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It was a cool morning that promised a new adventure for Aikawa. It was his first day starting at the academy and he was filled with both excitement and uneasiness as he knew he would be one of the older students to take this class. As he made his way down to the academy he noticed many other kids younger than him waiting outside the school with their parents, all fidgeting and avoiding eye contact with each other. Clinging to their parents as they were about to be on their own.

He wondered if he too would have been that way with his parents had he started at the same time. Smiling to himself he continued towards the doors to the academy and entered seeing even more kids and teachers all much more confident in their attitude and even seeing a few kids around his age. He felt a sigh of relief exit from himself unconsciously as he was a lot more confident in taking this course.

Being apart of the Aburame clan meant he had to uphold their way of life while in the public. He knew that they would always be watching him and honestly that did not bother him very much. He was always a hard worker and his clan really seemed to love him so as long as he continued to work hard he was not too worried about disappointing them. He walked up towards the teacher sitting at the table with papers in front of her and grabbed a sheet. It was a list of names and what classroom they would be in as well as the teacher they would have for their time here.

“Room 103, Teacher is… Daima Aburame!” He was even more excited as he knew this person. It was a family friend of his who taught him most of what he knows now. He put the paper down and walked towards his new classroom. Opening the door he saw a few other students had already made it in and where relaxing with each other. Talking and getting to know one another. They would all pause and look at Aikawa as he opened the door. A few would wave and smile and call him over.

They talked about all kinds of things from games they played to movies they watched as well as what kind of ninja they wanted to be. Aikawa really enjoyed himself.

The day was new and Kanna had woken up on the right side of the bed. With the lack of sleep she had been getting due to the Academy day starting soon, she was glad she was able to sleep somewhat today. She started getting ready for her first day at the Academy, her bugs flitting around her as they greeted her. Kanna grins, saying bye to her parents before she heads out to the Academy.

Kanna hurries to the Academy grounds, a little bit nervous since she's older than most kids that first start at the Academy but she knew that she was someone who could help the younger students get more aquainted with the classes.. She sees lots of kids clinging to their parents and smiles a little. Kanna takes a deep breath as she enters through the Academy doors and looks around., taking note of everything around her. She sees even a few kids her age which makes her so relieved she knew that her friend was joining at the same time and wondered if he slept in again this time?

Kanna wanders to the teacher sitting with papers in front of her. She takes a sheet that lists names of who is in what class and scans the page until she sees her name. "Alright, so Room 103! Looks like Daima Aburame is my teacher. At least it's a fellow clan member!" She says to herself as she heads to the classroom after she set the sheet down. She is glad that it is someone who is familiar to her and not a complete stranger. Kanna opens the door to the classroom and heads to a seat.

She waves at whoever waves back at her and chats with anyone who wants to talk with her. After talking with some kid she did notice a familiar black haired kid and grins to herself. She walks up to him during the class as they all get to know one another and giggled. "So you didn't sleep in this time! Even beat me to the classroom." the other students talked about what kind of ninja they all wanted to be and she noticed she was only one of the few that wanted to go in the medical field. Kanna definitely enjoyed herself and felt more at ease knowing that she wasn't the only older kid in the room and it was nice seeing clan members in the same class as her.

He notices Kanna and smiles back to her joke. "Yea this time I was able to get out of bed. I was buzzing with excitement so I struggled to sleep before hand. I am glad we are in the same class and did you see we have a familiar teacher!" He went to sit at his assigned seating and waited for the teacher to show up. He was excited to learn about what the classes would entail. he was nervous for the most part but he knew that if he was going to be a ninja he was going to need to go through this as fast as he could so he could start showing off his clan to the village.

Waiting for the teacher he fidgeted a bit here and there and looked as the other kids kept talking up until the final moment the teacher showed up. Opening the door with his bugs he entered gracefully and quietly almost to the point where if you were not looking you would not have even seen him enter. the kids all slowly started quieting down as they realized he entered. Once he joined he began introducing himself and talking about the course.

