Konoha 43, January 10th.
Today is the graduation exam for the fourth grade students of Ninja School.
The content of the examination includes a written examination, three-body technique and ninja tool throwing.
But starting last year, the village issued a new regulation.
In the graduation examination, as long as the results of Sanshen Jutsu and Ninja Tool Throwing are up to standard, you can graduate even if you fail the written examination.
This made students whose written grades had been gliding low shout 'Long live'.
But Nobuhiko knew that the situation was starting to get bad.
During this time, [Secondary Consciousness Menzuo Shatian] has transmitted a lot of confidential information about Sand Ninja Village through Black Zetsu.
Because the third Kazekage of Suna Ninja Village has been missing for too long, and due to the defeat in the Second Ninja World War, the Kingdom of Wind has significantly reduced the funds allocated to Suna Ninja Village, and at the same time entrusted many tasks to the Country of Fire.
Now the conflicts within Sand Ninja Village have intensified to the point of being irreconcilable.
Although Suna Ninja Village has begun to take the elite route and improve the standards for ninja promotion, and there are also elite jonin Rasa who are panning for gold in the desert to subsidize the village's funds, it is still unable to make ends meet.
In order to transform internal conflicts into external conflicts, Sand Ninja Village decided to target Konoha.
It's just that they don't dare to fight Konoha alone, so they have begun to secretly contact the three villages of Iwagakure, Kumogakure, and Kirigakure.
Now, Nobuhiko also understands the essence of the Ninja World War, which is actually for the redistribution of resources.
To be precise, for the five major ninja villages, the ninja world war is to weaken the enemy village's strength and enhance the reputation of the village in order to obtain more funds and more missions.
Although Konoha has won both of the two ninja wars so far, it has not captured an inch of land for the Fire Nation.
However, after the depletion of the war, Konoha is still the strongest ninja village in the ninja world. In addition to its foundation, it is because of the increase in funding and the increase in the number of tasks.
Konoha used their strength to prove that their ninjas are the best in the ninja world!
Therefore, not only the Land of Fire, but also the other four major countries, as well as some small and medium-sized countries, will entrust tasks to Konoha.
Konoha, which has received a large number of task commissions, can obtain a large amount of funds to train ninjas in the village.
On the other hand, there are more tasks to train the village's ninjas.
The stronger the ninja is, the more elites will survive each generation.
Once this virtuous cycle is maintained, the number of ninjas in Konoha will increase and their quality will become higher and higher.
As for other villages, they will fall into a vicious cycle.
The daimyo's allocation has been reduced, and the village's operating expenses have been reduced. If it cannot increase revenue, it can only reduce expenditure, so it is necessary to reduce the number of ninjas.
However, this will directly lead to a decline in the village's overall strength, which will in turn lower the task completion rate and damage the village's credibility and prestige.
Therefore, the number of ninjas cannot be directly reduced, and those who cannot support the extra ninjas can only be allowed to go to the battlefield to consume a wave of ninjas from hostile villages.
Because Konoha is the strongest, a single village will definitely lose against Konoha, and may even be in danger of being destroyed.
Therefore, in the previous two ninja wars, although various villages fought with each other, Konoha has always been the target of public criticism.
Although Konoha won two ninja wars, its losses were not small.
While other ninja villages consumed the excess ninja, they also frustrated Konoha's development momentum.
I can’t say it’s a profit, but it’s not a huge loss anyway.
As long as it fights a war of attrition, even if Konoha wins, it will not be exhausted over time.
This is the bloody nature of the Great Ninja War.
In fact, it is not difficult to solve this problem. We only need to achieve military, political and economic integration.
The Ninja Village controls the strongest armed forces in a country, but ordinary people without extraordinary power control the means of production.
They control the economic lifeline of Ninja Village.
The ninjas all acquiesced to this rule. When someone wanted to break this rule, they would even be punished by the group.
Nobuhiko can only say that this is in line with the national conditions.
Anyone who has received the political and historical education of flower growers can see through this problem.
In the future, Nobuhiko can change this situation.
But now, he has to survive the Ninja War first.
...
After the graduation exam, Yosuke Sakamoto began to read the rankings of this exam.
"No. 1, Hinata Mio."
"No. 2, Uchiha Maki."
"Third place, Hinata Nobuhiko."
