Naruto - The Wind Calamity

Chapter 10 : Learning new skills

The next day, again Fujin was the last one to arrive. He came in merely a couple of minutes before 8 am. Looking at everyone he chuckled, 'Look at these kids, coming early to sit on the first bench.'

He went and sat alone on the last bench and removed a stone and placed it in the desk. Genki arrived at 8 and started the class.

The first hour apparently was a lecture. He was talking about the history of the village, the pride that one should have in being a Konoha shinobi, and all such stuff.

Fujin classified this lecture as a 'brainwashing session'. Fujin observed the classroom. The 2 Naras were half asleep. The Akimichis were probably thinking about food. The 3 Inuzukas were too distracted with their dogs. One of the two Uchihas was very smug for some reason while the two Kurama girls were gossiping about something. Others were paying attention.

The Smug looking guy was Uchiha Yori. It seems like he wanted to walk in the footsteps of Itachi as he was bragging a lot about how the previous year's best student was an Uchiha who was only 7 years old on the previous day. Apparently, both the Uchihas could already perform the fireball jutsu.

Fujin finally stopped looking around. When Genki was writing something on the board, Fujin grabbed the stone with his left hand and started to train earth nature while keeping his hand under the desk. When he channeled his chakra, his whole attention was on Genki. To see whether he would notice and react. However, there wasn't any visible change in Genki's expression.

Fujin thought, 'Lucky. He ain't a natural sensor. Or he is ignoring me for some reason, though the chances of that are pretty low. Whatever, both scenarios are good for me.'

The lecture went on for an hour. Though Fujin paid some attention, the majority of his attention was on training his earth nature. After the brainwashing session was over, Genki started explaining to everyone about Chakra.

And then finally moved on to molding chakra with hand signs. Fujin stopped his earth nature training and paid full attention in class. The kids from the clans were however distracted. They had already been taught hand signs before they joined the academy. In that class, Genki taught everyone about 3 hand signs and made everyone practice them. He monitored everyone closely. After the lecture was over, he said that in the next 3 days, he'll be teaching them the remaining hand signs.

After that, they broke off for lunch followed by a lecture on History. Senju Teru and Hyuga Hana were answering a lot of questions asked by Genki in this lecture. Fujin on the other hand stuck to his training while pretending to pay attention in class.

The week went by in a similar manner. Genki taught all 12 basic hand signs as well as the clone hand sign. He stressed the importance of learning hand signs properly, which Fujin noted was similar to the notes he read from scroll yesterday, and asked everyone to practice them at home.

Other than this, Genki also introduced everyone to the leaf concentration exercise.

In normal lectures, Fujin kept practicing his earth nature training, but if he got bored with it, he used to try to use his wind nature to cut the stone instead of crumbling it with earth nature.

In week 2, Genki held a class to throw shurikens. He first started with a competition between the students to understand where everyone stands. He also called a few other teachers to help him with this session.

Most of the clan kids performed well. The best was tied between Uchiha Yori and Senju Teru. The other Uchiha, Aburame, and Shimura rounded up the top 5. Fujin was a bit startled by the serious attitude of Shimura Nobu.

He thought, 'I guess Danzo got a root-like training program for the kids from his clan as well.'

Though Fujin had practiced earlier with self-made wooden shurikens, it was barely at an acceptable level. For starters, the difference in weights itself reduced the impact of earlier training. Out of six shots, he only managed to hit one on the board. And even that was closer to the edge rather than the center. He was ranked 21st in the competition.