Chapter 60 Orphanage (Ch 60)

“Eliminate the barriers…” After listening to Haruki’s thoughts, Tsunade sat on a chair beside her and began to think with her head down.
She had not thought of this at first. From the perspective of a medical ninja alone, she would have to choose the descendants of the Senju clan, who were born with yang chakra that far exceeded that of ordinary people, making it easier to cultivate them in the future.
It seems that I have to give up this idea now.
“Then where should I go to recruit students? Although the medical preparatory class has been opened at the Ninja School, there are too few people who sign up. There are even many students who can’t even last the basic training.”
Thinking of this, Tsunade only felt more headache.
There are some unqualified people among the village’s senior officials. How come these ignorant children in the ninja school would have such bad ideas?
Just when Tsunade was getting anxious and worried about this matter, Haruki made a new suggestion.
“The training of medical ninjas is destined to be long, complicated and boring. People without great perseverance will not be able to persevere. It is better to go to the orphanage to see if there are any suitable candidates.”
Most of the children in the orphanage have been hardworking and persevering since childhood. There are even many children whose parents died in the war and have no relatives to raise them. They are also sent there. Maybe we can find a few ninjas who can achieve success in medical ninjutsu.
Even if he doesn’t have as outstanding talent as Tsunade, as long as he is willing to persist, Tsunade has the confidence that she can train him to become a medical ninja with achievements no less than Utatane Koharu.
“Good idea, let’s go now!”
Once the mind moves, action follows. With Tsunade’s swift and decisive style of doing things, she doesn’t want to waste any more time on this matter.
He grabbed Qingguang’s hand and rushed out the door.
“Big sister, wait a minute, I haven’t finished processing the documents for today.”
“Grown man, why are you dithering? Just follow me and it’ll be over.”
Qingguang shouted to an office, “Yaowei, please ask Minister Fugaku to help me deal with today’s documents. Thank you very much.”
“Team Leader Harumitsu, just accompany Lady Tsunade on a trip. Just leave the matters of the Police Department to us.” Yaowei raised his eyebrows playfully and gave a thumbs up to cheer Harumitsu up.
Qingguang could only smile awkwardly.
Fortunately, Tsunade didn’t turn around and see this scene, otherwise something unexpected would have happened.
The two of them moved quickly. After leaving the police department, they soon arrived at an orphanage on the edge of the suburbs of Konoha.
A circle of rusty iron fence surrounded the almost empty grass inside, with only a few old wooden toys.
And a small wooden house, only two stories high.
Its scale is not even as big as some shops in Konoha.
Tsunade stopped here and looked at the orphanage in front of her, feeling a little uncomfortable: “Children, are they going to live in this kind of environment?”
“Well, the village doesn’t allocate much to the orphanage every year. It’s just enough for them to barely survive.”
Being alive is not even a living. Listening to Harumitsu’s description, Tsunade’s heart seemed to be pinched by a big hand. Is this still the village that grandpa Hashirama worked so hard to build?
How did it become like this?
“Let’s go in first.” Qingguang took the first step. This was not the first time he came here, and he was already accustomed to such shocks.
“Um.”
Crunch.
The wooden door was pushed open, and Qingguang saw hundreds of children gathered around the long wooden table, all looking back at their children.
The shadows of Haruhiko and Tsunade were reflected in those big watery eyes.
“Brother Qingguang, why are you here?” A group of children swarmed over and surrounded Qingguang.
Tsunade was a little surprised when she saw Haruki, who had transformed into a toy rack with several naughty kids hanging on him.
What is going on?
“I came here often in the early years. Maybe the kids like me more.”
Clap, clap, the sound of applause rang out.
At the end of the long table, a woman in nun’s clothes with silver hair wrapped in black hair had a kind face with a hint of anger. She said, “Okay, kids, don’t hang around your brother Qingguang. Go out and play first. Brother Qingguang will accompany you later.”
“Lululu~ You fierce old woman, just get out if you want.” A little boy jumped out, made a face, and led a group of children out the door.
Haruki then came and sat down with Tsunade next to the nun.
“Dean, long time no see. I’ve been very busy recently and haven’t been here much. Please forgive me.” Qingguang apologized first.
“I’ve told you so many times, kid, I’m not an adult, just call me the dean.”
“Even I have heard about your recent affairs in the village. It is normal to be busy. It will probably be difficult for you to find time to come here and visit these children in the future.”
“I beg you to spend more time with them today. The children miss you all day long.”
Since Haruki became a ninja, he would send at least half of his saved wages to the orphanage. Even if he was not able to do so himself, he would ask the Ninja Cat to deliver it.
How could she not like such a kind child?
“By the way, is this your…?” The dean looked at the young and beautiful Tsunade beside Harumitsu with his cloudy eyes. His eyes were full of smiles and he was happy for Harumitsu from the bottom of his heart.
It is normal for Qingguang to find such a young and beautiful lover.
“Me? Dean, just call me Tsunade.”
“Tsunade, are you the granddaughter of the Shodaime-sama?” The dean’s face was full of astonishment, even his eyes became clearer, and he looked at Haruki.
He quickly wanted to bow.
“Dean, please don’t do that. I’m the elder Harumi. Forget about the formalities. I’m not used to that. I just asked him to bring me here today to see if there are any children here who are suitable to become medical ninjas.”
It was not Tsunade’s habit to beat around the bush, so she simply took the opportunity to state the purpose of her visit.
When the dean saw Harumitsu nod, he realized that Harumitsu and Tsunade were not in that kind of relationship.
Only a kind person like Hashirama-sama’s granddaughter is worthy of Harumi’s kindness. What a pity…
“Medical ninja? That’s fine, then Haruki, you can take Lady Tsunade with you later, I’ll just go prepare lunch for the kids.”
As he said this, the dean’s eyes were evasive and he walked towards the kitchen.
Tsunade could clearly feel the loneliness and worry.
Including the sentence “That’s okay”, why is it “That’s okay”?
“Haruki, has anyone else come to the orphanage before and take away children to train as ninjas?”
“Since a long time ago, every one or two years, the Root would come to the orphanage to take away a group of talented children and bring them to the Root to be trained as ninjas.”
“Root? Does Sarutobi teacher know about this?” Tsunade didn’t know much about that place, but she didn’t have a good impression of it either.
She had seen Root ninjas before. They had cold eyes and didn’t even have the aura of a living person. They were like machines that only knew their mission and had no emotions at all.