Monday morning at 0555 Shisui eneterd the classroom 007, though he was dressed and camouflaged as a student. Then, he mingled with others, introduced himself by fake names, shared anecdotes, joined the complains about an unpunctual teacher and more.
15 minutes later, he proceeded to stand up from his seat in the middle of the room, walk to the podium at the front of the class and undo the few small transformations on his body while the student body slowly went quiet. „Good morning. All of those who noticed that I was not a student stand up", Shisui commanded.
Promptly, four people stood up. „Now, from the front to the back, how did you realize that I was not a student?", he asked them.
The uchiha in the front row started: „Because I know you from around the clan and you did not disguise your face", followed by someone directly behind him: „Because I noticed your movements which were too refined to be those of even the best student at this academy".
The next one who spoke was from the hyuga clan: „Because you are the only one in this clan who has his chakra unlocked".
The forth and final one was the most interesting though, as he answered: „Because I collect information about all students at the academy and consequently know all students by name, face, preferences, fighting styles and more but still did not even remotely recognize you".
„Perfect, so we learned that you need to notice even the tiniest details. My disguise was sloppy by design, so do not let it get to your hat. Now, can someone answer me which mistake three of them made?", he asked, at which a murmur went around the class.
„Well, they did not try to warn anyone about it, letting all of you run into a metaphysical or maybe even real knife. Trust is something which gets build from the very moment of your careers. This means that you cannot let anyone run into a knife if you could stop them from doing it. This is a privilege reserved for torture and interrogation and your future senseis. Consequently, the three of you can return to your original classes", he explained and announced, before pointing towards the door: „There is the door. I do not have all day".
Closing the door behind two dejected and a giddy person, he started anew: „Now welcome to all the others. First things first, I am Shisui Uchiha, chunin and your teacher and worst nightmare for the next few years. This", he said, before piling a huge amount of books on each students desks: „Are the materials you will learn this week. They are the most basic of basic and tailored to each of you. This will mostly be self study, though I will answer any questions you might have. Now on to more concerning matters for you: Everything can or will be a test here. If you fail, you either get made fun of endlessly until the next drama happens or you return to your standard classes. Many of you will hope for that and one of the people who left did it just so they could laze around more, but this will no longer be possible. I have specifically selected all of you out of all the other students and at the end of this week your theoretical knowledge base will be nearly identical to each other, curriculum wise at least. Now you can start learning here, go home and complain to your parents or ask them for help. You can use all possible resources to complete your assignment. Before all that though, I will collect your homework and answer any questions you might have."
Only one hand went tentatively up and the person spoke up after Shisui pointed at him: „Could we pay you to teach us instead of letting us self study?", he asked. Shisui smiled at that: „And that is someone intelligent. For anyone who missed it, he asked for all of you to be taught and not just himself. And normally I would say yes, naturally, but these stacks of books are also a test, so no, for this one week only. After that week, I can promise you that you do not need to ask that question again. Now any other questions?", Shisui inquired.
„Perfect. To incentives the learning, anyone who finishes before Sunday will get a special reward as long as they can pass their test in which I will specifically target your weak spots. Good luck", Shisui said, finishing his very first lesson, before sitting down at his desk, watching the happenings.
Some grumbled, some started working/learning, others left with their books or even without. Some were motivated, some were downtrodden and others were, well conflicted. One of them at least, as he was the only person who did not have a stack of books before him, only a single note on his desk: „You can now decide what to do".
That person was the standard after which Shisui had modeled the knowledge base. He was a theoretical beast and also the only person still remaining from the ones who noticed him acting as a student. Mostly, this did not need to correspond to intelligence, but he did have it and saw through it at first glance. The incentive was a trap specifically for him. Shisui had emphasized teamwork and trust repeatedly which meant that he was not supposed to be the first to finish, instead he was supposed to help his classmates during that week. It was unknown if he would get any reward for it or not, but he did it anyone as the possibility of getting discipline was that much higher.
Now though shaky, the whole class finished as a singular unit on Saturday and every single one of them passed their test. There were a lot of arguments about this decision, some even escalating in violence but Shisui made a spectacle out of vanishing each time it got physical, only planning to intervene if it ever happened to become debilitating.
