Dazen was reading while waiting for the break to end, after a few minutes Koda and Hiroshi appeared in the library looking for him. He noticed that the two were excited and thought, 'As I thought, Kakashi must have finished off the second-years and they came to tell me about the fight.'

Koda approached and said excitedly: "Hey Dazen, this time you lost the son of the 'White Fang', he is truly a genius, he wiped out all the second years by himself, it was truly incredible."

Feigning surprise, Dazen said: "Really, is he that strong?"

Hiroshi replied this time: "Yes it was really surprising and it seemed to me that he didn't even make an effort to defeat them, the boy is a monster, you should have seen it."

Koda continued: "Yes, yes, he beat everyone, especially a boy from the Uchiha clan who kept getting up for some reason, he had no mercy and kept beating him until the Uchiha couldn't get up anymore."

Hearing this, Dazen smiled and thought: 'So Obito really got beaten up'. Then Dazen looked at Koda smiling and said: "So we saved you from a beating, didn't we, if Hiroshi hadn't stopped you from participating in this game it could have been you instead of the Uchiha."

Koda remembered that he had this idea and soon his expression turned pale, if he had continued he would have been beaten by the second year, after all he had no chance against such a genius, losing to a child 3 years younger was very humiliating he was lucky to give up of the idea.

Smiling Hiroshi said: "If I had known that I would have let him go, it would be very funny to see this guy being beaten by a child half his size, maybe then he would learn to behave better and stop acting like an idiot."

Koda got furious and started arguing with Hiroshi, but they were soon interrupted by the library manager who kicked the 3 out of the library due to the noise, even though Dazen argued that he was quiet and had nothing to do with the two idiots' argument, he still He shared the same fate as his friends who still laughed in his face, thus starting a new argument.

The three then went towards the room and continued talking until Takashi arrived and continued with the class as usual and everything would remain the same if it weren't for the big events that were about to happen.

As Dazen already expects, in the next 3 months after the start of classes, the conflicts in the smaller nations did not subside and soon one of the large nations had to intervene and declare war, which led to a domino effect with all the major nations declaring war on each other in the following days.

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These events left everyone in Konoha worried and soon ninja forces began to be sent to reinforce the protection of the country's borders, there were also several changes in the ninja academy, the classes changed and were now even more focused on war strategy and survival and on training as many ninjas as possible so they could enter combat when they were old enough to do so.

And this strategy gave results in a month or two, several students from the elite classes began to graduate, with emphasis on Kakashi Hatake who graduated having only been at the academy for 5 months, which made him the center of attention and discussion of all people of Konoha.

It was now 3 months since the start of the war and for now the large nations had only been involved in conflict with smaller nations and had not had many losses, which calmed the population for the moment, the nations were studying each other's performance and devising strategies to fight them then for some time everything was relatively calm, but Dazen knew that at some point this calm would be broken and terribly bloody conflicts would arise.

Dazen's life was not greatly affected by the start of the war, the only thing that was different was that classes were increasingly focused on increasing the strength of students, which was great for Dazen, who could train his skills even further.

Outside the academy, Dazen was with his friends talking about the recent events of the war when Koda asked: "Hiroshi, your father was sent on some missions regarding the war, wasn't he? Did something important happen?"

Hiroshi replied: "My father doesn't talk much about his missions and most of them are more linked to espionage and obtaining information and he has heard him talk to my mother that for now most of the movement of the great nations is in relation to studying the performance and strategies of other nations to gain an advantage when they are in combat and soon conflicts will escalate."

Dazen noticed that Hiroshi was a little sad and asked, "How are things at your house? It can't be easy to see your father regularly going on these missions." Koda was surprised by Dazen's question and looked at Hiroshi waiting for his answer.

Hiroshi looked down and replied slowly: "My mother is always worried when he leaves, she tries to hide it, but it's clear that she's scared of what might happen, any mistake could cost my father his life… I'm scared too."

Koda didn't expect to hear this situation from his friend, in his family only his uncle was a ninja, so his parents were at home, he didn't imagine that having ninja parents could bring such concerns.

Dazen looked at his dejected friend and comforted him: "Your father is a sensor jounin with a lot of experience, he won't make mistakes so easily, you can trust him, I'm sure nothing will happen, for now you just have to study and train to get stronger and help your father when the time comes."

At this moment that was all Dazen could say, after all, he had never been in this kind of situation in his other life, he was an ordinary person and obviously never faced war situations.

Hearing his friend's words Hiroshi nodded and agreed as he spoke to forget his fear: "Yes, my father is very strong, he won't lose so easily."

The three chatted a little more before heading to their homes on the way Dazen thought, 'There are only 3 months left until the final exam, this time I will graduate, I will definitely survive.' Then Dazen continued on his way towards the training center.