Reincarnated As Mizuki - Volume 2: The Academy Chapter 18 Interlude 2: Birthday

*Six Months after Chapter Sixteen*

Mizuki groaned as he woke up and glanced outside, noticing that the Sun was already high. That couldn’t be right. And then there was also the fact that he woke up naturally, and not to the obnoxious sound of his door being pounded on. Poor Door.

Something wasn’t right. Mizuki glanced at his clock only for it to reveal that it was currently Half past nine. Classes started an hour ago.

Mizuki cursed after seeing this as he took a little bit of a slower time to get ready. Taking his time to even make himself his favorite breakfast of fried eggs and bacon.

He was already an hour late after all, an extra few minutes wouldn’t make a difference so there was no need to rush.

Mizuki glanced at the clock yet again, revealing that he had spent thirty minutes to make himself breakfast and eat it.

He sighed softly as he shut the door behind him and walked off to class. Not even bothering to look at the date.

Mizuki was curious what his punishment was, Being this late would probably have him in detention for a couple of months.

Ten minutes later, Mizuki arrived at his classroom and walked in, only to be greeted with a surprise.

Almost everybody he knew was gone! There were some kids he would recognize as people who would later become jonin, but all of his friends were gone.

If that wasn’t weird enough, the teacher was acting as if nothing was wrong, even continuing class as normal when Mizuki walked in, it was almost like he was invisible.

Mizuki sighed as he sat down, noticeably bored from the fact that he had nothing to do. The teacher was rambling about stuff he had learned ages ago.

Everyone else in the class was actually paying attention as well, unlike Mizuki they were all learning the content for the first time.

Mizuki sighed as he took out some weights from his bag and started discreetly practicing.

In the past few months, his training had allowed him to begin learning the Eight Gates. Currently, he could only open the first gate although doing so required most of his energy.

His taijutsu and shurikenjutsu improved dramatically as well, making him all the better when he fought Obito, Guy or Shisui.

Mizuki’s chakra control was also rapidly improving. He appeared to have a talent for the skill, being able to finish the tree climbing exercise in just under a day and the water walking in a little over three.

He had also been trying to experiment with new chakra control exercises, like climbing a tree with only his finger tips, an exercise which kakashi did in part one.

They had all also started to hang out with Kakashi a little bit as well, and he even sometimes hung out with them, although not often.

The day dragged on and on, almost reminiscent of Mizuki’s high school experience on earth.

He knew the content. He was pretty much alone. And he still had to stay in this useless class.

Mizuki had never been so happy to start training after the day ended, desperate for some kind of activity.

In a routine that had become all too familiar with Mizuki, he exited the academy and rushed towards the forest, following a slightly beaten path until he reached a rather large boulder.

Noticing him, Duy called out to Mizuki.

“ARE YOU READY TO LET THE POWER OF YOUTH EXPLODE??!!”

“yes sensei”

The training they did lasted a couple of hours, and involved everything from sparring to weight lifting.

After the training ended, Mizuki was beyond tired and wanted nothing more than to eat a massive meal and go to sleep.

However, just as Mizuki was about to leave, Duy called out to him.

“Hey Mizuki, come with me, I have to show you something”

Mizuki agreed and followed his master into town, and yet just as he was about to ask where they were going, Duy placed a blindfold over his head.

“Oi, what are you doing?”

“It’s a surprise!”

Despite Mizuki’s protests, the blindfold stayed on as Duy guided him through several different side streets so that he would not know where they were going.

Finally, after ten more minutes Duy removed the blindfold to reveal that they were standing in front of a restaurant.

“Huh? It’s just Ichiraku. What was the whole charade earlier about?

Trying to dodge the question, Duy replied with an enthusiastic voice.

“LETS GO INSIDE”

As soon as they got inside, Mizuki glanced around to see that it was totally dark and deathly silent. Not a person in sight. Even his sensei was gone.

The silence nor darkness lasted for long as the lights flickered on and streamers exploded.

“SURPRISE!”

Mizuki glanced around to see a banner which read “Happy Birthday Mizuki”

Everyone had taken the day off to prepare for the party, Shisui even used his Sharingan to put the Instructor under a basic genjutsu to not notice that they were gone.

As they all sat down to eat, everybody came up to pat Mizuki on the shoulder and wish him a happy birthday.

They even brought Kakashi along, how they did it is beyond him though.

He was honestly really touched. It was the first time in either life someone had thrown a birthday party for him.

Mizuki spent the remainder of the party chatting with everybody and stuffing his face with Ramen, apparently even Teuchi was willing to do this type of thing for him.

Late in the night, the party disbanded with everybody going home.

However, just as Mizuki left he felt someone approach him from behind.

“How was it?”

The person who asked him was Anko, and for once she almost had a nervous tone in her voice.

“I honestly loved it, it was the first time anyone has done something for me like that”

Anko had a little smirk on her face as she turned to her best friend.

“Glad I could help. You know, my Birthday is in three days…”

Mizuki paled as he realized that he would somehow need to top this massive get together.

Upon seeing his reaction, Anko bursted out laughing.

“It’s fine if we don’t do something massive, I’m not a huge fan of crowds. How about you and me just go to that new dumpling shop.”

“You Sure?”

“Positive.”

“Alright then. Thanks again. I’m gonna get going now.”

Just as he was walking away, he heard Anko call him again.

“Mizuki?”

“Ya?”

Anko leaned forward with a bright smile on her face as she faced him

“Happy Birthday”

That scene would be something that Mizuki would never forget.