Chapter 26 - 24

On top of the rooftop of the shinobi academy, you can see two auras clashing to each other.

Kakashi feels like this soon going to be his cute little student is looking down on him, and he can't have that. He released the pressure of his chakra stronger than before, and he bared it down on Hikaru.

But under all that pressure, Hikaru just jumped down from the ledge and stood up easily on the ground of the rooftop. He stared at Kakashi and wondered how will he fair against his own chakra pressure. He decided to release 50% of it and tried to see what would happen.

As soon as he bared his Chakra onto Kakashi, Kakashi instantly felt the ground crack underneath him. He tried to fight it back but it was too strong and he slowly felt his body breaking under the pressure.

'What power! Hokage-sama did indeed told me he is strong, but not this strong! I feel like I'm standing in front of a live Kage!' Kakashi thought under all that pressure.

Hikaru decided to stop it and stopped all the pressure coming from him in an instant. Kakashi felt instantaneous relief as he felt all the pressure disappearing.

But under all this, Hikaru couldn't help but be surprise at this man's willpower. Normal Jonins wouldn't have been able to stand up, yet this man endured all that pressure while standing up. This man is worth a praise!

Kakashi cleared his mind a little before looking towards Hikaru.

"You're strong, incredibly so. But that warrants my suspicion on you, 3 years is not enough time to get this strong. So what are you? An enemy? Or an ally?" Kakashi asked him in his suspicion as he narrowed his eyes at Hikaru.

Hikaru wasn't surprised that Kakashi would asked him of this. He knew for a fact that his mere existence in this village is suspicious. He knew that, for his first year in this village, many Yamanaka had been sent by the Hokage to his and Azumi's house to check on his memory. It may not have been that obvious at first, but as time goes by, he slowly felt their presence. He was worried at what they would find out, so he talked about this with the Third Hokage, and he was surprised at what the old man told him. They did get a information on his head, and that was the "memories" of him being in Lordran.

In those "memories", he was a peasant along with his family. In that world, he loved to read stories about the legends of the world. On how Gwyn won the war against the dragons, how the hero Artorias defeated the Father Of The Abyss, Manus at the cost of his life.

This is also why they didn't doubt him when it comes to his story about Lordran, the system already made his "memories" according to his story. Though, he should admit that he was a fool for telling them the story about Lordran. He should've never told them to begin with. Such a foolish mistake.

Anyway, they believed them because of that. End of story.

Hikaru simply smiled at Kakashi and he did a simple bow of respect as he said, "I'm neither of that, for I am simply a comrade of this village."

Kakashi widened his eyes at his response for his question, and then he smiled underneath his masked and muttered, "I see..."

Suddenly, the door on the rooftop opened, revealing Azumi, Sakura, and Sasuke. The two seemed to be tired, you can see that from their sweats, while Azumi seems to be quite energetic.

*Ha* *Ha* *Ha* "Such disgrace from an Uchiha like me. Why am I so tired from just climbing up the stairs?" Sasuke said haggardly as he sat in the middle of the rooftop, along with the other two.

'Cha! Why am I so tired?! I looked pathetic in front of Sasuke-kun! I should diet more than I would so Sasuke-kun would look at me more!' Sakura just being an idiot.

'That wasn't even a warm up! Hikaru-kun would always make me train my physical body until I was tired!' Azumi thought smug as she saw her other teammates being so exhausted. She looks at Hikaru, who is behind Kakashi, and thought, 'But Hikaru-kun... he is on a different level.'

Kakashi looks directly at them and eye smiled before saying, "Hello, my cute little students. First, let us introduced ourselves! You first pinky."

'Hmm, he's quick at changing his phase.' Hikaru thought.

"Don't call me pinky! But could you elaborate a little?" Pinky said.

"Elaborate on what?" Kakashi asked, confused.

" Can you elaborate on how to introduce ouselves? You know, like giving an example?"

*facepalm!*

Hikaru couldn't help but facepalm at the sheer idioticness of this girl.

'And she's the smartest kunoichi of the year? Even my three year old sister knows how to introduce herself!'

"O-okay, alright I'll introduce myself as an example." He flinched slightly at the idiotic question of that girl, "I am Hatake Kakashi. I have a lot of hobbies, I like Icha-icha and other things. I hate people who don't know the greatness of Icha-icha. My goal right now is to get the latest icha-icha paradise volume. That's it. Now, you Pinky."

