Chapter 15: Proper Porridge Etiquette.

“My name is Sasuke Uchiha. There are many things I dislike, and not much I like. Also, although I don’t want to just talk about dreams, I have an ambition—I want to restore my clan, and kill a certain man.”

Sasuke’s words turned the atmosphere cold.

“Alright, all three of you have rich personalities, very interesting. I understand.” Kakashi said in his usual dull tone. “I don’t know how much Hanabi has told you, but in short, tomorrow we will have a survival exercise.”

Although Kakashi wanted to start with some scare tactics, due to Hanabi’s “spoilers,” the effect on his side wasn’t quite as good.

“Here it comes.”

Sure enough, as soon as Kakashi finished speaking, Sasuke looked at him. Although Naruto didn’t quite understand the situation, he also sat up straight.

“In short, only 9 out of all the graduates can become Genin. The rest will be sent back to the academy. In other words, this is a super-difficult test with an elimination rate of over sixty percent.”

“Then why did we even have a graduation exam!” Naruto was startled.

As for Sasuke, he silently watched Kakashi.

Although he wanted to deliberately act deep, it seemed only Naruto was startled.

“That was just a preliminary selection of those with the potential to become Genin. In short, that’s how it is. I will judge whether you have the aptitude to become ninjas. Remember to bring a set of ninja tools and gather at the training ground tomorrow morning at five o’clock. This is your first mission. Alright, dismissed.”

Kakashi stood up.

“Ah, right. Remember not to eat breakfast, or you’ll throw up.”

After his scaremongering, Kakashi left.

The newly formed Team 7 was temporarily disbanded.

With the team disbanded and Kakashi gone, the livestream screen went dark at that moment.

“Looks like I won’t be needing the camera today.” Hanabi silently put away the camera.

The current situation wasn’t suitable for taking photos anyway.

However, Hanabi had originally intended to photograph Naruto and Sasuke, and that objective had been achieved.

Sasuke Uchiha stood up silently, ready to go back and prepare his ninja tools. He was thinking about how to deal with that Jonin.

Because of Hanabi’s earlier words, in the hearts of Sasuke and Naruto, Kakashi had turned into a sinister bad guy who wanted them to lower their guard and then kick them back to the Ninja Academy.

“I finally graduated with great difficulty, how can I be eliminated here—” Naruto secretly made up his mind.

Hanabi also stood up: “Then see you tomorrow. It just so happens I need to investigate something.”

This was establishing a reasonable “reason” for her subsequent actions.

Especially regarding intelligence, it must be “reasonable” to convince the audience.

Hanabi’s every word and deed remained as elegant as ever.

Gentle like a Yamato Nadeshiko in public, yet playful and lively in front of familiar people, but with a true nature of a little devilish “mesugaki” (cheeky brat) who is pink on the outside but black on the inside (haraguro).

This was the character persona Hanabi set for herself on screen.

Although the livestream was off now, for a qualified idol, the stage is everywhere.

Hanabi really went to gather information about Kakashi.

There wasn’t much information about Kakashi during his ANBU period, but he had another identity: the disciple of the Fourth Hokage.

Moreover, he himself had the title of “Copy Ninja Kakashi” (Technician of Konoha), so finding information was actually quite easy.

After resting and recharging thoroughly, Hanabi arrived at the training ground early the next morning.

When Naruto and Sasuke arrived at the training ground rubbing their eyes, Hanabi was kneeling on a picnic blanket, resting with her eyes closed.

“Hanabi, you’re here so early!” Naruto was bleary-eyed, but upon seeing Hanabi, he seemed to wake up and ran over hurriedly.

“Good morning, Naruto, Sasuke.” Hanabi greeted the two of them.

After speaking, Hanabi closed her eyes again.

“What are you doing?”

Initially, Sasuke didn’t think much of Hanabi. Being theoretically first just meant good written test scores. That didn’t count for much; ninjas always competed based on combat power.

But that day, Sasuke saw the destroyed training ground. At that moment, he realized that she seemed not to have used her full strength at school.

“I’m meditating.” Hanabi kept her eyes closed.

In reality, of course, she wasn’t just meditating.

After upgrading the Performance Costume, Hanabi turned on the normalized training mode.

Sitting here now, she actually couldn’t move at all, because Hanabi had injected chakra into the Performance Costume, activating the gravity amplification state.

Under the dual effects of gravity and restraint, Hanabi was immobilized.

She couldn’t move a muscle under the gravity state, but as long as she remained in this state, Hanabi’s strength would slowly increase. So whenever she had nothing to do, she would turn on the gravity mode while resting.

As long as it doesn’t crush me to death, crush me to the limit.

