Chapter 61: Defeating Kurenai

'Perhaps only Kakashi might be able to match him?'

'But Kakashi doesn't seem to like real women…'

"I…"

Sakura subconsciously wanted to refute, but she stopped herself.

'When did I ever say I don't like Kage?'

"But it's okay, sensei, don't give up. With me here, we will definitely be able to take Kage back from that shameless female teacher!", Ino confidently patted her small chest and lifted Asuma, who had almost turned into a pile of ashes, from the ground.

"Then, I'll leave it to you," Asuma, who had no idea how to win back Kurenai, could only desperately seek help from this seemingly unreliable female student.

'Ino is a girl after all, and as a fellow girl, she should know a bit about Kurenai's thoughts, right?'

"No… that, compared to this, shouldn't the Chunin Exams be more important now?"

Although she didn't know why the teacher and student beside her had inexplicably formed a strange alliance.

But Sakura felt that rather than wasting time on such uncertain matters, it would be better to think about how to pass the upcoming Chunin Exams.

"Chunin Exams? What's there to worry about with an exam held every year? If it doesn't work out this time, there's always next time, right, sensei?"

"Ino is right," Asuma's Team 10 had long since given up.

"You guys…"

'Truly the most laid-back team,' Sakura didn't know how to criticize them anymore.

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"Sensei, as a genjutsu-type ninja, what abilities do you have to teach these two reconnaissance-type ninjas, wasting time on daily training…"

Uchiha Kage was at home planning how to stir up chaos in the ninja world, but before he could start, he was caught by the female teacher who came to find him.

She said it was for special training.

"What did you say?"

She, an elite jonin of the village, gave up her precious mission time to personally train genin students, something many genin would envy.

'How dare this guy complain about me?'

'And not just complain, but also say such distrustful and sarcastic remarks?'

'No, I must teach this guy a lesson.'

Yuhi Kurenai, while angrily rubbing the top of her student's head, thought about how to punish this disobedient student today.

However, while holding his body, she couldn't help but recall last night.

'Last night, this guy didn't appear in my dream.'

She really wanted to ask why, but there was no one she could ask.

Dreams aren't reality, and asking this disobedient student who always likes to contradict her wouldn't yield an answer.

Instead, she would probably be met with more sarcastic remarks, right?

Like——

'Sensei, so you've been fantasizing about doing that kind of thing with me in your dreams, huh? What a lewd and thirsty woman, disgusting.'

'Blah, blah, blah, absolutely must not let Kage know about my dreams!'

"Sensei… sensei, be gentler, Kage-kun seems… in pain,"

Noticing that Kurenai seemed to be holding Uchiha Kage tighter and tighter, Hinata quickly and sympathetically tugged at the female teacher's sleeve to remind her.

"Don't worry, he won't be strangled to death!"

However, realizing that she had subconsciously treated the real Uchiha Kage like the one in her dream and pressed him tightly against her chest, Kurenai quickly blushed and let go.

'Really, just a moment of carelessness…'

'Hmph, it's all because this guy didn't appear in my dream last night!'

"Sensei, are you going to teach us a new jutsu today?", Shino automatically filtered out the interactions between Kurenai, Uchiha Kage, and Hinata.

He had gradually gotten used to being a shining and warm third wheel.

"No, today he will teach you. He's right, I can only teach you genjutsu, and genjutsu doesn't match well with your respective clan secret techniques, so let the famous Uchiha clan teach you."

Kurenai decided to give this disobedient student a tough challenge.

"Me?"

Uchiha Kage noticed that the female teacher seemed a bit resentful today.

However, over this period, hadn't she been having more and more physical contact with him, and becoming more and more unrestrained?

Before, she only secretly took advantage of him, but now she's doing it openly.

After dodging Kurenai's groping hands, Uchiha Kage straightened his ruffled hair, thinking that tonight he must retaliate even more fiercely against this female teacher in the dream space.

