Ways to become a Hokage

~CHAPTER 31: I'll be back~

It had been three hours now, since Sarada had been given a weird pill that magically erased all her weariness and brought back her colour, literally. She'd showered and changed back to her previous clothes, which Ava said she'd washed dry. Sarada hadn't believed her at first, because she hadn't taken long at all. But the state of her clothes said otherwise, they were spotlessly clean. Sarada assumed it was magic, again.

Miss Ileana had left after they'd eaten. Saying she had to take care of Kenta's case, which Sarada had thanked her repeatedly for. There really were some angels in this world, weren't there? She'd asked Sarada to remain with Ava until she returned, so here she was, on Ava's bed, sitting comfortably as Ava spilt all her exciting stories.

Miss Ileana had been quite right, about Ava and her getting along well. Ava was amazing, she reminded Sarada an awful lot of Cho-Cho. She talked about how guys would catcall her from below her window when her mom was away, and how she still hadn't found any guy good-looking enough for her. And now Sarada was listening to her speak about school. "It's fun on most days but, you know, but when we have too many commerce periods on a single day it can be frustrating"

Sure, Konoha's academy did teach economics, business and accounting. But they were mostly at the beginner's level, as most of them who wanted to be ninjas wouldn't require it much. Sarada thought otherwise and closely followed on the skill and education system they provided for most ANBU Black-ops because that was the hard stuff. So, she'd studied all their subjects in detail and written many examinations for them, mostly during Boruto's training leave.

"I don't understand though..." Sarada placed a finger on her chin, "how come you still go to school?" didn't they normally graduate at thirteen?

"What do you mean?" Ava asked, raising an eyebrow.

"When do you graduate?"

"Oh, I have a year more to graduate, we graduate at 17, and then go to University, then get a job or something" Ava explained.

"When do you train then?" Sarada asked, realising with such a packed schedule, they would have much time for training.

"Train?" Ava smiled, "I'm not going to join the army or anything, why would I have to train? I mean sure, I do a little exercise now and then to keep my body in shape, but that's that"

"You—you don't train...?" Sarada then realised that she was in another world, a world where magic was possible, they probably had different ways of doing things. "Oh... I see. So do they teach magic at school?"

"Oh, yeah" Ava replied, her eyes lighting up at the topic. "That's the only reason I'm still going to school. Magic classes are the best, it seems like the only stuff that'll help in real life"

"I understand" Sarada muttered, so instead of chakra, here they used magic. "So, they teach spells and stuff?"

"Yeah mostly, but you know" Ava raised her hand and fire erupted on her palm. She grinned, "I learn some things on my own"

"Why?" Sarada asked, trying to look impressed at Ava's fire. A part of her screamed 'piece of cake' but she ignored it. "Don't they teach that in your school?"

"Huh" Ava closed her palm and the fire extinguished. "They only teach the same basic spells over and over again, it's so easy, I don't know how my class still can't get the hang of it. They taught us Telekinesis this year, that was fun until it became easy as well"

Sarada smiled at Ava, "I knew someone like you. One of my old friends in the academy was just as blessed with intellect and talent. He found most of the stuff in the academy basic, he was so annoying, even though he was right. You're most likely a natural, that's probably the case"