"I won't lose to you Cloud ninja."
Uchiha Sasuke immediately protested. He was the rookie king of his class, the undisputed number one.
"Then I'll look forward to seeing what you can do."
Tamura Hiroshi kept smiling. The people Dodai had selected were naturally the top graduates of the Ninja Academy.
What's more, their ninja schools kept growing. More than three hundred thousand students had graduated from the Ninja Academy this year alone, and the thirty selected from among them were truly one in ten thousand.
Most importantly, they had the best teaching methods and resources. Those children were all exceptionally talented.
As for why there were so many students, first, Kumogakure had continually expanded, and its population had already surpassed ten million.
Second, their plan to encourage people to have more children was going very well, and the number of newborns increased every year.
More than a million babies had been born in Kumogakure this year alone, and over four hundred thousand of them had chakra bloodlines.
That didn't even include the spirit children in the Summoning Realm. Their numbers were even more astonishing.
The tree-planting program provided more energy, greatly increasing the production of the Water of Life. Naturally, that also sped up the spirit children's conception.
Everything was going quite smoothly.
Compared to them, Konoha was far behind.
"Young lady, if you ever want to come to Kumogakure, just say the word. You're very talented, but Konoha can't bring out your potential."
Tamura Hiroshi looked at the worried girl. Among the Konoha 11, Sakura Haruno was the one he admired most.
She was a true hard worker and top student, and her future achievements would be second only to those two overpowered freaks.
Even Hinata couldn't match Sakura in that respect. Hinata was popular mainly because of