Collecting his Genin certificate and forehead protector only took some time waiting in line; the process as a whole did not take long. By the time Ye Feng left the academy, noon was still a long way off.
Yet the Big Eaters Five had not shown up today. That was a little unusual. He normally found them noisy, but now he actually felt a little unused to their absence.
Since he had nothing to do anyway, he would go see what they were up to.
The others were not easy to track down, but Hyuga Kong was relatively easy to find. Hyuga Kong was comparatively calm and steady, so at this hour, he was bound to be training in taijutsu with Might Duy. A short run around the village would be enough to find them.
Might Duy and the others really were easy to find, because a huge, dense crowd followed behind Might Duy, all training in taijutsu with him. The sheer number of people and the scale of the scene startled even Ye Feng. Had his influence changed Konoha this much?
Among that great crowd, Hyuga Kong, dressed in white, was fairly easy to spot. But Ye Feng also discovered his other friends among them. The Big Eaters Five were all there.
What the hell? Since when had these guys turned over a new leaf? They were all training so enthusiastically? Obito Uchiha and Hyuga Kong were understandable, since arrangements had already been made for them to train with Might Duy. But Asuma Sarutobi had such advantages from his family. Did he still need to come here to train? And those three girls-were they aiming to become muscle-bound Barbies? Imagining their baby faces above lower bodies packed with muscle sent a chill through Ye Feng.
Looking more closely, Ye