First stepped a Momochi successor, real tough kid, who reminded a lot to Nissan himself. " My father admired Zabuza so much... so you are part of his legacy? Interesting..." - spoke out loud the substitute teacher. With confident steps on the tree, the kid managed to halve it from his first try. On his last step, the chakra control was lost so he slipped and lost it's balance. " Should I catch him... nah " - thought Nissan while watching his student fall. The kid was not a cat and could not roll mid air, so it dropped very bad on the ground, even hit his head pretty bad. There was blood, not from a simple scratch. " You gonna cry, kiddo? " - laughed Nissan to the boy's misery. It was very mean of him but it suited perfectly to his Yin personality. Instead of crying, young Momochi stand up, covered with blood with a serious, determinded look and smile, almost laugh to Nissan's question.
So Momochi took over his chakra control and stepped on the tree for a second time. With calmness and concentration he walked forward, I mean upward. This time, Nissan was down with his hands open and ready to catch the kid. " Do not worry, keep going! " - he said to encourage him. The result - success. The kid reached the top of the tree and with that finished the first part of the training. Nissan cleared his throat and spoke to all of his students: " This is it Momochi, you got this! Next one, please... we have a lake to cross! "
The second one was a tiny little girl with a white hair. " She might be from Aisu clan... like my friend Eishi. Did I said friend? Oh, well... " - thought Nissan while watching the girl facing the tree. Not an easy battle for an academy level shinobi. The girl stepped preciesely, before that forming a tiger hand sign. Slowly but surely she started making steps perpendicularly to the bark. Everyone was impressed that he managed to do this from her first try.
" She has done it before! " - some kid said, making excuses about his future failure.
Some kids made it from the first time, someone from the twentieth, eventually everyone succeed with a little bit of Nissan's help.
Next step of the training was water surface walking. That was the real deal here, the more difficult one, in many ways more useful. The weather was cold, so was the water, poor kids.
- This time, your chakra flow should be much more intense in order to push the water and keep you on top of it! – said Nissan before announce the start. Someone hesitant already rush forward to the water surface, he did not wanted to see anyone before him succeed. He totally ignored the advice of the teacher, thinking that it would be the same as climbing the tree. So he did failed pretty pathetic, running into water, sinking eventually.
- I cannot swim, help! – started screaming the poor kiddo.
- One more reason to learn the chakra molding to the perfection! – said Nissan with a smile on his face. Eventually he helped the kid, an incident in class will be the end of his career.
The confidence in kids drops drastically after the bad start of the tryouts – almost a drowned student. Aisu girl stepped forward again. Her tiny feet touched the water surface and never dropped more than an inch below. She crossed the whole lake without even performing a seal, with her eyes closed. Nissan was very impressed once again, so were all the classmates.
Chakra flow is very hard to master, but seeing the girl from a distance, she made it look like it is something natural. In some ways it Is for the talented students, the other ones just cannot escape the failure before the success. Sometime when you experience that you become at least equal to the talented if not even stronger in some ways. Let the pool party begins! A fail after fail brought a lot of fun in the kids rather than sadness. They laughed at each other but from mocking – motivation was born. After some decent dedicated time and effort, the success was reached by all the students. Nissan was proud that he gave a little bit to the kids in order to learn something new. He knew that if they did not put enough work and they do not chase after success, nobody would ever help them reach it.
With that his lesson was finished. Everyone jump over his neck filled with emotions:
- Thank you, Nii-san! – they all screamed, it was kind of funny “Nii-san equals Nissan”, almost…
The director shows off just at the end of the lesson:
- Why you finished so late, and why are you in the backyard? - interupted them with serious tone of voice.
- The kids just mastered the supernatural walking on both surfaces – vertical and water. – explained Nissan with a calm voice and proud posture.
- What are you saying?! You should only teach them the theory today! They cannot learn all at once! - with an angry voice the director raised fear in the eight years old children, even if he did yield at their teacher not at them.
- My apologize, sir, but they were ready! – answered Nissan without stepping back of his point of view.
Gossiping to each other, all of the kids decided to show what they have learnt. All of them, one after another, started to climb the tree, running upwards, and from the top they jumped right on top of the lake, without sinking. That performance showed a lot of advanced skill. Seeing that, the director could not say anything more. He was amused by the young talented students so he hit Nissan’s shoulder showing him respect:
- You all did well! I acknowledge you! – said the old guy with respect and walk away.
Everyone was happy, even Nissan showed some emotions in the end. Happy end and Academy, that was a rare occasion.
With that mission was completed so Nissan should head to Mizukage’s office, but before that he decided to pass by home for a second. Uppon arrival he entered his house very fast and started throwing all his modern clothes. They were so uncomfortable compared to his casual sport outfit. “I am glad that I do not need it the whole time. Teaching is not bad but sucks in so many ways… Not for me” – thought Nissan, while freeing himself from the clothes. “Aa-h, freedom… finally!” – he took a deep breath and put his favorite outfit. “Now that is way better” – he smiled from pleasure. Without loosing more time he head to the Mizukage’s office. Walking in his casual clothes, the people again stared at him, because of the drastic change in a few hours.
- I was just a substitute teacher! I have much more important things to do! – said Nissan to the neighborhood shopkeeper as soon as he saw him. In response, the guy just nodded, probably forgot their little chat a while ago...
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WC:1180
TWC: 2677
[Exit Thread]
1) 2677 words - 750 words = 1927 words left => D-rank mission complete!
2) Reward: 150 ryo
3) Training
Strenght from D-0 to D-1 for 325 words and 25 ryo
1927 words - 325 words = 1602
Speed from E-2 to D-0 for 525 words and 0 ryo
1602 words - 525 words = 1077 words let
Perception from E-2 to D-0 for 525 words and 0 ryo
1077 words - 525 words = 552 words left
Reaction time from E-2 to D-0 for 525 words and 0 ryo
552 words - 525 words = 27 words left