Morning
Mmm.
After a long while, their lips parted. Kaede's cheeks were slightly flushed, and her neck carried a faint pink hue—whether from embarrassment or lack of oxygen after kissing for so long, no one knew.
A good morning kiss!
Kaede and Rin naturally agreed readily to Uchiha Nan's tiny request.
Next was Rin. Looking at her rosy lips, Uchiha Nan lowered his head.
Their lips parted.
"Come back early!"
"Mm!"
Uchiha Nan nodded, left the house, and arrived at the Hokage Building to begin another day of work.
Office
"Now that the funding has arrived, the Ninja Academy needs to continue enrolling students. How are this year's admission plans coming along?"
Uchiha Nan looked at Nara Luyuan before him and asked about this year's Ninja Academy enrollment.
The successive wars had nearly wiped out an entire generation of ninja clans. It was not a long-term solution to keep relying on the ninja clans to fill the ranks.
The Ninja Academy had originally been established to train civilian ninja on a large scale.
In the Konoha of the future, civilian ninja would become the mainstream. While their average quality might not match that of ninja clan members, their numbers were their strength!
With such a large base, exceptional ninja would always emerge. Orochimaru and Jiraiya, for instance, had both come from civilian backgrounds.
They had yet to make names for themselves in the Ninja world, but their potential was limitless. They had practically suppressed the ninja clan members of their generation.
By the Third Ninja World War, even a monster like Minato Namikaze would appear.
They had to invest heavily in civilian ninja.
Moreover, the principal of the Ninja Academy had always been Konoha's Hokage. Every student who graduated from the academy could call themselves the Hokage's student, though few