"Naruto, now that I've given you a chance to verify it, why aren't you throwing it?" Standing still and not showing off, Logan looked at Naruto hesitating and had to say, "Or are you saying you don't even have the courage to throw a kunai?"
"..."
"Throwing a kunai at an enemy is the most basic thing for a Ninja, right?" Logan decided to provoke the simple-minded kid a bit.
"But you're not an enemy!" Naruto couldn't help but retort, his face looking very conflicted.
"Don't worry about it. Just pretend I'm an enemy." Logan said shamelessly, his tone becoming playful, "Can you do it or not?"
'A man can't say he can't do it, so Naruto made up his mind and slowly gripped the kunai tighter, and then... he looked at Logan with uncertainty, "Okay, I'm really going to throw it. If you don't react in time later, don't blame me!"
Logan shrugged and glanced at Aida and the other retired ANBU, then saw two had already tensed up, 'Hmm, they were ready to prevent this obviously unreliable kid from throwing the kunai into the crowd.'
"Go!"
Logan still looked so calm, as if the sharpness of the kunai's point was fake, but Naruto didn't think so. After all, the texture of the steel-forged weapon in his hand was very real.
Naruto gritted his teeth and raised his hand, but in the next second, the motion that should have thrown it couldn't follow through.
Logan squinted his eyes slightly, 'This won't do.'
" Trust me." Logan took a step forward, his calm and powerful words reaching Naruto's ears, "At the same time, I will also trust you."
Naruto was stunned, looking at the eyes staring at him in front of him, feeling something he had never felt before in his heart. This feeling brought him strength that he rarely seemed to have before, and the arm that had stopped moving was no longer stiff. The warm current causing all this should be called "trust".
The sound of air being cut was heard, and Naruto threw a kunai at a living person for the first time in his life. At the same time, he felt the trust of a certain ANBU teacher in him. And when, not long after, he faced the first kunai thrown at him with malicious intent in his life, the thing called trust similarly grew among his teammates, giving him motivation.
This seemed like a meaningful moment...
'So boring.' Logan looked at the kunai that was barely flying horizontally. The spare time made him think he might as well form a hand seal, 'It's been a long time since I used the Body Replacement Technique with a hand seal.
"Bang!"
The kunai thrown by Naruto struck a blackboard eraser, and then fell off with a clatter.
"Well, Naruto-kun, good job. Everyone, let's give a round of applause..." Logan smiled, clapped his hands weakly, and walked back from where the blackboard eraser had been.
The children watching the scene burst into enthusiastic applause. After all, the feeling of watching this up close was so fresh and interesting.
"The teacher is so awesome!"
"That Body Replacement Technique was so fast. It was completed as soon as he formed the hand seal with his hands..."
"Yeah, it's too fast!"
Naruto, who had never basked in applause before, sat down lightly, his face reddening as he watched Logan clapping.
"Haha, was it fast..." Logan laughed dryly as he accepted the students' praise. In these children's eyes, he did not prepare in advance, but only acted after the kunai was thrown. With such a close distance, in the eyes of the children, it's very fast.
"Actually, the Body Replacement Technique I used just now is barely passable." Logan pressed his hands to calm everyone down and said, "The Three Body Technique has a wide range of applications in Ninja operations, and the premise of these activities is undoubtedly safety. Even if some of you learn more powerful movement methods in the future, I don't recommend giving up the Body Replacement Technique, which is quick to perform and has low Chakra consumption..."
Logan began to speak according to the lesson plan, which he had memorized thoroughly. Combined with his own understanding, the students listened attentively.
"Ahem, so what is the real Body Replacement Technique from my personal point of view? Let's have our 'old-fashioned teacher' interact with me now..." Logan felt that the earlier demonstration with Naruto wasn't enough. So he turned and walked towards Aida, who had been watching the show.
Laughter erupted from many students. 'Old-fashioned teacher' was naturally Naruto's nickname for Aida.
"Uncle Aida, please cooperate." Logan said while laughing quietly.
Aida's expression was serious. Without Logan's reminder, he had already taken out a kunai from the previous demonstration, then turned his wrist, "You're calling me 'old-fashioned teacher' too?"
Logan's smile froze, and he hurriedly explained, " It's just for teaching, to liven up the atmosphere..."
"I understand. Don't worry, I'll cooperate with your teaching!" Aida waved his hand, interrupting Logan's words, and said firmly with an attitude of going out to kill the enemy.
Swallowing his saliva, Logan dejectedly returned to the center of the platform, "Students, watch closely. The demonstration is about to begin..."
The final syllable of his sentence was abruptly torn apart by a sharp whistle in the air. The chilling sound of the kunai in motion caused the hearts of unprepared children to tighten suddenly.
It's the same sound of the kunai cutting through the air, but compared to Naruto's, it was like the difference between a raging storm and a gentle spring breeze.
The sudden kunai, with a hint of inadvertently leaked killing intent, made the Konoha's students, studying inside the greenhouse, turned pale. Many hadn't even reacted. They only saw a black shadow flashing away, followed by a 'thud'.
The kunai had embedded itself into the blackboard eraser and firmly lodged in the wall on the other side.
The tail of the kunai still trembled slightly, the metallic resonance spreading throughout the classroom. Slowly, the pupils of the closest children refocused, their forelocks falling back after being lifted by the wind.
At this time, even the expressions of the teachers in the back row changed. They didn't expect that from such a close distance, Aida didn't hold back at all when throwing the kunai.
The classroom fell into an eerie silence. Everyone's gaze involuntarily turned to the kunai embedded in the wall, then to its thrower. Aida's expression remained unchanged as he flicked his wrist.
"Wow, this 'old-fashioned'... Cough, this teacher's cooperation was too good..." Logan stood up slowly from behind the lectern, and said with casual tone in an attemp to break the uneasy silence in the classroom.
After he finished speaking, Logan glanced at Aida, who was already unconcerned, with twitching eyelids, 'Damn, that was a hard throw. Luckily, I reacted quickly…'
Logan looked at the students in the audience with a smile, "So, where were we?"
"..."
No one responded. Ninety percent of them were still dazed, unable to recover from the recent shock.
Even recalling that moment, the retired ANBU named Hyuga Aida, no matter how they looked at it… looked like he was really going to kill someone...
How terrifying.
"Uwaaah--"
A young student, eyes brimming with tears, suddenly burst into tears. His little heart was frightened.
As if triggering a chain reaction, several children started crying uncontrollably, making the classroom chaotic.
"This..." Logan was dumbfounded.