As Yuta came to the academy, he quickly found his classroom for teams assignment, and as he went in, he saw 8 other students inside. He instantly spotted Itachi and went to seat alongside him.

As Yuta proceeded further into classroom, he spotted a few other familiar faces.

'Kabuto and Yugao huh… They look a few years older than me, but I assume that in this classroom there are only those who applied for early graduation this year, so they should be like 10 or 11 right now.'

As Yuta taken a seat and greeted Itachi, Itachi nodded in response, and they started waiting for the teams assignment.

A few minutes after that a one of the academy teachers, a man in his late thirties, comes in and announced, "Congratulations to all of you for becoming Genin, a first shinobi rank, and completing an early graduation exam at that!" After a short pause while looking at the students expectantly and being prideful, he continues.

"All of you will form standard three-man squads that will be led by one elite ninja that will be assigned to you."

Then teacher started to name the squads, and shortly after, "Team-two will consist of Uchiha Itachi, Hikari and Yuta, and the leader of team-two will be Koichi Tashiro."

When all the teams were announced, teacher said, "Wait here, your team captains will pick you up soon." And after saying that teacher left the classroom.

'Koichi Tashiro huh, never heard of him.'

Yuta turned to Itachi and asked, "Do you heard of Koichi Tashiro before?"

"No" Itachi replied, "Never heard of him before."

Shortly after that a man with a short spiky hair and a scar on his left cheek comes in. He quickly announced as he enters, "I am Koichi Tashiro, team-two follow me!" he said coldly and left immediately.

'Not a very friendly sensei huh, well at least he looks like he meant business I guess, so it's a higher chance that he is experienced and capable.'

Yuta and Itachi quickly stand up and follow Koichi. As they leaving the room, another person stands up and follows them.

As Yuta leaving, he turned his head and glanced at that person.

'So, she is Hikari, the third team member and supposed Taijutsu and Kenjutsu specialist, she is my age, she has a long black hair tied in a ponytail and a black eyes, she is kind of looked like Sarada Uchiha from Boruto series, except the long hair and no glasses, and her face is less wide. And her overall demeanor is colder and when our eyes met, she looked at me like I owed her money or something.'

'She is wearing the same set of clothes that I am, that one that the academy provided after the cleared graduation exam, but without a vest. And she has a wakizashi (short (around 45cm) and slightly curved katana) on her back.'

Yuta turns his head forward and follows Koichi together with his new team.

Soon after that they all followed Koichi to the private training ground that is close to the academy. As they came to the center of it, in a little opening with a lot of trees around, Koichi looked at his new team and said in a cold tone.

"Let's introduce each other. As you already know, my name is Koichi Tashiro, a Jonin. Now tell me your names and something about you before we move on." Koichi said while looked at the Hikari, who's standing to his left.

"My name is Hikari", Hikari said not showing any emotions, "I'm good at Kenjutsu and I'm fast. I want to become the strongest ninja to be able to protect the village."

'Hm… She sounded like she prepared and practiced this exact sentence for hours… And that thing about protecting the village, that is supposed to be my line!' Yuta thought while looking at Hikari, trying to not show his emotions on his face.

"Um" Koichi nods looking unamused, "Next" Koichi said looking at Itachi who stands in the middle of the group.

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"Uchiha Itachi, I want to become the strongest shinobi to be able to stop the conflicts and wars from happening." Itachi said with determined expression on his face.

"Um" Koichi nods and looks at Yuta.

'Well, if everyone wants to become the strongest shinobi it will be a bad manners if I don't follow suit, right?'

"My name is Yuta, I like developing new Fuinjutsu seals, and I want to become the strongest shinobi to protect my friends and the village so nothing like the Demon Fox attack will ever happen again!"

As Yuta spoke about Fuinjutsu, Hikari gave Yuta a curious glance, but Yuta was speaking and didn't spot it.

"Um" Koichi nods and looks again at the group. "Well with this out of the way, this is the time for your final Genin test. If you fail it, you will be sent back to the academy, or if you perform poorly, you can be even permanently disbanded."

