Chapter 52: Prophecy One Year Ago
——It’s really nice to go fishing at the Erhai Lake.

Lubian is enjoying a rare vacation, completely relaxing himself and not thinking about anything.

He has caught silver carp, bighead carp, carp, crucian carp and whitebait in Erhai Lake. He uses a fishing rod made of a thin bamboo pole. Catching fish depends entirely on luck and does not require any technical skills.

Although Erhai Lake is called "sea" by locals, it is actually a large and calm lake.

In the center of Erhai Lake lies a small island shaped like a seal. Local legend has it that this island is the seal cast by Guanyin Bodhisattva to calm the waves of Erhai Lake and protect the local residents.

It seems that the legend of Guanyin Bodhisattva is everywhere.

Chenxiang was swimming in the shallow waters of Erhai Lake, which reminded him of the days when he lived with his mother.

There are no large lotus ponds in Erhai Lake. In the past, Chenxiang and his mother lived by the lake. The Three Holy Mothers often rowed a boat with him to enjoy the scenery in the lake where large lotus leaves were floating.

Chenxiang also remembered that because he accidentally touched the Precious Lotus Lantern, his uncle Erlang Shen realized the power of the Precious Lotus Lantern and found him and his mother.

"..."

Suffering always makes children mature faster.

Chenxiang is the suffering of the Third Holy Mother Yang Chan, and his mother Yang Chan is also the suffering of Chenxiang.

Chenxiang dived into the water and fished up some clams and snails.

"Chenxiang? Smile more~!" The man on the roadside said to Chenxiang habitually.

"It's hard to look good if you always have a sullen face."

"Hehe...is that all right?"

"Your smile is so unnatural." said the man on the roadside.

"Well……"

Lubian never treated Chenxiang, who was precocious in thinking, as a child, and talked to him as if he were a peer.

Missing his mother every day, Chenxiang would blame himself from time to time.

Chenxiang always thought that if he had not touched the Precious Lotus Lantern and attracted his uncle's attention, he and his mother would still be living happily in the world.

"Well, this won't work." said the man on the side of the road.

People with a high level of magnetic field rotation can read the thoughts of people with strength lower than their own level. Magnetic field reading is the same as the Buddhist telepathy. The thoughts in Chenxiang's mind cannot be hidden from the people on the side of the road.

"Chenxiang, I suddenly thought of something interesting."

"What?" Chenxiang looked towards the roadside.

"There's an idiom called 'A dog barks at the sun in Shu,' which seems to be somewhat related to Roaring Sky Dog."

"A Shu dog barking at the sun?"

"It means that Shu is often foggy and rainy, so dogs living in Shu will bark non-stop when they see the sun coming out, because they don't see the sun often."

"The name 'Xiaotian' in Xiaotian Dog might have come from this, because your uncle lives in Guanjiangkou, Shu. Haha~!"

"The Sichuan dog barking at the sun is a metaphor for being surprised by something unfamiliar." Roadside finished speaking.

"..."

The corners of Chenxiang's mouth curled up slightly.

The saying "Shu dogs barking at the sun" on the roadside really made Chenxiang want to laugh.

"Uncle, do you have a grudge against dogs? You invented your own dog-beating stick technique and often tell jokes about dogs."

"I do have a grudge against dogs." said Lubian.

"Because I was bitten by a dog, and it was the Roaring Sky Dog."

"Have you ever been bitten by Roaring Sky Dog?!"

In Chenxiang's impression, the Sky Roaring Dog he met was quite well-behaved. During the time when he was captured and lived in the Heavenly Palace and knew nothing, Chenxiang rarely saw his uncle Erlang Shen, but Sky Roaring Dog often played with him.

Chenxiang knew where his uncle had hidden the Precious Lotus Lantern, as he discovered it when he was playing with Xiaotian Dog.

……

……

A year passed, and Kakashi Hatake once again received the list of members assigned to him from this year's ninja school graduates.

Lubian once told him that in a year, he would meet students whom he could recognize.

"Are these the three?" Kakashi picked up the information sheet for the three from the desk of the Third Hokage, Sarutobi Hiruzen. The sheet contained information such as the ninja numbers, birth dates, and hobbies of Haruno Sakura, Uchiha Sasuke, and Uzumaki Naruto.

Sakura Haruno, who was born a civilian ninja; Sasuke Uchiha, the orphan of the Uchiha clan; and the indescribable Naruto Uzumaki.

A year ago, when Kakashi had asked him to teach Uzumaki Naruto the Dog Beating Stick Technique, he had noticed that Naruto's personality was very similar to Obito's. Seeing the new three-person team arrangement today, Kakashi knew in his heart that this was another deliberate move by the Sandaime.

Before going to meet these three people, the Third Hokage Sarutobi Hiruzen personally took Kakashi to visit Uzumaki Naruto's home.

"That's terrible," Kakashi said.

Kakashi picked up a box of milk on Naruto's dining table and checked it, and found that the milk had been expired for a long time.

"You should still remember this child's personality, right?" Sarutobi Hiruzen asked Kakashi.

"It feels like a string is missing from Naruto's head. I feel much more at ease knowing you continue to be his teacher."

"Also, that kid Sasuke..."

"It's up to you from now on." The Sandaime smoked a cigarette.

"..."

"There's nothing I can do if they can't pass my assessment." Kakashi said to Sarutobi Hiruzen.

"I hope you can give them more guidance." Sarutobi Hiruzen said.

"I see."

Sarutobi Hiruzen hinted that he should be a little lenient during the test.

Is this acceptable?

Kakashi thought.

Well, let's see how they perform.

Kakashi came out of Naruto's house and walked towards the Ninja School. He did some "good deeds" on the way and arrived at the Ninja School slowly.

The other students and teachers had already left, and only Uzumaki Naruto, Uchiha Sasuke and Haruno Sakura were left in the classroom.

"Naruto, what are you going to do?"

"Hehehe~! Who made that guy so late? Teacher Iruka has gone back, and we are the only ones left in the whole school." Naruto said to Sakura.

"Whatever, I don't care." Sakura was secretly angry at Kakashi's lateness.

"Hmph, how could this little trick of clipping a chalk eraser on the door fool a Jonin?" Uchiha Sasuke said with some disdain.

Hatake Kakashi walked to the classroom door.

He reached out and opened the classroom door, then took a full-force sneak attack from the chalk eraser on his head.

"Snapped--!!"

"Ahahahaha!! He's hit!" Naruto pointed at Kakashi and laughed happily because Sasuke had just said it was impossible.

"Is this true?" Uchiha Sasuke questioned the ability of Kakashi, the senior ninja who walked into the classroom.

"Naruto……"

Kakashi spoke, brushing the chalk dust off his hair.

"Huh? It's Kakashi-sensei!?"

"Do you miss me?" Kakashi looked at Naruto with his dead fish eyes.

"No, no!!" Uzumaki Naruto waved his hands quickly, looking panicked.

"My first impression of you three is... quite annoying," Kakashi said.

"No...!" Uchiha Sasuke and Haruno Sakura were silent, only Uzumaki Naruto was wailing loudly.

"Naruto, do you know him?" Sakura asked Naruto in a low voice.

"Yeah, well...Kakashi-sensei whom I met last year." Naruto answered in a low voice, his expression suddenly becoming proud again.

Naruto looked at Sasuke.

"Let's go outside and talk and get to know each other." Kakashi took the lead and led the three students to the rooftop with a wide view.

(End of this chapter)

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