"Tsk! Troublesome girl!"

Since then, a week had passed, and now Kazutora found himself in the academy, listening to the teacher speak about the Will of Fire.

Later that night, in an effort to calm Tsunade's anger, Kazutora brought some food from outside, along with sake, and spent the entire night playing games and chilling with her. This seemed to improve Tsunade's mood, and they silently agreed not to bring up the matter again.

While Kazutora enjoyed the night, his clones diligently worked in the room, learning more about sealings. The first seal Kazutora aimed to master was the Yin seal, or as he referred to it for now, the Yang Seal.

By the end of the fourth day, he had successfully formed the seal. Unlike Tsunade, who bore a diamond mark on her forehead, Kazutora opted to place the seal between his palms, akin to the Kama Seal. He planned to incorporate additional functions into it besides chakra storage and activation.

On the fourth day, Tsunade returned with several books and files on Curse seals, but she seemed visibly troubled. Kazutora sensed that she must have seen a few of Orochimaru's experiments, but he refrained from commenting on it.

As usual, Tsunade dragged him into another night of drinking and gaming, forcing Kazutora to send a clone to the academy, as she held onto him tightly in her sleep. During her slumber, Tsunade whispered a few things that Kazutora couldn't discern, but the tears escaping her eyes made him understand that she was revisiting past events.

He stayed beside her to provide warmth and used his pure natural energy to massage her forehead and soothe her nerves. Under the purifying and calming effect of his natural energy, Tsunade's expression changed to a happy one, and she slept while holding him tightly in her arms.

The next day, Tsunade acted as if nothing had happened, and Kazutora didn't mention anything. However, he could feel that Tsunade's attitude towards him had become more enthusiastic, and he felt weirdly happy about it. He knew that he had some crush on her, and it wasn't a bad situation for him.

Now, in the academy, Kazutora looked at the teacher leaving with his class over, and he remembered that the next class was Nono Yakushi's.

'I have paid attention to her for the past week and I didn't notice her paying specific attention to me.'

'But this makes things even weirder as there is no way the Third Hokage didn't pay attention to this matter. He must know about Nono being a spy in ROOT as he should have some men there, and this makes me wonder what he is thinking.'

'Does he want to use Tsunade to deal with Danzo and take her out of ROOT? After all, Nono is a good spy, and he must have some plans for her.'

Kazutora thought with some coldness in his eyes as he thought of the Third Hokage, whom he had met and the conspiracy theories about him. He knew that Danzo is a messed up man, but he couldn't say the same for the Third Hokage, as most were theories and there was nothing clear in the canon.

'But this game of balancing makes me feel like how politicians did from different states to calm the troubles in their state, and it feels like he has become a Dictatorial leader to a politician to balance everything.'

Kazutora knew that the village was somewhat like a mercenary organization where the Hokage's power was supreme, but looking at Hiruzen, Kazutora couldn't say anything.

'Well, I have communicated with Kabuto, and he did mention someone wearing bandages visiting his orphanage.'

At that time, Kazutora felt the chakra fluctuate of Nono, and from this, he knew that Nono was definitely sent by Danzo to not only keep an eye on him but also others in the classroom.

His eyes flickered as he looked at Nono entering the room with a gentle smile on her face that gave everyone a refreshing feeling, and looking at the kids in the room, Kazutora could see that everyone had a good impression of Nono.

'So that's how it is, not only Nono is to keep an eye on everyone, but she has to maintain relationships with everyone, and maybe other tasks such as breaking friendships between two that shouldn't have or like creating conflicts between two guys whose clans have a good relationship.'

'As expected of Danzo who is known for traumatizing geniuses.'

Kazutora thought while sitting down, and he felt a poke on his shoulder. Looking at his right, he looked at Hana with a questioning look in his eyes but Hana turned her head away and didn't say anything.

How could she say that she had smelled his scent changing from pleasant and sweet to cold and chilling, and just smelling that scent made her shudder and feel some excitement.

'Just what is wrong with him?'

Hana thought while ignoring Kazutora's questioning eyes. Sometimes, he is like a warm sun while other times, he is like a cold night. Kazutora looked at Hana for a moment, and then he looked ahead.

He had decided to report Nono to Tsunade today, but he wanted Nono under them instead of returning to the Hokage. He wondered what he could do to express his views indirectly but he felt like he had no way to mention this matter indirectly.

'Hmm, I can ask Tsunade about Danzo first and then say that we can get her to be our Spy Rootsots. As for the curse seal on her, I should be able to unlock it or change it to work for us.'

'As for support for the Orphanage, I will donate some money or I will just give Nono enough salary to keep her from betraying and letting her fulfill her goal of providing a good environment for orphans.'

Thinking of this, Kazutora smiled and the two girls beside him turned their heads away with a blush on their faces.

'What's with this idiot smiling like this?'

Hana thought in her mind while calming herself and Hina sneaked glances at Kazutora from time to time while hiding her blush with her hands on her cheeks.

She still couldn't forget Kazutora's whispers to him, and they were like the Devil's whisper that reminded her of her fate as a caged bird and the fact that she won't get anything for her hard work as these are the things she ought to do because she is a member of the Hyuga Branch Clan.

Even though Nono looked straight, from the corner of her eye, she caught the movements of Hina and Hana. She didn't see Kazutora directly but she remembered the report she had received from a spy in the Konoha Hospital.

