The Huntress

Chapter 8

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  The next day, a Sunday, Ilya woke up at her usual time of dawn. She went through her regular morning routine, showering, getting dressed, and eating the flavourless wheat cereal. It was halfway through the bowl that she really woke up and remembered she had to appear at the academy to be assigned to her classroom and meet her teacher. And Kiba promised he'd be there to pick her up after and she blushed at the thought of yesterday then pushed it down.

  Ilya stood and put her bowl in the sink, then walked to her room to grab her sweater and cloak. She decided last minute to look for her knife, not having needed it the past week, she grabbed it out of the drawer on the nightstand by her bed and strapped it onto her thigh. Ilya mimed grabbed the handle a few times and adjusted where the knife sat against her leg. She probably wouldn't need it but never hurts to be prepared.

  "Aaaand I just jinxed myself," she muttered to the empty house. She heaved a sigh as she sat on the bed and pulled on her boots, zipping them up and then tying the laces tight. She slipped a smaller kunai knife into her boots, they had a special sheathe on the inside just for this, and stood. She pulled her hood up over her head and walked out of the apartment doors, locking the door and making her way to academy grounds.

There were no lessons today, being a Sunday, but the teachers were still in the building, grading papers giving extra lessons to a select few, so on and so forth. Her teacher was going to be waiting for her when she got there so at least she wouldn't get lost. She waved idly to the few people she knew as she walked along the roads, giving polite smiles to those that know of her and said hello, and purposely ignored the ones that would curse at her blond friend.

  As she neared the academy she spotted a figure standing by the gate and as she walked closer she supposed it was her teacher. Medium height, medium build, tan skin, brown hair pulled back into a ponytail and a hitae-ite proudly shown on his forehead and a scar across his nose. He was wearing the same dull green vest that Genma wears, a sign of anyone above genin. He spotted her and waved her over.

"Hey, you're Ilya, right?" He asked as she drew close enough and she nodded. "Nice to meet you then, I'm Umino Iruka and I'll be your teacher until you graduate." He gave her a smile at the end and she nodded at him and his smile fell a little bit he quickly covered it up by gesturing his arm wide in front of the gates, "well, welcome to the Ninja Academy, Ilya."

Ilya gave a small smile up at the man and he grinned right back. He pointed out the offices, all the bathrooms, emergency exits, and everything else important that she would need to know as they walked to his classroom. "There'll just be a paper test before we can properly admit you into class tomorrow," he said as he unlocked his classroom door and slid it open.

  "Of course," Ilya said as she stepped in behind the man. He walked over to a desk and grabbed a sheaf of papers from the top of a pile and handed it to her and gestured at the room for her to sit.

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  After she finished writing the test she handed the papers to Iruka who graded it quickly on the spot and smiled up at her "alright Ilya, I'll see you tomorrow."

  Ilya beamed at the man through her small smile and bid him a goodbye before she walked out to a waiting Kiba and Akamaru. Iruka glanced out the window and gave a fond smile at two of his students, on second thought, three of his students. Ilya had been there waiting for Kiba to get out of class every day this past week, now he was waiting for her and soon they'd simply be leaving together. Unless she made new friends but nonetheless his ship will sail.