Konoha 33 years old, February.
This year's winter was even colder than in previous years. Snowflakes fell from the sky and even the sky turned pale.
The cold wind blows from all corners of Konoha village. In this cold season, if there is nothing particularly important, most people will choose to stay indoors for the cold winter.
But for Ninja School students, they still, need to go to school normally.
In fourth grade A, Ruri was wearing a black long-sleeved shirt and pants, with a white scarf around her neck, her long black hair flowing gracefully down to her waist like satin, and she rested her chin on her palms, admiring through clear glass. Looking at the snow scene outside.
At this time I want to spend a whole day at home without going to school.
Suddenly, a loud noise came from outside.
Even the silence of the class was broken, Ruri frowned impatiently, these guys still buzzed like flies.
"Does that sound noisy?"
Shiraishi returned with a convenient bag, which contained hot milk tea and meat.
Of course, it was Ruri's money.
"Of course. But they can only be happy at school."
Ruri took her serving of hot milk tea and a serving of hamburger from the convenience bag.
"Ayane, do you want to eat? I bought an extra here."
Shiraishi turned to look at Ayane from the other side.
"No thank you."
Ayane smiled apologetically, got up from her chair, and left the classroom.
Shiraishi looked at Ayane's distant back, sighed, and said, "I always feel like she's even more uncomfortable than Ruri. You can play together first."
Ruri's eyes showed a dangerous light, and she looked at the convenience bag in Baishi's hand and asked, "When do I allow you to take my money and buy things for unrelated people?"
"Uh...yeah, I think we're all classmates sharing the same table, yeah, yeah..."
"Are you going to be hungry tonight and tomorrow morning? Who do you think is raising you right now?"
"...Understood."
"Remember to let me know in advance next time. I hate for others to do my thing without warning."
"Is this the kind of thing you worry about? I see, I'll let you know next time."
Shiraishi sighed again, sat down in the chair, took the milky tea and drank it, then took another bite of the hot hamburger.
"By the way, what was so noisy out there now?"
Ruri asked Baishi as she drank milk tea.
"Don't you know? Some people in fourth grade want to graduate early. Today is Special Graduation Day. I heard that three people in our class want to graduate two years early.
Shiraishi said what he knew.
"The yellow-haired boy, I heard you say he's number one in class B."
"Even if he's #1 Class B, he can't be #1 Class A opponent."
Baishi was full of confidence in Ruri's strength and said with a smile.
"I don't underestimate anyone."
Even so, Shiraishi's praise is still very helpful.
Soon the class started, and Mr. Fujimura came from outside the classroom and officially started the class.
The fourth-grade internal subjects are more complicated than the first to third grades. There are many things to learn in fourth grade. It can be a big help for ordinary civilian students, but for people like Shiraishi, who can already graduate by self-study, it makes no difference.
So, in addition to the fire will lesson, Shiraishi and Ruri are doing what they want.
With a pen and ruler, Shiraishi began to draw in the notebook in front of him, writing down texts and formulas.
This is an important experiment to be carried out at night, where the theoretical derivation is carried out and then applied to practice.
More than three months have passed since the study of natural energy.
In those three months, Shiraishi was able to successfully channel natural energy but channeled natural energy is not particularly stable.
Furthermore, even if natural energy is successfully guided, if there are no corresponding means, natural energy will quickly evaporate and become untouchable air, returning to the natural world.
So in the next experiment, Baishi wants to extend the time for natural energy to appear as an entity so that he has enough time to understand natural energy and use it successfully.
Time passed silently like that.
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March beginning.
Occasionally, light snow may fall from the sky and the weather has warmed up a bit, but it is still very cold.
On this cold little day, an event happened that unexpectedly broke the tranquility and peace of the village of Konoha.
——The ninjas hiding in the sand plundered the Land of Fire border, causing heavy losses to Konoha troops on the Land of Fire border, and officially declared war on Konoha.
Just over a year after the Land of Rain War, the flames of war once again scorched Tierra del Fuego.
And the target of the declaration of war is the village hidden in the sand, which is also one of the Big Five villages.
Led by the Third Kazekage himself, he led a large number of sand ninja to provoke a battle against Konoha.
The village of Konoha is surrounded by tension and weight visible to the naked eye.
In October of the previous year, the war in the Rain Kingdom had just ended, and as a result, for the past six months, the war had broken out again.
And this time, the one who declared war on Konoha was the village of sand, whose all-encompassing strength was much greater than that of the village of rain.
The ninja group, which is the same as Konoha, their mobilization speed and ninja quality are superior to rain ninjas.
The rise and fall of Rain Village are marked by its leader, Hanzo.
Sand is different, its leader is the Third Kazekage, one of the five Kage in the world, known as the strongest Kazakage.
There are many talents under his command, in addition to advisors and elders, Chiyo's sister and brother aided, all-powerful and famous ninjas in the Ninja world.
In addition, the sand village also created an extraordinary puppet force, in previous wars it made the main Ninja villages fight.
This time, Sunagakure was coming fiercely, and it wasn't a battle that could be easily dismissed.
As if the War on Amegakure was just an opening ceremony for Konoha's official intervention in the Second Shinobi War, the real war has just begun.
This kind of oppressive feeling of rain and wind filled the building, pressing down on the heads of all Konoha ninja, and high-level Konoha ninja, led by the Third Hokage, held an emergency meeting.
The night after the meeting, a large number of Konoha ninja who was stationed left the village to support the Land of Fire's border.
Major ninja clans also sent elite clan ninjas to fight the sand ninjas.
The war is about to start.