Hearing the question, Hiruzen's expression became serious as he spoke: "The situation is getting much worse, soon the conflicts will start to become massive and to make matters worse the information we obtained from the strength of other major nations was not conclusive, everyone is being careful with their movements and with the leakage of information so we did not achieve much."

Kenji listened to everything and remained silent for a while and then said: "That's to be expected, all the current kages are very experienced so they won't make mistakes so easily."

Hiruzen agreed and said: "Yes, but that doesn't mean it's impossible to obtain any information, in fact iwagakure started to make some big moves and we ended up noticing these movements despite Onoki's efforts to hide it, we are currently organizing a mission to investigate this, if the mission is a success we can stay several steps ahead of Iwa."

Kenji was surprised and said, "That's good, do you need my help?"

Hiruzen smiled and replied, "No need to worry, the team I put together is more than enough and the leader is someone you know well, so for now you just need to focus on training your genin team."

Hearing that the team leader was an acquaintance of his Kenji could only think of one person, "The leader must be Sakumo, well then I don't need to worry about completing the mission." Being from the Hatake Clan, Kenji knew Sakumo's abilities better than anyone.

Kenji nodded and said: "If you need anything just say, I'm ready at any time, now I get back I still need to rest from my trip."

Hiruzen smiled and said: "Rest well, a ninja should always be at their peak both physically and mentally."

Kenji nodded and left the office thinking, "This old man still treats me like a child."

Meanwhile Dazen and his friends arrived at Ichiraku ramen, Dazen quickly came forward and said: "Hey, Teuchi, I'm back and this time I brought two more people, now you can't deny my discount."

Hearing Dazen's voice, Teuchi turned around and said: "Shameless as always, brat, this time you came back faster."

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Dazen smiled and said: "Well I missed the food here, this time I came to celebrate the success of my C rank mission with my team, oh I almost forgot to introduce you, the boy with the blonde hair is Hideki and the short haired girl is Ayume."

Teuchi looked at the two boys and said: "It's a pleasure to meet you, my name is Teuchi, I'm the owner and chef of this restaurant, I hope you two are more polite than that brat Dazen."

Ayume smiled and replied: "Don't worry I'm not an idiot like Dazen, people always say I'm very mature for my age."

Dazen looked at her and said: "Whoever told you such a lie? You are always the first to complain about everything and always want to solve everything based on strength, there is not even a bit of mature behavior in you."

Ayume got angry with what Dazen had said and started arguing with him, seeing this Hideki could only sigh, the two always end up in these meaningless fights and he had to act as the mediator between the two.

Seeing the boys' argument, Teuchi smiled and said: "Okay, okay, stop arguing, it will disturb the other customers, place your orders now."

The three then quickly started to place their orders and Teuchi went to the kitchen to make food, Ayume then asked the other two: "Hey, what mission do you think Kenji-sensei will take us on next time, now that he said that will focus on C-rank missions."

Hideki said: "Hard to say, maybe some mission similar to the one we completed this time."

Dazen thought a little and said: "I don't think so, from what I understand Kenji-sensei seems to be training us during missions, so I think he's going to take us on several different missions to get more experience."

Hideki thought about what Dazen said and said: "It makes sense that the more different missions we carry out, the more prepared we will be for the different situations that may happen to us in our ninja career in the future."

Dazen and Ayume agreed and the latter said: "If so, I would like him to take us on a mission to defeat some bandit or ninja, it would be a lot of fun to fight against them."

Dazen laughed: "As expected of you, but I'm sure he'll take us on this type of mission too, after all, a ninja needs to have real combat experience."

Ayume and Hideki agreed they really wanted to test their skills in real combat they were both very strong and had full confidence in their abilities so this was the type of mission they wanted most of course this also included Dazen.

Soon Teuchi returned with the orders and the three turned their attention to the food, the three quickly finished eating and after paying for the meal they went out to talk a little more and then separated heading towards their homes.

Dazen was heading to his house while thinking: "Today was really fun, but tomorrow I have to continue with the training, since Kenji gave us the day off tomorrow I'm going to the library to see the C rank jutsus finally it's time to train them."