Early the next morning, a huge crowd of children swarmed into the Mission Hall, accepted their missions, and dashed off again.
"What's going on? How old are they? Why are they already taking missions?"
"Sasuke Uchiha? Isn't he only seven? Are those all his classmates?"
"Looks like it! Wait, why are they taking missions so early? Isn't the Third Hokage going to do something?"
"Their teacher is Uchiha Yan. Who knows what he's thinking? Isn't your neighbor's kid in there too? Just ask when you get home!"
"True..."
Sasuke and the others accepting missions hadn't caused much of a stir in Konoha. By evening, however, all of Konoha was in an uproar!
"Have you heard? Those kids all finished their missions!"
"What kids?"
"The kids who took the search missions this morning. The ones who just started school this year."
"Are you drunk? Do you even hear what you're saying?"
"It's true! Go ask at the Mission Hall if you don't believe me. Everyone's talking about it!"
"Impossible! If they all finished their missions, what does that make me? It took me two days when I graduated."
"What does it make us? It makes us all useless."
Not just the villagers-even the Third Hokage looked utterly shocked. "Say that again. What do you mean, they all finished?"
"Sakura Haruno, Ino, and the Hinata Hyuga Squad finished fastest. They completed their mission in just thirty minutes.
"Even the last ones finished by evening. Throughout the missions, no one outside their three-person squads helped them at all."
"How is that possible!"
Utatane Koharu cried out, "Thirty minutes? Even with the Byakugan, it couldn't be that fast. Besides, Hinata hasn't awakened hers yet."
"Should we bring Sakura Haruno here and ask her?"
"No need!"
The Third Hokage shook his head. "Keep this quiet