chitchat.
Finally, among the last was Hitomi.
"Tsumi, your turn."
She came in the classroom slowly, as she could barely move her arms and legs. Than, as she was asked to tell her full name and her age, all the fear was gone. She didn't care weather she'll fail or pass, she just wanted to get over with it.
She was than asked to perform some taijutsu and a couple of techniques they have learned just before the test, and in the end, was told to not say anyone what they gave her to do since everyone gets the same tasks. Hitomi nodded and left the classroom swiftly.
In just half an hour, the remaning candidates finished as well so the results were brought up to them. Hitomi was so anxious but didn't want to be among the first ones to see the scores since than there would be a lot of fusd and she probably wouldn't get the chance to see everyone else's scires as well. So she waited, her palms sweating and her blood pressure rising were not the things that were helpful, but she needed to practice self control anyway. When the crowd cleared up, she took a step forward and saw her name was on the top of the list. She couldn't believe her eyes, but there thegscores were. All sorts of things went trough her mind- from denial to pride, but the strongest one was relief. She was now one step closer to her dream! Than she carefully examined everyone else's score. Ayame came in second and a girl named Darra came in third "I'm so glad for them, they deserve their scores...well maybe Darra should have been the best, she was always better than me at throwing shurikens and taijutsu...wonder what went wrong with her." Then she remembered. She hadn't seen Ayame since she had finished her test. She went to check the bathrooms, but she wasn't there, thsn she went to the courtyard, vut not a single trace of Ayame. The situation was screaming awkward! Than as she was leaving se saw her standing by a three with an older girl, she must've been 10 or so. Hitomi decided to just pass by them because she was too shy for meeting that girl, she looked vicious. But Ayame saw her and dragged her to where the older girl was standing.
"Hey, come meet my sister, Mīakyatto." She said.
"Hi, I'm Hitomi." The purple eyed girl said with a smile.
"Nice to meet you. Oh, and you can call me Maī." Was the reply she got. Than Maī hugged her tight so all of her short and spiky dark hair went into her eyes and made them itchy. Finally, the hug ended and Hitomi could tqke a better look at this new acquaintance. Maī was fairly tall and cheerful like her sister, and actually they looked ao alike that if they were the same age the only thing you could differ one from another would be their eyes (Maī's were brown).
"Hey, have the results came out yet?" Ayame asked.
"Yeah they did. You came in the second!" Hitomi answered
"Second?! Well who's the first than? Is it Darra?"
"Nope. She's the third."
"Well than who's first?"
"The one you're asking." Said Hitomi with a smile.
"Really? Than I'm not mad. But if it were Darra, I'd be really pissed, she's so miss-know-it-all!"
Hitomi just smiled. Rhan Maī said ahe needs to take a look at her own results and told Ayame to wait for her.
"Oh, so she didn't finish Accademy yet?" Hitomi asked.
"Nope. She could've tho. She's just waaaaaaaay to sissy." Ayame replied with and eyeroll.
They laughed.
And in that moment Maī came back, she didn't look happy but neither did she came off as sad.
"So, how'd ya do sis?"
Maī's eyes teared and soon two springs erupted. "I DIDN'T PASS!!!! AGAIN!"
"Ahahaha, now there there sis. At least ylu won't be alone next year."
"Huh?"
"Well you know Sasuke is starting next year. Ahaha, maybe they even transfer you to his class!"
"OH YOU LITTLE DEVIL! PREPARE TO DIEEEE!!!1" and so they went home running and screaming leaving Hitomi with a confused look on her face.
When she returne to the mansion, Hitomi did her daily cleanup routine and thanwas ordered to help clean the park near the lake.
She hated going to the lake, not only because pf the stories of ghost-sightings of the Master's late sister, but more because of the bugs she had always found disgusting.
It was dusk when they finished and Hitomi was amazed how fast they actually were this time, usually it took them the whole day. When she was going back to the mansion ahe saw the Mistress praying to the ancestors, she looked so beautiful to Hitomi, like a gift from God himself. ..which he wants to take back too soon.
For almost half a year the Mistress wasn't doing well, she was constantly vomiting and had barely eaten any food, it set the while clan to worry and even the servants, especially Hitomi- she thought of her as an ideal women and mother and to see her slowly die was the hardest thing. As she was walking past the temple, she greeted the Mistress and stopped to ask weather she needed help standing up.
"Oh, no. I'm feeling better today." She replied, and than added " Hitoni, you haven't been taught the Hyuuga family thre?"
"No, Mustress."
"If that's the case, sit beside me. Let me tell you a tail of the light and the darkness. "
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