She shyly looks at Sasuke and said, "I am S-Sakura Haruno. I have many hobbies, but the one I like the most is just staring at Sasuke-kun all day, " Sasuke fidgets as he felt the perverted stare of Sakura, "I like Sasuke-kun and makeups. I hate Ino-pig and Azumi! My goal is to have lots, and lots of babies with Sasuke_kun!"

Sasuke started moving away from his spot, just to get away from Sakura but she tried moving in the same direction as him.

'Wow, what a fangirl. I did have fangirls at the academy but I never had as worst as this one.' Hikaru couldn't help but feel sorry for Sasuke.

"Next, blondy over there, " Kakashi pointed his finger at Azumi.

"Yo! I'm Uzumaki Azumi! My hobbies are going out with Hikaru-kun, training with Hikaru-kun, and shopping with Hikaru-kun! I like Teuchi and Ayame, being with Hikaru-kun, ramens that Teuchi would give me and Hikaru-kun, and sleeping with Hikaru-kun all night!" That last part triggered some suspicion from Kakashi. While Hikaru is sweating from all the words Azumi spoke that could easily get misunderstood. "I hate how cup ramen takes 3 minutes to prepare, and I really hate those worthless girls going near my Hikaru-kun!" She said that last part darkly with extreme venom. " My goal is to be the next Hokage and becoming Hikaru-kun's wife!"

It seems like Hikaru has larger problem than Sasuke over there...

"N-next, Broody over there, " Kakashi pointed at Sasuke.

"I'm Uchiha Sasuke. I don't have any hobbies, I don't particularly like anything, I hate almost everything, but I have a goal, and that is to revive the Uchiha Clan and kill a certain man. I will make all of these a reality!" Sasuke said darkly while Sakura squealed on how cool he was.

'Great, a fangirl, an obsessed girl, and an emo kid. But not only that! He also added a goddamn overpowered kid! Does Hokage-sama hate me that much!?" Kakashi grumbled and complained in his mind.

(Meanwhile, In The Hokage Office)

"Hahahahah! Serves him right. That's what he gets for being so late for the meetings!" Hiruzen laughed at the man's misery through his magical crystal ball while smoking his pipe.

(Back On The Rooftop)

All of the soon to be Genins sat in front of Kakashi as they listened what he is going to explain.

"Hmm, you four have diferrent personalities, I like that. Alright, tomorrow we will start going to a mission, " Kakashi said.

"What kind of mission is that, sensei?" Sakura raised her hand to asked.

"First, we will do what you four can do, " except Hikaru that is, "We will be doing a survival training."

"Hah? We've already done plenty of training back in the academy, " Sakura said.

"This is no ordinary training, " Kakashi replied.

"Then, then what kind of training is it?" Azumi asked excitedly.

"Hehehe, " Kakashi snickered.

"Hey, what's so funny, sensei?" Sakura asked.

"Well, if I were to say this, I'm sure you guys are going to be surprise." Then, his tone changed, "Out of 27 that passed the academy, only 9 will become a Genin. The other 18 will be sent back to the academy. In other words, this training is going to be a very hard test with a dropout chance of 66%."

"What!?" Azumi reacted very surprised.

"What!? That's so unfair! What did we spent 4 years in the academy for?!" Sakura stood up and yelled. 'I need to pass this test, or else I'll be seperated from Sasuke-kun! This a trial of love, right!' She thought.

Sasuke stayed silent but you can sense nervousness of off him.

Hikaru stayed laid back because he knew very well that this was going to happen.

Kakashi turned around to leave but not before saying, "This meeting is now over. Tomorrow we will meet at the third training ground at 7 am of the morning, sharp. Also, just an advice, don't eat any breakfast tomorrow, you will throw up."

With that, he left his students, via shunshin, alone. As they dispersed, Hikaru couldn't help but think about his fight with Artorias tonight. That fight, he is going all out. He will even bring the dragon head stone and the dragon torso, though he will only use it when he's almost weakened. Because being a dragon in the dark souls system, you literally turn into a dragon. Not a damn wendigo like thing, a REAL dragon that has wings and stuff. But it has a time limit and a waiting time. He can turn into a dragon for 10 minutes but the waiting time is 10 hours.

He just hopes he can defeat Artorias by tonight.