Teacher Leading the Team

For the next half month, Tamura Hiroshi didn't go out to train. He even took a half-month leave from school and stayed home to write, improve his chakra control, and practice his monstrous strength techniques.

This half-month passed quickly. After using the Transformation Jutsu to deliver his manuscript to the publishing house for scheduled printing and sales, Tamura Hiroshi returned home to prepare for today's battle.

First, he put on the inner armor crafted for one hundred million ryo. The main body was a mesh made of special metal, with arm and leg guards on his forearms and lower legs, as well as armor plates protecting his chest and back, and shoulder guards.

According to the shop owner, these armor plates were not only lightweight, weighing less than ten pounds in total, but also possessed high hardness and toughness, sufficient to withstand C-rank ninjutsu attacks. Their strong resilience could also buffer impact to some extent.

Next came a set of leather clothing, rumored to be made from the hide of a certain ninja beast. It offered decent defense against nature-based ninjutsu, at least ensuring he wouldn't have an indecent exposure incident if an opponent used a Fire Style jutsu.

"I look a bit like a youthful Sauron, too bad I'm not as handsome."

He glanced at himself in the mirror, Tamura Hiroshi was quite satisfied with his current appearance, especially his leather boots.

He genuinely couldn't get used to ninja shoes that exposed his toes. Didn't it hurt to kick someone's toes with them?

What if he accidentally ripped off a toenail? That would be excruciating!

For this reason, he not only replaced his ninja shoes with fully enclosed leather boots but also reinforced the tips and heels with the same alloy as his armor, all to make his kicks more impactful.

He stretched his limbs, feeling exceptionally pleased. Then, he picked up the twin blades from the sword rack and sealed them into his left and right arm guards respectively. A "meow" character was added to the center of each sealing jutsu formula.

That's right, this pair of arm guards were also ninja tools, capable of sealing things. They were similar to the arm guards Sasuke and Uchiha Itachi used during their battle in the Pacific.

With his preparations complete, Tamura Hiroshi finally left home for the Ninja Academy.

His classmates didn't react much to Tamura Hiroshi's arrival. Even his unusual attire only earned him a few glances, and no one said anything about it.

Tamura Hiroshi usually kept a low profile in class and didn't have many friends, appearing very ordinary and unremarkable.

Before long, the teacher arrived to give a preliminary speech and then took out a list to announce the team assignments.

Each class at the Ninja Academy had a standard number of students, aiming to form three-person teams for everyone.

Unfortunately, last year, two students in this class fought over a girl, and one blinded the other. They were both expelled. The blinded student also had to drop out, unable to become a ninja.

What a precocious world!

This meant one person would be left out. For this situation, they would either be added to an existing team, be taken on alone, or be paired with an incomplete team from another class.

Tamura Hiroshi was that person. His option was to lead a team alone, a benefit he had planned for beforehand.

After all the team leaders had come and gone with their students, a youth entered the classroom and looked at Tamura Hiroshi, who was the only one left.

"Tamura Hiroshi?"

"Teacher, I am Tamura Hiroshi!"

Tamura Hiroshi stood up and bowed, then took the opportunity to size up the newcomer. Seeing the youth's striking half-white, half-green flowing hair, he began to guess his identity.

He was likely the Eight-Tails Jinchūriki before Killer B, and also his teacher.

Of course, he wasn't the Eight-Tails Jinchūriki yet, as it was unknown if Killer B had even been born.

Fukai was also sizing up Tamura Hiroshi. He had a good impression of the composed youth before him.

"Sit down, let's talk."

Fukai was very calm as he walked over and sat in the desk seat in front of Tamura Hiroshi.

"My name is Fukai. I am a Jonin of the village, specializing in Lightning Release Ninjutsu, Lightning Release Nintaijutsu, and Lightning Release Sword Technique..."

Fukai introduced himself first, feeling very curious about this youth.

Half a month ago, an order came from Lord Third Raikage, instructing him to abandon his scheduled mission and become a class teacher, specifically for only one child.

Later, his cousin also specifically told him to take good care of this child. Although neither of them revealed the specific reason, he understood that this child was definitely not simple.

After inquiring over the past few days, he learned that this child had accidentally discovered a spy who was stealing the village's funds intended for purchasing supplies from the Land of Iron, amounting to one billion ryo.

This child had found the money stolen and hidden by the spy and handed it over to Lord Raikage, recovering huge losses for the village.

He was a hero of the village!

Furthermore, being able to discover the spy and find the money they had hidden was proof of his abilities.

"Teacher Fukai, my name is Tamura Hiroshi. You can call me Hiro, I specialize in Taijutsu and Sword Technique. My chakra nature is solely Lightning. My Chakra Quantity has a bottleneck, and I would appreciate your guidance in this area in the future..."

Tamura Hiroshi also introduced himself in detail, even revealing the results of his Chakra Threads training.

After half a month of training, his Chakra Threads could maintain six strands simultaneously, extend three meters, and perform flexible maneuvers.

This in itself was not much, but it represented an improvement in control.

"You've actually trained to that extent!"

Fukai was surprised. Under normal circumstances, a child just graduating from the Ninja Academy would be considered quite accomplished if they could master wall-climbing and water-walking techniques. The focus in school was primarily on theoretical knowledge.

Not many focused on such practical skills, let alone training higher-level Chakra Threads.

Such techniques were only popular in Sunagakure and were the specialty of Puppet Masters. Very few people in Kumogakure practiced them.

These Chakra Threads were already considered a form of chakra nature transformation training. Successfully training them proved that his chakra control had reached at least Chunin level.

Furthermore, this child had already begun practicing Lightning Release Nature Transformation. Although he lacked professional methods, resulting in crude training, according to his description, he was close to mastering it.

It was astonishing for a ten-year-old child to have reached such a level.

"My chakra talent is very ordinary. I won't be able to achieve much in this area in the future. I can only work harder on control to utilize my limited chakra more efficiently."

Tamura Hiroshi wore a helpless expression. He detested worlds and cultivation systems that relied on bloodline. The achievements of one's parents largely determined the child's level, with no room for mutation or transcendence.

It was incredibly difficult, almost impossible, to surpass them through acquired effort.

Even though Konoha's three "liver emperors" had achieved great success, the very fact that they could undergo such high-intensity training without becoming crippled was itself an extraordinary talent. It wasn't something that could be overcome by sheer willpower and effort alone.

Tamura Hiroshi had initially tried that kind of "overnight" training method, but his muscles had nearly dissolved.

Even after reducing the training intensity, he still had to pay medical ninjas every day to use medical ninjutsu to treat his body and use precious medicinal herbs to supplement it, preventing hidden injuries or even overexertion. This had cost him a significant amount of money.

He truly couldn't imagine the physical potential and recovery ability of those three liver emperors. He even suspected that all three might have some connection to the Senju Clan, possessing parts of the Senju's Sage Body.

Therefore, his focus for the past few years had been on improving his chakra control, and he had gained considerable results.

"Your direction is correct. Increasing chakra quantity is too dependent on talent. Forcing yourself to refine it excessively will only harm your body.

There isn't a good solution for this currently, so focusing on improving chakra control is the best path."

Fukai affirmed his student's choice. Improving chakra quantity was truly difficult, and the village currently had no excellent methods for it.

Although he heard that the village was secretly conducting experiments by consuming the Eight-Tails' flesh, the results didn't seem very good. There hadn't been any further cases like Kinkaku and Ginkaku.