The students were seated in their respective seats inside the class of the Academy. All the students have the Konaha forehead protector on their heads, arms or worn as a belt. They were chattering away in the class, and at the back of the class, Gin was speaking with his classmates who were sitting around him.
Suddenly the door was opened and Kumina came inside with a list in her hand. As soon as she entered, the students went quite without any word from her, showcasing their discipline. Nodding at the students with a warm smile, Kumina said "Alright students. All of you graduated from the Academy yesterday and today we will be assigning your teams."
The students cheered for a short moment, and Kumina smiled seeing that. Sighing, she raised her hand to silence the students. Looking at the list in her hands, she started to call out the names of the students for their Genin team.
"Team 1: Gin Ichimaru, Kiyoko Simizu, Ryu Tanaka. Your Jonin sensei will be Genma Shiranui." Ryu pumped his fist in the air as he looked at Kiyoko and in return,she gave him a sweet smile.
"Team 2: Tobio Kageyama, Shoyo Hinata, Hitoka Yachi. Your Jonin sensei will be Hirito Hyuga." Sparks flew between Tobio and Shoyo, while Hitoka looked miserable.
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" Team 15: Daichi Sawamura, Koshi Sugawara, Asashi Azumane. Your Jonin sensei will be Keishin Ukai."
"That's all, your Jonin sensei will come to pick you up, good luck out there, Genin's." Giving them a final fair well, Kumina went out of the class room.
As soon as she exited, a man in his early twenties walked in. He was wearing the standard Jonin green vest, his hair was covered by a cloth, and he had a senbon on his mouth. Scrutinizing, Gin, Ryu and Kiyoko, the man spoke "Team 1, follow me."
Team 1 stood up at the same time and followed Genma out of the classroom and Genma lead them to training ground one. Standing in the middle of the training ground, Genma said "I'm your Jonin sensei, Genma Shiranui. We will introduce ourselves if you pass my test."
"What test?" Ryu asked with a slight panic voice.
Smiling, Genma said "Nothing much. If you can take the senbon from me, you pass the test. And the one's who don't have the senbon with then will be sent back to the academy." Looking skyward he said "The time limit is today evening. You can start anytime, I won't be leaving the training ground."
After getting the information from Genma, the three Genin's made some considerable distance between the three and Genma and his behind a large tree that was surrounded by bushes. Looking at the senbon that was chewed on by Genma, Ryu asked Gin "Gin, what's the plan?"
Tilting his head upwards, he asked "Let's check our inventory first."
"Alright." Kiyoko and Ryu agreed and dumbed out their ninja tool pouch, even Gin emptied his tool pouch.
After a few moments, Gin said "We have half a dozen ninja wire, twenty explosion seals, thirty shuriken, thirty kunai, ten senbon, and a sword."
Tapping his fingers on the ground, Gin said "I'll directly engage with Genma-sensei with taijutsu and kenjutsu, Kiyoko should set up the traps using ninja wire and explosion seals and Ryu will direct Genma-sensei using shuriken and kunai." Then looking at both of them, Gin continued "If you have something to add, you can do now."
Pondering for a moment, Kiyoko said "How about Ryu and I set up traps and two different places. Then meeting at the third place and sharing the information, assist you in leading sensei to the traps?"
"Good." Gin nodded with a smile.
"Hey! Can't we make a pitfall using the Earth Jutsu you taught our class with wire traps that will tie up sensei at the bottom?" Ryu asked eager to do ninjutsu against a certified Jonin.
Gin rubbed his chin and mused "Possible, that pitfall jutsu doesn't require that much chakra so it's size is small enough for a small boar to get trapped. If you two can do it together, then it will have enough size to trap a human but the chakra consumption will be high to make something big as a human. So tell you what, the three of us together will set up the pitfall before I engage with sensei. Anymore suggestions?"
"None." Kiyoko said with a smile on her face and Ryu just shook his head.
