Seeing how embarrassed Shisui looked, Naruto knew that, in a ninja's mind, wiping out bandits and brigands was not something they would take the initiative to do without being assigned a mission.
If they took the initiative, they would be called heroes, not ninjas.
The guiding principle of ninjas was to serve the rich, not the people.
In the eyes of the wealthy-or rather, the nobility-what were ninjas? Just a bunch of hired workers.
I pay you, and you do things for me: find cats, walk dogs, clear out sludge, unclog sewers, take care of children, watch them, play with them... Jobs like these were everywhere on Konoha's mission board.
These missions were supposedly meant to give newly graduated Genin from the Ninja Academy some training, but... in the end, they were still just serving the rich.
And what Shisui was doing now went against the ninja code of conduct.
Naruto looked at Shisui, smiled, and waved a hand. "There's nothing to be embarrassed about. What you two are doing might not be very ninja-like, but you certainly deserve to be called heroes."
"And by heroes, I don't mean heroes of some ninja village. I mean heroes of the Shinobi World."
"Being a hero of a ninja village is a little too narrow in scope!"
After hearing Naruto's words, Shisui nodded firmly. He and Itachi had already made their decision: they would liberate the entire Shinobi World and bring it true peace.
When that happened, they really would be heroes of the entire Shinobi World.
With Itachi leading the way, the three of them went to their office there.
They called it an office, but it was really just an ordinary wooden cabin.
Beside the office was a classroom where they taught the children. They had also built a