Your first day in the Academy wasn’t really how you wanted it to be.

First off, you were running late because you overslept, too tired from the night training session you had with your mother. She didn’t even go easy on you unlike the other times she trained with you.

Your mother kept throwing punches after punches and kicks after kicks. You barely had time to counter her attacks. She kept you on the defensive for a while with how fast she was moving. It was after the second hour when you got tired from dodging each blow she tried to land on you. Or was it the third hour? You lost track of time.

Eventually she got your guard down and landed a powerful hit on your gut before she stabbed you with a kunai on your leg. You remember feeling how painful it was but you didn’t give up just yet so when she jumped out after stabbing you, you quickly did the Lightning Release: Four Pillar Bind jutsu.

Just as you did the last hand sign for the jutsu, four rock pillars raised from the ground where she landed, shooting bolts of lightning towards the surrounding area. It effectively immobilized your mother and it bought you time to compose yourself. She got electrocuted once or twice. But that didn’t stop her, she countered it by using Wind Release: Assassin’s Rush technique which forcefully destroyed the rock pillars and propelled her to your direction. 

With the technique, she was moving extremely fast towards your direction, the only problem was that she wouldn’t be able to change directions, otherwise, she would lose the speed. Just as she was about to reach you, you instantly made a Mud Wall. You were aware that with that speed, it would only break, but it would also decrease her momentum. Just as she crashed into the Mud Wall, you leap out of the way.

With the impact from the crash, she wasn’t able to get up as fast as she wanted to. This gave you time to use the Water Style: Ripping Torrent. The thing was, she used the Flying Raijin technique then. Despite that, however, she still got hit although it was only minimal damage. It was way past midnight when that happened and she declared the training session over.

You rushed to her side to check up on the damage from your attacks. Fortunately, not much damage was done so you made quick work in healing her. When you were done, your mother checked up on you.

“I think I overdid it.” She cringed as her hands glowed green.

You knew how much damage you sustained from her attacks being a medical nin yourself. A cracked rib, internal bruising in your abdominal area, a huge gash on your leg. You were treated by your mother, but there’s only so much medical ninjutsu can do. Your body won’t heal overnight, you were quite aware of it. But you assured your mother you’ll be fine.

Before even going to the Academy, you had to report to the Hokage first. You arrive five minutes late. What took most of your time was bandaging your abdominal area and your leg. The new set of clothes your mother got you consisting of a sleeveless crop top and shorts didn’t even hide the bandages. It made you a little bit frustrated, which added a few minutes to your usual preparation time. Not to mention you’re limping.

You run as fast as your limping leg could allow. You couldn’t help but think that if you had marked the Hokage’s Office, you wouldn’t have been so late.

You bowed immediately after entering the room, apologizing for being late.

Rather than being disappointed with your tardiness, Tsunade gets startled by your appearance. “What happened to you?”

When you meet her eyes, you deduce that she’s referring to your bandaged body. You rub your neck and give her an awkward smile, “Me and my mother got a little carried away with our training.”

She stands from her seat and checks on your condition. “Oh, you’re healing yourself right now?”

“Huh? I’m— I-I wasn’t aware?” Your response came out like a question.

She raises her left eyebrow. “You sustained a lot of damage, I can tell. Normally, these types of injuries limit one’s movement. It’s surprising you can even run, but then again you have your medical ninjutsu. Anyway, you’re healing nicely. At this rate I’d say your broken rib will heal in three days time instead of the usual 6-8 weeks period. But I suggest you don’t do any training for the meantime. There’s a high possibility of your chakra getting depleted if you’re unconsciously healing yourself.”

“I understand.”

Tsunade then calls in a man with brown hair tied in a ponytail. He also has a scar across the bridge of his nose. “Now Michiko, meet Iruka. He’ll be one of your instructors in the Academy.”

“It’s nice to meet you Mr. Iruka. Please call me Y/N.”

Iruka shakes your hand and returns your warm greeting. “Ah, that’s a little bit too formal. Iruka sensei is fine.”

Tsunade dismisses both of you after she relays her expectations on you.

Iruka then shows you around the Academy first all while explaining the curriculum to you. Everything in the curriculum has pretty much been taught to you already but you don’t say it out loud. The only thing that has you curious is History. You’re eager to know more about the Hokages, most especially your great grandfather.

When he’s done showing you around, he leads you to your classroom. In the room were children aged five to eight year olds, reading from their textbooks. Iruka introduces you to the whole class and the standard class begins.

Your first day in the Academy is rather uneventful. You learned nothing new, but you still listened to the discussion anyway. Most of the kids were half-asleep or weren’t really listening.

In fact, there were some even gossiping behind you. Funnily enough, they were guessing why you were attending the Academy at your age. One assumed it was because you at being a ninja that you got dropped out from different Academies. The other one said that you kept failing the final exam so you weren’t allowed to graduate. All valid assumptions but it sounds ridiculous to you nonetheless. Despite being the subject of gossip, you couldn’t help but