1 Schooling (D-mission, closed) Fri Feb 14, 2014 3:52 pm
Ciera
D-rank
- Spoiler:
- Mission name: Train the Academy! (Repeatable)
Mission rank: D
Objective: Teach the academy students a skill they need to learn
Location: Kirigakure
Reward: 80 ryo
Mission description: One of the classes at the Kiri ninja academy, training 8 year olds needs a ninja to teach the class academy level skills.
Mission details: The ninja takes a class of Acadamy students and teaches them the principles, ins and outs of academy jutsu or skills.
It was strange being back at the Academy. It had been so many years since she had sat in these classrooms and listened to the dull droning of lectures. The fields were still as wide as training grounds, and the grass was just as green as ever. Even the outer surfaces of the buildings still retained their nostalgically unclean look, despite the fact that she knew that it was scrubbed down at least once a year. It really just looked the same as ever.
Though this time, Ciera wasn’t here as a student. She was the teacher. On the green grass, she stood, towering over the young—and small—children that she was assigned to teach. In their eyes, she could see fear and recognition. Her skin color and height were a dead giveaway after all. Though in others, she could see cautious curiosity and mild amusement.
From across the field, leaning against the tree was the bearded teacher, smoking a cigarette with his eyes closed. Well, he did have to deal with children all day. She remembered back when she was in school, she was a bit of a troublemaker. She had caused quite a bit of hassles, more than she should have.
“Teacher, teacher!” She turned back to see a black-haired young boy with a big smile in the front was waving his hand back and forth in the air. Instead of the usual, she could only see unrestrained enthusiasm and curiosity. How strange.
“Yes, um…” Ciera trailed off. What was his name again? Well, whatever. “Is there a problem?”
“Problem?” The boy looked confused for a moment before he shook his head. “No, I have a question.”
“Okay,” she said and waited. When the boy remained silent, she prompted him. “So what’s your question?”
“Is your skin really blue?”
“Yes,” Ciera said simply, bewilderedly. There were not many that didn’t know of the Hoshigaki clan in Kirigakure, but these were children after all so it shouldn’t have been unexpected. Yet, for some reason, it had still surprised her. Still, she needed to get them away from this topic. It was time to each. “Listen up, class. Today, we are going to learn about Bunshin no Jutsu, the Doppelganger technique.”
“But we already learned how to do that,” a random girl spoke out from the crowd.
“Well, for those of you who already know it, we’re going to practice until we can do it better. Use the right amount of chakra—not too much and not too little—and make each hand seal faster. You will have to do it in the middle of combat, so you need to make sure you can do it fast while keeping an eye out for the enemy. You never know when they might pop up while you’re doing the hand seals and stick a kunai into your back.” Ciera emphasized this by making a stabbing motion with her hand. “So you have to be faster than them. That means memorizing the jutsu until you can do it faster than your enemy can attack you.”
Some of the children were still looking disgruntled.
“Now, now, this jutsu only takes three hand seals. Later on, you are going to be using more hand seals for more complex jutsus. Practice doing it fast now so you can work the seals on harder, more awesome jutsu later.” While the children still looked dissatisfied, they were more complacent. “Okay, watch how I do the seals. You have to do it fast and correctly. We will do it all together, and we’ll slowly increase the speed each time. Don’t bother using chakra. This is just hand seal practice for now.”
Maybe she was overestimating these children, because for the rest of the afternoon, she concentrated on only this single task. Some kids were fast while others stayed slow, even with a more personalized teaching touch on it. Still, she worked them over and over until time was over for classes and they had to leave for home. By that time, however, some of them had finger cramps from overusage of unfamiliar hand motions.
While it wasn’t a jutsu, but at least they practiced their hand seal making skills.
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