When he read Nobuhiko's name, Sakamoto Yosuke obviously paused, his tone became a little more serious, and he looked at Nobuhiko with eyes full of approval.
He watched this child fall from the middle of the class with his own eyes, and worked hard step by step to reach a stable top five level.
"No. 4, Hinata Fire Gate."
"No. 5..."
...
After reading everyone's results, Sakamoto Yosuke looked at the people on the list who failed and encouraged:
"Students who failed this exam should not be discouraged. There will be a second chance to make up the exam in ten days. Please prepare well!"
In fact, according to the general graduation standards, they have already passed.
It’s just that as a key class, the graduation standards can be improved.
Yosuke Sakamoto did this not intentionally to prevent students from graduating, but because with good graduation results, they can hope to be assigned to a special jounin or even a jounin leader when they are divided into classes.
If your grades are average and passable, you will most likely be assigned to a chuunin team.
Yosuke Sakamoto, who has experienced the Ninja World War, knows deeply how big the gap is between Chuunin and Jonin.
This is a matter of life!
Having a strong and experienced genin in the team will greatly increase the survival rate of the new genin.
However, there are only a few hundred jounin in the entire Konoha, including special jounin.
Only about one-twentieth of these jounin can serve as genin's instructing jounin.
In previous years, Yosuke Sakamoto would have even asked these students with poor grades to repeat the grade.
But starting last year, the regulations changed and graduation standards were lowered.
The seventy-odd students in the two key classes, Class A and Class B, are definitely going to become genin. As for the following classes, it will take another year or two at most.
The strength is not strong, and there is no Jonin to lead the team. If it cannot be divided into the administrative department, the medical department, the education department and other logistics departments in the future, once it goes to the battlefield, the hope of survival is extremely low.
"Now everyone go to the north playground, and the actual test will begin. The results of this test will be included in the overall score!" Sakamoto Ryosuke continued.
As soon as he finished speaking, the atmosphere in the class became tense.
As students in key classes, most of them are descendants of ninjas and can more or less be exposed to ninjutsu in advance.
There are also many children from wealthy families in the class.
For example, Hinata and Uchiha, two powerful families.
In addition, there are also middle ninja clans such as the Yamanaka, Akimichi, Nara, and Sarutobi.
These ninja children are the protagonists of this actual combat test, and the others are some talented ninjas with no background.
After arriving at the North Playground, the entire playground has been divided into ten areas.
Four of the areas are filled with classes of graduate candidates undergoing practical tests.
The rest are classes of other age groups taking outdoor classes.
The test was only halfway through, and Nobuhiko looked around.
The differences between students in each class can be clearly seen.
A small number of students are close to chunin in strength.
Some students are not proficient in the three body arts except basic taijutsu, and they are poor at throwing ninja tools.
What is going on now is the duel between Hyuga Mio and Uchiha Maki.
Although it is a bit shameful to say this, in Nobuhiko's opinion, there is probably no chuunin in the ninja school who can defeat any of them in a one-on-one fight.
The students who were originally conducting tests and outdoor activities were soon attracted by the battle of Class A.
Even the chuunin teachers gathered around.
"Both of them are so strong!"
"Is this the strength of the wealthy Uchiha and Hinata?"
"So strong, yet so cute!"
"Is this not a genin-level battle anymore?!"
Hyuga Mio didn't use Baguazhang's advanced skills or sealing techniques, while Uchiha Maki didn't use Sharingan.
Even so, it attracted bursts of exclamation from the surrounding students.
They asked themselves that if they went up by themselves, they might not last more than a minute.
Only Asuma Sarutobi, Hinata Kamon and other students with equally excellent grades were somewhat eager to try and want to compete with them.
Based on Nobuhiko's understanding of the two, currently, in terms of overall strength, Hyuga Mio is definitely stronger. After all, she was a first-class clan leader before she was reincarnated.
Now he is practicing according to Nobuhiko's carefully designed plan that is most suitable for physical development, and his strength will improve faster.
As for Uchiha Maki, she is indeed very strong, but Hinata Mio is just stronger.
"Next group, Sarutobi Asuma vs. Shiranui Genma."
Yosuke Sakamoto deliberately let students of similar strength compete against each other to ensure fairness as much as possible.
The two are indeed equally matched.
However, Sarutobi Asuma finally got the better of him with his family's fire escape.
