Chapter 165: A Hatred Born out of Nothing.

Chapter 165: A Hatred Born out of Nothing.

It was May. A month had passed since the future Rookie 9 entered their final year at the academy.

Naruto and his friends were near the academy grounds enjoying their lunch break. Hinata and Sakura were reading a book while Shikamaru was laying on the ground looking at the sky. Ino was calmly eating her lunch while Kiba, Naruto and Choji fought for the food in front of theirs. And lastly Shino was off to the side under the shade of a tree observing the small insects flying about.

"Hey, hey. I came up with this really cool technique that I'm sure is gonna work against Iruka sensei. It's gonna be awesome." Naruto's excitement to use his new technique on his academy teacher was blatantly visible on his face.

"I'm pretty sure whatever juvenile technique you're gonna use is just gonna get you in trouble." Shikamaru said with a sigh, never taking his eyes off the clouds.

"Yeah! Aren't you tired of getting detention, Naruto?" Ino asked with exasperation.

"No way. Even if I do get detention, I'll find a way to skip it." The blonde boy said with his arms crossed. "And besides, the classes are getting boring. Wish I could graduate soon and go on some awesome missions. Like rescuing a princess or stopping an evil warlord." Naruto was eager to begin his journey as a Genin but he still had a year to go.

"Yeah. I kinda wish I put in a request for early graduation too" "Arf Arf!" Updated from novelbIn.(c)om

Kiba and Akamaru agreed with that sentiment.

"I wonder how Daichi's doing? I bet he's going to all kinds of cool places." Choji said as he took the last piece of meat while Naruto and Kiba were distracted.

"Hey I was gonna eat that." Kiba and Naruto said at the same time.

The young Akimichi smirked victoriously as he looked at the two. "Never take your eyes off the prize."

Naruto sat down grumbling.

"Have any of you guys seen Daichi these days?" Ino asked the group.

"No. We looked for him in the usual places after the academy but we didn't find him." Kiba said.

"I bet he's on some super secret dangerous mission protecting someone important." Naruto imagined those as the kind of missions he would do when he became a Genin.

"Not exactly Naruto." Daichi said, standing behind the kid.

"Ghaa!" Naruto almost jumped out of his skin when he heard the voice behind him. "Where'd you come from?"

"Oh I just came to visit my pals." The young Genin said with a smile.

"Daichi! We thought you might be on a mission." Ino smiled at him. She had a small blush on her face as she looked at him.

"I'm just starting out. So I get assigned simple missions for the moment."

Daichi sat down with his friends and placed a small bag of snacks in the middle of the group. They all took some and began asking Daichi questions about his Genin life.

Daichi answered their questions and Naruto was disappointed to learn that they would have to do simple D Rank missions when they became Genin.

"Um Daichi, do you have any more books on Medicine? I'm almost done with the one you gave me." Sakura said.

Daichi was only mildly surprised. 'That book had more information than what's taught at the academy but it still only contained the basic information. Even so I thought it would take her at least 3 months to finish. For her to complete it already is just Well Her strength at the moment does lay in storing information'

Daichi nodded. "Yeah. I'll give you the titles of some reference books. They'll probably be in the Academy Library. So you can check them out whenever you want."

"I can't believe you're asking for more books to study."

"Yeah. There's no way I'd do that."

Naruto and Kiba said in unison.

"Well maybe if you two knuckleheads did study then you would have better grades." Ino told them and defended her friend.

"That reminds me, I remember giving you a book on chakra control. Have you read it?" Daichi asked Naruto.

Sakura snorted at that notion. "Yeah. Good luck with that."

"Hey. I'm serious."

They soon entered the class and waited for their teacher. A few moments later the door opened.

"Good Afternoon, Mizuki sensei."

The class greeted him. The man had a kind smile and greeted all the students. When his eyes reached Naruto, the smile on his face cracked for only a split second but he successfully kept the facade of a kind loving teacher.

No one saw the hate in the teacher's eyes except for one person.

Shikamaru didn't believe Daichi at first and thought he was just being paranoid or something. But he decided to trust his friend and his own instinct and paid close attention to his teacher from the moment the man set foot in the room.

It was only because he paid such scrutinizing attention that he saw such a split second micro expression. The young Nara frowned as he looked at his academy instructor. 'Daichi is definitely on to something. This guy is not what he seems.'

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"597 598 599 600."

Daichi completed the 600 rep handstand and landed on his feet. 'I got another 2 points in strength. One in stamina. Doing it with weights is the best way to improve stats. I need to increase the stats as much as I can and get them to 300. I need the perks more than ever.'

Daichi wiped the sweat with a towel and sat down. He soon began meditating along with the several clones near him.

Some time later he sensed the arrival of his Jonin teacher.

"So what's it this time?" Daichi asked the man.

"My alarm clock stopped working so I got up late. I'll fix it after our mission."

"Mmmhm!"

Daichi released the shadow clones and stood. "So what's the mission today?"

"Let's go find out."

With that the 2 man team headed for the tower. Soon they reached the mission desk. They saw the Hokage assigning missions to various teams.

"Aah! Team Kakashi. Welcome."

"Lord Hokage." The two ninja greeted their leader.

"If you're interested I have a C Rank mission for you." The old leader said.

Daichi straightened and nodded.

"Well, since my student is so eager I guess we'll take it." Kakashi said with a smile.

The kage gave a scroll to Kakashi and gave them a mission overview. "It's a document Delivery mission to Tonika Village."

At that moment a new quest popped up.

[Quest Created - Delivery Mission to Tonika Village.]

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