Naruto: As a genin, I just want to live a normal life.

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When a single person performs a D-level mission, they can only receive 40% of the reward.

When a team performs a D-level mission, the percentage can be increased to 60% according to the village's policy of "training students primarily through experience"—but the teacher in charge will actually have to share a portion of the mission reward with the students.

The teacher gets paid less than what they do, and new genin are slow at executing D-rank missions, and may even fail, which could result in financial losses.

The task also requires accompanying, observing, and tutoring students...

In short, compared to Chunin teachers who receive a fixed salary and live a peaceful life at the Ninja Academy, being a team leader is not a popular job.

A few minutes later, Yakushi Nonou and Might Guy arrived one after the other with their backpacks. Shirahoshi could tell that Might Guy had gotten up very early, as there was sweat on his forehead and in his bodysuit, indicating that he had taken time out to train.

Seeing that it was past nine o'clock and Mikoto Uchiha still hadn't arrived, Shirahoshi lowered his head and thought that given Mikoto's state yesterday, she shouldn't be giving him, her teacher, a hard time on the first day. "Let's go and check out the Uchiha clan's territory."

As the teacher in charge, he needs to understand the students' specific situation so that he can report to his superiors.

Chapter 6, 150 meters, 10 rings!

The Uchiha clan was one of the founding members of Konoha. Logically speaking, even if the Third Hokage, Hiruzen Sarutobi, wanted to exterminate the Uchiha clan, he would have no excuse or reason. However, through his own misdeeds, he stepped into the abyss of extermination.

Before entering the Uchiha clan's territory, there are commercial streets with various modern decorations, while after entering the Uchiha clan's territory, there are residential buildings with a more retro style.

Each wall is engraved with the Uchiha clan's distinctive red and white ping-pong fan emblem. The people you encounter on the road are mostly Uchiha clan members wearing their clan uniforms, and there are also many Uchiha ninjas wearing their security uniforms with green vests over them.

"Is there something you need to do upon entering the Uchiha clan, Shirahoshi Genin?" The speaker was a black-haired youth with long hair and a slightly fierce look in his eyes. He had a ninja sword hanging at his waist and wore a green vest. He looked at the trio who had entered the clan's territory.

Yakushi Nonou and Might Guy swallowed hard. They usually didn't dare to go near this place, because a little further ahead was the village's security headquarters, a place specifically for punishing and arresting criminals. Ordinary residents were not willing to come in here.

"Looking for my student. Her name is Uchiha Mikoto, do you know her?" Shirahoshi wasn't surprised that a member of the Uchiha clan knew him. As a D-rank mission maniac, most Uchiha clan ninjas were members of the security department that controlled the village's security. Even if they hadn't met her, they should have heard of her, let alone the person in front of them, who didn't look like an ordinary ninja.

“I see. My name is Uchiha Fugaku, and I am a Jonin of the Uchiha clan.” The somewhat mature-looking Uchiha Fugaku said, “I’ve heard about Mikoto’s matter from my father. He will personally go to talk to the Hokage about this matter, so there’s no need for you to come.”

After saying this, Fugaku Uchiha seemed to remember something and said directly, "Also, Shirahoshi Genin. There will be a Chunin Exam in mid-July this year. Mikoto will pass it on her first try, so the less than two months of tutoring time can be left to the Uchiha clan to handle themselves. Please go back."

"I have not received any orders from the Hokage. If Jonin Fugaku has already obtained the Hokage's approval, please submit the necessary paperwork so that I can confirm it more clearly." Shirahoshi was not afraid and met the fierce eyes of the young Fugaku directly.

"What do you think you can teach Mikoto? Ninjutsu? Genjutsu? Shuriken?" Fugaku Uchiha glanced at Shirahoshi, who also carried a ninja sword. "Or perhaps, swordsmanship?"

Bai Xing remained calm.

Before coming here, he had already guessed that he would be beaten down by society. The suppression from capital was everywhere. Just the young clan leader's aura, plus the amused eyes of the Uchiha clan members who believed in the young clan leader, if they really made a move, he would easily kill the Jonin and then he would really advance to the next level. At that time, there might be one more transmigrator's corpse in the slaughterhouse of World War II.

Hold on! My deadly strike!! Now is not the time to make a name for yourself!!!

Fugaku Uchiha looked at Shirahoshi's trembling fingertips and sighed slightly, thinking to himself that she was indeed just a genin. "Alright, I'll give you a chance to challenge me."

"Shuriken fighting is the fairest kind of competition. As long as you can... you can fight me to a draw, then I will personally take you to see Mikoto."

"It's a deal." Bai Xing took a deep breath, and her fingertips finally stopped waving, moving further and further away from the hilt of the knife.

Pharmacist Nono and Might Guy, who were following behind, were discussing in hushed tones.

Yakushi Nonou: "Do you think Shirahoshi can win?"

