The next day.
Sitting at the dining table eating breakfast, Liu Yun sighed in contentment.
Whenever he had no missions, he unfailingly trained with Might Duy every morning, then returned for Tsunade's tutoring sessions.
During the day, he studied various ninjutsu and broke down their principles, hoping to get his hands on the remaining Training Notes as soon as possible.
At night, he studied sealing jutsu with Kushina.
Now he had added practicing the Spirit Transformation Technique, trying to develop the Rasengan and Chidori, and reverse-engineering the Heaven-Splitting Lightning Serpent.
"My days are really packed."
He was a little busy, but he loved the feeling of growing stronger every day.
He was really laying a solid foundation.
"By the way, isn't Minato planning to graduate early?" he asked Ayaka Uzumaki casually.
Although he had already announced that he was going solo, he still cared a little about his former teammates.
Nawaki was another story.
He was bound to wait until the normal graduation date anyway.
"Huh?" Ayaka Uzumaki froze for a moment, then blushed as she registered his question. "About Minato..."
Seeing Ayaka Uzumaki's embarrassed expression, Kushina grinned and waggled her eyebrows.
"Minato said... Lord Jiraiya assigned him a mission. He can only graduate early after completing it."
With that, Ayaka Uzumaki hastily shoveled down a few mouthfuls of food and fled.
Liu Yun chuckled. Physical Energy Healing was extremely rare even among the Uzumaki Clan. Unless something unexpected happened, Ayaka Uzumaki should be Karin's mother.
Her daughter Karin was passionate and lively, bold enough to confess her feelings to Sasuke.
He had never expected Ayaka to be so easily embarrassed.
After finishing breakfast, he saw off Kushina and the others who were heading to school.
"Sensei, I'm going to the hospital to visit Kosuke-sensei," he said.
"Let's go together.