The New Hokage Who Would Soon Take Office

"Teacher Katsuki, the Principal wants to see you." The young female teacher, blushing, relayed the Principal's order.

"Okay, I'll go right away, thank you."

Katsuki closed the magazine in her hand, stood up, and headed towards the Principal's office.

Two days had passed since the attack, and it turned out that the Konoha bricklayers were working much faster than Katsuki had predicted. The damaged school buildings were completely restored, and classes resumed normally after a two-day suspension.

"Knock knock!"

Come in.

An old, hoarse voice drifted out. Katsuki gently pushed open the door and saw the Principal sitting behind a large desk, puffing on a pipe.

As an elderly man who is even older than the Third Hokage, the Principal is a very old-fashioned person. Compared to the increasingly popular cigarettes, the old man still prefers the pipe that has been with him for more than ten years.

"Oh, you've come! Come in."

"Principal, is there something you need from me?"

Katsuki didn't care about the smoke and haze that looked like a fire. With his physical condition, even if he inhaled carbon dioxide all the time, it wouldn't kill him for a while. He wasn't afraid of secondhand smoke at all.

"Of course there's something wrong, why would I call you here if there wasn't? Compared to you, those curvy female teachers are much more pleasing to the eye..." The old man went on and on about which female teacher had a better figure, which one had a gentler personality...

You wouldn't guess this old man is so old; he's as energetic as a young man in his twenties.

The Senju Clan's bloodline is truly powerful.

Katsuki sighed inwardly.

"By the way, let's get down to business. Today, the Lord Hokage convened a meeting with the village leaders. The Third Hokage is planning to retire and will hold a ceremony at the beginning of next month to have Orochimaru succeed Hokage Position. However, as is customary, there will be a vote in the village..."

"Just tell me what you want from me?" Katsuki rubbed his temples, his head aching. This old guy really talks too much nonsense.

"... Ah, young man! You have no patience at all. I'm counting on you to take over my job... Let me put it this way, you go and organize the villagers to vote. This old body of mine just can't handle the work anymore."

"Huh? Seriously? Why do I have to do this?"

Katsuki asked, puzzled.

"Didn't I already say? My old bones can't take any more strain."

"No, I mean, why was this task assigned to our school? Shouldn't it have been organized by other more relevant departments?"

"Nonsense, of course it's because this is our responsibility." The old man glared. "Every Hokage election is organized by the Ninja Academy, who organize the villagers to vote. Do you expect the Anbu to show their faces and do this?"

Katsuki's cheek twitched; the phrase "showing one's face in public" was truly unpleasant to use.

"Wait a minute! When the First Hokage and Second Hokage were elected, there didn't seem to be any Ninja Academy yet, right?"

"If there were no Ninja Academies, wouldn't there be other educational organizations? Back then, there weren't many civilian ninjas, but there were still quite a few. They just weren't as formal as they are now. Besides, even the Anbu was created by the Second. Why are you taking it so seriously?"

"······I see."

Katsuki sighed helplessly; she really couldn't get along with this old man.

However, the news that Orochimaru was really going to become Hokage still surprised him. He had lived for seventeen or eighteen years and had changed quite a few people and things in his life.

But Orochimaru became the Fourth Hokage...

This news is still explosive.

"Organizing a vote... how do I do that!" Katsuki quickly shifted her attention, starting to worry about how to complete this task.

"There's one more thing. Final exams are coming up soon, so you need to take the lead in cracking down on bad habits. These days, hardly any of the kids like to read, and their academic grades are all terrible. This can't go on. If they don't pass their academic exams, they can forget about graduating."

"We'll talk about graduation once I pass my academic exams."

The old man said angrily.

It makes sense, though. These kids nowadays are even more extreme than they were back then. Led by Kakashi and his group, they're obsessed with training in Ninjutsu and Taijutsu, while they always just go through the motions when it comes to academic subjects. As a result, in a surprise test last week, 80% of the more than 200 students from the eight upper-grade classes were wiped out.

This ratio is indeed a bit of a headache; it's necessary to teach these kids a lesson.

"I assigned a lot of homework to the boys in my class when classes were suspended. Today is the third day, and I wonder if anyone has finished their homework."

"Hooh!"

The Principal uttered mumbled words, which roughly indicated that he understood.

"Well then, I'll take my leave."

Katsuki nodded slightly in acknowledgment, then turned and walked towards the door.

"I've got it. Give me your vote on the draft the day after tomorrow."

As Katsuki pushed open the door to leave, the old man shouted another command.

After leaving the Principal's office, Katsuki slowly walked towards her office.

"Teacher Katsuki"

A girl with long, straight black hair stood in front of them.

"It's Kuyue! Is there a problem?"

Yuki Kuyue is the youngest genius of the Yuki Clan. She is one of the three sisters, Minazuki Yuki Hatsuzuki and Yuki Yoizuki, born of the same mother. However, they are all about five or six years apart in age. Kuyue, as the youngest, is only ten years old this year.

Strangely enough, most of the skilled members of the Yuki family are women, and the clan members who have awakened the Ice Release Kekkei Genkai are also mostly women, which is very different from other Kekkei Genkai clan.

In the Kaguya family, most of those who can awaken the Shikotsumyaku are male. There are very few female members who can awaken the Kekkei Genkai like Kaguya Hibiki. The Kaguya family is actually somewhat extreme. In more normal Kekkei Genkai clan, there are usually more male awakeners, but there is not much difference.

Overall, a delicate balance is maintained.

Kuyue has a high level of talent. Two years ago, she awakened the Ice Release Kekkei Genkai, an achievement that surpasses that of her two older sisters.

"Teacher Katsuki, I've finished the homework you assigned last time."

Kuyue handed over a thick stack of homework.

"So fast?"

Katsuki accepted it with some surprise.

As the one who set the questions, he was well aware of how difficult the assignments he gave were, and even made sure that each person's questions were different in order to prevent plagiarism.

He created over a hundred Shadow Clones, divided the question ranges, and quickly produced thirty completely different sets of homework, which were not only difficult but also had a huge number of questions.

His ingrained negative memories from his previous life made him enthusiastic about promoting this "sea of questions" approach to train these kids, especially since their academic performance was terrible—it was a targeted training method.

"Let me see... Hmm... Very good, very good."

Flipping through the homework in her hands, glancing at the neat and tidy handwriting, Katsuki read it through and couldn't find any major problems, though there were quite a few minor ones. But to nitpick over a ten-year-old girl...

He can't do that yet.