Konoha.
Ninja School, Training Ground 911.
"Ah~ Didn't we graduate? Shouldn't they be assigning us squad leaders now?
Why do we still have to come to a training ground like this?!"
Naruto rested his hands behind his head, looking at his classmates and the surrounding environment.
He didn't understand.
He was already looking forward to life as a Genin.
He even proudly pushed up the forehead protector on his brow.
"You actually became a Genin? Did the Third Hokage pull some strings for you?" Shikamaru, standing beside him, heard his words and said to him.
He truly couldn't believe that with Naruto's theoretical scores and clumsy Clone Technique, he actually managed to graduate.
Naruto raised his head upon hearing this: "Don't you know? It turns out I'm the Fourth Hokage's son, so having this talent is normal."
"..." Shikamaru was speechless.
What does that have to do with you graduating?
It's still pulling strings.
Choji 'crunched' on a potato chip: "Naruto becoming a Genin must have been approved by Hokage-sama. Don't worry, Shikamaru."
"I certainly have no problem with it, but please don't put me on the same team as him. It'll be incredibly annoying."
Shikamaru said with disdain.
Naruto's personality was too troublesome.
"Hmph, I don't want to be on your team either. I want to be on Sakura's team."
Naruto looked in Sakura's direction, a blush appearing on his face.
But the girl he liked was currently looking at another man he detested.
Please don't let me be on the same team as Sasuke, Naruto prayed in his heart.
"They're here."
Just as everyone was discussing, a figure suddenly appeared.
Other figures followed.
Whoosh! Whoosh!
Kakashi, the Third Hokage, Kurenai Yuhi, Asuma Sarutobi, Iruka, and others.
And other Jonin.
The protagonist, of course, was the initiator of this event, Satoru.
"Third Hokage-sama, Captain Satoru, Copy Ninja Kakashi..."
"So many Jonin."
"Why is Hokage-sama here too?"
"Didn't they say this was a reward for graduating students? What exactly is going on?"
The students looked at Konoha's famous Ninja, chattering away... "Satoru, is your Ninjutsu reliable? Will it cause any harm to the children?"
Hiruzen Sarutobi asked, concerned.
Satoru confidently replied: "Hokage-sama, this isn't a forbidden Jutsu. It's just a large-scale barrier Genjutsu that I've perfected for a long time.
I've given you the method to learn the Jutsu; you're a Ninjutsu professor, so you should be able to tell, right?"
"Cough, of course. Let's begin. Don't waste the children's time."
Hiruzen Sarutobi coughed dryly.
When Satoru applied to him, he had already taught him the Jutsu's activation method.
He had also reviewed it.
Difficulty of learning, SSS, he believed.
This Jutsu was more difficult than all the forbidden Jutsu he had learned.
Ridiculously difficult.
"I'm really looking forward to it, Satoru's super Ninjutsu." Kakashi was a little excited.
He had heard Might Guy's description and knew it was an excellent super Ninjutsu for training a Ninja's combat experience.
This was an unprecedented approach.
Developing Ninjutsu not for combat, but for training, was also a unique skill.
Asuma Sarutobi: "He's going to show off again!"
Kurenai Yuhi: "This Genjutsu will take me over a decade to research and learn. I doubt anyone will be willing to learn it in the future!!!
It seems Hokage-sama will have to establish a special education department just for this."
This Genjutsu was difficult, only used for education, and required accumulating so many combat experience memories. It wasn't something to be specially cultivated.
Unless one's talent could compare to Satoru's... Satoru looked at the little ones in front of him. Well, they weren't that little anymore.
They were all twelve years old. When he was twelve, he had already been on the battlefield for a long time.
"Then, let's begin."
Without giving anyone else time to prepare, the pre-arranged barrier rose as he formed hand seals.
Covering the entire training ground.
This barrier was even larger and had undergone some improvements.
Allowing him to cast Ninjutsu more easily.
Around the training ground, there were also other Ninja assisting.
To reduce his pressure.
Covering so many people at once, doing it alone was too tiring. He was a Konoha elder, how could he do everything himself? Naturally, he had to lighten his burden within his scope of authority.
"Genjutsu: Battlefield Simulation."
After forming the hand seals, he placed his hand on the ground, and nerves extended to every young Ninja at an imperceptible speed.
Before the graduates could react, their surroundings began to twist and transform.
At the same time, a holographic projection appeared on each graduate's forehead.
And the Jonin around him all looked at the team members assigned to them by the Hokage.
They felt no discomfort whatsoever regarding the branch-like pattern Satoru had placed on the graduates.
Because he had said beforehand that he would use a secret Jutsu to reduce his own pressure.
Not to be alarmed.
Only the Third Hokage looked a little off, but he couldn't quite put his finger on it.
Who would have thought that human nerves could extend outside the body and even invade an enemy's body to act as a medium for information gathering!
..."Huh? Where is this place?"
Sakura looked at the deep valleys and the eerily sinister forest around her, feeling a cold wind blow past.
Her body began to chill.
Caw caw~
Especially the occasional caws of crows and croaking of frogs.
The sun in the sky was only a lingering sunset glow.
"It's so scary, what exactly is going on?"
Just a moment ago, she was at the Ninja School. How did she suddenly appear in a place like this?
She pinched her hand and found that it immediately turned red, and she could also feel pain.
Whoosh!
"Who's there?"
Sakura cried out.
Whoosh!
"Who, come out."
Whoosh!
Pfft!
For the first time, the inexperienced Sakura was immediately headshotted by a Kunai from the shadows. It pierced through the back of her head, exiting through the front of her head, right at her nose, with the sharp tip of a Kunai protruding.
Sakura only felt a momentary pain before falling into an endless abyss.
Twist~
She reappeared in the same spot as before.
She was still utterly bewildered.
What exactly was going on? She touched the back of her head.
Just now, she seemed to have seen herself pierced through the back of the head by a Kunai, with the tip of the Kunai emerging from her face.
A brain-like fluid was still flowing from the back of her head.
"I'm under a Genjutsu?"
She immediately began to dispel the Genjutsu, following the lessons taught at the Ninja School.
She found it useless, as if everything that had just happened was an illusion.
Whoosh! Whoosh!
Hmm?
Sakura felt the same dream-like sensation as before, and hearing that sound again, she immediately turned her head.
A Kunai grazed past her face, cutting off some of her cherry-blossom pink hair.
Enemy.
She immediately became alert, her gaze fixed on the direction from which the Kunai had come.
"That was just a feint!"
A figure in all black, wearing an Amegakure forehead protector, suddenly appeared above her head, plunging a Kunai straight down.
Pfft!
Sakura heard the sound, her face showing terror.
She was utterly frozen with fear.
She wanted to defend herself, but found herself too scared to move, her limbs weak.
Until the Kunai was plunged into the top of her head.
Splashing out fluid.
She didn't even fight back, just stood there stiffly and was stabbed to death by the Kunai.