Every newly graduated genin was eager to take missions outside the village and see the scenery beyond it.
To carry out missions outside the village, they had to be at least C-rank. Besides gaining the approval of their team leader and the Hokage, they also needed to have completed a sufficient number of basic D-rank missions.
All the genin who had graduated from the Ninja Academy that year had gone outside the village to carry out C-rank missions.
Team 3's departure for C-rank or higher missions had been delayed by a month. Among that year's Ninja Academy graduates, Team 3 was practically the last to leave the village for an outside mission.
The reason was that Team 3 was working off their debt through missions, laying the foundation for Training Ground Seven and laboring hard at the construction site.
Might Guy and Rock Lee were outstanding construction workers. Their overflowing enthusiasm infected the workers building Training Ground Seven, and they spent every day shouting about youth as they threw themselves into construction with all their youthful vigor.
Tenten was rather helpless. It was not as though Neji and she could not afford the compensation, but the Hokage had said that, as punishment for destroying Training Ground Seven without authorization, disturbing nearby residents, and depriving the ninja of a training ground, they were not allowed to simply pay and leave. They had to work at the construction site for a while.
After six years of Neji Hyuga's guidance, Tenten vaguely understood that the Hokage was stalling them and preventing Neji Hyuga and her from leaving Konoha. However, Neji Hyuga said it was nothing, so Tenten did not pursue the matter. She put in some effort and worked construction alongside Neji Hyuga, Might Guy, and Rock Lee.
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