Teacher, Are We Stocking Up?

Teacher, Are We Stocking Up?

Today was bright and sunny. Though it was only February, the sun still baked people badly enough to make them want to shed a few layers, like that person over there. "Sigh!"

Uzuki Yugao wiped the sweat from her forehead. Watching the man in green run past, she muttered to herself, "When will I be as energetic as Might Guy, full of energy every single day?"

"Mornin'~"

A weak voice suddenly sounded beside her. Following it, she saw Hyuga Hanahana walking toward her, her face deathly pale.

Her white eyes paired with her pale cheeks made her look just like a ghost.

Seeing her teammate looking half-dead, Uzuki Yugao shuddered inwardly, then raised her hand and greeted her in the same weary manner. "Morning, Hua Hua!"

"You don't look very lively either!"

Seeing that Yu Yan's face was just as pale, Hyuga Hanahana bared her teeth and said with a bitter smile, "I hope nothing unexpected happens again today."

"Yeah. I've already been lying in bed for two days. Some of the other students who graduated early have teams that already finished two missions. Some have even completed three D-Rank Missions."

"Three in two days??"

That familiar male voice instantly interrupted their conversation. They both turned to look behind them, and once they saw that it was their instructor, they silently began praying.

Please don't let anything go wrong today. We don't even ask to learn anything; just don't make us stay home in bed all the time.

Naturally, Asuka could not tell what they were thinking. But seeing the gloom that refused to leave their faces, he placed a hand on each of their shoulders and said proudly, "Yu Yan, Hua Hua, have you heard of Konoha's legend? Ten in one day?"

At those words, their pupils contracted sharply. They stared at each other in shock, both recalling the recent rumors circulating through the village.

According to the rumors, two major events that could affect the entire ninja world had recently occurred in the village. As a result, many villagers working elsewhere had returned home just to witness the Fourth Hokage's inauguration and wedding.

Then, supposedly, a middle-aged couple who had been apart for a long time took advantage of their child being asleep at night to quietly "carry out a mission." According to the village gossips, one day. Ten times??? Seeing their pale faces instantly turn bright red as they lowered their heads and stared fixedly at the ground as though it held some priceless treasure.

Uchiha Asuka lowered his head and looked at the ground. Finding no treasure there, he pulled his hands from his pockets and pressed them to the girls' foreheads, preparing to check whether they had fallen sick again.

"Ah~"

"Ah~"

Two piercing screams instantly shattered the park's tranquility. Asuka's hands froze in midair as he watched his students simultaneously retreat two steps.

He awkwardly withdrew his hands, then looked up at the sparrows flying overhead and sighed inwardly. These students are really hard to teach. What the hell did I do? You're covering your chests with both hands and even look ready to run away.

"Sorry, Sensei, I'm late!"

Iruka came running over from the distance, panting heavily, breaking the awkward atmosphere.

With both hands braced on his knees, he bent over and repeatedly apologized to Asuka between huge gasps for air.

After a while, Iruka still had not heard Asuka ask why he was late, and his heart skipped a beat.

Sensei wouldn't deliberately be planning to punish me physically, would he?

With that thought, he hurriedly raised his head toward where Asuka was standing, intending to explain why he was late on his own initiative.

"Sensei—"

Seeing Asuka squatting on the ground and drawing circles with a dead branch, Iruka blinked blankly. Then he turned to his two teammates and asked in surprise, "What's wrong with Sensei? Why does he look constipated?"

"Hmph!"

Hyuga Hanahana snorted and pulled Iruka to her side. Pointing at Asuka, who was squatting on the ground drawing circles, she said disdainfully, "Iruka, you just got here, so you don't know what happened. Just now, he actually wanted to proudly tell Yu Yan and me that kind of gossip. Is that something a teacher should talk about?"

???

Iruka looked at Asuka in confusion, then turned back to his teammate. "What kind of gossip?"

Hearing that, Hyuga Hanahana became a little flustered. She gritted her teeth and glared at Asuka, her cheeks puffing up like steamed buns in anger as she muttered, "That one! That Konoha legend about ten times in one day! Doing it ten times in a single day, how is that something worth being proud of? No, even if it is something worth being proud of, you can't say that in front of two girls!"

After saying that, she kicked a stone on the ground. Didn't they say the Uchiha Clan was cold and aloof? Where did this lecherous Uchiha come from? Ten times in one day???

Iruka pinched his chin with one hand, a thoughtful expression appearing on his face as he slowly said, "Isn't ten in one day something to be proud of?? While I was lying at home, I looked into our instructor. Apparently, Sensei has completed seventeen S-Rank missions, 169 A-Rank missions, 287 B-Rank missions, 334 C-Rank Missions, and an astonishing 3,078 D-Rank Missions. The record of ten D-Rank Missions in one day was set by Sensei when he was seven."

"H-How many?"

Upon hearing the number 3,078, Hyuga Hanahana's voice rose several pitches. She stared at Iruka in disbelief and shrieked, "Iruka, how many did you say??"

