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  “Eh, Principal Gojo… I have to give the speech?”

  Iruka looked at the speech manuscript a schedule in his hands with nine, even ten parts uainty. His teeth were practically chattering.

  If he really followed Principal Gojo’s instrus… he wouldn’t be able to face these parents as a ninja ever again.

  “Ahem! What are you saying, Head Teacher Iruka?”

  “Minato is the Principal. When addressing me, you must add ‘Vice,’ we ’t have me making mistakes, we?”

  Gojo Kaigetsu gave Iruka a reassuring pat on the shoulder, his voice firm and steady.

  “This is a great opportunity to challenge yourself. I believe you do it.”

  “B-but…”

  “No buts. This is a direct order from the Vice-Principal!” Gojo Kaigetsu’s tourned serious. “You know how to give a speech, right?”

  “I do!”

  Iruka’s face was a mask of despair. Rank had its privileges, and this was a direct order from Vice-Principal Gojo, one he couldn’t refuse.

  However, the pressure from this task felt heavier than even a B-rank mission.

  Satisfied with the answer, Gojo Kaigetsu nodded and turo Uchiha Mikoto.

  “I have some official busio attend to. Mrs. Mikoto, please find a seat and make yourself fortable.”

  “Yes. Go ahead with your work, Kaigetsu-kun.”

  With that, Gojo Kaigetsu led Samui to his Vice-Principal office to enjoy themselves.

  The spacious desk had enough spaderh to hide a fully grown kunoichi, but this time, it seemed, that wouldn’t be necessary.

  Gojo Kaigetsu swiveled his chair, gazing through the gss window at the training ground below.

  “Kaigetsu-kun, what is all this…?”

  “Shh, less talking, more watg. e sit here.” Gojo Kaigetsu patted his thigh.

  Samui: “…”

  Soon, the parents crowding the Academy entrance were allowed inside.

  They found their seats acc to their child’s css. Itachi Uchiha sat on a small bench beside Mikoto, curiously his surroundings.

  ‘This is… a truly bizarre spectacle.’

  ‘Father was right, Gojo Kaigetsu is a strange and uable ninja.’

  Finally, Iruka took the stage. Behind him, mencholic musiexplicably began pying from the loudspeaker.

  He started his spee front of the students and parents-

  [Do you know why parents wake up so early? It’s not the chakra in their bodies that wakes them! It’s their responsibility towards their children!]

  [In this cruel shinobi world, there is no such thing as peace. It’s just that someone is carrying the weight for you!]

  […]

  Iruka had pletely embraced the absurdity, delivering his lines with passioheatricality.

  Itachi Uchiha, sitting in the audience, felt as if he were under a genjutsu attack…

  He didn’t sense any chakra fluctuations, yet he felt incredibly unfortable, wanting to flee.

  He unsciously gripped the floor with his ninja sandals, almost digging a hole through the soles.

  ‘W-what is this…?’

  Lost in his thoughts for a moment…

  Iruka’s onsught tinued:

  [Look at your parents beside you! Do their faces bear scars from the war, scars you've never noticed all these years?!]

  [Students, please look up and look closely at the faces before you.]

  [Are they still as young aiful as they were when you were little?]

  [I also ask you to look at the clothes they wear, their shoes, and their headbands. pare them to your own. Are they as fand new as yours?]

  […]

  Itachi unsciously looked up at his mother’s face.

  He stared at it, lost in thought.

  Even though Teacher Iruka’s words made his chakra , urging him to escape, still…

  He realized that, since apanying his father to the battlefield at the age of three, he hadn’t truly looked at his parents’ faces.

  When did his attention shift away from them?

  Embarrassment, unease, fusion, ay, fear, guilt… A torrent of plex aive emotions flooded Itachi’s heart.

  It was said that the Uchiha was naturally overflowing with emotions.

  Itachi seemed to retreat into his own inner world. Meanwhile, some of his cssmates were whispering to each other:

  “Why didn’t your dad e? Are you here alone?”

  “Ugh, he overslept.”

  “Ah”

  [e on, students, stand up! Bow deeply to your parents!]

  “What are we doing?”

  “When did Head Teacher Iruka bee so… abstract?”

  Itachi, still lost in his own world, heard the instrus and stood up.

  The music behind Iruka grew even more mencholic:

  [Shout with me! Tou-san! Kaa-san!]

  [No matter where your future leads you, no matter what kind of ninja you bee, never fet what your parents look like today!]

  [Cry! Let it all out!]

  Samui felt like she was suffog.

  Before ing to Konoha, she had harbored many fantasies about its strength.

  Like interaining regimens a teiques passed down through geions… but she never imagihat the Ninja Academy, such a serious institution, would be… well, indescribable.

  Every bit of chakra in her body seemed to be screaming at her to escape.

  The intense audiovisual assault even made her temporarily fet about Gojo Kaigetsu’s wandering hands behind her.

  … Silence…

  At that moment, every parent oraining ground seemed deeply moved by Iruka’s speech.

  Tears streamed down the faany.

  But Iruka, caught up in the moment, tinued his impassioned address:

  [Three years at the Ninja Academy are crucial! They are three years that ge a ninja’s entire career!]

  [Today, as your Head Teacher, I, Iruka, wholeheartedly reend a book to you all-]

  [“Everything You o Know About Three Years at the Ninja Academy,” avaible on the right side of the stage, only 999 ryō! This price won’t st! Outside the Academy, it retails for 1999 ryō!]

  [“Everything You o Know About Three Years at the Ninja Academy” taiwarming stories from the 51 years since Konoha’s founding. It’s beneficial for shaping children’s…]

  Gojo Kaigetsu sat oage, like a vilinous mastermind, stroking the silky golden hair of the Persian cat in his arms.

  This roject he had pnned for a long time. It was a bit abstract, but sidering the current state of education in the shinobi world, perhaps it was just the right amount of abstraess.

  For example…

  Gojo Kaigetsu’s gaze fell upon Itachi Uchiha, who was still lost in thought.

  This kid had been otlefield at the age of three and theered the Ninja Academy.

  It seemed no one had ever taught him the meaning of warmth or what it meant to have parents!

  At such a young age, he was already pting the twisted flict between d vilge. With the Uchiha’s predisposition towards mental instability, it was no wonder he would grow up ed.

  Since he was bound to bee twisted anyway, Gojo Kaigetsu might as well guide the dire of that twist!

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