Hope for Light

Chapter 5: Comrades 「仲間」

Fun Fact: Akimichi Clan is one of the noble clan in Konoha, alongside with the Aburame, the Hyuuga, and the Uchiha Clan. The Yamanaka clan is not included and even the Senju clan is not either. I don't know what Kishimoto was thinking when he let that information out :(

Okay, let's get into the story!

Chapter 5: Comrades

Shikamaru was glad. He was so glad that he didn't say 'troublesome' for the entire day. He managed to not graduate early, even though he was moved to a class that was full of students that were two years older than him. He didn't complain because Chouji was with him, and his calculation was correct when he answered the test with the accuracy of 80% right answers. His goal, once he thought of Chouji, was to be in the same class as him.

Let it be said that he and Chouji entered the Academy at a different age. Everyone can enter their children at any time, even in peacetime. The decision was entirely up to the parents or the guardian. Once the parents entered their children, it was up to the teachers to see if they were ready or not to be in the Academy, with the help of academy entrance tests.

Unfortunately, Shikamaru was lazy. His parents thought it would be best to wait until he was six, the standard age to enter. Chouji was four when he entered (Shikamaru still can't wrap his head around that one. How could Chouza-san entered his child at that age was beyond him) and that made Chouji a target at bullying, especially with his rather large build.

When Shikamaru 'saved' Chouji from the bullies and befriended him, he was disappointed, to say the least. His first friend was in a different class, and that brought out a new level of laziness to Shikamaru for days. He moped about it, and the reason was somehow known to his mother. At first, he didn't want to take the test because he assumed they were a graduation test, out of laziness, but then he remembered Chouji and decided to save himself from his mother's wrath because he would waste her efforts if he didn't at least try to move up a few grades.

That was how he was in front of a new class with an uninterested look on his face.

"I'm Nara Shikamaru," he introduced himself. He briefly enjoyed the irritated expression of his teacher when he purposely let out a big yawn. "Nice to meet you all."

With a chorus of 'nice to meet you too' from his new classmates, he was off to find his own seat. Of course, he chose the seat beside Chouji, where else would he sit next to? It was empty, so he didn't need to 'coax' someone to sit somewhere else.

Tashiro shook his head at Shikamaru's behavior. It was rude but he let it go for the sake of his appearance and he didn't want to be near the 'Kyuubi' brat, that was seated beside the honorable Akimichi Chouji and somehow lost his composure in front of two clan heirs.

"Okay, let's begin, class. Open the page 88 about elemental natures..."

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Tsunade felt her patience running thin since her patient just won't stop moving and talking even after being told to not move five or so times already.

For someone nicknamed Shunshin no Shisui and feared across the five elemental countries (including Hi no Kuni), he surprisingly had a little phobia about hospital, and doctors in general (something about the boy's father died of an illness in the hospital a few years back, but Tsunade couldn't care less, her parents were dead in the battlefield, and that was worse in Tsunade's opinion).

"Shut up and stay still!" Tsunade growled out as she gripped the boy's shoulders tightly, her eyes giving a menacing glare, obviously didn't have the patience for the boy's antics anymore.

Feeling an impending death was near if he didn't obey (he felt an incredible pain from the way Tsunade griped his shoulders, and certainly felt the glare even though his eyes were closed), Shisui relented as he shut his mouth tightly and stopped moving, albeit rigidly. He was only ramblings anyway.