Discovered

Through the window of the academy classroom, the crispy golden leaves could be seen falling softly from the now almost bare trees, twisting and turning in the hushed gentle breeze, finally dropping slowly, and returning to the earth.

However, no one was watching this occur because the students were all focusing on an extremely difficult lesson.

"Silently raise your hand when feel like you know the answer to the question. Four ninja are guarding a castle in the Land of Fire. Then three more ninja join them as reinforcements. How many ninja are guarding the castle?" Iruka asks the class. Well... difficult for six year olds anyway.

Iruka does not write the question on the board, in fact, he never writes the questions themselves on the board because this is more than a simple 4+3 math question. He rarely only trains one thing per question. One of the most important things for a ninja to be able to do is memorize sentences word for word after only hearing them once. Therefore, the board sees little use unless he actually needs it to teach something that specifically requires it.

In addition to this, he is teaching them what the word reinforcements means through context clues. Furthermore, there are a number of other things being taught, one of which is patriotic lines of thinking.

One of the reasons he is considered a great teacher is because he is able to rap so many hidden lessons in every single example.

At the academy, students are taught a core curriculum of reading, writing, mathematics, science, geography, etc. However, these lessons are typically framed in a ninja-context, and usually hide instructions in tactics and strategy within them. Finally, everything he teaches raps the Will of Fire throughout, this will give every student the pure will that they will desperately need in the case of a dangerous situation, vastly increasing their likelihood of survival. Often times a powerful will keeps a ninja alive even more than skill could.

Every single student he teaches will have a completely unbreakable will.

Almost immediately after asking the question, two hands raise. A while after that, the rest of the class also raises their hands.

"Naruto, what is the answer?" Iruka asks, Naruto's hand shot up just slightly faster.

"Six!" he yells holding up six fingers with absolute confidence.

Showing no reaction to the completely wrong answer said with absolute confidence, Iruka looks around the room, "Who else got that result?"

The classroom goes silent. Not even a grasshopper could be heard. They had learned their lesson by this point. Even if you get the same answer as Naruto never ever admit to it until it is actually confirmed as correct.

"Eh!?!" Naruto's absolute confidence seems to take a hit.

Iruka then asks the other fastest hand raiser, "Sakura, what is the answer?"

"Iruka-sensei, there are seven ninja guarding the castle." Sakura answers politely.

"Eh!?!" Naruto exclaims again. He then holds up his hands looking at his fingers, "One, two,-" he starts counting them.

Again showing no reaction to the correct answer, Iruka looks around the room, "Who else got that result?"

At once the whole class yells out, "Seven/I got seven/It was seven Iruka-sensei/ Seven/ Seven/ Seven/ Eh!?!" No hints are needed to know who said the last one.

The whole class had learned another lesson by this point. Even if you get a different result than Sakura always, always agree with her answer.

Even Naruto knows by this point that her answer is the correct one; although that never stops him from trying anyway, unlike the cowards in class that always try to wait for her answer instead of giving their own first. Unfortunately, this completely baseless courage just makes the whole class think of him as an idiot, even though he is not always wrong.

"Ok everyone, it is time for lunch break, after that we will meet for our outside lessons, today we are going to start on shuriken handling and throwing," He tells the energetic irresponsible six year olds like that it is a completely normal thing that they will be handling sharp pointy objects and throwing them around.

"Before you leave, make sure to turn in your homework due today on my desk… And make sure your name is on it this time. Those of you know who I am talking about."

Several students had sheepish looks at that, not just Naruto.

Everyone grabs their lunches and homework, heads down the steps, turns their homework in, and rushes outside.

After they leave, Iruka takes out his own lunch and then quickly flips through the homework to make sure everyone had turned it in and it actually had their names on it, not that it actually mattered, Iruka had learned how their handwriting looked by now. To many civilian born students try to, at least once anyway, turn in work with their parents handwriting on it instead of their own.

However, while flipping through he notices something and he pauses, his eyes turn serious as he looks at a certain student's homework.

"Did… How did I miss this before?" He mutters to himself in surprise.

He quickly leaves his lunch forgotten as he goes back to his office to look at the previous copies of past homeworks and classworks. It is protocol to copy every single homework and classwork that the students turn in after grading them and storing them just in case there is ever need of them. The head teacher of their year keeps them for up to a year before they are stored in archives forever, even after they graduate.

He quickly goes to the folder for the particular student.

Yes, he was right, every single homework and classwork. Even the very first one. The real question is how did he miss it for so long.

Every single character on the entire page was exactly the same font size for every single homework and classwork. The only thing that would have been stranger would be if every character ever written on every single homework and classwork was exactly the same font size.

This level of hand writing skill is simply absurd, especially for a six year old.

In fact, Iruka was not certain he could do the same even as he was right now, a chunin.

He then pulls out the student's record, looking through it for any sign of a reason for such a thing.

Finding nothing to show that this could be a learned skill, he then writes, "For currently no known reason, shows an extremely high talent for Fuinjutsu."

The top of the record shows, "Name: Haruno Sakura."

He then puts the record back and goes back to his lunch.