Chapter 23: Sasuke, the Fleeced One
Ding ding ding.
Izayoi and Hinata had just whispered to one another for a brief time when the class bell rang.
The whole classroom immediately fell quiet.
This was a very unusual scene normally.
"The graduation exam is the Clone Technique. The test room is at the end of the right corridor. The teacher will call out the names of those who will come out later."
No sooner had the bell rung, than Iruka Umino stood at the door of the classroom.
He didn't approach the podium, but simply spoke an order at the door and left.
Subsequently, a green-vested Chunin arrived at the door, holding a list, and began to call out the names: "Minako."
Individuals' names were being called one after another from the lips of the Chunin teacher every two minutes.
The students whose names were called stood up hesitantly or confidently, and they never came back once they left the classroom.
Hinata was also there.
".Izayoi."
A couple of minutes later, when Hinata had already gone, Izayoi heard his name.
Getting up and stepping out of the classroom, Izayoi reached the test room at the end of the hall.
Opening the door, Iruka Umino and Mizuki, the homeroom teacher of Class Two, came into Izayoi's line of sight.
They sat at a long table.
When Izayoi entered, Iruka Umino at once showed a warm smile and said, "Izayoi, let's start."
"Yes."
Izayoi nodded, quickly formed hand seals, and said, "Clone Technique!"
Boom——
Two balloon-popping sounds coincided.
Two puffs of white smoke suddenly appeared on Izayoi's left and right sides.
As the white smoke vanished, two ghostly duplicates who looked exactly like Izayoi, in appearance, height, or even down to the little details on their clothes, stood beside Izayoi.
Looking up and down at these two ghostly duplicates, Iruka Umino and Mizuki looked at each other, then produced a Genin headband, stood up and grinned, "Your duplicates are excellent. Congratulations on graduating with the graduation exam. You are now a Genin."
"Thank you, Teacher Iruka, and Teacher Mizuki."
Izayoi walked up, was given the Genin headband by Iruka Umino with both of his hands, and politely bowed to both of them.
Iruka Umino instructed, "You don't have to return to your classroom next time. Don't leave the academy yet. Go to our class's playground and wait for the others to finish the graduation test. I will take you for taking profile shots later."
"Yes."
Izayoi nodded and headed out of the test room.
Just stepping out of the teaching building, Izayoi saw Hinata waiting for him outside at first glance.
The two smiled at each other and walked towards the playground.
On the playground, already ten or so students were waiting for them.
"Yo. Izayoi, Hinata, you're here too!"
"The graduation exam is really not difficult for you."
"After completing the profile photos, shall we celebrate?"
"Eh—forget it, I want to celebrate with my family. They're waiting for me outside."
"That's true, let's get together when we have time in the future."
"How many students in our class do you think can pass the graduation exam?"
"At least twenty, right? After all, we're Class One."
"Anyway, that guy Naruto is definitely doomed."
"...".
After Izayoi and Hinata arrived, a lot of students gathered around them and chatted with Izayoi.
Izayoi also smiled and participated.
At this moment, a figure walked over.
"Izayoi, let's fight later?"
It was Sasuke Uchiha who came to challenge him.
Seeing the third-grade student, Sasuke Uchiha, who could occasionally steal the second place, come over, the other students tactfully walked away.
Watching Sasuke Uchiha, who was filled with fighting spirit, Izayoi smiled and shook his head and said, "I will not fight for the time being. According to the information that I have learned, Genin will be arranged into a group of three and go on their own under their respective Jonin mentors to learn together."
"Now that we both know our strength, no matter how often we fight, the result is the same. Why don't we train with our Jonin instructors for some time and afterwards observe each other's progress?"
Sasuke Uchiha recalled the image of getting thrashed all the time at listening to this.
Sasuke Uchiha's combat enthusiasm instantly broke and he agreed, "Alright, let us have a fight again in some time."
"No trouble."
Izayoi agreed.
The last few years, the reason why Izayoi's arguments could level up chakra control and still leave more than 10,000 behind was all due to Sasuke Uchiha.
For the first two years, Izayoi fought Sasuke Uchiha almost every week, even twice a week.
Apart from dropping Sage Eye (Red) but once, Izayoi had dropped Shadow Level Qualification (Purple), Uchiha Bloodline (Purple), and Otsutsuki Bloodline (Blue) repeatedly.
Izayoi quantified all these talent traits into points.
Sasuke Uchiha contributed more than 10,000 points.
The rest of the points were donated by Hinata and other classmates.
Among them, the majority were donated by Hinata.
Because in the whole class, Izayoi's strength was the first level, Sasuke Uchiha and Hinata's strength was the second level, the ninja clan children were the third level, and the others were the third level.
From the third grade, except for Sasuke Uchiha and Hinata, it was difficult for Ino Yamanaka and other ninja clan children or other classmates to lose qualities.
Even when they did lose an attribute, they were typically low-level attributes.
Fortunately, strength measurement was not chakra volume, or Naruto Uzumaki would be the only one in the whole class or even the whole school who could lose high-level attributes.
Izayoi had sheared Sasuke Uchiha's wool over the years.
Whether it was the abilities on his body or the scrolls of ninjutsu at home, Izayoi had stolen them more than once.
In the past few years, Izayoi had also become friends with Sasuke Uchiha.
Fighting once every other term had become their agreement.
Having fought with Izayoi for so long, Sasuke Uchiha's strength naturally exceeded that of the original work.
The bubbles that surrounded him had transformed.
That was the Uchiha Bloodline (Purple), which had become - Bloodline Limit: Sharingan (Purple).
In short, Sasuke Uchiha awakened the Sharingan.
To be precise, he could use the Sharingan at will.
He actually awakened the Sharingan during the night of the massacre.
Sasuke Uchiha, who awakened the Sharingan, was very conceited.
Other than Izayoi, the only people Sasuke Uchiha seriously considered were Hinata, who could steal away his second place and whose taijutsu battle even he was not able to match.
During a free-for-all battle, Sasuke Uchiha, who had opened the Sharingan, had an explosion of chakra, and learned additional ninjutsu from Izayoi, did not take Hinata seriously.
If Izayoi, Sasuke Uchiha, and Hinata were put in the same class, they would most certainly be the strongest team among the Genin.
Neither the new generation of Ino-Shika-Cho nor the Gaara siblings of the Sand Shinobi were their rivals.
But of course, this was impossible.
Whether it was the karmic connection between Sasuke Uchiha and Naruto Uzumaki or their identities, they were bound to be placed in the same team.
In the whole of Konoha, there was no one who was more fitting to be their Jonin teacher than Kakashi Hatake.
(End of this chapter)
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