Ninja Academy Registration, Year 42

After testing the Demon Refining Pot, Uchiha Hara did not do anything extra, mostly because this body was too weak. Even after absorbing a piece of rat blood essence, he still felt a sense of weakness and powerlessness.

Especially with the rat's life imprint carried within the blood essence, there was a feeling of indigestion.

Therefore, Uchiha Hara chose the best thing for digesting food and making up for mental exhaustion: sleeping.

A night's time passed very quickly.

Early the next morning, accompanied by a crowing sound from somewhere unknown, Uchiha Hara opened his eyes.

At this moment, he felt that both his body and mind were much better than before.

Moreover, the influence brought by the rat's life imprint in the blood essence had also become negligible, showing that it was indeed almost digested.

Coming before the mirror, Uchiha Hara looked at the rat-eyed myopia in the reflection, with those somewhat dull and timid eyes, and nodded with satisfaction.

If making this posture last night still had an element of acting, then after thoroughly digesting the rat's life imprint, this posture had become his instinct.

Not bad, this is what a five-year-old child who knows nothing of the world and is a bit cowardly should look like.

He moved his body slightly. The effect of the [Rat Blood Essence] he had swallowed last night was extraordinary. Not only did it dispel most of the weakness, but even his body felt much lighter and stronger.

Movements that originally required a reluctant effort to support were now much smoother to perform.

And its function did not stop there; Uchiha Hara felt that his eyesight, hearing, and observation skills had all become much stronger.

Thinking that rats were nocturnal creatures, absorbing a rat's life imprint to enhance one's perception skills seemed quite normal?

That being said, I can actually absorb more rat blood essence to enhance my perception!

In the ninja world, perception was still very important; after all, anyone could use hidden weapons.

However, too obvious an effect is not a good thing; I need to rein it in. He deliberately slowed down his movements, even bending slightly to put on an appearance of being strong on the outside but weak in the middle, forcing himself to keep going.

Pushing open that somewhat drafty wooden door, the morning sunlight spilled down, carrying the unique vitality and bustle of the Hidden Leaf Village.

There were already quite a few pedestrians on the street; ninjas hurried along on their business, and ordinary villagers also began their busy day.

Uchiha Hara lowered his head and walked along the route in his memory toward the direction of the Ninja Academy.

He deliberately walked along the roadside, avoiding the crowd and striving to lower his presence. This was not considered overacting, but rather the instinct of a timid person.

At the same time, he also discovered another ability of his rat-eyed myopia: he could observe the world with his peripheral vision without moving his eyes.

With this ability, he could use rat-eyed myopia to quietly and quickly scan everything around him, silently remembering the characteristics of roads, buildings, and pedestrians in his mind without attracting the attention of others.

This was both familiarizing himself with the environment and the basic qualities of an undercover agent.

So this is Konoha... He felt emotional inwardly, but his face still wore that ignorant and somewhat sickly look.

During this time period, the Uchiha Clan's residential area was still in the center of the village, and the ninja academy was only a few minutes' walk from the clan compound.

However, from just these few minutes of observation, Uchiha Hara had keenly sensed that the Uchiha clansmen were not welcome.

Many villagers, upon seeing Uchiha Hara for the first time, would stop because of the little boy's cute appearance, but as soon as they looked again and noticed the fan crest on Uchiha Hara's body, the affection on their faces would instantly turn into disgust and loathing.

There were a few with poor character who would even curse in a low voice: Damn Uchiha...

Living in this kind of environment, it's hard for a person not to become twisted! Uchiha Hara sighed inwardly, thinking of a meme from his past life.

You constantly send people to monitor others, and they get cursed at just walking down the street. When people can't take it anymore and want to rebel, you stand out: Oh, how can you rebel? Why are you so radical?

The Uchiha Clan was truly a pity; a clan of warriors, yet they were tortured to death and maneuvered to death...

Soon, a rather imposing building appeared before his eyes. The entrance was already crowded with many children and accompanying parents who had come to register, bustling with activity.

Uchiha Hara roughly observed the school and felt that it was not as well-built as his hometown's primary school.

However, the area of the ninja academy was truly huge. Not only was there a super large playground in the front, but there was also a training ground covered with woods behind the classroom.

In addition, Uchiha Hara knew that there was a shelter under the Hokage Rock on the side of the teaching building.

This place was ultimately a place to train assassins; the teaching building might not be luxurious, but the training area could absolute not be poor.

Silently squeezing through the crowd, getting the registration form, filling in his personal information, and handing it over, the Chunin took one look and directly assigned Uchiha Hara to a class.

Class 1-A.

