Most people thought it was boring. They were reduced to book reading inside the class room, so why would they turn to another one during reading, or the actual training sessions? To others, it seemed contradictory, that a child with such promise as Itachi, who was already well known among his classmates, would willingly sit and read.

A few mistakenly assumed it as arrogance.

"Why do you tear the leaves?" he asks, however, a few moments later, brow scrunched in curiosity, palms on the pages of his book.