A preview of the next chapter of Shinobi Isekai: Round Three (with Benihime):
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Orochimaru looked down at their wayward little student. The girl was staring up at him with thinly veiled suspicion as she took her seat in the classroom. In her defense, Orochimaru never expected to return to the academy after their graduation oh so many years ago. They certainly never thought they would be standing in front of a room full of children calling them sensei. The chaos of the first day was almost enough to make them disobey Sarutobi-sensei’s direct orders and rush back to the frontlines.
Jiraiya would never have shut up about it, though.
Orochimaru kept the same placid smile on their face as the students trickled in. It always took the group a few minutes to settle down after greeting each other, as if they hadn’t seen each other just the day before. Well, there was no harm in letting children be children. So many would die before the war’s end, anyway.
“Now, then,” Orochimaru began. “Before we begin we have a new student. Please welcome Kenta to the class and help him get comfortable here.”
The brown haired boy bowed to the class before taking the nearest available empty seat. On the surface, he was just like any other child in the Village. According to his file, he was civilian born and sent to the academy in the hopes that the swift graduation rate would give his family another source of income—be it his mission pay or his death pension. His paperwork was all in order and his record was spotless. None of that hid the vacant look in his grey eyes and the split second delay in his facial expressions.
Orochimaru’s adorable little student looked from her new classmate to her sensei with the most deadpan look they had ever seen on a child. Unlike the other children, she saw right through Danzo’s little Root plant and was not amused.
This, naturally, amused Orochimaru greatly.