Meanwhile, as another protagonist of today's Ninja Academy graduation ceremony, Sasuke Uchiha was also making his final preparations at home.
After packing up his ninja tool pouch, Sasuke looked toward his brother Itachi, who was waiting by the bedroom door to head to the Ninja Academy with him.
"How are your preparations going?"
Itachi asked Sasuke with a smile.
For Itachi, whose little-brother obsession was fully maxed out, while he certainly hoped Sasuke would win, he hoped even more that Sasuke's strength would break through.
Because he knew Sasuke's chances of winning today's battle were not high.
Sasuke had only awakened the Two-Tomoe Sharingan. Though that already made him something of a genius within the entire Uchiha Clan,
compared to either Shisui or Itachi, he was undoubtedly far behind them at the same age.
After all, both of them had awakened the Three-Tomoe Sharingan at the age of ten!
Sasuke, meanwhile, was already twelve.
Still, there had been cases of late bloomers.
Take Madara Uchiha, who had once clashed with Hashirama Senju, the First Hokage. He had been a late bloomer, only awakening the Sharingan at fifteen.
Logically speaking, if judged solely by the age at which one awakened the Sharingan, Madara Uchiha would not even rank in the Uchiha Clan's history.
Yet now, he had become a taboo within the Uchiha Clan, known as the strongest Uchiha in history!
Moreover, Obito Uchiha had been unable to awaken even the Sharingan before the age of twelve.
Yet when he turned twelve, he directly awakened the Two-Tomoe Sharingan, then later leaped from the Two-Tomoe Sharingan to the Mangekyō Sharingan.
It could be said that Obito was the model example of a dead-last student rising up to surpass geniuses.
Therefore, for the Uchiha Clan, sudden explosive growth was something that could happen