Saving the Uchiha clan starts with becoming the clan leader.

Maki frowned.

Do all embassies receive the same treatment?

Or perhaps... the Sand Ninja were receiving extra attention?

"Tsk! Kankuro, you don't have a knack for jinxing things, do you?" Maki said irritably, his mood turning heavy. While they genuinely didn't intend to cause any trouble in Konoha, as a ninja, he knew very well that their own thoughts weren't important; what mattered was what Konoha thought they were up to…

This task,

It's really not easy to do!

Lord Kazekage has truly assigned himself a daunting task!

Sigrún has taught at the Iceland University of the Arts as a part-time lecturer since and was Dean of the Department of Fine Art from -. In – she held a research position at Reykjavík Art Museum focusing on the role of women in Icelandic art. She studied fine art at the Icelandic College of Arts and Crafts and at Pratt Institute, New York, and holds BA and MA degrees in art history and philosophy from the University of Iceland. Sigrún lives and works in Iceland.

After instructing Sakura on her training in 'Water Release: Bubble Technique,' it was almost evening. Bubble declined the girl's invitation to dinner and leisurely returned to the dormitory of the United Rogue Ninja Investigation Department. Although he was actually a hostage sent to Konoha by the Fifth Mizukage to demonstrate his continued firm cooperation with Konoha, this could not be stated openly.

In name only,

He is a member of the Konoha-Kigakure Joint Rogue Ninja Investigation Department, a joint organization established by the two ninja villages. He has a room in the staff dormitory of the investigation headquarters. Compared to the Kigakure embassy, ​​Bubbles prefers to live in the staff dormitory here, where he doesn't have the fearful and disgusted looks from his fellow villagers in the embassy.

"Foam, you're back!"

Their staff dormitory was converted from a hotel. To be honest, apart from the fact that the residents in the rooms are temporarily settled, everything else is not much different from a hotel. Three meals are provided here, but you need to inform them one day in advance, otherwise you will have to eat out the next day.

As for the room,

There are also people who come to clean regularly, making it quite comfortable to live in. Anyway, the foam feels great, and you don't have to worry about too many trivial things, so you can concentrate on looking at the sky.

As soon as he stepped into the entrance hall today, he heard Hozuki Mangetsu's voice coming from the reception area on the first floor.

"Manyue, you're back early today!"

Foam was changing her shoes in the entryway when she casually asked a question.

Hozuki Mangetsu is his nominal superior.

However, given Hozuki Mangetsu's special status, Hozuki never asked Hozuki to do any work. Rather, Hozuki's job was to live a leisurely life in Konoha Village. If he felt like it, he could try to better control the power of the tailed beast within him. Apart from that, Hozuki didn't have to worry about anything else.

But after spending these past few years together...

The two have a good relationship.

Hozuki Mangetsu wasn't the type to look at Hozuki with strange eyes. On the contrary, he envied Hozuki's status as a Jinchūriki. He didn't care about the Jinchūriki thing at all. He just thought that the power of the Tailed Beasts was very precious. If he could become a Jinchūriki, his strength would definitely increase significantly.

Unfortunately, his wish was not fulfilled.

It was decided long ago that Umaru would be the successor to the Six-Tails Jinchuriki, and the Three-Tails inside the Fourth Mizukage... because of the Sixth Hokage, according to the Fourth Mizukage's last wishes, was ultimately released into the great lake of the Land of Water.

Not long ago, there was a rumor that when the Sixth Hokage raided Amegakure and wiped out the Akatsuki organization, he summoned the Three-Tails to fight... I don't know if it's true or not.

However, Hozuki Mangetsu thinks it's highly likely to be true!

"I had some things to take care of today, so I came back a little early," Hozuki Mangetsu replied.

"Is that so? Then... um? And who is this?" After changing into indoor shoes, Foam arrived at the reception area in the lobby on the first floor and saw Hozuki Mangetsu sitting on the sofa drinking juice, and a boy next to him who was also holding a juice bottle and making a "sizzling" sound while biting a straw.

White hair, purple eyes

And shark-like sharp teeth

And that pale, almost sickly skin.

No matter how you look at it... it looks like a miniature version of Hozuki Full Moon?

"Hello, I am Hozuki Suigetsu."

The boy waved and greeted them with a grin.

"Ah! Your brother?"

"Yes."

Hozuki Mangetsu nodded, a hint of helplessness on his face, and said lazily, "Let me formally introduce you. This is my younger brother, Hozuki Mangetsu, thirteen years old, a troublesome little brat. He was so cute when he was little... Sigh!"

"Hey, bro, I'm your good little brother now, okay? I'm very well-behaved, and you saying that makes me really sad!"

Hozuki Suigetsu screamed.

"It is indeed quite annoying."

At this moment, Foam nodded in agreement.

Ugh! My head hurts!

Hozuki Mangetsu sighed.

"...No way?" Hozuki Suigetsu stared at the bubbles with great interest. "Um, senpai, isn't it a bit inappropriate to talk like that about a junior you've just met?"

"Just telling the truth."

Bubble answered calmly.

Full Moon, this little brother, is clearly the kind of mischievous little devil. Although such little guys are often very smart, they are really annoying in every sense of the word.

"Full moon, have the teams from the village who are participating in the Chunin Exams arrived yet?"

Foam sat down on the empty single sofa next to her.

