From the night of genocide, marching towards the strongest.

Without turning around, Sasuke knew who it was. Before entering this classroom, he had imagined many scenarios, one of which was this one.

Turning my head, I saw a guy with short blond hair, blue eyes, and six whisker-like lines on his face.

As expected of you.

Naruto Uzumaki!

"hehe...."

Sasuke chuckled, ignoring Naruto. He glanced around the classroom, then slowly made his way to find an empty seat, carrying his backpack.

"You jerk, you're ignoring me? What's with that smile on your face?"

Seeing that Sasuke was ignoring him, Naruto became even more annoyed and yelled, "You ran away at the last minute last semester because you were afraid I'd beat you up? If so..."

boom!

Before he could finish speaking, Naruto was smacked on the head by Sakura Haruno, who yelled angrily:

"Naruto, you idiot, shut up!"

Naruto was about to ask something, but in the end, under Sakura's burning, menacing gaze, he shut his mouth, looking aggrieved.

Sakura breathed a sigh of relief after Naruto calmed down.

"Sasuke-kun..."

Sakura watched Sasuke with concern from afar. She noticed that Sasuke seemed to have changed. The Sasuke of the past was proud, cool, and handsome.

Sasuke is calm now, and the girl's sixth sense tells him that beneath that calm lies a kind of loneliness that makes him feel out of place with everyone else.

Sakura, who had inexplicably noticed this, bit her lip and couldn't help but feel a little sorry for him.

After placing his books on the desk, Sasuke closed his eyes, seemingly oblivious to everything around him.

With his extremely sensitive gaze, he noticed not only Sakura's emotions in her eyes, but also Naruto's.

Sakura, needless to say, is infatuated with the original owner's beauty and has feelings of love for her. After this incident, she seems to have developed a girl's compassion and a maternal protective instinct unique to females.

As for Naruto?

His behavior seemed impulsive and thoughtless, and his personality was carefree, but his inner feelings were extremely sensitive. Perhaps his simple mind couldn't guess what had happened to the original owner, but he seemed to have instinctively sensed something.

His provocative words and carefree demeanor were just Naruto's unique way of comforting people or diverting their attention, much like his pranks to get the villagers' attention.

These precocious little brats, ha...

"Crench."

The classroom door was pushed open again, and Iruka walked in with his books and lesson plans. He glanced around the classroom, his gaze lingering on Sasuke for a longer time, but he didn't say anything, simply looking away without making a sound.

He naturally knew about the Uchiha clan's overnight annihilation. Although he was worried about the child and wanted to do something, he knew now was not the time, otherwise it would only backfire.

"cough...."

Stepping up to the lectern, Iruka cleared his throat and announced in a clear voice, "Welcome everyone! You will be spending a new semester here. Let's begin taking attendance..."

College life, huh?

It looks pretty good, doesn't it?

Looking at Iruka on the lecturing desk, speaking fluently and passionately, Sasuke thought to himself.

Although he now possesses three classic texts on cultivation, some of the content is too advanced for his current knowledge and too difficult to understand.

It's like those things are advanced mathematics, while the original owner's mathematics has only just entered junior high school.

There is still much he can learn at school.

Once the basics are understood, the difficulties that are troubling him will naturally be resolved.

Chapter 10 Practical Exercises

One week later, at the ninja school playground.

"Wow! Sasuke-kun is so cool."

"Yes, yes! Sasuke-kun is amazing!"

"Sasuke-kun truly lives up to his reputation as the top student in the grade; he's a genius!"

"..."

Sasuke stood on the open ground dozens of meters away from the humanoid wooden stake, his hands reaching into his waist with lightning speed. He grabbed a kunai with one hand and a shuriken with the other, throwing them simultaneously. The air was filled with the sound of 'swish swish swish!' and the speed was like that of arrows released from a bow. 'Thump! Thump! Thump!' The sounds rang out in unison, and all the kunai and shuriken hit the bullseye, not one missing.

Cheers erupted instantly. The original owner of this body was already the top student in the entire grade and a member of the Uchiha clan, making him a genius in his own right. Even without his transmigration, the original owner could have achieved this level of success.

In fact, he can now wield shuriken and kunai in a variety of ways, at different speeds, combining them to the point where each kunai catches up with the previous one and hits the bullseye at the same time.

You can also throw ten kunai at the same time, and by calculating their speed and angle, make them collide with each other, so that the enemy cannot predict the trajectory of the projectiles.

He just doesn't want to show it right now. Hitting the bullseye is perfect, so he might as well skip all the fancy stuff.

Furthermore, Sasuke is now close to mastering the Windmill Shuriken Shadow Technique and the Wire Shuriken Technique, which the original Sasuke mastered four years later. His eyesight is now fully capable of keeping up with, and even far surpasses, these techniques.

His fingers were just a little slow, because the wire was so painful to his fingers, even with chakra protection. The intense pain made it difficult for him to control his fingers flexibly.

The progress over the past two months has been quite good, considering that I haven't focused much of my training on throwing techniques.

