The next morning.

The sky turned fish belly white.

At yesterday's training ground, at 5:30, Metkai, who was used to getting up early, was already waiting here. At 5:45, the well-behaved Yuhi Kurenai also arrived here.

Even Asuma, who was used to sleeping in and was full of resentment towards Toneri, was stuck at the training ground at 5:59.

After what Sarutobi Hiruzen said last night, Asuma had a completely new understanding of Toneri's existence.

Not only that, Toneri had the personal approval of Sarutobi Hiruzen, and he could beat Asuma as he pleased, but he would not dare to act arrogantly in front of Toneri.

But after all three people arrived, they watched time passing by little by little. The hour hand moved slowly, and after a slight jump, it finally jumped to the number six when the minute hand reached the number twelve.

It's six o'clock!

It's just that they watched the time reach six o'clock, but they didn't see Toneri appear.

"I said, isn't that guy late?"

Asuma watched as five minutes passed, but Toneri still didn't show up, and he couldn't stand his bad temper anymore.

However, time passed again for five minutes, ten minutes, twenty minutes...

Asma felt that what the old man said last night was to bluff him, right?

Is it possible for a person with such no concept of time to become Hokage?

As a leading teacher who should play a role as a benchmark in a team, he was openly late!!

And it's not just one minute late, it's two minutes, and no one is seen for half an hour.

Asmako looked at his teammates. Seeing that nothing happened, Metkai fell on the ground and started doing push-ups without wasting any time.

Yuhi Kurenai sat aside obediently, supporting her head with her hands.

It was obvious that it was not only Asuma and his son who were talking last night, but also the father and daughter Yuhi Kurenai and Yuhi Mako.

Others may not know it, but as a Jonin and a chuunin and genin instructor with a high status, he knows some of Toneri's status in ANBU and his exaggerated mission completion rate.

So he paid special attention to Yuhi Kurenai, trying to be good and listen to Toneri's words.

So Yuhi Kurenai didn't complain.

However, an hour passed and they still didn't wait for Shiren.

When the sun set overhead, it still didn't appear.

After finishing his training all morning, Metkai stood up and looked at Asuma and Sunset Hong with a puzzled look on his face: "Master Toneri hasn't come yet?"

With a dark face, Asma turned his head and decided not to speak. In the past few hours, he had already complained about everything he should complain about.

Even the well-behaved Yuhi Kurenai was sitting on the ground until her legs were almost numb.

Just when they were wondering if Toneri had forgotten them, that familiar voice sounded in their ears.

"Not bad, not bad. It seems that you have persisted until now, so let's consider you to have passed today's assessment."

Toneri didn't know when he appeared on the tree next to him, squatting down and watching them.

I silently praised myself for my wit.

In fact, it's not like he forgot, it's just that he was inspired last night and has been doing experiments until now.

Suddenly it occurred to me that I seemed to be letting go of my doves today.

When I rushed over, I saw that these three little guys had not left yet, and an idea suddenly came to my mind, and I came up with this reason.

Metkai looked at Toneri with bright eyes and said excitedly: "Teacher Toneri, are you testing us?"

Whoosh——

Shiren jumped down from the tree, stood next to Metkai, patted his shoulder gently, and said with a smile: "Yes, this is a test for you, this is a test of your patience and perseverance.

A simple test, overall, not bad.”

"Really?"

Asuma looked at Toneri, who had an indifferent expression, with suspicion in his heart.

Are you sure it's not because you forgot about us and now you want to find an excuse to get over it?

As if he saw the doubt in Asuma's eyes, Toneri coughed lightly.

"Ahem, what? Do you doubt my test of you? To tell you the truth, I have been paying attention to you.

In this assessment, the best one is undoubtedly Kai. Not only was he the first to arrive, but he has also been training hard until now, right? Kai?"

Hearing Toneri say that he had been paying attention to them, Kai suddenly felt that the strength of his body that had just finished exercising had returned again.

