The two listened carefully, this was what they called a private lesson!
In their previous life, a private lesson meant getting higher scores, but in the Ninja world, this could mean improving their chances of survival.
Watanabe Shinichi pulled out a few shuriken.
He said: “Most ninjas are used to getting their shuriken from their tool pouch or summoning scroll, but this takes a few seconds, and remember, on the battlefield, even one second of delay can be deadly.”
His expression was serious.
Hyuga Nana thought: “It seems he’s not a regular Chunin teacher, but an elite who has survived the battlefield…”
Watanabe Shinichi flipped his hand, and the shuriken instantly disappeared into his palm.
“Therefore, the way you wear your shuriken can either help or hinder your ability to effectively respond in combat.”
Next, Shinichi demonstrated in front of the two how to draw shuriken from different parts of their body, but generally, he launched shuriken from the areas around their waist.
“These locations have advantages over other areas in terms of: hand position, angle of hand relative to the opponent, and the location of the shuriken when it is drawn………”
Nana and Minato absorbed this information like sponges, while Nana simultaneously had a thought: Such exquisite shuriken throwing techniques, is this really something they would teach in second grade?
But this thought quickly disappeared. The most important thing now was to learn what Shinichi-sensei was teaching.
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After school.
Back home, Hyuga Sōgen called Nana over.
“Today was your first day at the Ninja Academy. How did it feel?”
Nana answered truthfully: “It was very rewarding. I learned shuriken throwing techniques from Shinichi-sensei.”
Sōgen looked up: “Shinichi-sensei? Is that Watanabe Shinichi?”
Nana curiously asked: “Uncle, do you know Shinichi-sensei? Is he famous?”
Hyuga Nana had spent almost six years living and training within the Hyuga compound, rarely going out, so he didn’t know much about the ninjas of Konoha.
In fact, according to the current timeline, Nana only knew a few well-known figures like Tsunade, Jiraiya, and Orochimaru, and other famous people hadn’t been born yet! ~
Hyuga Sōgen didn’t answer directly, only saying: “Watanabe Shinichi’s throwing technique is excellent, even the people of the Uchiha clan have few who can use it better.”
Hiss! ~
This was no simple appraisal.
The Uchiha clan possessed the Sharingan to assist them, and their throwing techniques were a pinnacle of Konoha, both elegant and deadly.
But in Uncle’s words, Shinichi-sensei actually had such a unique skill?!
“Are there any people from the Uchiha clan in your class?”
“No, but there are some in the third, fourth, and fifth grades.”
Nana had not only been training this day, but intelligence gathering was also an essential skill for a ninja.
The one in the third grade was called Uchiha Tekka, the one in the fourth grade was called Uchiha Inabi, they sounded like brothers, but Nana didn’t know them. The one in the fifth grade, however, Nana was very familiar with.
The future mother of “Harukaze 助” - Uchiha Mikoto, was still a little girl now.
“What a pity!”
Hyuga Sōgen sighed.
“You and Nichari missed each other……”
Nana knew what his uncle was regretting.
Hyuga Sōgen highly valued the status of the Hyuga clan. He felt that the Hyuga clan was the strongest clan in Konoha, yet, in the perception of the outside world, the Hyuga clan was subtly inferior to the Uchiha clan, which made him very unhappy.
Especially since Uchiha Kagerou had been a member of the Second Hokage’s Shadow Guard, while the Hyuga clan had no one chosen…
But you couldn’t just go and attack them because of pride!
Therefore, he pinned his hopes on the Ninja Academy. As long as he could defeat his Uchiha peers and become top of the class, in a sense, it would mean that the Hyuga had won against the Uchiha.
However, neither Hyuga Hizashi, Hyuga Nichari, nor now Nana, had encountered Uchiha classmates of the same age…
“Alright, let’s start training!”
After Sōgen finished speaking, he started teaching Nana techniques again.
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Back in his own yard, Nana lay on the roof.
He was thinking about his future training direction.
Meeting Namikaze Minato today, it was impossible to say that it hadn’t had any impact on him.
Because when he thought of this blond figure, he thought of his future title, “Konoha’s Yellow Flash,” and this title was forged in the Great Ninja War! ~
Killing?!
For Nana, who lived in a peaceful era in his previous life, it was so unfamiliar and cruel.
After all, it was a society where even buying a kitchen knife required a real-name registration.
While in the Ninja world, five or six-year-old children were wielding “controlled weapons” willy-nilly, and at the age of ten or twelve, they were already killing, and the more they killed, the more they were valued, because that’s what “genius” was all about…!
This value system was unacceptable to Nana. It was completely different from the education he had received in his previous life for over twenty years.
“I like the feeling of becoming stronger through hard training, but killing…,”
Nana felt disheartened.
“Although I hate it, I also know it is something I must experience…”
A sentence came to mind.
“A person in the world, is not free to choose his own destiny. A struggle of hearts, life and death are forgotten.”
Forget it, let’s not think about these things now. Just focus on what you can control.
Nana jumped off the roof and entered the house, closing the door.
He lay down, started the [Circulating Heaven Breathing Method] and quickly fell asleep.
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The next morning, before dawn.
Nana woke up, another day of vigor and vitality.
After finishing his daily warm-up joint exercises, Nana practiced the Gentle Fist for an hour and a half before going to the Ninja Academy.
The first grade curriculum was limited.
Literacy, physical training, tool use… no three basic jutsu, even the most basic ninjutsu would have to be mastered by the students first before developing chakra.
As for cipher decryption, herbal identification, and practical lessons, Nana knew from Nichari that these were only taught in higher grades.
And the medical ninjutsu, sealing techniques, barrier techniques, etc. that Nana was interested in were not offered at all by the Ninja Academy.
“Shinichi-sensei’s teaching must be following the pace of the majority of students in the class, but for me, it’s too slow.”
“Even if he gave me and Namikaze Minato a private lesson, it wouldn’t go beyond the scope of the Ninja Academy’s education….
“It seems I should learn the Shadow Clone Technique.”
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