"Today's mission wasn't bad. Let's do our best, everyone!!!"
The place where they had to pick up trash was the Back Mountain. Quite a few people usually came here to train and rest, so they left behind plenty of garbage. Still, picking up trash here was much easier. The worst would be doing it in a stinking ditch—that was even more horrifying than cleaning toilets or picking up cow dung.
For a mission like picking up trash on the Back Mountain, Tsunade and Jiraiya had no room to complain. They put on their baskets and got to work. Overall, it was a fairly easy mission.
Before long, the mission was complete. Hikaru went to turn it in, while everyone else left directly.
They went home to bathe, then ate. Afterward, they went to the Hokage Office Building to submit the mission and collect the reward before heading to the Training Ground.
"Huh!!!"
What surprised Hikaru was that Tsunade and Jiraiya had already arrived at the Training Ground ahead of him and were training hard. He was quite astonished that the two of them were being so diligent today.
"I didn't expect you two to get here so quickly. I thought you'd gone home to rest." Hikaru smiled as he divided Tsunade and Jiraiya's money between them. Normally, they would have needed to collect it themselves from the Hokage's Office, but the Third Hokage had given it directly to Hikaru and told him to pass it on to the others.
Though it was not much, it was the first money they had ever earned. It also helped solve Hikaru's looming hunger crisis.
It might sound hard to believe, but countless people in the Naruto World starved to death every day. This was especially true in certain chaotic small countries, where harsh