He gave a thumbs up and showed his signature bright teeth, "Teacher Toneri, this is youth!"

Feeling the reflection of Kai's unobstructed teeth and the explosive hormones, it was almost unbearable to look at it.

Turn your head.

Then he continued: "As for Hong, she was the second to arrive, and she has been sitting here obediently waiting for me to appear.

As for you!"

Pointing at Asma's face, he said word by word: "Asma, you are the last one to arrive, and you are also the one who complains the most. Fortunately, you only complained and did not leave. Otherwise, you would have passed this assessment."

If you don’t pass, you’ll have to go back to ninja school for another year!”

Shiren spoke with confidence, as if he had seen all this with his own eyes.

In fact, he didn't see anything at all, but based on the personalities of the three of them and the traces left at the scene, it is not difficult to analyze these things.

There were still a lot of water stains on the ground around Metkai, and there was still a lot of sweat on his body. Finally, there was a slight rush of breathing, which all showed that he was working hard.

There were a lot of footprints left next to Yuhi Kurenai, or there were one person's footprints left in the entire venue. There was no doubt that they belonged to Esma Sarutobi.

Under Yuri Hong's body, there remains a deep butt mark.

But his confident words made Asuma no longer have any doubts.

"Finally, the deception has passed. My glorious image as a teacher..."

Shiren sighed silently in his heart.

As a team leader, if you gather everyone on the first day and then let them go for a long time, this is obviously not very friendly.

But judging from what he just observed, he was also very pleased with Metkai's efforts.

With such a diligent and self-conscious disciple, as his teacher, he is very confident about Metkai's future achievements. Even without him, it will not be much weaker, but with him, there will be fewer detours.

.

"Let's go. To celebrate your passing my examination and becoming an official Konoha genin, I'll treat you to a meal! What do you want to eat?" Toneri said with a smile.

"Eat barbecue!" Metkai shouted immediately.

As a ninja who practices physical skills crazily, he needs to replenish a lot of energy every day, and meat is undoubtedly the best daily supplement.

"Okay! Let's go! I'll treat you to barbecue today!"

...

A group of people came to a busy street.

It has to be said that with the strong alliance between Ichiraku Ramen and Toneri Cattery, the slightly secluded street where they were originally has slowly turned into one of the bustling streets in Konoha.

Scheren, who had the foresight to buy most of the shops on the street a long time ago, has become a famous charterer.

The barbecue restaurant they went to today is a newly opened one on this street. As the landlord of Shiren, the discount is the most basic.

When pedestrians see Shiren, most of them will take the initiative to say hello, with a flattering smile on their face.

Asuma noticed this scene and began to believe Hiruzen Sarutobi's words again. He was indeed quite famous.

Not far from the barbecue restaurant, you can clearly smell a faint smell of fireworks and a strong smell of barbecue.

At this time, a group of people came forward. From a distance, the leader had eye-catching golden hair, but he was Namikaze Minato who had returned to Konoha not long ago after completing his training with Jiraiya.

Both of them were influential figures in Konoha in recent years, but it was a pity that after the White Fang incident, they almost disappeared from everyone's sight in Konoha at the same time.

But not long ago, they slowly reappeared in everyone's eyes.

The two brightest new stars in Konoha now meet on the street.

The people around them stopped one after another, their eyes moving over the two people, with undisguised expectations, envy, awe, etc. in their eyes.

The appearances of Toneri and Minato also met in mid-air at this moment.

Look at each other and smile.

"Toneri, how are you? Have you finished the assessment for them?" Minato looked at Asuma, Kai and Kurenai behind Toneri and said with a smile.

"Of course it's over, what about you?"

Toneri looked past Minato and saw the expressionless Kakashi behind him, the lively and cute Harano Rin with tape on her face, and the hopeful Obito.

No matter how much he intervenes, this fixed combination will never be broken up at all.

Minato took two bells from his waist, held them in his hands and waved them in front of Toneri.
To be continued...