Yanbai agreed to Mito's request to let Nagato and Kushina move in with him, but he only agreed to be their guardian until they reached adulthood.
Even so, Mito finally breathed a sigh of relief.
Yanbai had been truly exhausted over the years. Rather than putting too many restrictions on Kushina and Nagato, he left them in the care of the two "wild children" at home, Muye and Silver Moon.
Although Yanbai's deliberate easing of his workload had made his duties as Hokage less demanding than before, there was still plenty to do.
Besides continuing to improve public welfare in the Land of Fire and keeping an eye on its agricultural and industrial development, he had to remain alert to its diplomatic situation and corruption among officials under the Daimyo. After all those odds and ends, he still had to pay attention to the younger generation.
The future mentors of the Konoha 12 had all entered the Land of Fire's compulsory education system.
Yanbai had no choice but to keep an eye on the people who had graduated early in their original destinies.
Even though Kakashi was only five now...
In their original destinies, quite a few "geniuses" had graduated early.
That was why Yanbai had established a credit system from the very beginning.
The rules for early graduation had been laid out well in advance, rather than leaving it to the Hokage's subjective judgment to turn a capable but unsuitable child into a full-fledged shinobi.
The strictest requirement for graduating early from the Ninja Academy was to earn all the required credits.
Those credits included core course credits, elective credits, and psychological assessment credits.
Each grade's midterm and final exams were scheduled at different times.
Even the fastest possible graduation would take at least a year.
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