When Uchiha Shunichi took the stage with a cane in hand and introduced himself with his eyes tightly shut, everyone in the class was somewhat surprised.
After all, they had never seen a blind ninja before.
"His eyes..."
"This guy looks so weak..."
"Hey! Can a blind person even become a ninja?"
As soon as Uchiha Shunichi finished introducing himself, a wave of mocking voices quickly rose from below.
Children in this world received no moral education whatsoever.
"Shut up, all of you!" Iruka lost his temper for the first time in a long while. Perhaps he had begun to pity Uchiha Shunichi.
"Shunichi, don't lose heart. Your eyes will recover from their injuries. You..."
Before Iruka could finish comforting him, Uchiha Shunichi walked on his own to the back of the classroom and sat down in an empty seat.
Ignored, Iruka took a deep breath and suppressed his emotions before beginning the day's lesson.
Uchiha Shunichi sat cross-legged on his chair and began refining chakra.
In the world of Naruto, there was not really any method for cultivating chakra. The only things ninja could do were train their bodies and practice chakra control.
Moreover, chakra was extracted from the body. A ninja's body was like a sponge, and chakra was the water within it.
Thus, chakra could be refined in any state. When chakra could no longer be extracted, it meant that one's chakra had been exhausted.
If one continued extracting it excessively at that point, death was very possible.
However, as a transmigrator, Uchiha Shunichi clearly had different ideas. Energy within the body would not appear for no reason, nor would it disappear for no reason.
He truly did not understand techniques like internal cultivation methods, but he could still extract chakra and let it dissipate throughout his body.
And so, Uchiha Shunichi created an extremely crude "cultivation method," one whose effectiveness was not even certain.
This attempt might very well be useless, but Uchiha Shunichi was willing to try.
Iruka's lessons were quite interesting and highly engaging to the little brats in class, but Uchiha Shunichi had no interest in them. Many others felt the same way, most of them ninja from clans.
Perhaps out of consideration for Uchiha Shunichi's eyes, Iruka mostly taught verbally and rarely wrote anything on the blackboard.
Soon, class ended.
Having just joined the class, Uchiha Shunichi naturally drew many curious looks. Some were friendly, while others were malicious.
And of course... there were idiots as well!
"Hey! Kid, you're pretty arrogant, aren't you?" A large-built civilian student glared at Uchiha Shunichi with an unhappy expression.
Because of Uchiha Shunichi's earlier words, the civilian student felt that his authority had been undermined.
A cold glint flashed as a blade appeared out of thin air before the civilian student. Only then did everyone in the class realize that the cane in Uchiha Shunichi's hand was actually a sword.
"Y-you... what are you trying to do?!" The provoking civilian student sounded uneasy, yet he still tried to preserve his fragile... pride.
"Don't disturb me!" Uchiha Shunichi said coldly.
The Uchiha Clan was known for its good looks. Combined with Uchiha Shunichi's icy attitude and his mysterious eyes, he immediately attracted the attention of quite a few girls in the class.
Uchiha Shunichi sheathed his sword and continued his "cultivation." Seeing him put the sword away, the civilian student immediately felt humiliated and threw a punch at Uchiha Shunichi without a care.
Uchiha Shunichi barely dodged and said coldly, "This is your first warning!"
Hearing this, the civilian student grew even angrier and continued throwing punches without letting up.
The next instant, blood splattered everywhere.
Uchiha Shunichi drew his sword and slashed.
A bloody gash instantly opened across the man's chest, and blood sprayed out...
"Ahh~!"
"Murder!"
The classroom immediately erupted in screams. Iruka, who had only just left, hurried back. When he saw the scene before him, his mind went blank as well.
However, Iruka was a full-fledged ninja after all. He quickly calmed down, stopped the bleeding of the person lying on the ground, and swiftly took him to find a medical ninja.
As for Uchiha Shunichi, he was taken away by other teachers who had rushed over after hearing the news.
In an empty room, Uchiha Shunichi sat expressionlessly in a chair. What had just happened had not stirred him in the slightest.
However, because of the Mangekyō Sharingan, Uchiha Shunichi was already feeling weak and hungry.
For a seven-year-old child, the burden of the Mangekyō Sharingan was simply too great.
Sasuke had awakened his Sharingan on the Night of the Massacre, but because his body could not bear it, his Sharingan remained dormant even now.
But Uchiha Shunichi's Mangekyō Sharingan could not be concealed. Like an ordinary pair of eyes, it consumed his chakra every moment.
"Uchiha Shunichi, what exactly happened?"
Iruka, who had rushed over in haste, looked at Uchiha Shunichi with an unfriendly expression. Not long ago, he had thought the child before him was pitiful, but who would have expected...
"Harming a companion is a grave crime, so... kill me!" Uchiha Shunichi pulled out his sword and handed it to Iruka.
No matter what, Iruka had never expected a scene like this. He froze in place.
For a moment, it was as though time had stopped, and everything was frozen in place. That was until Uchiha Shunichi could no longer hold the sword, and it fell to the ground.
The sound of the sword hitting the floor jolted Iruka awake.
"You... I can't decide this matter. Wait here." With that, Iruka fled the room as though escaping.
Uchiha Shunichi silently picked up the sword from the ground. His body was still too weak; he could barely even lift it.
The original Uchiha Shunichi had been a little genius nearing Chunin level. Though not particularly famous, he had received the clan's teachings and was still quite outstanding.
But the current Uchiha Shunichi was truly no different from an invalid.
After waiting for a long time, Sarutobi Hiruzen arrived.
"That child is fine. He merely fainted from fright. The wound on his chest only looked frightening..." Sarutobi Hiruzen took a deep drag on his pipe and said.
"I know." Uchiha Shunichi nodded.