"Neji...?" Bunta Yamano froze when he saw Neji. "How did you become like this?"
For six years, Neji Hyuga had been skinny as a rack of bones. Then, all of a sudden, he had become fair-faced, incomparably handsome, noble and refined, impossible to look away from. His appearance alone was enough to cast a hypnotic genjutsu. It was truly shocking.
"My secret technique training succeeded, and I returned to my original appearance. Please begin, teacher. There's nothing remarkable about it," Neji Hyuga said calmly.
"Mm..." Bunta Yamano snapped out of his shock and coughed twice. Seeing that all the children in the classroom were distracted, their heads turned toward Neji Hyuga, he said, "Come back to yourselves, children. Today is the day you'll be divided into teams after becoming genin. Starting today, you'll be assigned into teams of three and follow your jonin instructors on ninja missions. You must remember..."
Bunta Yamano continued his reminders for quite some time. When he noticed that the instructors had arrived, he stopped with a sigh and left the classroom. Then, instructors began entering the rooms to collect each team.
"Yoshinobu Uno, Yuria Okazaki, Ninomiya Kaido, come with me." A stern-looking instructor entered the Class A classroom and took the three away.
"Sachiko Egawa... You're Team Two. Come with me." Another female instructor came to take away three students.
The children waited excitedly and nervously for their instructors to arrive.
Might Guy rushed into the Class A classroom in a whirlwind. "Lee, Neji, Tenten, I'm here to pick you up! I'm the instructor of Class Three."
Might Guy spoke quickly, then saw Neji Hyuga's face. His jaw nearly dropped in shock. "Neji, you... you look completely different."
"Great, we're in the same class, Guy-sensei!" Rock Lee said emotionally.
Tenten let out a breath of