The Death of the Rope Tree

Chapter 13 The Death of the Rope Tree

The world of Naruto, Konoha Village.

Two months have passed since Suzuki and Might Guy were released.

There is only about a month left until the second clone returns.

At this moment, a major incident has recently occurred in Konoha Village!

Nawaki Senju, the grandson of the First Hokage Hashirama Senju and the younger brother of Tsunade, is dead!

A dark cloud seemed to hang over Konoha Village.

Inside the ninja academy, Suzuki, who has already started school as a fifth-year ninja student, is still attending classes in his original classroom.

After Suzuki returned to the classroom after lunch, he found many classmates sitting there discussing the matter.

"Hey, did you hear? That senior Nawaki is dead. He was the grandson of the First Hokage!" A classmate lamented the cruelty of the battlefield.

"Yes, I didn't expect that."

"Nawaki-senpai was so amazing back in school~"

"..."

Senju Nawaki, who was five years ahead of Suzuki, graduated more than three years ago. When Suzuki's class first entered the Ninja Academy, Senju Nawaki was a sixth-year student and a prominent figure in the academy!

"But that's strange. The grandson of the First Hokage, the son of the Senju clan—don't important figures like that usually have ninjas protecting them?"

One of the students said, puzzled.

"I'll tell you a secret, but don't talk nonsense, I heard that Senior Nawaki was murdered~"

One of the students said with absolute certainty.

……

Conspiracy theories and gossip are popular in every world.

Suzuki, who was listening quietly to the side, knew of course that Senju Nawaki was killed by the explosive tags, but Suzuki could not say it out loud.

Although Senju Nawaki was a descendant of the First Hokage, Senju Hashirama, his talent was not comparable to that of his sister, Senju Tsunade.

He longed to make a name for himself on the battlefield, but his sister Tsunade always disagreed, and the Third Hokage, Hiruzen Sarutobi, also listened to Tsunade.

As the Second Shinobi World War was drawing to a close, even Konoha had signed a ceasefire agreement with Iwagakure and Kumogakure.

Perhaps they saw that the war was nearing its end and that the danger on the battlefield was no longer too great.

The Third Hokage, Hiruzen Sarutobi, finally gave in to Nawaki Senju's persistent pleading and sent him to the vicinity of the Kusagakure battlefield, which had long since ended and should have been relatively safe.

However, to everyone's surprise, Senju Nawaki actually died!

He died a particularly gruesome death; he accidentally stumbled into a battlefield detonation tag trap that hadn't been cleared in time and was instantly blown to pieces.

"I heard that Nawaki-senpai's older sister—Princess Tsunade of Konoha—is coming back?"

This is a student's lament.

"Yeah, she was the Konoha princess who was once again named one of the Legendary Sannin a few years ago, and she was also the number one medical ninja in the ninja world. But Nawaki-senpai is dead, even the best medical ninja can't bring her back, right?"

"..."

Suzuki felt that Tsunade could actually do it, as long as she started cooperating with her teammate Orochimaru from now on.

With techniques like Impure World Reincarnation and Spirit Transformation, combined with her own medical skills and Orochimaru's Reanimation Jutsu, she might actually be able to pull her brother back from the underworld.

But Tsunade didn't know the future, and Suzuki wasn't interested in reminding her.

In fact, upon learning the news, Tsunade Senju, who was far away on the battlefield in the Land of Wind, rushed back immediately. However, this top-notch medical ninja in the ninja world could only painfully witness her brother's corpse.

After that, Tsunade will be with Dan Kato and, with the help of the kind and comforting Dan Kato, will overcome the pain of losing her younger brother.

However, Kato Dan won't live much longer; he'll probably die on the battlefield in about six months at most.

Orochimaru was the second to return; he was in charge of the Land of Lightning battlefield, which was nearing completion.

Senju Nawaki is currently Orochimaru's only disciple, and also his first disciple.

It was this death of Senju Nawaki that solidified Orochimaru's dream of pursuing immortality. From this moment on, Orochimaru gradually moved closer to becoming the future scientist of the ninja world.

Next was Jiraiya, who was in charge of the Land of Rain battlefield, which had already been successfully concluded.

After teaching Nagato and the others for three years, he's returning this time to bring along Minato Namikaze, who just graduated.

……

The conversation in the classroom stopped shortly afterward.

The teacher arrived, and the daily afternoon practical class began.

Suzuki and his classmates arrived at the school playground.

The Konoha Ninja Academy's playground is very large. Now, not only Suzuki's fifth-grade class 3, but also many other classes are neatly arranged on the playground.

In Suzuki's fifth-grade class 3, the students were all lined up neatly, preparing to practice throwing shuriken and kunai, as well as the D-rank basic ninjutsu, the Three Body Technique.

Life at the Ninja Academy is not like that of the twelve Konoha Genin in the original story, who just played around at school every day and became ninjas by doing some incomprehensible tricks.

True ninja academy students undergo rigorous training every day from the moment they enroll. Kunai and shuriken are the most basic skills, and they must practice them every single day.

There is no situation where students practice at home on their own and then the teacher judges them during the final battle assessment.

Most of the students at the Ninja Academy were ordinary people. Without anyone to teach them, they were lucky if they could avoid getting injured while practicing on their own.

Besides, not everyone has a training ground near their home, and not all students have the self-discipline to stick to training.

Therefore, every class at the Konoha Ninja Academy has a two-hour practical lesson every day!

There are four classes a day. The training times for the elite class and the general class are staggered, with the practical classes for the elite class held in the morning.

At the same time, the training time for students in the third grade and above is also staggered from that for students in the lower grades.

Starting in fourth grade, Suzuki's practical lessons became the third period in the afternoon.

At this moment, the students had each received their kunai from the teacher and followed the teacher to their respective class's training ground.

The rows of wooden targets were all brand new; the teachers had changed them before class.

Afterwards, the students began training in throwing kunai and shuriken...

"Sato! What happened to you? You're so much worse than yesterday! Didn't you eat?!"

The teacher was reprimanding a student named Sato. However, when she turned around, she seemed a little angry:

"Yokozuna! How many times have I told you? Keep your hands straight, understand? Why are you still doing the same thing?"

The teacher covered her forehead, looking helpless.

Seeing this, Hanako, standing next to Suzuki, trembled and said with a hint of fear on her face:

"What should I do? What should I do? Suzuki-chan, why is the teacher so angry today? Is Hanako going to get scolded again? Waaaaah..."

Suzuki chuckled at Hanako's adorable reaction, then said to her:

"It's okay, Hanako. The teacher isn't going to bite you. Besides, you need to be more confident. You haven't failed a test for two months."

Hanako nodded her little head emphatically, then clenched her fist to cheer herself up:

"Hanako can do it! Hanako, no problem! Hanako can pass! Go Hanako!"

"..."

Suzuki remained silent.

Soon, it was Suzuki and Hanako's turn.

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(End of this chapter)