Chapter 1498 One Year Later

One year later.

During this year, because of Sarutobi Hiruzen's fear, Team 3 did not receive any missions to leave the border of the Land of Fire. Hyuga Neji taught many thoughts and physical skills to Team 3 members, including Team 3's instructor, Jonin Might Guy, who also became a student.

During this year, Tenten and Rock Lee saw many nobles and civilians during the mission. Even in a rich country like the Land of Fire, there are civilians who are as miserable as those in war-torn countries, and their survival is not guaranteed.

As Tenten saw more civilians in the Land of Fire, her thoughts and strength grew and matured at a speed visible to the naked eye.

Hyuga Neji's teachings were not in vain after all. When Hyuga Neji's guidance and reality touched and overlapped, Tenten was like tearing open this hazy film reality, seeing the highs and lows, rich and poor, life and death, luxury and frugality of reality, which gave her the bud to change the world.

Hyuga Neji paid attention to Tenten and guided Tenten to think in the way he had arranged, which was very effective in the end.

On the other hand, Sarutobi Hiruzen frequently tried to promote Hyuga Neji and Tenten to Chunin.

If they are promoted to Chunin, there is a reason to split up the team and let each team lead, splitting up Hyuga Neji and Tenten.

Tenten's Flying Thunder God amazed the ninjas of Konoha, another shining star of Konoha, but it made Sarutobi Hiruzen more uneasy.

Mainly, Tenten listened to Sarutobi Hiruzen on the surface, but when something really happened, Tenten had a very strong personality and independent thinking, which had exceeded the scope of the Will of Fire. Sarutobi Hiruzen seemed to see Uchiha Madara who talked about the unification of the ninja world all day long.

Mainly, Tenten was not just talking nonsense. Tenten was smart and detached in thought. One or two words often awakened people. It seemed that she was talking against the rules, but she had an unavoidable righteousness.

Many ninjas communicated with Tenten and were impressed by her, thinking that Tenten had the talent to be Hokage.

Sarutobi Hiruzen was so scalp numb.

I haven't died yet, but a girl is thinking about the throne.

And Hyuga Neji's refusal made Sarutobi Hiruzen sleepless.

Especially when Hyuga Neji said that Tenten and Rock Lee needed to accumulate some experience, and were not in a hurry to participate in the Chunin Exam, Sarutobi Hiruzen sighed even more.

Sarutobi Hiruzen always felt that Hyuga Neji would explode like a bomb sooner or later, but he didn't want to mention the detonation of Hyuga Neji's bomb.

He couldn't afford the consequences of detonating Hyuga Neji's bomb.

Sarutobi Hiruzen had expected that if Hyuga Neji's bomb exploded when he was in power, he would definitely become a "tyrant" who would be infamous for thousands of years and ruin Konoha.

Hyuga Neji also maintained himself very well, always jumping left and right on the line of fire that Sarutobi Hiruzen was almost crazy about, making Sarutobi Hiruzen uneasy.

The most important thing is that there is no internal strife in the Hyuga clan now, and the members of the Hyuga clan are still good and useful, as if nothing happened.

Sarutobi Hiruzen really didn't want to be the one who provoked the internal strife of the Hyuga clan.

Until this day.

"Hokage, this is the application form for the third team to participate in the Chunin Exam." Might Guy handed the application form to Sarutobi Hiruzen in the Hokage's office.

As long as it involves Hyuga Neji, Sarutobi Hiruzen wants to throw it aside and keep him in the cold, preferably until he dies.

But as the Hokage of Konohagakure, it is obvious that he can't.

Sarutobi Hiruzen kindly took the application form handed over by Might Guy and wanted to say: No, I don't allow it!

But what will happen after not allowing it?

As long as he has not discussed Hyuga Neji's affairs in detail, Sarutobi Hiruzen dare not easily decide Hyuga Neji's behavior.

Because Hyuga Neji has the strength and qualifications.

The most important thing is... Sarutobi Hiruzen and Hyuga Hiashi cooperated. In the Hyuga clan's land, Hyuga Hiashi used the caged bird curse seal to test who was Hyuga Neji's people. It turned out that more than half of the Hyuga clan's branch family members had caged bird curse seals on their foreheads, but they did not react to the caged bird seals they cast.

Half of the members of the Hyuga family branch families were already Hyuga Neji's people, which made Hyuga Hiashi extremely heavy.

Right under his nose, he had no idea when half of the Hyuga branch family members were no longer under his control.

Although he was still respectful to him as the head of the Hyuga clan, under that respect, Hyuga Hiashi felt that he was out of control and insulted him as a clown in his heart.

In this case, Sarutobi Hiruzen had to be more careful in dealing with Hyuga Neji's problem.

"Kai, why did Team 3 choose to participate in the Chunin Exam at this time? They should have been able to become Chunin last year." Sarutobi Hiruzen kindly took the Chunin Exam application form and couldn't help but think of Hyuga Hiashi's confirmation that the branch family had lifted half of the caged bird curse, which meant that more than half of the Byakugan were out of control.

Sarutobi Hiruzen now has to be more cautious in dealing with Hyuga Neji, otherwise, if he is not careful, someone will run away with people. No matter which village, they will regard the Byakugan as a guest of honor, or directly kill people to take the Byakugan, which is an unbearable pain for Konoha.

"What can I use to bind Hyuga Neji?" Sarutobi Hiruzen kept thinking in his heart, and began to consider giving up some interests and power to tie Hyuga Neji to the big ship of Konoha.

But he was afraid that Hyuga Neji would be too greedy, so Sarutobi Hiruzen was also very troubled.

"It's like this, Lord Hokage. Neji thinks that Tenten and Rock Lee need to accumulate a year of experience and thinking before they can be qualified to become Chunin. I also think Neji is right. I didn't let them take the Chunin exam last year." Might Guy said seriously.

Chunin is qualified to lead a team. If you don't have a certain amount of experience, it's easy to lead the team into a dead end.

"Hmm..." Sarutobi Hiruzen pondered, rubbing his fingers on the Chunin application form.

If it weren't for the fact that the Byakugan didn't have the ability of illusion, Sarutobi Hiruzen would have suspected that Hyuga Neji knew that Jinchūriki was also participating in this Chunin, and whether he wanted to attack Jinchūriki.

Just before Might Guy submitted the Chunin Exam for Team 3, Team 7 led by Hatake Kakashi and Team 8 led by Kurenai Yuhi were handed in to him at the same time. If it weren't for the short time, Sarutobi Hiruzen would have suspected that Hyuga Neji was eyeing Jinchūriki to take the Chunin exam.

Sarutobi Hiruzen felt a headache, and everything involving Hyuga Neji was a mess.

To balance Hyuga Neji's ambition and stabilize him from causing unrest in the Hyuga clan was really exhausting for him.

"Allowed." Sarutobi Hiruzen took the Hokage seal and stamped it. He decided to quickly let Hyuga Neji transition from Chunin to Jonin and find a position in Konoha for Hyuga Neji to take. Hyuga Neji must not be too idle, otherwise he would get into trouble.

"Thank you, Hokage." Might Guy bowed happily and left the Hokage's office.