"Minato, how are you using the two ninja techniques you learned yesterday?" Before the first class began, Mirai and Minato finished their practice at the training ground and arrived at the classroom. As soon as he sat down, Mirai leaned toward Minato on his left and asked in a low voice.
"Not bad." Minato pulled out the textbook he needed from his bag and replied quietly, "The Transformation Technique is fine, but the Body Flicker Technique is still a little lacking. It won't take long to build up proficiency, though, and there's no way to practice it for now."
Mirai nodded. "Same here. There's basically no problem with the Transformation Technique. I just need to refine it through practice to reduce its flaws. As for the Body Flicker Technique, I've more or less grasped it, but it's too slow..."
Just as he was worrying about the teacher at the front, he suddenly heard the students in the front row seemingly discussing something.
"Hey, have you heard? There's a new student in the first year." In the front row, his classmate Guan Guqi lowered his voice and spoke to his deskmate, Liang Xiangyuan. He acted furtively, as though he truly possessed some great secret.
Xiangyuan gave him a cold look and said irritably, "What's so strange about that? It's not like I've never seen a student join a class before. Do you think I didn't see her?"
Guan Guqi grew animated at his words. He still looked cautious, but his voice unknowingly rose several notches. "Of course I'm not just talking nonsense. I heard the new student who came yesterday is an Uzumaki girl with strange red hair—how did someone from the Land of Whirlpools end up coming to our Konoha..."
Before Guan Guqi could finish, the blackboard eraser in Koyama