'He is talented enough to graduate early and even Danzo knows this but they hadn't mentioned anything about it. Is it because he is Senju? I don't need to care about this matter but why do I feel that he was smiling at him?'

Nono shook these thoughts out of her mind, and she looked at the children in the room who listened to her words with serious looks on their faces.

'It isn't a bad feeling. A pity that as soon as I am caught, my time will be over and I will never be able to teach just because I want to teach.'

Feeling the emotions rising in her mind, Nono calmed herself and this is the reason why she is an external member of ROOT. They are required to forget their emotions and work as tools, but even after years of training, Nono couldn't let go of her emotions.

After Nono's class, it was recess and Kazutora looked at three lunch bunches in front of him. Since Mikoto came to visit them and his 'secret' was revealed, Mikoto sent a lunchbox to him every day, and the other lunch box wasn't from Izumi but Hana beside her.

When he asked about this, she said that her mother gave this as thanks for taking care of her good daughter but he felt weird hearing good from her mouth.

"Here, let's eat together like always," Kazutora said opening the lunch box and today he had made food by himself.

sunade knew how to make riceballs, but that's all. Shizune can cook but she has to go to Hospital early, so Kazutora cooked on his own, and he made Chicken Tikka and Honey Chilli Potato today.

"Mm! It smells delicious," Hana said while smelling the spicy and sweet scent of the food, and Hina beside him wiped the drool from her face.

"Can I?" She asked and Kazutora smiled and pushed the lunchbox to her. She took a piece and as she ate it, she felt warmth in her mouth and a tear escaped her eyes.

"Hmm? Was it too spicy?" Kazutora asked while eating one, and Hana did the same but they didn't think that it was spicy enough to make someone cry.

"No, it's delicious," Hina said while wiping the tears. The reason why she cried was because she felt that his lunch tasted the same as her mother's cooking and the last time she ate her mother's lunch was more than a year ago.

No, her mother hadn't died but she was sent to a mission outside by the clan and it's been a year since Hina last saw her mother.

Kazutora could feel something was wrong with Hina and he heard Hana whisper, "She is sad,"

His expression changed and he remembered the scene where a girl cried when she ate's boy's cooking as it tasted like her late mother's and Kazutora patted her head and said, "You can cry if you want. Your mother wouldn't want you to cry, but sometimes crying helps you to take off the emotions and prevent you from feeling stuffy and getting depressed."

Hana opened her mouth with a dumbfounded look on her face as she looked at Kazutora's actions, and it was the same for Izumi, Itachi, and the Ino-Shika-Chou trio.

They could only look at Kazutora with an amazed look on their faces as even though they could feel that something was wrong, they didn't have the guts or chance to say something cheesy like this.

Hina's face turned red as she heard the words and she covered her face.

"My mother isn't dead, idiot," She whispered in a low voice and Kazutora's expression changed at her words. Before he could feel second-hand embarrassment, Hina's words calmed everyone there.

"It's just I haven't seen her for a year and I remembered her when I ate your food. It tastes delicious and has the same feeling as my mother's cooking."

Kazutora was relieved at her words and after patting her once, he took his hand away. He saw everyone staring at him with amazed looks on their faces, and Kazutora picked a few pieces of fries and ate them.

"If you won't eat, I won't leave it for you." He said as he took another piece of chicken tikka, and the others jumped to take his food. Looking at the scene, Kazutora had a smile on his face and this is one of the reasons why he came to the Academy on his own instead of sending the clone.

The feeling of having friends, sharing lunch, laughing and teasing each other was something Kazutora enjoyed a lot and Shikakuro looked at Kazutora with a thoughtful look on his face.

'Ino-Shika-Chou, Uchiha, Hyuga, Inuzuka and Senju! He also has a good relationship with Kabuto Yakushi, who seems to be related to Teacher Nono, and is somewhat representative of civilians in the class.'

'Only Shimura, Sarutobi, and the children from the family of two elders aren't someone Kazutora chooses to speak to, and it was expected as they are bunch of idiots.'

'He even talks with Aburame clan member, whom many in the class don't even notice, and this is such a big thing to be able to do in a week.'

'Do the people of Senju clan really have such a good charisma? He knows what to say, and how to say. He is even good at consoling others and the smile on Hina Hyuga's face gives the answer.'

'Not only that, he is strongest in the class and uncle said that Kazutora also works at Hospital and it is an open knowledge to everyone.'

'This is perfect Hokage template and it is like the whole village is grooming him to become Hokage in future.'

Shikakuro's eyes flickered as he thought of what Shikaku said to him.

"A Senju becoming Hokage is a good thing for the village but if a Senju chooses to not become Hokage, then you must understand that either village has disappeared or the village is going to face a major problem that could destroy the village not from outside but inside."

Thinking of these words, and now looking at the situation, Shikakuro had to say that Uncle Shikaku's words made sense and he felt that the future is going to be troublesome.

But the slight smile of Shikakuro's face showed his real thoughts and he wouldn't deny that he was enjoying the situation quite a bit.

"Hey! Leave some for me too!" Shikakuro said as he looked at everyone taking the food and looking at the last few fries in the box, Shikakuro was about to take them but he saw Chichi taking them away and eating them with a wide grin on her face.

"Tsk! Troublesome girl!" Shikakuro clicked his tongue and from the start, he could only eat once, and he looked at other lunch boxes on the table.

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