Starting From Being Adopted by the Second Hokage!

Ninja Academy, Class A classroom.

Renya found a seat and sat down, quietly observing the children around him.

These guys would be his classmates from now on.

"Since everyone just enrolled and isn't familiar with each other yet, let's go around and do self-introductions," the homeroom teacher said with his arms crossed.

"I'll start. My name is Senju Takuzen, and I'll be your homeroom teacher for the next six years."

Renya raised an eyebrow. No wonder the teacher looked familiar—he turned out to be a member of the Senju clan. Perhaps they had crossed paths before.

"You start," Senju Takuzen casually pointed to a child with white eyes in the front row.

The boy stood up and proudly swept his gaze around the room.

"My name is Hyūga Muki, from the Hyūga clan."

Some of the children immediately showed expressions of envy.

"Wow, the Hyūga are a big clan!"

Hyūga Muki's lips curled into a smile, basking in the admiration around him.

"Tch, that's it?"

Just then, a disdainful snort echoed from within the classroom.

The room instantly fell silent, and everyone turned to look.

At the back of the room sat a boy coldly staring at Hyūga Muki, his eyes full of contempt.

His gaze seemed to treat the other like an insect.

On his clothes was the Uchiha clan's fan insignia.

Clearly, he was from the Uchiha clan.

Not only that—there were also three other children seated nearby, all wearing the Uchiha emblem. Two of them also wore expressions of disdain.

"Uchiha?" Renya was slightly surprised. He hadn't expected there to be three other members of the same clan in his class.

The orphanage director had once told Renya that children from the orphanage don't attend the Ninja Academy but are instead trained directly by elite jōnin from the Police Force, eventually entering it as official members.

Which meant that Shun from the orphanage had a high chance of securing a place in the Police Force.

The founding of the Police Force differed from what Renya knew.

In the original story, the Police Force was established during Senju Tobirama's time as Hokage. Back then, Konoha faced both internal and external threats, and the Uchiha were growing increasingly dissatisfied with the Senju monopolizing power. To show his trust, Tobirama created the Konoha Police Force, assigning its core positions to Uchiha clan members.

But here, the Police Force was already established at the founding of Konoha.

Those four Uchiha boys noticed Renya's gaze. Three of them gave him looks of disdain and disgust, while only one smiled and nodded politely.

Renya: "???"

What's going on here?!

Why do these guys seem to hate him so much?

Renya: I've never offended anyone!

...Okay, Shimura Danzō doesn't count. That old bastard deliberately picked a fight!

Hyūga Muki was furious, but seeing that the other side had the numbers, he had no choice but to sit down angrily.

"Nara Motoha. I like quiet, hate trouble."

"Mitokado Homura."

"Utata Koharu."

Renya looked at the two of them and thought to himself,

[So these are the future Hokage advisors?]

If he remembered correctly, the two of them lived quite a long time.

"Sarutobi Hiruzen."

"Shimura Danzō."

The self-introductions were halfway through when it was Renya's turn.

"My name is Uchiha Renya."

As soon as he finished speaking and was about to sit down, a voice full of mockery came from behind him.

"Heh, Uchiha? More like Senju, if you ask me!"

Renya's eyes narrowed slightly as he turned to look at the Uchiha who had spoken.

Now he understood why these guys were so hostile toward him—so they saw him as a traitor to the Uchiha!

"Watch your mouth, or you'll regret it," Renya said coldly.

"Haha, that's hilarious."

"A traitor's still a traitor. What, we're not allowed to say it?"

The Uchiha boys exchanged looks and chuckled, not taking Renya seriously at all.

To them, Renya, born an Uchiha but raised by the Senju, was a disgrace to their clan—nothing short of humiliation.

"Don't be like that…" The one Uchiha boy who had smiled at Renya earlier tried to interject.

"We were so busy mocking him, we forgot to mention you. You're just as much a disgrace to the Uchiha!"

"How could you say that…"

"Alright, quiet down!" Senju Takuzen scolded with a frown.

Hearing that, the Uchiha boys finally fell silent, albeit begrudgingly.

"Uchiha Renya, you may sit."

Renya glared at the three Uchiha boys with annoyance before returning to his seat.

Damn it! They really had the nerve to start bullying him!

At last, it was the Uchiha boys' turn to introduce themselves.

The one in front acted like he ruled the world, proudly saying, "My name is Uchiha Retsufū!"

The other two were no different.

"Uchiha Gen!"

"Uchiha Rin!"

What surprised Renya was that despite how arrogant the three acted, no one dared to speak out against them.

It seemed their classmates were intimidated by the Uchiha clan's background.

Renya sighed helplessly. "Now I get why Senju Tobirama always kept an eye on the Uchiha..."

The Uchiha were strong, but extremely prideful and prone to emotional extremes. Even a minor slight could provoke them to dangerous behavior.

The clan's reputation was ruined by people like this.

On top of that, their role in the Police Force already made them easy to resent.

If things kept going like this, the Uchiha were doomed!

Renya had to admit—Senju Tobirama had great political foresight.

Knowing full well the flaws of the Uchiha, he still placed them in the Police Force. What a strategic move!

By doing so, the Uchiha were essentially disqualified from ever becoming Hokage.

Perhaps Uchiha Madara saw through the whole setup.

That's why he tried to lead the clan out of Konoha and go independent.

Unfortunately, no one followed him.

Despite being co-founders of Konoha, the Uchiha clan never even secured a single advisor role, let alone the Hokage position. Tragic doesn't even begin to describe it.

That said, the Senju clan didn't fare much better.

Three Great Ninja Wars practically wiped them out.

And it didn't take long for the Uchiha to follow in their footsteps… and face annihilation.

What an ironic fate.

The two strongest clans of the Warring States Period who founded Konoha—both ended up exterminated.

"Hello everyone, I'm Uchiha Kagami!"

At that moment, the last Uchiha introduced himself, snapping Renya back to the present.

"So that's Uchiha Kagami!"

Kagami's personality didn't resemble a typical Uchiha at all.

No wonder Senju Tobirama would take him in as a student in the future.

The introductions ended.

"There won't be class this morning. Take some time to get to know each other. We'll begin official lessons this afternoon," Senju Takuzen said. "I need a few students to come help me move books."

After saying that, he left the classroom with a few kids in tow.

Renya sat at his desk, staring out the window, clearly bored and annoyed.

"Ugh, school... I hate this the most."

Normally at this time, he'd be training at the practice field. Now he had to suffer through sitting in a classroom.

And his classmates were a bunch of problem children...

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