Fujii, the jōnin teaching the class, walked into the classroom, but Uchiha Shinsuke still hadn't shown up.
Did that little setback make him shut himself away?
What a fragile ego.
His two lackeys had come, though. They sat in the farthest corner, trying to make themselves as inconspicuous as possible.
Hayato smiled at them, a friendly smile meant to tell them not to be afraid. In his eyes, they mattered far less than insects, so he wouldn't hold anything against them. Instead, the two trembled in terror, nearly clutching each other and bursting into tears.
Hayato shook his head with a laugh, then ignored them and focused on the lesson, diligently taking notes.
The Ninja Academy had been founded by Tobirama Senju, and its development had been somewhat bumpy.
The first class had only thirty-eight students, all from ninja clans. There had been no civilians.
More than a decade after the school's founding, the facilities had been expanded for the first time.
It had taken nearly twenty years before female students were admitted for the first time.
By now, the school facilities had been expanded twice, the student body had surpassed two hundred, and civilian students outnumbered those from ninja clans.
In theory, the Ninja Academy taught knowledge in three areas: fundamentals, practice, and combat.
In practice, it approached them from four angles: history, experience, training, and fieldwork. The actual teaching methods varied from instructor to instructor. In this class, Fujii mainly recounted his experiences during the Second Shinobi World War. There was a suspicion that he was bragging, but no proof.
Ninja Academy teachers were generally chūnin or special jōnin. As the village's elite, jōnin would not become teachers unless they had a personal interest in it or had been injured and could no longer remain on the front