Uchiha Sasuke: That dead last? I will be friends with someone like him? Not a chance.
Lady Night Baron: Do not doubt it. Little Sasuke, every prediction the admin has made so far has come true.
Yukiko had been the first person Amano Ten invited into the group. She had watched the admin talk up, ahem, predict the futures of Agatsuma Zenitsu and Sniper King, and both had been verified.
Uchiha Sasuke: Hmph. Then I will force myself to befriend him.
"Ding! Member Uchiha Sasuke signed in and received 10 points."
Sign-in results seemed visible only to oneself. The maximum daily reward was ten points, and he had gotten the top amount, yet no one reacted, which meant they could not see it.
"Perfect. I need to play Uchiha Sasuke properly." Sasuke bought Superb Acting from the points shop on the spot.
"Remaining points: 200."
He reviewed Sasuke's memories from early childhood once more. Only then could he avoid slipping up.
Uchiha Sasuke: I am heading to class.
Leaving that line, Sasuke pulled his awareness out of the chat.
Lady Night Baron: Ninjas attend class too?
Humble Admin: In peacetime, a hidden village is not so different from where we live. Children go to school, but they learn how to fight, use weapons, and kill. Sometimes they study theory.
Humble Admin: In wartime, almost every ninja in the village takes part.
Lady Night Baron: [shocked]
Lady Night Baron: So that is why a boy like Sasuke can be so strong at six.
Items went live in the shop with descriptions. Yukiko glanced at the Great Fireball Technique entry. It was a short clip of Sasuke by a river, weaving signs and ejecting a blazing fireball several meters across.
Humble Admin: Not exactly. Sasuke is an exception. Ordinary six-year-olds in the ninja world are much like ours at that age. The difference is we play with toys, they play with weapons.
Humble Admin: A prodigy like Sasuke is rare. Out of hundreds of academy students, one might appear once in a while.
Humble Admin: But once ninjas grow up, their strength increases fast. Put a fully trained jonin in your world, Yukiko, and with enough time he could wipe a country off the map.
Lady Night Baron: [shocked]!!!
Lady Night Baron: I did not expect the ninja world to be this terrifying.
Humble Admin: Do not worry. Ninjas are people like us. They are simply born into power, and the academy helps them control it so they do not slaughter innocents.
Of course, rogue and wandering ninjas were another matter.
Amano Ten did not send that last thought to the group.
She did not want anyone to fear Sasuke, since he would defect from the Leaf in a few years.
Unless Danzō died, Sasuke would be targeted in the village.
That man had tried to assassinate the Hokage, handed the Anbu roster to a rogue, and used a Mangekyō to manipulate Mifune at the Five Kage Summit. There was nothing he would not do.
Danzō wanted all power in his grasp, while Hiruzen Sarutobi hoped Sasuke would bond with Naruto to help restrain the Nine Tails in Naruto. That was why he placed Naruto and Sasuke in the same team.
Haruno Sakura was basically an extra.
...
After a full day of lessons, Sasuke felt fine. He had Sasuke's inherited knowledge, so even Iruka's class was no problem.
It was a blessing that snow had canceled practical training. Yuki had only just taken Sasuke's body, and a fight might feel unfamiliar.
"When I get home, I need to practice taijutsu and shurikenjutsu." Leaving the empty classroom, Sasuke narrowed his eyes and made his plan.
After school he lurked in the chat for about ten minutes, skimming the day's logs. Finding nothing interesting, he prepared to head out.
At the school gate, a familiar scene unfolded.
"If you are from the Hyuga clan, then show us the Byakugan."
"If you do not want to, then stop looking at us."
"Your eyes are disgusting."
"You are a monster, right, a Byakugan freak."
Thud, thud, thud.
Before Naruto could dash in, Sasuke stepped up and planted three punches, one per brat, clean and fast.
"You three shameless punks, bullying a little girl?" He planted himself in front of Hinata, eyes narrowed.
"Uchiha Sasuke! Run!"
"Damn it. This is not over!"
The three kids panicked the second Sasuke appeared. He was only a first-year, but they had seen his level in taijutsu class.
He scored top marks in nearly everything.
"Are you alright?" Sasuke turned and helped the crouching, tearful Hinata up, dabbing the corners of her eyes with his sleeve.
"I am fine." The moment he touched her, Hinata's cheeks turned faintly red.
Little Hinata was lethally cute. Those three dared bully someone this adorable, no wonder they would be single for life.
"Sasuke, time to go home."
From a short distance away came a figure that made Sasuke tense, Uchiha Itachi.
"Sorry. Mission just ended. I am late." Itachi reached them, eyes crescented in a slight smile.
"Let's go, niisan." Sasuke put his Superb Acting to work, the one he had bought that morning.
"Thank you, Sasuke-kun." Hinata whispered in her heart as she watched Uchiha Sasuke walk away hand in hand with Itachi.
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