There's no need to go back to the room right now. Dinner is about to start. He'll go back to the room to shower and rest after dinner. He usually sits here reading comics or something during this time before meals. The bookshelf next to him is regularly updated with comics.

"They arrived yesterday."

Hozuki Full Moon is not surprising, the bubbles are unclear.

He knew that Bubble would basically not go to the embassy, ​​and the investigation headquarters didn't have any work for Bubble to handle, so it was normal that he didn't know about this.

"Then, today this kid sneaked out of the embassy and came to find me... I brought him to Konoha a few years ago, and I didn't expect him to still remember the way. He ran straight to my office and asked me if there would be a written test in this Chunin Exams, and he wanted to get the answers from me."

Speaking of last,

Hozuki Mangetsu really made me want to cover my face and sigh.

"Hmm, pretty impressive." Bubble didn't know what to say, so he could only give a vague compliment. Coming over directly to ask for the answers in preparation for cheating, he truly deserves to be Full Moon's younger brother. In every sense, the two brothers are so extraordinary.

"Just tell me, are you going to give it to me or not, bro?"

Hozuki Suigetsu started shouting again.

"Let me make this clear! My academic grades are so low that I can barely write my own name correctly. If there's a written exam... it won't just be me who loses face if I fail, but my family and the village will also lose face."

"Then you'd better go and study properly!"

Hozuki Mangetsu glared angrily.

"Eh? I don't want to do something so boring! Besides, when have we Mist Ninja ever cared about something as boring as studying? The most important thing for a ninja is to be able to fight." Hozuki Suigetsu retorted confidently, and it has to be said that his twisted logic sounded quite plausible.

Indeed!

Force is a ninja's greatest asset.

only--

Studying and being good at fighting aren't necessarily incompatible choices, are they? Watching the two brothers argue, Bubble silently pondered the boy's twisted logic and quickly found the obvious flaw: knowledge is power too!

"Shuiyue, you've come here today looking for trouble, haven't you?"

"Brother, don't wrong me."

"Hmph, you think you can fight? Shuiyue, you better be humble. You don't actually think that once you pass the written test, you'll have no opponents in the actual combat, do you?"

"We need to be careful with the Cloud Ninja; their Lightning Release techniques are quite troublesome."

Hozuki Suigetsu replied with a grin.

This statement clearly shows that the lower-ranking ninjas of the other villages are not taken seriously.

"...Do you still remember those Konoha kids you used to play with when you were little?" Hozuki Mangetsu suddenly calmed down, looking at his younger brother who had been raised in the village and had become somewhat arrogant. He thought to himself that, putting aside the deeper conflicts, the Chunin Exams seemed to be a good thing in terms of the exams themselves.

It's really a shame that Shuiyue, that idiot, has been stuck in the village all this time; her perspective is really too narrow.

"Fuji... Fujika, is that what it's called? If I remember correctly, there's also Yakumo and Naruto, right? What? Bro, are Fujika and the others also participating in this Chunin Exams?" Hozuki Suigetsu spent some time flipping through his past memories, recalling the friends he had played with for a short period of time.

"That's right, they will also participate in this exam."

Hozuki Mangetsu nodded.

"It's not just them, but also half of Bubble's disciple will be participating in this Chunin Exam. Not to mention Yakumo and Fujika, you might not be able to beat that disciple who has been learning how to finish off opponents from Bubble for half a year. If you lose too badly, don't say I didn't warn you in advance."

Hozuki Mangetsu looked at his overly proud younger brother and said meaningfully.

"Half a disciple? Why only half?"

however,

To Hozuki Mangetsu's utter rage, Hozuki Suigetsu's focus was clearly completely different from what he had hoped to see.

"Ha ha!"

Foam chuckled softly, a rare occurrence for him. He glanced at the noisy boy and said to Full Moon, "Full Moon, I now think your younger brother is really quite good. His future achievements will probably not be much less than yours."

[Chapter 414. The Art of Erasing Faces]

Of course, Hozuki Mangetsu would never do something like leaking exam questions. To be precise, he couldn't do it either, because this year's Chunin Exams in Konoha didn't even have a written test. His younger brother's worries were completely meaningless.

He has been in Konoha Village for about five years.

Over the past five years,

At least I made a group of friends. Although I couldn't get the precise and detailed inside information, I did hear that the Hokage had given instructions to skip the written exam, saying that not every ninja village has a mature education system like Konoha, and that each village's teaching materials are different...

As for playing any tricks that require strategy and courage...

Zongxian wasn't that bored. To be honest, those bluffing words like "If you don't quit, you'll be a genin for life if you fail" could only fool people a little when he was alone. It would be too stupid to play that game in the joint Chunin Exams. Konoha couldn't afford to prevent genin from other villages from becoming chunin for life.

Especially since this is the Chunin Exams, a joint ninja exam, all the ninja villages that Konoha can contact will participate. There's no need to humiliate ourselves with such a pointless trick.

Key point

We still need to focus on real combat.

then,

After the more than thirty elite soldiers and officers of the Chunin Exam Preparation Command worked day and night, they produced a plan and delivered it to Sogen's desk. Once Sogen signed it and the date was set, the command began to put the plan into action in full swing.

Invitation letters bearing the Hokage's signature were being sent to various ninja villages throughout the ninja world. During this time, a minor incident occurred: it was discovered that the Hidden Sound Village had not yet been disbanded or expelled. Fortunately, this was resolved quickly and decisively. Besides delivering the letters, there was also the busy work of preparing the examination venue and selecting examiners…