Although Sarutobi Asuma tried hard to remain calm, his eyes were always on Yuhi Kurenai.
But Yuhi Hong only had that handsome white-haired boy in her eyes, which made him feel very disappointed.
"Next group, Hinata Nobuhiko versus Hinata Kamon!"
As soon as Sakamoto Yosuke finished speaking, a group of girls cheered and cheered for Nobuhiko.
"Nobuhiko! Come on!"
"Nobuhiko will win!"
"Down with him!"
Hinata Kamon clenched his hands into fists. He had been practicing Rouquan for three years, almost giving up all his rest time, just to avenge his shame today.
Especially when he saw that Nobuhiko didn't carry a knife with him, he was secretly relieved.
After all, his status as a White Fang disciple gave him too much oppression!
The two came to the field. As soon as Hinata Kamon launched a few tentative attacks, the crowd next to him suddenly went "boom" and burst into huge cheers.
Everyone immediately followed the sound.
I saw a slightly pale man wearing a bright yellow kimono standing not far away.
The man has a thin face, with bangs hanging down covering his right eye. His eyes are long and narrow, painted with black eyeliner and purple eye shadow. His pupils are weird golden vertical pupils, and he wears blue magatama-shaped earrings on his ears.
Orochimaru!
"Oh my God!"
"I am not wrong, right?!"
"It's Lord Orochimaru!"
The students who had been watching the practical test of Class A rushed towards the back.
The teachers rushed over to maintain order.
Seeing Orochimaru being surrounded by the crowd and being 'forced to open business', Nobuhiko wanted to laugh a little.
Orochimaru is now as popular as the Uranus superstar in his previous life.
I saw Orochimaru walking towards the position of Class A.
Nobuhiko was stunned for a moment.
'You're not here to find me, are you? '
Just when Nobuhiko was thinking wildly, Orochimaru walked straight behind Nobuhiko and came to a chuunin teacher.
"Daigo-kun, I will take Anko away, and I will explain the situation to the third generation!"
"Yes!" Daigo said respectfully, looking a little excited. He also admired Orochimaru very much.
At this time, a cute girl wearing fishnets and pineapple hair ran out from the crowd in the next class and came to Orochimaru with an excited face.
"Teacher Orochimaru!" Mitarai Anko's eyes were full of admiration and she saluted respectfully.
She didn't expect that after applying for early graduation, Lord Orochimaru, who had previously promised to accept her as a disciple, would come to the ninja school to pick her up in person.
Orochimaru patted Anko's head gently, and then nodded slightly to Daigo, Anko's homeroom teacher.
The students looked at Mitarashi Anko with envy, wishing they could stand beside Orochimaru instead of her.
Anko, who was following Orochimaru, was suddenly stunned.
The teacher actually came to a white-haired boy and gently stroked his cheek.
"Are you willing to be my disciple like Hongdou?"
Orochimaru's voice was hoarse and magnetic.
Nobuhiko was also stunned.
what's the situation?
Sakamoto Yosuke looked at Nobuhiko who was in a daze, and wished he could immediately step forward to urge him.
This is becoming Lord Orochimaru's disciple, what is there to hesitate about?
Although Nobuhiko has excellent grades, there is a high probability that he will be an elite jounin when he leads the team.
But even if they are also elite jounin, compared with Orochimaru, one of the three ninjas, the gap is still very huge.
Nobuhiko had long wanted to prostitute Orochimaru's scientific research results for free, and also wanted to learn from Orochimaru.
But he had already promised White Fang to become a disciple after graduation.
Now, without warning White Fang, he directly switched to Orochimaru, which was totally unjustifiable.
Even though White Fang and Orochimaru were close friends, Nobuhiko couldn't do this.
As if he had read through Nobuhiko's thoughts, Orochimaru smiled slightly and said calmly:
"Don't worry, Sakumo asked me to come. From now on, he will teach you swordsmanship and I will teach you ninjutsu."
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As soon as Orochimaru finished speaking, the place suddenly fell into an eerie silence.
All the students looked at Nobuhiko with blank expressions.
The Chuunin teachers were all stunned.
No one notified them? what's the situation?
When Orochimaru took Nobuhiko away, the place exploded!
"I am not wrong, right?!"
"Lord Orochimaru...and Lord White Fang! At the same time, accept Nobuhiko as a disciple?!"
"incredible!"
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