"Humph!"

Hearing the cheers around him and seeing Sasuke's calm expression, Naruto felt extremely annoyed, especially when he saw that Sakura, whom he liked, was also among the cheering, and was even the loudest one. Naruto felt even more annoyed.

"Watch out for Naruto!"

Naruto walked straight up, first giving Sasuke a provocative look, then pulled out a shuriken and hurled it at the wooden stake in front of him.

That action was more like smashing than throwing.

Swish swish.

None of the ten shuriken hit the target; they all flew off the target and disappeared without a trace.

"how is this possible?"

Naruto blushed and muttered in disbelief, then turned and pointed at Sasuke beside him angrily, "Damn Sasuke! It's because you're standing there that I can't concentrate, otherwise I would definitely get a perfect score!"

How did you do that?

Sasuke asked calmly.

Naruto was taken aback: "What do you mean?"

Sasuke clapped his hands, a smile playing on his lips, and said in a playful tone, "To be able to skillfully avoid the wooden stake with ten shuriken in a row at this distance, you're pretty impressive in a way!"

"I...I..."

Seeing Sasuke's indifferent expression, Naruto's cheeks turned red, but he stammered, unsure how to refute him.

Although Sasuke praised him verbally, Naruto could easily detect the sarcasm in his tone.

Seeing Naruto's face turn red, Sasuke chuckled to himself, shook his head, put his hands in his pockets, turned and left, leaving Naruto with a dashing silhouette.

"hateful!"

That arrogant jerk!

Naruto clenched his fist, about to say something, when Iruka stepped forward, glanced at him casually, and then, unsurprisingly, announced the results.

"Naruto Uzumaki, zero points!"

"Huh?" Naruto's face fell instantly, and he shouted, "Iruka-sensei, give me another chance! It was Sasuke who interfered with me just now, otherwise I would definitely have gotten a perfect score!"

Iruka rolled his eyes inwardly. He wanted to refuse the request, but under Naruto's sincere gaze, he nodded.

"Yoshi!"

Naruto, who was initially dejected, was instantly revitalized and filled with fighting spirit. He pulled out another shuriken and hurled it fiercely at the wooden stake in front of him!

boom!

Of the ten shuriken, only one hit its target, and not even the bullseye, but the foot of the wooden stake. The other nine had long since flown off into the distance.

Iruka sighed and rubbed his forehead before announcing the results.

"Naruto Uzumaki, 0.5 points!"

"........"

The throwing technique assessment of the practice class was over in no time. Iruka took out a new score sheet and announced to everyone, "Alright, the ninja tool throwing assessment is over. Students, the next test is the practical assessment. Please show your strength to the fullest. The teacher will be watching your performance."

In addition to recording students' scores, the practical assessment also serves to help teachers observe students' combat methods, responses, and shortcomings during actual combat, and to provide guidance accordingly.

Every practical assessment is the most arduous and tense moment for the ninja academy teachers. Although the ninja tools used are all unsharpened, in order to ensure that the teachers can find the students' shortcomings as carefully as possible, the students go all out in the practical battles. In this world, there is no such thing as holding back when sparring with fellow students.

To avoid any injuries or even deaths, the ninja school teachers dared not be careless at this time, so as to ensure that any accident could be stopped immediately.

"I will assign opponents to you based on your scores in the last practical assessment. Now, students whose names I call, please come forward."

"Uchiha Sasuke versus the fighting dog..."

"Wait a minute!" Before Iruka could finish speaking, Naruto shouted, "I challenge Sasuke!"

"Naruto!" Iruka's forehead veins bulged, and he was about to reprimand Naruto when Naruto continued triumphantly, "You yourself said that the opponents would be assigned according to the results of the last practical assessment, so Sasuke's opponent is me!"

Iruka was taken aback. To avoid overwhelming opponents, the Ninja Academy usually assigned opponents of the First Ancestor to be of similar strength. This made it easier for the teachers to observe the strengths and weaknesses of the two opponents and to better see a person's potential.

The last practical assessment was during the final exam of the previous semester. Because Sasuke missed the exam, he didn't get a grade, so in a way, what Naruto said did indeed conform to the allocation rules.

"this....."

Iruka was speechless for a moment, then glanced at the calm Sasuke beside him, feeling somewhat troubled.

"Hehe!" Seeing that Iruka didn't speak, Naruto immediately pointed at Sasuke and provoked him, "You bastard Sasuke, are you afraid to accept the challenge?"

Sasuke nodded and readily agreed, "Alright, I accept your challenge!"

Iruka had originally planned to find a reason to refuse Naruto's request, but seeing that Sasuke had actually agreed, he simply went along with it.

Seeing this, Kiba Inuzuka, who had been somewhat nervous, secretly breathed a sigh of relief.

He knew Sasuke's strength all too well, and he really didn't want to go up there and get tortured unless absolutely necessary.

Naruto, you idiot.

Kiba Inuzuka sneered inwardly.