Starting School

"Bai Yue! You seem to be in a pretty good mood lately!" Kurenai Yuhi said, sitting on a cherry tree branch and swinging her legs.

No one knew when it had started, but whenever Might Guy came over for his sparring-partner mission, Kurenai Yuhi and Anko Mitarashi would tag along uninvited.

"Not bad. My research has made a breakthrough, so naturally I'm in a good mood." Bai Yue casually picked up a pastry and slowly stuffed it into his mouth. Looking up at Kurenai Yuhi, he said, "What about you two? Don't you have missions to do?"

"Sigh!" Kurenai Yuhi sighed at that, her face full of worry. "It's been really hard to get missions lately!"

"No way." Bai Yue was a little surprised. Right after the war ended, perhaps there had not been many people issuing missions.

But it should not be this bad by now, right?!

Besides, Konoha had been the victor of the Ninja World War and had thoroughly displayed its strength. How could it be unable to get missions?!

"How could it not be?!" Kurenai Yuhi said helplessly. "The missions in the village are severely polarized right now. They're either D-rank or A-rank. There are barely any B-rank or C-rank missions!"

"Why is that happening?!"

"Because too many Rogue Ninjas appeared during the war!" Anko said irritably from beside him. "An ordinary C-rank escort mission can easily turn into a B-rank mission, or even an A-rank mission, as long as it passes through an area where a Rogue Ninja is active!"

"..." That reason was a little too real.

No wonder these two rookies, who were neither here nor there, kept coming over to his place.

"Haven't the Anbu of the various villages gone after those Rogue Ninjas?" Bai Yue muttered. "Or are there simply too many to catch in a short time?"

"They're not easy to catch anyway." Kurenai Yuhi clenched her fist. "Seriously! Can't those Rogue Ninjas just hide somewhere? Why do they have to come out and cause trouble?! At this rate, I'll be eating dirt soon!"

"Exactly!" Anko echoed from the side.

Bai Yue shot her a glance.

Stupid Anko, weren't you still under observation?! And you wanted to leave the village for missions?!

Just wait until you're eating dirt!

"So you two come running here whenever you have nothing better to do?!"

"What else are we supposed to do?" Anko said bluntly. "Here, we can train, and there's delicious food and pastries too!"

Then, glancing at Might Guy, who was diligently doing push-ups, Anko said slyly, "Hey, Bai Yue, how about replacing Guy with me for this sparring-partner mission?"

"You?!" Bai Yue looked at the expectant Anko with disdain, then scoffed. "You think you're worthy?!"

"Bastard!" Anko immediately flew into a rage!

Unfortunately, under the threat of several Chains, all she could do was rage for a moment!

"If you've got guts, don't use Adamantine Sealing Chains!" Anko planted her hands on her hips and glared at him.

"Heh."

"Ahhh! I'm so pissed!"

"Bai Yue, you've rested long enough, right?!" Supporting himself with one hand, Might Guy sprang to his feet.

"Come on!"

"Ah-da-da-da..."

"..."

"Two Brutes." Anko curled her lip unhappily.

Time flowed like water~

In the blink of an eye!

School started!!!

"Bai Yue~ Time to go!"

"I'm coming!" Bai Yue reluctantly walked over to Old Master.

Seriously! Why did he have to go to the Ninja Academy? What a pain!

"After all, it's the first day, and it's also the first Ninja Academy opening since the Fourth Hokage took office. You have to show up at least once," Old Master said calmly.

"I know." Bai Yue shook his head helplessly. Only because he was the Fourth Hokage's disciple did he have to give him this courtesy. Otherwise, not only would Bai Yue refuse to attend the Ninja Academy, even Old Master would never have agreed to let him come.

The reason was simple. The more often he showed his face, the more information would be exposed. The more low-profile the Hyuga Main Family remained, the better.

If possible, the Hyuga Main Family would be best off staying in the Hyuga Clan Compound for the rest of their lives and never going anywhere.

Along the way, Bai Yue saw many children happily heading toward the Ninja Academy under their parents' guidance.

Fuck! Were they all sick or something?!

Why were they so eager to become cannon fodder?!

Unbelievable!

All he could say was that Konoha's brainwashing was powerful. It truly deserved to be the place that had raised the number one human trafficker in the Ninja World!

"?!"

"Hi there, little kid with a backpack!" Anko Mitarashi greeted Bai Yue with a beaming smile.

"I'll endure."

"You look so cute, little big brother with a backpack!" Anko Mitarashi continued.

Kurenai Yuhi covered her mouth and chuckled beside her.

Would they ever stop?!

You two were fucking sick too! As Ninjas, why weren't you out doing missions? What were you doing here?

Just to see what I looked like going to school?!

"You two seem to have quite a lot in savings?!" Bai Yue was reaching his limit!

They reminded him of the upperclassmen and upperclasswomen from his previous life who had come over during military training to eat watermelon and cheer them on!

They were both fucking troublemakers!

Living beasts!

Old Master's expression stiffened. If possible, he hoped the woman his own great-grandson married would be a female Ninja from the clan.

That was the only way to ensure the purity of the Byakugan!

Rather than casually finding one... or two female Ninjas outside! That would affect the inheritance of the Byakugan!

My good grandson does seem to have a favorable impression of these two women, but the purity of the Byakugan cannot be sullied! Old Master frowned inwardly. Still, considering his great-grandson's feelings, perhaps these two Commoner ninjas can be considered as concubines!

Bai Yue had no idea that Old Master was already secretly preparing to find him several more wives.

At that moment, he stared expressionlessly at the two people who wanted to watch him make a fool of himself.

"Don't worry~ We can still support ourselves, and besides~ don't we have you?" Anko said smugly.

Fine, fine, fine~ You really were clinging to me now, huh?!

"Bai Yue, you have to perform well at the Ninja Academy!" Kurenai Yuhi raised one fist in encouragement. "You'll definitely take first place!"

"Sorry~ I have absolutely no interest in Playing house with children." Bai Yue waved his hand.

He was already planning to have a Shadow Clone attend school in his place year-round. He had no interest in something as troublesome as taking first place.

"Red!" Just then, a voice rang out.

Everyone immediately turned toward the newcomer.

"Why is Asuma here?" Anko was a little curious, but compared to Asuma, she was clearly more interested in teasing Bai Yue. "Hey, Bai Yue~ Maybe you won't even get first place!"

"Don't be stupid!" Bai Yue said disdainfully. "Don't use such low-level provocation tactics again in the future."

"How is that provocation? Maybe there's a genius like Kakashi in your class?"

There was absolutely no way!

Forget these children—if you dragged Kakashi over to attend school right now, I wouldn't dare say I could crush him, but holding my own on Equal footing would be no problem at all!

"Red!" Asuma came running over, panting as he stared intensely at Kurenai Yuhi.

"What is it?!" Kurenai Yuhi was baffled. She only felt that Asuma seemed a little...

"I'm leaving Konoha soon!"

"Oh~ And?" Kurenai Yuhi looked confused.

"Nothing... nothing else!"

"No, are you sick?!" Anko put her hands on her hips. "If you're leaving Konoha, then leave! Did you have to make it look like you had something important to say?!"

Pfft...

Bai Yue nearly burst out laughing!

He really had not expected to witness such an amusing scene today!