"Today, we're rearranging the classes!" Shōhoku Sōun announced a major piece of news as soon as he entered the classroom.
"The students whose names I call, pack up your things. A teacher will come pick you up shortly!"
Holding a sheet of paper, Shōhoku Sōun began reading out names one by one.
A week had already passed, yet some people still had not managed to extract Chakra.
The Ninja Academy's approach was to split these students up, putting the talented ones in one class and those with poor aptitude in another.
It seemed somewhat cruel, but it might not necessarily have been a bad thing for students with poor aptitude.
After all, starting today, they would also be taking courses like Kunai Throwing, Shuriken Throwing, and hand-to-hand combat. With insufficient talent, they would only get utterly crushed in those classes.
Rather than have their confidence shattered later, it was better to cut things off cleanly now.
From the original class of thirty, more than seventeen students left at once.
Before long, however, the empty seats were filled again by talented students from other classes.
Hyuga Ningyuan spotted quite a few familiar faces: Asuma, Nohara Rin, Mitaraishi Anko, Mizuki, Morino Ibiki, Umino Iruka, Gekko Hayate, Yamashiro Aoba, Ebisu, and Kato Shizune.
He also noticed two members of his clan. One was named Hyuga Hotsuchi, a member of the Allied Shinobi Forces' Surprise Attack Division during the Fourth Shinobi World War. The other was called Hyuga Rin'an. Ningyuan had never heard his name in the show and had no idea whether he had died later on.
There were also two more Uchiha. One was Uchiha Naye, a girl with short black hair, delicate features, sharp eyes, and a valiant, heroic air about her.
The other was Uchiha Kaede. Just hearing that name