Graduation Exam and Jonin Mentor

"You spent all your money on this Kunai. What are you going to do?" Uchiha Yuan asked.

"It's fine. The clan won't let me go hungry. I'm a genius!"

Uchiha Yuan smiled at that. After taking Shisui's Kunai, he took his mother's keepsake from his Storage Ring—the Tanto that could conduct Chakra.

"Shisui, by the time you graduate, I'll probably still be on the battlefield. Take this Tanto as an early graduation gift from me." With that, Uchiha Yuan tossed the Tanto to Shisui.

Shisui caught the Tanto on instinct. Before he could say anything, Uchiha Yuan had already vanished from where he stood.

Shisui slowly drew the Tanto and discovered that this blade could likewise conduct Chakra. He carefully put it away, then murmured to himself, "Senior, you have to come back alive!"

Uchiha Yuan arrived at the Ninja Academy. Most of the students in class had already arrived. They all looked excited, without the slightest hint of nerves.

But the students of Classes 1 and 2 really did have no need to be nervous about the graduation exam. The teacher had said the written test was not important, and the Basic Ninjutsu posed no difficulty for them at all.

At nine in the morning, the graduation exam officially began. First was the written test. After the teacher handed out the papers, Uchiha Yuan swept a glance over them. More than half the questions were war-related, while the rest were things like the Will of Fire.

Uchiha Yuan locked onto Hyuga Asana directly and copied Uchiha Sasuke's move from the original, activating his Sharingan and filling out the entire paper by copying hers.

After the written test ended, the Basic Ninjutsu test followed immediately.

The teacher called the students' names one by one. Whoever was called went up and demonstrated the Basic Ninjutsu according to the teacher's instructions.

Uchiha Yuan drew the Transformation Jutsu. The teacher asked him to transform into one of his classmates. Uchiha Yuan formed hand seals with both hands and passed the exam in the most perfect form.

The pass rate for this graduation exam was 100%. Not a single fourth-year student was held back.

Thinking about it, that made sense. Whether they could pass the exam or not, none of them would be stopped this time. No one would complain about having too much cannon fodder.

Afterward, the teacher handed out Konoha Headbands to the students. From this moment on, they had become Konoha Genin.

In wartime, everything was simplified. There was even less chance of the flashy antics Naruto pulled in the original happening here.

The teacher directly announced the team assignments in public. As expected, Uchiha Yuan, Hyuga Asana, and Yamanaka Kizuki were assigned to Team 1.

"At two this afternoon, your instructors will come to the classroom to find you. I hope all of you survive on the battlefield. Dismissed!" After saying that, the teacher turned and left.

"Two in the afternoon. Yuan, Asana, we still have more than two hours. Should we go get lunch?" Yamanaka Kizuki asked.

"Sure! We can also discuss how to deal with this instructor," Uchiha Yuan said.

"Deal with the teacher?"

"Mm. If nothing unexpected happens, our teacher will give us an assessment to figure out our general strength. Although this assessment won't affect whether we become ninjas, if we can leave the teacher with a good impression, it'll definitely benefit our future development," Uchiha Yuan said.

"But we don't even know who the teacher is."

"That's not important. The key is how we ourselves cooperate," Hyuga Asana said.

"All right, all right! Don't talk about it here. Let's go eat first and discuss it on the way!" After saying that, Uchiha Yuan got up and left.

Seeing this, Hyuga Asana and Yamanaka Kizuki also followed him out.

At one-thirty in the afternoon, the three of them returned to the school.

At two o'clock, the other students had all returned as well.

Before long, the instructors came in one after another and led their respective squads away.

Uchiha Yuan did not know much about these instructors, but from Hyuga Asana and Yamanaka Kizuki, he learned that half of the instructors who had come in so far were Chunin, while the rest were Special Jonin. Not a single proper Jonin had appeared yet.

Even a class like Class 2 did not have a Jonin serving as instructor. From this, it was clear that Konoha's manpower really was stretched thin right now!

"Yamanaka Kizuki, Hyuga Asana, Uchiha Yuan. Come with me."

The sudden voice from the doorway interrupted Uchiha Yuan's thoughts.

Uchiha Yuan looked up and saw a man standing at the door, wearing black sunglasses, with a beard, and carrying a huge jar on his back.

After the man finished speaking, he did not even look at them and walked straight out of the classroom.

Seeing this, the three of them quickly followed.

Along the way, the man did not say a single word to them. He only silently led them to a Training Ground near the school.

After arriving at the Training Ground, the man stopped and said, "Let me introduce myself. My name is Shibi Aburame, a Jonin of the Aburame Clan."

Upon hearing the name Shibi Aburame, the first thing Uchiha Yuan thought of was the Movie Version, where in The Lost Tower, the young Shibi Aburame carried out a mission in Rōran together with Minato Namikaze and Choza Akimichi.

Later, they encountered Naruto, who had traveled through time, and together with Naruto, they dealt with Anrokuzan, who had caused an anomaly in the power of the Dragon Vein.

Other than that, Uchiha Yuan only remembered that he was Shino Aburame's father and that he seemed to be quite good at playing with bugs. He had no other particular impression of him.

It was actually quite normal that Uchiha Yuan had little impression of Shibi Aburame, because he did not have many scenes in the original to begin with, and the databooks' description of Shibi Aburame mainly focused on his insect control.

In terms of insect control, Shibi Aburame's attainments were unmatched in the Shinobi World. As Shino's parent, Shibi had collected and cultivated many Secret Insects.

Shibi could manipulate large numbers of insects to attack, defend, and bind enemies.

In actual combat, Shibi could even release these insects all at once and instantly devour an enemy's life.

After Shibi Aburame introduced himself, he stopped speaking and merely turned his head to look at Yamanaka Kizuki.

Yamanaka Kizuki did not understand what Shibi Aburame meant. Uchiha Yuan helplessly shook his head and began introducing himself: "My name is Uchiha Yuan. My Chakra nature is—"

"Next!" Shibi Aburame said after Uchiha Yuan finished introducing himself.

Hearing this, Yamanaka Kizuki immediately stated his own situation, and last was Hyuga Asana.

After the three of them had finished introducing themselves, Shibi Aburame said, "Hokage-sama asked me to serve as your mentor. To be honest, I didn't want to come, because I prefer carrying out missions alone.

"But the reconnaissance teams on the front lines have suffered heavy losses, especially over in the Land of Bears. There are very few teams left that can carry out reconnaissance missions.

"In wars between ninja, intelligence is extremely important. Without reconnaissance teams, the battlefield situation becomes very unfavorable.

"But Genin who have only just gone to the battlefield will find it very difficult to play a role in reconnaissance, even if they possess Kekkei Genkai like the Byakugan or the Sharingan. That's why you need systematic training, so you can grow into a qualified reconnaissance team as quickly as possible.

"What the Aburame Clan excels at most is reconnaissance, so I'll be serving as your mentor."

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