Unfinished Request

"Knock~knock~knock~"

Lin Ke rubbed his eyes, glanced at the alarm clock, it was just past seven in the morning. He looked towards the window, yawning, and said, "Yan Shui Teacher, what's the urgent matter that brings you here so early?" As he spoke, he got out of bed.

"Sorry, sorry..." Nara Yan Shui naturally pushed open the window and entered the room, apologizing, but without any hint of remorse on his face.

"Milk? Soda? Juice?" Lin Ke walked over and opened the refrigerator.

Nara Yan Shui waved his hand, indicating he didn't need anything, and then said, "I know you just returned from a mission yesterday afternoon, but there is indeed something waiting for you."

"Is there a special mission?" Lin Ke closed the refrigerator, perking up.

"Remember the mission to compete for the Gold Mine in the Land of Rivers?" Nara Yan Shui asked.

Seeing Lin Ke nod, he continued, "The mining of the Gold Mine is going smoothly. The Land of Wind wants to negotiate the price of the gold sales. The previous client wants to continue to hire us to protect him on his trip to the Land of Wind..."

"So, it's considered a village-designated mission?" Lin Ke asked calmly.

"That's right." Nara Yan Shui gave an affirmative answer. "The client is a rising star among merchants, and he's willing to spend money."

"An A-Rank Mission."

"That guy specifically requested you to participate in this mission."

Lin Ke thought for a moment and asked, "When do we leave?"

"In two days. The client is currently in Tanzaku Street." Nara Yan Shui gave the time and location, and then said, "The possibility of encountering combat on this mission is low, but the client..."

Thinking about it, it's obvious why he's willing to spend the money for an A-Rank Mission. Last time in the Land of Rivers was theoretically just for fun, with low risk, but he almost died there.

Now that he's willing to spend money, it's not surprising.

"That's all." He didn't say it too bluntly, believing that his precocious subordinate would understand, and said, "If there are no other questions, we'll prepare to leave for Tanzaku Street in two days."

Seeing his subordinate nod, he left in a Body Flicker Technique.

Lin Ke didn't close the window. The weather was nice today, and the wind was somewhat gentle. After entering spring, the climate was getting better and better.

I should buy some new clothes...

He thought while washing up. His height had been growing quite well recently. At seven years old, he was only 1.2 meters tall, and at nine years old when he graduated, he was still less than 1.3 meters. He didn't grow much at all for two years.

He didn't know if it was related to his desperate training and lack of money to supplement enough nutrition...

Anyway, from his graduation last year to seeing Uzumaki Naruto and Team 7 now, it's been exactly one year, and he's grown from less than 1.3 meters to 1.44 meters.

A growth of more than ten centimeters in a year was too ideal. A certain Great Demon King would cry if he saw that.

He's only ten years old this year. His birthday is in May, so he's not even ten years old yet. Although he hasn't reached the height of a tall person, at least his growth is very good. If it continues, becoming a 1.8-meter-tall person is not a problem at all.

However, height isn't the fastest thing he's growing. The horizontal muscle growth is really super obvious. The new clothes he bought two months ago already feel tight.

Overusing the Mystical Palm Technique to train his body has a good effect, but it's a bit too precocious. With his clothes off, a small 1.4-meter-tall guy has muscles all over his body, which looks super awkward.

Combined with his not-so-big head...

"Glug, glug." After washing up, Shadow had already prepared breakfast. Lin Ke first downed a large glass of milk and burped.

He's different from Naruto. He doesn't really like milk, but, well, they say drinking more milk helps you grow taller, so...

After eating breakfast, he took his small wallet and set off to the commercial street to buy some new clothes and some sweets. Thinking about it, it had been a long time since he had eaten Amaguriama, and he missed it very much.

"Whoosh~" The sound of clothes rubbing against the air rang out, and Nara Yan Shui's voice arrived belatedly: "Oh, right—"

His words stopped, and he looked at Shadow, who was dressing Lin Ke, with a complicated expression, and said, "Nara Shikaku wants to see you."

His subordinate has mastered a secret technique related to shadows... He actually only found out about this last month. It was during a mission that the other party used shadows to kill an opponent and save a ninja from their village, so the matter spread.

He was the first to be called in for a talk, followed by the Third Hokage's intervention. Involving the village's genius and the genius's strange Bloodline Limit, they were naturally cautious. It was only these few days that Nara Shikaku, as one of the previous generation's Konoha Village Ino-Shika-Cho, decided to chat with the little guy.

Lin Ke smiled a little awkwardly, took the sleeve from Shadow's hand, and let it return to his feet, and said, "Yeah, when?"

"It's not mandatory. If you have time, you can visit the Nara Clan Grounds at any time." Nara Yan Shui couldn't help but glance at the other party's shadow—

Logically speaking, manipulating shadows is Nara's specialty, but controlling one's own shadow to take care of oneself is really too strange.

"Okay, do I need to submit a visiting card in advance or something?" Lin Ke asked.

Nara Yan Shui rolled his eyes, "Do you think it's ancient times? Just going over is fine." He was just about to leave when he couldn't help but glance at the shadow again.

How strange, let me take another look.

He left again with complicated feelings.

Has it finally come to this?

Lin Ke wasn't surprised, he was even prepared for it. The abilities he had shown were too many and too varied. It was impossible for the village not to have guesses and ideas.

The Shadow Clone ability was too similar to the Nara's shadow secret techniques. The fact that they waited until today to find him meant that the steady faction, led by the Third Hokage, was secretly protecting him.

But this kind of protection wasn't forever, it had to be resolved sooner or later. So he had long expected that they would want to talk to him, so it wasn't too surprising.

"Squeak~"

He stretched his slightly tight clothes, the outline of his arm muscles was visible, and the fabric let out a groan. He looked at himself in the mirror and inexplicably thought of another small, muscular man whose name was very similar to his—

That bald man who was routinely sacrificed and married a beautiful wife.

Sure enough, I shouldn't continue to build muscle without restraint...

The thought flashed through his mind, and his expression became complicated.

Building muscle strengthens power. For a ninja, it's not that the stronger the physical strength, the better. What's needed to increase Chakra is stamina. Muscle is just a foundation of stamina. Lung capacity, digestive ability, appropriate fat...

Simply piling on muscle is indeed effective in the early stages, but in the end, if you want to increase your Chakra, you still need consistent exercise and a proper diet.

Oh, what? Are you a Senju/Uzumaki/Uchiha/Nine-Tailed Jinchuriki? Then never mind.

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