[ Ding, you completed one walking activity. Walking Experience +1, General Experience +1. Current level: LV1 (2/100) ] [ Ding, you completed 40 Breathing Activities. Breathing Experience +120, General Experience +40. Current level: LV3 (120/500) ]
He left the school, performed, ate ramen, and returned to school, all in one hour.
He had failed to maintain it while eating and dancing. In the end, he only maintained the focused breathing state for forty minutes, but the Breathing Technique jumped forty times in a row, bringing his experience to 120.
Each breathing activity now gave him 3 experience points, 180 per hour. He only needed a little over two more hours to earn the remaining 380 experience.
When he returned to the classroom, quite a few children had already fallen asleep on their desks. But many were still excitedly playing outside, and the teacher did not bother with them.
Yūhi Kurenai sat at her desk, seemingly flipping through a book. But judging by the way she kept glancing around, she clearly was not taking in a word.
When she saw Hyuga Ningyuan, the little girl's red eyes lit up, and she immediately stood.
"Did you go eat? If not, I saved some for you!"
How could he possibly hand such a wonderful wife over to Asuma?
"I ate!" Ningyuan hurriedly replied. "Look at my teeth, there are still vegetable bits stuck in them!"
"Ew, disgusting!" Yūhi Kurenai turned her head away in irritation, though her mood relaxed somewhat.
Ningyuan pulled Yūhi Kurenai down to sit and whispered, "Do you know what I found outside?"
"What did you find?" Yūhi Kurenai asked curiously.
"I found a way to make money!" Ningyuan said seriously.
"Huh?" Yūhi Kurenai froze. No matter how hard she thought, she would never have connected it to making money. After all, for five-year-olds, earning money was still a very distant matter.
"I noticed that new shops occasionally open on Konoha Commercial Street, but because the villagers don't trust them yet, they have no customers!" Ningyuan said earnestly. "That's when I come in!"
"What can you do?" Although Yūhi Kurenai felt Ninja Academy students should not be out making money, she could not suppress her curiosity.
"I can sing and dance at the entrance, attracting lots of people who want to watch the excitement. Once they gather in front of the shop, isn't it only natural for them to go in, browse around, and spend some money?" Ningyuan said. "I can't sing and dance for free, so the shop owner should pay me. That way, I get money, and the shop owner gets customer traffic. A win-win!"
"Th-this..." Yūhi Kurenai thought it over. It did seem reasonable.
Of course it was reasonable. It was a money-making method proven in modern times. From small family performance troupes to major stars, all of them could make money this way.
"Want to try it with me?" Ningyuan asked. "We'll split the earnings fifty-fifty!"
He could not make much money from doing performances outside shops anyway. Ningyuan mainly wanted a reasonable excuse to practice dancing, while letting Yūhi Kurenai practice as well.
In the future, Genjutsu would be the only thing this girl could really excel at. Her strength was honestly rather lacking.
Although she did not have a system, she would at most cultivate more slowly. If she trained for five or six years, she would still see results.
And although she successfully survived until after the war, by then she was the Sarutobi family's daughter-in-law. Hiruzen Sarutobi naturally would not send her off to die.
But if her lover became Hyuga Ningyuan, the outcome might not be the same.
"Huh?" Yūhi Kurenai was stunned. "Making money and all that... aren't we students? We should focus on studying. Making money is something adults do!"
Now that it concerned her personally, Yūhi Kurenai finally asked.
"Is your family rich?" Ningyuan asked.
"Uh..." Yūhi Kurenai thought for a moment, then shook her head. "Not really."
Although Yūhi Shinku was a Jonin, and Jonin should theoretically not lack money, this was a peaceful era. There were not many high-level missions for him to carry out.
He was also a Genjutsu-type Jonin.
In peacetime, a Genjutsu-type Jonin's earning efficiency might not even match that of a Byakugan Chunin.
What Yūhi Shinku had over the Hyuga Clan was that there was no one above him to take a share of his earnings. The money he made was all his, and the Yūhi Clan only had three members, so their expenses were not high.
