The first lesson

The first lesson

Like every morning, my mother came to my room to wake me up.
"Good morning Runa! Get up!", As always totally over motivated and way too happy.
"It's okay, I'll get up," I mumbled sleepily to her and yawned once. Today would be my first lesson with my new Sensei and my group. I was kind of excited, but I wouldn't show that to my parents. I slowly got up from my bed and went into the kitchen, where both were waiting for me.
"Excited, my little one?" My father asked me immediately.
"It works," it wasn't entirely a lie. I sit down next to them and have breakfast first. Then I got ready. My things were already ready, a simple black turtleneck T-shirt and white knee-length pants, with my little pocket on the side that held my kunais. I tied my Konohaband to my hip. I pulled on my black combat gloves and went to the mirror. There I tied my waist-length black hair together.
"I'll be gone until tonight," I said goodbye to my parents and stepped out of our house.

From here there were two paths to the meeting point, one was through the path and the other was through the forest. I choose the one through the forest, because the forest was like a second home for me. It was calm and peaceful in the forest and he gave me time to think about other things. I was alone in the forest, but I never really had the feeling of being alone here, unlike in my room. I slowly strolled through the forest and the closer I got to the training ground, the stronger the uneasy feeling that something was going to happen today. Usually my feeling was never wrong, but I couldn't think of anything that could have happened today, except that I would embarrass myself, which actually wouldn't be a big deal.

"Hello, I'm Naruto and you?" A blond-haired boy with sky-blue eyes greeted me immediately.
"Man, Naruto you always have to be so pushy !? Hello, my name is Sakura," the pink haired girl grumbled with the boy.
"It doesn't matter. I'm Runa Ava," I smiled friendly at the two of them.
"Maan where is our Sensei!", Naruto complained immediately.
"Don't you have a bit of patience, Naruto?", Sakura grumbled on.
The two started arguing, but I stopped listening. I looked around the training ground. Actually, this shouldn't be too difficult, even if I had only been homeschooled, apparently I must have great potential, according to the reaction from the sensei who had tested me. I used to train hard every day with my father, but at some point the point came when I had to hold back in order not to injure him. That was why an examiner had come from the academy.I assumed that the other two already knew each other from the academy, but I didn't know anyone here. Since my parents had taught me themselves, I had little contact with the others in the village. There was also the fact that we did not live directly inside the village but outside on the border with the forest.

"I'm sorry I'm so late, but something came up," a young man appeared out of nowhere.
"Sensei Kakashi!", Sakura and Naruto greeted him happily and forgot their argument about it.
"Are you our sensei now?" Naruto asked expectantly
"It is clear, otherwise he would hardly be here you Baka!", And again they began to argue, that could be really funny.
Our sensei sighed and mumbled something about: The two will probably never change, and turned to me.
For a short time his features slipped, if you could call it that, because you could only see half of his face. His mouth and other eye were completely covered by a mask. But in his eye his feelings were clearly reflected when he saw me. First there was fear, then relief, and then he tried to be completely normal. Apparently he was hoping I hadn't noticed.
"And you are definitely Runa Ava? Iruka has already told me about your talent," he greeted me.
I didn't know what to say to that, so I just smiled at him.

"So folks: calm down now. I want everyone to introduce themselves. Name and destination," the two finally stopped arguing.
"Well, I'm Uzumaki Naruto. And my goal is to be the next Hokage," says Naruto enthusiastically.
"I'm Haruno Sakura. My goal is to become a good Medic-Nin one day," Sakura introduced himself again.
Now the three looked at me expectantly, I was the new one too.
"I'm Ava Runa. And my goal ... I don't know ..." I admitted quietly.
"How do you have no goal ?!", Naruto was visibly surprised. Surprise also showed in the faces of Kakashi and Sakura.
"Well, and I'm Sensei Kakashi," I was kind of grateful to him for the distraction.

"Well then, show what you can do."
We should have a simple training fight.
"I want to compete against Runa!", Naruto begged immediately.
Kakashi looked at me questioningly and I nodded, went out onto the battlefield and in a fighting stance. I felt like this would be done quickly.
"Just don't hold back," Naruto called to me and ran towards me.
"Don't worry, I won't," I said and already defeated his first shadow doubles. Naruto attacked me and I just defend myself. It was too easy, I quickly saw through it and with a targeted kick in the stomach it flew against the next best tree.
"Are you all right, Naruto?"the sensei asked him.
"Yeah ... that was ... THE HAMMER, real man," Naruto seemed to be fine, which made me feel relieved.
"You want Sakura too?", Kakashi asked her, but the pink-haired shook her head.
"Good, then you fight Naruto now. Runa you have a break now."
I sat in the shade of the trees and watched the fight. The two were pretty even and I was sure that the fight would take a while longer.
"That was just very good, Runa," I looked next to me. My sensei sat down next to me and was looking at his other two students.
"Sensei Kakashi?" Suddenly a voice I did not know called and a blue-haired boy stood in front of us.
My heart stopped, I stared at him, spellbound, but he didn't seem to notice me.
"What's wrong Sasuke?", My Sensei asked him.
So Sasuke.
"I'm supposed to bring you this message, from the Hokage," he handed him a scroll.
Kakashi opened it and read it through briefly.
"Tell her when I'm done I'll come over."
"Got it", as if he had only noticed me now, he looked at me. His pitch black eyes gave me a piercing look and he disappeared again.
I felt dizzy, I still saw him standing there and suddenly it started.
It was like a burn that ate me up inside, consumed me.
I cried out in pain and then everything went dark around me.