"Alright. Let's make the pitfall at the eastern end of the training ground, that is the only place with enough bushes to hide the trap. Then you two will seperate into North and South, to set up traps while I will engage with sensei. After that meet up at the Western end, we will guide sensei towards the traps."
With the plan in hand, they went to the Eastern side and after doing the necessary hand signs, slammed their hands on the ground and said in low voice "Earth Release: Pitfall Technique!"
A six foot deep, 1m diameter wide pitfall was created by the combined effort of team one. Nodding at the other two to set up the traps, Gin used Shunshin and directly went to Genma with his sword in his hand.
*Clang!*
Metal clashed against each other. Sparks flied. With a kunai blocking the sword, Genma said "You're fast. Go faster."
They started to engage in bukijutsu at high speed. Genma with his kunai, Gin with his wakizashi. Gin was fully focused on attack and Genma was in defensive mode, not attacking outright, only striking where there is gap, which were easily blocked by Gin with a kunai in his hand. A minute into their clash, Genma thought 'Kakashi is right. Gin is a sword monster. He's executing the Hatake swordsmanship brilliantly, but what's making him a monstrous kenjutsu user is that his own style. With the kenjutsu only he can become a Chunin, and from the looks of it his taijutsu is not bad either.'
Two minutes after the start of their clash, Gin threw his kunai at Genma's face. Genma easily doged the kunai and saw Gin using one hand seals for clone technique. But even after finishing the hand seals there were no clones. Seeing that, Genma squinted his eyes in confusion 'Lord Third told me that he have perfect mastery over the thre basic ninjutsu. So why did he fail now?'
Gin disengaged from their clash and sheathed his sword and took up the academy style taijutsu stance. Seeing that, Genma smiled 'Now it's taijutsu clash huh? Sure, let's do that.'
Genma also got into his stance with a smirk, but that smirk fell when he saw Gin sprouting two more hands from his shoulders, on each side. Genma blinked twice and thought 'This was not in the file! Why does a kid have four arms!!'
Gin rushed towards Genma and started to punch him with all four arms. When Genma stopped the lower right arm, the upper right arm passed through his head. Seeing that, Genma's eye widened 'That's the clone jutsu! He's overlapping his clone with himself, he didn't fail to produce a clone.'
'Heh! Be surprised! I read this in a fan fiction and tried it at home one time and voila! It worked. From now on I'm going to make shadow clones like this two. One hand for kunai, one hand for kenjutsu, the other two for ninjutsu. Man that will be an epic skill!!' Gin thought with absolute glee.
Knowing that two arms are clones made things easier for Genma, as he concentrated on the wind whipping of the original hands. Four minutes of pure taijutsu battle endured between, Gin and Genma. Due the relentless attack from Gin, Genma had to move around. Because of that, Gin guided Genma to the pitfall trap. Just as Genma was a about fall for the trap, he used body flicker jutsu and escaped. But, Gin kept up with him using his lightning style body flicker.
Since the initial trap failed, Ryu and Kiyoko also started their onslaught with kunai and shuriken that were attached to ninja wires. Fully knowing that they directing him to the traps they set up, Genma played along.
The traps started to set off one by one in the northern point, after that the traps in the southern point also started to sett off thanks to the team leading Genma there. 'These kids got solid foundation on bukijutsu, trap setting, ninjutsu, don't you guys think for once that I didn't see those small earth golems hoping out of my ninja pouch with three senbon, and taijutsu. They haven't used genjutsu, and from their teamwork, they're front line fighters.'
When the final trap was set off, the tree genin's disengaged from Genma and showed one senbon in each of their hands. Seeing that, Genma smiled and said "You all pass."
"YES!!" Ryu, cried out in joy and Kiyoko cheered lightly and Gin had a smile on his face, that screamed "Just according to keikaku".
"So, Genma-sensei, what now?" Gin asked looking at Genma.
"Now, we will introduce ourselves." Genma said with a smirk.