All in all, they were better off than some, but worse off than others.
"See? Your family isn't wealthy, so why not try to ease some of the burden at home?" Ningyuan said. "As for studying, we can only take jobs on Saturdays and Sundays. We'll attend class as usual on school days!"
"Th-this..." Yūhi Kurenai scratched her head.
"Don't you want your own money, so you can buy the things you like?" Ningyuan asked again.
Who wouldn't?
There were so many pretty clothes and delicious foods. Everything she saw lining the streets made her want it.
But Yūhi Kurenai was a sensible girl. She knew her father had it hard, so she never asked him for such things.
But if she could earn money herself...
"Once you can make money, not only can you buy what you like, you can buy things for your father too. Your father works so hard to take care of us. Don't you want to make things easier for him?"
Yūhi Kurenai blinked, imagining herself buying a gift for her father with money she had earned. She imagined how happy he would look, and clear eagerness appeared on her face.
She thought of the troubled expression her father wore every day over making a living.
That was right. If I could make money myself, I could buy whatever I wanted and buy things for Father too.
"I understand!" Yūhi Kurenai nodded firmly. "What should we do?"
Five-year-olds really were far too easy to fool. Of course, this only worked because Yūhi Kurenai was a filial daughter.
Hyuga Ningyuan smiled. "In that case, first we need to establish a group. Otherwise, we won't even know how to promote ourselves when we go out!"
Yūhi Kurenai nodded emphatically. She knew absolutely nothing about this line of work, so naturally, whatever Hyuga Ningyuan said went.
"We'll call it the Star Brilliance Art Troupe. It means starlight shining brilliantly!" Hyuga Ningyuan said. "I'll be the troupe leader, and you'll be the deputy leader!"
"Mhm!" Yūhi Kurenai nodded. Deputy leader sounded very impressive.
"Next, I'll make some flyers, and we'll hand them out at the Hokage Building!" People from all over the Land of Fire came to the Hokage Building to post missions. Handing out flyers there would spread the Star Brilliance Art Troupe's name in the shortest possible time.
"Once the flyers are out, our name will naturally spread. Then we can just wait for jobs to come in and make money!"
Yūhi Kurenai looked amazed. "Is it really that simple?"
"Of course not!" Hyuga Ningyuan shook his head. "Since we're an art troupe, we need actual skills. Let me ask you, can you sing?"
Yūhi Kurenai shook her head awkwardly. It seemed she could not.
"Can you dance?" Hyuga Ningyuan asked again.
"Um..." Yūhi Kurenai continued shaking her head. It seemed she could not do that either.
"So before taking jobs, we need to improve our professional skills!" Hyuga Ningyuan said. "School ends at four-thirty in the afternoon, and there's nothing to do when we go home anyway. Why don't we stay at school and practice dancing for three hours before leaving?"
Yūhi Kurenai nodded, but then she remembered something. "But my dad told me to come home early after school!"
"Just tell him you stayed at school to train!" Hyuga Ningyuan said. "As reserve ninjas, of course we need to seize every moment to study and make ourselves stronger. That's the only way we can better carry out missions and serve the people of the Land of Fire!"
"Lie to him?" Yūhi Kurenai frowned. For a good girl like her, lying was...
"If he agrees to let you learn dancing and agrees to let you make money, then of course you don't need to lie!" Hyuga Ningyuan said. "So, would he support it?"
"Th-this..." Yūhi Kurenai considered it. Her father was open-minded enough, but he probably would not support a perfectly good student going off to dance.
"Besides, this doesn't count as lying. You're only not letting him know for now. Once you earn money and buy him a gift, you can tell him the truth. Would he still oppose you then?" Hyuga Ningyuan said with a smile.
Yūhi Kurenai nodded. That did seem to make sense.
What she did not know was that being a star was addictive. Once she became accustomed to other people's attention and cheers, accustomed to life on the stage, would she really be able to return to her old, simple life?
That would be very difficult!
By then, it would not be Hyuga Ningyuan dragging Yūhi Kurenai into dancing. Yūhi Kurenai herself would be unwilling to leave!
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