The March sky had not yet fully awakened from the severe winter, and the morning mist still carried a trace of freezing chill.
Jokichi walked on the street, feeling a hint of coolness.
He had just finished taking a shower, and his hair looked slightly messy.
However, the messy black short hair, pitch-black eyes, and delicate face, paired with clean and tidy clothes...
Even with an indifferent face, he appeared gentle and handsome.
The pedestrians passing by around him could not help but take an extra look.
Jokichi's home and the Ninja Academy were on the same street, about three kilometers apart. He arrived at the academy in a little over twenty minutes.
Following the information recorded in the admission letter, he arrived at Class 1 of the First Year.
The classroom was empty, with only two or three little kids arriving early.
They gathered together, chatting loudly about something, occasionally laughing happily, completely unaware that a new classmate had entered the classroom.
How leisurely and carefree!
Jokichi paused at the door, a trace of a smile appearing on his face.
He had encountered such a scene countless times before.
In his past life, attending primary school.
Every day he came to the school classroom, he would see a similar scene.
At that time, he was still an innocent and naive child. Seeing a group of classmates of similar age sitting together chatting, he would involuntarily join in.
At that time, he was just like these three people, pure and ignorant.
Therefore, he was also leisurely and carefree.
It was just that, now...
Having lived a second life, it was already impossible to return to the past.
"Sigh!"
Jokichi sighed, walked straight into the classroom, found a seat in the back row, and sat down in deep thought.
There was a lot of knowledge that a ninja needed to learn.
From human geography to math, physics, and chemistry, to psychology and so on...
Those aiming to become specialized ninjas also needed to learn the corresponding professional knowledge, the extent of which involved even more than university graduate students in his past life.
This knowledge was very important and closely related to a ninja's life.
Because a ninja's battle was never simply a competition of combat power.
Sneak attacks, tactics, intelligence, environment...
In situations where the gap in strength did not form an overwhelming crush, only those who could utilize everything could achieve victory.
For example, Hatake Kakashi during the Land of Waves mission. Through his understanding of the habits of snow rabbits, he judged in advance that there was a ninja ambush, thereby generating vigilance and discovering Zabuza Momochi ambushing on the way ahead of time.
If Hatake Kakashi did not know about the habits of snow rabbits and failed to discover the ambush in advance, what would have happened?
Even if he himself could luckily escape disaster, what about Uzumaki Naruto, Uchiha Sasuke, and Haruno Sakura?
What about Tazuna, the protection target of their mission?
Because it did not happen, what the outcome would have been is unknown, but the case of Uchiha Madara and Black Zetsu is a bloody lesson.
However, although he knew the importance of knowledge, Jokichi was a poor student.
Although not particularly poor, just the average kind, he still had no confidence in learning this knowledge well.
After all, he did not even finish university in his past life.
"I will just take it one step at a time!" Jokichi was somewhat helpless.
Regarding learning, he also had no good methods. He could only place his hopes on being able to forge learning-related items in the future.
However, he was not particularly concerned either.
This knowledge could be understood through personal experience in future missions.
However, Genin inherently lacked strength.
Coupled with a lack of experience and knowledge, if the Jonin commander was not professional enough or lacked a strong sense of responsibility, it was very easy to lose one's life in this process.
The reason the Ninja Academy extended the graduation time to six years during peacetime was to give students more time to learn and train, in order to ensure their survival rate after becoming ninjas.
Amidst his thoughts, the people in the classroom gradually increased.
Jokichi's attention also began to shift to the classmates he would be spending the next six years with.
He basically did not know any of them, nor did he even have the slightest impression of them.
However, there was one who was quite familiar.
The guy who, on graduation day, facilitated Uzumaki Naruto and Uchiha Sasuke's first kiss.
Recalling the scene of those two kissing, Jokichi could not help but laugh.
Suddenly, a large face stretched in close to the desktop. The big azure eyes blinked, full of curiosity.
His smile instantly froze.
Jokichi pressed Uzumaki Naruto's face and silently pushed him away.
Uzumaki Naruto did not mind and leaned over again, his face full of curiosity. "What good thing did you think of to actually smile so happily?"
Jokichi glanced at him indifferently and did not reply.
He could not exactly tell him, I thought of the scene of you kissing your best bro!
Wouldn't that be asking for trouble?
"Hey, do not be so stingy, tell me!" Uzumaki Naruto persistently asked.
Jokichi turned his head away to look at the scenery outside the window.
Uzumaki Naruto's eyes rolled around, and a trace of a sly smile emerged on his face.
Just as he was about to make a move.
Suddenly, a burst of girls' screams rang out in the classroom.
The attention of the two was instantly attracted.
A child with black hair and black eyes, wearing a white short-sleeved shirt and shorts with a fan crest printed on the back, walked in from the classroom door.
He had his hands in his pockets, his face expressionless, looking very cool.
A group of girls around him screamed.
Is Uchiha Sasuke this handsome?
Jokichi could not help but touch his nose.
He himself was also very handsome, just a completely different type from Uchiha Sasuke, more similar to Sasori's image.
But, why are there no girls screaming around me?
Could it be that little girls prefer this kind of cold and aloof type?
Suddenly, the screams turned into curses.
Jokichi came back to his senses and looked over.
He saw that Uzumaki Naruto, who was just beside him a moment ago, had somehow arrived in front of Uchiha Sasuke, stretching his neck forward and looking Uchiha Sasuke up and down with a questioning gaze.
Uchiha Sasuke was startled at first.
But his good family upbringing made him not show anything unusual. He stood quietly in place, looking at the somewhat silly-looking guy in front of him with equal curiosity.
Somehow, he always felt there was something inexplicable about this guy that attracted him.
"There is no difference!"
After looking him up and down, Uzumaki Naruto crossed one arm over his chest and pinched his chin with the other, his expression becoming even more confused.
At this, even Uchiha Sasuke and the people around also became confused.
"What difference?" Uchiha Sasuke asked curiously.
"We both have a pair of eyes, one nose, one mouth, and two ears, and you are not even as handsome as me. Why are you so popular?" Uzumaki Naruto looked at Uchiha Sasuke suspiciously. "Could it be... you used a charm-type ninjutsu?"
This guy!
Uchiha Sasuke's mouth twitched, and the urge to beat someone up rose in his heart.
And the girls around even pointed at Uzumaki Naruto and started cursing.
"Hey, why are you cursing at me? Did I say anything wrong?"
Uzumaki Naruto loudly retorted to the girls around him, which brought on even more curses, and he was finally surrounded and beaten up wildly by a group of girls.
Uchiha Sasuke's mouth twitched even more obviously.
Cursing idiot in his heart, he bypassed the commotion in front, found a seat in the front row by himself, and sat down to be a quiet handsome boy.
"This guy..." Jokichi was also speechless watching from the back.
Although similar scenes were often seen in the anime.
But seeing it on screen and personally experiencing it in reality were completely different, and the feeling it gave people was also entirely different.