Three days passed as Iruka conducted a few more tests before the graduation among which sparring was just one of them. Transformation jutsu, shadow clone jutsu and finally a small written test which Satoru didn’t think was hard at all, it was more like a basic knowledge test.

“Now that everyone is here, congratulations to all of you for graduating.” Iruka beamed, “You all are successfully a genin now!”

“YEAHHHHHHHHH!!!!!”

The students were cheering, yelling, some were even beating their desks down and Iruka couldn’t help but remember his own childhood.

He wouldn’t lie that he was feeling a little down today, after all he was the one who taught them for so many years and now they were leaving.

‘Well, it’s not like I’m never going to see them again…sigh…’ He chuckled dryly.

“Calm down everyone!” He tapped the board making a loud sound, “I’m still not finished yet.”

“From today, you will be assigned to a team. Each team will have three members and a jonin level shinobi will be assigned as your leader.”

“You’ll be doing different missions and other important tasks under your leader’s guidance.”

Everyone’s ears perked up when they heard the word ‘mission’. They were excited to test their abilities in real combat rather than just in spar matches.

Well most of them…

In the back seats two guys were sitting lazily, leaning against the wall with their hands in their pockets.

“What a drag…” Shikamaru sighed, as he blinked his eyes that looked like that of a person bored to death.

Meanwhile, Satoru was literally yawning and it was hard to determine if he was awake or not because of his blindfold. It was not that he wasn’t looking forward to it but he already knew which team he was going to be in.

And it couldn’t be more obvious, because a whole person was missing! He was nowhere to be found in the whole village and forget about being found, no one even knew he existed!

It was none other than the fatty- ahem!, Chōji Akimichi.

Satoru tried to investigate what was going on but he didn’t even find a speck of information about him, nor his clan. The only conclusion he could reach was that the ‘God’ who reincarnated him interfered. He remembered the ball blabbering about balancing something but he couldn’t remember.

‘So whatever I knew about the plot is basically useless…not that I remembered any…’

“Naruto, Sasuke and Sakura will be in team seven under Kakashi Hatake-”

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“YES!” A pink haired girl exclaimed as she clenched her fist excitedly.

“Sakura, sit down!” Iruka glared at her, he didn’t like being interrupted.

“Sorry sensei” Sakura sat down but the glint in her eyes still couldn’t be hidden.

Iruka sighed in defeat. Shaking his head, he continued again,

“...And finally Satoru, Ino and Shikamaru will be in team ten under Asuma Sarutobi.”

“Looking forward to working with you dude…” Satoru said to Shikamaru.

“Same…” Shikamaru replied.

Although they weren’t too close of friends, they knew each other pretty well so neither of them was bothered by being in the same team.

“Now everyone will move to their assigned class, your new sensei will arrive shortly!”

…

'Act normal, act normal...' Ino looked at Satoru who was sitting at the back end of the class as she fidgeted her fingers. It was pretty obvious that she liked Satoru but she didn't want to act like Sakura and get ignored forever.

'Hmph, I'm better than that flat chested bitch...'

She steeled herself finally and decided to talk.

"H- hi Satoru!"

"Hey Ino" Satoru flashed a gentle smile,

'She sure is beautiful...' He mused to himself. Seeing the characters in real life was completely different than seeing in two dimensions and he still wasn't used to it.

'Kyaa! he knows my name!'

She literally forgot that they studied in the same class. It was another thing that Satoru himself never initiated conversation with girls very much but.

"Take a seat, looks like sensei isn't coming anytime soon."

Ino tried to act casual but the pink shade spread across her face gave it away.

'She reminds me of how I was back then before I died...well I guess I still am...' Satoru chuckled to himself.

"I also exist here y'know?" Shikamaru muttered, straightening his body.

"Hi shikamaru..." Ino said bluntly, not even bothering to look at him.

*BAAAM*

Suddenly, the door opened with a loud sound and all of their eyes went to the door.

A tall man with spiky hair in the standard Konoha ninja uniform entered the room. He had brown eyes with olive skin and a beard giving him an appearance like someone from the middle east region of earth.

“At least sit in the front seat when the whole class is empty,” Asuma said, taking out the cigarette from his mouth.

“Nah…”

“It’s a drag…”

“Guys…”

Asuma dragged his hand across his face in exasperation. He considered himself lazy but it looked like his new students were going to top him.

“Alright, enough loitering around, now come front already!”

He said this time but with a slightly harsher tone and it clearly worked.

The trio moved to the front seat, albeit unwillingly. They didn’t want to anger their sensei on the first day.

“Let’s start with the introduction then, I’m Asuma Sarutobi. I’ll be your new teacher and the leader of team ten.”

“Shikamaru Nara”

“Satoru Gojo”

“I’m Ino Yamanaka”

After a brief introduction, Asuma led the team outside to the ground. Satoru looked around but he couldn’t see the other genins, it was only their team.

“We’ll do a small sparring session.” Asuma said, throwing away the cigarette from his mouth.

“A spar?”

“Yes. I need to know your strengths and weaknesses if I’m to guide you properly, and this is the best way.”

“There won’t be any test?” Shikamaru asked.

“Test?”

“Well, Iruka sensei said that if we fail the test we’ll have to go back to the academy.”

“Hmm, it’s just a way for us jonins to see your teamwork and at what level you’re at. Unless you’re horribly bad you won’t be going back to academy.” Asuma shrugged, “well, at least with me…”

He added as he remembered his white haired friend who always hid his one eye.

‘Now that I think about it, don’t Kakashi and Satoru look quite similar.’ He mused.

“Now, all of you try to attack me together and I’d suggest you take off the blindfold Satoru!”

“Ehh, I better not…” Satoru scratched his cheek. He nearly knocked out Sasuke last time with the blindfold on and he wasn’t even using the cursed energy.

‘Well, I don’t think I need to hold back against a Jonin…as long as I don’t reinforce my punches with cursed energy…’

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(A/N: Writing is tiring 😂)