“Meditating?” Naruto tilted his head. “But Kakashi-sensei will be here soon.”

“No. Kakashi-sensei definitely won’t come this early,” Hanabi said.

“Huh? Then when will he arrive?” Naruto was stunned.

“Hmm, wait another few hours,” Hanabi said. “Want to rest a bit? I can give you a lap pillow.”

“What the heck, that guy really is unreliable…”

Naruto didn’t ask for a lap pillow but lay down beside her, falling fast asleep as soon as he lay down.

Sasuke also put down his bag: “Since you know that guy won’t be here so early, why did you come so early?”

“Because this is a ‘mission’,” Hanabi said. “A ninja’s first priority is to complete the mission. In school, we are responsible for ourselves, so being late doesn’t matter. But this mission is an order from Kakashi-sensei, so naturally, we have to be responsible to the client. Therefore, Kakashi-sensei can be late, but we cannot.”

“A mission…”

Sasuke also sat on the picnic blanket and closed his eyes to rest.

[Hanabi: I anticipated your anticipation.]

[Damn, refusing my wifey’s lap pillow? Young man, don’t be ungrateful.]

[Let go of that Naruto, let me enjoy wifey’s lap pillow!]

[As expected of my wifey. She said she had things to investigate earlier; did she check Kakashi’s ancestry back three generations?]

[Actually, this dialogue scene is pretty good. The most important thing for a ninja is intelligence, and a ninja’s goal is to complete the mission. Hanabi highlighted the theme of ninjas right away.]

[Then why don’t you experts predict the subsequent development?]

[In my opinion, it should be a display of the power system and world view. Anyway, in a shonen manga, they’ll definitely pass the exam. Afterward, it should be Kakashi’s instructional battle against the Sannin (Three Ninjas).]

Hanabi had anticipated the netizens’ bullet comments, but the term “Sannin” still made her almost lose her composure, because the Naruto world really did have the Sannin…

Kakashi teaching the Sannin? Well, that would be quite a wondrous scene.

“Good morning.” Around noon, Kakashi finally arrived late. “A black cat crossed my path, so I was late~”

The soundly sleeping Naruto was nudged by Hanabi.

“Whoa, is he coming?!”

Naruto jumped up instantly.

“The mission, is it finally starting?” Sasuke also stood up.

“Huh?”

Kakashi felt that these people’s reactions were vastly different from what he had expected.

Hanabi also stood up and put away the picnic blanket.

“Oh my, oh my. You guys are really different from the well-behaved kids before.” The trio’s performance was completely different from the obedient children Kakashi had experienced in previous years.

“Intelligence gathering is the basics of the basics,” Hanabi said. “After all, facing a Jonin like Kakashi-sensei, we can’t do without showing some real skill.”

As Hanabi spoke, she loosened her sash slightly and adjusted her clothes. She had already switched out of training mode and returned to her usual state.

“Hmm? Eh?”

Naruto was caught off guard, his drowsiness completely gone.

And Hanabi had already used a Close-up Camera Card.

Hanabi pulled up the skirt of her original kimono bit by bit.

And the camera followed the hem, moving up from her feet bit by bit.

As the hem was pulled up, the white silk stockings Hanabi wore underneath were revealed.

[Holy crap, Arknights (Zhou)!]

[In accordance with Zhou Rites.]

[A close-up with clear intent.]

[Food! Delicious food.]

[Holy crap! It’s really white silk!]

[Kill the one who predicted it.]

[White silk! White silk! White silk!]

[White silk, I can eat three bowls of rice with this!]

[This matter is also recorded in the Arknights game.]

[With these white silk stockings, I can eat three bowls of rice — Yu Dafu.]

[I’m digging in~]

[Ice cream~ Ice cream~]

[Too bad geta don’t keep feet sweaty/warm, sigh…]

[Ah, I’m dead] ×n

The hem went up bit by bit; Hanabi directly transformed the original long skirt into a short skirt.

The long Furisode kimono instantly turned into a postmodern short-skirt kimono.

Hanabi’s movements were slow, but the number of bullet comments was skyrocketing furiously.

After re-tying her sash, Hanabi stretched her body a bit.

[Awesome, there’s actually a second form.]

[Holy crap, not just knee-highs, but garters/suspenders!]

[prprprpr (licking sound)]

Hanabi was stretching her body here, while the bullet comments over there had already exploded.

High-heeled sandals paired with white silk garters—this generation of netizens had absolutely no resistance.

Under this “winning hand,” Hanabi’s Popularity Points were also rising crazily.

But Hanabi just smiled and put on her mask.

The good show is yet to come.

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