Honored Teacher Kakashi

Ninja Academy!

A month had already passed since the new students enrolled, and most of the children had grown accustomed to spending every day at school studying.

The children walking along the road laughed and chatted. Compared to the boring life at home, they preferred school, where there were more kids their own age.

But there were exceptions.

Uchiha Yu leaped between utility poles and rooftops, spotting from afar a blond boy being bullied by older students.

"Naruto Uzumaki?"

The last time he had seen Naruto was at Ichiraku Ramen.

Back then, Uchiha Yu had not recovered his memories. He had merely glanced at that scruffy, unpopular blond boy.

Now that he thought about it, Naruto, the protagonist, had it worlds apart from Sasuke.

"What bad luck!"

"Fox Demon Kid!"

"Get lost!"

An older Ninja Academy student said arrogantly, "A brat without a mother, hahahaha! An orphan like you should—"

Before he could finish, a sharp pain suddenly shot through his hand!

When he looked up again, he was shocked to find his wrist gripped tightly by someone!

"Being an orphan wasn't his choice. In fact, many people had never even seen their parents before they were forced to survive alone."

Uchiha Yu spoke calmly. Behind him, Naruto Uzumaki, who was sprawled on the ground, suddenly shrank his pupils!

Yeah...

Becoming an orphan wasn't my fault.

Why did they have to bully me?

"D-Damn it! Do you know who I am!? Let go of This Lord!"

As soon as he spoke, a ninja around sixteen or seventeen years old jumped over and anxiously tried to stop him.

"Let him go! He's a Royal Relative of the Land of Fire! Coming to Konoha's Ninja Academy is merely his hobby! Let him go!"

"Make him apologize first." Uchiha Yu narrowed his eyes at the ninja, who appeared to be from the Guard Squad.

"Let go! Let me go! Damn commoner!"

"Looks like our Young Master doesn't understand the cruelty of being a ninja." Uchiha Yu said no more and tightened his grip again!

"Ahhh!"

"It hurts, it hurts!"

"I-I-I'll apologize!"

Since the other party had apologized, Uchiha Yu did not say another word and released him.

But the instant he let go, the guy pulled out shuriken!

"Die!"

Whoosh! Whoosh! Whoosh!

Three shuriken flew straight at Uchiha Yu's eyes!

But in that very instant—

Clang!

The shuriken were knocked away with perfect precision by three other shuriken!

Uchiha Yu looked toward the rabbit-masked Anbu standing in the distance and narrowed his eyes again.

So Anbu really had been following him...

"Damn it! Where the hell did you come from!?" The dandy pointed at the Anbu and cursed loudly.

The Anbu ninja replied sternly, "By order of the Third Hokage, Hiruzen Sarutobi, fighting is forbidden near the Ninja Academy."

"D-Damn it! You, and you! Just you wait! Hmph!"

"Young Master Naito Gouya! W-Wait for me!"

Watching the dandy and his lackey leave, Uchiha Yu glanced at the Anbu and prepared to enter the academy as well.

At that moment, Naruto Uzumaki jumped to his feet.

"Haha! This Lord appreciates you! Be my underling!"

"I'm Naruto Uzumaki!"

"Hehehe, do you know me?"

"How about it? How about it? Follow me!" Naruto kept repeating himself, completely unaware that the older student before him had run out of patience.

Uchiha Yu clenched his fists. "Forget it." He ignored Naruto and walked ahead on his own.

"Weirdo." Naruto Uzumaki scratched his head, but his attention was immediately drawn to a female student with a wide forehead. He eagerly ran over. "Ahahaha, Sakura-chan! You don't know this, but I just recruited an especially powerful older underling! He's really strong! I'll introduce you to him someday!"

Sakura Haruno was also annoyed by Naruto. She rolled her eyes. "Got it, got it. Stop blocking my way."

The Training Class assessments had ended, and many students had advanced to the next stage.

Uchiha Yu collected his new textbooks and went to the classroom to report in.

To his surprise, he was the only person in the entire corridor.

"Wait, where's the Teacher?"

He looked at the slip of paper in his hand, confirming that the classroom before him was C-3-1, and frowned.

As far as he knew, the classrooms in Area C were for classes about to graduate.

But the graduating classes had already formed their own squads and left last month, so those rooms should have been empty.

After waiting about one class period, even the patient Uchiha Yu could not take it anymore. He stood up and kicked open the classroom door.

Sure enough, the room was completely empty.

But just as he was about to leave, a young ninja appeared at the end of the corridor, yawning, with a head of white hair and an utterly listless expression.

"You're here early."

Kakashi Hatake showed no intention of apologizing. Ignoring Uchiha Yu's expression, he brushed past him and entered the classroom.

He picked up a piece of chalk, yawned again, and wrote his name on the blackboard.

As he wrote, he even got it wrong.

It was supposed to be Hatake Kakashi.

But he wrote Hatake Uuji instead.

Translated literally, it was basically something like "field maggot."

"You really are unreliable," Uchiha Yu remarked. "So you're in charge of this class? Teacher Maggot?"

"What Teacher Maggot!? Is that any way to speak to your Honored Teacher!?" Kakashi got angry for all of a second. When he turned around and saw his own name, he quickly erased it.

"It's Kakashi Hatake!"

"Mm, got it, Kakashi. So where are the other students in this class?"

"For now, it's just you and me." Kakashi yawned. "This is a class the Third Hokage just established for the village's special talents, allowing them to enter the graduating class early."

If Uchiha Yu still did not understand after hearing that, he might as well donate his brain.

"I'm graduating already?"

"What else?" Kakashi rolled his eyes at Uchiha Yu. "At nine, you can open your Sharingan and use the Great Fireball six times. There's nothing left for you to learn at the Ninja Academy."

"Then what can you teach me?" Uchiha Yu put his hands on his hips.

"Heh. I've copied thousands of ninjutsu, which is why I'm called the 'Copy Ninja.' As long as what you want to learn isn't Forbidden Jutsu, I can teach it. How about this? Write the type of ninjutsu you want to learn on the blackboard. I'm going to sleep for a while."

The dismissal bell rang.

Kakashi Hatake, who had spent the entire morning slacking off, woke up and stretched.

Uchiha Yu had long since vanished from the classroom.

"That kid really has no patience."

Kakashi flipped his mask around and wiped the drool off it clean before finally noticing what was written on the blackboard.

The moment he saw it, Kakashi nearly choked on his own saliva!

He tilted his head and coughed. "Cough, cough, cough! Shadow Clone, Sight Sealing Technique, Water Release?"

"What was that kid trying to do?"