Hiruzen Sarutobi had been tormenting Richuan Taiban lately.
Because of the incident with Sarutobi Tōgo, he kept assigning Richuan Taiban all kinds of grueling, poorly paid jobs.
To keep people from accusing him of retaliation, Hiruzen Sarutobi had also made Might Duy and Might Guy Richuan Taiban's official teammates.
And Bieshu Feifan, of course.
Except Bieshu Feifan was actually going off to train in senjutsu!
Hiruzen Sarutobi chuckled at that. Hopefully, that moron would train himself into a toad statue.
But Hiruzen Sarutobi had never imagined that Bieshu Feifan would have absolutely no affinity for natural energy, leaving him unqualified even to become a stone statue.
Actually, Hiruzen Sarutobi had wanted to send Richuan Taiban's squad out to fight enemies to the death.
But lately, thanks to the deterrence and troublemaking of that unidentified Daddy Shinobi,
the Shinobi World had been unexpectedly peaceful.
It was utterly bizarre.
Hiruzen Sarutobi had no desire to send the four of them to the border to sit around doing nothing, so he simply assigned Richuan Taiban the most obnoxious missions instead.
Digging sweet potatoes this time, for instance.
As luck would have it, that bastard Bieshu Feifan had returned too, which made Hiruzen Sarutobi very happy.
As for Kakashi, he was just thrown in along the way.
That was what Kakashi got for constantly receiving complaints from his teammates, needlessly adding to Hiruzen Sarutobi's workload.
Besides, Kakashi seemed to get along rather well with Bieshu Feifan and those other pieces of work.
Since they got along, they could go together.
Konoha, the Hokage's Office.
Hiruzen Sarutobi received a letter from that sweet potato noble:
Lord Hokage, your shinobi have a profound understanding of the Will of Fire;
but they don't know how to dig up sweet potatoes. They dug up only fifty jin in