New Class

Early in the morning, Iruka brought Tsuyu to Mizuki in the instructor office; he's a fellow academy instructor as well as Tsuyu's new class teacher. 

"Mizuki, this is the new student from my class. She's Tsuyu Uzumaki".

Mizuki, a chunin wearing a bandana covering his grey hair, observed Tsuyu up and down. He already heard from the other instructors in the office about how Tsuyu is a complete genius, a good student paying attention all the time, also hard working and other small praises during their coffee break.

"You are the twin sister of that… Naruto. Your reputation is quite the opposite of him", Mizuki wanted to say 'fox demon brat' but he changed his words as he smiled innocently.

Tsuyu nodded her head politely.

"I will be under your care, Mizuki sensei". Tsuyu felt a little annoyed each time someone mentioned Naruto and compared the two. She herself knew Naruto most and for her Naruto is someone she can say she feels proud of. It's just that most people can't see it. Though she held her tongue.

Mizuki felt a sense of satisfaction seeing how polite and respectful Tsuyu is towards him, especially since Tsuyu is a known genius but she doesn't look down on people nor display arrogance unlike few people from those big clans.

"Very well. Let's meet your new classmates. It might be difficult to adjust to new people, but I am sure with time you can fit in".

Mizuki brought Tsuyu to the new class; Mizuki stood in front of the blackboard, lightly coughed to clear his throat.

"Attention class! From today onward, you will be having a new classmate from your junior year! Tsuyu-kun, you may introduce yourself".

Tsuyu stood in front of the class. Her eyes observed the class for a second. Her eyes noticed Neji, who also noticed her.

She doesn't think much of it. But she planned to try to ease the tension between them since they would be classmates.

"I am Tsuyu Uzumaki, from junior class. I like to read books and my favourite drink is coffee. Pleased to meet you", Tsuyu introduced shortly.

Some of the children whisper, finding the coffee part particularly weird or amusing. But most only focus on her appearance. Light blonde hair in almost a messy style, and yet kept kempt with ponytail on her back. The blue eyes are unique, accentuated her cute appearance even more.

'S-so cute…', Lee, the guy with bushy brow, whispered to Neji.

Neji didn't say much, he particularly doesn't really like Lee who claims himself as his rival as he doesn't care for the talentless like him. But Lee keep sticking to him for some reason and he just ignores him.

But anyways, Neji accepted that Tsuyu is a genius that surpasses himself. Doesn't mean he will give up however. His opinion that one cannot escape their fate is still strong; after all, Tsuyu is a known genius - defeating another genius. 

For Neji it's just a matter of difference in talent and genius. Though, he believes he lost badly because he simply underestimated her, while Tsuyu had given him the respect to go all out with him. Therefore, he wants another chance to fight with her - on equal grounds and respect.

As Tsuyu sat down on an empty seat, the girl on her side went to greet her first.

'Hey. Tsuyu-chan right? I am Tenten. Your eyes are so pretty…', Tenten look in admiration seeing how cute Tsuyu is.

"Nice to meet you Tenten-san. Thank you for the praise. Your clothing is quite unique, it's nice and fresh to look at", Tanya with her social skills commented on the choice of clothing. She is honest in her commentary. It looks closer to Chinese traditional attire in her 1st life, different from the rest of the classmates.

"Ah. My mother is from Kagarabi province. What I wear is what the people there usually wear. It's cute right!", Tenten felt quite happy that someone actually praised her clothing choice and her heritage.

"You know Tsuyu-kun, your jacket seems like a shinobi jacket with the colours. You look really serious. I have cute clothes at home if you want to try! I am sure you would look cute!", Tenten looks at the dark green and brown jacket she wears. It's almost similar to Naruto's with an Uzumaki emblem at the sides and at the back except the colours. 

"Thank you for the offer, but I don't want to trouble you. Besides, I prefer this colors and does not want too much attention", Tsuyu said politely. 

"Tehee~ You would really get too much attention if you wear something cuter. Oh sorry let's focus on class", Tenten noticed Mizuki already began his class and went to focus. She already likes her new classmate.

Mizuki started teaching in theory class - relating to the role of the Shinobi in Konoha. Division of ranks and the missions they do etc.

The practical class for the other half of the day still has the same usual stamina and body building exercises, while Leaf Concentration Practice is still practiced.

The hand signs training are now focused more towards preparing for mastery of Cloning, Transformation and Substitution Jutsu. 

Tsuyu with her genius and even experience of being a mage in her past life are already able to use chakra well. In fact she had to constantly lower the amount of chakra she produced whenever she used jutsu. Half of the times it came out imperfect for now - but this already caused everyone in class and the instructor to look at her in awe.

Practicing control through tenketsu points helped her a lot in this regard along with the practice method to use Raging Fist. 

If not for the issue of too much volume of chakra, she could have done all the jutsu perfectly and almost naturally according to her instinct. The same issue applies to Naruto and she had made him practice chakra control more than other things. She doesn't expect Naruto to be able to work it out like she did; since she's aware of her advantage of being a mage in past life helping tremendously already while Naruto is still learning.