„So, all of you passed", Shisui opened: „And after a bit of persuasion all of you realized the trap which the incentive provided and formed a shaky leadership structure. Good progress from Monday. Now, who can tell me what this is?", he said, holding up a brown round pill smaller than his pinky finger.
„A nutrition pellet", someone said. „Not correct but close call. None of you should know, as this is an advanced form of such a nutrition pill geared towards helping to recover chakra. Would any of you mind to guess what an unintended side effect is, if this is used on someone without chakra?", he threw into their midst.
No one answered, so he said: „They have the ability to help with unlocking your chakra. There are three options to do that. Natural, forced and assisted. Natural just happens for anyone who haas the aptitude, which can also be someone ten times your age. Forced is done through flooding your body with chaotic chakra, which can be quite a harrowing experience and lastly assisted is done with these here. This is done through constant physical expenditure while using their effect of recovering chakra to slowly and gently unlock it. I see most of you realized what will happen over the next week so come to the front and get your gear", Shisui said, before crushing all their hopes: „I did inform your parents that you would not return for the next week so there is no need to worry".
Shisui's smile at that point was that of a devil: „Now before each f you are exactly seven of these pills and a specifically made for you fuinjutsu suit for your training. These will be automatically adjusted and fully controlled by me and were made by your very own hokage. They are self cleaning, adjustable, self repairable to a slight degree and do not inhibit your movements in any way. It will be your second skin for the foreseeable future until I deem you ready to switch to a self adjustable model of it. Now I see it at your faces that you still hope for the reward I had promised, but it is already before you as, trust me, those things cost way too much to make in such quantities, which is the reason that it is not done as part of the normal academy procedure. Now change, no need to be shy. I can promise you that you will see each other naked more than enough in the future, so best lay down any expectancy of privacy. I will though give you the choice if you want to wear your normal clothes above the new skin, though it will most likely get trashed over the next week anyway, but it will spare you the humiliation of running through the whole village in only that one.
One humiliating run later, with no one choosing to don their own clothes, they arrived at Shisui's normal training ground. „So, congratulations, you were thoroughly humiliated and I am proud of your decision. In this job there is nothing worse than fearing humiliation and you should learn to ignore it as soon as possible. Now, while I have explained a few of the functions of those bodysuits, there is one detail I did not mention. They can amplify resistances, pressure, gravity and more to a ridiculous degree. If I activate it now", he said, doing just that an instant later: „Most of you will land face first in the ground".
Only one person managed to stay upright, though she was noticeably strained by doing so. „Now all of you are at the same exact level of physical strength you can exert and will remain so for at least a few months. Not for anyone thinking that training at your bodies absolute limits is madness, yes. But I myself do exactly that, constantly. You will learn to live with it and it has the added effect of raising your tenacity. Now, we will start with a warmup jog, followed by the basic kata I will teach you directly after. We will perfect that kata, while those I deem acceptable are allowed to start sparring. The end goal is to start training with the first weapons. Kunai, shuriken and tanto will be the first ones, which I all know how to use. Afterwards, we will learn katana, scytha, chakrams, broadswords, shortswords and more until you have a basic grasp of at least fifty or so weapon, after which you will choose three of them for your own style. One defensive, one close quarters and one long range. If you are not able to find something which suits you you will be sent to the weapons master to try out all available weapons until you find one you like. This is one of the few rare times where I will tell you that the choice should not be based on teamwork and only with the intention of what feels good for you and what you want to tirelessly practice and use for the rest of your careers. By the way, your suits do have a function to give you a mild electric shock if you start slacking, so keep up", Shisui said, before beginning a slight jog through the trees.
After an hour of constant jogging, even Shisui was at its end which marked the very first pause, where the students also all took their very first chakra nutrition pellet. While Shisui let his students catch their breaths be started explaining the 9 stances of the following kata in excruciating detail, demonstrating them, before all of the students slowly started to join him.
It would be a hell of a week and a little bit less of hell for the following months, but most of the students seemed to rapidly accept the current circumstances. This was due to one aspect of their personalities Shisui focused on. Most of them lean to sadistic or masochistic behavioral patterns and all of them had one thing in common: A whole lot of discipline and/or ambition!