Chapter 27: What If Your Teacher is Too Scheming? (Please Follow)

After finishing the tutoring job, Mu Yue didn't return to the southern forest, but went to the house in the main city area.

Mu Yue simply stir-fried two dishes for dinner, then went out for a walk, since friendship wasn't something you could wait for at home.

After walking for a while, Mu Yue eventually ran into Minato and Kushina at a nearby park.

The two were sitting on a park bench chatting in the evening breeze.

"Yūhi." Minato greeted Mu Yue when he saw him.

"Are you here for a walk in the park too?" Minato asked.

Mu Yue nodded, sat down on the bench next to them, and said, "Just finished eating, walking it off a bit."

"Yūhi, I heard from Minato that you're a teacher at the ninja academy?" Kushina asked curiously.

None of her friends had ever been a ninja academy teacher.

"Yeah, I just started this year." Mu Yue replied with a smile.

"You only started this year, so you must have brought out a really impressive class, Yūhi." Minato said with some surprise.

Kushina looked at Minato with a hint of confusion.

"Yesterday at the office, the Third Hokage said Yūhi's teaching skills are very high, and he even wanted to ask Mu Yue to be their family's tutor." Minato explained.

"For someone who just started this year to receive such praise from the Third Hokage, his teaching results must be outstanding."

"Wow, the old Third praised him that much?" Kushina was also a bit surprised.

Although she had average feelings toward Sarutobi Hiruzen, she still acknowledged his judgment.

"Not at all, it's also because the students worked hard enough." Mu Yue humbly said, then added:

"Namikaze-jōnin is the impressive one—becoming a jōnin at such a young age and becoming an important combat force for the village."

"Hehe, of course, our Minato is the strongest." Kushina said with full agreement.

"But I'm a jōnin too, you know." Kushina laughed.

Mu Yue showed a surprised expression and then praised, "Then Uzumaki-jōnin is also very impressive."

"Yūhi, you really know how to talk." Kushina was warming up to Mu Yue more and more; if her good friend Uchiha Mikoto hadn't already married, she would definitely try to set her up with Mu Yue.

Look, what a good man—as handsome as Minato, strong in ability, and worthy of the Third's praise.

The three chatted for a while, and then Mu Yue took the lead to say goodbye and leave.

The two of them were a couple out for a walk, so it wouldn't be right for him to stay too long; he had to keep things appropriate and slowly establish his persona.

The next day, Mu Yue again trained Obito and Might Guy until noon, then went to Sarutobi Hiruzen's house in the afternoon to teach Asuma, bringing Asuma to the riverside from yesterday.

"I'm too tired today, don't want to train." Asuma gave up right away, leaning back against a tree as if ready to sleep.

He had already secretly decided that no matter how Mu Yue provoked him later, he would remain unmoved.

"Want to sleep?" Mu Yue smiled as he looked at Asuma.

The smile was warm and soothing, much nicer than that of his old man, but Asuma had a bad feeling about it.

"Yeah, didn't sleep well last night. Got a problem with that?" Asuma said stubbornly.

Contrary to Asuma's expectations, Mu Yue nodded in agreement and said:

"Right, today the sun is just right and the breeze is gentle—it really is good sleeping weather."

Then Mu Yue stretched, also leaned back against the tree, and said in a relaxed tone:

"Being a tutor is pretty great—just lie down and sleep, and when you wake up, you've earned a hundred thousand ryō."

With that, Mu Yue closed his eyes, rested his head against the tree, and looked ready to sleep.

"Wait, what hundred thousand ryō?" Asuma's eyes suddenly went wide as he asked Mu Yue.

"Why so noisy? Aren't we going to sleep or not?" Mu Yue didn't even open his eyes, looking like he was about to fall asleep.

"Don't sleep yet—hurry up and tell me about the hundred thousand ryō." Asuma shook Mu Yue's body.

"What could it be? Of course, it's the fee for teaching you." Muyue opened her eyes and began to spout nonsense with a straight face.

"You think I work for free? Even the Hokage has to pay for a tutor. My fee is very high. For teaching you, it's twenty-five thousand ryo per hour, so four hours a day is naturally a hundred thousand ryo."

"Is your mouth made of gold? Charging so much!" Asuma was shocked to learn that staying with Muyue for an hour would cost him twenty-five thousand ryo.

You see, when he was in school, his monthly allowance was only fifty thousand ryo, and his allowance was actually on the high side.

But Muyue only needed to teach him for two hours to earn his monthly allowance!

"You can ask around at the Ninja Academy about the name Hanyu Muyue, and you'll know if it's worth the price." Muyue said calmly.

"But I've never heard of your name?" Asuma felt like he was being fooled.

"That's because I joined after you graduated." Muyue closed her eyes again, preparing to sleep.

Seeing Muyue about to sleep again, Asuma's heart ached immediately — this was a tutor costing twenty-five thousand ryo per hour.

"Don't sleep, let's start training." Asuma quickly called out, afraid that if Muyue fell asleep, he wouldn't be able to wake her.

"Didn't you say you didn't sleep well yesterday and were very tired and wanted to sleep? Not tired now?" Muyue opened her eyes and smiled at Asuma.

Seeing Muyue's expression, Asuma knew he had been tricked — this guy had never been asleep at all!

But there was nothing he could do. This was a tutor costing twenty-five thousand ryo per hour. If he really let Muyue sleep here, not only would Asuma not be able to sleep now, he wouldn't be able to sleep tonight either.

"I've rested enough, let's start training." Asuma said with a dark face.

He planned to go back and complain to his mother. Wasn't hiring such an expensive tutor just wasting money? It wasn't like he didn't have jonin instructors.

"Alright, today we're still training chakra control. Today's goal is to stay on the water for fifteen minutes." Muyue stood up and smiled.

The training was the same as yesterday. Asuma struggled on the water surface to avoid falling in, while Muyue on the shore used Water Release to interfere.

Today Asuma was just as motivated as yesterday, but yesterday's motivation was to slap his old father in the face, while today's motivation was Muyue's ridiculous astronomical tutoring fee.

During dinner, Asuma directly complained to Biwako, saying that Sarutobi Hiruzen was wasting money by hiring a tutor costing twenty-five thousand ryo per hour.

Biwako was also shocked by this astronomical tutoring fee — one hundred thousand ryo for four hours.

You see, some B-rank missions only paid one hundred thousand ryo. This was practically equivalent to a solo four-hour B-rank mission.

"Huh? You mean Hanyu? How is that possible? His tutoring fee is two thousand ryo per hour." Sarutobi Hiruzen was stunned for a moment, then said with a smile.

"Two thousand ryo?" Asuma looked at Sarutobi Hiruzen with suspicion.

"Of course it's two thousand ryo. Where did you hear twenty-five thousand ryo?" Sarutobi Hiruzen affirmed.

Looking at his old father's face, Asuma knew he had been tricked by Muyue.

"Ahhh. Damn Hanyu Muyue!" Asuma roared in his heart, then turned his grief into appetite, eating big mouthfuls, thinking that next week no matter what, he wouldn't fall for Muyue's tricks again.

Sorry everyone, this chapter was written in a bit of a hurry, maybe the quality isn't great. I'll revise it when I have time later.

Something happened at home tonight — my grandmother passed away.