Shino Aburame had been somewhat troubled lately.
Just how troublesome was dealing with bratty children? Only those who had experienced it firsthand could understand.
He had only been a teaching assistant before and had never truly experienced the hardship of being solely responsible for a class.
Knowing was easy; doing was hard. Nothing could be truer.
It was already no easy feat for him to overcome, to a considerable extent, his weak presence, but that was not enough.
Compared with Umino Iruka, Shino Aburame was also a conscientious and responsible teacher.
Unfortunately, Shino was younger than Iruka and even less intimidating.
The practical ability to handle problems that experienced teachers possessed was not something a novice could master in a short time.
Though Umino Iruka had a youthful face, he could communicate well with the students, whereas Shino Aburame did not have Iruka's easygoing image.
When students made mistakes, Iruka could unhesitatingly go over and knock them on the head, scold them, or even curse them out, but none of that suited Shino Aburame's image.
Simply lecturing them over and over would instead provoke the resentment of children in their rebellious phase, causing them to resist in all sorts of ways.
For that very reason, Shino Aburame had been racking his brains lately.
How to keep those naughty children from pulling pranks was an unavoidable problem for every Ninja Academy teacher.
Fortunately, not everyone in the class was difficult to manage. Whenever he thought of that silver-haired girl who excelled in her studies, followed the rules, and helped those around her study diligently, Shino Aburame felt a little relieved.
"No wonder she's Mizuki-sensei's child... Fortunately, she hasn't inherited Sensei's ever-present bad taste and lazy manner! She must have inherited her mother's fine temperament."
Just like when he himself had been