Asuka walked up and threw his first 3 shurikens, each hitting a bullseye. "Well, that was easy. Let me try 7" Asuka thought to himself. He grabbed the seven and the two ricocheted off each other just barely missing their respective bullseyes.
"ok, I won't try that again till I can master shuriken jutsu. I almost lost my chance to get first" as Asuka pondered.
"Asuka Rito's point tally 10, Next Kakashi Hatake "
fast forward….
First place - Asuka Rito Full marks
Second place - Uchiha Shisui Full marks
Third place - Kakashi Hatake 9 out of 10 hits
Fourth place - Hyuga Jiro 8 out of 10 hits
Fifth place - Takezo Ji 6 out of 10 hits
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"Last place Might Guy, though you do not leave because you ranked first last exam. All of those that managed to hit 0 except Guy may exit to the left and apply again next year" the teacher said
"Ok I just have to win this last event and I'm free," Asuka thought.
"Last exam is a will of fire quiz tested by Lord Third himself, Though he won't be able to check them in person since we unfortunately are at war, which also means no pre enrollment speech this year"
"Will of absolute obedience huh…" Asuka sneered. " I'll just write whatever and make myself look good so Danzo keeps his eye off me and Lord Third keeps his eye on me instead," Asuka thought.
"Find a seat, everyone," the teacher said. Students scrambled to sit once they heard Lord Third would be reviewing their work. "These exams will be about what the will of fire is to you, don't forget everyone has a will of fire"
Without knowing it everyone got to writing, some wrote that the will of fire is when fire style jutsu burns through the sky, some thought it was when candy gets melted but some were special, especially Uchiha Shisui.
"The will of fire is the will to always be the light that a person needs, where we put ourselves second to the village's goals and make sure we protect Konoha from invasions for ourselves and future generations" One has to say this Shisui guy is really a pushover.
Asuka on the other hand, "the will of fire is the will of my ancestors Senju Hashirama's will to put an end to war, use his Power merged with Uchiha Madaras to illuminate the desire to always tell others that no matter how many you may kill, we old folks will burn so the young saplings can grow in perfect conditions"
"That should be enough to get that old man hard," Asuka thought.
After several minutes everyone put down their papers and the teacher picked them up one by one and gave his assistant to hand them over to the Anbu for Lord Third.
"Everyone who got this far automatically gets enrolled but to find out who gets first place you will have to see on the wall when school opens up a week later." the teacher said "Now everyone exit to the right and go meet your parents, See you next week."
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Hokage office, an old man was doing paperwork when an anbu flashed in, dropped some files, and flashed away. "Exams must be over then," he said as he dropped his other work and picked up the files.
He spent the next 4 hours reading over the works until he saw two that caught his eye, one by Shisui Uchiha and one by Asuka Rito. " Takeshi has an outstanding son, he really does understand the will of fire" Hiruzen praised. "And Shisui too.. for an Uchiha he has a great understanding, maybe I can use him to mend the bridge between our two sides."
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Asuka got home and instead of resting he immediately went to the backyard of his house and picked up a water balloon. He wanted to practice the Rasengan before he entered the academy as a way to try and read the book of seals in exchange for an A-rank jutsu.
"Naruto's way of doing it seems the easiest so I'll try his way," Asuka said. He then spent the next 3 days popping the balloon until he finally got it down without popping.
"FINALLY DAMN" Asuka shouted, " Asuka what have I told you about shouting at night?!" Mei said with annoyance "Sorry Mom!" Asuka apologized.
"So now I know 4 jutsu and 2 are offensive hehe," Asuka said happily, but he wanted to test himself out so he decided he would ask his father for a spar first thing in the morning.
The next day Asuka woke his lazy father up and asked for a duel to test himself before he entered class and surprisingly his dad agreed. "Asuka are you ready?" asked Takeshi. "Yes, daddy!" Asuka replied. "ok go!" and before go was even finished Asuka's body flickered behind Takeshi and threw shurikens aimed at Takeshi's back.
Pew pew pew, the speed the shurikens went resembled that of gunshots but that was nothing to a newly promoted kage-level ninja like Takeshi underwent drastic changes when he returned from the mission, and with a cool mind he broke his bottleneck and hit the kage stage of the shinobi way.
The shurikens bounced off his kunai and Takeshi turned to meet two asukas looking at him with a smile that says "I won" but it was never that easy was it?
Fire style - fire dragon jutsu!
Two dragons flew at Takeshi who countered with his own jutsu
Takeshi happened to be shocked but during a fight, there is no room to be shocked at all so he had to lock in.
Water style - water bullets!
The water style completely neutralized the fire dragons and left a misty residue in its wake. Takeshi looked around and caught a glance at his son and prepared another jutsu in his location.
Earth style - Rock spear!
A rock spear shot toward Asuka who took the hit but turned into smoke
"poof" Asuka saw this and called another clone to roll some balls and prepare to unleash the Rasengan but before he could even seal he felt a ting of danger and subconsciously dodged.
Takeshi took the time to create a shadow clone and dig under Asuka with the sole purpose of catching him off his stride and pinning him down but he underestimated his son's awareness.
"Asuka you really aren't going easy on your old man huh" Takeshi said with glee
"Not until I can beat you, old man!" Asuka said before successfully getting the Rasengan to work.
"Time to end this," Asuka thought "Old man u better dodge this one," Asuka said while he rushed to Takeshi.
Takeshi as a hardened ninja would never take a jutsu head-on and subconsciously dodged or so he thought. The Asuka that rushed towards him ended up being a clone and the real Asuka came from his right-hand side and hit takeshi head on with the Rasengan!
Poof! Asuka looked in shock as the "father" that he thought was hit turned out to be a shadow clone too!? But before he could think he felt a cold surface on his neck and stopped moving.
"You won, old man, you won…" Asuka said dejectedly. " your very impressive son. Chunin level strength at the age of 5, my genes are really good haha!" Takeshi said with happiness
"Yeah, but I still couldn't beat you," Asuka said unhappily.
"I'm beyond chunin son, beating me will take longer and who knows maybe I will die on the battlefield before you defeat me" Takeshi explained