Then the Chunin pointed out the gathering location for the students of Class 1-A to Uchiha Hara. Below a podium, five rows of students were already standing in a small square.

Uchiha Hara walked over and asked around, confirming that the first year had five classes: A, B, C, D, and E, with about 20 students in each class. They were not going to the classroom right now because the Hokage-sama was coming over to give a speech later.

Uchiha Hara came to Class 1-A's line and first looked at his classmates, finding that it seemed he didn't recognize a single one.

People from the two-dimensional world transitioning to the three-dimensional world were really hard to tell apart unless their visual characteristics were particularly distinct.

He did spot someone from the Hyuga Clan, wearing a ribbon on their head and opening their Byakugan eyes, looking somewhat terrifying. No wonder some children in the village called Hinata a monster; these eyes were indeed a bit scary.

Arriving in the formation, the person standing next to him was a little chubby kid who was still holding food. Seeing Uchiha Hara walk over, he even handed some snacks to Uchiha Hara.

Uchiha Hara was not polite either; he hadn't eaten breakfast this morning.

He grabbed a handful from the paper bag. It was clear that this little fatty was heartbroken, but he simply didn't stop him.

The Akimichi Clan has good character; they're worth associating with! Uchiha Hara remembered that the Akimichi Clan had always shown a rather upright and honest image, and in various fanfiction novels, he had basically never seen the Akimichi Clan set as villains.

It could be seen that the character of the Akimichi Clan was well-established in the eyes of fanfiction authors.

"What's your name?" Uchiha Hara asked in a low voice.

"Akimichi Tanji!" the little fatty said. "What about you?"

"Uchiha Hara!"

"Oh, an Uchiha, hello!" Akimichi Tanji nodded without any strange reaction on his face.

Children's likes and dislikes toward a person were basically inherited from adults. Akimichi Tanji's attitude toward Uchiha Hara could basically reflect the Akimichi Clan's attitude toward the Uchiha Clan.

Therefore, the Akimichi Clan was indeed reliable. At least on the battlefield in the future, if he met someone from the Akimichi Clan, he could feel a bit more at ease.

If their surname was Sarutobi or Shimura, that would be another story.

Though people from those two clans generally wouldn't go to the battlefield anyway.

"Huh?" Uchiha Hara only then noticed that the snacks in his hand didn't seem like ordinary snacks; they seemed to be meat.

Tasting it in his mouth, it really was meat—a kind of roasted lean pork cubes!

Not only did it taste good, but the nutrition was also very rich. Just this handful was probably enough for Uchiha Hara's daily consumption.

Uchiha Hara couldn't help moving a bit closer to Akimichi Tanji. Tanji, I've made up my mind to be friends with you.

Even if it was just for free food.

Besides, didn't the protagonist usually have a little fatty around? He looked around, and there was only this one fatty in the whole class.

"Huh?" While eating, Uchiha Hara suddenly noticed a dead-fish-eyed person with white hair and a mask on his head walking over.

"Kakashi?" Uchiha Hara saw the newcomer and instantly understood the timeline at this moment.

Year 42 of Konoha!

If the students of this cohort didn't skip grades like Kakashi, they would graduate at age 9, be promoted to Chunin at age 11, and then participate in the Third Ninja World War.

Kurenai Yuhi, Asuma Sarutobi, and Obito were all like this.

Since Uchiha Hara did not plan to stick his head out, he should be the same.

"Speaking of which, Kurenai Yuhi is also in this cohort!" Uchiha Hara immediately looked toward the school gate. As the saying goes, if a ninja doesn't marry Kurenai Yuhi, traveling all through Naruto is in vain. Uchiha Hara was not a promiscuous person, but neither was he single-minded; since he had finally transmigrated to the Naruto world, he couldn't let go of the characters he liked.

He couldn't possibly be in the same cohort as Kurenai Yuhi and still let Kurenai Yuhi become a widow.

Sure enough, after a short while, relying on his fine eyesight, he saw a red-eyed young man leading a red-eyed little girl to the registration desk.

My eyesight is truly good! In his past life, Uchiha Hara was nearsighted, with 1,100 degrees in one eye and 800 degrees in the other, plus some astigmatism. Without glasses, he couldn't tell human faces apart beyond five meters.

Now suddenly discovering such a clear world, he could only say that transmigration was truly wonderful.

He just didn't know if it was because a child's eyesight was just good, or if the Uchiha Clan's eyes were better than ordinary people's.

Silently watching Kurenai Yuhi finish registration, she was also assigned to Class A, and then walked over alone.

Uchiha Hara was still watching when he suddenly found that Kurenai Yuhi had also looked over, so he hurriedly withdrew his gaze and looked toward the podium.

The Hokage had arrived.