Naruto: Starting With Three Tomoe Sharingan, Girlfriend Kushina Chapter 78: The Person Ryun Fears Most; Let Me Graduate Earl

"You're going to teach how to walk on water tomorrow? That's great!" Kushina was very excited.

Ever since Ryun had stood on the water and taunted her last ti, she had been thinking about learning this skill. That way, if she ever got angry again, she could make sure that certain soone had nowhere to run!

Neither of them knew what the other was thinking, but they were both genuinely happy...

"Then tomorrow night, I'll teach you sealing techniques!"

As soon as Kushina said this, Ryun's eyes lit up, and his heart swelled with joy. His face took on an even more foolish expression...

"You... why are you suddenly... grinning so creepily..."

Seeing Ryun like this, Kushina instinctively beca wary.

"Ah... am I? No, no, not at all..."

"..."

As soon as night fell, Ryun prepared gifts and headed to Might Dai's house.

By the ti he left, it was almost nine at night.

After parting ways with Dai, Ryun imdiately noticed soone following him. Before he could lure them to a secluded spot, the person actively blocked his path.

It was a Konoha Anbu mber!

"Uchiha Ryun, the Hokage wants to see you. Co with ..."

"!!!"

The Anbu's words made him frown instinctively. Without any reason, why would Sarutobi Hiruzen want to see him?

Ryun didn't think anything good would co of it.

"May I ask why the Hokage wants to see ..."

"I don't know. You'll find out when you get there." The Anbu spoke coldly.

"..."

A short while later, Ryun walked straight into the Hokage's office.

The office was brightly lit, with only two people inside, but one of them was soone he feared the most.

'Shimura Danzō!!!'

If there was one person in Konoha that Ryun needed to be most cautious of, Danzō would undoubtedly be at the top of the list.

The reason was simple—this man didn't follow rules or reason, and he would stop at nothing to achieve his goals. There was nothing he wouldn't do...

A power-obsessed extremist who recognized no boundaries and only pursued his own interests, such a person was extrely difficult to deal with. Ryun couldn't easily influence or sway him with words.

For soone like Danzō, you either needed higher authority to suppress him or greater strength to force him to back down...

Unfortunately, Ryun currently had neither, so he couldn't help but feel a little uneasy.

"Hokage-sama... You called here. Is there sothing you wanted to discuss?"

"Ah... Ryun, you're here..." Hiruzen set down the docunts in his hand.

"There's nothing particularly urgent. I mainly wanted to clarify a few things with you."

Hiruzen lit his pipe and then adopted a serious expression.

"You participated in one B-rank mission, one A-rank mission, and one S-rank mission with Orochimaru. Normally, since you're not yet a ninja, you shouldn't have been involved in these missions."

"However, since you've already completed them and the missions were successful, we have no choice but to record your na in the archives early. All three missions will count toward your ninja career record."

Hiruzen rubbed his temples in frustration. Orochimaru was too reckless and ignored the rules, dragging Ryun into such high-level missions... and now even his own teacher was implicated.

When the two Hokage advisors inford Danzō of this matter, the three of them tead up to berate Hiruzen relentlessly.

The Third Hokage knew he was at fault and couldn't refute their accusations, so he had no choice but to endure the criticism from the higher-ups on behalf of his troubleso disciple.

But while Hiruzen could bla Orochimaru for being willful, he couldn't bla Ryun. The reason for summoning Ryun tonight was mainly to prevent such incidents from happening again.

"The reason I called you here tonight is to ask if you'd like to graduate early. After all, completing three high-rank missions proves your abilities. If you want to graduate early and beco a genin, I can authorize it for you..."

"No, no, I don't want to..."

Seeing the Third Hokage's "true intentions" revealed, Ryun imdiately interrupted him.

What kind of joke was this? His life right now was comfortable and enjoyable. Why would he willingly graduate early just to slave away?

The real reason he worked hard to learn ninjutsu was for self-preservation and strength. If not for power, what normal person would willingly beco a ninja?

Was being a slave fun? Or was killing and arson fun?

What Ryun truly wanted was to beco strong, not to be a ninja.

"Hokage-sama, you flatter . The high-rank missions were all completed by Orochimaru-sensei and Nawaki. Sensei only brought along to broaden my horizons. At most, I just did odd jobs, manual labor, or carried corpses..."

Ryun deliberately put on an awkward expression as he explained.

"Is that so..." Hiruzen frowned slightly, as if considering the credibility of his words.

Seeing the old man's expression, Ryun guessed that Orochimaru might not have given Hiruzen the mission details.

In fact, after Orochimaru finished reporting the mission, he imdiately turned into smoke—the one who went to the Hokage's office was a shadow clone. He didn't even give Hiruzen a chance to scold him...

Nawaki was left behind in the Hokage's office for questioning, but this guy was completely unreliable. He played dumb, clearly hiding sothing.

Given his noble status, no one could do anything about him...

"Explain the mission details carefully." Danzō finally spoke at this point.

His face remained expressionless, as if he never smiled.

"Which mission are you referring to?" Ryun scratched his head.

"Start with the S-rank mission." Danzō stared at him coldly.

Ryun instinctively glanced at Hiruzen and saw the man give him a slight nod.

His mind raced, and he began recounting the mission in the Land of Sound where they eliminated various bandit groups.

He deliberately downplayed his own role, emphasizing that he only handled dirty work like collecting corpses, gathering loot, and setting fires—basically just a small tool.

"Why did you collect the corpses? If you were going to burn everything, why bother collecting them?" Danzō suddenly asked.

"Uh... to feed the giant snakes... snakes as big as small mountains..." Ryun gestured with his hands.

The fact that Orochimaru's summon was a giant snake was known to Konoha's higher-ups, so Ryun wasn't revealing any secrets.

Moreover, in the three missions Ryun had participated in with Orochimaru, the latter hadn't specifically instructed him to keep anything confidential. So now, facing Danzō and the Hokage's questioning, he felt most of the details could be shared.

As long as he omitted the things that needed to be hidden.

Ryun explained in extre detail, spending a long ti describing how they raided just one bandit hideout...

"Get to the point..." Danzō interrupted impatiently.

It was already past ten at night. Did he not want to go ho? And this brat kept going on about how Nawaki chopped people up...

"Weren't you the one who told to explain carefully..."

Ryun wore a bewildered expression, then stared blankly at the Hokage, stopping mid-sentence...

"..."

Danzō's face darkened as he stood up and stord out, slamming the door behind him.

"Hokage-sama, did I say sothing wrong?"

Ryun looked "innocently" at the old Hokage.