"Tomorrow, let's start with a mission that only the four of us can complete."
"What kind of mission is it, Kakashi-sensei?"
Naruto and Sakura were currently preoccupied with earning money from missions to play at the Internet cafe.
However, the mission Kakashi mentioned seemed different from what they understood.
"It's a survival exercise mission."
"What? It's just an exercise?"
Upon hearing it was an exercise, both their faces immediately fell.
Kakashi, thinking Sakura and Naruto looked down on the exercise, specifically warned them.
"This exercise is different from the ones you had at the Ninja Academy. If your performance tomorrow doesn't satisfy me, you'll be sent back to the Ninja Academy to repeat a year."
"What?"
"There's a rule like that?"
Not only Sakura and Naruto were surprised, but even Sasuke couldn't accept such a thing.
As the top graduate of his class, he absolutely would not allow himself to be treated as a failure and sent back to the Academy.
"So, meet tomorrow morning at five."
"A reminder, don't eat breakfast, or you'll throw up."
Finally, after Kakashi threatened the three with a serious expression, he quickly left the rooftop.
With Kakashi gone, there was no need for the trio to stay on the rooftop, so they all started heading downstairs.
"Sasuke, who exactly do you want to kill? Do you need our help?"
"That's right, Sasuke, we're teammates now, so don't be shy if you need any help."
Naruto and Sakura had already noticed when Sasuke said he wanted to kill someone; his expression at that time was clearly different from usual.
With the Internet cafe as a bond, their friendship was much better than at the same period in the original work.
Whether as friends or partners, Sakura and Naruto both felt obligated to help Sasuke.
"It's nothing, it's my own business, I'll handle it myself."
Sasuke was still very grateful to the two of them. For other matters, he probably would have asked for their help.
However, that man, he absolutely had to kill him with his own hands.
"So, where are we going now?"
Normally at this time, they would be studying at the Academy.
Now that they had graduated and their squad leader had also left the Academy, Naruto didn't know what to do for a moment.
Continue to play pranks?
Definitely not.
He felt extremely ashamed thinking about how he used to pull all sorts of pranks just to get attention.
But fortunately, a new life was about to begin, so let the past dark history go to hell.
"Since there's nothing to do, why don't we go to the Internet cafe now?"
Naruto felt so stupid; why did he only think of a good place like the Internet cafe now?
Just when he thought Sasuke and Sakura would readily agree, they both shook their heads and refused.
"Naruto, I need to go home first and tell Mom and Dad about today's team assignments."
Unlike Naruto and Sasuke, Sakura had her own parents and family, so for a big event like team assignments, she naturally had to tell her parents first.
This reason was perfect, and Naruto couldn't say anything.
"There's a saying in games: 'Only by knowing yourself and your enemy can you win a hundred battles.' So I'm going to gather some information on Kakashi."
"Besides knowing he's Kakashi Hatake, a Jonin, we don't know what he specializes in among Ninjutsu, Taijutsu, and Genjutsu, or what his actual combat strength is."
"Only with accurate information can we apply the right remedy. To successfully pass the survival exercise tomorrow, I'll be leaving now."
With that, Sasuke nodded to Naruto and Sakura, then quickly left the Academy.
Seeing Sasuke leave, Sakura also followed in his footsteps and left the Academy.
At this moment, only Naruto was still slowly walking on the training ground.
Actually, Naruto also wanted to go with Sasuke to gather information on Kakashi, but Sasuke didn't give him a chance to speak and just left.
However, on second thought, gathering information on Kakashi didn't necessarily mean going with Sasuke.
Isn't it the same to ask someone else?
'So, why don't I ask the amazing Uncle?'
Through the incident with the scroll of seals, Naruto had keenly realized that the Internet Cafe Owner clearly knew things others didn't.
'Even that I could learn Ninjutsu from the scroll of seals, Uncle knew. Surely Uncle would know about a mere Jonin's information too.'
...At this time, the Internet cafe was as quiet as ever. Ge Liang's only customers were the rookie nine, and they usually came around three or four in the afternoon.
It was still early in the afternoon.
However, today was supposed to be their team assignment day, and for them to bond with their squad leaders. Ge Liang estimated that besides Team 7, the other six rookie teams probably wouldn't have time to come over today.
People say you shouldn't speak of the devil, and as Ge Liang was just thinking about Team 7, Naruto came running in, full of energy.
"Uncle, good morning!"
"Oh, it's Naruto. Good morning."
Ge Liang was still lying in his rocking chair by the door as usual, but this time, there was a cup of goji berry tea beside him, making his 'lazy fish' posture even more pronounced than before.
"Uncle, let me tell you, we got our team assignments today, but I think our squad leader, Kakashi Hatake, is a bit unreliable."
'Kakashi, huh? It seems Team 7's squad leader hasn't changed.'
Nodding to himself, Ge Liang looked at Naruto and asked faintly, "So, what do you want to ask?"
"Hehe."
Naruto scratched his head, looking embarrassed, and said, "I just want to ask, Uncle, if you know any information about Kakashi-sensei."
"Information about Kakashi, tsk tsk."
He picked up his teacup, took a sip, then stroked his hair, looked at his nails for a bit, and seeing Naruto already looking impatient, Ge Liang finally said faintly, "I do seem to know some information about Kakashi."
"Ah, Uncle, you really do know! Then quickly tell me!"
"Naruto, I do know information about Kakashi, but why should I tell you? What are you going to exchange for this information?"
"Uncle, you know, I don't have much money."
Hearing that he needed to exchange something for information, Naruto was stumped.
As everyone knew, he was a pauper, the really, really poor kind.
How could someone like him come up with anything to exchange for information?
"Cough cough, I don't know what's wrong with my shoulder, it's been aching since I woke up this morning, and my leg too..."
Seeing Ge Liang's pretentious act, Naruto immediately understood and quickly created two Shadow Clones: one for massaging shoulders, and one for rubbing legs.
"Uncle, is this pressure good?"
"Uncle, your teacup is empty, I'll go refill it for you."
"Uncle, are you satisfied with my technique?"
"Uncle..."
After a period of service, Ge Liang felt satisfied and waved his hand, telling Naruto to dispel the Shadow Clones.
With a 'poof,' the two tool Shadow Clones turned into smoke and disappeared.
"Regarding Kakashi's information..."