"Asahi, I..." While feeling ridiculed and bullied. Even the thick-skinned Guy couldn't help but look up at him in embarrassment at this this moment. Especially in front of fellow students from the same class, Guy was flustered, he did not even know what to do.
"Don't feel discouraged…" Looking at Guy who had lost expression, Asahi really didn't know how to comfort him. After a slight pause, he could only say what Guy told Rock Lee in the anime, so while looking at him he said seriously, "There are two different kinds of geniuses. Those who are born with a natural talent and those that are hard-working geniuses. "
Guy who was feeling really embarrassed and nervous, hearing Asahi's words, he felt himself resurrected with full HP, and from his mouth he loudly said, "I understand, Asahi. Let's work together to surpass those geniuses!"
"..."
"I'm going back!" Asahi said quickly.
Although now was the best time to make friends with Guy, the lively Guy was already warming up in front of the people around. Asahi found that he really could not communicate with him at the same wavelength.
"Going back so early? We still have time to go and train." Guy said, puzzled.
"Well, it is to be prepare for tomorrow's exam." Asahi said, "Tomorrow in the afternoon's combat assessment, I will challenge Kakashi."
After saying that Asahi left immediately.
…
On the next day, Asahi got up early in the morning. After doing his morning jog, he did some simple physical training to adjust his body function to the best state.
For the majority of people of the same year, today's exam was just a normal assessment of the academy. It was naturally a good thing to get a good score on a test, but it was not a big deal even if they failed or scored bad.
But for Asahi, this exam had a different meaning.
If Kakashi was gonna apply for early-graduation next year, the assessment taking place at this time would be Asahi's last opportunity to fight Kakashi in the academy.
Asahi knew that as the genius son of Konoha's White Fang, Konoha's top management must have been keeping track of Kakashi's assessments. If Asahi could defeat Kakashi in front of the public, then he would undoubtedly enter the eyes of Konoha's top management.
This was a very good chance for shaping Asahi's future. At least when he graduates from the ninja academy, Asahi would not be assigned to a chunin-led team.
Although graduating early could gather a lot of attention, that road was not suitable for Asahi.
Kakashi's training was supervised by Konoha's White Fang. Meanwhile Asahi only had the academy's teacher's guidance, he doesn't even know how much he had learned.
If Asahi was to graduate early, he would most likely fall into an endless circles of missions, which could be extremely detrimental to his future development.
This academy period was extremely important for him. Whether he could learn some things or not depended on the efforts of these years and going out to execute a mission would definitely delay a lot of his training time, which was fatal for him.
Kakashi's future achievements were limited compared to his genius, it might be because of a premature fall into the cycle of endless mission, which had greatly reduced his training time.
(T.L Note: Well there was also his trauma, ptsd and the sharingan that was draining his chakra and stamina 24/7)
…
The academy training grounds.
"Uwaah ~ so handsome!"
"Kakashi really looks amazing!"
"..."
Kakashi stood in front of a wooden pile which was several meters away, with both hands stretched out, holding kunai in one hand, shuriken in other, and he threw them at will.
*Dong*
*Dong*
"Wow!!"
All around were cheers. As the first ranker in the year, and the son of Konoha's White Fang, he was considered a super genius/celebrity. Kakashi's every move easily got attention of the crowd and was noticeable.
In contrast, Asahi's results, although were very good, had received very little attention.
In all fairness, Asahi doesn't look bad, smooth-skinned, handsome (cute for now) and serious, basically he perfectly plays the role that a standard lady looks for. It's just that under Kakashi's rays of light, all of this was trivial.
The first place was always dazzling, but meanwhile the second place doesn't really seem different from the tenth place, and could only be hidden under the glory of the first place.
"So today..." Asahi glanced at Kakashi, with a flash of fighting intent in his eyes.
After six months of hard training, the results were going be verified today.
"Look at me!"
Just then, a little kid wearing goggles stepped forward, pushed Kakashi aside, and then pulled out a shuriken and threw it at the wooden target in front.
*Dong*
*Dong*
"…"
Among the six shurikens, only two just hid medium targets, and the other four just disappeared, with even the thrower himself not knowing where they had gone to.
"Dammit Kakashi! I can't concentrate because you're standing at my side!" The kid with the goggles first turned red, and then pointed at Kakashi angrily.
'Uchiha Obito.'
Asahi looked at the idiot with goggles and thought that it's just completely unimaginable. This kid would be the masked man who would cause disasters in the shinobi world and start the Fourth Great Ninja War.
"The power of an Uchiha... is wonderful." Asahi sighed.
Obito could enter the elite class, because he still had some talent, but in this elite class, Obito was basically just someone with the Uchiha's name only, he was also the classes' lowest ranking student.
It was only after he opened the Mangekyo Sharingan and integrated cells of the First Hokage that Obito could play with the entire shinobi world in his hand. Asahi had to admit that the Sharingan was really powerful, and was an advantage that could completely change a person.
"Fortunately, you didn't hurt anyone this time." Kakashi grumbled.
"Kakashi, you bastard!"
"..."
"Next, Senmei Asahi!" Said the chunin teacher.
It was Asahi's turn.
This level of shuriken throw was, to Asahi, nothing more than child's play. Stepping forward, he took out the shuriken from his ninja tool pouch and threw it. All of the six shurikens hit the center of the mark.
"Very good!" The chunin teacher said with a smile when he saw the results.
As a commoner ninja, this chunin teacher valued the emergence of a commoner genius in the class. Every time Asahi asked him for guidance, he taught him everything about the subject and often gave small private classes to Asahi.
The name of this chunin teacher was Hideyoshi Yamamoto, and unknowingly he had already been regarded by Asahi as his first teacher.
Asahi had made a great progress in the past six months, and that progress was inseparable from Yamamoto's teachings.
Soon, the assessments of shuriken throwing and Transformation Jutsu were completed, Yamamoto took out a new sheet and said to everyone, "Well, students, the subject of the next assessment is the actual combat. I will use the results of the last actual combat assessment to assign an opponent to everyone. Now I'm going to name the students along with their assigned opponents!"
The academy's actual combat assessment was to observe the changes and deficiencies of a student in actual combat. Teachers would observe their flaws in the combat, and then guide them on how to improve in that criteria.
However, in order to avoid one-sided matches, most of the students were assigned to an opponent which was close to the opponent in strength, so that everyone's potential could be better seen.
"First, Shiranui Genma please come forward in the arena!" Shouted Yamamoto and then he called another student's name.
A kid of average height and Genma came forward at the same time, facing each other.
"First is the Seal of Confrontation!" Said Yamamoto.
The two kids did the same, they made a hand sign at the same time, and then each took out a wooden kunai, ready to fight.
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