As Koharu Utatane ran to Danzo, Hamura turned to Sarutobi Hiruzen and said that Tsunade must be punished. "Hiruzen, Tsunade punched the Hokage assistant in front of the whole village, I strongly advocate that she should be punished to protect our reputation."

Even Tsunade became a little tense as Hiruzen quietly took another sip from his pipe as if he didn't care about everything that was going on. Normally the anbus or Hiruzen would have moved to stop her, but this time no one stepped in front of her. She was afraid that her teacher would punish Yuta for his behavior. Just then she remembered what Hiruzen had just said and immediately all her nervousness disappeared.

"Sensei, are you really going to take Yuta as a student?"

Sarutobi Hiruzen was indeed thinking about it, but he ignored Tsunade. What he had seen today made him almost eighty percent sure that Yuta was not a spy. Of course, twenty percent was enough to execute a genius, but there was also Tsunade.

When Tsunade saw that Hiruzen had not rejected her outright, she knew that he was still thinking about it.

Rising from the hole, Danzo took deep breaths, shaking with anger as he looked at the villagers who were staring at him strangely, and raised his head to look directly into Sarutobi Hiruzen's eyes.

When Danzo saw him talking to Tsunade as if nothing had really happened, he clenched his teeth so hard that some of them snapped, causing a terrible toothache that spread to his skull. Danzo turned his head slightly to look at the anbu standing in different parts of the arena and saw them looking at him with contempt from behind their masks. The fact that Danzo had spoken what could be called an insult to the Hokage in public had enraged all the Anbu ninjas, and none of them would voluntarily come forward on his behalf, on top of that they blocked the path of the root ninja who wanted to move in.

Hamura and Koharu immediately opened their mouths to complain as Hiruzen looked angrily at Danzo's back as Danzo left. "Sarutobi, all the villagers are watching us. Even if Danzo deserved it for insulting you, you should have done it where there were no villagers."

Sarutobi answered them in a cold voice. "He has made bad decisions on more than one battle front lately, and if he speaks to me in that tone in front of the villagers, I need to remind him in front of the villagers who is the Hokage."

Tsunade looked at Hamura and Koharu as they left in anger, smiling quietly and feeling a warmth inside her after a long time. It seems the old monkey had not lost everything.

Meanwhile, not a single person in the entire arena was making a sound. Of course, one of those people was Yuta. Yuta was puzzled, wondering if I had migrated to an alternate universe or if my presence was really causing such huge butterfly effects, while raising his hands in front of his eyes and photographing every second as much as possible.

Thanks to his experience as a photographer, he was one of the earliest to notice the tension and managed to photograph every second as best he could.

A few seconds later, as the tension slowly dissipated, an anbu appeared in front of Yuta, surprising him and ordering him to visit the Hokage.

Yuta was confused about what was going on, but he made a guess based on what he had seen so far. Probably Danzo saw his abilities and asked Sarutobi Hiruzen to take him into the lineage. Tsunade got very angry and hit Danzo in a rage, so Hiruzen decided that no matter how much he loved his student, he should be initiated to protect his homosexual relationship.

Yuta scratched his head angrily as he felt as if he understood what was happening and thought that he was very unlucky today.

Even though it was almost guaranteed that he would join the roots, Yuta thought that the system was the last person who could save him from this situation and told the ninja walking in front of him to wait a second.

Yuta looked up at the sky for a few seconds and decided that the rain clouds had blocked out the sun enough to allow a demon to roam outside, so he clasped his hands together and summoned Natsume.

The Anbu ninja watched in amazement as the little girl emerged from Yuta's shadow, put a square device in her hands, and then returned to his side as if nothing was strange.

Yuta looked at the masked ninja, who continued to stare at him for a while, then announced again that he was ready. The Anbu ninja really wanted to yell at him, "You made a summoning contract with a little girl, you fucking brat," but his chosen profession had limited himself once.

Seeing Yuta summon Natsume from the shadows, many people were similarly confused as Yuta followed the ninja and confronted Hiruzen.

Hiruzen said nothing for a while, observing Yuta closely, until finally, he said something that almost gave everyone around a small heart attack. "Strip!"

Tsunade, who had been nervously waiting for them to speak, made a strange face when she heard her teacher say such a thing, but Hiruzen told her that she had been too impulsive lately and quieted her down.

The only person who knew why Hiruzen wanted such a thing was probably Yuta himself. Especially in the last month, Yuta's body had undergone some sudden changes. He used to have baby white skin, but as he continued to get stronger, that baby skin disappeared and was replaced by muscles that would look cool on a young man. So Yuta hid his body as much as he could.

