Dazen continued talking to the entire group for the rest of the afternoon and after a while he said goodbye to the rest of the group and left with Hiroshi and Koda to continue talking as they walked to their homes.

Koda was still very excited about the missions that Dazen carried out and said: "The life of a ninja is really good, I can't wait to graduate and start doing missions."

Dazen laughed and then said, "Then hurry up and graduate early so you won't have to wait too long, I can help you with training if you want."

Hearing Dazen's words, Koda shuddered and spoke in fear: "Forget it, I'm not like you, if I trained according to your methods, I would be dead in a week, I'd rather take my time and graduate in the ideal time."

Dazen and Hiroshi laughed at Koda's words, in fact when Dazen started to improve and take the top positions in the class they both asked him to help them with the training, but they regretted it soon after, Dazen's training method was too much for them, just remembering it made Hiroshi get chills.

Hiroshi then changed the subject and asked Dazen: "Dazen, what are your teammates like, are they as strong as you?"

Dazen was not surprised by the question and quickly responded: "They are very strong, they are both part of large clans, Hideki is part of the Yamanaka clan and in addition to his clan's jutsus he is a specialist in genjutsu and is an excellent sensor, since Ayume is from the Sarutobi clan, she specializes in ninjutsu, especially fire-type jutsu, she is very strong."

Koda was surprised and said: "Sarutobi Clan, the same as the third Hokage, she must be really strong."

Dazen nodded and said: "They both are, I was lucky to have a good team."

Dazen then thought: 'It would be frustrating to have someone like Sakura on my team, who only knew how to shout 'Naruto' in the middle of the fight.'

Hiroshi agreed and said: "I really hope my team is good too."

Dazen then laughed and said, "Well with how close you guys are the teachers will definitely put you on the same team so at least you'll have each other's company, HAHAHA."

Koda then replied in an irritated voice: "Dazen stop swearing at me, I can't stand seeing this idiot's ugly face every day, if I still had to put up with his ugliness during my missions as a ninja it would be shit."

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Koda's jokes irritated Hiroshi who quickly responded with insults starting a noisy argument that caught the attention of everyone on the streets and meanwhile Dazen laughed even more as if he was enjoying the show.

Dazen's laughter irritated the other two boys and soon the three were involved in a pointless argument.

The three soon separated and Dazen continued walking towards his house thinking, 'The two of them really haven't changed, it was a good idea to go see them, even though they denied the training I could tell they were excited about the idea of being a ninja, they will probably take the training more seriously.'

Dazen knew how bad the next few years of the war would be, so the two of them starting to train more would be important for both of them to survive the next few years.

Dazen sighed and thought, 'I'd better put that kind of thought aside for now, if they want to train more, I'll help them to get stronger, that's all I can do.'

Dazen then went to the house and started reading one of the fuuinjutsu books while waiting for time to pass to go find Ayume and Hideki.

.........

Hideki arrived a little early at the agreed place and seeing that none of his friends had arrived yet he looked for a place to sit while he waited, he didn't have to wait long, as Dazen soon arrived.

Seeing Hideki, Dazen greeted him with a smile: "You're early Hideki, have you been here long?"

Hideki shook his head and replied: "No, I just arrived, now we just have to wait for Ayume."

As if he had heard Hideki calling, Ayume appeared at the same moment and said: "It looks like I was the last, that's good I won't have to wait for anyone."

Dazen just shook his head at the girl's attitude and said: "Well, now take us to that restaurant that you speak so highly of, I want to see if that's all there is to it."

Ayume laughed and said, "Don't worry, you won't be disappointed, follow me."

The three then began to walk with the girl leading the way, along the way the three continued to talk and it was possible to hear and from time-to-time noises of discussion and laughter could be heard coming from the three.

The next day Dazen got up early and as usual went towards the training field to meet Kenji to continue training, but to his surprise when he arrived at the place Kenji was not alone and in his company was Ayume.

Ayume's presence intrigued Dazen, 'Will Ayume participate in my training today?'

Dazen soon arrived in front of Kenji and he said: "Good morning Dazen, punctual as always."

Dazen nodded and looked at Ayume and then asked, 'Is Ayume going to be part of today's sensei training?'

Without waiting for Kenji's response, Ayume said: "That's right Dazen, this day has finally arrived, Kenji-sensei said that today we are going to fight, so get ready, I'm going to make you regret all the jokes you've ever made."

Kenji smiled and didn't care about Ayume's interruption and continued: "That's right, you two have improved a lot, but you haven't faced opponents of the same level so I'm going to make you fight each other once a week, that includes Hideki of course, but first I want to see how you guys will do in a fight against someone with a similar level of skill."