Approach the Arena
Silver didn’t stall for long, he quickly made his way up to Kagami-sensei, giving him a small nod and waiting for instruction on what to do. The Uchiha wasn’t sure of what to make of the boy, he was younger than any of the other children in this class, and small as well. But both Lord Second and Hiruzen believed in him so Kagami would give the boy the benefit of the doubt for the time being. Turning his head to look at the rest of his class Kagami cleared his throat, “As you can see, we have a new shinobi with us today. Introduce yourself.” Silver nodded again, facing the rest of the class “My name is Shirubā Kumo, I’m from the outskirts of the land of fire, and I’m four.” A small chuckle ran through the class but Silver just turned back to Kagami-sensei and looked up at him “where do you want me to sit?” Kagami shrugged and stood up, “We can worry about that next time, today we are heading outside for taijutsu training, I hope you all brought kunai and shuriken.” his tone was relaxed but Kagami was slightly worried, with this new student and the Uzumaki girl, who kept getting into fights, a taijutsu day was the last thing he wanted.
The class gathered at the sparring grounds, Kagami told the class to go through their individual warm ups, pulling Shirubā to the side. “You probably shouldn’t participate in any of the spar matches today, or for some time, many of these kids have years of experience on you and aren’t going to take it easy on you because of your age.” He was almost able to see the track these words took through the child's body to reach his mind, his face twitched somewhat down in a frown, but he mainly maintained his passive look. Still, something stayed in his eyes. He wasn’t sure if it was anger or acceptance, but those pits of molten gold were keeping something in them and refused to let it go.
“Kagami-sensei, I decided to become a shinobi, I want to do that the true way,” he looks down, away from his teacher. Kagame is sure he’s speaking from the heart but he’s equally sure the boy’s heart doesn’t know where it needs to go. “not the hard way or the easy way, but whatever way the world pushes me toward, I won't volunteer to fight, but I won’t back away from a challenge.” He looks up again and now that emotion is closer to the surface of his eyes, were the boy an Uchiha Kagame was sure he'd be looking into a pair of sharingan right now. “Very well, but if you’re being overwhelmed I will step in.” Shirubā nods, and the two join the ring around the small area. The first person to step into the arena was not who Kagame expected. Minato stood perfectly in the middle of the rectangle, looking dead on the youngest among them as he said “I want to challenge Kumo-kun.”