While Yuta tried to fake some surprise on his face, he glanced to his teammates, Itachi didn't looked surprised at all, while Hikari still looked cold and emotionless.

'Damned, why am I even trying to pretend that I'm surprised by this sudden final test? Maybe I should just act naturally, with that I will blend better in to this team…'

"With this test," Koichi continued, looking uncaringly about his team's reaction, "I want to measure your capabilities, and if I conclude that you are ready for becoming shinobi, I will pass you, if not – you are going back to the academy."

"Now come at me with everything you have got and don't hold back!" Koichi said loudly without changing his casual stance, with cold and somewhat bored demeanor.

'There is no bell-test for us or something similar, just a regular fight? Well, I better team up with Itachi on this one anyway, who knows what criteria for this test Koichi has in his mind, might just be the same thing that Kakashi was up to, the teamwork, I hope Hikari will not be too arrogant and will team up with us as well…'

'Well, in this situation Itachi should take the lead and make a plan, he is the only one who knows what everyone else's capabilities are. And he is the genius Itachi after all, that is obvious that he should take the leadership in this situation.'

As Yuta thought about that he glanced at Itachi who looked back at Yuta and nodded, then he performed a series of hand signs of the sign language that Itachi taught to Yuta back in the academy for situations like this.

'The signs are "trap, 3 o'clock, 4 minutes", so he wants me to disengage and prepare a trap at 3 o'clock direction and he will lead Koichi in to it in 4 minutes from now on, fine, but only 4 minutes, that will be tough, Itachi thinks of me too highly!'

Immediately after reading the signs, Yuta nods and flickers away whit Shunshin jutsu, but at the same time Yuta replaces his empty position with simple clone technique, so it will look like Yuta is still there.

'I bet Koichi will see through it right away, but well, I was told to not hold back, and there nothing in my arsenal that can beat an experienced Jonin anyway, so I might just do whatever I can.'

As Yuta thought about that he also though about creating a shadow clone to spectate the fight behind, but as it will require him to allocate at least 30% of his chakra and he will need a help of two shadow clones later on to setup a trap in time, so he decides not to and runs forward.

'Maybe Itachi thought about that I might waste chakra and left a shadow clone to spectate, and this is why he set only a 4 minutes for me, so I will not be able to do something that inefficient.'

'Damned, working with someone like Itachi who can get into my head like that, it creeps me out sometimes… Better to not become his enemy, I bet he will sense something like that from miles away…'

As Yuta proceeded further, he found the good place for a trap. Yuta performed a Shadow Clone jutsu creating two shadow clones, splitting the chakra equally between both clones and him.

'Well, technically I can create three of them, but I have to allocate at least 30% of my chakra in each of them and they will dispel rather soon with that amount, and I will left with only 10% of chakra that will be further drain by the jutsu, and that state is not good for me at all.'

When shadow clones appeared, Yuta and his clones started to prepare a trap for Koichi.

'My best bet here is Fuinjutsu trap with the seals I have on me.'

Yuta and his clones started placing explosive tags everywhere on the ground and the trees around a small clearing and concealed them with concealment seal tags.

'But this is just an additional measure for not letting Koichi to run away and to push him right in to the center of the trap where the all of the good stuff will be. I will spend a lot of my seals on this trap, but well, I can call it an investment into my shinobi career by showing Koichi how serious and invested I am. Well, he told me to not hold back, hehe…'

When perimeter around the small clearing is rigged with concealed explosive tags, Yuta and his clones proceed to set up the final part in the center.

'The bottom layer of the trap will be filled with a lot of explosive tags, that will be concealed with concealment tags, and for the top layer I will be using all of my chakra suppression tags, that will be poorly concealed with a couple of my concealment tags that are left.'

'That way even if Koichi will see through the first layer of the trap, maybe he will drop his guard, as this chakra suppression seals is weak against him anyway, well, now that I think about it, it might actually work…'

'Well, if this elite ninja can get himself killed by a fresh Genin, that is on him! And I will time travel right away so he will not have to stay dead for long anyway. Maybe I just overthinking here, there is no way that I will actually manage to kill an elite and prepared Jonin with my 4 minutes trap, right?'