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Chapter 18:

Sure enough, Choza is trying his best to devour all the barbecue, while mumbling: "It is all Shikaku credits, he noticed that the purpose of the bell test is teamwork. The three of us then cooperated to snatch the bell off our jonin sensei."

"Shikaku is still as witty and clever as ever" Akira praised Shikaku. Shikaku in the future is going to be a prestigious figure, In the original story, he is the jonin commander for Konoha. He also succeeded Raikage as the commander of the allied shinobi force during the fourth shinobi war .

"Akira you are over-praising me ." Shikaku smiled modestly.

Not long later, unexpectedly Mikoto and Fugaku also came and they apparently just finished the bell test and come to celebrate as well.

The bell test is not difficult to pass, there is no need to snatch the bell. As long as they display teamwork and willing to help one another, they will pass the bell test . Therefore, Mikoto and Fugaku passing the bell test were also within Akira's expectations.

Soon, Uchiha Fugaku and Mikoto also joined the chat.

"Oh, while we've been chatting all this time, Choza had almost finish eating all the barbecue meat!" Kushina said aloud after noticing.

Everyone turn their head and see, it can be seen that Choza is frantically devouring the barbecue meat as he devoured a large plate of barbecue meat in a blink of an eye, while he also waved at the clerk for more: "One more plate!"

Akira and others corners of their mouths twitched and were very speechless.

"Choza, let me tell you a big secret, eating barbecue every day will make you become stupid! You see Shikaku is so smart because he rarely eats barbecue." Akira deliberately smiled with a mysterious face.

Choza suddenly wondered: "Really?" as he looked left and right, Kushina and others were also puzzled. Tsunade was holding back her smile to see what the hell Akira is planning.

"Of course." Akira nodded: "If you don't believe me, I will ask you a simple question, and you will definitely not be able to answer it."

"I don't believe it, just ask!" Choza was immediately unconvinced. Choza is confident that he had already seen through hid conspiracy and trickery. Everyone then focused their attention on Akira and Choza.

"Then listen carefully. If you climb up a tree to pick strawberries, you can pick one in three minutes, and one will fall every ten minutes. How many can you pick in an hour?" Akira asked.

"Pick one in three minutes, and one will fall every ten minutes…" Choza find it difficult to calculate and calculated with his fingers. After a while, he said with some uncertainty: "It seems like…"

"Eighteen?" Akira said.

"Yes, yes, I wanted to say eighteen!" Akira nodded like a chicken pecking rice.

"Wrong!" Akira said.

"Impossible! Obviously there are eighteen!" Choza shouted, with a face of disbelief.

Akira looked at him with regret: "It's really wrong, silly boy, because strawberries don't grow on trees at all, they are grown on the ground."

"Akira, you lied to me!" Choza face flushed, mostly ashamed and embarassed

The others froze for two or three seconds and they all laughed.

Akira looked at Choza with contempt: "Choza, you can't tell whether a strawberry grows on a tree or on the ground and you say you are not stupid?" This is a IQ quiz! Akira was very satisfied with the effect of his brain teasers.

Choza was deeply shocked speechless with an expression of loneliness on his face, he was not even interested in the barbecue meat that is before his eyes anymore.

Akira smiled in victory and then began to devour the barbecue, these are his hard earned reward.

Kushina and Mikoto both covered their mouths and chuckled. Akida, this bad guy, is really evil.

Tsunade couldn't help but smile as well.

After the barbecue, everyone enjoyed themselves, except for a certain choza who was hit hard. (Questioning his intelligence)

Nawaki soon became good friends with everyone through the barbecue

The barbecue is regarded as a celebration for Akira, Kushina and Nawaki on officially becoming ninjas and after that they spent the rest of the time in tight schedule of training.

Akira, Kushina and Nawaki formed a genin team. Under the leadership of Tsunade they performed various tasks and the strength of the three steadily improved.

Needless to say, Akira naturally performed well, similarly Kushina and Nawaki also performed well. Perhaps it was because Akira made Kushina and Nawaki feel pressured which had made them to work hard and progress quickly as well.

Especially Kushina, she as a member of the Uzumaki clan has special chakra. Tsunade also took a fancy to Kushina special chakra and taught Kushina how to use the chakra enhanced strength. This surprised Akira, as In the original story, Kushina never learned chakra enhanced strength. Now under his influence and changes, Kushina has learns to use chakra enhanced strength and jutsu from Tsunade and her future potential is going to be limitless!

Akira is also really curious, what kind of brilliance and things Kushina can do, with learning the chakra enhanced strength...

Nawaki's strength and ability is also good, slightly inferior compared to Minato, but is also first-class in this group of younger generations.

Akira's trio of genin team quickly became famous and accomplished several outstanding tasks, so much that the third hokage, Sarutobi Hiruzen is also full of praise. At the same time, all the younger generations of Konoha Village are also growing rapidly.

In a blink of an eye, two years passed in a hurry, Akira turned nine years old.

On this day, all of Akira's friends, Kushina, Mikoto, Nawaki, Minato, etc gathered together to talk.

"The situation has become more and more turbulent recently. I heard that there have been small frictions at the border several times…" Minato whispered.

Shikaku nodded: "Well, jounins and anbu in the village are also very active recently. I heard that the two big countries, the land of wind and the land of earth are all about to make a move."

Akira in his heart vaguely grasped on to something. Akira is a little surprised at the sharpness and insight of the two people, Minato and Shikaku. It can only be said that it is as expected of the future fourth Hokage and jonin commander of Konoha?

"What are you talking about, why don't I understand?" Choza asked vaguely while eating snacks.

Akira glanced at the him helplessly and said, "We are saying that there may be a war."

"war?"

The keyword Akira said shocked everyone and they all looked at him unbelievably.

"Well, I also have this feeling. I heard that there have been several not small conflicts on the border recently… There are also suna and Iwa who seem to be planning something." Shikaku also nodded in agreement.

Hearing Shikaku also say the same, Kushina and others became more serious.

Everyone were chatting when suddenly they heard a loud noise coming from a distance. With a loud rang of the bell, the ninjas in Konoha Village gathered quickly, as if something major had happened.

The ninjas looked anxious, their faces were solemn as if something was gonna happen.

Akira felt a little anxious in his heart: It's finally here, the second Ninja World War!