Jiraiya's search for his disciple was merely a routine notification. As a ninja who possessed Sage Mode, he knew that with Itachi's strength, he could easily handle the exam... This was confidence born of strength.
But ten years later, Jiraiya would despairingly discover something: even ninjas who had activated Sage Mode could remain stuck at the genin level, and there would even be a rule in the Chunin Exams banning Sage Mode because of that genin...
It was a complicated matter. No one would believe that someone could skip directly from genin to Hokage... The gap was so enormous that seeing it once in a lifetime was enough.
Uchiha Itachi was even more confident than Jiraiya. The little boy had recently been developing his own senjutsu. No matter how difficult the Chunin Exams were, could they possibly be harder than stopping the crow and Sasuke from arguing?
Besides, when you thought about it carefully, among the Uchiha clan, any ninja who awakened the Sharingan was never a genin. Even that former dead last, who had been heavily criticized, had taken the assessment several times and successfully advanced to chunin.
That guy was practically the rare dead last of the Uchiha clan...
Of course, the little boy could not have imagined that in the original history, some brat would lower the Uchiha clan's bottom line once again. Konoha's last remaining Uchiha would probably remain a genin for life...
Two perpetual genin, through their ridiculous antics, successfully made people question Konoha's ninja rank classifications. Konoha genin... had finally become synonymous with the strongest in the ninja world.
"Will Itachi-kun soon become a chunin like Shisui-kun?" Uchiha Izumi looked at one, then the other, and finally herself... The ninja academy student's face turned a little red.
"If nothing unexpected happens..." Itachi scratched his