Under everyone's watchful eyes-
Creak!
As the door creaked open, a boy slowly walked in.
He was fairly good-looking and wore black clothes.
His long hair covered his forehead.
Though his features were delicate, something about him seemed strangely effeminate.
Yet he radiated a confident, high-spirited air entirely at odds with his age.
With both hands in his pockets and his chin slightly raised, the boy walked up to the podium as though no one else existed.
He even stepped on the teacher's foot along the way, but walked straight over it as if he hadn't noticed.
The teacher's face darkened. As a ninja, he had naturally noticed the boy's movements.
But he was already standing far to the side. Any farther and he would have been against the wall. How had the boy still managed to step on him?
Then he shook his head slightly and thought no more of it, assuming the child simply hadn't been paying attention or had poor eyesight.
The boy looked rather arrogant, a faint smile curling his lips, as though he were the center of the world.
He wasn't bad-looking. In the entire class, only Minato Namikaze could compare to him.
But rather than Minato Namikaze's gentle, refined charm, he gave off a strangely unsettling feeling.
The moment Kushina saw him, she frowned slightly.
It wasn't merely disappointment because he wasn't the person she had been hoping to see.
More than that, she felt an instinctive dislike for the boy. She didn't know why, but she simply didn't like him.
Kushina shook her head, suppressed her disappointment, and lowered her gaze.
"My name is Chu Aotian. That name might mean nothing to you now, but one day, it will echo throughout the Shinobi World."
"For the rest of your lives, you'll feel genuine