Konoha 33rd year, February.
This year's winter is colder than in previous years. Snowflakes are falling from the sky, and even the sky is dyed pale.
The cold wind is raging in every corner of Konoha Village. In this cold season, if there is nothing particularly important, most people will choose to spend this cold winter at home around the fire.
However, for Ninja School students, they still have to go to school as usual.
In Class A of the fourth grade, Liuli was wearing a black long-sleeved shirt and trousers, with a white scarf around her neck. Her long black hair flowed down to her waist like silk. She supported her chin with her palm and admired it through the transparent glass. looking at the snowy scene outside.
The playground is already covered with snow. In this season, I really want to skip school and spend the whole day at home.
Suddenly, there was a loud noise outside.
Even the silence in the class was broken. Liuli frowned impatiently. These guys were still buzzing like flies as always.
"Do you think it's noisy?"
Shiraishi came back with a convenience bag containing hot milk tea and hamburger meat.
Of course, it’s with Liuli’s money.
"Of course. But they can only be happy in school."
Liuli took out her own portion of hot milk tea and a portion of hamburger from the convenience bag.
"Ayane, do you want to eat? I bought an extra one here."
Shiraishi turned to look at Ayane on the other side.
"No thanks."
Ayane smiled apologetically, stood up from her seat, and walked out of the classroom.
Shiraishi watched Ayane's retreating back, sighed and said, "I always feel that she is more out of touch with you than Liuli. We could still play together before."
Liuli's eyes showed a dangerous light, and she looked at the convenience bag in Shiraishi's hand and asked, "When did I allow you to take my money and treat unrelated people to eat?"
"Uh... that, no, I think they are all classmates at the same table, that, this..."
"Are you planning to go hungry tonight and tomorrow morning? Who do you think is feeding you now?"
"……knew."
"Just remember to inform me in advance next time. I hate it when people take my things without saying hello."
"Is this what you care about? I understand, I will say hello in advance next time."
Shiraishi sighed again, sat in his seat, picked up the milk tea and drank it, and then took another bite of the hot hamburger meat.
"By the way, what was so noisy outside just now?"
Liuli asked Shiraishi while drinking milk tea.
"Don't you know? Some fourth graders want to graduate early, and today is the day to recruit graduates. I heard that there are three people in our class who want to graduate two years early, and by the way, Minato Namikaze from the next class is among them. one."
Shiraishi told the truth what he knew.
"That yellow-haired sissy, I heard you say he is number one in Class B."
"Even if you are number one in Class B, you cannot be your opponent as the number one in Class A."
Shiraishi was confident in Ruri's strength and smiled.
"I don't look down on anyone."
Although she said this, Shiraishi's compliments still made her feel good.
Class started soon, and class teacher Fujimura Dahe came in from outside the classroom and officially started class.
The indoor subjects in the fourth grade are more complicated than those in the first to third grades. There are many things to learn in the fourth grade. For ordinary civilian students, it may be of great help, but for people like Shiraishi who have already been able to study and graduate by themselves, no matter what It doesn’t matter if it’s an indoor or outdoor class.
Therefore, in addition to the lessons about the will of fire, Shiraishi and Ruri do what they want to do.
Shiraishi took a pen and ruler and began to draw on the notebook in front of him, annotating text and formulas next to it.
This is the important experiment to be carried out in the evening, where the theoretical derivation is carried out and then applied to practice.
More than three months have passed since the study of natural energy.
Over the past three months, Shiraishi has been able to successfully guide natural energy, but the natural energy he has guided is not particularly stable.
And even if the natural energy is successfully guided, if there is no corresponding means, the natural energy will soon overflow and evaporate, turning into untouchable air and returning to nature.
Therefore, in the next experiment, Shiraishi will extend the time for natural energy to appear in entity form, giving him enough time to understand natural energy and successfully utilize it.
Time passed quietly like this.
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Early March.
Light snow occasionally falls from the sky, and the weather warms up a bit, but it's still very cold.
On this cold day, something happened that was beyond everyone's expectations and broke the tranquility and peace of Konoha Village.
——The Sunagakure ninjas plundered the Fire Country border, causing heavy losses to the Konoha troops on the Fire Country border, and officially declared war on Konoha.
Just over a year after the war in the Kingdom of Rain, the flames of war once again reached the Kingdom of Fire.
Moreover, the target of the declaration of war is Sunagakure Village, which is also one of the five great ninja villages.
Led by the Third Kazekage personally, he led a large number of Sunagakure ninjas to provoke a war against Konoha.
Konoha Village is surrounded by an atmosphere of tension and heaviness that is visible to the naked eye.
The war in the Kingdom of Rain had just ended in October last year, but in the past six months, the war had swept across it again.
Moreover, the one who declared war on Konoha this time was the Sunagakure ninja whose overall strength was far superior to the ninjas of Amegakure Village.
The ninja group that belongs to the same five major countries as Konoha, their mobilization speed and ninja quality are not comparable to the Amegakure ninjas.
The rise and fall of the Amegakure ninja rests on its leader, Hanzo.
Sunagakure is different. Its leader is the Third Kazekage, one of the Five Kages in the world, and is known as the strongest Kazekage in history.
There are many talents under his command, and he is also assisted by the consultant elders Chiyo and his brother. They are all powerful ninjas who are famous in the ninja world.
Moreover, Sunagakure also established an extremely powerful puppet organization force, which caused great suffering to all the ninja villages in previous wars.
This time Sunagakure is coming in a menacing manner, and this battle is by no means an easy one to dismiss.
It seems that the Rain Country War is just an opening ceremony for Konoha to officially intervene in the Second Ninja War, and the real war has just begun.
This oppressive feeling of impending rain was weighing on all Konoha ninjas. The top management of Konoha, headed by the Third Hokage, convened an emergency meeting.
The night after the meeting, a large number of Konoha ninjas on staff left the village and headed towards the border of the Land of Fire to provide support.
The major ninja clans also dispatched their elite ninjas to fight against the Sunagakure ninjas.
War is about to break out.
