Chương 2: Chapter 002: Academy Class

"What's your name?" Kakashi asked, while looking at him.

Kakashi was also very interested in this person who despite having not started to train his chakra, could already surpass a bunch of clan kids. Before entering the academy, Kakashi's father, Hatake Sakumo told him that he should at least meet some notable opponents, although the current Asahi had not really reached the level of strength to actually be taken into account by him.

"Senmei Asahi! What about you?" Asahi asked back.

Kakashi frowned, and said indifferently, "Kakashi, Hatake Kakashi."

Then, Kakashi ignored Asahi again. This was not because he was being too proud, but because of Asahi's tone and expression, which had made him feel slightly offended.

In his previous life, Asahi was never very good at communicating with people and was a very silent person most of the time. Ever since he crossed over to this world, he hasn't even communicated with other people for a few years, so his tone of speech had become very rough and basically uncomfortable.

Soon, the 200 laps test was over. Except for a few that failed, most of them passed the entrance exam. After all, those who decided to come here were quite confident in themselves.

Among those eliminated, Asahi paid particular attention to a youngster wearing green tight clothes.

Might Guy!

The future depends on this man's forbidden jutsu [Eight Inner Gates] that he used to amazingly fight against Six Paths Madara. Asahi was very interested in making friends with Guy, but now was not the time.

Anyway, in the next few years, when everyone would already be studying at the academy, there would be plenty of opportunities to become friends or at least get acquainted with each other.

Many of this generation would grow up to become great ninjas in the future, and Asahi was interested in them. After all, they would be the main power of Konoha in the future, and it would be better if he had a friendship with them, which may sounded very troublesome.

This time he took the initiative to try to make friends with Kakashi, but he wouldn't have taken the initiative to talk to him unless he knew about his future achievements.

After getting the admission notice, Asahi went back to his apartment alone, packed things up, brought some food, and walked towards the forest behind the Hokage Rock.

Konoha's arrangement for the war orphans was very friendly and comfortable. In addition to owning his own residence, he also receives sufficient living resources every month. But something as luxurious as a training ground was not something a war orphan could own or have access to.

Therefore, the large forest behind the Hokage Rock became the ideal training place for him.

Asahi's training was very simple, he had exercises such as push-ups, pull-ups, sit-ups and overall he's just training hard.

Among ninjutsu, genjutsu, and taijutsu, taijutsu was the path that was the least valued by a ninja, because in the face of a ninja with a specialty on ninjutsu or genjutsu, the taijutsu specialist would end up defeated most of the time.

Although towards the end stages of the anime, Guy was powerful enough, it's also under the premise of using the [Eight Inner Gates]. Without it, Guy would even have problems dealing with a Kisame clone with only 30% of his original chakra.

However, Asahi attaches great importance to taijutsu. A good grasp on taijutsu was the basis for using ninjutsu and genjutsu in the future.

Although Asahi takes his foundation very seriously, it's also a helpless action. Because he doesn't have the necessary knowledge and does not understand the training methods of a ninja.

In the anime, there were many people who didn't rely on a Kekkei Genkai or an inborn advantage to become strong. Third Hokage, Orochimaru, Jiraiya, Namikaze Minato, Tsunade and more. None of them were ninjas with Kekkei Genkai, but every one of them had great achievements. So Asahi intended to find his own path from the paths these people had traveled.

Ninjutsu, forbidden jutsu, senjutsu, speed, space jutsu, and strength improvement.

For those ninjas born without a Kekkei Genkai, it's only possible to compete with a Kekkei Genkai ninja if they learn a powerful enough ninjutsu that could allow them to face the Kekkei Genkai.

And for him to survive in the upcoming Third Great Ninja War, he needed to constantly strengthen himself.

Although Asahi had made many plans for his future, he's now only a little kid that hasn't even started refining chakra.

Fortunately, the academy would officially begin the next day. Asahi was still very interested in attending the ninja academy. It would be his first step towards the path of a ninja, and it's necessary to start from there.

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On the next day, he woke up early, and came to the academy several minutes before class even started.

As soon as he entered the school gate, Asahi felt a few hostile eyes on himself. This wasn't because Asahi had a super strong sense, but because these eyes were just too focused on him. If he wasn't in the academy, he felt that some of them would maybe even take their chances and come to beat him.

Looking around, Asahi remembered something suddenly, it turned out to be some of those kids that belonged to ninja clans that he defeated yesterday on the test. They probable didn't even imagine to be surpassed by a commoner kid, and must have been reprimanded by their elders after returning to their respective clans.

Without looking back again, Asahi crossed the training grounds of the school, stepped into the teaching building, walked into his classroom, and found a place to sit down.

About these few young clan geniuses, he's not at all worried. If they come for trouble, they would have a fight. After defeating them, Asahi would naturally enter the eyes of the high management of Konoha. Even if he loses, at most, it would only be a slap in the face along with some injuries. After training, he could still find them to fight and get his revenge.

The silent Asahi felt out of place with the lively classroom, or maybe this loud classroom seemed incompatible with him. All around were just noisy children. There were several people who already knew each other in this class.

Among his peers, he had no friends, and he's not interested in making friends with them, because there was really no common matters or interest between the two parties.

"Teacher is here!"

He didn't know who shouted, but the lively classroom quieted down instantly.

The academy's courses were not child-like, as in the original work. All the basic knowledge taught here was made specifically for ninjas. As long as one pay attention, he/she could learn a lot of useful basic knowledge.

Especially during this kind of war periods, the situation around the shinobi world was getting more and more tense. Konoha had just experienced the Second Great Ninja War. There was a very apparent lack of disposables such as genin in the village, and the period for cultivating ninja had been greatly shortened.

During peace times like in the original anime, the academy ninjas must be 12 years old to graduate. But during this war period, graduating before even turning 10 years old was common. A genius like Kakashi even graduated at just 5 years old, and became a chunin at 6 years old.

However, shortening the study time would inevitably affect the quality of their teachings. Especially now that everyone was a child, it was difficult to calm down to study the important materials. The result was that a large number of children died in battlefield soon after graduation.

Fortunately, the last thing that never disappeared during the war were war orphans. A batch was dead, and a new batch would soon be created.

But for Asahi, this was his advantage.

He who had an adult mind, could easily rise above others from a group of children. As long as his innate talents were displayed and got a high level of attention, he would not be assigned some mortal missions at least just after graduation.

Although this might sound unfair to some, who cares about that?

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