Bab 12: Sensei, have we received our goods?
Today is a sunny day. Although it's February, the sun still makes people want to take off a few layers, just like the person next to them.
"Sigh!"
Uzuki Yugao wiped the sweat off her forehead. She looked at the man in green who had just run past and muttered to herself.
"When can I be as energetic as Might Guy every day?"
"Morning~"
Suddenly, a weak voice came from beside her. Following the sound, she saw Hyuga Hanabi walking towards her with a pale face.
With white pupils and a white face, she looked like a ghost.
Seeing her teammate in this half-dead state, Uzuki Yugao shivered secretly. She raised her hand and greeted the other person in the same manner.
"Morning, Hana!"
"You're not looking very energetic either!"
Seeing Yugao's equally pale face, Hyuga Hanabi bared her teeth in a bitter smile.
"Hopefully, nothing goes wrong today."
"Yeah, I've been lying in bed for two days. Some of our classmates who graduated early have already completed two tasks, and some have even finished three D-Rank Missions."
"Three in two days??"
The familiar male voice instantly interrupted their conversation. They simultaneously turned to look behind them, and when they saw it was their mentor sensei, they started praying in their hearts.
[Hopefully, nothing weird happens today. We don't ask to learn anything new, just not to be stuck at home all the time.]
Asuka naturally couldn't tell what they were thinking, but seeing the persistent gloom on their faces, he put his hands on their shoulders and said proudly.
"Yugao, Hana, have you heard the legend of Konoha, where they do ten in a day?"
Upon hearing this, their pupils suddenly constricted. They looked at each other in shock, both thinking of the recent rumors in the village.
According to the rumors, because of two major events that have recently occurred in the village, capable of influencing the ninja world situation, many villagers who worked outside have returned to the village just to witness the Fourth Hokage's inauguration and wedding.
Then, there was a middle-aged couple who, possibly because they hadn't seen each other for a long time, took advantage of the night, while their child was asleep, to quietly "carry out their mission."
According to those Eight Trigrams aunties in the village, it's ten a day.
Seeing their faces, which had turned from pale to crimson red, and their heads bowed, staring at the ground as if there was some treasure there, Uchiha Asuka looked at them withdrew his hands from his pockets and placed them on their foreheads, ready to check if they were sick again.
"Ah~"
"Ah~"
Two sharp cries instantly broke the silence of the park. Watching his students step back in unison, Asuka's hands froze in mid-air. He awkwardly withdrew his hands, then looked up at the sparrows flying in the sky, sighing inwardly.
[These students are really too hard to handle. What did I even do? You two actually crossed your arms over your chests and were ready to run away.]
"Sorry, sensei, I'm late!"
At this moment, Iruka came running from afar, panting heavily, breaking the awkward atmosphere.
With his hands on his knees, he gasped for breath and kept bowing to Asuka, apologizing.
After a moment, not hearing Asuka ask why he was late, Iruka felt a jolt in his heart.
[Sensei wouldn't purposely want to punish me, right?]
Thinking this, he quickly looked up at where Asuka was standing, ready to explain the reason for his lateness.
"Sir..."
Seeing Asuka squatting on the ground drawing circles with a dead branch, Iruka blinked in confusion and then looked at his two teammates in surprise.
"What's wrong with sensei? Why does he have a constipated expression?"
"Hmph!"
Hyuga Hanabi snorted coldly. She pulled Iruka to her side and pointed at Asuka, who was squatting and drawing circles on the ground, with a look of disdain.
"Iruka, you just got here, so you don't know what's going on. Just now, he had the audacity to proudly tell Yugao and me about 'that' Eight Trigrams. Is this something a sensei should talk about?"
???
Iruka looked at Asuka in confusion, then turned to his companions, puzzled.
"What kind of Eight Trigrams?"
Hearing this, Hyuga Hanabi became even more agitated. She gritted her teeth and glared at Asuka, her cheeks puffing up with anger, muttering.
"It's that one, the Konoha legend about doing it ten times in a day. Doing it ten times in one day. Is that something to be proud of? Even if it is, it's not something you say in front of two girls."
After she finished speaking, she kicked a stone on the ground. Isn't the Uchiha clan supposed to be very aloof? Where did this lecherous Uchiha come from?
Ten times a day???
Iruka rubbed his chin with one hand, a thoughtful expression on his face, and slowly said, "Isn't doing it ten times a day something to be proud of? While I've been lying at home, I investigated our sensei. The missions sensei has completed are reportedly 17 S-rank, 169 A-rank, 287 B-rank, 334 C-rank, and a staggering 3078 D-rank missions. That record of ten D-rank missions in one day was set by sensei when he was seven years old."
"How many... how many?"
Hearing the number 3078, Hyuga Hanabi's voice instantly rose several octaves. She looked at Iruka in disbelief, her voice sharp, "Iruka, how many did you say?"
Iruka sniffed, turned to face Asuka, and said in an admiring tone, "3078, the D-Rank Mission maniac of Konoha. Because of this, the village later added a bizarre rule: except for Jonin leading a team, other Jonin cannot take on D-rank missions in any way, with a penalty for each violation. Later, our sensei took the risk of losing money by personally paying the fines while having his clones disguised to take the missions, but this didn't last long.
