"Listen, kids. There exist some students who don't even know what they are good at nor do they know what they want to be in the future. Now, that is true but they forget one thing, and that one thing is called interest."
The kids listened with rapt attention.
"You can perform brain surgery on a student and fit a whole mathematics textbook in it but the reality is if he's not interested, it'll all be in vain."
"Now, your goal as a student is to know that interest and my goal as a teacher is to impart the knowledge, to become a link between you and this,"—Naruto raised a textbook—"but I can't link you to this"—he said, raising a textbook for everyone to see—"if you don't try to learn about it, if you are not interested in it. You can't pick up a phone without a sim card and start calling your friends with it. There's a procedure to follow before you do that."
"Most of us dream of becoming a pilot, a doctor, an astronaut, a lawyer, a teache—nope, scratch that." The whole class laughed and Naruto had a little smirk on his face. "But as we grow up, Little super saiyan blue might say, 'Daddy! I don't want to be a doctor anymore, I want to be a hero and my hero name is going to be captain underpants.'" Sasuke glared at Naruto with a blush on his face while the whole class shared a laugh.
"Then Sasuke ate Mommy's food and now, he's all grown up, then he'll say to his father, Dad, I think I want to be a public relation officer.'"
Naruto walked to the middle of the class with a smirk on his face. "There's no such thing as being interested in nothing. There's something you want to see, to know, to do no matter how minuscule, how mediocre, how lofty, how scientific, how artistic it is. It doesn't matter if you're interested on a full scale or a short scale. When you have that interest, the next thing you need is knowledge on that object of interest and the current path you're on will provide that." Naruto finished.
"But school can't teach us everything." A random student said.
"Sure, learning isn't limited to school, it's everywhere around you. But 'school' will provide you a basic understanding of very important things that will do you a world of good when you finally embark on your journey towards what you want to become in the future."
"I believe everybody can learn and that there are no such things as a dullard. Yes, even dullards have something they excel at that's not school-related. Everybody can learn unless there's something wrong up here." Naruto said, pointing a finger at his temple.
The bell signified the end of the class and kids were so engrossed they didn't notice the period was over.
Naruto chuckled because he was engrossed in the conversation too.
"Here's your first assignment." His words earned a groan from his students. "I want you to write your likes and dislikes and your life goals. I want it on my table at 7: 54am. Failure will attract a penalty. Have a good day, punks."
"Tch, that girl was right, talking to them works better sometimes." Naruto mused. "For some reason, I want to put those kids on the right path."
'Ho? Are the kids growing on you already?"
"You wish!"
(Kuoh: Unknown Location)
A multitude of humans stood in a deserted street in different rows, staring at an empty podium. A huge purple curtain was all they could see. The boss ordered everyone available to be present today. All members of the Styx Cry group were there, even the lieutenants.
The six lieutenants each have a title called the Kleptomaniacs, together they are called the Klepto six.
"Listen up boys!" Their leader, Quavo arrived with style, in a cowboy outfit, wearing an ash-colored cloak and a brand new ash-colored cowboy hat with a two golden bull horn design on it. He performed a proper burial for the old one and promised to avenge it, and now, he was out for blood.
A tooth for a tooth, an eye for an eye, a hat for a life!
"I told you rats since day one I was gon' lead y'all to greatness when I picked yo stinking ass outta them filthy slums. And now, I stand in front of ye to tell y'all, it's time for me to fufilthat promise."
"If all things go according to plan, we will rise to unfathomable greatness, greatness the likes of which has never been seen before. We will rule this earth as the absolute power!"
"Yes, Boss!"
"You runts might have heard whispers, yeah, or might have seen things but now, I tell you this, ye can gain true power, just like me! Yep, that's right, you filthy boys can finally have special powers as i do!"
The whole crowd of criminals burst into murmurs.
"The path to power is a painful one but I assure you my brothers-in-crime, the pain will be worth it."
The murmurs got so loud, it was getting out of hand. Quavo brought out his gun and opened fire on one of the poor saps. He scored a perfect headshot and blew the smoke off the mouth of the gun and twirled it using his index finger before he holstered it safely in a pouch on his lap. The whole crowd flinched back, afraid of meeting the same fate the poor sap did.
"Do not interrupt me, while I am talking!" He yelled at the tops of his lungs until he was out of breath.
"Now, where was I? Oh, I was telling you runts that you can have power, great power but power is a choice. It's either you die a forgotten coward or you be remembered as something greater than the human feasible minds can comprehend. Now, if you're in, step forward." Quavo finished his speech and as he expected, only a few came forward.
He smirked at the crowd and tipped his hat at four of the Kleptos. Sickly purple veins bulged all around their bodies as they cleared the distance between them and the crowd. All four had two men each in a chokehold, a sick grin on their face as they crushed their throats. Then they all threw the dead bodies at neck-breaking speed towards a building. They crashed through it, hitting a few buildings before they stopped.
The crowd was about to piss their pants after seeing the demonstration and the way out seems far and unreachable.
"Now, behold, the ultimate power, the creature that will make you great!"
The purple curtains fell and a fat man, with a huge pot belly, sat in the middle of the podium, his eyes closed.
"Is this a joke, Boss?" One of Quavo's men asked after seeing the 'creature'.
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