There's also a hidden fact that Tanya, having a Yin Half Kyuubi in her - actually gives Tanya more talent in chakra manipulation.

Add Yin Kyuubi's chakra with Tanya's strong spiritual power from her past lives - while there is indeed more Yin than Yang in Tanya, but this doesn't hinder her chakra control and does the opposite; this is why her talent in chakra manipulations surpasses almost everyone in class.

If there's a drawback, it's that her own body wouldn't be able to withstand her own maximum output when using a jutsu. But that's for now of course.

As for Naruto, his soul is still that of a child, and he had the body of Uzumaki. But now add Yang half of Kyuubi into the equation that had been supplying Yang chakra into his body over all these years.

Naruto's lack of chakra manipulation talent is not a pure coincidence, it's a result of an imbalance of having too much Yang. He had unreasonable stamina and chakra though, even a little more than Tanya in fact.

In the training field, the instructor casually walks around with a leaf on his forehead to showcase what they should be able to do. He already excuses and let the children of big clans or geniuses like Tsuyu and Neji train on their own. 

The instructor mostly had to focus on civilians who only had him as a guidance. 

The goal of the practice is even when you are on the move, or right after you move from one point to another using body flicker for example, you should be able to concentrate your chakra - and only when you are able to concentrate your chakra in battle can you properly do your hand seals and manipulate chakra through them. Otherwise jutsu will just fail.

The foundation of a shinobi is very important in this regard. A lot of Genin and Chunin are stuck and can't advance due to the lack of foundation and become easily killable and predicted with how slow they are in battle and during decisive moments.

Coming back to Tsuyu, as Tsuyu is practicing Leaf Concentration Practice while at the same time Raging Fist by inputting chakra through her target tenketsus and releasing them - a familiar acquaintance comes to her.

'You are releasing too much chakra', Neji commented as his eyes looked with his Byakugan activated. It's more accurate to say Tsuyu intentionally wastes chakra for the sake of controlling it though. For Neji, this is rather a waste. But for Tsuyu, it's a need, for now that is.

But still, Tsuyu felt like it's quite rude for Neji to casually do this and use his Byakugan. After all, she knows Neji could in fact view her naked body. Even if the other party doesn't give a damn, no one would feel okay knowing the other can see it. She pushed that thought aside, not wanting to remember it.

"I know. My chakra volume is an issue for now", Tsuyu replied factually. It's not that her control or Naruto's control is bad. 

If she had to mathematically explain it, if others naturally by default mold 10% of chakra each time they use their jutsu, most of the time they have to increase it by 5% for example. 

If they have 100 chakra units total, the jutsu requires 15 units, they only need to increase from 10 units they mold by default to 15 units. It's something feel-able. 

Now Naruto has 1000 chakra units. By default he molds 10% like most people - but for him it's 100 units of chakra each time. Now he needs to reduce from 100 units to 15 units. It's significantly so much harder to do. 

And this is why Tanya chakra training focuses more on reducing output; even intentionally letting excess chakra to waste out with control to achieve the right amount as a crutch temporarily. At least Tanya can afford wasting chakra since she had a lot compared to most.

Neji thought for a second, and understood instantly with enough theoretical knowledge in his head. 

'I see'.

He just nodded before sitting meters away from Tsuyu at the side and meditated himself, also practicing through his tenketsu points.

Tsuyu didn't think much and continued her practice.

…

After an hour of meditation, Tsuyu stood and stretched her stiff body. She looks over at Neji, who seems to want to say something to her.

"Neji-san, is there something the matter?".

Neji stood and crossed his arms.

'I would like to spar with you. I underestimated you last time, and it is my fault to not see your genius. I would like to have a match', Neji said in a more respectful tone. He had respect for the strong, and Tsuyu is already one in his eyes.

Tsuyu smiled slightly. It seems Neji isn't so immature to hold grudges from his tone.

The two went to a clearing to spar lightly. Neither use their chakra, only pure taijutsu. Neither had any advantage over the other - assessing each other at their base form and even learning from each other's moves.

Some classmates who got tired from their training casually took a seat to watch the two fight.

Lee especially observes with envy and longing seeing the two trading blow after blow, hit after hit. The dodge, the counterattacks, the battle intuition. It's seeing two geniuses against one another. Lee in the class is the underdog who have almost no talent in chakra manipulation. 

He wanted to be as strong as the two geniuses; he said in his heart. He clenched his fist tight, and he already planned to train harder and stay even after academy is over. 

Tanya admits that Neji is a genius of taijutsu, and her spar with him is beneficial with how intense it is. Last time Neji only lost because of her own technique advantage over Neji's and his unpreparedness, Tanya thought.

As the two finished their spar with each other, both of them had a look of respect over one another as the two made a seal of reconciliation to end them.

'Tsuyu-kun, in the class, only I can be your opponent. Let's spar again sometimes', Neji said respectfully. 

Tanya smiled slightly, already having her opinion on Neji changed. Though Neji is still inwardly having feelings of superiority over others that aren't seen as geniuses or unknown extras. For him Tsuyu is another genius of his or higher caliber, fated to be someone strong.

"I feel the same. Let's spar again sometimes, Neji-san". 

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