Chapter 23

Shizune forced herself not to laugh as she looked at the bump on Yuta's head as he walked one step ahead.

All she had heard about Yuta at school was that he was lazy and awkward. But when she met him at Tsunade's house, she saw that he was quite funny.

As Shizune wondered why people described Yuta as strange, she noticed that Yuta's steps were getting slower and slower.

When she was level with Yuta, who had been walking ahead until a moment ago, she heard him cursing the sun. Shizune could now understand a little why the other children called him strange.

Yuta and Shizune continued to walk to school, and after a while, the process of walking turned into Yuta walking with Shinuze's help, and eventually Shizune carrying Yuta.

On a normal day, Yuta would walk to school, shielding himself from the sun as much as possible, but on this day, with Shizune by his side, he couldn't walk any farther for more shade and ended up in the situation he is in now.

Meanwhile, Morino Ibiki, who had gone out into the garden to enjoy the sunny winter morning with a cup of hot coffee in her hand, sat on a tree and watched the excited students entering the school gates. Each student was burning their heart with the dream of winning today's competition and becoming a great ninja in the future.

Of course, knowing the truth, Ibiki realized that his coffee no longer tasted as good as it used to. This competition seemed to be fair, but in fact, it was not. Children from ordinary families would start honing their skills at the ninja academy. In contrast, children from the big clans would already have a fighting strength close to that of genin-level ninjas by the time they entered the academy. So the whole competition was nothing more than a way to prevent the rebellion of ordinary families while giving privileges to children from the big clans.

Morino Ibiki could no longer taste the coffee in his hand, so he gulped it down in one gulp and was about to leave for the teacher's office when he noticed two students entering the schoolyard.

A female student was carrying another male student to school on her back. Seeing that one of his students might have been injured, Ibiki immediately started running in that direction. Any other teacher would probably have done the opposite, an injured student meant trouble and no teacher liked trouble. The fact that a student had been injured in an incident outside the school had nothing to do with them. But for the bald teacher, Morino Ibiki, it was just the opposite; how dare anyone hurt his students?

As the teacher rushed over to them, he got a closer look at who the students were: Shizune, a senior student, was carrying his student, Yuta, on his back, while Yuta was snoring and sleeping.

Ibiki, who knew his student better than anyone else, had already noticed that every time he went out he felt weak like a man with a cold. Of course, he thought it was psychological, and in the unlikely scenario of expulsion, he was planning to give Yuta psychological treatment with the help of special ninjutsu.

Picking Yuta up from Shizune, Ibiki took him to the classroom, placed him on his desk, and waited for the other students. As time passed, other students began to enter the classroom, at the same time Yuta woke up from his beauty sleep.

Realizing that he had unknowingly arrived in his classroom, Yuta decided to do something about the fact that in the future he would fall asleep like a bloodless vampire in the sun. Soon after, today's class started.

After listening to the lesson for a while, Yuta realized that this was not the boring -what is a chakra- lesson that was a continuation of the last lesson. The teacher had changed today's lesson topic, which was to be a competition, to something more useful.

After Morino Ibiki wrote the title of the lesson on the blackboard, he turned his back to the writing on the board -How to escape a Gnejutsu-. "So, kids, do any of you know how to break a genjutsu?"

Ibiki first gave the speech right to the boy from the Uchiha clan, thinking that he could give him a good answer.

"Sensei, my Uchiha clan is the best clan in the world when it comes to genjutsu, so I know a lot about genjutsu and..."

The ibiki frowned, interrupting the uchiha brat's boasting. "Get to the point."

"Ahem, breaking a genjutsu is actually quite simple. All you have to do is open your Sharingan when you are under the influence of genjutsu."

"Okay, you can sit down, wrong answer."

While Yuta was appalled by the brat's arrogance, Ibiki brought the next student to his feet. The reason Ibiki had asked this question in the first place was to show his students the difference between them and the children of the great clans. The children of civilian ninjas who were smart enough would probably be able to understand the true purpose of this competition.

This time it was Sarutobi Asuma, son of Sarutobi Hiruzen, standing up. As the son of the Hokage, he was certainly more knowledgeable about the arts of genjutsu than the average student.

"To get rid of genjutsu, sensei, you need pain. If you are in genjutsu you should immediately take out a kunai and stab it into your leg, if you don't stab the kunai into your leg your opponent will not hesitate to use your kunai to rip your head off."