Apart from the scheduled matches, people sometimes came looking for trouble while Sasuke was doing his "farmwork."
Of course, Xuan Zhe would not make Sasuke put up with insults and beatings from people who refused to follow the rules.
Since they had come asking for trouble, he might as well let them walk in standing and roll out on the ground.
Since he could not let his "farmwork" fall behind, Sasuke left those clueless fools to Hayate.
After all, Hayate was now almost as big as Sasuke.
One came, he beat one. Two came, he beat them both.
Every time, those people fled from Sasuke, stumbling and crawling.
Unless something unusual happened, Sasuke generally did not summon Hayate, because the wolf actually grew faster on his own clan's territory.
Hayate still had living family members. Thinking of that, Sasuke did not want him to follow in his own footsteps.
Actually, Sasuke was not entirely alone, either. His mother, Uchiha Mikoto, came to see him almost every day, always bringing Xuan Zhe some homemade snacks or dishes.
Xuan Zhe normally ate plain, bland food, so the first time he tasted Uchiha Mikoto's cooking, he could not stop praising it.
He kept telling Tsunade to learn a thing or two from Mikoto when she had time. After all, compared with cooking, Tsunade's particular talent carried far greater risks-even the worst cooking would only earn people's disdain, not get someone chasing you around the world with a blade.
But Tsunade never took those words to heart.
In all her years, she had never so much as touched a stove.
At home, Nawaki took care of everything for her. Outside, restaurants and taverns lined the streets. As long as she had money in her pocket, there was no way she would starve.
So she