Chapter 4 - Entrance Exam (1/2)

Itachi took one more look around before continuing his way further inside the first district. As Itachi walks through the district, he feels the gaze of many people on him. Itachi ignores it and keeps walking down the main road of the district. Up ahead he sees a huge, multiple story building with golden roofs in the distance. As Itachi gets closer he sees a giant courtyard with a multitude of people walking through the pathways. The entire area was the size of a small town. He sees a sign above the gate that says ”Shin'ō Academy.

Itachi arrives at the gate of the academy and observes the many students from the academy traversing the school grounds with their white and blue or red shihakusho. He sees a particularly large gaggle of students grouped at one side of the courtyard. Itachi makes his way through the unorganized crowd and sees various people not in uniform holding orbs of varying brightness. Itachi senses a great amount of reiatsu being exerted from this area.

”This orb must be related to the entrance test.” Itachi muses as he spends a few more moments spectating the exam before finding the nearest sign up stand. He makes his way over to the sign up stand. He stands behind an examinee as the line slowly dwindles.

As he awaits his turn, a group of examinees make their way over. There were three people, A young man dressed luxuriously was in the center. He was walking over with his hands behind his back with two other young men following closely behind. He had an arrogant and proud look on his face as he strode over. He looked at some of the examinees in line as a hint of mockery flashed across his eyes.

”Hmph, every piece of trash thinks they can join the academy.” He ruthlessly stated as he stared at the common class examinees. The examinees had no choice but to hold in their anger as they saw the Kenseikan in his hair and knew this was someone from one of the four great noble families. The young noble saw their faces and laughed.

”A bunch of gutless worms actually think they can become shinigami!” He walked past the examinees. The nobleman made his way to the front of the line and looked back at the line before completing his sign up. As he looked back, he noticed the person behind him with an expressionless face with cold eyes and noticed that he had even worse garbs than some of the common folk.

”What's your name?” He asked with a slight hint of ridicule. To the noble's dismay, Itachi ignored him and walked to the front to start his sign up papers. The young noble was fuming inside seeing he was actually ignored by this beggar trash.The instructor hands Itachi an orb. At first touch, Itachi doesn't notice anything remarkable about the orb. It was a pale blue, nearly transparent sphere that was a bit on the heavy side.

”Go wait for the rest of the examinees to receive theirs.” The proctor instructed.

As the proctor continued handing out the orbs, the young nobleman stared at Itachi with anger in his eyes. Itachi ignored him and walked over to the side and studied the orb in greater detail.

Once the final examinee received his orb, he joined the others in the line and awaited the proctor's instructions. The proctor got out of his seat and walked over to the examinees. He cleared his voice and began speaking.

”This exam is to test your reiatsu potency and control. You are to pour your reiatsu into this orb. If you are able to light the orb, you pass. Do you have any questions?”

A few of the examinees raise their hands.

”Good! No questions! We can begin!”

Itachi channels his reiatsu and focuses it into the orb, letting a steady stream flow into it. The orb glows brilliantly and the proctor writes a few notes down. A few moments later the proctor concludes the examination. ”Okay that is enough!”

Itachi stops pouring his reiatsu into the orb. The orb dims down and returns to its original color. The proctor goes in order of the examinees.

The proctor walks to the nobleman and gave him his score.

”Kuchiki Daiki. Pass, Class 1.” He nodded approvingly ”Well done.”

”As expected of someone from the Kuchiki clan.” The proctor thought in his head.

Daiki looked at Itachi with scorn in his eyes. ”This is the level between us.” He thought in his head.

”Uchiha, Itachi. Pass, Class 1. Well done.”

”Amazing... such a talented individual comes from that barbaric district.” The proctor thought.

A trace of shock appeared in Daiki's eyes as he stared at Itachi.

”What?! He's on the same level as me?! How can that be?!” He thought to himself as he gritted his teeth.

”Pass, Class 2”

”Fail, please try again next time”

”Pass, Class 3”