Might Guy's eyes darted around, his boastful youthful spirit seemingly dampened by reality. "It'll be fine! Shirahoshi's strength is no joke!"

Yakushi Nonou: "..." If she remembered correctly, yesterday you seemed to have said that Shirahoshi's strength was about the same as yours.

......

"Ten shuriken and ten kunai, win by averaging out your score, don't say I'm bullying you."

At the training ground, a large number of Uchiha clan members gathered around as if watching a good show, occasionally shouting things like, "How can the young clan leader bully a genin?" and "This genin really doesn't know what's good for him."

Upon hearing the rules announced by Fugaku Uchiha, Shirahoshi had no objections. She squeezed the kunai in her hand and immediately felt that even the kunai used by the Uchiha for training and competition were of very good quality—at least mid-range kunai priced around 1,000 ryo.

"You go first or me?" Bai Xing glanced down at the boundary line on the ground, then looked up at the target a hundred meters away—a distance that could only be hit by using chakra to enhance the body.

Without a good level of chakra control, it would be impossible to hit the target.

The body is like a mechanical gun ready to attack at any time, and kunai and shuriken are the bullets.

Chakra strengthens the body, and whether you use too much or too little force, it will make your aim at throwing weapons like kunai and shuriken worse.

"I practice at this distance often, and I can guarantee that my aim is within the seven rings."

As soon as Fugaku Uchiha finished speaking, he grabbed five shuriken in one go with his right hand. With a whoosh, he drew five different black straight lines, and the sound of thuds echoed on the target: all five shuriken hit their mark.

The Uchiha clan members all showed expressions of surprise and shouted slogans praising their young clan leader.

Immediately afterwards, five more black arcs streaked across the air and struck the red and white targets directly.

"Average score: 7 rings."

"Do you want me to put on a show for you with my kunai?" Fugaku Uchiha chuckled. In this situation, even a genuine Chunin couldn't throw five shurikens at once while keeping the aim within the seven-ring at 150 meters.

Bai Xing gripped a shuriken and tentatively asked, "So, I have to throw five shuriken in one go and achieve an average score of seven rings to win?"

Fugaku Uchiha paused slightly, then shook his head with a smile. "No need, no need. You can use any means necessary, as long as it doesn't cross the line..."

Boom!

The Uchiha clansman, who was recording scores with his Sharingan activated, suddenly felt an unknown object glowing red fly past him.

A shuriken, its half still scorching hot, was clearly embedded in Shirahoshi's target.

"Ten...ten rings?!"

The words of the Uchiha clansman in charge of recording the scores instantly surprised the Uchiha clansmen who were watching the show. Even Yakushi Nonou and Might Guy, who were watching the battle, were prepared for their teacher to admit defeat and the team to disband—they couldn't guarantee an average accuracy of seven rings within 150 meters.

The reason why shuriken are cheap is...

Poor materials and low attack range are one problem; another problem is that the hit rate is too low at long distances, so more shurikens need to be used in combination to increase the hit rate.

Being suppressed in his clan's area of ​​expertise by a mere unknown genin left Fugaku Uchiha speechless with disbelief.

A moment later, he activated his Sharingan. As a young eighteen-year-old boy and an outstanding graduate a year ahead of Shirahoshi, how could his talent be lacking?

"You, shoot again!"

If he wasn't mistaken, the shuriken technique just now seemed to have used a method typically reserved for B-rank ninjutsu, but normally that technique wasn't used like that...

Chapter 7 Genin, even dogs...

Boom!

Once again, the two blades of the red-glowing shuriken were stuck into the wooden target, and a wisp of blue smoke could be seen rising from the red dot of the target in the middle.

"This is a B-rank Fire Release ninjutsu, Phoenix Flower Claw Red?! How did you manage to use it without hand seals?!" This was the first time Fugaku Uchiha had ever seen such a genius, who could use half of a B-rank Fire Release technique without forming hand seals.

But why is it that such a genius couldn't pass the Chunin Exams set by a mere village even after six years?!

"I don't understand what you're talking about." Shirahoshi continued to channel the chakra in her hand, steadily attaching it to the other half of the shuriken so that she wouldn't burn herself when holding it, while also increasing the shuriken's spinning power to win by brute force.

"Another bullseye... Is he... is he cheating?" The Uchiha clansman holding the report in his hand would never cheat in something like this. Even if the shuriken is about to fill the red dot in the center of the target, as long as it is within that range, it is a bullseye.

"With talent like yours, how could the village have allowed you to remain a genin for six years? I really can't understand it." At this moment, Fugaku Uchiha no longer cared about winning or losing; he only wanted to understand this boy of his age who could develop a fire jutsu without hand seals on his own.

After the fourth shuriken hit its mark, Shirahoshi picked up another one, sweat beading on his forehead. He had to concentrate completely to do something like that.

