The days of being a puppeteer in Konoha

Chapter 68 Uninvited Guest

A few days passed and it was already mid-October.

Ever since Hideki distributed pocket puppets to the children, the ninja school has become as lively as a festival again.

Because even though everyone got the puppet beast as they wished, they still had to share it with the five people in the same group, and the total time they could play with it was only one day a week.

So every time it is their turn to use the puppet beast, the children will race against time and rack their brains to make this time more valuable.

For example, Yuhi Kurenai got Hideki's approval and was able to gather several groups including Lin to perform a stage play in the puppetry classroom during lunch break.

Although Hideki still finds it difficult to understand why Pocket Puppetmon is used to perform a melodrama.

But Hong's performance at least received unanimous praise from the girls, and even several female teachers often went to watch.

This made Hideki hold his forehead with his hands, lamenting that the aesthetic sense of the people in the ninja world still needs to be improved.

After the stage play became a big hit, Yuhi Kurenai talked about business with Hideki with a proud look on her face.

She said that once the point system was implemented throughout the school, she would collect points as ticket fees.

Hideki smiled and praised her business acumen, but then he turned around and gave Minato some advice:
Points trading between students must be prohibited...

Points are rewards for children's hard work and performance. How can you trade them at will?
For example, several groups like Genma, Ibiki and Ebisu have been busy setting up tracks and small traps all over the school.

It turns out that playing obstacle courses in a corner of the puppetry classroom can no longer satisfy their inflated ambitions.

They are preparing to hold a puppet beast obstacle course race for the entire school.

In order to attract everyone to participate, they also took out everyone's points and asked Hideki to customize three more advanced components as prizes for the top three winners of the obstacle race.

Hideki was naturally happy to see this correct way of using points, and readily agreed to their request.

Now the other team members who had been lacking interest at first also began to warm up and were eagerly waiting for the day of the competition.

Of course, the most popular event is the pocket puppet beast battle.

Needless to say, during lunch break after school, even during get out of class time, the children will take out their controllers and puppet beasts and race against time to have a heated game.

As long as it doesn't disrupt the class, Xiushu is very tolerant of this.

In order to help everyone find their opponents as quickly as possible, he even used the sealing techniques he had recently learned to add an interesting function to the handle.

As long as the two handles are close to a certain distance, they will resonate at the same time and emit a slight vibration as a reminder.

"My controller is vibrating. There must be a Pocket Puppet Beast User nearby!"

Then the eye contact is the signal for battle.

Every time this happened, a large group of students would quickly appear around them, watching and pointing fingers.

Even those students who have never played Pocket Monsters enjoy watching the battles between them.

Moreover, they all spoke very clearly, as if as long as they were on the field, even Teacher Hideki would not be their opponent...

As for those students who had attended the puppetry class but chose not to sign up for various reasons, they felt so itchy and wanted to grab the handle and take over.

In short, the common point between these two types of students is that they all beg the Six Paths Sage to appear every day, hoping that Teacher Hideki will open the puppetry classroom as soon as possible so that they can also play with Pocket Puppet Beasts as soon as possible.

However, the popularity of pocket puppets still caused some problems...

Despite Hideki's repeated warnings, no students used puppet beasts to disrupt class.

However, many students still secretly make puppet beast parts during class in order to save time.

Especially the apprentices in the workshop.

Having initially mastered the chakra carving knife, they don't even need any tools. They can silently and slowly make the parts with their hands.

But their actions, which they thought were covert, were as conspicuous as fireflies in the dark night in the eyes of teachers who were at least at the level of Chunin. Whenever they failed, the teachers would complain to Hideki and take advantage of the situation to borrow puppet beasts to play with, which annoyed Hideki a lot.

So before the puppetry class ended on Thursday, Hideki had to make some changes to the rules he had set for himself:

“Please don’t do crafts in other classes in the future.”

"If found, in addition to deducting points, the group's puppet beasts will also be confiscated for a week."

As soon as these words were spoken, the classroom was naturally filled with grief.

Everyone argued, everyone acted cute, everyone used threats and inducements, but unfortunately their teacher Hideki remained unmoved and even yawned.

So everyone finally gave in.

It’s okay to deduct points.

The young ninjas really couldn't imagine how they would be persecuted by their teammates if the puppet beasts were confiscated because of their own faults...

Soon the bell rang for the end of get out of class, and the children forgot about their unhappy things and made an appointment to fight each other for three hundred rounds with their pocket puppet beasts on the playground.

After watching all the students leave, Hideki cast his gaze towards a dark corner of the classroom and said in a teasing tone:
"It is not a good habit to peek at other people's lectures. It can easily cause unnecessary disputes."

"If you two are interested in puppetry, you can come and discuss it with me openly."

After Hideki's voice echoed in the empty classroom for more than ten seconds, two gloomy men in windbreakers and sunglasses walked out from the dark corner.

The Oil Girl Clan...

Hideki raised his eyebrows slightly.

Do all the people in this clan have such a low sense of presence?
If he hadn't been traveling around for many years and hadn't gotten used to using radar sensing techniques from time to time, it would have been difficult for him to detect their presence.

Just as Hideki was looking at the two men, one of them, a tall man in his twenties, suddenly introduced himself expressionlessly:
"Aburame Shiguro."

The shorter young man who looked a few years younger than Hideki also said:

"Aburame Ryoma."

Spider-Sense Technique: Full Coverage Mode.

Let’s not worry about Aburame Ryoma for now, but the moment Hideki heard Aburame Shiguro’s name, he decisively activated the strongest mode of the Spider Sense Technique.

In addition to spreading the chakra silk around to form a chakra spider web as usual,

Hideki also imitated the fluff on a spider's body, allowing the chakra thread to branch out into a large amount of fine fluff and then wrap around the whole body.

Spiders have no hearing or sense of smell, so they need to rely on hairs that are more tiny and sensitive than humans to sense everything around them.

Similarly, Hideki's perception of his surroundings will become more acute in this state.

If external objects want to touch Xiushu, they must first be sensed by this filter membrane.

There is a reason why Hideki made such a big fuss.

Because he had used brainstorming techniques to repeatedly recall and study which people in Konoha were best not to mess with.

And the Aburame Shiguro in front of him is one of the ones very close to the front...

　PS: I originally thought that Ryoma and Orochimaru were of the same age.
　　After checking, I found out that it was written in the information book that Aburame Ryoma was only 21 years old when he went with Danzo to recruit Touma.

　　If we think back, I'm only about 14 years old now.

　　ps2: I will find time to update it later

　　
　
(End of this chapter)