Konoha, Ichiraku Ramen.
"Hayama-sensei, I heard you and my dad were classmates!"
Slurp. Tenyu sucked noodles into his mouth as he spoke to the middle-aged man beside him.
Hayama Shirakumo smiled. "That's right. You've all grown so much now!"
He looked at Tenyu, Maki, and Zhanbu Du beside them.
This was the first day after they had graduated and become Genin.
"Hehe, Hayama-sensei, then how do you think we compare to my dad?
Will we become stronger than him?"
Tenyu asked eagerly through a face full of noodles.
As he grew older, the twelve-year-old had come to dream of surpassing his father.
He wanted to hear from his teacher just how strong his father had been back then.
Maki said, "Didn't we investigate that already? Dad wasn't strong at all back then. I heard his grades were only above average. Compared to us, there's definitely a gap."
By now, she had developed quite a bit and already looked like a young girl, her long black ponytail tied high behind her.
Her eyes shone with the desire to surpass her father.
"That's right, your dad's grades were indeed only above average back then.
But after he graduated and went to war, he gradually began to grow stronger.
In the end, he became the head of the Analysis Division, Acting Hokage, and more, surpassing both Kakashi and me!"
Hayama Shirakumo felt time flowing like a tide. In the blink of an eye, so much time had already passed.
Those who had once played at the Ninja Academy had now become ninjas capable of standing on their own in Konoha.
And their children had grown this big as well.
"Haha, if we were already this amazing at the academy,
we'll definitely be stronger than Dad in the future." Beneath Tenyu's white hair, his