Grind is My Ninja Way

Five days later. 

Early morning.

Standing in front of the full-length mirror, Seimei lifted the long hair from his forehead, tied the Konoha forehead protector on his head, and straightened his clothes.

At this moment, he suddenly had a bit more of a chilling aura.

Graduating from the Ninja Academy meant officially stepping onto the path of a ninja. From now on, whether he lived or died depended entirely on himself.

Standing still for a moment, Seimei summoned the proficiency panel.

[Name: Uchiha Seimei

Age: 10 years old

Physique: 6

Spirit: 7

Chakra: 312 (622→862)

Bloodline: Sharingan - Unawakened (52/100) → (57/100)

Skills: Chakra Refinement Technique: lv2 (9/500) → lv2 (69/500)

Clone Technique: lv2 (1/500)

Transformation Technique: lv2 (1/500)

Body Replacement Technique: lv2 (1/500)

Fire Release: Great Fireball Technique: lv0 (75/100) → lv1 (1/200)

Reflecting Heart Technique: lv1 (10/200) → lv1 (65/200)

Basic Taijutsu: lv2 (1/500)

Ninja Tool Throwing: lv2 (120/500)]

Over the past five days, apart from the first two days when he spent some chakra to improve his 'Fire Release: Great Fireball Technique' to the beginner level, adding a trump card for himself, the rest of his time and energy were spent practicing the 'Reflecting Heart Technique'.

A total of more than 10,000 chakra points were invested, and the proficiency of the 'Reflecting Heart Technique' immediately soared by fifty-five points.

Consequently, the Sharingan awakening progress also advanced by five points.

Basically, every ten points of proficiency in the 'Reflecting Heart Technique' could drive one point of Sharingan progress.

From this, Seimei understood why no one in the Uchiha clan could awaken the Sharingan with this technique.

Although every ten practices of the 'Reflecting Heart Technique' allowed his Sharingan awakening progress to advance by one point, it was because he was improving every time he used the 'Reflecting Heart Technique'.

For others, without the assistance of the proficiency panel, it was not a simple matter to gain ten proficiency points.

Especially the further one went, the more difficult it became.

And if the proficiency of the 'Reflecting Heart Technique' didn't meet the requirements, it wouldn't promote the awakening of the Sharingan at all.

In other words, one had to continuously improve the proficiency of the 'Reflecting Heart Technique' to maximize the chances of awakening the Sharingan.

Seimei could see the exact progress, so he wouldn't slack off.

But as for others...

They would probably give up after not feeling any significant progress.

Even he, if the initial Sharingan awakening progress was above (70/100) and both lv0 and lv1 'Reflecting Heart Technique' were useless, he would probably be hesitant.

Would others spend years or even decades practicing an extremely difficult but not very practical illusion technique to an extremely deep level?

Let alone whether they had the talent, even if they did, the lack of positive feedback would probably make it difficult to persist.

What's more, he had a premonition that the last few points of Sharingan awakening progress wouldn't be so easy to break through.

This made it even harder for anyone to persevere.

However, Seimei wasn't too worried.

With the proficiency panel, as long as this path was proven to be feasible, he would consistently persist.

Putting his thoughts aside, Seimei stopped thinking about it, left the full-length mirror, locked the door, and headed straight for the Ninja Academy.

...

Ninja Academy.

In a classroom.

Seimei sat in the last row, looking at the familiar and unfamiliar graduates of the same year in front of him, secretly guessing who would be assigned to the same team as him.

Tap, tap, tap~

After about half an hour, a young teacher walked into the classroom with a list.

It wasn't Sugiki Iteto. Seimei had some impression of him; he was a teacher from another class, seemingly named Miyaboyo.

"Students, quiet down!"

Miyaboyo stood on the podium, clapped his hands, and said in a gentle voice.

Hearing this, the classroom gradually quieted down.

Then Miyaboyo introduced himself, "My name is Miyaboyo. Some of you know me, some of you don't, but that's not important. 

First of all, congratulations, from today onwards, you are officially ninjas."

Hearing this, the classroom, which had just become quiet, became noisy again.

Clap~ Clap~ Clap~

Miyaboyo clapped his hands, signaling everyone to be quiet.

After everyone stopped talking, he continued, "I believe your teachers have already told you in advance that today is the day for team assignments.

The so-called team assignment is to divide you into groups of three, and then have an experienced Jonin lead the team to carry out missions together.

From then on, you will be the closest partners and the most trustworthy comrades."

Hearing this, some people excitedly whispered to each other, some argued to grab their friends, and some were nervously fidgeting. In short, everyone was very active.

Seeing this, Miyaboyo smiled and didn't immediately interrupt them.

After a few minutes, when the time was about right, he said, "Students, save your conversations for later, quiet down first, let's do the team assignments."

Hearing this, everyone immediately fell silent, staring nervously at Miyaboyo.

Miyaboyo smiled, picked up the list in his hand, and started reading, "Team Eleven: Nakajima Sota, Hanako, Hiryo, Team Twelve: Kimura Sota, Yamanaka Haru, Kuroda Ichiro, Team Thirteen:..."

One name after another was read out by Miyaboyo, and the students below were either excited or disappointed, but none of them made any loud noises.

Soon, Seimei heard his own name.

"Team Seventeen: Uchiha Seimei, Mizutani Shizuko, Ryosuke, Team Eighteen:..."

'Mizutani Shizuko... Ryosuke'

Hearing these two names, Seimei quickly scanned the front.

Soon, two figures with different expressions came into his view, a boy and a girl. The boy seemed more lively, and Seimei didn't recognize him, but his predecessor's memory had an impression of him. He should be a student from another class.

The girl appeared slightly gentle and was in the same class as him. She had a Jonin father, was physically weaker, but had solid theoretical knowledge.

Without awakening the Sharingan, Seimei couldn't see their potential, but he thought it wouldn't be too bad.

Not to mention his identity as a member of the Uchiha clan, just based on his final exam results, the higher-ups wouldn't assign people with too little potential to his team.

Otherwise, even if the Uchiha clan didn't say anything, the Jonin team leader wouldn't be happy.

Because if the potential difference was too big, the team would be difficult to lead.

As for geniuses...

Please, it's not like Konoha has geniuses popping up every year.

Overall, geniuses were always a minority. Most graduates would be lucky to become Chunin in the end.

So, Seimei didn't expect to have a genius teammate.

Even for him, teammates were just teammates. The battlefield was so dangerous, who knew if they would survive in the end?

Investing too much emotion, if something unexpected happened, would only add to his troubles.

In that case, it was better to keep things professional.

In a short time, Seimei had already made up his mind.

At this time, Miyaboyo had finished reading the list, and everyone in the classroom had their own teammates.

"Next, get to know each other. The Jonin team leaders will come over later, and you just follow them," Miyaboyo said finally.

After saying that, he left the classroom.

And the moment he left the classroom, a burst of noise erupted from inside, as people rushed around, looking for their teammates.

(End of Chapter)