Chapter 262: Graduation Team Assignments

Ninja School Teacher: I Get Stronger by Teaching Main Text Volume Chapter 179 Graduation Class Split After graduation, the class split list isn't released immediately; it will be announced four days later. During this period, it's not that there's nothing to do; there are a few small tasks, such as taking photos for the graduating students.

This isn't a group photo, but a photo that will be used for the ninja registration data, i. e., an ID photo.

Since it's a rare chance to take a photo, Obito wanted to look cool, wearing a white robe and a bamboo hat or something, but unfortunately the photographer mercilessly rejected it, so he could only dress normally before taking the photo.

Besides this, there are also graduation photos taken by students and teachers, but this isn't organized by the school; each class does it on its own.

As for someone like Muyue, who is quite popular among students, basically every class photo includes him, since during the special training he taught the entire fourth grade.

Because Obito had a camera, this time he took commemorative photos with his friends at the ninja school, and also took the opportunity to take some photos with Rin Nohara, just the two of them, without Kakashi.

After taking the photos, there was basically nothing left to do at the ninja school; they just waited for the list to come out, then went to school to check the list and collect their ninja registration documents.

Thus, Obito and the others returned to their normal training rhythm.

Because they knew that in the future they wouldn't be able to train every day from morning to afternoon with Teacher Muyue like they did now, they especially treasured this time.

Until Obito discovered that the new training also required solving problems, his mood underwent a subtle change.

"Hitting training: for every minute the Shadow Clone successfully dodges, five problems are generated. Hitting it ends the special training directly. The time limit is ten minutes." Muyue told Obito and Shisui the punishment mechanism for the new training.

"Huh? Why do we still have to do problems? We didn't before." Obito said, looking bewildered.

He had just heard it was new training and was secretly delighted, thinking it was great that there would be no problems.

"Recall what I said: I said you temporarily don't need to do problems." Muyue said with a smile.

"Before, I considered that you were close to graduation and wanted to let you relax a bit. Now that the graduation exam is over, there's no need to be so relaxed."

"Or does Obito think that after becoming a ninja, you should live an even more relaxed life than as a student?" Muyue asked, looking into Obito's eyes.

Obito:...

If he nodded, wouldn't he become a person without ambition? And Obito carefully recalled that Muyue did say "temporarily" before, but he was so excited about not doing problems that he selectively ignored the "temporarily".

"Of course not. It's just that back then I only remembered half of what you said, Teacher Muyue." Obito scratched his head, a bit embarrassed.

"Five per minute, maximum ten minutes. That means if it's like last time, we'll have to solve fifty problems." Shisui felt a bit of pressure.

Muyue's problems—even though he had been working on them for some time—were still very difficult, requiring a lot of thought and even looking up information.

"Begin!" Muyue shouted after splitting out a Shadow Clone.

Swish swish!!

Shisui and Obito both burst out chakra and dashed toward the Shadow Clone.

While charging at the Shadow Clone, Shisui casually activated his Sharingan. The battle only lasts ten minutes, so he didn't need to conserve chakra too much.

"I can't use ninjutsu blindly; I need to find the right timing." Shisui thought silently.

According to his speculation, if his ninjutsu forced the Shadow Clone into a situation where it couldn't dodge, then the Shadow Clone would use ninjutsu to defend. As long as he didn't use ninjutsu, the Shadow Clone wouldn't use it either.

"Total Concentration: Flame Breathing!" Shisui quickly adjusted his breathing rhythm, concentrating his breath intensely, while at the same time gathering chakra inside his body, which flowed continuously through his meridians and pressure points.

Shisui did his utmost to attack the Shadow Clone, but each time he missed by a narrow margin as Muyue sidestepped. Though it seemed extremely close, in reality he didn't even touch Muyue's clothes.

But Shisui wasn't discouraged; this was within his expectations. Just like before, when they were just a little short of dodging, it was all the result of Muyue's deliberate adjustment. If they couldn't improve, they would forever be just a little short.

After five minutes, Shisui still hadn't hit Muyue even once, but the trees beside them had suffered considerable damage.

"Fire Release: Phoenix Sage Fire Technique!"

Feeling that his setup was complete, Shisui formed hand seals, gathered chakra, and used the jutsu. A large amount of chakra gathered in his throat, and he spat out clusters of small fireballs toward Muyue.

