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The next month passes by slowly. Mikeira and Maaku take to visiting Hirari in the hospital once or twice a week. Kakashi continues to get restless but stomps down on the feeling whenever it arises.
To pass the time, Kakashi studies some scrolls and maps while the children play in the living room. It’s after one of these sessions of studying while he is cooking supper that he sees them.
Mikeira and Maaku have crawled up on the dinner table looking over the maps he had just been looking at. They are pointing and discussing what they see. Kakashi sets their dinner in front of them once he has them in their seats and Mikeira asks, “Where are we?”
“What do you mean?” Kakashi answers with a question.
Mikeira lifts a corner of the map with one hand and takes a bite of food with the other, “On here. Where are we?”
Kakashi walks around the table to her side and points to a dot on the map. “Here. Konohagakure.”
Mikeira hmm’s and goes back to her dinner. Maaku asks the next question, about the colors of the map. Kakashi explains it to him and quickly he is swamped with more questions about the map. He’s wondering what’s so special about it when it hits him, ‘they’re comprehending this.’
They’re learning and at a fast pace. Now that he really thinks about it…an aptitude test wouldn’t do them any harm.
He writes a message to the Sandaime about it. The response he receives from the Hokage the next morning agrees with him completely. In fact, Sarutobi went ahead and made an appointment with the Academy for Mikeira and Maaku to take the tests.
Kakashi checks the appointment time and goes about rounding up the children. They eat breakfast and then Kakashi helps dress them in clothes that Kurenai and been thoughtful enough to bring by after the nursery fiasco.
He explains to them what is happening while he walks them to the Academy. Mikeira and Maaku don’t seem troubled by the new development. When they arrive at the Academy, Kakashi lets them play in the courtyard out front while he meets with the Chuunin who will be testing them.
The man is named Yasuie and he’s a veteran at the Academy.
Yasuie leads the three of them inside the building and to the nurses office. The nurse, a plump lady named Haruna, first takes their height and weight. Then she checks their hair for lice. Finding none, she has the toddlers bend over so she can run her fingers down their spine, checking for any signs of Scoliosis.
Once cleared, Haruna sends them to the hearing and vision testing room. The toddlers ace these tests and are moved to yet another room. This time they are tested on their ability to read and write. What Yasuie finds is that Mikeira and Maaku are far more advanced at their age than most.
The first time the two children really struggle is with math and sciences. Yasuie isn’t truly surprised since the two have had no previous schooling in the matter. He concludes that they will flourish in a learning environment and recommends that they be enrolled in the Academy immediately.
Dismissed, Kakashi takes the two home and settles them down in their room for a nap. After what Yasuie had said, he is completely unsurprised when the Sandaime sends him a message.
At the beginning of the next week, Mikeira and Maaku were officially going to be Academy students. Kakashi had till then to get them ready.
The easy part is getting them supplies. He takes the two shopping once again and buys the necessities. He doesn’t bother showing them how to use anything after they figure out the pencil sharpeners on their own.
After visiting Hirari in the hospital the next day, Kakashi brings them home and sits them down on the couch. He sits across from them and begins to explain what is going to happen. The questions immediately begin flying and Kakashi ends up giving an impromptu history lesson on the origins of the Academy.
When the day finally comes and Kakashi is walking them to the Academy, he finds himself reflecting on his own experience at the school. He was Mikeira’s age when he began Academy. His father walked him to his first class…
It was no use in thinking about things like that.
Kakashi instead thinks more on the protection detail he had planned. He couldn’t exactly follow them around all day, not only would his brain pour out his ears from boredom, but he would be distracting to the students.
So, with permission from the Sandaime, the staff of the Academy had been briefed on the situation. An alert system had been set up between the teachers if they noticed anything abnormal. Mikeira and Maaku know wore electronic tracking devices around their wrists disguised as bracelets.
Kakashi was set up in an unused room on campus with monitors and cameras that allowed him to track the movements of the children.
When they finally reach the Academy, Mikeira tugs on his hand and uses her other hand to squeeze Maaku’s fearfully. Kakashi kneels down to their level and sighs.
“I know it’s hard.” Kakashi begins, “You’re going to be surrounded by older kids and they aren’t going to like the fact that you are younger yet smarter than them. They’ll be cruel…they’ll taunt and tease you…
Don’t fall to their level. You are talented and deserve to be here just as much as they do.” Kakashi can’t find more words and ruffles their hair instead. “You’ll be fine.”
He stands and walks them to the front doors, mindless of the other children who run amok in the courtyard.
“Mind your teachers!” He calls to them as they enter the school. Once they are out of sight he turns and makes his way to the room set up for him.
