Upon hearing the task Orochimaru had assigned, the students' faces immediately fell.
Seeing that the little ones did not look too happy, Orochimaru merely smiled silently. A class only lasted an hour; he could not talk for that long.
"Does anyone else have any questions? There's no rush to write your graduation plans during the remaining twenty minutes."
Orochimaru's words lifted everyone's spirits again. This new teacher was not so annoying after all.
"Teacher, could you tell us about the battle that made you famous?"
The one who spoke was Anko Mitarashi, and it was a question many of the students wanted answered.
The topic of becoming famous overnight was something every ninja about to leave the Academy yearned for. Countless people had imagined their moment of making a name for themselves in a single stroke.
"Sure. I'll give you a rough account of what happened back then."
After saying that, Orochimaru picked up a piece of chalk and walked to the blackboard. On one side, he wrote Konoha's elite squad, consisting of Orochimaru, Jiraiya, and Tsunade. On the other, he wrote Hanzō's Amegakure squad.
"To talk about that battle, we have to start with the camps on both sides."
Looking at the students' curious faces, their eyes filled with a thirst for knowledge, Orochimaru could not help feeling sentimental. They had the same desire for knowledge as he did!
"The enemy fought on home ground and held the advantages of terrain and local support. They only needed to defend to remain invincible. Their disadvantage was that they did not know our exact numbers.
"We, on the other hand, had come from afar. Our familiarity with the terrain was certainly inferior to that of the Amegakure ninja, and we were also at a disadvantage in numbers. The only advantage we