Because Shisui was spitting them one by one at the trees, the Shadow Clone didn't use ninjutsu to intercept, but calmly dodged the incoming fireballs.

The fireballs didn't hit Muyue, but they hit the large trees that Shisui had cut with his short blade. The explosion of the fireballs caused the already damaged trees to break and fall directly.

Shisui had tampered with a total of six large trees. With a rumbling sound, the tall trees all fell toward Muyue's direction.

At the same time, Shisui pushed his breathing technique to the limit and burst forward with all his strength.

Relying on this unexpected attack, Shisui finally closed the narrow gap and touched Muyue with his hand.

Even though his punch was caught by Muyue's hand, it still counted as touching.

"Very good. Although the breathing technique hasn't broken through, you flexibly used the surrounding environment to create advantageous conditions for yourself." The Shadow Clone released Shisui's arm and said with a look of approval.

Unlike the previous training, this time the Breathing Method did not break through, but good tactics could still allow early completion of the training.

Of course, since the training was focused on the Breathing Method, the main exercise was still the Breathing Method. Tactics are not infinite; next time the Shadow Clone will be on guard. Only by improving raw strength can the problem be fundamentally solved.

After the battle on Obito's side ended ten minutes later, Mu Yue announced the results of this battle.

"Obito, ten minutes of lack of focus, needs to complete fifty problems. Shisui, five minutes of lack of focus, needs to complete twenty-five problems."

Hearing that Shisui completed the training in five minutes, Obito looked somewhat surprised and said, "Shisui, you're amazing! You improved so fast this time."

"No, I just used a clever trick." Shisui shook his head and replied.

"How did you use a clever trick? I want to learn too." Obito looked envious; that was a whole twenty-five problems.

"Think more during battle, observe the surrounding environment, and create favorable conditions for yourself." Shisui thought for a moment and said.

He also knew that the same method would definitely not work twice, so he only told Obito the general idea, not his specific method.

"You need to learn more from Shisui and Kakashi on this point." Mu Yue nodded and then handed the test papers to the two.

Obito glanced at it and was about to put it away, but he suddenly noticed something and quickly took it out to look carefully.

When he saw the reading material analyzing the original intention of establishing the Ninja Academy, Obito couldn't help but say:

"Teacher Mu Yue, did you give the wrong one? The problems on mine don't seem right. Did you mix up Shisui's test paper with mine?"

Obito even ran over specifically to look at Shisui's test paper and found that Shisui's problems hadn't changed. He felt something was wrong.

"No mistake. Now that you've graduated from the Ninja Academy, the problems naturally need to change." Mu Yue explained with a smile.

Originally giving Obito those problems was, first, because his foundation was too poor and he needed a lot of supplementary knowledge, and second, to improve his Ninja Academy grades and raise exam rewards.

Now that Obito has gone through a year of remedial lessons and graduated from the Ninja Academy, it's natural to change. The purpose of the next problems is to let Obito absorb knowledge from history, and there will be specialized political lessons later.

He couldn't change the entire ninja world all at once, but he could start by influencing his own disciples.

In an instant, an unprecedented thought arose in Obito's mind: he actually started to miss the old test papers and old problems.

This was something impossible before, but today, it truly happened, because what he was about to face next was an even more terrifying existence.

Obito's gaze at the two test papers changed. This was an existence even more powerful and terrifying than a Kumogakure jonin.

"You must do the problems seriously. Even if you really don't know, you have to write your own thoughts. After finishing, come to me to discuss the problems." Mu Yue said seriously.

The reason he assigned problems instead of directly lecturing was to let the students think by themselves first, so that when he explained later, they could absorb it better and would subconsciously think again.

"I will definitely finish it." Obito promised weakly. He had a feeling that he might not sleep well for the next few nights.

After the special training ended, it was regular training until the practice time was over.

When Obito dragged his tired body home and finished dinner, he went upstairs to his bedroom, took out the test paper, and started doing problems.

Although he was very resistant inside, he still had to listen to Mu Yue's words. No matter how hard, he had to do it seriously.

Looking at the lines and lines of material on the test paper, Obito felt a headache. After thinking for a moment, he began to form hand seals.

"Shadow Clone Technique!"

With a puff of smoke, two shadow clones appeared.

"Ahem, you don't want to fail to complete the test paper and disappoint Teacher Mu Yue, do you?" Obito said, pointing at the test paper on the table.

