Kento did eventually get off his lazy ass and got back to class albeit with some kinks along the way.
Said kink was in the form of him barreling his way down the sweet embrace of death, even if he doubted a fall from three stories height could have ended his chakra-droided self, twelve years old child or not.
The problem with a sudden increase in chakra reserve was the inevitable decrease in his chakra control proficiency.
And that abrupt descent in proficiency also meant an abrupt descent in elevation when Kento inadvertently pulled way too much chakra from his enlarged chakra pool, resulting in him being abruptly launched away from the wall that he was sticking to, and falling to his death.
He lived, fortunately, and even got another Bronze trait ticket for it too, thanks to the invention of windows, when he grabbed onto one of the opened wooden frames.
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Feat Achieved! Surviving your own idiocracy!
+1x Bronze Trait Gacha Ticket!
[Charming Eyes]
|D- Rank Trait|
Not to be confused with the mystical eyes of charming, instead of hypnotizing people your eyes are just really pretty.
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Granted he did get an earful for that when a wandering Chunin sensei found him with a broken window frame in hand, but Kento would trade having a pair of broken legs over a few hundreds of Ryos short everyday of the week.
So after copious amounts of apologies, and promises of detentions later, he was let back to class with a letter explaining why he was late in his hand.
Keito settled into his seat with a tired sigh, after handing Mizuki the piece of paper, only to feel an elbow poking his side.
Turning with a raised eyebrow, he whispered.
"Sup Nara?"
"You're late." The brat stated the obvious.
"Is there a question in there somewhere?" He asked, amused at the kid's blatant curiosity.
Tching, the lazy bum elaborated.
"You always disappear to Kami knows where during lunch, and now you're late to class too? Pardon my curiosity Ichimura, but what have you been doing during our lunch break, cause last I've checked, leaving school grounds during school hours is grounds for detention. Also what's up with your eyes? Cause it's really freaking me out…"
So the Nara CAN be proactive after all, Kento thought, more amused than anything.
For all his alleged laziness, Shikamaru could, and would spend a great deal of effort if something happened to catch his interest.
And apparently his own "mysterious" disappearance was counted as one of those things.
"Who says anything about leaving school grounds?" He smirked, ignoring that remark about his newest trait.
That got a confused look out of the Nara.
"You're not lying. But how? We even brought in Akamaru to sniff you out, but he always stopped at the end of our school's southern wall."
That is because I have been scaling that wall you idiot.
Also "We?" Kento asked, finally looking around, and noticing the copious amounts of interested gaze, directing his way.
Two of those gazes even included the now oddly quiet Ninja Jesus, and his reincarnated brother the emo duckbutt.
Heck, almost the entire class was looking their way, and somehow, Mizuki still hasn't noticed, apparently loving the sound of his own voice way too much to care, despite our conversation now reaching the normal level of volume.
"Wait, you're telling me everyone has been looking for me during lunch?"
Another poke on his back got his attention, as he turned partly at the light blonde mop that was the Yamanaka heiress.
"Shikamaru noticed at first, but the dope, and Kiba were the ones that started the whole trend to try and find you. Also what's up with your eyes? Why is it so purple all of a sudden?"
To the Nara's left, Choji added.
"Yeah, and we even got a whole betting pool on who was going to be the first to find you. I got my money on Kiba since Shikamaru said he was the most likely to win, and I wanted the winning to buy more chips."
You're freaking kidding me?
He thought he has been fairly sneaky, and inconspicuous, but if a bunch of academy students noticed it, then what did that say about the Chunin senseis, and the Anbu hanging around to protect Naruto, and the rest of the heirs, and heiress of their batch?
Scratching his head in frustration, he cocked his chin at Ino.
"And you? You're in on this too, Miss I adore no one but my depressed emo Uchiha Prince?"
Somewhere to his 9 o'clock, an Uchiha had just busted a vein on his forehead, as Kento had just signed himself a warrant for a heavy handed beating in their future spar.
The gorilla girl, despite looking way too embarrassed for any 12 year old ought to be, punched his back and grumbled.
"Sasuke got in on it too dumbass, when you started pulling out all those weird tricks in y'all spars last year. And seriously, what brand of contacts are you using?"
Ah, that was when he started applying some of the principles of his chakra control exercises like chakra sticking in his taijutsu spars for extra hold, and stability.
He could have done so much earlier of course, but he had only gained enough confidence to use those moves in combat as of last year.
"I see." He hummed, and turned back to his seat much to the confused frustration of everyone, and an oddly flustered but curious Ino.
Of course the silence did not last long when a certain chakra-fueled hyper-active Blondie jumped onto his desk, and screamed at the top of his lungs.
"Oy Teme, you can't just say I see, and not explain anything! You are starting to sound like the duckbutt with his constant umu, and trust me you don't want to be anything like him, believe it!"
Kento winced, despite being half a classroom away from the blondie, and once again somewhere to his 9 o'clock, a certain depressed emo brat had just busted his second blood vessel on his forehead from catching two strays in a row.
The sensei/Orochimaru's little bitch, finally turned to Naruto, unable to ignore their little disturbance any longer, with a flash of murderous rage flickered across his face before it was gone, and replaced by a stern, but kind expression.
"Naruto, mind telling the class why you suddenly interrupted our lesson?"
And now the poor kid was sweating buckets as the realisation of his predicament finally kicked in.
Kento sighed at this, he was no higher-than-thou self righteous prick of course, but having an ADHD kid taking the fall for his petty little payback was not to his taste, so he raised his hand and spoke.
"Sorry sensei, I was the one who kept on annoying Naruto there. Didn't think the dope was dumb enough to do what he did though."
Half offended, but also half relieved at having someone standing up for him, Naruto was halfway from barreling his way for a warm embrace when Mizuki's stern glance stopped him.
"I see, then it is only right that both of you have earned yourself a trip to the hallway. And NARUTO! Don't you dare to play hooky under my watch. I want you to still be there when class is over."
Kento smiled a little at Naruto doing the military salute before him, and the blondie stepped outside of their classroom door, each holding a bucket filled with water as a punishment.
It was good practice for his chakra control, Kento consoled himself as he let the buckets stuck to the palm of his hand, all the while pretending to carry said buckets.
Even if the badgering, and the downright interrogation of Naruto was starting to get on his nerves.
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