The girl had gone to bed the night before tired and bruised from a rough training session with three of her cousins, battered but feeling the stinging of her growing stronger with every fight. She’d been able to get passed all three of them several times before they overpowered her and brought her to the point where her father and mentor had called off the match and sent her to eat and sleep, one bruise forming darkly on the left side of her jaw. The training session had been long that day, meant to tire her out so that she would sleep a long while before school the next morning because otherwise she most likely wouldn’t sleep much at all before tomorrow by keeping herself awake and training overnight training regardless. Her room was simple enough, but large and extended and full of books considering her age and place, though most were out of her age groups normal reading level and genre pool, but she wasn’t the normal child.

The following morning the girl woke early, following through with her usual pattern of waking, showering, dressing and eating breakfast before heading to school. Today she wore her usual outfit of a pair of denim pants and a long sleeve shirt, the fabric black with a dragon embroidered into the back with purple thread, fire and flowers along the sleeves and the hems of the shirt. On her feet were her leather boots, worn and thin enough for her to channel her chakra through them when she fought or practiced her techniques. Her hair was loose today, unlike the normal day when she would tie up and back the long strands of red, purple, and black; the softly curling waves cascading over her shoulders and down her back, the ends swaying as she walked toward the school. The red silk ribbon over her head was tied in a bow by her mother’s doing, making her daughter look more like the young lady she was for her first day with her new team after graduating. She was supposed to find out who it was that she would be working with for the next several years, though the young Hyuga wasn’t very excited for it.

The prospect of new sparring partners was something she enjoyed, because those at the compound were beginning to become a bore for her to fight and she wasn’t getting any better against them. The Princess of Hyuga walked into the classroom just before class started and made her way to her seat in the very center of the room, aware of the stares she got from several others in the room. Shizuka turned her gaze on each other them in turn before coming to a silent seating on the chair while she waited for the teacher to talk again and not long afterward she could hear the idle chatter of those around her. She chose not to engage because more often than not she ended up screwing everything up when she spoke and decided it was best that she not speak to anyone until her team was decided.