Classes were finally starting to get harder. Turns out chakra control wasn't as easy as he first thought. As simple as it was to read up on proper hand seals and study the basics it was much harder to put them to use. Thus far they'd been drilled on some of the most basic jutsu and he'd only been able to pull off the transformation technique with any consistency -- and not even particularly well at that. His teacher still showed approval for being able to get this far this soon but Sato himself wasn't pleased with it. He could do better, he knew he could! He was just missing something. By the time class was dismissed he was already in poor spirits, staying behind to start reading through his scrolls again for what felt like the one hundredth time.