"I have never learned C-rank ninjutsu. It would be ridiculous for a Chunin not to know even a single C-rank ninjutsu."

"What?!" Fugaku Uchiha was astonished that a man of such talent didn't even know a single C-rank ninjutsu. He was surprised that Mikoto, at such a young age, had already mastered two C-rank Fire Release techniques, several D-rank genjutsu, and even the basic E-rank Three Body Technique...

As time passed, even with Shirahoshi's best efforts to accelerate, mistakes inevitably occurred. Two shots hit the eight-ring mark, but the other eight were placed near the red dot in the center of the target. The Uchiha clan member recording the results swallowed hard, unsure whether to announce the outcome or not.

"Alright. I lost. The Uchiha clan can afford to lose." Uchiha Fugaku widened his three-tomoe Sharingan, perfectly replicating the method of combining Fire Release chakra with hidden weapons that Bai Chen had painstakingly cultivated for six years: with just a little more training, Uchiha Fugaku could also do this.

"What do you name this shuriken-based taijutsu technique?"

Controlling chakra requires far more effort than using a B-rank ninjutsu; just ten shuriken were enough to make Shirahoshi sweat. "Powered Shuriken."

"Good name. It compares Fire Release chakra to an engine, using shuriken as a power source for attack." Fugaku Uchiha laughed heartily. Even if Shirahoshi might have some cleverness, he couldn't become a Chunin with that.

But this kind of cleverness is a skill that many people can never learn in their entire lives.

“I’m starting to acknowledge you. Although you’re a year younger than me, I remember when you graduated, you were probably at the bottom of your class.”

It's rare to find someone in Class A who only knows one of the Three Bodies Technique and had to take a second make-up exam to finally use two of them.

"It was me." Bai Xing did not refute. He had just arrived when he took the exam, which made him socially anxious. Unfortunately, there was still one part that was not yet assessed. As a result, he failed when he tried to use ninjutsu based on his memory for the first time.

Thus, he, who could have perfectly used the Three Bodies Technique, unexpectedly became the worst student in Class A.

Fugaku Uchiha dispersed the clan members who were watching the spectacle and acknowledged Shirahoshi, but that doesn't mean the other clan members could be as magnanimous as Fugaku.

"Just a low-ranking ninja, thinking he's something special just because he developed a little technology."

"Exactly, it takes so long to use a shuriken, and it can only be fired in a straight line. If it were me, I could easily dodge it with a substitution jutsu."

"Putting all that aside, we just observed his chakra circulation with our Sharingan, so we can easily learn it. As expected of an ordinary person."

Even though Shirahoshi followed Fugaku away and didn't hear these words, he understood them perfectly well—because he always had these strange new ideas, and because he did it intentionally, he had a conflict with the team leader, and ultimately chose to leave the team a few months after joining to train on his own.

During that time, he almost considered stealing—graduating from the Ninja Academy meant no more orphan subsidies or accommodation.

Renting a place is expensive; a one-bedroom apartment of less than 30 square meters costs 10,000 yuan, and that's in a location on the outskirts without a commercial street.

A D-level mission is impossible to complete without considerable strength!

During that period, he even worked as a waiter in a restaurant while cultivating his skills, serving dishes and washing dishes. He only needed to work 30 days a month and 10 hours a day. Because he did a lot of work, he earned 10,000 taels a month, while other waiters only earned 4,000 or 5,000 taels.

Luckily, the restaurant included meals, which saved him some money, but he didn't dare eat too much, fearing he'd be fired.

He then rented a corner warehouse for only 2,000 taels a month and lived there for a year.

In the second year, after confirming that he could complete D-level missions independently and succeeding once, he officially resigned and began a series of mission-obsessed individuals.

Fortunately, there's no registration fee for the Chunin Exams here, otherwise he would really have to limit his acting skills: it's only once every two years, so this way he can save some money.

Therefore, the life of a genin is so miserable. Without strength or a team, it is difficult to carry out D-rank missions. Even if there is a team, during wartime, if one does not have the life of a protagonist, the chances of dying on a C-rank mission are very slim.

Someone like Might Guy, a genin who trains every day and has no extra energy to do missions or work, and who is also married, is bound to have no savings and be heavily in debt.

Shirahoshi even suspected that after giving birth, Matt Dai didn't have enough money to buy his wife nutritional supplements, and then his wife's health deteriorated, resulting in insufficient nutrition. After breastfeeding for several years, that's when...

"arrive."

"I can only take you this far. Next, it's your turn to talk with Elder Qian Si."

Fugaku Uchiha led the three to the gate of a magnificent mansion and raised his hand to introduce it. The gate was wide open; in the world of ninjas, walls and gates could not stop those with a purpose.

Interrupted by Fugaku, Shirahoshi nodded slightly, "Okay, thank you for your help, Jonin Fugaku."

"Don't be so polite. We're not working right now. Just call me Fugaku."