Survival Wisdom and First Place

Survival Wisdom and First Place

Unlike the happy atmosphere in Ayato's home, Kawauchi Sensei walked dejectedly home from the Hokage Office.

Naturally, he had not gone to Naruto to lodge a complaint. He had been summoned by the Anbu.

Then Naruto had a very cordial chat and heart-to-heart with Kawauchi Sensei.

Although he seemed to be encouraging him not to dwell on what had happened yesterday, Kawauchi Sensei was no longer young. With age came wisdom, and he understood the Third Hokage's meaning.

Wasn't he simply telling him not to cause trouble for Ayato, worried that Ayato might come to resent the village because of it?

Though he felt somewhat bitter inside, Kawauchi Sensei naturally stated that he would not seek trouble with Ayato. Only then did the Third Hokage let him leave in satisfaction.

In truth, Kawauchi Sensei had never considered taking revenge on Ayato. Not to mention that he was a teacher himself—after living in Konoha for so long, what was there for him to be unable to let go of?

So what if he had lost face once? What was there to care about compared to his own life? That boy was so talented that he would sooner or later become an important figure.

Even if he did not become an important figure, he could still become a sufficiently powerful ninja. At the very least, killing Kawauchi Sensei would be effortless for him.

So Kawauchi Sensei was no fool. Even an utterly ordinary teacher possessed some Survival Wisdom. At most, he would mildly disgust the other party within the limits of the rules.

For example, if he were in charge of the graduation exam, he would definitely make Ayato draw the Substitution Technique as his assessed ninjutsu.

But Kawauchi Sensei felt that even that probably would not stump him. What else could he do?

At most, he could annoy him a little. He could not offend him, and there were no super geniuses in the class who could vent his anger for him.

At that moment, Kawauchi Sensei could not help letting out a deep sigh. He was fucking jealous of Iruka!

Time passed quickly, and Ayato continued training step by step.

What frustrated Ayato the most during this period was that his title as the First Grade Demon King seemed impossible to shake off.

Another incident occurred during this time, right when his reputation had been about to fade.

This time, Naruto was not the protagonist. It was Akimichi Choji, and Ayato felt that they were in the wrong.

Because after seeing Choji, the other party had merely casually said that he was so fat...

Then Choji, consumed by rage, directly went to pick a fight with them.

Although discussing someone else's weight was somewhat impolite, Ayato looked at Choji's build. It seemed the other party had not been wrong.

But even knowing they were in the wrong, Ayato still decided to help Choji. He was one of their own. At worst, once the matter was settled, Ayato would take Choji to apologize.

However, when Ayato arrived, the other group quickly recognized him. Their anger immediately began to fade as they considered whether they could beat Ayato.

In the end, they felt that they probably could not. Even if they won, beating a First Grade student would not feel like much of an achievement. If they lost, they would embarrass themselves at school like those previous people.

It was not worth it at all, so they chose to stop and reason things out.

Ayato was happy with that too. What if his reputation rose again? Even now, people still surrounded him wherever he went. It was such a hassle.

In the end, Choji apologized to those people, saying that he should not have been so impulsive. The person who had called Choji fat also apologized, saying that he should not have said it.

However, at the very end, that person looked at Choji's build and could not resist adding, "But you really are pretty fat..."

Choji instantly flew into a rage again and wanted to attack once more, but Ayato and the others directly dragged him away.

"You bastard, I'm well-filled-out, not fat!!" Choji shouted as he was dragged away, leaving those High Grade students speechless.

Well-filled-out? What was the difference between that and fat when used on a boy...

Originally, Ayato thought this incident would not spread again, but he had been naive.

Very quickly, Ayato's reputation for subduing others without fighting spread far and wide. Then Ayato looked at his seat, once again surrounded so tightly that not even water could pass through, and his face darkened.

Fine. He did not want to say anything anymore. He was gradually getting used to it anyway.

Rather than think about that, he might as well read some more and prepare for the upcoming final assessment.

Although Ayato had already studied all of this, he still chose to review it to avoid forgetting any knowledge points, all for first place in every category.

The First Grade final assessment was nothing special.

"As expected, that guy is still overwhelmingly in first place." Shikamaru looked at Ayato beside him and sighed. He had already accepted how hardworking Ayato was.

After that incident, Shikamaru had carefully observed Ayato. He had even specifically asked his father whether there was any ninjutsu that could be used to study through clones.

As expected, the answer was yes, and that ninjutsu was of no low rank and had serious side effects.

So Shikamaru concluded that the Ayato who came every day was a Shadow Clone, and the rotations were probably done with Iruka Sensei. After all, every time extracurricular training began, he would go there once.

Shikamaru had initially been a little worried, but seeing Ayato act as though nothing was wrong every day, along with Iruka Sensei not stopping him, put him at ease. Perhaps Ayato had some method that prevented him from worrying about the side effects.

In any case, even if there were no side effects, Shikamaru felt he would not use it. Things were troublesome enough already. Using Shadow Clones would just make them twice as troublesome.

As Ayato looked at his grades, they did not surprise him. But this time, besides him, there was another person with a perfect score in theory: Sakura, who had cast off her troubles with Ino's help.

She had already gotten a perfect score this early, Ayato thought with a sigh. He could be considered to be cheating in this regard, but she had truly relied on her own talent for theory.

That made Ayato feel fortunate that the Ninja Academy only lasted six years. He was still confident he could get perfect scores in those six years of material. But if it were like his previous life, with middle school and high school...

Ayato felt that the moment he could no longer maintain a perfect theory score would be when Sakura surpassed him. She was a genuine academic genius.

As for physical education, Ayato was still miles ahead in first place, with no one able to catch him. Sasuke, who had originally been second, had been caught up by the cheating Naruto...

After all, thanks to the Nine-Tails' restorative power, Naruto's rate of physical improvement was so astonishing that even Ayato was impressed. If Naruto were to fight those High Grade students who had bullied him before one-on-one now, he would very likely be able to win.

Of course, Naruto would still find it difficult to catch up to Ayato. Ayato had trained much longer than Naruto, and while Naruto had the Nine-Tails as a cheat, Ayato himself also had the boost of Lightning Release. As he progressed, the effects of that boost only grew better.

"So this is the reward for first place. Next time, I'll definitely get it too!" Naruto said enviously as he looked at the specially made Silver Kunai Ayato was fiddling with.

"Here." Ayato handed the Kunai to Naruto and said, "You can play with it for a while, but I can't give it to you. As for you wanting one too, I think that's probably impossible, because I'll always be in first place."

"Hmph, I'll definitely surpass you!" Naruto declared confidently after taking the Kunai.