Are Tailed Beasts Not Supposed to Be Pets Everyone Has?

Because of the gate-blocking incident, Chiyue and Minato had become the class bullies in everyone's eyes, making the other students too scared to approach them.

Even some girls who thought Chiyue was handsome and wanted to get close to her kept their distance out of fear.

"Master..."

A soft, sweet voice sounded by his ear. He also felt something lying on his chest and licking his face.

Still groggy, Chiyue looked up and saw the little fox with nine tails sprawled across his chest. He gave it a push and muttered:

"Little White, stop messing around."

Rolling over, Chiyue went back to sleep.

Little White quietly lay atop the blanket.

A few seconds later, Chiyue's eyes flew open, and he sat bolt upright.

He stared at Little White on the blanket, his face filled with delight.

"Little White, you can come out now?"

In the game, a player's exclusive Tailed Beast could leave their body to assist in battle once it reached level thirty. It could also be kept as a pet.

Because it was an exclusive Tailed Beast, the player would not die when it left their body, unlike a Jinchuriki.

Chiyue had not expected Little White to reach level thirty in the game so quickly, gaining the ability to leave his body.

"Master."

Little White called out, burrowing under the covers and curling up like a little ball in his arms.

Weren't Tailed Beasts the kind of thing everyone had one of?

What kind of Jinchuriki was one whose Tailed Beast could not leave their body to fight?

Remembering the joke players had made while gaming in his previous life, Chiyue could not help laughing.

Little White being able to fight outside his body was equivalent to Chiyue gaining another trump card.

Whenever it was inconvenient to use Tailed Beast Chakra, he could use Little White as a Summoned Beast instead.

Holding Little White, Chiyue rolled over and went back to sleep.

Little White had reached the level where it could fight outside his body. So when would his first fixed skill unlock?

Chiyue discovered that all the various skills he had equipped before transmigrating were gone.

Now, he could only look forward to the players' exclusive skills.

Although there were only four exclusive skills, as long as he could use even one of them, Chiyue's strength would improve dramatically.

The new fifth-year students had graduated, and Nawaki was among them. These students would leave the Shinobi school, enter the shinobi world, and become true shinobi.

Yet how many of these newly minted shinobi would survive, and whether they could grow successfully, remained unknown.

Quite a few students had also repeated a year, just like Uchiha Mikoto.

The difference was that they had not voluntarily applied to repeat the year. They had been forced to do so.

Some had failed their exams, while others had been sent back by their supervising shinobi.

The latter made up the greater proportion—those thrown back by their supervising shinobi for more training.

Not long after returning to the fourth year, Mikoto became a fifth-year student once again. Chiyue, Minato, and Kushina, who had only recently skipped up a grade, were also successfully promoted and became members of the fifth-year class.

When the Shinobi school was first established, students had to spend a full six years there before graduating.

Early graduation was not restricted.

After the Third Hokage took office and the First Shinobi War broke out, Konoha's number of shinobi plummeted. As a result, the six-year graduation requirement was changed to five years.

The age of enrollment was also lowered from six to five.

This meant that those who originally enrolled at six would not graduate and become genin until they were twelve. But due to the Third Hokage's changes, they enrolled at five and graduated at ten.

The age of newly graduated shinobi had been forcibly shortened by two years.

It was just like capitalists harvesting their crops.

Unwilling to wait for the crops to grow naturally, they pulled them taller by hand. As for whether they grew crooked or withered, the capitalists did not care.

"Yagami Chiyue, Minato Namikaze, you two, come to the office."

After class, the teacher gestured for Chiyue and Minato to follow him to the office.

Minato turned back in confusion. "Did you block the gate again?"

"Get lost!"

Chiyue rolled his eyes. "I was wondering whether you got caught peeking at little girls bathing."

"How could that be?! I'm not that kind of person!"

Minato's face flushed red as he stood up and loudly protested.

What are you talking about?

Mikoto gave Chiyue a jab with her hand, telling him not to spout nonsense.

You're not that kind of person, but your future teacher is.

Wait!

Minato skipped two grades with me. Will Jiraiya still become his supervising teacher?

The two arrived at the office. The teacher set down his teacup and said to them:

"I called you here because Lord Hokage thinks highly of you. He believes you are talented youngsters worthy of the village's focused cultivation."

"After observing you for some time, he has decided to give you some rewards."

"Really?"

Lord Hokage has been watching me?

Minato became excited the moment he heard that.

Chiyue discreetly curled his lip. He did not believe a word the teacher said.

The Third Hokage might have been watching them, but there was no way he would give them rewards for no reason.

Could it be Tsunade?

Other than Tsunade, Chiyue could not think of anyone with that much influence.

"These are ninjutsu scrolls Lord Hokage has awarded you. Study them together, then return the scroll when you are done. Understood?"

The teacher took out the ninjutsu scroll. These things were difficult to make, and every ninjutsu scroll was expensive.

The scrolls were costly, and the ninjutsu themselves were even more costly. Even if one had money, one could only buy ordinary ninjutsu. Anything B-rank or above was nearly impossible to obtain.

Even the daimyo, who controlled the wealth of the Land of Fire, could not collect many ninjutsu scrolls.

"Shadow Clone Technique!"

The moment he opened the scroll, Minato became excited.

If Chiyue had merely suspected it before, now he was certain. Tsunade had done this.

He could even be sure that this was the very ninjutsu scroll Tsunade had wanted to give him before.

It had merely changed from a gift in Kushina's name to a reward from the Third Hokage.

Chiyue would not have accepted the former, but the latter... there was no reason to turn down a free gift.

Because once a ninjutsu scroll was issued, even if one did not learn it, the village would record the reward and demand repayment after they became a shinobi.

"That's great! We can learn the Shadow Clone Technique."

Holding the ninjutsu scroll, the smile on Minato's face grew ever brighter and more radiant. It really was a shame not to call him Little Sun.

"Sunshine."

"Damn it!"

"I told you not to call me that! I hate the sun!"

The moment Minato heard the word "sun," he exploded. Whoever called him that name was picking a fight with him.

Chiyue draped an arm around Minato's shoulders and pulled him into the small woods beside the school field. Taking the ninjutsu scroll, he asked teasingly:

"Do you really think Lord Hokage rewarded us with this scroll?"

"Isn't that the case?"

Minato blinked. The teacher had said so. They were geniuses, geniuses the village intended to cultivate, so they had been specially rewarded.

No wonder you were completely manipulated by the Third Hokage in the future and spent over a year as a puppet Hokage.

Chiyue sighed and said seriously:

"Minato, are you willing to trust me?"

Something seemed wrong. Minato rarely saw Chiyue this serious.

He nodded. "Of course I trust you."

"Since you're willing to trust me, don't say anything about thanking Lord Hokage again.

"If you want to thank someone, thank Lady Tsunade instead. She was the one who delivered this scroll to Lord Hokage."