Assassination • Uchiha

The class bell and Iruka's words quieted everyone in the classroom, and they each chose a seat and sat down.

After everyone introduced themselves, Iruka began the day's lesson. Ye Wuyue, meanwhile, lay facedown on his desk and began meditating. To outsiders, though, it looked no different from sleeping in class.

A piece of chalk struck Ye Wuyue squarely on the head.

Iruka stood at the front of the room, his face full of anger.

"Uchiha Sasuke! Stand up!"

Ye Wuyue opened his eyes and rose helplessly. Sakura and Ino beside him looked at him with some concern.

"Hahaha! So the Uchiha Clan isn't all that impressive after all."

"Yeah, he's just a guy who sleeps in class."

Some of the boys in the class immediately burst into laughter. An Uchiha Clan member who was popular with girls was practically the public enemy of every male student in the class.

But Ye Wuyue did not care in the slightest. As long as he could grow stronger, that was enough. Things like theoretical knowledge were basically useless in Naruto. Which powerful person in Naruto was actually good at theory?

Well, there really was one. The original Uchiha Sasuke seemed to have had pretty good theoretical knowledge back when he was at the Ninja Academy.

But that was not important. In this world, strength was what mattered most.

Why did Fugaku make me attend the Ninja Academy? Ye Wuyue thought helplessly. With his strength, none of the Ninja Academy teachers could probably beat him one-on-one.

"Quiet! Everyone, keep listening!" After drawing the students' attention back, Iruka resumed the lesson.

Still standing, Ye Wuyue entered a meditative state again...

A moment later, a suppressed voice full of fury rang out.

"U! Chi! Ha! Sa! Su! Ke! Get outside!"

Ye Wuyue was forcibly dragged out of his meditative state again. He felt awful. Coming to this Ninja Academy was practically making himself suffer.

So he could only explain himself.

"Iruka-sensei, I'm actually training."

But Iruka clearly did not believe his nonsense.

"Are you training in how to sleep during class? I've never heard of any training method where you can grow stronger by sleeping."

At that moment, Ye Wuyue suddenly thought of a good way to graduate directly from the Ninja Academy.

Ye Wuyue said, "I'm telling the truth. Since you don't want to believe me, how about this? I'll challenge you. If I win, I hope you'll allow me to train this way during class from now on. If I lose, I'll obey whatever you say from then on. How about it?"

Ye Wuyue's words threw the entire class into an uproar.

"He actually wants to challenge the teacher? Isn't he way too arrogant?"

"Are all Uchiha Clan members such arrogant lunatics?"

Hearing that, Ye Wuyue explained, "There are indeed many arrogant people in the Uchiha Clan, but I'm obviously not one of them."

I'm a show-off! The ultimate badass, Uchiha Sasuke!

"I won't accept your challenge. Today is a theory lesson; practical exercises are held on Friday." Ye Wuyue's words almost made Iruka laugh. Though he was merely a Ninja Academy teacher, he still possessed the strength of a Chunin. Yet a child who had just enrolled wanted to challenge him?

At the same time, Ye Wuyue's seriousness made him begin to wonder whether this student really had been training.

After thinking it over repeatedly, Iruka still decided that Sasuke had probably not rested well the previous night.

"Sigh, sit down first. We'll let it go this time. Just remember to get proper rest from now on and don't sleep during class again."

In the end, Iruka gave in and waved for him to sit down.

Ye Wuyue froze. I don't want to sit down. I want to fight you.

But he still sat down. Iruka was, after all, a respectable figure in the original story, and he did not want to make things too ugly. It would be even better if he could beat up that Mizuki instead. He could vent his frustration and graduate early at the same time.

The day of lessons passed in meditation, and Ye Wuyue stretched lazily.

By then, there was barely anyone left in the classroom, but Iruka was still there, standing beside him.

"Sasuke, go home and get some proper rest tonight. Since today is the first day of school, I won't punish you. But if you do this again tomorrow, I'll make you stand outside to listen to the lesson. Understood?" Iruka said sternly.

Ye Wuyue scratched his head. He had been telling the truth, so why did no one believe him?

"Iruka-sensei, I really wasn't sleeping, and it wasn't because I didn't rest well last night. I truly was training!"

Ye Wuyue spoke sincerely, but Iruka simply would not believe him.

"Fine, fine. Then I hope you go home and train properly tonight. Don't train during class again, all right?" Iruka's tone clearly showed that he did not believe his nonsense.

"Fine." Ye Wuyue nodded, and only then did Iruka leave the classroom with his teaching materials.

After leaving the school with his shoulder bag slung over one shoulder, Ye Wuyue headed back alone toward the Uchiha Clan District. Fugaku and Mikoto were busy with work and naturally had no time to pick him up. Even his older brother Itachi was the same.

The Ninja Academy is so boring! I've been in this world for six years, and the only real fight I've had was the one when I first arrived. If this keeps up, I'll die of boredom!

Was Konoha this boring when Minato was Hokage? I want so badly to see that old schemer Danzo stir up trouble, to see Hiruzen pull off some suffocating nonsense, or to run into assassins from other ninja villages!

Fourth Hokage! Do you know my pain?!

Ye Wuyue chewed on a blade of grass, lost in miserable thought.

Rustle, rustle...

The sound from the forest beside him made Ye Wuyue stop. He looked toward its source, but there was nothing there.

This was a remote path, and Konoha's villagers rarely passed through it.

Could this really be... an assassination attempt?

Ye Wuyue felt his blood begin to boil, his heartbeat quickening as he slowly drew the Asauchi from his back.

"Who's there?" Ye Wuyue shouted, but no one answered.

"Meow!"

A kitten meowed as it jumped out of the grass ahead.

Seeing that, Ye Wuyue disappointedly sheathed the Asauchi on his back.

"What the hell? It was just a kitten?"

Swoosh! Swoosh! Swoosh!

Suddenly, more than a dozen Shuriken flew toward Ye Wuyue. The kitten hurriedly fled.

Ye Wuyue's gaze sharpened as he used Shunpo to evade them. But the enemy's attack was not over. Steel wires were attached to the Shuriken, and under the enemy's control, they flew toward him again.

Uchiha Style Shurikenjutsu!

The moment Ye Wuyue saw the method used to control the Shuriken, he recognized the style. It was the Uchiha Clan's Shurikenjutsu.

Fire Release: Great Fireball Technique!

There were too many Shuriken, and they were attached to steel wires. A wide-area ninjutsu would work better.

The enormous fireball burned through every steel wire connected to the Shuriken. Deprived of control, the Shuriken fell to the ground.