Chapter 16 - Please, No, Sasuke. You'll die.

Last night, after he defeated the Black Knight, he forgot to level up and allocate his stat points in his stats. He got an idea to level up while they were walking towards where the sparring would take but he changed his mind because, if he does allocate his stat points, his opponent for the session is probably going to die due to his lack of control over his strength.

That's why he's going to do it later when he is alone.

As they reached the flat ground of the back of the school, he saw rusted metal fences around it. As if it hadn't been fixed lately. Even though the land is fine but it's obvious that the school doesn't have that much budget for this year and Hikaru knew he is gonna have a talk with the Third later.

Iruka stood at the middle of the area with Mizuki by his side and announced, "The first to spar is Sakura Haruno and Ino Yamnaka! The two of you, please come forward!"

The students back out towards near the fences, forming a circle. Both Ino and Sakura walk towards the middle before staring at the eyes of each other with a fierce look.

Sakura pointed her finger to Ino and yelled with her childish voice, "Ino Pig! I will win Sasuke-kun's affection after I win this fight!!"

"Bring it on, forehead! Sasuke-kun will be mine after I win this fight of ours!" Ino yelled back with even more vocal.

Iruka sweatdrops at these two, he just sighed and yelled, "Start!"

After that, Hikaru saw one of the most pathetic fights in history. Even though both of them are just children, but for christ's sake, they are here to be a shinobi not to fight like pathetic children. All they did the entire time was just pulling each other's hairs. Iruka-sensei got tired of it, so he just said it was a tie.

Both of them crosses their arms and Sakura said with her annoying banshee like voice, "Hmph, you won't get a tie next time!" And Ino replied, "Same!"

Iruka shook his head while holding it with his right hand. He decided to just announce the next spar.

"The next to spar is between Kiba Inuzuka and Naruto Uzumaki! Please step forward!"

Both Naruto and Kiba walks forward towards the center. Kiba put on his fighting form and said, "You won't win loser! Just give up!"

Naruto put on her front and replied, "I won't give up until I become the Hokage! No matter what!"

Iruka, again, shook his head and thought, 'Kids, please, don't take this sparring too seriously! It's just a damn spar!" Truth be told, he was already close to having a mental breakdown because of these children. Why did he ever choose to be an academy teacher, he'll never know.

"Start!" Iruka yelled before backing off, so he could not disturb their spar.

This time, Hikaru watched Naruto's fight attentively. He wanted to know if she is strong for her age and immediately found out that she was not. Sure, she could be better than some thugs but that's it. Meanwhile, Kibe here beat her like nothing. Seriously, Hokage-dono should've hired a teacher for her taijutsu style. Speaking of Taijutsu, he really needs a teacher for that. He needs taijutsu because if he wanted to fight enemies in the -Challenge- option, then he needs a fighting style.

As he kept thinking about it, he didn't realize that the time had passed and now it was his turn to spar with someone.

Iruka, on the other hand, dreaded letting Hikaru spar with the other children. He still remembered that day vividly, that cold voice, that vicious strike. He just wished for Sasuke to win, he is his best bet right now. That's right, he will put Sasuke and Hikaru together to spar. This is his only way for Hikaru to avoid other students from sparring with him.

"Sasuke Uchiha and Hikaru Hiroaki-kun, please step forward!"

Both Sasuke and Hikaru walk to the middle of the area to fight. While Hikaru just wants to end this as fast as possible, Sasuke here really wants to fight him.

That day, when he beat up those third years, Sasuke saw it. He is strong, stronger than him, that's why he is going to be his rival. A stepping stone for him, perhaps. But he could forget all of that because Hikaru is destined to be stronger than anyone in this world and any other world. That is if he could grow up, which he isn't right now.

Sasuke pointed at Hikaru with his left hand and said with a crazed look on his face, "Hikaru! You will be given the honor to be my rival! I will use you as my stepping stone to kill Itachi!"

His fangirls then squealed in lovestruck.

"Kya! Sasuke-kun is so cool!"

"Sasuke-kun, I love you!"

"Yeah! Beat that stupid Hikaru to the ground!" This one was Sakura.

Then, Hikaru said as plainly as possible, "Ah, no thanks."

"Huh?"