"Don't waste your effort. I know exactly what you're thinking. There's no way I'm doing the test paper." The shadow clone directly lay down on the bed.

"You don't want to get beaten up by your own shadow clone, do you?" The other shadow clone was more irritable.

Bang, bang!!

Obito sighed and dismissed the two shadow clones. He could see that getting the shadow clones to help was impossible. If they fought, the pain would still be his, because the shadow clones' sensations would eventually return.

"As expected, this technique has too many drawbacks." Obito's impression of the Shadow Clone technique took another hit, and he began to seriously do the problems.

"Document 1: After becoming the Second Hokage, Tobirama Senju established many institutions, one of which was the Ninja Academy. After the establishment of the Ninja Academy, except for a very few ninja clans, anyone wanting to become a ninja must enter the Ninja Academy for study, and only by passing the Ninja Academy graduation exam can they become a genin."

"Carefully read the above two documents and analyze Tobirama Senju's original intention and significance for establishing the Ninja Academy."

Silently reciting the problem in his heart, Obito's head started to spin.

There were two documents in total: one was a textual description, and the other was the ratio of ninja clan members to non-ninja clan members among Konoha ninja in three periods.

Obito read through the two materials word by word but still couldn't figure out the connection between them and the questions—especially the data; he didn't understand what use it had.

"Damn, so the Ninja Academy was also created by Tobirama Senju." Obito realized that the inventor of the Shadow Clone technique was also the founder of the Ninja Academy.

After failing to figure it out, Obito just wrote down his own ideas—better than leaving it blank.

"The original intention was to cultivate stronger shinobi and make the village's ninja more excellent. As for the significance... from now on, all the children in Konoha will have a school to attend." Obito nodded with slight satisfaction after finishing writing.

He suddenly felt curious: before, when kids didn't go to school, what did they do with all that extra time?

Letting his mind wander a little, Obito glanced at the clock and was shocked to find that twenty minutes had already passed. He quickly continued working on the problems—if he couldn't finish, the problems would be carried over and increase in number.

Obito spent the entire night doing problems. When he lay down on the bed, his mind was filled with nothing but Hashirama Senju, Madara Uchiha, or Tobirama Senju—the three of them doing all sorts of things, and then he analyzed the meaning of each.

That night Obito had a bit of insomnia. He lay in bed for a long time without falling asleep because he couldn't stop wondering what Tobirama Senju's purpose really was—why did he do those things?

Only when he became extremely sleepy did Obito finally drift off, and then he woke up the next day under the influence of his biological clock.

Somehow, ever since he started doing those problems, Obito felt that the daytime passed faster—blink and it was gone—while the night time became very slow. Doing problems for just a few hours felt much longer than training during the day.

Training during the day and doing problems at night—this incredibly fulfilling life almost made Obito forget about graduation; it was only when Muyue reminded him that he remembered.

"Tomorrow is the day when results are announced and classes are assigned. I'll give you a day off to rest and prepare for your new life as shinobi," Muyue said with a gentle smile.

Tomorrow the Ninja Academy would announce the exam results for all grades, including the fourth-year graduation exam, and also release the final class assignments.

"Yeah!" There was some excitement in Obito's eyes—this way he would have more time to tackle those damn problems.

"Obito, are you okay? You don't look so good." Rin Nohara asked with concern.

In the past, Obito's voice was full of energy, but today, although the joy could still be felt, it lacked vitality.

"I'm fine, just a bit tired lately." Obito said it was no big deal.

He felt that the only benefit after class assignment might be fewer problems—after all, he'd have fewer opportunities to interact with Muyue, so fewer problem-solving sessions, and naturally fewer problems.

"Then remember to rest well tonight. Tomorrow, besides checking the class list, we also need to pick up our shinobi dossiers." Rin Nohara reminded him with a smile.

Obito nodded in confirmation. After eating dinner at home, he quickly started doing problems.

"Aah, Tobirama Senju, what exactly were you thinking?" Obito discovered that Tobirama Senju had created an extraordinary number of things.

That night, Obito slept even worse—he kept feeling as if someone was asking him in his ear, "What significance does Tobirama's actions hold?"

4k, feeling unwell today, probably can't write ten thousand words, but there will still be another chapter. Remind everyone to adjust their clothes according to the temperature—sudden cold weather really makes you prone to getting sick...