"You there, do you need something?" Just as Sōkyū Hatake was about to leave, Hiruzen Sarutobi's voice rang out unhurriedly.
Someone actually dared to pull something during his assembly. Hiruzen Sarutobi could not stand that and immediately spoke up.
In an instant, everyone's eyes turned toward Sōkyū Hatake, making him feel utterly mortified.
You sly old bastard, you won't even let me escape this torture???
"Grandpa Hokage, my stomach just hurts a little..." Sōkyū Hatake hurriedly said. He did not want to become the center of attention for the entire school.
"I see. Go use the bathroom, then." A sharp gleam flashed through Hiruzen Sarutobi's eyes. He did not believe Sōkyū Hatake's nonsense.
"Thank you, Grandpa Hokage." Upon hearing Hiruzen Sarutobi's words, Sōkyū Hatake immediately turned into a parkour runner and dashed away from the place that had been tormenting him.
"That Little Sōkū..." Hiruzen Sarutobi looked in the direction Sōkyū Hatake had left and sighed, somewhat speechless.
Forget it. This little fellow from the Hatake Clan has his voting rights in my hands now. There's no need to target him over something so trivial.
Still... he actually dislikes listening to my earnest teachings. His Will of Fire must still be lacking. I'll have to brainwash him later... no, give him some extra tutoring...
Meanwhile, having left the scene, Sōkyū Hatake let out a relieved breath. As long as he did not have to listen to that damn fellow's grand art of hoodwinking people, he was fine.
After the opening ceremony ended, each homeroom teacher began leading their students to their classrooms. Sōkū's homeroom teacher was a fierce-looking middle-aged man. After leading Sōkū and the others into the classroom, he wrote his name on the blackboard: Minamikawa Ōzora.
Sōkū noticed that Minamikawa Ōzora's right hand, which held the chalk, was missing its ring finger and pinky. He had only three fingers on that hand.
"I'll be your homeroom teacher for the next few years. My name is Minamikawa Ōzora. Rank: Chunin." After speaking, Minamikawa Ōzora folded his arms across his chest. "Next, come up and introduce yourselves one at a time when I call your names."
"Uchida Uchiha."
"I'm Uchida Uchiha, from the Uchiha Clan. I'll defeat every one of you and become the top student in our year, so everyone knows the Uchiha are the strongest." After finishing his juvenile declaration, Uchida Uchiha imitated Minamikawa Ōzora, folding his arms as he walked back down.
"Are all the Uchiha Clan members this juvenile???" Sōkyū Hatake looked at Uchida Uchiha, somewhat speechless. This was fucking... a kid with delusions of grandeur, wasn't it?
Could Uchiha Fugaku have been like this before, too?
No, I have to ask him next time we meet. They really do live up to the Uchiha Clan's arrogant, overbearing reputation. With that attitude, he doesn't think anything of people from the other clans at all...
Still, Uchida Uchiha had inherited the Uchiha Clan's excellent genes. His handsome face won the favor of the little girls in class, causing a stir.
"Quiet! Next, Mitaraishi Anko."
Hearing this, Sōkū sat up straight. Orochimaru's future student, Mitaraishi Anko? A second character from the original story had actually appeared in this class. Sōkū had thought that, having missed Kakashi's cohort, there would not be many people he knew in this year.
"Hello, everyone. My name is Mitaraishi Anko, and my hobby is eating dango..."
Minamikawa Ōzora called the children up one after another to introduce themselves. Sōkū discovered that most of them dreamed of becoming Hokage. There were also quite a few from major clans. Apart from Iruka, who came from a civilian ninja background, all the clans Sōkū knew had members here.
"Sōkyū Hatake."
Hearing his name, Sōkū slowly stood and walked toward the podium.
"My name is Sōkyū Hatake. Male. I like girls. My dream is to become Hokage."
"So handsome!" He sported the Hatake Clan's distinctive white hair, and unlike Kakashi, Sōkū did not cover his face, leaving his handsome features fully exposed.
Just as Sōkū was about to step down from the podium, Uchida Uchiha made another reckless remark.
"So you're from the family of that useless coward who abandoned his mission, Hatake Sakumo..." Before Uchida Uchiha could finish, Sōkū activated Soru, laying his blade across his neck. Feeling the icy chill against his neck, Uchida Uchiha froze. He had not expected Sōkū to dare attack even in class.
Crackle!
A mass of lightning appeared on Sōkyū Hatake's blade. The weapon Sōkyū Hatake held now was no ordinary Wooden Sword for training—it was Bakusaiga!
If it so much as cut him, Uchida Uchiha would be annihilated into dust...
"Stop!" Minamikawa Ōzora hurriedly said.
"I'll let you off this time out of respect for our teacher. Provoke me again, and next time, I'll kill you outright." Sōkū put away his blade and walked back to his seat.
"So handsome!!!!!" Mitaraishi Anko said, her cheeks slightly flushed and her hands clasped together.
Once everyone had finally finished introducing themselves, Minamikawa Ōzora began their first lesson: the principles of chakra extraction...
Sōkū noticed that only those from civilian backgrounds were listening attentively to Minamikawa Ōzora's lesson on chakra theory. After all, those from major clans had already encountered these things. Only the civilian-born children were encountering chakra for the first time, and every one of them listened intently.
"I can't take it anymore. This is just too boring." The longer Sōkū listened, the sleepier he became. In the end, he simply lay his head on his desk and fell asleep.
The bell rang, and Minamikawa Ōzora clapped his hands to get everyone's attention.
"That's all for today's lessons. Class dismissed."
The words "class dismissed" seemed to have magical power. Sōkū jolted straight out of his sleep, patted his backside, stood, and headed outside.
"I can't do this. It's too boring. Right, I can copy Itachi and start sending a Shadow Clone to class tomorrow. My real body can keep training. Otherwise, it's such a waste of time." With his mind made up, Sōkū grew cheerful again.
Early the next morning, Sōkū spoke to the clone he had created.
"You, go to school in my place today. I'm going to train."
"Why should I go to school while you get to train?" The clone protested.
"Just go when I tell you to, or I'll replace you."
"Then replace me. I'm heading back first." The clone slammed his head straight into a nearby pillar and turned into white smoke with a bang...
"What the fuck????" Sōkū stared at the sight, dumbfounded. Since when did Shadow Clones have so many ideas of their own??
Sōkū could only create another clone. Fortunately, this one was relatively normal. After sending him off, Sōkū's real body went alone to train in the Forest of Death.
Of course, Sōkyū Hatake had not yet met today's training quota, nor had he checked in yet.
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