"High-purity natural horse manure?"
The old Third Hokage pinched the crumpled leave request between his fingers.
He stared at the reason for leave scrawled crookedly across it in charcoal.
The corners of his mouth twitched uncontrollably.
"Sen, you little bastard, do you really take me for a three-year-old?"
The old Third Hokage casually crumpled the appointment letter, its two halves already pieced back together, and tossed it into the wastebasket at his feet.
But then he glanced out the window at the frenzied female genin still shouting, "Lord Sen!"
In the end, the old man let out a deep sigh.
He picked up the large mahogany stamp.
Smack!
He slammed it down onto the leave request.
"Get lost. The farther, the better."
The old Third Hokage leaned back in his chair, feeling his temples start throbbing again.
"Just don't tear down my newly built house while you're in the village."
Once Sen got his leave request back, he didn't linger for even a second.
He returned to the villa.
He lifted a slightly damp wooden floorboard in the bedroom.
Beneath it lay a patch of pitch-black earth.
He had no intention of using the front door. The screams of the girls outside could burst his eardrums.
Sen clapped his hands together.
"Wood Release: Earth-Traveling Technique!"
Crack, crack, crack.
The hard ground silently split open, revealing a black hole over a meter wide.
Carrying an old bag stuffed with vault keys and changes of clothes, Sen jumped straight into the fissure.
He was like a groundhog.
He traveled five kilometers through the earth without stopping.
He completely evaded the eyes of both the ANBU and the girls.
Finally, he broke through the ground in a reed marsh outside the village that reeked of rotting mud.
"Phew-"
Sen wiped the black mud