"Apparently, a 'righteous person' reported sensei for disrupting the mission market by taking on missions at a loss. Then, Third Hokage-sama arranged for several Hyuga Clan members at the mission office to blacklist sensei, and that ended it."
"So..."
Hyuga Hanabi looked at the somewhat dejected Asuka and murmured, "He was talking about this ten times a day?"
"What else would it be?"
Iruka gave his teammate a puzzled look. Sometimes he really couldn't understand what was going on in their heads. When he heard the Eight Trigrams gossip among the girls at school, it was always some wild and outrageous stuff.
"Sensei, we're sorry!"
Hyuga Hanabi, pulling Uzuki Yugao along, came to stand behind Asuka. They looked at the circles drawn on the ground, feeling somewhat ashamed.
"We misunderstood your intentions, sensei."
Slap! Slap!
Asuka dropped the branch, stood up, and clapped his hands. Seeing the two staring apologetically at the ground, he nonchalantly said, "I'm not that petty. When you start going on missions, if you fail due to your menstrual cycle, sensei can temporarily adjust your body structure for you. If you don't want kids after you get married, you can also come to sensei for sterilization surgery. Even if you..."
Before he finished speaking, seeing the two trembling, Asuka pursed his lips and rubbed their heads vigorously, smiling.
"You really can't take a joke. I was just teasing you."
"Then, um, sensei, we're sorry."
"Really, I was just teasing you. Let's go!"
After speaking, Asuka led the three of them straight to the mission assignment area.
He initially studied to become a medical ninja but also with another goal in mind: Uchiha Mikoto and Uchiha Fugaku. Those two were absolute devils. If he hadn't been waiting for the right opportunity, Uchiha Itachi would never have been born.
It's a pity... I wonder if in the future Uchiha Mikoto will ask me to help her with sterilization, or maybe even castrate Uchiha Fugaku.
When the four of them arrived at the mission assignment area, Asuka's smile instantly disappeared. He looked at the Hyuga clan member sitting in the chair and raised an eyebrow.
"I'm here again."
Hmm??
Hearing this somewhat familiar voice, the Hyuga clan member looked up, studying Asuka's appearance and the Uchiha clan emblem on him. After blinking a few times, a sudden realization struck him.
"Uchiha Asuka?"
"Mm! Mm!"
Seeing the other person continuously nodding at him, the Hyuga clan member sniffed and frowned.
"You know, we only have C and D-rank missions here. For S, A, and B-rank missions, you need to go to Hokage-sama."
"Well, well~"
Asuka put his arm around his three students, bent down slightly, rested his chin on Uzuki Yugao's head, and inhaled the faint, unidentified fragrance. He grinned and said, "I'm a sensei now, so hurry up and bring out the mission list for me to choose from."
???
It was only then that the Hyuga member realized Uchiha Asuka was not alone; he had brought three kids with him.
"How embarrassing!"
Seeing the skeptical look in his clan member's eyes, Hyuga Hanabi nodded, an awkward smile appearing on her face.
It seems our sensei isn't very likable.
"Hand it over!"
"Huh?"
Snatching the mission list from the Hyuga clan member's hand, Asuka scratched his nose and scanned through the tasks listed on it.
"Investigate missing pets, conduct behavior assessments, pick up trash, find pets, help with sweet potato digging, babysitting."
Same old stuff.
After a moment, he pointed to several tasks on the list casually.
"We'll take five tasks investigating missing cats, five for finding lost pets—no dogs, I've been hating dogs for the past two years. Also, three trash pickup tasks. Forget about babysitting; I can't stand kids running around everywhere. And include this behavior assessment for me."
"Sensei!"
Just as Asuka was about to continue selecting tasks, he felt someone poking his thigh. He looked down to see Uzuki Yugao looking up at him anxiously.
"Speak up if you have something to say, don't just stand there looking hesitant."
"Sensei, that's enough, enough, enough."
"Don't take them all, it's too much. We're not here to stock up; there's no need to take so many at once."
Asuka blinked and looked at the Hyuga clan member at the mission desk, sounding puzzled. "Too many?"
"Hmph!" The Hyuga clan member looked at Asuka's innocent expression, snorted coldly, then bent down to retrieve the mission scrolls from the ground. Placing them heavily on the table, he gritted his teeth.
"Uchiha Asuka, every time you come here for missions, it feels like I'm running a shop."
"Thanks!" Asuka placed all the scrolls in front of his three students, waved to the others ninjas around, and left straight away.
"Gulp!" A nearby ninja watched the group leave with a stack of mission scrolls, unconsciously swallowing saliva, and wondered aloud, "How can they take more than ten missions in one go?"
"That guy is Uchiha Asuka."
"What's wrong with him?"
"Back in the day, there were only three rules at the mission desk. But ever since that guy became a ninja, the rules at the mission desk have increased to eleven. Eight of them are because of him."
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