Konoha Year 36, late May.
In a classroom at the Konoha Ninja Academy.
The instructor continuously discussed the history of the ninja realm at the front, while Suzuki attentively took notes below...
"The initial ninja war started in the 14th year of Konoha, shortly after the passing of our first Hokage..."
The instructor was speaking on stage about historical conflicts.
Suzuki understood that the initial Ninja War had concluded a long time ago, and the current Second Ninja War was also nearing its conclusion.
Over four years have elapsed since the conflict began. In recent years, an increasing number of ninjas have fallen in combat in prominent ninja villages.
Certain minor ninja villages, like the grass ninja, have even faced extinction, while some ninja clans opted to sever their bloodline.
Even Konoha, the strongest of the five major ninja villages, suffered greatly in this war!
The nearest ally, the Uzumaki Clan, was collectively destroyed by the Cloud Ninja, Mist Ninja, and Sand Ninja just before the war began. The Thousand Hands Clan faced many losses in combat while aiding the Uzumaki.
Luckily, Konoha is brimming with skilled individuals! Although numerous members of the older generation of powerful men who helped establish Konoha perished in World War I, the village continues to have a fresh group of formidable warriors, including the Sannin and Konoha White Fang, emerging on the battlefield.
Three generations of Hokage, Hiruzen Sarutobi and Hokage Assistant Shimura Danzo, remain in Konoha, along with the first Nine-Tailed Jinchuuriki, Uzumaki Mito, who is still living.
Thus, Konoha at this moment is not the same Konoha that was so damaged and battered that even its children were dispatched to the battlefield during the subsequent three wars. The present Konoha remains incredibly formidable!
Suzuki is 10 years old this year, and it has been exactly 10 years since he came to the world of Naruto.
He is a visitor from another world. In the world before time travel, he was a reader who likes to read novels. His favorite is Naruto and Pirates.
In a review of a certain book, he replied to the comment that "there is a limit of 500 time-travel quotas per day",
The next day, when he woke up, he came to the world of Naruto and became a baby.
When he was five years old, Suzuki's family had an accident while doing business, and Suzuki became an orphan.
With the help of his family's inheritance and surrounding neighbors, he grew up to the age of six, passed the entrance test, and successfully entered the ninja school!
At this time, the teacher on the podium had already talked about the history of Konoha Ninja School:
"The Konoha Ninja School was founded by our second-generation Hokage Senju Tobirama..."
Yes, and the Konoha Ninja School is divided into six years. Generally, students enter when they are around six years old and graduate when they are around twelve years old.
Currently, there are more than 1,100 students in Ninja School. Each grade is divided into five classes, with about 30 people in each class.
One year after entering school, according to their talent and family background, the geniuses and ninjas among civilians are divided into Class One and Class Two, also known as the Elite Class, while the rest are randomly divided into the remaining three classes, also called the Ordinary Class.
Suzuki is now a ninja student in class three, fourth grade at Konoha Ninja School.
After a while, the bell rang for the end of school in the afternoon, and the students all packed up their textbooks one by one, preparing to take them home to continue studying.
At this time, Suzuki's deskmate Hanako took off her glasses with her hands, with a little annoyance still on her innocent and innocent face:
"Ah~ I just missed passing the practical class today. Hanako really didn't work hard enough. Double it, double it, double it tonight!"
Hanako is a girl with glasses, refreshing shawl short hair, a figure like a daisy, and a very strong and hard-working personality.
Her talent was much lower than Suzuki's. She had just passed the exam when she entered school, so she worked very hard.
Hanako's dream is to become a medical ninja and join Konoha Hospital.
However, based on Hanako's performance in practical classes, it would be difficult for her to graduate.
"Hanako, you will pass next time. If you have time, you can practice the method I taught you."
Suzuki comforted Hanako with a gentle smile.
As for the method Suzuki mentioned, it is of course treading on trees and water.
Although Suzuki's chakra amount is scarce, he still has some talent in chakra control.
"Okay~ Hehe, thank you Suzuki-chan. The method you taught Hanako really works well. Hanako has made a lot of progress."
Hanako looked at Suzuki with grateful eyes.
Suzuki chuckled and nodded, then said:
"Hanako, do you want to go home together?"
