Decaying Bluebells

Arc I - Academy

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-Anonymous

Disclaimer: Not mine.

Warning: Fluff overload.

Beta: Kalafina94

Beta: silverseed

Edit: 1/1/2018

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We began the academy today.

It had been a little over a year since the discovery of my specialized kekkai genkai. True to their words, I had been placed in a different training schedule when concerning chakra. While Ino and I still shared the same basic physical hand-to-hand combat schedule (we were equals in that now), Ino continued her training for the mind transfer, while I further practiced my own.

Ino was very good with her training, but she seemed to be losing her motivation for it.

Why do you ask?

Because of her dear friend, Sakura.

Sakura was a pink haired girl with (what I've been told) a wide brow (though I found it perfectly normal). Ino had been friends with her even before I came home from the hospital; but it would seem their friendship had developed immensely over this last year due to the fact they were both now old enough to 'hang out' without parental supervision.

I did not understand the need to go out of their way to show off their friendship instead of train.

Perhaps, though, my view was tainted from my quiet jealousy.

My sister and I were together all the time but now, with Sakura more active in their relationship, it would appear she was more interested in her than me. In the beginning I was fine with this—it was perfectly normal for friends or siblings to branch out.

Then Ino started losing interest in training—the only time we spent together since Sakura came along.

It frustrated me that the one time we were able to 'hang out', she was no longer interested in the subject we both used to love. It frustrated me even more so that instead of focusing on the training (me) she chose to daydream about what Sakura and her would do next.

I understood I was being petty and selfish in wanting my sister all to myself. It was completely childish and irrational of me but that did not stop me from feeling it.

However, it did stop me from voicing my opinion and actively sabotaging their relationship.

Besides, Sakura herself was a very sweet girl, though she was quiet. I would feel guilty in harming their relationship, for it seemed Sakura had very few friends.

Mayhap I would have liked to become her friend if it weren't for my silly jealousy.

Though it was impossible to tell.

When Academy enrollment came around, Papa offered me to join Ino's group.

If I were a normal child I would have been enrolled at seven—like Ino and Sakura.

I was not a normal child. I kept up with Ino and could hold my own. Some people whispered the word prodigy around me.

That was not accurate. At least, for whatever reason I thought it was not. A nagging feeling in the back of my head told me that I was not a prodigy. That I was unique in the way prodigies were, but I was not a true prodigy.