Aikawa had a large grin on his face as he heard more and more about the things he would be training on. He had been learning these things in his spare time at the compound so it seemed like a lot of this would be easy to learn personally. He made a note of everything they would be going over. Working on jutsu and hand signs, the understanding of Taijutus and hand to hand combat, an understanding of where we came from and what we stand for, a test when we feel we are ready to determine how prepared we are for the final test and then a recap of everything leading to understanding the kind of ninja we are and what we are required to do as ninja. So much to go over and most of it being stuff that he had trained in earlier as an aburame clan memeber.

Kanna giggles at him and nods. "Can't blame you for having a hard time sleeping. I slept good for once! And yes, I did see our teacher is familiar to us. Honestly, it's nice that we know the teacher." She smiles happily as he left to sit as his own seat and she waits for the teacher to show up. She was a little nervous for class to start but she had studied alot not to mention all the training she had with the Aburame clan.

She glances at the door when the teacher walks in and notices the bugs quietly skittering around him. He definitely had more of a quiet entrance compared to what she expected other teachers would do. The other kids started quieting down as they realized the teacher was here. Kanna leans forward as the teacher introduces himself and explains what the course would be like. She takes notes of what the course will be about, knowing it will be good to look back on later.

Kanna smiles happily as she makes notes of all the different things they will be training on. Taijutsu is one area where she struggles on, partly cause she wasn't very strong. Her strengths definitely was more with chakra control and learning jutsus. She puts stars on her notes next to things she really needs to work on as the teacher recaps about being a ninja. It is a good thing her clan did train her in quite a bit of these things which would make it easier for her to work on areas that she isn't very good at.

Listening to the teacher it looked to him like taijutsu would be the first thing they would be practicing. He was trained in it to an extent but he was not really that great with it although some of the clan members explained that it helps with landing bugs. He was not interested in physically touching targets he had ideas of his own. Something to do with puppets after seeing a traveling puppet master in town a few years ago. He would practice taijutsu though in order to help his puppets act more normal in melee combat. He looked to Kanna and nodded to her. "Wanna be my partner for the training?" He would ask hoping to practice with someone else who was not very skilled in it. Maybe he could take it slow and really understand each motion that he would need to replicate with his future puppets.

Kanna takes a deep breath when they started talking more about Taijutsu. It definitely wasn't her strong suit at all, though she knows it is important to get better at it especially if she ever ran out of chakra, plus it was important with how her bugs did work with attacking targets. She looks over at Aikawa as he asks if she wanted to spar with him. She smiles and nods at him, saying. "Yes! That would be a relief to have you as a partner. I'm not great at taijutsu though."

She follows everyone as they all make their way to the training grounds. Kanna pairs up with Aikawa as they discussed earlier and leads him to some logs. The teacher had said they should practice on logs before each other due to wanting to make sure no one hurts each other too much. There was two good sized logs in front of them and she starts doing some side kicks to the log.

walking with them to the taijutsu training yard he would listen to the instructor go on about different motions to take when fighting in hand to hand. Common motions to practice. He would then have us begin practicing on the logs. First with just barely touching the logs with out attacks to get the aim right and then slowly having us hit the log harder and harder with each attack. It was painful to say the least and the bugs inside him did not agree with the damage being done to his legs and fists. He took a moment to settle them down but he did notice while he was punching and kicking the log that ocassionally a bug would fly from his body to the location hit. It really got him thinking about how in tune he was with his bugs. they saw a threat and would prepare a counter should he land a hit. He finished his short break and continued hitting the log. Smiling as he looked over at his partner doing simliar practice.

After Kanna has been kicking for a bit, she switched to using her arms, going through the motions that the teacher showed them. Her bugs had been flitting about some, making sure she's okay. She calms her bugs down, wincing a little bit at the soreness starting in her body. Looking over at her partner for a moment she smiles at him and then does a little stretch to help the soreness. After stretching for a moment, she continues with the motions of taijutsu, knowing she will need to practice these quite a bit later. After a few hours of practice the teacher had everyone stop and rest for the day. Tomorrow he promised would be a lot more of the same with some more practice. She was excited to get more training but knew that when she got home she was going to need to rest her body from the pain she was feeling.