There were twenty-nine names on Konoha's local waiting list.
There were only eleven auditing students.
The simplest version of the story soon spread.
The school had given outsiders twelve seats that should have gone to Konoha's children.
The parent who had slapped the list onto the school gate was named Matsui.
His daughter was already seven, and walking to school from the eastern side of the village took her two hours each day.
Beginner classes were held only in the early morning. Since she could not arrive before the doors opened, she had been waitlisted under "scheduling mismatch."
Matsui did not believe this was his family's problem alone.
"If the school has room to teach outsider children, it has room to move local classes to the afternoon."
That objection involved real costs.
The Auditing Program used one rotating teacher, one safe classroom, literacy materials, and chakra-absorbing cloth.
They could not simply say everyone needed education and pretend resources would not diminish.
The school made all its classrooms and class schedules public.
Of the twenty-nine local children on the waiting list, six were too young.
Five needed accessible access, but the stairs in the existing old building made entry impossible.
Nine, like Matsui's daughter, could not attend the early-morning sessions.
Four had applied for advanced combat courses that were already full.
The remaining five had yet to confirm their caregiving arrangements.
These problems had existed before the Auditing Program.
Canceling literacy classes for eleven outsider students would not automatically turn stairs into ramps or move morning classes to the afternoon.
The school also published its teacher hours for the past three months.
The beginner literacy class had always been short one afternoon teacher.
Meanwhile, the advanced throwing class had occupied two rotating teachers for six consecutive weeks to prepare for a