Just when Tate, Kagura and others entered the Hokuto Shinken Noodle House, in the Hokage's office on the highest floor of the Hokage Building, Minato, who had stayed up all night at his desk, rubbed his somewhat swollen temples.
On the desk in front of him were pictures of twelve freshmen. After a night of special testing and observation, the only group that could be confirmed with certainty was the group of Pig, Deer and Butterfly.
Everything else is in a pending state, just because there are various problems.
Hyuga Hinata, Aburame Shino and Inuzuka Kiba originally wanted to form a reconnaissance team, but Hinata Hinata's fighting ability yesterday was too strong, so Minato was in trouble for a while.
I feel that putting Hinata into such a team may not bring out her original strength.
Moreover, his sudden one-on-three strength yesterday made Minato feel somewhat sympathetic towards Naruto's future married life.
Isn't this stronger than Kushina?
Due to some village-level political factors, Minato bound Naruto and Sasuke together early on, and the one chosen to lead the Jonin team was Obito, who was also his direct disciple of the Uchiha clan.
As for the rest, those who have not yet been determined are Kagura, Shimura Shinpachi, Haruno Sakura, Orochimaru's child Mitsuki and the undecided Hinata.
First of all, there is no doubt that the three girls should be separated. Kagura's decision to share it with Gintoki, who will be back in the next two days, can be regarded as a big surprise for Gintoki.
Shimura Shinpachi, Danzo's nephew, was right to be assigned to Gintoki based on the tasks he had previously given to Gintoki, so there were two of them under Gintoki, and the rest were Haruno Sakura, Mitsuki and Hinata.
Haruno Sakura has always been number one in theoretical knowledge in school, her chakra control is relatively sophisticated, and she is said to like Sasuke now.
Mitsuki is humble and polite, has a good tutor, is strong enough, has good grades, and is also the child of Orochimaru, one of the Sannin of Konoha.
Hinata, I said it before.
How should these three people be arranged?
Minato had a headache all night and couldn't figure out what to do. The main reason was that the students in this class were a bit strong and difficult to assign.
In terms of pure ninja qualifications, Naruto and Sasuke are already as good as ordinary chuunin. Hinata...at certain moments can rival jounin, and Mitsuyuki even had a neck-and-neck fight with the special jounin Anko.
And Kagura...didn't you see that Kakashi ran away midway? According to Kakashi, she can lift a thousand-jin boulder without chakra amplification. What if chakra amplification is used?
Probably more powerful than Tsunade-sama.
After much deliberation, Minato finally moved Hinata back to the reconnaissance team to balance the combat power.
The only ones left are Sakura and Mitsuki. In terms of gender balance, there is no doubt that Sakura will be placed in Sasuke's group, but what about Mitsuki?
Will Orochimaru give Mitsuki to Gintoki's name? Will Orochimaru fight against him?
"That's good."
Orochimaru's voice suddenly came from the side.
"Mr. Orochimaru..."
Minato raised his head, his smile a little forced.
"Siyue also said that Kagura has a special feeling that is different from others."
"Really? But Gintoki..."
Minato didn't continue speaking, and it was really hard to say it without adding a few words.
From Minato's point of view, although Gintoki is particularly reliable in certain situations, if he brings a genin, he will probably make a mistake in most cases.
Minato even wanted to hand Mitsuki over to Kakashi's special study abroad class. Kakashi was much more reliable than Gintoki in this aspect.
"It doesn't matter, that's fine." Orochimaru repeated, and took the initiative to place Mitsuki's photo behind Kagura's photo.
"If Mr. Orochimaru agrees, then let's arrange it this way."
A stone finally fell from Minato's heart. His parents all agreed, so what was he still struggling with?
Of course, Minato ignored one issue at this time, and that was Gintoki's opinion.
"Speaking of which, Mr. Orochimaru, you are here because..."
When he asked this question, Minato felt very uneasy. After all, Orochimaru had basically come to the Hokage's office for two things over the years.
In addition to money, there is funding. Although Konoha and Fire Country did have some money due to some high-tech products that Orochimaru had casually tinkered with over the years, they could not afford his squandering.
Each research funding is in the amount of one billion taels. In recent years, it has caught up with inflation and currency depreciation. The most recent funding request was in units of one billion taels!
"It's nothing, it's just because of this incident."
Hearing this, another big stone fell to Minato's heart, and the warm-hearted smile on his face became richer and more sincere at the same time.
"Let's have a cup of tea."
"No need, I'm going back. The adjustment work of the third satellite is coming to an end."
"You walk slowly, you work hard."
"Also, the plan for establishing the space station has been handed in. It is very important. Remember to approve it."