Something occurred to Minato Namikaze just then, and he smiled. "I'll clean up the training ground later, but on one condition."
"What condition?" Ye Feng hurriedly asked.
"You're making dinner tonight," Minato Namikaze told Ye Feng with a sly look.
"I knew it! Minato, you've changed too. This was all a setup! I protest!" Ye Feng objected indignantly.
The Big Eaters Five asked Minato Namikaze, "Can we come?" Even Kakashi Hatake and Uchiha Shinichi looked hopeful.
Minato Namikaze looked at everyone and smiled. "Then come along, all of you."
The youngsters cheered at that, and Inuzuka Clan Fengyu even told Ye Feng, "Protest denied. Keep up the good work! Isn't that right, everyone?"
The youngsters obligingly shouted, "That's right! Protest denied!"
Ye Feng was utterly speechless, but then he smiled. This felt pretty nice too.
The group then began dividing up the work. Kushina Uzumaki took the Big Eaters Five and Might Guy to buy ingredients, buying whatever they wanted to eat. They only had to handle the shopping; all the cooking would be left to Ye Feng. The others followed Minato Namikaze to his home as guests.
But just after Minato Namikaze and the others arrived home, they received a mission scroll dispatched from the Hokage Office. Minato Namikaze quickly opened the scroll and read its contents, then gave a wry smile.
"Ye Feng, Kakashi, Shinichi, your leave has been canceled. Gather at the Konoha Gate tomorrow."
"Has something happened?" Might Duy asked. He had received no such notice himself.
"I can't tell you the specifics, but it's nothing major for now. The mission is just to clear out bandits and missing-nin within the Land of Fire," Minato Namikaze reassured them.
Knowing it was not a military operation put everyone considerably more at ease. But Might Duy was a