Naruto: Long Live Hokage's

Chapter 36: The First Lesson

The selection continued throughout the morning, and Masahiko ended up selecting three of the eleven candidates. He looked at his new students in front of him and slightly nodded.

The first student was a crying 6-year-old girl, Yuriko; masahiko considered herself to have high learning abilities. His chakra attributes were of course wind and fire, perfect for learning Masahiko techniques. The second disciple was an 8-year-old boy, Kenichiro, who had great perseverance. Masahiko planned to teach him the Lightning Element and Taijutsu, he planned to teach him the Konoha Senpu technique like Gai, and then claim it as his own.

And the last one is Nanako, an 11-year-old girl. Masahiko did not expect it, but Nanako, who initially looked awkward, could answer four out of five questions correctly. The only thing he could not answer was the latter; it was a brain teasers. Masahiko plans to teach him Fuinjutsu. Because it is different from ordinary ninjutsu, Fuinjutsu, or sealing technique is a test of the cognitive and mental abilities of its users.

“That's great, thus the first Konoha team was officially formed!” Masahiko clenched his fists, then raised them, smiling.

“What is the first class of the first session, Grandpa?” that's Nanako Asks.

“Is there a second team, Grandpa?” Kenichiro asked.

“Kakek Masahiko, what is Konoha?” Yuriko asked.

Faced with this series of questions, Masahiko ignored these children.

“You just need to know that you all are Konoha's first team, and the rest are in the future.”

“Now, it's time to teach you some powerful ninjutsu!”

Upon hearing, the three children forgot all their questions and became excited, including Nanako.

“But before that, I need to know what Jutsu you have mastered, then I will decide what you will teach next.”

“I only have three body engineering grandfather.” whispered Yuriko while crying.

*This three-body technique means three basic ninjutsu that the academy students must master; namely basic ninjutsu, basic Taijutsu, and basic Genjutsu.

“It's been very good. I'll teach you another.” Masahiko nodded and smiled. If Naruto knew that this crying girl had mastered the three-body technique by the age of 6, he would feel suicidal…

“I can do the three body technique and some basic Lightning Element,” Kenichiro said proudly.

“Good, lightning, same as Sasuke.” Masahiko nodded.

Masahiko then turned to Nanako.

“How about you?”

Nanako lowered her head, “I.. only know the three body technique.”.

Masahiko smiled and did not scold him.

“Then I will teach you all something interesting..”.

Masahiko glanced a little, and he could see how the three of them seemed to be looking forward to this, then he said, “Training throws Shuriken!”

Their motivation suddenly collapsed, and began to doubt all of this. Masahiko smiled wickedly upon seeing their expressions.

“This will be your first lesson. Don't you dream of learning great ninjutsu, before you master the basics!”

Masahiko brought three target dolls then said: “See when you can do this, I will teach you another ninjutsu.”

After saying that, he took out three Shuriken and placed them in his right hand and then threw them simultaneously. The three Shuriken landed right in the middle of the puppet's target mark.

“And also, I have to teach you all other things separately.”

“Yuriko, you're the first, others start practicing throwing Shuriken.”

Yuriko was surprised, Masahiko then said, “You don't need to call a fireball, your chakra isn't enough to do it. I just want you to copy the hand seal. It takes six hand seals to throw a fireball, and I want you to do it in less than two seconds. Now go and practice.”

Yuriko nodded, “Ya, Grandpa.”

“Hey... call me Sensei next time, okay? Now go back to practice throwing Shuriken, and call Kenichiro.”

“Okay, Sensei.” Yuriko nodded, then she came back and called out to Kenichiro.

“Kenichiro, your diligence is good. There are many physical techniques you can learn. In addition, doing shuriken exercises, you should carry weights every day. Whether it's ballast clothes or bracelets. It's for your self-restriction exercise. ” said Masahiko. “I'll go to the blacksmith later to forge some load for you.”

“Understanding, Sensei.” But Kenichiro then tilted his head and asked, “But teacher, what is a self-limiting exercise?”

“Self-limiting is a form of exercise. The main purpose of this training is to boost your potential. When you reach your limit, you have to break it, by putting a flaw on yourself to challenge that limit. Simply put, it makes your workout more difficult by adding more weight classes or adding more repetitions. This will make your training more rigorous. Just do your best so you can keep moving forward, ‘You have the gift of perseverance, and that's what makes you a genius too!

“A great ninja said this before, remember that,” Masahiko explained.

(T/N: Quotation from Maito Gai.)

Kenichiro seemed to understand and nodded his head, saying, “I understand Sensei!”

“Oke, now go back and call Nanako.”

A few minutes later, Nanako came and stood in front of Masahiko.

Masahiko looked at him, then smiled and said, “I'm surprised by how good your logical thinking is. Out of the five questions, you managed to solve four of them. ”

Nanako smiled and blushed, “Four first questions relate to the water in the bucket. And every day, I use buckets and water to do homework..”.

“Ah, so, so that's why ..” Masahiko's facial expression changed, and he looked very unhappy, he felt the urge to drop him as a student, he said, but Masahiko felt he had to give her a chance to prove herself first.

“Yeah, it doesn't matter how you answer it. Because now, you are my student and remembering your ninja skills isn't that amazing. Then you will start learning Fuinjutsu with me. Masahiko took out a scroll, then continued, “This is the principle and basis of the Fuinjutsu clan, you can check it out later, and start learning it.”

“Now go back to practice throwing Shuriken.”

Masahiko gave guidance to his students one after another. Then he returned to the practice site throwing Shuriken. He found a stone to sit on and kept watch from a distance his students were practicing.

Of course, the fourth training ground had a lot of people training there. The eight children who were knocked out earlier also trained there, working hard to show their effort, hoping Masahiko would change his mind.

In addition to these children, there were also some instructors from the clan who were responsible for teaching the other children. They have been paying attention to Masahiko's teachings. But after watching for a while, they did not find anything important.

This continued for an entire week, Shuriken's three-child throwing technique had improved greatly, so he ended up adding more targets, which was enough for them to practice for a while.

As for the separate training, except for Kenichiro, who had gotten used to the self-restrictive exercises, the other two children had only made a little progress. Masahiko was not disappointed by this. He understood that Fuinjutsu and hand seal training could not be learned in a short period of time.

Masahiko wanted to maintain the relaxed life he had been living all along, but then a line of familiar Chinese characters appeared in his mind, interrupting his peaceful life.

“Watch and make major changes to the storyline of Naruto World: The Twelve Guardian Ninja. Reward: +5 witness points (*8).

Masahiko did not expect to get 40 witness points from this!

Masahiko checked his status bar, and he had 65 testimony points after years of hard work.

“Now, it's time to share some points, and verify that guess in my heart!”