As for last night, there was no choice. Although his action points in the dream space had increased a bit, he only had five in total.

One point to enter the instance, plus Tsunade, Hinata, Kaguya, and Uchiha Mikoto, had already used them all.

He had to give up on Kurenai and Sakura, who had already been optimized by his little brother.

Yes, although Sakura's legs are white and she's pretty and cute, every time it came to allocating action points, Uchiha Kage skipped Sakura.

Because his little brother never lies, it only makes the most correct choice.

Only when there are surplus action points might Sakura get a turn.

"But before that, sensei will have a match with Kage, and the loser pays for dinner tonight!"

'Let me see how far this guy's strength has come.'

'If possible, let's first dampen this student's arrogance.'

'He must learn to respect his teacher properly.'

"Eh? Sensei is going to fight Kage-kun…"

'What if someone gets hurt?'

Hinata started to worry again.

"No need to compete, sensei,"

Uchiha Kage quickly shook his head.

"What, knowing you can't win against sensei, so…"

"No, I've already learned all of sensei's genjutsu, so sensei can't defeat me."

"You… then let's compete in taijutsu."

'Is this guy such a genius?'

'He's already learned all my genjutsu?'

'Damn, that's the secret technique passed down through the Kurenai family, is this guy planning to marry into the family…'

"Sensei doesn't seem to be good at taijutsu, so let's forget it."

"You! you! you! I'm going to beat you up anyway!"

'Too infuriating,' Kurenai, who thought she had a good temper, couldn't hold back her anger anymore.

She must immediately pin this brat down and then properly discipline him.

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On the other side.

In the underground headquarters of the Root.

"Oh? The Third Hokage actually made him a squad leader in the Anbu?"

'How foolish.'

Although the Uchiha are a good blade, they are also a double-edged sword.

'Hmph, that old fool Sarutobi, is he planning to cultivate a second Uchiha Itachi?'

'But he's just a waste who can't even awaken the Sharingan, what a pipe dream.'

"Lord Danzo, besides that, there's also a strange person who joined the Anbu and was assigned to my group."

Thinking of that guy with his face wrapped in bandages, Ita, Sai instinctively felt that he wasn't simple.

"Hmm, this person you mentioned, I couldn't find him in Konoha's ninja records, but…"

These matters can be set aside for now, what Danzo is most concerned about is the treasure that Senju Tobirama entrusted to Sarutobi Hituzen in a dream.

This is also the fundamental reason he had Sai and other young Root members infiltrate the Anbu.

"Lord Danzo, there's an Anbu ninja outside who wants to see you," Just as Danzo was about to ask about the progress of investigating the treasure, someone outside suddenly spoke.

"Anbu?"

"He said the Hokage sent him to deliver a message to you."

"Hmph, the Hokage… let him in."

Danzo waved his hand to dismiss Sai from the room, then leisurely sat in the Root office, which was almost identical to the Hokage's office.

"Danzo, the Hokage asked me to tell you that before the Chunin Exams end, he hopes you won't make any moves…"

Uchiha Itachi, familiar with the place, arrived at Danzo's office.

Although he hadn't been in Root before, as a former Anbu member, he often frequented this place.

"What moves? Everything I do is for the sake of this village!", Before Uchiha Itachi could finish speaking, Danzo slammed the table, just like Sarutobi had done to him that day.

"Go tell Sarutobi that he can't monopolize our teacher's things, besides me, the other advisors of Konoha are also watching him!"

"This…"

Uchiha Itachi wasn't surprised by Danzo's strong stance in front of him, but he was curious about what Danzo referred to as that thing.

This was the second time he had heard about it.

'Could it be that Konoha really has some important special item?'

'This must be investigated thoroughly.'

"Get out!"

"Yes."

Not wanting to expose his identity in front of Danzo yet, Uchiha Itachi could only leave Root with a belly full of curiosity.

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