The short-haired Hanako put on her glasses, tilted her head and looked at Suzuki, wondering:
"Go back? So early? I didn't leave until eight o'clock before."
"All the classmates are almost gone. Today is the end of the month and the school closes very early. You won't forget the time again, right?"
Suzuki held his forehead in frustration.
Hanako's petite body of only 1.3 meters suddenly stood up, although it may not be as tall as Suzuki sitting.
Her face was full of astonishment:
"Is it the end of the month today? Isn't it tomorrow? I've only eaten meatballs twenty-four times. Excluding the four days of vacation, what about two more?"
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Suzuki was speechless: "Didn't you take a day off this month because of your poor health?"
"Uh, I remember, it seems so, ah...hahahaha..."
Hanako smiled innocently.
"So, don't work too hard, Hanako!" Suzuki looked helpless.
Hanako shook her little head vigorously and clenched her fists:
"Suzuki, you have better talent than me. My talent is probably the worst in the class. So, I have to work hard, very hard, to have any hope of successfully graduating and becoming a medical ninja and entering Konoha Hospital~"
Suzuki looked at Hanako's firm expression and replied seriously:
"Hanako, you will realize your dream!"
Suzuki sincerely hopes that Hanako's efforts will be rewarded.
However, many students at the Konoha Ninja School, especially those in the civilian class, only dream of successfully graduating and becoming official ninjas.
That is to say, genin and chunin are in serious trouble. As for jounin, it is even more difficult to even think about it!
But what is a genin? Most genin are just cannon fodder. Not everyone is the protagonist, and not everyone is demoted from jounin or has eight gates of armor.
The promotion of a ninja is far more difficult than imagined!
The Hidden Leaf Village has a permanent population of more than 100,000 people, of which more than 2,000 take the ninja school entrance exam every year.
The number of admissions usually does not exceed 300, usually around 200 per year, and the admission rate is as low as only one tenth.
Only one-third of Konoha Ninja School can successfully graduate directly every year, another one-third return to school to retake studies, and the remaining one-third are unqualified as cannon fodder.
After all, it takes six years to learn even the simplest three-skin technique, so he is really not suitable to be a ninja.
In the past few decades, Konoha Ninja School has exported about a hundred genin every year. Including those trained by other major institutions and the ninja clan, there are about four to five hundred people.
Of these five hundred genin, probably less than a hundred can become chuunin.
As for jounin, there are not even ten.
Moreover, most jounin come from within the ninja clan, and the proportion of jounin trained by Konoha Ninja School is only about 30%.
Among them, the vast majority are from Class One and Class Two, the so-called elite class.
As for the real civilian class, in the decades since the ninja school was established, there were only five Jonin who came out of the civilian class, and they all died very quickly. They might just be temporary supplies catalyzed by some big shots.
Yes, it is so difficult to become a Jonin. For civilians with average or even slightly better talent, the upper limit is Chunin.
Potential can be seen at a glance...
In this ninja world, jounin represents the distance between ordinary people and geniuses, and shadows and transcendent shadows represent the division between humans and monsters!
If your talent is not good enough, even if the village gives you A-level and B-level ninjutsu for free, you will not be able to learn it.
Therefore, only those with extremely good talents and dazzling talents can be worthy of being cultivated and invested by Konoha, such as Jiraiya, Orochimaru, Namikaze Minato, etc.
Suzuki's talent is not very good, after all, he entered the civilian class.
For example, Namikaze Minato, a senior who was two years older than Suzuki, had long been a famous civilian genius in Konoha.
Not long after he entered school, he seemed to have been spotted by Jiraiya and was entrusted to the Third Hokage. Namikaze Minato was even more proficient in using ninjutsu that could not be taught in various ninja schools than his teacher.
Namikaze Minato will graduate in about a month, but he already has at least the strength to be a special jounin.
There are also those members of the ninja clan who have already learned almost everything a genin can learn under the training of their family. Coming to the ninja school is just a formality. What they pay more attention to is the internal education of the family.
In the two elite classes, there are also some characters who have not even appeared in the original work. Until now, Suzuki is still a little behind some of them.
Even though he knew this clearly and understood the visible gap, Suzuki still felt very calm.
The gap between geniuses and ordinary people is meant to be transcended, and the boundary between humans and monsters is waiting to be broken!
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