Iruka sniffed, turned to face Asuka, and said with admiration, "3,078. Konoha's D-Rank Mission Maniac. Later, the village even added a bizarre rule: aside from jonin leading teams, no other jonin could accept D-Rank mission information by any means. Every acceptance would result in a fine. Later, our instructor risked losing money by having his original body go pay the fine while a clone disguised itself to accept missions. But that did not last long. Apparently, some 'champion of justice' reported Sensei for disrupting the mission market by accepting missions even at a loss. Then the Third Hokage arranged for several Hyuga Clan members to work at the mission desk and blacklisted Sensei. That finally put a stop to it."

"So..."

Hyuga Hanahana looked at the somewhat dejected Asuka and murmured, "That's what he meant by ten times in one day?"

"What else would it be?"

Iruka gave his teammate a strange look. Sometimes, he truly could not understand what went on in their heads. Back at the Academy, the gossip he heard among the girls was always full of suggestive talk. "Sensei, we're sorry!"

Hyuga Hanahana pulled Uzuki Yugao along to stand behind Asuka. Looking at all the circles drawn on the ground, they said guiltily, "We misunderstood what you meant, Sensei."

Smack! Smack! Asuka tossed away the branch and stood up, dusting off his hands. Seeing the two girls looking apologetically at the ground, he said casually, "I'm not that petty. When you go on missions in the future, if your period causes a mission to fail, Sensei can operate on you temporarily and alter your body structure. And when you get married and decide you don't want children, you can come to Sensei for a sterilization procedure or something. Even, you—"

Before he could finish, Asuka saw the two girls trembling. He curled his lips, vigorously rubbed their hair, and smiled. "You really can't take a joke. I was just teasing you."

"Then, um... Sensei, sorry."

"I really was just teasing. Let's go!"

With that, Asuka took the three of them straight to the mission office.

When he first studied to become a Medical Ninja, aside from wanting to combine Yin-Yang Release, his other goal had been Uchiha Mikoto and Uchiha Fugaku.

Uchiha Mikoto and Uchiha Fugaku were practically a pair of demons. If he had not been unable to find a suitable opportunity to make his move, Uchiha Itachi would never have been born.

What a pity. I wonder whether Uchiha Mikoto will ask me to tie her tubes in the future. Castrating Uchiha Fugaku would work too.

After the four arrived at the mission office, the smile on Asuka's face instantly vanished. He looked at the Hyuga clansman seated in a chair and raised an eyebrow. "I'm back."

Hmm??

Hearing that somewhat familiar voice, the Hyuga clansman looked up at Asuka's face and the Uchiha crest on his clothes. After blinking, a bolt of lightning suddenly flashed through his mind.

"Uchiha Asuka?"

"Mm-hmm!"

Seeing the other man repeatedly nod, the Hyuga clansman sniffed and frowned. "You know the rules. There are only C- and D-Rank missions here. For S-, A-, and B-Rank missions, you need to go to Hokage-sama."

"Come on~"

Asuka draped an arm around his three students. Half-bending over, he rested his chin atop Uzuki Yugao's head, inhaled her unknown fragrance, and grinned. "I'm a teacher now. Hurry up and bring out the mission list so I can pick some."

???

Only then did the man realize that Uchiha Asuka had not come alone. He had brought three children with him.

This is so embarrassing!

Seeing the suspicion in her clansman's eyes, Hyuga Hanahana nodded, an awkward smile appearing on her face.

Her teacher did not seem to be very well-liked.

"Hand it over!"

"Huh?"

Snatching the mission list from the Hyuga clansman, Asuka picked his nose as he looked over the missions listed on it.

Investigate the whereabouts of a pet, character investigation, pick up trash, find pets, help dig sweet potatoes, babysitting... Same old stuff.

After looking for a while, he pointed to several missions and said casually, "Give me five missions to investigate missing pet cats, five missions to find pets. No dog-finding missions; I've hated dogs for the past two years. Also, give me three trash-picking missions. Forget babysitting—I hate kids who crap everywhere. And give me this character investigation too—"

"Sensei!"

Just as Asuka was about to keep choosing missions, he felt someone poking his thigh. Looking down, he saw Uzuki Yugao staring up at him anxiously.

"If you have something to say, say it. Don't look like you want to say something but can't."

"Sensei, that's enough, enough, enough. Stop accepting them. There are too many. We're not here to stock up; there's no need to take so many at once."

Asuka blinked and looked at the Hyuga clansman at the mission office. "Is it too many?"

"Heh!"

Looking at Asuka's innocent expression, the Hyuga clansman sneered. He bent down, picked up the mission scrolls from the ground, and heavily placed them on the desk. Gritting his teeth, he said, "Uchiha Asuka, every time you come here to accept missions, I get the feeling I'm running a shop."

"Thanks!"

After placing all the mission scrolls into the arms of the three little ones, Asuka smiled and waved to the man and the surrounding ninjas before leaving directly.

"Gulp!"

A ninja nearby watched the four people leave while carrying a pile of mission scrolls. He unconsciously swallowed and asked in confusion, "Why can they accept more than ten missions at once??"

"That guy is Uchiha Asuka."

"What about him?"

"Back then, the mission office only had three rules. But ever since that guy became a ninja, the rules here have grown to eleven. Eight of them exist because of him."