"Nine."
"Twelve."
"Thirty-four and a half."
Hearing Minato Namikaze's question, Nara Shikaku, Yamanaka Inoichi, and Akimichi Choza answered without the slightest hesitation.
For Nara Shikaku, he clearly remembered how many times he had gone on missions with the Fourth Hokage. Although they had rarely had the chance to work together, fewer than even two digits, that was precisely why the memories were so clear.
He knew very well just how astonishing the Fourth Hokage had been back then.
From graduating from the Ninja Academy to the Third Great Ninja War, he had gone on nine missions with the Hokage.
Yamanaka Inoichi remembered just as clearly. As a sensory ninja, he had often been assigned to different teams. Right after graduating from the Ninja Academy, he had been fortunate enough to go on a mission with the Hokage before him. Their first collaboration had been against a team led by a Kumogakure Jonin. Besides the two of them, the late Morino Ibuse had been there as well, along with their leading teacher, Lord Jiraiya.
At the time, the Hokage's performance had left a deep impression on him. He had not seemed like a Genin who had just graduated from the academy at all. Instead, he had worked with Lord Jiraiya in seamless coordination.
And it had not been just that one time. In each of the remaining eleven missions they had worked together, the Hokage had practically redefined Inoichi's understanding of what a genius was. That was why he remembered all twelve missions so clearly.
As for Akimichi Choza, he had teamed up with the Hokage many times. When the Third Great Ninja War had broken out, he had even been carrying out a mission with the Hokage, though that mission had been interrupted by the outbreak of the war.
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