"Night, these are Lord Danzo's latest instructions." The Root ninja handed Mu Yue a scroll.
Mu Yue nodded and took the scroll. 'Night' was his codename in Root.
The two didn't exchange many words. After handing the scroll to Mu Yue, the Root ninja quickly flashed away. Mu Yue was a hidden piece for Root, and too much contact being discovered by the Anbu wouldn't be good.
Before the Root ninja left, Mu Yue used his appraisal skill.
[Name: Heisuiro]
[Potential: B]
[Chakra: 7000]
[Evaluation: A Jonin with some strength]
Looking at the high seven thousand chakra, Mu Yue couldn't help but feel a little envious. He didn't even have five thousand; he was short by five six-year-old Shisuis compared to him.
Once Mu Yue's sensing ninjutsu could no longer detect the Root ninja, he entered his room and opened the scroll to see what new orders Danzo had issued.
"Uchiha Shisui in your class is a genius of the Uchiha clan. Observe his actions, confirm his personality, and evaluate him."
After reading it, Mu Yue sighed with emotion. Danzo's wariness towards the Uchiha was truly close to pathological. Shisui was only six years old this year, having just started at the Ninja Academy. For such a young child, merely because he had a slight reputation as a genius within the clan, Danzo wanted him to monitor and evaluate him.
Of course, it wasn't impossible that Danzo had designs on Shisui, wanting to pull him into Root. However, Mu Yue didn't believe Danzo's idea would come to fruition. The Third Hokage would let Danzo know who was truly the Hokage. The Third could tolerate the existence of Root, but not a Root organization that was overly powerful. The upper limit of a genius Uchiha was too high; who knew how strong he could become. Therefore, genius Uchiha either stayed obediently within the Uchiha clan or joined the Anbu.
After reading it, Mu Yue destroyed the scroll with a Fire Style jutsu. This new instruction was still within Mu Yue's acceptable range. In fact, even if Danzo hadn't specifically sent someone, Mu Yue would have reported that Shisui was a genius when he submitted his reports. This was because Mu Yue felt that given Danzo's attention to the Uchiha, concealing it would be meaningless and would only draw trouble to himself.
Mu Yue created a shadow clone to practice ninjutsu, while his main body began training to increase his chakra. Currently, chakra was his biggest weakness. Even if he learned many ninjutsu and mastered them, it would be difficult to unleash their power without enough chakra. A ninja with low chakra, no matter how strong, was limited, and a ninja with abundant chakra, no matter how weak, wouldn't be too bad. It could be said that chakra determined a ninja's upper and lower limits.
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The next day.
Since he had no class that morning, Mu Yue took the opportunity to visit the Ninja Academy's archives. He wanted to gather the exam papers from the fourth-grade exams of the past few years. Since the process went smoothly, he also found the first-grade ones. His main goal was to take on disciples, but improving their theoretical grades wasn't an empty promise either.
Mu Yue studied the exams and found that the questions each year weren't too different. Each question belonged to a certain type, just with different wording or data, and some papers even had identical questions. Mu Yue nodded, confident that the two would pass. He felt that practice questions might not even be necessary; just letting them do the past two years' papers should be enough for them to pass.
Mu Yue took a few exam papers and then left the archives for the office.
"Yesterday she kept listening to me talk, she's clearly very interested in me!"
"Is there a possibility that she purely didn't want to talk to you?"
"When it was time to pay yesterday, she actually offered to split the bill. She's already thinking of me!"
"Is there a possibility that she was afraid you'd use the excuse of 'my treat next time' to ask her out again?"
As soon as Mu Yue entered the office, he saw Ueda Aya rebutting Ikeya Yu. Mu Yue looked at Kimura Sugito, who was watching the show nearby.
"Yu went on a blind date yesterday, didn't he? He was just telling us about his blind date process and wanted us to help him come up with ideas on how to pursue her, but Ueda thinks his blind date isn't interested in him and advised him to find someone else," Kimura Sugito briefly explained the cause and effect of the situation.
"Teacher Hanyu, you came just in time. Do you have any special techniques for pursuing girls?" Ikeya Yu saw Mu Yue arrive, and no longer bothered arguing with Ueda Aya, quickly asking. He felt that Mu Yue looked like someone who had many girlfriends.
"Special techniques? I think as long as you let the other person feel your sincerity, that should be enough," Mu Yue said after thinking for a moment. Whether there were techniques or not was another matter, and even if Mu Yue had them, he wouldn't tell Ikeya Yu; it didn't fit the persona he was trying to project.
"Sincerity..." Ikeya Yu looked troubled. How was he supposed to make the other person feel that?
"Give up, Ikeya. You don't even look at what Teacher Hanyu looks like. His useful techniques might not work on you," Ueda Aya said slowly.
"How can that be? I admit Teacher Hanyu is a little more handsome than me, but it's not that big of a difference, is it?" Ikeya Yu said, unconvinced.
"You really won't turn back until you hit a wall," Ueda Aya looked at the stubborn Ikeya Yu with a headache. She was a woman herself; didn't she understand women? After hearing Ikeya Yu's words, she knew this blind date was a bust, but Ikeya Yu stubbornly refused to believe it.
"Good luck." Mu Yue encouraged him with a smile. What else could he say? Even his friend Ueda Aya couldn't persuade him. Besides, Mu Yue really hoped Ikeya Yu would be busy, so he could substitute for Class 4, Section 2 again.
"Teacher Mu Yue truly has good judgment. Ueda, just you wait and see," Ikeya Yu, encouraged by Mu Yue, felt even more confident.
During class that afternoon, Mu Yue made a small attempt; he deliberately lowered the quality of his lecture. He inferred from the previous system evaluation that the lecture rating should be divided into two main parts: the quality of the lecture content and student satisfaction. He wanted to get a B-rank evaluation because there was an extra reward the first time he received an A-rank evaluation. By extension, he figured there should also be an extra reward for the first B-rank evaluation.
[Lecture completed, settling]
[Evaluation: B]
[Reward: Chakra +20]
[First time completing a B-ranked teaching, received reward — Proficient Mastery of Chakra Shape Transformation]
A flood of memories regarding his training in Chakra Shape Transformation instantly appeared in Mu Yue's mind. Mu Yue was pleasantly surprised. In the chakra system, shape transformation existed on par with nature transformation, and both could effectively enhance ninjutsu. Although his shape transformation was only proficient and hadn't reached mastery, it wasn't limited by chakra nature.
Speaking of shape transformation, one couldn't help but mention Naruto's Rasengan, which he continuously created from beginning to end. The Rasengan could be called the representative ninjutsu of shape transformation, possessing immense power without needing to add nature transformation.
"I can start developing the Rasengan now." Mu Yue planned to independently develop this useful A-rank, hand-sign-less ninjutsu. With the detailed training process from the original work, plus his knowledge of shape transformation, the process shouldn't be too difficult. The chakra provided by the B-rank evaluation also gave Mu Yue another consideration for future classes. He felt that he could appropriately aim for some B-rank evaluations in the future; while each reward wasn't much, they would accumulate over time.
Adding the development of the Rasengan to his schedule, Mu Yue found his current life exceptionally fulfilling. During the day, he had classes; in the evening, he guided Shisui; at night, he practiced and developed ninjutsu; and on weekends, he provided special training for Might Guy and Obito. His schedule was packed. Mu Yue really wanted to maintain such a peaceful life and steadily develop for a few years. Unfortunately, he didn't transmigrate at a good time, and it was destined to be difficult for him to enjoy quiet days.
On the fourth day of Mu Yue's transmigration to the ninja world, some bad news came back to Konoha from the front lines.