Months passed and Dandin grew stronger. Mr. Masaru taught his class well. He was highly invested in his students. The school also gave him a lot of freedom to train his students as he saw fit. Therefore, he focused on their fundamentals, worked with each student individually throughout each week, and arranged a lot of competitions which forced his students to think outside the box and stretch their capabilities. He drilled hand signs every day, focused on their physical fitness, honed their combat skills, and pushed them to their limits. Dandin couldn't have asked for a better teacher.
The academy was set up differently than Dandin had experienced in his last life. It was also different than how the ninja academy was run in the Naruto series he'd watched. He realized it was because in this world "success" was measured in a different way. In Naruto, a successful student needed to be able to perform the basic three jutsu, use some ninja tools, and pass a written exam. There, success was about meeting the minimum ninja standards. In his previous world students were systematically trained to an advanced level in many different subjects, but much of what they did held students in schools for a set amount of time with no way to reward those who worked harder than others except a few special programs. In that world "success" was about checking the right boxes and keeping the economy operating smoothly by allowing parents to work away from their kids.
This world's goal was to make warriors capable of fighting in major wars and to funnel talented individuals into specializations they would be able to excel in. It was about the good of the whole community, because the whole community was always on the edge of annihilation.
Dandin was shocked when he learned about the number of shinobi wars that had already occurred in this world. It was seventeen major wars. This was rightly named the, "warring states period," which according to his history lessons started after a massive drought had collapsed the previous society three hundred years ago.
Therefore, because war readiness was crucial, their physical fitness was one of Masaru's main focuses. That's why every day they had three separate physical conditioning sessions. He also tried to end every day by burning away 90% of his student's chakra. After all, chakra exhaustion was the quickest way to improve chakra capacity. He did this with a mini game he had taught all the students in the first week. The concept was simple. Each student faced an opponent while on a beam. They extended their lead hand towards each other until their palms touched. Then they pushed their chakra through their hands and tried to push each other off the beam with it. This worked two things, chakra power and chakra control. Firstly, the students had to continuously expel chakra from their hands. Then they had to control that chakra so that they didn't shoot it in the wrong direction. At the beginning of the year Dandin easily won because of his above average levels of chakra. As the class got better, they started to adjust the angle they expelled chakra to push their opponent in different directions. It was very fun and the matches had gotten very intense.
When Dandin asked Masaru-senpi whether it was helpful for ninjutsu or not Masaru answered in the affirmative. If they could control how much chakra went into their techniques they could make many changes to their ninjutsu in a battle. "For example, you may want to launch a giant water shuriken instead of three small water shuriken. You could be in a battle, and suddenly fire a technique from your hand sideways to catch an enemy off guard. Ninjutsu, Genjutsu, they're only limited by our imagination, diligence and depth of understanding."
Another major difference in how the school operated was their military drills. Dandin's class was frequently split into teams for competitions similar to, capture the flag, hide and seek tag, murder in the dark, and more. For some games they competed ten versus ten. Other times they were split into ten teams of two. Most often they were arranged in teams of four or five.
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A Seeker's Journey Of Transmigration
AdventureDandin (Damian) was a typical man until his wife and children tragically died in a car accident. With his whole life gone he traveled the world until he also died. When he awoke he found himself in a strange void and received a new chance at life w...
