Rushing Towards It!

"Bin, is this the secret to your strength?"

"Yeah." Hyuga Bin nodded matter-of-factly. "Eating is the most important part of getting stronger. After all, how can I train if I'm not full?"

Hatake Kakashi: "..."

He wanted to retort, but he felt like what Hyuga Bin said... actually made a lot of sense.

"Oh right, Kakashi, you know about the class reunion this Saturday, right?" Hyuga Bin didn't wait for Hatake Kakashi to say anything, changing the subject to what Kurenai Yuhi had told him not long ago.

"Mm, I know. Asuma told me a couple of days ago." Hatake Kakashi nodded.

In this life, Hatake Kakashi's father, Hatake Sakumo, didn't commit suicide. So, while he was a bit cold, he wasn't a mission-only machine. He was the type to greet his classmates.

"You and Asuma seem to get along well." Hyuga Bin was quite supportive of Hatake Kakashi making friends.

"I just happened to run into Asuma." Hatake Kakashi explained.

Of course, he wasn't making excuses out of fear that Hyuga Bin would misunderstand his closeness with Sarutobi Asuma.

He was simply stating facts.

"So, are you going?"

"Mm, I promised Asuma." Hatake Kakashi nodded.

"Since you're going to the reunion, what performance are you preparing?" Hyuga Bin asked with a smile.

"Reunions have performances?" Hatake Kakashi's eyes widened. He'd been tricked by Hyuga Bin's leading question.

Having never attended a class reunion before, he truly didn't know there was a performance segment.

If he had known, he would never have agreed to go with Asuma.

"Of course, recitation, singing, fencing, even suggestive poetry are all options," Hyuga Bin explained to Hatake Kakashi with an air of professionalism.

"I won't do any of those." Hatake Kakashi quickly shook his head.

His only skill was combat.

Recitation, singing, fencing, suggestive poetry (haiku) – none of them were within his capabilities.

"But you have to choose something. You can't just sit there the whole time," Hyuga Bin said, patting Hatake Kakashi's shoulder earnestly. "Kakashi, your life is too boring. That's also why you're not strong enough. Just training relentlessly can be counterproductive. A balance of work and rest is the way to improve your strength."

"Bin, I remember you used to train harder than me every day. You'd wake up two hours early to run, practice Taijutsu, and train for another two hours after dinner." Hatake Kakashi didn't agree with Hyuga Bin's point and even used Bin himself as an example.

Hyuga Bin: "..."

He couldn't argue with Hatake Kakashi on this point.

He couldn't exactly say, "I'm so overpowered now, I only need to do multiple-choice questions every day and don't need to work this hard anymore," could he?

"Bin, you don't need to comfort me like this. I'll train even harder, until the day I surpass you." Hatake Kakashi turned his head, meeting Hyuga Bin's gaze directly while Bin had his arm around his shoulder. His eyes were firm.

This was his conviction and his Nindo.

He refused to believe that with the same two eyes and one body, he was truly inferior to Hyuga Bin!

"Alright, Kakashi, I support you training harder. But since you promised to attend the reunion on Saturday, you have to prepare a performance."

Hyuga Bin gave Hatake Kakashi an idea: "How about you recite a suggestive poem?"

Before his transmigration, Hyuga Bin had read a novel called Rampage Through Konoha. In it, the male protagonist had successfully wooed the female lead with a few love poems.

He believed that with Hatake Kakashi's looks, a love poem would surely make the girls in the class swoon, clapping and shouting, "Good poem, good poem!"

"No." Hatake Kakashi immediately refused. Reciting poetry was completely outside his knowledge base.

"Compared to singing or fencing, reciting poetry is the quickest performance." Hyuga Bin showed Hatake Kakashi a "I'll help you all the way" attitude. "How about this, I'll pick one for you, and you just need to go on stage."

"I need to think about it." Even with Hyuga Bin's active "help," Hatake Kakashi still found it difficult to accept.

Reciting poetry in front of so many classmates would be too embarrassing.

"No need to think about it. It's Saturday the day after tomorrow, there's no time to think. I'll write it for you now, and you can memorize it tonight."

Hyuga Bin didn't give Hatake Kakashi time to hesitate. He took out paper and a pen from his ninja tool bag and began writing down some excellent haiku from memory.

The next afternoon.

Hatake Kakashi headed towards the training grounds where Hyuga Bin often trained.

"A pheasant crows loudly, swallowing the entire spring field."

"The torrential rain of May covers everything, except the long Seta Bridge."

"Stealing someone's wife, thrilling and delicious, like eating fugu."

On the way, Hatake Kakashi quietly recited the haiku Hyuga Bin had written for him the previous day under his mask.

Upon entering the training grounds, Hatake Kakashi paused his recitation because someone was already there.

"Kurenai." Hatake Kakashi approached Kurenai Yuhi and greeted her.

"Kakashi, why are you here?" Kurenai Yuhi looked somewhat surprised, as if Hatake Kakashi's appearance was unexpected.

"I'm here to train." Hatake Kakashi felt Kurenai Yuhi was acting a bit strange, as if he shouldn't be training there.

"Oh, Bin isn't with you?" Kurenai Yuhi asked Hatake Kakashi directly.

"No," Hatake Kakashi shook his head. "I asked him yesterday, and he said he wanted to relax recently and wasn't planning to train. This was a place he used to train, so I decided I'll train here from now on until I surpass him."

Mentioning Hyuga Bin made Hatake Kakashi full of drive.

"Kakashi, you're saying you're not Bin's match?" Kurenai Yuhi was somewhat shocked by Hatake Kakashi's words.

In her eyes, Hatake Kakashi was the most outstanding genius of their peer group.

A Genin at five, a Chunin at six, and a Jonin at twelve, he had set the fastest promotion record in Konohagakure's history.

Although Hyuga Bin was promoted to Jonin at the same time as Hatake Kakashi, Hyuga Bin was a "Medical Special Jonin," not a formal Jonin, so his combat strength should be far inferior to Hatake Kakashi's.

"I've challenged him ten times over the past few years, and I haven't defeated him once." Bringing this up, Hatake Kakashi couldn't help but clench his small twelve-year-old fists.

He was unwilling, but he was convinced by Hyuga Bin.

"Huh?"

Hearing Hatake Kakashi's words, Kurenai Yuhi sighed:

"So, Bin is much more formidable than I imagined..."

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