Chapter – 13 Terrifying Mikoto-chan! (Patreon)

The classroom was noisy, with all the children excitedly discussing the upcoming practical training, making the classroom appear something similar to a vegetable market. At this time, Minato asked, “Are you excited for the upcoming Practical Training, Tatsumi-kun?”

Tatsumi nodded, “I feel that it will be interesting, let’s see how it will go. As for you, Minato-kun, this is a very good opportunity, so you must work hard!” Although he is looking forward to the upcoming Practical Training, unlike Minato, Tatsumi isn’t all that excited because, to him, this won’t be all that beneficial—at least he believes that this is the case.

After all, Tatsumi already has a complete archive of Jutsu of different kinds left to him by his father, so he doesn’t lack learning material. For the past year, Tatsumi has delved into learning these Jutsus, but even after a year of hard work in learning and mastering Jutsu, there is still no shortage of new Jutsu… so for him, there is no extra free time.

Although Tatsumi does think that the trio of Orochimaru, Tsunade, and Jiraiya have a lot to offer in terms of knowledge and Jutsu, Tatsumi doubts that they would impart that knowledge and Jutsu they have acquired with so much hard work and effort to the children at the academy for free of cost at this stage. They are shinobi, not charity workers.

The good thing about this Practical Training organized by the future Sannin is that if anyone among the trainees can attract the attention of either of the three of them, they can have the opportunity to become their disciples in the future.

“Although I do wonder what their objective is… Hmm… now that I think about it, where is Nawaki-kun? He must have full information about this kind of thing!” said Tatsumi as he searched for Nawaki in the crowd.

In fact, Tatsumi didn’t even have to search; the moment his name was spoken, Nawaki magically appeared beside Tatsumi and Minato and spoke like a professional information broker, “So you want to learn the exclusive information about the upcoming Practical Training, huh? I don’t mind giving the information; however, it’s going to cost you… Exclusive information in exchange for the Special Kunai Throwing Technique you used in the last Shurikenjutsu Class, how about it, Tatsumi-kun?”

Tatsumi fumbled through his Shinobi-bag and quickly took out an empty scroll in which he wrote the details of the ‘Special Kunai Throwing Technique’ that Nawaki wanted, and handed it to him after folding it, “Here you go… now the information, but it better be worth it!”

Nawaki greedily looked at the Scroll in his hand and rubbed it on his cheeks with a grin, “Finally… finally, I have that technique… now I can also do some cool moves!”

Tatsumi called out, breaking Nawaki from his delusion, “Nawaki-kun… the information?”

“Cough Oh right…” he coughed lightly, then spoke in a hushed tone of voice, “Yesterday night, I heard from my Nee-sama that in the upcoming Practical Training, she, Jiraiya-san, and Orochimaru-san will carry out an assessment in order to select the top three trainers of the academy… and these top three trainees will get the chance of receiving their exclusive teaching for one full week… therefore, Tatsumi-kun, Mikoto-chan, and Minato-kun, I suggest that the three of you don’t hold back and fully showcase your talent and strength!”

As soon as Nawaki finished giving the information, Tatsumi suddenly realized something, ‘Wait… only three trainees will be selected from the entire Ninja Academy? Doesn’t this mean that the assessment will be in the form of a competition, and all the trainees in the Academy will be participating in the assessment?’

Other than a competition, there is simply no other method of ‘fairly’ selecting trainees; therefore, a tournament is bound to happen! Tournament means battles… and battles mean Ninja Points for Tatsumi!

Realizing that he would have a chance of earning a lot of points, Tatsumi suddenly became excited as a grin appeared on his face.

Until a while ago, he was depressed that there hadn’t been any opportunity to earn points. After all, he has abused all the trainees in his ears to earn as many points as possible, so there is hardly anyone in his year who can give him Ninja Points. Even the most talented Minato and Nawaki have been greatly abused by him multiple times, so even if he fights them, he won’t earn any Ninja Points for a short while.

Feeling helpless and fearing the result of not completing the task before he graduates, Tatsumi even pondered the thought of mixing up with the trainees of third years to bully them to earn points. Normally, there are no combined classes between the trainees of different years; therefore, Tatsumi rarely had any opportunity to earn any Ninja Points from the trainees of different years… But now that an [Event]—this assessment—has presented itself in front of him, Tatsumi thinks that this is a great opportunity. It doesn’t matter who the opponent is, so long as he scores a position among the top three and gets selected, Tatsumi believes that he will be able to earn a large sum of Ninja Points.

With his strength, it wouldn’t be too difficult for him to rank among the top three. Thinking of all the Ninja Points he could earn, tears of happiness flowed from his eyes. Stopping the waterworks, Tatsumi patted Minato’s back and said with a fire burning in his eyes, “This is great… let’s do our best, Minato-kun!”

