For the next five months or so, Shiro Akira and Kakashi never received any other missions, and Yuhi Shinku also never returned.
Konoha had already officially gone to war with Sunagakure more than three months ago.
At the same time, Kumogakure and Kirigakure had also gotten involved one after another.
Konoha had no choice but to dispatch even more forces to deal with them.
Almost the entire village's ninja strength had been drawn away.
Over these past few months, Shiro Akira and Kakashi's shadow clones had gone to the mission hall every day to pick suitable D-rank missions.
Their main bodies, meanwhile, led Kurenai, Asuma, Obito, and the others in group training, continuing to improve their strength.
At the same time, Shiro Akira would also create shadow clones to train in ninjutsu, study medical skills, and help out at the hospital.
His days were extremely fulfilling.
Just like that, both he and Kakashi passed their seventh birthdays, and even most of their seventh year had already gone by.
Time arrived at the end of Konoha Year 41.
"Damn it! Who exactly has been constantly taking those relatively easy D-rank missions like finding cats and dogs recently, leaving only trash-picking, toilet-cleaning, and livestock-pen chores behind? This is too much!"
"Exactly! Exactly! This is already the twelfth time in the past few months that I've received a toilet-cleaning mission. I've had enough!"
"You think you're the only one?"
"This is too much! They're simply not acting human!"
"Doesn't Lord Hokage care?"
At this moment, the mission hall was already in an uproar.
There was no helping it. Shiro Akira and Kakashi had gone too far.
Every day, they came early and picked away all the easy missions. Naturally, one could imagine what kind of missions were left for the other Genin teams.
Forget those Genin—even their team leaders were somewhat speechless.
Someone directly reported the situation to the Hokage.
"Ah, this…"
Shiro Akira and Kakashi's shadow clones had just happened to arrive a little later today. Seeing this scene, they exchanged a glance and immediately turned around to leave.
What kind of joke was this? If these people found out, they would be in trouble.
"Ahem!"
Before they could leave the Hokage Building, the Third Hokage appeared in front of them at some point, blocking their path. He smiled while holding his pipe, then said to the two of them with some helplessness, "I already understand your situation. Go and call your main bodies over!"
"After careful consideration, I feel that your strength is enough to shoulder more important missions. So I've decided to assign you more important tasks. Have your main bodies come to my office."
To be honest, allowing Shiro Akira, who had at least Jonin-level strength, and Kakashi, who had at least Chunin-level strength, to stay in the village and leisurely rest for nearly half a year had already been quite generous.
First, he did indeed cherish talent and wanted to give them more time to grow.
Second, for Tsunade's and Sakumo's sake, he had not rushed to send them to the battlefield.
But now, the village was basically fighting one against four, and manpower was stretched thin.
Since Shiro Akira and Kakashi had already rested for so long and had caused this kind of trouble, he might as well send the two of them to the front line.
As for how they would be arranged afterward, that would depend on Sakumo.
It just so happened that Sakumo was currently stationed on the eastern battlefield against Kirigakure.
If Shiro Akira and Kakashi were handed over to him, even if something really went wrong, that would be Sakumo's responsibility.
"Uh… alright!"
After hearing this, Shiro Akira and Kakashi's shadow clones exchanged a look and simultaneously dispelled the Shadow Clone Technique.
At this moment, Shiro Akira and Kakashi, who had just arrived at the riverside training base to prepare for training, both froze. After receiving the information in their minds, they looked at each other.
Shiro Akira spread his hands helplessly. "Looks like we can't hide anymore."
"Let's go! We knew this day would come sooner or later, didn't we?"
Kakashi directly put away his ninja tools and belongings, stood up, and headed toward the Hokage Building.
"That's true!"
Shiro Akira nodded and followed. "Still, reporting us to the Third Hokage? That's too much! How could they trouble Lord Hokage over such a tiny matter?"
Shiro Akira expressed his disapproval toward such people.
"The fact that they endured it for half a year before reporting us is already pretty impressive."
Kakashi disagreed.
If he put himself in their place, he didn't think the other side had done anything too excessive.
From the very first day they did this, they should have been prepared for it.
Besides, he was somewhat looking forward to leaving the village to complete higher-difficulty missions.
After half a year of tempering and training, he was already becoming impatient to test the results of his cultivation.
"That's true!"
Shiro Akira nodded.
Before long, the two arrived at the Hokage's office and pushed open the door.
"Lord Hokage!"
Seeing the Third Hokage, the two greeted him directly.
"You're here!"
The Third Hokage nodded, took out a mission scroll, and handed it to Shiro Akira. "Here! This is your mission. Soon, a batch of supplies will be transported to the battlefield front line near Kikyo Castle. You two will join as escort personnel."
"After completing this mission, you will receive a message-delivery mission from Orochimaru and head to the eastern battlefield against Kirigakure to deliver a letter to White Fang. Any problems?"
Shiro Akira quickly accepted the mission scroll, opened it, and read it together with Kakashi. Then he nodded and said, "No problem! Leave it to us!"
"Don't misunderstand!"
Unexpectedly, when the Third Hokage heard that, he said speechlessly, "You don't think such an important supply-escort mission would really be handed entirely to just the two of you, do you? There will be another team and a Jonin leading them. You two are only part of the escort force."
"Since there's no problem, hurry to the village gate and gather. You'll be departing in one hour. The Jonin leading the team is Hyuga Hizashi. Don't get it wrong."
What was this kid thinking?
No matter what, he couldn't let two Genin lead a supply escort, right?
"Ah… alright! We'll go now!"
Shiro Akira looked regretful.
So what if they were Genin? So what if there were only two of them?
They were very strong, alright?
After leaving the Hokage Building, Shiro Akira paused and created a shadow clone, then instructed it, "Go home and pack the things I need."
"Hah?"
The shadow clone listened and said helplessly, "Why don't you go yourself?"
"Aren't you me?"
Shiro Akira also waved his hand speechlessly. "Stop wasting time. I still need to go to the academy and say goodbye to Kurenai. This time, once we leave, who knows when we'll come back?"
From the looks of it, the Third Hokage was preparing to leave them outside for a long time. Of course he had to properly tell his little girlfriend.
The shadow clone said, "Damn it! I also want to go say goodbye to Kurenai!"
Shiro Akira snapped, "Get lost!"
"Fine!"
The shadow clone cursed back, then quickly flickered away.
Watching this from the side, Kakashi was completely speechless. "Your shadow clone really has personality. I'm going back to pack my things. We'll meet at the village gate later."
With that, Kakashi quickly left.
Shiro Akira, meanwhile, arrived at the academy. He directly pushed open the door to the classroom, ignored the many gazes that turned toward him, and said to Kurenai, "Kurenai, come out for a moment!"
Then he nodded at the teacher on the podium before retreating outside.
Oki Fujiwara: "…"
What the hell? I've never seen such an arrogant student in my life.
And he was already a graduated student at that.
Over on Kurenai's side, facing the entire class's synchronized gazes, she couldn't help blushing slightly and looked toward the teacher.
Oki Fujiwara helplessly waved his hand, signaling that she could go out.
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