"That child..."
Uchiha Mikoto looked at Naruto, whom Kakashi had brought, and hesitated. Still, she stroked Sasuke's head and said, "Sasuke, make friends with him, okay? He moved here from Konoha too.
You're the same kind of person."
Sasuke pursed his lips, feeling a little jealous.
Why did his mother treat that boy differently too? What was so great about having a relative who was a captain? His own brother would become a captain sooner or later.
"The same kind of person?"
Sasuke asked in confusion, but Uchiha Mikoto said little more. Was she supposed to tell Sasuke outright that they were both children without fathers?
That would be far too idiotic.
Especially since, after all these years, Sasuke had gradually accepted the fact that he had no father.
"Anyway, make friends with your classmates at school, Sasuke."
"Yeah! I will!"
Sasuke found his name on the class lists posted at the entrance, then walked into the towering school building and followed the corridor to his classroom.
As the Ninja Academy continued to expand, more and more school buildings had been added. Each year had several hundred students, and the entire school had several thousand. Its scale was enormous.
No village could run a school on such a scale.
Apparently, the school also had two branch campuses, one in the northern Land of Grass and the other in the south.
The three schools produced over a thousand outstanding graduates every year. Most took exams to enter the Squads, and the particularly outstanding ones became Seated Officers as soon as they joined.
One example was the legendary graduate, Uchiha Itachi.
"With such an extensive recruitment area, most students with the aptitude to become ninja can attend school, even if they come from civilian families. That means children of the right