RiaN Chapter 24 (Patreon)

I wish I had a devil fruit power, something like the goro goro no mi. I’d be fine with anything, it’s just… I was getting sick of training to get stronger. Sure, it was nice to see my progress, but I wanted to cheat to get stronger. If I could eat a bad-tasting fruit for instant power, that’d be nice. I daydreamed as the teacher noticed I wasn’t paying attention. He flung a piece of chalk at the side of my head, and I effortlessly caught it.

“Tama, since you’re so bored here. Can you answer the question on the board?” The problem with the support class being so new, there wasn’t enough information to last as far as the other classes. We’d basically learned everything we ever would in the first two years. It was a basic question we’d be asked over and over again. A what to do question about how to prepare a campsite for your ninja squad.

I sighed as I only glanced at it for a second before giving out my answer. “Find a good area to set up your camp, or make an area with environment-changing jutsu. Check for traps in the area you plan to set up your camp. I have sensory skills, so I can check myself. If you didn’t, you should ask the sensor of the group to check. Set your own traps after you secure the area, summon a tent, make the food your team needs, unless your mission is in enemy territory, then you eat rations to not give yourself away with smoke. I used to know more, but the class is so boring, my brain has started deleting memories about it.”

My teacher was done with this, too. Possibly the only thing more boring than learning the same thing over and over again was teaching it over and over again to people who are already bored. “You can always graduate early.” I sighed because we had this conversation already, even though I was a clone, I was still so bored that I was fighting against the programming that made me stay here.

“I can’t. If I graduate, then I’ll have to join a different class because I can’t graduate early due to the rule put in place for the sake of my clan. I would join another class, but those would be just as pointless. First, I was taught fuinjutsu by Kushina, so I’m overqualified for that class. I have healing blood, which makes the medic class redundant as well. I’ll learn my family's summoning jutsu, which will cover my sensory abilities, making that class mute as well. And finally, I don’t plan on using any kenjutsu, taking that class might be the most fun, but it isn’t worth changing my class over.”

He looked at me with the same look he had the other dozen times he interrupted my daydreaming. Since I was a clone and the main body was working on fuinjutsu, it didn’t make sense for me to also learn it. The only fun part of this class was practicing cooperation jutsu together with other people, but we only did that once a week.

In the original story, it’s clear that Hiruzen is keeping Naruto incompetent and lonely to use them for his own purpose. The current system is the opposite; the classes are designed so that almost everyone can pass. They’re far too easy; anyone who is a clan heir will graduate, even if they’re extremely incompetent, and most of the actual prodigies learn outside of school in their specialized subject. 

Most of us will be stuck in these easy classes until we turn eighteen, because it almost guarantees our safety. Many ninja who have already graduated will die, but most clan heirs will be married with children before they’re ever in any real harm's way. I started smacking my head, just soft enough not to break my clone form. Just a few more years of this…

…

Talia came in as she stood on the opposite end of the table. It had become a contest of who could come in and take the seats beside me every day, with Hinata and Karen winning most days by coming to school an hour early. I didn’t understand it, but I had become the person to marry. We were just shy of fifteen, so most of the girls in the class were finally blooming into the women they’d be in the future.

With hands on her hips and puffed up cheeks, Talia yells. “I challenge you!” Hinata sighed as she spoke. “You do this every week, Taly. Just give up, you can’t beat him anymore.” Talia still looked upset. We were fairly even in fighting capabilities until I got that free growth spurt. Since then, I’ve slowly been winning more and more matches. It had been months since she beat me in a taijutsu spar.

“I’ll never give up. I’ll never back down. I’ll never surrender!” I couldn’t help but smile. She was always like this, always ready for a fight, always upset when she lost. We had to fight anyway, and she was the strongest. I could easily defeat everyone else at this point, only her sheer will to be stronger than me let her keep up with my progress. “Sure, Talia, I’d love to fight you.”

Giving her a big smile, I could see the tint of red on her cheeks as she tried to stay in fight mode. We waited until the taijutsu spar, and she declared her intent to fight me. The female teacher just rolled her eyes. She had seen this almost every single week since we ended up in her class. Taking our places, I couldn’t help but notice her new stance. 

She was hunched forward, with her arms out to the side. I couldn’t help but think of a grappler stance I saw from the ‘Hero World’. She didn’t waste any time, closing the gap between us in seconds. I casually kick at her, thinking she would stop and move back, but she doesn’t. She takes the kick head-on, absorbing it with her body before both her hands reach over and grab my leg.

My eyes went wide in shock, then slight fear as she took me to the ground. I hadn’t done much grappling in my MMA class before I quit. My hobby was quickly ended by a guy who took things too seriously and broke my leg in my first life, but I did know the basics. My other leg came around, locking with the one she still had in her hands, locking behind her back, forming a guard.

I pulled her into my body, pinning her arm as I choked her with my shoulder. She didn’t give up. With her free hand, she started punching me in the ribs. These weren’t punches thrown by a normal human, these were punches thrown at a strength that was unreachable on Earth. I waited for her to over-extend before I rolled her, taking top position.

My hands unconsciously groping her breasts as I felt myself grow hard into her jutted out ass. For a brief moment, I realize what was happening before she took advantage of me being distracted. Jumping back as hard as she could, she launched us both in the air before she fell on me. In one movement, she knocked the wind out of me as she moved fast, grabbing my leg as hers wrapped around mine.

I gave up before she could break it. I knew she would if I didn’t. I could only sigh as I couldn’t believe that was how I lost. She gloated. “See, I knew I could beat you.” I didn’t really have anything to add, but the crowd watching certainly did. Hinata and Shiho both yelled out at the same time. “Yeah, all you had to do was distract him with your body.” “The good old use your pussy as a distraction technique, I knew you had it in you Taly.” The taunts instantly wiped the smirk off her face as she began to blush hard enough to turn her face red.