Minato was surprised by the sudden change in Tatsumi’s attitude upon learning the exclusive news, but his surprise quickly disappeared, and he smiled brightly in excitement, “Haha… Tatsumi-kun, you are finally showing the excitement I expected from you.”

“No way… I finally have the opportunity to meet Nawaki-kun’s ‘Nee-sama.’ Wouldn’t I be excited?” answered Tatsumi with a toothy grin.

Minato, “……”

Nawaki, “……”

The atmosphere suddenly became strange.

Tatsumi really did not have any strange intentions; he just randomly said something that came to his mind to hide the real reason behind his excitement. However, what he said suddenly made the atmosphere a little strange.

Nawaki suddenly called out, “Tatsumi-kun!” as he walked closer to Tatsumi. Unaware of the strange atmosphere, Tatsumi turned to Nawaki and asked, “What’s the matter, Nawaki? Do you have more exclusive information or something?”

“Eh? No…” Nawaki shook his head, then said, “I was just going to the different section, so I wanted to once again wish you ‘good luck.’” and stretched out his hand for a handshake.

“Oh, is that so?” nodded Tatsumi with a smile, also stretched out his hand to meet Nawaki’s handshake. As the two hands touched each other, Nawaki suddenly used all his strength to clench his hand.

Crack!

Suddenly, Nawaki cried out in pain, “Tatsumi… you bastard… I just wanted to shake hands with you, what did you do to my hand?”

“What are you talking about? This is just… a handshake between friends!” said Tatsumi with a smile as he increased the strength in his grip. Nawaki quickly retrieved his hand; however, he was unable to bear the pain and screamed in pain, “Aaaahhhh… It hurts!”

Because of being distracted by pain, he accidentally dropped the Kunai he was hiding with his other hand.

Minato, “…”

Tatsumi, “…”

Looking at the Kunai, Minato and Tatsumi were speechless, while Nawaki laughed awkwardly, “Ah… this… this is just… you know… oh right, this is for the practice of the Kunai throwing technique I just took from you!”

However, Tatsumi did not have much time to respond to Nawaki’s excuse as his body suddenly shivered in fright upon feeling the cold gaze from behind his back. He didn’t have to turn because he knew the owner of the cold gaze. Also feeling the cold aura, Nawaki and Minato realized that their friend Tatsumi was not going to have a very good time, so they laughed awkwardly and quickly excused themselves in due time.

Just as Minato and Nawaki disappeared, Tatsumi heard a sweet voice that appeared unnaturally cold to him, “Tatsumi-kun~ I didn’t hear what you just said. Would you care to repeat it for me… pretty please~?”

Tatsumi quickly tried to explain, “Mi… Mikoto-chan… I… I can explain… it’s not what you think…!”

Mikoto asked with a smile, “Ara? Is that so?”

The only thing is… unlike most of the time, Mikoto’s smile wasn’t cute… it was cold. Seeing that smile, Tatsumi felt like crying, ‘How did my cute and adorable Mikoto-chan become so terrifying?!’

…

Half an hour later, Tatsumi breathed a sigh of relief as Mikoto finally calmed down. It took a lot of time to coax her. Normally, Mikoto is very cute, poised, decorous, kind, gentle, graceful, humble, patient, virtuous, respectful, benevolent, honest, charitable, and faithful… a perfect personification of Yamato Nadeshiko. However, when it comes to matters concerning women, she becomes terrifying. She is incredibly possessive of him!

‘When did she start to develop such possessiveness over me?’ thought Tatsumi with a doubtful expression. It’s a pity that he would never be able to figure out the true reason. After all, he never noticed the cold war that had been occurring between all the girls inside the class. Since Tatsumi is the strongest of his year and incredibly handsome, courtesy of the Uchiha genetics, he occupies one of the top positions on the list of ‘want to be his girlfriend.’ Naturally, there are a lot of girls who want to date him.

The competition is so fierce that the Fourth Great Shinobi War in the future might be a joke in comparison to this war between these little girls. Yet Tatsumi never got a hint of this war… of course, the credit goes to Mikoto. For the past year, she has firmly maintained her position as the only girl in the class who can stay beside Tatsumi. Others can only watch from a distance or approach for some small talk, but if they want her position, they will have to go through her.

Another factor is Tatsumi’s flirtatious nature when he encounters older women. Although Mikoto can firmly maintain her position among the girls of the same age group, when it comes to older girls, it is a little difficult, especially with the ‘assets’ those thots go around flaunting. Moreover, those older girls seem to like young and cute boys. Since she can’t stop Tatsumi with her charm/cuteness when it comes to older girls, the only thing she can do against them is restrain Tatsumi using her coldness.

To fight such a fearsome war, there would naturally be some changes in personality and character development. In a way, Tatsumi is partly responsible for the changes in Mikoto’s personality; therefore, the fruits of the seeds sown by him have to be eaten by him, and that’s what he is facing right now.