In Yuta's classroom, while Ibiki continued to teach, a group of ninjas were using earth-type ninjutsu to move the houses behind the school a little further away and build arenas in the space that had opened up.
After building a total of nine different arenas and seating areas for spectators at the four corners of the arenas, the venue turned into a kind of martial arts stadium.
Jonin, who was in charge of organizing the competition space, looked down on the arena from the roof of the school and felt that something was missing.
As time passed, the ninjas grew more and more impatient, waiting for this man's words to make their hard work pay off. The lower-level ninja were ready for anything, as long as Jonin didn't ask them to rebuild the whole arena, and they weren't as impatient as the other ninja.
Fortunately, the man who finally opened their eyes gave them an extra task that was not too onerous.
Hearing the new orders, the ninja felt briefly dissatisfied then turned their heads and looked at the arenas they had built. Indeed, it would have looked nice if they had painted a large hidden leaf village symbol in the center of each arena.
Jonin saw that the number of men was nine, including himself, and he jumped into the center arena, picked up a kunai, and began to draw the symbol on the ground.
Meanwhile, Sarutobi Hiruzen and three gangs of thieves came into the arena.
Sarutobi looked at what they were all doing for a while and then saw that they were working on a small but nice detail. "Reward everyone with an extra thousand ryo at the end of the mission." The anbu waiting next to Sarutobi instantly disappeared after receiving the order and went to the mission distribution center to deliver it.
The construction of the arena was completely finished and Sarutobi Hiruzen sat down in the place built for him and looked up at the sun. The student's family members would be here soon. He thought as he saw some family members wandering around the arena area.
One family, who had arrived very early for the competition, saw the Hokage sitting alone in a corner and immediately went to him and started to tell him something about their son's future as a good ninja. After talking to them for a while Sarutobi saw the other parents coming and dismissed them called for an anbu and told them that the family who had just interrupted him wanted their child to face Yuta in the first match.
The anbu ninja made a silent apology to the family that had just arrived and then set about rigging the draws.
As the clock ticked, Morino Ibiki exited the classroom, instructing the entire class to follow him in double file. The students quickly followed orders and lined up behind Ibiki in the hallway.
Yuta turned his head to look at the boy of the Nara clan who was seated in the same line as him, at the end of the line. Feeling his gaze falling on him, the boy turned his head to see Yuta making the throat-slitting sign.
Yuta thought he was in a good mood today as he looked at the boy, yellow with fear. Probably because from today onwards, he would no longer have to hide his abilities completely. After all, anyone would be happy to be relieved of the burden of living in a village full of ninjas and hiding their abilities.
For the same reason, Yuta realized that he was extra excited today, but the excitement only lasted until he followed Ibiki to the back door of the school.
When the bright sun slapped Yuta's face mercilessly, he lost all his excitement and decided to finish the tournament as soon as possible.
Thanks to the ninja who came up to Ibiki and quickly disappeared, he learned the location of the competition and turned back to share this information with his students, but just then a person at the back of the line caught his attention. Or rather, it was not a person but the bags under Yuta's eyes that caught the teacher's attention.
"Yuta! What happened to you again? Don't you sleep at night?"
With the teacher's words, the whole class turned their attention to Yuta. Even the boy who had just been frightened by Yuta now wondered if I had just been frightened by this boy. As soon as Yuta was exposed to the sun, his entire aura seemed to dissipate. The children, who normally involuntarily feared Yuta, began to wonder why they were afraid of this pathetic boy until now.
"I'm fine, just a little sleepy, yawnn... that's all."
"Stupid brat. Did you stay up all night even the day before the competition?"
In answer to his question, Ibiki saw that Yuta was about to lose his balance due to lack of sleep and angrily told the boy from the Nara clan to carry Yuta.
The boy sighed lazily at first and moved to put his shoulder against Yuta. When his shoulder made contact with Yuta, Yuta immediately recovered and grabbed the hat the boy was wearing and pushed him away a little.
"I'm not that bad off. Just lend me your hat."
Nara Ensui wanted to take back from Yuta the hat his father had given him for his birthday, but he was honestly worried that he would cause himself much greater trouble by speaking of it.
When Yuta managed to get some protection from the sun's rays thanks to the hat, his insomnia subsided to a level that did not cause him to suddenly faint.
Meanwhile, accompanied by Ibiki, all the children were led towards the arena area. As Yuta looked at the thousands of eager spectators lined up around the arenas, he thought that there shouldn't be so many parents of school children. At the same time, Ibiki, like he had heard what he was thinking, explained to the whole class the reason for the crowd.