Tsunade's expression showed more than shock as Yuta took off his sweater, she was not the only one surprised, the surrounding Anbu ninjas were equally amazed as they looked at the muscles that were perfectly scattered across Yuta's small frame. The Hokage, on the other hand, looked less surprised and more intrigued.

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"You have a really interesting bloodline. Unheard of techniques, a strong physical build, a strange movement technique... Are there any techniques you acquired when your blood awakened that you haven't shown us yet?"

As the Anbu ninjas quietly opened their ears to listen to the conversation, Tsunade had heard so many amazing things in a short time that her brain reset and she listened like one of the Anbu ninjas in the background.

After careful consideration, Yuta realized that the only way to get rid of the roots was to increase his value in the eyes of the Hokage and decided to take the risk. After all, maybe the Hokage would give up a genius for his secret lover, but what if that genius was a groundbreaking one...

"Actually, I still have a few techniques I haven't shown off yet, some of them I'm saving for the finals, others I still haven't finished developing. Uh, by the way, can I get dressed, Hokage-sama?"

Hiruzen nodded, then took a deep breath and put his pipe in his mouth and began to think. When Yuta realized that he was still seriously thinking about putting him in the roots, he cursed his stupidity and decided that it was time to play one of his biggest trump cards as an immigrant.

Just as the Hokage was about to open his mouth and announce his decision, Yuta cut him off, secretly trying not to blush, after all, what he was about to say was too embarrassing for someone like him. "Hokage-sama! I have heard so much about your war memories and I admire you. Please let me recite a poem to you once, sir. I wrote this poem for you."

Hiruzen misinterpreted Yuta's slightly blushing face and with a slight smile told him to read the poem. At the same time, he was convinced in his heart that Yuta's statements were true. No matter how talented a little boy was, he couldn't act well enough to fake his expressions in front of an experienced ninja like himself.

This poem was a short poem that had been developed since Yuta first started ninja school. Yuta remembered the fan fiction he had read in his previous life and prepared himself early to face the Hokage.

"Forged in flames, the Hokage's heart,

A shield to the village, tearing fear apart.

Sarutobi Hiruzen - the Will of Fire,

Rising from ashes, ever higher."

Sarutobi Hiruzen had thought that Yuta had written a simple poem in praise of him, but in just one stanza the boy had shown both his understanding of the will of fire and his love for him.

Tsunade thought that Yuta might have been possessed as she silently recalled Yuta's jokes about the old monkey's face at dinners.

Sarutobi grinned as he took a deep puff from his pipe. "I have seen enough, I will make my decision after all the battles are over, you can go now, Yuta."

Hearing those words, Yuta guessed that Hiruzen was still undecided about giving him to Danzo.

The next battle would determine his future in this village. He must fight so well that he would leave the whole village and the Hokage speechless. To do this he would have no fear of breaking any of the rules: the slash technique, the shadow technique, his summons and his newly acquired techniques.

Yuta had just won some prizes for the photos, but he hadn't been able to control the prizes. Moreover, now he was going to take photos of the photos Natsume had taken and it was likely that he would get some extra prizes.

The first thing he did after returning to his seat, guessing that the next competition would start in ten minutes, was to take pictures of the photos and check the accumulated prizes in the system.

[ Congratulations you've caught three bronze moments; Danzo can fly, Strange dust cloud, Hot hours with the Hokage. ]

Yuta smiled slightly at the system's sense of humor and checked the rewards for these bronze photos: two of them had earned him a total of an extra two thousand points of cursed energy. The last bronze level prize was another bronze level cursed draw.

[ Congratulations you've caught a silver moment; a photo within a photo?]

When Yuta saw that the system had awarded him a silver prize for re-photographing Natsume's photo using the system, he felt a strong urge to gouge out one of his eyes and create a complete paradox.

Maybe taking a photo of a photo of a photo of a photo would earn him a reward even above the gold level.

[ Photo reward: Bala, Spiritual power statistic ]

Yuta was thinking about taking photograph after photograph when suddenly his mind was flooded with information about spiritual power and the Bala technique.

He tried his best not to change his expression as the sudden overload of information caused his head to ache. This was the moment when he needed to gain favor with the Hokage, not the moment when he needed to earn the title of no longer able to fight because he was in pain.

Even though Yuta had done his best and the Hokage had not noticed his condition, Morino sensei noticed the veins in Yuta's forehead and immediately came to his side.

When Morino Ibiki saw that his student, who had surprised him today, was probably suffering from the kekkei genkai techniques he had used, his instincts as a sensei kicked in and he asked Yuta to withdraw from the competition.

This was the day Morino Ibiki saw in the eyes of one of his students a true sense of determination and not giving up. Yuta insisted that he could fight, so much so that when the next competition began and Yuta was called to the stage, Ibiki almost wept like a woman looking after her husband who had gone off to war.