For Rei, learning that the Academy had very strict rules, came as surprise. Getting Keiko admitted into the Academy was next to nothing in difficulty, and really she should of just left it there…but something was drawing her towards the child. Interest? Study for a possible research? Watching a chakra-bug user grow into maturity would no doubt grant a host of ideas of her research, and if anyone asked why she was so gung-ho about Keiko, that would be Rei’s first response as it sounded like the most disarming; however she actually had no idea where her obsession was coming from. Perhaps because she wasn’t completely a machine? Some kind of motherly instinct? It was an ongoing mystery that the cyborg was trying to unravel.
But, she really wanted to be hands on for Keiko’s training.
The Academy went up and down with Rei on why it wasn’t permitted with only exceptions being given to ANBU or Medical branches, and even then it was only if their leadership deemed a Student worthy of grooming. Main Branch had far too much on their plate to also worry about specifically training a single student over an entire class. If Dr. Ryuu wanted to teach in the Academy, she would have to share her knowledge with multiple hopefuls, not just one. The idea that she would be forced to hand out the precious knowledge she had collected to a bunch of morons and one good student, was ridiculous. And she let them know that too, in a very, very, long well-worded letter sent to the Student Board of Review that, without a Headmaster to fully review and explain, they unfortunately had to accept. It was so well versed in Kumogakure Law that the entire council couldn’t decide what was stone-clad and what was just being used for a loophole. In her efforts to earn the right to personally train Keiko, Rei had managed to slip in a new ruling to the 1 Jounin to 3 Genin law that, in the absence of shinobi in their military, that it be reduced to 2 Genin, and that the Jounin could select which 2 Students they wished to train from the Academy, and then further mentor. The ruling it passed, but a lot were unsure if it was because Rei had so much pull with the Raikage’s office, or if the Student Council just flat agreed with her ideas despite how much she bucked the norm. The only issue remained that she would have to find a second Student eventually and couldn’t train Keiko until such a Student was found; or at least that was what they tried to tell her until she threatened to write another letter.
The classroom was on the ground floor and recently refurbished by Dr. Ryuu herself. It wasn’t overly large, about half the size of a normal gymnasium, and it was almost completely empty except for a single desk near the “front” of the room where a giant chalk board loomed behind an average looking mahogany desk. The cyborg was sitting in a rolling chair with a high cushioned back, leaning back with a pair of shades to dim the lights that were slightly brighter than the rest of the Academy. It was Keiko’s first day, and Rei was going to make sure it was a nurturing experience. Was she giving the child an edge over the competition? Yes. Was it incredibly unfair and kinda divisive? Also, yes, but she couldn’t help herself. The little girl had put some kind of bug in Rei’s steel heart, and couldn’t fight the overprotective emotions that swelled. Of course, it still didn’t deter Rei from what she was setting out to do and that was train a child to become a soldier. No matter how protective her heart beat, the steel cold reminder ever was that she was only able to do this if she successfully tutored the student into becoming what Kumogakure needed.
But, she really wanted to be hands on for Keiko’s training.
The Academy went up and down with Rei on why it wasn’t permitted with only exceptions being given to ANBU or Medical branches, and even then it was only if their leadership deemed a Student worthy of grooming. Main Branch had far too much on their plate to also worry about specifically training a single student over an entire class. If Dr. Ryuu wanted to teach in the Academy, she would have to share her knowledge with multiple hopefuls, not just one. The idea that she would be forced to hand out the precious knowledge she had collected to a bunch of morons and one good student, was ridiculous. And she let them know that too, in a very, very, long well-worded letter sent to the Student Board of Review that, without a Headmaster to fully review and explain, they unfortunately had to accept. It was so well versed in Kumogakure Law that the entire council couldn’t decide what was stone-clad and what was just being used for a loophole. In her efforts to earn the right to personally train Keiko, Rei had managed to slip in a new ruling to the 1 Jounin to 3 Genin law that, in the absence of shinobi in their military, that it be reduced to 2 Genin, and that the Jounin could select which 2 Students they wished to train from the Academy, and then further mentor. The ruling it passed, but a lot were unsure if it was because Rei had so much pull with the Raikage’s office, or if the Student Council just flat agreed with her ideas despite how much she bucked the norm. The only issue remained that she would have to find a second Student eventually and couldn’t train Keiko until such a Student was found; or at least that was what they tried to tell her until she threatened to write another letter.
The classroom was on the ground floor and recently refurbished by Dr. Ryuu herself. It wasn’t overly large, about half the size of a normal gymnasium, and it was almost completely empty except for a single desk near the “front” of the room where a giant chalk board loomed behind an average looking mahogany desk. The cyborg was sitting in a rolling chair with a high cushioned back, leaning back with a pair of shades to dim the lights that were slightly brighter than the rest of the Academy. It was Keiko’s first day, and Rei was going to make sure it was a nurturing experience. Was she giving the child an edge over the competition? Yes. Was it incredibly unfair and kinda divisive? Also, yes, but she couldn’t help herself. The little girl had put some kind of bug in Rei’s steel heart, and couldn’t fight the overprotective emotions that swelled. Of course, it still didn’t deter Rei from what she was setting out to do and that was train a child to become a soldier. No matter how protective her heart beat, the steel cold reminder ever was that she was only able to do this if she successfully tutored the student into becoming what Kumogakure needed.